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#TEDS = Trump Extreme Derangement Syndrome
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Trump Won
In his usual understated way, the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson explains why Donald Trump won the presidential election:
… the more Clinton Inc. talked about the Latino vote, the black vote, the gay vote, the woman vote, the more Americans tired of the same old identity politics pandering. What if minority bloc voters who had turned out for Obama might not be as sympathetic to a middle-aged, multimillionaire white woman? And what if the working white classes might flock to the politically incorrect populist Trump in a way that they would not to a leftist elitist like Hillary Clinton? In other words, the more Clinton played the identity politics card, the more she earned fewer returns for herself and more voters for Trump.
The old blue-collar middle class was bewildered by the leftwing social agenda in which gay marriage, women in combat units, and transgendered restrooms went from possible to mandatory party positions in an eye blink. In a party in which “white privilege” was pro forma disparagement, those who were both white and without it grew furious that the elites with such privilege massaged the allegation to provide cover for their own entitlement.
The big question is, will ANYONE on the Left or in the Elitist Right Hierarchy pay any attention to what the American people are telling them?
h/t Gord Tulk
Donald Trump vs. a Saudi Prince
Hillary Clinton didn’t mind bribes donations from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, but Donald Trump wasn’t having any of it.
This video, published on November 10th, already has 2.6 Million views:
h/t I.M. Rite
Steven Crowder Sums Up Why Trump Won
Language Warning
The Leftist Losers Can’t Handle the Truth
An election just occurred in the United States of America. One side won and one side lost. Yet, the side that lost can’t handle this fact and is now melting down:
- The University of Michigan offered its traumatized students coloring books and Play-Doh to calm them. (Are its students in college or kindergarten?)
- The University of Kansas reminded its stressed-out kids that therapy dogs, a regular campus feature, were available.
- Cornell University, an Ivy League school, held a campus-wide “cry-in,” with officials handing out tissues and hot chocolate.
- Tufts University offered its devastated students arts and crafts sessions. (OK, not kindergarten — more like summer camp.)
- At campuses from elite Yale to Connecticut to Iowa and beyond, professors canceled classes and/or exams — either because students asked or because instructors were too distraught to teach.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
1941 – 1945 : How the SF Bay Area was reshaped by WW2
Government records show that 1,647,174 passengers – soldiers, sailors, Marines and civilians like Red Cross personnel – boarded ships at Fort Mason bound for the Pacific. Two-thirds of all the troops sent to the Pacific in World War II passed through San Francisco.
November 2016 : Post-Election Group Hug in Dolores Park [San Francisco]
“This election is one of the most difficult elections we’ve ever faced, and we’re all in a lot of pain. Come meet at Dolores park for hugs and community support, including at least one giant group hug, to spread the love and remind each other that we are here for one another as one family.
Look for folks carrying a sign that says “Group Hug”
This is an open invitation, so invite everyone you can! Let’s get the biggest group hug you can imagine!”
The Media’s Smugness Destroyed Their Credibility
In a stinging editorial, Michael Wolff obliterates the narrow minded, completely corrupt mainstream media:
Not only did the media get almost everything about this presidential election wrong, but it became the central issue, or the stand-in for all those issues, that the great new American Trump Party voted against.
It all washed away. Beyonce. The tax returns. The theoretical blue wall. Trump as sexual predator. Putin. His shambolic debate performances. Hispanics. Indeed, every aspect of the media narrative, dust. This narrative not only did not diminish him, it fortified him. The criticism of Trump defined the people who were criticizing him, reliably giving the counter-puncher something to punch. It was a juicy target. The Media Party not only fashioned the takedown narrative and demanded a special sort of allegiance to it — Twitter serving as the orthodoxy echo chamber — but, suspending most ordinary conflict rules, according to the Center for Public Integrity, gave lots of cash to Hillary. The media turned itself into the opposition and, accordingly, was voted down.
The Lies of the MSM
Karen Straughan is a well known Canadian vlogger. Here is her take on Trump’s victory and how the mainstream media polluted the minds of many during the campaign:
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There is a Cost to Depriving People of the Freedom to Speak Their Mind
Political Correctness has been on the rise for some time but seems to have been supercharged during Obama’s reign. This column explains how the overreach of PC Warriors hurt HRC and helped Trump:
The segment of the electorate who flocked to Trump because he positioned himself as “an icon of irreverent resistance to political correctness” think it means this: smug, entitled, elitist, privileged leftists jumping down the throats of ordinary folks who aren’t up-to-date on the latest requirements of progressive society.
Example: A lot of people think there are only two genders–boy and girl. Maybe they’re wrong. Maybe they should change that view. Maybe it’s insensitive to the trans community. Maybe it even flies in the face of modern social psychology. But people think it. Political correctness is the social force that holds them in contempt for that, or punishes them outright.
If you’re a leftist reading this, you probably think that’s stupid. You probably can’t understand why someone would get so bent out of shape about being told their words are hurtful. You probably think it’s not a big deal and these people need to get over themselves. Who’s the delicate snowflake now, huh? you’re probably thinking. I’m telling you: your failure to acknowledge this miscalculation and adjust your approach has delivered the country to Trump.
h/t John Galt
Related: Prof. Jordan Peterson at U of T – Summary of Videos
Moments Ago . . .
The Case for Trump
Yesterday Peter Thiel spoke to the National Press Club in Washington, DC:
Pat Condell Weighs In on the U.S. Presidential Election
He Heard About It From “News Reports”
Breaking all the Rules
Rasmussen has Trump up by 2.
The latest Rasmussen Reports White House Watch national telephone and online survey shows Trump with 43% support among Likely U.S. Voters to Clinton’s 41%. Yesterday, Clinton still held a four-point 43% to 39% lead over Trump, but that was down from five points on Tuesday and her biggest lead ever of seven points on Monday.
Well. That changed things.
I am obviously a fool and an idiot.
Trump dominated, he curb-stomped. Under the worst possible circumstances of defections and criticism he still did the homework. Other than the pre-debate press conference there wasn’t the sex fire-works assumed to happen. On the issues raised Trump destroyed Clinton. It’s like Clinton decided it was over and…it wasn’t.
Lord knows what happens now.
The Debate
Open thread.
As an aside, posts are queued up until later tomorrow morning as I’ll be drinking…heavily.
Update: 50 minutes in Trump is knocking this out of the park.
True the vote
The official in charge of investigating these matters did have one suggestion. He said any Indiana resident concerned over fraud can go to Indianavoters.in.gov in order to make sure all of their information is correct.
TLDR;
When an article on Hillary Clinton’s ongoing scandals is ‘Too Long Didn’t Read’ and she leads in the polls you know three things:
– The Republican nomination voters chose poorly.
– The Democratic nomination voters chose poorly.
– No one under the age of 35 is going to read it.
Via, Ken K.
I guess we’ll see.
But I suspect that the people described here are not going to be enough to beat Trump.
Debate Prep
If this story is true and Sunday’s performance mimics the first debate then the most hated man on earth is going to be Donald Trump. Being new grants you a pass on incompetence exactly once.