MAKE THEM PAY: Project Veritas’ Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN Can Go Forward.

HE FOUND A WAY TO LISTEN FOR THE SILENT MAJORITY: How Did This One French Guy Make $50 Million Betting on Trump?

WELL, THEIR POLICIES CAN’T REALLY WITHSTAND CRITICISM, SO THEY’RE NOT REALLY WRONG: Dems Blame Free Speech for Election Loss.

Flashback: Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”

CAN WE SUE FOR BREACH OF PROMISE?  Here are all the Hollywood stars vowing to leave the US over Trump’s presidential election win.

WHY FORMAL PRESCHOOL IS TERRIBLE FOR CHILDREN:  “With findings like this, if the academic preschool were a drug or a food additive it would immediately be banned by the US FDA.  Long-Term Harm of Early Academic Training.

GOT (RAW) MILK?  The Issue That Drove the Amish to the Polls in Pennsylvania.

SHE WANTED TO BE IN CHARGE OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET:  Remember How Kamala Harris Broke Fundraising Records? Well…

AGAIN, MY SHOCKED FACE:  North Korean soldiers hooked on porn after getting internet access for first time while helping Russia fight Ukraine: report.

TRUMP IS SO MISOGYNISTIC! THAT’S WHY HE DOES STUFF LIKE THIS:  Trump names Susie Wiles as first female White House chief of staff in history.

I’M ALSO FILLED WITH HOPE, BUT MINDFUL OF SHOALS AND ISSUES AHEAD TO. AND OF A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE:  Glenn: I’m filled with hope. And you should be, too.

NOW? WE NEED A FEW OTHER MIRACLES:  And Now, What? Reflections on November 5 & its Aftermath.

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR:  CBS journalist bashes New York Times for coverage of Trump’s 2024 win: ‘NYT doesn’t understand nation’.

OH, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  BUSTED: The Inside Story Of How The Kamala Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit (And Breaks The Rules) To Control The Platform.

AND THE BEGINNING OF SERIOUS WORK:  After Action Report.

MADDOW OPENS HER MOUTH AND REMOVES ALL DOUBT:  Maddow: Trump Win Shows Americans Don’t Want ‘Multiracial, Pluralistic’ Society.

AND THERE IS THIS:  The thing about people saying Trump is going to send people to gulags and curtail civil rights across the board: I can’t think of a single instance of Trump himself has done so. Yet, I can think of lots of people Kamala Harris has unjustly jailed and/or curtailed their rights.

I’M FAIRLY SURE THEY SHOULDN’T BE MAINLINING METH:  Military Draft Agency Reposts Message Suggesting Trump Win Will Turn U.S Into Nazi Germany.

BE LIKE ANN. REFUSE TO BECOME PART OF THE ECHO CHAMBER:  I’d like to tell you a story about my November 6.

Don’t let them put their lies in your mouth.

FRANKLY IT’S MORE EXPOSED THAN A FLASHER RACING UP AND DOWN A BUSY STREET:  Elite Disdain for Ordinary Americans Once Again Exposed In 2024 Election.

BREAKING: Horrific Footage Shows Israeli Soccer Fans Attacked by Antisemitic Mobs in Amsterdam.

UPDATE: Jen Rubin is still cosplaying #resistance, even as real world event overtake her personal drama:

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes. And be excellent to each other.

Yes, I’ know I’m crossing the streams there.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Elon Unbound: Some first, second, and third-order effects of the election.

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QUESTION ASKED:

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX plans next Starship flight for mid-November.

ED MORRISSEY: Dems Enter Kübler-Ross Stage 6 of Grief: ‘Clawing Each Others’ Eyes Out.‘

Anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance … eye-clawing? Has Elisabeth Kübler-Ross amended her 1969 work on the five stages of grief?

Or are Democrats just stuck in the first stage?

It didn’t take 24 hours from the call of Pennsylvania for Donald Trump before Democrats began running to their favorite media outlets to vent their rage at the result. Axios’ Andrew Solender offered up an overview headlined, “Democrats start clawing each others’ eyes out,” figuratively speaking.

Or at least we hope it’s figuratively speaking:

The dust has not yet settled from the 2024 election, but the Democratic Party’s blame game over their bleak showing has already begun in earnest.

Why it matters: Democrats across the ideological spectrum are quickly seizing on this raw moment to try to redefine the party in their image.

Read it all, but at least as presented, we don’t get any real eye-clawing. What we do see are the ideological factions of the Left trying to frame the loss as vindication for their own positions. That’s a natural process after a shocking loss; the RNC actually launched a formalized process for it after Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama in the latter’s re-election effort in 2012, after being shocked by the results. (I eventually wrote a book about the lessons of 2012 called Going Red.)

Taylor Lorenz’s assurances that the New York Times is just another right-wing rag aside, the earnest pre-election pleading from assorted Times heavyweights is hilariously cringe:

This is really something. https://t.co/xRZzWaTJ3V

— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) November 7, 2024

But perhaps is simply needs a fun soundtrack another to liven things up:

The doomsday warnings from the NYT editorial board about the next Trump Presidency are a lot funnier with the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme running in the backgroundpic.twitter.com/RD7rQuBgja

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) November 7, 2024

While the Timespeople who shooting their clips to assuage their zanier readers, Heather Mac Donald writes that behind the scenes, it was party time at the newspaper: Trumped — The mainstream press is about to suffer its most definitive discrediting yet.

The press will continue to flog the Trump-as-dictator theme because it is secure in its ideological bubble. Before the election, the New York Times newsroom had brought in popcorn and cotton candy machines, fake sparklers, and goodie bags in anticipation of the coronation of “Madame President.” On November 6, the popcorn machine stood unceremoniously in a corner behind yellow police tape and an orange rubber traffic cone. Undaunted, executive editor Joseph Kahn and managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan sent a memo to their colleagues on November 6 praising the paper’s election coverage. They singled out for particular commendation a report that outlined Trump’s agenda: “to settle scores and enact a disruptive program on immigration, the economy, the federal bureaucracy and the judicial system.” Many Americans feel “unsettled and afraid,” said the editors. And apparently for good reason: “We are likely entering a period of change and uncertainty beyond anything America has experienced in our lifetimes.” Actually, what initiated a period of disruption beyond anything current generations have seen is enabling millions of Third World illegal aliens to enter the country, enforcing a mass delusion regarding the malleability of biological sex, ending meritocracy in favor of race and gender quotas, and setting up a collapse of the electrical grid through fantastical requirements regarding “green” energy.

Exit quote: “Expect another four years of fear-mongering as the Trump administration tries to restore the country’s constitutional architecture. Keep that scorecard in hand. Though the media will never admit it, their credibility, already threadbare, will be definitively decimated.”