HMM: 2025 Torsus Terrastorm First Drive: For Serious Overlanders Only. “The reason I couldn’t drive the Torsus Terrastorm or its giant stablemate the Praetorian before now, the Torsus folks said, was because the previous press-fleet vehicles had all been deployed to Ukraine in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion. It seemed appropriate, then, that the cab-chassis Terrastorm I was now driving at the old GM proving ground at Millbrook, just north of London, was camouflaged and had been lightly armored by Rheinmetall, Germany’s largest arms manufacturer.”

Honestly, it sounds like something that’s good enough off-road to get you stuck in a really remote location. Of course if you travel in third world back country, you’ll be amazed where people are able to go in just an elderly Toyota Corolla with a combination of boldness and driving skill.

WELL: Dave McCormick unseats Bob Casey in Pennsylvania adding to GOP Senate majority.

I’VE SAID BEFORE THAT WE HAVE THE WORST RULING CLASS IN LIVING MEMORY, AND NOT JUST IN THE UNITED STATES:

And to clarify: this isn’t just the first time since WW2 that all incumbent parties in developed countries lost vote share.

It’s the first time since this data was first recorded in 1905. Essentially the first time in the history of democracy (universal suffrage began in 1894). pic.twitter.com/9NfiKISRyU

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) November 7, 2024

YA THINK? Harris’s Support for Gun Control and Confiscation May Have Played a Key Role in Her Decisive Loss.

Related: Gun Owners Made a Difference in the 2024 Election Results.

FASTER, PLEASE: NASA runs first engine tests on supersonic X-59 research aircraft.

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

As always, if you like it, please sign up for a paid subscription. I’ll probably be doing more paid content, post-election.

RFK, JR. CALL YOUR OFFICE: CDC: Nearly 1 in 6 U.S. adults has diabetes.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS: Here’s everything Trump promised regarding higher ed reform during his campaign.

OUT RUNNING ERRANDS, I listened to Biden’s speech on the election on the radio. (How quaint!) It was excellent, the best I’ve heard from him in ages. A totally by the book, conciliatory, unity-based speech, straight out of civics 101. It occurred to me that if Democrats had reacted that way to Trump’s election in 2016, the country — and quite possibly the Democrats — would have been spared a lot of grief.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Prominent law professor blames Harris loss on ‘toxic masculinity’ and ‘white supremacy.’

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT: Gen Z voters surge right in 2024, helping propel Trump to victory.

BUT NOT TOO DUMB TO BE PLAUSIBLE: Too Dumb to Check: Democrats Urging Sotomayor to Retire Before Trump Takes Office.

ROGER SIMON: After Trump’s Victory: ‘Justice Without Revenge.’

POST-ELECTION OPEN THREAD: Okay, this is probably the last of these morning election threads, but there’s a lot to talk about.

IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT?

Democrats Call For Abolishing Popular Vote https://t.co/OSsMUSMevG pic.twitter.com/piX5Eumlwu

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 6, 2024

PAUL BEDARD: Trump trounced elites and won ‘war of cultures.’

DON SURBER IS drinking liberal tears. “The presidential race in a nutshell: Trump’s secret weapon was a good presidency. We really were better off four years ago even in the midst of an overblown pandemic. Elections aren’t complicated. People vote for who is best for them. People who think they are smarter than everyone else overlook this simple fact. Which is why the day after Americans gave this mandate to President Trump, liberal tears gushed like an overflowing washer. Their Fountain of Uselessness was enjoyable. Their explanations of why the dumbest candidate for president imaginable lost were delicious.”

That picture of a distraught Nancy Pelosi at Kamala’s concession speech belongs in the Louvre.

Plus: “Bad personnel decisions have consequences. Policies do too, but don’t expect Democrats to change theirs. No, they change their messengers but never their message. They just replace their white male communists with DEI communists.”

ROGER KIMBALL: The Three Reasons Donald Trump Won.

The first two are interwoven. Kamala Harris was a horrible candidate. Trump, on the contrary, was superb.

As to Kamala, her inarticulacy was a major stumbling block. So was her choice of running mate: Tim Walz may be the left-most governor in the country. Certainly, he is the weirdest. Harris’s 60 Minutes interview was a disaster, as was her interview with Bret Baier. . . .

Trump won because he offered a vision of a healed America — and he did so with a team that brought both unstoppable brio and an articulate discussion of policy issues to the table. Harris brought snarling animus and an unwillingness to engage in any serious discussion of policy. Asked about how she voted on California’s tough-on-crime Prop 36, she declined to answer. Amazing.

Trump won because people are worse off now than they were four years ago when he was president. Prices are higher, the border is broken and the world teeters on the edge of World War Three. That all happened on Harris’s watch. She couldn’t escape it.

But the third reason Trump won was a shift in the zeitgeist. The country is increasingly cognizant of and fed up with the administrative apparat that rules over us and that fabricated the manikin Kamala Harris as frontman for their agenda. Trump has exposed cracks in “The Narrative” that supports that agenda. Voters saw what Biden-Harris and, before them, Obama had done in their effort to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” They saw — and they rebelled. The result was that, come January 20, Donald J. Trump will be the 47th president of the United States.

I’m beginning to think that God really does look after fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.

Relatedly, a friend from Belgium texted yesterday: “On the Flemish news they interviewed Americans. Trump voters pointed out real problems, Dems were crying about how trump will take away their rights. Even the Flemish news noticed.”

ICYMI:

The view just basically said the quiet part out loud.

Kamala lost because Americans can now think for themselves and we have free speech on X. We no longer need to listen to the fake news media for the narrative and we can call out their lies in real timepic.twitter.com/49tYmBowDI

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 6, 2024

JOEL KOTKIN ON THE COUNTRY’S CHANGING BALANCE OF POWER: Who are the winners and losers from the US election?

IS LAWFARE OVER? Jonathan Turley: The Thrill is Gone: Will the Prosecutorial Campaigns Collapse with the Political Campaigns Against Trump?

MATT TAIBBI: Giant Electoral Asteroid Strikes America’s Intellectual Class, Which Fails to Notice: The dustbin of history awaits thousands of race-baiting professional panic-mongers whose craven dishonesty gave Donald Trump a popular-vote mandate.

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE:

Donald Trump wins 312 Electoral Votes.

Hey Libs,
This is a landslide.
And it’s about to get much worse.
National Voter ID is coming.
Mass deportations of criminal aliens.
Along with new census maps greatly empowering red states.
The Obama Dynasty is officially over.
You failed pic.twitter.com/SkmuP70yiq

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 7, 2024

DECISION DESK CALLS ARIZONA FOR TRUMP, giving him a win with 312 electoral votes.

Note his dramatic popular vote lead, too.

OPEN THREAD: Living in interesting times.