The panic is real

Twitchy: "LA Times Replaces ENTIRE Editorial Board, Owner Says ALL Voices Will Be Heard."

Ace: "Semafor: The Marxist Propaganda Media Is Grapping With Its Own Impotence and Irrelevance."

Guardian: "Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts."

Variety: "Don Lemon Quits X, Citing Elon Musk’s Change to Move Legal Disputes to Texas Courts."

NY Post: "ABC brass scramble to bring in pro-Trump voices to ‘The View’ and other shows: ‘Panic mode’." 

The wins just keep on coming!

Reuters: "Comcast weighs spin-off of declining cable networks after strong third quarter"

Comcast, opens new tab said it was considering spinning off its cable networks that include CNBC and MSNBC into a separate company, as the media industry grapples with a decline in traditional TV viewership due to cord-cutting by consumers shifting to streaming.

Meanwhile at CNN: "CNN boss Mark Thompson to lay off hundreds after Election Day ratings wipeout: report."

Womp womp.  Learn to code.

Extra - Hot Air: "Dejected Democrats Have Had Enough of MSNBC." 

Hey, stopping fascists ain't cheap!

Red State: "Donald Trump Was Such a Threat to Democracy That Oprah Charged $1 Million to Endorse Kamala Harris."

Is this even legal?  

Interesting choice

NY Times: "Trump Expected to Name Marco Rubio as Secretary of State - The president-elect appears to have settled on the Florida senator to be the nation’s top diplomat."

I famously did not vote for Trump in 2016 and instead voted for Rubio in the Republican primary.

Yes, listen to Variety

Twitchy: "Variety Mag Doubles Down, Says We Need MORE Celebrities Lecturing Us on Politics."

That's why Americans watch the Oscars!  For the lectures. 

We finally found out how to get fired from the Biden administration

NY Post: "FEMA official who allegedly told workers to avoid Florida homes with Trump signs fired." 

That is good news!

David Harsanyi: "Good news: The public has stopped listening to mass media"

If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it’s that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation. They can no longer stoke fear and outrage in average voters. They can no longer prop up terrible candidates. And, like him or not, President-elect Donald Trump’s success with black, Hispanic, and Jewish voters, if exit polls are even close to correct, proves that the entire “fascist” scare was a flop.

Indeed, the establishment press are less trusted than virtually any major institution in American life. It is a well-earned ignominy. It’s also a tragedy for a free nation that we have a barely functioning press. Reporters probably tell themselves they’re disliked because they’re fearless truth-tellers. But, far more likely, it’s a referendum on their deceit.

The Wall Street Journal had a similar article: "Trump’s Win Cemented It: New Media Is Leaving the Old Guard Behind - Podcasts are exploding, TikTok is a news source, and traditional media is shrinking in reach and influence."  Americans no longer trust the mainstream media which is a hive mind of leftist thought and its decline is well-deserved and overdue.

Extra - Kim Strassel: "A Landslide Against the Media - News organizations tried to prop Biden and Harris up. How did that work out?" 

What a performance

This is a spoof, right?  Right?

White Dude For Kamala Harris Meltdown In Front Of Austin City Council. pic.twitter.com/eIo9w0kyer

— Alex Strenger (@TheAlexStrenger) November 8, 2024

What would we do without experts?

CNN: "‘Death by a thousand cuts’: How experts warn Trump could use an authoritarian playbook to go after the media."

That "could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.  As the Babylon Bee says: Trump was going to be a dictator in his first term but forgot. 

We won't have KJP to kick around anymore

Honest to God, she's just the dumbest person to ever be a White House press secretary.  Today, a very reasonable question: for years President Biden has been calling Trump a threat to democracy but now Biden says everything is cool.  The subtext is "were you lying then or are you lying now?"

It should be a very expected question but KJP doesn't have the gray matter to answer.

Another Senate seat for GOP

Associated Press: "Republican David McCormick flips pivotal Pennsylvania Senate seat, ousts Bob Casey."

Casey was famously running ads in Pennsylvania talking up his work with Trump.

A-Mazing

Trump won Starr County TX, most Hispanic county in America at 97% by 16 points.

Last time it voted republican was in 1892.

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 6, 2024

The mainstream media commits suicide

Long X post from investor Bill Ackman.  Excerpt:

When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public. 

He notes that the MSM perpetuated the illusion that Biden was "fit as a fiddle" because saying otherwise would help Trump.  When they couldn't maintain that story, they needed to create a new illusion about Kamala Harris because Trump.  Eventually, Americans saw through the ruse.

Quid pro quo Joe?

Andrew McCarthy: "Trump victory should be death knell for Democrats' lawfare - Will Democrats learn the lawfare lesson?"

Let's make a deal:

President Biden could provide a powerful example of statesmanship — he could finally, on the cusp of leaving office, act like the unifying president he promised to be at the start — by pardoning his predecessor and successor. It would certainly make it easier for the nation to accept the president’s inevitable pardon of his son, Hunter, who is awaiting sentence on gun and tax charges. It could also provide the political space Gov. Kathy Hochul would need to pardon Trump over the caterwauling of New York progressives — hopefully, Democrats are reading the returns showing inroads Trump made with their traditional constituencies in the Empire State.

Lawfare was terrible for the country. The resounding win Americans have given Trump should be its death knell.

Trump for Hunter?  Joe should take that deal since all of Trump's ridiculous cases are going to be thrown out on appeal.

Nice work if you can get it

By the way, so far this week Joe Biden has completed the following tasks:

1) Made a phone call.

Prediction

Now that I'm done with election predictions, here's a new one: Biden will pardon Hunter.

He might as well just do it today and get it over with.  We know it's going to happen.

Spot on, man, spot on

Adam Coleman: "Trump's Massive Win Is A Referendum On What The Democratic Party Is No Longer - They lost the plot and abandoned liberal values, common sense, and the working class"

Cardi B's public endorsement doesn't impact the decision of someone who has less than $400 in their savings and praying they won't have a financial emergency. No one gives a damn about what millionaires in Hollywood want or who they support when we are trying to survive.

Great essay.  Americans have had enough.

Trump wins - mainstream media hardest hit

Honestly, I was 99% sure that Trump was going to win.  For months I said this would be a "fundamentals" election where Americans were going to vote against the horrible record of the Biden-Harris administration and return to the "mean tweets" era of Trump.  People don't give a damn about that stuff when it costs them 20% more at the supermarket checkout line.

But never in my 50+ years have I seen such an onslaught of negative coverage as the mainstream media over the past year.  My God.  There's a reason (as Jeff Bezos noted) they're considered less trustworthy than used car salesmen.  I'd like to believe the MSM would reflect on their biases but they had a chance in 2016 and blew it. 

One other benefit from Trump's victory: we'll be spared the impassioned essays on the electoral college since it looks like Trump also won the popular vote.

Win-win baby!

God bless America

They impeached Trump twice.
They arrested him four times.
They took him off the ballot.
They tried to kiII him twice.
They he won a landslide.

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 6, 2024

Programming update

We've arrived in the point in the evening where I've switched over from Fox News to MSNBC to laugh at the meltdown.

Prediction: 312-226

I meant to post this earlier but I predicted this about a week ago at least in a text thread with my college roommate.

For the record, I feel pretty sure about Pennsylvania and Wisconsin but I'm on the fence with Michigan which could go either way.  If I'm wrong about Michigan, it's still 297-241 for Trump.

The DJT proxy vote

The Trump Media group stock is soaring in after-hour trading:

Economy is #1 issue and most say it sucks

Twitchy: "CNN's Chris Wallace Says It Would Take a 'Miracle' for Kamala to Win As First Exit Polls Released." 

The Paper of Record

Kamala Harris Confused By Process Where She Needs To Get Votes To Be Selected https://t.co/SpaxZbzZWn pic.twitter.com/NHa3uNhDqY

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 5, 2024

Good encapsulation

Unreported Truths: "Why I'm voting for Donald J. Trump - He is an imperfect vessel - to say the least - but the country needs change." 

Extra - This one is good too from Clay Travis: "Why I'm voting for Donald Trump."  His #2 bullet point is "Democrats broke 250 years of American precedent by trying to put their chief political rival in prison for the rest of his life."  This one has a lot of resonance with me: the lawfare against Trump was just absolutely ridiculous from paying back loans to the mystery "second crime" to advance the hush-money trial to the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

If only Trump had been a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" he could have gotten off scot-free!