Three weeks after the decisive electoral college and popular vote victory by Donald Trump, the hysterical reaction by a lot of liberal voices - in media, in office, soon-to-be out of office, and progressive advocacy groups, continue to dial the alarmist rhetoric up past 10 on the dial in a quest to reach Spinal Tap's 11.
This, of course, is Thanksgiving week. Holiday travel is expected to set records as Americans gather to reflect on the end of another crazy year and attempt to reconnect with family members, and show grace and thanks for all the good things in their life. It's a time to heal the rift that may have been caused by the election, or at least rip the Band-Aid off and have at it once and for all. Joy Reid, who apparently still has a show on MSNBC for now, is opting for the latter.
I actually know people quite well in my personal life who are terrified about the incoming Trump administration and what it will do to them. With some of the doom and gloom merchants, who have created a profitable niche for themselves in proclaiming every day that Donald Trump is the worst (insert noun here) ever in the history of the world, there will never be any reconciliation. Nor should there be. But to a lot of our fellow Americans who got caught up in the extremism peddled by the modern day Democratic Party, I remain optimistic that the coming Trump/Republican governing coalition will expand as the blinders from many voters who cast their ballot for Kamala Harris fall off.
You remember all the alarmism, right? Trump is Hitler. He's a fascist. He's an authoritarian. He's going to be the end of muh democracy. So much so, that you have to vote for Kamala Harris, who never ran in a primary, never earned a primary vote or a Democratic Party delegate in two consecutive presidential election cycles...for muh democracy. Here's White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre just before the election.
Now? Things have changed.
It's going to be a peaceful transition of power to Hitler, because that's what we do here. But let's break down just a few of the superheated rhetorical dire predictions made during the campaign compared with reality. On Trump's problem with women, the final act of billionaire Mark Cuban as official surrogate for Kamala Harris was appearing by remote video call to the View, and saying there's no way strong, intelligent women support Donald Trump. Remember this golden oldie?
Of the 30-plus picks President-Elect Trump has made thus far, 10 of them are strong, intelligent women.
This doesn't seem to matter to Human Rights Watch. Their narrative will not be changed.The chauvinistic, misogynistic @realDonaldTrump has appointed these 10 strong, intelligent women. Waiting for "I was wrong" mea culpa and kind words from @mcuban. pic.twitter.com/DhOeSiU7px
— Anonymous Girl (@RICHBICH) November 24, 2024
I don't know, but a third of Trump's incoming senior orbit being women makes it hard to claim he's going to destroy women's rights all over the world.
ABC News, before Trump had unveiled his prospective team, spent 5 minutes to warn what Trump is most likely to do regarding women's rights. Do you think you'll see five minutes, after Trump has women populated all through his government, retracting their gaslighting? Of course not.
Remember Mika Brzezinski having a meltdown on Morning Joe the week before the election?
I guess killing women means hiring them, because after the election, Mika went to Mar-A-Lago for a rap session with the incoming president.
Another super weird claim made by regime media was that Donald Trump was going to come for interracial and same sex marriages, outlawing both. The New York Times last Thursday continued fanning those flames.
Should Gay Couples Worry About Their Benefits Under Trump?There have been dozens of reports like this one in Iowa, both in local markets and nationally on the cable channels, gaslighting about the Trump effect coming for their marriages.
Readers had concerns about whether same-sex married couples and their protections would face new risks during a second Trump term.
Or, in the alternate universe called reality, you have the President-Elect nominating a married gay man with two kids to the most senior position in the U.S. government in history. Meet Scott Bessent, soon to be the Secretary of the Treasury.
The nomination of investor Scott Bessent as US treasury secretary is seen as a relief to Wall Street. His understanding of markets is expected to reduce the risk of severe tariffs https://t.co/FBYtRqCtZK pic.twitter.com/qqmktVot52
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 23, 2024
Yeah, but this is a token pick. There's no way these Christian nationalist radicals are ever going to accept a gay man to be Treasury Secretary.
Great catching up with fellow South Carolinian and soon-to-be Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. I’m looking forward to working with Scott and President Trump to expand economic opportunity for all Americans while once again holding our adversaries accountable. pic.twitter.com/wGhb1a6FTi
— Tim Scott (@SenatorTimScott) November 25, 2024
Huh. If there's anyone in the United States Senate on either side of the political aisle that wears his or her Christianity on his or her sleeve more openly than Tim Scott of South Carolina, I can't imagine who that would be. The only test for Trump picks is competency and willingness to do the job. With the now well over 30 selections, the obvious level of competency to do the job for which they were nominated is well north of 90%.
And speaking of the Christian nationalists, of which the left tried to tell everyone would staff the federal government, here's the religious persuasions of the list of nominees thus far.
Compared to Biden's cabinet, which did not have a single straight White Protestant, Trump's cabinet picks are far more religiously diverse. pic.twitter.com/BW6JJGxZGz
— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) November 23, 2024
First, compare this to Joe Biden's current cabinet, which features, checks notes, zero Protestant Evangelicals in it. Trump's list is a solid mix of Catholics, Jews, Anglicans, Hindus, Evangelicals, Muslim, and agnostic/unstated. Unlike what was predicted at hysterical levels, Donald Trump's cabinet is going to be ideologically diverse, religiously diverse, and gender diverse as well. Scott Jennings made that case to a CNN audience that still thinks the end of all things is near.
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who got bounced three weeks ago by Senator-Elect Bernie Moreno, sat down with CNN's Manu Raju. I'm not sure why this interview took place, because typically, you don't see something like this conducted with an outgoing senator who will not be part of the national discussion again for a very long time. Typically, you would see an interview with the guy or gal coming in to replace him. But Manu is working the connections he has, which all seem to have D's after their name for some reason, and this is what came out.
First off, Sherrod Brown spent the entire campaign season hiding from Joe Biden, because the President is toxic in Ohio. Once the Kamala Harris bait-and-switch occurred, Brown went from hiding to running away like Brave Sir Robin in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Now that his strategy didn't work, he begins the gaslighting anew by saying his election was close. It wasn't. The Ohio Senate election was called hours before Montana was for Tim Sheehy, and Sheehy's race was a lock for the Republicans as was the West Virginia seat for Jim Justice going into Election day.
I hate this map - it’s just a genuinely ugly map to look at. Mahoning County … gone. Delaware County … not there yet. Wood County … sorry next time. Monroe County at 70%+ 🤢. pic.twitter.com/RFQffZ5UBv
— polsmaps (@polsmaps) November 23, 2024
Close? I sure see an awful lot of red on that map, and Trump's version of Ohio was even redder. As for Moreno playing dirty, that's rich coming from the party that hamstrung Donald Trump during his transition in 2016 with the Russia hoax. Senator Brown traded in that stuff since Trump's first election forward. He still believes the President-Elect is a Russia puppet, and Moreno is a Trump stooge who doesn't pay his workers. Sherrod Brown helped write the dirty tricks playbook for the Democratic Party.
#OHPol: "Bernie Moreno was caught failing to properly pay workers the overtime they earned."
— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) July 9, 2024
Sherrod Brown's newest #OHSen ad attacks Moreno. The general election is up to $240M in total spending and reservations, making it the most expensive non-Presidential race this cycle! pic.twitter.com/RxC4SAiDl3
What's clear is that this interview begins Brown's campaign to run for the seat J.D. Vance is departing for the Vice-Presidency. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will appoint someone for the next two years, and then it's game on. Sherrod Brown is strongly signaling he is going to win a seat back again. Why? He's only known a public paycheck his entire adult life. The fortunate thing about Brown is he doesn't understand at all why he lost.
If Sherrod Brown is so delusional that even after the election he can't come to grips that the Inflation Guarantee Act that Brown voted for, and the one in which Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote, unleashing 9% inflation for the next couple years, shows he doesn't get what this election was about, and won't understand anytime in the near future. He's still gaslighting people about the evils of corporate America and price-gouging retailers.
For now, the majority of Americans see through this spin. They don't believe it anymore. How permanent that belief remains is entirely up to the incoming Trump administration and the Republican majorities in both the House and Senate. If they deliver, always a big if, Democrats will be on the outside looking in for a long time to come.
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