NEWS YOU CAN USE: “If your neighbor isn’t wearing a sheet, stop calling him racist”; and other helpful advice in Andrew Klavan’s “Alternative 12-Step Response to Trump.”

LIFE AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF “HOPE AND CHANGE” GOVERNANCE: They’re Growing Older. Their Mortgage Debt Is Growing Deeper.

As predicted, suddenly the press has started noticing stuff like this again. Just wait until 2017, when America will become a cesspit of Grapes of Wrath style misery.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY ORGANIZATIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF IDEOLOGICAL INTOLERANCE?

On election Tuesday, ESPN’s ombudsman wrote:

Many ESPN employees I talked to — including liberals and conservatives, most of whom preferred to speak on background — worry that the company’s politics have become a little too obvious, empowering those who feel as if they’re in line with the company’s position and driving underground those who don’t.

“If you’re a Republican or conservative, you feel the need to talk in whispers,” one conservative ESPN employee said. “There’s even a fear of putting Fox News on a TV [in the office].”

Which sounds virtually identical to what the Washington Post’s then-ombudswoman reported immediately after the 2008 election:

It pains me to see lost subscribers and revenue, especially when newspapers are shrinking. Conservative complaints can be wrong: The mainstream media were not to blame for John McCain’s loss; Barack Obama’s more effective campaign and the financial crisis were.

But some of the conservatives’ complaints about a liberal tilt are valid. Journalism naturally draws liberals; we like to change the world. I’ll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama. I did. There are centrists at The Post as well. But the conservatives I know here feel so outnumbered that they don’t even want to be quoted by name in a memo.

Funny how these things keep happening, and yet no one in the MSM ever does anything to change the corporate culture. And yet they simultaneously wonder why, in the case of the Washington Post, their institution’s business valuation went from two billion at the start of the 21st century down to $250 million when Jeff Bezos purchased it in 2013. Or in the case of ESPN, they keep losing viewers – including a stunning 621,000 subscribers last month alone, according to Nielson.

And sometimes, they even lose elections.

NEWS YOUR DM CAN USE: Ten Rules of Thumb for Dealing with Drastic Technological Advances in your RPG Game.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: What Iran—Yes, Iran—Can Teach America About the Fight for LGBTQ Rights.

Yes, it’s an actual headline at Slate, which is the last journalistic redoubt for the Graham family, which owned the Washington Post for decades and ran it so far into the ground Jeff Bezos purchased it with his pocket change. As Mark Hemingway of the Weekly Standard tweets in response to the above headline, “Gosh, I wonder why the media have a credibility problem.”

DAILYKOS: I am one of those 538 National Elector’s and yes the Electoral College is in play. If they somehow manage to turn the Electoral College around (very unlikely, but this is 2016, when anything can happen), watch all those pundits who’ve been talking about its evils turn on a dime and demand that the result be respected by everyone.

Related: Tennessee’s Electoral College members ‘harassed’ by anti-Trump emails.

2016, MAN: Man Dissolves in Hot Acid After Trying to ‘Hot Pot’ at Yellowstone National Park.

THE NETROOTS CROWD IS organizing to disrupt the Trump Inauguration.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1291: Federal Judge—‘Strong Showing’ That IRS Discriminated Against Tea Party Groups.

YOU DO REALIZE THAT ANYONE CAN READ THIS STUFF, RIGHT? Lefties fret that the police might be reading their tweets.

ANYTHING TO AVOID THEIR OWN INADEQUACIES: “Fake News” Is the New “Bregret.”

After a majority of British voters stunned the political establishment on both sides of the Atlantic by voting to leave the European Union, the media quickly alighted on a narrative to reassure “Remain” partisans of their moral superiority: “Leave” voters, ignorant of the actual implications of their vote, were already regretting their decision en masse.

In August, we addressed the dangers of this kind of blind self-congratulation (which was never really supported by the data): “By trying to delegitimize votes for the likes of Trump, Le Pen, Wilders, and Grillo, or for causes such as Brexit or the Dutch referendum on Ukraine’s association agreement with the EU, as being the products either of external manipulation or of some other form of false consciousness, our elites are refusing to even countenance the underlying causes fueling these sentiments.”

Now that elites worldwide are reeling from Donald Trump’s presidential victory—”Brexit plus plus plus,” the candidate called it—a variation of this narrative is once again taking hold in liberal circles. This time, it’s centered on “fake news”—the idea that Trump’s victory can be chalked up to phony right-wing news websites, which allegedly had an outsize presence on social media networks in the run-up to the election. As with “Bregret,” the obvious implication is that the election of Donald Trump is not a real rejection of the cosmopolitan establishment, because if voters actually understood their options, they would not have elected him.

President Obama appears to be sold on a version of this theory.

Well, Obama. Plus:

Both Brexit and Trump were manifestations of cascading failures of the governing elites of the Western world, who pushed too hard for universalistic values and grew fundamentally disconnected from their populations. Saving liberalism will require elite introspection and a deeper understanding of our current crisis of governance. Self-satisfied assurances that anti-establishment voters are clueless—that they didn’t understand the significance of their vote and will now change their minds, or that they could be educated if social media sites simply promoted the right news outlets—are borderline suicidal.

Yes.

JOURNALISM: “This feels like another one of the post-election stories about how the losing side is very emotional and justified in its anguish and the winning side is taking advantage in an evil way. That’s the template. So I’m wary of the material that’s being scraped together to fit the template. That reminds me, I wanted to write a post about the ‘fake news’ problem.”

Plus, from the comments: “The more the left reacts like a collection of babies, the more the people who voted for Trump reluctantly will feel vindicated. This will be fun to watch as the lefties become more unglued.”

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SORRY, THAT DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE AND THUS MUST BE IGNORED: In Alabama, Jeff Sessions Desegregated Schools and Got the Death Penalty for KKK Murderer.

PITIFUL CAST OF “HAMILTON” CONTINUES TO RECEIVE INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH LESSON IN GENUINE SOCIAL JUSTICE: The Donald fired off another twitter blast this morning. The Broadway show’s leftist poseurs virtue signaled by verbally attacking an audience member — Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Poor little poseurs. Now Trump is sending a signal. While he’s president lefty moral preening and posturing will be mocked and attacked. Stay tuned.

NOTE: The Examiner article says George Will writes for the NY Times. Nope, the Peter Pan Republican writes for the WaPo. It’ll probably be corrected, but the mistake is understandable. “At this point, what difference does it make?”

AN IDEA FOR THE DEMOCRATS THAT’S SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK! Stop Hating White People and Maybe They’ll Vote for You.

Related: How identity politics blew up in Democrats’ faces.

JERRY POURNELLE: Suggestions for government, and other important matters.

FIRST BREXIT, THEN TRUMP, next a Le Pen victory in France?

THE JOURNALISM PROBLEM IS A HIGHER EDUCATION PROBLEM: Fixing America’s Nearsighted Press Corps: Donald Trump’s victory caught mainstream news outlets off-guard. Were reporters too insulated to see his growing support? “A critique is most devastating when it is true. The American journalistic class has certainly diverged sharply from the country it covers. In 1960, nearly a third of reporters and editors had never attended a single year of college; in 2015, only 8.3 percent could say the same. . . . journalists have also become increasingly sequestered on the East and West coasts, to the detriment of newsrooms in the interior of the country. In fact, as of 2011, 92 percent of journalists worked within a metropolitan area, up from 75 percent a half century earlier. The map below charts the share of America’s reporters who work in a given county. See that big circle? That’s Manhattan, which saw its share of journalists increase between 1990 and 2015, now hosting around 13 percent of the nation’s reporters. Meanwhile, Midwest centers like Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Kansas City suffered.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Running Is The Worst Way To Get Fit. For me, the sprint-and-weight-train approach is best. Not everyone is the same, though.

BOY, DO THEY EVER: Election over, Associated Press Still Shills for the Left.  They’re performing the Roll Left and Die Maneuver.

MY CATS TELL ME IT’S BECAUSE I’M THE RESULT OF A LONG BREEDING PROGRAM TO CREATE THE PERFECT PET FOR THEM: Why the heck do animals live in our houses?