Flotsam and Jetsam - About Tuesday's Elections . . .

At ET, Democrats Win Key Races: 5 Takeaways From Election Day 2025 Stephen Kruiser at PJM wonders Brutal Night for Republicans... Or Was It? Ian Bruene @J_Von_Random, "Today in SHOCKING NEWS! Democrat Machine Cities infamous for electing (or "electing") socialists have elected socialists in an off-year that isn't even mid-terms where most states aren't even voting. OMG THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE IN HISTORY. The ONLY POSSIBLE cause is that people were offended by twitter arguments over the last few weeks. Some of you demonstrate such a lack of memory beyond the last five minutes and general cognitive absence that a court could, probably should, find you mentally incompetent to be a full citizen. Please endeavor in future to reach at least the mental capacity of your average blue haired SJW. You do this every off year election, it's gotten really fucking old." Good point. Dave Strom at Hat Hair VIP on What Does It All Mean? Todd of Mischief at (Dis)Missive, has Thoughts on Election Day 2025, "Democrats won their races, but not a referendum." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Mamdageddon and Other Thoughts on Last Night's Unpleasantness and says If Republicans Want to Cut Socialists Off at the Knees, Homes Need to Be Affordable Again. A Larry video at Hat Hair showcases JD Vance's Emergency Election Warning: How to Beat Democrats, turnout. From Fox, Trump cites 2 reasons for GOP losses as Mamdani, Sherrill and Spanberger soar to victory. VodkaPundit at Insty sees MORE PLAIN TALK FROM DATA REPUBLICAN: DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "It’s a *structural* problem. The machine which spends billion of dollars to employ tens of thousands of “civic engagement coordinators” can dominate low turnout elections. Nothing more, nothing less. The GOP has to accept this instead of taking any silly lessons away like “we lost because we didn’t compromise enough”" Quote Mr. Jefferson, HSD, AA, BA @Jeffers95742731 Replying to @DataRepublican "Ugh... Does this mean any thing for 2026 though? Or are these just barren Democrat wastelands?" DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican, "6,000+ jobs on Indeed for "grassroots." Are you getting it yet?" At WokeSpy claims Republicans Positioned to Keep House Majority in 2026, Targets Democrats as ‘Socialists’ in New Ad. Don't get cocky. The Bugscuffle Gazette says The Democratic Party knows what it wants "And deserves to get it good and hard." Insty, AMERICA, 2025: Leon Joseph @ofcrdeonjoseph, "The president who is supposed to hate Black people wants to save Black Christians being slaughtered in Africa."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Mamdani Victory Party Was Lit. PJM's Matt Margolis thinks Mamdani’s Victory Speech Was the Most Disturbing Since Biden’s 'Red Speech' at Independence Hall. Amy Curtis at TownHall, finds The Mamdani Line People Are Calling 'One of the Most Horrifying Quotes' Spoken by a Politician. Jason Howerton @jason_howerton, ""We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about." Genuinely one of the most horrifying quotes I've ever heard from a politician." Twitchy, Zohran Mamdani Just Delivered One of the Most Horrifying Quotes Ever From a Politician. Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla, "Mamdani had a CASH BAR at his victory party. If you can’t get a free vodka from this guy something tells me the free food and buses ain’t coming. Congrats, suckers." Silverloch notices Alex Soros Posts Photo With Mamdani After His Victory. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair says it's the Image of the Day: All Hail the Great Proletarian Triumph Over the Oligarchy, Comrades! VodkaPundit at Insty, WHY ARE WOMEN SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE WITH SOMEONE WHO WISHES VIOLENT DEATH UPON CHILDREN? Twitchy again, Young Women Go Full Orwell: Majority Vote for the Commie in NYC, Because Feelings Over Freedom Every Time. At Da Caller, Mamdani’s Socialist Org Makes Progress Flooding Local Offices With Radicals Across US Pop Times, Elon Musk Warns New Yorkers About the ‘Charismatic Swindler’ That is Zohran Mamdani. From NYPo, Muslim group with ‘deep’ terrorist ties huge backer of Mamdani campaign: documents. Ted Cruz @tedcruz, "This is what happens when communists win." Quote Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou, "Hasan Piker just went full mask off at the Zohran election victory party, declares it a tragedy that the USA defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War." AOC embraced him on camera just two minutes before he said this" Althouse finds Mr. Mamdani later told an ally that he had confided in his fiancée, Rama Duwaji, that he didn’t really think he could win." "The goal was to build a template for the kind of muscular leftist campaign that might one day crack the Democratic establishment’s hold. How that long-shot candidacy caught fire has been amply dissected by political observers here and in Washington. . . ." At Hat Hair, Chloe discourses on Mamdani, Socialism, Super PACs, and Political Violence. What Last Night’s Elections Really Mean (video). At Hat Hair, John Sexton cites Ross Douthat: Mamdani Is at the Top of the Cyclone But It's All Downhill From Here.

Dave Strom, Democrats: I Hope You Are Proud That You Elected Jay Jones. So, should we call him "2 bullets Jones, or just 2 tap? Matt Margolis, Virginia Elects Democrat Who Fantasized About Shooting Children. Mollie @MZHemingway, "As bad as Jay Jones is, knowing that my neighbors genuinely support him as AG while wishing death on Republicans and their children is far worse." Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Democrats realizing that they can run psycho candidates who want to kill Republicans and their voters won't bat an eye." From Ace, By Electing Child-Murder Fantasist and Cop-Murder Enthusiast Jay Jones, Democrats Have Chosen Violence, "At some point, they will succeed in convincing us that the path to political victory runs through rivers of blood, and won't that be fun." And Another Thing, All Democrats had to do was act normal. "They couldn't manage even that."

Dustin Grage @GrageDustin, "BREAKING: Jacob Frey has officially defeated Omar Fateh in the race for Mayor of Minneapolis. Minnesota of all places last night rejected socialism. There is still hope for the future."

Jeff Charles at TownHall, Chuck Schumer Just Pulled Off an Unprecedented Feat. Longest government shutdown in history. Dave Strom believes With the Elections Over, the Shutdown Will be Over Soon Too but John Sexton hears After Electoral Wins, Left-Wing Senators Want to Keep the Government Shutdown Going. Athena Thorne at PJM, says Touché, Lefties "Now that you got your election winnings, will you allow vulnerable Americans to eat again?" Adam Pack at Da Caller hears a Democrat Claims Some Federal Workers Want To Suffer Through Shutdown To Get At Trump, Van Hollen, likely true. From I&I, Here’s An Idea: Use The Shutdown To Privatize Air Traffic Control. Um, Maybe make the airlines pay to cost of the ATC system, but keep the money in a separate fund to avoid shutdowns. Ashley McCully at PJM sees a Local NC Farm Steps Up Amid Schumer Shutdown. Sundance at CTH hosts President Trump Delivers Remarks to Republican Senators During Breakfast at White House. From the Pop Times, Scott Jennings Embarrasses David Hogg, Flips the Script on His Shutdown Blame Game.

Capt. Ed hears Great News from ADP: Private Sector Hiring Increased By ... 42,000? But before we get too excited, have they fixed the manifest problems with the jobs numbers? Project Syndicate, Is Bessent Right About the Fed? From Fox, Trump gets apology from Canadian PM after anti-tariff Reagan ad backfires "The advertisement used Reagan's words to criticize Trump’s tariff policies toward Canada."

Driscoll at Insty cites ROGER KIMBALL: Time for a reckoning on the 2020 election. 

Pop Times reports a Fugitive Democrat Official Flees to Mexico After Elderly Fraud Charges. 

Ace, One of Biden's Inner Circle Had Four Million Reasons To Cover Up Biden's Galloping Dementia: A $4 Million Bonus if Biden Were Re-Elected "Mike Donnilon was one of the five people gatekeeping access to Biden, and hiding Biden in the basement, and running the government as Sundown enjoyed his 19 hours a day of "naps." He had reasons beyond mere partisanship to hide Biden from the world (and hide the world from Biden). His contract would award him $4 million if he successfully covered up Biden's dementia and defrauded the country into "re"-electing Biden."

Althouse thinks you should Listen to the live Supreme Court argument in the tariffs case, "Here, now." Sundance, Full Audio: Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Surrounding Presidential Tariff Authority. The Peacock infers Supreme Court justices appear skeptical that Trump tariffs are legal. They might be right, but I don't trust the Peacock's inferences. Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed believes Justice Jackson Is The Supreme Court’s Mean Girl. Shipwreckedcrew is the Lawsplainer: Ninth Circuit Judge Makes The Case That Calling Up The National Guard Is A Decision Left To The President -- No Role For Judges. "Appeals Court blocks the District Court's Order about Portland with unsparing language in a powerful counterpoint to the squishy approach of the Seventh Circuit to the same issues in Chicago." Mike Davies at Da Fed says John Roberts And Congress Need To Immediately Stop Gross Ethical Violations By Federal Judges. I think so too, but how? I don't see a process.

At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn reports the FBI Announces Arrest of Harvard Bombers and John Sexton hears Rep. Jared Golden Won't Run for Reelection, Citing Concern About Political Violence. From Politico, America is bracing for political violence — and a significant portion think it’s sometimes OK. "A majority of Americans think it’s likely a political candidate will be assassinated in the next five years." At JTN, GOP senators introduce legislation to codify Antifa terror designation "More than a month after President Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization, a group of senators is proposing legislation to codify the president’s executive order." It won't pass the filibuster, Antifa are the Democrat's black shirts. 

Atop Da Hill, Federal memo says cartels offering $10K for shooting at Border Patrol agents. Sister Toldja at RedState calls it a 'Game Changer': DHS Puts Masked Portland Wacktivists on Notice With Latest Announcement. The White House documents Criminal Aliens Receiving Medicaid.

Elon Musk @elonmusk, "Western Civilization is doomed, unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival." Quote Gad Saad @GadSaad, :A civilization is built on a set of internalized values. Numerous civilizations have developed radically different visions of how to organize societies, and these have competed in process akin to Darwinian selection in establishing which civilizational ethos permits for maximal flourishing. American exceptionalism is one such system and it has yielded the greatest society that the world has ever known. Suicidal empathy is going to destroy it because Western tolerance is its fatal Achilles tendon. Remember my words."

From the College Fix, Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing. John Sexton reports a Legal Challenge Overturns Scholarship Limited to Black Students in California.

Insty, QUESTION ASKED: Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians? "So there you have it: the feelings of white men matter more than the rights of black lesbians. That’s the takeaway from the mad fracas at a Gold’s Gym in Los Angeles this week, where a female gym-goer by the name of Tish Hyman says her membership was unceremoniously revoked. Her offence? She dared to complain about the presence of a person with a penis – what we used to call a bloke – in the women’s changing room. Women’s rights have been broken on the wheel of the trans ideology."

Still more links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.05.25 (Afternoon Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Will Continue garnering clicks at The Other McCain.