Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“So hey, can Democrats finally start opposing genocide now? Just kidding. They won’t. … Democrats are sitting on a mountain of hundreds of thousands of human corpses they helped kill by mass military slaughter in the last four years, weeping and lamenting that now bad things are going to start happening. … Democrats are shrieking so loud today because they know they’re wrong. They know their party ran a dogshit candidate. They know it was crazy to expect the left support the party that’s committing a live-streamed genocide. It’s not anger. It’s not fear. It’s cognitive dissonance. … I should probably repeat what I said back in July: if you’re a Trump supporter who started reading me for my criticisms of the Biden administration, you are going to hate my guts after your guy gets in.” (11/07/24)
“I wrote yesterday about what’s demanded of us going forward: We must be mindfully and compassionately aware of the suffering this incoming regime will inflict, especially to people on the margins who it is all too easy to not see, and all too tempting to simply ignore. Today, I want to offer the slivers of hope I’m holding onto that America can course correct relatively quickly, and before the damage done becomes insurmountable. Only slivers, because this hope could be dashed, fully and quickly. We’re in a time when a lot can go wrong, and where the buffers we had against catastrophe are significantly weakened. While we saw a swing to the right, including in many Democratic heavy regions, Trump actually got fewer total votes than he did in 2020.” (11/07/24)
“A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party: ‘The path to victory in a state like Michigan, Harris campaign officials are betting, is through suburban counties that are home to many college-educated and white voters,’ the New York Times reported three weeks ago. ‘For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia. And you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin,’ Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said in July 2016. The same basic approach of Democratic Party elites that first opened the door to the White House for Donald Trump has done it again. After losing a national election, political parties sometimes muster the wisdom to compile an ‘autopsy’ report, assessing what went wrong and what changes are needed for the future.” (11/07/24)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“A fascinating situation has now developed between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment with respect to the long-secret JKF-assassination-related records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more than 60 years. Despite Trump’s campaign vow to release those records, it’s not at all clear how this matter is going to be resolved. I will give my prediction at the end of this article.” (11/07/24)
“Does the President-elect have what it takes to end Biden’s blank-check support for Netanyahu’s agenda and immediately begin disentangling the US?” (11/07/24)
“As others have noted, Trump’s win in 2016 could be dismissed as a fluke or aberration caused by our highly idiosyncratic way of electing presidents via the state-based Electoral College. This enabled Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans to console themselves with the thought that he didn’t really win. His presidency was at bottom illegitimate. The American people didn’t sign up for this. The repudiation of him in 2020 therefore seemed foreordained. And after the horrors of January 6, 2021 and all the criminal indictments that followed, the idea that the voters would return him to the White House seemed unthinkable to many. And yet here we are. The outcome leaves us to make sense of what it means—and what it means, I think, is that Donald Trump has consolidated the fluke of 2016.” (11/07/24)
“There is not much to be happy about with yesterday’s election results. The Republicans have won the presidency and at least one house of Congress. Trump also has a pliant Supreme Court with little respect for the law or the constitution. That is not a good picture. We know lots of really bad things are likely to happen. But we still have to look for ways to minimize the damage and lay the groundwork for a positive path going forward in the future. There are three points that we should keep in mind as we plan strategy.” (11/07/24)
“How will the media and Democratic pundits explain Vice President Kamala Harris'[s] stunning defeat? How will the media and Democratic pundits explain former President Donald Trump’s incredible recapture of the White House, the most improbable comeback since heavyweight champion George Foreman regained the title at age 45 having lost it 20 years earlier? How many times did the ‘experts’ count Trump out? When he won the presidency in 2016, so many described Trump as mentally unstable that he took a cognitive test and allowed the White House doctor to hold a press conference to convince the country that Trump was not ‘crazy’. Critics, who considered Trump delusional, hoped out loud his cabinet would invoke the 25th Amendment over Trump’s supposed ‘incapacity’. The House impeached him twice. He was routinely called a ‘fascist’. He survived two assassination attempts.” (11/07/24)
