SHE CAN’T WAIT TO WAVE HERSELF A VICTIM FLAG: NY AG Letitia James says ‘We are prepared to fight back’ in ‘dumb and bizarre’ presser with Gov. Hochul after Trump wins presidency.
Archive for 2024
November 7, 2024
THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE WILL HAVE A BUSY START: Russia launches Iranian satellites into orbit ahead of partnership summit between Moscow, Tehran.
BIG GOVERNMENT LIKES BIG BUSINESS AND DETESTS INDEPENDENT SMALL BUSINESS: Destroy the small farmer: Starmer’s echoes of the Bolsheviks.
OUR MOST IMPORTANT TASK IS CLEANING UP OUR ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION: I posted here last week that I thought the DNC had given up on winning via election fraud in the 2024 general. I believe my prediction was borne out, and now I’m going to think out loud about what that reveals.
LOOK, I’M OLD FASHIONED, I REMEMBER WHEN THEY HAD GIANT PAPIER MACHE PUPPETS! Not enough people showed up to riot apparently so they had a dance party and gave speeches.
WHEN TO OF MY FRIENDS SYNERGIZE, THE RESULTS ARE HILARIOUS: The First Three Items on Trump’s Surprisingly Bipartisan Agenda (Parody or Maybe Not).
ANOTHER ELECTION LIKE THIS AND THE DEMOCRATS WILL DEMAND WE CLOSE THE BORDER: Scarborough, Sharpton Claim Black and Hispanic Men are Sexist and Racist.
HELLO. MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA. YOU KILLED MY SQUIRREL: Downfall: The people want justice for Peanut.
ANYONE KNOWS IF LIBERAL TEARS ARE HEAVY ON CARBS? Jon Stewart Lashes Out at Pollsters After Harris Defeat.
NOWHERE NEAR TIRED OF WINNING: More Winning: Progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón Loses Reelection.
STOP. I ALREADY VOTED FOR HIM. CAN’T DO IT AGAIN WITHOUT A TIME MACHINE: ‘Trump Shock’: European Media in Meltdown Over Trump’s Victory.
Okay fine. I’ll invent a time machine! Show me how upset the European media is again!
I WOULDN’T ADVISE THAT. CANADA PRESCRIBES DEATH IF YOU’RE DEPRESSED: Trump Wins, “Move To Canada” Searches Spike, Liberals Meltdown Online.
IT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED SEXIST. ON THE OTHER HAND, THEY’RE REALLY BAD AT TEACHING ANYTHING: What do you mean, “They Didn’t Say Anything About That”?!?
November 6, 2024
MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE:
Donald Trump wins 312 Electoral Votes.
Hey Libs,
This is a landslide.
And it’s about to get much worse.
National Voter ID is coming.
Mass deportations of criminal aliens.
Along with new census maps greatly empowering red states.
The Obama Dynasty is officially over.
You failed pic.twitter.com/SkmuP70yiq— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 7, 2024
“I HATE THE ARISTOCRATICY, MAN” [VIP]: Well-Designed Systems Self-Correct
(Not very classical reference here,)
DECISION DESK CALLS ARIZONA FOR TRUMP, giving him a win with 312 electoral votes.
Note his dramatic popular vote lead, too.
OPEN THREAD: Living in interesting times.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler.
CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY: Bulwark Crew Wishes Biden Would’ve Been More Authoritarian to Prevent Authoritarianism.
Anyone catch this? At the end of last night's @BulwarkOnline's election coverage, the hosts, agitated at Democrats' impending demise, said the Biden Admin should have gotten even more extreme to prevent this from occurring.
Jonathan Last (JVL): "[The Biden Admin] should have… pic.twitter.com/o0BaClnj6b
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 6, 2024
And don’t get them started on how much they appreciate the common sense of the average voter:
We witnessed a total meltdown on The Bulwark's election stream last night.
"Voters are too stupid to even, like, exist in the world…they're just morons who can't understand anything." pic.twitter.com/1VqsWnyj9n
— America 2100 (@America_2100) November 6, 2024
Or ask them for their thoughts on illegal immigration:
One of the panelists on The Bulwark election stream last night declared that he was "prepared" to hide illegal immigrants in his attic—to protect them from being deported. https://t.co/XPsa0bg3xe pic.twitter.com/SzMfXRtK9k
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) November 7, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s new rocket for crew and moon to launch in 2026.
HELEN AND I SPENT A COUPLE OF HOURS AT A FRIEND’S HOUSE, sipping champagne and gloating reflecting on the elections. Our hostess, a woman who built a very successful business up from nothing against considerable hardships, commented that she thinks Trump’s four years in the wilderness are worth it. She said he had been “fine-tuned by fire,” and is now tougher, and much more knowledgeable about what he faces, than he would have been if he had been re-elected in 2020. I think she’s right.
UPDATE:
Pretty incredible when you think about how the entire corporate media was singularly focused over the last 4 years on destroying Trump, in tandem with most of the federal gov’t, the state of New York, as well as various assassins, & not only did Trump win, but he’s going to win…
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 6, 2024
Plus:
'Don't Despair,' Kamala Tells Celebrating Nation https://t.co/BoU27gGwJP pic.twitter.com/Ro1U9b78yl
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 7, 2024
YES! Shelley Luther, former Dallas salon owner jailed during COVID-19, wins in TX House Dist. 62.
Flashback to May of 2020: A Look At The Democrat Dallas Judge Who Jailed A Salon Owner.
Luther was released on Thursday however by the Texas Supreme Court which came just after the state’s Republican Governor, Greg Abbott issued an executive order retroactively suspending local ordinances that throw citizens in detention for noncompliance with local stay home orders.
“Throwing Texans in jail who have had their businesses shut down through no fault of their own is nonsensical, and I will not allow it to happen,” Abbott said the day after Luther was given jail time.
Abbott Spokesman John Whitaker made clear in a statement to The Federalist however, that the governor’s executive order still allows local fines and other penalties such as license suspensions to be handed down to those who open without authorization, implying Luther may still have to pay $7,000.
Moye condemned Luther’s defiance as “selfish,” charging Luther with “putting your own interests ahead of the community in which you live.
“You disrespected the orders of the state, the county, and this city,” Moye told Luther.
The episode has become a rallying cry for opening up, where many on the Left supporting the lockdowns have flocked to Moye’s defense, while conservatives characterize the ruling as an authoritarian power-grab from the Democratic judge and prop up Luther as a heroine fighting to preserve civil liberties under stress from the pandemic. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz went to the salon for a haircut on Friday and Abbott discussed the matter with the president at the White House.
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton also charged Moye’s ruling as “outrageous,” a view which was echoed across Republican state leaders and earned backlash from an array of district judges in Dallas County labeling the criticism “inappropriate” for an independent judiciary.
As Glenn wrote back then, “Don’t miss the importance of this. The left/media (but I repeat myself) used to be able to make people so radioactive that even serious right politicians would shy away. Not anymore. This, and her half-million-dollar GoFundMe account, are serious blows to its power. Or maybe signs that that power is shrinking. Or both.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE ONCE GOLDEN STATE:
● Recalls of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and DA Pamela Price Appear to Be Passing.
● Daniel Lurie Poised to Be Next Mayor of San Francisco After Spending Record Sum In Election. “Lurie, the billionaire heir to a Levi’s jeans fortune who, with the help of his mother’s wealth, launched a campaign to become mayor of San Francisco, is well ahead of incumbent London Breed in ranked-choice votes.”
● Gascon Loses, Price is Recalled and Criminal Justice Reform Takes a Beating in California. “California voters on Tuesday approved a November ballot measure that will impose stricter penalties for repeat theft and crimes involving fentanyl, steering away from recent progressive policies that critics blamed for increased lawlessness…Proposition 36 will make it a felony for someone to steal merchandise of any value after two previous offenses and can lead to longer jail or prison sentences.”
Meanwhile, with Kamala Harris, a leftist Bay Area machine politician soundly thrashed last night by Trump, the San Francisco Chronicle yells, next batter up! The Democratic Party is now Gavin Newsom’s to lead. Does he have what it takes?
ROGER KIMBALL: The three reasons Trump won.
“Why Trump won.” That is my assignment. I shall treat it as a declaration, not a question. And even though I write before the returns are in, I can give you the reasons. After all, I have been predicting that Donald Trump would win “in a landslide” at least since July.
As has become increasingly clear over the past several weeks, there are three basic reasons that Trump won.
The first two are interwoven. Kamala Harris was a horrible candidate. Trump, on the contrary, was superb.
As to Kamala, her inarticulacy was a major stumbling block. So was her choice of running mate: Tim Walz may be the left-most governor in the country. Certainly, he is the weirdest. Harris’s 60 Minutes interview was a disaster, as was her interview with Bret Baier.
Often, Harris’s mistakes were fodder for Trump’s triumphs. Harris said she had worked the fry station at McDonald’s. There was no record of that, so Trump made hay of the apparent lie. He picked a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, made French fries and handed out food at the drive-through window. A publicity coup.
Then there was the Garbage Gambit. Joe Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.” The White House tried and failed to walk back the remark. But Trump’s team came up with the splendid idea of having a garbage truck emblazoned with the campaign logo meet his plane in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They topped that by slinging a neon orange and yellow maintenance vest over the president. He emerged from the plane wearing it, conducted a brief interview from the cab of the truck and then proceeded to his rally where he explained to the adoring crowd why he was wearing the vest. Brilliant.
The media were furious in October that Trump was doing Retail Politics 101, because it simultaneously undermined all of their efforts to portray him as Orange Hitler, and because it demonstrated that Kamala couldn’t or wouldn’t do these sorts of basic campaign stunts. Biden never thought he’d get called on his plagiarism by the media in the 1980s, and curiously, in the 21st century, Kamala never thought anyone would call her on inventing a job at McDonald’s to grab some populist street cred, as the Washington Free Beacon did in late August. Even so, it’s a safe bet that numerous local Mickey D owners, particularly in California, would have been thrilled to have her spend an hour or two posing at making fries. That she couldn’t be bothered to do so speaks volumes about her overall failure as a presidential candidate.