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After action report. This is where I disagree with Trump. He asks us to put ill will behind us and work together for the good of the country. He says we’re all in this together. No, we’re not. Sure they’re our fellow Americans, but so are Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson. We’re all in this together in the sense we coexist with termites. Here’s part of Trump’s victory speech:
Now, it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division, we have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say, it is time for us to come together as one united people. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans, and this is so important to me.
and,
For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you. For your guidance and your help, so that we can work together and unify our great country.
The leftists aren’t merely wrong, they’re dishonest and malevolent. They still hold us, our values and our heritage in contempt. They still mean to destroy the reputations and careers of dissenters. They still adore illegal aliens, jihadists, dindu thugs and the perverts du jour. They still insult and demean us and teach our kids to despise America, us and themselves. They still mean to trash what remains of the Constitution.
The internet is full of their abuse and threats of bloodshed. The violence in the streets backs it up. What do they offer by way of reconciliation? Where is the middle ground in Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s address:
Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans. Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try. If Trump wants to roll back the tide of hate he unleashed, he has a tremendous amount of work to do and he must begin immediately.
Winners don’t demand a truce, losers do. For guidance in this, see Patton, Puller, Nimitz, et al. Winners dictate terms and keep pummeling ’em until they’re accepted. Concessions in return for nothing is what put the “cuck” in cuckservative. Trump needn’t reassure those who oppose him, he needs to reassure his supporters by keeping his promises. Pay attention to what he does, not what he says. Keep in mind, much of what he’ll say will be calculated blather however alarming it seems.
The beltway progressives are paralyzed with fear, confused and riven with self reproach, reeling in shock. They doubt their abilities, each other and their leadership. Are we to believe there will be a better time? Consider the old military maxim: “if you find yourself in a fair fight, someone didn’t do their job”. Stomp on ’em and keep stomping on ’em until they give you good reason to stop. Or … or was it all talk?
For the first time in eighty-eight years Republicans will control the White House, the Senate and the House. Will Trump press his overwhelming advantage quickly and decisively or will he devote himself to “healing”? The difference is what separates a movement from a detonation. We’ve had enough weepy, unwarranted magnanimity. He didn’t promise us the Peaceable Kingdom. His book is entitled The Art Of The Deal. Will he remember some things are not his to trade away? Or will he, like Reagan, make concessions relying on promises they’ll repudiate later?
The news media. Jeff Jarvis at the City University of New York says
The news media’s post-election chorus of endlessly expressed inexpressible shock reveals journalism as it actually is. One needn’t wonder why the press made an embarrassing spectacle of itself. Once again they constructed an alternate reality on an underfit foundation and praised it in gushing detail while dismissing doubters as hopeless rubes
Once again news media celebrities populated the talk shows and nodded and agreed and traded memorable zingers. When on tevee they represented themselves as experts and insiders, elsewhere they claimed to be unbiased seekers of fact. They used ordinary people as props for whatever story they wish to sell, but when the occasion called for thoughtful insights they interviewed each other.
Once again their polls were jiggered to comply with the canonical narrative. They say no one could have seen this coming. We say you can’t find what you’re not looking for. Nor did they underestimate this or mis-analyze that. They agreed on a result, adjusted the input to suit, then scienced it up with numbers and jazzy charts. In other words, the polls were an exercise in goal seeking
The news media, a public intelligence gathering operation at heart, is wholly and openly in service to the progressive cause and, as such, misled their paymasters as well as their customers. A classic error of totalitarian regimes is coming to believe their own propaganda. Possible but unlikely in this case. Not even their beloved USSR fell into that trap. More likely they substituted their paradigm for reality, as comically clunky a misrepresentation as it was. Trump won because he wouldn’t believe the unbelievable. His supporters never had.
Once again the press has earned the contempt of the people, they value their own opinions more than the canned hectoring of the fawning, too clever, self-congratulatory cretins who occupy former newsrooms. When the election results were in, busloads of their most reliable customers took to the streets
The bottom line. It’s difficult to suppress a belly laugh when formerly smug-o-matic liberals are screeching incoherently like they’ve just been pushed out a window. Their pivotal mistake was driving the nice, polite Tea Party into the catacombs already occupied by the grizzly Right. It’s here the alt-right was fully formed and became an open source insurgency. The left is correct in saying the alt-right enabled
The election was a cart de visite, a proof of concept. The unknown unknowns will be their real epiphany. Kellyanne Conway warned them against allowing their tantrums to morph into significant, long term unpleasantness. Sound advice. Even after putting together a world class pratfall they don’t understand how an uneventful transition would lend them some appearance of competence. Displays of mewling tragedy, aside from being comic, commends the stronger horse.
The Overton window has lurched from under them. They’re out of their depth. And embarrassed. Worse, until now a predatory competitor existed only in their imagination. Their tools don’t fit. Were they smart rather than deviously clever they’d notice the periscopes in every direction. They don’t and they won’t. Stay away from crowds.
Next item please.
The quote of the week comes from Andrew Bunting, admissions director at George Mason University, in a post-election Facebook rant about conservative organizations:
Next please.
We may never know who won the popular vote says Greg Phillips of the VoteFraud.org organization:
