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The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves In the aftermath of the election, Democrats are engaging in public blame-shifting, while avoiding accountability for their own policies and elite disconnect, which alienated voters and led to defeat. By Victor Davis Hanson

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/11/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” – Often attributed to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

The Democratic election postmortem immediately descended into public blame-gaming—as expected. When Joe Biden was forced off the ticket in late July, the conspirators issued a party line that he was to be praised as a veritable George Washington—in the spirit of Washington’s farewell address of 1796 about why it was a good thing for the first president not to run for a third term.

So, we were lied to that Joe, the sitting President of the United States, was not forced out by Nancy Pelosi, the Obamas, George Clooney and the celebs, and the billionaire class. We instead were lectured that Biden, magnanimously as the neo-father of our country, selflessly bowed out to ensure Kamala Harris’s elevation as the nominee and, with it, a sure Democratic victory.

But now? After the Democratic train wreck, half the party is suddenly damning George Washington Joe for sticking around too long, even though party grandees cooked up the scheme in the first place of nominating the cognitively challenged Biden in 2020 to shut out his radical (and supposedly unelectable) primary rivals.

Now that his successor Harris has bombed, in the leftist mind, Joe has gone from a Washingtonian Olympian to a veritable selfish Richard Nixon who clung to office far too long and supposedly ensured his party’s defeat.

Yet still, others now blame incumbent Vice President Kamala herself. The once “joyful” candidate, after the coup to remove Biden, was once praised to the skies as a “turn the page”/”move forward”/“change” candidate—only then to be damned as an insipid loser.

So, one postelection narrative was that Harris—we were told to recall—was always known as inept and thus originally picked as Joe Biden’s Spiro Agnew insurance policy, who would prevent his indictment, impeachment, or medical removal.

But never mind blaming either Biden or Harris or both. The left cannot fault either a lack of funds; they raised a billion dollars more than Trump. Leftists also cannot complain about 95 percent favorable media coverage, supposedly worth billions of dollars in free advertising.

They cannot regret that they did not do everything imaginable to destroy the Trump monster—given they had impeached him twice and tried him as a private citizen. They cooked up the Russian collusion and laptop disinformation hoaxes, raided his home with a SWAT team, and unleashed five criminal and civil suits designed to bankrupt, demonize, and jail him. They tried to remove him from at least 16 state ballots and daily smeared him as a fascist, dictator, and Hitler—even as two would-be assassins tried to shoot him.

Trump and the ‘sick man’ of Europe By Kenneth R. Timmerman

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/trump_and_the_sick_man_of_europe.html

Ouf! (as the French would say), we’ve got our country back. Praise the Lord for answered prayers.

World leaders sent out their congratulations.

Even Russia’s Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on his resounding re-election victory. This is normal and it is healthy.

Putin has always wanted two things — and not much more, actually — from U.S. leaders: a recognition of Russia’s great power status, and respect as Russia’s legitimate leader.

Biden didn’t just deny both of those, he gratuitously threw the insults in Putin’s face. I am still grappling with the strategic purpose the Democrats saw in taking us to the brink of World War III with Russia. Maybe there wasn’t one.

Putin said he is ready for talks over Ukraine. Just three weeks ago, it was no way, Jose.

Elections have consequences.

Trump has said he wants an immediate end of the fighting. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky quite understandably is not happy with that, since the Russians occupy something like sixteen percent of Ukrainian territory. But for now, Zelensky has little to no leverage.

A ceasefire would freeze the frontlines and bring in some kind of interposition force, most likely, some combination of NATO troops and nonaligned nations. And then the real negotiations would begin.

Also among those congratulating Trump on his re-election was NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Along with saner NATO leaders, such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Rutte could hear the drumbeats of war in Europe’s capitols and knew the utter devastation a war with Russia would bring.

Donald Trump just walked the hotheads like France’s Emmanuel Macron (Little Cookie) back from the brink of World War III. The proper response to that is, Mon dieu, merci!  

November 5th was a great day for women By Ruth S. King

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/november_5th_was_a_great_day_for_women.html

Women have traditionally been herded into regressive policies by hysterical hype over misogyny, which is always linked to their rights, abortion, and race. To make matters worse, their votes are taken for granted by the left.

As the tabulations continue to show, though, Donald Trump won 52% of white women voters who put national security, economics, and immigration issues over gender and race. In fact, additional information discloses that seven percent of black women voted for Donald Trump.

Not in Massachusetts, of course, where women voted for Ted Kennedy, the poster boy of infidelity and crime, seven times after Chappaquiddick and just helped to re-elect Elizabeth Warren to a third term of vacuity.

The Harris campaign thought that gender and race were enough to convince women voters. They air-brushed her husband’s “nanny scandal” while they were busy venting about Trump scandals, his alleged similarity to Hitler, and his threats to democracy. They thought women would be appalled by a Joe Rogan interview and persuaded by an edited and doctored television interview.

Women, to their credit, saw past all that. They enjoyed the street theater of McDonald’s and the garbage truck, understanding that while Harris courted big money and celebrities, Trump went to poor and working-class neighborhoods where mothers were devastated by the price of rent, food, and fuel.

Women were not convinced by the harpies of The View, which purports to discuss and dwell on general issues but spends its limited influence and sophomoric humor on dissing Donald Trump.

Who are The Inheritors? Diane Bederman

I have always heard the residents of Judea/Samaria described as settlers. I just learned that “settlers” is an inappropriate translation of the word “mitnachalim.” It is Hebrew and is properly translated as “inheritors” in English; not settlers, as it is too often. Translating from one language to another is not easy all the time.

Too often Jewish people, today, are accused of occupying and settling “Muslim lands.” Jews are accused of being settlers; especially in Judea/Samaria. A gross mistranslation of mitnachalim: The Inheritors.

He is ever mindful of His covenant, the promise He gave for a thousand generations. Psalms 105:8

Now, there was a time when “settlers” was a positive word: people who come from one land to another and make a home on the land. At one time we used the word pioneer.  When I was growing up – during the time of the dinosaurs-there were movies and television shows, like Rawhide – my favourite – that extolled the virtues of the men, women and children who got into their covered wagons and made their way West to SETTLE the prairies. They were SETTLERS and they were considered brave.

But today, because of DEI, CRT and Woke “values,” settlers now carries a negative connotation.

Today, there are those who have decided that the meaning of settler is evil- an occupier of another’s land. A victimizer.

Words change meaning – in time (synchronic) and through time (diachronic).

Think of the word “gay.” In the 1920’s gay meant happy. Now it refers to a person who is a homosexual. This is a change of meaning through time. Diachronic.

Now, the word “fag.” Unless the meaning has recently changed in Britain, a fag is a cigarette. In America and Canada it is a derogatory word for homosexual. Same word. Different meaning. Synchronic.

Jews living in Israel, in JUDEA/SAMARIA, Biblical lands, are called settlers; which now means occupiers/victimizers; taken from the improper translation of mitnachalim. Why the mistranslation? A mistake, or an intentional error?

I keep asking how Jews can be settlers in and on the land they have been cultivating for more than 3000 years? Long before Christians or Muslims walked the earth. How did a people who built TWO Temples on the Temple Mount, the second destroyed in 70 CE long, long, long before Islam and the Dome of the Rock, become labeled as settlers, today?

The Gaza Famine Hoax Cost the Life of a US Soldier The only ones actually dying were Americans delivering food to Gaza. by Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-gaza-famine-hoax-cost-the-life-of-a-us-soldier/

Weeks after the brutal Hamas assault of Oct 7, Cindy McCain who heads the UN World Food Program, falsely claimed that Muslims in Gaza were “literally starving to death as we speak”.

But the only ones who actually died were the Americans delivering food to them.

Next month, McCain contended that “food and water are practically non-existent in Gaza” while CBS News reported the claim by a British NGO that “more than half a million people… ‘face death by starvation.’” In December, the UN WFP claimed 570,000 Muslims were “starving” in Gaza and at risk of “famine”. “It doesn’t get any worse,” the UN WFP’s Arif Hussein argued.

By the end of January, the UN claimed that “this is a population that is starving to death.”

And had been “starving to death” for four months. They had somehow stayed alive for four months even though food and water were “non-existent” but every Hamas terrorist appeared morbidly obese. CNN explained that Gaza Muslims had taken to “eating grass” to survive.

After no food or water for a year and a diet of only grass, they’re somehow all still here.

We were assured in March 2024 that “large-scale famine mortality” would soon begin. It did not. Kamala claimed that “people in Gaza were starving” and there were “families eating leaves”.

A few days later, Biden announced a $320 million floating aid pier to deliver food to Gaza. The pier was completely unnecessary because Israel was delivering plenty of supplies. Hamas was seizing those supplies or demanding a percentage of them and used them to pay its terrorists.

Over 1,000 military personnel were dispatched to build the pier. The United States military also began air dropping supplies into Gaza. Much of it was thrown away by the locals. Meanwhile, a stream of TikTok videos showed laughing Gazans gorging themselves, shopping at markets filled with food and feasting at the end of Ramadan.

By June, even the UN was forced to temporarily admit that it had no evidence of a famine.

13 states will have women governors next year, a new record Juliana Kim

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/09/g-s1-33583/new-record-women-governors-kelly-ayotte?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

“Dittmar added that while women in office are far from monolithic in their positions or priorities, they have historically been the force behind raising issues and policy agendas around caregiving, women’s inclusion in medical trials, and concerns about the treatment of women in the military.”
A record number of women will serve as state governors next year — building on the historic gains made during the 2022 elections.

The new record came after Republican Kelly Ayotte, a former U.S. senator and state attorney general, won the New Hampshire governor’s race on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Joyce Craig in what was considered this year’s most competitive gubernatorial election.

Ayotte’s victory will bring the total number of women holding state governor’s offices to 13 — surpassing the previous high of 12 set after elections in 2022. Before that, the highest number of women serving as governors was nine, a record established in 2004.

“We’re both celebrating the milestones that women have achieved, but at the same time, as we note those milestones, we also have to recognize that there is a lot of progress left to make for women,” said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics.

“And that is especially true at the gubernatorial level,” she added.

Governors, in particular, play a major role in shaping state policies that often can have a more immediate and direct impact on their citizens than federal policies. When women are elected into office, it tends to promote more trust in government and better perceptions around fairness, Dittmar said. “Because it holds up to that standard of being representative,” she said. “That’s the message.”

Dittmar added that while women in office are far from monolithic in their positions or priorities, they have historically been the force behind raising issues and policy agendas around caregiving, women’s inclusion in medical trials, and concerns about the treatment of women in the military.

Seeing women in office also sends a positive message to young women about what’s possible for them in the future. “And for young men, will they see that and hold less biases about who can and should be in elected leadership?” Dittmar said.

FEMA employee fired after telling relief team to skip houses with Trump signs following Florida hurricane by Mary Kay Mallonee,

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fema-employee-removed-from-role-after-reportedly-telling-relief-team-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs-after-florida-hurricane/ar-AA1tMlOm

A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been fired after they advised their disaster relief team to avoid homes with signs supporting former President Donald Trump while canvassing in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, the agency’s administrator said Saturday.

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the actions of the employee “reprehensible” and said they have been terminated from their role.

“More than 22,000 FEMA employees every day adhere to FEMA’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often sacrificing time with their own families to help disaster survivors,” Criswell wrote in a post on X before describing the employee’s actions. “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation.”

“This was reprehensible. I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people, this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA and we will hold people accountable if they violate these standards of conduct,” she added.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer invited Criswell to testify at a hearing on November 19 to discuss the incident and FEMA’s recent response to natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton, he said in a Saturday letter to Criswell.

“In the wake of the recent major disasters that impacted Americans of all political persuasions, it is critical that FEMA adheres to its disaster relief mission,” the Kentucky Republican wrote.

CNN reported Friday that the employee had been removed from their role and that the incident was under investigation. The agency did not identify the employee and said it believed it was “an isolated incident.”

“The employee who issued this guidance had no authority and was given no direction to tell teams to avoid these homes,” a FEMA spokesperson said Friday.

The Battle Was Won. The War’s Just Begun Bob Maistros

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/11/11/the-battle-was-won-the-wars-just-begun/

So you thought that a 312-vote Electoral College victory, an improbable popular-vote triumph, a flip of the U.S. Senate and, as of this writing, retention of a GOP House majority settled matters?

You thought common sense and true normalcy would return to government, society, and the culture?

As if. Don’t kid yourselves. The least intelligent, least articulate, and most incompetent presidential candidate ever may have failed to attain the Democrats’ customary deep blue state-fueled popular majority. 

But the reality is that America remains a deeply divided, essentially 50-50 nation. Meaning that:

Millions out there still consider the “right” to snuff babies’ lives out in the womb to preserve women’s careers and hook-up culture more important than getting married and raising a family. (Note: Six of nine state referenda establishing late-term abortion as a constitutional right passed, half in deep-red states, with only a supermajority requirement narrowly saving Florida.)
Millions more still think men can be women and women men, and members of the same sex can be “married.” Sophists and groomers will keep terrorizing “misgendering” employers and fellow workers and “trans/homophobic” politicians; pushing to mutilate children; and infiltrating schools and public spaces with propaganda, pornography, and drag queen stories.
Some 19% of Americans will habitually puff on legal weed, damaging young brains and endangering public safety, a gateway to the fentanyl poisoning a generation. 
Repeat criminals will continue to be coddled by Soros-loyal local prosecutors.

No, you don’t have ‘post-election depression’ When did the liberal left become so dominated by overgrown children? Lauren Smith

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/10/no-you-dont-have-post-election-depression/

How is your mental health holding up after the re-election of Donald Trump this week? Do you need some ‘grief’ counselling? Did you take a day off work? How about a visit from an emotional-support duck, or some time to play with Lego? Believe it or not, these are all options being offered to grown adults at their places of work or study, to help cope with their supposed ‘post-election depression’.

In the aftermath of the election on Tuesday, the Guardian offered its staff extra counselling and support. In an email to employees, editor Katharine Viner said that the result was ‘upsetting’ and urged UK-based journalists to reach out and ‘offer your support’ to their US counterparts. ‘If you want to talk about it’, the email went on, ‘your manager and members of the leadership team are all available’.

The Collective – a ‘queer-owned’, ‘sustainable, vegan bulk refillery’ in Iowa – went further and shut up shop for the day after the election. This was to facilitate ‘a day of collective grief’, as explained in an Instagram post, ‘to protect our crew and to feel what needs to be felt’.

Universities across the US were also busy ‘feeling’ this week. Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania gave some students the day off. Classes were cancelled, cut short or made optional. Many exams and assignments were extended or rescheduled. At Harvard, the dean told freshman students over breakfast that they should ‘let [themselves] feel a bunch of emotions’.

Campuses have essentially been turned into huge, open-air therapy sessions. At Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington, DC, a ‘self-care suite’ was opened for students. This offered them Lego to play with, crayons for colouring and milk and cookies ‘in recognition of these stressful times’.

America’s Victory: Trump’s Win Saved America The American people gave Trump his victory because they saw that Trump’s triumph is America’s. By Bradley A. Thayer and Lianchao Han

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/10/americas-victory-trumps-win-saved-america/

President Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5 was an epochal event in American history. The American people gave Trump a mandate with almost 51% of the vote. He received over 73 million votes, more than four million more than his opponent. A new American coalition—traditional Republican voters united with lower middle class, working class, African Americans, Hispanics, and white women—provided the monumental victory. At such a significant time, it is important to consider how America arrived at such a historical moment and what must be accomplished in the years ahead.

Retrospectively, Americans must understand how they came to this place in their history. According to the exit polls, a whopping 72% of Americans understood that their country was on the wrong path. America’s political ideology, culture, and traditions were under assault by the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democrat Party. The Biden-Harris administration weakened the economy, caused inflation rates not seen since the 1970s, opened U.S. borders to some 15 million people and facilitated their relocation throughout the U.S. and so weaponized the legal system to wage lawfare against Trump, his major political and legal advisors, and against many of his supporters.

In the realm of foreign and defense policy, the debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the failure to deter the war in Ukraine, the horrific attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent wars it unleashed. Significantly, the Biden-Harris regime failed to deter Communist China’s hyper-aggression directed against U.S. allies like the Philippines and partners like Taiwan, and most importantly against the American people through the deaths of a quarter of a million of our fellow citizens from Chinese-provided fentanyl and the intellectual capture of so many of the American elite who parrot the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) policy positions to advance the CCP’s interests.

The deeper cause of how America arrived at this point is the embrace of Marxism by the Democratic Party and thus its increasing totalitarianism and alienation from the American people. In its embrace of this ideology, the Democrat Party demonstrated that it had completely become detached from the American experience, ideology, history, and culture in its effort to transform America into a one-party state on the road to totalitarianism. The American people saw this effort to continue the “fundamental transformation” of America—as Obama identified it on the eve of the 2008 election—and rejected it.