Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“I’ve been right, wrong, and indifferent about the U.S. election, but I’m glad it’s over. Now, via a mix of top-down and bottom-up measures, we must continue pursuing liberation and decentralization.” (11/06/24)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/reflections-in-the-interregnum
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
“Kamala Harris proved too cowardly even to address her supporters Tuesday night, as her loss to Trump became more and more inevitable. But what could she really say? She couldn’t honestly say she’d run a vigorous campaign that championed the poor, the downtrodden, and the voiceless or that she’d fought for peace, and human dignity, and to fix an unraveling climate. I’d be really interested to hear her say what she thought her campaign was all about, but even Harris probably couldn’t have pinpointed the purpose or the meaning of her doomed run …” (11/06/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/06/chronicle-of-a-defeat-foretold/
Source: Town Hall
by Tim Graham
“The 2024 presidential campaign is ending pretty much where it began: loathing the never-ending presence of Donald Trump. On the day before the election, The New York Times front page displayed a gaudy editorial (badly disguised as ‘News Analysis’) under the title ‘Torrent of Lies Redefines Political Norms.’ Doesn’t that sound like a hard-charging rerun of 2016? Nothing ever seems to change from the paper that gaudily proclaimed under Trump that ‘The Truth Is More Important Now Than Ever.’ You can point and laugh, since The New York Times refused to admit that Hunter Biden’s laptop full of corruption details was authentic until 2022, and then it acknowledged reality in a story on page A-20, in paragraph 23. It was buried, almost like an unmarked grave.” (11/06/24)
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“A long-delayed conviction illustrates the difficulty of holding cops accountable for abusing their powers.” (11/06/24)
https://reason.com/2024/11/06/nearly-five-years-after-breonna-taylors-death-justice-remains-elusive/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Angel Eduardo
“Why do we have a First Amendment? This isn’t a facetious question. In fact, it gets at the core of so many arguments surrounding originalist approaches to First Amendment jurisprudence, and why arguments that rigidly appeal to the text and history are often cherry-picked or incomplete. In most cases it would be more productive to ask ourselves, ‘Why did Madison and his compatriots write ‘Congress shall make no law …’ to begin with?’ The First Amendment was designed to preserve our individual expressive freedoms, to ensure that American citizens can engage in the freest possible discussion and debate, and to prevent our newfound republic from descending into tyranny.” (11/06/24)
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“As Donald Trump appeared to be winning last night, the number of Twitterers who proclaimed a hankering or a design to kill themselves rose dramatically. Michael Malice and others found humor in it, but it’s a super-saddening development, if you ask me. These Kamala Harris voters are not really going to kill themselves. It is just something to say on Twitter. I really hope I’m not wrong about this.” (11/06/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/11/06/dont-kill-yourself/
Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan
“To wake up the morning after Election Day was to understand the appeal of oblivion. Regaining consciousness meant assuming the crushing weight of the darkest knowledge. The Motherfucker is back. ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,’ wrote American journalist H.L. Mencken in 1916. Now, everyone will unleash their theories. Salvaging comfort in a situation like this means smoothing down the events so that they conform to our own world view. So people will say: Kamala Harris lost because she did not embrace the policy views that I do. Or: Kamala Harris lost because the ignoble rats on the [left/ right/ middle] did not work hard enough for her.” (11/06/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-victory-election-2024
Source: The American Conservative
by Jason Morgan & Kenji Yoshida
“Washington has no greater friend in the world than Japan — or so the political establishments in both the United States and Tokyo would like to believe. Not everyone is playing along, though. Kan Ito, a graduate of the University of Tokyo and a well-known public intellectual in Japan, has been the bete noire of America’s Japan-hands — the imperial factotums who keep Japan subservient to Washington’s strategic interests. Ito’s articulate, pungent criticism of American foreign policy often exposes inconvenient truths about U.S.-Japan relations, truths based on Ito’s more than 30 years in America.” (11/06/24)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-u-s-must-allow-japanese-independence/
Source: Reason
by Nick Gillespie
“There’s a reason why presidential contests have been as tight as they have been for a while, and why control of Congress has flipped back and forth so much over the last couple of decades. It’s not because of voters like me, who just want to vote for politicians and policies that won’t bankrupt the country or rob me of the ability to make meaningful decisions in my life. It’s not too much to ask for candidates who aren’t colossal assholes, mental incompetents, or fakers that routinely lie and dissemble about all sorts of stuff. Your parties don’t stand for anything consistent or appealing or responsible or responsive. You’re not going to win elections easily until you stand for something consistent, productive, and respectful of the people you seek to govern.” (11/04/24)
https://reason.com/2024/11/04/dont-blame-me-for-not-voting-for-your-unbelievably-rotten-candidate/
Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“Unlike most advocates of tariffs in the Trump-Biden era, Alexander William Salter is willing to ask ‘Will Free Trade Bring Peace and Prosperity?’ (The Wall Street Journal, October 29). The Rawls College of Business Administration academic even sees said peace as an admirable if uncertain goal, and acknowledges that the answer to the second half of the queston is probably yes. Yalie JD Vance, and for that matter his high school social studies teacher debate opponent Tim Walz, could use some of that remedial Adam Smith 101.” (11/05/24)