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..... Episodes like this may be one reason the red wave didn’t materialize, why Republicans failed to usher in a new dawn of prosperity for the multiracial working class that Republican leaders from Senator Ted Cruz to the House policy honcho Jim Banks say they want to champion. When it came down to it, the Republican Party offered ordinary American workers little that might have bolstered their power or leveled the economic playing field. That failure helped dash conservative hopes for a clean Republican sweep. Mutual recriminations will ping-pong around right-wing circles in the coming days and weeks. Most will...

One of the great benefits of winning landslide elections is that you end up building up your own bench of viable candidates while diminishing the other side’s. In this respect, the Republican sweeps of 2010 and 2014 were terrific for the GOP and devastating for the Democrats. Why is Joe Biden president, rather than a younger, Obama-esque star? Why, even now, would it be tough for the Democrats to find a replacement for Biden, even if they wanted to? In part because, in 2010, 2014, and, to a lesser extent, 2016, the Republicans did so well. And they’re wasting it.

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Photo credit: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images. Former President Donald Trump attacked numerous news outlets and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in a statement he released to his followers Thursday night. The former president, who is largely being blamed for costing Republicans big in the midterms, again referred to DeSantis as “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He also accused media outlets owned by the Murdoch family of colluding against him.

"And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither." "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. "Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you."...

Trump has launched into an attack (full frontal this time) on Ron Desantis. This is this afternoon -- November 10th.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband has told Democrats that the party should rally behind her if President Joe Biden chooses not to seek reelection in 2024, according to a new report. The effort by second gentleman Doug Emhoff to box out Harris’s potential future rivals “causes eye-rolling” inside the White House and comes as some officials question the vice president’s prospects going into 2024, Politico reported Tuesday. While West Wing officials “believe Harris is on stronger footing now than she was in her first year [they] remain skeptical about her viability in 2024,” the outlet said. While Biden has said...

Arizona Republican Kari Lake has good news for those who are closely watching the governor’s race and expecting new votes to come in for the America First candidate. “The truth of the matter is, and I just got these numbers, there are 384,000,” Lake said. “That’s a lot of votes. 384,000 votes that are mail in ballots. So these people received them a month ago, but they didn’t trust probably most of them dropping ’em off at a Dropbox or in the US Postal Service. So they filled them out, they went into the voting center on election day, and...

A Taco Bell manager fought with an employee at work before following him to a Scott Township business and fatally shooting him Wednesday afternoon, police said. Police responded to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance office at Cochran and Greentree roads in Scott Township at 12:07 p.m. after receiving reports of shots being fired there, Allegheny County Police Superintendent Chris Kearns said. Responding officers found a man in the office foyer who had been shot to death. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office late Wednesday identified the victim as Dorian Carver, 32, of the Natrona Heights section of Harrison. Police identified...

Report: US Catholic Bishops Gave $3.4 Million to Organizations Involved in Abortion, LGBTQ, Activism and Socialism Washington, DC – The Lepanto Institute published a highly detailed report profiling sixty-six organizations receiving funding from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD, the official anti-poverty program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The report indicates in its findings that 30.8% of the CCHD’s granted organizations for FY 2020-2021 are in violation of CCHD grant guidelines and Catholic moral and social teaching. Of the total $11,249,000 distributed by the CCHD that year, $3,430,000 went to organizations promoting abortion, contraception, LGBTQ...

With Conservatives point finger at Trump after GOP’s underwhelming election results: 'He's never been weaker' Many conservatives say Tuesday's election results show it's 'time to move on' from Trump. (Fox News'', November 9, 2022), as well as the Wall Street Journal - what do Freepers think?

A California woman gave birth to a baby girl on the side of a freeway Wednesday night, after her bid to get to hospital in time stalled out. While on the 5 Freeway en route to UCI Medical Center, however, Ally asked her husband to pull over because “the baby was going to come out.” Orange County Fire Authority first responders were called to the scene around 9:30. OCFA fire captain Jorge Robledo told The Times that while he had assisted with deliveries before, highway births are rare. Last month, The Post reported on a UK woman who suddenly delivered...

Five progressive House hopefuls won notable Tuesday night victories despite the overall trend of the election on track to favor a Republican majority They include the first black congresswoman-elect from Pennsylvania, the first Gen Z House winner, and the first Latina elected to Congress from the Midwest Members of the current 'Squad' endorsed every one except for Balint The majority were also endorsed by a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, the Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders Victory by these progressives and the loss of some moderate Democratic House seats is likely to push the overall party more to the left in the next...

Maricopa County has admitted in a new statement that 70 out of 223 voting centers were impacted by the election day debacle, where tabulators failed the moment that polls opened on Tuesday. .... Snip.... Maricopa County reports that 17,000 votes were placed in “box 3,” the separate bin where ballots were stuffed on election day. These ballots are expected to lean nearly 100% Republican. However, as Kelli Ward noted, they want us to believe that only 17,000 ballots were affected by this issue that affected tens or hundreds of thousands of voters. These ballots were transported to be counted at...

A POLICE officer has been stabbed to death near a train station in Brussels. The attacker, who was also carrying a gun, is said to have shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he knifed the officer and shot his colleague.

During this year’s Super Bowl, cryptocurrency exchange FTX ran an ad for which it paid Larry David some unknowably huge amount of money. It was one of the best ads of the night, no question, the perfect combination of actor and script. FTX got America’s most famous curmudgeon to express skepticism toward various scenes of great innovation over the course of human history. The wheel? Larry David didn’t like it. The fork? Absolutely not. On it went: the toilet, coffee, the Declaration of Independence, the lightbulb, dishwashers, the moon landing, MP3 players, and … FTX, “a safe and easy way...

On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., easily won reelection and convincingly defeated his Democrat contender, Charlie Crist. While the outcome was never really in doubt, the lopsided victory led some Republicans and various pundits to toss President Trump aside, blame him for the Republicans’ underwhelming performance, and incorrectly crown Gov. DeSantis the new “leader” of the Republican Party. This coronation is premature and inaccurate.Gov. DeSantis Deserves PraiseGov. DeSantis deserves significant praise. He defeated Crist by roughly 20 percentage points and helped the Sunshine State solidify its place as a reliably red state. While his success should be commended, it should...

Malfunction…

Maricopa County is still counting the votes from Tuesday’s botched Primary Election, and they have secured the perimeter of their tabulation center using multiple Sheriff’s deputies, fencing, and barricades around the sidewalk. The deputies are also not allowing photos to be taken on county property. “It’s a County property. You’re not allowed to be taking photographs on County property,” they said.

Turner, 28, and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Jon Logan Kennison, were arrested in 2019 after authorities found Burchard's body stuffed in the trunk of an abandoned car on State Route 147 near Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 7, 2019. Police say Burchard, 71, traveled from California to Las Vegas, where Turner was located at the time, to end their two-year relationship in which he apparently gave her an allowance to fund her lifestyle totaling an estimated $300,000... She and Kennison are accused of beating Burchard with a baseball bat and hiding his body in the trunk of Turner's...