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Not bizarre at all. The Administration is just carrying out the wishes of the electorate (who carefully considered the qualifications of all the candidates in the year prior to the election before deciding that the current executive is the most qualified person for the job).

Any USA DoD personnel who aren’t carrying out the wishes of the electorate are part of the "deep state" that many Americans believe are undermining the country.

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“who carefully considered the qualifications of all the candidates”

This whole comment is massive sarcasm, right?

what do you think?

The electorate chose a candidate with 3million more votes. Unfortunately an archaic system gave us this incompetent fool

No. If the system had been different, the candidates would have adopted a different strategy and you can't predict the outcome. The current system doesn't incentivize republicans from California to go vote like it doesn't for democrats from Alabama.

>I want New York City and Los Angeles to select the president of the United States for the far foreseeable future.

No thanks though. You can argue first past the post, or ranked, or even if the division of EC votes always makes sense. But these are the rules we have - for good reason.

Hillary Clinton didn't get 3 million more votes, she got 74 fewer.

The US election system is based off a binary choice, many people who ended up voting for Trump did so for some of his stated positions without regard to the others. As such being elected to president isn't any sort of endorsement of all their policy positions.

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