BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, NOV. 14, 2016) — THE PLANET is back, like McArthur wading ashore in the Philippines. We spent our down time helping Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen Degenerate pack. You recall they promised to move to Canada if Donald Trump won the presidency. Hoser, we can only hope.

Now that The New York Times has apologized in print for its poor coverage of Trump during the campaign, THE PLANET wonders: Will The Boring Broadsheet apologize for the same? We shall be kind to our media brethren and not insist that Berkshire County’s only daily apologize for abandoning its duty as The Fourth Estate, ever-present for and accountable to We The People for honest, tough coverage, especially of local events.

As recently as yesterday, The BB ran a huge page-one story about the ignorant protests that have followed in the wake of Trump’s stunning presidential win over a seriously compromised Hillary Clinton. THE PLANET calls the protesters ignorant because they apparently do not understand one of the fundamental premises of America’s political system, namely, the orderly transition of power.

The usual assortment of chumps, jugheads, and Millennials protest Trump’s Triumph. The ‘New” Boring Broadsheet, of course, loves such treason. (PHOTO: AP)

Trump has nine weeks before he assumes the responsibilities of the presidency. Nonetheless, the chumps hitting the streets against Trump have rainbowed their way into the corner, dunce caps firmly affixed. The BB, not content with campaign coverage so skewed that it embarrassed itself even by its new low standards, published an unsigned editorial inciting hatred of the president-elect. Now, after the fact, the sour grapes continue to be crushed. When will The Rutberg BB realize that acerbic fruit does not a classic vintage make?

In giving the cringe-worthy protests so much ink, The BB can justifiably be arrested for impersonating a newspaper. Look at the actions. First there are the actual street demonstrations, coordinated by paid rabble rousers hired by the losing side. Mislead followers, typically millennials to whom the world owes a living, brandish their cluelessness about the American system of checks and balances.

Second, again admitting an appalling lack of knowledge, these jugheads are pressuring the presidential electors to dump Trump and vote for Clinton. An online petition calls for the Electors to ignore the results of voting in their respective states and instead to vote for Clinton on Dec. 19. This stomach-turning request takes the Voice of the People puts it into a gargle of razor blades. Those political halfwits are incapable of appreciating the irony. They trample over free speech and the ballot box with “impulsivity, bullying, lying, … sexual assault, and utter lack of experience” — the very words they use in blind accusation of the president-elect.

If there is a hidden gem to emerge from Trump’s win, it would be the eventual abolition of the Electoral College. THE PLANET writes this even though the system gave Trump the victory, but two of the past five presidential elections have now been won by candidates who lost the popular vote. We’re not holding our breath for reform, however. The Constitution established the Electoral College. Jettisoning the college would therefore require a Constitutional amendment needing a two-thirds or more vote in both houses on Capital Hill and ratification by 38 states. Not likely.

Third, not content to merely protest, the anti-Trump hotheads advocate violence. At a recent gathering, someone held up a “RAPE MILENA” sign to great attention and fanfare. In addition, assassination threats against Trump have coalesced on social media into a veritable cottage industry. The Secret Service says it will investigate all threats, with special attention given to those deemed credible.

Aggrieved Clinton supporters have a choice: They can either deny reality through their protests or whines such as blaming FBI director James Comey for Trump’s win, or they can embrace a system that provides what so many other nations would love. The United States cannot sit idly by while a disgruntled mob of Hillary goons pisses on this country’s greatest electoral invention: the orderly transition of power.

Shame on The “new” Boring Broadsheet for journalistic treason. One would think that an ex-judge like Fred Rutberg would have greater respect for the United States as a Nation of Law. Rutberg, a man with zero newspaper experience, daily demonstrates the same. That would at least be excusable if only he had prudence and wise judgment in his tool kit.
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