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This week, Not My President-Elect Donald Trump claimed that he won the Electoral College in a landslide--and would have the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."

I have no idea what that statement means. Any of it.

Granted, Trump won the Electoral College, that ineffective vestige of the Founding Fathers hedging their bets on popular democracy. (Wasn't it designed to prevent check and balance stuff like this from happening? Or was it really just another opportunity for the Southern States to show their butt to the rest of the country?) Trump won by 74 votes--significant, I agree, but hardly the Reagan-Mondale blowout of yore. (For those keeping score, it was Reagan 525, Mondale 13.)

In fact, Trump's Electoral College victory ranks only 44th (scroll down to the entry for November 29, 2016)--and there have been 58 presidential elections since the founding of the United States.

Currently, Hillary Clinton leads by at least 2.5 million votes--and yet is still not the winner of the presidential election in the crazy clusterfuck that is the American electoral system. Can we have a candidate win the popular vote and still be declared the loser? Check. Can we have a winner even when all votes have yet to be counted nearly a month later? Double check.

It's not as though Trump is the only one claiming he won a landslide. There's word from America's Next Top Enabler, Kellyanne Conway, that Trump won in a "landslide" of some sort.

I am also trying to find a video or report read earlier this evening in which Cool Theocrat Mike Pence claimed Trump won a landslide victory.

Yet in a way I have to agree. This was a landslide victory--if we use the original meaning of landslide as our guide:

landslide ‎(plural landslides)

1. A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.

So it's a landslide only in the sense that once it starts barreling downhill, it's likely to suffocate, destroy, and kill everything that lies below.

Nonetheless, let's not get too worked up over the latest bit of worse living through technology. It's early days still. We're all gonna need to pace our outrage. There are four long years ahead of us--barring any sort of miracle such as an actual, physical landslide or "those 2nd Amendment people" taking matters into their own hands.

And ol' Leather Rot hasn't even started the job yet.