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The Election is over
This is my monologue from this weekend’s “Huckabee” on TBN, about last week’s historic election…
Watch here: The Election is over - Read Mike's News Analysis - Mike Huckabee
Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day, when we should all fly our flags and do whatever we can to express our gratitude to America’s veterans and active-duty military for putting their lives on the line to protect our freedom and security, and for all they do to protect other innocent people all over the world.
Despite all the other news demanding our attention, this day should never be overshadowed or overlooked. Today is about something far more important than passing political news. It’s about the men and women who make it possible for us to have elections and the Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religion, and to protest and seek redress when we think our government isn’t doing right by us (even though we have far too many people in DC who seem to have forgotten that we have those rights.)
Memorial Day in May is to honor veterans who gave their lives in defense of America. Veterans Day is to honor all veterans, living or dead, past and present.
It began as Armistice Day, declared by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, to commemorate the end of World War I. In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks of Birmingham, Alabama, began a personal crusade to expand Armistice Day into a state holiday honoring all veterans. In 1953, an Emporia, Kansas, shoe store owner named Al King launched a campaign to make it a national holiday. Just one year later, in 1954, he succeeded. It helped that the President was a retired army general from Kansas named Dwight Eisenhower.
Not only is today Veterans Day, but yesterday was the 249th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. It commemorates the day in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines to serve in the war against Great Britain. After the Revolutionary War ended, the Marines were disestablished for a time until President John Adams reestablished the Marines as we know the Corps now, on July 11, 1789. But November 10th, 1775, is still considered the birth of the US Marines.
So if you see someone in uniform, this is a great day to say “Thank you.” Then again, any day is a great day to do that.
RELATED: Vice President-elect J.D. Vance wished a happy birthday to the Marines. It’s hard to believe, but in 249 years, he will be the first Marine veteran ever to become Vice President. Since the Democrats are always wanting us to vote for people because they’ll be the first this or that to hold the office, you’d think they’d be happy about this.
So, what will happen during this interminably long transition?
With all the problems our country faces, and all the chances for cover-up and sabotage by the outgoing party, don’t you wish Trump could just be inaugurated TODAY? Heck, he’s picked his new chief of staff, Susan Wiles, and we’re already experiencing what’s being called the “Trump effect” in financial markets and global relations. So, let’s roll.
It might surprise you to know that the months-long transition period in the United States between presidential election and inauguration is quite unusual among nations. In most countries, a new president typically just sweeps in, and a new administration begins.
Even though this time the voters’ choice is as clear as can be, with Trump winning not just all the swing states but the popular vote by millions, we still have to wait from November 5 to January 20, a date constitutionally set in stone, to have Trump back in the White House. (I guess in horse-and-buggy days, they needed that long.) So that’s a lot of time for all sorts of things to happen.
It’s been mostly quiet in the week after the election, with the unhinged reactions confined largely to social media (we showed you a few of those over the weekend), but during the next couple of months, expect those reactions to build as the initial shock subsides. We’ve talked about governors saying they’re going to “Trump-proof” their states against his “attack,” with Gavin Newsom in California even calling a special legislative session. But right now, it seems a bit too quiet. Perhaps this is the calm before the storm, though we’ve already seen horror stories about brainwashed people acting on their belief that we just elected a Nazi President. One clearly mentally ill man in Minnesota killed his wife, his ex, the children he shared with both of them, and finally himself.
From his social media posts, it’s obvious that he’d been made to feel fearful of the “religious zealots” who supported Trump. “I have intrusive thoughts of being burned at the stake as a witch,” he wrote, “or crucified on a burning cross.” (I get the distinct impression he didn’t know any Christians.) He also believed that Trump would turn women into chattel, as in the fictional story THE HANDMAID’S TALE. All of this was made up by the left, of course, just to try to defeat Trump. To them, defeating Trump justifies saying ANYTHING.
In July, this man wrote, “We can do better than a binary choice between fascism and not fascism.”
Kamala herself had said in a TV interview, without the slightest hesitation, that she believes Donald Trump is a fascist. This video clip was shared far and wide. (Side note: have you noticed that nobody on the left ever defines “fascist”? If they understood what fascism was, they might start to notice how dangerously fascist-like their own attitudes are.) What’s it going to take for the unhinged left to see --- let alone care about --- the danger posed by their own irresponsible rhetoric? Don’t expect that to happen during this transition period; be prepared for more stories like this one...
Some women have been using this “down time” to go on social media and make what seem like terroristic threats to poison men with a highly toxic substance from the 1600s called Aqua Tofana. Why? You can guess: because men voted for Trump and therefore must die. These women do not appear to be kidding, though we don’t know that anyone has died this way so far. Let’s hope it’s just a deranged fantasy. But men, if your wife or girlfriend voted for Kamala and has in the past week screamed for hours into a pillow or shaved her head on TikTok, please do not eat or drink anything she gives you!
This is the kind of behavior the FBI should be looking into, instead of targeting grandmothers who pray at abortion clinics.
There’s even enough time before Trump’s inauguration for Biden to actually resign his presidency so that Kamala Harris can be sworn in and technically be the first female black/Indian President of the United States until Trump is sworn in on January 20. Kamala’s former communications director, Jamal Simmons, has suggested this be done, as a symbolic gesture. I suppose that even if Biden did it the last day he was in office, it would count. Imagine Biden going along with that after being shivved to make way for her electoral disaster!
But as Amy Curtis wisely pointed out on TWITCHY, “the presidency is not a symbolic gesture.” She likened the idea to that of giving Kamala a participation trophy, as this candidate never received even one delegate in 2020 and no votes in the 2024 primary. So this would have essentially nothing to do with “our democracy.” But, hey, because it checks the boxes, it would make history!
Yes, it would make history as a stupid stunt, as vapid as Kamala herself. When Simmons brought it up on CNN, panel member Scott Jennings greeted it with the best response possible: laughter.
Sure, that’s what Americans want to see: the LOSER of the 2024 election being installed as President in 2024. As Rusty Weiss said in REDSATE in an excellent piece, “Are they all racing for gold in the Bad Idea Olympics?”
The people wanting to do this are so petty, one of the things they like about it is that it messes with Trump’s merchandising of presidential items that say “45 and 47,” as he would now be “45 and 48.” Note to leftist idiots: this would probably make the “47” items even more collectible. I’ll take some of those.
And while we wait for Trump to be inaugurated, the left is not waiting one second to push for even more censorship of “misinformation.” (Note: whenever you hear the term “misinformation,” just know it likely is referring not to facts but to heretical opinions.)
Lexipol, a private consultancy firm geared towards law enforcement, is sending recommendations to its roughly 8,000 subscribers in that community to “establish a unit that would not only tackle supposed misinformation and disinformation, but also ‘collaborate with tech companies and civil society organizations to develop early-warning systems and identify harmful content in real time.’” (Note: whenever you hear the term “harmful content,” just know it likely is referring to so-called Russian disinformation --- you know, like Hunter Biden’s laptop.)
According to Didi Rankovic at RECLAIM THE NET, “Lexipol’s write-up plays on fears that it is ‘disinformation’ that might increase public hostility towards police officers and put them at greater risk.” So now we have yet another rationalization for reining in free speech. You know our incoming administration is chomping at the bit to strike back at such attempts to destroy the First Amendment.
https://thelibertydaily.com/inside-push-police-run-misinformation-units/
Before Trump takes office and the top DOJ officials are all out on their shiny behinds, they’ve reportedly been given a directive from the very top to hurry up and prosecute as many January 6th defendants as they possibly can. They’ve been told to oppose any requests for delays.
As Jeff Charles at REDSTATE reports, “The primary reason for the Justice Department’s tighter focus is likely the possibility that Trump will pardon or vacate the sentences of those who were arrested and are facing prosecution over January 6. His victory has sparked optimism among the defendants and those supporting them.” And it should: during his campaign, Trump said he would pardon all nonviolent offenders from that day.
But in the meantime, “Trump’s victory has undoubtedly stirred up a level of unease among prosecutors who pretend the riot was a direct threat against democracy and wish to throw the book at as many people as they can over the matter.”
The original story about this comes not from conservative media but from NBC NEWS.
To those who have a problem with violent offenders being pardoned, it should be noted that most of those who have been prosecuted did not engage in violence that day. (We don’t think Trump should pardon violent offenders, either.) As Charles reports, “The release of the security footage showed that the majority of these individuals simply entered the building after officers opened doors for them...It was obvious that the Justice Department sought to make an example of them for political purposes.”
For these persecuted people, who suffered a terrible miscarriage of justice, President Trump cannot get back into office too soon.
As Joseph Hanneman writes for THE BLAZE, “Perhaps at no time like the modern era has a presidential vote been watched so keenly as January 6-ers watched the evening of November 5...From the dingy cells of the District of Columbia jail, the unwavering tones of the National Anthem rang out more assuredly than on other nights over the past nearly four years.”
That’s one more reason why we wish Trump could just take office. All these people must linger in jail for 2-1/2 more months.
Trump’s also ready to do that super-deep housecleaning all the federal agencies. One way he’ll start is by moving many parts of the federal bureaucracy out of Washington, an idea I’ve advocated for years. He had started this during his first term, by moving the Bureau of Land Management out to Colorado, but the plan is much more extensive. The Trump campaign has said he might move up to 100,000 government positions out of Washington. It’s reported that many of them are already making plans to resign before he takes office, another wonderful example of the “Trump effect.”
Trump also plans to target compromised individuals in the bureaucracy, exposes hoaxes and abuses of power, and reform the FISA Courts.
https://www.westernjournal.com/going-trump-targeting-100000-deep-staters-absolute-exile-dc/
According to an article in POLITICO, “a collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump’s rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.” (Editorial aside: AND FOR GOOD REASON.)
One DOJ attorney said, “Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds. The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.” (Editorial aside: GOOD.) As one wag joked, “I’ve been busier than the shredder at the DOJ.”
They’re afraid Trump is going to replace them with “partisan loyalists.” What, to replace the current partisan loyalists? And some of the attorneys fear being blackballed. What, like the attorneys who have dared to defend Trump? If you already have a good idea of what’s been going on at the DOJ for the past decade or so, you’ll find lots of unintentional humor here…
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/10/trump-return-justice-department-00188623
RELATED READING: Speaking of Russian disinformation and Hunter’s laptop, last week Catherine Herridge, formerly of FOX NEWS and CBS, posted her take on the new whistleblower revelations that case agents were blocked from taking actions that would’ve revealed the investigation’s existence BEFORE the 2020 election. She also details CBS’s handling of the laptop story in October 2020, which was essentially to drop it, after Herridge knew it was true. An absolute must-read. With this kind of fakery out in the open now, we anticipate Trump’s second term is going to be very different from his first.
https://catherineherridgereports.com/p/chr-post-title-will-go-here-0f522498c9206360
Smaller government, more transparency, returning power to the people…Worst fascist EVER!
Trump’s Win! A Victory For America...
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Today’s Videos:
Here’s my interview about the election and what happens next, with the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles and Trump attorney Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice.
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=A4DDDAD0-68F3-4F4A-9171-801C620D20C7
Finally, the perfect interview for Veterans Day: I talk with Chaplain (Col.) Brandon Moore, the Army’s chief chaplain recruiter, about the vital role of chaplains in the military and the great new documentary by Chris Pratt that he consulted on, called “Fighting Spirit.”
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=2995CE6D-F7E7-45BA-8B42-EFC382377100
Election Updates:
“The Long Count” used to refer to the Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight fight of 1927. Now it refers to any close election in anyplace run by Democrats. How does Florida manage to tally 9 million votes in a couple of hours, but we’re still waiting for results from Congressional districts six days after the election?
At this writing, Republicans have 214 seats with 203 for the Democrats, and 218 needed to clench the majority.
https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2024/general-results/house
Unfortunately, it looks as if rubberstamp Democrat Sen. Jackie Rosen narrowly beat Afghanistan war veteran Sam Brown in Nevada, despite Trump winning the state by 3.1%. And in Arizona, Democrat Ruben Gallego appears to have edged out Kari Lake, in a state Trump won by nearly 6%. I can never understand why people vote for a President because they want change, then vote for a Senator who’ll try to block his agenda. Maybe they like divided government, but in this case, keeping the status quo won’t help anyone who has to work for a living.
Déjà vu: The Kari Lake results already have some supporters voicing suspicions of election chicanery again:
https://thelibertydaily.com/was-kari-lakes-election-stolen-again/
Worst…sexist…EVER!
President Trump named his second appointment for his incoming Administration, choosing another woman, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, to be the US Ambassador to the UN.
Worst…sexist…EVER!
Stefanik is the kind of tough, razor-sharp representative we need in dealing with that pit of self-dealing vipers and anti-Semites that describes itself as the greatest hope for peace on Earth. Her appointment will reduce what we hope and pray will be the GOP House majority that’s already razor thin. But she’s from a solid red district and won reelection with 63% of the vote, so there’s little chance of Republicans losing the seat.
Trump also named former ICE Director Tom Homan to be his “Border Czar.” Unlike our current Border Czar, he not only cares about security on the border, he’s actually been there.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/11/11/tom-homan-named-trumps-border-czar-n2181824
You get what you voted for…
Voters in New York and California moved a little to the right, but they still haven’t learned their lesson. Thanks to them, while the rest of America soundly rejected DEI and reverse discrimination, they’re now enshrined in the New York State Constitution.
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is already trying to set up a “resistance” to Trump’s reforms that a majority of Americans want…
And California regulators voted Friday to impose even stricter standards on gas to fight “climate change” (because it’s caused largely by California commuters), a move that will add up to 65 cents more in taxes per gallon to what are already the highest gas prices in America. Congratulations, Californians, you’re getting what you voted for!
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