Posts on Monday, November 11, 2024
Presidential elections resemble ritual mysteries into which we are initiated. Once the votes are counted, we are imparted a message: a revelation.
Often enough, the voice of the people gets garbled in transmission. Did Donald Trump really win in 2016? Did Joe Biden do so in 2020? In both cases, the losing side felt cheated of the correct meaning of the message.
But on occasion, the people speak with a voice like thunder. The political landscape, obscured by gaseous special pleading, false narratives, and outdated concepts, is suddenly swept clean.
Everything is clarified. We know where we stand.
Donald Trump’s big electoral win over Kamala Harris last Tuesday was a clarifier for the ages.
This article has been updated to include another win for House Republicans called later on Monday night.
On Monday evening, 7:13pm EST, Decision Desk HQ projected that Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives as a result of the 2024 elections. Republicans also seized control of the Senate last Tuesday, thanks to Sen-elect Bernie Moreno's win in Ohio after he unseated Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. (X) Republicans were able to clinch the majority thanks to Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani winning reelection in Arizona's 6th Congressional District. Earlier on Monday, Decision Desk HQ also called
Leftist MSNBC commentator Joy Reid announced some “free advice” to “white women” following President-elect Donald Trump’s win last week: “Black women have resigned from the ‘Save America’ coalition.”
After exit polls revealed that the majority of white female voters cast their ballots for the former president on Tuesday, Reid has been pitting them against black voters. “I just want to give some free advice to the White progressive women who may be thinking about marching against the Trump victory, maybe putting back on the P-word hats and doing that thing, I would just say probably don’t send any of those invites to any black women,”
NHL legend Wayne Gretzky and his family attended a private celebration for President Donald J. Trump after his defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“The Great One” attended the exclusive event at Mar-a-Lago with his wife, Janet Jones Gretzky, his son Trevor, his model daughter Paulina Gretzky, and her husband, professional golfer Dustin Johnson.
Paulina Gretzky Johnson shared an image of her entire family at Mar-a-Lago celebrating President Trump’s victory on her Instagram page.
Over the weekend President-elect Donald Trump announced a push for national concealed carry reciprocity, a move which would make the concealed permit of any one state valid in the other 49.
On Sunday, Don Trump Jr. posted to Instagram, “Boom! My father just announced concealed carry reciprocity. The Second Amendment will stay and remain protected.”
Texas Gun Rights posted a video of Trump’s reciprocity announcement to X: [Tweet, video]
On September 18, 2015, just months after Trump launched his first presidential campaign, Breitbart News pointed to policy papers wherein he said:
The right of self-defense doesn’t stop at the end of your driveway.
Report: SCOTUS Associate Justice Sonia
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Liberal Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, is not planning to step down from the bench to allow President Joe Biden to replace her with someone younger, sources close to her have said.
Left-wing pundits have begun calling for Sotomayor, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2009 by then-President Barack Obama, to resign since former President Donald Trump was reelected last week.
“This would probably be a good day for Sotomayor to retire,” David Dayen, executive editor of progressive magazine American Prospect, posted the day after the race was called for Trump: [Tweet]
MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan reposted an April op-ed he wrote for the Guardian,
When President Trump first entered office in 2017, he had no idea at the time that Barack Obama was spying on him and his family and had set him up in the Russia collusion scam.
It was the first time in history that the current US President was spying on the incoming President [Tweet] (Snip) In August 2022, the FBI, under the direction of Joe Biden, raided President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.
Months later it was reported that the Biden FBI was authorized to use deadly force during the Mar-a-Lago raid.
A federal judge later revealed that Joe Biden ordered the FBI access to Mar-a-Lago.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as his nominee for secretary of state, though the pick is not a done deal, two sources familiar with the talks tell CBS News.
The expected nomination represents a long road from the time Trump and the Florida senator were rivals in the 2016 Republican primaries. [snip] The two have since repaired the relationship, and Rubio campaigned with the former president this year.
The New York Times first reported that Trump appears to be settled on Rubio for the post. A spokesperson for Rubio did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Swamp at Foggy Bottom is not taking the news over President Trump’s reelection well at all.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that the Biden State Department organized what is being described as a “cry session” on Friday. This sad meeting was put together by the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
The outlet notes officials at the bureau have been working for months to sanction Israel for supposedly not doing enough to provide humanitarian aid in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The staffers at the meeting were actually urged to share their feelings rather than discuss how to serve the incoming Trump Administration.
Thousands of votes were allegedly deleted from Nevada US Senate over night from Thursday 11-7 to Friday 11-8-24. Candidate Sam Brown in the US Senate race eventually lost his race he was leading to his Democrat opponent.
What do Arizona and Nevada in the ‘Wild West’ have in common with the 2024 Election? Why it’s the endless ballot/vote counting after Election Day, as the evil forces work 24/7 to reach a plausible stolen vote total for their Democrat Senate Candidates to win by; Jacky Rosen in Nevada, and Ruben Gallego in Arizona.
Never mind the voice of the people in these races that AREN’T Too Big to Rig,
We've reported on multiple instances of media and voter meltdowns over Donald Trump's drubbing of Kamala Harris in the presidential election. One demographic that seems to be taking it particularly hard is women. They’re not only shaving their heads in protest, but some are talking about refusing to have sex with men or have babies (the “4B movement”) and showing their devotion to the cause by wearing blue bracelets.
What any of this will accomplish is beyond me.
Now some are taking out their frustrations by fantasizing about... killing men. Yes, really. We can only hope they're not serious, but sometimes social media phenomena do actually have deadly effects.
One at a Time Is How Republicans Keep
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Those of us old enough to remember the beginning and heyday of the Tea Party know just how spontaneous and organic it was. Ordinary average Americans from all walks of life were fed up with bigger and more encroaching big government. At the time, the prime example of that bloated government was Obamacare. Tea Party people felt like the people in Washington, D.C., were not listening to them. So, they took to the streets and the ballot box in 2010 and made them listen. That same thing happened again in 2024. Big government was once again on the ballot,
On Monday, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), whose area of operations includes the Middle East, released a statement describing CENTCOM forces striking nine targets in two locations in Syria. Today, U.S. CENTCOM forces conducted strikes against nine targets in two locations associated with Iranian groups in Syria in response to several attacks on U.S. personnel in Syria over the last 24 hours.
These strikes will degrade the Iranian backed groups' ability to plan and launch future attacks on U.S. and Coalition forces who are in the region to conduct D-ISIS operations.
"Our message is clear.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Monday that President elect-Trump “and his transition team are already breaking” a law on presidential transition.
“Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law,” Warren said in a post on the social platform X. “I would know because I wrote the law. Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement.”
“This is what illegal corruption looks like,” she added.
Warren was responding to a report from CNN on Saturday that said a conflict of interest pledge included in the Presidential Transition Act was, in part, keeping multiple transition agreements from being submitted
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) will be a Republican Senate leader who will deliver Donald Trump’s agenda, he explained in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
Scott, fresh off an overwhelming reelection victory and one of three candidates for Senate Republican Leader, explained how he would work to realize the mandate the American people gave Trump.“I believe in the Trump agenda,” Scott told Breitbart News. “He has a mandate. We need a way to make sure what he started happens.” Scott, who arrived in the Senate half during Trump’s first turn, knows what challenges are ahead for the Senate during Trump’s next term, telling Breitbart News that Democrat Leader
The following is an edited transcript of an interview between Daily Wire host Georgia Howe and three Gold Star family members — Alicia Lopez, Christy Shamblin, and Steve Nikoui — who lost their loved ones in an explosion at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. Catch all three interviews on a special Sunday Edition of Morning Wire.
On August 26, 2021, at a little before 6:00pm local time, a blast from a suicide bomb outside Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed at least 182 people, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military. In honor of Veterans Day, Gold Star families of three fallen service members share heartfelt reflections
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When I write my "'The View' Spew" articles, I'd pick "entertainment" if it was an option. Today's "View Spew" is yet another perfect example of why. The ladies are a gift that just keeps on giving, particularly with respect to their loathing of President-elect Donald Trump.
In this episode, pretend-Republican co-host Ana Navarro went off the rails over Trump's naming of former acting ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) director Tom Homan as his border czar. Let's just say I expected Navarro's head to explode at any moment.
Navarro began:
Look, Donald Trump won the electoral vote.
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., has been offered the role of National Security Advisor in the next Trump administration, a source confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Waltz has been one of Trump's most visible surrogates during the 2024 campaign, helping spearhead military outreach and leading the Veterans For Trump coalition.
The Florida congressman is the first retired Green Beret to serve in Congress and had previous administration experience as a policy adviser to former Defense Secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates.
Republicans are projected to keep control of the House of Representatives, handing the party total control of Washington with former President Trump back in the White House in January.
Decision Desk HQ projected the GOP would hold the House by winning its 218th seat, the number needed for a majority in the lower chamber.
The result is a major win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who skyrocketed up from obscurity to lead the House GOP not only legislatively, but had a large role in its campaign infrastructure.
Republicans saved some of their most vulnerable incumbents, like Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), while defeating several vulnerable Democratic incumbents.
It's no secret that there is no love lost between Frau Doktor Professor Jill Biden and Kamala "Queen of Word Salads" Harris. It's also no secret that Frau Doktor isn't happy about the way her husband was so rudely shoved aside in favor of the worst presidential candidate in the history of the republic.
On Veterans Day, when old Joe was making some remarks, Jill Biden ended up seated next to Kamala Harris, and the expressions were... revealing. [Tweet]
Old Joe, on the other hand, appeared to get a little emotional over the whole thing, although it's unlikely he twigged to the sudden drop in air temperature
Vice President Harris’s strategy of riding on a surge of female support ultimately fell flat, with hints that Election Day could see a historic gender gap failing to materialize.
White women sided with President-elect Trump for the third straight cycle, and he also made inroads with Latina voters and young women. Trump improved on his 2020 margins with Latina women by 8 points, according to Edison Research. And among young women, Trump improved by 11 points compared to last cycle, according to NBC News exit polling.
While Harris won women, Trump’s gains with the voting bloc have Democrats reeling
Just because the election is over doesn't mean that the refrain of "You can't hate the media enough" doesn't still hold true. They can't stop themselves from giving the American public ample reasons to hate them, and it's only going to get worse as their sworn enemy, Donald Trump, makes his way back to the White House.
You might as well head over to Polymarket and make a bet that the left's next political cudgel they'll try to wield against Trump will be this: He's weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political enemies! If this sounds familiar, that's because Joe Biden's very own DOJ has spent the last four years
Trump's 'border czar' warns Dem govs rejecting
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Thomas Homan, who President-elect Donald Trump appointed as "border czar" on Sunday night, has a clear message for any Democratic governors who oppose the planned mass deportation operation.
"If they're not willing to help, then get the hell out of the way because [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is going to do their job," Homan, who was acting ICE director during the first Trump administration, told Fox News Digital in an interview on Friday.
Trump announced on Sunday that Homan will be appointed "border czar" and would be in charge of the borders and "all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their country of origin" in the new administration.
California drivers could potentially pay more at the gas pump next year after a state environmental agency voted to approve a proposal to tighten fuel standards in the name of reducing reliance on fossil fuels and combatting air pollution.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) successfully amended its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program on Friday. The board issued a report last year estimating that the increased fuel standards would drive gas prices up by 47 cents per gallon by 2025.
The Leftists Didn't Get the Memo
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Last week Tuesday, 5 November, the progressive socialist left, well, to put it into the southern lexicon, got taken behind the woodshed for a butt whuppin'. Former President, now President-Elect, Donald Trump put together an incredible coalition of Americans who resoundingly rejected Kamala Harris and her attempt to continue the failed policies of the Biden-HARRIS administration. We were told that we would have to wait days, maybe weeks, to find out the results of the election. Nah, it came late that evening.
The early indicators were there when Miami-Dade and Duval Counties in Florida went to Trump.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Rep. Lee Zeldin to serve as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, The Post can exclusively report.
Zeldin, 44, served four terms as a Republican congressman repping Long Island before losing the 2022 New York governor’s race to Kathy Hochul by a surprisingly close margin.
“I am deeply honored to have been asked by President Trump to serve in his Cabinet. As EPA Administrator, we will restore American energy dominance, revitalize our auto industry to bring back American jobs, make the United States the global leader of Artificial Intelligence advancement, and slash the red tape holding back American workers from upward economic mobility,”
The New York State Supreme Court in Orange County overturned the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, a law Democrats were leveraging to take control of local governments and further a pro-illegal-immigration agenda.
The legislation, which was signed into law in 2022, would in part force municipalities to obtain pre-clearance before making changes to how they conduct their voting systems. According to Spectrum News 1, “local governments or school districts with a record of discrimination in New York” were subject to the new pre-clearance rules.
But the legislation was also being used by some to sue towns for how they currently conduct their elections.
The town of Newburgh uses an “at-large” voting system,
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education, one of the most egregious moves by the U.S. government against the people.
Since then, it's followed the long, proud tradition of being a federal department that fails upward. Any inability to achieve a good result is because it wasn't funded enough, or staffed enough. The budget for 2025 has the Dept. of Ed taking in nearly $90 billion, and yet, since its inception, we went from being number one in education in the world to one of the worst.
As such, many of President-elect Donald Trump promises made during a video made a year ago are going viral
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the recall of nearly 80,000 pounds of butter produced in Texas for Costco. The agency ordered the recall because the product packaging contained no “Contains Milk” allergy statement.
Food & Wine reported that the FDA issued a Class II recall on November 7 for 79,200 pounds of Kirkland Signature Sweet Cream Butter (salted and unsalted). The FDA claimed the butter packaging lists “cream” as an ingredient but does not bear the “Contains Milk” allergy statement.
The New York Post posted on social media that the recall was based on the “dumbest possible reason.”
In a sea of press productions sustained by deranged hatred of Donald Trump, few come close to "Morning Joe." The MSNBC show hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski has long been home to some of the most hysterical, dishonest takes about the soon-to-be current president.
In early October, Scarborough spent time on the show musing about Trump representing the death of democracy. He went so far as to call himself "fearful" and "nervous" about the prospect of Democrats losing the election. More tellingly, after the president-elect's first assassination attempt, MSNBC pulled the show off the air because they knew they couldn't trust its hosts
This is when we savor the sweetness of our total victory. This is when we quaff our ale and pound our shields after defeating the orc hordes, at least temporarily: "Remember today, little brother. Today, life is good." Life is good today; tomorrow, we fight again.
And it’s also a day to take a moment to identify and thank those who got us here, as well as to mock and deepen the humiliation of those weirdos, losers, and mutations who failed so utterly. We rule. They suck.
Here’s one hero – the great Scott Pressler, who picked up and moved to Pennsylvania and worked tirelessly to rally the low-propensity voters
Of the 19 states won by Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, 18 of them don’t require voters to show photo identification to vote, according to a National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) review of laws in effect as of April 2024.
Thirty-six of the 50 states in the U.S. require voters to provide some form of identification to cast a ballot, according to the NCSL. Of these, 12 do not require a photo ID. Of the 19 states Harris won, 12 — California, Oregon, New Mexico, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Maryland — require no document
Failed presidential candidate and ultra-neocon Nikki Haley has responded to President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that she will not be invited to join his second administration.
Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday that Haley and Mike Pompeo will not be part of his team.
“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,” Trump wrote. “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country.
It's an unseasonably warm 72 degrees in Washington, D.C. today - but conditions looked downright icy in the VIP viewing area at Arlington National Cemetery.
Jill Biden, eyes hidden behind sunglasses, looked stoic as she sat next to Kamala Harris while her husband, President Joe Biden delivered his Veterans Day address.
The first lady stared straight ahead as the vice president grinned and leaned into husband Doug Emhoff, who sat on her other side. There have long been reports there is no love lost between Jill Biden and Harris, a feud tracing back to the 2020 Democratic primary when Harris attacked Joe Biden during the first primary debate.
Vice President Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions $1 million, just one example of millions the campaign spent on various entertainers during the vice president’s failed bid for president.
The Harris campaign paid $1 million to Winfrey’s company on October 15, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, coming after a star-studded town hall that Winfrey hosted for the vice president in September.
Winfrey also appeared at Harris’ final rally in Philadelphia on the eve of Election Day, with the talk show star offering a rare endorsement of a presidential candidate.
“We’re voting for values and integrity,”
Donald Trump sure does have his work cut out for him. He won't officially take office for another couple of months, but he's already hard at work getting the ball rolling, and CNN is struggling to cope with it.
"President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert Washington’s checks and balances and leaving foreign leaders scrambling to come to terms with his victory," wrote CNN's Stephen Collinson Monday morning.
"Early signs from Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club and estate where Trump is building his new administration, suggest that when he moves back into the White House in January,
Billionaire leftist and former Shark Tank star Mark Cuban has deleted his pro-Kamala Harris tweets in the aftermath of her epic election defeat by Donald Trump. The billionaire, who infamously slurred conservative women as weak just days before the election, claims “I’ve always gone back and deleted tweets.”
The Wrap reports that popular X/Twitter account Libs of TikTok has revealed billionaire Kamala Harris supporter Mark Cuban has deleted his numerous pro-Harris tweets following her massive failure on Election Day. However, Cuban has swiftly denied these allegations, claiming that he routinely deletes old tweets as a longstanding practice.
After nearly four years of Kamala Harris’s failures as border czar, Donald Trump has revealed who will take over the role once he takes office, and the left is already in an uproar.
"I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders ('The Border Czar'), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our borders.
Who's Driving the Bus?
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Who's driving the bus?
Not this guy.
Anybody who's ever had a toddler knows this walk. It's really sad he's got the nuclear football under his control, but I guess that's what Mr. 81 Million Votes deserves since he, like, you know....got 81 million votes.
So with a couple of months left before he officially gets kicked out of the White House, I think about who is driving the bus? Are "they" going to keep up the charade that Biden still has marbles? Are they going to delegate anything to Harris, who lost by a landslide, wasted a billion with a B on an election that saw a blowout
There’s a new sheriff in town—but this time he knows the job, and he knows what he’s up against. I speak of course of President-elect Donald Trump, who will take the reigns of power on January 20, 2025.
He knows all about the deep state and those working inside the government who will attempt to thwart his agenda. This time, he’s determined to get rid of folks who wish to undermine him.
Mark Paoletta, a conservative lawyer working in Trump’s transition team, threw down the gauntlet in a social Monday media post Monday, bluntly telling Department of Justice lawyers they needed to get with the program or find another job
Republican Gabe Evans has defeated Democratic Incumbent Yadira Caraveo in the 8th Congressional District after a neck-and-neck race that was one of the most closely watched elections in the country. “It is an honor to be entrusted with the job of representing you and your families, and I am ready to fight back for a better direction for all Coloradans,” Evans said in a statement. “I have spent my entire life running toward challenge, and now I am ready to take on my next challenge–representing our communities in Washington, D.C.” Caraveo conceded to Evans Sunday, but the Associated Press has
President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert Washington’s checks and balances and leaving foreign leaders scrambling to come to terms with his victory.
Early signs from Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club and estate where Trump is building his new administration, suggest that when he moves back into the White House in January, bolstered by a thumping win and a democratic mandate, he will act with maximum force.
Trump has already taken to social media to issue orders to Senate Republicans running in this week’s majority leader election to endorse recess appointments for his Cabinet nominees — and all three candidates quickly signaled
I don't particularly care if it's unbecoming to take some pleasure in how the left is responding to Trump's resounding victory. After what the left did to this country for the past four years, I intend to savor the moment in every way possible.
And boy, did I get a lot of joy from the Washington Post's brutal election postmortem. The article argues that Democrats missed warning signs of their declining working-class support, especially with the lack of major labor union endorsements, which is absolutely true. As a result, Trump has created a multiracial, working-class movement that may make it difficult for Democrats to win in the future.
The brain worms at Regime propaganda outlet MSNBC are real and spectacular in the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive election victory. The multi-racial coalition that swept Trump back into power has left MSNBC seething, and unable to cope: particularly at the Latino shift.
Watch as Katie Phang and Paola Ramos attempt to process what happened: MSNBC THE KATIE PHANG SHOW
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KATIE PHANG: Paola, my friend, you and I have spent a long time leading up to this election talking about those disinformation campaigns, especially on Spanish-language media platforms. You’ve been pounding the pavement, speaking to the Latino voters, talking to them about these issues.
Democrats are quite a bag of snakes, lovin' their candidates in victory, and pretending they ever heard of them in defeat.
So, with the presidential defeat of Kamala Harris after a costly, hard-fought campaign, the Obamas reportedly aren't taking her phone calls.
The reports on Twitter suggest this going on: What a wretched story. A whirlwind campaign, an Obama endorsement, a feisty debate, a billion spent, celebrity endorsements galore, Kamala $20 million in the hole, and he's not speaking to her now.
Coincidences and Consequences
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I had dinner last night with my next door neighbor, a lifetime Democratic voter in Southern California who voted last Tuesday for Donald Trump, the first Republican for whom she ever cast a vote. It was a birthday dinner, and a member of her family who gets her news entirely from MSNBC was visibly panicked. She believes the country is lost, and she's terrified of what she perceives will happen to the lifestyle she's chosen.
I hugged her and told her that it's going to be just fine, that Trump's sole concerns are getting the economy turned around, expelling people that legally shouldn't be here, especially if they're violent criminals,
The media and the left keep telling us that the Deep State is a myth, and they are gaslighting you.
During Trump's first term the same people who denied that the Deep State existed also celebrated the #resistance within government, even celebrating on the pages of the New York Times' editorial page a White House official who bragged that he was working to stymie Trump's policies.
Trump was unprepared to staff up his administration the first time around, and establishment Republicans helped him staff up with people who turned out to be swamp creatures.
Trump won't make that mistake again. He has surrounded himself with
Happy Veterans Day. In our honor, the government suspends mail call for one day. Such decisions explain why Kamala got 90% of the vote in DC.
Explanations of why Trump got a majority of the votes elsewhere are not as forthcoming, at least to Democrats. After all, in their eyes, he is a bungling, convicted felon, Hitler, raping puppet of Putin who downs 12 cans of Diet Coke a day. How could they possibly lose to the likes of him?
So they are blaming Joe Biden, the only person in the universe to beat him.
The Democratic election postmortem immediately descended into public blame-gaming—as expected. When Joe Biden was forced off the ticket in late July, the conspirators issued a party line that he was to be praised as a veritable George Washington—in the spirit of Washington’s farewell address of 1796 about why it was a good thing for the first president not to run for a third term.
So, we were lied to that Joe, the sitting President of the United States, was not forced out by Nancy Pelosi, the Obamas, George Clooney and the celebs, and the billionaire class. We instead were lectured
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Columbia University activists are planning a protest of Veterans Day — which organizers want to “reclaim” from the “Israel-US war machine” in the name of Palestinians killed in Gaza.
The unsanctioned student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest is circulating flyers for the event — set for Monday on the Ivy League school’s main Morningside Heights campus.
“Veterans Day is an American holiday to honor the patriotism, love of country, and sacrifice of veterans. We reject this holiday and refuse to celebrate it,” a flyer for the agitator group’s event said.
“The American war machine should not be honored for the horrors unleashed on others,” the flyer added.
Art Garfunkel has described a recent tearful reunion with Paul Simon, in which the pair moved past old enmities. Speaking to the Times, Garfunkel said: “I actually had lunch with Paul a couple of weeks back. First time we’d been together in many years. I looked at Paul and said, ‘What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?’
The Best Blood, the Worst Wars
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Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day comes news of the death of John Nott, British Defence Secretary during the Falklands War. This was his finest moment, as Mrs Thatcher's very straight man for the announcement of the first victory of that conflict (Snip)Likewise the blood spilled in the endless unwon wars of the twenty-first century was "the best blood". But there was no "negotiation", just wholesale surrender and abandonment that left the Taliban with more territory than they controlled on September 11th 2001 and bequeathed them one of the most advanced and sophisticated armouries on the planet. It would be difficult to conceive a more humiliating and dishonourable end to a war.
So you thought that a 312-vote Electoral College victory, an improbable popular-vote triumph, a flip of the U.S. Senate and, as of this writing, retention of a GOP House majority settled matters?
You thought common sense and true normalcy would return to government, society, and the culture?
As if.
Don’t kid yourselves. The least intelligent, least articulate, and most incompetent presidential candidate ever may have failed to attain the Democrats’ customary deep blue state-fueled popular majority. But the reality is that America remains a deeply divided, essentially 50-50 nation. Meaning that:
The historic re-election of Donald Trump as America’s 47th president will have sent shivers down the spine of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader. News that the FBI have arrested 3 people charged with plotting to assassinate Donald Trump under direct instructions from the Iranian regime’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), will have further enraged the president-elect. During his previous term in office Trump cracked down hard on the theocratic regime. He unilaterally withdrew America from President Obama’s deeply flawed nuclear deal with the Iranians. He ramped up sanctions with his ‘Maximum Pressure’ campaign, and he ordered the elimination of Iran’s warmongering mastermind,
The FBI’s background investigation (B.I.) process for political nominees has allegedly been corrupted with “improper handling” of sensitive information, according to an investigation by America First Legal (AFL). AFL’s November 7 press release asserts that the mishandling of private information is a “critical” matter” that must be addressed because of the potential to use the B.I. process as a “weapon against future nominees.”
It also appears that select staff from the Senate Judiciary Committee “appear to have shared FBI background reports and personal financial information in a breach of Senate security protocols.”
Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States,
President Biden and Vice President Harris will make their first public appearance together since last week’s Election when the two leaders attend a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
Biden and Harris will participate in a wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. First lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will also attend, the White House said. Harris will also attend Biden’s remarks at the amphitheater at Arlington cemetery.
Harris last week lost the presidential election to President-elect Trump, with Trump winning all seven battleground states. He is also on track to win the popular vote. Finger-pointing has ensued over who was most to blame for Harris’s defeat.
If this story of a cabal of Pentagon officials meeting to undermine the incoming constitutional commander-in-chief of the U.S. military had been a rumor circulating on X or I’d received in an email from some random source, I would have discounted it. But that’s not the case; it comes from CNN. This suggests that something is deeply wrong in the Pentagon—the same Pentagon that “forgot” to send absentee ballots to U.S. troops serving overseas, a gross violation of their civil rights, and one that ought to result in courts-martial all the way up to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
Conservatives heaved a sigh of relief when Donald Trump was announced the winner of the presidential election, since most believed the left was going to cheat and steal the election again from him. While there was almost certainly cheating in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona between Kari Lake and no-name, open borders Ruben Gallego, as well as with Arizona’s abortion-till-birth Prop. 139, Trump was allowed to win the state and the six other battleground states.
America Failed Kamala
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Americans had the opportunity to elect Kamala Harris. And we had failed to live up to her.
[A]s Michelle Obama told us, we were not good enough for her.
Perhaps one day we will be. And Harris, along with Hillary Clinton, can wait in the wings, sipping chardonnay and listening to selections from Oprah Winfrey's book club until we show that we are ready for them to finally come and save us from ourselves. Decades may pass. Even centuries. But surely one day Americans will finally be ready for a completely inept president.
Trump announces Tom Homan, former director
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of immigration enforcement, will serve
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday night that his former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom Homan will serve as “border czar” when he retakes the White House in January.
Trump revealed the personnel appointment in a Truth Social post as he begins piecing together what his next administration will look like after he easily topped Vice President Kamala Harris in the race to become the 47th president last Tuesday.
Part of Homan’s responsibility will be to boot illegal migrants from the US, the future president said.
Conservative media pundit Tucker Carlson is warning of a potential “coup” against President-elect Donald Trump as three senators eye to replace longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Carlson is urging Trump supporters to call their senators and demand they support Rick Scott (R-FL). On Tuesday, Republicans secured the Senate— leaving the door open for for someone to replace McConnell. Republican John Coryn (TX), John Thune (SD), and Scott are seeking to take McConnell’s seat.
However, Carlson has an issue with two of the men.
Failed Reagan Assassin John Hinckley Jr.
on Requests to Assassinate Trump: ‘I’m
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on Requests to Assassinate Trump: ‘I’m
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John Hinckley Jr., the failed assassin who shot former President Ronald Reagan, responded to requests to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump by stating that he is a “man of peace now.”
“I’m a man of peace now!” Hinckley wrote in a post on X. “Please stop with all the negative comments!” Hinckley’s post comes months after Trump survived two assassination attempts on his life. On July 13, 2024, at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from the rooftop of a nearby building where he had a direct line of sight of Trump. Trump ended up being shot by “a bullet that
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who backed his controversial "zero tolerance" policy, will be his administration's "border czar." "I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders ('The Border Czar')(snip) "I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders," "Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin."
The historian and political scientist Allan Lichtman has blamed “misogyny, racism and xenophobia” for getting his prediction about who would win the White House so catastrophically wrong.
Lichtman, who is best known for devising electoral prediction system known as ‘The Five Keys to the White House,’ said in an interview with CNN that the American people were simply not “pragmatic” enough to be able to predict the election correctly.
He explained:
The Keys to the White House depend upon a rational, pragmatic electorate deciding it based on guidance rather than depending upon if the party should get four more years.
Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) acknowledged Republican Senator-elect Dave McCormick’s victory over incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), undercutting Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Casey who continue to deny the election results.
The Associated Press (AP) called the race for McCormick Thursday after the few remaining votes left to be counted do not present Casey with a path to victory.
McCormick leads by almost 40,000 votes, but Manchin is the first member of Schumer’s Democrat Caucus to acknowledge the inevitable.
“While we are losing a good person and colleague in Senator Bob Casey, I believe the Senate will be gaining another good man in Senator-Elect David McCormick,” Manchin tweeted Sunday.
Elon Musk was critical of Saturday Night Live's portrayal of him via Dana Carvey in the NBC staple's first episode since Donald Trump's election victory.
The Tesla & X CEO, 53, fired off a series of tweets on his platform X/Twitter Sunday in response to the segment in which Carvey mimicked the physical gestures Musk made while on the campaign trail with Trump.
'SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality,' said the Pretoria, South Africa-born magnate, who hosted the show's May 8, 2021 episode.
House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) defended New York Attorney General Letitia James who could soon have the tables turned against her now that Donald J. Trump has won the election.
James, a vindictive racist, has spearheaded a malicious prosecution against the president-elect based on bogus financial charges, a brazen attempt to bankrupt him and steal his properties [Tweet, video] (Snip) In a post to X that he may already regret, Jeffries – another crooked black Gotham machine politician – took up for James and demanded that Trump and his allies “back off” on holding her accountable for her un-American abuse of the legal system.
Donald Trump's eldest granddaughter Kai hit the links alongside her grandfather at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday with viewers left wondering who won the round.
Kai - the daughter of Don Jr. and his ex-wife Vanessa - posed for a couple of beaming selfies alongside Donald at the end of a week in which he secured his second term in the White House come January next year.
In a series of short video clips, Donald could be seen looking on from his golf cart, appearing to analyze Kai's swing as his granddaughter hit a series of shots along the fairway.
President-elect Donald Trump late Sunday announced former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan would serve as “border czar” in his second administration, installing a key ally to enact a promised crack down at the southern border.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social and said Homan’s responsibilities would include “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security.” “I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders,” Trump posted. “Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.
This is why so many voters hate their representation.
They really don’t care what you think. They believe they know better than you.
Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and Republican voters are calling for Republican Senators to vote for Senator Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader.
Rick Scott is the logical choice to lead the Senate Republicans. He just blew out his Democrat opponent in Florida by 12+ points.
But the Senate Republicans have a long history
They were the ten words that sealed the comeback deal for Donald Trump.
“Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you,” said the campaign ad first unleashed a week after Trump lost his only TV debate with Kamala Harris back in September.
The ad focused on two things: a 2019 clip of Kamala endorsing the use of taxpayer money to fund sex change surgery for transgender prison inmates, and her ongoing support for trans athletes competing in women’s sport.
(Photos) The New York Times reported that the ad “broke through in Mr. Trump’s testing to an extent that stunned some of his aides.”
So, they poured millions more dollars into blasting it across
It turned out to be a laughably wrong poll. Ann Selzer, who used to be credible, released a shock poll days before Election Day showing that Kamala Harris had taken the lead over Donald Trump. No one believed it. Not even Democrats did, I think. The state was Trump +18 in June. It swung to Harris +3 in October. We would’ve seen the groundswell if that were happening. It didn’t. Trump carried the state by 14 points. Also, there were less-than-subtle hints that Democrats knew this poll would drop before the public did. Who leaked it? Gannett, the Des Moines Register’s publisher, wants to know that. They’ve launched an investigation.
Trump confirms NYer Elise Stefanik will
be his enforcer to the UN: ‘Strong,
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be his enforcer to the UN: ‘Strong,
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Stefanik, the No. 4 House Republican, has been a close Trump ally, including serving on his ceremonial defense team during his first impeachment trial for pressuring Ukraine to investigate alleged Biden family corruption.The Harvard grad worked to flip the tables on what she called the “Biden Crime Family” and has regularly appeared on TV to drive home the Republican positions on issues — setting up a likely a contrast from the outgoing UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who rarely courted media attention.
“I am truly honored to earn President Trump’s nomination to serve in his Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,” Stefanik said
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was criticized by Republicans on Sunday for not allowing Senator-elect Dave McCormick (R-PA) to attend Senate orientation.
Republican lawmakers such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) sharply criticized Schumer for refusing to allow McCormick to attend the Senate orientation due to incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) refusing to concede Pennsylvania’s Senate race. The senators noted that it “shows Schumer’s true character.”
In a superficial world where pro athletes and Hollywood actors are sometimes considered heroes, Veterans Day exists to remind us that real heroes wore combat uniforms and kept the USA free.
Veterans are rightly praised for their service as they are the ones who literally put their lives on the line for this nation. Among them are combat veterans who said goodbye to their families for deployments — sometimes numerous deployments — and who fought against barbaric fascists in World II, were often overlooked for holding the ground in Korean, crawled under live fire in Vietnam jungles while dodging Viet Cong attacks,