21st November 2024
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20th November 2024
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19th November 2024

Another Fiasco for Trump as His Pick to Run Pentagon Suddenly Implodes (The New Republic) Say rather ‘crushed by the Narrative’.
Defense pick Peter Hegseth paid accuser to protect his career, his lawyer confirms (NPR) Knowing that all it takes is an accusation (Proof? Ain’t nobody got time for that.) to be destroyed.
Trump team weighs Pentagon pick after sexual assault allegation surfaces (Washington Poop)
Pompous ‘60 Minutes’ Smear Proves Team Trump’s Point About Skipping CBS
Lawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sex (ABC News) We lawyers call this ‘hearsay’ and there’s a reason it’s not admissible as evidence in court.
Trump’s War With the Press Takes a Terrifying Turn (Edith Olmsted/New Republic) Yeah. He’s winning.
Palestinian Authority Mouthpiece Says Trump Is ‘Full of Racism’ But Can Be Manipulated
Top House Democrat: Gabbard ‘a national security threat’ to US (Tara Suter/The Hill)
Cabinet Conniptions: TV Journalists MELT DOWN Over Trump’s Cabinet Picks
Berkeley Communists Call For “Righteous Anger & Revolutionary Determination” Against MAGA
How to Stop President-Elect Trump’s Potentially Abusive Domestic Deployments of the Military (Scott R. Anderson/The UnPopulist)
Health care organization launches ‘Stop RFK War Room’ (Megan Messerly/Politico)
Election Deniers? Same Left-Wing Group That Tried to Kick Trump Off Ballot Now Demands Recount
ACLU sues to get clues on Trump’s mass deportation plans (Russell Contreras/Axios)
Scoop: Trump personally squeezes senators on Matt Gaetz (Axios)
Bolton: Gabbard as DNI Should Give Relief to Russia, China
Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
Top Democrat on Ethics panel says she wants to publish Gaetz report (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
Republicans Who Voted for Merrick Garland as AG Complain About Matt Gaetz, Trump’s Choice
Biden locks in $6.6B for TSMC chip factories, ensuring Trump can’t rescind CHIPS Act deal (Phineas Hogan/Arizona Mirror) Gotta save that ten percent for the Big Guy.
Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Second Drug-Fueled Party in 2017 (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS) More allegations presented as if they were proof.
Google Hosts Party for Democratic Operatives Plotting To ‘Resist the Republican Agenda’
Threats Of Violence Against Trump Voters Surge
Kash Patel would do ‘massive damage’ to FBI: Ex-agent (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
Biden should order background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks (Frank Figliuzzi/MSNBC)
The corruption of MAGA comedy (Alexander Karn/Salon)
The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens (Steven Lubet/The Hill)
Throwback: Trump 2.0 is boosting some old economic ideas (Politico) Yeah, the ones that worked.
Recess appointments complicate Republican honeymoon (Washington Post) What ‘honeymoon’? Republicans haven’t had a ‘honeymoon’ since Eisenhower.
Democrats Used to Praise Trump’s New Border Czar for His Effectiveness at Deporting Illegal Aliens
The narrowest of margins – How to think about Donald Trump’s narrow, narrow victory (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario) So narrow that he won the popular vote.
‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say (Brian Stelter/CNN)
Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations (Arianna Coghill/Mother Jones)
Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations (New York Times) There’s an echo in here….
The Horror! ABC, CBS Scared of Trump’s Picks to Lead Energy Department, FCC
Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) If you’re getting flak, that means you’re over the target.
Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price (Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
NY judge adjourns Trump hearing without explanation, delaying sentencing (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)
Don’t let Matt Gaetz escape accountability – release the ethics report (Charlie Dent/MSNBC)
Fretting ‘Rule of Law’ With Trump Nominees, MSNBC Has Felon Embezzler As Guest
Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth are unqualified – Senate Republicans should reject them (Nick Akerman/The Hill)
Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations (Peter Baker/New York Times) How dare he?
ACLU Sues ICE in Advance of Trump Deportations
N.Y. Prosecutors Oppose Dismissing Trump’s Conviction Of course they do.
Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President (John Nichols/The Nation) ELECTION DENIER! ELECTION DENIER!
ABC Joins Tattoo Smear Against Hegseth, NBC Mad He Wants to Punish Afghanistan Generals
Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism (Nikita Mazurov/The Intercept)
A 2016 Replay? Trump Is Back in WH, and Guess What Google Is Up to Now
Trump Ally Claims Defamation by Lincoln Project
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17th November 2024
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17th November 2024
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“It is now clear that the Cop is no longer fit for purpose. We need a shift from negotiation to implementation,” they wrote.
“We need strict eligibility criteria to exclude countries who do not support the phase-out/transition away from fossil energy. Host countries must demonstrate their high level of ambition to uphold the goals of the Paris agreement,” they said.
We need to exclude those who don’t agree with us, and start cracking heads.
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17th November 2024
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President-elect Trump has barely announced his selections for various Cabinet posts and the liberal media starts firing journalistic broadsides at them.
Four Trump picks in particular have riled the so-called “mainstream” journos.
The nominee who drew instant wrath was Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, nominated as Attorney General.
Mind you, it is the Biden Department of Justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland that stand accused by Republicans of using the DOJ to weaponize the law and target both President-elect Trump and various members of his first administration. One Gaetz task will surely be to clean up the mess.
Following on the heels of Gaetz as a media target are three others – Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, Director of National Security nominee Tulsi Gabbard and Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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16th November 2024
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15th November 2024
RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination (The Guardian)
Democratic Colorado governor commends Trump for nominating RFK Jr. as HHS secretary (Fox)
RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ has health experts worried (CNN)
10 RFK Jr. conspiracy theories and false claims, in his own words (Washington Poop)
The Sanewashing of RFK Jr. (The Atlantic)
Jennings Goes to Battle in CNN’s Thunderdome Over Trump Picking RFK Jr. For HHS
Trump Officially Gives RFK Jr. Chance to Destroy Country’s Health (The New Republic)
Eva Longoria says her family no longer lives in ‘dystopian’ US (BBC) Trump for the win.
Hollywood actress despondent over Trump victory feels ‘anxiety’ for people stuck in America (Fox)
Eva Longoria opens up about choosing to live abroad (CNN)
Eva Longoria, who stumped for Kamala Harris, reveals she moved her family out of ‘dystopian’ US (New York Post)
The WRONG Way to Escape the USA (Nomad Capitalist)
‘Snow White’ Actress Goes Wicked Witch: Wishes Harm On Trump & All His Supporters
CNN’s Hunt, Foster Fret Over Huckabee’s Pro-Israel Views
Rand Paul has plans to kneecap the nation’s cyber agency (Maggie Miller/Politico)
Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis (Democracy Now) “Linked” by proglodytes, of course.
Los Angeles Mayor Pushes For Official Sanctuary City Status Before Trump Assumes Office
The Biden economy is about to get a new salesman: Donald Trump (Sam Sutton/Politico) I guess this is The New Narrative.
Trump moves to burn down the rule of law (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)
Trump Transition Live Updates: Some in G.O.P. Balk at Choice of Gaetz for Attorney General (New York Times) According to the Times.
Playbook: Trump floods the zone with new appointees (Politico) Unlike Democrats, he learns from his mistakes.
Pay Close Attention to Your Credit Card Balance Under Trump 2.0 (Erin Lowry/Bloomberg) FUD from the Narrative Media.
This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return (M. Gessen/New York Times) There’s the Left’s favorite word, ‘dark’.
Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks (CNN) Why give the minions of the Deep State time to make something up? Russia Collusion Hoax, anyone?
Trump is already testing Republicans, and they seem unwilling to defy him (Washington Post)
Vaccine Stocks Slide Further After Trump Taps RFK Jr. To Lead HHS; CNN Outraged
‘ROTTEN TO A CORE’: 5-Year FEMA Veteran Reveals Woke Bias at Disaster Relief Agency
Why the Gaetz Announcement Is Already Destroying the Government (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
Focus group: Swing voters wary of Musk-Trump relationship (Erin Doherty/Axios) “Swing voters”? Is there an election coming?
REGIME PROPAGANDA: NBC News Hides The REAL Reasons Behind The Left’s Latest X-odus Tantrum
Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters (Washington Post)
Trump’s Extreme Hires Are About Showing Republicans Who’s Boss (Rolling Stone) Extreme!
Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Resigns After Calling Trump Voters ‘F****** Fascists’
Putting RFK Jr. in charge of health breaks the first rule of medicine (New York Post) Yeah. “Doctors don’t get paid for curing diseases; doctors get paid for treating diseases.”
Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Biden set a pretty high bar.
Republican Election Sweep Emboldens Trump’s Tax Cut Dreams (Bloomberg) His and everybody’s else’s.
All The Right People Hate Trump’s Cabinet Picks
Mar-a-Lago intrigue rises as Trump eyes treasury secretary pick (Washington Post) Intrigue!
Iran Told U.S. It Wouldn’t Try to Kill Trump (Wall Street Journal) Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.
Influential Conservative Journalist Unleashes On ‘Vile Sex Pest’ Matt Gaetz (Sara Boboltz/HuffPost)
Decapitation Strike – Preserving America from Trump’s Appointments (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)
Trump Supporter Trolls Californian Leftists By Selling Fluoridated Drinking Water
CBS Frets Palestinians Are Scared of Trump’s Israeli Ambassador Pick Huckabee
Lost in Translation: Swing Voters’ Misperceptions of Harris And Late Turn To Trump (Ben/Blueprint)
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, was investigated for alleged sexual assault in 2017 (James Laporta/CBS News) Much like Trump.
Navarro Asks Adams If He Will ‘Let’ Trump Conduct Mass Deportations In New York
Vaccine Politics and American Decadence (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) Welcome to the new Narrative.
Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men (Clara Jeffery/Mother Jones)
Transgender-rights advocates say the election of Trump and his allies marks a major setback (David Crary/Associated Press) I certainly hope so.
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, faced sex assault allegation (Corky Siemaszko/NBC News) Much like Trump.
House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits (Noah Hurowitz/The Intercept)
WATCH: Howard Prof Once Floated as Biden Supreme Court Pick Says Pete Hegseth ‘Is Known To Be a White Supremacist’
John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop ‘freaking out’ over everything Trump does (Allan Smith/NBC News) Uncle Fester speaks.
Dem Rep. Says Tulsi Gabbard Is ‘Likely a Russian Asset’ (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)
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15th November 2024
The Bulwark, a Voice of the Crust.
IN THIS CRUCIAL PERIOD between the election and the inauguration, opponents of the president-elect need to use every feasible lever of power to defeat Trump’s movement, lest the country fail.
In this, they would be correcting a past mistake. The original response to Donald Trump’s rise was based on a strategic error. His critics and opponents thought he was an aberration, not a phenomenon—a recipe for quietism.
In the context of culture, we had Michelle Obama’s initial response: “When they go low, we go high.” The comforting conceit was that if Trump’s opponents continued to hold the moral high ground, Americans would eventually tire of the man’s shenanigans and return to their better natures. If you get down in the mud with a pig, the saying goes, you only get dirty.
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14th November 2024
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ABC top brass is scrambling to bring in pro-Trump hosts for “The View” and other top shows, the New York Post reports.
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13th November 2024

Trump’s defense choice stuns the Pentagon and raises questions about the Fox News host’s experience (Associated Press) Questions they never raised about Kamala.
Pete Hegseth Appointment Sparks Military Fury: ‘Beyond Stupid’ (Newsweek) I’d have picked Eric Prince.
‘We are in a new place’: Bernstein reacts to Hegseth’s comments about women in combat roles (CNN) Trotting out Carl Bernstein again? Scraaaaaaape that barrel….
Russia Attempts to Collect Its Winnings (emptywheel) The new Russia Collusion Hoax. An oldie but a goodie.
THE TWO DONALD TRUMPS (The Atlantic)
SNL Pretends To Support Trump To Stay Off ‘List Of Your Enemies’
Protests Break Out Across US in Response to Trump Winning the Election
Hostin Supports Axing Holidays With Trump-Voting Family, ‘Moral Issue’
US Senate Democrats rush to confirm judges before Trump takes office (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
Republicans Probing FEMA for Denying Hurricane Relief to Trump Backers
Rubio news triggers MAGA backlash (Politico) MAGA is the New Nazi.
Uniparty Establishment War On MAHA Heats Up
CNN’s Whitfield Touts Clyburn’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Fearmongering Over Election
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reveals Plans to Fire 600 Federal Health Workers (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)
Judge in Arizona election case against Trump allies is accused of anti-Trump bias (Politico)
Putin Aide Issues Ominous Warning About Trump’s New “Obligations” (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
Trump pledged to close the Education Department. What would that mean? (Washington Post) A lot of money saved, a lot of Federal leeches unemployed, a lot of kids not perverted.
Fired FEMA Supervisor Claims Avoiding Trump Homes Was A Widespread Practice Due To ‘Political Hostility’
CNN’s Hunt Questions Trump Pick of ‘Little Marco’: Doug Heye Has Great Comeback
‘Who the f–k is this guy?’: Defense world reacts to Trump’s surprise Pentagon pick (Politico)
Trump’s First Executive Order May Be a Military Purge (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) Speed the day.
Once They Were Neocons. Now Trump’s Foreign Policy Picks Are All ‘America First.’ (New York Times) Trump’s a learner.
CNN’s Scott Jennings SCHOOLS Panel Over Hegseth Pick as Secretary of Defense
Newsom Assures Californians They Will Be Safe From All The Trump Administration’s Prosperity, Safety, Lower Prices Babylon Bee.
Port Authority races to secure funds for Midtown bus terminal before Trump takes office
Playbook: Elon wears out his welcome (Politico)
Trump demands Senate recess to install Star Wars Bar (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
Special counsel Jack Smith and his team to resign before Trump takes office (NBC News) The first fruits of the Trump victory.
YouTuber Applauds as Families Divorce & Dissolve over Election
Trump Called His Win a ‘Historic Realignment’ of U.S. Politics. We Have Our Doubts. (New York Times) Of course you do.
Why Is PBS Allowed to Be Mangle-MAGA TV?
Pritzker, Colo. Gov. Polis launch governors’ coalition to protect against ‘threats of autocracy’ under Trump (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times)
Newsom Visits Washington To Shield California From Trump Policies
CNN’s Zakaria Admits Dems Lost Due to Ignoring Border and Anti-Trump Lawfare
Trump Puts Allies on Alert by Handing Pentagon to Fox News Host (Bloomberg)
Europe must build resilience against Trump’s America – and welcome those desperate to flee it (Alexander Hurst/The Guardian)
Former DC Officer Fanone Hunkers Down In Blue Ridge Mountains; “Fully Expects” Shootout With Trump Agents
In Trump’s mass deportation plan, the private prison industry sees a lucrative opportunity (ABC News)
Trump May Usher In Massive TV Station Land Grab (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Carl Bernstein: Putin, Netanyahu, China benefiting from Trump picks (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)
No, women aren’t likely to “boycott” men – but here’s why the idea matters (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
Lawmakers Reject Bill That Would Let Trump Destroy Nonprofits (Noah Hurowitz/The Intercept)
The Guardian Throws Tantrum Over Trump Victory, Says “No Longer Posting On X”
Don’t Give Up on the Truth – Striking out against injustice is always right; it always matters. (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)
Transcript: Paul Krugman on How Badly Trump Voters Have Been Scammed (New Republic)
Mitchell Spreads Fake News About SECDEF Nominee Hegseth, Female Pilots
ABC, CBS Pitch Hissy Fits Over Trump Joking About Staying in WH After 2028
Trump Makes Chilling Joke About Staying in Power Forever (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
U.S. Left Loses It As Trump Reaches Outside D.C. Bubble for Cabinet Nominees
Democrat Moves to Clarify the 22nd Amendment After Trump Refers to Running for Third Term (Annie Karni/New York Times)
Republicans “stunned and disgusted” as Trump taps Matt Gaetz for AG (Axios)
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13th November 2024
Newsbusters.
President-elect Donald Trump may have overcome Google’s election interference, but the search giant continues to rig presidential race search results.
The Media Research Center found that Google provided a desert of left and legacy media sources for conservatives to wander through in search of right-of-center presidential race coverage on Nov. 12—exactly one week after the election. MRC researchers once again utilized the media list provided by AllSides, which classifies publications based on their “right” to “left” bias, and searched for the terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris” presidential race 2024.” The first U.S.-based right-of-center result for the Trump prompt did not appear until the sixth search result on page 11, a New York Post article. This means that users had to pass over around a hundred search results before The Post.
Google did not display a single article from a U.S.-based right-of-center outlet in the 24 pages of search results for the Harris prompt. The first right-of-center result appeared on page six in the form of a Fox News video.

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13th November 2024
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And the finger-pointing continus….
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11th November 2024
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10th November 2024
Trump, Who Was Charged with Mishandling Secrets, Will Get Classified Briefings Again (Brian Bennett/Time) Apparently, when it comes to Trump, just being charged is a sufficient proof of guilt.
Election autopsy: 5 POLITICO reporters weigh in on what mattered (Politico) Four females and one male, which tells you nothing about Trump but a lot about Politico.
Cuban implies Trump’s tariff threat having negative impact ‘right now’ (Juliann Ventura/The Hill) Yeah, well, how bright can he be? He supported Harris.
‘Normalized A Sociopath’: George Conway Tells ‘Sad Story’ That Led To Trump’s Win (Josephine Harvey/HuffPost)
Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? (Timothy Snyder/New Yorker) It means you don’t know the meaning of the word.
None of the conventional explanations for Trump’s victory stand up to scrutiny (Ben Davis/The Guardian)
Scientific American Editor-In-Chief Has Spectacular Post-Election Social Media Meltdown
Nicole Scherzinger apologizes for ‘hurt’ caused by her commenting, ‘liking’ pro-Donald Trump posts
Sad: Liberal Forced To Have Second Meltdown After Forgetting To Press Record Babylon Bee.
Student President Of Harvard’s Institute Of Politics Calls For End Of Non-Partisanship After Trump Victory
Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish (Associated Press)
Liberal Cat Ladies Reveal “Battle Plan” To Poison Trump Men With Aqua Tofana
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10th November 2024
The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.
One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown.
Although most Americans agree that transgender people should not face discrimination in housing and employment, there is nowhere near the same level of support for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports—which is why Donald Trump kept bringing up the issue. His campaign also barraged swing-state voters and sports fans with ads reminding them that Kamala Harris had previously supported taxpayer-funded gender-reassignment surgery for prisoners. The commercials were effective: The New York Times reported that Future Forward, a pro-Harris super PAC, found that one ad “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.” The Harris campaign mostly avoided the subject.’
Judging by articles like this one, I’d bet on them not getting one.
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10th November 2024
Axios, a Voice of the Crust.
A fierce divide has emerged from the early autopsies of Democrats’ election disaster: Was it policy — or culture — that doomed the party with working-class Americans?
Why it matters: Joe Biden touted himself as the most pro-union president in U.S. history. He joined a picket line, bailed out union pensions and invested massively in manufacturing jobs. And yet working-class voters still flocked to Donald Trump in droves.
Zoom in: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who campaigned for Vice President Harris, was unsparing in his critique this week of a party that he believes “has abandoned working-class people.”
A pointed reminder that ‘pro-union’ doesn’t equal ‘pro-working-class’.
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10th November 2024
New York Times.
After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.
Oh, ya think?
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10th November 2024
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I don’t really know why Kamala Harris lost. The best explanation I’ve seen is that Harris ran into a buzzsaw of anti-incumbent post-pandemic disillusionment that has played out across the developed world. You can add more strategic or tactical explanations about her candidacy — the timing of Biden’s exit, specific themes she pursued — but I am not sure it overwhelms this.
Let the finger-pointing continue….
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10th November 2024
Washington Free Beacon.
“Ungoverning” is a term invented by Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, political scientists respectively at Dartmouth and Harvard, to describe the project of “deconstructing the administrative state [conducted] by a reactionary movement.” This would include elected Republican officials and Supreme Court justices, aimed at depriving government of the ability to govern. But the individual they hold most responsible for this is former and future president Donald Trump, who brought decades of preexisting “hostility toward government to a crescendo.”
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The authors pursue their critique of Trumpian ungoverning through a consistently one-sided analysis. For instance, relying on a single New York Times article from April 2020, they allege that even in the COVID emergency, the Republican goal of “incapacitating government prevailed”—disregarding the remarkably rapid success of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership established by the Trump administration that developed effective vaccines by the end of that year. They also scold Trump for “imped[ing] the Centers for Disease Control … from issuing its own public guidance” on how to minimize COVID transmission. This ignores infectious disease czar Anthony Fauci’s subsequent admission that his six-foot distancing rule was something he arbitrarily invented; Fauci’s dogged dismissal, backed by National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins, of the evidence that the virus originated in a Chinese lab, not a “wet market”; and the costs (to the economy and especially to schoolchildren) of extended, bureaucratically devised lockdowns.
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10th November 2024
The New Republic.
Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.
So the problem wasn’t that Trump was better, or that the media lied, or that Harris was just a dumpster fire of a candidate — no, the problem was messaging.
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9th November 2024
The Guardian.
t has been an extraordinary week for US politics – and a very depressing couple of days for those such as me who spent hours on the phone to people, trying to persuade them to vote for Kamala Harris and not Donald Trump. This is what voters told me time and again, and why so many did vote for Trump.
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9th November 2024
Newsbusters.
t’s been a rough few days for the leftist media elites, they have been in anguish ever since Election Day.
The mix of anger and sadness poured out as they called the massive win for Donald Trump and the GOP a “nightmare” and questioned if America had “given up on democracy.” Journalists like Stephanie Ruhle warned that the voters had just “f’d around” and were about to “find out.”
MSNBC’s Joy Reid lectured Latino men: “Y’all voted with….David Duke and against your own sisters.” MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill choked back tears as she worried that America had turned their backs on their “better angels,” by electing Trump.
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8th November 2024
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On her Thursday show, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner decried the fact that when women get married, their support for Republicans goes up. Not only that, Wagner claimed that such voting patterns show a disregard for “their black and brown sisters,” whose lives are supposedly threatened by the GOP.
Wagner lamented to CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Maya Wiley, “I want for a moment to, like, just, for a moment, talk about this loss of allyship in a very desperate time, that not only were white non-college educated women voting for Trump and against Harris, they were voting against the interest of their black and brown sisters in parts of the country where their lives are in danger, but, whether because of healthcare deserts, abortion deserts, or any other factors, and it’s a phenomenon that happens increasingly as women get married, and I wonder, you know, the plight of black and brown women in this country extends well past the fortunes of Kamala Harris.”
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7th November 2024
Newsbusters.
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio underlined how firmly it’s on Team Kamala by airing a story on Monday’s Morning Edition hyping the notion that women were secretly voting for Kamala despite their pig-headed Trump-backing husbands. The headline was “Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret.”
Never mind that if they’re voting for her, they’re not conservative.
The Narrative Media seem to believe that when they say something it’s automatically true, even when it obviously isn’t.
I actually saw a commercial to that effect. It revolved around two ‘conservative’ women cunningly voting for Kamala while brightly lying to their husbands and sharing that girls-putting-one-over-on-the-stupid-boys look. I doubt that there is any conservative man doesn’t know for a fact how his wife will vote no matter what she might tell him, and I also doubt that any conservative man would either marry someone who would vote for a dumpster fire like Kamala or remain married to her if she did. (And he would know. Men aren’t as stupid as women like to pretend that they are.)
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6th November 2024
The New Yorker, Voice of the Crust.
Susan B. Glasser loses her shit.
Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an aberration, a terrible mistake—a consequential one, to be sure, yet still fundamentally an error. But America has now twice elected him as its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be. His victory was a worst-case scenario—that a convicted felon, a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the nation’s Capitol, who calls America “a garbage can for the world,” and who threatens retribution against his political enemies could win—and yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened.
Gee, I guess The People aren’t buying your Woke bullshit any more, huh?
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6th November 2024
Rolling Stone, Voice of the Crust.
Andrew Perez loses his shit.
It happened, again: Democrats lost a winnable election to a racist, orange-makeup-wearing carnival barker, despite his odiousness, immorality, and unbridled corruption.
Don’t hold it in, Andrew; tell us how you really feel.
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6th November 2024
The Bulwark, Voice of the Neocon Deep State.
Bill Kristol and Andrew Eggar lose their shit.
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6th November 2024
Newsbusters.
Amazon pulled Brian Williams out of media exile on Tuesday to helm their election night coverage and when it became clear that Donald Trump would win, he proved not much has changed since his MSNBC days. Williams must have spent his exile in cave because he claimed that Republicans win because they have become “stone cold killers,” while Democrats are just “student council presidents” who are recycling nerds and if Democrats want to win again, this needs to change.
Fellow former MSNBC-er Abby Huntsman explained what Democrats are going to do next, “You always have a full autopsy, Brian, whenever you figure out if you lose it, what did we do wrong?”
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6th November 2024
The Hill, Voice of the Crust.
Max Burns loses his shit.
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6th November 2024
New York Times.
The Grey Lady loses her shit.
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6th November 2024
The Hill, Voice of the Crust.
Liz Cheney loses her shit.
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6th November 2024
The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.
Tom Nichols loses his shit.
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6th November 2024
OffMessage, Voice of the Crust.
Brian Beutler (sounds like Hitler) loses his shit.
Guess he was more comfortable with the Old Autocracy.
The United States and the world will soon be in the hands of mercurial, vindictive, greedy men with scores to settle and few checks on their power.
Oh? Did Joe Biden get re-elected?
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6th November 2024
The Atlantic., Voice of the Crust.
David Frum loses his shit.
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6th November 2024
Politico.
Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail.
He was already the first former president ever to be charged with and convicted of felonies. Now he has become the first convicted felon ever to win a presidential election. And his victory virtually guarantees that he will never face serious legal accountability for an avalanche of alleged wrongdoing.
Trump’s imminent return to the White House shatters years of work by special counsel Jack Smith to convict Trump for his attempt to subvert the 2020 election and for the stockpile of classified documents he kept at his Florida estate.
It halts the prosecution he is facing in Georgia for his 2020 election plot as well.
It almost certainly allows Trump to postpone any sentence on his New York conviction for covering up a hush money scheme in 2016.
In short, the president-elect is now his own judge and jury, insulated from the criminal consequences he might have faced without the legal force field of the Oval Office.
And it BURNS, doesn’t it? Wave goodbye to the kangaroo courts hopping for cover.
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6th November 2024
Read it.
The censorship and manipulation of political information by Big Tech companies led by “woke” white-collar activists, corporate media, fact-checkers funded by far-left billionaires, a web of leftist-controlled non-profits, and the censorship blob in Washington, DC – all working in unison to combat free speech and control public narratives is at its worst: election interference.
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5th November 2024

Wikipedia Cites Laughable Sources in Sickening Trump-Fascist-Nazi Comparison
US election 2024: Polls open with Harris-Trump result on a knife edge – live updates (The Guardian)
Who won the day? Harris (Politico)
ABC Calls on GOP to Vote Dem, Floats Cheney as AG for Her ‘Moral Core’
RFK Jr Says Trump Plans To Remove Fluoride From American Drinking Water Doubtful.
How Trump Could Ban Abortion Without Congress (Politico)
A Georgia Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results (ProPublica)
A Key Trump Staffer Was Fired Last Week For Being a White Nationalist (Amanda Moore/Politico)
NYC Equinox Kicks Out Gym Patron Over Trump Shirt
Trump threatens 100 percent tariffs on Mexico, largest U.S. trade partner (Jeff Stein/Washington Post) Also our largest source of illegal immigrants.
A pro-Trump influencer says a Russian agent paid him $100 to post a fake voter fraud video. It wasn’t the first time (CNN)
Trump Announces Dumbest Person You Know Will Lead Missile Defense (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) The dumbest person I know is Kamala Harris.
The MAGA Propaganda Machine Has Successfully Censored Voices Calling Out its Lies (Renee DiResta/The UnPopulist)
Trump organizer who secretly hosted white-nationalist podcast is fired (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)
JD Vance calls for loving fellow Americans before labeling Harris “trash” (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)
THE END: Trump-Deranged Joy Reid Delivers UNHINGED Opening Editorial
Proud Boys claim they’ll be at polling places as Trump ups violent rhetoric and election fraud claims (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
“They’re very scared”: Migrants anxiously monitor U.S. election, fearing Trump win (CBS News)
Rapid spread of election disinformation stokes alarm (Miranda Nazzaro/The Hill)
Trump and allies have primed supporters to falsely believe he has no chance of losing (Stephen Fowler/NPR)
It’s Been Four Years. How Ready Are We for ‘Stop the Steal 2.0’? (Kim Wehle/The Bulwark)
Will America become Russia? (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)
PBS-Picked Prof Warns of ‘Very Dangerous Rhetoric’ from Trumpian Evangelical Christians
From ‘Clingers’ To ‘Garbage’ – Why The 16 Years Of Vilification? Because that’s the way they roll.
‘I went to a Trump rally – the curtains are closing on his circus’ (Pablo O’Hana/Metro.co.uk)
CNN’s Kasie Hunt Closes the Campaign with Badly Disguised Kamala Commercial
Harris’s people look confident. The Trump campaign appears panicky: ‘He’s realizing that he could lose’ (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)
MAGA outrage over wives voting for Kamala Harris is funny – but it’s also dangerous (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) So is Amanda Marcotte.
How Trump used the ‘red mirage’ in vote counting to deny his 2020 loss (Washington Post)
What happens if Trump tries to overturn another election loss? (Cameron Joseph/Christian Science Monitor)
Nicolle Wallace on Vance calling Harris ‘trash:’ ‘You just effed up’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)
Oprah Winfrey warns that not voting for Harris could mean never being able to ‘cast a ballot again’ (Washington Examiner) Certainly if Harris wins.
Literal Neo-Nazi Leader Endorses Trump (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone) What, you expect him to endorse Harris?
ABC Hopes for Harris Wins With ‘Unity & Optimism’ Over ‘Anti-Immigrant,’ ‘Dark’ Trump He’s not very dark; hasn’t been for, oh, twenty years now.
Trump Campaign Finishes the Election by Taking Revenge on the Media (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine) Good.
Maddow, Reid, Wallace: For Election Night, MSNBC Assembles the ‘Primetime Avengers’!
Google Makes Its Preference Clear, Continues Search Manipulation on Election Day
I’m a Presidential Historian. This Is My Biggest Regret About Trump. (Jon Meacham/New York Times)
Short On Cash After 2016 Election, Trump Secured Secret Loan (Dan Alexander/Forbes) Dunh– dunh- DUNH……..
Trump campaign denies and revokes journalists’ election night credentials after critical coverage (CNN) Sauce for the goose….
Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say (Reuters) Ah, yes, ‘experts’.
Google Explains Why Search for ‘Where Can I Vote for Harris’ Showed a Map While Similar Trump Search Didn’t (Todd Spangler/Variety) Who would want to vote for Trump?
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5th November 2024
The Atlantic, Voice of the Crust.
Some liberals insist that they’re not joking this time: They are very scared, and very ready to leave the country if Donald Trump is reelected.
Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
PSA: Go Where You’re Treated Best
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5th November 2024
Read it.
She presented herself with a huge smile, her words crisp and her gaze confident as she looked across the high school auditorium of prospective voters. In bedazzled shoes, a bright red dress, and a blonde blowout, she stood assured like a pageant queen.
Friends and family donning T-shirts with the words “Make Education Great Again” sat in the front rows. They were eager to hear Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction, make the case that her lack of experience in public education is just what North Carolina students need.
“I think one of my greatest qualifications is I have no experience in a failing system,” she said in the October 14 debate at a high school in Pinehurst.
Can’t say she’s wrong, although The Intercept, a thinly-disguised Voice of the Crust, suggests that she’s delusional — and even gets in a dig against Trump.
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4th November 2024
Read it.
YouTube is still suppressing ongoing discussions on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and treatment nearly five years after the start of the pandemic.
Eagle Forum hosted its Eagle Council 52 conference last month, which featured a plethora of speakers including renowned cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough. During his speech, Dr. McCullough mentioned some of the most pernicious impacts of the COVID-19 virus and vaccines. He also noted how censorship continues to impact discussions surrounding health and the pandemic. YouTube, however, censored Eagle Forum’s video of Dr. McCullough’s speech for allegedly “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”
Eagle Forum President Kris Ullman blasted YouTube for its censorship in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America. “Dr. McCullough spoke eloquently about the dangers to medicine and science when certain opinions are silenced. The idea that YouTube can censor a practicing doctor, who actually treated COVID patients, is outrageous,” she said.
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