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normiss

Given she received more votes than any previous presidential candidate in history, even Obama, I'd say it just might have.



And 2.5 MILLION up on Trump as of yesterday.
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***Given she received more votes than any previous presidential candidate in history, even Obama, I'd say it just might have.



And 2.5 MILLION up on Trump as of yesterday.

Thank you Electoral College so I don't have to listen to 4 years of that skank!
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Thank you Electoral College so I don't have to listen to 4 years of that skank!




No misogyny there. None at all.



Misogyny
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

Prejudice
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

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normiss

Given she received more votes than any previous presidential candidate in history, even Obama, I'd say it just might have.



The only problem you have with that statement is, more of the country voted for Trump. And that is the way a republic is set up. So mob majority rule doesn't get a say what's going to happen. Remember that! Trump got more of the country to vote for him. Live with it
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Thank you Electoral College so I don't have to listen to 4 years of that skank!




No misogyny there. None at all.



Misogyny
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

Prejudice
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Swing and a miss. Thanks for playing



Skank

Derogatory term for a (usually younger) female, implying trashiness or tackiness, lower-class status, poor hygiene, flakiness, and a scrawny, pockmarked sort of ugliness. May also imply promiscuity, but not necessarily. Can apply to any race, but most commonly used to describe white trash.
You know that girl Crystal that lives in the trailer park? She's a total skank.
Always remember the brave children who died defending your right to bear arms. Freedom is not free.

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kallend

***Given she received more votes than any previous presidential candidate in history, even Obama, I'd say it just might have.



And 2.5 MILLION up on Trump as of yesterday.


As intended, the rules of our Republic won out. More of the country voted for Trump. Mob rule does not count in a republic. You even said yourself that the Supreme Court is set up to make sure that the mob majority doesn't rule over the minority. That's the same concept here it's called The Electoral College. Learn about it. Live with it.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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gowlerk

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Thank you Electoral College so I don't have to listen to 4 years of that skank!




No misogyny there. None at all.



Misogyny
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

Prejudice
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Swing and a miss. Thanks for playing



Skank

Derogatory term for a (usually younger) female, implying trashiness or tackiness, lower-class status, poor hygiene, flakiness, and a scrawny, pockmarked sort of ugliness. May also imply promiscuity, but not necessarily. Can apply to any race, but most commonly used to describe white trash.
You know that girl Crystal that lives in the trailer park? She's a total skank.


Oh give it up for awhile. You look childish as hell trying to make this into something that it's not.
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Obamacare will certainly change going forward (it already has) but it is too late to kill; it has done too much good for too many people to be abandoned completely.



Still stand by this?
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Looks like another one of Obama's legacies - peace with China, is already being put to the test. Watching Trump get up to speed is like watching a car crash. I expect China, Russia etc are actually rubbing their hands together though.
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rushmc

As intended, the rules of our Republic won out. More of the country voted for Trump. Mob rule does not count in a republic. You even said yourself that the Supreme Court is set up to make sure that the mob majority doesn't rule over the minority. That's the same concept here it's called The Electoral College.


No, it is not the same concept. The SC ensures that the majority cannot enact laws that benefit themselves and persecute the minority, if those laws are in conflict with the constitution.

The Presidential election is completely different. It's a binary outcome. In your wording, either one side gets their mob rule or the other side does. So what you are currently celebrating is the fact that the mob minority managed to rule over the majority of the country.
Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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jakee

***As intended, the rules of our Republic won out. More of the country voted for Trump. Mob rule does not count in a republic. You even said yourself that the Supreme Court is set up to make sure that the mob majority doesn't rule over the minority. That's the same concept here it's called The Electoral College.


No, it is not the same concept. The SC ensures that the majority cannot enact laws that benefit themselves and persecute the minority, if those laws are in conflict with the constitution.

The Presidential election is completely different. It's a binary outcome. In your wording, either one side gets their mob rule or the other side does. So what you are currently celebrating is the fact that the mob minority managed to rule over the majority of the country.


You are incorrect. The Electoral College was put in place to make sure that we did not have mob rule. More of the country voted for Trump. Get over it. Live with it
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Mob rule does not count in a republic.





You keep saying that popular vote does not count because America is a "republic". I've been letting this go for a while now thinking that eventually you will realize that you do not understand the meaning of the word, and I've been a little busy.

But today I have time to school you a little. So here is the meaning of the word.

re·pub·lic

noun: republic; plural noun: republics

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
archaic
a group with a certain equality between its members.

The phrase for the concept you are searching for is "federal system". If you have time today your assignment is to research that phase and increase your understanding of basic civics.
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Thank you Electoral College so I don't have to listen to 4 years of that skank!



No misogyny there. None at all.



Misogyny
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

Prejudice
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Swing and a miss. Thanks for playing

Skank

Derogatory term for a (usually younger) female, implying trashiness or tackiness, lower-class status, poor hygiene, flakiness, and a scrawny, pockmarked sort of ugliness. May also imply promiscuity, but not necessarily. Can apply to any race, but most commonly used to describe white trash.
You know that girl Crystal that lives in the trailer park? She's a total skank.

It might be derogatory but it's not misogynistic. Thanks for clearing that up.

I see you are continuing the left playbook by throwing around words like misogynist, racist, narcissist, and whatever "ist" label fits your viewpoint. All the while holding yourselves out as the people who promote understanding and harmony.
Please don't dent the planet.

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I see you are continuing the left playbook by throwing around words like misogynist, racist, narcissist, and whatever "ist" label fits your viewpoint. All the while holding yourselves out as the people who promote understanding and harmony.



What play book are you using to promote understanding when you say this?:

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rushmc


You are incorrect. The Electoral College was put in place to make sure that we did not have mob rule.


I have just explained why that statement is both incorrect and incredibly stupid.

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More of the country voted for Trump. Get over it. Live with it


A) More of the country voted for Hillary
B) So you're saying. Trump was elected by mob rule?
Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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I see you are continuing the left playbook by throwing around words like misogynist, racist, narcissist, and whatever "ist" label fits your viewpoint. All the while holding yourselves out as the people who promote understanding and harmony.



What play book are you using to promote understanding when you say this?:

***Thank you Electoral College so I don't have to listen to 4 years of that skank!



I wouldn't even begin to try and tell you that I'm from the party of understanding. I'm not...I know it...I have no problem with it. I'm pragmatic. Sometimes it's cruel to be kind.
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Mob rule does not count in a republic.





You keep saying that popular vote does not count because America is a "republic". I've been letting this go for a while now thinking that eventually you will realize that you do not understand the meaning of the word, and I've been a little busy.

But today I have time to school you a little. So here is the meaning of the word.

re·pub·lic

noun: republic; plural noun: republics

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
archaic
a group with a certain equality between its members.

The phrase for the concept you are searching for is "federal system". If you have time today your assignment is to research that phase and increase your understanding of basic civics.




Which proves you have no concept under which this country was founded. You need to take some time and read The Federalist Papers. We are a republic and some people call it a constitutional republic it and some people call it a representative Republic. You're not schooling anybody. You're being the crybaby you posted about.

We are not a federal or a federalist system. We are a representative Republic or a constitutional republic take your pick
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Thank you Electoral College so I don't have to listen to 4 years of that skank!



No misogyny there. None at all.



Misogyny
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

Prejudice
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Swing and a miss. Thanks for playing

Skank

Derogatory term for a (usually younger) female, implying trashiness or tackiness, lower-class status, poor hygiene, flakiness, and a scrawny, pockmarked sort of ugliness. May also imply promiscuity, but not necessarily. Can apply to any race, but most commonly used to describe white trash.
You know that girl Crystal that lives in the trailer park? She's a total skank.

It might be derogatory but it's not misogynistic. Thanks for clearing that up.

I see you are continuing the left playbook by throwing around words like misogynist, racist, narcissist, and whatever "ist" label fits your viewpoint. All the while holding yourselves out as the people who promote understanding and harmony.

Bingo!
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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You are incorrect. The Electoral College was put in place to make sure that we did not have mob rule.


I have just explained why that statement is both incorrect and incredibly stupid.

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More of the country voted for Trump. Get over it. Live with it


A) More of the country voted for Hillary
B) So you're saying. Trump was elected by mob rule?

You explained absolutely f****** nothing. You don't understand. And you proved it here when you post. Yes Hillary got more votes. But more of the country voted for Trump. That's not mob Rule. And you know it.

It shows how the Electoral College was put into place to make sure that mob rule did not run the country.
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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rushmc

******Given she received more votes than any previous presidential candidate in history, even Obama, I'd say it just might have.



And 2.5 MILLION up on Trump as of yesterday.


As intended, the rules of our Republic won out. More of the country voted for Trump. Mob rule does not count in a republic. You even said yourself that the Supreme Court is set up to make sure that the mob majority doesn't rule over the minority. That's the same concept here it's called The Electoral College. Learn about it. Live with it.

Tyranny of the minority. Good way to run a government of billionaires, by billionaires, for billionaires.
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kallend

*********Given she received more votes than any previous presidential candidate in history, even Obama, I'd say it just might have.



And 2.5 MILLION up on Trump as of yesterday.


As intended, the rules of our Republic won out. More of the country voted for Trump. Mob rule does not count in a republic. You even said yourself that the Supreme Court is set up to make sure that the mob majority doesn't rule over the minority. That's the same concept here it's called The Electoral College. Learn about it. Live with it.

Tyranny of the minority. Good way to run a government of billionaires, by billionaires, for billionaires.

The post of a crybaby who just ate sour grapes
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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We are not a federal or a federalist system. We are a representative Republic or a constitutional republic take your pick




You did not do your homework I see. It's hard to take you seriously when you so clearly know so little about what you write about. The only coherent message I get from you is that you are right wing and opposing views anger you. But those two things do seem to go hand in hand these days.
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You explained absolutely f****** nothing.


Just because you're incapable of comprehending it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

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But more of the country voted for Trump.



What does that mean, more of the country? Apart from the EC, what are the parts of the country that vote, that voted more for Trump than Hillary?

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That's not mob Rule.



By your definition it is. You can't have your retarded cake and smear it all over your face while trying to eat it. If a majority of people chooing a president is mob rule, then 'most of the country' choosing a president is mob rule.

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It shows how the Electoral College was put into place to make sure that mob rule did not run the country.


No it doesn't, because that's a ridiculously stupid question.

Mob rule is the biggest / strongest mob being able to do whatever the fuck they want with no controls over how much that hurts everyone else. Electing a president could only ever be an example of mob rule of the President was able to do whatever the fuck the mob that elected him wanted with no controls over how much that hurt everyone else. In which case it would matter how the President was elected at all - whether by popular majority, EC, drawing lots, or rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. The outcome would be mob rule by whatever mob, large or small, supported that President.

So whichever way you approach it, your argument is upside down and inside out.
Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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