Never mind what Alexander Hamilton may have said (or perhaps sung) about the need for smart men (definitely men) to keep demagogues from fooling people into voting for them; Bill O'Reilly has got the purpose of the Electoral College all figured out: It's about making sure the coloreds don't take power away from the white folks. It's really quite obvious, you see: Complaining about the Electoral College is just a plot to destroy white power, because most Americans live in cities, which have a lot of brown people in them, and if we went with the popular vote, then the 20% of the population that lives in rural areas -- and which is mostly white -- wouldn't have nearly as much electoral power as they do now. And what the hell kind of democracy is it when 20% of the population can't have an outsized influence on elections?
You know, if these fragile white men didn't want all these colored people running around demanding things, maybe they shouldn't have brought them over here to do all the work.
Bill Maher was bitching about that in a recent interview. He couldn't see why we needed two Dakotas. As he put it, if the Dakota territories get four Senators, California should get fifteen.
it appears that you once again took the brown acid which was advised against. you are a guy who I've been told does a pretty good job with your history books--even if they do have a bit of a "conservative" bent. (we'll talk about how you're misusing that word later.) you probably have several of the Federalist Papers memorized in both English and Latin, for Festivus fucks! this new assertion regarding the EC is not a bend, but a break with bones sticking our all over reality's blemished body--so the only explanation has to involve copious amounts of hallucinogens.
for one thing, when the 12th Amendment was passed, neither women nor minorities could vote. so how in the fuck would its purpose be to keep them from having too much power? oh, right. it wouldn't. it would be exactly as everyone said: to not have such horseshit elections as we had in 1796 and 1800 again. those were bad election cycles. so was this past one. and since the EC was the second time we changed the way we choose a leader for our country--the first being the move from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution because they left out the whole amending process and the former did not fucking work--it's not such a terrible idea to do as the Founding Fathers did and fix this shit.
(I understand we also changed it a third time with the passage of the 25th Amendment, so it's even less unreasonable to think we may need to update it again.)
for another thing, at the time the 12th Amendment was passed, only 6.1% of people lived in urban areas--that would seem to be a split that put plenty of power into the hands of rural voters since there weren't suburbs at the time either. if we wanted to balance power between urban and rural areas with the EC, we would have given more power to Philidelphia! and, for the record, a good portion of the rural inhabitants of this country at the time were African-American slaves, not your lily-white bumkin relatives who were still in Ireland and not exactly welcomed with open arms when they immigrated. I understand that the country now has 81% of its population in urban areas. so please base your arguments on what we did at the time on what the country was like at the time, you poor excuse for a scrivener, you crooked little S.
let's also too talk about conservatism and liberalism. I think you really should revisit your copies of Edmund Burke's and John Locke's writing as they are the respective founders of conservatism and liberalism--and source materials for our founding documents. Burke's whole idea was not changing things so fast that the population could cope with. for that reason, he told the Whitey McWASPfaces who were messing around in India and several areas of Africa to fuck right off--doesn't sound much like he was in favor of white power--BECAUSE HE WASN'T. we liked this idea so we made it significantly difficult to change the Cosntitution, but not impossible because, again, we kinda screwed up the first time around not allowing for amending at all.
Burke was also in favor of women being part of government despite his spat with Mary Wollstonecraft. in fact, if he didn't think women were powerful, he would have thrown a basket over her head and proclaimed, "all cats are grey in the dark!"
we can cope with a change to the EC precisely because most people are frustrated and don't understand it. and we have plenty of data to back that up and show how well direct election works! (which would be another thing we've already changed with the US Senate!) this is completely in line with conservatism. it's completely in line with liberalism. why you gotta throw fire around and waste resources like a common anarchist?
since I am a betting man, I would wager my best mistress that you have Locke's Bleedingheart McLiberal quotes plastered all over your office. so fuck right off with that, too!
finally, diversity is good and white privilege is only as good as what you do with it--which you do not do very good things with yours! unlike some nice Quakers I could name! you could have established a volunteer fire department like I did or put out an almanac punctuated with dirty ditties like I did! you could have helped establish the state of Franklin which I hear is still a think the people living in the area want! you could have helped get DC a representative or 3! but you didn't. so go choke on a loofah! whatever that is!
Well, to be fair, JFK's ability to accomplish more was a bit abridged. But yes, people always forget LBJ, he was overshadowed by the tragedy of Viet Nam, but he accomplished some really astonishing progress, and really things done, in that "persuasive" way of his.
It's kind of true, really. A whole lot of shit stems from that. But it's important not to forget all the good accomplished by LBJ and by Bill Clinton, and now, by Obama, as much as he could.
Yeah, I don't want to start any comment war. I just feel JFK got a boost my his martyrdom status, even though he was the most hawkish pres. we've ever had, and brought the planet closest to annihilation.Meanwhile, LBJ worked congress for the Civil Rights Act, and tried to wage a war on poverty.OK, sorry, rant done.
Bill better climb on the white crazy train. Breitbart's about to make Fox News irrelevant.
That should get you a lot of Republicans who don't think you're a real American.
I have a friend who's into the men's Olympic Swim Team. It's kind of specialized, but to each his own.
I was in for 8. The only message I remember getting was that girls would never do that unless a boy forced them to.
Weird how a system built by and for white men still works so well for white men. Wouldn't want to mess with that.
You know, if these fragile white men didn't want all these colored people running around demanding things, maybe they shouldn't have brought them over here to do all the work.
Meh. It's just a theory.
Bill Maher was bitching about that in a recent interview. He couldn't see why we needed two Dakotas. As he put it, if the Dakota territories get four Senators, California should get fifteen.
dear Poor Richard Billiam Oh Feckin' Really?!,
it appears that you once again took the brown acid which was advised against. you are a guy who I've been told does a pretty good job with your history books--even if they do have a bit of a "conservative" bent. (we'll talk about how you're misusing that word later.) you probably have several of the Federalist Papers memorized in both English and Latin, for Festivus fucks! this new assertion regarding the EC is not a bend, but a break with bones sticking our all over reality's blemished body--so the only explanation has to involve copious amounts of hallucinogens.
for one thing, when the 12th Amendment was passed, neither women nor minorities could vote. so how in the fuck would its purpose be to keep them from having too much power? oh, right. it wouldn't. it would be exactly as everyone said: to not have such horseshit elections as we had in 1796 and 1800 again. those were bad election cycles. so was this past one. and since the EC was the second time we changed the way we choose a leader for our country--the first being the move from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution because they left out the whole amending process and the former did not fucking work--it's not such a terrible idea to do as the Founding Fathers did and fix this shit.
(I understand we also changed it a third time with the passage of the 25th Amendment, so it's even less unreasonable to think we may need to update it again.)
for another thing, at the time the 12th Amendment was passed, only 6.1% of people lived in urban areas--that would seem to be a split that put plenty of power into the hands of rural voters since there weren't suburbs at the time either. if we wanted to balance power between urban and rural areas with the EC, we would have given more power to Philidelphia! and, for the record, a good portion of the rural inhabitants of this country at the time were African-American slaves, not your lily-white bumkin relatives who were still in Ireland and not exactly welcomed with open arms when they immigrated. I understand that the country now has 81% of its population in urban areas. so please base your arguments on what we did at the time on what the country was like at the time, you poor excuse for a scrivener, you crooked little S.
let's also too talk about conservatism and liberalism. I think you really should revisit your copies of Edmund Burke's and John Locke's writing as they are the respective founders of conservatism and liberalism--and source materials for our founding documents. Burke's whole idea was not changing things so fast that the population could cope with. for that reason, he told the Whitey McWASPfaces who were messing around in India and several areas of Africa to fuck right off--doesn't sound much like he was in favor of white power--BECAUSE HE WASN'T. we liked this idea so we made it significantly difficult to change the Cosntitution, but not impossible because, again, we kinda screwed up the first time around not allowing for amending at all.
Burke was also in favor of women being part of government despite his spat with Mary Wollstonecraft. in fact, if he didn't think women were powerful, he would have thrown a basket over her head and proclaimed, "all cats are grey in the dark!"
we can cope with a change to the EC precisely because most people are frustrated and don't understand it. and we have plenty of data to back that up and show how well direct election works! (which would be another thing we've already changed with the US Senate!) this is completely in line with conservatism. it's completely in line with liberalism. why you gotta throw fire around and waste resources like a common anarchist?
since I am a betting man, I would wager my best mistress that you have Locke's Bleedingheart McLiberal quotes plastered all over your office. so fuck right off with that, too!
finally, diversity is good and white privilege is only as good as what you do with it--which you do not do very good things with yours! unlike some nice Quakers I could name! you could have established a volunteer fire department like I did or put out an almanac punctuated with dirty ditties like I did! you could have helped establish the state of Franklin which I hear is still a think the people living in the area want! you could have helped get DC a representative or 3! but you didn't. so go choke on a loofah! whatever that is!
sincerely,Ben Franklin's Ghost
Right? Bill is so sickening--he's almost literally saying that blacks and women's votes shouldn't count AT ALL.
Oh, all the upfists, millions of upfists, thank you for pointing this out Catman.
Well, to be fair, JFK's ability to accomplish more was a bit abridged. But yes, people always forget LBJ, he was overshadowed by the tragedy of Viet Nam, but he accomplished some really astonishing progress, and really things done, in that "persuasive" way of his.
It's kind of true, really. A whole lot of shit stems from that. But it's important not to forget all the good accomplished by LBJ and by Bill Clinton, and now, by Obama, as much as he could.
This is what I fucking feared. That racist shitheads will now get to parade their assholery out in the open.
As I say almost everyday - I hope those "economically anxious" voters in MI, WI, PA, IA, OH, NC & FL are HAPPY.
Yeah, I don't want to start any comment war. I just feel JFK got a boost my his martyrdom status, even though he was the most hawkish pres. we've ever had, and brought the planet closest to annihilation.Meanwhile, LBJ worked congress for the Civil Rights Act, and tried to wage a war on poverty.OK, sorry, rant done.
And we must never forget who tried to obstruct and undo everyone of those accomplishments.