“The same people who called you a fascist, Nazi and Hitler for supporting Trump are now demanding you unify and be nice to them now that Trump has won.”
Vance will have a lot of work to do in my book, Debra 🙂 I’m quite unimpressed with him, but we’ll see. Some folks grow and mature, others don’t. Jury’s out on that one.
But for now, may the nation accept this new administration and may the vitriol recede, at least for a time (please)?
And as some have noticed here Colorado remains a big blue iceberg in a sea of red!!! We are often referred to as California east 😢 Many of us remain steadfastly red!!!! ♥️ Way to go Patriots!!!
“We will enforce the rule of law and the Constitution.
You and your committee will be investigated for fabricating evidence, tampering with witnesses, suborning perjury, and conspiring to defraud the United States and more.
Get ready.”
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Day 1 pardons from jan6 political prisoners, and dropping charges for those they continue to arrest.
Then, the reckoning for the real frauds who orchestrated it.
Hey DJ, I had barely heard of J. D. Vance before the election. I’d heard of the book, of course, and heard it so controversially I’d never read it (though now I do want to), and it was only in this election cycle I heard that Vance was born in the same small town as one of my brothers (my family was long gone before Vance was born; they only lived there a couple of years).
I have been quite impressed with how he handles himself, how he answers questions, and so forth. I know that you aren’t impressed with him, and I respect that, but I also really have no idea what you mean. The cat lady comment was probably not an ideal comment (though the kind of thing one says when not realizing it might make it to national news)–is it comments like that you mean? I’ve mostly seen him in the debate and in interviews, and I think he has done really well in those. What I mostly hear is that people were not sure of the pick when it was made, but have been impressed as they have seen Vance over time.
I have viewed him largely as an opportunist, willing to do what he needed to do, including changing his views, to edge closer to a perceived power track (but that probably makes him, well, a good — or at least typical — politician). I was impressed by his performance in the VP debate, I have to say.
HRW, you expressed surprise at Trump and the garbage truck, asking why on earth he would do that. I think you were analyzing it as a “comment,” and I think it has to be seen more as an “image.”
Here is my own take: The Democrats have thrown everything they possibly can at Trump. He has been accused of everything from being Hitler, to being racist, to being a serious danger to women (because of several things, including his playboy stuff but also because abortion is being presented as a nearly sacred “right” rather than killing humans). He has been prosecuted, accused of being behind a “deadly insurrection” (since it wasn’t particularly violent and no one was killed, that is of course ludicrous), and shot at. They tried to make it impossible for him to run again, they made it “common knowledge” that no one could possibly vote for him without being racist and misogynistic. They even swapped candidates on him when their first candidate wasn’t going to beat him.
It turns out that whatever they threw against him didn’t stick. The accusations of racism became more and more absurd. The felony convictions obviously said more about his enemies than about him–and likely gained him the votes of a lot of black men. His near assassination not only didn’t kill him, but it became a meme. He had to run against two different candidates in one election cycle, but neither was a competent opponent. And the country isn’t in a good place on several metrics (including the immigrant crisis, inflation, and the push to perform “gender-affirming care” on minors and even to take away the children of those who oppose it as mutilation).
The idea that all of Trump’s supporters are evil people has been happening since he first ran. MAGA means “Make America Great Again,” and a presidential candidate did something unprecedented in getting his followers to wear clothing showing their support of him–so the other side tried to make it evil. Making America “great” meant making America segregated; it was a racist slogan. Only it wasn’t.
Years and years ago I had a security-system salesman tell me that the street behind me had recently had five break-ins. I was pretty sure he was making it up, and I realized his agenda: He was trying to sell me fear, and if he could sell me fear, he could sell me his security system. I didn’t buy the fear, and I didn’t buy his system.
Democrats have done the same thing here: Donald Trump is evil, racist, and dangerous–and all of his followers are racist, power-hungry, and misogynistic. Over time they have stated these “truths” more and more shrilly. They don’t realize that being “anti” the other side isn’t actually enough. So you don’t like Donald Trump, even to pathological levels of hate. But what do you offer Americans? More abortion? That’s all? Really? And you support mutilating our children? And our prices are going up and that seems not to matter to you?
So, when Joe Biden called Trump followers “garbage,” Trump leaned into it. He’d already seen that the image of him with blood running down his face had become a meme. He’d already seen that his working at McDonald’s was popular. This is way too long already, so I will make another post to see what the visual of Donald Trump in a garbage truck said to Americans–and why it worked.
If Trump won in 2020, he would’ve had a Democrat House and Senate
More impeachments, no Senate confirmations, no bills passed, and possibly the end of the MAGA movement as an effective political force
But now?
He has the House, Senate, Supreme Court, a popular vote mandate, and an entire country that wants to clean up our elections, close our borders, deport illegals, and hold corrupt politicians accountable
First, quite simply, any reminder of Biden was working in Trump’s favor, not Kamala’s. Biden hasn’t been a good president, Biden is incompetent, Biden was shown to be incompetent to run for president but somehow is still left in to function as president (?), Biden was pulled from the race in very questionable ways, and Biden made a lot of missteps. Biden basically was his own “vote for Trump” ad.
Second, calling a group of people “garbage” doesn’t tend to make them think kindly of you. Interestingly, that’s why the left tried to spin the comedian’s joke (which was, of course, in questionable taste because it was easy to misunderstand) as talking about people and not the conditions in which these people are living through no fault of their own. So the image reminds them: Those people have called you deplorables, racists, and garbage. They aren’t on your side.
Third, Trump showed that he IS on the side of those people being called “garbage.” Hey, if you’re garbage, I’d still rather hang out with you than with them–that’s huge. Trump was showing he can identify with common people. Biden can’t, and Kamala can’t–but Trump can.
Fourth, similar to #3, showing up in a McDonald’s uniform and a garbage man’s uniform is a whole different image than being a billionaire who exists on a different level than the people. He’s being relatable, and people sense that he actually does relate to common people and doesn’t just pretend to do so. Also, of course, it’s not wealthy, educated people who are riding in garbage trucks and working at McDonald’s–you are identifying with working-class people, including minorities. Importantly, though, you aren’t making fun of those working-class people, but of those who make fun of them.
Fifth, being able not to take yourself too seriously is something that ordinary people respect. Kamala can play herself on Saturday Night Live, but it’s hard to imagine her being willing to be in a garbage truck, especially if she is doing so because she and her followers just got called garbage. Trump showed he’s comfortable in his own skin and willing to laugh at himself, and that is useful.
Sixth, in appealing to men, a garbage man is more masculine than either Kamala or Walz. And masculinity is a better image for many women, as well. (I don’t know if the attraction women have to men in uniforms extends to garbage men, but it certainly isn’t a negative. They’re willing to work hard, and their presence in culture is very helpful. Lifelong politicians, less so.)
A MESSAGE FROM THE JAN 6 HOSTAGES TO OUR TYRANNICAL CAPTORS:
To every crooked FBI agent that hunted down innocent Americans & kicked down our doors, points guns at our family: we forgive you.
To every corrupt George Soros Federal Prosecutor who persecuted us & destroyed our fledging lives: we forgive you.
To every prejudiced mainstream news anchor who crucified us to the public, and decimated our good names: we forgive you.
To every hate-filled prison guard who put their hands on me & my brothers to hurt and maim us into communist complacency: we forgive you.
To every biased member of our DC Jury pools that railroaded us into political prisons, when you were our last hope in humanity, and you failed us: we forgive you.
To every feckless and spineless member of the GOP, including my Congressman Marc Mulinaro who was just unseated last night, who abandoned us and let us rot in dungeons – this one is hard but: we forgive you.
To President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Christopher Wray & Merrick Garland, your malicious bloodlust against Constitutionalists nearly killed us for 4 years in your GULAG, but: we forgive you.
To the hellbent liars on the January 6 Select Commitee, you showed us the evil weaponized side of Congress, you doctored a narrative against us to pulverize us in front of the world: we forgive you.
To our impossibly broken and manipulated Federal Judges, what the devil intended for evil in your hearts, God used for our good: we forgive you.
To every Marxist Democrat, and uniparty Republican that voted these cowards into power that nearly eviscerated my young life, I pray God opens your eyes to the love of Christ and: I forgive you.
“It is the glory of a man to overlook an offense”
Gods Word is alive in my heart & I offer you a better way forward to restore America: repent for your sins before God and turn from your wicked, ignorant ways – Father will hear from heaven and replenish our Land when the evil repent.
There will be no bitterness in my heart as I walk out of these doors in 75 days on inauguration day. The mercy I have received from God is too sweet to mix with hatred.
Let’s rebuild our Country.
MAGA VICTORY!!!!!!
– Edward Jacob LangPolitical Prisoner #76480054(2021-2025)”
Wholeheartedly disagree with Vance being an opportunist. Harris is a poster child for that moniker….SNL, Oprah and all her fellow ilk….that is opportunist.
It’s not uncommon to take what was thrown at you as an insult and turning it into a point of pride. Reminds me of the origins of “Yankee Doodle”.
From Wikipedia:
The song was a pre-Revolutionary War song originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial “Yankees” with whom they served in the French and Indian War. It was written at Fort Crailo around 1755 by British Army surgeon Richard Shuckburgh while campaigning in Rensselaer, New York. The British troops sang it to mock their stereotype of the American soldier as a Yankee simpleton who thought that he was stylish if he simply stuck a feather in his cap.
It was also popular among the Americans as a song of defiance,[and they added verses to it that mocked the British and hailed George Washington as the Commander of the Continental army. By 1781, “Yankee Doodle” had turned from being an insult to being a song of national pride.
The polls—with the exception once again of AltasIntel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen—were off, and way off in the Senate races.
The pollsters’ reputation is again in full reverse and now back to their nadir of 2020 and 2016. Many shamelessly warped their data in the last two weeks to gin up Harris momentum, fund-raising, and voter turnout.
And to no avail.
There were plenty of indications long ago in key states of a Trump thunderstorm: defections of minorities, anger among both the Jewish and Muslim voters, alienated union members, massive increases in Republican registrations and non-Election-Day balloting. And all were deliberately ignored by the corrupt media and pollsters.
Democrats know —but will do nothing about the fact—they have become the party of the upscale professionals and rich, and the subsidized poor. They have alienated the entire middle class—white, black, Hispanic—and ceding it to the new Republican populist-nationalist party.
Open borders, hyperinflation, abortion deification, the transgendered mania, the crime wave, and the green obsessions all did their bit to repel voters. The “racist” Trump won more minority support than any Dole, McCain, or Romney figure of the past.
What now will the buffoonish Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith do with their pseudo-indictments and convictions?
Try to nullify an American election by putting the president-elect in jail, as the projectionist and now paranoid Left screams that a soon to be President Trump might lawfare them in the manner they did him?
Democrat incumbent senators by late September knew their internal polls were bleeding. So, they decided to junk their lifelong voting records, ideology, and transient fealty to Harris, and chameleon-like to absorb the Trump agendas. That proved too fake and opportunistic for most voters.
Remember, we will soon be soon back to 2017-era leftwing hysteria.
The Left, as it licks its numerous wounds, will reemerge soon to get back the House and impeach Trump, riot on Inauguration Day, gin up more lawfare with hackish local and state prosecutors, insert more deep-state “Anonymous” obstructors into the swamp, draft more has-been generals to trash their commander-in-chief, and reach for the absurdities like the Logan Act, 25th Amendment or more collusion myths.
After all, the party that said democracy was on the ballot is now the most anti-democratic force in modern history. Will a Josh Shapiro try to do a Bill Clinton on the Democratic Party as the latter did after the McGovern/Carter disasters?
Winners?
Donald Trump, of course.
After a decade of Russian collusion farces, laptop disinformation ruses, two impeachments, attempted ballot removal, five civil and criminal suits, two assassination attempts, and a swat team raid on his home, the indestructible 78-year-old Trump has just pulled off the greatest political comeback in presidential history.
Trump was out-funded by Harris. The media gave him 95 percent negative coverage.
The glitterati trashed him nonstop and even stooped to sabotage Saturday Night Live, in vain, to stop him.
The ridiculous Obamas jetted out of their mansions to lie about Trump nonstop and talk down to their own voters.
All they proved was that the phantom, supposedly miracle Michelle Obama candidacy would have been even worse than Harris. An arrogant Oprah and the View really believed people believed their gossipy paranoia about Trump.
In the end, Trump proved more energetic and industrious than Harris, smarter than seasoned politicos, and utterly authentic, preferring to be genuine and occasionally crude than the inauthentic and sappy Harris. He may likely be the first Republican to win 51 percent of the vote since 1988, and the first to win the popular vote in twenty years.
As a general rule, those in the conservative and Republican movements who stood by Trump have won with him. Those who damned him ended up inert or wandering aimlessly in the political wilderness. What happens to the Liz Cheneys and Larry Hogans of the world?
There are no now more “Never Trump” conservatives. That is a misnomer for those who were after a decade mostly either leftwing or subsidized by the Left as useful idiots—or irrelevant.
Contrast all that with the even more ascendent and buoyant mavericks like Elon Musk, RFK, Jr., Joe Rogan, and Tulsi Gabbard.
I watched the tears, denial, and fury of the MSNBC and CNN crowd as they struggled first to fantasize nonexistent pathways to victory, then to revisit “Russian collusion” and “lawfare”, then to claim the proverbial naïve and stupid electorate was deluded into voting against its “real” interests (as defined by MSNBC grandees), and finally to announce that the world—currently on the nuclear precipice of Biden-induced, escalating, theater-wide wars—will be “aghast” at the will of the American people.
In other words, the political-media Leftist fusion sermonized about everything other than why they were rejected by the American people.
What a pathetic bunch our media have become.
And lastly Biden?
The left —who dreamed up the 2020 idea of using the fake “ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton” as “moderate” cover for the hard-left agenda—does not know whether to blame Joe for not getting out earlier, or to claim their July coup was now a mistake and they would have been better off with a candidate cognitively challenged by dementia rather than one by innate inability.
So, Democrats will blame everyone and everything—except themselves who sought to drive down the American people’s throat the most radical and absurd agenda of the last two centuries that ruined the economy, exploded our border, made moonscapes of our big cities, destroyed women’s sports, set the world abroad afire, weaponized the courts and the bureaucracies, and sought to tear the country in two.
“Anyone catch this? At the end of last night’s @BulwarkOnline’s election coverage, the hosts, agitated at Democrats’ impending demise, said the Biden Admin should have gotten even more extreme to prevent this from occurring.
Jonathan Last (JVL): “[The Biden Admin] should have been quite radical. They should have made D.C. a state, they should have actually expanded the Supreme Court, they should have done a whole bunch of stuff that would have been deeply unpopular, but … would have restructured the framework in such a way as to make it harder for the next authoritarian attempt.”
“JUST IN: The Department of Justice and Jack Smith immediately end their cases against Donald Trump.
The DOJ cited their policy that presidents can’t be prosecuted however it was assumed they would work up until the “last day.”
“What’s interesting here is that the DOJ is moving to end them even before he takes office, citing the longstanding DOJ policy that sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted.”
“And there were some thought that maybe special counsel Jack Smith was going to sprint through the finish line, was going to work up until the last day, force Trump to fire him, wait till a new Attorney General was appointed.”
“But that does not appear to be the thinking inside the department. The thinking is that these cases can’t go forward.””
~ Donald Trump didn’t steal the 2024 election. He has won it — clearly and comprehensively.
Democrats warned that Trump and his supporters are prepared to hijack democracy. Now they must ruefully acknowledge another reality: The Trump movement, no matter how much this appalls opponents, is a powerful expression of democracy. …
… Now, however, there is a new challenge for Trump. Much of his political energy comes from victimhood — the perception that he is valiantly fighting back against entrenched forces. How does that work now, in light of the reality that he has unambiguously bested those forces? A movement politician has made himself the first politician to return to the White House after losing it since the 1892 election of Grover Cleveland, who was distinctly not a movement politician or a cult of personality.
We are in for a new chapter of Trump’s career, and a new chapter in the American presidency. ~
I keep thinking of all the people and dollars saved from the half-baked policy/plans/ giveaways that Harris proposed. Many were hoping to get in on the 50,000 grant to start new small businesses. Most if not all would have failed, and who knows if the money would have truly materialized after the election.
Thinking of all the parents who will not be trapped into losing their children to mutilation of their bodies because of warped policies of transgenderism toward families and children. That and so much more.
God has been merciful in more ways than we will ever know.
I think people with children and grandchildren have different priorities than those who do not have them. I even consider how adoptions and foster care will be opened up to Christians whereas under Harris it would have been shut down.
~ Some free advice for Democrats: Maybe telling people the economy is great when prices are skyrocketing is not a great way to message on the issue. Maybe signaling to white men (a massive share of the voting population) that their very existence is inherently racist, sexist, or somehow in need of correction is not a good idea. Maybe trotting out Liz Cheney, the daughter of the architect of the U.S.’s prolonged Middle East presence, and Bill Clinton, the architect of NAFTA, as surrogates for your party is disastrously silly. Maybe not holding legitimate, open, and fair primary elections is still a bad strategy for picking your presidential candidate. Maybe decent chunks of this country are perfectly willing to accept high levels of immigration but refuse to accept a disorganized, chaotic system that provides no resistance for millions of people to enter the country illegally or through a broken asylum process.
Some free advice for Republicans: Political fortunes change quickly in our country, and the biggest changes often come in the wake of unbridled over-confidence. ~
~ It’s funny how massive election fraud and “cheating in Philadelphia” just magically disappeared around 10:00pm ET last night, isn’t it? I guess Democrats just forgot to “rig” this one. …
2028 is going to be fascinating. Trump’s party will be the incumbent with an electorate always desiring change, but they won’t have Trump. Democrats will have a new bench of leaders vying for a spot in the White House, and won’t have Trump to run against (maybe JD Vance instead?). It’s really, truly hard to imagine what will happen. …
*** And …
~ Many Americans are feeling scared and furious today. Many are elated and relieved. This election will impact some people more than others (both emotionally and practically), and we’ll all be better off if we conduct ourselves with humility and give each other some grace. ~
Yeah, I think they’ve been promising that “new bench of leaders” in the Democratic party for a long time. Hey, now that Dems are the new home of NeoCons maybe Liz Cheney will be making up part of that “new bench”. Stranger things…
The tough part of winning: Now the winners are forced into the defensive role – after the luxury of criticizing from the sidelines (which is a way easier and even more fun role).
I suppose this statement addressed to Republicans suggested we are subject to “over confidence”. Blanket statements can be over reaching.
Some free advice for Republicans: Political fortunes change quickly in our country, and the biggest changes often come in the wake of unbridled over-confidence. ~
I’m glad this election had a clear outcome, with a solid margin for President Trump in the popular vote.
I also hope he keeps in mind that 49% of the electorate voted against him. Biden said when he claimed victory in 2020 that he would be everyone’s president, but he didn’t seem to consider the half that voted against him when he let extreme members of his party pull him leftward.
I wonder if we feel more divided in recent years because the popular vote has been closer. In the 60s – 80s, elections swung back and forth between landslides (’64, ’72, ’84) and close calls (’60, ’68, ’76). But ’84 was the last time anyone won by more than 10%, and 6 of the last 7 elections (counting this year’s) had margins under 5%.
I watched the concession speech. It was around twelve minutes long. She did a good job with it. I think some part of her must feel great relief.
I think I was watching on CNN so got that commentary. Good to hear those points of view. One lady said her daughters are in two different colleges with young Jewish ladies on campus. She found out those students voted for Trump because of Israel. To them that issue was more important than abortion. She was making the point that there were so many things driving people to vote for Trump. All Harris had was the abortion issue and hope to be first woman president. They also said it was only those affluent people unaffected by the economy who voted for Harris. It is sad to be so out of touch with the masses.
When the Dems lost the battle to get so many illegal votes because people were watching . . . well, they really needed those votes to win. What a lot of factors went into that loss.
“On CNN, @ScottJenningsKY correctly describes how the whole NeverTrump industry — the Bill Kristols and Lincoln Projects and Bulwark and Dispatch – are the biggest cons we’ve seen for awhile, accomplishing nothing other than bilking liberals out of cash to buy new beach houses.”
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Has anyone done a welfare check on them and David French today?
Was Georgia the only state to receive all those bomb threats to polling sites from Russian sources?
It seems odd and goes along with that Homeland Security Cyber Security exercise that had been planned for election day in Atlanta that got rescheduled.
We do need to work harder to assure people that the votes are legally cast and counted.
The 2020 covid debacle with all it’s tyrannical lockdowns, the violent, destructive, ‘mostly peaceful ‘ riots, and the many election rules changes in 2020 badly undermined voter confidence. And the behavior of the press in reporting and advocating completely undermined their credibility and ability to bring clarity.
I watched as well Janice. I wonder if she wrote the speech….I doubt it. She did vow to continue in the fight for women to end the lives of their babies😢….
@5:22 — They appear to be doing fine — sort of like you were after Trump’s defeat, right? People refund. 🙂 Saw a few posts on Twitter. People are resilient, this nation is resilient.
Not saying I agree with this as I think he presumes too much (in that we can’t know God’s intentions or secret will with any of these events). Though his overall point — testing to make sure our love of God is above our love of our own partisan politics/politicians — is a valid one.
From John Piper:
_______________________________
~ Presidential election results.
Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another.
“The Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 13:3 ~
_______________________________
I think it’s time to watch, a time certainly to pray — and to show some humility and grace. The battle was fierce, a spiritual rest may be in order.
For as divided as our nation is, it seems somehow to not be quite as divided as before because this election shows many diverse groups have chosen the same way forward despite their major differences.
It seems very divided still to me, Janice. Not sure we get out of this situation that easily.
We’ll see if Trump will make some inroads with outreach to those of other views; I’m not expecting to see that but I may be wrong.
I suspect we may just need to wait for it all to pass with time. The nation has gone through these periods before and they do typically “pass.” But it may not be quickly.
So many citizens were weary worn with the invited invasion of foreigners by the Biden administration. Not just that many of those invaders were criminals but add insult to injury we have been financing their stay here! And then said foreigners have the gall to demand more rights,jobs and financing! This has been a unifying factor from the left and right. We are sick of it.
A relative has been working non stop in aiding the victims of the hurricane in TN and NC. She is appalled at the lack of help and care for our own citizens. The stories she has shared with us have been heartbreaking.
It’s not a D or R issue. It is a right and wrong issue. Some believers are weary worn of being accused of putting politics above their dependence and faithfulness to our Lord. It’s an unfair deflection.
Wandering Views 
The media is coping as well as expected.🙂
https://x.com/KatiePavlich/status/1854062760486674628?t=GoVXdA_X23puJZMbUcDh0Q&s=19
“The same people who called you a fascist, Nazi and Hitler for supporting Trump are now demanding you unify and be nice to them now that Trump has won.”
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https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1854103799045980454?t=Ni0WoZUM6apBbO2YFvIb0A&s=19
“Jen Psaki is melting down over Elon Musk and Trump lmao.
What a neutral and unbiased reporting.”
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Praise the LORD! There does not seem to be as much turbulence as I was prepared to see! So far, so good. God is merciful.
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Now 2024 elections are finally over. We can heave a deep sigh and relax.
Ok, enough relaxation: Vance 2028! Let’s go people!
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I think I accidentally posted this on a different thread, my computer is bouncing around a lot!
The people have spoken and we now look forward to a peaceful transfer of power. We live in an amazing nation.
May God continue to bless our country and may we the people, in turn, bless Him.
It will be an interesting time ahead and we’ll see what God will do with all of that.
Onward – in peace. 🙂
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Vance will have a lot of work to do in my book, Debra 🙂 I’m quite unimpressed with him, but we’ll see. Some folks grow and mature, others don’t. Jury’s out on that one.
But for now, may the nation accept this new administration and may the vitriol recede, at least for a time (please)?
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And as some have noticed here Colorado remains a big blue iceberg in a sea of red!!! We are often referred to as California east 😢 Many of us remain steadfastly red!!!! ♥️ Way to go Patriots!!!
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And how are foreign leaders responding to this projected decision?
mumsee
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Concession speech at 6 p.m?
https://www.newsweek.com/did-kamala-harris-concede-campaign-donald-trump-election-howard-university-1981149
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If you’re unimpressed with Vance, then you really haven’t listened to the man at length.
He’s sharp, smart, a policy wonk, has a sense of humor, a good family man, a veteran, and is a strong conservative with no personal baggage.
I think you need better sources for info.
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A message for Liz Cheney and the rest of the fraud Jan6 Committee.
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1854167841781535054?t=_ObW6l3vRWY0vDmFW-aLlQ&s=19
“We will enforce the rule of law and the Constitution.
You and your committee will be investigated for fabricating evidence, tampering with witnesses, suborning perjury, and conspiring to defraud the United States and more.
Get ready.”
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Day 1 pardons from jan6 political prisoners, and dropping charges for those they continue to arrest.
Then, the reckoning for the real frauds who orchestrated it.
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Siri, why do folks hate the media?
This is exactly why the Dems and their media sycophants lost.
https://x.com/alx/status/1854181699308933349?t=4e3mSOI9ZlUcpv55jaDrwQ&s=19
“New Morning Joe talking point: Hispanics are racist against black people and black men are misogynistic”
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Hey DJ, I had barely heard of J. D. Vance before the election. I’d heard of the book, of course, and heard it so controversially I’d never read it (though now I do want to), and it was only in this election cycle I heard that Vance was born in the same small town as one of my brothers (my family was long gone before Vance was born; they only lived there a couple of years).
I have been quite impressed with how he handles himself, how he answers questions, and so forth. I know that you aren’t impressed with him, and I respect that, but I also really have no idea what you mean. The cat lady comment was probably not an ideal comment (though the kind of thing one says when not realizing it might make it to national news)–is it comments like that you mean? I’ve mostly seen him in the debate and in interviews, and I think he has done really well in those. What I mostly hear is that people were not sure of the pick when it was made, but have been impressed as they have seen Vance over time.
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So when will the flights out start, and when will Rob Reiner be lighting himself on fire as promised?
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1854044627344437432?t=8JRD_JDshAMtH2mVwdMSvg&s=19
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One perspective on Trump causing division in our nation. It’s a division of good and evil becoming more and more evident according to this reel.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B46si5sjU/
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Just gotta say, I much prefer Vance to Walz as a potential President.
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Let us not let down our guard. Those who hate Trump still hate Trump. We pray our Lord’s protection over him.
JD professes faith in our Lord and l am impressed by his calm demeanor when faced with vitriol by the leftist. Praying for him as well.
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Vance may prove himself, agreed.
I have viewed him largely as an opportunist, willing to do what he needed to do, including changing his views, to edge closer to a perceived power track (but that probably makes him, well, a good — or at least typical — politician). I was impressed by his performance in the VP debate, I have to say.
So we will see. 🙂 My favorite phrase in 2024.
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Cheryl,
Refresh my memory, in what state do you live again?
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HRW, you expressed surprise at Trump and the garbage truck, asking why on earth he would do that. I think you were analyzing it as a “comment,” and I think it has to be seen more as an “image.”
Here is my own take: The Democrats have thrown everything they possibly can at Trump. He has been accused of everything from being Hitler, to being racist, to being a serious danger to women (because of several things, including his playboy stuff but also because abortion is being presented as a nearly sacred “right” rather than killing humans). He has been prosecuted, accused of being behind a “deadly insurrection” (since it wasn’t particularly violent and no one was killed, that is of course ludicrous), and shot at. They tried to make it impossible for him to run again, they made it “common knowledge” that no one could possibly vote for him without being racist and misogynistic. They even swapped candidates on him when their first candidate wasn’t going to beat him.
It turns out that whatever they threw against him didn’t stick. The accusations of racism became more and more absurd. The felony convictions obviously said more about his enemies than about him–and likely gained him the votes of a lot of black men. His near assassination not only didn’t kill him, but it became a meme. He had to run against two different candidates in one election cycle, but neither was a competent opponent. And the country isn’t in a good place on several metrics (including the immigrant crisis, inflation, and the push to perform “gender-affirming care” on minors and even to take away the children of those who oppose it as mutilation).
The idea that all of Trump’s supporters are evil people has been happening since he first ran. MAGA means “Make America Great Again,” and a presidential candidate did something unprecedented in getting his followers to wear clothing showing their support of him–so the other side tried to make it evil. Making America “great” meant making America segregated; it was a racist slogan. Only it wasn’t.
Years and years ago I had a security-system salesman tell me that the street behind me had recently had five break-ins. I was pretty sure he was making it up, and I realized his agenda: He was trying to sell me fear, and if he could sell me fear, he could sell me his security system. I didn’t buy the fear, and I didn’t buy his system.
Democrats have done the same thing here: Donald Trump is evil, racist, and dangerous–and all of his followers are racist, power-hungry, and misogynistic. Over time they have stated these “truths” more and more shrilly. They don’t realize that being “anti” the other side isn’t actually enough. So you don’t like Donald Trump, even to pathological levels of hate. But what do you offer Americans? More abortion? That’s all? Really? And you support mutilating our children? And our prices are going up and that seems not to matter to you?
So, when Joe Biden called Trump followers “garbage,” Trump leaned into it. He’d already seen that the image of him with blood running down his face had become a meme. He’d already seen that his working at McDonald’s was popular. This is way too long already, so I will make another post to see what the visual of Donald Trump in a garbage truck said to Americans–and why it worked.
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AJ, I live in one of the first two states called for Trump.
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Cheryl at 1131,
Good comment, and well said. 👍
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And now I’m logged out…
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“Think about this
If Trump won in 2020, he would’ve had a Democrat House and Senate
More impeachments, no Senate confirmations, no bills passed, and possibly the end of the MAGA movement as an effective political force
But now?
He has the House, Senate, Supreme Court, a popular vote mandate, and an entire country that wants to clean up our elections, close our borders, deport illegals, and hold corrupt politicians accountable
Sometimes I think it had to happen this way”
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1854173649466544600?t=G31pLtnWSgfCm5lgXD2iFQ&s=19
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“FULL SPEECH: Donald J. Trump Delivers Powerful Victory Speech After Winning 2024 Presidential Election & Securing 2nd Term As POTUS 47”
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1854077641441292468?t=mYx1veaYMgdE8jP-ub0hzQ&s=19
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Why the image of Trump in a garbage truck worked:
First, quite simply, any reminder of Biden was working in Trump’s favor, not Kamala’s. Biden hasn’t been a good president, Biden is incompetent, Biden was shown to be incompetent to run for president but somehow is still left in to function as president (?), Biden was pulled from the race in very questionable ways, and Biden made a lot of missteps. Biden basically was his own “vote for Trump” ad.
Second, calling a group of people “garbage” doesn’t tend to make them think kindly of you. Interestingly, that’s why the left tried to spin the comedian’s joke (which was, of course, in questionable taste because it was easy to misunderstand) as talking about people and not the conditions in which these people are living through no fault of their own. So the image reminds them: Those people have called you deplorables, racists, and garbage. They aren’t on your side.
Third, Trump showed that he IS on the side of those people being called “garbage.” Hey, if you’re garbage, I’d still rather hang out with you than with them–that’s huge. Trump was showing he can identify with common people. Biden can’t, and Kamala can’t–but Trump can.
Fourth, similar to #3, showing up in a McDonald’s uniform and a garbage man’s uniform is a whole different image than being a billionaire who exists on a different level than the people. He’s being relatable, and people sense that he actually does relate to common people and doesn’t just pretend to do so. Also, of course, it’s not wealthy, educated people who are riding in garbage trucks and working at McDonald’s–you are identifying with working-class people, including minorities. Importantly, though, you aren’t making fun of those working-class people, but of those who make fun of them.
Fifth, being able not to take yourself too seriously is something that ordinary people respect. Kamala can play herself on Saturday Night Live, but it’s hard to imagine her being willing to be in a garbage truck, especially if she is doing so because she and her followers just got called garbage. Trump showed he’s comfortable in his own skin and willing to laugh at himself, and that is useful.
Sixth, in appealing to men, a garbage man is more masculine than either Kamala or Walz. And masculinity is a better image for many women, as well. (I don’t know if the attraction women have to men in uniforms extends to garbage men, but it certainly isn’t a negative. They’re willing to work hard, and their presence in culture is very helpful. Lifelong politicians, less so.)
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It does all fall within God’s Providence, of course. How that all unfolds and turns out and to what ultimate end will be left to find out.
But the comfort we have, as always, is that God reigns to accomplish his purpose, whatever that may be. We rest in that, amen?
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One caution: Full power can be a dangerous road as well, full of potential human pitfalls.
So prayers for wisdom and humility are always good.
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Powerful stuff here. I hope he’s soon a free man.
https://x.com/JakeLangJ6/status/1854177319667339377?t=azpP-bkISSQ9Nkd9EbDlPA&s=19
A MESSAGE FROM THE JAN 6 HOSTAGES TO OUR TYRANNICAL CAPTORS:
To every crooked FBI agent that hunted down innocent Americans & kicked down our doors, points guns at our family: we forgive you.
To every corrupt George Soros Federal Prosecutor who persecuted us & destroyed our fledging lives: we forgive you.
To every prejudiced mainstream news anchor who crucified us to the public, and decimated our good names: we forgive you.
To every hate-filled prison guard who put their hands on me & my brothers to hurt and maim us into communist complacency: we forgive you.
To every biased member of our DC Jury pools that railroaded us into political prisons, when you were our last hope in humanity, and you failed us: we forgive you.
To every feckless and spineless member of the GOP, including my Congressman Marc Mulinaro who was just unseated last night, who abandoned us and let us rot in dungeons – this one is hard but: we forgive you.
To President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Christopher Wray & Merrick Garland, your malicious bloodlust against Constitutionalists nearly killed us for 4 years in your GULAG, but: we forgive you.
To the hellbent liars on the January 6 Select Commitee, you showed us the evil weaponized side of Congress, you doctored a narrative against us to pulverize us in front of the world: we forgive you.
To our impossibly broken and manipulated Federal Judges, what the devil intended for evil in your hearts, God used for our good: we forgive you.
To every Marxist Democrat, and uniparty Republican that voted these cowards into power that nearly eviscerated my young life, I pray God opens your eyes to the love of Christ and: I forgive you.
“It is the glory of a man to overlook an offense”
Gods Word is alive in my heart & I offer you a better way forward to restore America: repent for your sins before God and turn from your wicked, ignorant ways – Father will hear from heaven and replenish our Land when the evil repent.
There will be no bitterness in my heart as I walk out of these doors in 75 days on inauguration day. The mercy I have received from God is too sweet to mix with hatred.
Let’s rebuild our Country.
MAGA VICTORY!!!!!!
– Edward Jacob LangPolitical Prisoner #76480054(2021-2025)”
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Like Cheryl said, relatable, and stands up for the average guy.
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1853855869810676116?t=zae-TAofZhxQqMq6KT0aCA&s=19
““Will you tell your supporters there should be no violence?”
Trump absolutely nails the response.”
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That’s the perfect response to her asinine question.
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Trump can be quick on his feet!
Wholeheartedly disagree with Vance being an opportunist. Harris is a poster child for that moniker….SNL, Oprah and all her fellow ilk….that is opportunist.
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It’s not uncommon to take what was thrown at you as an insult and turning it into a point of pride. Reminds me of the origins of “Yankee Doodle”.
From Wikipedia:
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I believe they call this a mandate from voters….
The House, The Senate, the popular vote, and the electoral votes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=current+electoral+count&oq=current+electoral+count&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMggICRAAGBYYHjIICAoQABgWGB4yCAgLEAAYFhgeMggIDBAAGBYYHtIBCDY5MjRqMGo3qAIUsAIB&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ebo=1
294 Trump
224 Kamala
And Trump looks poised to pick up another 20.
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15 to 20…
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Of course he does. What else can a Never Trumper do at this point?
https://x.com/thehill/status/1854066428829151677?t=v2j4mY3f5hUIEJZHvv5fMQ&s=19
“Lindsey Graham calls for bipartisanship”
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I gotta say, the media and pollsters couldn’t have been more wrong this cycle.
The country doesn’t seem nearly as divided as we were led to believe by them.
Once again, the pollsters who got it right were called outliers by the media and the pollsters who were wrong.
https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1854193617608540273?t=tWmQpvE_WvqCMouorI4ndA&s=19
“Our Election’s Utter Losers and Winners
Deservedly Losers
The polls—with the exception once again of AltasIntel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen—were off, and way off in the Senate races.
The pollsters’ reputation is again in full reverse and now back to their nadir of 2020 and 2016. Many shamelessly warped their data in the last two weeks to gin up Harris momentum, fund-raising, and voter turnout.
And to no avail.
There were plenty of indications long ago in key states of a Trump thunderstorm: defections of minorities, anger among both the Jewish and Muslim voters, alienated union members, massive increases in Republican registrations and non-Election-Day balloting. And all were deliberately ignored by the corrupt media and pollsters.
Democrats know —but will do nothing about the fact—they have become the party of the upscale professionals and rich, and the subsidized poor. They have alienated the entire middle class—white, black, Hispanic—and ceding it to the new Republican populist-nationalist party.
Open borders, hyperinflation, abortion deification, the transgendered mania, the crime wave, and the green obsessions all did their bit to repel voters. The “racist” Trump won more minority support than any Dole, McCain, or Romney figure of the past.
What now will the buffoonish Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith do with their pseudo-indictments and convictions?
Try to nullify an American election by putting the president-elect in jail, as the projectionist and now paranoid Left screams that a soon to be President Trump might lawfare them in the manner they did him?
Democrat incumbent senators by late September knew their internal polls were bleeding. So, they decided to junk their lifelong voting records, ideology, and transient fealty to Harris, and chameleon-like to absorb the Trump agendas. That proved too fake and opportunistic for most voters.
Remember, we will soon be soon back to 2017-era leftwing hysteria.
The Left, as it licks its numerous wounds, will reemerge soon to get back the House and impeach Trump, riot on Inauguration Day, gin up more lawfare with hackish local and state prosecutors, insert more deep-state “Anonymous” obstructors into the swamp, draft more has-been generals to trash their commander-in-chief, and reach for the absurdities like the Logan Act, 25th Amendment or more collusion myths.
After all, the party that said democracy was on the ballot is now the most anti-democratic force in modern history. Will a Josh Shapiro try to do a Bill Clinton on the Democratic Party as the latter did after the McGovern/Carter disasters?
Winners?
Donald Trump, of course.
After a decade of Russian collusion farces, laptop disinformation ruses, two impeachments, attempted ballot removal, five civil and criminal suits, two assassination attempts, and a swat team raid on his home, the indestructible 78-year-old Trump has just pulled off the greatest political comeback in presidential history.
Trump was out-funded by Harris. The media gave him 95 percent negative coverage.
The glitterati trashed him nonstop and even stooped to sabotage Saturday Night Live, in vain, to stop him.
The ridiculous Obamas jetted out of their mansions to lie about Trump nonstop and talk down to their own voters.
All they proved was that the phantom, supposedly miracle Michelle Obama candidacy would have been even worse than Harris. An arrogant Oprah and the View really believed people believed their gossipy paranoia about Trump.
In the end, Trump proved more energetic and industrious than Harris, smarter than seasoned politicos, and utterly authentic, preferring to be genuine and occasionally crude than the inauthentic and sappy Harris. He may likely be the first Republican to win 51 percent of the vote since 1988, and the first to win the popular vote in twenty years.
As a general rule, those in the conservative and Republican movements who stood by Trump have won with him. Those who damned him ended up inert or wandering aimlessly in the political wilderness. What happens to the Liz Cheneys and Larry Hogans of the world?
There are no now more “Never Trump” conservatives. That is a misnomer for those who were after a decade mostly either leftwing or subsidized by the Left as useful idiots—or irrelevant.
Contrast all that with the even more ascendent and buoyant mavericks like Elon Musk, RFK, Jr., Joe Rogan, and Tulsi Gabbard.
I watched the tears, denial, and fury of the MSNBC and CNN crowd as they struggled first to fantasize nonexistent pathways to victory, then to revisit “Russian collusion” and “lawfare”, then to claim the proverbial naïve and stupid electorate was deluded into voting against its “real” interests (as defined by MSNBC grandees), and finally to announce that the world—currently on the nuclear precipice of Biden-induced, escalating, theater-wide wars—will be “aghast” at the will of the American people.
In other words, the political-media Leftist fusion sermonized about everything other than why they were rejected by the American people.
What a pathetic bunch our media have become.
And lastly Biden?
The left —who dreamed up the 2020 idea of using the fake “ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton” as “moderate” cover for the hard-left agenda—does not know whether to blame Joe for not getting out earlier, or to claim their July coup was now a mistake and they would have been better off with a candidate cognitively challenged by dementia rather than one by innate inability.
So, Democrats will blame everyone and everything—except themselves who sought to drive down the American people’s throat the most radical and absurd agenda of the last two centuries that ruined the economy, exploded our border, made moonscapes of our big cities, destroyed women’s sports, set the world abroad afire, weaponized the courts and the bureaucracies, and sought to tear the country in two.
RIP to all that.”
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Lol.
They’re soooo conservative….
https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1854200672918335924?t=Yf_tYdFD9n39nWR03RB4Ow&s=19
“Anyone catch this? At the end of last night’s @BulwarkOnline’s election coverage, the hosts, agitated at Democrats’ impending demise, said the Biden Admin should have gotten even more extreme to prevent this from occurring.
Jonathan Last (JVL): “[The Biden Admin] should have been quite radical. They should have made D.C. a state, they should have actually expanded the Supreme Court, they should have done a whole bunch of stuff that would have been deeply unpopular, but … would have restructured the framework in such a way as to make it harder for the next authoritarian attempt.”
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“JUST IN: The Department of Justice and Jack Smith immediately end their cases against Donald Trump.
The DOJ cited their policy that presidents can’t be prosecuted however it was assumed they would work up until the “last day.”
“What’s interesting here is that the DOJ is moving to end them even before he takes office, citing the longstanding DOJ policy that sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted.”
“And there were some thought that maybe special counsel Jack Smith was going to sprint through the finish line, was going to work up until the last day, force Trump to fire him, wait till a new Attorney General was appointed.”
“But that does not appear to be the thinking inside the department. The thinking is that these cases can’t go forward.””
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1854230895743439285?t=tTYkMCEYuaxeFOxoshHNug&s=19
😀
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From Politico:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/06/donald-trump-election-humiliated-his-foes-00187812
Trump Has Humiliated His Foes
~ Donald Trump didn’t steal the 2024 election. He has won it — clearly and comprehensively.
Democrats warned that Trump and his supporters are prepared to hijack democracy. Now they must ruefully acknowledge another reality: The Trump movement, no matter how much this appalls opponents, is a powerful expression of democracy. …
… Now, however, there is a new challenge for Trump. Much of his political energy comes from victimhood — the perception that he is valiantly fighting back against entrenched forces. How does that work now, in light of the reality that he has unambiguously bested those forces? A movement politician has made himself the first politician to return to the White House after losing it since the 1892 election of Grover Cleveland, who was distinctly not a movement politician or a cult of personality.
We are in for a new chapter of Trump’s career, and a new chapter in the American presidency. ~
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NJ @12:57 — two things can be true at the same time 🙂
I may be wrong about Vance, so I acknowledge I’m coming to that (tentative) conclusion from what I’ve seen without knowing the man.
Just my initial impressions.
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I keep thinking of all the people and dollars saved from the half-baked policy/plans/ giveaways that Harris proposed. Many were hoping to get in on the 50,000 grant to start new small businesses. Most if not all would have failed, and who knows if the money would have truly materialized after the election.
Thinking of all the parents who will not be trapped into losing their children to mutilation of their bodies because of warped policies of transgenderism toward families and children. That and so much more.
God has been merciful in more ways than we will ever know.
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I think people with children and grandchildren have different priorities than those who do not have them. I even consider how adoptions and foster care will be opened up to Christians whereas under Harris it would have been shut down.
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My prophet license needs to be renewed. lol
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It will be interesting to watch the Democratic Party in coming years.
Hard to predict the future, clearly. And my prophet’s license probably needs to be renewed. 🙂
Janice @2:22, perhaps but maybe not in all cases as a blanket statement. Peace.
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Beware of blanket assumptions. …
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Concession speech at 4 p.m. from Houard U:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/06/kamala-harris-concession-speech-time-place/76087777007/
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From Tangle today:
~ Some free advice for Democrats: Maybe telling people the economy is great when prices are skyrocketing is not a great way to message on the issue. Maybe signaling to white men (a massive share of the voting population) that their very existence is inherently racist, sexist, or somehow in need of correction is not a good idea. Maybe trotting out Liz Cheney, the daughter of the architect of the U.S.’s prolonged Middle East presence, and Bill Clinton, the architect of NAFTA, as surrogates for your party is disastrously silly. Maybe not holding legitimate, open, and fair primary elections is still a bad strategy for picking your presidential candidate. Maybe decent chunks of this country are perfectly willing to accept high levels of immigration but refuse to accept a disorganized, chaotic system that provides no resistance for millions of people to enter the country illegally or through a broken asylum process.
Some free advice for Republicans: Political fortunes change quickly in our country, and the biggest changes often come in the wake of unbridled over-confidence. ~
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And (also Tangle):
~ It’s funny how massive election fraud and “cheating in Philadelphia” just magically disappeared around 10:00pm ET last night, isn’t it? I guess Democrats just forgot to “rig” this one. …
2028 is going to be fascinating. Trump’s party will be the incumbent with an electorate always desiring change, but they won’t have Trump. Democrats will have a new bench of leaders vying for a spot in the White House, and won’t have Trump to run against (maybe JD Vance instead?). It’s really, truly hard to imagine what will happen. …
*** And …
~ Many Americans are feeling scared and furious today. Many are elated and relieved. This election will impact some people more than others (both emotionally and practically), and we’ll all be better off if we conduct ourselves with humility and give each other some grace. ~
Amen to that.
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Yeah, I think they’ve been promising that “new bench of leaders” in the Democratic party for a long time. Hey, now that Dems are the new home of NeoCons maybe Liz Cheney will be making up part of that “new bench”. Stranger things…
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Or David French.
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” just magically disappeared around 10:00pm ET last night, isn’t it? I guess Democrats just forgot to “rig” this one. …
Because they did that once already. Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me! Too many eyeballs peering over their shoulders this time !
The Lord Himself will humble the proud
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The tough part of winning: Now the winners are forced into the defensive role – after the luxury of criticizing from the sidelines (which is a way easier and even more fun role).
Will be an interesting year ahead.
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NJ, the Lord will humble us all. Because we all need it.
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True the Lord extends grace to the humble.
I suppose this statement addressed to Republicans suggested we are subject to “over confidence”. Blanket statements can be over reaching.
Some free advice for Republicans: Political fortunes change quickly in our country, and the biggest changes often come in the wake of unbridled over-confidence. ~
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Don Jr.: “My father has given in his notice at McDonald’s.” 😉
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I’m glad this election had a clear outcome, with a solid margin for President Trump in the popular vote.
I also hope he keeps in mind that 49% of the electorate voted against him. Biden said when he claimed victory in 2020 that he would be everyone’s president, but he didn’t seem to consider the half that voted against him when he let extreme members of his party pull him leftward.
I wonder if we feel more divided in recent years because the popular vote has been closer. In the 60s – 80s, elections swung back and forth between landslides (’64, ’72, ’84) and close calls (’60, ’68, ’76). But ’84 was the last time anyone won by more than 10%, and 6 of the last 7 elections (counting this year’s) had margins under 5%.
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I watched the concession speech. It was around twelve minutes long. She did a good job with it. I think some part of her must feel great relief.
I think I was watching on CNN so got that commentary. Good to hear those points of view. One lady said her daughters are in two different colleges with young Jewish ladies on campus. She found out those students voted for Trump because of Israel. To them that issue was more important than abortion. She was making the point that there were so many things driving people to vote for Trump. All Harris had was the abortion issue and hope to be first woman president. They also said it was only those affluent people unaffected by the economy who voted for Harris. It is sad to be so out of touch with the masses.
When the Dems lost the battle to get so many illegal votes because people were watching . . . well, they really needed those votes to win. What a lot of factors went into that loss.
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Whatever will the grifters do now….? 🙄
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/1854248580917477838?t=OGu56Hu8yFluLx8Nnj4lDg&s=19
“On CNN, @ScottJenningsKY correctly describes how the whole NeverTrump industry — the Bill Kristols and Lincoln Projects and Bulwark and Dispatch – are the biggest cons we’ve seen for awhile, accomplishing nothing other than bilking liberals out of cash to buy new beach houses.”
—–
Has anyone done a welfare check on them and David French today?
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Was Georgia the only state to receive all those bomb threats to polling sites from Russian sources?
It seems odd and goes along with that Homeland Security Cyber Security exercise that had been planned for election day in Atlanta that got rescheduled.
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https://atlanta.afceachapters.org/2024-homeland-security-critical-infrastructure-conference
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Accountability must happen to restore confidence in the system.
Milley undermined his Commander in Chief with the American public, and a foreign enemy in China.
https://x.com/IvankaNews_/status/1854162845522395183?t=KCejXlQg4vabC2gcg61PJw&s=19
“General Mark Milley says he fears he will be Court-Martialed if Donald Trump becomes President.”
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And Comey should be nervous as well after his and his organization’s weaponization of what should be a nonpartisan justice system.
https://x.com/realTrumpNewsX/status/1854139349282996316?t=KvZrO21RKe7y4sxZNYMZZA&s=19
“Former FBI Director James Comey says that President Trump “is coming” for the FBI and the Department of Justice. “
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We do need to work harder to assure people that the votes are legally cast and counted.
The 2020 covid debacle with all it’s tyrannical lockdowns, the violent, destructive, ‘mostly peaceful ‘ riots, and the many election rules changes in 2020 badly undermined voter confidence. And the behavior of the press in reporting and advocating completely undermined their credibility and ability to bring clarity.
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I watched as well Janice. I wonder if she wrote the speech….I doubt it. She did vow to continue in the fight for women to end the lives of their babies😢….
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@5:22 — They appear to be doing fine — sort of like you were after Trump’s defeat, right? People refund. 🙂 Saw a few posts on Twitter. People are resilient, this nation is resilient.
Not saying I agree with this as I think he presumes too much (in that we can’t know God’s intentions or secret will with any of these events). Though his overall point — testing to make sure our love of God is above our love of our own partisan politics/politicians — is a valid one.
From John Piper:
_______________________________
~ Presidential election results.
Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another.
“The Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 13:3 ~
_______________________________
I think it’s time to watch, a time certainly to pray — and to show some humility and grace. The battle was fierce, a spiritual rest may be in order.
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For as divided as our nation is, it seems somehow to not be quite as divided as before because this election shows many diverse groups have chosen the same way forward despite their major differences.
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It seems very divided still to me, Janice. Not sure we get out of this situation that easily.
We’ll see if Trump will make some inroads with outreach to those of other views; I’m not expecting to see that but I may be wrong.
I suspect we may just need to wait for it all to pass with time. The nation has gone through these periods before and they do typically “pass.” But it may not be quickly.
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So many citizens were weary worn with the invited invasion of foreigners by the Biden administration. Not just that many of those invaders were criminals but add insult to injury we have been financing their stay here! And then said foreigners have the gall to demand more rights,jobs and financing! This has been a unifying factor from the left and right. We are sick of it.
A relative has been working non stop in aiding the victims of the hurricane in TN and NC. She is appalled at the lack of help and care for our own citizens. The stories she has shared with us have been heartbreaking.
It’s not a D or R issue. It is a right and wrong issue. Some believers are weary worn of being accused of putting politics above their dependence and faithfulness to our Lord. It’s an unfair deflection.
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They’ll only rebound if the gullible continue to buy their NT shtick.
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The bad thing for us is Walz will be back full time.
Our county is now red. The Dems have no one to blame but themselves. Years ago, almost everyone here was a Dem.
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They’ll rebound as long as people support warmongering. And maybe there’s money or a career to be made in ‘saving Conservatism from itself’.
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