Understand the electoral college (and bitch slap your know-it-all college kid)

Some common sense for one thing

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell, they are" TRKOF

Saul Alinsky's Miscalculation Breaking the system is easy. Becoming its savior is harder. Having lost the election, Democrats are trying their best to make the United States ungovernable, which had underpinned their plan to achieve power all along.  It might have been easier with Hillary in the White House, but Mr. Trump's victory hasn't changed their overall game plan very much, at least not yet. Just One Teensy Problem .... For having a President who's now halfway through his Hundred Days, it's astonishing how many respected, authoritative people still have not the slightest clue how Donald Trump got there. Oh, we've done our best to help these poor troubled souls: for instance, we've explained why many evangelicals preferred Mr. Trump to Hillary and touched on why women wouldn't mind his "locker room" boasting nearly as much as Hillary might have wished.  Others have written about cultural rage, economic rage, bigotry, chauvinism, guns, bitter clingers, deplorables, and much else, but nobody has explained Mr. Trump's victory in terms that make a whole lot of common sense. The Founding Fury To understand what happened, we have to go back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when Hillary Rodham, an ex-Goldwater Girl, became one of Saul Alinsky's acolytes, so fervently that he offered her an internship. Saul Alinsky is credited with inventing "community organizing," which claims to focus on improving the lives of people in poor communities by teaching residents how to organize protests to bring political pressure against persons of power.  This strategy assumes that poverty is deliberately inflicted on the poor by the rich and powerful and that sufficient political pressure can force powerful people to share their ill-gotten wealth with the downtrodden. John Milton quoted Lucifer as saying, "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven," In the 1950s, he started trying to alter conditions in black ghettos in Chicago, later including ghettos in California, Michigan, New York City, and other "trouble spots."  By 1970, Time magazine wrote, "It is not too much to argue that American democracy is being altered by Alinsky's ideas," and conservative icon William Buckley said that Alinsky was "very close to being an organizational genius." As the mainstream media reminds us, Barack Obama got his start in politics by becoming a "community organizer" in Chicago where Mr. Alinsky had spent most of his time.  We're fascinated that Chicago, whose black ghettos received the most attention from Mr. Alinsky, Mr. Obama, and their fellow organizers, has the nation's highest murder rate despite 60 years of organizing. [FULL ] Thanks to Stu Tarlowe for the find ...

Rope Store Stock Surges

James O'Keefe Releases Second Video, [more] VOTER FRAUD Uncovered Part 1 of the series, which was released yesterday, showed evidence of dirty tricks including what is known as "birddogging", or infiltrating Trump campaign events in order to incite anarchy and violence. The video also showed potentially illegal coordination between a network of shady consulting firms, SuperPACs, and the Clinton Campaign itself. Although the mainstream media has largely ignored the video, at least one democratic operative, Scott Foval, has been fired as a result of its release. Project Veritas describes the video: Several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Scott Foval, the National Field Director for Americans United for Change, saying, “we’ve been bussing people in to deal with you fuckin’ assholes [Republicans] for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now, we’re just going to find a different way to do it.” One of the highest-level operatives for the DNC who admits to being “no white knight” said that the Democrats have been rigging elections for fifty years. Foval then goes on to explain the sinister plot and how they avoid getting caught. The undercover reporter asks why they can’t just “bus in” voters, but get them to use their own personal vehicles. Foval describes how they avoid being detected and free of criminal charges. “Would they charge each individual of voter fraud? Or are they going to go after the facilitator for conspiracy, which they could prove? It’s one thing if all these people drive up in their personal cars. If there’s a bus involved? That changes the dynamic.” How do they keep it a secret from the American people and the FEC? Foval explains, “So you use shells. Use shell companies.” The final straw is Foval and the Democrats don’t think journalists, the media or the law can do anything to stop him, the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign. “The question is, whether when you get caught by a reporter, does that matter? Because does it turn into an investigation or not? In this case, this state, the answer is no, because they don’t have any power to do anything.” Foval thinks we don’t have the power to stop him and the shady and corrupt tactics of the Democrats to rig this election. Part 1 of the series, which was released yesterday, showed evidence of dirty tricks including what is known as "birddogging", or infiltrating Trump campaign events in order to incite anarchy and violence. The video also showed potentially illegal coordination between a network of shady consulting firms, SuperPACs, and the Clinton Campaign itself. Although the mainstream media has largely ignored the video, at least one democratic operative, Scott Foval, has been fired as a result of its release. The videos  beg the question:  "Did Obama Win the 2008 Election?"  A question asked November 5, 2008 by anyone with an ounce critical thinking abilty.  [Full Hannity] Oh; There's This Too: Ariz. Sen. John McCain's Foundation Funded by Anti-American Leftist Billionaire George Soros

COMEY COMEY COMEY

If this is all Comey has ...  it’s not what Democrats had been hoping for   This is the “let this go” discussion that was the topic of prior leaks to the media. Interestingly, Comey and his small team decided not to tell anyone else about it, not even AG Jeff Sessions. Perhaps most important, Comey says the Trump comments were only as to Flynn, not as to the Russia probe. The official statement (pdf.) from James Comey, to be read during the hearing tomorrow, has bombshells — but they are helpful to Donald Trump. The statement is embedded in full at the bottom of this post. Comey confirms — contrary to media reports — that he told Trump that Trump was not personally under investigation. That’s a pretty big concession considering speculation that Trump himself was under investigation. Comey also paints a picture of Trump trying to put in a good word for Michael Flynn, but there is no suggestion that anything rising to the level of obstruction of justice was said. Also, Comey made clear that those comments did not relate to the general investigation of Russian interference in the election. We will have additional analysis shortly. Here are some key excerpts (mostly) in the order in which they appear, and how they relate to prior media reporting. All emphasis is added. Trump Not Personally Under Investigation Comey confirmed — three times in the statement — that he told Trump he was not under investigation. The fact of three such statements was in Trump’s termination letter of Comey, but the media discounted it and cited anonymous sources denying it. January 6 “In that context, prior to the January 6 meeting, I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted. During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.” January 27 “During the dinner, the President returned to the salacious material I had briefed him about on January 6, and, as he had done previously, expressed his disgust for the allegations and strongly denied them. He said he was considering ordering me to investigate the alleged incident to prove it didn’t happen. I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren’t, and because it was very difficult to prove a negative. He said he would think about it and asked me to think about it.” March 30 “I explained that we had briefed the leadership of Congress on exactly which individuals we were investigating and that we had told those Congressional leaders that we were not personally investigating President Trump. I reminded him I had previously told him that. He repeatedly told me, “We need to get that fact out.”” “Loyalty” – January 27 Dinner Trump’s alleged demand for a loyalty pledge has received a lot of media attention. Comey says the issue of loyalty came up, but when you read the context, it’s clear that Comey had a predisposition not to trust Trump, and left it vague as to what Trump demanded. You have to read the whole passage, though the media certainly will pull out certain clauses to make it seem more nefarious. “The President began by asking me whether I wanted to stay on as FBI Director, which I found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped I would stay, and I had assured him that I intended to. He said that lots of people wanted my job and, given the abuse I had taken during the previous year, he would understand if I wanted to walk away. My instincts told me that the one-on-one setting, and the pretense that this was our first discussion about my position, meant the dinner was, at least in part, an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship. That concerned me greatly, given the FBI’s traditionally independent status in the executive branch. I replied that I loved my work and intended to stay and serve out my ten year term as Director. And then, because the set-up made me uneasy, I added that I was not “reliable” in the way politicians use that word, but he could always count on me to tell him the truth. I added that I was not on anybody’s side politically and could not be counted on in the traditional political sense, a stance I said was in his best interest as the President. A few moments later, the President said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.” I didn’t move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence. The conversation then moved on, but he returned to the subject near the end of our dinner…. Near the end of our dinner, the President returned to the subject of my job, saying he was very glad I wanted to stay, adding that he had heard great things about me from Jim Mattis, Jeff Sessions, and many others. He then said, “I need loyalty.” I replied, “You will always get honesty from me.” He paused and then said, “That’s what I want, honest loyalty.” I paused, and then said, “You will get that from me.” As I wrote in the memo I created immediately after the dinner, it is possible we understood the phrase “honest loyalty” differently, but I decided it wouldn’t be productive to push it further. The term – honest loyalty – had helped end a very awkward conversation and my explanations had made clear what he should expect. Flynn Investigation and Russia Probe It is clear that Comey was uncomfortable with Trump’s personal pitch for Mike Flynn, but there is nothing in Comey’s narrative to suggest a corrupting or unlawful interference. February 14 Oval Office Meeting – “Let This Go”  FULL William A. Jacobson analysis Mark Finkelstein commented that, at the end of the day, both sides will  declare victory.  Which highlights the real problem.  The left establishment simply ignore truth, and have the media resources to tell a loyal audience of Millenials, Snowflakes, and die hard socialists that their center fielder was able to catch a walk-off home run  ball after the bases were cleared. And be believed. So at some point we have to kill them all, he said hyperbolically.

Bill Maher is upset

“Maher called the disgraced former Congressman “the c*ck that ended the world” and said he would “f*cking kill” him if Hillary Clinton lost the election. “You know, I hope that when we look back on this, it’s going to be like… Trump is like Y2K. Right?” he continued. “We thought it was going to be a disaster, we sh*t our pants, and then it was a bunch of nothing,” Maher said. “But who knows? Even if he loses, his army of whiny little bitches… these people are crazy. They think if Hillary is elected, this is the end of civilization, right? They’re so brainwashed that we’re living in this country of disaster where there’s always a cold knife at your heart and a brown d*ck at your lips.” No one was safe during Maher’s 45-minute act. He referred to Trump’s campaign surrogates Dr. Ben Carson, Kellyanne Conway, Rudolph Giulianni, and Mike Pence as “flying monkeys.” [FULL] Is Maher mad at HRC for  betraying her Democrat supporters, not to mention her country?  No.  Only that evidence of her perfidy was found on her girl friend's husband's cell phone. In other words, that she was found out.

Because I am hating too many guts ..

WHO WANTS CHANGE? MoSup and me are doing a pre-election, nine day (novena) bread and water fast, and saying the rosary.  Because that's what works for us. So far, two thoughts. I'm calmer I'm dying for a hamburger Peace be with you too.

Rick Perry Cleared

"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell." TRKOF

Rick Perry Cleared of Governing While Republican After costing him time, money, effort and possibly tarnishing his presidential bid, former Texas Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday was finally cleared of charges that he abused his office when he threatened a veto and then issued it in 2013. His real crime? “Governing While Republican.” Some liberals are no doubt disappointed to hear that a Texas appellate court today, on a 2-1 vote, reversed the conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. They shouldn’t be. There were good reasons to think that DeLay’s prosecution in Texas for violations of state campaign finance law, like the federal prosecutions of former presidential candidate John Edwards and former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, involved politically motivated charges brought by overzealous prosecutors. Today’s ruling is a window into the world of corporate access to elected officials, for sure. But it confirms that the big problem is not what’s illegal, but what’s legal. [Liberal California law professor Rick Hasen] To a Democrat-influenced grand jury, Perry’s actions of, well, governing, meant he coerced a public servant and abused his office, and they issued an indictment. But Judge P.J. Keller, who wrote the court’s majority opinion dismissing the case, disagreed. “No law passed by the Legislature can constitutionally make the mere act of vetoing legislation a crime,” Keller wrote, and the court system cannot “examine the motives behind the veto or second-guess the validity of a veto.” Nevertheless, the frivolous prosecution did serve the Left’s goal: to stall a strong conservative’s political career. How much more support could the cowboy-boot wearing governor have generated if donors and voters weren’t wary that the indictment would stick? Texas  Rick Perry Travis County (Austin) Democrats are among the most blatantly corrupt people on God's earth. Drunk driver District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg used a malleable Democrat-influenced grand jury to effectively knock Perry out of his presidential bid, just as former prosecutor Ronnie Earle (now in Hell), "an unabashed partisan zealot," indicted DeLay (it took 3 grand Juries!) forcing him step down as House Whip.  In fact, Dem prosecutors in Austin have tried to indict (and failed)  virtually every elected GOP Senator.  My caveman solution: put another Charles Whitman in the Texas Tower with instructions to clean up Dodge. It's the Texas way.

A last slap at Bawney Fwank

It appears self-styled equality champ and former gay whorehouse proprietor Barney Frank can no longer catch a break in #ThisTown. Sigh.

Not only has the documentary team that followed the Massachusetts Democrat around during his final year in Congress struggled to make ends meet on Indiegogo, now the art house theater where the trio had originally planned to stage the D.C. premiere of “Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank” is staggering toward a fast-approaching final bow. Filmmaker Sheila Canavan told HOH plans to share the up-close-and-personal look at the former lawmaker with District cinephiles have been shelved pending the conclusion of the ongoing fundraising push. She and partner Michael Chandler have raised roughly a third of the funds (around $30,000, at press time) they feel is necessary to fine-tune the silver-screen treatment of Frank’s everyday existence. [Roll Call cont] I suspect this will be the last time Bawney, the man most responsible for the 2008 bank collapse, will grace this page.  No, not even for his obit. For those interesetd, his newly released autobiography, “Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage” is for sale. Hurry, while they last.

AUSTIN CITY HAS NO LIMITS

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ARE COMMUNISTS WITHOUT GUNS (YET) “A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Lehmberg, a Democrat, was convicted of drunken driving, but refused Perry's calls to resign.” Though the Republican governor now faces two felony indictments, politics dominates the case. Lehmberg is based in Austin, which is heavily Democratic, in contrast to most of the rest of fiercely conservative Texas. The grand jury was comprised of Austin-area residents. Remind you of anything? The Democrats had to go to 3 Grand Juries to indict Delay; think they had to go to that many to indict Gov Perry? As the old saying goes, you can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich. Getting a conviction is another story. Travis County has a history of indicting Republican politicians: Senators Kay Hutchison and Tom DeLay and now Governor Perry. They've only gotten one conviction (delay) and that was thrown out by a Texas court. And then there's THIS (Speaking of Grand Juries) In both cases, the Democrats were/are in fact debauching a national election process.  DeLay because he was the House "GUTS," and Perry because he has presidential aspirations, and has gone head to head with Obama and Holder.

Ann Coulter Agonistes

In written history, let the term linchpin, that allowed Obama to bring the United States to it's knees, be on Al Franken's head. "Al Franken's Senate seat is another one that should be on Republicans' radar. He stole the 2008 election in Minnesota, going from a thousand votes down the day after the election to 300 votes up a few months later, after vast numbers of Franken votes kept being discovered in heavily Democratic districts. As economist John Lott pointed out at the time, the magically appearing votes for Franken were a statistical impossibility. Obamacare could not have passed without the Democrats' prodigious vote theft in Franken's 2008 election."-Ann Coulter

Ann continues that thought with this churlishness, however— " But if the Republican candidate had won, some conservatives would now be trying to take out moderate Republican Norm Coleman for being a "RINO." The far-left Democrat won, so conservatives can't be bothered to find someone to beat him." In fact, the point of her article is a condemnation of teaparty "purists."   Ann, it seems, has found room for accommodation in her own principles.  She wrote an entire book exposing the wrong done to the left's official bogyman, Sen. Joe McCarthy,  but then labeled, as "birthers," those of us who,  properly still,  demand to know why the President keeps issuing counterfeit birth certificates?  Would I be churlish to note that this change in Ann seems to have occurred simultaneous with  the emergence of Sarah Palin as spokesman for conservatives?   Sarah, who dissed the likes of Chris Christie, even as Ann was calling him her dream President?  As for me,  I still acknowledge Ann's ability for brilliant insight, and delicious rhetoric,  but I wonder if she still believes that there's no right way to do the  wrong thing?  She did, once.

The Duelists

Ben Smith tweeted... "The president's going to win thanks to a woman named Sandy" Ben Smith Last night, Marist University’s latest polling was released from NBC and the Wall Street Journal. And as predictable as my dog wanting to go a walk after dinner, they delivered polls for Obama that not only defy logic, but even beat the results from some Democrat-leaning pollsters. Marist Polling: An In-Kind Contribution to Obama Obama seeks votes as complaints mount over storm response...     George Will predicts 321-217 Romney landslide VIDEO

Obama Election Fraud

"It isn't who votes, it's who counts the votes" Uncle Joe “ In Seattle, Wash., last month, Brenda Charlston received a voter registration form in the mail from the Voter Participation Center with all the blanks filled in for “Rosie Charlston,” her black Labrador who died in 1998. Ads by Google     Free Death Records SearchAccess Billions of Records Now. Find the People You're Looking For! Deaths.Archives.com     Ancestry.com Family TreeFree family tree. World's largest online family history resource. www.ancestry.com The Obama supporting center says it has mailed some 5 million forms using commercially available databases to target Democratic-leaning groups such as unmarried women. What did they use in the Brenda/Rosie mailing? The dead dog mailing list? [Roger Hedgecock Cont] Democrat's most heinous crime is casting doubt on election results through myrad election fraud schemes.  IMO, opinion it's a capital crime, deserving capital punishment. ”

Why closed-mindedness is an imperative for the left

The Politics of Cognitive Dissonance Why closed-mindedness is an imperative for the left. “ 'Don't repeat conservative language or ideas, even when arguing against them.' That bit of advice, No. 1 on a list titled "The 10 Most Important Things Democrats Should Know," comes from the promotional material for "The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic" by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling. [...] Many politicians, pundits and talking heads have taken Lakoff's recommendation to heart. This is why conservatives and liberals can't seem to have the simplest conversation: liberals intentionally refuse to address or even acknowledge what conservatives say. Since (as Lakoff notes) conservatives invariably frame their own statements within their own conservative "moral frames," every time a conservative speaks, his liberal opponent will seemingly ignore what was said and instead come back with a reply literally [sic] out of left field.     Thus, he is the progenitor of and primary advocate for the main reason why liberalism fails to win the public debate: Because it never directly confronts, disproves or negates conservative notions--it simply ignores them. . . . [...] By intentionally refusing to challenge, disprove, understand or even acknowledge the existence of the other side's argument, you allow that argument to grow in strength and win converts. Such an attitude is the product of leftist intellectuals, not political professionals--and, as Zombie notes, the latter are foolish to follow it: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Chair of the Democratic National Committee, is an exemplary Lakoffite, relentlessly hammering home her own framing of each issue, and utterly ignoring the Republican frame, except on rare occasion to mock it. How effective is this? A quick survey of conservative sites shows that she is regarded as the Queen of Buffoons, a figure meriting gleeful derision and eliciting relief that the Democrats have selected the worst possible spokesperson. She certainly hasn't changed a single conservative mind, I can assure you. But has she converted "undecided" voters to the liberal cause? I posit that the answer is "No," and I'll explain why. . .(JAMES TARANTO continued) This strategy will also explain perfectly how the media can ignore the very facts of a story that have previously, and publicly,  been laid out for them as though they didn't exist.  I might be the only one saying this, but how can meaningful dialog exist with these people?  And in its absence,  isn't the violent solution inevitable?  Sorry, it's not what I hope for, it's what must be. ”

Voting with my feet

Voting with My Feet in Massachusetts “ One of the things I'll miss about Massachusetts is the revolving opportunity to vote against John Kerry every few years.  For a while, of course, I had the privilege of voting against Ted Kennedy as well, and if I had lived a few towns to the south, I could have voted against Barney Frank, too. There is something very satisfying about voting against extremely bad people.  The rest of the country gets to see our liberal hacks only in the news.  In Massachusetts, I proudly voted against them. In this state, you'll quickly lose your mind if you start looking for candidates you actually like.  On the rare occasions when Massachusetts elects a non-Democrat, such as Mitt Romney or Scott Brown, it is always Mitt Romney or Scott Brown.  Massachusetts has an astonishing number of execrable politicians, and no good ones.  Mitt Romney may or may not be a real conservative now, but he wasn't one back then.  To the degree that he is now a conservative, it happened after he got out of Boston. Scott Brown, of course, is the most liberal Republican in the Senate.  Technically, I voted for him, but in my heart I was voting against Martha Coakley, his opponent.  It was about 30 degrees that day ... Read more: I found this article extremely cathartic.  The disquieting thing is, that while Mr.T.S. Weidler  did vote with his feet, he will still find his daily life plagued by laws those Massachusetts booboisie  have blanketed us all with in this era of  borderless federal smothering.  Or something. ”

Wisconsin Recallers screened for tax delinquency

WHAT GUMMINT DOES          “The power to tax is the power to destroy” This quotation comes from the words of DANIEL WEBSTER and those of JOHN MARSHALL in the Supreme Court case, McCulloch v. Maryland. “ click After refining the dataset created by Verify the Recall, a Wisconsin man began running it against other public records and discovered 571 tax delinquents signed Recall petitions. His findings? The total in back taxes owed by petitioners is more than $17 million. The list of individuals can be found through the website, www.putwisconsinfirst.com I despise that people's personal affairs are so easily used to repress political debate.  However, since it's here being used against the political; class most responsible for our loss of all privacy, I'll view it as a proper learning experience—   a.k.a. schadenfreude..  ”

Seeds and Hammer times

Not all nostalgia is happy nostalgia

“ This is Happy nostalgia I used to maintain a blog called "Seeds and Hammers*."  It was during a time when this blogspot (C&S) was under attack, and meant to be a parallel blog escape hatch when I was shut down.   Linda SOG did the programming (I sent her a check for $20,000 but she never cashed it), and I was off and running.  Like most of my projects, I soon tired of it. Anyway—  Juice just e-mailed me.  In her  search for my famous rub recipe (which I reposted in comments here), she came across this bit of Juice nostalgia.  Just below that  is a post titled— They're Smug, Smarmy, and Everywhere And people will hate them What recommends this  (evidently the spell checker had not been inveneed yet) post to you is the inclusion of the audio from a caller to Rush “ This program caller to Rush yesterday is another on my list of reasons Democrats will alienate most of America this year (2008-ahem) ,  causing Democrats  biggest political defeat since 1980.  Listen to yesterday's call from "Robert from New Jersey."  You will almost certainly find yourself associating Robert with someone in your life; these supercilious asses are that abundant.  USA-UAS-USA!  ” So much for my prognostications. However, two posts down from this (By Their Turds Ye Shall Know Them) I address some reasons for my miscalculation.  * To accommodate the new blog I purchased a new Domain.  I was actually startled when my request for USA USA USA was accepted.  Later I discovered why.  I had inadvertently requested USA-UAS-USA.  The source of much derision and jokery, mostly from the SondraKs.  ”

"We Have To Cheat!"

By Their Turds Ye Shall Know Them Coke caves in face of Democratic boycott threat

“ Democratic officials Wednesday launched a two-pronged attack on states with new laws requiring identification before voting, the highlight being a call to boycott Coke, Walmart and others that back a leading organization pushing for voter ID laws. Coke was quick to react to the political boycott threat, pulling support from the targeted group just five hours after it was called. [You can't handle the truth; Democrats live by voter fraud] I lost my will to Blog  after seeing this story yesterday. I watched 5 Sherlocks in a row.  Yes,  I do have a guy in my chariot who whispers in my ear "do not rise above your natural limit of cockiness.  Remember, you once had a boner for Jane Fonda," but still. How can I not feel superior in every way to anyone (anyone!) who votes for democrats?  Because, either they are so recklessly tuned out of hearing anything that screams "The Democrat Party is and evil entity;" or they don't care.  So. I am the better person. Yet, I have to live under the rule of these noxious people. Does this make me a bad person?  And fuck Coke. ”