Posted on 12/15/2016 7:45:45 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PING!
Populist or populous? This gent needs an editor.
The witch won the popular vote? Who knew? Last I checked, she won 48% (less if you figure in the illegal, dead, multiple, mickey, daffy, popeye, etc. votes) and the rest of the ticket won 52%.
52+48= 100 correct?
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Catherine the Great was Czar at the time of the revolution. She was considered ahead of her time. :)
And then, they unloaded Alaska on us.
> It was also well known that Russian agents infiltrated the Philadelphia convention and helped to design the electoral college so that Trump could win more than 200 years later.
Proof that Putin acquired a time machine in 1984 from Doc Brown.
Go do a survey of Americans of any age, any educational level, and ask the question: “Is the United States a democracy?”.
There’s the problem.
B@st@rds!
That is probably correct, but what I find even more telling is that if one counts the results at the county level Trump beat her 5-1 (2626-487).
Scoring the contest at the county level would seem more effective than using the Electoral College if one's goal is to reflect the character of the entire nation.
Low-information ordinary citizens evidently do not understand that the federal spending programs that they have foolishly traded their votes for and become dependent on are actually based on state powers and state revenues that the corrupt fed have stolen from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Patriots need to work with Trump to either politically “force” the feds to surrender powers that the feds have stolen from the states back to the states, or amend the Constitution to expressly give the feds the specific powers to tax and spend for such programs.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
The 12th Amendment, not the 20th, governs Presidential elections. Section 3 of the 20th Amendment deals with if there are problems between the time when the Electoral College votes and Inauguration Day, but does not effect the Electoral College.
That is because of 12 years of brainwashing in the public skools——being told we are a democracy over and over and over and it becomes the “truth” tp the braindead. Obama tells us that OVER and OVER —and so do the Republicans most of the time. It is a LIE-—we are a Constitutional Republic which does NOT believe in mob tyranny of the minority/individual=democracy.
Can you imagine the gerrymandering? Every block in every major city would be considered a county.
They don’t know what a democracy is, either. Thus the greater problem.
Y You're correct, he should have used populous, not populist.
Thus, if America would change to the popular vote, presidential candidates would only need to campaign in a few of the more populous states to win, leaving the rest of America voiceless.
Moonbats in Los Angeles and New York, and millions of illegal aliens in those cities, would determine the presidential election. No thanks.
Donald Trump: The Echo of Our Framers' Uncorrupted President.
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