Reality Doesn't Intrude On VOX

Barack Obama is officially one of the most consequential presidents in American history

Har! Oops, he's not joking. But reality is closer to this:

Whatever precise form Mr Trump’s administration takes, we know this: Mr Obama’s legacy will be purged. In many cases all it will take is the stroke of Mr Trump’s pen.

The Obama erasure will go far deeper than undoing domestic laws, or foreign deals. Mr Trump will repeal Obamacare, or alter it beyond recognition. He will “keep an open mind” about whether to pull the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change and quite probably blow up the US-Iran nuclear deal. These acts would undo Mr Obama’s most visible achievements. Less obvious ones, such as the ban on Arctic drilling and enhanced interrogation techniques and the intention of closing Guantánamo Bay (never completed) will also be consigned to the dustbin. It will be as if Mr Obama was never here.

Music to my ears...

Recount: Quote of the Day

It’s almost as if Jill Stein, a regular on Russia Today TV, is pursuing a strategy calculated to foment chaos. But we’re not hearing anything about that from the people who’ve been seeing Russkis under their beds for months.
Glenn Reynolds

The most cogent estimate of the reasons for the recount that I've read is that if the recounts are not finished by Dec 19, then the electoral vote cannot happen, throwing the issue into Congress, which will vote Trump anyway. That would mean that he was elected by politicians, not the people, so that would somehow diminish his stature.

Trump is right to push the issue of illegal votes. In vote recounts the Dems always find box loads of extra Dem votes that show up at the most convenient time for them. And the statistical analysis which shows 3 million illegals voted still stands.

UPDATE:
Related:

White House denies that Russia hacked election for Donald Trump win

The Obama administration confirmed the 2016 results, telling the New York Times that the presidential contest "accurately reflects the will of the American people."

That certification follows bipartisan questions about the validity of the electoral system before and after Election Day. But according to the White House, both sides are misguided.

So the Executive Branch has certified the election results.

Says The Massively Failed JEB!

Jeb Bush urges the GOP to restore its brand: There is 'no excuse for failure'

Restore the billionaire-owned Democrat-light party of the Bush Dynasty... Why on earth would anyone who is not a Bush want that? JEB! had his chance and his wasted $millions and found the answer which he refuses to accept. No one listened to him or dynasty or his $millions, why would they listen now? Maybe he should picket and demonstrate and shout, "NOT MY PRESIDENT!". I'd jeer that, too.

It Doesn't Need Saying Again, But I Just Feel Like Saying It

Trump put an end to:

1. Bush Dynasty
2. Billionaire-bought-and-owned politicians
3. Republican establishment
4. Clinton Dynasty
5. Democrat establishment
6. MSM stranglehold
7. Any concept of Leftist civility
8. Obama's legacy

There will be an extensive list soon, including killing TPP, quit stalling pipelines, quit reducing and PC'ing the military, eliminating the Leftist hegemony in Administration agencies including Education, IRS, EPA, Justice, Homeland Security, etc.

It'll be a blizzard of destruction for the Left and reconstruction of true tolerance, responsible constitutional law, rational (if rowdy) reconstruction of cultural morality, and marginalization of America/white/male hatred and PC war. Great time to be alive!

More Popcorn!

Trump and Twitter Eradicate the Necessity of the MSM Filter

Trump Actually Treating Media Better Than They Deserve

Trump's social media habits scare them the most, because as we saw with the New York Times meeting, he can take his case directly to the public. That connection has a lot of people freaked out because it seriously upsets the old order. No longer is everything filtered through the MSM. I've been saying since the beginning of the campaign that political science students will be studying Trump's use of social media in this election for years to come.

Republicans who were uncomfortable with Trump's rough style during the campaign and longed for Mitt Romney's class and decency seemed to have forgotten that Romney's fortunes turned on a dime because Candy Crowley ran interference for President Obama during a debate, fact-checking something Romney had asserted. One small problem, her fact-check was a lie. He essentially lost the election to a CNN reporter.

But, hey, above the fray and whatnot, right?

If the only thing Trump accomplishes in office is giving the GOP some lessons in handling the derelict, irresponsible MSM then he will have given the party a lasting gift that will reap rewards for it far into the future.

If some feelings are hurt along the way, they probably needed to be.

Sweet Home Alabama: Choking The Arroganti

This is now my favorite article of the year:

Why People Lost Their Minds When A Brooklyn Store Played ‘Sweet Home Alabama’
Upscale progressives have gotten used to tuning out the voice of the Trump voter. But there's an America out there that they can no longer ignore.

Read it all THERE, they deserve the clicks!

The Post-Truth Left Discovers Russia

Liberals Are Suddenly Experts in Russian Espionage
Evidence-free left-wing claims that the Kremlin elected Trump are politically toxic and threaten to undermine our system

Only If You Keep On Counting The 3 Million Votes By Illegals

Hillary Clinton's lead in popular vote nears 2 million

As for LEGAL votes, she's still behind by a million.

But They Are More Moral Than Us Deplorables

It's Because They Are Our Enemies

Hillary or Blood? Democrats and Post-Election Angry Mobs

But there is certainly an informal dispute against Trump by the millions protesting across the country—as aimless as it might seem. In that sense, malcontent Democrats this year are behaving more similar those Democrats chanting “Tilden or blood” after the 1876 election.

Occasionally, these marches led to riots. The walkouts by high school students, some encouraged by teachers and administrators, led to one 15-year-old Trump supporter getting beat up by class mates, while other acts of violence have taken place against those who admitted to voting for the president-elect.

The violence is not that different from what happened in 1876 when Democrats were demanding that year’s popular vote winner Samuel Tilden be president, as it seemed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes would likely ascend to the presidency. From “Tainted by Suspicion:”

As the Democrats occupy the criminal-Leftist portion of the political spectrum, it becomes obvious that they are not our friends, or even civil opponents; they are our enemies, they hate us, they cannot tolerate us or our principles. They have long since declared war on us and our principles, and now that they have lost a battle, their true nature comes to the fore.

The fight is not over; it's hardly begun in earnest. It will take us wherever it is necessary.

UPDATE: link is fixed.

Clinton Pay-For-Play Scam Dries Up

Shocker: In Wake of Hillary's Defeat, Donations to Clinton Foundation Dry Up

Who could have seen this coming?

Donations to the Clinton Foundation plummeted amid Hillary Clinton's failed presidential run, it has been revealed. The non-profit organization's latest tax filings show contributions fell 37 per cent to $108million - down from $172million in 2014, according to the New York Post.

Donations fell as the former Secretary of State left the group in April last year shortly after announcing her run for the White House. Her departure also meant that revenue brought in from paid speeches plunged from $3.6 million in 2014 to just $357,500.

They Never Change

Harry Reid Blames Donald Trump for Violence Against Trump Supporters

Obama Refuses to Condemn Anti-Trump Riots, Violence Against Trump Supporters

Soros would cut off their allowances if they didn't support the Leftist rioters.

Window is Closed

The Lecturer II

The Lecturer

Blue Model Sanctuary Cities

OK, Rahm

Illegals are attracted to lawless cities...

Relativism As Post-Truth Leftism

BHO had this coming.

Mike Pence:

Trump unfit? Obama entered office without any successful executive experience.
Eight years later he'll leave it the same way.

Finally! A Sensible "Dear Daughter" Letter

Libs have been "Dear Daughtering" their simpering fear mongering in letters, not to their daughters, but self-righteously published to the entire world. But here's a letter that should be sent to all daughters instead of the whimpering fear letters:

"Ever since Donald Trump’s victory last week, the left wing media and blogosphere have been been very concerned about how our daughters will handle the news. How are we going to explain this to our daughters, they wonder. How? How?

Well, the easiest way to tell them is to say something like this: “Hi daughter, Donald Trump is president because Hillary Clinton is terrible.” You can make it your own a little bit, but that’s the basic framework.

I already had this difficult conversation with my three-year-old daughter, and her response was very touching: “What’s a pwessident?”

“No, president,” I clarified. “Trump is president now.”

“Oh. What’s a Twump?”

The conversation went in circles like this for a while but by the end of it I think she had a pretty firm grasp on how our democratic process works. At least she now has a firmer grasp on the subject than all of the college students who just apparently learned about the electoral college for the first time.

Liberals, though, have quite predictably made this more complicated and emotional than it needs to be. Thus, the internet has been clogged over the past week and a half with various left wing bloggers’ and celebrities’ melodramatic “open letters” to their daughters.

Aaron Sorkin wrote one to his daughters, explaining that “the world has changed in a way I can’t protect us from.”

A feminist writer in the UK wrote one to her daughter, lamenting that Clinton’s candidacy was a “swallow-flight moment of hope” that has not been extinguished by the villainous Donald Trump.

A writer at Elle Magazine wrote one to her daughter, urging her to take heart and realize that “the future is still female” (whatever that means), even if the country is overrun with drooling, bigoted misogynists.

And still another distraught feminist wrote one to her daughter, beseeching her to “never give up” or become disheartened by the fact that she lives in a country filled with monstrous racists and woman-haters.

One mother took it a step further and drew inspirational feminist art on a napkin to help her daughters through this difficult time.

Moved as I was by these poignant displays, I have decided to write a letter to my daughter as well. After all, I don’t want her to be the only kid at preschool whose father or mother didn’t write a clickbait blog post addressed to her but really designed to elicit approval and applause from an audience of like-minded adults. So as my little girl continues to mentally process the devastating defeat of the first major party female candidate, I hope you — I mean she — will find this useful:

Dear daughter,

You’re probably wondering why I’m writing you a letter on the internet when you don’t know have internet access or the ability to read, but honestly I didn’t know what else to do. I could speak to you directly but you’re all the way downstairs and I’m in my office on the third floor. This seemed like my only option.

I know, sweet girl, that you have many questions about last week’s election results. In fact, you hit me with a barrage of questions the morning after the election, as if you’d been up all night pondering them. You turned to me desperately, with a forlorn look in your eyes, and asked me things like: “Can I have some fruit snacks?” and “Can I watch Peppa the Pig?” But I knew, at a deeper level, what you were really asking was, “Why did Hillary Clinton lose the presidential election and what are the implications of her stunning defeat?”

As for the fruit snacks, no, I’ve already told you 100 times you can’t have junk food at 7 in the morning. As for the deeper subtext, let me try to explain.

Sweetie, Hillary Clinton lost because she’s a deceitful, corrupt, morally vacuous human being. There are a lot of good women in the world — women like Mommy and Nanna and whichever Disney princess you’re obsessed with this week — but Hillary Clinton is not like them. Whereas Mommy and Nanna and the Little Mermaid are kind, honest, generous, and selfless, Hillary Clinton is mean, conniving, selfish, and greedy. This is why we don’t have a woman president. Because the woman who ran for president didn’t deserve the honor.

She lost because that’s what always happens, eventually, to people who spend their whole lives using and abusing others for personal gain. They may win lots of money and power, but they will lose what counts: dignity, self-respect, friendship, joy, peace of mind. And there’s a significant chance that one day they’ll even lose the money and power, too.

There’s a very good lesson in this, daughter. Don’t spend your whole life, as Hillary Clinton has done, pursuing power and influence for its own sake. Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Don’t steal. Don’t mishandle classified information and then destroy the evidence. Don’t foment civil war in Libya and Syria. Don’t wage a campaign of slander and blackmail against your husband’s sexual assault victims. Don’t collude with the media to rig your party’s primaries. Don’t dress like a North Korean dictator who just took over the Enterprise. Most of all, don’t treat other human beings like ladder rungs to be stepped upon in your lifelong quest for absolute power.

If you do all of those things, it may very well backfire and one day you’ll wake up and find that you just lost a presidential election to a game show host. All of your years of plotting and manipulating will come crashing down, disintegrating into dust, and leaving you standing there as one of the greatest laughingstocks in the history of American politics.

But, daughter, even if your plans succeed, even if you become a ruthless sociopath, and — perhaps because you actually have charm and personality — you accomplish your goals and realize your wildest dreams, it will not have been worth it. You will be the woman on top, but a woman alone. A woman miserable and unhappy. A woman with a giant, gaping hole where your soul should be.

So, my sweet girl, I implore you not to follow in Hillary Clinton’s footsteps. You have seen where they lead. And it’s good that you’ve seen it. And, considering she had such horrible designs for our country, and she was driven only by contempt and self-interest, we can and should celebrate her loss. God has spared us from her. Let us rejoice and be glad. And let us take these lessons to heart.

Sincerely,

Dad

Seriously. Trump will not molest your daughters - that's a Clinton thing. Got it? A CLINTON thing.