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The Trump election landslide this week, including the capture of the Senate and House, means a new morning in America. For Democrats, though, it’s just mourning in America.
Donald Trump’s 312-226 electoral vote wipeout dealt a soul-crushing blow to the Party of Joy. But this time, the Democrats can’t even fault the electoral college system that frustrates their power-grabbing ambitions, because Trump handily won the popular vote as well, by nearly 5 million votes. The Democrats have nothing left to blame but each other – and the finger-pointing recriminations started almost immediately as the Trump victory began to look inevitable.
Predictably, because Kamala Harris is a “woman of color,” the first j’accuse was directed at the nebulous forces of misogyny and racism. Democrat strategist David Axelrod declared on CNN early Wednesday morning, “Let’s be honest about this. Let’s be absolutely blunt about it… there is racial bias in this country, and there is sexism in this country, and anybody who thinks that that did not in any way impact on the outcome of this race is wrong.”
“You can never underestimate how, you know, racist and sexist this country is.” fumed hate-mongering West Wing actor/activist and white man Bradley Whitford.
MSNBC propagandist Joe Scarborough pointed out that the racism and misogyny that he believes undermined Harris came not just from white people: “A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates,” he asserted, and his guest, lifelong race hustler Al Sharpton, interjected, “And with other Hispanics!” Reverend Al added, “Some of the most misogynist things I’ve heard, going on this ‘Get Out the Vote’ tour, came from black men.”
Nothing triggers Democrats quite like minorities voting against their elitist overlords’ expectations, and Donald Trump drew a larger percentage of votes from blacks, Jews, and Latinos than any Republican president in forever. But Democrats won’t pause to ask themselves why they are hemorrhaging minority voters to a man they smear as Literally Hitler™; instead, they fall back on denouncing the defectors as race traitors.
The blame also fell on campaign messaging that missed the mark. The New York Times explained, “The issues the party chose to emphasize — abortion rights and the protection of democracy — did not resonate as much as the economy and immigration, which Americans often highlighted as among their most pressing concerns.” No kidding. That’s because the Democrat leadership cares only about pushing ideology, not about listening to the American people.
The Democrats even blamed hapless Joe Biden, who stuck them with his not-ready-for-prime-time Vice President as the candidate in the first place.
White House Press Propagandist Karine Jean-Pierre even told reporters on Thursday afternoon that Harris lost because of continuing frustration over the COVID pandemic.
Some progressives are now faulting actor/activist George Clooney for penning a New York Times op-ed calling for the decrepit Biden to step down. “This is all George Clooney’s fault,” one Democrat X (Twitter) user complained. Another wrote, “I would like to take a moment to thank George Clooney for shoving the most incompetent candidate down America’s throat to ensure a Trump victory. #MAGA.”
Speaking of celebrities, their post-election meltdown has been stunning to behold. Democrat mega-donor Barbra Streisand posted simply, “There are no words left.” Has-been John Cusack wrote in a since-deleted X post, “The fact that the country would choose to destroy itself by voting in a convicted felon rapist and Nazi is a sign of deep nihilism. To put it mildly.” Grammy-winner Billie Eilish posted the hysterical message “It’s a war on women,” over an ominous black background symbolizing dark days ahead for millionaires like her.
But guess what, celebs? No one cares. This election confirmed that the political influence of these pompous showbiz phonies is thankfully over. Kamala not only had every late-night talk show host in her camp, she also trotted out every Hollywood and music industry star she could lasso to help boost her chances, and all they did was alienate even more Americans. No one but Democrats cares anymore what Bradley Whitford or John Cusack or the classless rapper Cardi B thinks. Anyone who takes his or her voting cues from the likes of Mark Ruffalo or Billie Eilish or even Oprah Winfrey simply is not a serious human being.
ESPN host Stephen A. Smith, a Harris voter, blasted such celebrities and media mogul Oprah in particular, who told her audience that if they don’t vote for Kamala they will never have the opportunity to vote again:
In the end, celebrities, who are worth hundreds of millions, if not billions, who most American citizens feel are incredibly detached from their way of life and their quality of life, were not going to get away and guilt them into doing something different than what their experience says is going on and what they should do about it.
Democrat strategist and CNN contributor Julie Roginsky came closer than most on the Left to identifying the Democrats’ problem when she said Thursday on CNN’s Newsroom that her party cannot speak to “normal people” and is “not the party of common sense.”
Lifelong Communist Sen. Bernie Sanders edged even closer than Roginsky to the truth by being willing to tell his fellow Leftists, “It’s not just Kamala. It’s a Democratic Party which increasingly has become a party of identity politics, rather than understanding that the vast majority of people in this country are working class.”
Trump’s electoral red wave feels like a tragedy to Democrats, but the real tragedy is that, outlier self-critics like Sanders and Roginsky aside, they are very unlikely to learn the real lesson from their election loss. Instead of wallowing in the blame game, they need to (but won’t) see this as an opportunity for introspection and self-examination. The issue is not their messaging but the radical policies and ideology at the core of the Democrat Party. If they want to win American voters over, the Democrats don’t need to find more effective ways to sell socialism, equity, “anti-racism,” Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, open borders, gun confiscation, DEI initiatives, slavery reparations, Big Tech censorship, globalism, environmental alarmism, anti-Americanism and antisemitism – they need to jettison those corrosive, divisive, false ideas altogether.
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I think that G W Bush helped Obama get elected. Obama, in turn, helped Trump get elected. Who knows how Biden got in there, but the Biden Harris team helped Trump get re-elected. They certainly didn’t help themselves any.
Call me crazy but that’s my theory.
Okay, you’re crazy! Given that Obama & Bush are cousins, the scenario you give is plausible. But why in the wide wide world of sports would Obammie-boy help Trump? That’s inconceivable!
Joe Biden, on the other hand, is living proof that every once in a blue moon, a demonstrable dumb ass gets lucky.
Oh no, I didn’t mean they intentionally helped their successors. The Iraq war helped Obama get in. Obama’s policies and wars helped Trump get elected. And the Biden era helped Trump get re-elected.
That’s all I meant.
By the logic, Carter was the reason Reagan got elected, George HW Bush was the reason Bill Clinton got elected and so on and so forth. I just hope that Donald J Trump is the reason JD Vance gets elected president in 2028!
The Biden era was illegitimate and should’ve never happened but that’s water under the bridge now. Time to look forward but vigilance demands that we look back every so often to see who’s trying to sneak up behind us.
That was clear.
Government incompetence is a worldwide phenomenon and that’s what helped biden too. Lockdowns, masks, social distancing, dangerous vaccines.
True and government incompetence is as old as the oldest professions on earth: politics and prostitution but I repeat myself.
I think farmers may pre-date prostitutes but don’t quote me on that.
Crazy? no. Blind. Unless you are joking.
These are tantrum-throwing adults who cannot grasp how absolutely asinine they act and appear to the rest of us. How readily they morph into rabid dogs easily turning into the most hideous people and then justifying their violent, eviscerating actions toward the very groups they say they champion. In actuality, they are a monstrous, merciless lot whose addictive desires for power and obsessive control over e
others mandates that their followers live in a thoughtless state of perpetual adoration and obedience. For their manipulated minions struggling with real life issues and hearing elsewhere there are others with thoughtful ideas and solutions for those problems, they began quietly questioning their political masters erudition. Since these authoritarians can NEVER understand their constituents questioning their sacrosanct authority, any rumblings heard from them they deemed easily quelled back into submission by astutely using the national media to transmit their propaganda. However, this time there was X and other accessible, alternative media where truthful information and stark rebuttals to their lies and willful deception rode across the internet energy like a wildfire. There was a chink in the Matrix and those formerly sleepwalking in suffering, for which there seemed no end, opened their eyes! As light began infiltrating this darkness the authoritarians doubled down in their attacks. They tried everything to solidify their power but people were attending rallies and hearing great ideas and finding out that their skin color, ethnicity, income, education, backgrounds and their fears of rejection and judgment were non-existent and they were welcomed! The rafters echoed with Make America Great Again and on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Americans made known, IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, that the precious gift of freedom resides in the citizens right to vote…and vote we did and the map turned red!! The masters chains were broken and for them this is just too painful a reality to face.
A MAN AT THE GYM was going up to everybody and telling them to not for a narcissist. “I’m a psychiatrist and I know Trump is one.”
He came to me… I said, “Do you do this to waitresses, talk to the cooks to poison the food of Trumpers, then talk to the patrons, people on the street, to everybody? You’re a psychiatrist so what’s the diagnosis for a person who is doing what you are doing? I know it’s a very serious illness!” He walked away.
The day after, I went up to him, “Do you need a psychiatrist? OH WAIT, look in the mirror and see a psychotic that has a serious case of TDS, that’s Trump Derangement Syndrome!” I then showed him a photo of me next to Trump’s right shoulder during the Albuquerque rally. “Trump! Trump! Trump!” He was pissed, “See, I proved my TDS point! Where do I send the bill?” People that heard it were laughing.
I would so like to buy you a few beers, sir.
Send him a bill? I think you should send him a pill. He’s probably on drugs anyway.
Tapson mentions a lot of so called celebs who Kammy thought would make the difference. Since they didn’t I can only think of one guy who does.
Frank Zappa famously said “Shut up and play yer guitar.”
The “music” of Frank Zappa (Titties and Beer, The Illinois Enema Bandit) is GARBAGE, I’d rather listen to the moron Bad Bunny than to Zappa.
In fact we now have the moron Bad Bunny and the prostitute Cardi-B because Zappa, Elvis, Hendrix, Joplin, etc., prepared the ground for them.
I got a kick outta “Valley Girl” for it’s amusing intro of those odd idioms. (Also shown on Robert MacNeil’s “The Story of English” video series.)
Other than that, I couldn’t name a single album or song that I know of.
Poor T.
No one gives a crap if you don’t like Zappa. Anymore than they don’t give a crap if you don’t like Hendrix or Zeppelin or any other great rock band. Maybe Peter Paul and Mary are more your speed.
I know, How about Glen Miller or is he too much for you too. I figure he is about all your delicate constitution can handle.
How completely effed up are you? BTW I never cared for Zappa’s music and that’s not why I mentioned the title of that song. But you are too stupid to get it. You never were that bright.
Impossible. Peter Paul and Mary sang many great covers and created their own winners. Thx would never go for that.
I bet is he prefers polkas.
Probably not. A polka would mean having get up and dance and I don’t that is part of THX’s personality
I love polkas. A lot of Johann Strauss Junior’s pieces are polkas and he’s my favorite. My brother and I used to watch “The Lawrence Welk Show” when we were kids and my mother hated it. She let us watch it because she was lazy but she really didn’t like that show.
Who doesn’t like polkas? They remind you of beer and kielbasas.
I may stick to Haydn and Mozart for my piano playing pleasure, but for listening, I always enjoyed PP&M. Nevertheless, I absolutely cannot resist a polka. Must have something to do with being a Pollock.
For the record,
Glenn Miller was among the greatest jazz legends in history.
I would have thought “Dumb All Over”s repudiation of religion would have been your theme song.
Someone who clearly is not familiar with the music of Zappa. And probably equally unfamiliar with his political activism.
“Titties and Beer” is funny.
And Cardi B is a slut but she looks pretty good to me. Hell, if it weren’t for sluts, I’d probably never get laid, so I appreciate her.
Other reasons that Cackle’s celebs bombed is Bruce played a tired version of “Dancing in the Dark”, nearly lulling the mob to sleep.
They pulled a bait & switch with Beyonce, and the anger was palpable.
Cardi B is such an idiot, she was lost until a staffer rushed her a phone and she read her speech directly from it.
With Cackles, her crowds were exited to see the celebs; not her. (Her rallies would’ve collapsed if she wasn’t busing a fleet of attendees around.)
With Trump, the crowd was there exclusively to see Trump.
So you’re right. The pampered celebrities didn’t bouy her campaign . . . if anything they embarrassed it.
It wasn’t that long ago when entertainers were regarded as nothing more than professional fools and clowns and thus never to be taken seriously. But these days? We’re easily influenced by overpaid fools and clowns. Many of whom are high school dropouts.
This is what happens when there is no set baseline standard of what is and isn’t acceptable. It’s a direct consequence of tolerating liberal hedonism no matter how degenerated or depraved it becomes. Shame on us all.
I await the attacks for expressing this truth.
Who would attack you for expressing this truth? Only another fool of the sort you describe, and who would listen to them on this forum?
Bradley Whitford? Didn’t know who he was but his face looked familiar, and no wonder, he played Al Pacino’s nephew in “Scent of a Woman”.
A movie I’ve seen only about a hundred times. One of the greatest movies EVER!
The tango scene has to be the greatest scene ever of any movie in movie history.
You definitely have an aversion to the present. Scent of a Woman? Really? So what did Scent of a Woman prepare the ground for?
Actually, I think any Victoria Cakes movie beats that one.
I feel badly for these snowflakes and prancing antelopes as they cry and scream in the face of reality. The leftist mind set is apparently not very strong. A total inability to cope with a cloudy day? Emotionally weak, over protected, mentally debilitated……..? Who knows?
But then I’m a fascist, Nazi, piece of garbage….what do I know?
I have a solution for those democrat crybabies. I’d like to offer them free expedited packing services. My business motto is: “If you really are going to leave, we’ll pack your sh*t for free! Just call 1-800-NOW-GTFO”. That’s 1-800-NOW-GTFO.
The litany of anti-American, anti-freedom, and anti-human “values were certainly a death song for the Dems, at least among citizens with common sense, but their wish to dissolve many elements of the Constitution was, and should be going forward, the shovel that buries them.
Schadenfreude! Just loving it!
Much more more anguish, hair pulling and despair ahead for the left means there is more fun to come!
Tapson writes, “If they want to win American voters over, the Democrats don’t need to find more effective ways to sell socialism, equity, “anti-racism,” Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, open borders, gun confiscation, DEI initiatives, slavery reparations, Big Tech censorship, globalism, environmental alarmism, anti-Americanism and antisemitism – they need to jettison those corrosive, divisive, false ideas altogether.”
But if they did that, they’d be Republicans.
Would someone please explain what is “black” about Kammie?
Her elders. One was a slave owner; her mother at the top of India’s caste system.
My Scandinavian 1900 immigrant ancestors were northern WI loggers. WHAT did they have to do with slavery?
Kammie has more to report for. More to explain.
Kammie. Offer your reparations. I owe nothing. I am not interested.
Kammie. Go away…
Well said, Gabrielle
Here is the fundamental problem I have with all these people now “seeing the light”. Don’t believe them!!!! They were ABSOLUTELY ALL IN on forcing the Democrat Party’s message and ideology down Americans’ throats. This loss is not changing their ideology – they still believe that their Party has all the “right” values – they are just acknowledging that their messaging was bad. They suck now, they will always suck, and most importantly, they will always be dangerous.
Their party should have been disbanded and outlawed in 1865, but unfortunately one of them murdered the President and chaos followed. What a terrible pity Lincoln’s premature death was in so many ways!
I stopped in Barnes & Nobel and asked the gal at the desk if she had Trump’s new book about how he’s going to deport all illegals? The purple haired employee snapped, “get the hell out and don’t come back!” I responded, “Yes, that’s it. Do you have it in paperback?”
You know, black chicks look hot with purple, pink, maroon or brown and blonde mixed hair but white chicks don’t. Skin tone matters.
Sebastian Gorka: “Democrats haven’t been this angry since Republicans took away their slaves.”
WTF? He stole that from me!
I said that the first time to my mother in a hallway in a movie theater after I saw that “Lincoln” movie. Greensboro North Carolina. I said “those Democrats sure were mad when they had their slaves taken away.” A black couple walking behind us heard me and laughed their asses off.
That was years ago. Great minds think alike, I suppose.
You stole it look at all the strange things that happened. You want evidence trump won every area where there is Walmart. Musk stole it using AI. Trump hypnotized people with that goofy dance. You know it. Big steal.
That’s about as derperiffic as possible. Seek therapy.
The M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and Gutter Dwellers the Media Snakes have bit themselves and are dying from the Four Years if Anti-Trump venom and their getting what they dished out their own Leftovers