FBI Brass "Stunned" and "Shellshocked" By Trump Win

The FBI is one of our main "intelligence" services.

We are cooked as a nation unless Trump can fix things fast.

Apparently one thing they fear: That Trump will re-establish the fitness tests the fat-asses and man-tits canceled, and force their fat soft weakling asses out the door.

The brass on the seventh floor at FBI headquarters in Washington are walking around in a daze and wary of a housecleaning since President-elect Donald Trump won his reelection on Tuesday, according to inside sources.

The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior executives who run the agency were "stunned" and "shell-shocked" by Mr. Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

"You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?" the first FBI source said, referring to the agency's physical fitness requirements. "Everyone's going to have a real problem when they're running for the door."

Kerry Picket reports that not only are Christopher Wray and his deputy doomed -- the feeling is that Trump will fire him and not even let him use his precious FBI plane to fly him home -- but the entire top "leadership" of this corrupt institution will be fired, too.

Before you read this, make sure you're wearing loose, dry clothing, because you're about to be aroused.

Others on the 7th floor of the FBI are so concerned about their own jobs that they are likely to flood the Washington, D.C., private security job market, sources say.

According to most of the sources, no one in the FBI at a GS-14 level or higher is safe from losing their job after Mr. Trump is sworn in, and they fully expect the president-elect to "smash the place to pieces when he gets in," and that it will be a "bloodbath."

Former FBI whistleblower George Hill told The Washington Times that people in the agency say the current state of the FBI is "frazzled."

"I have friends still at the Bureau telling me that no less than 50 Senior Executives (SES) are scrambling to retire ASAP," he said.

Speaking of the FBI: They waited until after the election, of course, to indict an Iranian Republican Guard agents for plotting to murder our President-Elect.

The FBI sure didn't want to acknowledge before the election that Obama's patrons in Iran were attempting to interfere in the election by assassinating Obama's opposition.

Three people have been charged in an alleged Iran-linked plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, an Iranian-American activist and two Jewish Americans living in New York, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in New York.

Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt are charged with murder-for-hire, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Rivera and Loadholt have been arrested, while Shakeri, who the FBI described as an "asset" of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is believed to be in Tehran.

The IRGC tasked Shakeri with surveilling and killing Trump to avenge the death of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020, according to the complaint.

"There are few actors in the world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran. The Justice Department has charged an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran's assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald J. Trump," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the charges.

Fire.

Them.

All.

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Fake "Mainstream" Media's Four Year Long "Muh Democracy" Op Fails Spectacularly as a Majority of Voters Animated by "Saving Democracy" Voted for Trump

The media got excited when exit polls (which are hot garbage) showed that the issue that animated a plurality of voters, 36%, was protecting democracy.

This, they thought, must mean that Kamala's going to have a great night. After all, they spent four years pushing this latest hoax/psyop as the main argument against Trump and for a continuation of the Biden-Harris tyranny.

Some people pointed out that it was possible that many of those animated to Protect Democracy actually were voting against the left's censoriousness and literal jailing of political opponents.

I thought that some might indeed be voting that way, but surely, after four years of relentless propaganda and psyops, surely most people thinking about protecting Muh Democracy were brainwashed by the media, right?

Nope:

John Ekdahl
@JohnEkdahl

4 G*****n years of near blanket apocalyptic rhetoric about this issue by both the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, and they lose it. Just an astonishing self-own.

This is the ultimate humiliation, the ultimate show of the impotence and incompetence, of what some still gratingly call "the mainstream media."

They are not mainstream. Mainstream means "reflective of majority sentiment." They are plainly reflective of an extremist, minority sentiment.

WE the real, genuine Mainstream Media, and we should start saying so.

Do I trust the Mainstream Media?

You bet I do. I trust the Federalist, RCP, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, myself, you.

It's not just that "You are all the media" as Elon Musk said.

It's specifically: "You are all the mainstream media."

Of course, the Marxist Propaganda Media is now talking about creating their own "independent media." They're actually pretending that that the left has no equivalent ideologically-coherent media.

You know -- apart from ABC, Disney, NBC, CBS, the forced-taxpayer-funded NPR and PBS, MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Gannet newspaper group, etc., etc., etc.

So they're talking about 1, building their own new media to compete with ours, and, of course, 2, taking control of our media and censoring us so that we can't compete with them, and beat them.

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A Funny Thing

I want to make sure you all see this.

As you know, Michael Cohen appeared on Niccole Sourc*nt Wallace's show on Sunday, before the election. He announced he was getting a passport to flee the country in case Trump won.

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THE MORNING RANT: Post-Election Buck Shots

The election of Donald Trump as President is wonderful news, and I will have plenty to say about my expectations for his administration in dealing with anti-carbon regulations, the climate scam, EV mandates, woke capital, etc in coming months.

Here at Ace’s place, political discussions regarding “the horse race,” election results, polls, and such are usually not my lane, but with the excitement of Election Day still with us all, I am going to make an exception with some thoughts and observations about the results of the November 2024 election.

*****

“Trust me, I’m Lying”

Kamala attempted the “Trust me, I’m Lying” gambit re Israel’s war against its attackers, but it blew up on her, as that stategy often does.

Despite her rather open hostility to Israel and her clear support for those who mean to harm Israel, Kamala offered up a few insincere “wink wink” words of support to Israel.

In a post-October 7 world, Jewish voters weren’t fooled, and they abandoned her in record numbers based on her proven antagonism to Israel. Meanwhile, American Muslims didn’t understand that Kamala’s stated support for Israel was a classic, “Trust me I’m lying moment.” They believed her, and they withheld their support. Some cast votes for Trump, but there were also lots of protest votes to third party candidates.

Dearborn, Michigan is Muslim-majority. 88% of its vote went to Biden in 2020, but Kamala got only 36% of the vote in 2024.

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Hispanic South Texas Has Flipped Bright Red

The great Democrat hope of turning Texas blue always assumed Mexican-Americans would remain loyal Democrats, despite the party getting taken over by the Women of Whole Foods, with their radical agenda and their sneering contempt for blue-collar workers. Affluent, liberal, white women fetishizing Hispanic Texans as gender-fluid “Latinx” probably didn’t help either.

As recently as the 2016 Presidential election, all of South Texas, which is predominantly Tejano / Mexican-American, was solid blue, as shown immediately below.

But this week, Donald Trump swept nearly every South Texas county. More importantly he did sweep all the densly populated areas of South Texas. The four southernmost Texas counties, known as The Rio Grande Valley, all went to Trump, as did Webb County, which is home to Laredo.

Ponder this, Starr County in southernmost Texas is 97% Hispanic and went for Hillary Clinton by 60 percentage points in 2016 – 79% for Clinton and 19% for Trump.

But in 2024, Trump won the county, 58% to 42%! In eight years there was a 76% electoral swing in Trump’s favor.

*****

Expect the Left to Abandon the Flag Again

Several of the sterotypical Democrat AWFLs that I grew up with or am related to engaged in “Take Back the Flag” social media activism this campaign. I was fine with it, as I wish for the American flag to represent all Americans, and I’ve been saddened by the spitting hatred so many Democrats have had for the flag, especially as they rallied around the Kaepernick-era flag-hatred.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Girl with a Mirror
John William Godward

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The Morning Report 11/8/24

Good morning kids. You guessed it...

Open thread. Have a great weekend one and all. 😀

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Daily Tech News 8 November 2024

Top Story

• We've already seen AMD's latest chip, the Ryzen 9800X3D, demolish the competition (including other AMD chips) for playing games. But how does it perform for the kind of work I do, like running databases, compiling code, processing mathematical models? (Phoronix)

  For the geo mean of the more than 300 benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D surpassed the Core i9 14900K and landed just behind the prior gen Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors. Compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered 1.34x the performance.

  This is an 8 core CPU competing against Intel chips with 24 cores. Yes, the huge Phoronix benchmark suite compares both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads, but then I run a mix of single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks in my daily work.
  
  Its performance here is nothing short of amazing. 35% faster than the preceding generation is huge. I want one.
  
  
  
• And it's sold out. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Seems there was some pent-up demand out there; supplies are selling out as soon as they arrive in stores.

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I Do Solemnly Swear That I Will Faithfully Execute The Office Of ONT

Howdy folks! Anyone feel like we're living in a movie franchise?

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Red Wave Cafe

Edinburgh
by Ian G. Black

Sexy pug puppy.

Purse snatcher.

Workplace affair.

Booping the fox, if you take my meaning.

A nice little goosing.

Jaguar catches a tailfish.

Sharing is caring but hoarding is rewarding.

Hep dog.

Put the load right on me.

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Moar Quick Hits

Obama campaign manager David Plouff deleted his twitter account after blaming his disastrous loss on Joe Biden.

David Plouffe, a top adviser to Vice President Harris's campaign, has deleted his account on the social platform X following a post that appeared to criticize President Biden following Harris's loss to former President Trump this week.

Saying it was a "privilege" to work on Team Harris, Plouffe wrote Wednesday his fellow campaign staff members "left it all out on the field" as they tried to keep Trump from a second White House term.

"We dug out of a deep hole but not enough," he added. "A devastating loss. Thanks for being in the arena, all of you."

Plouffe's post was hit with swift backlash, with screenshots showing the comments sparking hundreds of replied and engagements.

By 10 a.m. EST Thursday, his account had been deleted.

The top Democratic strategist had suggested Monday that Harris could win all seven swing states. In reality, Trump won all seven, according to Decision Desk HQ projections.

Harris's loss, and that of both the Senate and, likely, the House, has left many Democrats dismayed about the party's future.

GOP lawyer Mike Davis threatens to "put [Tish James'] fat ass in prison" if she continues her lawfare against Trump.

Here's a video clip.

"I DARE YOU to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump [...] We're not messing around this time and we will put your fatass in prison for conspiracy against rights."

For context: I think James started this war of words by claiming she was getting ready to prosecute Trump through is presidency.

Which itself is more evidence that all of her charges are bogus.

Here's the trouble: Trump seems to be on the verge of the New York Court of Appeals overturning this charge. The judges were extremely skeptical of all aspects of James' felonious prosecution.

But government paper-pushers protect each other. If the Court feels that Trump is threatening a fellow bureaucrat, they can decline to overturn the charges, or just suspend them until Trump's out of office.

Yelling and blustering like the drunk guy in a bar feels good but it's usually not the best strategy.

Don't get me wrong; I do agree that Tish James is behaving illegally and is using her power to punish a political opponent. And indeed, she admitted as much in her campaign.

And it would be justice to do the same thing to her.

But it's not wise to threaten her openly as the justices debate the charges. Especially when you're on the verge of a huge vindication.

If you think liberal justices are going to just say "Well, they're both doing it, there's no harm here," then you have a different understanding of partisan liberal Democrats than I do.

Now, I look forward to the Trump Justice Warriors -- many of whom aren't even regulars, but "Monitors" keeping track of blogs who fly in to attack anyone deviating from the approved messaging -- telling me I'm a sell-out and that it's akshually brilliant 11-dimensional-chess to threaten an AG when you're on the verge of having the charges tossed because everything Trump does, or anything anyone connected with him does, is absolutely brilliant and it is our job to study the Sacred Journals and figure out exactly how wondrous this divine wisdom is even if it at first seems strange to us. No one is ever allowed to ever find fault with anything in TrumpWorld, before an election, after an election, or anywhere in between. We all just have to Praise Trump constantly. We must always self-censor and brow-beat people into repeating our preferred narratives, because that's how we show we're different from the speech-controlling SJWs.

By the way, in case you're thinking, why does ace get to say something, but it's wrong for us to contradict him: It's not wrong to contradict me. What's wrong is to come at someone who just made a calm observation with anger and personal attacks and accusations of betrayal and selling out or whatever. That's the problem -- not what you say, but when you say it with this unhinged emotional intensity at the idea that someone in the world, someone does not match your exact level of passion for Trump.

SJWs do this too -- it's not just that they tell you that everything you say is wrong, it's that they tell you OH MY GOD YOU'RE A NAZI FOR EVEN SUGGESTING THAT!

So just calm the fuck down, or express your important emotionally-charged thoughts elsewhere. I'm sick of it. I will ban you; I am tired of you stopping any conversations by screaming them down. It's not the disagreement; it's the unhinged girlish emotionality about every single tiny little thing, no matter how minor, that is the problem.

People hate the SJWs for telling them what they are required to say and what they are forbidden to say, and frankly, I hate the Trump Justice Warriors just as much, for the same reason.

If you feel attacked by this, if you think "gee I think he means me," then yeah I probably mean you, and you should leave. I have supported Trump throughout the race. I am not required to parrot back the words you want me to say. I am not required to put up with your constant abuse when I speak WrongThink. You don't own me.

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Quick Hits

A "teary-eyed" Nancy Pelosi at the Kamala Harris concession speech
She knows this is all her fault

George
@BehizyTweets

BREAKING: Kash Patel just announced that massive declassification will occur in Trump's Administration from the Epstein to the Diddy list. It's all going to be made public.

"He's going to come in there and maybe give them the Epstein list, maybe give them the P Diddy list and they are terrified."

We're going to need a declassification Czar at this rate. Trump will give us the JFK files, the MLK files, and every other thing they've been hiding from us.

Video here. Benny Johnson says this must be why Jimmy Kimmel was crying like a fat sissy-goonybaby last night.

I think I solved the mystery of Justine Bateman's current political stance: she seems to be a fan of Nicole Shanahan and was, I guess, an RFKJr. supporter. I'll take it! They're on the team.

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Dave McCormick Defeats Three-Term Incumbent Bob Casey to Become Next Senate's 53rd Republican Vote

53 votes isn't quite enough, though.

We need more votes. We need to be able to ignore Murkowski, Collins, McConnell, Cornyn, and Bill F'n Cassidy.

And Lindsey Graham. And John Thune. And James Lankford.

Good Heavens, our party is filled with nothing but Democrats who con the rubes.

Oh well, we won't get enough for that.

Unfortunately, CIA agent and Deep State ringer Slotkin defeated Mike Rodgers in Michigan, too. Supposedly.

And they called Wisconsin for Tammy Baldwin -- despite the Republican having more votes until the very end.

And, alas, Democrat Senator Rosen supposedly defeated Republican Sam Brown in Nevada. By something like 0.2%.

People say she only pulled ahead after a -- get this -- sudden dump of "ballots" after the election:

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Single Men! Unattractive Women Right In Your Neighborhood Are Waiting to Not Have Sex With You Right Now!

Nasty crazy sexual-basket-case femcels are threatening -- or, promising -- not to have sex with us because we voted for Trump.

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Ahoy, Liberal Suckers! Bill Kristol Makes New Grifting Pitch to Left-Wing Iranian Billionaire Donors: What We Need Is a Central Coordinating Hub for the #Resistance (and I Can Build That For You)

You didn't really expect him to get a real job, did you?

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NeverTrump has a problem: They failed catastrophically. There was no great secret pool of Liz Cheney Voters or even Nikki Haley Voters. NeverTrump has been selling its "services" to the hard left for nine straight years, promising that if you keep them in champagne and sailor suits, they can deliver the huge NeverTrump vote to the Democrats.

🚢 🚢 🚢 🚢 🚢

Well, they didn't deliver. And those left-wing Iranian billionaires are starting to wonder what exactly they're getting in exchange for their millions.

🚢 🚢 🚢 🚢 🚢

So Bill Kristol pivots: How about if you pay for an "informal but organized hub for the Trump resistance"?

And who would run such an informal but organized hub? Who would rake in the millions to establish such a venture?

Well, Bill Kristol doesn't say. But since he thought of this brilliant new idea, I bet he'd be willing to take more Iranian money to stand it up.

🚢 🚢 🚢 🚢 🚢

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Humor Break

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It Begins: Biden Advisors Tell the Press That the Defeat Was Caused by "Obama Advisors" Who Pushed Biden Out and Then Began Running "Outdated Obama-Era Playbooks"

Sure, this isn't the meanest stuff they can say, but this is just the opening.

Politico, which of course is just a mouthpiece for those Obama advisors, say that Harris (and her Obama Advisors) did nothing wrong, and that everything is Joe Biden's fault.

Okay, sure, most if it is Joe Biden's fault.

But the Obama Advisors and Harris were in charge of Harris's campaign, not Joe Biden.

But the momentum advisers insisted she'd built [during her convention] failed to materialize. She never sufficiently buried Biden's ghost, severely hamstringing her ability to sell voters on the idea that hers was the turn-the-page candidacy.

It happened, simply, because Harris refused to make a clean break from the last four years when voters indicated that's what they wanted. Worse, she hesitated to draw any daylight between herself and her boss on Biden's biggest vulnerability -- his stewardship over the economy -- nor identify any specific way her presidency would be different from his tenure beyond naming a Republican to her Cabinet.

Which was Harris's choice. But also, Harris couldn't "turn the page" on Biden's record. She was the tie-breaking vote on the fake "Inflation Reduction Act" that flooded the nation with fake dollars and spurred even greater inflation.

Was she going to take ownership of that and admit error?

Not hardly! Democrats never admit error! At most, they'll claim "our messaging failed to highlight how awesome we did."

Usually they just claim "the public is too dumb to realize how good they've got it."

And that is, indeed, an outdated Obama-era playbook.

Some close allies and even a few aides privately questioned why she continued to hold him so closely, particularly because her campaign didn't try to make extensive use of their record....

"We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president," grumbled one Harris aide granted anonymity to speak freely. "Joe Biden is the singular reason Kamala Harris and Democrats lost tonight."

Another Harris aide said it was clear Biden should have made a graceful exit much sooner, allowing Democrats to hold a primary they believed Harris would have won.

...

Even the advantages Harris' team had long boasted about -- its professional ground game versus Trump's band of MAGA activists and billionaire rebels, along with Democrats' perceived strength across the suburbs, were blunted. And inside the campaign, some elected officials and strategists had been warning that not only was their operation lagging, but it was being poorly run.

Every office she's ever headed has been disorganized, poorly run, and marked by high turnover rates because she's a nasty drunk who doesn't do her homework and then blames the staff for her failures.

Kamala's staff never Positions Her For Success.

...

And on Wednesday, Democrats were also starting to point fingers at Harris' data team. A Pennsylvania Democratic strategist, granted anonymity to speak freely, said that the Harris campaign predicted higher turnout in key counties such as Chester and Montgomery in the Philadelphia suburbs.

"This is looking like Robby Mook 2.0," the person said.

Mook was Hillary Clinton's campaign manager in 2016.

The article notes that Harris's campaign took Trump's campaign to be "unstrategic" and improvised, because that's what they saw in Trump's speeches. But in fact Trump's campaign was a team of killers quietly sticking daggers into them.

While Democrats led by the Future Forward PAC launched unprecedented spending into the battlegrounds with a focus on Harris as a middle-class warrior, Trump and his allies spent tens of millions on spots that left a more visceral mark -- such as those featuring Harris' support for providing taxpayer-funded gender transition-related medical care for detained immigrants and federal prisoners. Others captured her unwillingness to separate herself from Biden.

...

Core to Harris' pitch, and from which her tactical decisions flowed, was the idea that she represented the safer option.

That's why she spent so much time campaigning with Republicans and never-Trumpers; why she rhetorically draped herself in the American flag and relentlessly advertised her own middle-class upbringing while bombarding the airwaves with messages about Trump's dangerous economic policies. It's why she wanted to appear as the law-and-order candidate who was out to stop the country from being taken over by a convicted felon. It's why she didn't lean in on talking about the historic nature of her candidacy and nomination.

After the initial elation among Democrats settled, Harris began to face questions from the media -- and criticism from Trump and his campaign -- over her not sitting for interviews with major news outlets. It took Harris more than a month before she sat down for her first extended interview, and then afterwards only went on a few select shows and friendly media outlets.

Harris chose not to provide extensive explanation, or sometimes any rationale at all, for the gaping chasm between many of her past policy positions on everything from hydraulic fracturing (a huge issue in Pennsylvania) and clean car mandates (a big deal in Michigan) to providing citizenship to unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. She led with a "my principles haven't changed" approach that would have to serve as a catch-all.

Most around her supported the strategic decision, seeing it as "less is more" and contending that giving lengthy explanations would subject her to new questions from the news media and provide fresh fodder for Trump and Republicans to launch unrelenting attacks. However, it missed an opportunity to give off even the slightest whiff that she understood people might still have questions about how she could drift so far on issue after issue.

Let me make clear what Politico is trying to obscure: Harris chose a campaign of lying about her past positions, and her current positions, hoped to reassure the hard left that she still supported all of her insane San Francisco Progressive positions by not repudiating them and saying "My values haven't changed" (wink), and this very stupid and obvious deception was seen through by the public easily because while the public may not follow politics closely, they're not so stupid that they can't see through obvious lies.

But apart from that, Harris did everything right!

And other calculations Harris made at least internally seemed even riskier -- notably the refusal to separate from Biden, even after the president publicly offered her his permission to do so. Harris' aides during the campaign stressed that this was a line she was unwilling to cross, offering that doing so would undermine a litany of public statements she'd made about the president and blow holes in her own record of accomplishments in the White House.

"Bidenworld" responded to Politico's attempt to absolve Harris and Obama of any responsibility for the Harris-Obama disaster:

Josh Kraushaar
@JoshKraushaar

From Bidenworld: "There is no singular reason why we lost, but a big reason is because the Obama advisers publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn't even want Kamala Harris as the nominee, and then signed up as the saviors of the campaign only to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn't Obama"

Hopefully, that is just the beginning of the war of words and recriminations.

Biden, for very good reasons, hates Obama.

Just about an hour ago, Biden gave a short speech promising to cooperate with Trump on the transition. He looked and sounded the most refreshed and lucid he's looked in ages. (Probably because he's had a three month long vacation.)

Some might even say he appeared happy, almost giddy, that Kamala had lost and proven his theory that he only he could beat Trump.

President Joe Biden briefly addressed the nation on Thursday following the stunning election victory of former President Donald Trump, promising to begin the transition process and urged American's to respect the choice of the people.

"For over 200 years American has carried on the greatest experiment of self-government in the world," Biden said. "Yesterday I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory and I assured him that I will direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition."

"We accept the choice the country made. I have said many times, you can't love your country only when you win," Biden said. "You can't love your neighbor only when you agree. Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, is see each other, not as adversaries, but as fellow Americans. Bring down the temperature."

Biden also said he hopes the election results show that America's electoral system is sound and can be trusted.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Fiscal Responsibility is a quaint phrase that is bandied about by mendacious politicians to get votes from Low Information Voters who like the way it sounds. But it is nonexistent in the corridors of power, and there will be a reckoning eventually. At some point the debt service of the federal government is going to overwhelm every other demand for our tax dollars, and cuts will be made. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, defense, Tax credits, veterans programs and many more will be on the chopping block. Not federal pensions of course, because we are not savages, and the maintenance of the standard of living of our dedicated federal civil servants is the most important function of the federal government (need I say it?).

There are some rational ways to manage the monstrous federal debt (currently sitting at $35 trillion). The first of course is to stop spending. The first step would be an across-the-board halt to any budget increases. 0% growth of the federal government. Considering the ridiculous growth over the last several years has bloated every budget, that should be easy. But that won't fix the yearly deficit, which currently sits at about $2 trillion. Sure, we can grow ourselves out of that, but it will take a long while. Even assuming a decrease in that deficit in the coming years, the increase in the total federal debt will remain significant for many years.

Shockingly, there are a few positive developments on the horizon! Imagine Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy with authority over a few of the most bloated departments! Or RFK busily cutting divisions at the FDA! Or for that matter a few fighting generals controlling the defense establishment and refocusing our defense spending to actual fighting ability rather than teaching the Marines how to walk in 4" heels and a little black cocktail dress.

The opportunities for savings are literally everywhere, and all it will take is a president who is focused on the budget as a real, possibly existential issue for America. I do not think that Donald Trump is that man, especially since he has been successful in an industry that is dependent on and comfortable with large amounts of debt. But there is some spending that can be cut in service of his declared mandate to end much of the insanity of the federal government. That will be a good start, and hopefully he will get a taste for cutting!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Death of the Virgin
Andrea Mantegna

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The Morning Report 11/7/24

Good morning kids and welcome to the day after the day after. Hope you were reveling and bathing in the sweet tears of the lefties.

Outstanding podcast with the incredibly knowledgeable and insightful Dave in FLA. It's in the sidebar and at CutJibNewsletter.com

Open thread still. Reminds me of the Panhandler in the nyc subway seeking contributions to the United Negro Pastrami Fund. Perhaps it's time for the United Sefton laptop fund. A thread is a terrible thing to waste... But are they ever really wasted?

Have a great day and thanks for bearing with me.

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Daily News Stuff 7 November 2024

Top Story

• Who are you and what have you done with AMD?
  
  AMD promised the new 9800X3D would be 8% faster than the previous generation's 7800X3D and 20% faster than Intel's latest high-end chip, the 285K. Independent testing said otherwise. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It is 15% faster than the 7800X3D and 35% faster than Intel's 285K.
  
  The consistent theme of the reviews on YouTube is RIP Intel. Not something the struggling company needs to be hearing right now.
  
  To be fair, until now AMD's Ryzen 9000 chips have also been met with a resounding meh. But no longer.

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