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Source: Morning of 11/9 after Election Night Drawing 9/11 Comparison « CBS Boston

From the hysterical headlines pouring forth from the major media outlets after the Trump electoral victory you’d think that the people voted for someone who drowned kittens for amusement. Here’s a sample of the hysteria:

American Muslims react:

Celebs move:

Lady Gaga, Miley:

Science at risk:

Earth to stop spinning:

Ok, I made up the last one, but the chorus of moaning, bleating  and wailing is deliciously comical and familiar if you’ve ever been around kindergartners, except that this is happening with supposedly grown adults.  Recall that 8 years ago, a person was ushered into office with little to no political experience, certainly no useful business experience, whose orotund promises of halting the oceans’ rise and unifying the races was met with nary a blink  among rational people.

Contrast this to the new President elect who, while also lacking in political experience has actually achieved substantial success in life, contributing and participating in the classic American dream.  Protests against the Trump election are actually protests against their fellow Americans.  This wasn’t a result imposed by royal fiat; they are protesting the judgement of their fellow neighbors. We don’t recall crying and protests in the streets and campuses in 2008.  It’s the old cliché that it all depends on whose ox is being gored.

There’s a TV ad in which people drive around in a car shaped like a dog, depicting the degree to which people can become “smell blind”. Lost among the dire bleats of the snowflakes is the underlying reality that a large segment of the populace figured out that the place stunk.  That large segment of the population are more concerned with legitimate employment, exploding debt and national security than with safe places and rude language.  As we’ve mentioned previously, it was about turfing people who were professional politicians…on both sides of the political aisle.  This election was as much about cleaning house as it was personalities.

As an example, the governor elect of Missouri is Eric Greitens, a political neophyte, but an ex-Navy Seal and businessman who ousted a politico with 22 years of political tenure.  Tammy Duckworth, a democrat and former soldier, ousted Mark Kirk, a Republican in Illinois.   And of course Trump, whose lifetime of business experience, bested Clinton with her lifetime of shuffling papers and rubber chicken dinners.  Political office was never intended to be a career vocation.  People didn’t so much vote for Trump as they voted against cronyism.

If the election of Trump followed 8 years of peace in the world, full employment, reduced debt, societal harmony and of course falling sea levels, we can see the angst of the snowflakes who fear that will all change.  In fact, it’s just the opposite.  The election result will not only put a halt to cronyism, it hopefully stops the spread of delusion.

Source: Colin Powell Says He’ll Vote for Hillary Clinton – The New York Times

One of the oldest clichés concerning public office is that politics make strange bedfellows.  This old chestnut has never been truer than as it applies to this year’s US elections.  As we all know by now, after a bruising convention, Donald Trump wound up as the nominee for the Republican ticket beating out some well known candidates in bare knuckled fights with unexpectedly personal attacks on their characters and records.

Those hurt feelings have yet to heal (if ever) and many of the contestants have publicly disavowed their support for The Donald.  This animus has extended to other old line Republicans including such as Colin Powell, a former GOP cabinet official, that feel compelled to publicly announce their support of the Democratic candidate.  Party loyalty, at least on the GOP side has been fractured and so other considerations are at play.  While many party deserters are claiming moral conscience in dissing Trump, it is laughingly disingenuous when you consider the alternative.  Party affiliation is obviously more an issue of expediency than of principles.  In the case of Mr. Powell, he claims thusly;

“…I am voting for Hillary Clinton,” he said,  Mr. Powell went on to praise Mrs. Clinton for her skills as a leader and her experience...”

Thanks to WikiLeaks document disclosures of his candid conversations, we know these sentiments are as fake as his former party loyalties.  We don’t recall experience being a requisite when he endorsed the neophyte Obama during his run for office.  Powell should be a man and just state that he despises Trump and would rather eat a bowl of slugs than support him.  Instead, he supports Hilary’s ‘experience’.

Powell’s endorsement is just one of the massive throng of ‘public’ figures rooting for Hilary in addition to most of the major media outlets, so it’s not as if it has any more effect than peeing into the Atlantic.  But if you did not know the issue at hand and only looked at the contingent of people vociferously and publicly championing one side; luminaries such as the bj offering  Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, Kim, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Mark Zuckerburg, Black Lives Matter, Joy Behar and Oprah, not to mention the political nutters including Elizabeth Warren, Tim Kaine and Al Sharpton, you’d HAVE to pull an opposite George and take the other side of the trade because that would be the rational thing to do.

As it happens, in this case, it’s politics.  The issue boils down to this:  They would rather vote for the person that has a proven record of duplicity, gotten people killed, is funded by hostile governments and is a danger to national security, than for the other guy because he said mean things.   In fact it’s the gaggle of shrill, bleating mean girls that are doing the bullying.