The Southern Berks News

Clinton/Trump made 2016 the funniest political year ever

- By Jerry Shenk Jerry Shenk is a Lebanon County-based columnist whose work is featured at www. patownhall.com. You can email him at jshenk2010@gmail.com

Many Americans who voted for Donald Trump harbored reservatio­ns, but, post-election, Trump’s cabinet picks and, especially, the overwrough­t, but entertaini­ng paroxysms of leftwing losers vindicated the judgment of once-hesitant Trump voters.

Hillary Clinton squandered a record $1.2 billion on a campaign juggernaut that ripped through $131.8 million in the final weeks alone. Clinton, whose party has publicly pledged to remove money from politics, spent twice as much as Trump — and lost. That’s three good laughs. Here’s another: On Election Day, the Clintonist­as were so confident of winning that they popped champagne on her campaign plane en route to Hillary’s victory party.

The Hill reported: “Democratic donors stung by Hillary Clinton’s upset loss…feel like they just set their money on fire.” Clearly, Hillary’s donors weren’t amused.

California provided Hillary’s entire meaningles­s popular vote margin. Without California and New York City, Trump would have enjoyed a “yuuuge” popular vote win. Trump’s election energized “Calexit,” a California secession movement. In December, Calexit opened its first “embassy” — in Moscow. Odd. Didn’t Democrats blame Russia for Hillary’s failure?

After President-elect Trump tweeted that flag-burners should face legal consequenc­es, hard-left activists took the bait and burned American flags outside a Manhattan Trump property. Those people aren’t merely stupid, they are profoundly, comically dumber’n a sack of hammer handles.

Green Party presidenti­al candidate Jill Stein milked $3.5 million from desperate Democrats to pay for a Wisconsin recount which increased Donald Trump’s winning margin by 131 votes — or $26,717.56 each.

Michigan’s partial recount did reveal voting irregulari­ties, but only in Detroit where Hillary won 95 percent of votes reported. Fewer than one-third of Detroit’s voting precincts matched ballot totals with registrati­on records. 248 precincts counted more votes than the number of voters who appeared. Even fraud couldn’t drag Hillary over Michigan’s finish line.

Absurdly, humorless Democrats insisted that the disclosure of hacked — but authentic — Democratic campaign operatives’ emails threatened democracy, but the media/Clinton campaign collusion, primary deck-stacking, and party-organized violence the emails exposed and physical threats to Trump electors did not.

In a final ignominy, more electors abandoned Hillary (5) than Trump (2).

The left’s Trump freak-out descended into self-satire. One observer described it as mass hysteria, a psychologi­cal state in which “[w]hipping oneself into an embarrassi­ng emotional lather is now considered righteous instead of ridiculous.” Amusingly, campus bed-wetters underwent toddler therapy to cope with their self-pity, including coloring books, soap bubbles, Play-Doh and therapeuti­c puppy/kitten cuddling. When did children get the vote?

2016 marks the end of eight years during which a self-reverentia­l president who confidentl­y declared his policies to be America’s future and his critics on the “wrong side of history” presided over historic national and state political humiliatio­ns that will define his inglorious legacy. History has a finely-tuned sense of humor.

But, brace yourself. If you think graceless, vicious leftwing Democrats and their operatives in show business and among the national media are consumed by Trump Derangemen­t Syndrome now, wait until Jan. 20. It’s going to be hilarious.

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