Flotsam and Jetsam - Some Thanksgiving Leftovers

Althouse is amused by Donald Trump, "Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail..." ""... because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!" Tweets Donald Trump." Stacy McCain, Happy Thanksgiving to All! "Well, how about Kamala as your alcoholic aunt rambling incoherently at Thanksgiving? We can afford to laugh at that, as we give thanks that our nation has been spared from the Kamala Harris presidency." We had a nice quiet, family Thanksgiving, including Turkey and the usual sides, and pumpkin pie.

 At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Evening Edition), Don Surber: The Trump presidency has begun – or should I say resumed? Bob Hoge at RedState, Winning: Trump Sends '70s Dance Hit Shooting Straight to the Top of the Charts. From Fox, White House reporters already 'exhausted' by second Trump administration "New York Times and Politico reporters spoke to Vanity Fair on the Trump transition." And he's not even in office yet. Gabe Kaminsky at WaEx, Trump transition will continue to run on private donors despite striking deal with Biden administration, and boy is the deep state pissed that he's depriving them of the easy opportunity to spy. They'll still spy, but it's harder. At NYPo, Mark Zuckerberg dines with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after pushing for meeting to discuss new administration: ‘Grateful for the invitation’. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Here's Why Mark Zuckerberg Had Dinner With Trump At Mar-a-Lago. Get back into his good graces. 

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Tariffs Work? Mexico President Pledges to Stop Migrant Caravans, but from NewsMax, Mexico's President Sheinbaum: Position Is Not to Close Borders and Blue Cities Finalizing Efforts to Thwart Trump's Deportations. At TownHall, Matt Vespa details how The 'Trump Killed the Bipartisan Border Bill' Talking Point Just Got Wrecked. Madeline Leesman at TownHall, Trump's Border Czar Is Already Visiting the Southern Border. 

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Evening Edition), Twitchy, Retired Admiral Asks Trump Voters If They Have Buyer’s Remorse Yet, and Congressman Says Mexican President Shows How To Stand Up To Bullies Like Trump, Louder With Crowder: Unhinged TikToker Vows To Spit In Trump Supporter’s Food During Thanksgiving, American Greatness, Trump Negotiates Deal With Mexico to Close the Border ‘Effective Immediately’, Kamala Reportedly Open to Run for President in 2028, Tom Homan’s Badass Message to Defiant Denver Mayor, Nearly a Dozen Trump Appointees Targeted With Bomb Threats/Swattings Overnight, and MSNBC Allegedly ‘Unaware’ of $500K Donation to Al Sharpton’s Group by Kamala Harris Campaign, The Federalist: This Year I’m Thankful For Kamala’s Delusional, Misplaced Self-Confidence, Trump Transition Team Is Rightly Wary Of Sleazy General Services Administration, Bidenflation Brings Price Hikes To Thanksgiving Feasts For Fourth Year In A Row, North Carolina County Board Knowingly Certified The Votes Of Seven Dead Voters.

'Becca Downs at TownHall, Oh Boy: Alexander Vindman Is Feuding With Elon Musk. At Twitchy, He Can Dish It Out, But Can't Take It: Chow Thief Alex Vindman Cries as Elon Musk Returns Fire. At Hat Hair John Sexton sees a Clash of the Titans: Will Elon Musk Target Soros-Backed DA's Next? I hope. From OTP, Musk Calling Out Federal Workers His DOGE Would Like Gone. At OTP, Biden Takes Swipe At Musk, Pledges $6B To Failing EV Rival Rivian. Steve Richards at JTN, Trump's Defense Secretary nominee Hegseth gears up to target Pentagon DEI initiatives. Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson, "Tell this story at scale and you will change the world forever." Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd "RFK Jr on How Bill Gates Had the Foresight to Buy Over a Million Shares of BioNTech Stock Before the World Found Out About the COVID Pandemic “The same week Bill Gates, who was overseeing the [Event 201] simulation, bought 1.1 Million shares of BioNTech vaccine which later."

Ben Averbook at Hat Hair, On Rogan: More Interesting Revelations About Things Trump Needs to Fix. Althouse, At "I must admit I had misgivings about Trump and his election denial after Jan. 6, but..." ""... Nancy Pelosi’s hijacking of the House’s special investigating committee shifted my perspective.... [W]hy did she have to overreach? It didn’t seem fair. And the ensuing lawfare waged against him only strengthened my support for him, and my feeling that there was nothing the opposition wouldn’t do to get him. . . Writes Maureen Dowd's brother Kevin, in "My Brother Is Doing the Trump Dance" (NYT)." At Da Caller, Trump Will Redirect Billions In Unspent Funds From Biden’s Climate Law To ‘Real Infrastructure’. Kevin Killough at JTN reports Trump plans to revive Keystone pipeline, but industry experts say Biden’s damage can’t be undone. "Even with presidential approval, reviving the project would mean restarting all the state, local and federal permitting process, obtaining right-of-ways, and enduring costly litigation from anti-fossil fuel groups."

From Responsible Statecraft On Middle East, will Trump follow his instincts or hawkish advisers? "Six key factors shaping Trump’s strategy in a second term." Speaking of hawkish wannabe advisers, Stephen Blank at Real Clear Defense, How Trump Can Win in Ukraine. 

Adam Turner at RedState, When the Polling Is Worse Than 'Damn Lies'. From TNP, The Polling is Way Worse Than You Know. Leading Report@LeadingReport, "BREAKING: With almost all votes counted, every state has shifted toward the Republican Party." Ron DeSantis@RonDeSantis, "We are on the eve of Thanksgiving and California still hasn’t finished counting votes.  Post-election day ballot “dumps” continue to net Democrat votes over two GOP incumbents. This may reduce the Republican majority in the US House to a razor thin 220-215. What a farce." Guy Benson at TownHall reads the NYT: Trump Destroyed Democrats' Expected 'Demographic Destiny'. Stacy McCain, warns Democrats: Please Do Not Listen to Advice From This Attractive Young Woman

All that is preamble to my praise of @Shoe0nHead. Back in the day — 10 years ago or thereabouts — I remember being a fan of hers on Twitter and sort of assumed she was a conservative, but in fact, she’s a kind of female Bernie Bro, a left-wing populist who hated Hillary Clinton for basically the same reason I hate John Cornyn, i.e., for being an unprincipled sellout. She no doubt strongly disagrees with me on most policy issues, but shares my contempt for “mainstream” politics and “establishment” politicians, and is hated by a lot of her fellow leftists simply because she tells the truth about such things. She did a post-election analysis of why Democrats lost that is so on-target that you simply must watch it:

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Evening Edition), American Thinker, Do We Still Have to Pretend the 2020 Election Was ‘Free and Fair’?

From Twitchy, GRAB YOUR POPCORN! Fox News Reports There's Chaos in the Democratic Party. Paul Bedard at WaEx has a Harvard shocker: Voters ‘abandoning’ the Democratic Party. John Sexton hears Some Democratic Billionaires Vow to Fight On, Others Are Giving Up. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, hears some Democrat Strategist Is Not Sold On Kamala 2028: ‘Please Don’t’. From WaEx, Harris’s postelection relaunch turns out to be a Thanksgiving turkey. Capt. Ed, Team Kamala Chair Goes Scooby-Doo: If It Weren't For That Darned Media ... The buck picks up speed as it passes by. Also at Da Wire, Top Kamala Aide Makes Shocking Excuse For Skipping Joe Rogan Podcast. "Even during the post-mortem of her campaign, the Harris people blatantly lie." VodkaPundit at Insty, HEH: Bill Whittle has gotten his hands on a pirated copy of the latest firmware update that the Vice President is currently running, and asks the question: what would Kamala Harris sound like if she were considerably smarter but still managed to speak without saying anything?

At NewsBusters, ‘The Right Thing to Do’: The View Urges Biden to Pardon His Son Hunter, naw, let Trump do it; I think he will.

Jeff Charles at RedState hears Democrats Are Royally Pissed Because Jack Smith Wasn't Able to Prosecute Trump Before the Election.

At Althouse, "MSNBC is a giant corporate propaganda operation to trick Democratic voters into voting for the most Republican candidate." "Said Cenk Uygur, "co-creator of the digital outlet the Young Turks (and a onetime MSNBC contributor and host), pointing to some "Republicans and lapsed Republicans on the channel, including" Joe Scarborough. Quoted in "MSNBC confronts viewer frustration, changes and an identity crisis/The network’s audience has declined since the Nov. 5 election, as viewers have tuned out. Its parent company is spinning it off. What happens next?" (WaPo)(free-access link)." and "A quick Bluesky primer: Content has a 300-character limit. Those entries are officially called posts, though some have taken to calling them 'skeets'...", "From "X is Elon’s world. Threads is a mess. Is Bluesky any better? The virtual town square, once framed by Twitter, is now fragmented as people flee to bluer pastures" (WaPo)(free-access link)." At Hat Hair Beege Welborn asks What Do Wile E. Coyote and MSNBC Have in Common?.

From Da Caller, America’s Largest And Most Expensive DEI Program Is About To Go Up In Flames. At TownHall, the Great Victor Davis Hanson thinks (hopes?) Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality. From the College Fix, Black teacher, students allege pro-Trump ‘harassment, racism’ — but have no evidence. At Not the Bee@Not_the_Bee, "Axios is here to tell us that the Pilgrims were evil but the replies make me thankful to be an American." NYPo reports Mass arrests at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as anti-Israel protesters block procession.

Hat Hair cites a Rasmussen Poll: 6 in 10 Americans Support Biology-Based Bathroom Access Policy on Capitol Hill. Teri Christoph at RedState, Sanity Prevails: Transgender Radicals Just Suffered a Massive Defeat in Ohio. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.27.24 (Evening Edition), Margot Cleveland at Da Fed, is enraged that the Biden DOJ Seeks To Gag Texas Doctor Who Blew Whistle On Child Trans Surgeries. Breitbart, J.K. Rowling Rips BBC Awarding Athlete Who Failed Gender Eligibility Test. From NYPo, Life of Agony singer detransitioning after curing his ‘gender dysphoria’: ‘Living in my divine male self.’