What freebies is everyone getting? Genuinely curious.

What are they protesting? Democracy?

Good question. You may not like it (and I don't) but Trump won the election. They shouldn't protest because Trump won, they should go protest against all those people who didn't even vote. Or the democratic party for giving them a candidate as unlikable as Hilary Clinton.

It's just ******* odd. If you ever played sports, you know you don't always win. Maybe you pout, maybe you cry, maybe you're just really ******, maybe you start a fight but you know you're going to lose again. You don't protest the outcome. You're gonna get a job, you're not gonna get a promotion and you pout, cry, get ******, start a fight but you don't protest the fact that you didn't get promoted. It applies everywhere.

What you do is suck it up and do everything you can to make sure it doesn't happen again(even if you know it will). Destroying property just doesn't get it done.

The election of Donald Trump as president is a bitter pill to swallow for millions of Americans — and some are backing a quixotic campaign to reverse that outcome.

As of Friday afternoon, more than 2.4 million people had signed a petition to the U.S. Electoral College, urging its members to ignore their states’ votes and cast their ballots for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic,” wrote Elijah Berg, who launched the petition on Change.org.

Berg, of North Carolina, argued that the Electoral College can award the White House to either candidate and should use its own “most undemocratic” institution to ensure a “democratic result.”

Berg continued: “24 states bind electors. If electors vote against their party, they usually pay a fine. And people get mad. But they can vote however they want and there is no legal means to stop them in most states.”

Another petition on Faithlessnow.com similarly calls for more than 160 Republican electors to set aside their votes in states that don’t have laws binding them to do so: Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. The petition has assembled a list of the relevant electors.

Clinton is the first presidential candidate since 2000 to win the popular vote while losing the White House. In that year, Al Gore lost the Electoral College to George W. Bush. While Americans were still waiting to see whether Gore or Bush had won Florida’s 25 electoral votes, Clinton, the first lady at the time, called for the college to be disbanded so that no one would ever have to doubt again whether his or her vote counted.

“We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago,” she said then. “I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.”

And in a deep twist of irony, Trump has also called for the Electoral College to be abandoned. On the eve of the 2012 election, between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Trump called the Electoral College “a disaster for a democracy.”

Kinda plays into Trump's argument that the system is rigged.

**** those ******* special snowflakes!

Posted by donaldjtrump on 11/12/2016 1:32:00 AM (view original):
**** those ******* special snowflakes!

Congrats Mr. President!

Thank you! America is going to be great again! It's gonna be YUGE!

so 2.4 million people want to abolish the electoral college yea lets throw it away for less than 1 percent of the population. how about we just arrest the 1/10 of 1 percent clowns who are destroying property in the name of hillary there's a legacy for you

Posted by toddcommish on 11/11/2016 4:47:00 PM (view original):
My wife pointed out something that I hadn't noticed. Besides the career protestors, there are a ton of Millennials protesting/marching. What she pointed out, is that Liberal Millennials (say, under 30) have never LOST an election. They started their voting with Obama, and think that the way of the world is full of government freebies and entitlement and trophies for everyone... because it ALWAYS has been that way.... at least from their perspective.

Then they lose. They don't get a trophy. Someone disagreed with them, and WON the argument.

So they throw a tantrum.

In all honesty, this is very true. This is a great opportunity for trump to show these young kids the conservative perform... And that contrary to what the media believes it's not a racist, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, deplorable platform. I am so happy trump has the House and the Senate. Successful businessmen get things done and don't dink around like politicians do. Trump will get things done. That's why MikeT is wrong when he says trump lacks experience.... Trump has exactly the kind of experience we need to drain the swamp in Washington.

Good luck with that. Trump will be a politician for 4-8 years. Career politicians in the House and Senate aren't going to line up to support Trump if it hurts THEIR political career. What Trump lacks is the experience to get them to think will be good for them so they fall in line.

Keep in mind that Trump did not get the most votes. He's not exactly popular with the public.

Posted by MikeT23 on 11/12/2016 9:34:00 AM (view original):
Good luck with that. Trump will be a politician for 4-8 years. Career politicians in the House and Senate aren't going to line up to support Trump if it hurts THEIR political career. What Trump lacks is the experience to get them to think will be good for them so they fall in line.

Yep. It will be the exact opposite. He's now the tool of the Republican establishment.

Posted by bad_luck on 11/12/2016 10:01:00 AM (view original):

Posted by MikeT23 on 11/12/2016 9:34:00 AM (view original):
Good luck with that. Trump will be a politician for 4-8 years. Career politicians in the House and Senate aren't going to line up to support Trump if it hurts THEIR political career. What Trump lacks is the experience to get them to think will be good for them so they fall in line.

Yep. It will be the exact opposite. He's now the tool of the Republican establishment.

yeah, cause he was their tool through the entire campaign right?

BL is a YUUUUGE idiot!!