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Gail made me promise to not gloat.  So I wont.

I will though, comment on what happened other night.  And it ain’t gonna be pretty.  For those who are happy, read what follows as a first draft of history.  (That’s what real journalism is supposed to be.)  For those who aren’t happy, now would be the time to do some serious introspection.

There’s no way I’m gonna be able to digest the 2024 election other than to say it was positively historic.  It was in fact, one of the most historic events in all of human history.  More will be said in due time.  Please be patient.

That’s not an overstatement.  Far from it.  We will always remember where we were yesterday.

Let’s get some of the preliminaries out of the way.  Trump is only the second President in history to win two non-consecutive terms.  The only other one was Grover Cleveland.  (For a brief overview of his presidency, please go here:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/grover-cleveland/)

Cleveland was an interesting fellow in his own right.  Historically speaking, Trump is orders of magnitude more significant than Cleveland.  One would have to go back to Reagan to find a President as consequential as Trump.  That said, now is not the time to write his valedictory.  Instead, I want to write about how he changed the world.  Not just America.

First, he exposed the ugly face of the Deep State.  He was especially hated for that.

Second, he destroyed the entire neoliberal paradigm.  No longer do we have to accept the moral superiority of Left.  He has shattered it for all time.  Feminism?  I guess there weren’t enough childless cat-ladies to go to the polls.  We all found out that there are millions more women who haven’t had an abortion than those who have.  And guess what?  Thanks to Bidenomics, neither demographic can make ends meet.

It’s especially delicious to watch the morons on MSNBC blame white women for not showing up and voting for her.  I also like that they are now saying that black and Latino men are misogynistic.  That was on Wednesday.  Now it’s the American people as a whole who are to blame.  The Left has long hated the Electoral College.  Now they hate the popular vote.  I’m sorry, these people are cray-cray.

Third, he destroyed the neoconservative paradigm.  He started taking down the neocons in his first term when he threw a wrench in their war machine.   Now, he needs to complete the process.  We will know he has succeeded when neocons are unfit for polite society and their place will be somewhat between that of child pornographers and communists.

Fourth, he destroyed the Corporate Media.  Not only did he expose them for the Establishment shills they are, he helped create a new information space that is dominated by podcasters.  These content creators are closer to the people and have helped push the Overton Window further to the populist right.  They’ve also expanded the dissemination of information, bypassing the Establishment gate-keepers.  Trump’s chances improved when he went on the Theo Von podcast and he sealed the deal when he sat down with the Big Kahuna himself –Joe Rogan.  Kamala was exposed as a snotty elitist when she demanded that Rogan come to her and only for an hour.

In addition, by not going on his show, she solidified the notion that she wasn’t able to engage in an honest interview.  Her interview with Brett Baier was so disastrous that she couldn’t risk another one.  And the cherry on top of all this?  We are watching the Corporate Media die before our very eyes.

<—Can any of my liberal readers explain this for me?  I’m genuinely stumped. 

Finally, her brazen incompetence will help bring down the entire DEI enterprise.  Let us be frank:  she was a diversity hire from the start.  The American people in their collective wisdom saw right through her and decided that they couldn’t trust her with the nuclear codes.   She was a moron, pure and simple.  (Another silver lining:  Boeing has fired their vice-president in charge of DEI and is banning this entire sorry enterprise.)

So, what’s the Democrat Party to do?

Well, for one thing, stop having a quota system.  Go back to merit.  You wanted a woman of color?  What was wrong with Tulsi Gabbard?  She checked all the right boxes.

Honor the primary process.  If the current President was incapacitated (and he was), then remove him by means of the 25th Amendment.  At least then Kamala would have been Acting President and have an excuse for not going through the primary process.  Coups are the stuff of Third-World banana republics and unbecoming of America.

That doesn’t mean that party bigwigs couldn’t have gotten to Biden a year or so ago and impress upon him the necessity of him stepping down.  In an open field, people of some accomplishment could have vied for the Presidency.  Think about it:  had Biden announced last year that for the “good of the country,” he would not seek reelection, then Bobby Kennedy would probably have won the nomination.  And quite possibly the Presidency.  Instead, because of Biden’s arrogance, the Democrats are now facing a time in the political wilderness.

Will they use that time to rethink their presuppositions?  Not likely.  Mainly because as St Paul said about sodomites, they have been given over to their delusions.  Everybody else is to blame, everybody but themselves.

So, what about us?  The long-suffering normal, patriotic Americans who have had to put up with their villainous nonsense for several years now?  Do we owe them any magnanimity?  Not at all.  We would if they were contrite and willing to engage in good faith dialogue.  But they are anything but contrite.  And as for good faith dialogue, like true Marxists, they don’t believe that they are wrong.  Just like the neocons who think that the reason we didn’t win in Iraq (or Afghanistan or Yemen) is because we didn’t try “hard enough.”

Their governmental malpractice has been stupendous.  People like Hillary Clinton, Anthony Fauci and others too numerous to mention have committed crimes against humanity.  Retribution is called for; justice demands it.

So what How the rest of us?  Should we gloat?  Not really.  But when it comes to people on our level, we don’t owe them anything more than a cursory greeting whenever we have the misfortune to meet one on the street.  The diversity hire in the HR department?  Give her the rhetorical back of your hand.  When your company says you will be celebrating “Pride Month” ask them what do they have to be proud of?  If you go to your child’s school board meeting, ask why the Iliad or Huckleberry Finn have been removed from the shelves but not Heather Has Two Mommies.

Since they can’t “get it” we don’t need to waste our words on dialogue.  Will they continue to call us names?  Of course.  But you know what?  Their epithets have lost all their sting.  Thanks to Trump’s epic landslide, that’s obvious to everybody now.  Even to them.  They have decisively lost their moral authority.  Call them out for it.

Reality always asserts itself.  Always.

And never forget, God has been merciful to us.  We didn’t deserve to be delivered from the clutches of the Left.  But we were.  Let’s be thankful for that.  And let us march forward boldly.

 

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  1. I’ve been saying for several months now that there was a “split in the Deep State.” Alexander Dugin concurs:

    “A Split in the “Deep State”
    Trump could not have won, or rather, no one could have acknowledged his victory, if there had not been a split within the U.S. “deep state.” On the eve of the election, my article about this divide was published in the popular American conservative magazine Man’s World. I discussed how the globalist “Plan A,” followed by all previous Democratic and Republican candidates, had reached a dead end.

    “Now, Trump has a unique opportunity to implement “Plan B,” which is linked to a just multipolar world order. The recent successful BRICS summit in Kazan was not only a splendid gesture but also an effective intervention in the American elections. Trump has received a blank check from the “deep state” to try an alternative strategy for maintaining America’s global leadership, one that does not involve direct confrontation with a multipolar world.”

    You can read the entire piece (and I suggest you do) here: https://arktos.com/2024/11/07/trumps-victory-a-global-conservative-revolution/

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  2. So, according to Larry Johnson, Biden worked with Trump to sabotage Kamala:

    “Finally, let me present you with a rumor that is circulating. We now know that prior to Biden’s debate with Trump, his team had internal polls showing that he would lose in a blowout. What to do? Four weeks ago, a good friend with connections in Republican circles told me that Biden and Trump had communicated sometime after the debate. Biden essentially promised to sabotage the election steal (he knew how he gamed the system to get 16 million mystery votes in 2020) in exchange for Trump’s assurance that he and his family would not face prosecution. Did that happen?”

    Makes sense:

    1. Biden wearing the red MAGA hat,
    2. Biden giving the “garbage” speech at the EXACT same time Kamala was speaking before 70 people on the White House ellipse,
    3. Dr Jill being photographed wearing a bright red pantsuit on Election Day.

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  3. I have no idea if the following is true – and I am not an American.
    However, given the past performance of General Milley, I wonder…

    * There Appears to be a Cancer in the Pentagon with Sedition on its Mind. *
    https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/there-appears-to-be-a-cancer-in-the-pentagon-with-sedition-on-its-mind/

    ‘ If this story of a cabal of Pentagon officials meeting to undermine the incoming constitutional commander-in-chief of the U.S. military had been a rumor circulating on X or I’d received in an email from some random source, I would have discounted it. But that’s not the case; it comes from CNN. This suggests that something is deeply wrong in the Pentagon—the same Pentagon that “forgot” to send absentee ballots to U.S. troops serving overseas, a gross violation of their civil rights, and one that ought to result in courts-martial all the way up to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

    According to CNN, Pentagon officials are trying to figure out how to block any orders Donald Trump might issue to protect the Southern border or remove from U.S. soil the millions of unvetted illegal aliens currently occupying the U.S.:

    Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.

    Trump has suggested he would be open to using active-duty forces for domestic law enforcement and mass deportations and has indicated he wants to stack the federal government with loyalists and “clean out corrupt actors” in the US national security establishment.

    Trump in his last term had a fraught relationship with much of his senior military leadership, including now-retired Gen. Mark Milley who took steps to limit Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons while he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The president-elect, meanwhile, has repeatedly called US military generals “woke,” “weak” and “ineffective leaders.”

    Officials are now gaming out various scenarios as they prepare for an overhaul of the Pentagon.

    “We are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that we don’t know how this is going to play out yet,” one defense official said.

    Trump’s election has also raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don’t push back.

    First, it’s clearly within the federal government’s purview to protect the American border from foreign invasions, whether terrorists, cartels, or the economic refugees amongst whom they hide. That means the president has the authority to order troops to the border. If people in the Pentagon conspire to refuse that order, in the best case, it’s a seditious conspiracy to undermine the president’s constitutional authority. In the worst case, it’s treason. And in any case, if they’re military, that would begin with a court martial.

    Second, the president clearly has the constitutional authority to protect Americans on American soil from invaders who have already breached the border. The punishment for obstructive Pentagon officials would range from courts-martial to trials for seditious conspiracy or treason.

    Third, the president has the authority under the Enforcement Acts to send troops to hot spots on American soil if there is unrest that is depriving citizens of their civil rights. In addition, even the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the federal government’s power to use the military on American soil to enforce domestic policies, has several compelling exceptions.

    For example, the Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy troops to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion. The Attorney General also has the authority to request that the Secretary of Defense provide emergency assistance to ineffective domestic local law enforcement.

    Nor is any of the above airy-fairy theory. In the past seven decades, presidents have often called in the military:

    1957: Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock’s schools.
    1962: JFK federalized Alabama’s National Guard to force Gov. George Wallace to admit two African-American students to the University of Alabama.
    1965: LBJ used Alabama’s federalized National Guard to quell the Bloody Sunday protests in Montgomery, Alabama.
    1967: LBJ called in the Army and National Guard to quell the Detroit riots.
    1968: After MLK, Jr. was assassinated, Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley approved calling in the Army when riots broke out. In D.C., 13,600 troops occupied the city to quell riots. National Guard troops were also deployed across Baltimore.
    1970: Richard Nixon called the National Guard to New York City after U.S. postal workers went on strike.
    1989: After Hurricane Hugo struck the U.S. Virgin Islands, George H. W. Bush called in the National Guard to stop looting.
    1992: Reserve soldiers headed to Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict sparked rioting.
    2021: The National Guard occupied D.C. for Joe Biden’s inauguration.

    For a president to quell civil unrest is normal. And for a president to use the military as needed to oust invaders from American soil is common sense. If anyone in the Pentagon blocks the president from doing so…back to those courts-martial, and sedition and treason trials.

    The bottom line is that what is allegedly happening within the Pentagon—something that was obviously an authorized leak to a friendly outlet; i.e., CNN—represents the complete breakdown of our non-partisan constitutional military, one that the Founders established to be controlled not by a cabal of officers but by a president whom the American people elect.

    When President Trump cleans out the Augean stables of D.C., what’s happening in the Pentagon had better be among the top ten items on his list. ‘

    This scenario has been gamed before. See:

    * Seven Days In May (1964) Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March *
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4MZ7R_rVRk

    [Video – 01:57:54]

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      • A question that might be asked here is whether Gen. Milley
        took steps to limit Biden’s ability to use nuclear weapons,
        given that Biden is both senile and has a filthy temper,
        while neither of these conditions apply to Trump;
        against whose authority Milley did so act?

        Failure to have done so may perhaps serve as evidence
        that the General was participating in partisan politics
        rather than protecting the nation from disaster.

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  4. * Trump says Haley, Pompeo won’t join new
    administration as cabinet shortlists emerge *
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2e7jdjdmplt

    ‘ Donald Trump says he won’t re-hire his former administration officials
    Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo for his second White House term
    after winning the US presidential election on Tuesday ‘

    As Margaret Thatcher said, following
    victory in the Falklands War: “Rejoice!”

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  5. I generally agree with much of what you’ve written here, with one important exception. You write, “Third, he destroyed the neoconservative paradigm. He started taking down the neocons in his first term when he threw a wrench in their war machine.”

    Mike Pompeo is a neocon and followed Trump closely on the campaign trail during the last portion of the campaign. He is rumored to be on the short list for an important cabinet position. Tom Cotton was also someone whose name was mentioned for an important post. In general, I have the impression that neocons will try to slither back and infest the forthcoming Trump administration.

    If the only major foreign policy issue were the Russia-NATO war in Ukraine, I might not be too worried. But the situation in the Middle East/West Asia presents an opportunity for the neocons, who are very pro-Israel (κώλος και βρακί) to use Trump’s stated position and attitudes about Israel as a lever to get into his good graces and push even more of their agenda.

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  6. George, your last paragraph hits home: “And never forget, God has been merciful to us. We didn’t deserve to be delivered from the clutches of the Left. But we were. Let’s be thankful for that. And let us march forward boldly.”

    With the Left in full-on meltdown mode, finger-pointing at everyone but themselves, leftist newsrooms tossed into the dust bin of dinosaur media, and replaced by the likes of Joe Rogan (one billion viewers watched his Trump interview), there is absolutely NO better time than RIGHT NOW, as George says, to “…march forward boldly.”

    Caution! No less dangerous than Trump Derangement Syndrome, is falsely believing Trump will fix it. If only. No, it is the duty of We The People to keep up the pressure Trump and Company started, roll up our collective sleeves and drain the swamp, starting with right in our own backyard. Run for school board, health board, city council, local office, or support anti-deep staters, or help them get elected in 2026.

    Yes, Trump won the election, but we have yet to win the war in that the Left is still very much in power. For “our deliverance” to be realized he needs all of us to enlist in the liberty movement, as does your community, state and country, in this very real battle between The Glob vs We the People.

    With the blessed headwinds of liberty blowing in our favor, let us have the courage to put on the full armor of God, pick up our cross, anoint our head with oil, read and follow the lives of the courageous saints we venerate every day, and get in the fight of our lives. Your church, neighbors, kids, grandkids and nation are depending on you. It is nothing less than our duty before God.

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    • Elrond Halfelven: “Look not to far ahead! But go now with good hearts!
      …and may the blessing of Elves, Men and all the Free Folk go with you.”

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    • Hilber, you’re absolutely correct. It’s not so much Trump’s victory as it is ours.

      Case in point: upon hearing that Cocaine Mitch was trying to rig John Cornyn or John Thune as his successor, a furious writing campaign commenced. I myself, wrote a terse but respectful letter to both my Senators and told them that now is not the time to resurrect The Swamp.

      So yes, it’s up to us, at every level to go forward from school board on up to take the reins of power. Even if we don’t succeed at every turn, we can still push the Overton Window further to the populist Right.

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  8. Dear to Christ, George,

    Thank you for this example of true journalism! I hope that your article is read by thousands of Orthodox Christians.

    Permit me to add my comments on another issue, that I feel is of paramount importance. Both Russia and the USA – and the whole world, for that matter – will greatly benefit, if Russia and the USA become allies, rather than enemies. Russia is the largest Orthodox Church in the world. And a friendly relationship between our two countries can open the door to more citizens in the USA to finding – and embracing – the Holy Orthodox Church. They can see how the Orthodox Church has had such a profound impact on both the Nation and people of Russia in the past 30 years. For example, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, here are some of the positive impacts of the Orthodox Faith upon the Russian Federation and her people:

    5 million abortions a year have been reduced to 500,000. And the government gives financial support when the family has three or more children. Unlike our Nation, Russia is encouraging large families!

    LGBTQ cannot be taught in schools. You are free to have a homosexual lifestyle, but it is forbidden to promote its unchristian goals.

    Transgenderism and gender “corrective” surgeries are illegal.

    The number of Orthodox Seminaries went from one to fifty.

    The number of Othodox Churches has increased from 5,000 to 35,000.

    When Americans learn about things things, I feel that many will be drawn to seek out the Orthodox Faith for themselves.

    Grant this, O Lord!

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  10. Donald jr is floating Candace Owens and Alex Jones as temporary White House press secretaries! Really! This is awesome.

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    • They would both do well. Candace Owens is an “up-and-comer,” but I’d love to see Alex Jones as press secretary. He’s sort of calmed down his rhetoric, looking more professional, and being more measured (fewer rants). I thought it was because of his financial woes but maybe he’s already been offered the job. – Alex Jones’ mind works very quickly and he’s used to perusing a ton of information and being able to connect the dots. One thing is for sure: A lot more people would tune in just to see what happens!

      Maybe they could both try out the job and then Trump could pick one of them.

      The former press secretaries sounded like kindergarten teachers: “Now, children, the American people made the decision. There was an election two nights ago. There was! And it was a free and fair election and we respect the election process. We do. And Americans spoke. And so the job of the president is to make sure we respect that. The job of the president is to make sure that we have a peaceful transfer of power. That is what the American people deserve. And that’s what we’re going to—it’s really, it’s not complicated. It’s truly, truly as simple as that.”.

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  11. …but it was Harold Wilson, not Harold Macmillan,
    who refused to send British troops into Vietnam;
    to the consternation and fury of Lyndon Johnson;
    though the Australians did send special forces in.

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  12. * Full Video | Episode 139 | Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) *
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxO7aKj2OGI

    [Video – 01:26:59]

    Col Macgregor: “We misinterpret things to flatter ourselves
    …and we suffer from an acute case of national narcissism.”

    An hour and a half of Colonel Macgregor.
    It’s two months old, but utterly relevant…

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  13. This is the death knell for the Democratic Party. Before, I must admit, I looked at the evidence with a healthy dose of wishful thinking and predicted as much. Now I’m sure.

    312-226, that will be the official Electoral College count. However, though it is a larger number of electors than he got in 2016, it does not tell the whole story.

    Once again, many Democrat operatives in the election machines of the blue and swing states cheated or attempted to cheat like their lives depended on it. Often, in the swing states, they were stopped or at least stymied into limited interference. But consider that Trump won every single state with voter ID and that all the states he lost lacked voter ID.

    This is no coincidence.

    It is becoming clear what has been happening in the American electorate since Obama’s second term. They have largely rejected the Democratic Party. If the Democrats behaved the same way in 2016 as they did in 2024 and 2020 – and they surely did – then they tried to steal that one two and the results in blue states were deeply skewed like they are in this election. 2020, of course saw the mysterious appearance of about 15 million phantom votes for Biden. Bear in mind, the margin was 40,000 votes in three swing states that decided the election. This was 15 million.

    You may recall that Mike Lindell did a symposium after the 2020 election composed of experts in elections, machines, election fraud forensics and mathematician/statisticians. His contention was that Trump even one California in 2020 and that it was a total blowout, absent the fraud.

    We can now see he was dead on correct.

    I believe all of these elections, especially 2020 and 2024, were complete tsunami landslides for Trump on the order of Nixon-McGovern and Reagan-Mondale. The reason they do not appear so is the astounding, mind numbing extent of Democrat cheating in all of them. 15 million.

    What this actually means is that the Democratic Party has not been nationally competitive since Obama left office. And they have been masking it with election fraud successfully all this time.

    However, Trump won yet again. We know they’re still at it as indicated by reports of open cheating in California and the travesty in Arizona. It was certainly ubiquitous in blue states. That’s the only reason they stayed blue. But even that failed to stop some New England states from moving into the competitive column, notwithstanding the open license to cheat the Dems have up there.

    You institute national voter ID and you will have a one party, Republican government for decades if not longer. And it dovetails nicely with things that are happening in the red South where you have Republican supermajorities in a number of legislatures. The red states are getting redder and the blue states are getting redder as well. And if the cheating were eliminated, the extent of the reddening would be breathtaking.

    The good news is that it looks like Republicans will control all three branches of government. Election integrity therefore has a chance of prevailing nationwide. And if it does, bye bye Tammany Hall.

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      • Right? And California voters absolutely kicked to the curb a statewide minimum wage, protected landowners rights, and brought back arresting criminals and throwing them in prison. Lots of votes still not tallied, so we are still waiting to learn the outcome of some seats and propositions, but the red wave has flooded California this year. Just look at that amazing map!

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