 Electoral College. Well, I mean, this is a quick one. Electoral College today by, you know, the Constitution requires the Electoral College to basically, in a sense, vote for president of the United States. The Electoral College voted today. The vote is in and the vote is as expected. And as we knew the day after the election, pretty much a couple of days after the election, is that Biden got a significant majority of the Electoral College and Trump lost. It'll be interesting to see how what the strategy is now. The Electoral College vote gets certified, in a sense, gets formally adopted and accepted by the House of Representatives on January 5th. So that's why somebody yesterday was saying, oh, Trump's going to win on January 6th because the House is going to vote for Trump. No, I mean, today it's official. I think that's pretty much it. I think it's over. In addition, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules today on one more of the many so-called cases about systemic election fraud or irregularities or unconstitutional laws or practices basically threw it out. And with again, with a pretty scathing rebuttal to the Trump lawyers. So it looks like it's over. It looks like it's over. I thought it was over pretty much day after the election. But many people have held on for hope that Trump would win. It's gone. So whether you support a Trump and you're disappointed or whether you didn't support Trump and are pleased, I don't think anybody's excited by Trump losing or Biden winning. But I think many people are not unhappy by it by seeing Trump lose. Now we'll see what happens to the Republican Party. The real question now is how we move forward. I just wanted to say something about the Electoral College. I mean, the Electoral College is in our Constitution. It's the way we do elections. It gives really power to the states over the popular vote. Funny Fathers were very much dedicated to a federal system, very much dedicated to rejection of majority rule democracy, where the majority can vote on everything and the majority dictates everything. They believed in a constitutional based republic, a constitution that limited the role of government and states that had certain autonomy. And, you know, we can talk a little bit about that autonomy, but certain autonomy about running the state and about the laws within the state up to, you know, up to a point, including autonomy around election, you know, one of the frustrating things about the Texas lawsuits, other lawsuits, is that the whole point of, if you're an originalist, if you believe in the Constitution, the whole point of the founders was, there's certain issues that have to be left to the states. And the idea that one state would sue another state because this state didn't like the way another state did something would then require a federal court, the Supreme Court to dictate to all states how to do something uniformly. So it's the fact that conservatives are suing states in order to get them to behave in a particular way. I mean, it's just the same old story of conservatives not having an ideology, not sticking to any ideology, but doing what they think will be necessary to win. In other words, adopting a completely pragmatic view of the world and abandoning any semblance of reverence to the founding fathers and reverence to the Constitution and abandoning it. The whole point of our system is to allow states these kind of disability to be autonomous. The Electoral College also makes it assures us that candidates when they run for office on a national ticket for president have to pay attention to many states. They don't just focus on a few cities because that's where the election is going to be decided as it would be if it was a popular vote. I mean, if it was a popular vote, you would spend almost all your time in New York and California. Those are the two states that you would spend all of your time because those are the two states that would decide your fate. As it is today, that is not the case. You actually spend time in a lot of different states and as more states become competitive, people will have to spend time in more of those states. You don't become beholden to the heavily populated cities at the expense of everybody else. And you, you know, if it's a popular vote, then the voting has to be standardized, then the voting procedure has to be standardized, the standards, everything has to be standardized across all states. If it's an Electoral College, each state gets to authorize its own methodology for running an election. And as long as it doesn't violate any principle of the Constitution, then it is fine. So I think, you know, as you know, I think the founders were geniuses. I think they invented the system for a reason. I think those reasons hold up. I think generally we want to have a small limited federal government. We want small limited state governments too, but we want a small limited federal government. We do not want a federal government that now intervenes in the states regulating even elections. That would only legitimize and justify the federal government from taking over more and more and more things that should be relegated to the state. So I like that Electoral College. There's going to be a push to get rid of it by Democrats. It requires a constitutional amendment. It's unlikely to happen, but it could be. You could see in the years to come a push to do that. They think they've got a nailed. 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