The NY Post:
Go have a look at the vid, since I can’t embed it here.
Got it? Good.
Look, gang, none of this trend is new, it’s just louder as recent events have the left finding itself backed into a corner.
For historical reference, I give you, as an example, Err America.
I give you, as another example, the Mario Cuomo radio show which ran weekly for a few months, mostly as an afterthought and a slot filler on smaller stations… back in Mario’s day. MSNBC has always been flirting with the bottom of the ratings pile and CNN, similarly, with MSNBC on the chopping block, and unless I badly misread the situation, CNN will go the same way inside of the next year or so. They didn’t make enough money to survive because they didn’t have any listeners/viewers…. and so didn’t garner any sponsors…. IOW, folks to pay the bills. Oh… and lest we forget to mention it, Blu*sky will fair for the same reasons these others have. It may take a while for the reality to sink in there, but trust me, it will.
These have all failed because even then, much as they desperately tried to sell their extreme leftist philosophy, nobody was buying, statistically speaking. So, the left didn’t have nearly the influence, or raw numbers that they would have had us believe.
They’ve been ignoring this reality for a long while now, and Trump’s victory have made that reality impossible to ignore or properly defend.
It’s all come home to roost.
And you know what turned that? Democrats with government power in their hands. I’ve said it for decades, now…. there is nothing to cause a shift to the right, like Democrats with government power.
Look, gang…. This is exactly the problem with the “Believe the Science” crowd. The whole thing is based on the idea that a white lab coat shields one from bias, from greed, and the lust for having one’s moments in the spotlight. Tyson is certainly one of the prominent examples of this…. and Bill Nye, as well. When you see “SteakUmms” X account slapping Tyson upside the head with reality, you know it’s a simple case of Tyson’s inflated head.
“Believe the science” almost always translates out to “Shut up and obey”. The mishandling of Covid, and indeed it’s (illegal) creation, the wildly weak case of “Climate change”, etc, should be taken as a strong confirmation of this.
As I said some months back,..
All too often on the advice of experts we have caused death and destruction on a scale that would be impossible without the expert label and certainly would be impossible without the force of government behind that advice turned into law.
And so now, we have the soundly defeated Democrats, complaining that there isn’t enough expertise in Trump’s cabinet nominees. Apparently they’re forgetting the list of people they considered qualified:
Let’s just take the first example: A middle-aged overweight guy who is trying to pass himself off as a woman, on physical and mental health, who they appointed as Ass’t Secretary of Health. This isn’t expertise, this is mental illness writ large. Get the picture?
Now, while it goes without saying, that Democrats refuse to acknowledge that Harris ran one of the worst campaigns in history, showing if nothing else that she was totally unqualified for the position that she was running for.
Her big selling point? “I’m not Donald Trump”… Which, as it turns out, the electorate considered that to be the largest reason for voting against her. So weak was that argument that not only was Trump’s electoral victory a landslide, but he also won the popular vote, something that only Reagan had managed to do before this.
(As an aside, the numbers for Trump were most likely actually even larger than that, if we assume the same level of both fraud we saw back in the 2020 cycle, but I don’t propose to go down that particular rabbit hole just now.)
All of that was eminently predictable, and I did predict it, within these spaces, several times.
I wish I could say that the reaction of the GOP establishment was any less predictable. That reaction is probably best described in one word: butthurt.
And if past is prologue, they won’t learn anything this time either.
Back in 2015, I said as regards The Establishment GOP;
If Reagan and his successes did not teach the GOP establishment the truth of the matter, simply repeating those successes under another name isn’t going to teach them either. Remember, gang, the GOP establishment wasn’t too happy about Reagan back in the day either. That’s how we ended up with Bush for a vice president. The leadership felt the ticket needed what they called balance. They thought Reagan was…. sing along together children…., “too conservative”
Alas!, for the GOP establishment, that situation hasn’t changed. It’s to the point where many of the supposedly oh so “conservative” GOP establishment were actually announcing that they were voting for the socialist, and it is obvious they did so, simply because of their butthurt over Trump.
Butt hurt, indeed. What else could it be? If you claim to be a conservative, and yet are inexplicably so emotionally involved with the defeat of someone who has moved the conservative football further down the field than anyone since Reagan, it seems to me that the principles that you base that decision on are ill-defined, or at the very least misrepresented. It’s time for introspection in the GOP establishment. Based on previous experience, I doubt they will subject themselves to it.
They still don’t allow themselves to understand that there are demonstrable reasons why both John McCain and Mitt Romney lost their presidential bids and why Jeb Bush … the choice of the GOP establishment… was rejected out of hand before it even got to the nomination process. It is the very same reason that Donald Trump has been so wildly successful, despite having to fight both the GOP establishment and their fellow travelers in the Democratic party and their corruption…. Corruption which the GOP establishment has been trying desperately to avoid mentioning.
It’s certainly true that the Democrat party for the last several generations has been immune to introspection. Unfortunately, the ever increasingly smaller GOP establishment is of a similar blindness, when it comes to people who actually lead as conservatives, such as Reagan and Trump.
Now, before you start, Trump isn’t Reagan, (I’ve said that several times, too…) but let’s recall that the establishment GOP was never happy about Reagan, either, and spent the next 40 years after Reagans two Landslide victories, trying to disassociate themselves from the lessons that Reagan taught us.
The totals from this cycle are in, and the conclusions from those numbers are obvious, just as they were in Reagan’s two landslides. There are a large number of people who voted Republican for the first time in their lives in both the electoral and popular vote. Same can be said of Reagan.
Here, however, is the key to understanding all of this: I said back in 2015, before Trump took the Nomination:
There’s a reason they don’t stand up for our beliefs, the leadership. It’s because they don’t believe in them.
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We are now seeing indications that the GOP rank and file has had enough and is about to go nuclear on the leadership. 15 years ago I argued against such an eventuality. Its to the point now where I’m actually looking forward to it because I see it as the only way to save the GOP.
And what can both the original nomination and election of Trump be considered, but “going nuclear” on the GOP establishment? This second election of Trump sent the message even louder and clearer than the first about the desires of the voters. The GOP establishment has a choice, and it is one they’ve been trying to avoid for generations now. They can either embrace the will of the people, which was shown so overwhelmingly on the 5th of this month, or they can go back to being a minority party with no influence to speak of. It is as Ronald Reagan once said, a time for choosing.
Choose wisely.
To a man, they’re all worried about Trump seeking retribution for what’s been done to him the 4 years and longer. While it’s true that Gaetz has that capability, (in fact he’s well suited to the task, being the victim of the Democrat run DOJ himself) I think it’s important to recognize that the Democrats would be reacting that way to any appointment as AG that Trump might nominate, because retribution would be precisely what they would be about, had this election gone their way. But it didn’t and by God, I am enjoying this.
As to who will replace Gaetz in the House, I’ve seen the idea of floated of putting Laura Trump in that position. That actually sounds like a good idea to me. There is, after all, a good deal of backroom deals that go on in the Congress, admittedly in the Senate, more so than in the house because of the far smaller number of individuals involved there. But having somebody in the lower house? That strikes me as a rather wise strategic move. Whoever gets put into that position we’ll be able to monitor and report back to the White House what the never- Trumpers are doing… particularly the actions of the establishment GOP will be of interest, for the reasons I have laid out earlier today
Tulsi Gabbard as DNI strikes me as fitting, too, as does Elon Musk leading the department of government efficiency, etc etc. the list is growing as you read this. Of course the response from the Democrats is one of fear and more specifically fear mongering. Oh, the complaint goes, he’s surrounding himself with loyalists.
Well, either they don’t understand That’s exactly how this game is supposed to work, or they’re hoping YOU don’t remember. . See, I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember seeing anybody wandering around the White House with a MAGA hat on during the Biden misadministration.
Let’s remind ourselves of the people he did appoint…
There will be a distinct advantage to having a cabinet not filled with guys wearing dresses. I find the Democrat’s complaints about how you can judge a man by what he surrounds himself with to be particularly humorous given the recent history of the party.
And I wonder if they will ever bring themselves to understand the irony.
Addendum: From VDH
In sum, the currently loud censors have zero credibility given the unprofessional, weaponized, and nihilist examples they have bequeathed.
Indeed. The VDH piece is brilliant as always. GRTWT
You will forgive me, of course, if I don’t even pretend to act surprised that the CIA was involved
“People are terrified that President Trump will seek retribution against his detractors. Media personalities, celebrities joined this group of Dems declaring they will be persecuted and prosecuted.. It’s pure projection. Trump has said he has too much to do for the American people to target detractors.
IMHO there are two people who deserve to be investigated and possibly charged for their actions in the final days after the 2020 election.
General Mark Milley conspired with Nancy Pelosi to undermine the sitting President’s authority. Pelosi made the call to Milley, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff and he carried out the plan.
He went outside the Constitutionally defined duties of his office and violated the Military Chain of Command by:
~ ordering officers and NCOs to ignore all orders from the Commander in Chief and only carry out orders directly from him. His position is an advisory job and has NO command authority over the military .
~ He called his Chinese counterpart and promised to warn them if there was a a plan to attack China.
There’s a word for this.
General Milley needs to face military court and answer to these charges. And the punishment needs to be harsh.
As far as Pelosi and her part in the conspiracy to undermine the sitting President and his Constitutional powers as CIC, she also needs to be investigated and at the very least censured by Congress.
It’s these kinds of blatant violations of the Constitution that President Trump is speaking of when he talks about pursuing charges. Not journalists. Not comedians. Not the women of the View.
Although Milley has retired, he needs to be held accountable for Dereliction of Duty at the very least.
If we are truly a nation of laws, as President Obama said, the laws must be enforced.
JMHO”
So says my old friend from school.
Oh not just yours, Linda. The man is a traitor and should be treated as such. He needs to spend the remainder of his days in a military jail…. At a minimum.
This is what happens when you have leftists like Obama and Biden purging the military to further their own political goals.
1: The supposed mainstream media is no longer the dominant Force. They squandered that position trying to pursue their own political goals. (You do know that the legacy media is well over 90% Democrat, right?) A quick example. The Atlantic, a publication long bereft of credibility, came up with an article saying “America has an Anti-MAGA majority” I can’t think of a better example right now, of how out of touch the mainstream media has become. But of course that publication is not alone. Collectively, the legacy media spent months telling us on a daily basis how close all of this was going to be which is exactly what this race was not. It was not close. They covered for Biden for 5 years…. yes, even before the 2020 election, refused to follow up on evidence of vote fraud, refused to follow up on who was responsible for the long list of Biden Administration screw ups, Then, they aided and abetted the replacement of Biden without publicly admitting why they did that, ignoring the fact that everyone could see what was what. The podcasts and blogs did a more accurate job of reporting current events, and the momentum of news-gathering is now moving in that direction…. and I have doubts that trend will ever be reversed.
2: The dominance of big money in politics is over. We’ve been told for years and years and years that money is the dominant factor in who wins an election. Harris was the first presidential candidate to spend over a billion dollars to promote her candidacy, and she lost to a candidate who spent far less. Let that point sink in. The Democrats have been railing against big money donors for generations, but if you look at the money spent versus the vote counts, you’ll see that the majority of her billion dollars did not come from Joe and Jane average, but from Big Money.
3: Charges of sexism, racism, misogyny, etc etc etc don’t make any difference anymore. Not really.Call it the party that cried “sexism, racism, misogyny,” if you like. Remember, Marx told his followers to charge your opponent with what you’re doing. So did Saul Alinsky. What this election uncovered, make no mistake, is that the real source of sexism, racism, misogyny, etc etc etc, is Democrats. Think, now….we were told, as one proof among many, that the reason that we weren’t voting for Harris was because she’s a black woman. In fact, the real racism was coming from the Democrats who told us that they were voting for Harris because she was a black woman. Funny, how actual competence never entered the discussion. We were told MAGA was racist, and sexist. Yet looking at the wide variety of people at MAGA rallies, show that claim is the poisonous nonsense it is. (Don’t bother looking for such evidence in the legacy media or on the bigger search engines…. see point 1. )
4: As the election numbers are analyzed, they increasingly show that this nation is not nearly as divided as some would have us believe. The kind of thumping the Dems took the other day, can only happen when there are a large number either currently or formerly registered Democrats, who gave up on the Democrats. The hard truth for the Democrats is, that these are people the Democrat party pushed away. After generations of being told that the Republicans and specifically Donald Trump are responsible for what divisions there are in the country, the judgment of the American voter is that it’s the Democrats and the never Trumper GOP establishment (Which in reality are very much the same thing) that have been causing the division. The voters pushed away the myth of division. I have been saying now for nearly 25 years on this blog that there is nothing that will unify the American people faster and more solidly than Democrats with government power in their hands… against the Democrats. What we have all seen this week is the loudest affirmation yet of that concept. You’d think this might cause a period of introspection among the left…. but no. (I’ll speak out that at some future time, I’m sure)
5: Voter ID: There are 15 states in this country which at the moment, do not require identification for voting. Harris won 13 of them. That’s that pretty much speaks for itself. Now that we have majority in both houses of Congress and the president who will sign such a bill it’s time to mandate a picture ID from every voter in a federal election. What the states do individually is their own concern and they will survive or not based on their policies. . But the federal elections should be so protected and I expect it will happen in the first 6 months of the new year.
Not only that, but Trump secured the popular vote as well thus silencing the usual crowd about how Trump’s victory is an electoral college quirk…. A one-off. Apparently arrogance, and an immoral superiority doesn’t convince anybody to vote Democrat.
Indeed, to get these numbers to look that far out of balance, what’s required is pushing people away from the Democrat party, often well established Democrats. People who have been voting Democrats into office for generations.
If nothing else, this should be an indication to the Democrats just how wildly unpopular their agenda is.
Thus far, there have been no charges of fraud leveled against Trump and his people, and even if they had the chutzpah to try it, the Congressional voting… Which gave the Republicans three additional seats in the Senate and four in the House… would make such a lie so obvious as to be laughable. There was definitely a message being sent to Washington from the voters.
So with all that going on one really must wonder how long it will be before the Democrats managed to unburden themselves from what they have wrought.
I notice Leticia James isn’t about to give up. Got to wonder what she thinks she’s fighting for. It certainly doesn’t involve the will of the people, or saving democracy as the Democrats have been so wont to say. Captain Ahab must have his whale,I suppose. And the blame game has already started warming up.
So I guess any serious soul-searching amongst Democrats has several problems attached to it. The first of them being, they don’t have one.
The level of attempted shenanigans we saw in Pennsylvania and elsewhere was really low compared to 2020. This cycle we didn’t have 3:00AM vote drops that violated the hell out of Benford’s law. We didn’t have convenient water-main breaks. We didn’t have cardboard glued to windows to keep people from watching the counting. We didn’t have 19 bellwether counties that always predict the national failing to predict the national. It’s like the Democrats weren’t really trying.
The Democratic fraud machine was clearly never a unitary conspiracy that could be turned on and off like a light switch; in order to be deniable, it has to be a whole bunch of smaller local conspiracies, all pulling in the same direction, not communicating with each other, managed to the limited extent they are managed by political operatives who act as deniable cutouts for the DNC and various state-level political machines
I think some low-level fixers never got the message to stand down. So we got some spasmodic twitches like Democratic operatives in Bucks County PA masquerading as election workers, telling voters in a Republican-leaning precinct to go home. But the stochastic-fraud network as a whole didn’t generate the strong stink it does when it’s fully activated.
I’m not sure why the network didn’t get its go signal this time. There are at least two possibilities: one is the DNC knew from internal polling that Harris was utterly doomed, the other is that they contemplated the amount of monitoring the Republicans put in place this time and quailed. Either way, they must have concluded that all they would accomplish by trying to put the fix in was risking the exposure of their network.
Two excellent points that I don’t consider to be mutually exclusive. I think they were both in play. But I think one factor got left out of this analysis…
Such networks need willing participants. I judge the possibility to be high, of those participants in previous election fraud to have looked at the situation, and their judgment was that Harris wasn’t worth
supporting, particularly given the risks involved.
Even those that are talented enough and prone to thievery aren’t going to break into a secure bank when it only has a $1.98 in the cash drawer.
He goes on:
But the thing they can’t hide now is the consequences. Somewhere around 15 million fewer votes, losing the popular vote, and losing all seven of the swing states that normally get buggered by big-city Democratic fraud machines.
It’s the last confirmation I needed that 2020 was stolen. And it’s big enough to make me suspect they frauded in Obama. Twice.
I only suspect, mind you, because unlike Biden I and Biden II and Harris, Obama ran campaigns that weren’t somnolent dogshit. Maybe he won honestly – I’d still give that odds of over 50%, though not by much.
Probably true, but I would add one factor… Again, I point to the need for willing participants. A comparison would probably help this along.
Both Mitt Romney and John McCain lost their respective presidential bids for a number of reasons, but I have often said in these spaces that the largest reason of all was that the GOP rank and file sat on their hands. Those two just weren’t acceptable candidates to the base.
I think this is a similar situation. The leadership of both parties has become increasingly insular from the rank and file over the last 50 years or so… And in this case the leadership of the Democrat party did a number of things in the process of 2024 is machinations, which caused the gag reflex among the Democrat rank and file voter. By its nature, this would include the people that were committing massive fraud back in 2020. Again, in their judgment Harris simply wasn’t worth that level of support.
Now he goes on to stress the need for cleaning up the voter rolls to which I would add requiring a voter ID.
I agree with that and I point out that Harris won all the states that do not have voter ID as a requirement.
The idea has been floated of declaring election day a national holiday and requiring voters on that national holiday to show up in person show their ID and vote if they want to vote.
It would not only encourage participation, but it would all but eliminate the possibility of fraud.
These efforts should be high on the list of the Trump agenda for the next four years.
Trump has already, a few weeks ago announced that his DOJ would be investigating election fraud both historically and currently. It’s about time somebody did.
It is nearly impossible to imagine a worse bit of timing from the Democrat party’s point of view. The optics are horrible.
The thing is, the optics don’t lie. What we have in this instance is unrestrained government… And it’s fairly well common knowledge who runs the government in New York state.
