“What just happened? Donald Trump ended his first term in disgrace, hit with a second impeachment after his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The 2022 midterm candidates he endorsed — Herschel Walker, Mehmet Oz, Kari Lake — all went down in flames. In 2023, he was declared guilty of sexually assaulting the writer E. Jean Carroll in a civil case. This past May, he was convicted in a Manhattan court on 34 felony counts for improperly reporting hush money payments. Overall, he has faced 116 indictments. Even now, the New York State attorney general is trying to punish the Trump Organization with nearly $500 million in fines, claiming that he unlawfully inflated the value of his properties. And yet here he is: America’s 47th president. How did he do it?” (11/06/24)
“While the presidential election wasn’t called until early Wednesday morning, by midnight the overwhelming evidence was that the Democrats were heading for a catastrophe on par with 2016. Donald Trump was already leading in all the battleground states; Republicans were poised to win the Senate, and the House of Representatives remains agonizingly close. There is a real danger of a Republican trifecta once the last votes are counted. It also appears that Donald Trump has won the popular vote, something he failed to do in his first two runs for the presidency. Trump is now in a position to do enormous damage during his second term in office.” (11/06/24)
“Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election sent shares of Tesla surging as much as 15% Wednesday, propelled by CEO Elon Musk’s prominent role in the Republican’s White House campaign and expectations that the company will benefit from proposed tax cuts and a deregulatory blitz. Trump name-checked Musk, the world’s richest man, during his victory speech Wednesday morning, calling him a ‘super genius.’ Campaign finance records show that Musk — who’s expected to receive a position in the president-elect’s administration, despite massive conflicts of interest — pumped more than $100 million into the 2024 race in support of Trump’s bid for a second term. According to Forbes’ real-time tracker, Musk’s net worth — the bulk of which is tied up in Tesla stock — rose by over $16 billion on Wednesday.” (11/06/24)
“Sorry, Chuck Schumer: You’re set to become Senate minority leader as Republicans recapture the Senate. That’s darn cheery news for the nation, especially with Donald Trump winning the White House. The GOP went into the race holding 49 seats to the Democrats’ 51 (including independents caucusing with them), with a near-lock to pick up more at least two seats. Sure enough, in West Virginia, Republican Jim Justice flipped the Democratic seat Sen. Joe Manchin left open …. In Ohio, Republican Bernie Moreno beat incumbent Dem Sherrod Brown, with Tim Sheehy overwhelmingly expected to oust Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, that’s plus three.” [editor’s note: As long as the GOP doesn’t get 60, the filibuster remains intact … unless the Republicans are lying sacks of crap whgo reverse their positions on it. Which seems likely – TLK] (11/06/24)
“Former U.S. President Donald Trump won a second term. Handily. I see, already, the overwhelming dread flooding my social media. After all, Americans elected a man who has bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, who has bred fear and hatred toward Central American migrants, who has pledged to undo any climate protections he can get his grubby little orange hands on, who oversaw the eradication of abortion rights, who has praised white supremacist, antisemitic marchers as ‘very fine people,’ and who fostered an insurrection. Again. Knowing this, what do we do next?” [editor’s note: Let’s thank this pundit for citing the fine people hoax right off the top, so we can ignore her lack of awareness of reality – SAT] [editor’s note: Sad to see SAT still buying in to the Charlottesville Hoax Hoax – TLK] [editor’s note: Sadder still to see TLK still buying into the hoax, when even Snopes has now debunked it! – SAT] (11/06/24)
“Vice President Kamala Harris failed to connect with voters while her campaign aides focused on trivial issues, leading to her lopsided election loss to former President Donald Trump, Democratic insiders tell The Post. Harris, 60, replaced President Biden, 81, atop the Democratic ticket in late July and quickly surged in polling while raking in about $1 billion over a six-week period — massively out-raising Trump, 78, and providing the resources to drive home her early advantage over the Republican nominee. Her failure to seal the deal outraged Democrats, including those who worked in the Biden-Harris administration and on her campaign. ‘I’ve worked on five presidential campaigns. I knew this would be hard. Others acted like they knew they were going to win,’ said one person who chipped in during the final stretch of the race. ‘They were arrogant.'” (11/06/24)
“Will Democrats learn the lawfare lesson? We’ll soon find out. One week after President Trump’s smashing victory, there is slated to be action in a New York State court, where the president-elect must still deal with 34 felony business-records charges on which a Manhattan jury found him guilty this spring. Judge Juan Merchan is expected to rule on Trump’s motion to vacate the guilty verdicts. Team Trump argues that, under the Supreme Court’s July 1 ruling that former presidents have presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts, the case must be thrown because District Attorney Alvin Bragg recklessly chose include official-acts evidence in the prosecution. Judge Juan Merchan, an activist Democrat, has ruled against Trump with numbing regularity throughout the proceedings. Past being prologue, we should expect Merchan to deny Trump’s immunity claim. Then things get interesting.” (11/06/24)
“Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in President-elect Trump’s first administration, is calling on prosecutors at the state and federal levels to dismiss the pending legal cases against Trump before he takes office once again. Barr told Fox News Digital that voters were well aware of all the allegations against Trump when electing him to a second term in office on Tuesday, and that it is in the country’s best interest for prosecutors to listen to them. ‘The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump, and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years,’ Barr said. ‘They did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country and I think Attorney General Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now.'” (11/06/24)
“California voters approved a ballot measure that would reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug crimes as felonies, essentially undoing a previous ballot measure that big-box retailers and law enforcement officials have long blamed for increases in theft, property crime and homelessness. Voters approved state Proposition 36 by a whopping margin of 40 percentage points, or 70.6% to 29.4%, according to unofficial results from Tuesday’s general election. The ballot measure needed only a simple majority (50% plus one vote) to pass. … In 2014, voters passed Prop. 47, which aimed to curb overcrowding in California’s prisons by turning some drug and theft crimes into misdemeanors. Among other things, the measure famously said shoplifters who stole $950 or less in goods from stores could only be charged with a misdemeanor, whereas in the past, prosecutors could charge those offenders with a felony.” (11/06/24)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The Democratic Party has lost control of both the White House and the Senate. As of this writing it is still unclear which party will secure control of the House of Representatives. Turns out campaigning on the promise of continuing a genocide while courting endorsements from war criminals like Dick Cheney is not a great way to get progressives to vote for you. One interesting point is that Donald Trump appears to have taken the battleground state of Michigan, where Kamala Harris was soundly rejected by the large Arab American population of Dearborn despite their voting overwhelmingly for Biden in 2020. Back in August, Harris famously shushed Muslim anti-genocide protesters at a campaign rally in Michigan by admonishing them with the words ‘I’m speaking.’ Well, who’s speaking now?” (11/07/24)
