MEANWHILE, OVER AT VOKDAPUNDIT [VIP]: Mission: Possible — Turning Trump Voters Into Republican Voters. “Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps. Our country just experienced a once-in-a-generation election in which new, independent, and crossover voters decided the election for Donald Trump. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: turn these low-propensity Trump voters into reliable Republican voters.”
VIP members asked for more long-form pieces and I’ve been happy to oblige.
TRUMP PICKS RFK TO HEAD HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: He’s arriving like a wrecking ball, isn’t he?
Image generated with Grok. First time I’ve tried this.
UPDATE:
God forbid we let RFK Jr. be in charge of HHS, otherwise he might do something crazy like fund experimental gain-of-function research in Chinese laboratories and cause a global pandemic
Oh wait
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) November 14, 2024
ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments:
THE LEFT’S DEMAND FOR RACIAL HATE STILL GREATLY OUTSTRIPS SUPPLY:
BREAKING: Colorado AG indicted 3 people for staging a fake racial hate crime in 2023 in which they defaced a campaign sign for then Colorado Springs Mayoral candidate Yemi Mobolade, who is Black.
The hoaxers reportedly claimed in text messages that they carried out the hoax in… pic.twitter.com/l3qovXQywE
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 14, 2024
Developing…
Corrected and bumped: This is a federal indictment, not local.
ANOTHER SHY TRUMP SUPPORTER SELF-IDENTIFIES:
MAHA: RFK Jr. expected to be tapped to lead Department of Health and Human Services.
UPDATE: Question asked:
Rachel Levine VS. RFK Jr: Who Would You Pick? pic.twitter.com/5MOsOundbP
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 14, 2024
More:
It’s nice that for once it’s a Kennedy making other peoples heads explode https://t.co/IoFjXu7gcU
— Magills (@magills_) November 14, 2024
Heh, indeed.™
READER FAVORITE: DASH Rapid Egg Cooker: 6 Egg Capacity. #CommissionEarned
TRUMP TO-DO LIST: Trump’s To-Do List: How He Can Restore Justice in His First Days.
THAT WOULD BE A REAL SHAME:
This seems like a ploy to make the current crop quit. https://t.co/Qf7oSc9prA
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) November 14, 2024
I’m not sure whether shows like The View are a cause or a symptom of the mental health crisis among lefty American women, but I suspect it’s both.
SOME SMALL MEASURE OF TRUTHFULNESS AT WAPO? Pelosi’s Latest Big Lie Is Too Much Even for the Washington Post.
BE PREPARED: 10000mAh Crank Radio, Emergency Radio. #CommissionEarned
CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL:
🚨BREAKING: Nigel Farage’s GB News is officially getting more views than both Sky News and BBC news!
Last night they achieved 130% of the Sky News audience, and 108% of of the BBC News channel.
People have lost faith in the MSM! pic.twitter.com/KqDzTiP7KC
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) November 14, 2024
From Richard Fernandez earlier this week:
However you feel about the election results it seems obvious that:
1. the Internet has replaced TV as a source of information;
2. the Frontier is open as it has not been since Henry the Navigator;
3. innovation has become more important than legacy wealth.— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 12, 2024
Maybe — maybe — dinosaurs like the Beeb, ABC News, etc. could have maintained their positions. But younger generations of lefties wore the networks’ reputations like skinsuits, to borrow David Burge’s memorable phrase, until they wore them out.
Related (From Ed): I can’t imagine why Farage’s platform is getting such strong ratings. Oh wait, yes I can:
This video has not aged well. Home secretary Yvette Cooper warning others about spreading “misinformation” whilst not being honest with the public herself about Axel Rudakubana.
She needs to resign.
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) October 29, 2024
TESTING LIBERAL MANHATTAN’S TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY:
NYC MAGA shift is wild 🇺🇸
(Via TT: ccrizia) pic.twitter.com/abQmCejEj7
— OutKick (@Outkick) November 14, 2024
I would imagine prior to last week, NYC Trump voters used a very different method to see if someone else was also in the club:
THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR THE DOGE BOYS: New OSHA Emergency Response Standards Could Shutter 80% of Volunteer Fire Departments.
THAT DOES SOUND LIKE AN IMPROVEMENT: New weight loss drug target burns energy and lowers appetite – without the nausea and vomiting.
Of course, nausea and vomiting help with weight loss too. . . .
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Somali pirate from Minnesota sentenced for holding US journalist hostage.
In a press release on Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Abdi Yusuf Hassan, of Minneapolis, and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, of Somalia, received a 30-year prison sentence for hostage taking, terrorism and firearm offenses related to the 977-day captivity of American freelance journalist Michael Scott Moore.
Officials said Hassan and Mohamed played “significant roles in Moore’s captivity” and abused their positions within the Somali government. Hassan served as the Minister of Interior Galmudug providence in Somalia, where he was responsible for police and security forces.
Meanwhile, Mohamed was a serving officer in the Somali army.
Tim Walz could not be reached for comment. As for myself, I hate Illinois Nazis — and I can’t say I’m too thrilled about Minnesota Somali pirates, either.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Denmark becomes 48th nation to sign Artemis Accords for space exploration.
BRIDGET PHETASY: How the Democrats Bud Lighted their brand.
In October, in a last-ditch effort to reach men while Donald Trump was doing the podcast-bro circuit, the left-wing PAC Vote Save America put out a cringe-inducing video called “Man Enough.” It featured various men, mostly white men dressed like cowboys with one black man in a weight room. It was roundly mocked and satirized. The top comment on the YouTube video is, “What’s with the dude sitting on the tailgate like a teenage girl getting her high school senior pics taken??? LMFAO”
The video began by letting us know, “I’m a man,” while leaning into the most stereotypical ideas of what manhood is. “I’m man enough to enjoy a barrel-proof Bourbon. Neat.” “I’m man enough to cook my steak rare.” “I eat carburetors for breakfast.”
“And I’ll tell you another thing I’m sure as shit not afraid of,” says a guy I swear I’ve seen in a fast-food commercial before. “WOMEN.”
“I love women,” the man sitting on the tailgate assures us, still not quite sure what to do with his manly hands. I’m dubious. The video ends with a call to “man up” and vote for Harris.
Suddenly, just like that, Democrats knew what men and women were. Suddenly, you could say things like “man up” — and it wasn’t internalized misogyny, or the patriarchy, or whatever other ridiculous problematic offense professors of gender theory invented.
Reality remains undefeated and suddenly it reasserted itself. Yet in order to appeal to one of the two genders which now apparently exist again, Democratic organizers ended up falling back on clichéd stereotypes of what men are… because they actually have no idea.
The Democrats realized too late that they had Bud Lighted their brand. You can’t be openly hostile to men for two decades and expect to retain the male vote. And judging by Trump’s gains with both genders, you also can’t be incapable of defining what a woman is and expect women to believe you care about them, either.
As David Harsanyi adds at the Washington Examiner: The lesson of 2024? Don’t be weird.
A lot of you people sound nuts.
So, it is unsurprising that a Donald Trump campaign ad featuring the tagline “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you” was effective in the 2024 presidential campaign. Indeed, a pro-Kamala Harris PAC says the spot, which featured a clip of Harris endorsing state-funded sex-change operations for prisoners, “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.”
Now, one suspects most normies aren’t only turned off by “they/them” because it’s grammatically mystifying or scientifically dubious. For many, “they/them” represents the 14,000 confused children who have been mutilated by “gender-affirming care.” For others, “they/them” represents thousands of girls and women who are forced to compete with boys and men on the field.
For most, though, “they/them” is probably just a microcosm of all the weird cultural fads the Left has been trying to normalize and force-feed society. Normies tend to reject social science quackery.
Americans are generally happy to make accommodations for alternative lifestyles. That doesn’t make this stuff less bizarre or extreme. And the speed at which the Left has demanded everyone treat these unhinged notions as the norm is mind-blowing.
Exit quote:
Related: As someone who spent 2019 marketing herself as weird and in-your-face and non-stop predicting doomsday, this is another indicator of a cultural shift:
ATHENA THORNE: Beef Supreme: For Some Trump Cabinet Picks, It’s Personal. “Trump has come up with an ingenious way to squish-proof top officials in his incoming administration: He’s placing people in charge of agencies and departments who were personally targeted by those agencies and departments. These people have beef, and they’re coming to DC to settle it. It’s kind of brilliant, when you think about it.”
Trump has had four years to plot his comeback, and it shows.
DRAIN THE SWAMP: Trump’s team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say.
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.
The planning for the firings is at an early stage after Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory and could change as Trump’s administration takes shape, said the sources, who are familiar with the Trump transition and requested anonymity to speak candidly about the plans.
One of the sources questioned the feasibility of a mass firing at the Pentagon.
Well, of course, they did. Trump has a much better team than he did at this point in 2016, but there will still be leakers and saboteurs.
Find them and fire them, too.
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