Now for a look at the brighter side—the clip serves as another reminder that the U.S. didn’t dodge a bullet but a nuclear bomb on November 5.This is something to celebrate on Thanksgiving Day.
"Kamala Harris’s catastrophic billion-dollar campaign for president came to a crashing end on November 8th, 2024.
"Most humans are likely to have heaved a sigh of relief that it was an end, or at least a pause, to cringe-inducing utterances of the nation’s foremost word salad chef.
"Alas, those hopes were blown to smithereens yesterday when a new video with Kamala Harris was released that contained a message for her supporters following her emphatic defeat.
"Usually, such messages are loaded with “inspiring” cliches.
"You would think it would be ‘never stop believing in yourself’, ‘united we stand’, ‘never give up’, etc. or the favorite following a routing — ‘it's always darkest before the dawn’.
"But that wasn’t the case.
The only virtue that can be conferred upon the following video is its duration: it ran for just 28 seconds.
"But the good news ends there: the content of Kamala’s utterances makes these 28 seconds seem like 28 hours." . . .More...
"Young Irving truly did have plenty to be thankful for. He never lost that sense of gratitude, nor did he forget that all of his blessings came from having been allowed to be in America."
Irving Berlin (1944 portrait by Samuel Johnson).
"In 1942, very soon after America was sucked into World War II, Paramount Studios released “Holiday Inn.” That movie is remembered for introducing the world to Irving Berlin’s perennial Christmas favorite “White Christmas.” However, that’s not my favorite song from the movie. My favorite is the song Irving Berlin wrote for the Thanksgiving scene of the movie: “I’ve got plenty to be thankful for.” . . .
. . ."Trump‘s election represents a dawning consciousness amongst Americans that we must go back to these liberty-based roots. This means stripping away the layers of stifling and often totalitarian government interference and returning to an America where those who are here legally are allowed to thrive — and those who are not here illegally are recognized as invaders, with no rights to welfare, education, medical care, etc. Their only right is to a swift deportation.
"If Trump does it right, if he listens to DOGE (and gets rid of his appalling nominee for Secretary of Labor), we are on a glidepath to the greatest resurgence of liberty and prosperity in the history of the world. And that is why, this year, I’ve got plenty to be thankful for."
"While outgoing President Joe Biden spends the holiday week strolling around in the land of woke and elites, President-elect Donald Trump’s new border Czar, Tom Homan, and Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) are serving American troops a Thanksgiving dinner.
. . ."Meanwhile, lame-duck Biden and outgoing First Lady Jill Biden headed to billionaire David Rubenstein’s $34 million Nantucket compound for the consecutive fourth year to celebrate the holiday." . . .
"The thought behind Thanksgiving is outward toward God and his blessings and not inward, which suggests gratitude to no one in particular for whatever positives might have occurred in one’s life.
"In the more secular view, these positives are not blessings, but are to be chalked up to luck or “good fortune.” May “The Force” be with you."
. . ."The Museum Gallery Archive reports: “Four hundred years ago, Thanksgiving was a religious event, and marked by fasting not feasting. Recent research suggests that the first Thanksgiving of this kind was celebrated by new English settlers at Berkeley, Virginia, in 1619. They were Puritans giving thanks for their safe arrival on the banks of the James River.”
"Today, Thanksgiving is nearly a blur in the rush toward Christmas and the conspicuous consumption merchants promote to pad their bottom lines." . . .
"We still need the energy. That means we are importing more energy from countries that aren't our friends. When you transport gas halfway around the world, it means more CO2 emissions."
. . ."Hours before a much anticipated first debate rematch between the president and the former president, the Biden campaign may have just received an unexpected aid: a list of Donald Trump talking points.
"In a post to his app Truth Social Thursday, Trump posted a photo that appears to show what he might be asked and how he's poised to respond.
" 'Mr. President, I am sure that a climate question will come up during your debate this week and I suggest the following talking points," the screengrab reads, attributing the question to Andrew Wheeler, former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator.
"The screenshot apparently includes Trump's talking point.
" 'Under my Administration CO2 emissions went down, and at the same time we became more American energy dominant which helps Americans at the gas pump and with their electricity bills." . . .
. . ."During his first term in office,Trump banned certain reporters from briefings, most notably CNN's Jim Acosta. Though after a legal showdown with the network the White House backed off and restored Acosta's credentials. " . . .
Donald Trump's appearance on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' has over 50 million views on YouTube alone
"Donald Trumpis considering giving the likes ofJoe Rogan andMegyn Kelly a seat in theWhite Housepress briefing room instead of mainstream media journalists in a plot that will 'blow up some heads'.
"The stunning plan was revealed by the president-elect's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. on a recent episode of his podcast 'Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.'
"Speaking to his co-host Michael Knowles, Jr. admitted that the incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt may rework the briefing room seating arrangement to make way for Trump's new podcast 'bro' buddies.
' 'I wonder now, as your father is assembling his team, as maybe Karoline Leavitt is looking at the new press briefing room chart, maybe it's time to reorder that chart and maybe take away some people's seats,' Knowles inquired.
"The future president's son quickly shot back: 'We're gonna break some news here.'
" 'I literally had this conversation with—I was flying back, I was on the plane with my father, I think it was coming back from the SpaceX launch with Elon [Musk] last week,' Jr. said.
" 'And we were talking about the podcast world and some of our friends and Rogan and guys like you.' . . .
"Since wind and solar power are costly, intermittent and more environmentally destructive per TWh generated than any other energy source, governments should cease to subsidize or to prioritize them, and should instead expand coal, gas and, above, all nuclear generation."
"Legal Insurrection readers will recall that in my post on the United Nations climate conference in Azerbaijan this week, its president boldly declared that oil and gas were a ‘gift from God’.
"The eco-activists attending the event were enraged.
"The climate cultists will likely be working themselves up into even more hysteria because of another climate conference that occurred mid-November in the Czech Republic city of Prague.
‘The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which excludes participants and published papers disagreeing with its narrative, fails to comply with its own error-reporting protocol and draws conclusions some of which are dishonest, should be forthwith dismantled.’
This declaration supports the conclusions of the major Clintel report, The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC.
Moreover, the scientists at the conference declared that even if all nations moved straight to net zero emissions, by the 2050 target date the world would be only about 0.1 C cooler than with no emissions reduction.
So far, the attempts to mitigate climate change by international agreements such as the Paris Agreement have made no difference to our influence on climate, since nations such as Russia and China, India and Pakistan continue greatly to expand their combustion of coal, oil and gas.
The cost of achieving that 0.1 C reduction in global warming would be $2 quadrillion, equivalent to 20 years’ worldwide gross domestic product.
"The declaration has 18 different point referencing climate science and facts that counter the narratives being pushed by the IPCC and those who want to push their green agendas. I have listed the first six below (which should be familiar to Legal Insurrection readers); there remainder can be found in the copy of the declaration." . . . More here.
This is Thanksgiving week. Let’s give thanks for Kamala and wish her a bright future as the leader of the Democrat Party for as long as they can stand her and then some.
"On Monday, the internet was full of discussion about Kamala Harris. And yes, you are permitted to wonder why.
"Let’s face it, nobody in America gives a damn about her, and nobody should. She’s an utterly forgettable hack politician, a blithering incompetent who demonstrated beyond doubt that she can’t give honest or thoughtful answers even in a friendly interview. Worse, she showed off a complete lack of ethics, throwing out bile-filled charges that Donald Trump was a fascist dictator in the making as a means of, at least, scaring Democrat voters to the polls or, more accurately, attempting to gin up one of her party’s crazies to assassinate him.
"It was no surprise that Harris, who had slept her way to the middle and DEI’d her way to the top, turned into a Hollywood-“girlboss”-remake version of Icarus on election night as her party burned and crashed, not just at the top of the ticket, but in Senate and House races as well. The Democrats are now mired in the political wilderness for at least the next two years and — even worse for them — Trump The Fascist Dictator now has a near 60 percent approval rating for the appointments and direction his transition team has embarked on.
"And that direction is as close to a 180-degree turn from what Kamala Harris had on offer as it’s possible to have. In fact, the secret to Trump’s spike in popularity is his pledge to sic Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on government waste, to have Pete Hegseth restructure the Department of Defense, to have Tom Homan round up and deport as many illegals as possible (a CBS poll found 73 percent agreement that it’s a priority and 57 percent agree with deporting all of the illegals), and have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. make America healthy again by completely overhauling the public health bureaucracy, among other giant changes. Prior to Trump’s victory earlier this month, it wasn’t considered possible to move this far.
"The Overton Window definitely shifted on Nov. 5. The world changed. And Kamala Harris, and a political party that would hand her its nomination for president without any demonstration of political viability on her part, no longer fit within that window.
"Democrats won’t escape the wilderness until they come up with a new brand and a new definition. Eventually, they will, as all parties do upon losing. But sometimes, it takes a while." ...
"Democrats are down bad, with massive losses across the board this election cycle. But they've gathered at the DNC to ask one question: "Are we out of touch? Or are the voters just wrong?" OK, that's two questions."
When you see the phrase "Babylon Bee ". immediately think Parody. TD
"The result was expected, but the vote sent a signal that opposing military aid to a longstanding ally is no longer a fringe position in the Democratic Party. More than a third of the Democratic senators voted to block arms to Israel a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on the Jewish state.
"Wednesday’s vote was the first of its kind in Congress and the only legislative remedy available to senators opposed to the Biden administration’s efforts to sell $20 billion in military aid to Israel over concerns its counterattack has gone too far and created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
"Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) sponsored a trio of resolutions, which were privileged, allowing them to force the votes without the consent of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
"The resolutions were to block the sale of 120-millimeter mortar rounds, joint direct attack munitions (JDAMs) also known as bomb guidance kits, and the sale of tank rounds.
"The first resolution, S.J. Res. 111, to block the sale of tank rounds failed 18-79, with the majority of Democrats joining all Republicans in voting no. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) voted present.
"Eighteen Democrats voted in support, including the sponsors of the resolutions and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus King (I-ME), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Ed Markey (D-MA), Tina Smith (D-MN), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Chris Murphy (D-CT)." . . .
But you all do look fabulous in your designer Keffiyehs as you stand beside Greta Thunberg.
"Trump’s pick to be his ambassador to the United Nations, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, led the questioning of university presidents over antisemitism on campuses. She has also opposed funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which oversees aid to Gaza.
"Pete Hegseth, an Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host, was chosen by Trump to head the Department of Defense. Hegseth has publicly opposed the two-state solution and advocated for rebuilding a biblical Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites.
"Then there’s Trump’s pick for Ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Huckabee has consistently rejected the idea of a Palestinian state in territories seized by Israel, strongly supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposed a two-state solution, claiming “there really isn’t such a thing” as Palestinians in referring to the descendants of people who lived in Palestine before the establishment of Israel.". . .
"What all that means is that the Biden-Harris administration has been using taxpayer dollars and has been providing the worst evil known to civilized society: open access to the most vulnerable in our midst—the unaccompanied (and unprotected) children who are crossing our borders."
"Like many of American Thinker’s devoted readers, I voted for Donald J. Trump all three times he has been a presidential candidate. I have been quietly enjoying the days since America’s voters decisively elected Trump again as president. I have many family and friends who detest Trump, but I desire to co-exist peacefully and quietly with them, so we have kept an uneasy peace by refraining from political conversation. Over the years, it has become obvious that our diametrically opposed political views are not likely to change.
"Since the election, the incoming administration’s rapid-fire announcements of Cabinet member nominations, along with the various nominations to head numerous positions and agencies, have captured the nation’s attention and triggered Trump’s opponents to fits of rage. I must confess there has been an element of entertainment to it all, watching our liberal/progressive/leftist neighbors get all twisted up. However, hiding behind the nominations are equally important stories that explain why Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party lost the election so badly.
"Each the following information has been a catalyst and a springboard for me and has incited within me a deeply visceral motivation. I will no longer be quiet about my support for Donald J. Trump. Moreover, I will remain silent no longer about my joy in witnessing the Democrats’ electoral loss and disgrace." . . .
. . ."Yesterday, Becerra testified at Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, and his admissions will sicken you—when Texas’s Chip Roy quizzed Becerra on whether or not he could account for the roughly 400,000 UACs whose whereabouts are reportedly unknown, requiring he respond with either a “yes” or a “no,” Becerra sidestepped and launched into a filibustering word salad. See below, around 02:18 elapsed time:
“Mr. Secretary, how can you credibly claim that HHS is working to protect these children? …A ‘vetted sponsor’ that rapes and murders the people that they're entrusted to? ...That's what you think is appropriate care for these children?” pic.twitter.com/WaqezbLQ6c
"Becerra testified that his agency follows “child welfare best practices” with “extensive” background checks that would not allow a child to be placed with someone “engaged in criminal activity.' ” . . .
PISTOL-SHAPED FRIED-EGG MOLD $18.99 plus shipping from amazon.com
"What is more boring than a fried egg? Nothing, that’s what. “As boring as a fried egg” is an expression we have all heard too many times to count. And that’s why we’re so pleased to present this exciting gift idea. This is a fried-egg mold that is shaped like what the package describes as a “Wild West Pistol,” so that instead of an old-fashioned ho-hum round fried egg, you can serve a “Rough And Ready Breakfast” in the form of a fried egg that looks like a firearm. It allegedly also does pancakes."
HANS GRUBER FALLING TO HIS DEATH ADVENT CALENDAR
$9.99 plus shipping from amazon.com; many versions available
"The holiday season is a time of traditions, and few are more cherished than watching the traditional holiday movie “Die Hard,” in which New York police detective John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, engages in a taut and suspenseful game of cat and mouse with the Ghost of Christmas Past. No, sorry, that’s a different holiday movie. In “Die Hard” John McClane engages in a taut and suspenseful game of cat and mouse with evil diabolical criminal mastermind Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman. In the movie’s climax, a bloodied but triumphant McClane watches as Gruber falls to his death from the Nakatomi Plaza office tower. It’s a classic scene, and it inspired some imaginative person—we are using “imaginative” in the sense of “deeply disturbed”—to create this Advent calendar, which enables you to count down the days to Christmas by gradually moving a Hans Gruber figure down the side of the Nakatomi building.
BREAD PILLOW
$25.99 plus delivery from amazon.com
"Here’s the ideal gift for anyone on your gift list who would enjoy having a home decor element that resembles a baked good. This is a pillow made to look like a very large loaf of bread." . . .
HIDEOUSLY UGLY PANTS
$26.95 plus shipping from temu.com, suggested by Ralph Kirshner of New Hampton, N.H.
"Here’s a great gift for the young, fashion-conscious person on your list who wishes to become visually less attractive. Ugly pants are a popular fashion trend, dating back to the invention of “distressed” jeans. What happened was a malfunction at a clothing factory caused the machines to spit out a bunch of jeans that were full of rips and holes. The workers were about to throw them away, when one of the executives—let’s call him Bob—had an idea. ”Let’s sell them!” he said. The other executives were skeptical. ”But Bob,” they said, “why would people spend good money for jeans that appear to have been attacked by irate wolverines?” ”Because people are stupid,” said Bob. He was in marketing. And he was absolutely correct: Distressed jeans were a fashion hit. Soon millions of people were walking around wearing jeans that were 20 percent denim and 80 percent holes.
"Every now and then we come across a gift item that not only grabs our attention, but also makes us want to spray a powerful disinfectant on our eyeballs. This is such an item. It’s a coloring book containing explicit line drawings of a variety of venereal diseases, including, according to the publisher, “Genital Warts, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and More!” Talk about a fun and heartwarming holiday activity! But it’s not just entertaining: It’s also educational. As one Amazon reviewer wrote: “I had an STD but didn’t know which one I had but this book helped me figure it out! Turns out it was genital warts!” What a happy story! Yes, this truly is a unique gift, a gift that says to that special someone on your holiday list: “When I saw these illustrations of disgusting infections, I thought of you.”
"The whole lot of them — the public health bureaucrats, the phony scientists sucking up grant money, the pharmaceutical and food industries — must be punished, and RFK is the man to do it."
"Remember when Anthony “I Am the Science” Fauci showed up for congressional hearings wearing two masks, knowing full well that masks didn’t prevent the transmission of COVID?
"With great leadership like that, for two years, most of the country dutifully (or by legal sanction) walked around masked all the time — indoors, outdoors, on playgrounds, beaches and bikes. Day care centerstorturedinfants by forcing them into the completely useless masks; fist fights broke out on airplanes because the government was requiring flight attendants to makeeveryoneover the age of 2 wear a mask; and public school teachers sadisticallytapedmasks to kids’ faces.
"To this day, you still sometimes see the 6-foot markers on floors at airports, post offices and government buildings, mementos of the made-up distancing rule that “just sort of appeared,” according to Fauci. They’re like phrenology skulls or Aztec human sacrifice temples — artifacts of an odd and discredited belief system.
"In the face of 100 years of scientific knowledge, “I Am the Science” Fauci stubbornly denied the existence of natural immunity. Although studies consistently showed that prior COVID infection provided betterprotection than the vaccine — something even the E.U. recognized — our public health mandarins remained studiously ignorant of the science. (Not to be confused with “The Science,” which apparently is a small, egotistical Italian man with a godawful Brooklyn accent.)
"Nearly alone in the world, our government’s medical “experts” recommended repeated vaccine shots for healthy young people, age 5 and up, despite their facing near-zero risk from COVID, but serious risks from the vaccine, such asanaphylaxis,myocarditis, pericarditis and/or early death. Ask your doctor if the COVID vaccine is right for you!
"Fauci and Francis Collins, then head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), were so devoted to the scientific method that they conspired to manufacture a “quick and devastating published takedown” of scientists who dissented from their demand that the entire country be shut down — specifically, the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued against universal shutdowns, advocating instead for focused protection for the elderly, i.e., the only people at risk of death from COVID.
