How Paul Ryan Saves the United States by becoming President:

Step 1: convince at least 21 Republican Electors to vote for Paul Ryan - look, not every Republican Elector likes the current situation.
That way Trump gets less than 270 votes (he is at 290 now). This HUGE step means President-elect Trump does not have an Absolute Majority in the Electoral College

That event means the House of Representatives must decide the election. The Constitution states the House chooses from the top 5 candidates. With Trump: 269 or fewer, Hilary: 228, Ryan: 21+ these are real possibilities. This has happened before, look it up.:Wikipedia, etc.

Step 2: convince the House to elect President Ryan
At this point it makes as much sense to elect Paul as another option. Trump is a disaster, the House won't vote for Hilary, Paul Ryan is already third in line (and a previous Vice Presidential candidate - which would be Second) so Paul Ryan seems the best choice!

That is it!

p.s. Would you believe I am a Progressive Democrat from Washington State? Yes I am.

Rachel Maddow Blog vs. Privacy Badger

Wow. I recently installed privacy badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger)

It tells you about trackers that are on web pages. Trackers send information to other websites that allow them to track your web browsing history.

I installed it as an experiment to watch what places had trackers. Privacy Badger doesn't catch all of them but I thought it would be intersting to see what sites I visit have trackers, and I could see which trackers they were.

After less than a week, The Maddow Blog has been the winner with 13. Ouch. I thought they'd be around zero.

Ouch.

· How Paul Ryan Saves the United States

by becoming President:

Step 1: convince at least 21 Republican Electors to vote for Paul Ryan
 - look, not every Republican Elector likes the current situation.
That way Trump gets less than 270 votes (he is at 290 now). This HUGE step means President-elect Trump does not have an Absolute Majority in the Electoral College

That event means the House of Representatives must decide the election. The Constitution states the House chooses from the top 5 candidates. With Trump: 269 or fewer, Hilary: 228, Ryan: 21+ these are real possibilities. This has happened before, look it up.:Wikipedia, etc.

Step 2: convince the House to elect President Ryan
At this point it makes as much sense to elect Paul as another option. Trump is a disaster, the House won't vote for Hilary, Paul Ryan is already third in line (and a previous Vice Presidential candidate - which would be Second) so Paul Ryan seems the best choice!

That is it!

p.s. Would you believe I am a Progressive Democrat from Washington State? Yes I am.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red State, Blue State

Time to remove the Electoral College

I live in a blue state and regardless of how I vote in the presidential election, my vote did not count.  That's right, whether I voted for Trump or Hilary my vote made absolutely NO difference. The same thing goes for a lot of other states. A few voters in a few states decided this election.They decided it against the majority vote. does that seem fair? No, it seems antiquated and unfair.

The Electoral College is like the human appendix; it exists but we only notice it when it becomes inflamed.

Look, this was a power issue between states and the federal government 200 some years ago when the Constitution was created. If you haven't noticed, the world has changed.  Now we have a global economy and the 'states' that count now are entire nations.

That means our piddly little issues between states should be seen as football rivalries rather than the world changing stuff we might like to think they are.

So we need to eliminate the electoral college with an Amendment. Wording is pretty simple, just state that the President and Vice President will be elected by the majority of votes. Done.

PTSD

Yes, half of us doing now with PTSD - not from any war, but now a new disease:
President
Trump
Shock
Disease

And if you think the federal government will do anything about it,

]you are Trumped [the new verb for fucked]

Could the Grand Experiment be over?

Somehow we elected an incompetent president, then we elected a very smart but probably too polite one, and now it looks like we have elected Caligula.
(Hey, we already had a horse (really a turtle) running the Senate so we should have seen this coming

Our apologies

I'm watching the third debate. I've watched the two previous ones. I want to apologize. I want to apologize for Trump.

I want to apologize to Ms. Hilary Clinton for having to run against such a terrible opponent. Trying to run a normal campaign against an incoherent opponent is demeaning to you and brings our whole democracy down. I know you wanted a real issue driven fight against a worthy opponent. That brings out the best in our country.

I want to apologize to the rest of the world. We Americans think we have the best country, the shining city on the hill. We see ourselves as the way to lead the whole world to greatness. Yeah, we have failed at that a lot over the years but I want to apologize for this one stupid thing.

This election is between a politician and an idiot. Neither is loved. It took me this long to realize how much the idiot has dragged down the politician's image. Basically, rational people from all political sides have tried to accommodate the fool as if he were an actual candidate. It strikes me as the story of  The Emperors New Clothes where no one acknowledges the king is naked.

I have to give Chris Wallace props for not laughing at several points.

I have faith that the wisdom of the people will prevail. or I'm moving to Canada