The Brilliance of the Electoral College

As it appears that for the second time this century the United States will elect a president who did not win the popular vote, there are the predictable calls for killing the Electoral College. The same thing occurred in 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Bush won the presidency. In fact, this is the fifth time in U.S. history this has occurred.

But as is often the case, the knee-jerk response overlooks well-designed reasoning. In many ways the Electoral College is yet another example of the brilliance of the Founders and Framers of the Constitution.

They purposely avoided a pure democracy majority rule form of governing at every turn. The reason is simple. Pure democracies do not work. Straight majority-rule democracy is sometimes compared to two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. That old saw depicts how a simple majority can tyrannize the minority — and inevitably will.

This is human nature. Mankind could never be expected to act selflessly and self-sacrificially for the greater good, so the Founders built in a tension between the three branches of government that harnessed basic human nature to keep government in check. They believed only a self-checking and self-limiting system could keep the tyranny of human nature at bay. And they actually used human nature to accomplish it.

They employed the same thinking for how we elect our government leaders through a process that ensured presidential candidates had to run in all the country, not just the population centers. This was to make sure that a diverse and growing nation would get representation from all sectors and that a President would have to campaign in all regions and demographics.

Here’s how it works

The president and vice president are not elected by popular vote, but by 538 electors — which is essentially the sum total of the House of Representatives, Congress and the District of Columbia. So there is population representation through the number of congressional districts, and state representation through number of Senate seats. This is the math for spreading out the Electoral College.

So when we vote for president and fill in the oval for our candidate, we are actually voting for the slate of electors in our state, who will then officially vote in December for president. If the Democrat wins, the Democratic electors will vote. If the Republican wins, the Republican electors will vote.

This is why 270 is magical number to win the presidency. It is 50 percent plus one of these electors.

With a straight popular vote, presidential candidates would only campaign in the major population centers along the coasts and some big cities inland. Regions such as the upper Midwest and rural South and western mountains would rarely if ever see a candidate. And worse, presidents would then feel free to ignore the interests of people in those regions. Need to dump toxic waste? North Dakota it is!

But with the Electoral College as the method, North Dakota’s three electors just might matter.

In this system, presidential candidates need to build coalitions and campaign nationally. A regional candidate cannot win nationally. A candidate with a narrow base cannot win nationally.

This creates the phenomenon of swing states, which get a hyper-media focus every four years. But those are not in granite. In fact they change all the time. Florida may well be the longest term swing state going forward because of our in-migration patterns from around the nation. But remember, until 1988, California was a reliably Republican state. Kind of astonishing to think about now. And Texas was as solid blue as the came. Virginia and North Carolina were part of the Democrat South, then became part of the Republican South and now are kind of swingy.

What this means, and this is just brilliant, is that no major party can ignore any state for too long without suffering. Even small states. Remember 2000? George W. Bush won that, hanging chads and all, because of Florida, right? Well, yes. But what is forgotten is that Florida would not have mattered if Democrats had not taken West Virginia for granted. It was a solid blue state, they ignored it, and Bush flipped it. That is what made Florida and its huge electoral count relevant. Yet West Virginia only has four electoral votes.

That is the genius of the Electoral College, forcing presidents to create coalitions, campaign nationally and represent even thinly populated areas. Another grand slam by the Framers that is still working.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared on TheRevolutionaryAct.com.

Black Minister Joins the Left in Fomenting Hate

It pains me to say this, but it was truly disappointing seeing Bishop T. D. Jakes on MSNBC helping to further the Left’s lie that the election of Trump is horrible for America. Jakes said, “We are dealing with shock, grief over election outcome.” 

Clearly, Jakes was complicit in helping MSNBC undermine Trump’s presidency by branding him an evil racist and sexist. MSNBC which has no moral bottom wanted to send minorities the message that they should be fearful of Trump and the angry white voters who elected him. These people are scum folks.

Several black Christian leaders have joined the Left in furthering the socialist/progressive agenda, allowing their mission to trump truth, facts and even Jesus. For crying out loud, when you research the term, “abuser of women” Hillary’s picture is there. Her Democrat party has a long history of racism against blacks; the KKK, Jim Crow laws, the bigotry of lowered expectations, planned parenthood founded for the purpose of black genocide and so on.

And yet, MSNBC, Oprah and other powerful blacks choose to ignore Hillary’s multiple crimes against women, blacks and America. Instead, these evil Leftists have launched an all out assault on Trump to convince minorities that white Americans just elected Hitler

I remember my 88 year old preacher Dad saying to us as kids, “While you did not join the devil in committing sin, you held the devil’s coat.” Jakes’ language regarding the election of Trump is not as harsh as MSNBC and Oprah’s, but he is definitely holding their coats.

Publicly criticizing a man of God is awkward territory for me folks. 1 Chronicles 16:22 says, “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” I believe Jakes is a man of God. Over the years, Bishop Jakes ministry has blessed me on numerous occasions.

Dishearteningly, Jakes’ behavior represents the baffling and disturbing disconnect I have seen in many black Christians between their politics and their faith. It appears that many black Christians have chosen the false gods of their racial bigotry and their loyalty to the Democrat Party over their commitment to Christ. I am not being provocative. I am simply stating the truth.

A black pastor’s wife relative of mine claims to be devout. And yet, her Christianity takes a backseat to Obama (his picture plastered all over her home) and her loyalty to the Democrat Party. How does she ignore Obama and the Democrats’ aggressive War on Christianity and anti-biblical platform?

Facts proving how Obama’s presidency and Democrat policies have harmed blacks only sparks outrage in her, seemingly to the point of wanting to kill the messenger. Her zombie loyalty is impenetrable. She voted for Hillary, ignoring the fact that Hillary would have led the charge to further ban God from the public square; murder more black babies and push through the anti-Christian LGBT agenda.

One could say, “This black pastor’s wife is simply a product of decades of the Left demonizing Republicans.” Fine. But, why is her mind so closed to hearing the truth? I am not one to run around talking about spiritual possession. Still, I wonder. Is there a spirit of stupidity? Just kidding.

My black pastor’s wife relative is a brain-dead racist fool. However, high profile black Christians such as Jakes and Tyler Perry, who should know better, are Hillary supporters/democrat operatives. They have even adjusted their views to line up with the Democrats’ anti-biblical take on various issues. Tyler Perry joined the Left in calling Georgians bigots for not wanting men to use women restrooms. 

I heard an old Jakes sermon in which he preached against what he called, “the spirit of lesbianism”. Now, Jakes is furthering the democrat’s narrative that gays are among the victimized groups threatened by Trump’s presidency.

As I said, it appears that some black Christians have decided that the Democrat Party’s platform trumps Jesus’ platform.

Not all black Christian leaders worship on bended knee to the false gods of their racial bigotry and loyalty to the Democrat Party. Though attacked as traitors and Uncle Toms, thank God that there are black pastors who stand on the word of God. They encourage blacks to vote for candidates who line-up most with biblical principles; Pastor Mark Burns, Pastor Darrell Scott, Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson and Bishop E. W. Jackson to name a few

I don’t know folks. It is all so sad. All I know to do is to pray for Jakes, my black pastor’s wife relative and other black Christians to abandon their blasphemous loyalty to skin-color and the democrats and return to their first love, Jesus Christ.

Bernie Sanders wants Jew and Israel Hater as Chairman of the DNC?

Bernie Sanders has proposed that Keith Ellison be the next Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. MoveOn.org has created a petition to make Ellison head of the DNC.

The MoveOn.org petition titled “Appoint Keith Ellison as DNC Chair” by Paul Kent states:

It is abundantly clear that the Democratic Party is in need of new leadership. Deborah Wasserman-Schultz, the former chair, was forced to resign after emails showed her interfering in the primary between Sen. Sanders and Sec. Clinton. The interim chair, Donna Brazile, has recently been found to have done the exact same thing: she leaked questions to Sec. Clinton’s campaign to aid her in her debates against Bernie Sanders.

Frankly put, the Democratic National Committee’s last two leaders have been mired in controversy and ineptitude, and after giving away full control of the House, the Senate, and the White House to Republicans, it’s time to appoint a truly strong and progressive leader to take the reins. Someone who has a finger on the pulse of the American middle class, and who has a long track record of standing up for the people in a fair, honest, and unwavering way.

Keith Ellison is that leader, and its time we show the DNC that millions of Americans agree. Please sign our petition.

Damon Rosen posted the above photo of Representative Keith Ellison on his Facebook page with the following comment:

Dear American Jewish Democrats, Please look at this picture. That is Congressman Keith Ellison standing at a podium with the the words “US Campaign to END The ISRAELI OCCUPATION”.

He is a Muslim Brotherhood facilitator, on Capitol Hill and abroad.

Oh, and by the way, he is the front runner to be the next Chairman of the Democratic party! This shouldn’t only worry Jewish voters, but every single Democrat with concerns that a representative of a SWORN ENEMY of the US is the leader of their party!!

Eric Israel Fogelgaren added the following comment:

I am a former democrat now independent. I have seen and heard a growing animosity toward Israel and Jews from the Democrats. While I hear a lot about anti Muslim invective by Trump supporters there is silence about the more and more ominous and, frankly, anti Semitic element among democrats. More and more one hears support for BDS and the indistinguishable rhetoric one hears from Palestinian supporters advocating the elimination of Israel and replacing it with a Palestinian state and a growing number of democrats.

Robin Bass commented:

There is certainly a far-left component of the democratic party..but they are no,worse,than the far right of the republicans who want to destroy the rights of so many people right here in America..

To which Rosen responded:

Robin PLEASE!!! There is a STRONG anti-Israel sentiment within the Democratic party, NOT the Republican! It is Hillary supporters going through the streets this week shouting “Free, free Palestine”! Destroy the rights of who? Illegal immigrants? They don’t have rights in this America, sorry! Stop the moral equivalency garbage, only one party is anti-Israel and that is the Democrats. Only one party is about to place an Israel hating Muslim in its’ leadership position. Wake up!!!

PODCAST: Payback Time! And Our (Euphoric) Trump Victory Analysis

We did it! The election of Donald J. Trump vanquishes the corrupt dynasties of the Clintons and Bushes, and may permanently redraw the ideological spectrum. When Trump takes office in January, he will end an eight year national nightmare. We were truly spared a dark fate, more so than many understand.

But the work is just beginning. In the short term, we must not forget how we got here and who is responsible. That includes a vast number of politicians, pundits, “experts,” and activists from both parties. For the good the country, it’s payback time. Let’s settle some scores! George Soros, you might want to take note.

We’ll also look ahead at what the First 100 Days may involve, and who is potentially on tap for Cabinet positions. Which countries will Trump meet with first to restore our tattered relations? What’s in store for the Middle East, the region most devastated by Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton?

Topics of Discussion:

  • Payback Time!
  • End of the Dynasties – Bush and Clinton
  • Legislative Outlook
  • State-level results – “Republicans” win big
  • Rebuilding America’s alliances
  • Who will Obama pardon?
  • Potential Supreme Court picks
  • A reminder of The Betrayal Papers, and what was at stake

and more…

EDITORS NOTE: Readers may listen to USA Transnational Report live on JJ McCartney’s Nightside Radio Studios and on Red State Talk Radio

A Historic Election Night for the Second Amendment

Last week, we observed how the mainstream media – which had become little more than a super PAC for Hillary Clinton – had already tried to write-off Donald Trump and his supporters. “But the media and Clinton campaign … don’t get to write the final chapter to this story,” we noted. “You do.”

And you did. Did you ever.  Once again, NRA’s members and supporters proved to be the most potent political force in America.

In what the Washington Post described as a “cataclysmic, history making upset,” Donald J. Trump shocked the political establishment and the world with a solid trouncing of his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in their contest for the U.S. presidency.

The final statistics will not be known until Arizona and Michigan finish counting votes. But by 3:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, Trump had surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Clinton called Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and Trump took to the airwaves to address the nation as president-elect. 

“[O]urs was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement,” Trump stated. “It is a movement comprised of Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds, and beliefs, who want and expect our government to serve the people — and serve the people it will.”

The Post’s writer called Trump’s victory “the single most stunning political development I have ever witnessed.” Political scientists will likely be studying the 2016 campaign for decades to come.

But many ordinary Americans could see that a movement was afoot and that real change was in the air. Trump signs proliferated, even in normally Democratic strongholds. The crowds at Trump’s rallies dwarfed those of his rival. And repeated media predictions of Trump’s certain political demise unfailingly proved wrong.

Your NRA proved to be one of Trump’s earliest, staunchest, and most faithful friends throughout his historic campaign. That’s because in this campaign, the issue of gun control was front and center in way rarely seen in modern politics. Hillary Clinton made sweeping restrictions on firearms a centerpiece of her campaign. Trump, meanwhile, was just as vocal about his support for the Second Amendment. 

NRA endorsed Trump in May, at its annual meeting in Louisville, KY. After a contentious and crowded Republican primary season, the NRA help unite and focus supporters of the various candidates around the shared commitment to the Second Amendment and our firearms freedom.

NRA went on to release a series of hard-hitting political ads in key battleground states. The ads warned of Clinton’s dishonesty, hypocrisy, antigun policies, and the crucial issue of securing the Supreme Court’s pro-Second Amendment majority. 

And as always, NRA brought a get-out-the-vote ground game that remains one of the best in the business: 38,000,000 election mailings were sent; 1.35 million live phone calls were made; and 170,000 doors were knocked, all in a targeted effort to ensure the highest impact voters showed up at the polls.

Together, these efforts materially contributed to Trump’s victory. NRA’s efforts were so effective, in fact, that they were highlighted by the mainstream media and even by Michael Bloomberg’s own antigun propaganda machine

But none of it would have mattered, had you – NRA members, supporters, and volunteers – not done your part. Your activism, quiet determination, and votes are what ultimately overcame the Clinton Machine, perhaps the most sophisticated, well-funded, and media-embraced political campaign in American history. As a result, the White House will now be back to representing the interests of everyday Americans. 

But it wasn’t just the presidential race where pro-gun forces scored important victories. 

Critically, American voters maintained pro-gun majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. NRA made 249 endorsements in House races, with 233 of those candidates winning (with results from one race still outstanding). And 21 of NRA’s 25 endorsed Senate candidates prevailed.

Protecting our allies in the U.S. Senate and returning a pro-gun majority to that chamber will prove critical in the nomination and approval process to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

A sizeable majority of governorships also remain in pro-gun hands throughout the states and we were able to defeat Michael Bloomberg’s gun control ballot initiative in Maine despite being massively outspent.

Simply put, gun control was on the ballot this election season, and it suffered a resounding loss. A strong Second Amendment firewall remains intact throughout the country. 

As ever, NRA’s members and supporters will be the difference between winning and losing as gun issues move through the Congress.  So stayed tuned as we head into a future that’s looking increasingly bright for the right to keep and bear arms.

Trump’s Data Gurus Anticipated the Election Result

NEW YORK, NY /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “There are no longer any experts except Cambridge Analytica. They were Trump’s digital team who figured out how to win.”  Frank Luntz

No one saw it coming. The public polls, the experts, and the pundits: just about everybody got it wrong. They were wrong-footed because they didn’t understand who was going to turn out and vote last Tuesday.

Except for Cambridge Analytica, the data company at the heart of the Trump campaign, working in collaboration with the RNC and Brad Parscale.

The firm knew that Mr. Trump had a very solid shot at winning, because it saw trends that no else did, and it knew how to interpret them correctly.

“The trends that we saw, a lot of people didn’t want to believe it,” says Matt Oczkowski, who headed the Data Science team.  “The outcome was very difficult to predict, and we didn’t get every state right, but we saw the trends that meant we were quietly confident.”

The team’s internal data saw what was going to happen in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, because it understood who was going to vote on Election Day.

Uniquely, Cambridge Analytica understood how Trump supporters were different from traditional Republican voters such as those who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. It knew who those Trump supporters were and the issues they cared about.

Ahead of the election, Cambridge Analytica’s internal data showed the race tightening because its data scientists had seen previously hidden trends in voter sampling, and new trends in absentee ballots and early voting, particularly in rural areas. “This led us to predict a significant lift for Mr. Trump in the industrial Midwest,” says Lead Data Scientist Dr. David Wilkinson.

Among the trends: an increase in the rural vote, a drop in African-American turnout, and a one to three point boost from voters who had hitherto not declared themselves for Trump: the so-called “hidden” vote.

“Their analysis was based not on punditry or the art of politics, but on data science and a rigorously scientific approach to research and polling,” says Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix.

“This is not something that political intuition would tell you,” says Oczkowski, “but our models predicted most of these states correctly. What also gave us an advantage over polling companies is how quickly we were able to react by updating models to take into account where the demographic was shifting.”

“We are extremely proud of the work that we were able to do in collaboration with the campaign. Data’s alive and kicking. It’s just how you use it and how you buck normal political trends to understand your data.”

Bloomberg: “Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America – and They Were Right”
Wall Street Journal: “The election upset is seen as a coup for Cambridge Analytica”
Mashable: “How a little-known data firm helped Trump become president”
Wired: “Cambridge Analytica stood entirely alone. From Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight model to The New York Times’ the Upshot model to the Clinton campaign’s own public projections, it seemed a foregone conclusion that Hillary Clinton would win.

About Cambridge Analytica:

Cambridge Analytica, the U.S. affiliate of SCL Group, is the market leader in the provision of data analytics and behavioral communications for political campaigns, issue groups and commercial enterprises. With cutting-edge technology, pioneering data science, and 25 years of experience in behavior change, CA provides advertisers with unparalleled insight into their audiences. More information can be found at: https://cambridgeanalytica.org.

Drain the Media — They are ‘Polluted Vehicles’

A copy of the Newsweek magazine with the cover photo of Hillary Clinton with the headline “Madam President” is now selling on eBay for as high as $595.

The biggest story the media is not covering is how the media has failed the American people.

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Barnabas Bidwell, dated 1806 wrote “As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.”

The media has been reporting what is not true and has failed to cover reality. Despite its failure to tell the truth and report the facts, Americans understood that they were being duped and lied to by the media. Americans understood that the media is “rigged.”

I have been watching the media reactions to the historic victory of Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States. The same pundits, pollsters and talking heads that lied to the American people still have their jobs, with the exception of Donna Brazile, who was let go by CNN when WikiLeaks reveled that she gave the Clinton campaign advance notice of presidential debate questions.

The same political pundits and pollsters who failed to accurately predict the winner late into the night of November 8th, still have their jobs as “contributors” to the major news networks. A very few, like University of Virginia pollster Larry Sabato, have confessed their mea maxima culpa (a Latin phrase meaning “through my great fault”).  The rest have failed to, like Sabato, acknowledge having done a great wrong and more importantly they have failed to correct their wrong.

The media is in tears and cannot comprehend how it’s efforts to turn the race for the White House in favor of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats failed.

The reason: The American people do not trust the media.

Jillian Assange wrote on November 8th, 2016:

The right to receive and impart true information is the guiding principle of WikiLeaks – an organization that has a staff and organizational mission far beyond myself. Our organization defends the public’s right to be informed.

Now they, the main stream media, continue to wrongly report on the violence in the streets, the hate exhibited by Democrats, the refusal of even President Obama to accept Donald Trump as a man who can lead America into the future. The main stream media is no longer main nor a stream. Rather it is a swamp that needs to be drained.

The real truth tellers were citizen journalists like WikiLeaks and James O’Keefe from Project Veritas.

I close with anther quote by Thomas Jefferson:

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.  Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
I would add to the list of “polluted vehicles” magazines, radio, Google, Facebook, Twitter and perhaps the worst, television news and commentary programs.

FLORIDA: Marijuana Amendment Author Should Now Make Good On Promises

I’m angry, sad, and nervous about what this means for Florida, but the deed is done and Florida voters have chosen to take Amendment 2’s author, John Morgan, at his word. All we can do now is implore Florida’s legislature to take him at his word as well. We may have lost the battle, but hopefully we won’t lose the war.

When I debated Mr. Morgan on WESH 2 News in mid-October he made three bold promises to voters which the legislature should now take as evidence of the authors’ intent. Morgan began the debate by assuring the moderator (Adrian Whitset) and myself: “[Amendment 2] is not the legalization of recreational marijuana. What this is, is a cure – a help for really, really, really sick people.” There’s nothing the legislature can do about the lack of conclusive evidence that marijuana cures, or even effectively treats, any ailment. They can however, take Morgan at his word and ensure marijuana goes only to the “really, really, really sick,” by further defining “other debilitating medical conditions” and effectively shutting down the unscrupulous, pill-mill-style doctors who will take advantage of any and all ambiguities.

Morgan’s second promise was made knowing I would cite the Department of Health’s analysis from the Fiscal Impact Estimating Conference. Namely, their estimation that Amendment 2 would bring nearly 2,000 pot shops to Florida. “They’re going to say there’s going to be a pot shop on every corner …” he began; and in attempt to stop me in my tracks, he promised: “Any municipality can ban it from their cities or county.”

If this was really his intention, he should’ve included a similar clause in his amendment. Regardless, the legislature should take John Morgan at his word and write legislation that expressly gives municipalities the right to limit, restrict and outright ban pot shops in their communities. The same goes for edibles. The legislature needs to take Morgan up on his offer and specifically ban pot candy. Morgan promised: “It doesn’t have to be in candy form. The legislature can say ‘no’ to that.”

Hopefully by now, you’ve recognized their penchant for shifting blame to the legislature. Yes on 2 claimed throughout this year and last that their amendment was necessary only because the legislature failed to do their job (by “failed” they mean the legislature refused to pass a wide open “medical” marijuana law like Amendment 2). And so, I wasn’t at all surprised how readily Morgan was able to summon his cowardly response to my every objection: “It can only happen if the legislature lets it happen.”

That’s also why I would wager that this bothersome habit of theirs will extend beyond their campaign. Just as they got away with blaming the legislature for their very existence, they will now try and get away with blaming the legislature for all the unintended (and/or intended) consequences of Amendment 2.

In essence, if the state of Florida is witness to the same types of headlines you find in California (“Marijuana candy sickens 19 at quinceañera;” “Toddler rushed to hospital after eating pot candy”), don’t expect Morgan, or his bumbling fraternity of legal pot pushers, to share the blame. After all, when the moderator asked whether the amendment specifically forbids pot shops from opening next to schools, Morgan conceded with an emphatic “No!” But added: “That’s why we elect officials.”

That’s why we elect officials indeed. And that’s why my advice to the legislature is to unapologetically err on the side of caution and regulate this as tightly as they possibly can. Because, whether the legislature likes it or not, the people behind Amendment 2 are going to do their best to shift all the blame away from the authors of the amendment, and onto the men and women who are now responsible for implementing it.

Muslim Brotherhood: Trump victory a ‘disaster’

“Goliath is coming himself, with his horses and men.”

Oh, you’re David now?

Let’s hope that “Goliath” comes for the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators and Useful Idiots in the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and elsewhere in the government.

“Muslim Brotherhood: Trump victory a ‘disaster,’” Middle East Monitor, November 9, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):

Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections is a “disaster” for the Arab and Muslim world, a Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson said today.

Mamdouh Al-Muneer, a member of the supreme body of the Freedom and Justice Party, wrote on social media that the results of the elections were a catastrophe as a “racist” has ascended to the White House.

“Goliath is coming himself, with his horses and men… what our nation has witnessed in the last period is something and what is to come is something different. God willing it will be for us not against us.”…

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The People — and No One Else — Have Spoken

No elites, no media. This is a REAL uprising. My latest in PJ Media:

The establishment media and the political elites are reeling, and we have every reason to believe they will never recover.

Considering the massive coalition Donald Trump and his movement had to fight against, it may truly be said that the people — the people alone — have spoken more clearly than they have at any time in recent memory.

Against the always shrill, often hysterical opposition of the establishment media and the leaders of both the Democratic and the Republican parties, the American people have made it clear: they’re tired of politics as usual. It is time indeed to drain the swamp.

Trump’s victory shows that the hegemony of the globalists, the internationalists who have held sway in Europe and North America for decades, is decisively weakening. The Brexit vote in the UK and both the Trump candidacy and his victory show that huge numbers of people on both sides of the Atlantic are fed up with lies, hypocrisy, and self-serving corruption. The free world is fed up with the suicidal policies of the political elites, and their bought-and-paid-for mouthpieces among what are supposed to be objective news outlets.

Not that those elites are going quietly into the night. The upset win, they say, is proof of America’s deep-seated “racism” and “xenophobia.” It’s a sign that Americans are misogynistic, unwilling to countenance a female president and all too forgiving of Trump’s tasteless locker room bluster.

This is the line they took throughout the campaign. Few who opposed Trump — either among the Democrats or among the neo-mugwump NeverTrump faction — ever grasped what made him popular in the first place. They still (still!) have no idea what enabled this man, who had never been a politician and had all sorts of negatives regarding his personal behavior, to defeat sixteen Republican challengers, including several movement conservatives, and then to defeat the Clinton machine.

Trump’s success isn’t a sign that America is “racist.” It’s a sign that significant numbers of Americans want the United States to survive as a free nation. Among all those who excoriated Trump for his proposed temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration never addressed why he actually made the suggestion: not because of their lazy charge of “xenophobia,” but because of the real, rational concern that jihad terrorists will enter the United States among peaceful refugees.

The Islamic State has vowed to embed jihadis among the refugees; refugees were among the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015.

No one who opposed Trump’s proposal ever offered an alternative way to keep jihadis out of the country. (Of course, the problem of those who learn jihad inside the U.S. is also acute, and must be addressed). Some glibly opined that Trump should ban “Islamists,” not Muslims as a whole, yet never suggested a reliable way to distinguish “Islamists” from ordinary Muslims. Indeed, the Islamic State has instructed its operatives to appear secular — to avoid ostentatious displays of Islamic piety that might arouse suspicions of “radicalization.”

Hillary Clinton promised that the refugees would be “vetted,” but in light of her refusal to acknowledge the Islamic doctrinal roots of Islamic jihad terrorism, it was unclear how she proposed to do this. How could U.S. officials vet for an ideology that they don’t admit exists? Tashfeen Malik, the Islamic jihadist who, along with her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, murdered fifteen people at a Christmas party in San Bernardino last December, showed how effective this “vetting” is: she had passed five separate background checks from five different U.S. agencies.

A majority of the American people saw through the same-old, same-old hollowness of Clinton’s proposals, and opted for a real choice, not an echo.

Read the rest here.

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French ambassador to U.S. on Trump victory: ‘A world is collapsing before our eyes’

Muslim migrants are storming into Europe, jihad terror is at record levels, and much more is to come, and Gerard Araud says that “a world is collapsing before our eyes” not about any of that, but about the election of Donald Trump.

Araud is right: a world is collapsing before our eyes. The world of appeasement, accommodation, multiculturalist relativism, and the knee jerk stigmatization of dissenters as “bigots” and “racists.” That world has been dealt a death blow, and a welcome one..

“French ambassador to the US says the ‘world is collapsing’ as Donald Trump looks set to become President,” by Anthony Bond, Mirror, November 9, 2016:

The current French ambassador to the United States has tweeted that the “world is collapsing before our eyes” as Donald Trump looks set to become US President.

Gerard Araud, who is the serving ambassador, tweeting his remarks as forecasters predict the Republican billionaire will defeat Hillary Clinton.

The 63-year-old said: “After Brexit and this election, everything is now possible. A world is collapsing before our eyes. Dizziness.”

The experienced diplomat would need to work with Trump and his team if the Republican becomes President, making his remarks all the more astonishing. He later deleted the tweet….

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Conference of Catholic Bishops: Faithful Citizens Have Responsibility to Strengthen Families

WASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has issued the following statement regarding last night’s election of Donald Trump as President-Elect.

Full statement follows.

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville
President, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

WASHINGTON, November 9, 2016 – The American people have made their decision on the next President of the United States, members of Congress as well as state and local officials. I congratulate Mr. Trump and everyone elected yesterday.  Now is the moment to move toward the responsibility of governing for the common good of all citizens. Let us not see each other in the divisive light of Democrat or Republican or any other political party, but rather, let us see the face of Christ in our neighbors, especially the suffering or those with whom we may disagree.

We, as citizens and our elected representatives, would do well to remember the words of Pope Francis when he addressed the United States Congress last year, “all political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.” Yesterday, millions of Americans who are struggling to find economic opportunity for their families voted to be heard.

Our response should be simple: we hear you.  The responsibility to help strengthen families belongs to each of us.

The Bishops Conference looks forward to working with President-elect Trump to protect human life from its most vulnerable beginning to its natural end. We will advocate for policies that offer opportunity to all people, of all faiths, in all walks of life. We are firm in our resolve that our brothers and sisters who are migrants and refugees can be humanely welcomed without sacrificing our security. We will call attention to the violent persecution threatening our fellow Christians and people of other faiths around the world, especially in the Middle East. And we will look for the new administration’s commitment to domestic religious liberty, ensuring people of faith remain free to proclaim and shape our lives around the truth about man and woman, and the unique bond of marriage that they can form.

Every election brings a new beginning.  Some may wonder whether the country can reconcile, work together and fulfill the promise of a more perfect union. Through the hope Christ offers, I believe God will give us the strength to heal and unite.

Let us pray for leaders in public life that they may rise to the responsibilities entrusted to them with grace and courage.  And may all of us as Catholics help each other be faithful and joyful witnesses to the healing love of Jesus.

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Trump-Pence Win represents ‘an American Revolution 2.0’

WASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer called Donald Trump and Mike Pence’s historic win “an American Revolution 2.0 as frustrated voters across the country, struggling under the heavy load of taxes, debt and disastrous polices said ‘No More,’ and elected a President and Vice President committed to making America great for all its citizens, rather than those who profit from government and American decline.”

The chairman of the Campaign for Working Families made the following statement:

“This election is the first step toward freeing Americans from the tyranny of political correctness and unchecked political power. Using their votes, Americans who live and work on Main Street overcame the combined resources of the media, the entertainment industry and corporate and political elites. They rejected four more years of more scandals and failed big government policies. The commonsense values of the American people prevailed today. Now the hard work of making Washington work for the people, not the politicians and their special interest, begins in earnest.”

Bauer served all 8 years of the Reagan Administration, as under secretary of education and as President Reagan’s chief domestic policy advisor, later running in the 2000 Republican presidential primaries. The Guardian called Bauer “one of the leading campaigners in the U.S. on pro-life and pro-traditional family issues.”

Hail to the New Commander-in-Chief, President Donald J. Trump!

What have we learned over the past 16 months in the presidential campaign that pitted billionaire business mogul Donald J. Trump against career-grifter Hillary Rodham Clinton? We’ve learned that:

  • George Soros––the billionaire puppet-master and sugar daddy behind Trojan Horse Barack Obama and money prostitute Hillary––is now irrelevant. The moneybags hedge-funder, who once boasted that his days as a young man in Hungary collaborating with the Nazis to identify his fellow Jews and send them to their grisly deaths were among the best of his life. But President-elect Trump trumped Soros into oblivion!
  • The polls are always wrong, manipulated and skewed as they are by leftists.
  • The media are comprised largely of leftwing shills, including the narcissistic scribes, broadcasters and legislators who spent eight years touting Obama’s incentive-killing, socialist-promoting, and utterly failed ideas, among them Obamacare and Common Core, just two examples of the disastrous programs that will be scrubbed in a Trump presidency, resulting in genuine help for people in matters of health and education for their children.
  • The pop-up, Soros-financed leftist groups like Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, even the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel––all based on the left’s hatred and prejudice––will vanish as Americans under President Trump go back to work and come to realize that the psychotic jealousy that fuels these groups has hurt and not helped either themselves or our country.
  • The IRS, FBI, Justice Department, even a Supreme Court justice, et al, can be had for a price or a threat.
  • The Muslim Brotherhood, now seeded throughout every department and in the highest reaches of our government, were determined to implement Sharia law in the U.S.––throwing gays off roofs, murdering women for dating infidels, et al––will be abolished under President Trump after he takes the biggest broom in history to sweep them out of our constitutional republic and into the trash bin of American history.
  • The Republicans in Name Only (RINOS) who were oh-so-cozy with the Democrats they pretended to fight were exposed as generally execrable weaklings and traitors to conservatism, and they too will be history as President Trump accomplishes more in eight months than all of them accomplished in eight years.
  • The temper-tantrum conservative set––Wm. Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Jonathan Tobin of Commentary, Rich Lowry of NRO, at least half of the “fair and balanced” panelists on Fox News, the sellout list is too long to enumerate here––will never regain their credibility. And that is not to omit preening broadcasters like Norah O’Donnell of CBS, Chuck Todd of NBC, George Stephanopoulos of ABC, Andrea Mitchell and Rachel Maddow at MSNBC, and the entire staff of the Clinton News Network (CNN).

All of them were WRONG––100 percent wrong in predicting a Hillary victory!

WHAT THE LEFT HAS FOUGHT FOR BUT THANK GOD LOST

Ask yourself, what were all these media leftists fighting for? Why did they support the most dishonest, manipulative, corrupt, money-obsessed, and––most important––unaccomplished un-feminist in U.S. history? Clearly their bosses, from the six organizations now responsible for 90 percent of all the “news” we read, watch and listen to, had a vested interest in supporting Hillary because they colluded with her in both her embrace of globalism and in her vast pay-to-play schemes. These delusional one-world-order people have invested their millions and billions with the conviction that:

  • American strength is a bad thing because––oh, horrors!––America has more wealth, military strength, and freedoms than other countries, and that is plain “not fair,” ala the Communist doctrine the left embraces. According to that historically failed doctrine, everyone should suffer equally, except for the oligarchs who live lavishly and take decadent vacations on the money their slavish subjects pay them in taxes. Sound familiar?
  • Sharing wealth is a good thing. But, of course, it’s totally phony, given that poor people never see the benefits. See the records of the Clinton Foundation’s slush fund where billions of dollars were raked in but less than six percent given to charity, while other billions were raised for Haiti, but Haitians are still sleeping in the streets! Now we learn that the immoral chip doesn’t fall far from the old blocks; Chelsea Clinton used Clinton Foundation money to pay for her wedding and afford herself an $11-million-dollar apartment in NY City, and her husband used Foundation money to help finance his hedge-fund business.
  • Supporting tin-pot dictators, communist strongmen, and theocratic regimes is a good thing, and that includes sending billions to the terrorist state of Iran to bolster its nuclear program, a program that the murderous mullahs admit every day is designed to “obliterate Israel.”
  • Electing a half-black president is a good thing because it “empowered” the 14-percent of black people in our country to feel good about themselves. The net result? Sky-high unemployment and more crime, imprisonment, food stamps, broken families, misery and dependency in the black community than in the past 40 years! But, in fairness, a few rocking moments when Jay Z, police-hater Beyoncé, and other performers went on stage in Ohio the other day and out of respect for Hillary proceeded to spew the words nigga and f.ck and sh.t dozens of times. This is what we’ve come to!

Luckily, happily, blessedly, America is so much stronger than the toxic invasion we’ve experienced over the past eight years––including a “president” who went around the world bad-mouthing our country. But neither he, nor his wife. nor the skewed polls, nor the embrace by the show business lefties, nor the almost-uniform lack of endorsement or support Donald Trump received from Republicans in his amazingly energetic and inspiring campaign could stop the AMERICAN PEOPLE from electing this brave man.

Brave because he went up against an almost impenetrable wall of resistance, lies, slurs, and over-reactions from both left and right know-it-alls and a vicious but ultimately impotent media.

Yet, in the end, President-elect Trump prevailed, again thanks to the AMERICAN PEOPLE!

At the very beginning of his campaign, when he spoke about building a wall to keep out drug dealers and rapists, and having Mexico pay for it, a CNN reporter took exception to his use of the words “illegal aliens.” Like a school marm, she lectured the candidate: “they are now referred to as undocumented citizens.” Mr. Trump looked at her and said, “Well, I call them illegal aliens.”

That exchange, in my opinion, was the moment that most Americans––the Americans who made him the President tonight––connected to this immensely wealthy but plain-spoken man who told it like it is, who rejected outright the politically correct phrasing that has turned grown men into 97-pound weaklings, grown women into tongue-tied children, and politicians into spineless wusses.

ON BOARD FROM DAY ONE

Personally, I was on board from day one. On June 16, 2015, I was watching TV with my husband Steve when we witnessed an unprecedented event––a fabulously successful billionaire real-estate magnate, philanthropist, and TV personality announcing that he was running to be President of the United States.

I immediately hit my computer and three days later my article appeared on multiple conservative sites, de facto endorsing Donald Trump, the only candidate––out of a field of 16––to offer credible solutions to the overwhelming problems now plaguing our country, problems created with malice aforethought by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and their Marxist ilk.

While several of the other candidates suggested some pretty good solutions, the quality they all lacked––which Donald Trump had in spades––was an actual track record. Each candidate talked a good game, but after eight years of Barack Obama trampling on our Constitution, circumventing the political process with his dictatorial Executive Orders, and spitting on our Bill of Rights, the candidates running against Trump had nothing to show for all their fancy words. They had either joined the opposition, caved to bribes and threats, or simply exhibited their own endemic character weaknesses.

In stark contrast, candidate Trump was all about accomplishment. Say you’re going to rebuild an ice-skating rink in NY City from decades of decay and leadership that never got it done, and he presented a show-stopping new rink in a matter of months and remarkably under budget––and he paid for it himself!

Say you’re going to restore the landmark 1899 Old Post Office and Clock Tower on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. that incompetent people wanted to tear down, and President-elect Trump once again, just a week or so ago, came in in record time and under budget and completed the magnificent luxury hotel right in time for his 2017 presidential inaugural parade!

Mr. Trump was like no presidential candidate Americans had ever seen. He didn’t parse his words to conform to the preposterous and destructive political correctness and multiculturalism that has plagued our country since liberals entered their radical Alinsky years  in the 1960s. And when Mr. Trump enumerated the sky-high mountain of Barack Obama’s failures, Americans believed that the master builder himself was more than capable of both fixing the problems and draining the D.C. swamp. Here is a partial list of the challenges before him:

  • An annihilating national debt––$20 billion and climbing daily.
  • Crippling unemployment with 94-million people unemployed––nearly a third of our population––out of work.
  • Porous borders over which millions of illegal aliens––many of them career criminals––pour every day.
  • Sanctuary cities that spend taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars to support illegals, again often criminals, but most often deadbeats who bleed our social-welfare systems dry.
  • Obamacare, doomed to fail from its inception, is now leaving millions without any coverage, forget about “affordable” healthcare.
  • Race relations that were at an all-time high until a racist president, two racist attorneys general, and a racist secretary of state created and fanned their racist agendas throughout our country.
  • A so-called foreign policy that bowed to America’s enemies and alienated our faithful allies, resulting in a terrorist state (Iran) with nukes, North Korea detonating nukes, Russia taking over the Middle East, the military of our enemies more equipped to combat attacks on our homeland than we are, on and on.

But the good news is that America’s allies are more eager than ever to have a President Trump on their side, and that our strongest ally Israel is now being embraced by former enemies Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, thanks to the mortal threat B. Obama created by his seemingly erotic attraction to our enemies.

HALLELUJAH!

Break out the champagne, let loose the balloons and confetti, give praise to our Founding Fathers for creating an America of freedom and opportunity that still, 240 years later, resonates with the American people.

As everyone wakes up to a President Trump on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, they can thank God to finally be rid of George Soros and his employees Barack Obama, Bill & Hillary Clinton, and their vast retinues, as well as the thoroughly discredited and corrupt media, the hundreds if not thousands of writers and commentators who will never again be taken seriously.

They can also be thankful, as blogger Jeff Dunetz spells out, that a President Trump will bring about significant changes in the following areas (this is the short list):

  • A conservative Supreme Court.
  • Improving the American gene pool by supporting the threats of far-leftists like Al Sharpton, Barbra Streisand, Stephen King, Alec Baldwin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Cher, et al, to leave the country in the event of a Trump victory.
  • Restoring America as leader of the free world.
  • Ripping up the Iran deal to protect Israel, and declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel. Quite a difference from Hillary and her virulently anti-Semitic advisors Sidney Blumenthal and his rabid son Max.
  • Lowering taxes across the board.
  • Directing all departments of government to cut the strangulating regulations.
  • Mandating that America win again in any conflict our country engages in, and absolutely supporting our military to crush ISIS!

This is what the American people heard loud and clear from candidate Trump, and supported and applauded and came out in record numbers to let the skeptics and naysayers and haters know that they believed he was capable of leading the charge to Make America Great Again.

What last night’s victory means is that for the next four and hopefully eight years, we’ll have someone in the White House who actually loves America, and that it is not the self-appointed political so-called experts who choose the American President, but rather We the People!

Mr. Trump is going to Washington! Who are the winners and losers?

On January 10, 2016 I wrote:

If you Google the words “Trump” and “insurgency” you will get over 650,000 links to articles and commentary. I recently said to a friend that Donald Trump has gone from being a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President to the leader of a movement.

Can this movement now be called an insurgency?

The definition of an insurgency is a “rebellion against an existing government by a group not recognized as a belligerent.”

Is it Trump who created an insurgency or is Trump following the lead of a growing insurgency that was already taking place? I have written that Trump leads his followers by following their lead. The movement began during the Presidency of Bill Clinton and continues today. It is a struggle between the individualist and the collectivist.

Donald John Trump is now the President elect. He is headed to Washington, D.C. to drain the swamp, as he has said so many times.

While the pundits will be sifting through the votes to find out what happened, perhaps it is better to look at what will happen next. One way to do this is to see who the winners and losers in this election are.

The Winners:

  1. The American people.
  2. Working families.
  3. Christians and Jews.
  4. The U.S. Military and veterans.
  5. The unemployed and underemployed.
  6. Main street businesses.
  7. Manufacturing.
  8. American energy producers.
  9. America’s allies.
  10. Gun owners.
  11. Law enforcement.
  12. The “new” Republican Party.

The Losers:

  1. Those who wish America harm, both foreign and domestic.
  2. Government.
  3. Career politicians and special interests.
  4. Washington, D.C. insiders.
  5. Unions.
  6. The Obama administration.
  7. Islamic supremacists both foreign (Iran, ISIS, al Qaeda) and domestic (Council on America Islamic Relations, ISNA, Muslim Students Association, etc.).
  8. Illegal aliens.
  9. The anti-Second Amendment lobby.
  10. Environmentalists.
  11. Domestic terrorist groups (e.g. Black Lives Matter)
  12. Globalists and the United Nations.
  13. Wall Street, investment bankers and the Federal Reserve.
  14. Common Core advocates.
  15. Republicans who did not support and/or vote for their candidate.
  16. Hollywood, California.
  17. Those committing voter fraud.
  18. The main stream media.
  19. Pollsters.
  20. The Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee (including Hillary and Bill Clinton) and George Soros.

Others will be added to both lists as time goes on. This is just a quick overview of what it will take to Make America Great Again!

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