Containing as well explanations of current circumstances in Israeli politics, not least of which, the salutary firing of Yoav Gallant (for those who were puzzled thereby).
New reporting suggests the president’s inner circle is going after Pelosi, the woman seen as having dug the knife into her longtime ally’s back to get him out of the race
Is that a MAGA suit Pelosi is wearing? Maybe pic of decade—will definitely save it! From this article:
General Mike Flynn–whose been through the Leftist’s mill himself–warns that another assassination attempt is likely, and that Trump needs to beef up his security.*
I note the news that Biden has invited Trump to the White House to “speed up the Transition.”
If I were Trump, I would not rely on the apparently incompetent/ hostile/compromised Secret Service, but would have a layer of my own, massive security operation surrounding me.
I would also not drink or eat anything I was offered at this meeting, and I might not even touch a lot of surfaces.
See the history of the Borgias, and other instances of enemies being eliminated by various means, straightforward or subtle–throughout world history–which are just too numerous to mention.
Steve Hayward on Powerline IIRC suggested, tongue in cheek, that Trump should call for an increase in Supreme Court justices, in order to pack the court. That would be hilarious as liberals would have to reverse their previous support for this idea. We could then record their opposition in order to play it back next time they support it – again.
Bluegreen, I said the same thing to my wife, without reading that “other blog”.
I see 2 Dem Governors are already saying they will defy Trump on the immigrant deportations.
I really really want Trump to wield the power of EO and his pen. Crush them, grind them into the ground.
Will be watching Trump for any lies—in regards to how he handles the Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, and the MOMS Act, as was discussed in the Open thread 9/28/2024 post.
Trump and JD Vance have shrugged off suggestions that the agenda is on the table for them but conservatives like Matt Walsh and Steve Bannon reveled in the opportunity to push the policy goals after Trump’s convincing electoral college win and political comeback.
‘Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda,’ Walsh wrote Wednesday.
Howard Lutnick (Trump’s transition team leader) said – ‘Project 2025 is an absolute zero for the Trump-Vance transition‘, but it obviously bears watching.
A commenter in that Open Thread 9/28 had said – ‘Some of the Project 2025 ideas are things he might adopt, and some are not.’ There are some good things in Project 2025, and there are some things that will be like grabbing a hornets nest if enacted.
It seemed back then, that the REPs were laying the groundwork in case Trump was elected, e.g., “Bill – H.R.517 – Standing with Moms Act”, and now Walsh & Bannon are doing some gloating…Ditto on the obviously bears watching.
Trump should call for an increase in Supreme Court justices, in order to pack the court. That would be hilarious as liberals would have to reverse their previous support for this idea. We could then record their opposition in order to play it back next time the… — bluegreen kayak
I saw some GOP senator, I believe, state that they have submitted a proposal (legislation?) to end the filibuster in the Senate. The proposal is exactly the same one that the Dems were pushing just days ago. He said there was zero Dem support for the Dem proposal. I believe that actually happened, not just tongue in cheek.
Speaking of the damage the Obama admin. did (neo’s recent post), Harry Reid ended the use of the filibuster for the purpose of federal judge appointments.
The news I recall during the latter part of the Obama era was that Obama got a lot of new judges pushed into the DC circuit. My knowledge of the law is not sufficient to fully understand the impact of that, but it doesn’t sound good.
It would be fun if Trump opened his January inauguration speech:
“As I was saying…”
He narrowly escaped death in more ways then one.
Protests against President-elect Donald Trump took place in several cities across the country on Wednesday….
On Wednesday night, demonstrators took to the streets in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia to protest Trump’s win.
Which seems mild compared to those we’ve seen since Trump was elected in 2016. The protests feature pro-Palestine as a prominent concern.
An interesting aspect of the article is that Newsweek includes a “Fairness Meter” in which the reader can rate the article for “Unfair Left Leaning / Mostly Fair Left Leaning / Mostly Fair Right Leaning / Unfair Right Leaning”.
I don’t how long that has been a feature. I have noticed that Newsweek has been running more conservative articles than I expected for a while now.
In order to survive I believe the legacy media will have to move back from activist journalism.
@TommyJay:end the filibuster in the Senate
Filibuster is theater anyway. At any time it, or any other Senate rule whatever, can be set aside one time only by a simple majority, and it is often done when the media is not making a drama about it.
Imagine I tell you I quit smoking. You see me later, smoking on break as usual. You ask me, didn’t you quit? I say, I did, but I’m suspending my smoking cessation program this one time and I will resume it when the smoke break is over. Over time you see me doing this whenever I really, really want to smoke, and at the same time I go around telling everyone I quit.
The filibuster works exactly the same way: it’s a mechanism for Senators to avoid individual accountability for votes. If something is popular with a majority party’s base, but the majority party’s Senators don’t really want to do it, the designated “mavericks” will oppose and the party leadership will say they “don’t have enough votes to break the filibuster”. They can then lay the blame for the failure on the “mavericks”, the other Senators don’t have to go on record, and then they appeal to their base to give more money so they can “increase their majority” to something “filibuster proof”.
But if the majority party really does want it, they will set aside the filibuster for one time only with 51 votes.
They have other dodges. Occasionally they will appeal to the Senate parliamentarian, who will rule that something cannot be done. But any ruling can be set aside by 51 votes. And the parliamentarian serves at the pleasure of the Majority Leader and can be fired for ruling “wrong”. Both of these have happened.
Re: Newsweek’s “Fairness Meter”
That’s an interesting idea since it oestensibly gives you a general impression of what other readers/viewers/listeners may think of an article as well as some feedback for the journalists themselves, assuming they’re genuinely making attempts to be less biased and propagandistic in order to regain a bit of trust. Of course like anything online, it can be review bombed, ratioed, spammed with bots or whatever so it’s far from ideal.
Interesting there’s been no riots so far.
I do like Kurt Schlichter’s column this morning in which he says this is not the time to be magnanimous, but the time to finally crush the Ds and the left. I agree. They would have no hesitation in doing it to us.
In regards to the dread Project 2025, who is this “we” the humble Karmi (Kemosabe) is speaking of?
Long Ranger and Tonto joke.
President Trump isn’t back in office yet, see Snow on Pine’s coment.
Mark Halperin of 2 Way had Representative Byron Donalds on his show and it’s worth listening to him. I noticed him in the spring and he was very impressive then, and this just reinforces that he might be a vp nominee in 2028 (barring something unknown).
He has a very even demeanor, quick on this feet and knowledgeable.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. The age of the polite conservative/Republican is over. Or should be.
No more of that “reaching across the aisle” bullshit. No more compromise.
I want to hear the lamentations of their women. That is best, Conan.
Brian E
I’ve liked Rep. Byron Donalds for some time now.
Vance as president in 2029? He’ll have to make it past Trump first—four years is a long time to get along with Trump, unless he has ‘changed his stripes.’ Vance could be the next Pence before Trump is done with him.
Then, Vance will need to get past a loooooooooooonnng list of *GREAT* GOP presidential candidates in 2028.
Personally, I like Rep. Byron Donalds as President in 2029…at this point.
Lots of clips from around the internet this morning of the extreme cognitive dissonance happening with the Ds. It’s been fun, but also instructive about how they just cannot accept what has happened. Fascinating to see that they blame everyone except themselves. The blame groups: men, Latino men, Biden, black men, uneducated white women (who BTW are also racist and misogynist…LOL) , black women, women in general for not voting above 49% for Harris, and the lists go on and on.
I would really like to hear Neo’s take on all this.
Here is an extremely hopeful analysis by Glenn Reynolds, which sees Trump’s victory and Musk’s association with and role in that victory as freeing Musk to charge ahead with his space exploration efforts.
Musk’s efforts eventually opening up our Solar System to human exploration and settlement, thus, ushering in a new mindset/Age of adventure, risk-taking, and exploration; a New Frontier.*
“There will be a temptation to return to the old norms, that is, the pre-Trump era where Republicans acted like prissy gentlemen and the Democrats gave them wedgies. . . . This is not the time to be nice. This is the time to rub their faces in their defeat. Somebody’s got to win this fight. I propose it be us. When we beat the Japanese and the Germans, we did not forgive and forget. We broke them. We exacted righteous retribution. Only then did we allow them to return in a form that would no longer threaten us
Karmi, I never mentioned Vance in my comment.
I don’t think Donalds has the experiences necessary to be president. If he wants to take that tack– he needs to work toward the governorship of Florida as a stepping stone– kind of like DeSantis did.
There is only one scenario where Vance could be like Pence– and that’s if Trump abandoned the blue collar worker. From what I’ve heard from Vance, I accept he has a genuine concern for the heartland of America– but then I think that Trump does as well.
This realignment of the Republican Party is far from over– and it’s going to be played out in the battle over whether or not Republicans truly believe in Making the Middle Class Great Again. There are still plenty of Republicans that still think the future is with Wall St.
The tech boom the last four decades has re-aligned Wall St. That money has moved largely to the left. Could it come back? Ideologically, that’s unlikely.
President Trump has made some big promises to the blue collar class– promises that are going to put the Republican Party at odds with Wall St.
The question is how to incentivize some of the wealth concentration in the tech companies redirected from white collar to blue collar jobs.
One of the first ways is to incentivize tech companies to fund their own utilities– which can only come through Nuclear. Tech needs near 100% uptime– which no renewable can meet (other than hydro). As far as I can tell talk about improvements in storage alongside renewables is just hype.
The first (along with the 101 other first things) priority for Trump should be to revamp the approval process for Nuclear plants. It still takes many (nine?) years to go through the process. This is absurd, especially for SMR’s.
Liberals always call for bipartisanship when they lose, and say “elections have consequences” when they win. Let them feel the consequences now, good and hard.
…he said ward leaders in the city felt disrespected, implying that could have impacted how hard they worked for her in the city.
Harris’ campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Arms crossed defiantly in the Democratic City Committee headquarters, where ward leaders gathered to nosh on pizza and “lick their wounds,” Brady pointed to the empty conference room where he said Democratic nominees from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden all came to pay their respects in person.
“Obama, Biden all came to say hi to the ward leaders, that means something. They never showed up,” Brady said.
He said money was an issue, too. The Harris campaign paid about “half” of past campaigns for Philly’s get-out-the-vote effort, he claimed.
He also complained about the campaign not including local Democrats or ward leaders in rallies or giving them VIP seating.
“Not that I got an ego but it shows the lack of respect, that we do deserve.”
…Brady said the Harris campaign invited him to a 4 p.m. meeting of Democratic leaders in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. “Not a chance,” Brady said of going. “I never even met the lady.”
Brian E
Karmi, I never mentioned Vance in my comment.
I never said you did…
Suggestion for those who appreciate Neo but are not buying the book,
make a donation. Thirty dollars would equal book and shipping cost.
Trump needs Rudy Giuliani for Atty General. He has experience prosecuting gangsters, and good reasons to ,as well
physicsguy: The blame groups: men, Latino men, Biden, black men, uneducated white women (who BTW are also racist and misogynist…LOL) , black women, women in general for not voting above 49% for Harris, and the lists go on and on.
JNS, Caroline Glick, “The Opportunity of Trump’s Victory“: https://www.jns.org/the-opportunity-of-trumps-victory/
Containing as well explanations of current circumstances in Israeli politics, not least of which, the salutary firing of Yoav Gallant (for those who were puzzled thereby).
Pelosi – Pic of Year
Is that a MAGA suit Pelosi is wearing? Maybe pic of decade—will definitely save it! From this article:
Who lame-duck Joe Biden blames for Kamala’s catastrophic defeat as Democratic party tears itself apart – go get’em Joe!!!
General Mike Flynn–whose been through the Leftist’s mill himself–warns that another assassination attempt is likely, and that Trump needs to beef up his security.*
I note the news that Biden has invited Trump to the White House to “speed up the Transition.”
If I were Trump, I would not rely on the apparently incompetent/ hostile/compromised Secret Service, but would have a layer of my own, massive security operation surrounding me.
I would also not drink or eat anything I was offered at this meeting, and I might not even touch a lot of surfaces.
See the history of the Borgias, and other instances of enemies being eliminated by various means, straightforward or subtle–throughout world history–which are just too numerous to mention.
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/theyve-already-tried-it-couple-times-theyll-try/
Steve Hayward on Powerline IIRC suggested, tongue in cheek, that Trump should call for an increase in Supreme Court justices, in order to pack the court. That would be hilarious as liberals would have to reverse their previous support for this idea. We could then record their opposition in order to play it back next time they support it – again.
Bluegreen, I said the same thing to my wife, without reading that “other blog”.
I see 2 Dem Governors are already saying they will defy Trump on the immigrant deportations.
I really really want Trump to wield the power of EO and his pen. Crush them, grind them into the ground.
Will be watching Trump for any lies—in regards to how he handles the Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, and the MOMS Act, as was discussed in the Open thread 9/28/2024 post.
MAGA stars gloat they can ‘finally’ admit Project 2025 will be Trump’s agenda – as Bannon names first targets
Howard Lutnick (Trump’s transition team leader) said – ‘Project 2025 is an absolute zero for the Trump-Vance transition‘, but it obviously bears watching.
A commenter in that Open Thread 9/28 had said – ‘Some of the Project 2025 ideas are things he might adopt, and some are not.’ There are some good things in Project 2025, and there are some things that will be like grabbing a hornets nest if enacted.
It seemed back then, that the REPs were laying the groundwork in case Trump was elected, e.g., “Bill – H.R.517 – Standing with Moms Act”, and now Walsh & Bannon are doing some gloating…Ditto on the obviously bears watching.
Trump should call for an increase in Supreme Court justices, in order to pack the court. That would be hilarious as liberals would have to reverse their previous support for this idea. We could then record their opposition in order to play it back next time the… — bluegreen kayak
I saw some GOP senator, I believe, state that they have submitted a proposal (legislation?) to end the filibuster in the Senate. The proposal is exactly the same one that the Dems were pushing just days ago. He said there was zero Dem support for the Dem proposal. I believe that actually happened, not just tongue in cheek.
Speaking of the damage the Obama admin. did (neo’s recent post), Harry Reid ended the use of the filibuster for the purpose of federal judge appointments.
The news I recall during the latter part of the Obama era was that Obama got a lot of new judges pushed into the DC circuit. My knowledge of the law is not sufficient to fully understand the impact of that, but it doesn’t sound good.
It would be fun if Trump opened his January inauguration speech:
“As I was saying…”
He narrowly escaped death in more ways then one.
Protests against President-elect Donald Trump took place in several cities across the country on Wednesday….
On Wednesday night, demonstrators took to the streets in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia to protest Trump’s win.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-protests-cities-1981841
________________________________________
Which seems mild compared to those we’ve seen since Trump was elected in 2016. The protests feature pro-Palestine as a prominent concern.
An interesting aspect of the article is that Newsweek includes a “Fairness Meter” in which the reader can rate the article for “Unfair Left Leaning / Mostly Fair Left Leaning / Mostly Fair Right Leaning / Unfair Right Leaning”.
I don’t how long that has been a feature. I have noticed that Newsweek has been running more conservative articles than I expected for a while now.
In order to survive I believe the legacy media will have to move back from activist journalism.
@TommyJay:end the filibuster in the Senate
Filibuster is theater anyway. At any time it, or any other Senate rule whatever, can be set aside one time only by a simple majority, and it is often done when the media is not making a drama about it.
Imagine I tell you I quit smoking. You see me later, smoking on break as usual. You ask me, didn’t you quit? I say, I did, but I’m suspending my smoking cessation program this one time and I will resume it when the smoke break is over. Over time you see me doing this whenever I really, really want to smoke, and at the same time I go around telling everyone I quit.
The filibuster works exactly the same way: it’s a mechanism for Senators to avoid individual accountability for votes. If something is popular with a majority party’s base, but the majority party’s Senators don’t really want to do it, the designated “mavericks” will oppose and the party leadership will say they “don’t have enough votes to break the filibuster”. They can then lay the blame for the failure on the “mavericks”, the other Senators don’t have to go on record, and then they appeal to their base to give more money so they can “increase their majority” to something “filibuster proof”.
But if the majority party really does want it, they will set aside the filibuster for one time only with 51 votes.
Sometimes the party leaderships collude. A few years ago Mitch McConnell worked with Chuck Schumer to set aside a Republican filibuster on raising the debt ceiling with 51 votes, and hardly anyone noticed. But it was very important for people to get paid, so the media did not make a big deal about it.
They have other dodges. Occasionally they will appeal to the Senate parliamentarian, who will rule that something cannot be done. But any ruling can be set aside by 51 votes. And the parliamentarian serves at the pleasure of the Majority Leader and can be fired for ruling “wrong”. Both of these have happened.
Re: Newsweek’s “Fairness Meter”
That’s an interesting idea since it oestensibly gives you a general impression of what other readers/viewers/listeners may think of an article as well as some feedback for the journalists themselves, assuming they’re genuinely making attempts to be less biased and propagandistic in order to regain a bit of trust. Of course like anything online, it can be review bombed, ratioed, spammed with bots or whatever so it’s far from ideal.
Interesting there’s been no riots so far.
I do like Kurt Schlichter’s column this morning in which he says this is not the time to be magnanimous, but the time to finally crush the Ds and the left. I agree. They would have no hesitation in doing it to us.
In regards to the dread Project 2025, who is this “we” the humble Karmi (Kemosabe) is speaking of?
Long Ranger and Tonto joke.
President Trump isn’t back in office yet, see Snow on Pine’s coment.
Mark Halperin of 2 Way had Representative Byron Donalds on his show and it’s worth listening to him. I noticed him in the spring and he was very impressive then, and this just reinforces that he might be a vp nominee in 2028 (barring something unknown).
He has a very even demeanor, quick on this feet and knowledgeable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFoTG5V98tI
physicsguy:
I agree with you and Schlichter.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. The age of the polite conservative/Republican is over. Or should be.
No more of that “reaching across the aisle” bullshit. No more compromise.
I want to hear the lamentations of their women. That is best, Conan.
Brian E
I’ve liked Rep. Byron Donalds for some time now.
Vance as president in 2029? He’ll have to make it past Trump first—four years is a long time to get along with Trump, unless he has ‘changed his stripes.’ Vance could be the next Pence before Trump is done with him.
Then, Vance will need to get past a loooooooooooonnng list of *GREAT* GOP presidential candidates in 2028.
Personally, I like Rep. Byron Donalds as President in 2029…at this point.
Lots of clips from around the internet this morning of the extreme cognitive dissonance happening with the Ds. It’s been fun, but also instructive about how they just cannot accept what has happened. Fascinating to see that they blame everyone except themselves. The blame groups: men, Latino men, Biden, black men, uneducated white women (who BTW are also racist and misogynist…LOL) , black women, women in general for not voting above 49% for Harris, and the lists go on and on.
I would really like to hear Neo’s take on all this.
Here is an extremely hopeful analysis by Glenn Reynolds, which sees Trump’s victory and Musk’s association with and role in that victory as freeing Musk to charge ahead with his space exploration efforts.
Musk’s efforts eventually opening up our Solar System to human exploration and settlement, thus, ushering in a new mindset/Age of adventure, risk-taking, and exploration; a New Frontier.*
* See https://instapundit.substack.com/p/elon-unbound?r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true
They wanted to erase the filibuster to pack the court abolish the second and first amendments and make moloch sacrifices permanent
Thank fully none of that came to pass the evil prop 3 and 4 were vanquished i did my small part
In arizona the black death has sadly descended maybe a decent governor can reverse thid
Interesting short on X from Michael Shellenberger:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1854526518900252923
“After Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning”
https://thefederalist.com/
As I said:
“We Won and We Need to Act Like It”
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/11/07/we-won-and-we-need-to-act-like-it-n2647394
“There will be a temptation to return to the old norms, that is, the pre-Trump era where Republicans acted like prissy gentlemen and the Democrats gave them wedgies. . . . This is not the time to be nice. This is the time to rub their faces in their defeat. Somebody’s got to win this fight. I propose it be us. When we beat the Japanese and the Germans, we did not forgive and forget. We broke them. We exacted righteous retribution. Only then did we allow them to return in a form that would no longer threaten us
Karmi, I never mentioned Vance in my comment.
I don’t think Donalds has the experiences necessary to be president. If he wants to take that tack– he needs to work toward the governorship of Florida as a stepping stone– kind of like DeSantis did.
There is only one scenario where Vance could be like Pence– and that’s if Trump abandoned the blue collar worker. From what I’ve heard from Vance, I accept he has a genuine concern for the heartland of America– but then I think that Trump does as well.
This realignment of the Republican Party is far from over– and it’s going to be played out in the battle over whether or not Republicans truly believe in Making the Middle Class Great Again. There are still plenty of Republicans that still think the future is with Wall St.
The tech boom the last four decades has re-aligned Wall St. That money has moved largely to the left. Could it come back? Ideologically, that’s unlikely.
President Trump has made some big promises to the blue collar class– promises that are going to put the Republican Party at odds with Wall St.
The question is how to incentivize some of the wealth concentration in the tech companies redirected from white collar to blue collar jobs.
One of the first ways is to incentivize tech companies to fund their own utilities– which can only come through Nuclear. Tech needs near 100% uptime– which no renewable can meet (other than hydro). As far as I can tell talk about improvements in storage alongside renewables is just hype.
The first (along with the 101 other first things) priority for Trump should be to revamp the approval process for Nuclear plants. It still takes many (nine?) years to go through the process. This is absurd, especially for SMR’s.
Liberals always call for bipartisanship when they lose, and say “elections have consequences” when they win. Let them feel the consequences now, good and hard.
Why PA didn’t Fortify:
Brian E
I never said you did…
Suggestion for those who appreciate Neo but are not buying the book,
make a donation. Thirty dollars would equal book and shipping cost.
Trump needs Rudy Giuliani for Atty General. He has experience prosecuting gangsters, and good reasons to ,as well
physicsguy:
The blame groups: men, Latino men, Biden, black men, uneducated white women (who BTW are also racist and misogynist…LOL) , black women, women in general for not voting above 49% for Harris, and the lists go on and on.
Courtesy of Maggie’s Farm: Thursday morning links, we get this little gem: No, the Problem Isn’t the Voters.
I included the Maggie’s Farm link, in case some readers are not aware of the blog.