It's not just me

 

Oh God, please make it stop: Trump to poach his new US Senate majority to fill Secretary of State post with Marco Rubio

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.

 

 

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’

 

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.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/30/politics/democratic-party-replacement-worries-joe-biden/index.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/16/pelosi-biden-2024-elections-00168767

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."

 

"Yeah, F you."

 

 

There were some pretty sharp cookies out there who actually nailed the Electoral College outcome

 Here are just two I found:

 

Extremely amusing: Democrats tried to frighten the voters that Trump is a threat to democracy, so the voters voted for Trump

 

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.

 

Thanks to the Libertarian in the race, Ukraine War fanatic Democrat Marcy Kaptur may yet survive

 

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.

 

Joe Biden gets the last laugh, sails into the sunset as the only one who ever beat Donald Trump and doesn't have to worry about his shitty job anymore

 

I don't think Latinos are going to appreciate being called Uncle Toms by the black women supporters of Kamala Harris

 

Kamala Harris would have beaten Donald Trump but she had to stop on the way to victory and recharge her car

 

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.

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