These Republican senators don't grow on trees, you know.
It's almost like Trump is a secret Democrat trying to destroy the Republican Party from within.
Trump is insane. He's lost his mind.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Oh God, please make it stop: Trump to poach his new US Senate majority to fill Secretary of State post with Marco Rubio
I swear Trump has gone completely off his rocker, now plans to poach Mike Waltz from FL-6 for his national security adviser
That would take the theoretical GOP majority back down to 220, where it is right now.
The man is nuts.
In the four days since Nov 7th, Trump's popular vote share has contracted from 50.8% to 50.3%
Update 8:29 PM:
Harris/Walz 48.1% (226) Trump/Vance 50.2% (312)
Undecided House races are proceeding at a glacial pace, but since yesterday three Republicans have each seen their vote shares contract
Ciscomani in AZ-6 from 49.2 to 49.1
Garcia in CA-27 from 49.6 to 49.1
Steel in CA-45 from 51.3 to 51.1
Republicans currently lead in 5 of the 10 undecided races. If they win all those, they'll have 222 in the House.
But of course subtract Stefanik, and you are left with 221 GOP to advance President Trump's agenda in the first 100 days when 218 are needed.
Again, this was not a Republican "sweep", "a great realignment", a MAGA movement revolution, or any of the rubbish we're hearing from the cheering section.
This is just more of the same on the House side, where the GOP majority is 220.
Trump appointment of seasoned former acting ICE director Thomas Homan as Border Czar is in stark contrast to Biden appointment of Harris
This is a serious appointment, unlike Biden's, whose policy was to flood the country with illegals under a novel interpretation of asylum.
In an interview on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," Homan said the military wouldn't be rounding up and arresting immigrants in the country illegally and that ICE would move to implement Trump's plans in a "humane manner."
"It's going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this daily. They're good at it," he said. "When we go out there, we're going to know who we're looking for. We most likely know where they're going to be, and it's going to be done in a humane manner." ...
"If you're here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder."
He also said: "You've got my word. Trump comes back in January, I'll be in his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation operation this country's ever seen."
Reported here by CBS.
By delegating this task to Homan, Trump achieves a measure of freedom to devote himself to advancing his other objectives through the Congress.
The big if in all this is, whether illegal asylees with a piece of paper showing they have a court date may legally remain in the US.
I can well imagine a liberal federal judge intervening to stop deportations of such people, forcing the issue to be litigated. This could tie up deportations for years.
Don't count on this going the way you think it will go because Trump appointed a tough guy.
Idiot Trump immediately creates a vacancy in NY-21 by nominating Stefanik to the UN when he'll have at best a 222 House to begin with
He has learned nothing. Same stupid guy, different term.
Trump confirms NYer Elise Stefanik will be his enforcer at the UN: ‘Strong, tough, and smart’
Sunday, November 10, 2024
In September Nancy Pelosi said we already had the open primary and Kamala won it, but now in November she says we never had it
And on June 30th Pelosi said Joe Biden was still good to go even after the bad debate, but now she says he should have dropped out earlier.
In addition to her many other titles, she is also The Lyin' Queen.
Nancy Pelosi didn't lead the Putsch against Joe Biden, she was just the call center operator lol
Calls one and two came from Jane Fonda and Rob Reiner.
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THE CHUTZPAH OF THE INGRATES!: Kamala Harris blew through $1 billion in 107 days and ended up $20 million in debt, DNC official echoes the new lie from Pelosi, BLAMES JOE BIDEN after THEY pushed him out
Just think what Kamala could have done for the whole country, and how quickly!
And look how Nancy Pelosi's new lyin' narrative (he dropped out too late) becomes the official Democrat take after they pushed him out.
Alex Miller: DNC official calls Harris campaign a ‘$1 billion disaster’ :
Democratic National Committee finance member Lindy Li trashed Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed bid for the White House, calling her loss to President-elect Donald Trump a “$1 billion disaster.”
Ms. Li told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday that she and other Democrats feel that Campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon “misled” them into wasting millions of dollars.
“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster — this is a $1 billion disaster,” Ms. Li said. “They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that.”
She added, “I have friends I have to be accountable and explain things to because I told them it was a margin-of-error race. I was promised, Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out saying Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her, and so they wrote massive checks.”
Mr. Trump’s resounding victory over Ms. Harris has had Democrats searching for what went wrong.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, blamed President Biden for Tuesday’s blowout loss because of his late exit from the race in July.
She argued that if Democrats had an open primary to find a new party nominee, the election outcome might have been different.
Ms. Li made a similar argument, that if Democrats truly viewed Mr. Trump as a threat to democracy and the country, they would have allowed for an open process to find a successor “instead of just coronating somebody.”
Mr. Biden’s decision to endorse Ms. Harris quickly shuttered that possibility, she said.
“I actually think President Biden, the whole endorsing her 30 minutes after he dropped out, I think that was a big ‘F you’ to the party. ‘If you don’t want me, here’s somebody you may not like, deal with it,’” Ms. Li said.
Nancy Pelosi, June 30th, defending President Applesauce-brains, right after Joe's disastrous debate with Trump:
"We know how attuned he is to the issues, we know how informed he is. I debate with him about the issues, not debate, but discuss it with him. He‘s right there."
Nancy Pelosi, September 18th, pushing back on the Kamala coronation:
"We had an open primary and she won it. Nobody else got in the race."
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There were some pretty sharp cookies out there who actually nailed the Electoral College outcome
Here are just two I found:
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Defeated Republican incumbent Marc Molinaro (NY-19) was the second most bipartisan in the current Congress according to the Lugar index lol
He got a well-deserved boot in the ass for that.
Now he can hang the distinction on the wall, right next to his Associates Degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from Dutchess Community College.
Friday, November 8, 2024
Donald Trump is already hard at work making long lists of all the things he's not going to accomplish as president, which he'll foolishly fritter away his time on
Ten points about The Swamp.
Seven points about The War on the Drug Cartels.
Trump's saying all this stuff and we don't even know yet if Republicans will win the US House, where they have 214 seats as of right now and lead narrowly in 8 undecided races. If they win them all they'll have 222 seats, with 218 needed for the majority.
If not, well that'll be the end of all ambition, now won't it?
222 at best is a very narrow margin to accomplish anything anyway, a mere continuation of the status quo where Republicans in the House must tread lightly to keep the caucus unified with a very similarly sized narrow majority (220).
What kind of sweep was this? Once again the Trump movement . . . isn't.
It would be easy to call this stuff hubris from Trump. Let's just say he still hasn't learned anything about how to accomplish anything of relatively permanent value. He has NO priorities when everything is a priority. He is, once again, unserious.
The Senate will be in Republican hands, so we'll at least get more judicial appointments who might advance traditional American principles of law and order.
The scuttlebutt is that the first agenda item in Congress will be making Trump's expiring tax reform permanent.
I can imagine him having to waste the entire first year on this. He'd be better off quickly settling for its extension for another ten years under reconciliation rules, and then move along smartly to immigration and energy reforms before the midterms are upon us in 2026, after which he'll be the lamest of lame ducks.
If there's any hope of boosting GDP and improving everyone's pocketbook they've got to make energy reform the priority. And mere immigration enforcement solves an untold number of other problems which bedevil the country, like illegal drugs, crime, and social spending.
Spending bills will come as they will, and should simply aim to starve the federal government of money to shrink it, as could have been the case last time but nothing changed. The beast grows naturally because permanent spending programs are indexed to inflation. That isn't going to be stopped. Growing the economy to pay the bills is therefore job one.
I'm expecting very little positive from this lot, but I do hope J. D. Vance will emerge at the end of it to take us to a better future.
Democrats who say they fear Trump because he's an authoritarian are absolutely comic. Watch for rogue judges to hamstring him just like last time, and Trump will bluster and fume and things will simply muddle along.
But, of course, unforeseen events like wars have a way of intruding and making mooks of us all. Let's hope Trump can finally make a deal to end and prevent them.
Meanwhile The Two Time Queen of Deficit Spending and Joe Biden Coup Leader doesn't look too happy the day after the election lol
She's the very picture of Joe Biden's Schadenfreude.
Electric carmaker Lucid books nearly $1 billion net loss in 3Q, hopes to produce 9,000 vehicles by the end of 2024 vs. 8,428 in 2023
Well whoop-de-do!
They're flying off the shelf lol.
Lucid Group stock ended 2020 at about ten bucks a share, popped above $50 a couple of times in 2021, and is now worth $2.30 lol.
The company’s net loss for the third quarter widened to $992.5 million. That compares to a loss of $630.9 million a year earlier.
Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson described the quarter as a “landmark” for
the company, citing record deliveries of 2,781 units as well as
cost-cutting measures. He also noted that the company hit financial and
production targets. ...
The company reaffirmed plans to produce roughly 9,000 vehicles this year, which would mark a 6.8% increase compared to 8,428 units in 2023. ...
Lucid’s stock has been under pressure this year amid widening losses, slower-than-expected sales and significant cash burn.
More.
Bigshots at FBI fear firing bloodbath from Donald Trump
The rats prepare to jump ship.
According to most of the sources, no one in the FBI at a GS-14 level or higher is safe from losing their job after Mr. Trump is sworn in, and they fully expect the president-elect to “smash the place to pieces when he gets in,” and that it will be a “bloodbath.”
Former FBI whistleblower George Hill told The Washington Times that people in the agency say the current state of the FBI is “frazzled.”
“I have friends still at the Bureau telling me that no less than 50 Senior Executives (SES) are scrambling to retire ASAP,” he said.
More.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Republicans to retake Michigan State House from Democrats, ending 2022 absolute hegemony over state government
The Detroit News has Republicans with 57 seats so far in the Michigan State House, Democrats with 45, 8 undecided.
Even if all the undecided go Democrat, that's a 4-seat majority for the Republicans.
I predicted Trump 316-222, it turned out Trump 312-226
My gut told me Minnesota for Trump was wrong, but I went with it based on what turned out to be a poll reporting error. And I couldn't believe the polling in Nevada which favored Trump, but that turned out to be right.
In the end I missed it by that much.
Stellantis-owned Jeep's US sales are down 34% since 2018, now cuts Jeep Gladiator production after ending internal combustion Renegade and iconic Cherokee
The electric vehicle idiots running this company into the ground should all be fired. Just build reliable combustion engine SUVs people can afford and don't start on fire while parked in the garage.
How hard can it be?
Reported here in September:
Jeep’s U.S. sales have plummeted 34% from an all-time high of more than 973,000 SUVs sold in 2018 to less than 643,000 units last year. While most auto brands increased sales last year, Jeep was off by about 6%.
The most recent declines follow the company ending production last year of the entry-level Renegade and the Cherokee compact SUV — two mainstream models with peak U.S. sales of around 300,000 units annually from 2016 to 2019. ...
Jeep also is attempting to increase the quality and reliability of its vehicles, which have historically ranked below average in third-party rankings. ... Jeep on Monday confirmed it is cooperating with U.S. auto safety regulators on an investigation into more than 781,000 newer Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator SUVs after reports of underhood fires.
Reported here yesterday:
Automaker Stellantis announced plans Wednesday to cut a manufacturing shift and indefinitely lay off roughly 1,100 workers at a Jeep plant in Ohio.
The company, which has been battling high inventory levels and lower earnings this year, said the decision at its Toledo South Assembly Plant to cut production to one shift will better align output with demand of the Jeep Gladiator pickup — the factory’s sole product.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
LOL, Politico's John Harris says Trump's success is built on a movement of contempt for people in the media like himself
It's about THEMSELVES, you see, not about the issues, about mere ephemera, not about real things. The narcissism is absolutely amazing.
He misunderstands that the contempt is just a twofer:
People are drawn to Trump and the contempt he expresses toward his
opponents, especially liberal politicians and the news media, precisely
because of the contempt he draws in return. This is the through line of
his politics.
Monday, November 4, 2024
A US serviceman hurt while building Joe Biden's failed Gaza Hamas-aid pier has died of his injuries
Joe's administration began with the deaths of US soldiers in the ignominious Afghanistan withdrawal, and ends with the death of a US soldier in the ignominious attempt to help the enemy which attacked America's ally Israel on October 7, 2023.
I wonder if Kamala can think of anything now that she would change.
Sunday, November 3, 2024
75+ million votes already cast
Nearly half of 2020's electorate have already cast ballots in 2024
Around 100 million people voted early, either in person or via mail, in 2020. ... Of those who have cast their vote so far in states that report party registration data, Democrats hold a slight lead — 37.9% to 36.2% — per [University of Florida Election Lab's] count.
Hear me now and believe me later
Here's my forecast. Harris by 1 in NV, by 3 in NH. Trump by 2 in AZ and NC, by 1 in MN WI MI PA and GA.
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