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.

pic.twitter.com/byJ0h9hhkF

— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) October 29, 2024

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR THE DOGE BOYS: New OSHA Emergency Response Standards Could Shutter 80% of Volunteer Fire Departments.

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.

I’M OK WITH THIS: Make America FLORIDA Again: The New Trump Cabinet Is as Florida as Hurricanes, Gators & Pink Flamingos.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: The Left should welcome Matt Gaetz as attorney general.

Gaetz may be known as a bombastic MAGA supporter in the eyes of the media. He livestreams, he podcasts, he trades barbs with political enemies with acidic bluster. But for those who have closely followed his legislative career, the Florida lawmaker represents a sharp break from the corporate-friendly orthodoxy of the modern Republican Party. Indeed, Gaetz’s elevation will provide sprawling prosecutorial powers for continuing his push against special interest influence and corporate malfeasance.

His record speaks for itself. From his perch on the House Judiciary Committee, Gaetz has promoted a surprisingly consumer-friendly agenda, routinely breaking with his GOP colleagues on crucial votes. He previously supported legislative measures to break up Silicon Valley monopolies, sharply regulate the online data broker industry, ban noncompete employment contracts, and an end to the practice of forced arbitration, among other corporate accountability votes. He has also taken maverick positions on reducing FBI surveillance powers, cutting certain arms supplies to Saudi Arabia and legalising marijuana.

In addition, Gaetz has staked a position at times to the Left of some establishment Democrats. In the fight over the Ending Platform Monopolies Act — a bill designed to curb anticompetitive practices by Amazon and Google — Gaetz ended up supporting the legislation, while California Democrats close to the tech industry, such as Zoe Lofgren and Eric Swalwell, voted against it.

That’s all very interesting. But my primary concern is whether Gaetz will deweaponize DOJ and pursue justice against those who weaponized it.

If he does that, he’ll go down as one of the greats.

IT ALMOST ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO GASLIGHTING, PROJECTION, OR ASTROTURF: They’re Gaslighting Us About Why Kamala Didn’t Do Joe Rogan’s Podcast.

SUSTAINABILITY: US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record.

It is only fitting that the twilight days of the Biden admin would exhibit more of the same fakeness that defined not only all of the past four years, but certainly the fakeness of that Kamala Harris presidential campaign which had a billion dollars a month ago and ended up in failure, broke and in debt. We are talking, of course, about the relentless debt-funded spree that somehow became synonymous with economic success in the US.

According to the latest Treasury data released today, in October – the first month of fiscal 2025 – the US spent a massive $584.2 billion, a 24.3% increase from the prior year, and a record government outlay for the month of October. On a trailing 6 month moving average basis, to smooth out outliers months, the spending hit $586 billion, effectively at an all time high with just the record spending spree during covid pushing government spending higher.

Key drivers of the deficit widening included outlays in the Departments of Health and Human Services and of Defense, up 12% and 13% respectively, adjusted for calendar differences. Health spending alone jumped by $62 billion compared with the same month last year.

At the same time, the US government collected just $326.8 billion in taxes, down a massive 19% from the $403.434 billion last October, and down even more from the $527 billion in tax receipts in September ’24. As shown in the next chart, while spending continued to grow exponentially, tax receipts have flatlined, and the 6 month average in October was just $380 billion, the same as three years ago!

There’s much more Bidenflationary spending baked into the budgets Democrats locked in during Biden’s first two years.

The DOGE boys have their work cut out for them.

#METOO: NRA Excited for a Pro-2A Trump Presidency.

HMM: Zhuhai car attack: China clears memorial as government scrambles to respond.

Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai removed wreaths, candles and bottles of Chinese alcohol, offerings laid at the scene of the deadliest mass killing in the country in a decade, as the government scrambled to respond and censor online outrage.

On Monday, a male driver angry at his divorce settlement, according to police, rammed his car into a crowd at a sports centre in the city of 2.5 million, killing 35 people and injuring 43. The government took almost a day to announce the death toll.

This prompted outrage on Chinese social media, where posts complaining about the government’s slow response and raising questions about the mental health of a nation shaken by a recent spate of similar killings, were being quickly removed.

All is not well in the workers’ paradise.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe and Jill Biden Totally Have Matching MAGA Hats. “I have to issue an apology to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I frequently mocked their ‘Joy’ campaign pitch, but their crushing defeat at the hands of Donald Trump and JD Vance last week is bringing me endless amounts of it.”

NICE WORK, FELLAS: Israeli assessment: Operation “Days of Repentance” devastated Iranian missile production.

According to assessments in Israel, the Israeli attack damaged solid explosives used in Iran’s ground-to-ground missiles, reducing Iran’s missile production capacity to around 10% of its pre-strike level.

As a result, until Iran manages to restore its missile production capabilities, it is expected to adopt a more conservative policy regarding its long-range missile launches. While estimates indicate that Iran still holds several hundred long-range missiles that it could launch at Israel, it is unlikely to do so all at once, as the rate of fire also depends on the number of launchers at its disposal.

Moreover, Iran’s decision-making factors must account for the fact that Israel’s strike on Iran’s advanced air defense systems has left the country nearly exposed to another potential Israeli attack. It is likely that the Iranian regime understands Israel still has an extensive target bank within Iran, including oil reserves and, naturally, its nuclear sites.

“Nearly exposed?”

Even when Iran’s air defenses were intact, Israel sortied something like one-third to one-half of its entire air force, did what needed doing to Iran, and then returned home without a loss.

THE DEEP STATE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY: Polymarket Predicted Trump’s Victory, and Now the FBI Has Raided Its CEO’s Home.

The raid was as theatrical and histrionic as the raid on Mar-a-Lago was: “The 26-year-old entrepreneur was woken up at 6:00 a.m. in his Soho home by law U.S. enforcement officers who demanded his phone and electronics.” Why show up at 6 a.m.? Why demand Coplan’s phone and electronics? Whatever this was about, was it really necessary to treat Shayne Coplan as if he were armed and dangerous?

Apparently, the answer is yes, because Polymarket had the audacity to represent accurately the electoral groundswell for Trump. The Post quoted a source calling the raid “grand political theater at its worst,” and adding sensibly: “They could have asked his lawyer for any of these things. Instead, they staged a so-called raid so they can leak it to the media and use it for obvious political reasons.”

Even worse, the feds didn’t even tell Coplan what it was all about. He was “not provided any reason for the incident, but the source said they expect it is political retribution since Polymarket accurately predicted Trump’s win – not traditional polls.” The raid is likely a prelude to more political persecution: “The government is likely trying to accuse Polymarket of market manipulation and rigging its polls in favor of Trump.”

If this raid is what the Post’s sources claim, it could prove a great test case of Matt Gaetz’s ability to clean house.

GOODER AND HARDER: RV Sales To Be Banned Across Six States As California Climate Rules Take Effect.

Motorhome sales are being prevented in California, Washington, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey if the vehicles do not meet certain emission requirements based on regulations from the California Air Resources Board (CARB), according to RVtravel. CARB amended its Advanced Clean Truck regulations on Oct. 24, which require all vehicles over 8,500 pounds to produce zero emissions.

Motorhome owners in the six states will not be allowed to register a recreational vehicle (RV) that is not in compliance with the climate regulation, according to RVtravel.

Various American automakers have scaled back EV-related plans amid a lack of consumer demand. Toyota’s North American Chief Operating Officer Jack Hollis recently criticized policies promoting EV adoption, citing “impossible” standards.

Impossible? You don’t say.

KRUISER: Thank God No One Was Able to ‘Save’ the GOP From Donald Trump.

WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE? TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES, SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU, AND TO HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN:

Biden staffers are crying in the White House and many have called out sick today, per WH official

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 13, 2024

I CALLED THIS A YEAR AND A HALF AGO: The Nicest Computer You Can Wear on Your Face Is a Big Flop.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX rolls Starship spacecraft to pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch.

Starship moved to the pad at Starbase in advance of our sixth flight test pic.twitter.com/u6Mbc35ARr

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 12, 2024

Godspeed…

NEVER. NEXT QUESTION? When Will Democrats Apologize to Georgia for Lying About Election Integrity?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA dealing with aging ISS and spacewalk hardware: ‘None of our spacesuits are spring chickens.’

Add life support to one of these babies and you’re all set.

NEWS: SpaceX has unveiled their Extravehicular Activity spacesuit.

It will be used for their first ever spacewalk. It uses new materials & joint designs to provide greater flexibility. The helmet has a new visor to reduce glare and a Heads-Up Display. pic.twitter.com/G2v7TCuTOi

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) May 4, 2024

BIDENOMICS AIN’T OVER YET: The Rate of Inflation Continues to Increase While the ‘Core Rate’ Remains High.

HAS IT REALLY BEEN TEN YEARS? CONGRATS!

I started Hollywood in Toto 10 years ago

The first few years were rough. Brutal, even.

Now, it's my full-time career.

No investors. No corporate backing. I taught myself everything I needed to start a business.

And, sadly, no real vacations! https://t.co/N7rGXBxvCO

— Christian Toto (@HollywoodInToto) November 8, 2024

TRUMP 47: Real Estate Mogul Just Bought Three Rat-Infested Money Pits.

CHANGE: Trump expected to move Space Command headquarters out of Colorado in his ‘first week.’

Space Command, separate from the Trump-created Space Force, has been the center of a years-long controversy about whether to put its headquarters in Colorado or Alabama. Trump has favored the deep-red Alabama, while Biden favored the deep-blue Colorado. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) told Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5 that Trump would settle the dispute as one of his first moves in office.

“President Trump said in the campaign that he was going to reverse that decision if elected,” he said, referring to Biden’s decision to move the headquarters to Colorado. “But I knew he would because if you remember, not only did Alabama win two nationwide competitions, but President Trump’s secretary of the Air Force recommended Huntsville, President Biden’s secretary of the Air Force recommended Huntsville, and then Biden took it away for political reasons.”

“But it’s going to be a big point now because President Trump’s already announced it, and I think you’ll see in the first week that he’s in office, he’ll sign an executive order reversing Biden’s directive,” he continued. “And we will start construction next year in Huntsville.”

There’s a lot of Air Force history in Colorado Springs, and local USAF elements are now Space Force. But moving HQ out of Colorado is probably a smart move. At an event last year, a Space Force wife told me they were having an impossible time finding affordable housing — and she was the wife of a general.

CORN, POPPED: Schadenfreude Alert: Van Jones Melts Down Over the Miserable State of the Democratic Party.

Van Jones isn’t about to take the red pill but he is sometimes refreshingly honest about his party’s problems.