Broc Smith |
Broc Smith |
. . ."And then there's this. Too much violence, too much looting, and mayhem in our major cities; too many illegal immigrants crossing the border; too much working-poor tax dollars going to feed, shelter, educate, and deliver health care, not to American citizens but to the wretched of the earth, some of whom are criminals, (drug lords, human traffickers), or jihadists." . . .
"Thank God! The more gracious of the two candidates has won.
"Presidential character was deemed a very important test of one's suitability for office.
"President Trump was defamed 24/7--none of his real and/or imaginary foibles or character failings were overlooked. Harris was praised 24/7 and none of her foibles ever made it into the mainstream media.
"And now, the American voter has spoken. President Trump has won a "landslide" victory.
"All Ye who despair; all those who are in shock, who are wearing black today, and are vowing to either leave the country or pick up guns and fight: Prithee pause for a moment.
"Please note how gracious President Trump was in his victory speech, how much he characterized his victory as "ours," as something that "we" accomplished. And then, please note that Vice President Harris was a disgraceful no-show at Howard University; she did not even come out to thank all her supporters who had been waiting for her. She plans to issue her concession speech today, either at 4pm or at 6pm, about 13-15 hours after the election was called.
"How can we explain Harris's silence? Was she too "emotional" to speak, too angry, too ashamed that she'd been beaten, or was she simply unable to speak extemporaneously? Was she still relying on her speechwriters and a teleprompter? With all due respect, imagine how Harris as POTUS might have handled the Iranian mullahs and their allies Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Erdogan, the Qatari Arabs, ISIS reconstituted, and the Pakistani and Afghani Taliban?
"Oh, not to worry. Obama would have been advising, if not controlling, the deep state.
"Really, what just happened? It's obvious.
"Democratic Party leftists have just taken it a league too far. The pendulum was bound to swing back. Our well-intentioned 1960s campaigns to divide people into oppressor and victim; the marxist and feminist belief that everything was socially created and therefore could be uncreated ("by any means necessary"); that anatomy is not destiny, in fact, that biology is not real; that racism and sexism are exclusively white America's gravest sins--no redemption possible; that Israel, our strongest and most endangered ally in the Middle East, was no longer a victim, but had morphed into a "Nazi apartheid" nation state which was allegedly perpetrating a "genocide" in Gaza; and that transboys and transwomen had an almost sacred right to defeat girls and women in sports, share locker rooms and women-only prisons, as well as the right to government funded transition care." . . .
Bye bye, Barack "Maybe former President Obama got the message when he spoke to African Americans in Philadelphia. The thrill is gone. The racialist policies just don't work anymore. People are tired of hearing sermons from former presidents with mansions and First Ladies who sent their kids to expensive private schools.
"We saw on Election Day the end of Obama as a candidate. His "emerging majority" did not emerge, as David Weigel pointed out:" . . . Full article here
. . ."To be fair, maybe no one could have saved the Democrats from the failure of the Biden presidency. Maybe it was too much to expect that a former president would save a candidate trying to defend a candidate who couldn't answer a complex situation.
"Nevertheless, the Democrats need to look for new faces and different speakers at their next convention. The Obama coalition based on identity politics, green energy and taxing the rich is history. I have a feeling that Governor Josh Shapiro is not going to ask the Obamas or Clintons to speak on his behalf the next time around."
"But blaming her sex and her race is easier than blaming her lack of intelligence, her lack of any leadership skills and her communist policies. Trump really is a sane genius who bypassed the media through podcasts."
"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.
"Maureen Dowd was so upset in her piece, “It’s This Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World,” that she laid this gem:
James Carville warned that Democrats needed to stop coming across as the party of preachy women. But then Barack and Michelle Obama tried to woo black men by scolding them.
"Barack Obama, preachy woman. I like that.
"Oblivious to her own sexism, Dowd blamed misogyny. How dare men not vote for a woman!
"She also wrote, “many of the suburban women that Harris thought she could get voted for Trump.” How dare women not vote for a woman!
"The lesser-known Jill Filipovic wrote, “Men Got Exactly What They Wanted.”
"Wow. We’ll have 110 million Corvettes, 110 million cases of non-Bud Light beer and 110 million new mancaves." . . .
No, no, no. Hold that order. That’s not all she said:" . . .
"Optimism effused the messages from Musk as he harkened back to President Ronald Reagan when he posted, “It is morning in America again…” and spoke to what was on the horizon for the doers in the country when he wrote, “America is a nation of builders…Soon, you will be freed to build.”
. . ."During Trump’s victory speech, the president-elect brought up the visionary engineer with compliments to SpaceX’s successful booster catch and the deployment of Starlink throughout the areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene to help restore communication.
“ 'Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star. A star is born. Elon!” said the once and future GOP leader. “He’s an amazing guy.”
"Of course, beyond the endorsement spurred on by the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt and the active campaigning throughout the closing weeks of the election, many attributed the path to victory for Trump to Musk’s fight for free speech absolutism that saw him purchase Twitter, expose censorship efforts and remove corporate media’s stranglehold on narratives.
“ 'You are the media now,” asserted the billionaire amid the praise." . . .
"The Trump win could push Hamas to prefer a deal under Biden, believing terms would be better given Trump’s pro-Israeli stances and Qatar ties."
"President-elect Donald Trump’s comeback victory Tuesday weakens diplomatic efforts to end Israel’s multifront wars in the short term and calls into question US long-term support for Israel’s military campaigns against Iran and its proxies.
"It’s the equivalent of a diplomatic bombshell, whose chilling effects will be felt almost immediately, and which already seems to freeze such ceasefire efforts.
"Trump’s policies on all issues relating to Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran will be diametrically different than his predecessor US President Joe Biden and he will chart a new course.
"That knowledge alone creates chaos in a war, in which the US had taken the diplomatic lead in ceasefire initiatives and backed Israel on the diplomatic stage. It has also headed a defensive military coalition that protects Israel from Iranian missile attacks and has supported Israel with military weaponry and supplies.
"The Biden administration’s role this week is already not what it was last week. The question now is what can happen in the next three months and what would happen after January 20.
"Theoretically, a Trump victory should be a celebratory event for right-wing Israelis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular.
"Netanyahu was quick to congratulate Trump on X, writing, “Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.
“ 'This is a huge victory!” Netanyahu wrote, congratulating Trump who during his first term (2017-2021) was viewed by many Israelis as a true friend of Israel." . . .
Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky; The liberal camp in the US must undertake a deep self-examination . . ."From the Jewish community’s perspective, the true test for Trump’s administration will be its stance on antisemitism. American Jews find themselves caught between traditional right-wing antisemitism and a new left-wing variant. Some pro-Trump voices within the Jewish American community, as well as in Israel, argue that the American right would demonstrate a stronger stance against antisemitism, particularly on college campuses."The problem with liberals using intimidation tactics to bully people into staying quiet about the incompetence of DEI hires is that the only way they ever had to register an objection was in the privacy of a voting booth. And on Tuesday, boy, did they .…" A.C.
In Michigan, Israel’s expanding war could shape the election results : NPR
Muslim's necklace shows the land of Israel as "Palestinian" |
. . ."Bahbah claimed that the president-elect could well impose an arms embargo on Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignores his call to quickly end the war in Gaza.
“ 'If he says to Netanyahu, ‘End the war by the time I enter office’ and Netanyahu fails to do so, there’s nothing stopping Trump from stopping the flow of arms to Israel,” Bahbah said.
"He asserted that Trump has much more influence over Netanyahu, compared to Democratic presidents whose counsel the Israeli premier has long ignored. Moreover, Bahbah maintained that the former president never really got over Netanyahu congratulating Biden on winning the 2020 election.
"Trump’s record as president — from moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, to cutting aid to the Palestinians, to steps legitimizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank — offers nothing to suggest that he would abandon the Jewish state in his second term." . . .
Rich Terrell |
Tapper asked CNN chief national correspondent John King to pull up a graphic showing in which states Harris had gotten at least 3% more votes than Biden had in the last election — just to be presented with a gray map reflecting her failure even in that.
“ 'Holy smokes!” Tapper gasped. “Literally nothing?” . . .
‘Mystified’ liberal PBS news commentator loses it over Trump’s strong performance on election night . . ."Liberal PBS News commentator Jonathan Capehart was left aghast at the preliminary election results suggesting that former President Donald Trump is in a strong spot.
“There’s a shift right and then there’s a shift to Trump,” Capehart vented on the program. “I am mystified in some ways simply because we’re talking about a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted-on-34-felony-counts former president.”
Narrative-killer: Young Latino men broke for Trump, helping to put him over the top
Puerto Rico just elected a Republican governor.
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"They told us liberal women would deliver a Roe-vember. They told us there would be massive Puerto Rican backlash against Trump. They called Trump a fascist, Hitler, and a threat to democracy. In the end, the American people weren't buying it, and they sent Trump back to the White House.
"And it is glorious.
"Trump not only won an Electoral College landslide (he's likely to get 312 Electoral College votes in the end) but he's also projected to win the popular vote. A true mandate if there ever was.
"And the liberal media absolutely freaked out.
"Over at MSNBC, Joy Reid was absolutely unhinged:
CNN's Van Jones blamed sexism and racism, and cried a little"
Trump Victory Media Roundup: Establishment Goes Through the Stages of Grief
"The classic stage of grief that follows anger is bargaining, but the leftist media blew by that one completely. These people, after all, are the ones who polarized and embittered American political discourse in the first place, painting Trump in such lurid terms that massive segments of the population are utterly terrified at the prospect of this neo-Hitler returning to the Oval Office. They’re not interested in compromise or any kind of bargaining; as always, they’re out for total control and the absolute destruction of those whom they consider their enemies."
Like Clockwork: Van Jones Blames Sexism and Racism for Why Kamala Lost
MSNBC, meanwhile, had massive sads over what Trump might do now, and the fact that there didn’t seem to be any way to stop him: “We can expect Trump will pardon the Jan. 6 rioters and summarily fire the prosecutors who tried to hold him accountable. Having been immunized by the Supreme Court, he may instruct the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents. He will likely abandon Ukraine and begin the process of weakening our alliances. A newly empowered Trump can, if he wishes, go about trying to gut or kill Obamacare outright, while also trying to impose massive new tariffs on the economy.”
"That being so, do we want another four years: Of open borders with undocumented aliens, unvetted criminal immigrants and wrecked local economies? Of selective criminal prosecutions of political opponents?" . . .
"On Tuesday Nov 5th, we Americans will have the opportunity to clearly indicate our choice between the two very different visions of America offered by the Republicans and Democrats this election go-around. For a while, though, this did not seem to be in the offing.
"To be sure, we had Mr. Trump’s record in presidential office as one frame of reference. But on the Democratic side, things were more complex. President Biden had a well-earned, historically low approval rating. But then came his unprecedented departure from the 2024 Democratic presidential campaign in favor of Vice-President Kamala Harris, as the result of some sordid political legerdemain by Democratic Party elders seeking to avoid what they believed to be the near certain defeat of Mr. Biden, the incumbent, at the polls.
"What the absence of an incumbent meant was that any accounting for Biden’s policies – and any possible course corrections – would come only as a result of how effectively the Trump campaign would be able to tie VP Harris to failed Biden decision-making. After all, it was Joe Biden who was the presumptive decision-maker-and her role was necessarily nebulous and therefore arguable.
"However, as we noted here last week, something odd happened. For some still unexplained reason, Ms. Harris said in an interview that there was no daylight between her and the President regarding his decisions:"
“You asked me what is the difference between Joe Biden and me… There is not a thing that comes to mind… and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.”
"By her very own words, we are invited to judge her by the actions of Mr. Biden and also to know what we can expect from a President Kamala Harris.
"That being so, do we want another four years:". . .
"For more than a year, pundits in the mainstream media were feeding the public a steady diet of catchphrases, aphorisms, mantras, and predictions. Almost none of them turned out to be true.
"But being wrong has never caused elite media types to self-reflect. They just issue a new set of catchphrases, aphorisms, mantras, and predictions.
"So, rather than wait for them, we decided to make our own predictions. We will have much more to say about this election, about the unprecedented legal attacks, the vitriol hurled at half of American voters, about any violence that is unleashed by the left, about where the Democrats go from here, and so on.
"But for now, here is our list of what will be out and what will be in after this truly historic presidential election:' " An excerpt below:
. . ."In contrast, an assassin kills one Trump-supporter, injures several others, and nearly takes President Trump’s life, and the propaganda press acts as if it never happened. If that glaring inconsistency does not vividly demonstrate how fake the J6 “insurrection” narrative has been, nothing else can. Unlike Kamala Harris, Donald Trump was nominated for president through a democratic process, and when democracy actually came under attack, the news media minimized it as a trifle.
. . ."In the place of news that greatly matters, the propaganda press has filled the airwaves with demonstrable lies in the days leading up to the election. Fake journalists lie about President Trump taking away birth control and forcing women to have babies against their will. After covering up Joe Biden’s dementia for years, they now lie about Donald Trump showing fake signs of fatigue. They parrot the FBI’s fake crime statistics and lie to Americans about the safety of their communities. They parrot the CDC’s fake COVID statistics and lie to Americans about the success of lockdowns, mask mandates, and fake vaccines. They parrot fake jobs reports and lie to Americans about economic growth. Despite the fact that Kamala Harris has the lowest approval rating for any modern vice president, our fake journalists lie to Americans about her remarkable popular appeal. And after mocking President Trump for being the victim of two separate assassination attempts, the propaganda press now pushes the lie that his words somehow threaten RINO Liz Cheney’s life. The Deep State spews blatant lies, and the propaganda press treats those blatant lies as irrefutable truths.
"There is good news. After eight years of unremitting propaganda demonizing President Trump as the most dangerous threat to the United States, he has never been more popular. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and every other prominent Democrat in the country have called Trump a “fascist,” a “Nazi,” and “Hitler” reincarnated for years. An MSNBC reporter recently asked a New York voter, “How does that message resonate with you?” The voter paused, looked at the reporter, and replied, “It doesn’t.” The reporter seemed surprised, but Americans see through their lies.
"President Trump survived an assassin’s bullet for a reason. This is the time to choose a side. All we must do is vote! May God guide and protect us. And remember: “Fight! Fight! Fight!' ”