The 2016 Election: It is Finally Over

Do not succumb to the fear mongering and hysteria from the media or the political class. Don't believe it and don't pass it on. Most of these people don't understand economics anyway. You control your destiny. We the people solve problems and build a better future. Not a President and certainly not government. Have we not learned that from the current Administration?

Americans possess a remarkable capacity for critical thinking and common sense. The people of this country are a great people. It's just a matter of understanding each other.

I do not think this election shows race relations are worse than we realized. I am the same, everyone I know is the same. I don't know anyone who has suddenly become a bigot. I don't know about you but we grew up with friends from all over the world. We were living in MLK's dream. But for years now, to win elections and keep power, the political classes and their community agitators, and yes, many educators, have managed to stir many up against each other. Resist! Understand and love one another! Don't become a radical full of hate! The younger generations grew up together, but now they are being torn asunder. Not cool!

Is it not arrogant to think that everyone that voted for Trump did so for the same reasons? Did so because they are all racist? Understanding is warranted. For sure there are many bad individuals out there, but the vast majority are not. Many that voted for Trump did so after listening to his words directly and deciding that what he said was not racist or xenophobic. After listening to the things people say Trump has said, and actually listening to what Trump has said, I see why people don't think he is racist. I hear people, the media repeat over and over certain things trump has said, and how it's so horrible. When I look it up to check it and listen to the whole thing, Trump did not say it. When people tell me, Trump is racist and give me a "quote" of something he said, I actually listen to what Trump said directly and make up my own mind. Do you? You should go to the source and check it out yourself or you will be misled by groupthink. This is leftist groupthink; the media, politicians and educators misleading us. Since the media does not tell the truth, it is up to us to do it and reassure the misled with truth.

Trump didn't win because he said bad things, he won despite saying these things. There were a lot of Trump voters who weren't fans of Trump. Hillary is also corrupt, dishonest and deceitful all while she was a public servant. She betrayed the trust of the people she was sworn to serve and protect.

Many voters saw two candidates with severely flawed characters and decided to vote on policy or economics. The economy isn't doing well for a lot of voters.

To others this was a repudiation of the ruling class. A people tired of being ignored. A people tired of the unfair, oppressive policies, legislation and regulations being levied against them and feeling unable to stop it. A people tired of their Constitutional and economic freedoms eroding away. Voters rejected corruption and unfair federal policies. Policies like Obamacare, that punishes working families with unaffordable premium costs and health care.

This was a backlash against the overreach of, you think like us or we will force you to think like us. A decade of identity politics. The left divides and puts everyone in an identity box and tells the white male group they are the only bad one. Of course, a backlash happened against the pc elite, against social oppression. This is bad. There may be depressed, impressionable young people that will be influenced by unsavory characters. Like the youth who are being influenced by Marxists, socialists and other radical extremists in our education system.

This election shows a cultural divide. A Revolt against cultural Marxism, against the intolerance of the “social justice warrior”. Kind of a backlash against the cultural elites that mock those with whom they disagree. Everyone is a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe to the leftist elite if you don't believe what they believe. People have had enough of it. It is so bad, they’ve managed to find a way to call themselves racist. Privilege, or the more commonly used “white privilege”, which is a way to make someone a racist who is not a racist. Oh, and to the SJWs, free speech is great because then you know who the bigots are.

Classes being canceled because Trump won, is another reason Trump won. “Safe spaces” on campus is another.

This was an America tired of being mocked, being called racist, being called bigots just because they may be ideologically different. Just because they may not think the exact same way. There is no hate! This was not a racist or sexist election. There is no internalized misogyny. A coalition of all races and sexes came together to defeat the agenda of the left, of the Obama administration. So be it. Now we will see if problems are solved, instead of agendas followed for legacy's sake even when said agenda hurts the people.

Let’s not forget the Democrats in the rust belt; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin, that voted for Trump because Hillary said she would take away their jobs.

Trump did better with minorities than Romney, this includes Asians and Muslims. He did better with women than Romney. He got 42% of the women vote and he actually got 29% of the Hispanic vote. "Of the nearly 700 counties that twice sent Obama to the White House, a stunning one-third flipped to support Trump" Washington Post. I read somewhere that 70% of Trump voters voted for Obama twice. Although, I have not been able to find it again to confirm.

Minorities have more in common with middle America than they do with liberal progressive America. Why are all racial or gender groups required to all think the same? Isn't it racist or bigoted to require everyone in a race or gender to think the same? We are all equal. We want everyone to have equal opportunity to be successful, to be anything they want to be, to be the 1% if they so choose. We will help you. Our free-market policies help everyone.

It is up to us to reassure the misled with truth, to calm the violence. I remember how the media and others were so worried that Trump supporters would riot if he lost. But they don't seem to mind now that Hillary supporters and other leftists are the ones rioting. People are protesting and rioting a free and fair election, in actuality, are they not protesting democracy? Whatever, protest away, but stop the violence and the hate. Letting off some steam because you are disappointed is one thing, but come on. Even some of the protesters are going too far with their vitriol and threats. In some cases, anti-American extremists are fomenting these riots. Some of these protesters and rioters didn't even vote and many are being paid to protest. Even so, it is time for the riots, the violence, and the destruction to end. It is time they stop assaulting those that are different than them. The hate must end. There are those concerned about a Trump presidency being volatile and damaging. So they riot and burn things. "A lot of hate from the side that worried about hate from Trump supporters" a Hillary supporter. It turns out that a lot of the reported cases where crimes were supposedly done in Trumps name have turned out to be hoaxes. If there are more I haven't seen anyone credible reporting them. Trump called for the violence to stop. Now Hillary and Obama should do so as well. Lead.

All the protests, tantrums, riots, violence, death threats, hate, hysteria, hypocrisy, idiocy, Trump voters being beaten up, calling all Trump voters racist and other things, and all the antics and nonsense probably make a lot of people glad of the outcome of this election. The ignorance, intolerance and bigotry is quite remarkable. This, is why Trump won.

Liberal progressives have turned many Americans into radical extremists full of anger and hate against those who don't believe or think the way they've been taught to think. Our school system has done this to a lot of our young people. If not hate than disdain. That is why there is so much violence on the left. We saw plenty of it during this campaign. We saw it with BLM, Occupy Wall street and other so-called rallies that turn into riots. Undercover video showed that the left paid people to start fights at Trump rallies. The problem is, many take this seriously, act out and hurt others. Don't take the bait. Let's come together to solve problems. At least realize we are all different and be kind one to another. Do not let anyone turn you into a violent radical extremist. It doesn't look good on you, regardless if you are on the left or the right.

Dissent is patriotic again! We are all hypocrites!

I am cautiously optimistic.


Excellent resources below.

Liberals Should Stop Ranting And Seek Out Silent Trump Voters Like Me

It's Completely Ridiculous To Claim Trump's Voters Are No Good

Sorry Democrats, But Americans Are Remarkably Tolerant People

If Trump Voters Are Racists, Why Are His Protestors Demanding Segregation?

There Is No Violent Hate-Crimewave in 'Trump's America'

The Left Can’t Stop Using Race to Silence Opponents

Cornell Grad Skewers Students: 'Sitting On The Ground And Crying Is Not What Adulthood Looks Like'

11 Ways The Left Spurred Americans To Vote For Trump

Why Hasn't Hillary Clinton Denounced The Violent Anti-Trump Riots?

McAllister: Leftist Identity Politics Pit Americans Against Each Other

Donald Trump Just Made These 10 Things Cool Again

Did Academia Help Elect Donald Trump?

Refusing To Serve Customers You Don’t Agree With Is Suddenly Cool Again

7 Daniel Tiger Strategies To Help The Devastated Masses Cope With Disappointment

Gutfeld: You did it, President-elect Trump

Gutfeld: Who do we owe Trump's win to?

Gutfeld Rips 'Emotional Arsonists' for Post-Election Fear Mongering

9 Times Leftists Targeted and Attacked Trump Supporters Post-Election [Videos]

America Is Not a Safe Space

I'm a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump.

Muslim Woman Explains Why She Voted for Donald Trump

The Closing of the Mind – Social Justice Warrior

Today’s social justice warrior students protest to have their freedom of speech taken away. They do not want to be offended and they want their "safe spaces" yet they offend and bully others. If the First Amendment did not exist, they would not be able to protest and spew their idiocy. The liberal progressive leftists who filled their heads with this idiocy in the first place would have taken that freedom away long ago. These students are products of their upbringing and education. Their teachers and professors have ruined the lives of these students. Their minds have been filled with ignorance and hate.

Now is the time to reform education. We need to teach our kids how to think, not what to think. We need to teach them critical thinking, teach them how to think for themselves. Schools should be opening their minds, instead their minds are being closed. College used to be a place where you could broaden your mind, now too often minds are being closed. Common sense is being taught right out of their heads. Indeed, many are being taught things that are just not true, turning them into victims, agitators and radical extremists full of hate. They are taught that America is evil. They are taught that America is a racist country. They are taught that America is the cause of all the problems in the world. All this makes them prime targets for violent radicalism.

If you are offended or think others are offended by everything, then your mind is closing. If you demand "safe spaces", safe from any dissenting point of view, then your mind is being closed. If you have to have trigger warnings for words, then your mind is closing. If you are banning words, then your mind is closed. Furthermore, you are ill equipped to handle life let alone enjoy life. It is a disheartening and sad future we are creating.


The excellent resources below detail how bad it has become.

How Obama's College Turned Me Into A Conservative

How Classical Education Can Make America Great Again

The New Dark Ages on Campus

Orlando Massacre Shows We Must Stop Teaching Children to Hate America

The Dry Rot of Groupthink in Academia

Stanford Students Fight Campus Groupthink

The Absurd Demands of Harvard Students Who Feel Guilty About Their 'Privilege'

Gutfeld: We've lost the will to condemn idiocy

Gutfeld: Trump chalk hysteria exposes new lie of campus left

'These Are Tyrannical Students': What a Former Harvard Professor Thinks of College Protests

College President Tells Students to 'Grow Up' Because Campus Not Meant to Be 'Safe Space'

Noted Vanderbilt Professor Has a Message for Protesting Students Who Want Her Fired

This College President Rejected The Loony Demands of His Students

Prof Greets Incoming Class of Precious Snowflakes with Speech Crushing Their PC Beliefs

Video of the Day: This Is How to Confront Campus Crybabies

Watch Ohio State University bring student protesters to heel with one Magic Word!

Galileo Redux: The war on free speech on campus and beyond

The grievance generation - Whiny college students are protesting when their feelings are hurt

Political Correctness Goes To War on American History

The Ferocious Religious Faith of the Campus Social-Justice Warrior

How the New Left on College Campuses Is Killing Free Speech

College Students' 'Crybully' Movement Hurts Universities, Scholars Argue

'Sensitivity' fascists are turning colleges into day-care centers

At Emory, Campus Totalitarianism Has Arrived

The 13 Most Ridiculously PC Moments on College Campuses in 2015

University Cancels Free Yoga Class Because It's 'Cultural Appropriation'

Princeton Student Group: We Stand for Academic Freedom and Open Dialogue

American Universities Begin to Implode

How Liberal Education Became Illiberal

The Democrats' Ugly Authoritarian Turn

Millennials deserve better than college indoctrination

Political Correctness Is A Mask For Leftists’ Intellectual Insecurity

The Year The Politically Correct Chickens Came Home To Roost

Princeton Grad Disappointed Administrators Gave in to Student 'Bullying Tactics'

Ottawa Campus Bans Free Yoga Classes Over 'Cultural Appropriation' Complaints

Public University Banned Students from 'Treating Individuals Differently'

Dartmouth President Announces Investigation of Black-on-White Intimidation

Are Violent College Protests a 'Wonderful, Beautiful Thing'? One Ivy League Administrator Thinks So

'This Is Not a Day Care': Read College President’s Scathing Open Letter to 'Self-Absorbed and Narcissistic' Students

University president rebukes 'self-absorbed, narcissistic' students

Students Protest Against Name of Lynch Memorial Hall' Because It's Too Triggering

4 Things Dropping 'Master' Tells Us About Harvard University

Urgent Message From The Safe-Spaceship Enterprise

To End Campus Tantrums, Treat Young People Like Adults

Read The Epic Social Justice Warrior Smackdown That Is Going Viral

Social Justice Warriors At Oberlin Don't Know Anything About Ethnic Food

Oxford To Students: Grow the Hell Up

Student Protesters React to Paris: 'Pay More Attention to Us'

CU-Boulder Anti-Racism Rally Canceled Because Organizers Are White

College Op-Ed: St. Patrick's Day Partying Is Cultural Appropriation

Missouri Update: Crazy Campus Radicals Are Financially Crippling the University

School Reportedly Creates 'Safe Space' for Students Hurt by 'Tequila Party'

Michigan Creates 'Safe Space' For Students Afraid Of Debate On Feminism

One College Professor's Absurd Call to 911 is Classic PC Cluelessness

Social-Justice Internet: Telling Us to Be 'Rational' Is 'Oppressive'

Privilege Theory Is A War On Happy Childhoods

Child Abuse For the Sake of Social Justice

Why The Activist Left Can't Help Its Intolerance

Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students by Allan Bloom

The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left by Kim R. Holmes

Michigan Tax Day Tea Party Draws 5,000+

Photo by Mike Q

I really had been looking forward to this rally for some time. Yet the morning of April 15, I still had a moment of hesitation whether I should attend. This was, after all, the first protest rally I had ever attended.

I’ve never been involved in politics before but during the 2008 election I felt I had to, in some small way do something. So I started this blog. People are being misled by candidates, politicians, the media and education. Historic and economic truth was and is being drowned out. Now 100 days into the new administration not only has nothing changed, it is worse. The Tea Parties were a way to do something more and build from there.

I didn’t know what to expect, would there only be a small number of us? As I drove around looking for parking there were a lot of parked cars and the parking ramps were full. I thought it couldn’t possibly be all these cars were here because of the anti-bailout rallies? After I found parking, I had to walk a considerable distance. It wasn’t until I saw people carrying signs that I believed all these people walking were Tea Party protesters. I couldn’t believe how far away I was when I first heard the cheers of the crowd. It was quite loud and impressive. The amount of people I saw when I got to the capital was a great surprise.

My first protest was great, I had a good time. America is a great country. We are truly blessed to be here, even if things don't look so good now. It was a great day, great weather, with great American patriots from all over. I was able to work my way through the crowds. People were polite and friendly. Such a diverse rally here at the steps of the Michigan capitol building; so many young people, children, college kids to senior citizens and families. This was a genuine grass roots rally of hard working Americans. The state police were friendly; chatting with the people. After the rally about fifty volunteers stayed after to clean up the area. The Democratic mayor even said there should be more protests because they bring business to the downtown area. If the protests were violent he definitely would not be saying that.

There were a lot of people who protested for the first time today, that really means something. It should be a lesson to all that something is wrong in D.C.



These Tax Day Tea Parties are not a republican thing. They’re about conservatives, libertarians, independents, moderates; Americans fed up with bailouts, irresponsible spending, trillions of debt, corruption, hypocrisy and dishonest politicians only serving themselves with no accountability. Americans fed up with out of control spending and taxing at all levels of government; local, city, state and federal. It’s about this administration and congress choosing to ignore history by pushing their own agenda of piling on trillions of irresponsible spending that will increase job loss, prolong the recession and undo the American economic engine. It’s about a government that is taking away the ability of the people to help each other; a government causing the poverty and oppression of its citizens. We want both parties to know, they serve us, they are not above the constitution and incompetence will not be tolerated. These Tax Day Tea Parties represent an America that understands economics better than this Administration and Congress.

These rallies are getting more people involved in the political process. I am glad I could be a part of America’s awakening. I can’t help but ask, like I am, how many are energized by fellow patriots you rallied with? How many feel you just need to be more involved?



On April 15, 2009 hundreds of thousands of people from over 800 cities, in 50 states attended the Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party. We had 5000+ here in Lansing, Michigan; it was from 12 Noon to 1:00 PM. Michigan had 34 Tea Parties with 19,578 total attendees. According to PJTV, the official count is 832 events with 935,504 in attendance of the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party. There were events held the weekend after and there are links below for events in April, May, June, July and September.

PJTV attendance totals, top events, top states,view by state, by map, logs and event information.

See all events & totals with photos, video, etc. See future events as well, filter by state.


Photo by Sandy G (Great Sign) I blew my middle-class tax cut on this sign.

Tea Party Experience (blogs, photos, videos)
MI Capital Tea Party Photos, Saul Anuzis
Lansing, MI Tax Day Tea Party Video, RightMichigan.com
My Tea Party Experience, Sarah Way Down South, Atlanta
Austin, TX Photos & Blog, PatriotWriter
Tax Day Tea Party, Mississippi Mama
Jackson, Mississippi Photos
Lafayette Sq Tea Party Photos, Heritage-Foundry
Dallas, TX Photos (Great Sign!)
Phoenix & Gilbert, AZ Photos, Sticker Patch
St. Louis, MO Photos
Everett, WA Photos
Tea Party Photos, ZooColony
Face of America Photos, UKnow I Am Right
Tea Party Directories

Editorials
Tax Day Becomes Protest Day, WSJ
Tax Day Rallies Were Anything But 'Astroturf', IBD
Tea Party animals not boiling over, Mark Steyn
Big Government Backlash Brewing, Heritage-Foundry
Tea Party System, IBD
Republicans & the Tea Parties, WSJ

Tea Party Sites & Info
Tea Party Patriots
Patriot Action Network
Re Tea Party July 4
TEA Party Day