Yes, and yes — and end the filibuster while we're at it

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Steven Hayward, PowerLine:

  • • One of the hottest ideas among the goo-goo (good government) reform community has been the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which consenting states would commit to pledging their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote, no matter how their state’s votes came out. This compact is almost certainly unconstitutional, but can anyone imagine California right now saying, “Oh, okay, we’ll award our electoral college votes to Trump.” If the compact had been in force for this election, here’s how the electoral vote would turn out:

Heh

  • Likewise, if Congress has a sense of humor, it should call these clowns as witnesses at a hearing on the first day to testify in support of a bill to add four seats to the Supreme Court immediately:

(FWIW) : Don’t forget the Democrats’ other pet project:

Sadly, much as the Democrats (and Trump) want to abolish the filibuster, a few Republicans of principle have vowed to keep it.

California’s new senator (sigh) Adam Schiff is all for getting rid of the thing:

Schiff said he’d prefer major swings in policy to the current gridlock, emphasizing that killing the filibuster is the only way to pass abortion rights, gun safety and voting rights measures and to mitigate climate change. He said he doesn’t worry about Republicans’ using a filibuster-free Senate to reverse liberal gains when they take power.

“The Republican policies are so reactionary, backward and unpopular that should they ever really be in a position to put them into effect, they’ll be voted out of office in a heartbeat,” he said.

And Trump has pushed to nuke it, but …

If Trump and Republicans sweep the election, GOP senators would probably face pressure from Trump to do away with the filibuster. He repeatedly demanded that they nuke the 60-vote rule during his term as president. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., refused in 2017 and 2018. Although McConnell is stepping down as GOP leader, it's unclear whether Trump would be more successful this time.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he expects a push to kill the filibuster to toughen immigration laws if the GOP wins in November.

“Quite honestly, if we run the table politically in November and we have control of both chambers and President Trump has the White House, it wouldn’t surprise me if getting additional tools to get the border under control would be used as an argument for nuking the filibuster,” Tillis told reporters.

But he said he would adamantly oppose that.

“The day Republicans vote to nuke it is the day I resign,” Tillis said, arguing that it would “destroy the Senate.”

And from Texas, and Florida, more opposition:

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who faces a competitive re-election bid, said he’s committed to preserving the 60-vote rule even if his party sweeps the election and Democrats use it to stymie legislation.

“Yes,” he replied when asked.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., who also faces re-election this fall, said, “I believe in the filibuster.”

Even if Republicans have control and it threatens their agenda?

“I believe in the filibuster,” he repeated.

I personally had agreed with the opponents of all three of these propositions: the National Public Vote Compact; packing the Supreme Court; and abolishing the filibuster, but in the face of the powerful arguments put forth in their favor by distinguished Democrat politicians and “thinkers” like Lawrence Tribe, it would be awfully presumptuous of me to disagree.

So bring ‘em on. Here’s to you, Chuck Schumer.

I haven't had this much fun since November 10th, eight years ago

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The rocket scientists are distraught (who wants to tell him?);

And so are the medical geniuses;

Liberal pediatrician sparks fury with vile tweet at Trump fan

Dr. Mayank Sharma, 35, is a pediatric cardiology fellow for the University of Iowa Health Care - a fellowship based at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. He’s weally, weally angwee at Twump voters:

‘Well I hope you lose your kid in a school shooting,' he wrote. 'Already you have nothing to lose, it won't matter to you anyways! Prepare for your kids funeral.'

And then we have the weaker sex:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

BURBANK, CA — Liberal woman Marcie Galveston was forced to film herself having a second post-election meltdown this week after she realized she forgot to hit the record button on her phone the first time around.

"WHY??? WHY?????" screeched Galveston, tears running down her cheeks. "I'm shaking, I'm so terrified! Look what you did, you sick freaks! I'm literally no longer safe as a woman, are you happy? I just can't believe over half the country is so RACIST and SEXIST and… oh wait a second. My phone isn't on. Aw, man. Gonna have start this whole thing from the beginning."

Despite the setback, Galveston worked hard to drum up new tears and access that same level of rage as she set her phone up against the kitchen backsplash a second time and put it on selfie mode.

"Yeesh, it's hard to get that level of emotion on a second take," she said. "Come on, Marcie, you can do this. Think about the trans gulags, the internment camps for gays. ARGH. The tears aren't coming, the tears aren't coming!"

At publishing time Galveston was seen holding an onion under her eyes while reading The New York Times in an effort to spark tears of rage again.

SAME QUESTION:

Oooh, nice touch: they’ve smeared “blood” on their loins, presumably to show solidarity with the israeli girls of October 6th

Are they sure it wasn't Dan Quigley, distraught that his candidate Kampalla lost? I understand he wears a size 16 shoe

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Bigfoot heard ‘screaming,’ ‘whooping’ in Connecticut Sasquatch hotspot

Bigfoot was caught making a ruckus in Connecticut’s Sasquatch hotspot last year, according to a recent report by The Bigfoot Field Research Organization.

A Fairfield County resident heard the hairy giant’s “screaming/long-duration whooping” just after midnight on Oct. 17, 2023 — sparking a barking dog frenzy and sending owls into a terrified silence.

NYC psychiatrists are having a field day; we can expect divorce lawyers to begin cashing in too

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(as in crazy, not angry)

Election snowflakes rush to NYC shrinks’ offices after Trump win

Liberals in deep-blue New York City shocked and disturbed by President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory are flooding shrinks’ inboxes looking for appointments.

“It’s a perfect storm for New York therapists,” said Manhattan psychologist Chloe Carmichael, who estimated she’s received a 15% spike in inquiries from patients. “It’s a repeat of 2016, where a lot of people feel really scared and traumatized and angry.”

On Wednesday morning, New York City-based psychotherapist Alyson Cohen woke up to a deluge of paranoid texts from clients begging for extra appointments this week, many of whom claimed to be “afraid for their futures and that of their children.” 

“I’ve even already heard [from] some female clients who say they are now second guessing having children out of fears for their health as it relates to pregnancy-related medical care,” she said. 

Here’s the part that’s going to have the matrimonial bar beginning to extend their St. Bart’s holiday reservations from one to two, even three weeks:

It’s worse for couples, said Lisa Brateman, a psychotherapist and relationship specialist in Midtown.

Romance hit the rock for relationships where each person voted for different candidates, Brateman said.

“If a woman was saying ‘What about my rights as a woman?’ and her boyfriend or husband voted for Trump, it felt like a personal unwillingness to understand them,” she said. 

It’s not socialism, It's just neighbors helping neighbors

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(Photo credit, The Maine Wire)

When he left office in 2019, Maine’s governor Paul LePage left behind a budget surplus of $28.6 million. All proper-thinking socialists in Maine and across the country, detested LePage because he kept vetoing as unaffordable his state’s Democrats’s spending wet dreams, so when was term-limited out, hosannahs were heard from Maine’s southern border to the terminus of the Tofu Line in Bar Harbor. A Democrat was installed in the Governor’s Mansion, her fellow looters were voted complete control of all three branches of government, and together they set to work. That has worked out exactly as planned, so that when the current governor departs in two years, LePage’s surplus will be merely an unpleasant memory from the past: Today, Maine Faces $949.2 Million Budget Shortfall for 2026-2027.

Maine’s constitution requires a balanced budget, each year. But not to worry, it can and will be made up by higher taxes, and certainly not with spending cuts: those are, as we all know, not spending, but “investments”.


Well of course he does; so do all his fellow Democrats who are demanding that the present voter pool be replaced by more obedient subjects.

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“They let me down — Me, a distinguished historian!”

The “polling Nostradamus” who had a nervous breakdown election night when his prediction of a Kamalla victory went so badly wrong (I posted a fun tape of that disintegration here), now has a fuller explanation: He wasn’t wrong, the voters were.

Presidential Historian Blames ‘Disinformation’ And Bigotry For His Incorrect Election Prediction

Historian Allan Lichtman on Thursday largely blamed “disinformation” and bigotry for his wrong prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would defeat President-elect Donald Trump in Tuesday’s elections.

Lichtman accurately forecast nine of the 10 last elections before wrongly predicting Harris would be victorious, according to USA Today. The historian, on his YouTube channel, argued that voters were not “rational” or “pragmatic” due to what he characterized as a massive uptick in “disinformation” and Trump’s promotion of “xenophobia,” “misogyny” and “racism.”

“I think two things this year, and maybe going forward, broke this premise of a rational, pragmatic electorate, and these are trends that are not new but have exploded this year beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. First is disinformation,” Lichtman said. “Always had disinformation, but we’ve never had anything remotely on this scale, where billionaires — I don’t know how much Elon Musk is worth, I’m sure more than a hundred billion dollars — who control critical sources of information for the electorate. I mean, Elon Musk owns X, and I’ve seen reports that his disinformation that he’s put out, has been viewed by two billion viewers, vastly more influential than New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CBS.”

The historian also alleged that Musk is not the only billionaire disseminating “disinformation.” He asserted that “the incredible explosion of disinformation” has led to Americans believing falsehoods about the state of the American economy, “mak[ing] it very difficult for a rational, pragmatic electorate to operate.”

“And finally, there’s racism, one of the deepest, most pervasive trends in American history,” he added. “And we have seen, just as Trump and his allies have brought misogyny and xenophobia to a new level, he’s also brought blatant racism to a new level … So we see then the explosion of disinformation and these three dark trends from American history, and that calls into question the whole premise behind the keys of rationality and pragmatism.”

Related: Lichtman’s been nursing a grudge against ll sorts of people this election cycle. Here he is in Juky:

‘You Are Complicit’: Historian Gets Mad At CNN, Media For Helping Trump By Highlighting Biden’s Debate Showing

“Sure he was exposed as the senile idiot that he is, but, but, TRUMP! Whaddabout Trump???!!!”

UPDATE:

It seems to me that the only people who are actually suiting action to words are those suffering in the California People's Republic, but by all means, go: In the name of God, go.

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see ya

Searches for how to leave the US surge as bitter Harris supporters hunt new homes after Trump's election win

Searches for how to leave the US have surged after Kamala Harris' defeat to Donald Trump, as bitter Democrats look for new homes aboard.  

Following Trump's victory earlier this week, Google Trends found that there has been a significant rise in searches related to 'leaving the country' and 'how to move'. 

Canada topped the list of countries being considered by devastated  Democrats desperate to leave. 

The United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and Italy rounded out the top five. 

Wonderful news, if true (though why other countries should be burdened with our rejects is a question best left to the deity), but a closer look at the numbers as provided by a NY Post article on the same poll shows that these people are all promise and hot air, and have no real intention of sparing us their presence:

More than 50% of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris say they want to move following Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, according to a survey commissioned by StorageUnits.com.

Storage Units surveyed 1,837 Harris voters on Nov. 6 to determine how many would like to relocate – and who actually plans to – and the top concerns of those who voted against Trump.

Of those surveyed, 44% would like to move, but probably won't, while 5% said they will definitely move and another 5% said they probably will. Those who would like to move, but probably won't, cited personal finances, family and community ties as reasons they will stay in place.

Of the 10% planning to move or seriously considering it, 90% are looking into moving to another country, with the top choices being Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico. California, New York and Colorado were the top three choices for those considering moving to another state.

5% of 1,837 unhappy leftists is just 91.85 (and we would be doing a favor to those unlucky destination countries were we to ship our ex-patriots to them in fractions), and, even extrapolated a little, that’s insufficient to effect change.

But it’s a nice thought.

UPDATE:

Sad

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Harris & Walls: Painters De-Face Building After Kamala's Humiliating Loss to Trump

Just days after Kamala's humiliating loss to President-Elect Donald Trump, many Democrats are trying to erase her from memory. That includes taking a paint roller to a mural on the side of a building in Atlanta, Georgia. Workers quickly made sure that residents would no longer be haunted by Kamala's enormous flat face and cackling grin. You could say this is an attempt to unburden them by what has been.

Going, going, gone! (WATCH)