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    Time for Anti-Trump Protesters to Knock Off the Tantrums

    By Diane Dimond November 19, 2016 | 5:30 p.m.

    Stop it. I’m tired of turning on the news or picking up a newspaper and seeing your pouty faces, screaming for what you think you are due. I’m sick of reading your ill-informed signs adorned with swastikas and promises to beat back fascism. And especially odious are your signs that read, “Trump: Not My President!”

    Makes one wonder whether you’ve ever studied the real evils of history.

    Yes, Donald Trump is your president. Or he will be, come Inauguration Day. It doesn’t matter whether you voted for Hillary Clinton or wrote in someone else’s name. The contest is over. Trump won fair and square under rules that have been in place for more than two centuries. Stop acting like the outcome should change just because your favorite didn’t win.

    This isn’t one of those modern-day sporting events, where everybody gets a trophy no matter who won. This isn’t a game to be played in one of those university “safe spaces,” where no one is allowed to do or say something that might upset another person.

    This isn’t your pampered workplace, where everyone gets an equal say in how the business works. No. This is real life, based on a historic system called the Electoral College that was designed to give every state an equal per-population say on who is elected president.

    For those of you who have been stomping your feet and screaming with spittle flying into the wind about doing away with the Electoral College, take heart. Maybe, just maybe, that will become a reality in your lifetime. But it is not the system we have in place today.

    Retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is the latest in a line of lawmakers to introduce a bill to expel the Electoral College via a constitutional amendment. Not an easy task.

    First, the issue is unlikely to be brought up during this lame-duck session. If, by some miracle, Congress were to pass Boxer’s legislation, it would not take effect unless three-fourths of the states ratify it within seven years of its passage.

    To protesters who really want to do more than march in the street: You might want to work for National Popular Vote Inc., the nonprofit that supports the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, or NPVIC. It is an agreement among states to award all their respective electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote in a given election.

    So far, 10 states and the District of Columbia have signed on in support, representing just 165 electoral votes, far below the 270 needed to win a presidential election.

    But note: Experts who study this stuff think that even if the NPVIC could get enough support, court challenges would be inevitable. The Constitution forbids states from entering into any agreement with another state without the consent of Congress.

    See? The Electoral College system won’t be easy to abolish, as so many of you demand. It has long endured, not because the system is rigged but because it was carefully crafted and meticulously recrafted when necessary.

    I can’t help but wonder, if your candidate had won, would you still have been so vociferous in your demands to scrap the Electoral College? I doubt it.

    For those who believe endless street protests are the answer to their unhappiness, here’s another reality check: Voters soundly rejected the Democrats’ tiresome drumbeat projecting that America must bow to myriad individual and special interest groups’ needs and set aside what is best for the country.

    Take a moment to check post-election maps that lay out the state-by-state results. The color red permeates. Republicans now lead in governorship (33 to 15), the House of Representatives (238 to 193) and the Senate (51 to 4. And of course, a Republican won the White House.

    No, your team didn’t win. Sorry about that.

    While I respect every American’s right to peacefully demonstrate, it is time to move on; time to figure out a way to work within the system toward the change you want; time to reflect on protesters who decry candidate Trump’s name-calling while holding signs that say he’s evil, a racist, a misogynist, a dictator-in-waiting and other vile names.

    Yes, if Clinton had been elected, we would have undoubtedly had a smoother transition period. But if Clinton had won, let’s be honest, conservatives have never been known to hit the bricks in rowdy, confrontational and sometimes violent street protests.

    The old Tea Party demonstrations of 2009-2010 looked like Bible revivals compared to what’s happening today.

    And finally, ask yourselves, what have the anti-Trump protests accomplished? Like a spoiled child who throws himself or herself on the ground for not getting more playground time, it does very little — except in one regard.

    The continued demonstrations have denigrated our political system and maligned the office of the presidency. It is a lousy message to send the rest of the world.

    Be careful, because the office you diminish today will undoubtedly be occupied by a Democrat in the future.

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    I think we need to focus on turning California, New York and Hawaii RED. I wish our dear Mr. Trump could have won at least California or New York. For Trump to lose New York is a crime against all that we know to be right. Here is a man who devoted most of his life, business and money to helping New York, especially New York City. There's probably no other single person in the history of New York who has done more as an individual through his own business to improve New York City. And his type of work was redevelopment, not going out into the rural areas and buying some farms and putting up a building. No, his was redevelopment inside one of the busiest cities of our country, with more issues and complexities than anyone else was willing to even consider .... until Trump actually did it, time after time after time, which blazed the trail for others to follow to cash in on the new economies he had created in blighted high crime ugly areas, which he turned into beautiful and successful areas.

    So to see him lose New York was truly hard for me to watch. A state that owed him so much. To me that will always be a stain on the people of New York. And it's true, he didn't campaign there. I guess he thought he didn't have a chance there and a rally wouldn't be safe, same as they concluded for California. When it's not safe for a candidate for President to campaign in 2 of our most populated states because he wants to enforce US immigration law, it's time you face the reality that we were just one election and the divine intervention of the good people of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Michigan away from losing our country forever.

    This nation owes those voters who crossed party lines and independents who took a chance on our candidate a great deal and Trump understands this, which is why he wants to have a Thank You America Tour and hold post-election rallies in these states. He knows the courage it took for them to do this and wants to assure them they won't be sorry, because he will deliver.

    So to the GOP leaders in California and New York, here's my request of you. Get off the social issues, stop wasting your time and energies on trying to keep gay people alone without families or forcing pregnant girls and women into childbirth against their will and start promoting the real values of the Republican Party: equal rights, individual liberty (for all, not just your own), secure borders, protected trade, good jobs, high incomes, FairTax, fixing our inner cities, strong military, great infrastructure, honest elections and efficient loyal government.

    Take the Trump Platform throughout California and New York, and sell it. Because Trump's Platform is America's Platform. Don't cave in to this fake majority in your states. It's fake. It's not real. It's mass hysteria among a group of people who for some reason didn't get the message because it wasn't safe enough for the candidate to be there and tell it. When you have allowed so many angry violent foreigners into your state and given them sanctuary to the point where law enforcement couldn't possibly control the protest violence, then you have lost your state. I mean look what has happened to Illinois because of Chicago. Trump has this beautiful huge rally planned, he paid a lot of money to go into the inner city of Chicago and hold a big rally, over 25,000 tickets issued, and it had to be canceled due to protesting wacko birds, violent wacko birds, in ...... Chicago, the Midwest.

    Chicago, I mean it's just unbelievable what's happened to our country during the last 8 years. It took years before that for it to escalate this fast in just 8 years, so many are to blame, but the fact that it happened at all is heart-breaking. Then to have a Mayor of Chicago stand up at a press conference and announce these criminals are safe in his city?? These people are owned by the drug cartels, shut them down!!

    So, we've got our work cut out for US, but we can do it, we'll not only turn California, New York and Hawaii RED, we're going to turn Illinois RED. So lets get to work and Get R Done. It's time to take back our whole country.

    Thank you Trump Supporters!!! Thank you 30 States who supported our dear Donald J Trump!!!! Thank you to all the Trump Voters in states that Trump didn't win. And ...... thank you Donald J Trump!!!
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