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Trump wins
Before I say anything else, please join me in giving thanks to God for blessing America, and giving us one more chance to return to our founding principles of respecting religious liberty, free speech, respect for life and the protection of innocent children.
Don’t expect any long, well-organized essays today, as my writers and I have been up all night following the election returns and need to get some rest. Today’s edition will be mostly bullet points and celebrations. And in the spirit of unity and good sportsmanship, let me say that I sincerely hope someone hid the Drain-o from Bette Midler.
Tuesday, Donald Trump made the greatest political comeback in American history, overcoming years of lawfare and vilification to become only the second person ever elected to non-consecutive Presidential terms (I’m waiting for Rachel Maddow to accuse him of plagiarizing Grover Cleveland.)
At this writing, the news networks have him at 277 Electoral College votes, but despite their stubborn refusal to call the rest of the states, he’s on track to carry all but Maine. Even the New York Times predicts that he’ll eventually win by a 312-226 landslide. He’s even on track to win the popular vote by about five million votes, which is astounding for a Republican. I wonder if all those blue states that hate the Electoral College and want to give their EC votes to the popular vote winner will give them to Trump? Or will that issue suddenly go away?
It proves what I’ve been telling you for the past few months: If our side just ignores the polls and votes, we determine who runs the government, not a bunch of condescending leftist elites. We all just have to show up at the polls and we win.
The media also show the GOP retaking the Senate with at least 51 seats, which seems sure to rise to 55 or more. There was some concern that the Democrats might have won the House, setting us up for at least two years of obstruction and groundless impeachment hearings, but as of now, it appears that the GOP will narrowly hold on to control both Houses of Congress and the White House.
Trump mowed down any number of precedents, earning far greater shares of votes from typically Democratic voting blocs than any Republican in decades, including voters under 30, blacks, young males and especially Hispanic males. For instance, Trump was the first Republican in 30 years to win heavily-Hispanic Miami-Dade County in Florida, and by 55%.
It was truly the “red wave” we failed to see in 2022. Maybe young voters just hadn’t yet figured out how badly they were getting hosed under Biden-Harris, but now, they get it. One of my favorite moments of the coverage came when an analyst on one of the liberal networks cut to a map of all the counties in the US where Harris did better than Biden – and there were none!
My favorite reality-denying headline came from CNN.com: “Trump’s edge over Harris rises to 270.” Uh, guys? 270 isn’t an “edge,” it’s the presidency.
Trump gave an excellent, unifying victory speech, surrounded by his family who were among the strongest members of his campaign team. Here’s video of it and a transcript:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trumps-victory-speech-in-full-transcript/ar-AA1tBTp3
He called MAGA “the greatest political movement of all time,” and said he believes what many have told him: that God spared his life for a reason. He went on:
“I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president. And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future, every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America, that's what we have to have.”
Strangely, he said nothing about setting up concentration camps for MSNBC anchors or any of the other things we were told he’d do as soon as he declared himself dictator for life. You know, all the stuff he forgot to do in his first term.
New York Times “Pulitzer Prize-winning economist” Paul Krugman will also be shocked to see how Wall Street is reacting to Trump’s election:
Let’s also give J.D. Vance credit for killing the Dems' momentum by destroying Tim Walz in the VP debate and being one of the best VP picks we’ve seen in decades. As for Walz, at least he’ll now have plenty of spare time to learn how to load a shotgun.
The Aftermath: Kamala hides from supporters
I hope and pray that Trump accomplishes all the things he says he will, which will be great for all Americans, who voted for him across all demographic lines despite the Democrats’ best efforts to divide and conquer us. As usual, Rush Limbaugh was right: The best thing for Republicans’ electoral fortunes is for Democrats to get into power for just a little while and remind people of how much damage they can do in a surprisingly short time.
I was disappointed that Kamala Harris remained on brand to the end, refusing to face the cameras or make a difficult speech. When it was obvious she had lost, a minion was sent out to tell her disappointed followers to go home and get some sleep. There was no unifying congratulatory call to Trump or gracious concession speech. Wags accused her of plagiarizing Hillary Clinton. There was some rumbling from the Dems’ lawfare brigade about the race not being over for days, but when you’re down by five million votes, that’s what meant by “beyond the margin of fraud.”
There were some suspicious incidents at polling places around the nation, but the RNC’s lawyers responded fast, and shut them down PDQ. Kudos to Lara Trump and Michael Whatley at the RNC for fighting back on that front.
I also hope that the Democrats will learn from this that Americans reject the savage and divisive politics of racial grievance and slandering opponents as Nazis and garbage, and will work with Trump to make things better for all Americans. Sadly, their initial reactions to losing don’t fill me with optimism.
Some “progressives” blasted the Dems for not running far enough to the left. Yep, that would’ve done it. One arrogant liberal who flaunts her Ph.D. on Twitter/X decreed that this election shows we’re ruled by stupid, uneducated people. She reminds me of the great comedian Brother Dave Gardner’s observation that “some people are ‘educated’ beyond their intelligence.” I suspect she’s confused “educated” with “indoctrinated.” She may think she’s sipping Chardonnay, but she’s really drinking the Kool-Aid.
CNN seemed to sniff disaster early on, so they refrained from too much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, knowing that conservatives would post it on YouTube and laugh at them for years to come. But there was no such restraint among the lefty loons at MSNBC, where Joy Reid had the predictable meltdown, ranting that Florida is an extreme, right-wing fascist state, apparently because it’s capable of counting votes quickly and efficiently.
Reid and her ilk also claimed that there was voter suppression, despite the heavy turnout. One state they cited was Texas, so I’ll let my writer Pat Reeder, who lives in suburban Dallas, respond to that:
“Laura and I voted early, and we live in a racially-diverse, lower middle-class neighborhood (Note to the Gov: We need a raise.) Not a Kamala Harris ‘middle-class neighborhood,’ but a real one. The line stretched out the door but moved quickly, and it only took about 20 minutes. Both voters and poll workers were of various races. We all smiled at each other, talked politely, voted and left. I didn’t notice me or anyone else being suppressed, except we did all have to show our IDs. Everybody had one, though. Shocking.”
Leaders around the world sent congratulations to Trump, saying they were looking forward to a close and friendly working relationship. I imagine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is especially relieved to know that Israel will once again have a firm ally in the White House.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-leaders-react-trump-victory-on-historys-greatest-comeback
That’s odd: I’d been assured by all the smartest people that other world leaders mocked and disrespected Trump.
The Aftermath: A look at the results nationwide
The people who’ve spent the past four years telling us that January 6th was the worst insurrection in history suddenly decided that election denial and rioting are now patriotic again. A bunch of Hamas-supporting morons in NYC demonstrated outside of Fox News in a futile attempt to disrupt the election coverage, and some Antifa idiots tried to riot in Seattle. But not only is there a new sheriff coming to DC, but there are police in Seattle again, and several thugs were quickly arrested. It’s not 2020 anymore: if they think they’re going to shut down America by throwing violent temper tantrums over losing an election, they might want to rethink that.
The proof that their radical moment has passed into history (hopefully along with wokeness, DEI and all the other idiocy of the past four years) was displayed well by an online video of a Harris supporter, yelling angry slogans into a megaphone and trying to gin up a protest all by himself as annoyed passerby ignored him completely.
Sadly, not all the elections went as I’d hoped, like Hung Cao’s Senate loss to the vapid Tim Kaine in Virginia. I hope Trump finds a spot for Cao in his Administration. And Californians cursed America by promoting Adam Schiff, the biggest liar in the House (imagine holding that title!) to the Senate, cementing California as one of the places that, as Nancy Pelosi put it, would vote for a glass of water with a (D) by its name. Of course, they also voted for Kamala, proving that they’ll even vote for an empty glass with a (D) by its name.
But maybe some Californians are finally starting to wake up a bit. They overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36, the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, to undo parts of the Soros-backed soft-on-crime Proposition 46 that’s caused many residents and businesses to flee the state.
And voters in L.A. threw out their criminal-coddling DA George Gascon by nearly a 2-1 margin.
Let’s hope that someday, the little light in their mental fridges finally comes on and they grasp the connection between voting for Democrats and their lives becoming intolerable.
Finally, I was gratified to see that despite the Democrats spending an estimated $570 million to push abortion-up-to-birth measures in Nebraska and Florida (outspending Republicans 15-1), both lost decisively. But pro-abortion measures did pass in other states, although most were blue states like New York and Colorado, where there were already few if any limits. I pray for the day to come when all Americans realize how horrific abortion is and stop trying to cover up the ugly truth with fuzzy euphemisms like “reproductive freedom” and dishonest slogans like “It’s my body.”
Well, that’s it for now. We’ll have more tomorrow as the news rolls in. Right now, we’re all going to go get some rest, and thank God for Elon Musk, McDonald’s, Joe Rogan, garbage trucks, Peanut the Squirrel and all of you who said, “Enough is enough” and voted accordingly.
THIS IS FOR PEANUT AND FRED! THE election wake-up call
by HUCKABEE writer/researcher Laura Ainsworth
Let’s start here.
https://x.com/fredemonium/status/1854023081548746778
“If you want to red-pill America, raid their homes and murder their pets.” --- Greg Gutfeld
“Never shoulda killed Peanut.” --- Sweet Meteor O’Death, on X.
We’ll never know what effect on the 2024 election this terrible event caused. But the invasion of Mark and Daniela Longo’s home and subsequent killing of their friendly little squirrel and his harmless raccoon companion quickly became a stunning example of government overreach under Democrat leaders in 2024. It’s fitting that Trump took that moment in his victory speech last night to say, “This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.”
For years now, the people who most crave power have pointed at President Trump and projected their own evil desires onto him. They raided Trump’s home to take possession of classified documents that he’d had the authority as President to declassify. And if they’re in power, they’ll raid YOUR home to take possession of your pet, your gun, maybe even your child if you insist on calling him or her by the correct pronoun and balk at butchering his or her body irreversibly.
Kurt Schlichter put it well in his Election Eve column: “[Kamala] represents the party of the people who think it’s OK to go to someone’s house and take their beloved pets and murder them simply because they can. If you think Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon are one-offs, you are in denial. They killed Ashley Babbitt because they could. They imprisoned their political opponents because they could. They censored Hunter’s laptop because they could. They locked old people in COVID-ridden nursing homes because they could. If they got their wish and disarmed you, what do you think they would do to you?”
“...The horror of the cruelty of killing a beloved and innocent little animal aside, this illustrates what the real stakes are.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/11/04/election-day-lets-do-this-thing-n2647172
According to Natalie Hoage at YAHOO!NEWS (“Pet Helpful”), it was “anonymous complaints” that led to this travesty, but the source of those complaints might well turn out to be a bigger story, especially if it was someone who has clout with state government. So far, no media outlet has confirmed the involvement of that photographer in Texas, who has nevertheless been branded online as “the Karen who killed Peanut.”
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in New York State said in a statement that they’d “received multiple reports from the public about the potentially unsafe housing of wildlife that could carry rabies and the illegal keeping of wildlife as pets.”
Peanut was a social media phenomenon with over 685,000 Instagram followers. Last Friday, two days after the animals were taken, Longo broke the news on Instagram that the family had learned that both Peanut and Fred had been euthanized. This was ostensibly to test for rabies after Peanut allegedly bit an agent during the confiscation, a claim that seems dubious, given agents’ heavy protective gloves.
Heartbroken fans quickly left over 20,000 comments.
It’s true that an animal has to be euthanized to test for rabies; they need a full cross-section of brain tissue. But Peanut had lived indoors for seven years and had shown no sign of illness.
“The squirrel isn’t just a squirrel,” reads one post on X that had 1.9 million impressions as of Monday afternoon. “Peanut is for everyone who has ever feared that someone more powerful than you could walk into your home and take something that you absolutely cherish away from you, for absolutely no good reason, with no recourse.”
It was Peanut’s huge social media audience that helped fund the Longos’ animal sanctuary, which they moved to last April. Peanut was more than a pet --- he was a business model.
“Despite our passionate outcry for compassion, the agency chose to ignore our pleas, leaving us in deep shock and grief,” Longo said on Instagram. “To add to our anguish, they informed the media of their decision before even notifying P’nuts Freedom Farm, his loving home. This demonstrates a troubling lack of respect and empathy. Their lives were precious, and we refuse to accept this loss in silence.”
https://reason.com/2024/11/04/government-goons-murder-internet-famous-squirrel/
Tyrus quipped on GUTFELD Monday night, “I don’t have any animals, Greg,” though, of course, viewers know he has many, particularly tropical fish and sea creatures. “You think I want those mother-(bleepers) comin’ to my house?”
“This bothered me on a personal level,” he said. “...Their excuse was that Peanut bit them. What did Fred [the raccoon] do, giggle? This is what these officials do.” Tyrus then proceeded to tell the story to a suddenly hushed audience about his own dog being euthanized after simply being “a good dog” and doing his job, as trained, to protect their property. The animal control officials had lied to him, telling him he would get his dog back.
“Unfortunately, this is not uncommon,” Tyrus said. “The people coming in are power-hungry.” As for the “rabies” cover story, he said, “A squirrel with rabies is not hard to figure out.” They’re “aggressive, and no owner would be holding them.” They have “a little frothy mouth” (kind of like Hunter Biden on crack, he joked, trying to add a little levity).
“It’s a terrible thing,” he said, “and, you know, it DID wake a lot of people up...So, if you’re on the ropes, if you’re not sure, if you want to get on the right team, if you don’t want to vote because Tyrus told you to, which you shouldn’t anyway, or a celebrity, DO IT FOR PEANUT AND FRED.”
Everyone knew the joke had a serious undertone. Tyrus had already confidently predicted the election outcome: that Trump would win in a blowout, and that we would know it on Election Night.
Guy Benson called the killing of Peanut “the most cartoonish, disgusting abuse of government that shows all the wrong priorities, and it’s so easy for people to understand…I think this is a horrible story but will focus people’s minds.”
The Brit on the panel, Piers Morgan, said there was something about this story that is “utterly disgusting.” The idea that they can send in ten armed agents for five hours when New York is “riddled with crime, and homelessness, and mayhem” is crazy.
And about the rabies: “Only one set of people,” he said, “seems to me, were behaving like foaming-at-the-mouth rabid animals, and it wasn’t the raccoon and the squirrel. It was the people that had been sent by the government...to eradicate the scourge of this famous little squirrel and his raccoon mate.”
“If you were making this up, it would be funny. But it’s true. And this couple have lost their beloved pet, so remember why they took on this squirrel,” Piers said, relating the story of how they’d rescued the baby squirrel whose mother had died.
“Then he has to have him wrenched away by his own government, and murdered. It is disgusting.”
Kat Timpf, a libertarian, admitted she had a hard time talking about this without getting upset (and I have to say, I would, too). “This happens in government every single day,” she said. “This is what government does.” Follow the policy, no matter how ridiculous or inhumane.
Gutfeld’s monologue on what the government did here starts at 2:36...
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6364210033112
The BABYLON BEE treated the story with its trademark satire to mock on the left:
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-york-authorities-announce-peanut-the-squirrel-died-of-covid
On Sunday, J. D. Vance (now VP-elect) mentioned the story, saying President Trump is “fired up” about the “murder” of the smart little squirrel. “The same government that doesn’t care about hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant criminals coming into our country, doesn’t want us to have pets,” J. D. said. “It’s the craziest thing.”
It has seemed from the start that there must be something even more sinister behind this story. We still don’t know what it is, but when Longo appeared on Friday with Chris Cuomo on NEWSNATION, he said this was “somebody out to get me.” Why would a household be targeted this way? Mark and Daniela had moved from Connecticut to a small town in New York State to start their non-profit animal rescue, which has since saved over 300 animals.
“Peanut is the center of our organization,” he said. “I used his social media to gather the funding to continue to help animals...So I need an explanation of how the state can find the funding to bring this many people to my house to destroy my life but we can’t fix major issues that we’re having in this state.”
It’s true that the Longos have made quite a lot of money with their online ventures, and Mark theorizes that jealousy might have played a role here.
Longo confirmed that he and his wife had heard about the euthanizing on the news. “Since they left my house,” Longo said, “not a single DEC employee or state official called me to tell me what happened.”
“They got local sheriffs to approve this,” he told Cuomo. “The DA approved this. They had a criminal judge sign a search warrant to come and take these animals.
Longo just doesn’t believe the story about Peanut biting someone, because “these are professionals who deal with animals on a daily basis.” He saw their protective gloves. So much about this story is wrong.
Note the irony of the word “Freedom” in the name of this animal rescue, P’Nuts Freedom Farm. When Peanut and Fred were first seized, a GoFundMe account was set up to help with legal fees needed for recovering them. After they were killed, the account was turned into a fundraiser for the rescue, which had relied on Peanut’s social media presence to raise money. My husband and I gave, and I hope you will as well.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-peanuts-return-to-pnuts-freedom-farm?attribution
Whatever the last straw was for you in terms of government overreach, if it got you to the polls, thank you so much.
And in closing, please look at this editorial cartoon, but I warn you: have some Kleenex handy
https://x.com/still_boneless/status/1853588986402324719?t=3prDrH0y5z_MKX1UXmd1Tg&s=19
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Congratulations, too, to all the winning candidates endorsed and supported by Huck PAC, whom I would list, but I’m happy to say there are too many.
Great roundup
Twitchy.com has a round-up of some of the best and funniest tweets and memes about the election. One of my favorites: “I haven’t seen a man beat a woman this badly since the Olympics.” Yeah, I think that’s one of the key reasons Trump won.
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp/2024/11/06/election-victory-bonus-wednesday-morning-memes-n2403352
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You’ll also get a kick out of today’s New York Post cover:
https://x.com/nypost/status/1854060089402875947
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