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Dear panicking Reddit user,

Hi, I’m part of the transition team that will help you navigate the massive changes that will be taking place under part two of the Trump administration.

I understand that you have been led to believe that you will all be sent to concentration…

— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) November 8, 2024

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Virgin Galactic seeks to raise money to accelerate growth of spaceplane fleet.

LAST NIGHT’S POGROM IN AMSTERDAM:

As the Amsterdam Jewish community joined with local officials to commemorate the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht at the city’s Portuguese-Jewish synagogue—established by Jews who escaped the Inquisition—a pogrom was taking place outside. Following a soccer match between the Dutch club Ajax and the visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv, Jewish and Israeli fans of the visiting club were ambushed and beaten in the city’s streets and alleys. 

Footage shows an Israeli soccer fan being struck by a car, cartwheeling across the windshield. More footage shows the scene in downtown Amsterdam, where Israelis are pleading with their assailants, “not Jewish, not Jewish.” And they are beaten mercilessly.

In video of other attacks last night, a victim is struck and lays injured on the ground, seemingly unconscious. A father can be seen fleeing with his son. A man jumps into one of Amsterdam’s canals to escape his assailants. In the recording, where he is forced to say “Free Palestine,” his assailants laugh and jeer that he is a “cancer Jew”—a classic slur in Dutch, where both diseases and the Jewish ethnicity are deployed as put-downs.

Much about the origins of the attack are still unclear, but early reports suggest that it was carried out by youth gangs from the Dutch Moroccan and Dutch Turkish community, and was orchestrated in advance. Visiting Israelis report being ambushed by groups of 10 to 15 masked assailants in various alleys. Fleeing Israelis told Channel 12’s Elad Simchayoff that “Amsterdam police instructed [Israelis] not to go by taxis. Police officers told fans that taxi drivers in the city are helping organize the riots and assisting the gangs.”

Exit quote: “Dutch society repeatedly told its post-Holocaust Jewish remnant—and itself—that ‘never again’ was not merely a concrete promise, but a core concept of modern Dutch morality. However, the dominant culture of the country’s immigrant communities has proven manifestly hostile to that worldview—and to Jews.”

“DO NOT PET:” Robot dogs patrol Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

NEW: Donald Trump has reportedly beefed up his security detail at Mar-a-Lago and now has a robotic dog patrolling the property.

A large warning sign on the side of the robotic dog reads: " Do Not Pet"

The robot dog was made by Boston Dynamics and is equipped with… pic.twitter.com/qLktzbf3m3

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 8, 2024

EZRA KLEIN: This Too Shall Pass. After quoting Klein on Dubya’s resounding win on 2004 eventually fizzling out paving the way for eight years of Barack Obama (arguably 12 years), John Sexton writes:

Republicans are celebrating this week and Democrats earned every bit of the despair they are feeling. And yet, this too shall pass. The other 48% of the country won’t disappear. They will take every opportunity to bash Trump every single day and over time it could work.

It certainly worked on George W. Bush. Bush won the 2004 election but by the end of his second term Democrats were turning out for huge anti-war rallies seemingly every couple of weeks, carrying signs about Chimpy McHitlerburtion. Not surprisingly, those rallies all vanished once Obama was elected. It was always politics not principle that animated them. But the point is, they got what they wanted. And let’s face it, they came very, very close to continuing Obama’s 8 year run in 2016. Trump won that election by a hair.

Republicans won convincingly this week, but the time to start thinking about winning the next election is right now. The left is already making their own plans. They are gearing up the street protests once again. The will fight Trump in the courts. They will fight him in the media, which they mostly control already. Tuesday’s victory only ushers us into the next uphill battle to make this into a lasting win, one that can benefit future conservative candidates.

Otherwise:

WELL, GOOD: An extra five minutes of exercise per day could help to lower blood pressure.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Revolutionary Gut Microbes Boost Child Growth: New Study Unlocks How Therapeutic Food Works.

HEH:

The Addams Family reboot looks way weirder than the original. pic.twitter.com/W1IJpgl9gh

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) November 7, 2024

Related:

SHE’S RIGHT, I HOPE THEY DON’T LISTEN TO HER.

Democratic Strategist shocks CNN with brutal truth about her party:

"We are not the party of common sense… stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal."pic.twitter.com/uoaMmrn78d

— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) November 8, 2024

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz? “Sort of. Quartz crucibles are indeed necessary for most semiconductor manufacturing, and Spruce Pine is where most of this quartz comes from. Spruce Pine quartz isn’t quite an irreplaceable linchpin in semiconductor manufacturing. But alternatives are all some combination of not yet developed, not quite as good, and not quite as cheap. Cutting off the supply of Spruce Pine quartz probably wouldn’t choke off the supply of semiconductors completely, but it would mean yields going down and costs going up. The industry is aware of the bottleneck: new sources of quartz are being developed, and new crucible materials are being investigated. A new crucible material, if found, would have a particularly large impact: not just because it would eliminate the Spruce Pine bottleneck, but because quartz is a major limiting factor in silicon ingot manufacturing, and a new, better material could potentially increase production efficiencies dramatically.”

HOW THE MOVIE STARTS: 43 monkeys escape research center in South Carolina and have not been captured.

EXERCISE, METABOLISM, AND BIGGER LIVERS. “More protein = bigger livers.” Bigger livers mean more calories burned even at rest.

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Toyota Executive Lashes Out at US Regulations Promoting EV Sales.

Toyota Motor Corp.’s North American chief operating officer criticized the US’s policies promoting speedy adoption of electric vehicles, calling them “de facto mandates” out of sync with consumer demand.

Noting government support for EVs has been a hotly debated issue in the US presidential election, Toyota North America COO Jack Hollis said sales of all-electric vehicle should grow organically, without rules penalizing gas-powered car sales.

“The whole EV ecosystem is ahead of the consumer,” Hollis told reporters Friday, pointing to tailpipe emission rules from the Environmental Protection Agency and California. “It’s not in alignment with consumers. It’s just not.”

The zombie version of the BBC’s Top Gear Website is even more explicit, with a satirical piece yesterday that was headlined: Report: all electric cars in the US to be retrofitted with V8s.

John Fetterman is succinct: “Green dipshits’ votes [are] helping elect the GOP.”

SCOTT JENNINGS OR BUST!

● Shot:

I wish I could buy stock in Scott Jennings because there’s not really anyone else like him right now:

1. He debates 5 on 1 basically all the time. He never complains about being ganged up on.

2. He doesn’t lose his cool or resort to cheap shots. He debates aggressively and… https://t.co/azVodofF5D

— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) November 8, 2024

● Chaser: Can the on-camera briefings. Trump doesn’t need them. Neither do the rest of us.

—The Federalist, yesterday.

Which is the way forward?

A FRIEND COMMENTS, “I THINK THE RESISTANCE IS OVER.” Dean Dunne Says Harvard Will Support Students of All Political Views Following Election.

On election night, the DSO co-organized two watch parties — one with the Institute of Politics in Sanders Theatre and another with the Harvard Republican Club in the Cambridge Queen’s Head venue directly below Sanders. Dunne emphasized that the DSO wanted to oblige the HRC’s request to have a watch party featuring a feed from Fox News, rather than CNN.

“It was really important to us to make sure that conservative student groups and the College Republicans were part of the event,” Dunne said.

“There’s a very comfortable stereotype of, ‘An office would support one group or care about one group of students and not the others,’” he added. “And that’s not the case.”

Well, good. That’s how it’s supposed to be. It was always how it was supposed to be.

HOLLYWOOD’S JUSTINE BATEMAN IS Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.

I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability.

I’ve never in my life known that to be an American environment.

It’s an environment I have encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club, a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It has been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized. Only “permitted position” behavior and speech was “allowed.” Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others.

Their destruction was displayed in the “town square” of social media for all to see. This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.This was the era of trying to exercise control over those who did not want to follow the crowd and has their own ideas about what they needed to do. This dampened our culture and innovation, bringing people to even think that generative #AI, a regurgitation of the past, was actually our cultural future.

When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement. Those that tried to impose that control maintained a kind of “hall monitor” position by threatening others with damning labels like “Sexist,” “racist,” “homophobic,” etc, when the free-thinking and questioning was nothing of the sort. However, the mob mentality that followed caused these social convictions when there was often no evidence to support them.

(See Charles McKay’s 1841 book, “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”)

I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else’s freedom to live their own life.

That’s it.

She’s also spent a couple of days “critiquing,” as a director, some of the performative victimhood videos flooding TikTok after the election — and it’s some of the most dryly funny stuff I’ve ever read.

If you liked Bateman as Mallory on “Family Ties,” (or even if you didn’t), you might love her on X.

SCHOOLS MUST RECRUIT SCHOLARS NOT ACTIVISTS: In order for the ship of higher ed to right itself, admins must rediscover its purpose: the production of knowledge.

‘RED-PILLED IN REAL TIME:’ Charlamagne Notices What Dems Are NOT Saying About Trump Since He Won.

Biden also said “we’re gonna be OK.”

Those words sounded bizarre after at least a year of the Left saying Trump is Hitler and America is doomed if he gets back in the White House.

Charlamagne tha God tried to reconcile the rhetoric he heard in the past to what’s going on so far since the election:

You're watching @cthagod get red-pilled in real time. https://t.co/Y0YUEu1WXh

— Eli Steinberg (@HaMeturgeman) November 8, 2024

I think it may have started even sooner than that:

Not surprisingly, Charlamagne issued a cease-and-desist order over the ad in late October, lest his many Democrat guests think he was supporting the Bad Orange Man.

But why didn’t he point out that the Bad Orange Man wasn’t Hitler until after Tuesday? As Steve spotted earlier today in the replies to Charlamagne, “All of it was politics, and he was complicit.” In Soviet Russia, no one wanted to be the last man clapping when Stalin finished a speech, and in Soviet America, no Biden-Harris supporter wanted to be the first person to admit that the “Trump is Hitler” slurs are crazy talk, and a trope completely worn out after 80 years of reflexive use by Democrats at election time.

Related: Trump’s Hitler impersonation is just awful:

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Dear Hollywood Celebrities, Nobody Cares (Video).

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Was 10 Crew Members Short of Ocean’s 11. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news and this week we have the Telephone Poll of Swift Justice, the classy night on the town in Boca, and Colorado Man being perfectly chill. “

READER FAVORITE: Etekcity Camping Lanterns for Power Outages 4 Pack. #CommissionEarned

HBO’S VEEP REALLY WENT OVER BUDGET THIS SEASON: How Kamala Harris plowed through $1 billion.

Viva Creative, a marketing agency that has touted its work with Oprah, comedian Trevor Noah, the Washington Nationals baseball team, and American Express, scooped up $1.8 million from the Harris campaign for event production from September to October. A company called Production Management One in Maryland received $1.7 million, with large payments also going to Vox Productions, Temple University, Wizard Studios North, the Park Hyatt Chicago, and other entities for event production, filings show.

Then there was Majic Productions, a Wisconsin-based company, which has worked the NBA playoffs, the Super Bowl, and at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The Harris campaign paid that company $2.3 million.

A source familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that the Harris campaign spent six figures on building a set for Harris’s appearance on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast with host Alex Cooper. The interview came out in October and was reportedly filmed in a hotel room in Washington, D.C.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the Harris campaign on the podcast-related matter but did not hear back in time for publication.

“Money can’t buy you love or a good candidate,” one Trump campaign adviser said. To Republican political strategist Brad Todd, the story behind why Harris lost is not a lesson on money purportedly being irrelevant in elections.

I hope David Plouffe, who deleted his Twitter account yesterday, and the rest of the Obama consultants who worked on her campaign enjoyed setting all that money on fire one last time.

UPDATE: The catering must have been fabulous on Veep, because HBO sure didn’t plow any money into the production design:

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gun Law: A Blueprint for Trump’s First 30 Days.

PLEASE, STOP — I ALREADY VOTED FOR HIM: Pentagon anticipates major upheaval with Trump’s return to White House.

The Pentagon anticipates major upheaval once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, amid fears that the once and future commander in chief will follow through on vows to deploy the military domestically against American citizens, demand fealty from key leaders and attempt to remake the nonpartisan institution into one explicitly loyal to him.

The trepidation harks back to Trump’s first term, when he smashed norms and frequently clashed with senior Pentagon leaders — including several of his own political appointees. He has shown no signs of altering course this time around, stating throughout his campaign an intent to use military force against the “enemy from within,” to fire any military officer associated with the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan after he left office in 2021, and to reverse what he and his supporters have denounced as “woke” decisions by the Biden administration that include renaming several Army installations that had honored Confederates.

“The greatest danger the military faces” under a second Trump presidency is a “rapid erosion of its professionalism, which would undermine its status and respect from the American people,” said Richard Kohn, a professor and military historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Mr. Trump does not have a real understanding of civil-military relations, or the importance of a nonpartisan, nonpolitical military.”

Oh, please — the Pentagon is part of the Swamp and gave Trump quite the education about what the Swamp thought their relationship with Trump ought to be.

Also, this food for thought: “Kohn and Feaver are good scholars, but have Civ-Mil experts commented on whether or not civilian control really exists when POTUS has been senile for at least a year (probably more)?”

LET ISRAEL OFF THE LEASH AND SEND THEM WHATEVER THEY NEED: They Will NEVER Stop: Three People Charged With Plotting to Assassinate Trump at Iran’s Behest.