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Even a youth football team is considered fair game by some extremist attackers, as long as the players are—or appear to be—Jewish. The 13-to-16-year-olds squad of Germany’s Makkabi Berlin, a team set up in the 1970s by Holocaust survivors, was attacked last week.

While playing in the Berlin borough of Neukölln, known for its large Arab and Turkish population, players were reportedly “hunted down” by a gang of Arab youths, armed with sticks and knives and shouting “free Palestine” and “f*****g Jews.”

One father took to social media to describe how his son was “deeply shaken” after being “insulted and even spat on several times.” He also accused the match’s referee of failing to properly intervene.

ZMan lays it out.

Trump has made it clear that he wants to use tariffs to redirect investment into the domestic economy. Another name turning up as a possible addition to the Trump team is Robert Lighthizer, who is both a China hawk and the architect of Trump’s trade policy in his first term. It is important to note that the changes Trump ushered in were not rolled back under Biden. Taken together, it is a clear sign that Trump 2.0 will be much more hawkish on the trade front.

Those familiar with the regulatory world remember the wild ride it was in Trump’s first term as they went on a deregulation spree. Expect Trump 2.0 to be even more aggressive, especially on the environmental front. His nominee for the EPA is Lee Zeldin, who the Gaia worshipers detest. Trump made it clear with the announcement that his job will be to clear the dense thicket of environmental regulations that make it hard to put a shovel in the ground for any reason.

Trump 2.0 will be helped by the courts in this regard. This year the Supreme Court ended what had been termed the Chevron deference. This was the rule that said the courts should defer to the regulatory agencies whenever there was ambiguity in the laws passed by Congress. Of course, this meant that everything passed by Congress was as vague as possible, to give total control to the agencies. This has been turned on its head by the courts.

“Chevron deference” was a great wart on the American legal system. We are well rid of it.

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The media spent months pre-hyping Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. In its aftermath, stories claimed that the lip-synching sensation’s Instagram post drove half a million fans to not only buy overpriced merchandise, but to register to vote in the 2024 election.

The Kamala campaign embraced ‘Brat’ branding based on an album from a British half-Muslim pop star few Americans ever heard of. It brought out Beyonce to campaign (crucially not to sing) for Kamala who had tried to model her fanbase, the KHive, on Beyonce’s rabid Beyhive fans.

Kamala brought Oprah and Lady Gaga to Philly and Katy Perry to Pittsburgh. Julia Roberts cut an ad telling women to hide their votes from their husbands. In Michigan, white wife-killing enthusiast rapper Eminem headlined a Kamala rally while Obama rapped the opening of his ‘Lose Yourself’ (unintentionally revealing that he’s just as authentically black as Eminem.)

The American Mind.

On a long drive the day after Trump’s victory, after absolutely no sleep, deeply hungover, I turned to liberal radio as a much-needed painkiller. First I tried NPR, but even their coping and seething was too appalling to bear. So I sought out another source: Pod Save America, the famous podcast hosted by three famous former Obama staffers known for being Very Good Boys.

What struck me is how closely the hosts—Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor—conform to a single archetype: that of the effeminate, white, male valedictorian-cum-Brooklyn striver under whose boot we’ve all been stuck for two decades. They are each one a variation on this platonic form, their speech patterns recognizable by the vocal fry that communicates, “I’m safe” while a certain scruffy growl from time to time adds, “but I’m still a guy.”

Members of this class are defined by a very specific perspective. I’ve noticed it ever since first encountering the species in New York in 2007. This perspective accounts for the major difference between what middle-class people teach their kids and what elites teach their kids—what state schools teach their students versus what the Ivys do. You can hear it vividly throughout the episode.

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Yet the solution they come up with is that they need more of a “narrative approach” to “storyelling,” so they can…continue to manipulate people into voting for them. At no point do they address what they actually believe. At no point do they consider that perhaps their beliefs are simply wrong, or perhaps insane, or perhaps completely radical. At no point do they wonder whether the problem might be, not that Democrats aren’t perceived as the party of working people anymore, but that they actually aren’t.

SciTechDaily.

A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international collaborators transforms scientists’ understanding of how small DNA circles — until recently dismissed as inconsequential — are major drivers of many types of human cancers.

The papers, published simultaneously in Nature on Nov. 6, detail the prevalence and prognostic impact of the circles, called ecDNA for extrachromosomal DNA, in nearly 15,000 human cancers; highlight a novel mode of inheritance that overthrows a fundamental law of genetics; and describe an anti-cancer therapy targeting the circles that is already in clinical trials.

Donald Trump has promised a closed border and mass deportations. Those affected are taking action now (CNN)

What Trump’s mass deportation plan would mean for immigrant workers and the economy (CNBC)

Ramaswamy backs Trump’s mass deportations as ‘pragmatic’ approach (Politico)

Trump’s mass deportation plan is ‘where we need to start,’ says Sen. Barrasso (NBC)

Why Trump’s 2nd withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will be different (Politico)

Ramaswamy: Dems Should Back Down From Trump ‘Histrionics’

Immigration advocates brace for Trump: ‘Buckle up’ (Rafael Bernal/The Hill)

CNN Reboots Old Trump-Era Classic: MUH NORMS

There’s a Lot of Fighting Over Why Harris Lost. But Everyone Seems to Want to Avoid This Explanation. (Nadira Goffe/Slate)  Apparently Trump is a ‘fascist-loving felon’. Who knew?

MSNBC Is Still Unable to Cope With Trump’s Gains Among Latinos

Virginia Professors Infantilize Students and Selves Over Trump Win

Will Trump’s hush money conviction stand? A judge will rule on the president-elect’s immunity claim (Associated Press)

Round 2 in the Trump-vs-Mexico matchup looks ominous for Mexico (Associated Press)

California Group Rebranded as Anti-Trump Coalition Hours After the Election. It Could Suggest an Incoming Windfall for Progressive Orgs.

‘Managing Stress During Change’: Biden-Harris State Department Holds Therapy Session After Trump Win

The mirror of fascism in big tech

Courts restrained Trump in first term. Will they ‘check’ his power again? (Devin Dwyer/ABC News)

Protecting the rule of law under Trump is going to be precarious (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)  Unlike under Biden, where it was nonexistent.

Trump and Musk: The Bromance That Cannot Last (David Nasaw/New York Times)

Against Panic: A Survival Kit (Margaret Renkl/New York Times)  It would appear that the people who are meltime down most hysterically over Trump winning are all women.

How The View’s Sunny Hostin Killed Kamala’s Chances Of Topping Trump

Billionaire Pratt Will Move To America After Trump Win As Liberals Flee To Canada

CNN’s Acosta Frets Trump ‘Radical Ultranationalist Agenda’ with Dem Congressman

Stop Handwringing, Start Fighting (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Authoritarianism Expert Shatters A Trump ‘Illusion’: ‘One Of The Biggest Scams Of All’ (Lee Moran/HuffPost)  Every Democrat (or is that Emocrat?) is an expert on authoritarianism.

WATCH: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Wrecks Anthony Scaramucci for Anti-Trump Grift

John Oliver Exposes Trump’s Likely Cabinet: ‘Oops! All A**holes’ (Sean L. McCarthy/The Daily Beast)

‘Nostradamus’ Prof Blames Elon Musk “Director Of Misinformation” For Huge Democrat Loss

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it (Richard Seymour/The Guardian)  To the Guardian, there is no right but the far-right.

Glasser Spews Anti-Trump Bitterness, ‘Campaign of Lies Around Immigration’

Leaving on a Jet Plane? Trump Haters Could “Skip Forward” on a Four-Year Cruise

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It is no coincidence that both of the Democratic Party’s ‘black’ presidential nominees were not black Americans, but the children of radical third world students who appropriated the rhetoric of the civil rights movement to get ahead, without having any actual history or part in it.

Obama and Kamala are not the legacy of the slave trade, much as they have exploited that history, but the third world immigrants and students ushered in by the JFK administration.

Barack Obama Sr., Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris all arrived in America as foreign students within a few years of each other. They were part of a flood of foreign students brought to America by Cold War legislation meant to educate foreign elites in the United States.

Instead of ‘Americanizing’ the third world, Obama, Gopalan, Harris and thousands of others like them helped radicalize and ‘third worldize’ America. Many of the foreign students, like Kamala’s parents, never had any real intention of going home. Some stayed to radicalize American colleges and their American born children absorbed their politics and hostility to America.

Quillette.

Mind viruses seem to be all the rage these days. In his 2020 bestseller Parasitic Mind, evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad identifies “the tyranny of political correctness” and other “infectious ideas” that are harming our societies. A year later, from a different ideological angle, the philosopher Andy Norman published Mental Immunity, a guide to boosting your mental immune system against infectious “mind parasites.” And in his popular science book Foolproof (2022), psychologist Sander Van der Linden advocates “mental inoculation” against misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories. In various ways, each of these books suggests that beliefs act like infectious parasites spreading from one brain to the next.

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Jamal Simmons, a former aide to Vice President Harris, called for President Biden to resign so that the vice president can have his role for a short amount of time.

“Joe Biden’s been a phenomenal president, he’s lived up to so many of the promises he’s made. There’s one promise left that he could fulfill, being a transitional figure,” Simmons said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on a panel featuring anchor Dana Bash, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

“He could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, make Kamala Harris president of the United States,” he continued, drawing shocked reactions from others.

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As we have already highlighted, Kamala had demanded to only appear for an hour with Rogan, and wanted to do it outside of his studio, meaning he would have had to travel to a location of her choosing.

Needless to say, Rogan refused to meet the demands, reasoning that it simply wouldn’t be an episode of his podcast if that was to happen.

Rogan unveiled more of what went on with discussions between his team and Kamala’s campaign, noting “There were a few restrictions of things they wanted to talk about…They wanted to know if I’d edit it. I’m like, there’s no editing.”

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A neighborhood patrol organization in Crown Heights, a central neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, posted shocking footage on X showing a masked man attempting to snatch a child from his father while they were walking down the street.

“At approximately 3:30 p.m., this deeply concerning incident took place in the heart of Crown Heights. We are working hand in hand with the @NYPD71pct in identifying the perpetrator. Kudos to the father for his quick action,” Crown Heights Shomrim wrote on X.

Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, member of Community Board 9 in Crown Heights, NY, wrote on X, “This video is shocking. A perpetrator grabbed a Chasidic child who was walking with his father today at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Kingston near Lefferts Ave.”

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X owner Elon Musk, an avowed supporter of Presidential-elect Donald Trump and a potential administration assistant to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in government, tweeted a screen shot of a Newsmax broadcast this week.

The red-and-blue election state-by-state map on Thursday’s “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” noted nearly all of the states that chose Vice President Kamala Harris were ones that have no voter ID on the books.

“Must be a coincidence ?,” Musk tweeted Sunday morning, sharing the Newsmax graphic that highlighted the impact of states that block voter ID requirements election integrity-seeking Republicans have long called for.

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While the anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses was tempered during the final months of the election campaigns, the rhetoric is reportedly getting more extreme now.

“We’re at that inflection point,” Columbia University adjunct associate professor Mitchell Silber, who runs a nonprofit to provide security for New York City’s Jewish communities, told The Washington Post.

“We’re starting to see a radicalization of their message: Blatantly pro-Hamas, blatantly pro-Hezbollah, blatantly pro-Houthis.”

UPDATE: Amsterdam Police Detain Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Banned Demonstration

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The complaints directed at FEMA leadership keep coming weeks after Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina and the 2024 presidential election flipped U.S. leadership.

Savage Operations founder Adam Smith, whose group assisted hurricane relief, claimed FEMA led with a culture of “fear” under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris amid the reported skipping of homes with Donald Trump campaign signs.

“And one of the interesting thing was, is it was stated that, Hey, we can’t have our fingerprints on this, which I think leads back to the actual question, which is, What sort of culture and what sort of fear is there in place at some of the lower levels of FEMA personnel where they’re afraid they’re going to lose their job if they don’t speak up against actions that are blatantly not aligned with what the organization is supposed to be doing?” Smith said in a TV interview, as reported by Mediaite.

Defense News.

By 2030, the U.S. could have approximately 2.1 million unfilled manufacturing jobs. Not only are these lost opportunities for American workers, but this magnitude of unfilled manufacturing jobs could negatively impact the U.S. economy, costing us more than $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

Part of that cost will be realized in reduced production capacity, limited adoption of new, more efficient technologies and overall slower pace of development and innovation. Beyond the economic implications, our nation’s unfilled defense manufacturing jobs have significant national security implications for our country.

Forbes.

Moving abroad normally involves months of preparation, but many Americans feel a sense of urgency to leave the U.S. quickly. Here are 3 countries where you can launch a new life starting today.

UPDATE: Record numbers of wealthy Americans are making plans to leave the U.S. after the election (CNBC)

UPDATE: Californians reportedly preparing to flee country pending election results (New York Post)

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The physical world is an intricate dance between matter, information, and energy. Recognizing that mitochondria are alive will open new horizons into how we learn about, and build with, biology.

The cells within our body are the remnants of an ancient alliance.

In a 1967 paper called “On the Origin of Mitosing Cells,” American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis proposed an idea that, upon first hearing, seems ludicrous. Her paper, in fact, was rejected by 12 different journals before it was published.

Margulis argued that one-and-a-half billion years ago, a primitive eukaryotic cell engulfed an oxygen-utilizing bacterium. But rather than digesting this bacterium — or conversely, the bacterium destroying its newfound host — the two cells gradually entered into an endosymbiotic relationship; the host provided nutrients and protection to the bacterium, and the bacterium supplied energy to the host. Margulis argued that this endosymbiosis event was a seminal “innovation engine” for biological systems, ultimately leading to the modern mitochondrion and chloroplast.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Good.

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Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according to a document obtained by 404 Media.

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Thank you, Gavin Newsom.

Time to leave.

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

ZMan:

Watching the jubilation from the Trump fans online, I am amazed how they seem to have forgotten what happened in his first term. His party, the other party, permanent Washington, the judiciary and the intelligence community worked to thwart him. It is only reasonable to assume they will do the same this time, maybe without the theatrics. Trump is wiser now and he has some support from the economic elites, but he still faces the orc army of managerialism.

That does not mean it is hopeless. It just means expectations need to be tempered. The most we can expect from Trump is for him to move the ball down the field, so that Vance can start from better field position if he wins in 2028. In fact, one of the top priorities of this term should be to set up Vance to take the baton from Trump and continue the fight. Every mortgage payment in Washington depends on Trump failing, so no one should expect a glorious revolution.

Naval Gazing.

American naval captains, like their British forebears, command a great deal of authority. In the US Navy, a captain is wholly and entirely responsible for maintaining the safety of their vessel, its crew, and accomplishing the missions that they are assigned. They have sole command of all aspects of their ship’s operation, from watch rotations to weapons employment. This tradition of sole command is so inculcated into Anglo-American naval traditions that it is difficult for us to imagine any other way of running a navy ship. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), however, offers an alternative system. Instead of being commanded by individuals, as US and UK naval vessels are, PLAN vessels have a dual command system, where a captain and a political officer assume joint responsibility for major decisions. In their report, Party on the Bridge: Political Commissars in the Chinese Navy, Jeff Benson and Zi Yang look at this very different system of commanding a naval vessel, examine its strengths and weaknesses and highlight how it may lead to misunderstandings when US and Chinese naval units encounter each other at sea.

All Communist countries do this. The Soviet Union was famous for stationing commisars behind their tropps with machine guns to ensure nobody tried to retreat.

For a hint of how well this works, read the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, available from Baen Books,  Amazon, and wherever fine literature is sold. (Or watch the behavior of sampolit Putin in The Hunt for Red October).

Freeberg nails it.

It’s the weekend. The election was on Tuesday.

I have seen and heard from many, many Harris supporters struggling to figure out how their side lost. Many of them are reporting what they’ve seen and heard from others. Many ideas. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. Not all unique, but…lots of effort to figure out where they went wrong.

Not a single one has said anything even vaguely resembling: We conjured up all these fearful prognostications about what life would be under a guy who’s been President already. We didn’t scare ’em like we wanted to. Because he’s been President already.

The Foundry.

Billionaires favored Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election over President-elect Donald Trump, according to Forbes’ analysis of campaign finance disclosures.

Eighty-three billionaires threw verbal or financial support behind Harris, while 53 backed Trump, according to Forbes. Trump’s victory on election night came despite a massive financial disadvantage, with his campaign raising $388 million as of Oct. 16, compared to the nearly $1 billion the Harris campaign had collected.

A coalition of Harris’ wealthy backers wrote a letter in September explaining their support for her.

A pointed reminder that Democrats remain the Party of the Rich.

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An essential mission for many educators throughout the country is the indoctrination of their students. The newest arrival on the propaganda front is Israel. In August, one of the topics of a United Teachers of Los Angeles meeting was “How to be a teacher & an organizer. . . and NOT get fired.”

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Yeah, I’d say that’s the case — not just the image, but the party itself.

Democrats are having a full-blown identity crisis.

No, they aren’t. They know who they are; they just don’t see a way clear to pulling the wool over they citizenry they way they’ve become used to

Days after Kamala Harris’ defeat, the extent of their party’s failure is becoming increasingly clear. It’s bad enough that Democrats are still losing working-class whites, as they have in recent elections. Now, exit polls show blue-collar Latinos and some Black men, long a core part of the Democratic base, are abandoning the party, too, fueling electoral shellackings. Republicans flipped the Senate and are padding their majority. Democrats’ path to a majority in the House is narrowing. And Donald Trump won in what could only be described as a landslide in the modern era.

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In interviews with 16 elected officials, party leaders and strategists, Democrats from both wings of the party agreed they have stopped knowing how to talk to the working class, once the very core of their identity. But they were deeply divided on where to place the blame — and what to do about it. Just like Donald Trump’s victory did in 2016 — and in 2020, when he lost by a smaller margin than expected — his return to the White House is fueling a raging debate between the party’s progressive and moderate wings about where to go from here.

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.

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’.

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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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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A 33-year-old woman was returning home to Germany from Iran on Oct. 28 when she ran into some trouble with customs officers at Hamburg airport. When asked whether she had brought any goods that required declaration from her five-week trip, she denied having any, reports Bild.

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The total value of the items was some €15,000, with the woman facing a charge of €3,400 in customs duties for her undeclared souvenirs.

Officials also discovered that the woman receives a citizen’s allowance in Germany. This means that she is only allowed to go on holiday for a maximum of 21 days and only if the trip is approved by her benefit provider. Otherwise, her social benefits can be reclaimed.

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So, well, now that’s over, let’s look at the 2028 presidential race.

If you are polite, you just swore in your head – if you’re normal, you did it out loud.

But sometimes we like to torture our readers, so let’s look ahead four years, shall we?

Public Notice, a Voice of the Crust.

We really dodged a bullet when this guy didn’t make it onto the Supreme Court.

It has often been said that Donald Trump was running for president to keep himself out of prison. Mission accomplished.

But the fact that Trump wasn’t behind bars long ago, that he didn’t suffer any consequences for his criming and now likely never will, can be laid squarely at the feet of one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump for election interference and pilfering classified documents, making it easy for him to run out the clock.

Coming in on the heels of a literal insurrection, Garland was a bad fit for his job from the jump. He made clear early on that he didn’t see addressing issues from the Trump era as a priority, declaring that he would not look backward. Garland is an institutionalist, leading him to see his real job as protecting the Department of Justice rather than imposing any consequences on Bill Barr and others who turned the DOJ into a corrupt playground.

Apparently his chief fault was not being a more thoroughgoing Democrat tool.  Good to know.

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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This is like demonstrations against democracy in Pyongyang.

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Well, (a) there isn’t enough time to do that, (b) it would be too easy for Senate Republicans to run out the clock (The Turtle is at least competent enough to do that), and (c) even if it worked, they’d replace her with someone equally stupid or worse, like Jackson.

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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President-elect Donald Trump has many people to thank for winning the election, but near the top of the list should be his young voters, who moved in great numbers toward the Republican since his last election in 2020.

While four years ago Gen Z—those aged 18–29—voted for President Joe Biden by a 25-point margin, this time around, they broke for Vice President Kamala Harris by six points only, according to an AP VoteCast exit poll.

A slight majority of Gen Z men, 49–47, went for Trump, according to the Edison Research exit poll.

Perhaps they are beginning to realize that Democrats are lying sacks of shit.

The Foundry.

A series of inaccurate polls that consistently favored Kamala Harris and liberal issues in the 2024 election shows that mainstream pollsters are “mouthpieces for the government” and for the corporate behemoths who own their networks, a pollster who accurately predicted the election’s outcome has said.

Polls from the legacy media consistently presented the Harris-Walz campaign as surging and possibly poised to win the White House on Tuesday. In reality, Donald Trump won 31 states and bested Harris in the popular vote—a first for a Republican presidential candidate in two decades. Yet NBC News and ABC News reported a three-point lead for Harris going into Election Day, 49% to 46%. CBS News polls showed the 2024 presidential race tied. On the other hand, Rasmussen Reports forecasted a 2.4% lead for Trump. What explains such disparate poll results?

“Polling is content. And when your pollsters all report up to organizations that are owned by massive corporations that have vested interests in making sure that the corporate oligarchy status quo in D.C. maintains its control, that’s what happens. They are literally mouthpieces for the government, and I’ve proven that they shill for Democrats,” Mark Mitchell, chief pollster of Rasmussen Reports, told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” on Wednesday.

Washington Poop.

The disappointment, the head-slapping, the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth — such are the predictable reactions among pundits, prognosticators and political strategists when the guy who surely couldn’t win surely did.

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So it’s been for the past few days since Donald Trump grabbed the wheel from overnight sensation Kamala Harris — who, it must be said, performed miraculously given her abrupt campaign of just 103 days. Trump has enjoyed decades of name recognition. And despite his multiple, familiar offenses, including the “big lie,” he is likely to win even the popular vote, the first Republican in 20 years to do so.

But how?

Just bad luck, I suppose.

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.

Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump revealed as 2 New Yorkers also busted in plan to kill journalist (New York Post)

Three charged in alleged Iranian plot that included plans to kill Trump (Washington Post)

Wind the clock (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders (CNN)

Exclusive: RFK Jr. Is Crowdsourcing Cabinet Picks for Trump (Kiera Butler/Mother Jones)

Hezbollah Targeted Israel’s Trump Heights The Day After Election

Thousands expected for People’s March on Washington ahead of Trump’s inauguration (Ellie Silverman/Washington Post)

Pentagon Worried Trump May Fire ‘Woke’ General

Gavin Newsom’s quest to ‘Trump-proof’ California enrages incoming president (Dustin Gardiner/Politico)  And rightly so, I should think.

How blue states are plotting to thwart Trump (Politico)

Can Trump Tame Resistance 2.0?

Trump’s second presidency sparks fear of ‘scary’ time ahead among some immigrants (USA Today)  At least, they hope it does.

Trump Holds Up Transition Process Over Ethics Code (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)

Smile, Flatter and Barter: How the World Is Prepping for Trump Part II (New York Times)

Justice Dept. to focus on ‘most egregious’ Jan. 6 cases until Trump is inaugurated (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

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Compounded by the fact that nobody in the modern world uses the term ‘capitalism’ correctly, even worse than ‘fascism’. (Yeah, this guy is a Marxist, but listen to him. It will tell you a lot about the Kamala Bros.) (No, I have no idea what ‘cuck theory’ means.) (I love the concept of Eat The Rich movies….)

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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I’ll bet you didn’t know that police (yes, that includes the FBI) can lie like a rug to you and face no consequences (other than perhaps a promotion), while if you lie to them you could go to jail. (Paging Martha Stewart….)

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Trump has returned. Naturally, his victory is being scrutinised by credentialed experts and professional commentators as it relates to the specifics of his economic, migration, and foreign policies. His staunchest critics, meanwhile, are sounding the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse, though they convince far fewer people than when they proclaimed the end of the republic after his 2016 victory. Conversely, there has been less focus on the philosophical framework of a figure that can no longer be considered a political anomaly, but perhaps the norm or model that Western politics will follow in the coming decades. For this reason, we should closely examine the characteristics of the political movement that Trump leads.