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In an interview with Israeli journalist Ilana Dayan on Galei Tzahal, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman blamed US President-Elect Donald Trump's victory on the progressive and anti-Israel left. Friedman told Dayan that the main reason for Harris's defeat was the "woke progressiveness," as well as the fact that as early as October 8th, a day after the massacre, college students were already protesting Israel. Regarding Trump's future policies on the Middle East, Friedman says that one must remember that Miriam Adelson gave millions of dollars to Trump's campaign, so there should be no expectation that Trump will promote a...

The Biden administration is planning to rush the last of over $6 billion remaining in Ukraine security assistance out the door by Inauguration Day, as the outgoing team prepares for the weapons flow to end once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The plan, described by two administration officials who were granted anonymity to discuss internal matters, is the only option the White House has to keep sending equipment to Ukraine to fight off continued Russian offensives. But the problems are immense. It normally takes months for munitions and equipment to get to Ukraine after an aid package is announced, so...

CNN's Scott Jennings reacted to President Donald Trump's election victory early on Wednesday, telling the CNN panel that voters stood up and said "enough."SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN: I'm interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just the regular old working class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They're not garbage. They're not Nazis. They're just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the...

Democracy prevailed; the people will have their way in spite of all that was done and said to prevent that from happening. Trump won despite nearly every institution in America – media, academia, and big business, too – not just opposing him but opposing him virulently, comparing him to Hitler and warning that his election would spell the end of democracy itself. ... Trump’s win is more than an epic personal and policy success story, it’s a vote of “no-confidence” in institutions and governance by authoritative experts. Institutions fail when they do not focus on their core mission. Consider all...

President-elect Trump is expected to get to work immediately upon taking office enacting major changes on immigration, energy and foreign policy. Trump late last year suggested he would not rule as a dictator “except for day one,” a sign he intends to use executive authority aggressively to implement changes to immigration policy and energy policy in particular. Trump has also signaled he would move swiftly to roll back protections for transgender youth, and he would fire the man prosecuting a criminal case against him. Here’s a look at what Trump has said he will do “on day one.” **SNIP** Energy...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will find it harder to maneuver in 2025 after Republicans took control of the state House. The GOP win forces the Democrat to negotiate or be relegated to lame-duck status her last two years in Lansing. Republicans entered Tuesday’s election with a 56-54 disadvantage. After controlling the lower chamber for the better part of four decades, they lost the House in 2022. Two years later, they’ve retaken it, winning three of the four races they targeted. ... Our hard-fought victory reaffirms that the people of Michigan want leaders who put them first, uphold the rule of...

If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth. Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did. If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM. The MSM excerpted,...

The people surrounding Joe Biden blame Nancy Pelosi for Kamala Harris' election loss as Democrats have begun to bicker over who caused the party's disaster. It came as the president, 82, reacted to Harris' concession speech at Howard University Wednesday. The blame game went into overdrive last night, as Biden confidants told senior White House reporters they hold the former Speaker of the House responsible for him leaving the race. 'Bidenworld' sources claim that not only should the president have stayed in the race but that he would have won the white working class voters who Harris largely ceded to...

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The congressional task force investigating the July and September assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has "failed to produce" certain materials the task force requested as part of its ongoing probe into both incidents. On Oct. 3, the task force sent a letter to the ATF about 17 "requests for production as well as three categories of requests for select transcribed interviews with relevant ATF agents who provided support or response functions in connection with the" assassination attempts against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and in West Palm Beach, Florida. The...

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH If your boyfriend tells you that you "have to abort," then he is AGAINST your right to choose. The only person who has a right to make that decision is you. https://tiktok.com/@bubblpop101/video/7434130575457357086 #bubblpop101 #abortion #prochoice #prolife #womensrights #feminism #Trump #KamalaHarris

The 2024 presidential election may have been Donald Trump’s best yet. While white evangelicals’ strong support for the former president didn’t budge, he made sizable gains among Catholic and Hispanic voters ... 58 percent of Catholics voted for Trump over Harris this time.. In 2016, Trump won 17 percent of Hispanics. By 2020, 32 percent....this year...Trump won 45 percent while Harris won 53 percent. Trump was also able to win among Hispanic men for the first time... White evangelicals’ margin of support for Trump stayed at 81 percent, exit polls found.... White evangelicals supported George W. Bush in 2004 by...

Kamala Harris’ candidacy is dead and so is the Hollywood celebrity endorsement. She officially killed that too. By turning her failed presidential effort into a three month long variety show with splashy performances, boldface speakers and a carefully rolled out succession of endorsements from La La Land’s most coddled citizens.

President-elect Donald Trump made huge gains with black, Hispanic and young voters in New York this election — bringing him closer to turning the deep-blue state red than any Republican candidate has come in a generation. Trump siphoned off significant support from all three reliably Democratic voting blocs, culminating in a historically poor showing in the Empire State for Vice President Kamala Harris, who won just 55.8% of the vote statewide. Broken down demographically, a portrait of the Democrats’ colossal failure becomes painfully clear.

Bad Mainstream Media Memes Memes are a bad thing for Journalists. It is to take up a storyline tact that will color all future articles. But what's worse is that they tend to Morph and take a journalist away from reality and objectivity. Take the Meme, Orangeman Bad. Built on the idea that Trump was a Racist because of his statements in Charlottesville Virginia. After Charlottesville, anything that Trump said or did would be flagged as bad and him to be vilified. However, the Meme soon Morphed: Orange man bad. Republicans Bad. Since Trump was a racist, so the Republicans...

A squirrel was seen dashing across a Washington DC stage just moments before Kamala was set to make her concession speech, prompting comical claims it was the ghost of internet-famous Peanut. Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the 2024 presidential election on the campus of Howard University late Wednesday afternoon following Donald Trump's victory. But a bushy-tailed guest stole the stage just moments before Harris took the spotlight. In a video posted to X, the squirrel was seen running under American flags before scurrying across the empty stage and disappearing from eyesight. The post has accumulated more than 1,500 comments -...

The liberal late-night hosts put their post-election meltdowns on full display Wednesday evening less than 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon greeted their shows with similar rehearsed acts — putting on a fake smile and lamenting about the terrible night they had because of Trump’s win. “I spent a lot of time over the past 17 hours thinking about what I would say tonight, or even if there is anything to say tonight, and there’s nothing, goodnight everybody,” Kimmel said walking off the stage.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr offered a sarcastic response to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in his pregame news conference on Wednesday. Kerr had been an outspoken critic of Trump and previously spoke at the Democratic National Convention earlier this year. The NBA coach has not been shy about voicing his opinion on political issues from gun control to Trump, and on Wednesday night, he took some sarcastic jabs at the 2024 election winner.

Californians are looking into the possibility of moving abroad after becoming increasingly 'fed up' with the divisiveness of politics in the US. A recent report suggests those living in the Golden State in particular are considering a move overseas - or even across the border into Mexico. Experts specializing in relocating expats overseas say they have seen a notable increase in the numbers of Americans exploring options leave the country with figures from 2024 far exceeding those of 2023. Henley & Partners, a firm specializing in international residency and citizenship, said approximately 80 percent of its US clients cite political...

Donald Trump's blowout win has been a replay of 2016 — down to an underwhelming female candidate, nonetheless heavily favored by the mainstream media, who couldn't even show her face to concede on Election Night. Doesn't that say it all? Kamala Harris thought she had what it took to be President of the United States, yet lacks the integrity, humility and strength of character to admit defeat. Indeed, just as Hillary Clinton did during her epic loss, an emissary was sent out to tell all those faithful fans gathered at Kamala HQ to pack it up and go home. Their...