Abolish the Electoral College? Progressives better be careful what they wish for. The way people are fleeing from the Left and Right coast to Texas and Florida they might find the popular vote dominated by the Gulf Coast.
If you are ever faced with someone who is enthusiastic about ending the Electoral College, listen very, very carefully to their arguments. You see, without realizing it, they will be explaining to you in great detail all of the reasons why we do need to have the Electoral College.
Saddest part of your commentary is that many believing this foolishness learned it (or rather didn’t) in our public education system. I had to school a good conservative leaning, gun owning friend regarding the importance of the electoral college. He was leaning toward abolishing it because of the crap spewed by our lame-stream media…sigh
August 20, 2025 at 7:46 am
Browncoat57
Democracy = Majority rules = Mob rules…
Why we have a representative republic
August 20, 2025 at 6:14 am
badger52
Too often they soften their ways – and voting tendencies – after they’ve “escaped.”
Why shouldn’t she be teacupping?
It’s a revolver.
Do you want her to get burns from the cyclinder gap?
August 20, 2025 at 6:45 am
Halley
It’s been decades yet, still, some obviously sinister truths about the Left haven’t reached mainstream cognition. Waiting becomes less of an option day by day…
They’re always spewing about “our democracy”. Thankfully, we have a republic. “If we can keep it.”, as Mr. Franklin once said. It’s wonderful to live in a place with such a gorgeous panoramic view. Mine here is very similar.
They clearly hate The Bill of Rights, as it steadfastly blocks their beloved long march to World Socialism. Wouldn’t it be something if they could finally come out and admit it?
Wasn’t it Jugears Odipsh*t who once referred to it as “a bill of *negative* rights”?
Yes, they despise the BoR in general and the 1st & 2nd amendments in particular.
The 1st because it guarantees our right to speak our minds and challenge their policies/talking points.
The 2nd because it gives us the power to back up our challenges if it comes to that. And they KNOW for a fact they could *never* marshal enough firepower to challenge over 150M+ heavily armed citizens who’s only *crime* is simply wanting to be left the hell alone.
It’s the only reason they continue to jump through their own assholes trying to whittle away at the 2A to where it becomes meaningless.
And Trumps stance on the 2A only exacerbates their TDS all the more!! Not to mention the fact that he *REFUSED* to call for any bans on AR-15s or any other forms of “gun control” even *after* having been wounded in the Butler PA assassination attempt.
Um, no.
“Negative rights” is a technical term of art. He used it correctly.
A “negative right” is one that requires nothing to preserve except someone else NOT screwing with it. Nobody censors your speech. Nobody forbids you guns. Nobody chooses your religion. You do all those things, and everybody else stands out of your way.
Compare to a “positive right” which is a right you have that someone else is forced to provide you — like a right to employment, a right to housing, a right to healthcare, a right to a living wage. If you don’t have the money to provide those for yourself, then someone else HAS to provide them for you. Those are not “natural rights.” We do have one or two in the Bill of Rights (the right to have free legal counsel provided) but they are the exception.
Commies like Zero love them “positive” rights. They make you depend on government to live your life.
August 20, 2025 at 8:06 am
rickn8or
Browncoat57, or at least we HAD a representative republic.
He looks like he is judging Sam, instead of being grateful for the bounty he is about to receive. Unusual? We all need to be more grateful for our spouses. Without them it would be a lonely world.
The People’s REEEpublic of Canuckistan is headed toward a constitutional crisis or three. The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are considering separating from Canada (a threat usually thrown around by Quebec) and some folks are suggesting they would petition the US from statehood.
Part of the reason is the Canadian Constitution’s current setup gives an effective veto by structure to Ontario and Quebec. This is especially true in the Senate. Rather than having two Senators per province, the current setup supposedly balances the “regions” with 24 Senators per region. The Constitution makes “the west” into a region, Ontario into a region, Quebec into a region and “the east” into a region… and Newfoundland, which joined Canada much later, is not lumped into the eastern region.
To make matters much, much worse, our Senators are appointed and serve to age 75. After 10 years of Trudeau the Younger, the Senate is super-stacked with leftoid activists. If Conservatives ever manage to win power again, they face a steep uphill battle getting any legislation passed.
We know the position of Mini-Tru’s peeps on US statehood…what is your assessment of the people’s attitudes towards it (not that the opposition electorate has any say in anything there)?
That snubby’s muzzle is pretty close to overlapping her leg…that’s one of the problems with them. A 4″ is as easy to conceal as a snub, easier sometimes, and we can see she isn’t using a ‘flash bang’ holster although she might be able to conceal carry a 1911 with one 😉
Up here, in Ontario, a violent felon on probation, who was already wanted for violating it, broke into a stranger’s house at 3AM, with a weapon, tried to attack the homeowner and was wrestled to the ground, receiving some injuries in the process…guess who’s being charged with assault ?
It’s too late for us up here, save yourselves.
All they say anymore is OUR DEMOCRACY OUR DEMOCRACY and they have their talking sock puppets on MS we dont want people to associate us with NBC anymore and other hacks parroting it like good little muppets.
If you ever need to win an argument about the difference between a pure democracy and a democratic republic, describe the death of Socrates.
Socrates was a philosopher in ancient Athens who lived soon after democracy was invented in that city. Unfortunately, the Athenians didn’t get everything right the first time when they created the world’s first democracy. Crimes were tried by a jury of citizens, with a vote to convict and then a vote to impose a punishment. He was accused of the crimes of impiety towards the Greek gods and corrupting the youth. Socrates was found guilty by a vote of 280-221, and then sentenced to death. He committed suicide by drinking poisonous hemlock tea in 399 B.C.
In a pure democracy, a simple majority vote of guilty and a second vote to impose capital punishment are all that is needed to kill any unpopular person.
In a republic, there is always a judge to ensure that the law is followed. A unanimous verdict is required to convict in most jurisdictions. Appeals courts allow bad verdicts to be overturned. Pardons can be issued by a governor or a president. Justice isn’t decided by the caprice of a single group on a single day. Law and order aren’t left to the whims of the mob.
By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.
— Lord Salisbury
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But there’s no way to make it look that good on the NYT.
Huh. I read her first word as Nyet. Russian for No. Didn’t fit, At first. But then, if I squint just right . . .
There were words to read?
She has a couple good points.
Abolish the Electoral College? Progressives better be careful what they wish for. The way people are fleeing from the Left and Right coast to Texas and Florida they might find the popular vote dominated by the Gulf Coast.
Wouldn’t *that* bunch their knickers.
If you are ever faced with someone who is enthusiastic about ending the Electoral College, listen very, very carefully to their arguments. You see, without realizing it, they will be explaining to you in great detail all of the reasons why we do need to have the Electoral College.
And yeah, Sam does make a good point……..x2.
Saddest part of your commentary is that many believing this foolishness learned it (or rather didn’t) in our public education system. I had to school a good conservative leaning, gun owning friend regarding the importance of the electoral college. He was leaning toward abolishing it because of the crap spewed by our lame-stream media…sigh
Democracy = Majority rules = Mob rules…
Why we have a representative republic
Too often they soften their ways – and voting tendencies – after they’ve “escaped.”
Old saying: democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
The hammer should not be cocked on that revolver when she’s holding it like that.
Indeed!
And please tell me Sam is not teacupping with a second left hand! 😉
I can think of a couple things for her to be cupping. 🙂
Why shouldn’t she be teacupping?
It’s a revolver.
Do you want her to get burns from the cyclinder gap?
It’s been decades yet, still, some obviously sinister truths about the Left haven’t reached mainstream cognition. Waiting becomes less of an option day by day…
They’re always spewing about “our democracy”. Thankfully, we have a republic. “If we can keep it.”, as Mr. Franklin once said. It’s wonderful to live in a place with such a gorgeous panoramic view. Mine here is very similar.
They clearly hate The Bill of Rights, as it steadfastly blocks their beloved long march to World Socialism. Wouldn’t it be something if they could finally come out and admit it?
Rocket Raccoon described the Left perfectly in “Guardians of the Galaxy 3”:
“You never wanted to make anything better. You just hate everything the way it is.”
Wasn’t it Jugears Odipsh*t who once referred to it as “a bill of *negative* rights”?
Yes, they despise the BoR in general and the 1st & 2nd amendments in particular.
The 1st because it guarantees our right to speak our minds and challenge their policies/talking points.
The 2nd because it gives us the power to back up our challenges if it comes to that. And they KNOW for a fact they could *never* marshal enough firepower to challenge over 150M+ heavily armed citizens who’s only *crime* is simply wanting to be left the hell alone.
It’s the only reason they continue to jump through their own assholes trying to whittle away at the 2A to where it becomes meaningless.
And Trumps stance on the 2A only exacerbates their TDS all the more!! Not to mention the fact that he *REFUSED* to call for any bans on AR-15s or any other forms of “gun control” even *after* having been wounded in the Butler PA assassination attempt.
Um, no.
“Negative rights” is a technical term of art. He used it correctly.
A “negative right” is one that requires nothing to preserve except someone else NOT screwing with it. Nobody censors your speech. Nobody forbids you guns. Nobody chooses your religion. You do all those things, and everybody else stands out of your way.
Compare to a “positive right” which is a right you have that someone else is forced to provide you — like a right to employment, a right to housing, a right to healthcare, a right to a living wage. If you don’t have the money to provide those for yourself, then someone else HAS to provide them for you. Those are not “natural rights.” We do have one or two in the Bill of Rights (the right to have free legal counsel provided) but they are the exception.
Commies like Zero love them “positive” rights. They make you depend on government to live your life.
Browncoat57, or at least we HAD a representative republic.
He looks like he is judging Sam, instead of being grateful for the bounty he is about to receive. Unusual? We all need to be more grateful for our spouses. Without them it would be a lonely world.
@Browncoat57
To continue your progression;=Tyranny.
A perfect description of what happened to the richest nation in South America just recently.
The People’s REEEpublic of Canuckistan is headed toward a constitutional crisis or three. The provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are considering separating from Canada (a threat usually thrown around by Quebec) and some folks are suggesting they would petition the US from statehood.
Part of the reason is the Canadian Constitution’s current setup gives an effective veto by structure to Ontario and Quebec. This is especially true in the Senate. Rather than having two Senators per province, the current setup supposedly balances the “regions” with 24 Senators per region. The Constitution makes “the west” into a region, Ontario into a region, Quebec into a region and “the east” into a region… and Newfoundland, which joined Canada much later, is not lumped into the eastern region.
To make matters much, much worse, our Senators are appointed and serve to age 75. After 10 years of Trudeau the Younger, the Senate is super-stacked with leftoid activists. If Conservatives ever manage to win power again, they face a steep uphill battle getting any legislation passed.
We know the position of Mini-Tru’s peeps on US statehood…what is your assessment of the people’s attitudes towards it (not that the opposition electorate has any say in anything there)?
That snubby’s muzzle is pretty close to overlapping her leg…that’s one of the problems with them. A 4″ is as easy to conceal as a snub, easier sometimes, and we can see she isn’t using a ‘flash bang’ holster although she might be able to conceal carry a 1911 with one 😉
Up here, in Ontario, a violent felon on probation, who was already wanted for violating it, broke into a stranger’s house at 3AM, with a weapon, tried to attack the homeowner and was wrestled to the ground, receiving some injuries in the process…guess who’s being charged with assault ?
It’s too late for us up here, save yourselves.
All they say anymore is OUR DEMOCRACY OUR DEMOCRACY and they have their talking sock puppets on MS we dont want people to associate us with NBC anymore and other hacks parroting it like good little muppets.
It is infuriating. I bet 90% plus of kids raised in public education in the last 15 years have no idea we are a republic or what a republic even is.
If you ever need to win an argument about the difference between a pure democracy and a democratic republic, describe the death of Socrates.
Socrates was a philosopher in ancient Athens who lived soon after democracy was invented in that city. Unfortunately, the Athenians didn’t get everything right the first time when they created the world’s first democracy. Crimes were tried by a jury of citizens, with a vote to convict and then a vote to impose a punishment. He was accused of the crimes of impiety towards the Greek gods and corrupting the youth. Socrates was found guilty by a vote of 280-221, and then sentenced to death. He committed suicide by drinking poisonous hemlock tea in 399 B.C.
In a pure democracy, a simple majority vote of guilty and a second vote to impose capital punishment are all that is needed to kill any unpopular person.
In a republic, there is always a judge to ensure that the law is followed. A unanimous verdict is required to convict in most jurisdictions. Appeals courts allow bad verdicts to be overturned. Pardons can be issued by a governor or a president. Justice isn’t decided by the caprice of a single group on a single day. Law and order aren’t left to the whims of the mob.
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wikqALHffME
By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.
— Lord Salisbury
Hot brass! Hot brass!