Trump to break another tradition after becoming president

[Care4all]

Dems are blaming everyone for the loss other than who they should be blaming.

Hillary is the reason they lost. Blame her.

It's hard for many democrats to blame her when she WON nearly 3 million more votes than trump...though I think her campaign does deserve plenty of blame....not all of it, but a good deal of it because she wasn't strong enough to battle everything that was thrown at her, even if it was UNFAIRLY thrown at her....imo.

The raw vote count means shit. Everyone knew that going in to the election.

If you want to abolish the electoral college, that's fine,but then you should be an advocate for abolishing Congress. Because that's the basis of our representative democracy. We should have a popular vote on every issue and not have elected officials to represent their constituency. Every decision made by the Fed should be determined by popular vote.

Would Obamacare have passed?

electors were suppose to work like congress, where EACH congress critter has his own, individual vote....the 20 congressmen representing Texas are NOT FORCED by their state to vote as a solid block group in the US Congress....each congressman represents a district of voters in each State and have an INDIVIDUAL vote!

Electors are not wrong and not the problem with our presidential electoral college process, but the states that FORCE electors representing the entire populous to vote in a block of WINNER TAKES ALL....instead of giving them each, an individual vote as intended by the founders, representing all of the state citizen voting districts, just like congressmen individually represent all of the state voting districts, IS the Problem

I don't disagree entirely - you make a decent point here

BUT - electors were also supposed to be elected by the legislatures in each state, not directly by the people

so, there's that...

Actually, I believe they left it up to the States on how they elected or appointed their electors....some states did hold elections for all of their State elector positions by regions and some appointed them by the legislature is my understanding....

Read Federalist papers #68, Hamilton explains how he saw the electors and their responsibilities.... Electors being mandated to vote in a block was never the founder's of the electoral process's intent, it was the COMPLETE OPPOSITE.... it's an interesting read in my opinion and gives insight to the founders will.

 

[ColonelAngus]

#chelsea2020

 

[dcbl]

Look, there is simply no way that Trump
Is going to lose 37 electoral votes due to some sort of contientious objector movement.

there have only ever been 157 "faithless electors" in the history of the republic

and there has NEVER been a time when they have actually altered the election

well, faithless electors DID force the vote for Vice President to go to the Senate in 1836; but the Senate wound u putting in the guy that was supposed to get the nod anyway

so, you are correct - this is nothing more than a wet dream for our socialist friends...

this article is an interesting read:

Faithless Electors: Has Anyone in the Electoral College Ever Changed Their Vote?

 

[ColonelAngus]

Look, there is simply no way that Trump
Is going to lose 37 electoral votes due to some sort of contientious objector movement.

there have only ever been 157 "faithless electors" in the history of the republic

and there has NEVER been a time when they have actually altered the election

well, faithless electors DID force the vote for Vice President to go to the Senate in 1836; but the Senate wound u putting in the guy that was supposed to get the nod anyway

so, you are correct - this is nothing more than a wet dream for our socialist friends...

this article is an interesting read:

Faithless Electors: Has Anyone in the Electoral College Ever Changed Their Vote?

Why specifically should the electoral voters defy their constituents and not vote for Trump?

 

[dcbl]

Why specifically should the electoral voters defy their constituents and not vote for Trump?

there is no damned good reason, and it has been pointed out that many are legally obligated to cast their vote for Trump

the idea of "faithless electors" altering the outcome of a free and fair election IS dangerous to the republic (unlike Trump's stance that he would have been willing to contest a questionable outcome)

the hypocrisy of many leftists in suggesting this is nothing short of disgusting

and like you said earlier, it won't happen - I was just sharing some historical data and an article that I found to be interesting

 

[owebo]

#chelsea2020

Web Hubble will be proud.....

 

[Shrimpbox]

Pep rallies are Trumps style

Obama played his 301st round of golf this week.....

Hey how about a one on one on the links. Obama vs. trump. Then we can find out what a real hack looks like.

 

[Auld Phart]

Are you kidding? Barry Hussein spent most of his administration in a never ending campaign and taxpayer funded speaking trips to a dwindling democrat party base.

The Democratic Party Base has not shrunk.

80,000 didn't vote in three swing states.


Hillary reviewed 2.8 million more votes than Trump.

The electoral college can make the loser be the winner. If you think the GOP base is bigger than the Dem base let's eliminate the electoral college and make every vote count, just like the Senate and the House.

let's eliminate the electoral college and make every vote count, just like the Senate and the House.

Just like the Senate and the House, the electoral votes are on a state by state basis.

The higher the population, the more electoral votes.

Winning more states means more electoral votes.

HIllary should have remember that when she was buying airtime in flyover country.

 

[longknife]

ColonelAngus, post: 16092516

TRUMP is POTUS 45. Try to keep up.

Never said he wasn't. Cool it with the make-believe.

It does not mean he will govern well.

Hillary would have won had Putin not favored Trump and had Comey not intervened in the ejection as he did.

If you think Trump won because of his big rallies you are not paying attention to the totality of the last few months of the campaign.

Rallies won't help him when he screws things up or enriches his family fortune in a blatant display of arrogance.

A bit of loser butthurt here?

 

[miketx]

Breaking established traditions....Go Trump!

At what he had billed as his final post-election “thank you” rally, Donald Trump hinted that he just might keep on holding them after being sworn in as president next month.

“They’re saying, ‘As president, he shouldn’t be doing rallies,’ ” he told a crowd in Mobile, Ala., Saturday night.

“But I think we should, right? We’ve done everything else the opposite,” he said to cheers.

“This is the way you get an honest word out. Because you can’t give it to them” — pointing at the press pool — “because they’re so dishonest.”

More rallies might mean more jabs such as the ones Trump scattered for fans in Mobile.

He called New York Times columnist Paul Krugman “a demented person” for tweeting that as president, Trump will have an “incentive” to allow another 9/11 event.

He let the crowd boo Michelle Obama for saying “that there’s no hope,” before adding, “I actually think she made that statement not meaning it the way it came out,” and noting “she could not have been nicer” when they met at the White House after the election.

He also lauded his unorthodox campaign, calling it “as good as it gets in terms of entertainment,” before adding, “Now the work begins.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

The butthurt just keep getting sillier and sillier.

 

[skookerasbil]

That MERRY CHRISTMAS banner on Trumps podium Saturday night was an awesome start!!!

 

[danielpalos]

Pep rallies are Trumps style

Obama played his 301st round of golf this week.....

guess he should have discussed politics more.

 

[blastoff]

So when President Trump holds a rally to thank people and talk about his agenda, how is that different than president Barry rallying the troops at a dimocrat fundraiser or on behalf of the Hildebeast's campaign?

 

[jc456]

Trump needs them.
They make him feel bigly.
Sad.

But it pisses off assholes like you so bigly

 

[NYcarbineer]

I remember when the Right opposed same sex marriage because it wasn't 'traditional'.

 

[NYcarbineer]

So when President Trump holds a rally to thank people and talk about his agenda, how is that different than president Barry rallying the troops at a dimocrat fundraiser or on behalf of the Hildebeast's campaign?

The campaign's over dumbass.

 

[SmokeALib]

He is the president of US, the people! So he goes out and talks to US, the people! Sounds to me like he is doing his job. Already.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

longknife, post: 16097006

A bit of loser butthurt here?

Why? Nothing hurting here. The Iran deal is staying. Same with the ACA Trump won't drop 20 million newly insured and allow insurers reject people with pre-existing conditions.

Record sign up for ACA going on right now.

Trump will increase deficit spending on infrastructure if Repub Congress pays for it.

Republican's are shamefully selling out to a Russian tyrant. We have a new president who tells is that Bush43 lied in order to invade Iraq and made a huge mistake that created ISIS.

I just think Trump's major fuckup will be on his kleptocratic ties to the likes of Putin.

Trump is seen as weak by Putin. Of course he didn't want a tougher woman to deal with.

Trump is already showing signs and sending signals that he will be Trump's patsy. One word Tillerson.

 

[Auld Phart]

So when President Trump holds a rally to thank people and talk about his agenda, how is that different than president Barry rallying the troops at a dimocrat fundraiser or on behalf of the Hildebeast's campaign?

The campaign's over dumbass.

Obama has been never been off the campaign trail since he took the Oath of Office...

in 2009


What's your point?

 

[NotfooledbyW]

SmokeALib, post: 16097589

He is the president of US, the people! So he goes out and talks to US, the people! Sounds to me like he is doing his job. Already.

No he has only gone to speak to his mean and nasty as he calls them deplorables.