Friday, November 25, 2016

The "Mandate" Lie


Immediately after the election, a number of Rethuglicans rushed to the cameras to declare that sociopathic fraudster Donald "Rump" Trump had won a "mandate" based on his electoral college win. Among them were Ayn Rand acolyte House Speaker Paul "Lyin'" Ryan, who spent the campaign criticizing and avoiding Rump but who now wants to bask in Rump's orange glow, and Rethuglican National Committee chairstain and weasel / human hybrid Reince "Prepuce" Priebus, who worked behind the scenes to derail Rump during the primaries, but who later signed on and became one of his most servile sychophants.

With the popular vote margin for Secretary Clinton over Rump mounting (over 2 million and still counting), not to mention Rethug losses of two Senate seats and six seats in the House, the Rethugs are hard pressed to claim any "mandate," especially for issues that weren't even debated (prominently, the fate of the social safety net, i.e. Medicare privatization that Lyin' Ryan is eager to pursue). Currently, Clinton's percentage of the popular vote is approximately 48%, compared to Rump's 46%. When you add in the votes for the third party candidates, 53% of voters voted against Rump (we'll give you a full accounting when the final votes are tallied). Not a mandate, unless you live in the alternate universe of right-wing politics and math.

4 comments:

One Fly said...

Facts and Reality make no difference to these people or Big Whore Media. We're screwed!

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately Jill Stein's shiny object will distract the media from this information. P.E.C.

Hackwhackers said...

Agree with you both. The corporate media has already moved on to pulling for and normalizing Rump, with convenient distractions like Stein's "challenge" and Rump's idiotic tweets abounding. Thanks.

Grung_e_Gene said...

The media had already moved on to normalizing Trump and his appointees and aiding the Republicans in enforcing their agenda of Oppression, Intolerance, and Adulation of the Rich.