In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Black Friday Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 30, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Black Friday Evening Edition)

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: MAGA Trumpsgiving, also, Downfall of The Democrats | The Truth About The 2024 Election
Twitchy: JD Vance Triggers The Left & Makes America Laugh Again, Writer’s Ridiculous Rant About Buc-ee’s Fuels Readers Roadside Rage, and Democrats Melt Down As Joe Rogan Entertains Second Trump interview – At Mar-A-Lago
Louder With Crowder: Scott Presler Demolishes CNN Reporter’s Trying To Paint Him And Conservatives As Violent
Vox Popoli: Thanksgiving Sale: Libraria Edition, also, Too Egregious for Employment
According To Hoyt: Eighties Democrats, Things To Be Thankful For, and The Great, Extraordinary Winter Fundraiser
Monster Hunter Nation:
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #21 – The War Begins
Based Book Sale: Based Book Projects – And the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale!

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American Conservative: When Suburbia Was Weird
American Greatness: Standing Firm: BSU Women’s Volleyball Team Forfeits Semi-final Match Against Team with Male Player, also, A Top Priority for the Musk/Ramaswamy DOGE Commission: Decentralizing the Federal Government
American Thinker: This Thanksgiving, Let Us Listen, also, Noonan’s Downfall
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Rule Five LUCA Friday
Babalu Blog: As relief materials pour into Cuba from abroad, the dictatorship keeps selling those goods to disaster victims, Cuban dictator’s stepson sports $3,400 outfit in Madrid alongside possibly pregnant actress Ana de Armas, The state of tourism in communist Cuba, and Cruel Joke of the Day: Cuba’s fake president promises bright future ahead through ‘perfection of the socialist model’
BattleSwarm: A Babylon Bee Thanksgiving, also, Prepper/Black Friday Shopping Guide
Behind The Black: “Toxic smell” at Progress hatch was hypergolic fuel, Strange mesas in the glacier country of Mars, Russia launches radar satellite, Update on Astroscale’s mission to de-orbit a OneWeb satellite, and Lincoln proclaims a day of Thanksgiving — in the middle of the Civil War
Cafe Hayek: The Market Is Rational, Words Matter, and Twenty Years Ago Today at Cafe Hayek: The Importance of the Margin
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Make Family Holidays Great Again, also, What do American Indians Have to be Thankful For?
Da Tech Guy: A Happy But Sad Story of Black Lives Actually Mattering (plus a warning), This Thanksgiving every American should be Thankful that President Trump defeated Kamala Harris, and Trump will be a great 70% President and That’s OK
Don Surber: Watching the left lose
First Street Journal: Oh, those poor babies!
Gates Of Vienna: Giving Thanks for the Marvelous Peace of God, ISIS Plans to Blow Up Heinz in Mainz, and Pay Up, Islamophobe!
The Geller Report: Declassified Susan Rice Email Confirms Michael Flynn Was Personally Targeted In Oval Office Meeting, also, Another Late Counting Race Flips From Republican to Democrat
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan Hails Trump’s ‘Progressive’ Free Speech Fight, also, Is This the Craziest Trigger Warning Yet?
The Lid: Shocking Map Shows How All 50 States Moved to the Right on Election Day
Legal Insurrection: Russia Reportedly Now Recruiting Yemen Fighters For Ukraine War, German Security Services Warn of Jihadist Attacks on Christmas Markets, Thugs Attack and Board Jewish Foundation School Buses in England While Shouting ‘F**k Israel’ at Children, Tech Billionaire Tells Joe Rogan the Govt. Plan ‘to Control AI’ is Why He Left WH Meeting, Endorsed Trump, and Democrat Megadonor Suggests Political Career of Kamala Harris is Finished
Michele Catalano: a holiday in retail
Nebraska Energy Observer: Happy Thanksgiving, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: The Lone Star Showdown Is Back, Multiple Colorado State Volleyball Players Kneel During National Anthem At MWC Tournament, Dabo Swinney Goes After Notre Dame, SEC, CFB Playoff Selection Committee, Columbus Blue Jackets’ Mathieu Olivier Is A One-Man Wrecking Crew Against Calgary Flames,, and Sofia Vergara Starts The Holiday Season In A Bikini, Rosie O’Donnell Meltdown Pt. 3 & Tiff Ann’s T-Day Dress
Power Line: Insurrection at DOD? The doctor who came in from the fringe, Men Who Think Slogans and Talk Bullets, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Donalds Claims U.S. Currently Leaderless Under Biden
Shot In The Dark: Hear Me Out, Worse For Wear, Thanksgiving 2024, and How It Started
STUMP: Movember 2024 – Testicular Cancer Trends 1999-2023
The Political Hat: Happy Thanksgiving for 2024!
This Ain’t Hell: Follow-up on OLD case, Valor Friday, Donald Trump nominates John Phelan for Secretary of the Navy, Team Biden imposes sanctions on Venezuelan officials for post-election crackdown, and Man arrested for making threats against Donald Trump and his family
Transterrestrial Musings: On Getting Along On Thanksgiving, also, Marc Andreeson
Victory Girls: Democrats Consider Their 2028 Presidential Candidate Options
Watts Up With That: Loving the Brine Shrimp: Hydrosexuals, Queer Theory, and the Posthumanities’ Descent into Madness, British Government Climate Advisors Demand Everyone Live like Poor People, and Dairy cows given synthetic additive in feed to hit net zero
The Federalist: Al Michaels’ Quirks Define Amazon’s NFL Broadcasts, MN City ‘Likely Disposed Of’ 21 Ballots In Race Decided For Dem Candidate By 14 Votes, Parents Keep Filling Up Schools Where Children Learn To Love Western Civilization, Lori Chavez-DeRemer Would Be A Disaster As Labor Secretary, and Trump’s Victory Alone Won’t Make America Great Again. We Have To Do That Ourselves
Mark Steyn: Talking Turkey, Puccini in Avalon, Theme from New York, New York, Over the River & Through the Years, and Black Friday Specials at SteynOnline

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In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Belated Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Edition)

Posted on | November 29, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.29.24 (Belated Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today’s illo is by @N_chanAGE on X, based on a panel from the Kamen America webtoon.
Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“Hehehe, I’m just a humble Pilgrim, sir…”

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Thanksgiving Night Girls With Guns
Twitchy: NYT Report On What “Progressive Influencers” Want Shows The Left Still Doesn’t Get It, Projection Alert!, and Tone Deaf White House Cuts Down NC Tree That Survived Hurricane Helene For Christmas Decor
Vox Popoli: Occupied Britain, Happy Thanksgiving, Refuse to Play – Refuse to Lose, Winning is Not on the Table, and Excellence in Everything
Born Lucky: The meaning of Thanksgiving
Postcards From Barsoom: Shameless shillposting
Upstream Reviews: A Quick Word On Star Trek: Unification

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CDR Salamander: May Your Next Thanksgiving Be At Home
Don Surber: Thank the Lord for the Pilgrims
Glenn Reynolds: Giving Thanks
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Happy Thanksgiving

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Democrats: Please Do Not Listen to Advice From This Attractive Young Woman

Posted on | November 29, 2024 | Comments Off on Democrats: Please Do Not Listen to Advice From This Attractive Young Woman

One of the great things about being an ex-Democrat is that you don’t have to stop hating Republicans, you just hate them for different reasons. Like, when I was a Democrat, I hated Republicans for being greedy warmongers, but now I hate them for being phony sellouts who pay lip service to conservative principles, but never conserve anything. As a Democrat, I wanted Republicans to be more “moderate” (i.e., willing to vote support Democratic policies) but now I despite all “moderates.” The more right-wing, the better, as far as I’m concerned. You can take John Thune and John Cornyn and put them on the same boat with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and leave them all together on an ice floe.

One of the things that puts me at odds with most other journalists is that I didn’t become a journalist because of politics. I became a journalist because I needed a job, and as a small-town newspaper reporter, politics doesn’t really matter. You’re not trying to change the world or influence people’s opinions, you’re just trying to get the facts right and file your story before deadline. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-30s that I stopped being a Democrat, and then got hired at the Washington Times, and everything else has proceeded from there. But I was never a Young Republican type and didn’t spend my youth doing the kind of things that most would-be political commentators do, which is important to explaining my renegade attitude toward politics, generally.

All that is preamble to my praise of @Shoe0nHead. Back in the day — 10 years ago or thereabouts — I remember being a fan of hers on Twitter and sort of assumed she was a conservative, but in fact, she’s a kind of female Bernie Bro, a left-wing populist who hated Hillary Clinton for basically the same reason I hate John Cornyn, i.e., for being an unprincipled sellout. She no doubt strongly disagrees with me on most policy issues, but shares my contempt for “mainstream” politics and “establishment” politicians, and is hated by a lot of her fellow leftists simply because she tells the truth about such things. She did a post-election analysis of why Democrats lost that is so on-target that you simply must watch it:

It’s very important that Democrats ignore her advice, because otherwise, Democrats might win the next election, and bad things always happen when Democrats win elections. In the aftermath of their latest shocking defeat, the last thing we want is for Democrats to get a clue about why their “joy” campaign with Kamala Harris didn’t work. Please, Democrats, keep nominating idiots like Kamala Harris forever. Keep pandering to your grassroots “base” of disgruntled identity-politics crybabies and deranged fanatics who shut down Thanksgiving parades while chanting pro-Hamas slogans. That is obviously such a winning formula!

Sooner or later, I suspect, @Shoe0nHead will just give up on the Democratic Party, as everybody with any common sense eventually does. Whatever issue you care most about — the thing that makes you identify as a Democrat — one day the Democratic Party will fuck you over on that issue. They’ll sell you out in a heartbeat, if they think they can get some kind of advantage out of it, and if you complain about getting fucked over by Democrats, they’ll tell you that you are the problem.

Just ask my friend Cynthia Yockey, a lesbian ex-Democrat who somehow ended up as a Republican Party activist in Iowa, where she just helped Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks get reelected by a razor-thin margin.

My favorite TERF! pic.twitter.com/mD71VwOyQD

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 29, 2024

Cynthia was (and in some sense, still is) a devoted feminist who, in 2008, was enraged by the Obama campaign’s mistreatment of Hillary Clinton. Eight years later, she supported Trump over Clinton and, while Cythnia can tell her own story, I’m sure she will agree with me that the great thing about being an ex-Democrat is that, at least when you get fucked over by the Republicans, they don’t call it “social justice.” See, that’s why this transgender thing was such a loser for Kamala Harris: Democrats are telling women that “social justice” requires them to surrender their rights and yield everything to men in dresses. And never mind the fact that thousands of young women are being permanently mutilated because of what I’ve called “The Rocky Horror Ideology Show.” Democrats insist that this is “progressive,” and therefore Cynthia Yockey or any other woman who objects to it must be denounced as a traitorous enemy.

Whose fault is it that Democrats lost? @Shoe0nHead is telling them exactly why they lost, which means that she is now a traitorous enemy, too. Anybody who tells the truth is an enemy to Democrats. And so, if the American people value truth, Democrats will keep losing elections forever. Let’s just hope they don’t listen to @Shoe0nHead.

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Happy Thanksgiving to All!

Posted on | November 28, 2024 | Comments Off on Happy Thanksgiving to All!

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known;
the wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His name, He forgets not His own.

What a wonderful holiday! Turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potato souffle, pecan pie — we’re living the good life here at the McCain homestead. Half of our children and one-third of our grandchildren will be among those gathered around the table for this afternoon’s feast. Our eldest daughter is with her family in Florida, our Army son with his family in Alaska, and third-year law student Jefferson is with his girlfriend’s family in Michigan. Despite the fact that not all our offspring will be here for Thanksgiving this year, we are nonetheless grateful for the many blessings we do enjoy. And we will try not to grumble about such misfortunes as today’s pro football schedule, with the NFL serving up such turkeys as the Giants (2-9) versus the Cowboys (4-7). We understand that the league officials in charge of scheduling could not have predicted how bad those teams would be. The Cowboys were coming off a 13-win season last year, but now they’ve completely collapsed and the Giants are so awful they cut their former “franchise” quarterback and will now be starting Tommy DeVito.

Probably most readers don’t care about the NFL, and you came here expecting some kind of political commentary. Well, how about Kamala as your alcoholic aunt rambling incoherently at Thanksgiving?

OK, who did this??pic.twitter.com/ZTjCXxjCYl

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 27, 2024

We can afford to laugh at that, as we give thanks that our nation has been spared from the Kamala Harris presidency. By the way, do you know how the second verse of that Thanksgiving hymn goes?

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
so from the beginning the fight we were winning:
the Lord was at our side — the glory be Thine!

“From the beginning the fight we were winning” — pardon me for employing that phrase in a mere secular context, but it is appropriate to the recent political campaign. Our friend Dana Pico calls attention to a confession from senior Harris campaign advisor David Plouffe:

Plouffe said the campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump.
“We didn’t get the breaks we needed on Election Day,” he said. “I think it surprised people, because there was these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw.”

Because I never talk about my day job, I can’t tell you exactly how much vindication that confession gives me, but it’s a whole lot. Do you remember what the polls looked like in September? Harris was ahead by four points, said CBS News. No, wait, she was ahead by five points according to NBC News. And then Reuters said, “Hold me beer — Harris is ahead by six points!” Those polls were all bullshit, and I knew they were bullshit at the time, but it’s nice to have the confirmation from a senior advisor to Harris that even they knew those polls were bullshit.

Harris was never ahead of Trump, whose victory was a sure thing all along — “from the beginning the fight we were winning.” As to why this should have been so, I don’t want to get too theological:

For generations, American school children learned the story of the First Thanksgiving as having been celebrated by the Pilgrims of New England at Plymouth. Vaguely I recall being a kindergartner, with a feathered Indian headdress (actually made of construction paper) and participating in a Thanksgiving pageant in which the Pilgrims wore black hats (also made of construction paper), relating the tale of how the English colonists had learned from the natives how to plant corn, thus ensuring the survival of the settlement. Public schools in Georgia did not yet offer kindergarten, so we attended the one at Austell Methodist Church, with Mrs. Bookout as our teacher, and the religious significance of Thanksgiving was emphasized.
As familiar as the tale of that first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts is to most Americans, it was not actually the first Thanksgiving in America. That honor belongs to Virginia, where the Good Ship Margaret arrived from England in 1619 carrying 37 men who settled at Berkeley Plantation. These men were Anglicans, not Puritans, but their two-and-half-month trans-Atlantic voyage had been perilous, beset by storms, and during their journey they had earnestly prayed to God for their safety. . . .

You can read the rest of my latest Substack article, and while you’re there, please sign up for a free subscription. Thanks, and may God bless you.

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In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 28, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Forgot to mention this in the afternoon post, but – The Black FridayCyber Monday Based Books Sale Is On!
I’ll probably do something short tomorrow linking to some classic Thanksgiving posts from the Wall Street Journal and the late Rush Limbaugh.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

From MSNBC to XBC?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: People You Know, Including Family, Can Be a Threat
EBL: First Thanksgiving, also, What is Kamala Harris up to?
Twitchy: Retired Admiral Asks Trump Voters If They Have Buyer’s Remorse Yet, There’s More To That Kamala Video – And It’s Way Worse, and Congressman Says Mexican President Shows How To Stand Up To Bullies Like Trump
Louder With Crowder: Unhinged TikToker Vows To Spit In Trump Supporter’s Food During Thanksgiving
Vox Popoli: The Corruption of Modern Medicine, Strike Two, Alan Greenspan on Trial, and In Which I Agree with Larry Correia
Postcards From Barsoom: The WHIMS Of Mars
Stoic Observations: Remembering The Cutting Edge
Upstream Reviews: Dr. Panda’s Christmas List

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American Conservative: Congress Dozes as Biden Escalates Dangerously in Ukraine
American Greatness: Trump Negotiates Deal With Mexico to Close the Border ‘Effective Immediately’, Kamala Reportedly Open to Run for President in 2028, Tom Homan’s Badass Message to Defiant Denver Mayor, Nearly a Dozen Trump Appointees Targeted With Bomb Threats/Swattings Overnight, and MSNBC Allegedly ‘Unaware’ of $500K Donation to Al Sharpton’s Group by Kamala Harris Campaign
American Thinker: Do We Still Have to Pretend the 2020 Election Was ‘Free and Fair’?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Housekeeping News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship uses anniversary of Fidel Castro’s death to instruct children to worship the dead dictator, China rising in our backyard, Miami residents call for the removal of ads featuring Ana de Armas, who’s dating a member of the Cuban dictatorship, Cuban dictatorship will require all businesses to produce 50% of the energy they consume, and Cuban dictatorship sends another 199 enslaved doctors to Mexico while island’s health care system collapses
BattleSwarm: Babylon Bee On Democrats Rethinking Their Approach, also, Walmart Abandons Wokeness
Behind The Black: Unusual light-colored Martian dunes, NASA says forcing it to fly VIPER would cause it to cancel funding to 1 to 4 other commercial lunar landers, FCC approves use of Starlink for direct cell-to-satellite T-Mobile service, Trump’s picks to run all the federal health agencies guarantees major change is coming, and Judge dismisses lawsuit against SpaceX by activists
CDR Salamander: So, We Have A SECNAV
Chicago Boyz: Around America in 27 Days and 8,396 Miles, The Time of the Season, and Worthwhile Reading and Watching
Da Tech Guy: The Case for Trump Allowing Independent Journalists in the White House Briefing Room in Two Videos, Even though Kim Foxx should be best remembered as a criminal enabler, I’ll accept that she’ll be enshrined as incompetent for her botching the Jussie Smollett case, and Dupes or Liars?
Dana Loesch: Bomb Threats Sent To Multiple Trump Nominees,
Don Surber: The Trump presidency has begun – or should I say resumed?
First Street Journal: No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough!
Gates Of Vienna: Kill the Infidels! Another Road Trip, and I Own You, Infidel!
The Geller Report: Hamas-Tied CAIR Forced to Reveal Sources of All Funding (Including Alleged Foreign Sources Tied to Terrorism) After Lawsuit Backfires, also, Mexican President Announces She’s Stopping All Migrant Caravans After Trump’s Tariff Threat
Hollywood In Toto: Whoopi Goldberg: We’re Losing Credibility Over Trump, Reagan Rules on Amazon’s Sales Charts, and Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin Slam “Dumb” Trump Voters
The Lid: Trump Reportedly Made Serious Inroads Among Philly’s Black Voters, also, The Real Thanksgiving Story: Dumping Communism Saved the Pilgrims, Not the Indians
Legal Insurrection: Trump Taps Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Who Bravely Challenged Covid Lockdown Policies, to Lead NIH, Book Review: The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists, French Teenager Apologizes at Trial for Telling Lies That Led to Her Teacher’s Beheading, Jewish Man Lured to His Death in Memphis, Hate Crime Suspected, and New York Elementary School Takes Fire for Teaching ‘Gender Identity’ Course to Kindergarteners
Nebraska Energy Observer: Meanwhile up north, also, Over the River and Through the Woods
Outkick: CFP Fallout – Josh Heupel Faces Most Important Game At Tennessee, SOS Nonsense Gets Worse, Clemson Has A Path, Boise State Forfeits Against SJSU, Transgender Blaire Fleming In Stunning Show Of Protest, New York Yankees Reportedly Going Hard After Juan Soto, NBA Ratings On ESPN Have Taken A Nosedive This Season, and Reigning Champion Dodgers Make First Big Splash, Sign Blake Snell As Opposing Fans Scream Foul
Power Line: Some Immigrant Comrades More Equal Than Others, High on Thanksgiving, and It’s Dangerous To Be a Republican
Shark Tank: Rep. Steube Wants Follow-Up From Criswell On FEMA Political Discrimination
Shot In The Dark: Back From Vacation, Pounce On Piglet, I Was Told There Would Be Pouncing, and Profiles In Federalism
The Political Hat: The Nouveau Nomenklatura
This Ain’t Hell: You So Big…Why You So Big? Republicans…ah, those Republicans, Donald Trump to sign order removing transgendered individuals from the military, More drones over UK bases, and Senator Rand Paul opposes the use of the military to help conduct mass deportations
Transterrestrial Musings: The Fumes Of The 2024 Election, also, RIP “Privilege”
Victory Girls: Judge Chutkan Dismissed Smith/Trump Subversion Case, Left Is Bereft, also, Still Having a Tantrum Over Nov 5th? GROW UP!
Watts Up With That: Special interest subsidies DO NOT support the diverse 8 billion on this planet, Return Funding for Reliable Energy to the World’s Poorest, ZEV Mandates Force Closure Of Vauxhall’s Luton Plant, ‘God of Darkness’ Asteroid Will Pass Extremely Close to Earth in 2029, and Dear Climate Alarmists, Welcome to Your Worst Nightmare
The Federalist: This Year I’m Thankful For Kamala’s Delusional, Misplaced Self-Confidence, Trump Transition Team Is Rightly Wary Of Sleazy General Services Administration, Bidenflation Brings Price Hikes To Thanksgiving Feasts For Fourth Year In A Row, North Carolina County Board Knowingly Certified The Votes Of Seven Dead Voters, and Biden DOJ Seeks To Gag Texas Doctor Who Blew Whistle On Child Trans Surgeries
Mark Steyn: Come Sail With Us!

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In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 27, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not sure yet if I’ll be posting tomorrow or not.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Scientists Have Their Pet Theory, also More Self-Defense in California
EBL: Oyster Stuffing, also, Fast Cooking Turkey
Twitchy: So Much For Body Positivity, Climate Activists Who Defaced National Archives Sent To Prison, and Staffers Finally Admit Harris Internal Polls NEVER Had Her Ahead Of Trump
Louder With Crowder: Joy Reid goes on MASSIVE rant on Elon Musk’s DOGE, claims it will force you to drink raw milk
Vox Popoli: The Babylon Bee is… Babylonian, Thanksgiving Sale 2024, Asking For Trouble, You Don’t Hate Them Enough, and Not In Danger, Doomed
Upstream Reviews: The Last Of Us (TV),
Flappr: Big TD’s Football Blog – Week 12
Stoic Observations: AI Cinema We’d Like To See

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Third Winter Of The Three-Week War
Don Surber: “You’re not the media!” is a compliment
Michele Catalano: giving thanks
STUMP: Public Pensions & Assets – Divestment From China, ESG, & Crypto

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The Agony of #NeverTrump: His Comeback Has Destroyed Their Prestige

Posted on | November 26, 2024 | Comments Off on The Agony of #NeverTrump: His Comeback Has Destroyed Their Prestige

If you want to see something funny — that is, assuming you have a sadistic sense of humor — you should go watch YouTube highlights of The Bulwark’s Election Night podcast, featuring Bill Kristol, Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, Jonathan V. Last and company in a slow downhill slide from hope to despair. Perhaps never in human history has disappointment been more well deserved. You have to remember how and why the #NeverTrump Grift started to truly appreciate its squalid denouement. If you go back to early 2015, the “smart” money among conservative pundits was on either Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz as the likely Republican nominee. The neocon types like Rubio better, since he came with a Bush-connected political pedigree. There were other hopefuls — Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckbee, John Kasich, et al. — but Rubio and Cruz were seen as real contenders.

Then came the fateful day in June 2015 when Donald Trump rode down that escalator and things began to change. At first, Trump’s candidacy was viewed as a sort of joke, a publicity stunt that surely wouldn’t amount to much. Or would it? After going all-in on the 2012 campaign (“Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption”), I’d decided to avoid the 2016 campaign and was more or less neutral about the GOP primary. But then in September 2015, I got a call from Pete Da Tech Guy, who was covering a Trump rally in New Hampshire. “Stacy, this Trump thing is for real,” Pete told me. “You wouldn’t believe the size of this crowd.”

There was a real grassroots surge of support for Trump, and so the attitude of the Professional Conservative Pundit crowd turned from ridicule to hatred. Whereas they had originally treated Trump as a joke, now he was seen as threat. Their main point seemed to be that Trump could not possibly beat Hillary Clinton. Beyond whatever disagreements they might have had with Trump on any policy, the pundits simply could not imagine Trump winning the 2016 general election but — perhaps more to the point — his winning the GOP nomination would mean that their own favorite Republican candidates would be denied a shot at the White House. Most people can’t comprehend the selfish careerism of the Professional Conservative Pundit crowd, for whom prestige and influence are their real stock-in-trade. They climbed aboard the #NeverTrump bandwagon because it seemed like the “smart” thing to do.

After all, if Trump could not possibly beat Hillary (which was what the pundits kept telling us), then even if he did win the GOP nomination, the #NeverTrump crowd would be vindicated in November 2016, and step forward ready to assert their rightful place as the divinely ordained Intellectual Leaders of the Conservative Movement™.

They bet their bankroll against Donald Trump, and when he won in 2016 despite their opposition, they doubled-down against him. So here we are, eight years later, and now Trump is more popular than ever:

The Hill reports Trump’s rating hit 54 percent in the wake of his runaway election win, which is up from 48 percent pre-election contest, according to an Emerson College poll cited by the outlet.
Trump is viewed most favorably by men, at 61 percent, while 48 percent of women view him favorably.
Among white voters, 59 percent view him favorably, while 53 percent of Hispanics and 28 percent of Black voters view him favorability, the poll found. The Hill offered further detail:
Fifty-five percent of voters under 30 expressed a favorable view of Trump, according to the poll. He is viewed most positively among Americans in their 40s and 50s, with 60 percent viewing him favorably, while 48 percent of Americans over 70 years old view him favorably.
The poll also asked Americans if they didn’t expect the final results of the 2024 race and found that 46 percent of voters were surprised that Trump beat Vice President Harris. Among those who voted for Harris, 67 percent said they were surprised by the results, while 71 percent of Trump voters said they were not surprised.
The poll was conducted two weeks after election day, from November 20 to 22, amid the Trump transition back into the White House.
The president-elect has named most of his nominees for Cabinet posts and choices for senior staff positions, who will help carry out his agenda.

This is very good news for Trump, and for sadists who enjoy watching their enemies suffer paroxysms of agony. The #NeverTrump grifters are doubly humiliated, and are running out of chumps to swindle.

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