It’s Wednesday, December 21st, 2016…but before we begin, proof positive Progressives are utterly and completely…
…unhinged!!! As we’ve always said, Liberalism isn’t a political philosophy; it’s a mental/emotional disorder.
Now, given the fact we’re in a hotel with an extremely slow and unreliable internet connection, here’s an abbreviated edition of The Gouge!
First up, reading the following headline, we were struck by the fact that, unlike the myth of Reagan staying on vacation and golfing immediately following the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut…
…Obama’s reaction to the recent terrorist attack in Berlin…
…is, as the following series of memes demonstrates, part of a proven pattern; in other words, pretty much par for the course:
As a famous ’60’s trio so eloquently wondered…
“How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take ’til he knows that too many people have died?”
The Obamao’s oversized ears are certainly sufficient for the task; so he’s either, to continue the Peter, Paul & Mary theme, pretending he just doesn’t see…or in reality, just doesn’t care. At least, not when compared to the pursuit of his Islamofascist, anti-American agenda.
In a related item courtesy of Balls Cotton and the Boston Herald, Howie Carr suggests some destinations for…
Fox News reported this week that Obama is planning a “farewell tour” in mid-January — boy, I sure hope this is some more of that fake news the alt-left is so worried about. Farewell tour? I mean, it’s not like this Barry Soetoro is a beloved figure like Big Papi. How can we miss him if he won’t go away?
It’s all about his “legacy” — as if $10 trillion added to the national debt and an eight-year societal malaise aren’t enough of a legacy. But just in case he really is planning a tour, where should Obama go, and how should he commemorate his eight dismal years?
He should definitely try to visit as many of what he thinks are the 57 or 59 states, not to mention a few foreign countries like Austria, where he said they speak Austrian, or Afghanistan, where he claimed the native tongue is Arabic.
He should definitely stop off at Fort Hood. You know, the place where a Muslim terrorist killed 13 Americans and Obama went on national TV to lecture us about “workplace violence.”
He could visit the Red Line — no, not the one here, the one in Syria that he dared Assad to step over, which he promptly did and … how’s that one working out for you, Barry?
Central Square, Cambridge — lecture the cops one final time on how they have “acted stupidly.”
“I acted stupidly; is this jug-eared jag-off serious?!?”
Stop by his Uncle Omar’s package store in Framingham and celebrate the only illegal alien in the nation who actually works for a living and isn’t on welfare (unlike his late Auntie Zeituni).
Obama should personally visit every American family that, as promised by him, got to keep their doctor and their health insurance and saved $2,500 on the premiums too.
It won’t take long, because there aren’t any such families, just like there aren’t any “Muslim founding fathers,” although he claimed there were some of them, too.
A must stop in the Midwest — Ferguson, Mo., where his “Hands Up Don’t Shoot!” fake-news myth was born.
…Hey, Barack, forget the farewell tour. Just take the words of Oliver Cromwell from 1653 to heart:
“It is high time to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice … In the name of God, go!””
Gee…having repeatedly promised more of the same, we cannot even begin to imagine…
…how Hillary lost!!!
That…and the fact, as John Merline notes in a very interesting statistical analysis at Investors.com…
Of course he’s not your President; you’re not U.S. citizens!
Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren’t being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
To those unschooled in how the United States selects presidents, this seems totally unfair. But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton’s advantage all but disappears.
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton’s overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton’s huge margin of victory in one state — California — where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes than Trump.
California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton’s margin of victory was bigger than President Obama’s in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama’s 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
In recent years, California has been turning into what amounts to a one-party state. Between 2008 and 2016, the number of Californian’s who registered as Democrats climbed by 1.1 million, while the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 400,000.
What’s more, many Republicans in the state had nobody to vote for in November. There were two Democrats — and zero Republicans — running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California’s congressional districts.
At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.
Plus, since Republicans knew Clinton was going to win the state — and its entire 55 electoral votes — casting a ballot for Trump was virtually meaningless, since no matter what her margin of victory, Clinton was getting all 55 votes.
Is it any wonder then, that Trump got 11% fewer California votes than John McCain did in 2008? (Clinton got 6% more votes than Obama did eight years ago, but the number of registered Democrats in the state climbed by 13% over those years.)
If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes. And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)
Meanwhile, if you look at every other measure, Trump was the clear and decisive winner in this election.
Number of states won:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
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Trump: +10
Number of electoral votes won:
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
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Trump: + 68
Ave. margin of victory in winning states:
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
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Trump: + 2.5 points
Popular vote total:
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
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Clinton: + 2.8 million
Popular vote total outside California:
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
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Trump: + 1.4 million
As we said, a most interesting statistical analysis; yet in the end, the only figure of consequence was…
…304!
Finally, on The Lighter Side…
Magoo
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