The team on the ABC daytime show mourned Kamala Harris losing the election with a diverse mix of reactions, from “this is a referendum of cultural resentment” to “we need to start listening more about the concerns of everyday Americans.”

ABC’s first post-election episode of The View was very sober and, at times, intense.

The show’s hosts had a diverse mixture of reactions to the news that Donald Trump has captured the presidency once again, defeating vice president Kamala Harris by what appears to be a significant margin.

While acknowledging that none of the show’s five hosts wanted Trump to win, they each had a unique take on the news.

The strongest reaction came from Sunny Hostin: “I’m profoundly disturbed. In 2016, we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration, but we know now, and we now he will have almost unfettered power. I don’t worry about myself, actually. I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their social security and their medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter, who now has less rights than I have. And I remember my father telling me many, many years ago that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights. Now I have less civil rights than I had when he told me that. So again, I’m profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States. … As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country. And I think that [the outcome] had nothing to do with policy. I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”

Channel 4 Kicks Ex-U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Out of Election Panel for Plugging Book While the most sanguine response came from Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in Trump’s communication’s office during his first term: “Is it the outcome I wanted? No, but tens of millions of Americans — our friends, our neighbors, our family members — voted for Donald Trump. They are good, decent people who are patriots and love this country, and I can’t speak to what drove them to this, but I think it is a moment for us to listen to each other … We need to bring down the temperature, the name calling, the demonizing … and I think there are some lessons from it. I think we forget about rural America. I think the working class feels left behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite, only care about them and their power. And [Trump] spoke to them. We may not have liked his words, but they turned out for him. I mean, the map was beyond [Ronald] Reagan. We need to start listening more about the concerns of everyday Americans. … I have faith that some good, decent people are going to work for him.”

Whoopi Goldberg reacted to Griffin’s comment, by noting: “You can always say, ‘Oh, [Harris] should have done this.’ She was everywhere, she talked to everybody — and people didn’t come out. I don’t know why, and it doesn’t even matter … it’s hard for some of us to hear that rhetoric after 50 years. You know, after 70 years, to hear that rhetoric coming back, to hear things that came out of people’s mouths that we all decided as a public group that we weren’t going to talk to each other that way. I feel okay when I hear somebody talking down to somebody else, I’m all right with that. What I’m not all right with is trying to further wreck the country.”

Goldberg added that she will refuse to say Trump’s name, noting, “I’m still not going to say his name. That’s not going to change.” She was also one of the celebrities who said they would leave the country of Trump won in 2016.

Opined Joy Behar: “My takeaway is that the system works. We live in a democracy. People spoke. This is what people wanted. I vehemently disagree with the decision that Americans made, but I feel very, very hopeful that we have a democratic system in this country. … It’s been very difficult, but we have a country — if we can keep it.”

The reaction follows a slew of Hollywood and media outpouring over the election result.

Hollywood celebrities reacted on X with a mixture of fatalism and fury: “Goodbye, America. It was nice knowing you.”

CNN commentator Van Jones gave a grim analysis on the cable news channel’s election desk: “So it’s easy to blow this off — ‘Oh, look at the elite, they’re gonna get their comeuppance.’ It’s not the elite who are going to pay the price. It’s people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare.”

While The Daily Show host Jon Stewart offered a message of hope to viewers: “I promise you, this is not the end.”

Seriously? Kamala wants a command and control economy. This means shortages and ration coupons. It means bread lines. It means inflation beyond what we have. How does impoverishment expand my ability to live and love in freedom?

She wants to tax (at massive rates) THEORETICAL income. This means huge and duplicate taxation if you’re middle class. It means higher prices for everything if you’re poor, because socialism passes all the costs onto the customer. How does $10 per gallon gas and $50 for a pound of butter expand and preserve my freedom?

Mama Kamala wants socialized medicine. This means ONE choice for everything–the government’s choice. If you’re rich and connected, you can get black market good health care. Otherwise, it’s six months or longer to wait for cancer treatment or heart surgery. If I am dead, how am I free?

She wants government control of social media. Knucklehead Walz promised as much. Nasty, trashy Biden already delivered censoship, but Walz and Harris will triple down. No free speech, no gun rights.

And forget your body, your choice. Vax mandates are not a choice. Politically correct medicine, while woke and cool to start, means only one thing: the government owns your body. The unaccountable regime in D.C. will regulate a hell of a lot more than abortion.

So tell me, Democrats: How does your Party preserve and expand my liberty?

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People voting for Kamala say, “You have to vote Democrat to ensure your right to love and live as you please.”

Seriously? Kamala wants a command and control economy. This means shortages and ration coupons. It means bread lines. It means inflation beyond what we have. How does impoverishment expand my ability to live and love in freedom?

She wants to tax (at massive rates) THEORETICAL income. This means huge and duplicate taxation if you’re middle class. It means higher prices for everything if you’re poor, because socialism passes all the costs onto the customer. How does $10 per gallon gas and $50 for a pound of butter expand and preserve my freedom?

Mama Kamala wants socialized medicine. This means ONE choice for everything–the government’s choice. If you’re rich and connected, you can get black market good health care. Otherwise, it’s six months or longer to wait for cancer treatment or heart surgery. If I am dead, how am I free?

She wants government control of social media. Knucklehead Walz promised as much. Nasty, trashy Biden already delivered censoship, but Walz and Harris will triple down. No free speech, no gun rights.

And forget your body, your choice. Vax mandates are not a choice. Politically correct medicine, while woke and cool to start, means only one thing: the government owns your body. The unaccountable regime in D.C. will regulate a hell of a lot more than abortion.

So tell me, Democrats: How does your Party preserve and expand my liberty?

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I’m writing this before the election results are known, however, I think Trump will win.  I think he’ll take office in January. Still, the two months between will be chock full of Democrat tricks trying to delegitimize his victory, coordinated riots seeking to push America into chaos before he’s inaugurated, and the swamp seeking to do everything it can to insulate itself from the potential consequences of a Trump presidency.

January 20, 2025, will not be a checkered flag moment. On the contrary, it will be the starting line for a four-year race to save the nation. As such, we need to look at what exactly needs to be done going forward. Below is a list of 10 things President Trump needs to do. There’s much more, but I’d suggest this is a place to start.

#1 – Seal the border and deport all 30 million illegal immigrants. Just like last time, Democrats, RINOs, and activist judges are going to try and stop him.  He cannot let them succeed.  Begin by declaring the nation is under assault and deploying the Army to the border until the wall is complete. The first step in deporting the millions of illegals is stopping all of their benefits. Next, given that they will need food and shelter when the benefits are curtailed, establish exit processing centers where they can come and find shelter and food and be processed out of the country.  Next, stop all federal funds from going to “sanctuary” states and cities that do not cooperate.  Finally, enforce federal legislation against hiring illegals, and send employers to jail.  Of course, none of this will be enough, but it’s a beginning.

#2 – Resurrect the 10^th Amendment.  For those who don’t remember, the Amendment reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Most of the things the federal government does are simply unconstitutional. Assign a crack team of constitutional scholars/lawyers to go over the federal government with a fine toothcomb. Starting with the federal government’s list of its agencies, examine every single department and agency and highlight those for which there is clear Constitutional authority. For every other one, craft a plan for their dissolution. For easy things like NPR, PBS, NEA, etc. which are inconsequential, make the dissolution immediate. For others, like HHR and other wealth redistribution programs, where sometimes generations of families have been raised to suckle at the government teat, create a three-year plan that reduces their budget by 33% a year for three years, ending with the complete dissolution at the beginning of year four.  For those agencies/departments that remain, implement zero-based budgeting so that they are forced every single year to make the case for the money they are seeking from the federal government.

#3 – Restructure the Justice Department, the FBI the CIA, and the Pentagon.  Fire the leadership of all four – up to and including the top 100 senior managers/officers of each with severance packages. Investigate every one of them and those suspected of treason/incompetence over the last eight years and charge them. For the rest, allow them to demonstrate they deserve to be part of the organization if they’d like their jobs back. Their success on that score should be based on two things, competency and a demonstrated allegiance to the Constitution.

#4 – Ban every DEI program and race or sex-based program in the United States government.  Make it crystal clear to Americans that every single job, scholarship, or contract associated with the federal government is based on one single thing, merit.  At the same time make it known that corporations making policy based on DEI and the climate change cult are violating their fiduciary responsibility and that officers and directors collectively and individually are liable for those violations.

#5 – Abolish the IRS and the income tax and implement a flat tax or better yet, the FairTax.  This will, perhaps more than anything but the 10^th Amendment action above, drive a stake through the heart of the swamp beast.  There is a reason that the seven richest counties in America (out of a total of 3,143) are suburbs of Washington, DC: government and lobbying.  And few things drive more lobbying than tax breaks.

#6 – Negotiate a peace between Russia and Ukraine.  Neither wanted this war and a month after Russia invaded there was a peace deal on the table both supported, until it was torpedoed by Joe Biden.  This useless and wasteful war is accomplishing nothing while costing hundreds of thousands of lives and causing trillions of dollars of damage to the participants and the rest of the world.

#7 – Remove the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. This globalist, anti-capitalist fiction is nothing more than an attempt to give elites control over the lives of citizens around the world and drives the destruction of prosperity everywhere its tentacles reach.  At the same time, eliminate every “climate change” or “green energy” driven policy in the federal government and make a plan for unleashing America’s true energy potential from fracking and nuclear power.

#8 – Use Congressional power vested in it by Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution (the Elections Clause) to guarantee federal election integrity by requiring Voter ID and paper ballots in every state and outlaw mail-in ballots for anyone other than the military.

#9 – Craft a plan that sunsets every law and regulation in the federal register within a decade.  Put a framework in place for Congress to reevaluate every law on the books over the following ten years and each one should face a renewal vote. Those that pass with 60% of both houses can remain on the books indefinitely while all others sunset after a decade unless passed again.

#10 – Pass a law that explicitly states that it is illegal for government agencies to coerce or motivate private enterprises to accomplish desired tasks that are illegal for the government to do on its own.  This applies to bank coercion of disapproved industries, data gathering on US citizens, or censorship of free speech among others.

Of course, as Trump learned in his first term, the swamp is a tenacious beast that will not go gently into that good night.  There will be gnashing of liberal teeth, there will be activist judges with God complexes trying to throw judicial roadblocks everywhere and there will be RINO calls to work across the aisle.  He should ignore all of that and march swiftly towards returning the government to its originally intended, natural, limited state.  Doing so will unleash an economic and entrepreneurial juggernaut never before seen and will be sufficient to create a giant budget surplus.  That surplus will be sufficient to eliminate the national debt in less than a generation and with it will go most of the problems America faces today.

There’s of course much more, but if he does half the things on this list Trump will easily have earned himself a place on Mt. Rushmore.

Trump headed for a landslide? That’s what one prominent, Republican-leaning pollster predicts. [Breitbart News photo, 11-3-24]

I wish I could say I agree. I don’t sense a landslide. I remember 1980. It was too close to call. But technology moved slower back then. Reagan decimated Carter in the debate right before the election, but polling didn’t reflect the shift until election day. Today polling is largely irrelevant because it’s hopelessly dishonest and politicized. My sense is there will be nothing definitive until a week or two after the election, and the networks and the government will declare Kamala the winner. Just like last time. Those of us who question it will be called enemies of democracy. A boring sequel.

The real suspense: Will the silent majority rise up and refuse to take it, this time? And will the Establishment call out the troops, ordering soldiers to turn on fellow citizens?

Hopefully I am wrong. Hopefully Trump will win all 50 states (or at least 48) and there will be a MAGA mega realignment. But I don’t see how. Ignorance is rampant. Stupidity is cool. Young people are lighting the dynamite of their own destruction, thinking it’s virtuous to be leftists. And evil really is everywhere, like nothing I have ever seen. In 1980, most people still sensed right from wrong; today, it’s not the same.

Hopefully I am wrong.

The Soviet Union had elections throughout its 75 year reign. Merely having elections does not make you free.

“Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington state and Oregon, where hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed after at least three ballot drop boxes were recently set on fire, officials say.” [CNN]

Mediaspeak for: “The Party wants to control the outcome of the election. Stay out of their way or we’ll foist the troops on you.”

Like-minded people concerned about the destruction of America, freedom and Western civilization keep asking: “What can we do? What can we do?”

They expect someone to develop a plan for them.

It doesn’t work that way. When fighting for your life and your freedom, you don’t wait for orders. You do whatever the hell you have to do. You figure it out, because you must.

All the best to everyone this week. We are entering a very difficult time. But remember: The enemy is an idiot.

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Despite so many factors going against Republicans, all the indicators are pointing to a mammoth win for Donald Trump on Tuesday. Democrats control the media, big tech, the legal system, education/academia, government, and corporations. Republicans have churches — but 32 million evangelicals are unlikely to vote in this election, meaning that influence is negligible. This leaves Republicans without much to counterbalance the massive Democratic advantages except enhanced GOTV efforts by the party, Turning Point USA, one-man machine Scott Pressler and Elon Musk’s efforts, which include converting Twitter into the only mainstream social media platform that doesn’t censor the right.

Due to the GOTV efforts, far more Republicans than Democrats have already voted in several battleground states, which was unheard of in recent years due to GOP fears of election fraud with early ballots. At the same time, Democrats aren’t voting early in as large a number as they did in 2020. In Arizona, by the 15th day of early ballots, Democrats had only voted 363,643 early ballots, which is 35.4% of their numbers. In contrast, in 2020, Democrats returned 535,229, or 43.5%.

As of Sunday, 9% more Republicans than Democrats had voted in Arizona, 5% more in Nevada, 3% more in Georgia and 2% more in North Carolina. While the Democrats were ahead in the other battleground states, many Republicans are still expected to wait and vote on Election Day. Since the extra voters consist of mostly low-propensity voters who wouldn’t normally vote, there will still be all the high-propensity Republican voters casting ballots.

Independents are significantly behind Republicans and Democrats in voting early, and their numbers, which usually split pretty evenly between Republicans and Democrats — the reason why they rarely impact races — are trending towards Republicans this year, polls show.

Despite the MSM highlighting a few aberrational polls that deliberately oversampled Democrats, college-educated voters and/or registered voters who weren’t “likely voters,” reputable polls show Trump winning in all the battleground states. AtlasIntel, which is ranked 22nd for accuracy out of hundreds of pollsters by the left-leaning FiveThirtyEight and considered very reputable by the left-leaning site MediaBias/FactCheck, shows Trump winning by 6 points in Arizona, 2 points in Pennsylvania, 2 points in Georgia, 6 points in Nevada, 4 points in North Carolina, 2 points in Michigan and 1 point in Wisconsin.

Rasmussen Reports’ head pollster, Mark Mitchell, just predicted a landslide for Trump, reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s historic huge win over Jimmy Carter in 1980. He said there is a good chance Virginia and New Hampshire could flip, too, and possibly even Minnesota or New Mexico. Mitchell said the polls showing a close race are wrong; Trump is actually strongly winning, and his advantage is increasing in battleground states. Rasmussen was considered one of FiveThirtyEight’s top handful of most accurate pollsters until the cheating started in 2020.

Former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris predicted Trump would pick up all the battleground states with the possible exception of Wisconsin. He said Trump might also pick up Minnesota or Virginia.

Betting markets on Sunday had Trump ahead. Kalshi showed Trump far ahead in every battleground state except Michigan and Wisconsin. The betting site Polymarket also has Trump ahead, but some have discounted this because a wealthy Frenchman bet $38 million on Trump.

The election forecasting site Quantus Insights has steadily shown Trump winning the electoral college by a large margin. It provided a significant analysis of why the battleground states will likely go to Trump.

A USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released less than two weeks ago showed that Trump was 11 points ahead of Harris with Latino voters. Even though Harris is reportedly a tiny part black, she has less black support than Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. Trump is on track to receive three times the amount of black support he had in 2016 and is currently at 16%, with almost 30% of black men. This could also be because Harris’ ancestors owned and traded slaves — a fact even the left-leaning Wikipedia admits, and something Harris has never denied.

The number of newspapers refusing to issue an endorsement in the presidential race is another foreboding sign for Harris. In 2016, only 26 of the country’s largest newspapers didn’t make an endorsement. This year, that number almost doubled, with 46 declining to issue one.

Douglas MacKinnon, a former White House and Pentagon official, predicted in September that non-elites, afraid of what the “condescending” left is doing to the country, will turn out a landslide for Trump.

The elites all predicted Carter would survive a challenge from Reagan in 1980, but instead Reagan trounced him. Reagan is the only president in history to be so popular that he obtained over 1,000 electoral votes. In 1984, his 525 electoral votes (out of 538) is the highest total ever received by a presidential candidate. Many believe Reagan won due to asking Carter during their single debate, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

Since Democrats failed to rally significant numbers in their party to vote early, Republicans are afraid they plan to bombard the election with a barrage of questionably obtained last minute mail-in ballots. In 2020 and 2022, the courts either sat on litigation challenging these shenanigans, creating fatigue so people forgot about it, or sidestepped adjudicating the controversy by claiming some bogus technical reason barred the lawsuits from being decided.

While Democrats are expected to pull their usual shenanigans, abusing the courts at the last minute, there have been several key rulings in the last couple of weeks revealing that judges aren’t going to rubber stamp all of their sleazy maneuvers this time around. The most striking decision is the Supreme Court deciding to take up a case just a few days before the election — almost unprecedented — and ruling that Virginia could remove noncitizens from its rolls. Due to the longstanding Purcell Principle, courts have refrained from intervening this close to an election. As long as no cheating is allowed, Trump appears headed for a decisive victory.

Rachel Alexander, townhall.com

If Trump wins, we will all be at war with the snowflakes, gender-confused, and emotionally fragile. Should be interesting.

If Trump wins and saves America, I will applaud louder than anyone. But we must remember that half or so of America hates America. Leftists don’t want the Bill of Rights or economic freedom. They claim they don’t hate America, but they do, because socialism and woke lunacy are NOT America, but the polar opposite of America. How else could they support the horrific things the Biden and Harris puppets have been doing, if they don’t seek its destruction?

So it may, in all frankness, be more realistic to look at a divorce. That means no more America as we have known it — but, get real, if Harris wins (for real or by fraud), either way, America is over. The republic hangs by a thread as it is, and cannot take one more blow. Not one. Secession — or liberation, a better word — in that context, offers hope for the states and localities that break away from the rotten-to-the-core regime that the Imperial City of D.C. has become.

So yes, I hope Trump wins and can slay the dragon. But please remember Plan B.

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Ayn Rand’s longest and closest intellectual associate, Leonard Peikoff, weighs in on Trump: Supporting Trump over Harris is a slam dunk. Harris is the worst conceivable candidate and will wipe out America. Riveting interview.

A Conversation with Leonard Peikoff About the US Presidential Election CLICK HERE!

Note: Dr. Leonard Peikoff wrote one of my favorite books on the philsophical parallels between America and Nazi Germany, called The Ominous Parallels. He wrote it in the 1970s with Ayn Rand’s agreement. Sadly, it has all come to pass.

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