Election 2024

We woke up to a new American reality last Wednesday morning. The citizenry had delivered a clear message to the corporate media. That message was: get bent. The media have not taken it well.

Never ending TDS …

Meet Annie Dunleavy, a special education teacher at Chapman School (@CheshirePublic) in CT who reportedly posted a video online threatening to k*II and hurt Trump supporters.

She should not be anywhere near school children. pic.twitter.com/OAs2U4rrbV

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 11, 2024

From Supreme Court maneuvers to energy restrictions, they are trying to subvert the will of the people.

If you were under the impression that a nationwide drubbing and the collapse of their electoral coalition would cause the Democrats to reconsider their long march to the left, think again. Instead of listening to the unmistakable message voters sent them by reelecting Donald Trump and handing the Republicans a Senate majority, they are desperately casting about for ways to frustrate the will of the electorate. They are, for example, putting pressure on Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor to retire immediately so that President Biden can nominate a replacement who could be confirmed by the lame duck Senate before the new GOP majority is sworn in next January.

The never ending loons …

But I was told questioning the election was a threat to democracy pic.twitter.com/uO168iDUJg

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 9, 2024

I was 17 when I started working in Democratic politics. While still in high school, I was an intern for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign; later, I served as a field organizer for Hillary Clinton. By the time I turned 26, I was a consultant for dozens of U.S. House and Senate campaigns, four George Soros-backed district attorney races, and a wide range of Democratic organizations. I’ve raised at least $50 million for the left.

And yet, on Tuesday, I voted for Donald Trump. It felt like the biggest middle finger I’ve ever raised to the party I’d supported for most of my adult life. When he won, I was utterly euphoric.

Let me tell you why.

More Cuckoo …

Everything flipped red because you guys are retarded and everyone knows it pic.twitter.com/RznNThb9qn

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 11, 2024

h/t SweetPea

This is when we savor the sweetness of our total victory. This is when we quaff our ale and pound our shields after defeating the orc hordes, at least temporarily: “Remember today, little brother. Today, life is good.” Life is good today; tomorrow, we fight again.

h/t DS

“Is America ready for that? Are they ready for a woman of color to be President of the United States?” Kamala Harris asked a month before dropping out of the 2020 primaries.

Five years later, the consensus is not that Harris wasn’t ready, but America still wasn’t.

“Kamala Harris didn’t lose, America did. As a nation, we collectively failed her,” John Pavlovitz, a liberal Christian blogger, damned.

This is why yall lost btw just so you know pic.twitter.com/coJWcHdgnM

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 11, 2024

Not As We Wish It Were: Random Observations From The Weekend

Good morning from Delaware. I hit the ground running here at the ISI conference, and have barely had time to breathe. Thank God for coffee, else the remnants of the Man Cold and the jet lag would have torn me down. Our dear Linda Arnold brought me Sudafed for the trip, which, along with strong coffee, is keeping me going. Thank you, Linda, for taking such good care of your scribe!

I’m writing this morning — Sunday, before I head to the airport to fly back to Europe — because we are in such an incredible moment. The ISI conference was full of conservative academics, and it’s fair to say that everybody here can hardly believe what just happened in our country this week. For once, “morning in America” doesn’t seem like a stale 1980s cliche.

This is a link to the Thomas Frank column in the NYTimes Dreher discusses. Both pieces are very good reads despite Frank’s TDS.

Election denying conspiracy bigot nazi pic.twitter.com/7P5odqGjx2

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 10, 2024

WASHINGTON—The wheels are now in motion to help President-elect Donald Trump act on an ambitious “day one” agenda involving a range of policy and personnel shake-ups, such as mass deportations and the firing of generals.

Transition staff, and the handful of outside policy shops that have been offering their input, are helping to craft executive orders that would implement some of his proposals. Transition personnel are also working to incorporate his vision for various agencies in their planning efforts.

Here are some of Trump’s campaign promises for how he will spend his first day in office…

Election deniers.

This is dangerous to our democracy. pic.twitter.com/bpjS2URvry

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 10, 2024

In a recent “Pod Save America” episode, former Obama staffers Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor openly criticized Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign, calling his decision to run again a “catastrophic mistake.”

Favreau noted that Biden’s team dismissed his unpopularity and public frustration with inflation, insisting it was “the greatest economy ever.”

Election deniers. pic.twitter.com/TUnOSeL95W

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 10, 2024

Donald Trump has been the Republican nominee in every presidential election in which I could vote. No, I’m not that young, but I didn’t become a U.S. citizen until 2014 and—as was the fashion at the time—waited until naturalizing before casting a ballot. Like most Americans, I was appalled by my options in 2016, ultimately holding my nose and casting my ballot for former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson on the Libertarian ticket. (It was actually an act of laziness; I would’ve written in Ben Sasse or Mike Lee, but at the time, my polling place used click wheels and I didn’t want to scroll through the alphabet for each letter of even short names.)

Random TDS …

Libtards are claiming that Kamala Harris is still going to win and that there is a plan in motion to take down the mean orange before inauguration pic.twitter.com/SfuCLHZijY

— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 10, 2024