SCHADENFREUDELICIOUS: Watching Jen Psaki Acknowledge Trump’s Victory Is as Satisfying as It Gets.
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November 6, 2024
MICROBIOME NEWS: Nepal study reveals microbes in mouth reflect lifestyle choices.
FROM A EUROPEAN WHO GETS US: 10 Reasons You Didn’t See This Coming.
6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country’s imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.
7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left’s reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.
8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump’s rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.
9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.
10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.
Head on over for the first five.
UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN: WaPo reporter: “Vice President Kamala Harris has called President-Elect Trump to concede and congratulate him, per a Harris aide.“
FROM ME, Thoughts on the Post-Election. Trump needs to go for shock and awe.
UPDATE (From Ed): I assume, based on Obama and Biden’s choices prior to officially taking office, we’ll start seeing Trump behind a podium that’s labeled “The Office of the President Elect” in the coming weeks. Obama enjoyed bigfooting Dubya in his last weeks in office, and Trump should have even more trolling Sundown Joe and a humiliated Kamala (and the media who will have a sudden sense of amnesia about the signage of the two prior Democrat presidents.)
‘TRUMP SHOCK:’ European Media in Meltdown Over Trump’s Victory. Guardian columnist: “The thought of a Trump presidency is eating me alive.”
The European mainstream media is in a meltdown this morning after President Donald Trump’s historic victory in the U.S. election.
“Why do they vote for Trump?” the leading German news Tageszeitung asked. How could the majority of American voters “support a man like Trump, who insults political opponents, offends allied countries, questions the electoral system, and also advocates anti-worker policies?” the newspaper wondered.
“On paper, the Democrats’ program for the middle class is better than the Republicans’. But why are the Democrats receiving less and less support from this group?” the clueless German daily asked.
German magazine Der Spiegel covered the news with the headline “The Trump Shock.”
“After Donald Trump’s election victory, the U.S. is facing a political turning point,” the weekly added.
The German establishment fears that Trump will make them pay more for their own defense and raise tariffs to drive down the massive trade deficit. “What will happen” when Trump enters the White House?” the German weekly Der Stern asked Wednesday.
“Why do they vote for Trump?” the German Website asked:
● “We are now experiencing first-hand climate policy threatening the basis of our prosperity.”
● Are young people poised to slam the brake on endless economic growth?
● Volkswagen considers first closure of a German auto plant.
● Greta Thunberg: Germany Complicit in Genocide over Israel Support.
● Germany Vows ‘Knife Control’ After ISIS Refugee Slashes Throats at Diversity Festival.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The First Three Items on Trump’s Surprisingly Bipartisan Agenda (Parody or Maybe Not)
HMM: ER visit often precedes a cancer diagnosis. “Canadian researchers have found that about 1 in every 3 people newly diagnosed with cancer experienced at least one emergency department visit sometime during the three months prior to their diagnosis. Many of the visits ended up being caused by symptoms related to the cancer, noted a team led by Dr. Keerat Grewal, an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.”
WOEING: Boeing Faces Production Challenges as Union Strike Ends; 777X Delayed, Layoffs Announced.“Appointed in August, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg expressed hope for rebuilding Boeing’s reputation but also pointed out that challenges persist. The financial loss of the strike has caused Boeing to announce plans to postpone the 777X aircraft, cut about 17,000 positions in the coming months, and look for more finance. Boeing’s stock is currently on the rise, but it still shows a 40% yearly drop.”
A DIFFERENT VIBE THIS TIME:
Bezos doing something I suspect a lot of other corporate leaders will be doing: declaring themselves not onboard with Resistance 2.0. (Dimon did this a year ago.) https://t.co/MGCKo6ZGqV
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 6, 2024
I wonder if Kate Mackinnon will sing “Hallelujah” and then cry on SNL again, though.
MATT MARGOLIS: Five Moments That Doomed the Democrats in 2024.
JIM GERAGHTY: Democrats Get a Wake-Up Call about How Unpopular Their Agenda Really Is.
Trump is either going to win the national popular vote or come pretty darn close to winning it, and I suspect that is a scenario that a lot of Democrats are just not psychologically or emotionally prepared to confront. Break out the Legos, cookies, and coloring books.
Don’t underestimate the emotional value of Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote back in 2016. It allowed Democrats to convince themselves, and others, that Trump’s 2016 was a quirk of the Electoral College, a fluke, a reflection of Clinton never visiting Wisconsin and Russians buying ads on Facebook and FBI director James Comey’s late announcement and a million other excuses. Think about how many times you were reminded that Clinton won the popular vote by 2.9 million votes.
Democrats believed that progressivism was still popular — and the traditional midterm backlash of 2018 convinced them that Trump had proven to be so unpopular, they could move as far to the left as they wanted, and the electorate would still always pick them over Trump and his MAGA candidates.
They thought wrong.
Progressivism, liberalism, woke-ism — they will never be the same. They won’t wither away completely. But the Democrats just learned the hardest of hard lessons: The electorate — not just straight white males — doesn’t want their brand of deeply divisive identity politics, deliberate conflation of legal immigration and illegal immigration, policies that reflexively recommend and enact permanent bodily changes for teenagers questioning their gender identity, and basically the entire agenda of the 2019 Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
At the Bradley Impact Fund conference last month, I told the joke about the advertising genius who’s brought in to revitalize the sales of a brand of dog food. He redesigns the packaging, runs a whole bunch of appealing commercials, and gets a bright, vibrant display for the brand right in the front of the supermarket. But as he’s shopping for groceries, he watches a customer walking a dog reach down to buy the other leading brand. Exasperated, the advertising genius goes up to the man and asks why, despite the new packaging, commercials, and display, he bought the other leading brand and not the ad man’s client’s brand of dog food. The customer shrugs and points to his dog, saying “He won’t eat it.”
Democrats, the electorate is just not going to eat your dog food. It doesn’t matter if you raise more money and spend more on ads and have more campaign offices and have more doorknockers and volunteers. The sales pitch isn’t really the problem; the product is.
The zombie version of Henry Luce’s Time magazine is taking it well:
So I guess Trump isn’t getting photoshopped onto the cover as FDR declaring the “New New Deal,” or (as Newsweek did in November of 2012) in a Napoleonic admiral’s jacket and sword huh?
Flashback: Time buries Trump assassination attempt. While their article’s lede from July 27th is “Trump’s ear wound from an assassination attempt at a rally on July 13 quickly became a symbol of solidarity for many of his supporters, and a grim reminder of political violence in the U.S.,” the story’s headline is a dull-as-dishwater, “What We Do and Don’t Know About Trump’s Ear Wound.”
Evergreen:
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BEST TAKE SO FAR:
America Unburdens Itself From What Has Been https://t.co/MElsQSK1sE pic.twitter.com/8OpkkqK9Jc
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 6, 2024
“BAD LUCK,” CLIMATE CHANGE, WHATEVER — THESE THINGS ALWAYS SEEM TO BE SELF-INFLICTED:
Spain destroyed more than 256 dams between 2021 and 2022, "to restore the natural course of rivers", in order to comply with UN Agenda 2030.
But no, the flooding is a result of "climate change". 🤡pic.twitter.com/0q3avlgDy8
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) November 5, 2024
FOUR MORE YEARS OF TRIGGLYPUFF TANTRUMS: With Trump Victory, Democrat Election Denialism Commences: What to Expect.
COURAGE:
Kamala Harris will speak tonight at 6 p.m. ET. She still hasn't called President-elect Trump to concede.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) November 6, 2024
What is she waiting for? Best guesses in the comments, please.
UPDATE (From Ed):
BOEING BUILT 744 OF THEM FROM SCRATCH IN JUST 10 YEARS: B-52J: New Air Force Bomber Can’t ‘Bomb’ for 9 More Years. “The B-52J Stratofortress, a revamp of the U.S. Air Force’s enduring B-52 bomber, faces delays, with initial operational capability now expected by 2033.”
WHY WAS THE FEDERAL RESPONSE TO HELENE SO BAD? I couldn’t help but notice the overlap in these maps. It’s hard for these (traditionally very GOP, with the exception of Asheville) voters to get the polls when they’ve been left there to die. That’s the only reason NC was so close.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Georgetown gives students milk and cookies to help them cope with election.