2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. If we'll repent, this is what God will do.

Gotta love Mr Merle Haggard ❤

He knew what was going on in our sky ‘s -

Merle was a MORON.

Amen!

How did you build rhe cannon

Merle was very cool in his time. Prophetic is a good way of looking at those lyrics! I believe all Americans truly wish for the better times we had years ago. The Lord willing, we may have them again.

Amen brother! Enjoying your coffee this morning!

Gee, Where I live in Northern Wisconsin it’s impossible to find stale beer unless it’s bud light.

An appeal to heaven doesn't mean you're a republican or democrat, it means you're out there in the world doing your best, because that's all we really are.

Love it! I am trying to find the link about your speech on voting. Could you send it to me, please?

Would love to see this in super slow motion !! Always lots of fun to see your videos !

Now that makes plenty of foam! A great use of stale beer indeed :) Who needs stale beer when you have a great cup of coffee?

Neck RED?

The electoral college doesn't work, One man or woman One vote . Trump is a product of the failed electoral college, America's democracy has suffered a great deal because he was installed into power by a small group of people. Hillary won the amercan vote by two million that's to many to just ignore.

Yup, sounds like we have a real constitutional scholar here to mansplain it for us with a cute little animal parable that he very likely pulled off from Facebook. As my farmer grandfather used to say, “Horse Hockey!” The repugnicans spoonfeed this BS to the masses because they haven’t won the popular vote in over 20 years. They know they are losing ground, which is why they are trying so desperately to dismantle our Democracy so that their minority can continue to impose their will upon the majority. BTW, I can see by his T-shirt that this folksy “expert” is one of those Tea-Baggers.

But it's not there to provide minority rule over the majority of voters. I live rural in Illinois and my vote here has about half or a third of the clout that less populated states votes do. No matter. The oligarchal rule that now masquerades as representative democracy has this nation so upside down, it really doesn't matter anyway.

Holdover from slavery, 3/5 of a person who couldn't vote brought the majority down. Couldn't have that, so minority slave states benefited. Simple bs, majority should win all elections

This guy needs to read some history. He believes he has it figured out because his 8th grade education in his adult body is enough. The electoral college process was a rigged system that was set in place by the southern states after they lost the civil war. It allowed those traitors to maintain their wealth and power when they should have lost both. You guys say you like research so do some and prove me wrong if you can, or just stay angry so that you can justify your ignorance.

People in rural areas are getting screwed with the electoral college. No, it's an 18th century mechanism put in place by elites who were too afraid to let the people vote for president. It has no place in this country in this century. If you're a Republican in Illinois, your vote for president counts for nothing, might as well not fill in the blank. Same thing if you're a Democrat in Alabama. That's just awful and unacceptable in this day and age.

The Politicians that draw the maps ( gerrymandering) have made your, well intentioned claim, a complete farce. And I very truly don’t think the workers welfare even registers with them.

I'm for doing without the electoral college, because simpler one-person-one-vote is the most democratic. If you think such democracy makes for tyranny of the majority, the electoral college tends to make for tyranny of the minority. I also think that national candidates visiting rural areas or any areas is more theater than research. National candidates these days can get as real a feel for what people want done by watching local news stations. Democracy in any form has always required significant willingness of minorities to concede to the majority.

The electoral college is a bad thing period. The minority rule is bullshit.

I think that your reasoning is flawed. It may have had a time in history that it was useful, but not anymore. It should be abolished. NOW...

The Electoral College must go. We already have disproportionate representation of rural areas by way of the Senate. Every state, whether it's WY (pop. 576,000) or CA (~40 million), gets the same representation in the Senate. That is how the Founding Fathers accommodated the small state to large state, and now the rural to urban, asymmetry.

So you are all for disenfranchising voters? FO.

I believe Nebraska is the only rural State that divides their electoral college votes based on the actual vote count, not winner take all. A truer representation. A system the MAGA Republicans tried to get changed for this upcoming election. Thankfully it failed

Republicans can't win without the Electoral College. They haven't won an election since before Nixon with the Popular vote. I personally can't see a damn thing the Electoral College is good for as far as being fair to the people of this country. I can see where it will destroy our government as we now know it when someone like Trump abuses every damn thing he touches.

That's NOT a good reason to keep the electoral college. The reasons for having it in the beginning don't exist anymore. One person, one vote. If a candidate wants to win, they MUST convince ALL voters. There are literally NO strictly red or blue areas and anyone who thinks that is living in a fantasy. Make it a holiday so everyone can vote, and everyone will KNOW their vote counts. The people deserve to have their individual vote counted instead of just a few saying well, I like this candidate, even tho most of the people I represent like the other. That has happened too many times and it's not right.

What you say is true, but the current system doesn't represent the rural voters either since the rural states are still being ignored by the candidates as they are assumed to be "in the bag" for the republicans. If EVERY vote counted the same, then even the rural voters would matter since most elections are well within a 20% margin (usually within 5-10%!)

With the Electoral College, all presidential candidates ignore all to voters in more than 40 states. If voters being ignored is bad, then the Electoral College is the worst. If rural voters votes counted, then candidates would have to court them, but they don't because they are largely in states that are either dominated by large cities (example: Illinois) or in states that are dominated by rural areas (example: Kansas, that keeps its largest city mostly in Missouri). The EC apologists just manufacture arguments to support a system that benefits the same political party that they support, period. The EC was created because a bunch of people wanted to count (insert n-word here) as 3/5ths of a person so that Slave States would gain power from populations that were not allowed to vote at all. If you want to talk about voters being ignored, that was one of the main goals of the Electoral College.

I think you've got this backwards. The Electoral College was set-up to keep the people from electing an oligarchy or a theocracy, our founding fathers never thought it would be used to keep minority rule, where the 20% set the rules that the 80% have to follow. If we abolished the EC, then candidates would have to visit all fifty states and not just the swing states. And if you want to keep American free, then Vote Blue!

Only country in the world where one person on vote does count. Bravo.

What a load of nonsense. The Electoral College was not created to protect people living in rural areas, it was created because 1) the original 13 states were vastly different in both size and economy, and 2) at that time it was not clear whether the USA would be a loose confederation of 13 nation-states that acted cooperatively, or a single country with a strong Federal government. That question was settled in the aftermath of the Civil War, and we now have a strong Federal government. The Founders also created the Senate, where all states have the same number of reps regardless of size, to ensure smaller states don't get trampled by larger ones. As for candidates visiting.... seriously? You really think them visiting you has anything to do with they're going to do once elected? The only purpose the Electoral College serves today is to give people who choose to live in low density states more voting power than those that don't. A person living in Wyoming gets 2.97 votes vs. someone in Florida that gets 0.78 votes. (yes, it's correct, do the math) Doesn't sound very democratic to me. The Electoral College needs to be abolished so that every American gets an equal vote. What I'd like to see is the College gone, and then primary elections held by the states in order of their population, with the ten smallest (by pop) states going together in Week 1, the next ten in Week 2, etc. That would still give the smaller states additional influence by acting as bellwethers early in the process.

People only scream to get rid of the EC when their candidate gets defeated by it. Otherwise, if their candidate wins by the EC. Then they're ok with it.

I grew up on a Dairy Farm; I gave this same explanation to my wife yesterday.

Fun Fact: The Electoral College has never had a championship team in the NCAA

People only talk about abolishing the electoral college when their candidate didn't win. If their candidate did win then they love the electoral college. Even if they were the same ones screaming the loudest to abolish the electoral college the previous election

Lance doesn't vote.

As proven in the elections of 2000 and 2016, the Electoral College is the very best way to steal elections away from the majority of voters and the will of the people. "College"! Ha-ha! Most of the them couldn't pass a high school civics exam. You may as well defend cancer and war for keeping our population from getting too big.

Maybe it was once, but it's screwed up now! To let a few states decide the fate of the rest of the country is stupid and so wrong!

I’m sorry about your tiny wiener.

Another republican hack. Republicans couldn't win without the electoral college and that's a fact. How come trump won an election when the popular vote said otherwise? Governors have a lot of say when electors are selected and electors do not have to follow the poplar vote in the state. Guess who a republican governor is going to choose as an elector, democrat or republican, you figure it out, I think it is kinda obvious.

Sorry, but I don’t believe that states who have smaller populations than our bigger cities should be allowed to cast the vote winner aside and decide who should be president. Popular vote should win the election. Period.

Wouldn't PR work just as well, also a good policy is a good policy for all don't you think.

Maybe it used to be, but gerrymandering has really screwed things up.

The absolute best system of government and elections for that government the world has seen. It is a shame that our bureaucrats have seen fit to take money and power into the system and warp it out of all control. The founders planned for this with the Electoral College. Your education is perfect :) The popular vote is a number and nothing else. Representation is key for our nation to have the freedoms that God grants us and that the US Constitution guarantees. Politicians tend to talk about Democracy but they forget this form of government is not a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic :)

So outdated and undemocratic so is the bs gerrymandering.

The issue is that the electoral college is used to defy the the results of the popular vote, and it’s not the will of the rural voters that prevails, but rather that of politicians who really don’t have their best interests in mind.

There's been no better marketing since this came out 😂