MIRANDA DEVINE: Election a wake-up call for the woke.

So, of course, after Tuesday’s drubbing at the polls, all we heard on MSNBC and CNN was that mild-mannered Glenn Youngkin had won the governor’s race in Virginia because of racism.

“These Republicans are dangerous … to our national security,” ranted MSNBC’s Joy Reid, “because stoking that kind of soft white nationalism eventually leads to the hard-core stuff.”

Well, Virginia’s sensational new lieutenant governor, former Marine Winsome Sears, has news for Reid.

“I have been black all my life, but that’s not what this is about,” the mother of three and former small businesswoman said in a patriotic victory speech.

“We are framing too many issues in terms of race,” she told Fox News later. “It just continues to divide us and unfortunately politicians are using it … to advance their nefarious purposes … I’m destroying all the narratives about race. Look at me.”

Don’t worry about Democrats actually heeding their wakeup call — they seem to be hitting the snooze button instead.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Virginia Election Broke Democrats Worse Than Trump Did. “I’ve written many times that I believe that Donald Trump broke the Democrats in 2016. Their midterm gains in 2018 and whatever the heck happened last year didn’t fix them even a little bit. They’ve been teetering on the edge of a steep cliff, just waiting for a little push.”

UGH: Navy Faces Prospect That Crash Will Force USS Connecticut Out Of Service.

Despite a virtual news blackout, information on America’s damaged Seawolf Class attack submarine, USS Connecticut (SSN-22), is starting to leak out. While details are scarce, the Pacific Fleet’s latest operational debacle has left the U.S. without a key undersea combatant. At a minimum, the USS Connecticut will be out of service for years, and there is a creeping realization that the damage may be significant enough to force the USS Connecticut into a premature retirement.

It is time for the Navy to start talking. Regardless of the outcome, the fate of the USS Connecticut has enormous ramifications for virtually every facet of America’s maritime industrial base. Given the extended news blackout and the fact that the submarine hasn’t budged from Guam yet, indications suggest the USS Connecticut is badly hurt.

This is no time to smother a potentially uncomfortable debate under an over-classified blanket; the USS Connecticut’s mishap is a big deal and no longer a cozy internal Navy matter.

It is a big deal.

The Connecticut is one of only three Seawolf-class boats, the biggest and best-armed attack subs in the Navy. Losing her is about equivalent to last year’s loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard to arson.

Our Pacific fleet just lost a significant fraction of its strike capabilities — in peacetime.

It’s a very big deal.

Update: USS Connecticut CO, XO, COB Relieved Over Collision in South China Sea ‘Due to Loss of Confidence.’

WRETCHARD KEEPS THE RATIO HIGH: Signal to Noise With Richard Fernandez. “Rather than using social media as a notebook, it seemed better to establish a separate optionally accessible site: Signal to Noise. The benefit of a members-only site (subscribe here) is it reduces trolling. The Belmont Club will remain open and free, as usual.”

I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS: Apparently a monkey belonging to a UT football coach’s stripper girlfriend bit a kid who was trick-or-treating on Halloween.

PLEASE KEEP DOUBLING DOWN ON STUPID: Here’s hoping Democrats listen to Wajahat Ali. “The alternative, which Ali’s worldview can’t even see as a possibility, is that people voted for GOP candidates for a number of reasons that make sense if you can stop your knee-jerk reaction of calling them racist for a few seconds to consider them. Over at the Atlantic Yascha Mounk has a good piece titled, ‘You Can’t Win Elections by Telling Voters Their Concerns Are Imaginary.'”

HMM: Did the Associated Press Call the New Jersey Governor’s Race Too Soon?

THE BUCK STOPS OVER THERE, WAY OVER THERE: Biden Deflects Blame For McAuliffe Loss, Says He Can’t Stop Republican Turnout

Biden helped drive Republican turnout — thanks, Joe!

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “WITH” AND “FROM” FINALLY GETS SOME OFFICIAL RECOGNITION: Italy Reduces COVID-19 Death Toll by a Whopping 97%.

HEH: Crowd Erupts Into ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ Chants After DeSantis Calls Biden Admin The ‘Brandon’ Admin.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: SCOTUS Appears Ready to Strike Down Restrictive NY Concealed Carry Law. “The idea that you would need a license to exercise a right is unusual with regard to the Bill of Rights.”

THANKS FOR HOLDING UP OUR ENTIRE MOON PROGRAM FOR A FEW MONTHS WITH YOUR FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT, JEFF: Bezos’ Blue Origin loses lawsuit against NASA over SpaceX lunar lander contract.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Dear Leftists: Tuesday Wasn’t About Us, It Was About You. “Voters — across not only on the dark blue east, but the midwest and Texas too — resoundingly and decisively rejected what you’re selling at all levels of government. Tellingly, though, rather than taking some time for introspection to consider why you lost, we see you’re immediately doubling down on those very same failed policies”

Read the whole thing.

Related: Biden Can Kiss His Pass Goodbye. “Presidentish Joe Biden never held much sway with two semi-centrist senators — Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema — from two states unfriendly to leftist Democrats, West Virginia and Arizona. Still, Biden needs them both to pass his ambitious “Build Back Better” agenda through the 50/50 Senate. After Tuesday night’s drubbing, Biden can kiss his pass goodbye.”

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A LEGACY WRITTEN IN SAND — SOUND FAMILIAR? Republicans Warn Iran: Biden Nuclear Deal Will Be Trashed When GOP Retakes Power.

KRUISER: Hallelujah—Conservatives Finally Discover School Board Elections. “I — along with many other conservative writers and activists — have long been preaching the need for people on our side to get involved with politics at the school board level. Many have now seen clearly just what happens when they don’t and have decided to take matters into their own hands.”

USEFUL IDIOT? FELLOW TRAVELER? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Al Gore Defends China’s Climate ‘Commitment’ to End Overseas Coal Financing.

Meanwhile: China expands coal production and imports to roll back coal prices.

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Facebook: ‘We’ll Quit Using Facial Recognition’ (Not Really!)

AS ACCURATE AS ANY OF HIS OTHERS: Were Biden’s Claims at COP26 Climate Change Summit Accurate?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Racist Democrats Throw White Women Under the Bus. “We can not only take comfort in the Republican victories, but we can also thoroughly enjoy the way the leftist narrative machine is flailing. Seriously, it’s fun to watch. I’m canceling most of my streaming subscriptions now.”

DON’T WORRY, THERE’S PLENTY MORE TO EXPOSE: Democratic Panic Rises as Virginia Loss Exposes the Party’s Failures. “When Mr. Biden arrived in Virginia for a campaign rally a week before Election Day, he trained his fire heavily on Mr. Trump, barely mentioning his own agenda. The remarkable tableau of a president devoting his bully pulpit to the man he had defeated only served to underscore how little of an affirmative message Democrats were offering to voters.”

HEH: If Georgia’s New Voting Law Was ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ It’s Bizarro Jim Crow. “Guess what? Supposedly suppressed voters turned out in droves.”

OUCH: Starlink delays orders by years for unlucky customers who played with the site’s digital map.

According to the report, some users on the r/Starlink subreddit moved their service area by just a few feet using the digital map tool on the site and wound up having their preorder dates moved from late 2021 to as far as 2023. One user wrote, “I moved it from the end of my driveway to my house this morning and just looked back and it had changed to 2022-2023.” In the same conversation, another noted, “I moved the location from my barn to my house which is literally 13 feet in real-time and now I’m mid to late 2022.”

As Ars Technica notes, the map tool was always on the site, but Starlink recently made some changes to the site’s layout and also removed any mention of Starlink being in beta. The update seemed to have pushed the map tool to a more prominent location and also gave users a notification to check their location for “accuracy.” Naturally, anyone excitedly checking the status of their preorder would feel inclined to change their service location if they noticed an error.

Apparently, this type of preorder delay with Starlink isn’t a new issue either — it’s just been become more common due to the new map location. Another Reddit user says “people here have been warning others about it for nearly a year now. If you don’t already have service and move your address you go straight to the back of the line.”

I signed up for the beta back in February, haven’t messed around with the mapping tool, and still haven’t received my Dishy McFlatface.

#RESIST: Bongino’s Back On the Radio With a Challenge for ‘Conservative, Inc.’ “Bongino challenged Cumulus Radio execs over the corporation’s demand that employees get shot up with experimental emergency COVID vaccines or be fired.”