Looking at Trump’s victory, I couldn’t stop thinking about Doug Ford and bike lanes

As the results rolled in on Tuesday night and it became clear that the United States was moving back toward Donald Trump, I thought about Doug Ford and bike lanes.

The Ontario premier has moved with great haste to implement a quasi-ban on the construction of new bike lanes in the province, and in the city of Toronto he has gone further, moving to tear out existing lanes on three busy downtown streets. No one can seriously believe that removing some bike lanes will make a noticeable difference on traffic. If anything, it will just invite more cars into an already-choked downtown. What will the Premier say when the gridlock doesn’t improve?


This guys gonna have a TDS seizure …

Majority support Doug Ford’s plan for bike lanes, poll suggests

Ontarians support Premier Doug Ford’s controversial bid to curb municipal bike lanes by a two-to-one margin, a new poll suggests.

Abacus Data also found 72 per cent of respondents back Ford’s $200 “tax rebate” cheques, although about half believe the $3 billion would be better spent on improving public services such as health care or education.

A majority — 55 per cent — approved of the premier’s proposal to force municipalities to get provincial approval for bike lanes that would interfere with vehicular traffic.

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Sexism didn’t lose Kamala Harris the election. She was just a terrible candidate

Since Kamala Harris’s decisive loss to former president Donald Trump on Tuesday night, the legacy media has blamed the regular bogeymen: sexism and misogyny. It’s Hillary Clinton déjà vu. Men just weren’t ready for a woman to take the White House, they lament.

But it turns out that many women weren’t ready either.

Random TDS …

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City of Calgary posts traffic sign degrading Trump on election day

Bad choice for mayor

The City of Calgary has confirmed responsibility for a traffic sign in downtown Calgary on Tuesday that states: “Don’t let your driving by like US politics.”

City officials meant it to be “lighthearted” and “hoped” it would “bring a smile” to people’s faces as they commute.

WTF?

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Gen X Delivered for Trump—and They’re Not Afraid to Tell You Why

The historic election of Donald J. Trump to his second term rests at the feet of a generation of unsung heroes. Data shows that if you want to thank someone today for pulling America back from the brink of more Democrat malfeasance, you should thank a GenXer.

Not this one …

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It’s time to plan the prosecutions

Now that President Trump has been elected the next President of the United States, it’s time to acknowledge the reality of the situation.

Trump should have been elected to a second term in 2020. That he was not is due solely and demonstrably to fraudulent manipulation of the results.

Rosie! …

h/t DanC and andycanuck

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The Media Are Egotistical Exaggerators and Liars

The 2024 presidential campaign is ending pretty much where it began: loathing the never-ending presence of Donald Trump. On the day before the election, The New York Times front page displayed a gaudy editorial (badly disguised as “News Analysis”) under the title “Torrent of Lies Redefines Political Norms.”

Doesn’t that sound like a hard-charging rerun of 2016? Nothing ever seems to change from the paper that gaudily proclaimed under Trump that “The Truth Is More Important Now Than Ever.”

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Pollsters Were Blindsided by Breadth of Trump Win

WASHINGTON—Pollsters as a group had prepared Americans for a very close presidential race, and that is the way it turned out in several battleground states. But the polling performance was a big miss in another way: The pervasiveness of Donald Trump’s popularity wasn’t fully telegraphed to the public.

Trump appears to have won Wisconsin over Kamala Harris by a single percentage point, compared with a final FiveThirtyEight.com average of a 1-point Harris edge. Trump won Georgia by 2 points, compared with a final average finding of a 0.8-point Trump lead. He won North Carolina by 3 points, compared with his 1-point edge in the final polling average. That is within the ballpark of what polls can offer.

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Why white women stuck with Trump

Towards the end of the US presidential election campaign, Republicans seemed resigned to losing white female voters in exchange for non-white men. “For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement,” Republican Representative Matt Gaetz said at the beginning of this year.

As it turns out, this was a false choice. Donald Trump made historic gains among Hispanic men in 2024 and still won white female voters by eight points nationally. He led by seven points with this demographic in 2020 — a considerable uptick from his two-point lead with white women in 2016. White women were the largest subgroup of US voters this year when broken down by race and gender, comprising 40%, compared to the 35% represented by white men.


Not these two wimmins …

h/t SDMatt

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The crumbling of the Democratic empire

Ever since the rise of Barack Obama, Democrats have seen themselves as destined to rule. With his presidential victory in 2008, they created a seemingly unbridgeable political empire. With the support of big cities, young progressives, universities, the media and an ever-expanding government workforce, the party – led by what Roger Kimball calls ‘the Syndicate’ – imagined it could stay in power indefinitely.

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Black Voters Have a New Nickname for Harris After She Fled on Election Night

The captain is supposed to go down with his ship. That’s not what Kamala Harris did when she lost the presidency. She jumped ship on Election Night, leaving her supporters adrift in a sea of liberal tears.

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Elon Unbound

It’s quite possible that had Musk not become actively involved in Trump’s campaign after the first assassination attempt, Trump wouldn’t have won. It’s certain that, had he won, it would have been much closer, not the landslide it turned out to be. And had Musk not bought Twitter earlier, thus disrupting the Democrats’ message-control strategy, Trump’s chances of winning at all would have been much, much lower.

But let’s look at what it means for Musk, and what that means for America.

Smile …

h/t patthedog & SDMatt

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J.D. Tuccille: Kamala Harris and the Democrats deserved to lose

Americans woke up Wednesday to the sound of chardonnay being poured over Cheerios as the busybody class cried into its breakfast. It was a natural reaction for the many people not just surprised, but disappointed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House — and the ranks of Republicans riding to victory alongside him. Continuing a theme from the campaign, some on the losing side immediately accused voters of fascism, sexism, racism, and a variety of other very bad isms as the explanation for how they marked their ballots. And therein lies a clue to why this year’s election ended as it did.

Good comments in the X Thread below …

Yikes!

h/t testsubjectx1

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