Saturday, November 30, 2024
Stone Age Parliament
Democracy: The Revenge
More important, 2024 marked a resurgence in democracy. The Democratic Party policies that voters rebelled against were profoundly undemocratic. Opening the southern border to admit 10 million or more illegal immigrants—when did Americans ever vote to do that? We didn’t. The Biden Administration exploded the national debt, driving up the cost of groceries by 20% or more. When did Americans vote for that? We didn’t. The Democrats’ top priority is DEI, which is to say, race and sex discrimination. When did Americans vote for that? We didn’t. To DEI the Democrats added trans-insanity, with genital mutilation of minors and men on women’s sports teams. When did Americans vote for that? We didn’t.
Far from representing an abandonment of democracy, the 2024 election was seen by most Americans as an opportunity to—finally!—assert democratic control over a government that was running rampant over their rights via executive and bureaucratic fiat. (Of course the icing on the cake, in terms of democracy, was that the Democrats nominated a candidate who had not gotten a single vote for the office of president.) Until the Democrats acknowledge that reality, they won’t be able to mount a comeback.
Healing
The ritual humiliation of Trump's implacable enemies is a wonder to behold, and as much as anything, a sign that the world is healing. There was no place left to go once the public rejected the "Trump is Hitler" attacks. What more could possibly be said? For a decade, the left has thrown every single accusation they could at Trump, impeached him, fueled riots, rigged elections, jailed his allies, and inspired assassination attempts, and none of it worked.
The Pravda media lost, and Trump won.
Hating Trump has been a good gig for these grifters. It paid well, required no thinking skills at all, and was a ticket to all the right parties.
But the grift is done. The world is healing.
Girl Math
Winning: Energy Edition
With his solid background in science and energy, he is going to be the most knowledgable secretary of energy the nation has ever had. The climatistas are going to cry hard on this one, but I can’t wait for his Senate confirmation hearings, which I expect Chris will deliver a tour de force to the likes of the egregious Sheldon Whitehouse.
Unlike some energy executives, Chris is not defensive about his industry one bit. Quite the opposite. His company issues an annual ESG report entitled “Bettering Human Lives” that makes the argument for why oil and gas make our environment better and the world safer. He turns every leftist cliche on its head and demolishes it.
So he's nothing like the current Secretary of Energy, that unqualified dunce, Jennifer Granholm, I guess.
Justice Dingbat
Can anyone who saw Harris getting questioned about her policies and track record imagine what a Senate confirmation hearing would look like? Why would any Democrat put their credibility on the line -- let alone the party's credibility -- to support the trainwreck that would result? Put aside that she failed the bar exam on her first try, which isn't exactly a measure of legal excellence associated with this level of appointment. Harris didn't even practice law for long, and not much when she did; she grossly exaggerated the number of cases she personally prosecuted, the record of which would come out during a confirmation process. What makes anyone think she'd be able to consider legal-philosophy questions and precedents in depth and under pressure?
Abomination
