~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
Keep this simple set of facts in mind when the subject of the strength of the Democratic Party base comes up.
And keep a constant visual of this map in your head when the subject of the power of the media comes up.
There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.
Now look at New York State
There are 62 counties in New York State.
Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16
Clinton won the NY state popular vote by approximately 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass New York City (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received over 2 million more votes than Trump, which means Trump won all the rest of New York State by half a million votes. (Clinton only won 4 of those counties; Trump won Richmond).
Therefore these 4 counties alone more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
Those 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.
The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles
When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.
Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc.) DO NOT and SHOULD NOT be allowed speak for the rest of our country!
To that end, In their infinite wisdom, the United States’ Founders created the Electoral College to ensure ALL the states were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?
(This “319 Square Mile” analysis is now all over the internet, but I can find no original attribution. A friend sent it to me via email, and I first posted it at UnifiedPatriots.com April 21.
(It is, of course, about the Electoral College, not the Media.
(But it guides us toward considering the larger political question as envisioned by the Democrats and the Left in pursuing their ultimate political objective, that One Ring that rules them all?.
(And what are their principal tools?)
Consider that people still pay to see “Lion King”, on stage after 22 years, while “Russian Collusion” was written and directed so poorly it closed after only one performance. Two years of commercial hype couldn’t buy it even a single Sold-Out, SRO performance, not one standing ovation, despite the lavish praise heaped on its leaked script by the majority of the sycophantic Ellsworth Toohey media who tried to drown out the alternative media calling for it to be shut down on opening night[…]
Who knew that Queens was just a half mile east of Dayton, Tennessee?
Christopher Hitchens (RIP) once said that the English wear their class on the tips of their tongues. That is also true about Americans, only, more generally our tongues revealed where we were from.
It was elitism that stigmatized American regionalism. At least that’s what justified Bob Beckel, formerly of FoxNews, to leap directly to the notion that racism was a uniquely southern sin, and there was no easier way to identify a southern racist than to listen to him talk. Bob Beckel was wrong, but hey, he was just a kid when Dr King was murdered, and never bothered to listen to Dick Gregory, who died only recently, as he tried to paint elitist northerners Yankees with the same racist brush as southerners, while Dr King was still alive:
(Don’t care how close you get so long as you don’t get too big, versus, Don’t care how big you get so long as you don’t get too close—Can you tell which is which in the regional world of racism? And which survives?)
I thought that stigma had been dead and buried by the mid 70s, when Jimmy Carter was elected president and Boss Hogg had become a comedic buffoon icon, much like Senator Claghorn had been in the 1940s.
Seems I may have been a bit premature.
I’m a little more sensitive about that tip of the tongue matter than most, for I grew up in Appalachia, a peoples who carried a twang around that separated us from mere “Ya’ll” southerners. “Appalatchy”, from West Virginia down to the Smoky Mountains, stood out alone.
Those of us who left home to seek educations and above-ground work outside the mountains were acutely aware of this infirmity…for within a week of taking a part-time job in a college bookstore I already had picked up a nickname.
A world traveler by the 80s, I still had words I knew were dead giveaways of my origins, so sequestered them in safe places, never to use except among folks back in the hills. My most damning giveaway was “far”, only not taken from Dickens’ “a far, far better thing I do”, but “far truck”. I nearly cleared a conference room in Cincinnati once in 1992 with that unscripted, open mic outburst, the audience likely wondering how I’d gotten across the Ohio River without having my visa stamped.
The Mason-Dixon Line of American culture has existed since the very beginning and it largely ran only one way.
There was Yankee culture and there was Southern culture and that divide wasn’t rent solely by the racial divide defined, well into my high school years by separate facilities, “separate but equal” school segregation, the KKK and a general sort of racism about where people were allowed to sit in a diner, and words (names) people could call other people out loud without getting their blocks knocked off[…]
On Saturday, Alabama Republican Senate candidate, Judge Roy Moore addressed his supporters at a public library in Birmingham, Alabama.
During Moore’s 30-minute speech, Moore spoke out against allegations of pedophilia, etc. levied against the candidate by the Washington Post. Moore defended himself, denied the scurrilous allegations levied against him by the swamp’s smear merchants and even took a swipe at the Washington Post itself.
To the disgust of Republican Party elitists and as ignored by the Washington Post, veterans and Republican supporters of the candidate toward the end of the candidate’s speech gave Moore a standing ovation (OMG, how could they? Who are these people? sarcasm).
…Moore’s condemnation of the Post came towards the end of a nearly 30-minute rousing speech honoring veterans and standing up for the principles of the United States just outside Birmingham here on Saturday morning.
“Now I want to address something that some people have come here to hear about,” Moore said in front 50 or so supporters, turning his attention to the giant pack of media who came to Alabama to report on this. “Shortly after becoming the Republican nominee for the United States Senate, the Washington Post began an attack on the Foundation for Moral Law, on my wife, and on me. For weeks, we read about my salary which they distorted, about taxes where they said we were paid money we never got. But we endured that.”
“Later, they came out and endorsed my opponent in this race,” he continued. “Just two days ago, the Washington Post published yet another attack on my character and reputation in a desperate attempt to stop my political campaign for the United States Senate[…]
UPDATE: Richard Baris (@Peoples_Pundit), Editor-in-Chief of People’s Pundit Daily tweeted the following this afternoon when allegations against Judge Roy Moore broke.
This Roy Moore story came from @SenateMajLdr. And I dare him to deny that.
In breaking news, Breitbart News a little more than an hour ago broke the story that Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is releasing an article alleging that Alabama Senate Republican candidate, Judge Roy Moore of Alabama engaged in appropriate relationships with teenage girls thirty-four years ago.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The Washington Post is imminently planning to run a piece targeting Judge Roy Moore, claiming that he engaged in inappropriate conduct with four teenage girls 34 years ago.
The alleged incidents, all of which Moore strongly denies, allegedly took place between 1977 and 1982. Breitbart News obtained details of the forthcoming Post story from the newspaper’s letter detailing the allegations sent to Moore’s campaign for comment.
“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” Moore said in a statement obtained by Breitbart News.
Separately, Moore’s campaign said in a statement, “This garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation.”
The campaign pointed out that Moore has been married to his wife, Kayla, for nearly 33 years and has four children and five grandchildren. It also noted that Moore has served in public office in the past and that no such allegations were previously made[…]
Whether the allegations are true remains to be seen, however, it just so happens that Mitch McConnell who is not above such a smear campaign despises Moore.
After McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund poured millions of dollars into the Alabama Senate runoff, Luther Strange the swamp’s chosen candidate, lost to Judge Roy Moore.
Washington Post’s declaration of war on Judge Roy Moore.
The Washington Post, who suddenly released the story after Breitbart News one upped them, endorsed Moore’s Democratic opponent in the Alabama Senate race, Doug Jones about a month ago and has since unleashed vile attacks on Judge Roy Moore’s credibility.
Adding to all of the above, Breitbart News reports that Jones is close with who else? George Soros.
Is Mitch McConnell planning to replace Judge Roy Moore with Luther Strange?
What are the odds that this is a plot concocted by McConnell and fellow swamp critters to oust Judge Roy Moore, place Strange back in the running or worse comes to worst, turn an election over victory over to a fellow Progressive?
Strategically timed, McConnell and Jeff Flake for starters were among the first to call on Judge Roy Moore, if allegations are true to end his campaign immediately. Luther Strange who happened to be available called the allegations “very disturbing.”
Below is the list of Republicans now calling for Moore to step aside courtesy of the Washington Examiner who initially funded Fusion GPS.
Note that not one of these individuals, all of the swamp, cares whether the allegations levied against Judge Roy Moore are true or not. They just want him gone with Mitch McConnell leading the effort to end Moore’s campaign.
Sen. Pat Toomey, Pa.
Sen. Thom Tillis, N.C.
Sen. Richard Shelby, Ala.
Sen. Tim Scott, S.C.
Sen. Ben Sasse, Neb.
Sen. Mike Rounds, S.D.
Sen. Jim Risch, Idaho
Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio
Sen. David Perdue, Ga.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
Sen. Mike Lee, Utah
The swamp is moving very fast. Is it a coincidence that all of this is occurring while the President is overseas?
We shall see how this ends. Upon visiting twitter, you will notice all of the psychopathic feminists losing their minds.
Warning: Rant Coming On
Three weeks ago, my son who pays no attention to the news asked me about the Weinstein allegations and others.
His questions were “why are they doing this and why now when the groping, harassment and rapes have been going on for decades in Hollywood? Why now? What’s really going on, ma?”
As usual, fifteen seconds into my answer, his cellphone rang and as millennials often do, was off to do whatever…that was the end of that discussion but what if?
What if the purpose behind the endless allegations of sexual assault, groping and inappropriate behavior these past several weeks primarily against Caucasian males that occurred years, often decades ago are tools in the Communist war chest to use against Republican/Conservative candidates to put the power back into the hands of the Progressive establishment in both parties?
The prime directive is to get the public so riled up, manipulate their psych until they’re apoplectic and in that state of mind where they can’t think straight and then, only then start dropping bombs on undesirable candidates considered by the swamp as “unworthy.”
Sound familiar? Fake Russian dossier? Fake Russian collusion? The 2012 Republican Party primary in which the establishment brought out a wave of women to accuse then Republic Party primary candidate, Herman Cain of being a lech, an adulterer or worse?
Finally for the sake of his family, Cain dropped out and within weeks of dropping out of the campaign, the allegations disappeared upon revelations that they were false.
Enter Alabama Republican Senate candidate, Judge Roy Moore and an opportunity that presents itself?
It’s the same playbook but as to whether the allegations are true or not, time will tell which is what Mitch McConnell is counting on. The result of which is to further stymie the President’s agenda.
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