I totally agree. I mean if someone is on trial for stealing a cell phone, and if one of the jurors flashes a thumbs-up to the defense, the judge can declare a mistrial due to “influence.” Here an entire country voted for someone running for the most powerful position in the world, based on “influence” from an enemy…

I don’t understand how we can have an election, find out another nation hacked/influenced the outcome of that election, and then the results stand??

The results should be invalidated, and there should be a do-over. I would think this if Hillary won too, allowing RUSSIA to hack us is frickin’ unacceptable.

What’s the point of even having electors if they can’t do the thing that their role was designed to do? Their purpose is to act as a check on the people.

The Democratic Senate did exactly this in 2013. It is why most of Trump’s cabinet nominees will sail through the confirmation process.

No, it’s far worse than that. It’s no longer about policy or ideology, it’s about authority. The Republicans have shown that if their ideology conflicts with gaining and holding authority, they will cheerfully shift their ideology to accept whatever their leaders tell them. The Russians are our enemies until the day…

Their assumption is that they will still control the Senate at that point, so they’ll just Kumbaya along with that guy’s choices.

It is insane that as late as 2012, we had Congress (Senate 92-4 and the House 365-43) voting on sanctions against Russia (i.e. Magnitsky Act) for a civil and human rights abuse.

a company, town, university, student union or country

When the main thrust of a film is its casting, it’s generally going to be a crap movie. Ocean’s 11 (the first remake) was astonishing because it was stunt-cast AND good. Ocean’s 12 and 13, which were really just stunt-cast vehicles, were predictably terrible. I expect Ocean’s 8 to be fully terrible because the…

So a Chinese director casts five leading characters, one of whom is white rather than Asian. The other four are Chinese.

They have been doing such since the Reagan years, they’ll do it again when money is on their minds.

The faithless electors won’t save us, but they deserve credit for refusing to cast their lot in with the old fascist, and we should be talking about them all the damn time,and praising them to the skies, even if they carry on like loons or cast their vote for that idiot Kasich.

I just bought a pink shirt, and lemme tell you, I never noticed how bright your eyes were before.

Not to defend Stein, but just to be objective you could make this argument for those who left the tops of their tickets blank, or those who stayed home, or those who voted for Trump, all of which represent larger groups than Stein voters.

“Raping boys? What’s the problem?”

Why isn’t ANYONE in power in the U.S. doing anything about the fact that:

I hated myself for feeling relieved when I saw Mitt was being seriously considered for Secretary of State but that’s the way this is going.

I’m at the point where I’m thinking please God, please, please have them pick Mitt Romney for secretary of state. He’s a smart man, or at least competent. This whole administration is going to be a horror show.

Remember how Obama had to repudiate Rev. Wright because of something that was said by the man at a time when Obama wasn’t even in the same city*. Yeah, we’re totally not playing with the same rule book.

STOP calling them Alt Right!!! They are NEO NAZIS!! The fact that they’ve given themselves a harmless sounding name does not change what they truly are.