ILYA SHAPIRO: Confessions of a Reformed NeverTrumper: Or, how I stopped worrying and learned to live with The Donald.

CHANGE: The Return of The King: The Age of Men Comes Once More.. “In many ways it is what Tolkien called a eucatastrophe that sudden turn in a story where the hero dramatically avoids some probable doom. Everything was in place to permanently destroy the US as a country; if Harris had won, the forces puppeteering her would have created a new citizenry out of whole cloth and instituted changes that would utterly collapse the rule of law. That prospect is a fading proposition now, roundly repudiated by a force the enemy thought beaten down and irrelevant. Much has been made of the political and social significance of Trump’s defeating not one, but two women in non-successive presidential elections. Not enough has been made of the metaphysical implications. Trump has done more than change the course of policy; he has revived and re-energized Western manhood.”

Related: The Fall of Maternal Liberalism. “Much of our political discourse is characterized by raging against the ghosts of things long dead, not least the old ideals of masculinity, reframed as “toxic.” In our public institutional and cultural spheres, women are idealized as body- and health-conscious, empathetic, compliant, accommodating, and deferential to the judgment of experts. Supporters fawned that Harris was just the female leader the world needs.”

In fact, she was an inept moron. And the “fearless girl,” standing in front of a charging bull, wasn’t too bright either. That statue was a freeze-frame in a story that ends badly. (In an era where Americans were closer to their agricultural roots, that would have been recognized and jeered across the board.) But it made upper-class white women feel good about themselves, so that was overlooked. Kamala Harris’s presidency would have ended badly, too.

Plus: Democrats: try being less feminine: Why men vote Republican. It’s not so much that the Dems are feminine as that they are affirmatively anti-masculine.

Plus: “Interestingly, the gender gap in support for Democrats is even larger among non-white voters. This year, it was only 8 points among whites, but was 14 points among blacks and 17 points among Hispanics.”

FINALLY: Hitler finds out Trump beat Harris.

OPEN THREAD: How are y’all holding up?

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

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.

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.

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

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Off-the-shelf thermoelectric generators can upgrade CO₂ into useful chemicals, which could aid Mars colonization.

WAIT, I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY WOMEN WHO FACED PRESSURE TO HAVE PERFECT BODIES: Social media likes and comments linked to young men’s obsession with perfect pecs and a six-pack.

Is this really new?

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Artificial sensory cilia can monitor internal biomarkers to detect and assess airway diseases.

HE’S RIGHT. SEND THIS TO YOUR GOP SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE:

Dear GOP,
You asked for a mandate.
We delivered.
Now it’s your turn.
NO MORE EXCUSES.
Batter up!

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) November 8, 2024

EVERYONE WHO’S USED IT HAS KNOWN THIS FOR YEARS: FDA says commonly used decongestant ‘not effective,’ proposes removal. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined commonly used oral phenylephrine is ‘not effective’ and has proposed its removal from over-the-counter nasal decongestants.”

It was only brought out because the effective stuff, pseudoephedrine (Sudafed), was put behind the counter, in an apparently useless effort to reduce meth availability.

MATT TAIBBI: Begin the Deprogramming: There Was No “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated:” A note on Jimmy Kimmel, Howard Stern, Joe Biden, Stephen Colbert, and others.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Democrats outnumber Republican professors 7 to 1 at UGA – 3 departments lack any GOP faculty.

ROUNDUP: Possible contenders for Trump’s next education secretary.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: MSU prof cancels class to ‘grieve’ Trump win as ‘queer, immigrant woman of colour.’

ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: My First Thoughts On The Election: It’s a political re-alignment.

The New York Post agrees:

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Trump-45 v. Biden: the Federal Judicial Appointments Record.