"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw
November 9, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
It was historic, but after the votes were in, the same ol' players still played the same ol' way.
Martha Raddatz cried on air.
Whoopi, Cher and Barbra were stunned. They never thought they'd have to make good on their threat to leave the country.
Robert De Niro was "depressed," and madder than ever at the "punk," "dog," and "pig" who won. Living in the Hollywood Bubble, De Niro thought all voters were Liberals.
He was surprised to learn there were enough of "other" voters to elect Donald J., and he'll be surprised there are enough of them not to go to his movies.
But the best was CNN's Resident Communist, Van Jones.
Jones was positively weepy on Election Night at the "Whitelash," pulling a Debbie Downer for his Muslim and illegal immigrant friends who, he said, were scared because Trump won.
But the Yale-educated lawyer wasn't alone. "Kids" at his and Obama's alma mater were also shattered, actively mourning the Trump victory, and so torn up, these kiddies were granted a choice, to take or leave their mid-term exams.
That doesn't happen that much. Maybe it's a Yale and Harvard thing.
To be fair, other colleges brought in Puppies and Playdough to help the youngsters deal. But whatever the reason, it looks like these Liberal-Minded students were never taught to shake their opponents hand when they lost a game.
All that aside, wasn't it worth the eighteen months of being punching bags just to see the faces on the moderators at CBS, CNN, FOX News and the rest, when they reported the results on election night?
To see them stutter as states guaranteed for Hillary, came in Red.
To see the electoral votes stack up for Donald, in states that were guaranteed for Hillary.
To see them be so wrong.
The media and Hillary Clinton always assumed the electoral votes were in the bag for her, and they were fine with that. It was only after she lost that they thought the Electoral College was a big mistake.
And that FBI Director Comey was to blame for Hillary's defeat.
And that Trump won because he had so much free TV air time, never mentioning that Hillary opted to be MIA for 290 days. That's more than nine months, folks.
And the pollsters? They "missed it," they said. And they "don't know why," they said.
Funny, Paul Ryan said sort of the same thing. "Donald Trump heard a voice out in this country that no one else heard," he explained.
Well, baloney makes a mighty tasty sandwich, but don't fall for it when Ryan and the GOP offer to make you lunch.
One CNN reporter was apoplectic when a Trump voter said he didn't tell pollsters who he was voting for.
He was tired of being attacked, argued with and insulted, he said, so he just stopped talking and voted for his candidate.
It was like the French Resistance. Trumpers went under cover.
"You lied to us?" the reporter sputtered. "But how could we have an accurate poll?"
How indeed.
Did he mean the polls that were underinclusive of Republicans? The polls compiled by ABC and the Washington Post? That's the newspaper that hired 25 reporters just to dig up dirt on Trump.
So now with Election Day behind us, Paul Ryan and the Bushes and other Republican Sore Losers, are congratulating Trump, the Bushes adding, "We didn't support you, we didn't vote for you, but congrats."
As Trump would say, "Who cares?"
In the end, the one thing the media, Hillary and anti-Trump forces never factored in was the love and devotion his supporters have for Donald Trump.
His detractors said Trump supporters would stick with him no matter what he did, implying Trump was outrageous and his supporters didn't care. And they were right.
His people would have followed him to the ends of the earth, not because they followed blindly, but because they loved and respected him, his candor and his courage.
And because both parties and the government had let them down.
Another important component was the loyalty of "public" figures who battled the "ABC Campaign Against Trump -- Arrogance, Baloney and Corruption," the ones who took the slings and arrows and put their careers on the line for him, right from the start.
Lou Dobbs, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Mark Simone, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and Greta van Susteren, fine journalist that she is, one of the few who gave The Donald a fair shake.
They were tireless in their support.
The left thought Lies, Bribery and Threats would work.
But they didn't.
They thought staging "Circuses" for the Groundling Voters, serenaded by Bon Jovi, Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Katy Perry, would make votes come pouring in.
But they didn't.
It turns out that the Basket of Deplorables were smarter than they were given credit for, and that Love and Respect for your candidate Trumps everything else, every time.
Hold the line, America.