Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for December 02, 2016
Transcript:
School Time Rock Boy: How do we elect our president? Box: Good question, sonny. Its called the electoral college, and its how we find the right person for the job! Our Founders made the system so the president is voted in by electors, Not the mob. Electors are statesmen, folks of analysis, discernment, and sincerity! They can override their state's vote if the people choose someone whose talents are "Of low intrigue and the little arts of popularity" Boy: Who said that? Box: Just a fella named Alexander Hamilton! To avoid the tumult and disorder of an unqualified disorder of an unqualified president, electors can use their judgment, independent.... ....or to thwart the "desire of foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant"! Boy: But wait! Electors voting for someone other than the winner of their state is....UNDEMOCRATIC! Box: I guess you're right. Its more democratic to give the presidency to the guy who got the second most votes! And remember: Donald Trump said he interprets the constitution the way the founders intended not according to modern conventions....
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Oh! Now I understand completely!
Kessler_85 almost 8 years ago
The problem is that it would tell all the people, who voted for Trump, that they have no stake in the system – their choices aren’t respected and their voices wouldn’t be listened to. Sure, Trump is bad, but many people voted for him exactly, because they thought, the “washington elites” are ignoring them.
grandpa1 almost 8 years ago
I figured out how to live with this atrocity for the next four years. I figured out how my mute button works. Course I still have to close my eyes or switch the channel to avoid nightmares.
tobybartels almost 8 years ago
Check out the Hamilton Electors: citing Federalist 68 (written by Hamilton and quoted in this comic), they are a group of (so far) 7 Democratic Electors who have pledged to support a ‘Reasonable Republican’ if Republican Electors will join them and pick one. If enough Republican Electors do so, then this would throw the election to the House, where hopefully they would choose the Reasonable Republican.
Serial Pedant almost 8 years ago
“Reasonable Republicans”? Huh? WTF? Let us know when they’re found. (Yawn!)
Linguist almost 8 years ago
I said a this a year ago, and I will probably be saying it, a year from now…Be Afraid….Be Very, Afraid !
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You have no idea the kind of monstrosity you have loosed !
Dtroutma almost 8 years ago
Tom the bug has “original” correct, and it was to keep out “Brits” and other outsiders, as well as idiots away from power, granted the white, male, land-owning aristocracy had the power.
Tumolt and disorder ARE the prime objectives of Trump and his supporters/appointees, and it’s back to the billionaire aristocracy, tax freed of course, who will treat the common man the same as in Hamilton’s day, serfs, slaves, and indentured, to them!
jpozenel almost 8 years ago
So what’s his problem with “Hamilton”?
danketaz Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Oddly enough, SchoolHouse Rock did create a video explaining the Electoral College for their DVD collection.
egadi'mnotclad almost 8 years ago
All persons are created equal. We are all equal in the eyes of the law. Love thy neighbor as thyself. The French revolution.
More or Less Premium Member almost 8 years ago
whinybabies gonna whine.
Vicsage1 almost 8 years ago
Hamilton was an elitist and Burr gave him what he deserved.
Funny_Ha_Ha almost 8 years ago
I like how it was rigged a month ago but now it’s all fine and dandy.
David Nadolsky almost 8 years ago
This is some weird backwards shit, Ruben.
Monster Hesh almost 8 years ago
So far, seven “faithless electors” have stepped up to announce what everyone already knows—that Scumpelthinskin is unfit to hold the office of the President of the United States. Scumpelthinskin’s lost the popular vote (and thus his mandate), he’s dropping electors, the rest of the world (excluding his fellow thugs, including the Russian who pulls his strings) wonders how we let it come to this, and he’s desperately trying to prevent investigations into fraud, which he still insists was real……but Libby still savors the flavor of the heel of his boot.
More or Less Premium Member almost 8 years ago
whineybabies
euvnrutas almost 8 years ago
IF the game wasn’t rigged how can you explain that BILL CLINTON is a member of the electoral college??
tobybartels almost 8 years ago
A Republican has now defected! Christopher Suprun of Texas will vote for John Kasich, and the Hamilton Electors (now 8 strong, still all Democrats) will probably join him. (So if Suprun is not technically a Hamilton Elector, he may as well be.) This could be the break in the dam!
… Probably not, but hey, this has been a weird election.
tobybartels almost 8 years ago
Forgot to link to Suprun’s oped: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/opinion/why-i-will-not-cast-my-electoral-vote-for-donald-trump.html