DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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.

The New Neo.

What on earth is wrong with Arizona? Why does it take what seems like years for a state with a moderate-sized population to count its ballots? There are only about 7.4 million people in the entire state of Arizona. That makes it smaller than New York City. And yet Arizona lumbers on, and we still don’t even know for sure who its senator will be, Gallego or Lake, although Gallego has been consistently in the lead. Luckily, the presidential race is already decided and Arizona isn’t needed.

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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.

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Not quite a blowout, but certainly a strong victory.

President Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1% in the 2020 election and the results in the key area of Maricopa County were also slim, with Biden beating Trump by 2%.

Before Biden won Arizona in 2020, Republicans had carried the state every year since 1996.

The 2020 election is smelling more and more rotten.

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.

1960 marked the introduction of hormonal birth control, for the first time in history allowing young women to Fuck Around without having to Find Out.

If they ever develop a similar birth control product for men, society will be turned on its head.

UnHerd.

The days when most young voters, whether male or female, would reliably vote Democrat are over. Among the axiomatic election patterns smashed by Donald Trump, young men have swung to the Republicans by nearly 30%.

Cue the scorn. The Left-leaning press has derided the shift as merely the rise of “toxic masculinity” and the hatred of women’s rights. The New York Times described something even more sinister, calling it creeping “hegemonic masculinity”.

This reflexive contempt may unintentionally provide an explanation for the reversal. Many young men believe they live in a liberal-leaning society that actively despises them, treating them with disdain rather than empathy as their struggles have mounted.

UnHerd.

“False and dangerous.” “Deeply concerning.” “A neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath.” Many of Europe’s leaders may have been regretting their previous criticisms of Donald Trump. From Donald Tusk to David Lammy, the bloc’s liberals rushed to offer their stiff congratulations to the newly anointed President-elect. Meanwhile, the leaders of Italy and Hungary raced to kiss the ring of America’s godfather of populism.

Yet if there is one thing that unites Trump sycophants and sceptics in Europe, it’s the desire to boost European defence spending and security cooperation. In a nervy display of Franco-German solidarity, the leaders of France and Germany announced that they would work to build “a more united, stronger, more sovereign Europe in this context”, with an emphasis on enhancing European d efence. In Britain, there have been calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to draw closer to Europe on security, deepening a Brexit betrayal initiated by Boris Johnson.

For liberals, strengthening the EU and Nato will insure against Trump either withdrawing from the defence alignment — whose European members he views as parasitical free-riders — or giving up on the Ukraine war effort. For populists, greater defence spending is an act of fealty, symbolising their devotion to Trump’s new world order.

Some have speculated that Walz may have hurt Harris in Minnesota, pointing out that her margin of victory was narrower than Joe Biden’s, four years ago. I don’t think that is true, but we can safely say that Walz did her no good. The contrast between the Harris/Walz numbers and incumbent Senator Amy Klobuchar’s win is instructive. Harris carried the state by a 51.1% to 46.8% margin, while Klobuchar defeated Republican Royce White by 56.3% to 40.5%. If Minnesota has a Favorite Son, it isn’t Tim Walz.

Walz now returns to Minnesota to finish out his second term as governor. There has been speculation that he might run for a third term, even though his victory margin declined considerably when he was re-elected in 2022. But, given his embarrassing performance as a vice presidential candidate, and the discreditable facts about his history that are now widely known due to the national spotlight, I think that is unlikely. Democrats like Keith Ellison and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan (generally viewed as even farther to the left than Walz) will probably battle it out for the nomination.

Meanwhile, down-ballot Republicans gained seats in the Minnesota House, the only races that were on tap this year. The House is now evenly divided at 67-67, which presumably means that nothing very controversial will pass next year. And there is an outside chance that an election contest could throw the majority to the Republicans. Meanwhile, Democrats control the Senate by 44-43, but infamous burglar Nicole Mitchell goes to trial in January. A conviction, which seems pretty certain since she was caught red-handed by local police, presumably would mean a special election that could tilt control of that chamber.

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In what is being widely described as a “pogrom”, Jewish supporters of an Israeli soccer team were hunted down and assaulted last night on the streets of Amsterdam.

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FEMA is supposedly constituted to provide help to Americans in the event of disaster, natural or man-made. They are funded and their personnel are paid by taxpayer dollars, which one would think that fact alone should ensure that said help would be provided without condition or qualification.

Unless, of course, a disaster victim has a Trump sign on their house. It seems that a FEMA supervisor in charge of the recovery workers in Lake Placid, Florida, ordered them as a “best practice” to skip houses with Trump signs, per a Daily Wire exclusive.

UPDATE: FEMA Official Removed After ‘Avoid Trump Houses’ Message Leaks, DeSantis Orders Investigation

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New York City can’t use an unconstitutional, two-century-old “anti-pauper” law to block the state of Texas from offering migrants free bus rides to the city from the southern border, a state judge has ruled.

The court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Mayor Eric Adams in January against charter bus companies contracted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. It sought to bar them from knowingly dropping off “needy persons,” citing an 1817 state law that criminalized bringing an indigent person into the state “for the purpose of making him a public charge.”

Justice Mary Rosado said in a sternly worded decision that the law is unconstitutional for several reasons.

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The sleepers wake.

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A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Much of the award — $10 million — is for punitive damages against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, according to the verdict form.

Lisa Domski, who worked at Blue Cross for more than 30 years, said she was a victim of religious discrimination. The company in 2021 did not grant an exemption from its vaccine policy, despite her insistence that it clashed with her Catholic beliefs.

America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump (The Hill)

Trump’s mandate isn’t as ‘powerful’ as he suggests. Here’s why. (Washington Poop)

Some Issues and Topics Our Reporters Will Be Following in a Second Trump Presidency – and How to Get in Touch (ProPublica)

Media Elites Fume Over Their Inability to Force-Feed Narratives to the American People

WATCH: Jim Acosta Lectures Trump-Voting Latino: ‘Do You Want To See People in Camps, Rounded Up and Put in Camps?’

After 248 years, America prepares for life under a king (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

MAGA Launches Increasingly Horrific Attacks on Women After Trump Win (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Election Deniers Went Suddenly Quiet When Trump Won (Claire Lampen/The Daily Beast)  No, they didn’t. You just aren’t listening.

New Jersey governor says he’ll ‘fight to the death’ against Trump actions ‘contrary to values’ (Charles Creitz/Fox News)

Dem governor issues stark warning to Trump: ‘You come for my people, you come through me’ (Sarah Rumpf-Whitten/Fox News)

Elon Musk, the Leftist Media’s New Supervillain

Canceled Classes, Rescheduled Midterms, and Stress Baking: How Elite Universities Are Coddling Students Grieving Over Trump’s Victory

Here’s the Plan to Fight Back (Sen. Elizabeth Warren/Time)

Behind the Curtain: Deep Democratic depression (Axios)

‘Your body, my choice’: Women report rise in online misogyny following Donald Trump’s victory (Lydia Spencer-Elliott/The Independent)

How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts (New York Times)

Let’s Not Lose Sight of Who Trump Is (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

Trump Won’t Just Change Washington Politics – He’ll Change Life in the City (Michael Schaffer/Politico)

Pentagon anticipates major upheaval with Trump’s return to White House (Washington Post)

Dump Twitter  (New Republic)

Canadian police brace for ‘worst-case scenario’ of asylum-seekers fleeing Trump (Anna Mehler Paperny/Reuters)

Books like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘1984’ are flying off the shelves after the presidential election (Erika Tulfo/CNN)

Meyers Mourns Our ‘Stupid System’ Ended Trump’s Legal Troubles

Ted Cruz’s daughter caught wincing and telling her mom ‘don’t clap’ as senator praises Trump on stage (James Liddell/The Independent)  Gee, I wonder where she learned that?

For transgender Americans, Trump’s win after a campaign targeting them is terrifying (Kevin Rector/Los Angeles Times)  It could be worse. They could be white males.

Trump AG Prospect Warns Letitia James: ‘We Will Put Your Fat Ass In Prison’ (Ron Dicker/HuffPost)  We can only hope.

They’re good at winning. They’re absolutely terrible at governing. (Jason Sattler/I Know How Much You Care)

CNN’s Bill Weir Declares ‘Notorious Climate Denier’ Trump Will Let Earth ‘Go to Hell’

Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters are on the verge of escaping charges (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

I blame the media – I am horrified and I am terrified and I am angry. – And I blame the media. (Dan Froomkin/Press Watch)

White House domestic policy chief Neera Tanden accused of repeated Hatch Act violations (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)

Ekosj: “The View” Cost Harris the Election

Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump (Associated Press)

Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy (Financial Times)

On CNN, Hillary Advisor Phillippe Reines Analogizes Trump To a ‘Clogged Toilet’

Madonna eats ‘f–k Trump’ cake after he wins 2024 presidential election  Like Kamala, she is famous for her mouth-work.

“Devastated”: Classes At Harvard, Penn, Columbia, Swarthmore & Others Canceled Over Trump Win

Justice Department files charges in murder-for-hire scheme targeting Trump (NBC News)

US Charges Iranian Asset in Regime’s Assassination Plot Against Trump

Canadian Immigration Website Sees Traffic Surge

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President-elect Donald Trump could pull the United States out of NATO without the authority of Congress despite legislation passed to prevent him from doing so, Politico reports.

Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sponsored a bill that would require congressional approval for the president to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, a measure that was included in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. However, legal experts told Politico that Trump could use presidential authority over foreign policy to ignore that requirement.

Curtis Bradley, the University of Chicago Law School’s Allen M. Singer distinguished service professor, told Politico that if Trump were to declare the U.S. no longer a part of NATO, it’s unclear if Congress has the legal standing to file a lawsuit.

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Amsterdam banned demonstrations for three days from Friday after overnight attacks on Israeli soccer supporters by what the mayor called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads,” and Israel flew fans home from the Netherlands.

Mayor Femke Halsema said Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had been “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” around the city, and that riot police intervened to protect them and escort them to hotels. At least five people were treated in hospital.

Videos on social media showed riot police in action, with some attackers shouting anti-Israeli slurs. Footage also showed Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters chanting anti-Arab slogans before Thursday evening’s match.

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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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Earlier this week, congressional Republicans mounted an effort to punish Qatar for providing shelter to Hamas’s remaining leadership, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Now, following former president Donald Trump’s election, an Israeli news report suggests that the Gulf state has informed Hamas it is no longer welcome in Doha.

Sens. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) and Jim Risch (R., Idaho)—the ranking members on the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees—sent a letter to the Biden-Harris administration on Monday arguing that it is past time for the United States to threaten severe diplomatic repercussions for Doha if it does not freeze Hamas’s assets and turn over the terror group’s top leaders who reside in the country. One day later, Trump, whose administration will undoubtedly take a tougher approach toward Hamas and its benefactors in Tehran, cemented his return to the White House.

Then, on Friday, Israel’s national public broadcaster, Kan, reported that Qatar informed Hamas’s leaders they are “not welcome here.” The move “is taking place due to heavy American pressure,” according to the report.

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A federal court upheld four female high school track athletes’ challenge to a Connecticut policy allowing male participation in female sports.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert N. Chatigny, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, ruled in favor of allowing the athletes’ case against the Connecticut Association of Schools to proceed, rejecting the request of state officials to dismiss it.

The athletes—Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, Chelsea Mitchell, and Ashley Nicoletti—all say they lost races to male athletes identifying as female. The women argue allowing biological males to compete in girls sports is unfair and violates federal Title IX, which protects female school sports by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.

From a comment on a Brett Cooper podcast:

“The red wave hit Kamala so hard FEMA sent her $750.”

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The security situation in the northern and eastern districts of Paris has deteriorated to such an extent that some companies have been forced to set up private security teams to protect their employees when they take public transport, for fear of muggings and robberies.

The area concerned is located on the border between the 19th arrondissement of Paris and the suburban town of Aubervilliers, renowned for its public safety concerns. For many years, the area has been selected by public authorities for administrative offices and by companies for their operation—supported by tax incentives. Ultra-modern buildings with pompous names stand side by side: Millénaire 1 and Millénaire 3 are both home to the BNP Paribas bank.

The problem is that the neighbourhood is plagued by drug addiction. Drug addicts roam the streets, assaulting passers-by for money. “We call them ‘zombies’. They try to score something when they’re going through withdrawal. They break car windows to get change, urinate and defecate in parking lots,” a policeman told Le Figaro, adding, “It generates constant insecurity for people. We can also run into crazies who pull out a knife.”

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According to a report from the Catalan regional police force, seen by the Spanish news site El Debate, officers monitoring radicalization online have found social media messages instructing their recipients to attack the police.

“Police officers can be one of the main objectives if a terrorist attack materializes,” indicates a report from the Mossos d’Esquadra’s Anti-Terrorist Coordination Cabinet.

The police force detected 189 cases of possible violent radicalization in 2023, with 62% linked to jihad. Among those messages, the agents who monitor the network to search for cases of radicalization have detected several focused on the Mossos themselves. The document cites one case from October 30th, in which the Central Radicalism Research Unit (UCIRAX) detected on social media a threatening message against police officers which included instructions on how to conduct an attack.

This message offers several options including targeting police stations and their surroundings where agents will likely be unprepared for such aggression. The message suggested other tactics, from causing a forest fire and then ambushing officers when they drive there, to shooting agents with AK-47 rifles—capable of piercing the bulletproof vests used by the Mossos—or attacking the police officers inside their vehicles.

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Apparently The Netherlands has officially joined the Turd World.

UPDATE: “Pogrom in the Streets of Amsterdam”: Football Fans Attacked in “Jew Hunt”

The American Mind.

In his 1941 classic of political science, The Managerial Revolution, James Burnham claimed that the need for managerial skill and technological competence had made the inherited forms of capitalism and democracy utterly unsuited to the challenges of his time. Ruling would belong not to capitalist entrepreneurs or elected politicians but to skilled managers. For only the managers had the sufficient training—that is, the training necessary to produce, mobilize, and deploy human and nonhuman resources to achieve victory in war and prosperity in peace.

Events and ideas since Burnham have made much of his book appear dated. The owner-entrepreneur has returned: just as Henry Ford took the automobile to mass production, Elon Musk has done the same for space rockets, while at the same time revolutionizing the electric car and social media. Moreover, thanks to the work of Friedrich Hayek and our experience of Communism, nobody today has the faith that managers have the ability to plan the nation’s or the world’s economy, or even conduct a business efficiently, without being subject to prices that float more or less freely according to supply and demand.

Nonetheless, the managers are still with us, and returning to Burnham can help us understand their aspirations and limitations. Returning to Burnham will also help us understand the present form of political conflict that is occurring in almost every democracy, between one faction that represents the credentialed professional-managerial class and the other that seeks to constrain, chasten, or, even in its more delusional moments, dissolve that class.

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This is a chilling video: a man walks down the sidewalk in Berlin, approaches a kebab shop, calmly pulls out a gun, and shoots out the plate glass window while targeting one or more of the establishment’s employees.

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On Monday an Egyptian culture-enricher stabbed a railway conductor on a train in Genoa, seriously wounding him. The incident sparked a nationwide strike by Italian railway workers’ unions to protest the increasingly violent conditions in which their members are forced to work.

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Biden administration program that would allow unauthorized immigrants married to American citizens to get legal status and a streamlined path to U.S. citizenship, declaring the policy illegal.

U.S. District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker, an appointee of President-elect Donald Trump, found the program violates U.S. immigration law, agreeing with a lawsuit filed by Texas and more than a dozen other Republican-led states.

The ruling is a major defeat for the outgoing Biden administration, which argued the policy, known as Keeping Families Together, promoted family unity among mixed-status households. When it was announced earlier this year, officials said roughly half-a-million undocumented immigrants were likely eligible for the program.

And now we make us a start.

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investment banks and companies dropping their initiatives while the GOP goes on a rampage to try root out the faux-virtue signaling.

But now with President Trump once again taking the White House, one investment bank is advising ESG fund managers to “keep their lawyers very close”, as the full scale death of ESG may very well be on the door step, according to Yahoo Finance.

Aniket Shah wrote in a note this week: “We’d encourage all ESG fund managers to have a lawyer on the team, or on speed-dial.”

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Just before Tuesday’s presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government—even as it determined that the government’s leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and fomenting violence in breach of U.S. law.

The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and end the “pay-to-slay” program, which rewards imprisoned terrorists for committing acts of violence.

Those violations should trigger American sanctions, barring members of the Palestinian government from obtaining U.S. visas. The Biden-Harris administration nonetheless used its executive power to waive the sanctions.

UnHerd.

While Americans went to the polls, some fascinating alternative findings were simultaneously emerging from data collector Norstat. These indicated that, contrary to the standard narrative, Trump’s approval ratings are higher in Scotland than anywhere else in Western Europe. A quarter of Scottish respondents wanted him to win over Harris, as compared with 16% in the UK as a whole, 15% in Germany, and 14% in France. When you consider that both of the latter have a surging Right-wing electoral presence — and that Scotland doesn’t, at least on paper — the substantial difference in numbers look even more intriguing. Equally, according to the polling company, Scotland had the second lowest preference for Harris of all the countries surveyed, standing at 56%.

UnHerd.

“What was it, then? What was in the air? A love of quarrels. Acute petulance. Nameless impatience. A universal penchant for nasty verbal exchanges and outbursts of rage, even fisticuffs.” Near the end of his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann presents its snowbound setting — a sanatorium for tubercular patients in Davos, Switzerland — as the microcosm of an ill-tempered age on the edge of an abyss of violence. “Every day fierce arguments, out-of-control shouting-matches would erupt between individuals and among entire groups; but the distinguishing mark was that bystanders, instead of being disgusted by those caught up in it or trying to intervene, found their sympathies aroused and abandoned themselves emotionally to the frenzy.”

FreeThink.

In 2016, the Chinese Communist Party announced that producing its own dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips was a national security priority. DRAM is critical for a variety of personal, commercial, and military computers, providing temporary, quickly accessible file storage when the computer is running programs.

Soon thereafter, the Chinese government spent $5 billion to create Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company to produce the chips. But massive amounts of money don’t magically manufacture technological know-how. State-owned Fujian Jinhua had the physical resources, but lacked the human expertise to actually make advanced DRAM chips. So Fujian Jinhua turned instead to United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) in Taiwan to provide the needed technology and experience.

What started as a seemingly innocuous business partnership ended in one of the most costly heists of American technology ever pulled off. The victim? Micron Technology, a leading US semiconductor company.

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Young white liberal women, plagued with the ‘woke mind virus,’ have swung so far off the deep end that some are now threatening to align themselves with pro-Christian values. They are advocating for abstaining from sex, dating, marriage, and even children over the outcome of the 2024 presidential election because males voted for the ‘Orange Man’…

Far-left corporate media outlets like CBS News and the Washington Post have pushed out stories about South Korea’s “4B Movement” gaining traction among feminists in the United States shortly after Trump won.

The 4B movement is comprised of four “no’s”—no sex, no dating or marriage with men, and no having children. Some young feminists have adopted it on various social media platforms in the US to show young men voting for Republicans has consequences.

And I would encourage them to do so. Let’s clean out the gene pool thoroughly.

DOJ.

An indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of Mississippi charging Hinds County District Attorney, Jody E. Owens II, 43; Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 41; and former President and current member of the Jackson City Council, Aaron Banks, 47, all of Jackson, with participating in a bribery scheme to enrich themselves. Owens, Lumumba, and Banks are scheduled to make their initial court appearances today before U.S. Magistrate Judge LaKeysha Greer Isaac in Jackson.

Jody Owens:

Lumumba:

Banks: I can’t find a verifiable picture for Banks, but I’d bet money he’s a Person of Color.

New York Post.

The state’s famed “Pennsylvania Dutch” registered to vote in “unprecedented numbers” in response to a January federal raid on a local raw milk farm in Bird in Hand, Pa., a source familiar with the situation told The Post.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture stormed Amos Miller’s farm Jan. 4 after reports of illnesses in children linked to raw dairy products purchased there, according to the local media outlet Lancaster Farming.

The Amish community saw the move as an overzealous reach by the government and was planning to vote for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose party favors less government intervention.

“That was the impetus for them to say, ‘We need to participate,’ ” the source said of local Amish voters. “This is about neighbors helping neighbors.”

New York Post.

President-elect Trump’s overwhelmingly win saw him net 49.6% of the vote in Minnesota’s Blue Earth County, where Walz’s family lived for 20 years before he was elected governor.

Walz’s running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, fell short with about 48.3% of the vote.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on his U.S. election victory, praising the Republican’s “manly” response to an attempted assassination — and saying he’s “ready” to speak with him.

“I take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election as president of the United States of America,” Putin said on Thursday at the annual meeting of the Valdai Club in Sochi, breaking his silence after initially choosing conspicuously to not send his well-wishes.

Putin confirmed he had yet to talk with Trump in the wake of his victory — but indicated that he’d pick up the phone if the U.S. president-elect called.

Al Jazeera.

Israeli football fans have clashed with apparent pro-Palestinian protesters before and after a Europa League football match between their team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax in Amsterdam.

The clashes took place outside the Johan Cruyff Arena on Thursday night, the city’s main arena and Ajax Amsterdam’s home stadium, as well as in other areas. Ajax won the match 5-0 after leading 3-0 at halftime.

They are, of course, blaming it on Da Jooz.

UPDATE: IDF says Home Front Command to lead rescue mission to Amsterdam

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Over the course of his presidency, Joe Biden vowed to back Ukraine for as long as it took to defeat Russia. So far, his administration has doled out over $61 billion in military aid to Kyiv, with scores of packages including advanced air defense systems and munitions, millions of artillery shells, hundreds of armored vehicles, and much more. President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed a very different approach to how the U.S. will deal with the nearly three-year-old all-out war, raising concerns that he could abandon Ukraine.

On the campaign trail, Trump lambasted his predecessor’s approach, chiding Biden for providing arms free of charge. Above all else, Trump repeatedly touted his ability to quickly end the conflict, even if it means Ukraine conceding much of the nearly 20 percent of its territory Russia has captured going back to the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Moreover, Vice President-elect JD Vance has repeatedly expressed his disdain for the open-ended support to Ukraine, saying it should be greatly dialed back.

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On election day, I caught the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Sitting across from me, an elderly woman wore a T-shirt with the image of Trump pumping his fist in the air with the words “fight, fight.” A small “I Voted” sticker was pressed onto her lapel.

She sat with an easy confidence. There were no disapproving glances from other passengers. There was no tension. No conflict. It struck me that in 2024 it was now perfectly acceptable to express support for Trump in a deep blue (Democratically held) city. As I travelled to my destination I wondered: If one could support Trump this openly in New York City, what might support look like in the rest of the country?