ICYMI: IF THE GOP WANTS TO GO AFTER BIDEN’S PARDON OF HIS SON, HERE’S THE WINNING MESSAGE:

In 1994, a crime bill authored by @JoeBiden locked Black men up for years for the same gun charge he just pardoned Hunter Biden for today.

This is the Democrat Party.

Again, why any Black person would want to be associated with the democrats is beyond me.

— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) December 2, 2024

A friend writes: “Good message. But of course you pardon your kid.”

Yes, but you should expect to pay a political price. Of course, for Biden this not only gets his kid off, but further stinks up the joint for the Democrats on his way out. What does he care — he’s on his way out, and he was pushed. Stinking up the joint is a plus. And saying it was okay to pardon Hunter because it was a political prosecution instigated by his enemies plays right into Trump’s hands in pardoning the J6 defendants — and, for that matter, himself.

UPDATE: Another friend writes: “That is kinda the big question. Does he pardon himself. You know, for the massive corruption. It would be an old man brain fart if he did. It’s already been established he’s incompetent to stand trial. That just leaves pardoning Hunter. You know, for the massive corruption, tax fraud etc. Last little, or big, slurp at the power trough for the Biden spawn. Either way, he’d be admitting to something he and Hunter will never be charged with. Trump has already made it clear he doesn’t intend to do to them what they did to him.”

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THE RATCHET EFFECT: Despite election losses, waning public support, climate groups, politicians say won’t change plans.

Despite signs that the climate agenda isn’t selling anymore, at least the way anti-fossil fuel advocates want, many climate-aligned politicians and activists are swearing they’ll continue the fight as if the election and public opinion were still in their favor.

“President-elect Trump won the election, but his billionaire oil and gas cronies don’t get to rule,” Natural Resource Defense Council President Manish Bapna declared on Nov. 5, the day Trump won reelection.

Bapna vowed that the NRDC will ramp up litigation efforts to push back against any attempts to roll back the climate agenda of the Biden-Harris administration.

“If he [Trump] tries to roll back urgently needed climate gains, or follow his radical Project 2025 roadmap to environmental ruin, we’ll stand up for the environment and public health – in the court of public opinion and in our courts of law,” Bapna said.

The public’s opinion was made more than clear last month.

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WELL, THE NARROW MAJORITY DOESN’T COME SO MUCH FROM THE VOTING AS FROM THE COUNTING: The GOP Barely Won the House.

Republicans boasting about their great election mandate may want to hold the euphoria. As the final results trickle in from the late state of California, the GOP looks set to have the narrowest House majority in more than a century.

In the latest race to be called, Republican Rep. Michelle Steel lost her Orange County seat, while Rep. John Duarte now trails his Democratic challenger in his Fresno-area district. If Mr. Duarte loses, Republicans would hold nine of 52 House seats in the Golden State. The Democratic gerrymander in California, plus those in New York (19-7 Democratic to GOP seats), Illinois (14-3) and Massachusetts (9-0), mean four states will deliver 85 of the Democratic total of 215 seats. The GOP could have as few as 220. One message is that while voters rejected the Biden-Harris Administration, their support for Republicans is provisional.

A bigger message is that when they’re still counting nearly a month after the election, they’re cheating. We need a federal election law that stops counting and triggers a federal audit whenever votes aren’t fully counted within 24 hours. (Or less). It’s odd that they don’t even mention this. Perhaps they’re still cowed by the Dominion lawsuit.

They’re right about this though: “Another message is that the GOP has about a year to get anything done. The party is likely to lose the House in 2026, if midterm history is any guide, and the partisan Senate map is challenging. The GOP had better pass legislation it wants in 2025 before Member attention turns to political survival in 2026. This will require House Republicans in particular to stick together as they haven’t in years.”

The Trump Administration needs to work hard on that too. They got snookered by Paul Ryan last time; I doubt they’ll be so gullible again.

YES IT IS.

Exactly. Orwellian double-speak. https://t.co/UnRHW0p073

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 1, 2024

THEY NEED TO BE FORCEFULLY REMINDED OF THIS:

The FBI is not an autonomous organization, not beholden to the CEO of the executive branch that it is under.

Trump is your boss, FBI. Don't like it? Resign. The American people are done with your lawlessness.

— Mike (@PartayCaptain) December 1, 2024

THIS WAS NEVER GOING TO BE EASY: The Madness of King Joe: The Second Anti-Trump Insurrection Is Now Underway.

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There’s also a fun vignette-writing challenge.

HEY, THEY PULLED THIS OFF IN 2016, YOU CAN’T BLAME THEM FOR TRYING AGAIN:

It’s so weird that the guy who was elected to be the chief executive would want to be in control of the executive branch. That’s so weird. Apparently, it should be people who lost the election who are in control of the executive branch. https://t.co/NyY6jcp6Cv

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 1, 2024

BERNIE THINKS ALL THE MONEY GOING TO DEFENSE IS WASTED:  Bernie Sanders admits ‘Elon Musk is right,’ backs DOGE if it makes major cuts in this department.

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IT’S THE ONES SHOUTING ‘JUMP’ WHO WORRY ME:  Still time to pull back from slippery suicide slope.

BY ‘RECRUIT’ THEY MEAN TAKE THEM AS FORCED LABOR:  Mexican Cartels Recruit Chem Majors In Their Country To Make Fentanyl.

AND THEN ALL THE IDIOTS WILL BUY IT AND TALK ABOUT HOW CLOSE THE ELECTION WAS. PFUI:  The Indefatigable California Vote Factory.

MEANWHILE SOME OF US ARE RUBBING OUR HANDS IN ANTICIPATION:  Kash Patel Announced As New FBI Director, Cue The Elites’ Panic.

A PIT OF SCUM AND VILLAINY:  What is the Administrative State?

GOOD:  Texas Demolishes Cartel Tree.

THAT THEY’D RATHER GO BROKE THAN WRITE SOMETHING AGAINST THE TOTALITARIANS THEY WORSHIP:  Director of Cold War film ‘Red Dawn’ said movie’s success taught him lesson about liberal Hollywood.

I WONDER WHAT COULD SCARE THEM ENOUGH, EVEN:  Op-Ed: Lawfare Will End When the Left Is Too Terrified to Contemplate Continuing It.

THE COUNTRY DODGED A BULLET. ANOTHER BULLET:  Harris Campaign’s Continued Money Woes Causing Big Headaches for Democrats.

WEIRD FORM OF EUGENICS:  Some Women View Sterilization as Their ‘Only Option’ Following Trump’s Win.

TURNS OUT THAT 10% FOR THE BIG GUY WAS A GREAT IDEA:  Biden Pardons Hunter on All Charges and Anything Else He Might Have Committed Since 2014.