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…
