It appears hell froze over TWICE this year…
First the Cubbies and now Trump…
Has everyone stopped hyperventilating now???
The stock market closed higher yesterday (good news), the left and the media are in meltdown, along with the pollsters…
A couple of comments I’ve seen so far that pretty much hit the nail on the head-
“Turns out if you demonize the people you disagree with, paint them as racists and oppressors and tell them that any and all of their successes are a result of some unearned “privilege,” they will create a counter-revolution.
“Progressives, Trump is the consequence of your actions, your rhetoric, and the identity politics you brought into American politics. You made your bed, now lie in it.”
And then there is this…
We still don’t know who will win the electoral college, although as I write this it looks — incredibly, horribly — as if the odds now favor Donald J. Trump. What we do know is that people like me, and probably like most readers of The New York Times, truly didn’t understand the country we live in.
From Paul Krugman at the NYT, HERE.
And one more…
The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism.
New Yorker’s David Remick yesterday morning, HERE.
This cover from 1976 seems like it should be the cover now…
Saul Steinberg’s March 29, 1976 “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” cover of The New Yorker
This cover has quite the history too… HERE.
I posted this yesterday morning on the book of face, and I stand by it…
Just when we thought our country was about to slip beneath the waves, the “impossible” happened. Or, at least the mainstream media told us it was an impossibility. Only ten days ago, they were saying this race was “over.” Last night, the good American people said otherwise.
The media (CNN/NBC/MSNBC) and the pollsters failed in their kingmaking… Jake Tapper and others were heard to say “We’re losing” before quickly changing to “She’s losing” last night.
As per usual, those who didn’t vote for Clinton are being accused of everything under the sun, with the left trying their damnest to foment rioting and turn people against each other. Saying if you’re rural you are stupid or if you are not college educated you don’t deserve to vote is a pathetic attempt to ‘justify’ how they lost.
Trump WILL NOT BE A KING. Period. He will be reined in by Congress and the Courts, so just stop it with that line of BS…
And lest people forget, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and many other cultures voted for Trump.
IMHO, what happened was the long suffering silent majority had finally had enough… On one hand a venal, demonstrably corrupt politician who’s ‘platform’ consisted of ‘it’s MY turn and continuing the Obama style of ignoring the laws of this country to pander to various groups, refusal to call terrorism for what it is, etc.
Trump, not perfect by a long shot, at least had ideas that resonated with JQ Public… Border security, jobs, getting the military back to a functional structure and stopping terrorism.
If nothing else, this election has driven stakes through TWO political dynasties… The Bushs, and now the Clintons…
As far as I’m concerned, this is all for the better. Career politicians are the anathema of what America stands for, and we the people have spoken.
And to all those who ‘threatened’ to leave??? Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out… America is better without you.
The sun came up, the world will go on, for better or worse… But at least for now, Americans have taken America back, at least for a while…
The left has a core belief that all conservatives are heartless demons.
To help offset this belief, and in an act of compassion, perhaps conservatives could begin crown sourcing a fund that would reimburse any leftist, liberal, or progressive who proves they have renounced their American citizenship.
I’d contribute to that fund!
Suz
It was a great night, for sure! As for those who want to leave, more power to them. The country will be much better off without them.
We surely dodged a bullet on that one (the Supreme Court was the real issue).
I’m happy with the results as long as Mr. Trump keeps his promises that he will repeal Obamacare, enforces the immigration laws we currently have on the books, strengthens the military and stops micromanaging them, and lowers corporate taxes so that big business comes back to America. He doesn’t have to “build a wall” physically…folks just need to follow the rules to come here. And if you commit a felony here, you get your butt kicked out!
Let the churches do the charity stuff…currently the government hands out all types of gimmes which it was never designed to do. At lest not in this country.
If he can get the economy growing again, and folks can get jobs–full time, decent wage jobs with reasonable cost health care–that the government doesn’t take a huge cut out of the paycheck, I’m on board.
If he is going to go golfing 3x a week and screw up everything, I’m going to be greatly annoyed! BTDT.
And why everyone in the MSM thinks that someone under investigation by the FBI is deserving of running for office, never minding winning, is truly sad.
In my mind, Hillary never gave any new ideas of what she would do, besides take everyone’s guns. We should vote for her cause she is female?! As a female, I found that VERY insulting. Would I like to see a lady president? Sure thing! But that is not the only reason for voting for someone. You have to be competent, smart and have some sound ideas. “Because I deserve it” is just more entitlement attitude that there is WAY too much of already in this country.
As I was watching the election night coverage, all I could think of was the silent majority is no longer silent. All the special snowflakes need to suck it up, sit down and shut up. Go get a real job, that way they wont have energy or time to be raising hell. The rest of America has had enough.
Kicking the soapbox back in the corner…
Suz
+1 for Suz’s comment.
I am Glad we won, now we need to support the agenda. Keep in contact with your representatives, let them know you are watching,
and remain standing, this is no time to set back…
Agree with your points. On a personal level all day yesterday I felt different. Took me awhile to realize I felt optimistic, a feeling I haven’t had in a very long time.
Great article – the author says, “This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264771/american-uprising-daniel-greenfield
If he can pull off his four point plan for the first 100 days, his presidency will be a success. But he has a long road to climb to win over his own party and to do something to appease the libs.
John/Suz- Hell yes!
Ian- Agreed! A YUGE one! 🙂
Suz/Brig- Don’t disagree at all!
WSF- Me too! 🙂
Mrs.C- He nails it!
CP- No question… sigh
The progs really hate fly-over country now. They thought that they did before, but it’s nothing like the hatred today.
One of my Irish cousins and I spent a bit of yesterday exchanging comments on the election and how it represented an angry uprising of much of middle America against the ideas of “politics as usual” and the “my turn” theory of the presidency. She said that Irish politics run much that way, too, so she was looking forward to seeing how our grand experiment runs for the next 4 years.
The snowflakes in Fornicalia can’t have the state. But they’re welcome to renounce their citizenship.
I’ll even contribute to the crowdsource fund to buy their airfare to any Progressive European hellhole of their choosing.
Sign me up.
Before you celebrate too hard, let us look at the numbers. Waking up to find HRC was not scheduled to become POTUS in January was my desired outcome. But we did not win. She lost. Numbers for Trump were no better than numbers for Romney. Numbers for Clinton were not as good as those for Obama in 2012. There was no movement. The world did not change. We merely had a horrible candidate on the other side. She could not get the numbers out. We did not do so either. We will hopefully get good Judges out of this and hold the tide back awhile. Do not expect any major turning in the public as there is no evidence to suggest there was any movement at all. The Democrat base failed. We did not succeed. We remain perilously at risk for our liberties.
We had a horrible candidate on our side too.
LL- Oh yeah!!! 🙂
pedi- So will we…LOL
Rev- Nah, send their asses to Mexico!
.45ACP- Excellent point sir. But if we get SCOTUS, I’ll be satisfied with that.
Hey Jim, I read all the links you posted and even more of the stories at the last one. These people have their head tightly ensconced in their ass! They keep on assigning all these terrible attributes to the right, when they are demonstrably guilty of and perpetrating them remorselessly on all we “little” folks.To use a Trumply vulgarism, F**k them all! Oh yeah I can remember when, as a 20 year sailor, using the same language on occasion! What was it obummer said after the 2008 election? Something about ,”we won, you lost, get over it?” I say reciprocity is in order here. Also add to that the old axiom of, tough s**t dude!!
If nothing else, this buys us breathing room.
And I really enjoyed the “no, fuck YOU” nature of this.
Ev- True! And the shoe IS on the other foot now! 🙂
Heath- Amen to that!
From afar, it looks like Trump Dynasty is beginning. (You cut one entitled family down, another jumps up!). But first, its keep all the jobs in the Family, if the newspaper reports are to be believed.
From the way Trump is forming his cabinet, I don’t hold out much hope for anything good happening (except for his rich cronies). But I hope for the best. He needs to be given his chance. Fingers crossed, it all works out for America.
Greta- Amen to that…
Just a few comments.
First, in re Paul Krugman – He also stated:
“It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?
“Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.
“Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
The Dow closed up over 850 points for the week. Krugman has become to economics what Paul Erlich is to enviromentalism: Seldom right, but never fired.
Second, that New Yorker cover also played a role in the rise of the Second Amendment fight. It was central to the pivotal law journal article “The Embarrassing Second Amendment” written by UT Austin Law Professor Sanford Levinson and published in the Yale Law Review in 1989. Levinson compared the Second Amendment in the minds of Constitutional scholars with that image of the U.S. West of the Hudson River in the graphic. The First, Fourth, Fifth were represented by the 9th – 10th Ave landscape. It was a powerful comparison, and inspired an interest in the topic that was previously nearly nonexistent.
Third, the one thing that defines Americans is our sheer onryness. Remember “Freedom Fries” and the spontaneous boycott of anything French? “I’m a bitter clinger”? What happens whenever the American public thinks the government is going to ban or restrict something? Unlike the UK where people turned in handguns in anticipation of a ban, we buy everything we can get our hands on. Like the Grinch’s heart, the “basket of deplorables” grew three sizes the day that sound bite was released.
No time to relax. Now we need to hold Trump’s feet to the fire and tie the Republicans to the stake to get accomplished what they were elected to accomplish. Neither the Tea Party nor Trump would have arisen had the damned Republicans done what they promised to do to get elected.