I fell asleep last night watching election coverage and praying for a resounding Trump victory, waking myself several times to the sound of talking heads on the television pouring over predictions and discussing both candidates’ paths to the White House. I’m not sure exactly what time it was when my fiance woke me up to tell me that enough of the numbers had come in to declare President Trump the winner, but the announcement set my mind at ease and allowed me a few extra hours of rest. 

This morning I find myself reflecting on the irony of double standards, lack of class and some of the glaring reasons that Kamala Harris, and Democrats in general, should have easily been able to predict their demise at the polls this election. 

Radio Silence

Let’s start with the fact Kamala Harris decided not to address the nation last night, instead heading home and leaving her supporters high and dry after they had spent countless hours waiting for the Vice President to appear. Even if Harris was holding out for more concrete numbers, she could have said that and thanked steadfast advocates for their commitment to the campaign. Choosing to be a no-show is disgraceful, and if she can do that to her own people, we have to wonder when or if a concession call will be made to President-Elect Donald Trump. The irony of the double standard takes shape when you think back to past criticism placed on President Trump and his supporters for their skepticism and hesitation regarding the 2020 election results. 

What’s more important for the country, however, is the reflection on what went wrong for Democrats, and the fact that the answer to that question is also the basis for why the United States has become so polarized. While the self-sabotage list is long and distinguished by subjects such as identity politics, open borders, taxpayer-funded gender transitions for convicted criminals and countless other absurdities, it can all more simply be boiled down to the progressive embrace of the radical woke agenda. 

Polarization takes place when two groups find their opinions and beliefs in such stark contrast that their differences become irreconcilable. With conservatives, I don’t see much has changed over the years, and what has evolved seems to have come in the form of increased tolerance, acceptance and a willingness to understand ideas and lifestyles that were once considered foreign or taboo. Aside from that, it’s business as usual, advocating for smaller government, protecting inalienable rights enshrined in the Constitution and promoting strong family values. 

Left-Leaning Outer Space

In contrast, Democrats have launched themselves into leftist outer space, playing host to woke policies that have set us back to the extent that we must now question what makes a man and what makes a woman, licensing society’s sycophantically ill to attack others based on pronouns, arguing against the reality that only a woman can give birth and that somehow it is racist to want people to immigrate into the country legally. The left has openly supported defunding the police and promoted socialism. They have flooded our southern border to the point that we have millions here illegally, many of whom place a great financial strain on our ability to provide social services and disaster relief, and worse, many gang members and criminals spreading violence and terrorizing citizens across the country. Democrats have also continued to show their willingness to game the system by threatening to pack the Supreme Court and flaunting their ability to weaponize the judicial system against political opponents. 

Democrats have even colluded with private businesses to limit free speech in blatant violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which comes as no surprise to those who have spent years defending the Second Amendment against the left’s desire to dismantle and abolish the right. Thinking back 20 years, I can recall far more rural liberals standing up for gun rights, however, the radicalization of the party has turned the argument into an all-or-nothing issue as anti-gun politicians and organizations have seized control of the discussion within the Democratic party.

Second Amendment Fail

We know where Kamala Harris stands on the Second Amendment, but that isn’t necessarily what she tried to sell publically late in the campaign. In the past, Harris made a concerted effort to distance herself from liberal colleagues, trying to prove she was the most anti-gun, by calling for a ban on the manufacturing and sale of semi-automatic firearms including a declaration that she would confiscate those firearms already owned. Later, she insulted Americans’ intelligence, downplaying the idea of confiscation by instead calling for a “mandatory buy-back,” but the government cannot buy back that which it did not sell, and mandatory simply means to comply or face criminal charges. I think we have a word for that. It’s called confiscation. 

During the campaign, however, Harris changed her tone, claiming she no longer supports confiscation, as if to say that her continued support for banning semi-automatic firearms isn’t a blatant violation of the Constitution she swears to protect out of the other side of her mouth. She even rolled out “Tampon” Tim Waltz, an Elmer Fudd-like caricature of a Second Amendment-supporting liberal who made for better memes than did the cackle-prone confiscation queen herself. Americans saw right through this awful schtick for what it was, more lies and deception, which have permeated her campaign, and leftist politics in general, on all prevailing issues.  

Aside from this failing agenda, the Harris campaign picked up where Biden left off, focusing their race as a referendum on Trump rather than any effort to explain to Americans why we are currently in the precarious shape we are in and what they plan to do to change it. Even the hot-button topic of abortion failed to be a galvanizing force as you can only campaign on killing babies so much before it ends up sounding morbid.

Additionally, Harris was unable and unwilling to separate herself from an unpopular President Biden, whose approval ratings have hovered around 40% for most of his four years in the White House, the lesson here being that you can’t rally people around an already failing agenda just for the sake of teamwork. It is almost impossible to step out as Vice President in support of your own failing administration while telling Americans how much better you’re going to make things for them if they give you the big promotion, and even more so when you’re on the ticket without being voted there in any legitimate primary election in the first place. 

Message Sent, Message Received

America has sent a message with this election, and the message is that the radical left needs to backtrack to the center. A return to normalcy is in order, not just pretending to be normal while kowtowing and pandering to society’s fringe elements. It is notably admirable that the Founding design of our Constitutional Republic allows us to correct our course when we get steered so far astray. I hope that short memories find longevity, however, as much work is necessary to fix the damage and heal the wounds caused over the last four years of this administration, from inflation and a failing economy to lawlessness and the attack on American liberties. 

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76 COMMENTS

  1. Alas, per the Babylon Bee “Trump Beats Another Woman”. The salty tears are flowing knowing DJT has now won three elections.

    • It’s becoming more obvious that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

      I want a competent task force to spend four years locating the millions of Democrat voters that were fooled by a stammering, senile basement dweller that was never impressive on his best day, but were not fooled by the younger and much healthier girl boss.

      Puppet Joe will go down in history as the only person to outperform both Trump AND Obama. Who really believes that?

      • 15,000,000 Ghost Voters from 2020 no-showed this election.

        The totals vote for each state for the two elections should be compared and that will show where the cheating occurred. Cheater states should face extreme polling observation in future elections.

      • “It’s becoming more obvious that the 2020 election was fraudulent.”

        We caught a *massive* break when he lost in 2020, let me explain –

        Had he won, he would not have the house or senate, so he can’t get any substantial legislation passed.

        He just had 4 years to reflect on how he would do things this time around, and that paid off BIGTIME.

        Now, he can seat Supreme Court justices easily, if Thomas and Alito decide to retire. I hope they exploit that opportunity.

        Controlling the upper and lower houses now means we control all the committees that move legislation along.

        Really, it’s so much BETTER he’s prez now instead of being a lame duck in 2020…

  2. “we have to wonder when or if a concession call will be made to President-Elect Donald Trump.”

    She did make that s̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ concession call. Plus, she has also made her s̶u̶r̶r̶e̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ concession speech at Howard University.

    Plus, the Electorial College votes have updated as more results have come in.

    Trump: 292
    Harris: 226

    This was an ass stomping.

    • “This was an ass stomping.”

      Now imagine how bad it would be with a better informed electorate. I know some hardcore Democrats. They’re very misinformed. We have some work to do to solidify and expand the new political alignment.

      • Dude,

        Imagine how much greater Trump’s margin of victory would be if the legacy media, Big Tech, and entertainment superstars were not carrying water for the Democrat Party?

      • Leftists are allergic to facts, so expecting them to embrace logic and information is a fool’s errand. We embrace reason, and the Left embraces feelings.

  3. This morning NPR had a perfectly reasonable pundit suggesting perhaps calling 80 million people Nazis, bigots, dumb and garbage and ignoring economic issues might have hurt her chances.

    That radical was quickly corrected when the next pundit definitively answered the real reason was sexism and bigotry.

    Hopefully they never learn their lesson.

    • Shire-man,

      The pundit left out “deplorables” in his/her list.

      “… the next pundit definitively answered the real reason was sexism and bigotry.”

      And there is one of the hallmarks of the Democrat Party and their supporters: nothing is ever their own fault–it is always someone else’s fault.

    • Shire-man,

      My first attempt at responding to your comment immediately went to moderation limbo for no obvious reason. So I will break up my response to two very simple pieces.

      First piece, that pundit forgot Hillary’s “deplorables” label.

    • Shire-man,

      Second piece, the other pundit blaming Camel Toe’s loss on _exism and _igotry is standard Demo _crat modus operandi: nothing is ever their own fault–it is always someone else’s fault.

      (Apologies for the ridiculous spelling and characters which are necessary to evade mod _eration.)

    • Shire-man,

      Apparently this site will no longer let let me reply to you no matter how simple my response is, especially if my simple reply has the words sexism, bigotry, and Democrat.

      • Anyhow, blaming others (voters in this case) rather than themselves is standard operating procedure for that political Party (which starts with the letter D) and its supporters.

        • Southern Cross,

          This site specifically flagged some (not all) of my above posts as “awaiting moderation”.

          I have seen that site behavior before, especially when you include words like Democrat and Progressive.

    • I didn’t know anyone actually listened to National Panhandler Radio. I thought it was kinda like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest. If they broadcoast but no one listens, did they actually say anything?

      • I listen to NPR, watch Morning Joe, read CNN, MSNBC, Politico, the Atlantic, etc… daily.

        I can’t be accused of echo chamber group think and knowing who they really are and what they really believe keeps me on the right path.

        • I have the free subscription to Ground News. It’s a news aggrigating site. Think “Drudge Report” before he got infected.

          They show a meter for every article they reference, and rank that article from left to right. A handy thing to have, as long as they continue to do the rankings in good faith.

  4. Joe Biden called Donald Trump to congratulate him on beating Hillary in the election and invited him to come to ‘that big building where they give me ice cream”.

  5. She lost because black men have long memories. and they remember when she as attorney general of california was locking up black men and keeping them in lock up. Beyond their court sentence.

    And I’m sure there are many people who don’t want to admit, that Black men, helped push Donald Trump over the top.

    She is a case study of a government prosecutor out of control, a corrupt evil woman.

  6. I would like to think that Kamala’s defeat had nothing whatsoever to do with her – but was rather a solid rejection of the ultimately traitorous philosophy that has been in control of the Democratic Party for some time – plus a significant tightening of electoral security.

    I believe that folks who claim that she does not know what she stands for are wrong – she knows, she just can’t say it out loud.

    • She was less confident about showing her true colors after the Covid/St. Floyd spell had been lifted.

      To be fair, any VP tied to the disastrous Puppet Administration would have been at a disadvantage.

      • Hey Dude here’s one for you – they caught 11k rnds of 7.62 (didnt say what flavor) coming across the border at El Paso. What is notable is that it was being smuggled *into* the US.

        My tin foil is tingling with vigor.

    • After repeatedly being asked what she stands for, her well thought-out answer should have been anything other than ” Hmmm, well, because my ass gets sore if I sit for too long.”

  7. 4 minutes of Queen Kamala’s voice is all I could stand, 4 years of that and I’d have took the Nestea plunge.

  9. I woke up this morning, the sun shined brighter, the air was cleaner and crisp, the morning songbirds chirping was loud and clear, My coffee tasted better. From my kitchen window I watched the cloud’s part and the rays of sun shone onto the mold that was infecting my America. I smiled, knowing that we elected a great man that will make America great again. I turned and told my wife, I’ll have a second cup.

  10. Question; has that Jack Smith guy from the Matrix been shown the door? Here’s Benny Johnson’s take.
    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz-quQo80ZI

  11. I think there is a much simpler explanation:

    Democrat Party leaders have a near infinite mountain of money at their disposal as well as immense support of legacy media, Big Tech, and entertainment superstars. Democrat Party leaders have also enjoyed steamrolling* their bizarre party planks over the masses for the last 20 years and they simply figured that there was no limit to how much poison the masses would swallow.

    You can only beat a dog into submission for so long before the dog finally lashes out and fights back. That is what happened–and what Democrats have probably failed to learn.

    * Democrats have been “steamrolling” their bizarre party planks–literally intimidating and even threatening the masses to “accept” their garbage as good and true. Needless to say, intimidation and threats are not necessary when a proposal really is good and true.

    • Hell, they had surrounded the homes of the conservative SCOTUS justices at one point.

      In other news – they caught a Mexican smuggling 11k rnds of 7.62 *into* the US at El Paso on the 7th. Seems like a major anomaly. Too bad they did not track it.

      This needs close attention.

  12. Or you could say it was the religious people, christians jews, and even Muslims. All who put Trump over the top.

    Like the more than 80,000 amish people. Whose milk farmers were being harassed by f.as.ci-st government inspectors. So they organized themselves. And went horse and buggy to the polls.

    Most for the first time in Pennsylvania.

    • actually the abortion crowd was more notably absent than present for Kamal as president. Even though they supported Kamala on the abortion thing, a lot of the democrats among them preferred to vote on it on state referendums in splitting their tickets and rather than vote for Kamala as president they voted for Trump

  14. “Why did Kamala Harris lose?”

    Umm . . . because she’s a babbling, cackling idiot? How about because she’s a complete incompetent?? Perhaps because she’s (like MajorLiar) dumber than Balaam’s off ass?? Or, just maybe, because even Dimocrats found it ironic to anoint, rather than vote for, a presidential candidate, and then campaign on “preserving democracy”??? Maybe ALL of the above??

    I dunno, but I will ask our resident Leftist/fascist diot, MajorLiar – how COMPLETELY incompetent does your party have to be to lose and election (“lose an election” HELL! Get frickin’ curb stomped! 292 EV, AND DJT aslo won the popular vote).

    SUCK IT, MajorLiar!!! If bitter tears of Leftist/fascist losers could give you a hangover, I’d be a hurtin’ puppy, today. As it is, I notice that it’s truly a beautiful day. Although I also notice that the Leftist/fascist loser has been remarkably silent, today. I’d say “licking his wounds”, but I don’t think either his tongue or his Johnson are long enough.

      • Southern,

        Or, perhaps, because she didn’t HAVE a platform to articulate?? Her “platform” was more content-free than Barry Soetoro’s idiotic “Hope and change” nonsense. The closest the stupid ho came to articulating a “policy” was, “Let’s give away more gummint money we DON’T HAVE!!!”

        And, surfing the ‘Net the last two days, my tentative conclusion is that the Dims are too stupid and lacking in self-reflection to even DEAL with the level of the curb-stomping that was visited upon them. May they remain stupidly oblivious for six or eight MORE election cycles!

        Here’s a scary thought: You know the old anti-Trump dig about “they are not sending their best”??? What if MajorLiar IS “their best”???? A political movement of uneducated, unthinking, indoctrinated morons is our opposition.

        Heh. Heh, heh, heh! *GUFFAW!!*

        They sent their best . . . and it was laughably bad.

        • her platform would have been blammo’s fourth term, she most certainly is capable of articulating it. if she had honestly laid it out she would have won only cali.

          • Pssst!

            Dan Z. and the gang are over at Dan’s new blog, shootingnewsweekly dot com… 😉

  16. She was never serious except when blaming Trump for her failures.

    The political pendulum will swing back to the left again. Before that happens we need the R”s to get serious on legislation to protect our rights and make it harder to remove them in the future.

    • The high point of her campaign was when she goaded Trump into an off-the-cuff reply to the claim of illegals eating pets.

      After that any serious questioning devolved into her “word salad” where Kamala would talk a lot and say nothing.

      Remember I am on the other side of the world and I can see this I wonder why others can’t.

  17. When liberal progressive democrats and the fake news media spends months calling people racist, sexist, garbage and fascists. Including people of color, other women and young people it’s no wonder 72,000,000 voters rejected them at the ballot box.

    • The Dem supporters are calling Trump voters everything from hicks and morons to every ‘cist and ‘phobe in existence. Because the people didn’t buy into their grand vision?

  19. When you answer every question by not answering the question, enough people will finally catch on that you’re a vacant twit with no moral grounding.

    • It looks very shady. Who votes for Trump, then turns around and also votes for a Dem Senator? That doesn’t make sense in the current political climate (it might have made sense years ago).

      • OOh! Ooh! I know this one!

        A MISOGYNIST!

        (at least that’s what the lefties are telling me is the real reason why Kamala lost, so it must be the reason why Kari Lake lost).

  21. Kamala voters melt down across the internet after Trump crushes their souls.

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YznESr_JTRQ

  22. President Trump probably has many large piles of executive orders ready to sign. Its going to take some work to begin to undo the ruin and attacks and hostility and government-weaponization Biden and Harris have heaped upon the country and constitution and shoved down the throats of citizens, sometimes at gun point, during their perverted sick twisted tyrannical reign and ‘rule by fiat’ and their hatred of American citizens.

    • He said the Mass deportations of illegal criminal aliens will begin within 5 minutes of taking the Oath of Office on January 6 2025. My guess is self deportation will begin somewhat earlier. At least that’s what several Hollywood types have pledged to do. sarc/

  23. A few left wing ‘supposedly’ news sources were still reporting “The presidential race remains too close to call” and saying Harris can still win even after they said Trump had won.

    Harris was always going to lose. Maybe there was a chance of not getting her ass stomped and soul ripped out as completely like Trump did by winning, but she was always going to lose. And that point where her downfall started came earlier in her campaign when she did do a very rare thing for her and actually answer a question…

    Harris had a high-profile appearance on “The View”. Harris was asked an unscripted question about whether there is anything she would have done differently than Biden over the past four years. Harris responded: “There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of — and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact,” … but ya know Kamala, she just can’t resist blathering on with BS, so later in the gathering of cackling hens Harris said “You asked me what is the difference between Joe Biden and me — that will be one of the differences. I’m going to have a Republican in my Cabinet,”

    That’s the point where she determined she was going to lose the election…

    There is a reason, off camera, her campaign handlers freaked out and tried to get the show to stop and suddenly switch to an unscheduled break and go to a commercial. They knew then she had just branded herself to be a Joe Biden political clone and from then on out she was unable to politically distance herself from Joe.

    Yeah Kamala, the Joe Biden political clone, someway or another was just what we needed with four more years of economic ruin, printing money we can’t afford, increasing prices, inflation, lying about biden-nomics, war-hawk spending, attacks on constitutional rights (not just the 2A), rule by fiat, an intentionally open and insecure border allowing thousands of violent criminals and gangs to just walk in basically by your invitation, thousands of drug overdose suicides from the illegal drug trade through your intentionally open and insecure border, and so much more … then a token republican in your cabinet, and then the sheer incompetence and the constant hamming on marxist socialism concepts and ‘cultural and identity politics’, and race bating and deceptive pandering and constant barrage of insulting over half the citizens in the country basically telling them they were not worth warm spit…

    By that, and then word salad and obfuscation and provable documented lies and cackling, yep, Kamala was always going to lose the election and it was only a matter of how much.

  24. California Takes a Right Turn on Crime.

    h ttps://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/11/06/california-takes-a-right-turn-on-crime-n1226814

    “Property crime spiked in California after the pandemic while the state, counties and local governments have struggled to contain and control sidewalk encampments of homeless people.

    Prop. 36 was pitched by supporters as a solution to those problems Led by the retail industry, they pledged that the measure would target drug traffickers and people who commit multiple acts of retail theft.

    They raised about $17 million for the measure, which in addition to big checks from major retailers also included contributions from the California District Attorneys Association and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.

    Opponents raised about $7.7 million, which included contributions from the ACLU, teachers unions and the labor organization Service Employees International Union.

    Prop. 36 reverses some of the changes California voters made to the criminal justice system a decade ago with Proposition 47, which lowered the penalties for some crimes while seeking to reduce the state’s then-swollen prison population.

    Polls leading up the election consistently showed a large majority of likely voters supported Prop. 36. Several Democratic big city mayors and district attorneys threw their support behind it, too, despite Newsom’s opposition.

    ‘Tonight, California voters have spoken with a clear voice on the triple epidemics of retail theft, homelessness and fatal drug overdoses plaguing our state,’ San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in a written statement. ‘In supporting Proposition 36, they said yes to treatment. They said yes to accountability. And they said yes to putting common sense before partisanship, so we can stop the suffering in our communities.’

    ….

    They also said ‘hell no’ to four more years of George Gascon running the D.A.’s office in Los Angeles County. The Soros-backed prosecutor who won office four years ago on a platform of ‘restorative justice’ and reforms to the criminal justice system was ousted by Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor and assistant U.S. Attorney.

    …

    Voters in the Bay Area also voted in favor of a return to law and order by recalling Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao; both progressives who wore out their welcome as residents became increasingly frustrated and concerned about crime in their community. With 100% of precincts reporting both Price and Thao have been soundly defeated, with about 65% of voters choosing to boot them from office.

    California isn’t going to turn red anytime soon, but the far-left progressive policies on crime and punishment have definitely fallen out of favor. … “

    • Actually, the real reason she lost was that her candidacy was so boring and un-exciting, about 10 million of her usual voters decided to not show up on election day.

  26. All I can say is we have to stay vigilant, there will be more with her same agenda. She is a poor vessel to carry their message. As for her, hahaha, she is a disgusting pos that couldn’t get any votes in 2020 that is why they picked her. obama picked Joe because he was an idiot and easliy controlled. They picked her as Joes VP because she is an absolute idiot and was easier to control. She is a traitor and needs to be held accountable for her inaction on the border

  27. She got her first big job promotion by one-on-one oral pleasures and that methodology was not scalable to a nationwide solution.

  31. I think we all know why Kamala lost.

    15 million votes that came out for Biden didn’t come out for Kerry, Obama, Clinton or Kamala.

    Hmm….where did those votes come from and where did they go?

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