To SMH
You should really be sorry that the DemonRats are so crooked. The Vote recount gave more votes to Trump. Some of the Precincts in Dem controlled Detroit were not counted because of massive vote Fraud.
One precinct turned in box counted and sealed for 306 votes, when opened for recount there were only 50 ballots inside.
Of the thousands of “Voting Machine Irregularities”- switching votes to Clinton/Kaine, not one has been reported of switching votes to Trump/Pence.
Do you think “Dead People” should Vote?
Do you think Non-Citizens should Vote?
Many Dem controlled voting districts do nothing to stop it. Why don’t real Democrats clean that crap up?
I think that is your “Popular Vote”. Look at the map of counties won. Precincts with more vote then Registered Voters, others with more votes counted than Voters actually signed in by Election Officials are in Democrat cities that contributed that “Popular Vote”.
And we are a Constitutional Republic not a Mob-Rule “democracy”. Both campaigns were run by strategies to win the Electoral Vote. Trump just did better. Hillary is widely distrusted and despised, even by patriotic Democrats, a very unpopular candidate except among the Welfare Parasites and Globalist Elitists. And she was a lousy candidate. She thought she had the Rust Belt States in the bag and lost 3 because she was to lazy and arrogant to complain.
Suck it up, Buttercup! The Clintonistas failed again because they think they so much smarter than they really are. And they are so crooked they believe they could buy the election and so stupid they believe their own lying propaganda.
Thinking Americans are sick of it!

SMH
First of all, you say you are shaking your head over this sad sad post? It may be sad for you, but it is most definitely NOT sad at all for those of us who voted for Donald Trump. Did you miss the part about how elections are done here? The part about the Electoral College? It does seem like most folks do NOT understand why it is necessary, or in your case I guess, don’t really care. As long as your candidate wins, it matters not how the process is supposed to work, I guess. Our Presidential elections are not won by ‘popular vote’. If they were there would probably never be another conservative or Republican elected. That is good you say, but the entire electorate is not made up exclusively of liberal Democrats, thank goodness. Since you are so worried about someone else’s grammar, you must be capable of finding out what the reason for the Electoral College is. You should look it up.

As for your comment… Several Republican congressional seats in Texas voted majority Hillary, so, whatcha gonna do? … There is nothing TO do. They obviously all voted for the wrong candidate and they lost… so whatcha gonna do? Your preferred candidate was horrified that Trump would not come outright and say he would accept the results of the election if he lost. Remember that? Too bad Hillary is not woman enough to admit defeat instead of blaming her loss on everyone and everything imaginable, other than her own personal shortcomings and liabilities.

To SMH & any other Democrats,
There is an excellent article by Bryan Dean Wright: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/12/19/now-that-trump-s-officially-won-white-house-here-are-10-ways-dems-must-drain-their-own-swamp.html
The most intelligent thing I’ve seen written by a Democrat in years! Perhaps the only really smart thing published by a Democrat in years, and it came from FOX.
The 10 things they must do to ‘Drain Their Own Swamp’! It could have been written by Trump or the TEA Party. It is just plain Common Sense and getting America back to being America.
I sincerely hope the Rank and File Democrats will at least read and hopefully heed his ideas. Throw out the Elitists and the Identity Politics. “Education” that teaches, not “brainwashing”. Fair Trade, not Globalism, and Economic Vitality focused on making OUR lives better. An Energy policy that is efficient and affordable.National Security and admitting Islamofascists are the problem.Govt oversight on Corporate Crime not Cronyism. Get out of “Social Issues” that are peoples’ private business. And start paying attention to the things the Govt already has, like Social Security and Medicare.
We need the American Democrat Party back, no more of the International Totalitarianism disguised as Fabian Socialism!

SMH

Thank you for responding to Mr. Brayshaw’s essay – I know he appreciates hearing your opinion even though it is different from his. I can see by your comments that you subscribe to the “tell-it-like-you-see-it” policy; therefore, I take that as permission for me to do the same. To begin with, your “you can’t have it both ways” statement does not make sense. Yes we can have it both ways. If there was any voter fraud at all (and there was) it would have been in favor of the democrats (and it was). That is the way it always has been and this election was no exception. So when you say Hillary won the popular vote by 2.5 million votes you are not taking into consideration any voter fraud at all. We know that is not true because some fraud has already been discovered and verified by officials and, in order to protect the democrats, they have stopped looking for more. So what we don’t know is how much there was. But at this point it really doesn’t matter because President Trump won the ELECTORAL vote.

You say this article contains poor writing and grammar. While we welcome a writing and grammar expert here, your accusations are meaningless without examples. Argumentative proof? Please enlighten us as to exactly what that is? Never mind – we already know. It is nothing more than mumbo jumbo that liberals like to spew in hopes of impressing or worse yet intimidating the listener/reader with his vast vocabulary. It doesn’t work this time – if it ever did. The phrase is meaningless, especially when you are referring to proven, accepted, and verifiable facts.

I am wondering why you limited your response to off-topic accusations and mostly avoided the subject that was discussed by Mr. Bradshaw. Is that, perhaps, because you know nothing about the subject yet felt a need to express some criticism so you spitefully attacked his writing and grammar? Desperate remarks that are childish but predictable and very liberal-like. As for several Republican seats in Texas voting for Hillary – so what? Congressional seats all over the country voted for Hillary – just not enough. Exactly what Mr. Brayshaw is going to do about it I really don’t know. But I am fairly certain he will NOT burn down the town, violently attack people verbally or physically, or demonstrate by lying in the middle of the road or standing around holding up ridiculous signs that reflect gross disregard for the law and the Constitution. In short, he is going to carry on and act like an adult rather than like a spoiled child. Democrats should take note that this is how adults are supposed to act.

So Mr. SMH – it appears you shook your head a little too hard and it would be a good idea to be checked for any damage you may have caused in doing so. If you care to respond again please include some factual, verifiable examples and links to where they can be found. Otherwise, go get your coloring book, find a nice quiet corner or a safe place, and make a pretty picture to hang on the refrigerator. When you don’t know what you are talking about it is best to not talk at all.

Oh no, I am still here, and I don’t agree with anything you spout.

I’m hoping your hard line includes privatizing our social network, right? You obviously don’t want Social Security, Disability, Medicare or Medicaid in your lives? Instead of a check you’ll appreciate that voucher?

As I said, I have nothing to worry about under Trump for myself. As an owner of a business and owner of several of paid-off homes, lowering the tax rates are right up my alley. I’m thinking of going into development, I hear that’s going to trend very profitably over the next few years. Maybe I’ll even accept those vouchers if you need an apartment to live in.

I love the liberty that allows me to respond to your crappy writing, poor grammar and unenlightened visions of our world.

Hey! See you at the elections in 2018. May Jesus bring you enlightenment and love in 2017. Or at least a smile.

Well SMH, I would gladly give up my pittance from SS if we had a real Constitutional Govt.I the damn Democrats hadn’t taken the SS money and spent it, they wouldn’t have to keep raising what you have to pay. But yo vote for ’em, so suck it up, Buttercup, you got no bitch on that!
Medicare is practically worthless, but it does help compensate the V.A. which is an obligation of the govt for 2 tours in Vietnam so whiny babies have the right to whine.
I’m trying to get peoples attention to the fact that America is being stolen out from under them. My only College was an AAS degree in Aviation Maintenance Technology I picked up when I got my FAA Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic license. I needed that because I had almost been busted fixing the helicopter I was flying on a fire-fighting contract in California. I was a Maintenance Officer and Test Pilot between tours in Vietnam. I flew guns & slicks Hueys the first tour and AH-1G HueyCobras the second. I also flew and instructed in helicopters and airplanes, single and multi engine. I speak and write plain English, not pompous crap.
I’ve owned outright most of homes since I was in my late 20s, mostly because I built them. I’ve had paid off homes since 1979.
I come from a military family, lived all over world and spoke several languages as child. I have lived in dozens of countries under all kinds of political systems.
YOU sound like the unenlightened one, Cupcake. Why would you want the Dems, if not for all the “Mommy Govt”?
I think you are a troll. You story doesn’t fit your politics, unless you got totally brainwashed somewhere down the line. But maybe you will learn.
But maybe Mary B. is right, you shook your head a little too hard in your grief of the Hildabeast being so soundly defeated, and broke something you needed.
If you really are businessman, I expect you will be voting Republican by 2018.

SMH
I must apologize for the Buttercup, and Cupcake remarks. I foolishly thought you were a man and I only had to worry about a fist-fight, not being sued by a herd of FemiNazi lawyers for “Gender Misappropriation” or some such. Or even (HORRORS!) “Sexual Harassment”.
But it does explain your misappropriated love for a burnt out old Marxist-Alinskyite Harridan married to a serial philanderer. Both Elitist Wannabes, liars and crooks. Somehow the Socialist Propagandists have convinced many women that if they don’t support Hillary, they will be “bare-footed and knocked-up” for the rest of their miserable lives. Another Liberal Lie. Conservatives want you, and everyone else to be as successful as you can.
Start thinking like a BusinessWOMAN, not as a hyper politicized “Feminist” and you can get over the brainwashing.

What you don’t get is that I hope I am wrong. I hope Trump lives up to what he’s said (see how many things he’s backing away from?) in taking care of the weakest members of our society. The ill and the elderly. And especially those who have fought in war, like my nephew. But horror stories of the government-run VA have existed for the last 40 years under both parties. I think you would agree with that.

I don’t vote Democrat because I want a socialist state, I am a capitalist. I vote Democrat because I believe we have a social obligation for a safety net for all people who need it, with certain minimums of care and funds for all Americans, not on a state-by-state basis. I want the children of Calhoun County to have better opportunities through education, regardless of citizenship or not, because stupid kids grow into stupid adults. Said education to include access to a wireless world, so they are not held back in standards of learning and have the chance to move ahead in their lives.

What I cannot reconcile is someone who rails against illegal immigration, yet marries a woman who came here illegally to work. I cannot reconcile a man who publicly ridicules someone who is disabled, a woman based on her looks, a person based on their weight. I think his sick view of women “Grab them by the pussy” extends to his relationship and reliance on his daughter.

Pathetically you ignore Trump’s faithlessness in his own marriages (Ivana slapped Marla on the slopes of Aspen when he was sleeping around), yet ridicule a woman who stayed with a spouse who strayed. My faith teaches me that is a virtue, not weakness. I cannot reconcile a bully and charlatan as the leader of our country, nor people like you how talk and behave as he does.

I thank you for including the personal information, and I thank you for your service to our nation. I still disagree with what you say and how you say it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/trump-vineyard-seeks-labor-department-approval-to-hire-foreign-workers/2016/12/22/f320bea8-c86a-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html?utm_term=.eb60fb94686d

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tweet-nuclear-weapons_us_585c2c6ee4b0de3a08f4a1d4

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ERIC_TRUMP_CHARITY?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-22-18-41-14

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/23/donald-trump-russia-twitter-nuclear-arms-morning-joe-tiger-woods/95786388/

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/anne-applebaum-enough-with-the-spy-vs-spy-what-we-know-about-trump-russia-is-bad-enough