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Every four years, presidential opinion polling reliably causes regime media to misplace their poop. But after the actual polling places close and report, the stenographer journalists generally don’t expose which—if any—of these influential prognosticators should be publicly grilled for fouling up. A current exception proves the rule. On the weekend before Election Day, pollster Ann Selzer unleashed an Iowa survey for the Des Moines Register purporting to show Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points in a state Harris supposedly had no business winning. The “late shift toward Harris,” declared the Des Moines Register, was happening because of older...

This move marks yet another self-serving, calculated maneuver, a legal sleight-of-hand designed to protect reputations. Following President Donald Trump’s decisive victory in both the electoral and popular vote, it’s becoming clear, based on multiple reports, that the weaponized Department of Justice (DOJ) is poised to dismantle its baseless and frivolous criminal prosecutions against Trump in Florida and Washington, D.C., and may even dismiss Jack Smith before Trump has the satisfaction to utter his most famous line, “you’re fired.” While some might interpret this as Democrats waving the white flag in the face of Trump’s resurgence or as a premature gesture...

MSNBC once again beat CNN in the ratings game, but for all the wrong reasons. New Nielsen ratings show the liberal network has lost more than half of its primetime audience since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week, a sea change that signals its viewers are discouraged and tired of the spin. Fox News reported that MSNBC saw a 54% ratings drop after averaging 1.1 million primetime viewers for most of October. That number stood at 736,000 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week. The change comes as Fox News’s viewership climbed 61% in the same three-day period, a...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized approximately 11,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. CBP officers assigned to the El Paso port of entry on November 5 encountered a 2011 Honda Ridgeline arriving from Mexico. The officer directed the driver, a Mexican national, to a secondary inspection station after a “Low Energy Portal Scan” revealed possible anomalies. A K-9 search and a secondary Z-portal x-ray scan confirmed the anomalies. Officers began a physical search of the vehicle and discovered multiple plastic bags packed with loose 7.62 ammunition, according to a statement from CBP...

ASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of Kamala Harris' embarrassing defeat in the recent presidential election, top politicians in the Democrat Party have stepped forward and vowed to improve their outreach to "disgusting, bigoted, misogynists" next time around. "We've seen our mistakes and we plan to do better next time," Schumer said before quickly checking to make sure his dentures were in. "We simply failed to connect with the racists, filthy garbage, bigoted misogynists, privileged supremacists, and Literally Hitlers who make up a bit more than half the country's population. We really need to start making inroads with the bad,...

Now that the Republicans have regained a majority in the US Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is urging them "to embrace bipartisanship. I realize this may be hard after we branded them as racists, misogynists, fascists and Nazis, but I want to remind them that this is what we say about Republicans in every election. It's just a political ploy that didn't work this time. It is not an accurate portrayal of our true feelings about our friends across the aisle." "Sure, there are some hard-core right-wing senators, but there are many more who helped us ensure that necessary...

Pete Buttigieg sat in the center of a circle of 25 undecided Michigan voters in a new video released the day before the 2024 election, as each of them brought their views—some well-informed and others fueled by internet misinformation—and asked him to change their minds. “I know that I’m simultaneously speaking to some people who come at this from a more conservative perspective and are deciding whether to go for Trump even though they’re not sure, others who are coming from a more left of center perspective and deciding whether to vote third party or whether to vote at all,”...

If you’ve spent any time online over the past four days, you’ve probably seen internet users thirsting over Gavin Newsom. But if you chose to crawl into a hole after Tuesday’s election, I will sum up the posts for you: Gavin Newsom is an evil sociopath and he’s hot and he hates Republicans so he must run for president.

[Catholic Caucus] What we know about the Príncipi case, and why it’s a scandalOne month after an extraordinary attempt from the pope’s chief of staff to reinstate a laicized sexual abuser, questions remain about who in the Vatican did what in the case of Alberto Ariel Príncipi.Despite those questions, the Holy See has offered no clear answers on why an order was issued by sostituto Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra which aimed to to restore the twice-convicted child abuser to the clerical state, or about how the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s disciplinary section was able...

Progressive Democrats are pushing to take over the party leadership as in-fighting breaks out following Kamala Harris’s election defeat. Left-wingers are hoping to install Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic chairman, to take over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and swing it away from the current centrist leadership ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Michael Fanone, the former Washington, DC, cop who claimed that President-elect Donald Trump "tried to get me killed" on January 6, 2021, had a drunk "end of the [redacted] world" meltdown as the former president was reelected this week...CNN declined to renew his contract at the end of 2023... According to the ex-analyst, CNN "espouse[s] conspiracy theories and [redacted] in the name of access."...When he attempted to return to the workforce after leaving D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department, he failed to land a job at Walmart, Costco, and Cabela's."No one gives you a reason, but it's pretty obvious..."As Fanone and Voght...

CNN’s Bakari Sellers floated the idea of President Biden replacing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor with Vice President Kamala Harris before President-elect Donald Trump can be sworn into office. "CNN News Central" host John Berman asked Sellers about concerns among Democrats regarding Trump and the Republican majority in the Senate potentially replacing Sotomayor, the third-oldest member of the Supreme Court. Sellers argued Sotomayor should step down so Biden and the current Democratic majority can replace her in the months before Trump’s inauguration to ensure another liberal justice on the court. "You know, Justice Sotomayor has been a more than able...

CNN is reportedly set to nix some of its top talent in a round of post-election layoffs. The rumblings, first reported by Puck News, come as high-paid personalities like Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer were reportedly recently denied raises. The two already boast salaries of $7 million and $3 million, while stars like Anderson Cooper take home an annual $20 million. Kaitlan Collins and Erin Burnett also command inflated earnings - $3 million and $6 million apiece, respectively. {snip} In the next few months, I’m told, CNN will implement another round of layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across...

Mine began with a small, frequent cough on election day and have been flat on my back for the last 6 days Anyone else? I got no shots/vaccines

Chuck Schumer has now extended an invitation to Senate orientation to Republican Dave McCormick, but Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has not conceded.

On Friday, the state of Michigan, which arguably has the most untrustworthy Secretary of State in America, added 26,662 unreported votes to its unofficial vote total from four counties after canvassers reportedly discovered the stunning discrepancies. Kent County, formerly a red county, discovered a whopping 13,795 unreported votes. Kalamazoo County, home to Western MI University and Kalamazoo College, discovered 6,691 previously unreported votes. Calhoun County blamed their discovery of 4,602 votes on a “software glitch.” When northern Michigan’s Leelanau County’s results were first revealed, it looked like Democrats had won almost every race, which would solidify the belief that Democrats...

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Hyperventilation about President-Elect Trump not yet signing an ethics agreement with GSA is fabricated nonsense. Read the actual law. The obligation to get this done is on GSA not the President-Elect.

Turning Point Action’s plans to chase ballots in key swing states seem to have made the difference in helping put former President Donald Trump, now again the President-elect, over the top in his comeback bid for the White House. Charlie Kirk, Turning Point’s top activist, announced on social media in the aftermath of the election the numbers of ballots the organization chased in key battleground states of Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada, helping contribute to flipping each state. While many in media scoffed at outside groups’ efforts to handle most of the ground game efforts for Republicans, Breitbart News regularly...

What happened to Track and Trace? I only ask because it might be needed. There’s a new lergy doing the rounds and it seems to be highly contagious. Just like Covid, cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome are appearing everywhere. No great cause for alarm – it’s all in the head – but certain individuals in high places are frightening the pants off people. Poor old Rory Stewart looked red-eyed and sniffly as he spoke of his pain and fears for future following Donald Trump’s shock victory. The former Tory MP-turned-weeping Leftie says he is “heartbroken” that America has just voted...