This is an example where I almost teared up at the end, very glad to see a women in the UK lauding our system and results in a strongly positive (and allied) way. Given the decline in free speech in the UK right now, I wonder if she is at some legal risk doing so.

I probably would not have reacted that way when younger.

I have not researched this but surmise that it reflects another hormonal change in life, analagous to the various episodes we experience at puberty, etc. However, it may not occur in everyone’s life, or to such a noticable degree.

Geez…humble me has seen poor progressive women (and women in general) ridiculed here ‘n elsewhere—by REP men for “voting with their emotions.”

Anyway, I knew the Election topic was very ‘Touchy’ as the election grew closer, but did not realize that many of you may have been suffering from the Bill Whittle’s ‘Touchy-Feely’ syndrome… 😉

Trump won’t go to jail during his appeal, and wouldn’t have even if he’d lost the election. It’s ordinary practice in white-collar crime cases for the defendant’s sentence to be suspended pending appeal.

I heard theories floated that Biden might pardon Trump, along with Hunter, as a final F-U to the party that knifed him in the back. I hope he doesn’t.

They’re still sure the majority of voters are racists and sexists, and fail to understand the reasons the majority had for rejecting Obama/Biden/Harris.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/06/opinion/voters-saw-through-the-lies-and-elected-donald-trump-as-the-47th-president-of-the-united-states/

“But the beautiful thing about Election 2024 is that most Americans woke up and saw through the lies.”

No, only enough of them did.

Harris still got 48% of the votes.
That’s still too many.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-didnt-the-democrats-steal-it-this-time/
“Why Didn’t the Democrats Steal It This Time?”

Does he read anything other than the NYT and WaPo?

Anyone here can answer his question.

He is one of the few NR writers who didn’t completely fall to TDS in 2016 or later.

IMO their “Never Trump” issue in 2016 only gave more grist to the Democrat mill, and their “principled rejection” only made it harder for Trump to get more Republicans to help him achieve the goals that NR always claimed to champion.

I will try to follow Whittle’s request to be a “good winner” but it’s harder with the people “on your own side” than with the opposition.

Absolutely worth reading.
Whittle put together, in 2008, several of the situations that made me and others wary of an Obama presidency.

The First Circle of Shame relates to the content of the interview Paul quoted. I vaguely remember reading about it, although not in Whittle’s post, and wondering how any conservatives leaning toward voting for him, because “it was time we had a black president,” and reading that manifesto could continue to advocate for his election — but some of them did.

Whittle:

If this does not frighten you — regardless of your political affiliation — then you deserve what this man will deliver with both houses of Congress, a filibuster-proof Senate, and, to quote Senator Obama again, “a righteous wind at our backs.”

That a man so clear in his understanding of the Constitution, and so opposed to the basic tenets it provides against tyranny and the abuse of power, can run for president of the United States is shameful enough. We’re just getting started.

Part of the problem is that a lot of people never saw that interview, or read about its portents as Whittle explained them.

The Second Circle of Shame is for the journalists who chose not to report on this old interview during Obama’s campaign — it was found by one person, acting alone, with no more resources than any of us have; not by the press, who instead concentrated their time and money on “investigating” Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber.

One could say that Bill warned us about the “fake news” establishment 8 years before Trump did.

Whittle:

We no longer have an independent, fair, investigative press. That is abundantly clear to everyone — even the press. It is just another of the facts that they refuse to report, because it does not suit them.
…
There is a special hell for you “journalists” out there, a hell made specifically for you narcissists and elitists who think you have the right to determine which information is passed on to the electorate and which is not.

That hell — your own personal hell — is a fiery lake of irrelevance, blinding clouds of obscurity, and burning, everlasting scorn.

You’ve earned it.

Some of Bill’s emotion in the video Neo linked is due, perhaps, to the length of time it has taken for the press to get even a small down payment on that bill.

The Third Circle of Shame was partly a failed prediction and partly a prophetic lament:
Whittle:

This discovery will hurt Obama much more than Joe the Plumber.
What will be left of my friend, and my friend’s family, I wonder, when the press is finished with them?

The interview’s revelations, because they were ignored by what we know now as the Regime Media, didn’t hurt Obama at all, other than to put up a warning sign for alert readers who found it at NR or some other way.

I don’t know what happened to Bill’s friend who broke that particular story, but we know all too well what happened, with increasing fury over the succeeding 16 years, to other people with similar temerity.

The Fourth Circle of Shame, which I take the liberty to append to Bill’s essay, is that we had a president well on the way to redeeming us from the first three, and half of the country turned back to those Circles without a qualm.

We (speaking collectively and not personally) may have a reprieve from any Fifth Circle, if we don’t waste the opportunity again.

“The process worked — I cry when things are beautiful.” — BW

Listen to the whole thing, especially the analogy at the end to rebuilding a derelict WW2 plane into an even better one, just like America after every crisis.

He came prepared, he said, to talk about being good losers, but spoke a lot about being good winners.
“With malice toward none, with charity toward all.”

Or as one commenter added, quoting Churchill:
@morridx
In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/proceedings/the-ties-that-bind/

I will add another quote from that paper that is so appropriate for this election (RTWT for other powerful & topical observations):

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father’s house to believe in democracy. ‘Trust the People” – that was the message… Therefore I have been in full harmony all of my life with the tides which have flowed on both sides of the Atlantic against privilege and monopoly and I have steered confidently towards the Gettysburg ideal of government of the people, by the people and for the people.’ In my country, as in yours,” he said, “public men are proud to be the servants of the State and would be ashamed to be its masters.