Civics: Elections and the legacy media
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.
Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square.
Congrats to @elonmusk as well.
the average offline person lives a life so full of bliss that most of us can’t even fathom
Now we must show how the government can deliver:
- Clean and safe streets for all.
- Tackling our drug and behavioral health crisis.
- Shaking up the corrupt and ineffective bureaucracy.
- Building enough housing to turn around our affordability crisis.
- Breathing life back into our downtown, and ensuring our small businesses are thriving.
Here’s the truth: Turning around this city is not going to happen overnight. No matter who wins this election, we have extremely difficult challenges ahead.
It’s all the big stuff — defeat in Afghanistan, a porous border, inflation, and (yes, this really matters) Biden’s refusal to acknowledge reality and step aside in time for Democrats to have a real primary.
Winners: Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Josh Shapiro, X, prediction markets, Peanut (RIP).
Losers: Randi Weingarten, ayatollahs, cable news, pollsters, Obama.
So it turns out that gaslighting the US people about the health of the President, not running a primary, campaigning on fear of your opponent vs the strength of your policies, and failing to separate yourself from a very unpopular President didn’t work out.
And:
Joe Biden at the EV Summit where he didn’t invite Tesla and he told GM and Mary that they led the EV revolution
God works in mysterious ways.
Among the evening’s most meaningful results: California’s Proposition 36, which raises punishments for theft and drug-related crimes, is passing overwhelmingly. Voters blue and red are fed up with woke approaches to law and order.
Clearly it has happened, and it has been accelerated and publicized by the Biden failings and the attempted Trump assassination. But it was already underway. If you need a single, unambiguous sign of it, I would cite MSNBC pulling off Morning Joe for a morning, for fear they would say something nasty about Trump.
Votes are still being counted in Chicago’s historic school board race, but it appears six Chicago Teachers Union candidates are poised to lose their races to pro-school choice/independent opponents.
I believe the biggest message may be in two states that Harris actually won – New Jersey and Illinois. Harris only winning two deep blue states by 4 or 5 points that Biden won by 17 points is a screaming message about progressive culture war failures. From crime to police to migrants to school board issues, etc. – even blue states become pragmatic when progressive ideology runs amok. This is not a political failure, it is a cultural one. Critical theory and its insidious ideological cousins are failures – and politics follows culture.
The Lincoln Project leaders will do even less soul searching than the newsroom denizens of the Washington Post and New York Times.
The stories of how Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the pasts of Harris and Doug Emhoff, the coverup of Joe Biden’s loss of mental acuity, and how the attempts to keep Trump off the ballot, lawfare, and other anti-democratic efforts aimed at stopping Trump ironically backfired will only be told if the right people get the right book deals.
The reasons were clear if you were willing to tune out cable news.
For starters, their president, Joe Biden, had misinterpreted a narrow victory in 2020 as a mandate to make sweeping policy changes to everything from the border—some 10 million people crossed over illegally during Biden’s administration—to the national debt, which is more than $35 trillion. All the while, his Democratic Party advanced outlandish and radical social policies, such as support for biological men to compete in women’s sports, taxing unrealized capital gains, and colluding with social media companies to ban alleged health misinformation. He also insisted for most of his presidency that the very real inflation consumers experienced was fleeting and not serious.
Maybe the Democrats should try to a have a free and fair primary election to determine their next presidential nominee: one that extends beyond just Barack Obama Nancy Pelosi, Reid Hoffman and Alex Soros.
James Qually and Connor Sheets:
A tumultuous first term in office for Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón ended in a failed reelection bid, with challenger Nathan Hochman defeating him by a wide margin.
Gascón swept into office in 2020 on a promise of reform and restorative justice, but Hochman — a former federal prosecutor and defense attorney — has spent months painting the incumbent as responsible for increases in crime and homelessness around L.A.
Dem atty @MarcEElias’s firm convinced the @FEC to allow campaigns & super PACs to coordinate GOTV.
It was intended to help @ColinAllredTX benefit from a @GeorgeSoros-funded PAC.
It backfired.
Allred lost.
And @ElonMusk’s PAC seized on it to help Trump.Democrats, for their part, might ask themselves how exactly they lost to Trump, an ailing 78-year-old who much of the country despises. It probably wasn’t great to cover up President Joe Biden’s infirmities until they became undeniable on live TV. It wasn’t ideal that party elders replaced him with Harris, a nominee who had received no electoral votes and had failed decisively in a previous presidential run.
Voters don’t listen to Hollywood celebrities when it comes to voting. Most voters see Hollywood as great for entertaining but as far removed from their concerns when it comes to voting.
The working class and middle America voters are done being disrespected by college elites. They want real, merit-based opportunities not government subsidies.
Harris had 83 billionaires backing her.
What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.
Notes on the polls:
In 2016, 2020, and 2024 polls were systematically biased against Donald Trump, i.e. they systematically underestimated his performance. In the changes that were made to the 538 Pollster Rating methodology in 2024, pollsters were given a bonus for systematic bias.
Each time someone had to ask the Walgreen’s clerk to unlock the deodorant was a Republican campaign ad.
The woke mind virus and legacy media.
Baldwin left her brief event without taking questions.
A fundamental problem in the Democratic Party is that it now has vanishingly few politicians who can articulate this kind of point as cogently as the Republican VP candidate did here.
This is precisely why there are few more important causes than keeping the internet free and destroying attempts to centralize censorship power in the hands of Western elites.
Today, Blueprint released the first data-based report about why voters cast their vote the way they did with a new poll conducted in the days after Election Day and weighted to the 2024 election results.