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Trump will name Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations. I thought he liked her? Why anyone would want that job is beyond me. Since she is from New York, does Hochul appoint an interim? Surely not. However, a republican replacement is likely not a slam dunk and a democrat taking that seat in the House would certainly be unacceptable.

Lee Zeldin to the EPA is a great pick. He has the smarts and the will to undo much of the harm that Michael Regan and his crew has wrought. 

Marco Rubio at State? Again why would he want to leave the Senate given the tenuous job security in a Trump administration? Anyway didn’t Trump once call  Rubio a “total lightweight”?

Tom Holman as border czar is perfect.

Pete Hegseth for Defense? What’s next? Greg Gutfield for Education?

Trump voters were sexist? Then explain how Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan voted for Trump but elected women democrats as senators? Will the sore losers on the left ever admit that they had a lousy candidate running a lousy campaign while defending a lousy administration’s lousy record?

Harris’ campaign blew through over $1 billion. Did that include what the PACs spent? Fast Forward bankrolled by Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg alone spent over $500 million. I think most of it in Georgia ads saying that Trump was a threat to women, democracy, Social Security and Mom’s apple pie.

I thought the democrats wanted to take the big money out of campaigns? I guess they meant just out of republcan campaigns.

Harris’ campaign gave Sharpton’s group $500,000 and then had an interview with him? That may be legal but the ethics stink.

Harris’ campaign gave Oprah Winfrey $1 million? I thought Oprah was a billionaire?

She also did a podcast where she wouldn’t go to the podcaster’s studio but instead had one built for $100,000. Huh?

All this reminds me of what Edward Bennett Williams then the owner of the Washington Redskins said of his coach George Allen. “I gave him an unlimited budget and he exceeded it.”

Did you know that Michael Bloomberg gave Johns Hopkins medical school $1 billion to be tuition free? Bloomberg says that this will allow economically disadvantaged and underrepresented students to go to medical school. In light of the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action, Hopkins will have to figure out a way to increase minority enrollment. It seems to me that Hopkins would get a flood of applications from top students and end up with fewer minorities. Also I guess that its graduates are not toiling in clinics in the inner city or on reservations. Most likely, Hopkins graduates are in the big cities serving high end clientele and making big bucks or doing high powered research. If Bloomberg really wanted to aid aspiring minority medical students, he should have made his gift to Howard, Meharry and/or Morehouse.

Look to Trump to again try to get the 2030 Census to count only citizens rather than heads. If that happens, then there will be a larger flow of congressional seats from democrat states to republican states. The democrats of course will resist the change because it threatens their power.

The democrats are blaming everyone and everything for the Trump landslide. Everything but themselves and their policies. I have often said that the democrats don’t want a democracy but want to impose their policies instead. They know that all of their policies would lose at the ballot box. The majority of Americans do not favor democrats on climate, gender, immigration and equity. But the democrats don’t get it since they know what’s better for others than others know for themselves.

Several democrat politicians now say that the party needs to move toward the center after being taken over by Sanders, Warren and the Squad. I’ll believe it when I see it. BTW where were those “moderate” democrats prior to the election?

Some said that Harris made a mistake not going on Joe Rogan’s show. I disagree. If she had sat down for a three hour interview like Trump and Vance, her landslide defeat would have been small compared to the tsunami that would have occurred when voters saw that she can’t answer the simplest of questions unless being given the questions first and even then she flubbed her answers.

Lastly, much has been written about how Trump’s voters included record number of Latinos and blacks. What was little reported was that he also got 70% of the Native American vote which reflects how the Biden administration has totally screwed Native Americans. Biden has taken away their lands, has made grazing rights, hunting, mineral and oil and gas exploration off limits and has even denied the building of some businesses on Indian reservations. All of which have limited Native American incomes.

Also I guess the Indians knew that Kamala Harris was speaking with a forked tongue.

A generation of crybabies?

What of this generation of college students that are pampered, coddled and easily offended who must shelter in a safe place to console trauma caused by microaggressions real or imagined? Consider all of the universities that designated “safe spaces” with grief counselors to console the poor traumatized students after Trump’s victory. One offered cookies, milk, Legos and coloring books. Cookies milk, Legos and coloring books? Professors ranted and raved and canceled classes, postponed exams and called for resistance. Some gave their students a day or so to recover. 

Good grief. You mean these people actually thought Harris was going to win? Of course, they had been spewing hate of Trump all along and probably deceived themselves into thinking that Trump was going to lose. Many actually favored Biden’s agenda on diversity, gender and the climate and were among the 28 percent that thought that the country was moving in the right direction. 

I noticed that every report of college trauma was from one of the so-called “elite” schools. I did not see any stories on the University of Georgia, or Tennessee, or Mississippi State having grief sessions. It was all Harvard, Yale, Penn, Claremont and the like. One thing to keep in mind is that the students have been raised and educated in a socialist environment. In the home they did not have to work for their meals and shelter. It was provided by their parents. In essence the students were subsidized. Most then went to college and did not have to work to pay for school. Again, they were either subsidized by their parents or by donors. They were taught by professors, most of whom never worked outside the socialist cocoon of the university. The professors were themselves subsidized as children, subsidized as students and then went directly to graduate school where they were subsidized even more. Then they became teachers employed in a subsidized university. All they have known their entire life is socialism. They are mostly anti-capitalist disregarding where the money ultimately comes from for their salaries and well-being. Most think it comes from the state or the largesse of benefactors. It is truly manna from heaven.

These professors lecture about the evils of capitalism out of their ignorance and spew hated toward the right. The question is whether they influence their students. My experience teaching at some of the nation’s most liberal universities is that most of the students are more conservative than the faculty. Yes, there were some students on the far left but they were in the minority and most were leftists before they came to the university. Remember all the pro Hamas demonstrations? Most of the students and faculty interviewed were from the Arts. Few business students, business professors, engineering students and their professors were participating. Those folk were too serious to be involved in such nonsense. 

My suspicion is that the same is true with the Trump trauma crowd. Most of these will continue to be socialist and hate the right. But they will be in the minority. They make headlines but don’t be fooled. The majority of students don’t need consoling or counseling. Only the wimpy crybaby ones.

November 11, 2025

It’s Veterans Day and I am grateful. When people ask me if I served, I tell them that I served in the Southern Campaign, University of Georgia 1962-1966. Viet Nam came to the fore my senior year. I was leading a group trying to make ROTC an elective rather than mandatory. As a result my advisor who was a World War II naval combat veteran dropped me. Despite my telling him that I was not being unpatriotic, even I knew the optics were bad. We failed to get ROTC voluntary. Later, I had a course from my ex-advisor that spring quarter and made an A+ despite our differences. I was engaged at the time and headed to Ohio State for graduate school. I had a deferment. Our son was born during the first year at Ohio State and I was never called.

But since ROTC was mandatory, I was in Air Force ROTC for my freshman and sophmore years. I had one of the top three GPAs in the class and was one of five sophmores in the Air Force’s honor society. Tradition had it that if we went into advanced ROTC (which was voluntary) we would be first lieutenants while the other juniors would be second lieutenants. Since my brother had gone through ROTC at Purdue, I decided to follow his example although I had no interest in being a pilot. Instead, I would get a PhD and hopefully teach economics at the Academy. When I got back to campus in the fall I looked at the duty roster. The other honor students who were juniors were first lieutenants. All the other juniors were second lieutenants. But I was the chief master sergeant – the only upperclassman not an officer. I went to the colonel and asked why. I told him I was humiliated and would drop ROTC if I were not a first lieutenant. He said that if I could not follow the orders of my superior officer then I had no business being in the military. I agreed. I walked out and dropped the course. I was bitterly disillusioned. My uncle who joined the Air Force when it became a separate service and retired as a chief master sergeant talked glowingly of how little discrimination there was in the Air Force compared to Americus, Georgia. My brother said the same. And yet, after going through what I confronted during my first two years at Georgia, an Air Force colonel was the first (but not the last) professor who had openly discriminated against me.

My brother was a B-52 pilot and was stationed in Thailand. He was awarded various medals from the Air Force and from the Republic of South Viet Nam. He was talented and had a brilliant mind. If I had his smarts I would have won the Nobel Prize in Economics. At his funeral, one of his crew said “If we got into trouble we knew that Charlie would get us home safely.” Rest in peace big brother.

My father never served either. He was an elementary school principal during the war and being black was not called to service. When I asked him once why he wasn’t drafted he said “I couldn’t cook.” But I had an uncle-in-law who was a mechanic on a destroyer in the Pacific theatre. Only once did he talk about the harrowing times of being below decks shoveling coal while all hell was breaking loose above him. He talked about shipmates going crazy as the boat was rocking and rolling. But mostly, he shut out those memories.

My favorite cousin, who recently died of pancreatic cancer, retired from the Air Force. He never went to Viet Nam but had a Bronze Star from his time in the Philippines. He refused to give any details.

My other half’s father was a hero. He was a Bedford Boy and in the first wave at Omaha Beach. His stories are too personal to tell here.

I don’t regret not serving. I am an economist and believe in comparative advantage. The veterans that I know were great at their jobs and took pride in them. All had careers that were enhanced by their service. I admire them and am grateful for their service.

I am not a country music fan and am not yet adept at the technology of the blogosphere but please go to Youtube and view Kane Brown’s Homesick (official video).

Happy Veteran’s Day.

Most everyone except CNN, MSNBC and the hard left are calling Trump’s victory a landslide. Maybe that’s because Harris got 70 million votes. I thought Trump would win simply because we typically do not elect sitting vice presidents (George Bush the First was the exception). I also thought he would win because his negatives have been decreasing since 2015. I thought he would win because 68% of the voters said the country was going in the wrong direction (do you know any of the other 32%?). But Harris got 47% of the vote. I guess that means that around 20 percent of her vote was from those who hated Trump enough to continue the disaster of the last four years for another 4 years.

At the LSU – Alabama game, the LSU fans – who are arguably the worse fans in the country – littered an end zone with bottles to show displeasure over an obviously face mask call that kept the ball in Alabama’s possession. When the Texas crybabies threw bottles at the Georgia game, the SEC fined the school $250,000 which I pointed out was what probably less than what they paid their backup punter. The SEC should fine the school $1 million, impose a 15 yard penalty and take away three scholarships. I bet that nonsense will stop.

I asked the caretaker at my farm about Harris’ endorsements and he said “Beyonce don’t have trouble paying for groceries or gas.”

Whether Trump will fire Jay Powell is in the news. Actually, he can’t. Powell was confirmed by the Senate and can only be removed through impeachment. Lots of luck with that.

Remember when the democrats attacked Trump and Vance as being “weird”? That failed, probably in part because Tim (Little Bernie) Walz – and his wife – are truly weird.

Remember when the democrats attacked Trump as being too old? Then he went out and did rally after rally, appeared on 30+ podcasts, and gave countless interviews even to hostile hosts while Harris didn’t even muster the energy to have a press conference during her campaign.

The republican party at least for the immediate future is Trump’s party. Its embrace of protectionism, industrial policy and tariffs are anathema to traditional republican ideals. Trump’s coalition of young males, blue collar workers and those without college degrees used to be democrats. Harris still got 55% of those with college degrees, 85 percent of blacks, 54 percent of Asians, 52 percent of Latinos, 79 percent of Jews and 54 percent of Catholics.

Of course there is double counting. I would bet that the majority of those have college degrees making the democrats the party of white progressives and the subsidized poor.

Exit interviews showed the expected. Harris lost big time on immigration, the economy and foreign policy. She won big on abortion and democracy. Please explain that to me. She and her ilk were campaigning as if the Supreme Court’s decision banned abortion rather than giving infanticide back to the states. Trump had said that he did not favor a federal bill banning abortion and if one showed up on his desk he would veto it. The left said that he was lying. Harris and her surrogates kept shouting that Trump was a threat to democracy. Some polls said that voters thought (rightly so) that the democrats were the greater threat to democracy but those who listed democracy as their top issue apparently thought otherwise.

Did you see the clip where some leftwing talking heads were insulting Latinos saying that voting for Trump meant deporting their aunts and relatives? I guess MSNBC forgot that the Latinos that voted were citizens.

The republicans are saying that Trump has a mandate with winning the presidency, the Senate and the House. However, the margins are still precariously thin. That antiestablishment bunch of twelve or so house members can still gum up the works and keep the party stupid. The majority of House and Senate republicans are still members of the establishment and can work against Trump. Somehow, I think the republicans will still find a way to screw things up. 

California is banning the sale of class A motorhomes beginning in 2025 (I am a fan of Tiffins, even if they did punt for Alabama). The other states that conform to California’s emissions standards will follow. Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Of course the banning of motorhome sales will have no measurable impact on the climate but will be devastating to the RV industry – which is mainly located in Indiana. Trump has pledged to rollback California’s ability to make its own environmental rules. Although Congress granted that authority, each one of the standards must be granted a waiver by the EPA. I would guess that the question likely to be settle in the courts will be whether Trump’s EPA will be able to rescind a waiver already granted. There are eight waivers that have yet to be granted. Look for Biden’s EPA to grant them before Trump takes office. 

Could Biden be responsible for Oct 7?

I was wondering why the Middle East was relatively peaceful until Biden came into office. I think that it is likely that Joe Biden may have been responsible for Hamas’ attack on Israel and the resulting war in Gaza. I know that is a serious charge and frankly I am surprised that I have not heard anyone broach the idea. Consider that Biden’s lifting of the sanctions against Iran meant that $40 billion has flowed into Iran’s coffers for its oil sales. With that $40 billion, Iran was able to fund its surrogates on the Israeli border to up their harassment of Israel. Where did the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza get all their missiles and armaments? How do those thousands pay for their uniforms and who pays their salaries? It is Iran and where did Iran get the money? From its oil sales thanks to Joe Biden.

Biden’s policy of appeasement resulted in all the Iranian surrogates becoming more active. The Houthis started attacking ships in the Red Sea. Hezbollah started lobbing missiles into northern Israel and Hamas attacked on Oct 7. Coincidence? Maybe but not likely. Israel went into Gaza to eradicate Hamas and Biden has tried to hamper their efforts. He has drawn several lines in the sand over the war in Gaza. He warned Israel that the Palestinian casualty figures were too high and he threatened to hold back armaments. The Israelis ignored him. He did not want them to go into Rafah. Thankfully, again the Israelis ignored him or else the murderous Yayha Sinwar and his like would still be alive. 

Biden and his inept secretary of state Blinken have been trying to get Israel to quit its campaign to get the release of the hostages. The Israelis have said that they will back down only if Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages. Any other solution would be unacceptable if Hamas continues to exist. Trump on the other hand has said that Israel should end the war by eliminating Hamas and that he will help them get that done. Biden seems to have forgotten that Hamas holds four Americans as hostage but not Trump who said “We want our hostages back, and they better be back before I assume office or you will be paying a very big price.” I bet Hamas believes Trump. They have been warned. Look for the hostages to be freed by January 20, 2025 

What about Iran which is now engaged in a tit for tat with Israel? Iran’s feeble attempts to retaliate against Israeli assassinations of Iranian sponsored terrorists caused Biden to warn Israel not to strike Iran’s oil and nuclear facilities. They didn’t. Trump, who probably is a bit upset that the Iranians have targeted him for assassination said that the Israelis should “Hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later”. Again I bet Iran believes Trump and will start to tone down its rhetoric and ratchet back the support of its surrogates. I seriously doubt if Iran will call Trump’s bluff. They have to realize that their influence in the region has been instantly diminished. Trump will cut off their oil sales and their ability to finance terrorism. Their influence in the Middle East will wane. Peace in the Middle East will be more likely as Iran becomes isolated, loses its main source of revenue and is forced to stop funding its terrorist buddies.

The election: A post-mortem

Apparently taking Kamala Harris’ advice to resist, the governors of Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and California have announced that they will resist the Trump Administration. California’s Newson wants to make the state “Trump proof” and to “safeguard California values and fundamental rights.” Illinois’ Pritzker has said that “you come for my people, you come through me” – an apparent reference to Trump’s threat of deporting illegals. Massachusetts’ Healey says that she will have her law enforcement officers to not support Trump’s deportation efforts. New Jersey’s Murphy says he will “fight to the death” against Trump if he is “contrary to values”. Well I have a suggestion: why not transport any illegal to those states to await deportation? I am sure the residents of Palm Springs, Matha’s Vineyard, Parsippany, and Kenilworth will welcome them with open arms.

Imagine the hue and cry from the left if republican governors had said that they were going to resist or ignore the edits coming from Biden. Actually, I wondered why didn’t they and guessed the reason was that they asked their attorneys general to pursue legal action. Obviously, the democrats would rather have an insurrection instead.

Trump, as we all know, is profane. But it seems that most presidents cursed. Lyndon Johnson was probably the worse. Even Richard Nixon said that if you thought his language was bad, you should hear Lyndon Johnson. Joe Biden is not choir boy either, freely throwing around f-bombs. As to presidential slurs, Trump doesn’t hold a candle to Abraham Lincoln who said of Steven Douglas’ view on slavery “It is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.” 

What has happened to coarsen our language over the years? Now even literate people sound illiterate. Consider tweets. Chris Olave, wide receiver from Ohio State now with the New Orleans Saints tweeted this after suffering a second concussion, “Thank God Preciate all the love & prayers Ima be aight.” Ohio State should revoke his degree.

Kamala Harris an empty pantsuit got 69 million votes. Trump, who everybody knows is a wannabe fascist got over 73 million votes. Is this a great country or what?

One of my best friends in Georgia is retired. He is black and has a high school education. Salt of the earth. He is pinching pennies due to the price of energy, groceries and health care. He has never voted for a republican until Trump. I asked him why Trump and he said that when Harris said she could think of a thing she would change, he could not vote for her. 

I told him the raid at Mar-a-Largo did it for me.

There are 231 million eligible voters in the US. Of that number 161 million are registered voters and 142 voted. It also means that 89 million eligible voters did not vote. I think that the motor voter law is responsible for these numbers. It is too easy to register. You no longer have to make a special trip to the courthouse. Now people who are never motivated to vote are registered when they get a driver’s license or apply for public assistance.

Since it seems that every other commercial on the sports networks is a betting website. I wonder if there is a parley on how long will it take for Trump to fire his first cabinet member? Take the under. 

Biden didn’t fire anyone and there have been only two resignations from his original cabinet which must be a world’s record. One resigned to join a law firm. The other resigned to become executive director of the National Hockey Leagues Players Association!

Trump got 45 percent of the Latino vote because he appealed to them as citizens rather than as a voting bloc. He talked about the economy and illegal immigration. The democrats seemed surprised that the Latinos resented being called Latinx and taken for granted. The Latino communities on the border are overrun with illegals straining their social fabric. No wonder many of their communities went for Trump. Note to the democrats: are you sure that open borders will benefit you?

Trump got 25 percent of the black male vote and the democrats act as if he got 75 percent. Of course 92 percent of black women voted for Harris. I think that is because black women want to keep having abortions while black men are more concerned about the economy. Does Obamacare cover abortions?

Seventy-nine percent of Jews voted for Harris. Go figure.

Only fifty-four percent of Catholics voted for Trump. Go figure.

Trump says that he will be a dictator only on Day 1. That means he will govern unilaterally through executive orders – just like Biden before him. See my previous positing on Joe Biden, Dictator.

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Harris’ concession speech

Did you hear Kamala Harris “concession” speech? She disappointed her supporters by not showing up to console them at her watch party. She appeared the next day instead. Her speech was anything but gracious. It was a defiant call to resist. I cannot recall another losing presidential candidate not asking for unity and for bringing back together a country so deeply divided..

Here are some highlights of her speech:

“The outcome of this election is not what we wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for, but hear me when I say, hear me when I say the light of America’s promise will always burn bright as long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.”

“…. while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. The fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.”

“I will never give up the fight for a future where Americans can pursue their dreams, ambitions and aspirations. Where the women of America have the freedom to make decisions about their own body and not have their government telling them what to do.”

“And we will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts and in the public square.”

“This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves. This is a time to organize, to mobilize and to stay engaged for the sake of freedom and justice and the future that we all know we can build together.”

“There’s an adage an historian once called a law of history true of every society across the ages. The adage is, only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all I hope that is not the case.”

Compare this to Donald Trump’s 2020 concession speech. Trump was upset, enraged even, over what he thought were irregularities in the vote counting. He felt cheated. His supporters demonstrated in Washington and invaded the Capitol on January 6 giving the democrats an excuse to prosecute Trump and his supporters for inciting a riot. Was Trump bitter? Yes, but here is his speech in its entirety.

“I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol. Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders. America is and must always be a nation of law and order. The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law, you will pay.

We have just been through an intense election and emotions are high. But now tempers must be cooled and calm restored. We must get on with the business of America. My campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results. My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. In so doing, I was fighting to defend American democracy. I continue to strongly believe that we must reform our election laws to verify the identity and eligibility of all voters and to ensure faith and confidence in all future elections.

Now, Congress has certified the results. A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation. 2020 has been a challenging time for our people. A menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens, isolated millions in their homes, damaged our economy and claimed countless lives. Defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together. It will require a renewed emphasis on the civic values of patriotism, faith, charity, community and family. We must revitalize the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family.

To the citizens of our country, serving as your president has been the honor of my lifetime. And to all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.”

Does that sound bitter? Did you know that he condemned the January 6 riot. Wasn’t that missing from the press coverage and subsequent inquisition? He also called for “healing and reconciliation” words that are absent from Harris’ speech. While Harris is calling for resistance, Trump asked us to “revitalize the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family.”

Harris has failed to try to bring us together. Rather she wants to keep us divided. She wants us to resist Trump over the next four “dark” years She failed her supporters when she did not appear at the watch party. She failed the country when she refused to graciously concede.

Thank you Elon Musk

In the presidential election of 2020 aligned against Trump were both the main stream media and the social media giants Twitter, Facebook and Google. All three of the social media giants were in the hands of leftists who hated Trump. Jack Dorsey ran Twitter, Zuckerberg was at Facebook and Google was run by Sundar Pichal. All suppressed stories on Hunter’s laptop and refused to publish stories deemed as misinformation. Of course, the misinformation was not fabricated and they probably knew it. 

Twitter suspended Trump’s account as did Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. Zuckerberg was giving millions to democrats and Google buried searches it did not like. Several hundred thousand voters said afterwards that if they had known about Hunter’s laptop and its link to Joe Biden, they would not have voted for him. Analysis post election showed that if Twitter, Facebook and Google had been forthcoming, Trump would have won. One thing this shows is that Fox News and the New York Post, which shouted the laptop story, did not reach the majority of the voting public. So the coverup was successful. Only two years later, did all the laptop deniers finally admit that the story was legitimate after contending it was part of a Russian hoax to get Donald Trump reelected.

This election was different. Zuckerberg remains a dedicated democrat and would do whatever was necessary to reelect Biden, flip the House and keep the Senate in democrat hands. Google still buries searches it does not like. I googled “Liz Cheney’s criticisms of Harris” and the first several pages were all links to Cheney’s appearances with Harris on the campaign trail and Cheney’s endorsement of Harris. There was one lonely link to an article of Cheney’s previous lambasting of Harris and ridiculing of her positions buried deep in the search. However, Elon Musk had bought Twitter. Not only did he change its name to “X” (although I guess the postings are still called tweets), he became a stalwart Trump supporter and removed Twitter from the evil empire set on demonizing Trump.

Did that have an impact on the election? Millions report that social media (including Tik Tok) is their primary source of news – a fact that I find stunning. So in that world, the flow of information, misinformation or outright censorship is outsized. Musk turned Twitter 180 degrees. From the outset he urged to put in place a republican congress to counter Joe Biden’s presidency saying “Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.” I wonder if he still feels that way now with Trump as president-elect, a republican Senate and likely a republican House.

The leftist media is howling. Musk had first said that Twitter should be neutral politically and should be upsetting both the left and the right. Obviously, that no longer holds as he became one of Trump’s leading cheerleaders, contributing over $75 million to his campaign and as NPR put it” using X to cheerlead for Trump, smear Vice President Kamala Harris, and amplify rumors and conspiracy theories to his 202 million followers.” Yet 202 million is paltry compared to the billions who use Google daily and Facebook’s over 3 billion subscribers. But as seen over and over again, even influencing several thousand voters can make a difference leaving one to wonder whether if Twitter were still led by Dorsey, would Trump be president elect?

Some have questioned Musk aligning himself with Trump given Trump’s dislike of the Green New Deal and the EV mandates. Musk, however, has said that he opposes the banning of internal combustion engines and the mandates. Some think that he joined the Trump camp because he was furious when he was not invited to the White House to a ceremony where Biden praised the EV efforts of Ford and GM and neglected Tesla altogether. Biden’s actions were because Tesla is nonunion and Biden didn’t dare offend the United Automobile Workers. So thank you Joe. If you had brought Musk into the fold, he would have likely stayed on the sidelines and Trump might not be president-elect.

Whoopi Goldberg said prior to the election that Liz Cheney would be a great attorney general. But of course, she also said that “Dr” Jill Biden would be a great surgeon general. Oh well, I still liked her as Gainan on Star Trek.

In case he asks, here’s my Trump’s cabinet.

Agriculture – Doug Burgum

Commerce – Vivek Ramaswamy 

Defense – Mike Pompeo 

Education – Betsy DeVos

Energy – Billy Tauzin

Health and Human Services – Marco Rubio

Homeland Security – Tom Homan 

Housing and Urban Development – Tim Scott

Interior – Howard Lutnick

Labor – Elise Stefanik

State – Bill Hagerty 

Transportation – Elon Musk

Treasury – John Paulson 

Veterans Affairs – Mike Flynn

Attorney General – Janice Rogers Brown

Random thoughts #45

Now that Trump has won and the Senate is republican, will Thomas and Alito retire? Two new young conservative justices should cement the majority for the next two decades.

Trump (unlike Biden) actually has a mandate. Don’t blow it.

I hope he now can get the Census to count only citizens. Again one of the motivating factors behind the democrat’s open borders is to replenish the loss of citizens in their states with illegals. Since the Census counts heads and not citizens, then the democrats will lose fewer electoral votes if they can attract more illegals to their states.

I hope Trump can get rid of the Departments of Education and Energy. Both are useless and only give handouts to special interests. It probably would take Congress to eliminate them. If that isn’t possible then perhaps they can be zeroed out of the budget. Another idea is to take their funding and give it in block grants to the states.

There are 325,000 missing illegal immigrant children. Where is the outrage? Remember all the noise about “children in cages” when Trump was in office? The missing children are another reason Mayorkas should be impeached and convicted. That the media is ignoring this is scandalous.

There was a leak of the Israeli plans to strike Iran. Big surprise given all the pro Hamas sympathizers in the Biden Administration. I would not be shocked if the Israelis had not planted fake plans because surely they know that they can’t trust this bunch in the White House.

Wasn’t it amusing seeing all the phony outreach of the Harris campaign to men? There were the “White dudes for Kamala”. How many of these are manly men? Not Walz who was demonstrating his ineptitude with a shotgun. All this after the left has demonized males since Rush Limbaugh talked about the feminization of American men. Remember toxic masculinity? I thought those on the far left were misandrists.

Did you know that polls showed that the majority of Harris voters were blissfully unaware of her far left positions. Talk about the uninformed voter.

Who will now be anointed leader of the democrat party?

Harris is a sore loser by not showing up at her own “victory” celebration to thank her supporters. Bad look Kamala.

How did the teachers’ unions get taken over by the radical trans crowd?

I don’t really understand all the kowtowing and homage paid to LGBTQ. Would someone please explain that to me?

The newly elected representative from Delaware is transgender – a male who identifies as a female. It’ll be interesting to see Majorie Taylor Greene’s reaction when he walks into the women’s restroom at the Capitol.

The left went bananas when the LA Times and Washington Post failed to endorse Harris. Wasn’t Taylor Swift’s endorsement enough for them? BTW if an endorsement is needed to get you to vote then you should be barred from the polls for life.

Fernando Valenzuela died too young at 63. Although he was not the first Mexican in American baseball, he was the most impactful. One of the few to win rookie of the year and the Cy Young in the same year, he energized the Dodgers and the rest of baseball. Even though he does not have Hall of Fame statistics, he should be in the Hall nonetheless. What was impressive about him was that even though at first he spoke no English, he mastered the language, something that other Latin stars failed to do. I get irritated when players have to speak through an interpreter.

Lastly, regarding the stories about Haitian immigrants eating family pets. Remember when newly arrived Vietnamese immigrants were accused of killing pigeons in city parks with rocks to take them home and eat them? I guess they wanted to leave no tern unstoned.