A check like the electoral college, you mean?

...why can’t you do that?

It’s known as arguing in the alternative, and it’s perfectly valid.

It’s not a favor, it’s recognition that the mechanism in place—as imperfect as it is—is the best hope we have of avoiding a calamitous presidency.

It’s the system, but it’s not what people think the system is. This is in fact the moment for which the electoral college was designed - a group of wise men will see that the great unwashed were taken in by an unfit demagogue, and make a different choice. It’s a grim historical irony that we’re in this moment because…

Bingo. The College was designed to circumvent exactly this kind of situation.

“Is about as undemocratic an electoral process as one could imagine.”...

Really? I think when somebody gets 2 million less votes than another person yet is still the winner is pretty undemocratic.

The fact of the matter is the electoral college isn’t a democracy and was never meant to be one. So I’m not sure what your…

His argument is totally sound: the electoral college was set up to deny the will of the people if the people vote for a lunatic. It was not set up for the sake of smaller states or some other nonsense I have read. The Founding Fathers(tm) didn’t trust voters. The FFs also didn’t want direct election of u.s. Senators.…

...538 people conspiring together to decide the president is about as un-democratic an electoral process as one could imagine. 

But that’s the system.

The whole family has an expression that says “I just beat an immigrant to death with a folding chair.”

But the current Pope sounds like he would almost be a pretty good POTUS.

This.

I’m actually fine if you give them the coverage you’ve been giving them. But don’t do what I just watched in this video and half-ass it. CALL THEM OUT ON THE BULLSHIT. When moderators and news hosts aren’t doing their job and letting a pundit run rampant with whatever rhetoric they choose, nobody learns anything…

Well during campaigns you have to give equal time, not so much to batshit surrogates, but you do have to cover them with a fairly equal amount of coverage. However on other issues I totally agree, this is why climate change is still a debate, because the tiny minority with an agenda is given equal time with the other…

Especially now that the fairness doctrine is defunct. Might as well pivot back to reality and stop giving these people a soapbox.

I’m tired of my Facebook feed getting cluttered with false equivalency. “Both candidates are bad, can we get a do over? Lol!”

We don’t need to hear from both sides if one side is batshit crazy and their stance is indefensible. This is how Republicans are winning and manipulating the system. This is done for the sake of “good television,” and Trump supports get to go on the air and shout out talking points and memes to reinforce the “I hate…

Don’t know what game you were watching.

You clearly see him stuff the post then when he’s fumbling around with it he bounces it off of his own pad (it came free) and then he gloved it. Never crossed the line.

You learn this trick when you are 10 years old. Just start celebrating like you scored the goal. Make the ref make a decision. Then force him to prove it was not a goal.