{"id":131948,"date":"2016-11-06T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T01:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/some-electors-just-want-to-watch-the-world-burn.html"},"modified":"2016-11-06T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T01:04:39","slug":"some-electors-just-want-to-watch-the-world-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/some-electors-just-want-to-watch-the-world-burn.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Some electors just want to watch the world burn&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeesh. Yeah, that&#39;ll sure teach all of &quot;them&quot; a lesson, to put Donald Trump in office as President. I&#39;m sure we&#39;ll &quot;learn&quot; something from that (besides the Electoral College sucking).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Doug Dunfee<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/two-democratic-electors-threaten-to-throw-the-election-to-donald-trump-14989085a7fb'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/KWLMZYF_3sLu7-JFv1TYm8XlGiDOHm0i2GAjrDqPUkrRMflg1fxlSmmO-qw_ZWgXQthPEMojXe2WzPNSvTs3k_stCGN2p3jX0-U6wrjKeeq4IhnB79A=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/two-democratic-electors-threaten-to-throw-the-election-to-donald-trump-14989085a7fb'>Two Democratic electors threaten to throw the election to Donald Trump<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCan we get rid of the Electoral College now? Please?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/F7vaML5Zu1k'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeesh. Yeah, that&#39;ll sure teach all of &quot;them&quot; a lesson, to put Donald Trump in office as President. I&#39;m sure we&#39;ll &quot;learn&quot; something from that (besides the Electoral College sucking). Originally shared by +Doug Dunfee: Two Democratic electors threaten to throw the election to Donald Trump Can we get rid of the Electoral College now? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/some-electors-just-want-to-watch-the-world-burn.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Some electors just want to watch the world burn&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":151524,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/the-2020-election-and-dark-fantasies.html","url_meta":{"origin":131948,"position":0},"title":"The 2020 Election and Dark Fantasies","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Oct-20 5:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald has damaged the nation by damaging the election, and it may get worse.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Conspiracy Nuts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Conspiracy Nuts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/conspiracy-nuts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trump-podium.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trump-podium.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trump-podium.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trump-podium.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/trump-podium.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6557,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/colorado_presid.html","url_meta":{"origin":131948,"position":1},"title":"Colorado Presidential Politics in the News!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Aug-04 12:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Coloradoans will vote in November not only on their next President, but in how the state's electors will vote for him. 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