Clearly the Drumpf doesn't know, much less understand, the process by which the Republicans choose the nominee. Maybe I can clear it up for him and his campaign "team." Personally, I think they're too busy eating their crayons to get it, but I can at least try. Here we go...
1) The number of delegates required to have the nomination "handed" to you is ironclad at 1,237. Got it? Good.
2) Anything short of 1,237 - even by one single lonely delegate - is grounds for an "open" convention. Not likely to happen, but still a remote possibility. Got it? Good.
3) Each state has their own rules for selecting their delegates and how those delegates vote during the convention.
a) Some states are "winner take all" - meaning every delegate from that state must vote for the primary/caucus winner of the state on the first ballot.
b) Some states are "winner take most" - meaning the winner receives the votes of most of the delegates while other candidates receive a few as well.
c) Some states' delegates are "apportioned" - meaning the percentage of votes a given candidate will receive is commensurate to how well they did in that state's primary/caucus.
d) Some states, like PA, have rules that say the majority of delegates are not bound by the state's primary results. In essence, they are free to vote however they wish.
***For the record, I'm well aware that I've stripped the processes down to the bare bones minimum, but I kinda-sorta had to. How else will Drumpf and his team understand? I don't have the proper amount of crayons or construction paper it would take to really explain it to them. Just sayin'.***
My point is that it's the state's Republican Party apparatus that sets the rules for how and when delegates are chosen and who they vote for in the convention. These rules have been known for well over a year.
For The Fraud of Fifth Avenue and his team to be crying "foul" now shows how ill-prepared he is for just a simple election. It has to make one wonder how he'll ever be prepared if he wins the presidency, God forbid.
Calling the Colorado system "rigged" while remaining silent about a nearly identical process in Hawaii is especially enlightening to those of us who are actually paying attention. The only major difference between the 2 states is that the Cheetos Kid won Hawaii and lost Colorado.
Puts it in perspective, does it not? ~ Hunter
P.S., A plurality of delegates does not equal a majority. Period. End of story.
I found this comment on Matt Walsh's Facebook post that linked to the article he wrote about the Bruce Jenner hysteria playing itself out since the Vanity Fair picture was unveiled. It intrigued me so much that I had to share it here, with the owners permission, of course.
Darius Tomuta wrote:
"No Bruce. You are not a woman. You may have fake breasts, long hair, a great cosmetologist, and a professional photographer, but over all that, you really have a disorder. A psychological disorder."
Disorder:
Confusion, disorganization, irregularity, dysfunction, disturbance.
Gender Identity Disorder
In other words,
Gender Identity Confusion
Gender Identity Disorganization
Gender identity Irregularity
Gender Identity Dysfunction
Gender Identity Disturbance
Does this sound like something we as a society should be promoting through psychological and surgical means?
Normally, treatment for mental disorders involves some attempt toward reversing or reducing symptoms of the disorder.
For Anorexia Disorder, the goal is to stop starving yourself.
For Binge Eating Disorder, the goal is to stop stuffing yourself.
For Anxiety Disorder, the goal is to stop stressing yourself.
How ridiculous would it be to tell a person with Anorexic Disorder that they looked overweight.
How ridiculous would it be to tell a person with Binge Eating Disorder that they are completely healthy.
How ridiculous would it be to tell a person with Anxiety Disorder that their anti-anxiety medication could kill them.
You would not be promoting the disordered individual's well being. You would not be promoting order, but disorder.
And yet this is exactly what our society is doing with Gender Identity Disorder; rewriting all the rulebooks that once called it a mental illness and instead promoting and advancing that mental illness as a normal lifestyle option. The system is changing to classify this specific mental disorder as normal and accepted, pushing sexually confused men, women, and even children further into their sexual confusion.
Progressive parents are sadly nurturing this by administering hormone therapy to their children to delay puberty in preparation for gender reassignment surgery, buying them clothes that belong on the opposite sex, and even changing their legal names to conform to their child's confusion rather than nurturing and rearing them consistently with the gender that was assigned to them at birth.
I'm not a parent, but I know that kids have imaginations. I was a kid once. When I was about 7, I remember playing house with my sisters and their friends. I remember walking down the aisle (hallway) with my neighbor. We had all decided (imagined) that I was the husband. Should we have stopped at our imaginations? Should our parents have booked a venue, rented tuxedos and dresses, met with a jeweler, and invited all my friends from school?
Yeah... No.
Kids imagine. Kids imagine and even play games where they are a member of the opposite sex. Adults are usually (usually) more realistic. Should parents really promote imagination as reality? Apparently, many adults have great imaginations too, because that's exactly what they are doing when they promote the idea that a male can become a female or that a female can become a male: a physical, anatomical, sexual, reproductive, hormonal, emotional, relational, and societal impossibility. Yes. Impossibility.
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I wholeheartedly agree with Darius' comment, as well as Matt Walsh's article, especially when Matt asserts that feminism and transgenderism cannot coexist. In fact, logically speaking, they should cancel each other out.
We've been lectured for decades now that looks, thoughts, and clothing don't make a woman, well, a woman. Suddenly, along comes a guy, who thinks he's a woman, who pays a great deal of money to acquire just the things we've been told are not what makes a woman, and he/she is considered a hero? No, that's not dichotomous at all.
Not long before I left work today, I heard something on the radio that sums up this entire situation perfectly:
"When we celebrate Bruce Jenner's "courage" we are also celebrating the death of objective truth, and making dysfunction acceptable - even admirable - merely on the basis of celebrity."
I don't think it gets any truer than that. ~ Hunter
Equality...
The outward "Holy Grail" of liberalism. On its face, and without the surrounding context that's needed, equality seems like a worthy goal.
Seriously, who wouldn't want a world where literally nobody would want for anything? Or have a serious reason to complain about anything?
Like I said - it seems like a worthy goal. Something for which everyone should strive to achieve. Or so liberals assume...
The problem is that - and I know that this will be a shock to any liberals who read this - NO ONE PERSON IS ACTUALLY "EQUAL" TO ANY OTHER.
Every person on this planet is different - we all want different things out of life. We have different interests, different likes, needs, desires.
Some people are smarter than everyone else.
Somewhere on this planet, there's a person that some people will think is more attractive than you (unless you're Lena Dunham - then everyone is more attractive than you).
Some people are funnier than others. Some have better eyesight, sense of smell, more sensitive touch, more empathetic.
Some understand things and people better than you and I.
Some people just have better luck.
We look different, speak differently, act differently.
Some are more ambitious than others - the drive to be the BEST at whatever their chosen activity fuels them to make the strides necessary to do that. Whether they actually ACHIEVE that goal is immaterial - what matters is the attempt.
Some are more content with staying "middle of the road." They don't like to call too much attention to themselves - be it good or bad attention - and that's perfectly fine for them.
Nobody I have ever met is bound and determined to be the absolute WORST at whatever they set out to do. I don't think that's even a part of human nature.
Liberals - all of this is OK. It's actually good to be different than everyone around you. It should be encouraged.
I have often said that the Constitution is our most important founding document. It is the foundation of our entire society, our national identity. Its uniqueness has ensured our freedoms for two-plus centuries. No other nation's founding documents specifically tell the government what it can and cannot do to its citizens. None that I am aware of, at least.
Lately, however, I've been thinking that our most important founding document is the Declaration of Independence - particularly the phrase "all men are created equal." Liberals - take note that it says we are created equal, not that we are equal. We're not equal, nor have we ever been. For all the differences I've listed above, there are countless other examples.
There is an old adage that runs something like "Only two things in life are certain - death and taxes." Again liberals, take note of the rather glaring absence of the word "equality."
What the Founders knew, and what liberals have forgotten (or most likely ignore), is that it was never meant for our outcomes to be equal. It was our opportunity to pursue those outcomes that was to be equal.
In the United States, everyone starts on as level a playing field as is humanly possible. Your accident of birth doesn't determine how far you can go in your life. Your ability to use the opportunities inherent in being an American to your advantage determine your outcome. Yes, there's always a certain amount of luck involved, but the lion's share is up to YOU.
A better way of saying it is - The equality is in the opportunity to chase that which you most desire. Catching what you desire most is entirely up to you. ~ Hunter
