Election? Not What
I Would Call It

found online by Raymond

 
From Green Eagle:

Let me bring your attention to this piece in the Washington Post, outlining the massive effect that lying propaganda, channeled through Russia, and willingly circulated by both the Trump campaign, and (far more dangerously) the mainstream press in our country, and abetted by openly subversive behavior by the head of the FBI, were responsible for Donald Trump’s victory. Please take a moment to read it.

Republicans, after Obama’s election, have refused to recognize him as their President, despite the fact that there was not a single reason to say that, except that he was black and they were racists. Now, however, it is being portrayed as a sin to fail to capitulate and accept Trump as our leader, despite the clear fact that he would have never have been elected without his collaboration with the spy service and propaganda apparatus of a hostile, dictator-led foreign country; i.e. his treason.

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Spreading Objectivism for a Free Society

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From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives:

In a Facebook posting, Thomas M Miovas Jr wrote “A brief note to the young Objectivists“:

A brief note to the young Objectivists out there, many who tend to be very enthusiastic about spreading Objectivism for a few short years (less than ten), and then they grow wary of not getting many converts or not enough philosophical conversations, then they wane and go back to a more normal just posting what they want to post on FB and elsewhere.

While I acknowledge it can be easy to “get burned out” with tepid replies to a rational philosophical stance, it would actually be bad for your self-esteem to stop posting rational philosophical posts because rationality is man’s motivator.

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Don’t Cry for Camerino

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From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:

If you watched Little People, Big World this week, you saw the tear-jerker moment when Camerino Sanchez-Gonzalez had to tell his employer/friend Matt Roloff that, despite being in the United States for years on a work visa, Gonzalez was being deported to Mexico. Throughout the episode, no reason is given except the capriciousness of the visa process and the unfairness of our immigration system.

Of course, it did occur to me that someone with a job and here legally on a work visa isn’t just suddenly deported without cause. Surely there must be some reason for Sanchez-Gonzalez’s impending separation from his family. It turns out a search of documents in the Oregon court system might hold the answer that the TLC network didn’t want publicly said.

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Corruption, Mandate, Recount, Soc Sec, Medicare, Medicaid

  • At Stinque, nojo grasps at anecdotal not-quite-evidence of a movement of Trump supporters to lock up a former Presidential candidate – – just not Hillary.
     
  • Last Of The Millenniums brings to the table a petty illustration of what corruption awaits the nation in the next administration
     
  • Donald Trump says that conflicts of interest can’t really exist if the President is the one engaging in setting policy for his own gain. Capt. Fogg at Human Voices examines Title 18 Section 208 of the U.S. code and thinks after Mr. Trump becomes President, he may indeed be legally free to engage in financial corruption.
     
  • Tommy Christopher, at Shareblue, seems skeptical about the election “mandate” claimed by the Trump campaign staff, especially considering the size of Hillary Clinton’s lead among voters.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, doesn’t think a recount in strategic states will affect the Presidential result, but is still grateful to Green candidate Jill Stein for insisting on the reappraisal and confirmation.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony notices that the Trump campaign has altered its websight. The promise not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid has been quietly removed.
     
  • Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is of special interest to those of us in Missouri. Before President Bush appointed him to lead the Justice department, he was our former Senator. He was defeated for re-election to the Senate by the deceased Mel Carnahan, who remained on the ballot after his death in a plane crash.
     
    Jon Perr at PERRspectives reports on Mr. Ashcroft’s strange defense of Donald Trump’s presumed choice for his Attorney General. The well documented racist incidents from the past of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions are dismissed as “30-year-old falsehoods” and “baseless attacks”. Really?
     

A Minor Story

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From Green Eagle:

It is a very minor, negligible story in the news today, that the President Elect of the United States agreed to pay $25 million dollars to “settle” fraud charges against himself, thereby admitting their truth, since no one can be stupid enough to come to any other conclusion in this case.

Hillary having done something with her e-mails, which eluded millions of dollars of Republican “investigations” designed to find anything wrong that she did, on the other hand, was subjected to literally thousands of stories in the mainstream press about this utterly bogus issue.

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Instead of Affordable Housing Quotas, Reign in Zoning

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From Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives:

New Jersey’s so-called “affordable housing policies” require each municipality in the state to provide its “fair share” of low and moderate income housing. This could be accomplished is a number of ways, but usually involved zoning for low and moderate income housing that requires builders to incorporate some percentage of such housing (usually subsidized) in their development plans.

But it can also allow municipalities to finance affordable housing in other communities in lieu of allowing building it in their towns. That practice, known as “Regional Contribution Agreements,” were subsequently outlawed. But with a recent court ruling increasing affordable housing requirements for towns, many mayors are seeking a reinstatement of Regional Contribution Agreements.

Some object.

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Operation American Freedom

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From Dave Dubya’s Freedom Rants:

It happened 16 years ago when the Republicans stole the presidency from Al Gore.

And it’s happening again, but likely with even worse consequences. Once more the majority of Americans have been cheated. When the majority loses, America loses.

Imagine the reaction by the Trumpists if the situation were reversed. Most of them probably believe THEY are the majority, and that Obama is a foreign Muslim, or any other of their innumerable lunacies. Many of Trump’s fringe threatened armed resistance over the “rigged election”.

It would have been very ugly if Hillary won. We all know that.

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