3496

…together with a majority of “the principal officers of the executive departments”… Ha. Even if Pence was struck by lightning and somehow became a moral human being he’d have to deal with the likes of Giuliani and company first.

3497

California? Why bring up California? Does he somehow think that he won the popular vote in California but the cheating brown people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote ended up voting?

3498

California is one of the reasons he lost the popular vote. His argument is that he lost the popular vote because of voter fraud. I had one of the Trump supporters I work with in the office tell me that his wife heard that a million dead people voted for Hillary.

3499

I overheard someone at the store mention to his buddy that he personally knew 2 “illegals” who voted for Hillary. Guess he must have been in town from California.

3500

Need to start physically beating these people when they say stupid things, since it’s clearly there only way they can learn.

3501

I don’t know if it’s been linked before, but this Think Progress piece casts Trump’s reality-challenged statements in a much more worrying light: Trump’s lies have a purpose. They are an assault on democracy.

Edit: one more quote I can’t resist:

[quote]
In a world where nothing is true, the only real choice available to voters is between competing fictions. Trump offered a particularly compelling set of fictions, but he also found various ways to telegraph that he knew what he was doing. Through irony, evasion, self-contradiction, and obviously ridiculous claims, he let his supporters in on the joke. If everything is a lie, then the man who makes his lies obvious is practicing a peculiar form of honesty.[/quote]

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I say he should keep on tweeting. Let’s us know what’s on his mind. Shows us his television watching schedule and what not. It’s like twitter is that little device tucked firmly but harmlessly on his ear, letting us track his movements and such.

3504

There are people on this forum who voted for this man to be President of the United States.

That is a real thing, which has happened.

3505

Every day it gets worse. I was optimistic for like one second, during his victory speech where he seemed mellow for once. It’s not an act. It’s not a conscious strategy. He’s just a terrible narcissist with an incredibly fragile ego.

3506

What an embarrassment to the country.

3507

I was against it before, but now I think I might be in favor of the EC just picking someone else. The Founders saw this coming.

3508

On some level, this is kind of what the Election College is for.

If they don’t pick someone other than Trump, in this case where he lost the popular vote by so much, it’s hard to really see there as being much of a point.

I think it’d be amusing if they voted for Clinton… Because what’s Trump gonna say? “The electoral college is a sham, we should go with… the popular vote?”

3509

I find myself thinking, if I believe the electors do have the right to deny a candidate the presidency, what would that candidate look like relative to Trump? Would that imaginary candidate really be worse? It’s actually hard to imagine barring like, something truly ridiculous.

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3511

This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a tweeter.

(But there will also be a bang, when the nukes start falling)

3512

It’s the Presidency of “People Are Saying…”.

3513

This certainly seems especially chilling now:

3514

What will we do, as a country, when reporters start getting arrested? He’s going to put us in that position, and a large portion of the population is going to applaud and support the move.

3515

How will we know, if no one’s left to report on their applause?