JOHN HINDERAKER: “This year’s election exposed the relative insignificance of two of the main pillars of the Democratic Party: money and control over the press.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s new rocket for crew and moon to launch in 2026.

HELEN AND I SPENT A COUPLE OF HOURS AT A FRIEND’S HOUSE, sipping champagne and gloating reflecting on the elections. Our hostess, a woman who built a very successful business up from nothing against considerable hardships, commented that she thinks Trump’s four years in the wilderness are worth it. She said he had been “fine-tuned by fire,” and is now tougher, and much more knowledgeable about what he faces, than he would have been if he had been re-elected in 2020. I think she’s right.

UPDATE:

Pretty incredible when you think about how the entire corporate media was singularly focused over the last 4 years on destroying Trump, in tandem with most of the federal gov’t, the state of New York, as well as various assassins, & not only did Trump win, but he’s going to win…

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 6, 2024

Plus:

'Don't Despair,' Kamala Tells Celebrating Nation https://t.co/BoU27gGwJP pic.twitter.com/Ro1U9b78yl

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 7, 2024

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can we go back to what happened here? pic.twitter.com/FkScNHivuU

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 6, 2024

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh emails to suggest that the above chart is comparing apples and oranges: “Biden’s 81M was the final 2020 count; Harris’s 66M was the ongoing 2024 count, as of this morning. It appears that as of this morning there were still at least about 16M votes not yet included in the tallies, mostly but not entirely in Western states. In California, for instance, the current tallies include only 56% of the vote, and that amounts to 9.75M votes, so that’s about 7.7M votes not yet included in the totals in California alone. My rough projections from each state, based on how the vote broke down so far, is that there will be 9M extra votes for Harris and 7M for Trump, though there might be more (see https://reason.com/volokh/2024/11/06/quick-reminder-dont-compare-the-final-2020-popular-vote-totals-with-non-final-2024-vote-totals/). That will yield a total of roughly 76M for Harris and 79M for Trump, which is basically 5M less than Biden’s 81M for Harris and 5M more than Trump’s 2020 74M for Trump. It may even be a few million more (or possibly, though not likely, a few less). But it will be much more than the amounts reported so far in the right-hand column in the ZeroHedge comparison.”

WELL, GOOD: There’s an Evolutionary Advantage to Forgetting Things All The Time.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Can Life Be Engineered? Biochemists Take Key Steps Toward Synthetic Lifeforms.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Characterizing vitamin D deficiency effects on bone density in a rare metabolic disorder where patients must avoid sun.

WELL: 2025 Audi RS Q8 Performance Super SUV First Drive: Because You Can, Even If You Don’t Need To. “Very few people need an SUV capable of lapping the Nürburgring in 7:37. And your point is?”

REPORT: DOJ to Drop Trump Cases.

They were only brought to keep him out of office, and they failed.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Charges Dropped Against Georgia Gun Owner Over Illegal Storage Ordinance.

YEP:

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

WHAT’S BETTER, BORING OR EXCITING? Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Nepal study reveals microbes in mouth reflect lifestyle choices.

FROM ME, Thoughts on the Post-Election. Trump needs to go for shock and awe.

UPDATE (From Ed): I assume, based on Obama and Biden’s choices prior to officially taking office, we’ll start seeing Trump behind a podium that’s labeled “The Office of the President Elect” in the coming weeks. Obama enjoyed bigfooting Dubya in his last weeks in office, and Trump should have even more trolling Sundown Joe and a humiliated Kamala (and the media who will have a sudden sense of amnesia about the signage of the two prior Democrat presidents.)

SPACE: After 31 cargo missions, NASA finds Dragon still has some new tricks.

HMM: ER visit often precedes a cancer diagnosis. “Canadian researchers have found that about 1 in every 3 people newly diagnosed with cancer experienced at least one emergency department visit sometime during the three months prior to their diagnosis. Many of the visits ended up being caused by symptoms related to the cancer, noted a team led by Dr. Keerat Grewal, an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.”

A DIFFERENT VIBE THIS TIME:

Bezos doing something I suspect a lot of other corporate leaders will be doing: declaring themselves not onboard with Resistance 2.0. (Dimon did this a year ago.) https://t.co/MGCKo6ZGqV

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) November 6, 2024

I wonder if Kate Mackinnon will sing “Hallelujah” and then cry on SNL again, though.

BEST TAKE SO FAR:

America Unburdens Itself From What Has Been https://t.co/MElsQSK1sE pic.twitter.com/8OpkkqK9Jc

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

COLLUSION: ‘My phone number shouldn’t be public’: U. Georgia students question Harris campaign texts.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Georgetown gives students milk and cookies to help them cope with election.

SO KAMALA DIDN’T SPEAK LAST NIGHT, AND DIDN’T CALL TRUMP TO CONCEDE. A (female) friend messages: “Charming that the Democrats have twice put up a woman against Trump, who gets too drunk the night of elections to give a concession speech.”

They’re not sending their best people. Or heck, maybe they are . . .

THE NEW YORK SUN: Trump’s Historic Acquittal: His victory in the electoral and popular votes suggests that the American people concluded he was wrongly charged and deserves a second chance.

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!

Pretty incredible when you think about how the entire corporate media was singularly focused over the last 4 years on destroying Trump, in tandem with most of the federal gov’t, the state of New York, as well as various assassins, & not only did Trump win, but he’s going to win…

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 6, 2024

#JOURNALISM: Media bias hit new high in Trump-Harris coverage, three times 2004.

And they were no prize in 2004.

AND THEY’LL ACT LIKE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY:

Roughly ten minutes ago, the "end of the filibuster" movement suddenly went silent. In the morning, the rights of the minority will suddenly become the cause célèbre of Washington…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 6, 2024