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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Will Trump finally end the socialist scourge in America?
Will Trump finally end the socialist scourge in America?: It is true that Trump holds a unique pull and, therefore, can draw many to vote Republican, but one day, he’ll be gone, leaving many Americans vulnerable to the mainstream media. While MSNBC has lost much credibility, as evidenced by its recent viewership loss, other news outlets controlled by the left, including NBC, CNN, and the New York Times, still have faithful followings.
Now that Trump has won, how to talk to your liberal friends
Now that Trump has won, how to talk to your liberal friends: For many if not most of your liberal friends (that is if you have any left) the world has just come to an end.
Many are either in a state of deep depression, even deeper denial or worse.
This is especially true of your older friends who were so looking forward to seeing the sun set on their lives under a Democrat president – proof that there was indeed a God that they could meet as they took that last step towards eternity.
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Angry liberals,
Donald Trump
Illegal vote-counting continues in Pennsylvania, and even the Democrat governor calls out the cheating
Illegal vote-counting continues in Pennsylvania, and even the Democrat governor calls out the cheating: Democrats have said they never challenge elections and elections are clean and pure, but these lies have been on clear display in Pennsylvania for days. County election counters even bragged that they were ignoring the law.
After days of cheating ...
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Election Integrity,
Josh Shapiro,
Pennsylvania
Polls: Transparent elections important to majority of Americans
Polls: Transparent elections important to majority of Americans: It turns out that most Americans want election measures that call for transparency, according to the November 18 Rasmussen Poll on “election integrity.”
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the future of Constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. The Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to Musk and Ramaswamy.
Why the DOGE initiative makes sense
Why the DOGE initiative makes sense: In an era marked by federal fiscal irresponsibility, the announcement of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spearheaded by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy under President-elect Trump's upcoming administration, is not just a policy proposal; it's a clarion call for a revolution in governance.
The United States, once the beacon of economic freedom, is now staggering under a debt load that threatens to crush the very foundations of our prosperity. The DOGE, while not a traditional department but an advisory council, represents more than a mere attempt at cost-cutting; it is a profound statement about reclaiming the ethos of limited government, accountability, and economic prudence.
Biden’s authorizing Ukraine to fire long-range missiles smells like a preemptive military coup
Biden’s authorizing Ukraine to fire long-range missiles smells like a preemptive military coup: Biden’s surprise decision on Sunday, November 17, 2024, to authorize Ukraine to utilize long-range U.S. missiles capable of reaching 186 miles into Russia requires explanation. (As of this writing, Ukraine has already fired a missile into Russia.) Does the U.S. military believe that allowing Ukraine to fire a few U.S.-manufactured Army Tactical Missile systems (“ATACMS”) into Russia will win the war for Ukraine? Or is Biden’s decision evidence that the United States is in a military coup d’etat aimed at escalating the war in Ukraine so Donald Trump will not be able to settle the war should he manage to be inaugurated in approximately two months, on January 20, 2025?
No one should believe economists — they are apologists for bad policies
No one should believe economists — they are apologists for bad policies: This article in USA Today is so full of misinformation that it’s hard to know where to start. They work very hard to absolve Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their policies for the rapid rise in inflation — but the actual evidence shows how responsible they really are.
Election Integrity Win: Swing State Supreme Court Drops Huge Ruling, Making Top Democrat's Loss Even Worse
Election Integrity Win: Swing State Supreme Court Drops Huge Ruling, Making Top Democrat's Loss Even Worse: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court directed Pennsylvania counties on Monday not to count mail-in ballots that violated state law.
Monday, November 18, 2024
Another Democrat war handed to Republicans to end
Another Democrat war handed to Republicans to end: Today, the situation in Ukraine is morphing into a 21st century version of that same Vietnam-era scenario. Starting in 2021, the view from Moscow was that Biden was weak, given our 2021 debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, which prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, a land most Russians believe is part of their land and a necessary buffer from the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Trump Dream Team
The Trump Dream Team: Another Dream Team is being assembled in Washington, D.C., under Coach Donald Trump. It, too, is arguably the best (or worst) administration ever built, depending on one’s political persuasion and whether one might be in the crosshairs (figuratively, for the censorship cranks – I am not calling for shooting anyone) of administration officials or cabinet secretaries.
The Obamas Get Their Comeuppance
The Obamas Get Their Comeuppance: The one person who knew that the Joe Biden presidency was something other than “Obama’s third term” was Barack Obama. If Obama had any illusions about his control over events, he was rudely disabused of them on July 21, 2024. This was the Sunday on which Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris.
Democrats openly cheating in Pennsylvania, will anyone stop them?
Democrats openly cheating in Pennsylvania, will anyone stop them?: Democrats, as is clearly being illustrated in Pennsylvania, do not care about the rule of law. They do not care about court orders. And they sure as hell don’t care about the will of the people. Far from wanting to save our democracy, they fervently wish to subvert it. Anarcho-tyranny is fine with them as long as the anarchy serves their interests, and they are the tyrants. This is why they have openly admitted to counting disqualified ballots despite the fact that doing so contravenes state law, court order, and the will of the majority of the state’s voters.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Citizens demand investigations of hospital COVID deaths
Citizens demand investigations of hospital COVID deaths: State legislators and other officials and citizens need to strongly support the efforts of hundreds of citizens living in five states who are demanding that their states’ attorneys general conduct a thorough investigation of alleged crimes committed against their lost loved ones during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The crimes were allegedly committed by hospital staffs and officials (such as Dr. Anthony Fauci) who promulgated and implemented hospital treatment protocols for COVID patients that included, among other things, the administration of the drug remdesivir.
One theory for the Democrats’ catastrophic loss
One theory for the Democrats’ catastrophic loss: Now that the Democrats’ humiliating electoral defeat has gone into the record books, the remaining processes are beginning to unfold. The driving force for this is not Mr. Trump’s popularity or Harris-Walz’s lack thereof. It is the long overdue awakening of the formerly free-living American public to the accumulated tyranny of the modern mega-state.
Various justifications have been offered for this persecution of the general public. Most conspicuous is the grossly hyperbolic threat of catastrophic “climate change.” In California and at least eleven other states, unelected agency functionaries have issued complete bans on new fossil-fueled motor vehicles, to occur within the conceivable future.
Kamala’s billion-dollar campaign
Kamala’s billion-dollar campaign: Kamala Harris’s catastrophic campaign for president launched on July 21, 2024, when the Democrats unceremoniously dethroned Joe Biden and installed Harris as their nominee. The campaign came to a crashing end on Nov. 5, 2024, lasting only 107 days.
In these 107 days, it was reported that the Harris campaign has spent over $1 billion. You read that correctly: the figure is $1 billion.
The campaign spent roughly $9.3 million per day.
What was the outcome?
Harris lost all the swing states, the Electoral College, and the popular vote. She won 382 counties, whereas President Trump won six times more — i.e., 2,552 counties.
The Constitution and the administrative state
The Constitution and the administrative state: As the news coverage of Donald Trump’s cabinet selections has shouldered aside news coverage about Democrat loser hysteria, a silent Tenth Amendment puzzle is haunting the Trump true believer. This apprehension arises as department heads are appointed to the bureaucracy without mention, observation, or apparent awareness that much of what the administrative agencies do is blatantly unconstitutional.
Democrats will continue to obstruct
Democrats will continue to obstruct: Donald Trump is having such a grand time selecting the people for his administration, while the Democrats are tearing out their hair at each new pick, especially two of the most recent ones: Matt Gaetz and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
And even though Trump won the election fair and square, Democrats in their usual obstructionist and hateful ways will do as much as they can to stop his appointments and his new policies.
Friday, November 15, 2024
The Gaetz appointment is a masterstroke
The Gaetz appointment is a masterstroke: Lisa Murkowski is itching to vote against firebrand Matt Gaetz as attorney general. She may not get the chance. If the new Senate leadership recesses the Senate for three days, Gaetz can take office as a recess appointment, circumventing the confirmation process. It remains to be seen if Senate Majority Leader John Thune will play ball.
The Gaetz appointment is a giant middle finger to those in the Justice Department who have harassed Trump since before he took office in 2017. It started with the Russia hoax, and it's been going on nonstop for eight years. The final straw came when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, including searching Melania's bedroom, purportedly looking for evidence of a crime.
Democrats denied the pain of Bidenomics, and it cost them Congress and the White House
Democrats denied the pain of Bidenomics, and it cost them Congress and the White House: If the media and other Democrats would like to understand why they lost, all they would have to do is look at what average people have experienced over the past four years as the government has grown in size and power, and the purchasing power of the dollar has been destroyed. Yet still, Democrats were advocating for bigger government and more taxes to solve the problems they have caused. (What we need is a much smaller government, and a majority of voters agreed.)
They tried to say that President Trump’s tariffs would cost families an extra $4,000 per year, but that’s a theoretical prediction that is no doubt a vast overestimate.
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Corrupt Liberal Media,
Democrats
DOGE: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government are Not the Problem -- Bureaucratic Power is
DOGE: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government are Not the Problem -- Bureaucratic Power is: Many are dancing an Irish jig – even non-Irishmen whom one would not expect to know such dances – over the prospect of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy heading up a new “Grace Commission 2.0” of sorts, cheerfully nicknamed a Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
They intend an 18-month project, hopefully to conclude by our nation’s 250th anniversary, in which they will apply standard American manufacturing cost-cutting techniques such as LEAN and Six Sigma tools, to find out how much fat is in every federal department, bureau and agency, and cut it out as fast as possible.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
The Biggest Blunder in the History of American Politics
The Biggest Blunder in the History of American Politics: The biggest blunder in the history of American politics was the premeditated, unabashed, and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election by the Democrat Party, the legacy media, and their fellow left-wing elitists in the Ruling Class as that alliance failed to create an unquestioned landslide defeat of Donald Trump and were thus, forced into the impossible task of placating the extreme left-wing faction of the coalition. This blunder set the stage for the 2024 Trump landslide and hastened the demise of the Democrat Party and the legacy media.
This cabal further compounded the original blunder of overtly stealing the 2020 election and being compelled into an alliance with the radical Left by adopting unprecedented lawfare against Donald Trump, insisting that an obviously addled Joe Biden be the Democrat nominee, ousting Biden four months before the election, and choreographing the nomination of the unlikeable and vacuous Kamala Harris.
Now is the right time in our country’s history to release the JFK files
Now is the right time in our country’s history to release the JFK files: On these pages and elsewhere, writers have offered compelling evidence of another shooter and possible U.S. intelligence community involvement in JFK’s assassination, while other writers have rejected this narrative because too many people would have had to know and someone in the know would have spilled the beans.
I don’t know enough to comment on the former, but I do have thoughts on the latter.
Democrats vow to obstruct President-Elect Trump again
Democrats vow to obstruct President-Elect Trump again: Democrats are on the record as vowing to obstruct Donald Trump’s second term. Just like they did his first one.
This is election-interference. It is an in-your-face pledge to negate the will of the American people, who overwhelmingly voted for Trump. (Trump won in a near landslide, winning the Electoral College 312-226…and the popular vote by more than three million.) It is, in fact, an assault on our democracy. Which should be ironic to anyone who hasn’t yet seen today’s Democrats for what they are: power-hungry elitists who believe they know better than you do on how to run your life...and that of everyone else who doesn’t reside in their “insolated,” big-city coastal bubbles. Democrats’ motto should be “Let them eat cake.” Or maybe bugs. But definitely not meat.
Tom Homan is a man out for justice
Tom Homan is a man out for justice: From the first time I saw Tom Homan interviewed on Fox News, I was so impressed by his determination to protect the border of our country. For him, the goals were all about border security and national security, and nothing could excuse illegal migrants breaking our laws. His fervor about this invasion of our country was second only to President Trump, even in Trump’s first term, and he is resolute about deporting those people who have been allowed to cross our borders illegally, thanks to the policies of the Biden administration.
Thus, we are fortunate that almost immediately following the November 5 election, Donald Trump anointed Tom Holman the “border czar.” He will not require Senate confirmation, and will rely on the cooperation of Department heads to support his plans. Since Trump just stated today that he will appoint Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, who is a stalwart supporter of border security, I foresee her working well with Holman, as will likely other Department heads.
With Trump’s win, wokism is down, but it’s definitely not out
With Trump’s win, wokism is down, but it’s definitely not out: Nathan Cofnas is a fellow in Philosophy at Cambridge and a blogger, who has written a detailed essay showing how Marxist socialist collectivist wokism, with all its racialist elements, is alive and well. Despite Trump’s victory, it’s not going anywhere. The commitment that the leftist elites and chattering classes have to the ideology holds strong. Cofnas says that the idea that wokism has peaked and will go away is “flawed... [S]ocial justice warriors are in our boardrooms, universities, and government bureaucracies putting their ideology into practice.”
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Trump 2.0 Is a Reckoning For Democrats, But the Battle Is Not Over
Trump 2.0 Is a Reckoning For Democrats, But the Battle Is Not Over: Now, I ask a simple question. What in the name of Saint Peter changed over the last decade with the Democrat party? Most critical-thinking people who are grinding away at work and home life, who normally do not care to think about politics, who have voted the Democrat ticket like their ancestors going back to FDR, now realize that the new Democrat party has morphed into Alice in Wonderland, flying monkeys, and psychedelic leftism over the last decade.
Is Clint Eastwood Being Targeted for his Political Leanings?
Is Clint Eastwood Being Targeted for his Political Leanings?: What has baffled admirers of Eastwood and industry observers is how Warner Brothers mishandled the cinema distribution of the film. Released on November 1, the film is currently playing in fewer than 50 cinemas across the U.S.
Are Americans finally noticing media bias and propaganda?
Are Americans finally noticing media bias and propaganda?: Looks as though the bias in mass media has caught up with them. They overplayed their hand. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 52% of Democrats, 27% of independents and 12% of Republicans trust mass media. Younger people trust mass media less than older.
Don’t allow yourself to become upset with the talking heads in mass media. Feel sorry for them. They are truly lost. And the vast majority don’t believe their biases masked as news.
There is an innate defense mechanism in all humans that warns them of danger. Lies denote danger to a person, and that triggers a response. Human nature registers a lie as manipulation, the liar is trying to gain an advantage unethically and thereby seeks control over the individual. Lies, deceit, and propaganda last for only so long.
Normal people versus bureaucrats
Normal people versus bureaucrats: Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch is a constitutional scholar. Gorsuch was instrumental in repealing the Chevron Doctrine.
Chevron, passed in 1984, amassed incredible powers to the office of the president, his Administrative State, and bureaucrats. The entire regulatory apparatus grew like a cancer and spread the disease of a more powerful central government at the expense of individual freedom.
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Deep State,
Donald Trump
The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins
The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins: In a video posted on X on November 7, 2024, two days after the election, Trump detailed a plan to dismantle the Deep State. In this three-minute video, Trump explained how he would take a series of measures to “shatter the Deep State.”
In this video, Trump made the same mistake JFK made when JFK said he was going to break the CIA into a thousand pieces after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. By announcing his intention in advance, JFK signed his death warrant. Trump has now declared war on the Deep State as president-elect.
Because he spoke before he was inaugurated, giving him the power to act, Trump alerted the Deep State that he represented an existential threat to its survival. The bottom line is that the Deep State cannot afford for Trump to become president on January 20, 2025.
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Deep State,
Donald Trump
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Where can the leftists go?
Where can the leftists go?: Our economy needs skilled workers, but many of the progressives who constitute the disaffected Harris contingent likely burrow into unproductive government jobs, or become social workers aiding and abetting illegal aliens. They won’t be missed all that much; heck, our economic productivity may even increase in their absence. After all, we now have a builder president, and many of his supporters are equally constructive on America.
As for their preferred destinations, Canada and the United Kingdom make some sense -- from a leftist viewpoint, that is. Both countries rank reasonably highly on various ranking metrics. For what it’s worth, both score reasonably well in the United Nations Human Development Index, which purports to measure achievements in health, education and standard of living.
A real border czar: Thank goodness President Trump gave us Tom Homan
A real border czar: Thank goodness President Trump gave us Tom Homan: In what must have been the most welcome and heartily necessary appointment, President Trump announced that Tom Homan would serve as his border czar.
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Donald Trump,
Illegals,
Open Border
How media fail
How media fail: Of all the institutions that have failed us in past years, none has been worse than the media. I am specifically referring to the news organizations and not those who clearly identify themselves as opinion journalism. I have no issue with a Morning Joe, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, or Laura Ingraham who are at least honestly bringing their points of view to their programming. I am, however, faulting the traditional news stations (ABC, CBS, NBC) and folks like Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer who pretend to be objective.
These organizations are guilty of acts of omission as well as commission.
Why Does the Left Want to Scrap the Constitution?
Why Does the Left Want to Scrap the Constitution?: For years, reforming the Constitution has been a misguided conservative issue. Downplaying the danger of a runaway convention, impatient conservatives have campaigned to ask the states to call a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) to consider reforms and amendments that might address their many legitimate concerns.
Now, leftists are appearing on the reform horizon, calling for major constitutional changes.
Monday, November 11, 2024
November 5th was a great day for women
November 5th was a great day for women: Women have traditionally been herded into regressive policies by hysterical hype over misogyny, which is always linked to their rights, abortion, and race. To make matters worse, their votes are taken for granted by the left.
As the tabulations continue to show, though, Donald Trump won 52% of white women voters who put national security, economics, and immigration issues over gender and race. In fact, additional information discloses that seven percent of black women voted for Donald Trump.
Did celebrities have to be paid to endorse Kamala?
Did celebrities have to be paid to endorse Kamala?: Even those of us who were appalled by Kamala Harris’s campaign, the ever more embarrassing interviews during which she could not answer the simplest of questions unless they were what she ate for breakfast, did not realize that employing celebrity endorsers cost millions of dollars. Most of us probably assumed that those who graced her rally stages or interviewed her for television or podcasts did so because they actually supported her. We were wrong.
Many of them — even Oprah, who is worth three billion dollars — got paid to interview her. She got one million (h/t Jesse Watters). Cardi B got $2.5M. Beyoncé allegedly got even more and did not even sing.
These super-rich star endorsers deny this, of course, and the posts that revealed the payments have been removed. But it makes sense.
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Democrats,
Hollywood,
Kamala Harris
How Badly Harris Lost and Why
How Badly Harris Lost and Why: Donald Trump appears to have been the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote.
Scouring the internet, the only Democrat figure who seems to be smiling is President Joe Biden. For the others, it seems to be a time of mourning. A look at the results, their implications, and the machinations of the federal bureaucracy is in order.
Labels:
Donald Trump,
Kamala Harris
7 Lessons for Democrats to Learn
7 Lessons for Democrats to Learn: The left is in a mad scramble of attempting to assign blame for Kamala’s staggering defeat. Leftists have pointed fingers at one another and even blamed the constituents they claim they represent. What is amazing is that they refuse to hold up a collective mirror and look at themselves as the root cause of their failure in this election.
The reasons for the loss were relatively simple.
Trump 2.0's Team
Trump 2.0's Team: There is an old joke that goes as follows:
What do you call a place full of immoral, sleazy, selfish opportunists, hypocrites, flatterers, chameleons, backstabbers, and cowards?
The answer: Washington D.C.
Let the Reckoning Begin
Let the Reckoning Begin: President-elect (that does have a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?) Donald Trump delivered a shock and awe election victory on November 5. Those most surprised are the corporate media, Hollywood, and the paid Democrat X-shills, all living in their social media bubbles.
I wasn’t terribly surprised, as I have been tracking the polls on these pages for some time. Aside from the numbers, enthusiasm was on Trump’s side, culminating in four rallies the day before the election, which ended in the wee hours of the morning.
Friday, November 08, 2024
January 20: A partial wish list
January 20: A partial wish list: Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, both of whom belong on the Mount Rushmore of Supreme Court justices, have earned a well-deserved retirement. (Preferably, Chief Justice John Roberts retires as well). Let’s get three young constitutional conservatives confirmed to the SCOTUS while we still have a majority GOP senate.
The election had nothing to do with racism and sexism… unless they’re referring to the Democrats
The election had nothing to do with racism and sexism… unless they’re referring to the Democrats: The Democrats always play the race and sex cards when campaigning for office; now a huge number are falsely blaming racism and sexism for President Trump’s victory.
It is demonstrably easy to show that Trump’s win had nothing to do with race and sex but was instead based on policies.
In 2020, Trump received 74 million votes, running against a white man, and this year he received around 73 million votes, running against a black woman. I would challenge anyone to do a simple analysis and show the evidence that the votes had anything to do with Kamala’s sex or race.
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Democrats,
Donald Trump,
Kamala Harris
Winners and losers in Trump’s America
Winners and losers in Trump’s America: With Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday, leftists have ramped up the fear campaign — suggesting that the president is going to go full fascist, locking up women, gays, black and brown people, journalists, his political opponents, ad infinitum.
All nonsense, but there will be winners and losers in the Trump 47 era.
In the winners column, first and foremost is Donald Trump himself. He was robbed in 2020 and had the wherewithal to persevere through a mountain of lawfare, attacks on his family and businesses, and two assassination attempts to come out stronger than when he began the journey.
Trump (MAGA) followers were vindicated. It turns out they are not Nazis, but represent a broad cross-section of hardworking, “normal,” everyday Americans.
The Democrats Have Been Kamalished
The Democrats Have Been Kamalished: Kamalish (kah-MOLL-ish) verb, to politically self-destruct from within. Rhymes with demolish. Earliest use, c. 2024.
Democrats didn’t just lose an election, they lost a political party, the world’s oldest. Founded in 1828, Democrats will sow chaos no more. The Civil War’s perpetrators have finally come undone.
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Democrats,
Donald Trump,
Kamala Harris,
Republicans
Thursday, November 07, 2024
Americans are no longer buying what Democrats are selling
Democrats spent far more in swing states... and still lost every single one: I’m still riding on a high from the victory in and of itself, made better by the fact that two of the grossest and treasonous politicians in America’s history will not be taking over the federal government, leftists are crying and melting down (in epic and schadenfreude-y fashion), and now, while money definitely matters in elections, it turns out it’s not the deciding factor.
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Democrats,
Donald Trump,
Kamala Harris
Bye bye, Barack
Bye bye, Barack: Maybe former President Obama got the message when he spoke to African Americans in Philadelphia. The thrill is gone. The racialist policies just don't work anymore. People are tired of hearing sermons from former presidents with mansions and First Ladies who sent their kids to expensive private schools.
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Barack Obama,
Donald Trump
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
HUMAN EVENTS: Real democracy — and vision — won last night
HUMAN EVENTS: Real democracy — and vision — won last night "Democracy won in 2024; the American people proved we – and not our self-appointed betters in the three-letter agencies – are sovereign."
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