Saturday, November 9, 2024

A Change has Come


I unashamedly confess to never being prouder -- or more surprised -- than I was Tuesday when voters overwhelmingly rejected four more soul-deadening years of evil.

I had all but given up on the grand American experiment in self-governance. But today, I am prouder than ever of its people, who unmistakably chose good over evil at the ballot box.

Before expounding further, however, I must warn against resting on our laurels. The same people who despise Donald Trump, who employed every devious means to destroy him, who even tried to kill him, are still with us. And, if anything, their rage is greater now. On Election Day America won perhaps its greatest battle since Midway. But the battle won, the war continues.

Nevertheless, I actually feel the pain of the leftists and the woke and the Marxist fellow travelers, who today agonize over the election results. As vote-counting began, I too was in the depths of depression, resigned to Kamala Harris defeating Donald Trump and all the horrors that were sure to follow.

It was excruciating, but I figured a holy God certainly must have had enough of our land, where 70 million babies have been murdered in the womb, where sexual depravity has been elevated to a faux constitutional right, where Marxist ideology has supplanted Christian morality. Where despotic tyrants run the government, oblivious to the true human rights they trample. Who am I to dispute God’s judgment against such evil?

God surely had seen enough, I grudgingly told myself. I braced for His judgment to arrive in the form of a Democratic Party landslide. I’d prayed for months for His mercy rather than His judgment. But I understood God is sovereign, and my meager desires aren’t about to change His mind. What he desires shall come to pass. And America circa 2024 certainly didn’t take Him by surprise. Just as certainly, we deserve His wrath. 

As votes were counted, I truly already felt the pain. Then what God always had intended from all eternity past came to pass. Mercy for a nation of fallen sinners. Praise the Lord!

To God all the glory, for sure. But the Lord uses people to bring about worldly blessings, and on Tuesday last, He used 72 million of them to turn my feared Democrat landslide into an historic Republican rout, returning the wrongly persecuted Donald Trump to the White House, along with majority control of both houses of Congress.

My every prayer for the election was answered, save for California, which for some reason God chose to leave largely in Satan’s hands. But He’s sovereign, and His ways are not our ways. After all, He allowed the Biden White House to wreak havoc for four years. His reason? Perhaps to persuade Americans of the difference.

The election upshot was glaringly apparent even to the unlikely: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” said socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who votes with Democrats.

Nevertheless, despite a mainstream legacy media slavishly faithfully to the Democrats’ party line, despite a unified assault on normalcy by the woke and nearly every recognizable name in the culture, despite a multitude of “practical” reasons to go along to get along, people still rejected the message.

Despite all those elitist voices demanding we fall in lock step with the long march to woke-Marxist utopia, what prevailed decisively -- and overwhelmingly -- was Common Sense, rooted in good old-fashioned conservative Christian values. I’m ashamed now that prior to the counting of votes I short-changed my fellow Americans’ ability to sift common sense from the extravagant promises of collectivist ideology.

A healthy majority of voters recognized the options were starkly different:

The Democrats’ way: “This is what we demand people do.”

The peoples’ way: “This is what we demand government do.”

Big loser: government that wants people to be its subjects.

Big winners: people who want government to be their servant.

Harris refused to explain how she would differ from President Joe Biden. Consequently, she was unsurprisingly incapable of persuading voters that she would not repeat his authoritarian tyrannies, from lockdowns to censorship to the weaponizing of every branch of the federal government from the DoJ to the EPA.

Moreover, Harris is ignorant of how economics work and advocates harmful central planning. Hallmarks of Marxism.

Still, President-Elect Trump needs to review his own history. On winning his nearly impressive first term in 2016, Trump naively underestimated how imbedded and aggressive the deep State would be in sabotaging his administration. This time, completely ridding his administration of swamp creatures must begin on Day 1. To counter Biden’s executive orders to “Trump-proof” the federal bureaucracy, creative management might be employed. Transfers to a desk job in Guam?

Richard Nixon lost a bid for the presidency, like Trump, then won election eight years later. But Nixon ignored the fact that those who wanted to be rid of him were still around, still in power. They eventually got Nixon with a conspiratorial prosecution for Watergate, arguably a Deep State conspiracy that saw former CIA operatives likely self-destruct in a second-rate burglary. The Deep State brought Nixon down, make no mistake about it. It’s all documented in Geoff Shepard’s books.

It’s time the Stupid Party wise up too. While our prayer is that Trump learn from his mistakes, such as thinking lifelong bureaucrats would have his back, so too must the Republican Party learn from its, such as ignoring interests of people they represent. If the GOSP (Grand Old Stupid Party) doesn’t learn, the people they betray will leave it, and a grand opportunity will be missed.

Meanwhile, voters should note our own lesson from Tuesday’s political miracle. Columnist Gary Bauer advises: “Unless we’re ingrates, we need to be Christian citizens to save America. We also need to fervently pray. God helped David to defeat Goliath. But there still needed to be a David to go and fight the actual battle.”

I’ve thanked God almost hourly since Tuesday for answering practically every word of my prayers leading up to the election. Now, let’s see about California, hm?



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The Woman in the Empty Suit


On August 23, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris took to the stage at the United Center in Chicago to officially accept the Democratic nomination for president. She looked the part and was wearing her usual uniform: a bland suit and understated jewelry. This time, she skipped the $60,000 necklace she wore during her only visit to the U.S. southern border. 

In the lead-up to her remarks, DNC volunteers rushed to give delegates and attendees American flags to wave aggressively during her remarks. Moments before Harris took the stage, volunteers appeared with extra large flags and stood in the entry points to the arena. That Monday, when Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accepted his nomination as the vice presidential candidate, convention goers received a camouflage ball cap with "Harris-Walz 2024" embroidered in hunter-orange letters. Symbols they had viciously vilified as signs of white nationalism, colonialism and toxic masculinity for years. 

It was all a big, phony show. Just like the rest of her campaign would become. 

In the lead-up to the DNC, Harris aides anonymously told their allies in the media that the vice president's far-left, radical policy positions and record as the most liberal U.S. senator had changed. She was no longer in favor of banning fracking, taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants and prisoners, eliminating private health insurance and much more. 

This lying and inauthenticity only got worse as she traveled the swing states in hopes of convincing voters she was the woman for the most important job in the world. 

Staged visits to a gas station, the home of supporters and a phone call in a campaign office backfired.

And when she started stealing Donald Trump's policy ideas, like no tax on tips, she was mocked relentlessly. Even "Saturday Night Live" got in on the joke. 

Despite these efforts, Harris was exactly who she had always been, an admission she made during a rare interview with CNN.

"My values haven't changed," she said.

In the final week of the campaign, Team Harris projected the dishonesty of their nominee on voters and made things personal. 

"A political video reminded women that they can vote for Vice President Kamala Harris without telling their husbands," NBC reported. "The video, which began circulating last week, opens with a woman about to enter the polling booth after her husband, looking nervously back at him before she makes her choice. She locks eyes with another woman as they fill out their ballots for Harris."

Americans from all walks of life and backgrounds saw right through all of it — the flip-flopping without explanations, the divisive tactics – and viewed the act for what it was: disrespectful and disqualifying. They voted for former President Donald Trump, giving him a historic, landslide victory and mandate. 

Kamala Harris is a woman in an empty suit, and the American people know a phony when they see one. 



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Laughter Might Be The Best Way To Respond To 2024’s Amazing Election Results


Nobody should feel sorry for the wretched degenerates who trafficked in the most poisonous political lies of our lifetime



At times like this, it’s tempting to gloat, but conservatives must be gracious winners. We must be courteous to our defeated opponents even though they would not have shown us the same respect had Kamala Harris won. We must resist the temptation to revel in their misery.

With cordiality and sophistication in mind, I’ll use the most dignified analogy I can think of in describing what Democrats are going through at this very moment. When I was in fifth grade, some kid pooped himself while doing pull-ups in gym class. He was mortified. I’ll never forget the look on his face. For more than 30 years after that moment, I never witnessed that level of humiliation again — but then on Nov. 5, 2024, something happened. 

After surviving two assassination attempts and a barrage of propaganda and hoaxes from the Democrat Party, what President Donald Trump did to Democrats on Election Day was the equivalent of slipping them a laxative an hour before a hot yoga class. 

As the night unfolded and it became clear that Trump would be the 47th president, smug grins gave way to denial, and then to hysteria. Like that poor bastard hanging from the pull-up bar with excrement running down his legs, talking heads on MSNBC and CNN began sweating bullets as panic set in, silently chanting to themselves “No…no! This can’t be happening!” 

Oh, but it is happening. 

I feel a sudden change of heart coming on. Maybe it’s because my wife and I have a toddler, but as I continue to write, it’s becoming difficult to restrain my inner child. Instead of staying above the fray with my high-minded excretory analogy — just this once — I must give into temptation and feast at the trough of puerile slop with the other hogs. 

HA HA HA HA! 

On second thought, nobody should feel sorry for the wretched degenerates who trafficked in the most poisonous political lies of our lifetime, including the regime media, Joe Biden, Barack and Michelle Obama, Liz Cheney, Tim “Jazz Hands” Walz, and the cackling dope at the top of their ticket: Kamala “I’m Speaking” Harris. They deserve our scorn. 

It is perfectly acceptable to point and laugh at these people. In fact, I insist you do. They are tyrannical, destructive, self-righteous, compulsive liars who deserve mockery after their demoralizing defeat. Their zealotry puts our civilization at risk. Their open borders caused the brutal murder of children and many others while compromising our national security. Their ghoulish transgender ideology sexually mutilates and sterilizes children and adults. Their degradation of our military emboldens autocrats and terrorists the world over. They siphoned money from our coffers to defend the borders of other nations while ours remained wide open.

They funded the Taliban. They chauffeured migrants into the country on airliners and upended the culture of entire towns by dumping tens of thousands of foreigners into their laps. They propped up a cadaverous Joe Biden and lied about his senility. They muzzled American children with useless masks and tried to force us to inject an experimental substance into our bodies under threat of losing our jobs, all while they crowed about bodily autonomy.

They called us garbageNazis, and white supremacists. They called Trump a fascist, Hitlerian dictator. Democrats’ incessant lying has contributed to a wave of mental illness among their own voters who remain trapped in the throes of a terrible delusion, high off media propaganda like Hunter Biden doing rails in a White House bathroom. 

Because of all this and more, it is our duty to celebrate. We are the moral victors. President Trump’s win has many implications, but above all, it means the legacy media have officially lost their grip on this nation. They are gatekeepers no more, and nobody should feel guilty about indulging in their defeat. 



Pentagon Officials Are Already Conspiring Against Donald Trump


Bonchie reporting for RedState 

Stop me if you've heard this before. Officials within the United States government are conspiring against Donald Trump to undermine whatever decisions he may make. It might as well be 2017 again. 

According to a new report from Natasha Bertrand, who was such a purveyor of the Russian collusion hoax that she was nicknamed "Fusion Natasha" after Fusion GPS, Pentagon officials are coordinating how they'll respond if Trump orders U.S. troops to assist with illegal immigration:

Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.

....

“We are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that we don’t know how this is going to play out yet,” one defense official said.  

Trump’s election has also raised questions inside the Pentagon about what would happen if the president issued an unlawful order, particularly if his political appointees inside the department don’t push back.    

“Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?”

The bureaucracy truly lives in a world unto itself. Those who inhabit it believe they have the innate right to override elected officials despite the powers in question being designated to those elected officials. There should not be any "informal discussions" about how the Department of Defense will respond to orders from Trump because the only right answer is to obey them. 

It is not illegal for troops to be used to help secure the border, for example. The border is specifically designated as a federal responsibility. Using troops to help carry out deportations would also not be domestic "law enforcement" as the article describes. Just because someone makes it into the United States, that does not mean they suddenly aren't subject to the federal laws they broke. Further, the use of troops under the Insurrection Act to quell violent protests, another possibility mentioned in the article, has a long-standing precedent. 

Any officials who are conspiring to do anything but carry out orders given by the president should be fired immediately. The American people aren't doing this for another four years. They are sick of overpaid, underworked bureaucrats pretending voters don't matter. Of course, government officials are already looking to circumvent the possibility of being fired as well. 

“My email has been inundated on this topic,” one defense official said of Schedule F. “Definitely going to be a busy couple months.”    

After Trump issued Schedule F the first time, late into his last term, the Pentagon and other federal agencies were tasked with making lists of which employees would be moved into that category. At the time, defense officials tried to include as few civilian employees as possible to limit the impact to the workforce, sources said. The department is making similar lists now. 

The Office of Personnel and Management issued a rule in April that aimed to strengthen guardrails protecting federal employees. But “there are still ways a new administration could work around these protections,” a defense official said, even if it might take several months to do so.    

It is not the job of government officials to "shield" civilian employees from the consequences of Schedule F, an executive order that makes it easier for said employees to be fired for misconduct or inefficiency. Whatever lists are made should be done honestly so that the American people can have a real account of how much of their money is being wasted paying people to do jobs that aren't needed. 

Keep in mind, all of this nonsense is couched under the guise of refusing "illegal orders," but there is no evidence Trump has any intention of giving one. Instead, what we are seeing is a repeat of the same garbage we saw during his first term. The bureaucracy feels threatened, and it is now preparing to fight a war from within the deepest realms of the federal government. 

That can't be allowed to happen this time. Every top leader at every agency needs to be fired, with few exceptions. The entire government workforce, at least within the Beltway, is a left-wing cesspool that needs to be drained. No one should be safe, and the protective bubble they've built around themselves must be punctured. Federal employees are not more virtuous than private sector employees, and they shouldn't be treated as such.

Luckily, I have a feeling Trump and his team are ready to go in hard this time. Those officials whispering behind closed doors better get their resumes in order.



Michigan jury awards millions to a woman fired after refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine

Michigan jury awards millions to a woman fired after refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine | WOODTV.com







 DETROIT (AP) — A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Much of the award — $10 million — is for punitive damages against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, according to the verdict form.

Lisa Domski, who worked at Blue Cross for more than 30 years, said she was a victim of religious discrimination. The company in 2021 did not grant an exemption from its vaccine policy, despite her insistence that it clashed with her Catholic beliefs.

Domski’s attorney, Jon Marko, said she worked 100% remotely as an IT specialist during the pandemic; 75% before COVID-19 hit in 2020.

Even without the vaccine, “she wasn’t a danger to anybody,” Marko said in an interview after the trial.

Besides punitive damages, the jury in Detroit federal court awarded Domski about $1.7 million in lost pay and $1 million in noneconomic damages.

Blue Cross denied any discrimination. In a court filing earlier in the case, the insurer said Domski lacked a sincerely held religious belief.

An appeal is possible. Blue Cross released a statement but didn’t make anyone available for comment.

“While Blue Cross respects the jury process and thanks the individual jurors for their service, we are disappointed in the verdict,” the health insurer said. “Blue Cross is reviewing its legal options and will determine its path forward in the coming days.”

Bill Melugin Reports on Controversial Biden Border Cell Phone App, As Good Signs Appear After Trump Win


Becca Lower reporting for RedState 

Things are moving quickly after President-elect Donald Trump's win on Tuesday in the general election. One of the issues that voters said was one of the major reasons they pulled the lever in the ballot box for him, and not Vice President Kamala Harris, is immigration.

In a piece Thursday, my colleague Ward Clark outlined the agenda items that Trump has promised to tackle on day one of the new administration. Among those, of course, is not only beginning deporting the illegals already in the country but securing the porous southern border with Mexico. 


President-Elect Trump's Day One: What Will Happen?


We've also previously written about CBP One, the Biden-Harris administration's controversial program that fast-tracks illegal immigrants' Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) appointments via a cell phone app:


Over 500k Migrants Paroled Into US As Part of Biden-Harris Program


But there are already good signs in the wake of the sweeping Republican victory, as illegals in a massive caravan traversing our neighbor to the south have reportedly started to abandon it and turn back: 

The caravan, which began earlier this week in southern Mexico, included approximately 3,000 migrants seeking asylum or economic opportunities in the U.S.

It's telling that one woman who wasn't deterred by Trump's win name-checked CBP One as giving her hope:

Speaking to Reuters, another Venezuelan migrant, identified only as Jeilimar, explained that she hopes to secure an asylum appointment via the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's CBP One app before Trump takes office in January 2025.

"With God's favor, I'll get that appointment," she said.

Related to this is Fox's Bill Melugin's new reporting Friday on just how many people are using the app--and how Mexico is basically chauffering them by bus to take advantage of it:

It reads:

MX [Mexico] is bussing migrants straight to the U.S. border for their CBP One cell phone app appointments. 

Roughly 1,300-1,500 migrants are allowed into the U.S. every day via this Biden program.

Trump previously told me he will terminate it immediately upon taking office if he wins.

The incoming administration will need to press the new Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on this, though it could be a battle since she's a leftist. Trump has already hinted that he has Sheinbaum's number on speed dial--for a day one conversation on tariffs, and stemming the flow of illegals and drug trafficking into the U.S. It's been said before but it's important to say it: If a country can't defend its sovereign borders, can it really call itself a country?



Notice How Calm it is?


Do you notice the absence of all the things that were proclaimed as destined to happen by the Moonbats?

No riots, no mayhem, no burning crisis and mass protests; essentially quiet.

What we discover during this phase is that an unstable leftist population of 0.1% is not being stirred up by the Intelligence Community and the ideological leftist media who support them.  Both the IC and their media are frozen.

There is that phase in every abusive relationship when the abuser has run out of manipulation that works. They realize their victims are numb to their efforts; things get quiet.

Worse still for Democrats, the grassroots believers are in full retreat because they are realizing they were gaslit into believing Kamala would win.  The leftist influencers are losing their army of foot soldiers who believed them in mass.  The dawn of the Great Awakening is upon us.

As Collin Rugg noted, “Dem influencers are seeing record numbers of subscription cancelations along with a mass exodus of followers causing an “algorithmic de subscription spiral.”….  Leftist influence leader David Packman is provided as an example below. 


A new dawn comes after The Great Awakening….


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