I learned the famous saying by Grantland Rice, probably in junior high school: “It matters not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game.” That was a lesson for life. Donald Trump never learned it. He’s a sore loser.
Hillary Clinton lost a far closer race than Trump. She collected three million votes more than Trump. She lost the electoral college because of razor-thin wins by Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. She didn’t stamp her feet and whine, as Trump is doing now. She didn’t demand a recount in the states she lost. She conceded graciously. She called Trump and congratulated him on election night. She said in her concession speech the next day that one of the hallmarks of American democracy is the peaceful transfer of power. That’s class.
Many years ago, I took my young children to Constitution Hall in Philadelphia. The young Park Ranger who was our guide said, “The most remarkable event in American history happened here. George Washington relinquished his power at the end of his second term and turned the Presidency over to his successor. The world had never seen the leader of a nation step aside without being forced out. That was the true beginning of American democracy. The peaceful transfer of power.”
The transition has begun. Biden is choosing his cabinet. Trump has not conceded, despite the fact that he clearly lost the electoral college and the popular vote. He is still sending Rudy Guiliani out to make ludicrous claims about fraud. Trump’s lawsuits have been laughed out of federal and state courts over 30 times.
Trump and his personal lawyers are a national disgrace, as Chris Christie said. They not only are pursuing baseless claims, they are undermining our democracy and making us an international laughing stock. So are the leaders of the Republican Party, who have encouraged Trump in his efforts to undermine the 2020 election. Nothing shames the Republican sycophants, not even when the federal government’s cyber security administrator was fired by Trump for telling a simple truth: the 2020 election was the most secure, free, and fair election in history.
She didn’t stamp her feet she just blamed Bernie and the left for her poorly run campaign.
No matter who she blamed, Hillary conceded graciously and promptly. The election was razor-thin. She did not ask for a recount.
Pretty sure you either didn’t read this piece or don’t understand it.
Is this a reply to Stuart or to Diane? Not clear as to what you mean by your comment.
Does writing a book and talking often about that election count? Almost every time I read or watch Hillary, she’s critiquing Trump or saying she should be president. ☹️
Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Humphrey, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Dukasis, Gire, many others and the Bushes all faded away after their retirements, losses or non-runs. 😁
How can you not critique Trump? Lots of people critique Trump, I would not fault Hillary for critiquing Trump, I would applaud her for being sane. When has she said that she should be president? Documentation please. I would be as happy as a lark and joyous as a jaybird if Hillary were president right now. For starters, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett would not be on the SCOTUS and we wouldn’t have over 200 right wingers on the lower courts.
Eddie,
That’s simply not true. Nixon ran again after his first loss. Al Gore wrote a book.
Compared to how often Sarah Palin and John McCain were in the news, HRC is barely mentioned! And when she is, it is generally with complete disdain, unwarranted attacks, and repeating of right wing propaganda that has almost no connection with reality.
Jimmy Carter didn’t fade away, either. Neither did Hubert Humphrey.
And Herbert Hoover? You think he “faded away”?
Ever hear of a little thing called the Hoover Institution? Here is their website:
“Hoover remained integrally involved in the Hoover Institute and Library as a significant benefactor, fund-raiser, and principal provider of guiding inspiration.
Indeed, in 1956 a major funding campaign was launched, with Herbert Hoover leading the effort. The development of the enterprise was so prominent that in 1957 it was again renamed as the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the name it holds today.
Prior to Hoover’s death in 1964, he reflected on the Institution and its accomplishments, scope, importance, and purpose. He submitted a statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University in 1959 in which he stated:
“This Institution supports the Constitution of the United States, its Bill of Rights and its method of representative government. Both our social and economic systems are based on private enterprise from which springs initiative and ingenuity…. Ours is a system where the Federal Government should undertake no governmental, social or economic action, except where local government, or the people, cannot undertake it for themselves…. The overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man’s endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life. This Institution is not, and must not be, a mere library. But with these purposes as its goal, the Institution itself must constantly and dynamically point the road to peace, to personal freedom, and to the safeguards of the American system.”
Those of us who support progressive ideas know that Hoover’s legacy of not fading away is still causing harm nearly 80 years after his loss.
I know HRC makes a convenient punching bag, but she is hardly the evil person the propaganda makes her out to be. There are much worse people who get a pass (like Andrew Cuomo, for one!)
I think HRC stayed quiet because she feared that Trump would have her arrested if she spoke up.
Yes, Hillary has said she should be president. It’s akin to Mary Wilson to wanting to be Diana Ross. 😁
NYC, I’m referring to them criticizing the winners, not their entire political careers. 😁
Eddie,
Does blaming Obama for the Orlando nightclub shooting deaths count?
I would say that the criticism of Trump is mild compared to what is warranted, while that criticism of Obama is not fact-based.
NYC, I never heard Obama being blamed for that tragedy, nor would I agree. 😐
NYC was not blaming Obama. She was saying that this was unreasonable criticism.
Hi Diane. 🙂
I would never blame NYC School Parent, nor Obama for the Orlando nightclub tragedy. ☹️
I just replied, that’s all. 🙂
Sometimes sarcasm gets lost in translation.
The dump’s personal lawyers should ALL be DISBARRED.
DisBarr Barr
Barr should be barred
From speaking in court
If Bill were disBarred
His name would be short
PERFECT!
LOL
Of Supreme Importance
To win or lose
It matters not
If you have bought
The ref you choose
The Moot Game
The game doesn’t matter
The playing is moot
The ones who get fatter
Are ones with the loot
Three in a row–genius, SDP! Thanks for the laughs.
Yeah, right. We should listen to Flynn? Hahahaha….
Mike Flynn joins chorus of right-wingers demanding new election overseen by military
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/mike-flynn-joins-chorus-of-right-wingers-demanding-new-election-overseen-by-military/
Flynn admitted to treason when he pled guilty. Why listen to a traitor?
AMEN, Diane. Why listen to a TRAITOR, indeed.
Ed reform’s big education conference is instructive, I think:
https://excelined.org/edpalooza/
Not a single representative from or supporter of public schools invited to speak.
100% ed reform echo chamber.
Once again they are directing public school policy while completely excluding public schools.
It’s amazing, really. 90% of kids in this country attend public schools and ed reformers can never find a single speaker who 1. works in one or 2. supports one.
The Jeb Bush Education Agenda, again!
They could really just invite Jeb Bush to all of these. He could be the single speaker for all ed reform events.
Is it too much to ask that we get public school policy made by people who actually support public schools? Is that really an outrageous request? When is the last time any of these people even ENTERED a public school? The vast majority of them didn’t even attend one, yet they run US education.
Ridiculous.
Jeb Bush has no clue. He’s a simpleton and a bully.
All you have to do is look at the billionaire barbarians at the gates of the public schools that sponsor this edpalooza to know that this conference is about taking over public education. It is about ways to slice and dice public education funds and transfer them to private pockets.
That DUMP is the MAFIA.
Healers are gonna have to be brought in to CLEANSE the WH of all the EVILNESS and SLIME brought on by that DUMPster and his group of unmentionables.
“Join President George W. Bush on December 1 for his extraordinary insights on presidential and gubernatorial leadership in education, the coalition-building that can ignite change and the post-pandemic road ahead for everyone working to ensure success for students and the future of education in America.”
“Don’t miss Governor Bush, Larry Irving, Jonathan Adelstein and Evan Marwell on December 2 for this critical and timely conversation, where you’ll hear about the risks of a digitally divided nation plus the short- and long-term policy solutions for addressing this urgent problem.”
It’s hysterical. Two of the ed reform speakers come from ONE family.
Wow. The diversity of opinion!
TWENTY YEARS of the Bush Family running K-12 public schools seems like enough. Perhaps we could allow someone else to speak? Maybe someone who actually attended, uses or supports a real live public school?
Echo.Chamber. They all sound the same because they all ARE the same.
Our biggest problem is NOT the digital divide. This program is about further enriching the Bush family as Jeb is heavily invested in this cyber garbage. George should stick to painting. The Bushes are excellent at trading on their name to make $$$.
But not in same league with Trumps!
Anyone visiting Philly should visit The National Constitution Center at Independence Mall. It is far more informative and detailed than the presentations that were given at Constitution Hall years ago.
Does anyone know an exorcist who takes GHI? I need help.
I’m starting to believe that the election was stolen from Trump by a pedophile.
So true. Those who disparaged Hillary on minor faults contributed to the Trump presidency. The most criminal president in history.
Donald Trump, true to form to the bitter end. Thanks for the memories, Donald!
https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/thanks-for-the-memories/
At 74 years old and after having occupied the Oval Office for almost four years, Donald Trump still has no notion how the US government works. He actually thought that his incredibly cuckoo coup plans were going to be successful. But then, as we have seen, he is profoundly ignorant about everything (choose a subject, any subject) and profoundly certain that only he understands it. Is he the most ignorant and dumbest man in the United States? I don’t know. But he’s certainly in the running.
And all his life, he has run his businesses in the same way that he has attempted to run the country, by ignoring the law and using it as a tool to intimidate people and by depending upon paid loyalists to carry out whatever corrupt and uninformed notions he had. I really think that he believed that all he had to do was get the election to the Supreme Court and that his people would give it to him. Uh, sorry Don, it doesn’t work like that.
Trump is still trying to get a case to the Supreme Court. If he feels certain that the Justices there will invalidate the election on his behalf.
Fox Chickens
The latest scoop
From Murdoch group:
The Donald’s troup
Has flown the coup
ha
Trump’s ignorance is astounding. We are living “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” If his father were still alive, he should ask for a refund from the posh schools Trump attended
His father is still alive in Donald Trump for whom it’s the money. His continual blatherings of losing the election in emails to his base, is garnering millions of dollars the fine print says he can use as he wants, according to a knowledgeable source.
The peaceful transition of power is what made our founders most memorable. Trump’s pretending to not know he lost, in order to pick the pockets of bleary eyed supporters, is damaging that image overseas as well as here at home for 70% of his base.
If Donald’s father were still alive, he would prolly try to return Donald to where he came from and ask for a refund from Donald’s mother.
The Trump lawyer (Joe di Genova) who said that the government’s election cyber security administrator, Krebs, “should be taken out at dawn and shot”, credits his knowledge of American history and government to the school he attended which was run by the oblates of St. Francis de Sales. Di Genova described it as a private school and, as strict. He also attended Georgetown. (The information came from an interview posted at the di Genova and Toensing, LLP, website.)
So, any bets about which country Trump will flee to to avoid prosecution in the United States?
I’ll guess, one of those former Yugoslavia or Soviet countries? The last Shah of Iran had Egypt and the US sorta. 🤔
Saudi Arabia. It’s a golf state.
:0)
Thanks, speduktr. Don’t encourage me (winking). You remember what BF Skinner told us about intermittent reinforcement.
But I want to encourage you! Of course, you could use BFS against me and ignore my enthusiasm for your efforts or never make a humorous comment again. See,… you are encouraging me. 🙂
haha
I wouldn’t want to extinguish your behavior. We are all pigeons–pecking away, hoping for a few kind pellets to sustain us.
Did you see the Dan Rather quote about how the White House has become the most polite place to be. Everyone there is saying “Pardon me.”
Peck, peck.
You are bad.
He made a great deal on a wardrobe that he’s convinced will lead to Narnia…where he plans to on move from Melanoma to the White Witch.
Perhaps he’ll settle in Guyana.
You’ve just made this very obscure oldie relevant again.
Iran
“Iran. Iwon!! Iran (to Iran)” — Donald Trump
I’m with Eddie. I think that a former Soviet bloc country is probably looking pretty good to the Donald about now. He’s going to have to sell properties in the US to keep them from being confiscated. to repay loans, and eventually, to pay a lot of taxes he cheated on. All those sales will finance a lot of building himself a golf course and creating of cheeseburger-supplied compound almost anywhere. And that will be much happier for him than life in an orange jumpsuit in a 4×4 cell at US Prison Florence ADMAX would be.
And he can build the Golden Gulag and call it Trump Treblinka since he has no sense of history or geography.
I’m pleased he will leave the White House but if you think we have heard the last of Trumpi think again
Argentina, of course!
Although they may be angry with it45 for the “Covida” balcony scene.