Election 2016 (Page 59)

The popular vote argument can be misleading though because no Republican is ever going to spend a dime or any time in NY, CA, IL, etc. which are the most populous states when running under the electoral vote system. So their popular vote is naturally much much lower than it could be in those populous states.  Even the members of the Republican party in those states aren't very motivated to go to the polls when they know it doesn't matter at all. 

It's basically like saying the person who scores the most points wins the game, but after the election I realized that my candidate had more field goals so she should have won. If the winner was based on number of field goals then the other team would play the game differently from the start.

Is it possible to get into Wikipedia and change the name Millennial Generation to Butt-hurt Generation?   This has to be the biggest bunch of whining, "I will not accept that things did not go my way", ridiculous generation in the history of man.  Yes, that's a generalization and I know it doesn't cover all of the "give me my trophy" generation.......but geez, this is unprecedented crybaby crap. 

Here's a history lesson.....one that every generation before yours lived through.  When your side loses an election, you move on and keep moving forward.

And for those kids calling for a revolution........pay attention here....you just saw one.  60,000,000 people said no to your candidate and her/your ideas. Do what the rest of us have always done.  Get up and go to work and take care of your responsibilities.  You get another chance in 4 years....that's how it works.

If you want some other kind of revolution, as I've heard some of you calling for.....you need to go take a nap. You're delusional right now....get some sleep.

Right??  Hey kids......leave the highways you're blocking, put your signs down, stop starting fires and destroying property,  grab your backpacks with your pop tarts and bottled water, and head out to rural America, who just voted your candidate down.  Throw a few molotov cocktails and bricks and report back on  how that worked out for you.

Yeah, and while you're at it, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!! <LB waving cane threateningly>  

You're 100% correct.

I was just having that conversation with my wife last night (a pretty strong Hilary supported, but certainly doesn't condone that kind of crap).

the electoral college does not favor democrats.  all of those 3 electoral vote states that trump won have a smaller population per electoral vote.

Grab your poptarts lol. Your cracking me up. 

But I guess I am one of those hate mongering, racist, xenophobic, and uneducated misogynists from the midwest so what do I know. 

And watch out... I work in public school every day taking care of kids with special needs in a 2nd grade classroom. You think this generation is a bunch of cry babies? Wait until you see the crybabies raising their own kids! 

http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/im-a-coastal-elite-from-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america

Very eloquent way of saying that rural Americans are close-minded morons - better than say a "basket of deplorables."

That article is a bunch of horse chit, just like every other piece written by some person who thinks they are somehow more enlightened than the people who just told him to go to hell with their vote.

I'm from the Midwest, and I'll never leave.  I'm for gay-marriage, LGBT rights, and I believe black lives matter. I have nothing against Islam or any other religion. I dare you to say something offensive to a woman in my presence.  I also believe that I live in the greatest country on the planet.....and if I didn't I'd leave.  Unlike your writer, I DO think that we can go back to good middle class manufacturing jobs that will be good for EVERYBODY, not just high school educated white men like that forking moron wrote. Just what the hell was ever wrong with "made in the USA"? 

You see, Dave......that's where the "progressives" lost the rest of us, and lost the election.  They thought they could call us knuckle-draggers, and cave dwellers, just because we grew up in a different time.  They think that because we won't give up our values that we somehow don't value others....wrong again boneheads.  They think that because we don't believe our cars need to be made in Mexico, and our steel in Japan or China, that we have not caught up with the rest of the world.  People like your writer can pull their heads out of their collective arses now, because we're not going back to thinking that was good for our country.......it's been a disaster for our middle class....our backbone. 

You know what else?  We believe that if an organization or another State sends or recruits people to harm our citizens we will hit you back with such unrelenting force that the entire world will just close their eyes, put their hands over their ears, and pray to whatever god they want for those organizations to just leave us alone.  I'm sick and tired of people like your writer telling the rest of us that my country really isn't all that great, and certainly isn't better than any other country in the world.  What complete and utter bullchit that is.  This country has always been the one true beacon of freedom in the world.  Not because we enjoy freedom more than other people, not because we do freedom better than other people, but because we are willing to come stomp the hell out of anyone who tries to take freedom from anyone, anywhere.......borders be damned. 

Nope.  We're not giving this country and our values away to "enlightened progressives"......and we sit and laugh at the idea that you can take it from us. We fell asleep for a bit, thinking everyone was pretty much like us, and welcome to come have a beer and sit on the back deck and enjoy the day.  When we woke up we realized that bastards like this writer were trying to give our country away.  Nah.........and wait until next time.  You think this election was bad?  Hell, there are millions who didn't vote your arses out because they weren't sure they wouldn't be ridiculed by the "majority".;  That won't happen next time.....watch and see.

And in case you "progressives" think us midwestern neanderthal types voted for Trump because of some misplaced idealism, because that's how you use your vote, right?.... guess again.  His hands will be held to the fire.  And if he doesn't deliver on his promises to lower taxes, dump obamacare, rip up NAFTA, etc....he's in big trouble.  Us cave men and women don't like hucksters like the guy we let you take for a test drive in leading this country.

You lost. Now sit down and shut up before we pull you by the ear back to the woodshed to teach you some manners.

I was listening to a commentator this morning and she said that Occupy Wallstreet and the Tea Party essentially came to be around the same time.  The OW movement and now the BLM movement does nothing but protest and cause problems.  The Tea Party went to work to get like minded people elected all across the country.  Fast forward to now and we have a country dominated by conservative politicians.  That's how you impact change in a democracy. 

The protesters today believe they are impacting change and they most certainly are.  Unfortunately, they don't realize that they're pushing even more people away from their cause and over to the other side.