Michigan’s pivotal electoral votes fall into the Republican column on Wednesday, the day after the polls closed at 9 p.m. ET.

The crucial battleground state controls 15 electoral votes and cemented the Electoral College victory for former President Donald Trump after he won several other battleground states.

Michigan’s official election results were among those contested by Republicans in 2020 after President Joe Biden was declared the winner. Biden flipped the state to the Democratic column with a
margin of about 154,000 votes, or 2.8% of the total votes.

The large population of Muslims in Michigan acted as a spoiler for Democratic hopes after many jumped on board the “Uncommitted” campaign to try to force the Biden-Harris administration to oppose Israel’s operation against Hamas terrorists.

Trump took advantage of the situation by
making a last-minute campaign visit to a popular restaurant owned by a Muslim in the city of Dearborn.

“To the Dems: Your unwillingness to stop funding and enabling a genocide created the space for Trump to infiltrate our communities. Remember that,” said Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, a Muslim.

Michigan was also the state where officials admitted there were
problems with Dominion voting machines for disabled voters.

“Yeah, this is a nationwide issue with Dominion voter access terminals in, in the counties that use them in the voter access terminals,” explained Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. “Of course, not all the machines, just the ones that are accessible have an issue. With the straight-party voting and a programming issue, that’s again affected the machines nationwide.”

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When most people think about the internet, they imagine a vast, interconnected world where ideas flow freely, communities form, and individuals from across the globe can engage in open dialogue. But what if much of that engagement is an illusion — an elaborate stage filled with actors that aren’t even human? The dead internet theory, a concept that has gained traction in recent years, suggests that much of what we see online is generated by bots, automated systems, and fake accounts, thereby creating an environment that is less human than ever before. But this characterization is misleading. To think of the internet as “dead” is to assume that these artificial actors exist in a state of passive listlessness, merely filling space. In reality, these bots and fake accounts serve a distinct purpose driven by the agendas of governments and other powerful institutions. This active, strategic manipulation calls for a new term: the zombie internet theory. Like zombies, these entities may seem lifeless, but forces with specific goals in mind animate them.

Before we go any farther, you can pick up a copy of Glenn Beck’s new book, “Propaganda Wars: How the Global Elite Control What You See, Think, and Feel,” where other aspects of this topic are explored in depth.

As the line between genuine and artificial online interactions becomes increasingly blurred, public trust in information continues to erode.

Dead vs. zombie: The active manipulation of online discourse

The dead internet theory emerged as a response to the growing sense that the internet had lost its early organic nature, with many users believing that bots and automated systems had taken over the organic conversations that once thrived online. Imperva, a U.S.-based cybersecurity company, releases an annual report tracking bot traffic online. Imperva’s 2024 Bad Bot Report revealed almost 50% of internet traffic comes from “non-human sources.” This issue is only expected to worsen as AI technology advances. Yet the term “dead” fails to capture what is really happening. The zombie internet theory suggests a more complex reality — one in which these bots are not merely filling digital space but are tools wielded by those who aim to shape public perception.

Unlike the passivity implied by the dead internet theory, the zombie internet theory recognizes that behind each seemingly lifeless account is an actor — often a state or a politically motivated group — using these tools to push a narrative, disrupt democratic processes, or control the flow of information. Rather than a chaotic, lifeless space, the internet is more akin to a controlled experiment, where the invisible hands of power quietly steer the dialogue.

Governments and their digital puppet shows

Russia’s disinformation machines

Russia has long been known for its sophisticated use of digital propaganda, particularly through operations like the Internet Research Agency. The IRA’s activities, including widespread disinformation campaigns during the 2016 U.S. elections, demonstrated how bots and fake accounts can flood online discussions, creating the illusion of popular support or opposition to specific topics. These campaigns are not random; they are strategically aimed at sowing division and mistrust in Western democracies.

China’s 50 Cent Army and online censorship

China has developed its own methods for shaping online discourse. A 2021 report published by the International Federation of Journalists details how the Chinese Communist Party uses an extensive media infrastructure to shape narratives on a global scale. One aspect of this strategy is to employ tens of thousands of people to “[seed] geopolitical narratives favourable to China’s Communist Party” on popular sites like X, Facebook, and Google. These strategies aren’t necessarily new either. Past investigations suggest the CCP has been actively manipulating the internet as early as 2005 with the use of the “50 Cent Army,” a group of paid internet users who promote pro-CCP narratives and drown out dissenting voices. Beyond its borders, China also engages in efforts to control the narrative around sensitive issues like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Uyghur crisis. These efforts illustrate how fake accounts are used not just to inflate support but to suppress voices that challenge the official narrative.

Manipulation by the United States and its allies

Other examples of this sort of government-coordinated manipulation include Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and many others. However, it’s not just authoritarian regimes that use bots and fake accounts to shape online narratives. The United States and its Western allies have also engaged in digital campaigns to influence opinions, often under the guise of countering disinformation. Whether through targeted advertising, strategic partnerships with tech companies, or subtle influence campaigns, Western nations have used the internet as a tool for both diplomacy and disruption. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed the intelligence communities of Western governments have also engaged in online information (and disinformation) campaigns around the world. The aim here is surely justified by the idea that these efforts support democratic values, but the methods are eerily similar to those used by the very adversaries they aim to counter.

Why this matters: The real stakes of a zombie internet

The implications of a zombie internet are profound. As the line between genuine and artificial online interactions becomes increasingly blurred, public trust in information continues to erode. When an individual cannot distinguish between the opinions of fellow citizens and those of a bot army, it becomes nearly impossible to have a meaningful public discourse. This eroded trust is especially dangerous during elections as it allows bad actors to sway public opinion or question the legitimacy of democratic processes.

Moreover, the internet has become a battleground for geopolitical influence. Each country’s efforts to shape the online environment are part of a larger struggle to control the global narrative. Whether through disinformation campaigns or the censorship of dissenting voices, the Zombie Internet has become a space where digital battles are fought — and where the victims are often ordinary users who just want to be informed.

The zombie internet theory is not just a rebranding of the dead internet theory but a necessary reframing highlighting the concerted efforts behind online manipulation. Recognizing this difference is crucial, shifting the focus from lamenting a lifeless internet to understanding the forces shaping our digital lives. If the internet is to be reclaimed for the living — for genuine, human interaction — then greater transparency, digital literacy, and accountability must become priorities. The question is not whether the internet is dead or alive but whether we are willing to see the strings behind the digital puppets and act accordingly.

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In their first broadcast since Donald Trump took back the White House overnight in a resounding victory over Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, the co-hosts of “The View” — some dressed in black as though they were attending a funeral — as expected harped and complained Wednesday morning about Trump’s win.

Whoopi Goldberg at one point acknowledged that Trump is “now the president” — however, she added a caveat: “I’m still not gonna say his name.”

‘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.’

Ana Navarro lamented that America failed to elect “the first black, Asian woman president. History slipped through our fingers again. I worked hard as hell for Donald Trump not to be president. But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won.”

Sunny Hostin said, “I’m profoundly disturbed. I think if you look at the New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ I think that in 2016 we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now. And we know now he will have almost unfettered power. And so I worry — not about myself actually, I don’t worry about my station in life — 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.”

Hostin added: “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. I think that going forward that the convicted felon box on employment applications better be taken off because if you can be the president of the United States, then you should not be prevented from employment in this country.”

Hostin also wrung her hands about a health care system that’s “now at risk” — and then she looked down and appeared to read from a screen and noted that economists say Trump will “increase the [national] debt by $7.75 trillion.” She also noted concerns about “mass deportations and internment camps.”

“I’m surprised at the result, but I’m not surprised. 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,” Hostin concluded. “And I think that it had nothing to do with policy; I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”

Sara Haines and even Joy Behar — a dyed-in-the-wool Trump–hater — were more measured in their reactions.

Alyssa Farah Griffin has been touted for a while as the lone Republican at the table — although she said she didn’t vote for Trump — and seemed the most understanding of them all.

“We need to bring down the temperature, the name-calling, the demonizing,” she said before adding that “it is a moment to listen to the voters. … I didn’t expect [Trump’s win] to be this resounding, 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.”

You can view a longer segment from Wednesday’s episode of “The View” here.

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Californians tired of watching thieves and drug addicts overrun their communities voted overwhelmingly to pass a measure to impose harsher penalties for certain crimes.

Proposition 36, otherwise known as the Drug and Theft Crime Penalties and Treatment-Mandated Felonies Initiative, is not so much a new proposal as a means of modifying a previous one.

Proposition 36 seeks to alter Proposition 47, which passed a decade ago. Under Proposition 47, theft of items worth under $950 could not be prosecuted as a felony, effectively allowing thieves to smash-and-grab their way through drug and big-box stores with little more than a slap on the wrist.

‘Retailers were only concerned about their bottom lines and not true criminal sentencing reform.’

Prop 36 promised to change the law to increase the penalties for theft and certain drug crimes, in some cases imposing sentences of up to three years behind bars, depending on a defendant’s prior criminal history. It would also make certain drug crimes “treatment-mandated felonies,” which means convictions for them can be dismissed in the event an offender completes treatment, the New York Post reported.

Though failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a former U.S. senator from California, declined to say whether she voted in favor of Prop 36, other Democrat leaders and liberal outfits in her home state previously voiced opposition to the measure.

“Prop 36 takes us back to the 1980s, mass incarceration — it promotes a promise that can’t be delivered,” Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed.

The LA Times insisted that Prop 36 would be “disastrous” for the state.

KTLA revealed its disapproval of the bill by suggesting that Californians merely “perceived” a recent increase in crime in their state. The outlet also indicated that those who backed the measure had impure motives.

“Big box stores like Walmart were among the major financial backers of Prop 36—some argued that the retailers were only concerned about their bottom lines and not true criminal sentencing reform,” it said.

Still, the measure did enjoy some support from other liberals, including San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who claimed it would “make targeted but impactful changes to our laws around fentanyl and help us tackle the chronic retail theft that hurts our retailers, our workers, and our cities.”

The vast majority of California voters likewise supported Prop 36, which passed with nearly 71% of the 7.6 million ballots cast, according to current totals.

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Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin narrowly won re-election Wednesday against Republican challenger Eric Hovde.

Baldwin secured 49.4% of the vote, while Hovde brought in 48.5%, according to Politico. Although Democrats held on to the contested Wisconsin seat, Republicans have already managed to flip three seats, securing their Senate majority.

Although Baldwin has won her seat by comfortable margins in the past, this race was much narrower.

“The voters have spoken and our campaign has won,” Baldwin said in a Wednesday post on X. “Wisconsinites chose someone who always puts them first, shows up, listens, and works with everyone to get the job done. I’m proud to head back to the Senate to keep fighting for our workers, farmers, and families that make our state great.”

Although Baldwin has won her seat by comfortable margins in the past, this race was much narrower. Leading up to the race, Hovde closed in on Baldwin’s lead, turning her near eight-point advantage from July into less than a single-point victory on Election Day.

While the votes were being counted, Hovde expressed skepticism about the election’s integrity.

“We’re watching the final precinct results come in,” Hovde said in a Wednesday post on X. “We’re certainly disappointed that the Democrats’ effort to siphon votes with a fraudulent candidate had a significant impact on the race, with those votes making up more than the entire margin of the race right now. We will continue to monitor returns and make sure that every vote is counted.”

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President-elect Donald Trump secured his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris early Wednesday morning, and exit polling indicates which demographics may be responsible.

Harris failed to drive support among voting groups like women, Latino men, and young voters, despite being historically Democratic, according to a CNN analysis comparing exit polls from the past three election cycles. While Trump was able to mobilize support among unlikely demographics, Harris’ inability to secure these key groups likely cost her the election.

While different demographics shifted in Trump’s favor, his greatest advantage over Harris may have been one key issue.

Although Democrats have historically secured the female vote, Harris underperformed compared to her predecessors. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the female vote by 13 points in 2016, while President Joe Biden won it by 15 points in 2020. Harris, on the other hand, won the female vote by just 10 points, according to the latest CNN exit polling.

At the same time, Trump regained an edge with male voters that slightly slipped in 2020. Trump won the male vote by 11 points in 2016 but dipped down to just an 8-point advantage in 2020, according to CNN. This time around, Trump won the male vote by 10 points.

Latino men, more specifically, also shifted away from Harris and toward Trump. Clinton won Hispanic men by a staggering 31 points in 2016, and Biden won them by 23 points in 2020, according to CNN. Trump completely reversed this trend in 2024, winning Latino men by 10 points.

Minority voters across the board also swayed in Trump’s favor. In 2016, Clinton won by 50 points among minority voters with a college degree and 56 points among minority voters without a college degree, according to CNN. Biden lost some ground in 2020, winning college-educated minority voters by 43 points and non-college-educated minority voters by 46 points. Harris continued this downward trend, winning among college-educated minorities by 35 points and non-college-educated minorities by just 32 points.

Trump also gained ground among young voters. In 2016, Clinton won among voters aged 18 to 29 by 19 points, while in 2020, Biden won among the same age range by 24 points, according to CNN. This time around, Trump shrunk the Democratic advantage among young voters, with Harris winning by just 13 points.

While different demographics shifted in Trump’s favor, his greatest advantage over Harris may have been one key issue.

In 2024, roughly two-thirds of voters said the economy was poor, and nearly half of voters said they are doing worse now than they were four years ago, according to CNN. This sentiment inevitably gave Trump an advantage over Harris, who has served alongside Biden during these last four years.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump will soon be called President Donald Trump once more after his historic victory on Tuesday night, soundly beating Vice President Kamala Harris after a hotly contested election.

One reason why Trump will head back to Washington, D.C., is because of his eye-popping gains among Latino voters. That voting bloc has grown in recent election cycles and was typically seen as a reliable pool for Democrats in national elections, but Trump has increased his support among the group since his first run in 2016.

‘It’s misogyny from Hispanic men.’

Trump won counties in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas this year, which has been a historically deep-blue pocket with an overwhelming majority-Latino population in the Lone Star State in counties such as Hidalgo, Starr, Cameron, and Maverick. President Joe Biden carried the aforementioned counties in 2020. Those same counties along the U.S.-Mexico border were hit hard by the border crisis the Biden-Harris administration started in 2021.

In his home state of Florida, Trump won urban and Latino-heavy Miami-Dade County by 11 points.

But it wasn’t just southern states that experienced a large swath of Hispanics breaking away from the Democratic Party. The voting group in Michigan went to Trump at 60% versus 35% for Harris.

Overall, NBC News reported Trump received 45% of the Latino vote, with Harris getting 53%. Harris’ support from Latinos is a steep decline from Biden, who got 65% in 2020. It was Latino men who largely helped Trump this time around, supporting him over Harris by 10 more points.

The dramatic shift caused an outrage on social media and on the airwaves once the results came in. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said misogyny is the reason why those voters did not support Harris in greater numbers.

“But it’s not just misogyny from white men. It’s misogyny from Hispanic men. It’s misogyny from black men. Things we’ve all been talking about, who do not want a woman leading them. … A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates,” Scarborough told Al Sharpton on Wednesday.

“Perhaps massive deportations will affect how they see Trump,” Mother Jones D.C bureau chief David Corn said in response to the election results. “If we’re talking about a Latino realignment, it seems quite possible that if Trump proceeds with an inhumane mass deportation that disproportionately affects a community, members of that community who have switched their support to Trump might come to have second thoughts about him, and this might affect that realignment.”

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Voters in Alameda County, California, appear to have chosen to remove two George Soros-backed politicians from office amid a devastating crime surge that has prompted many businesses to flee the area.

Ahead of the November election, separate recall efforts were launched against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao (D) and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price (D).

‘The phony “progressive” movement is officially dead.’

Recall campaign leaders, who blamed Thao and Price for the county’s recent crime surge, gathered enough local signatures to force an election to keep or remove the politicians.

With 100% of the 108 precincts tallied, nearly 32,000 residents, 65.19%, voted to oust Thao.

With full results from all 570 precincts, more than 134,000 locals, 64.79%, voted to remove Price.

The recall efforts to replace Price, Save Alameda for Everyone and Supporters of Recall Pamela Price, spent approximately $2.6 million on their campaigns. According to KGO-TV, they were backed by several police officers’ unions, PG&E, and hedge fund executive Philip Dreyfuss.

In addition to a recall effort launched by Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao, Thao faced calls to resign from the Oakland Police Officer’s Association. In August, the union urged Thao to step down to allow residents to vote for a new mayor in the November election.

Union president Huy Nguyen stated, “Today we are asking Mayor Sheng Thao to recall as mayor immediately for a lot of the failures in this city, going from crime, the budget crisis, the distraction of the FBI raid that prevents our ability to function as a city.”

Thao is currently wrapped up in an FBI investigation; however, no charges have been filed against her.

She refused the union’s calls to step down and accused it of “playing politics.”

While the final outcomes have not been officially announced as of Wednesday afternoon, if the results hold, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will appoint a DA in Price’s place to finish out her term, and the Oakland City Council will step in for Thao.

In the summer of 2023, even the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Oakland branch acknowledged that the area’s crime “doom-loop” resulted from “progressive policies and failed leadership.”

Businesses that have fled the area under Thao’s and Price’s leadership include Denny’s, In-N-Out, Black Bear Diner, Subway, and Starbucks, to name a few. Clorox Company, Blue Shield of California, and Kaiser Permanente were forced to increase their security due to the area’s uptick in criminal activity.

Seneca Scott, the founder of Neighbors Together Oakland and a recall spokesperson, stated, “The phony ‘progressive’ movement is officially dead. May it rest in pieces.”

Neither Thao’s nor Price’s campaigns responded to KGO’s requests for comment.

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As it became clear Donald Trump would become the next president, Democrat Juan Williams tried to blame Kamala Harris’ humiliating loss on sexism and racism.

But his fellow Fox News panelists refused to let that excuse slide.

‘To suggest that somehow black men are racist because they supported a white man is just too far.’

After first accusing Trump of having “led an insurrection against the United States government” — a crime for which Trump has never been charged — Williams doubled down on the media’s most trite narrative to explain away Harris’ loss.

“I’m not sold on this idea that it was the cost of eggs,” Williams said. “I worry that it was, ‘Well, I’m not voting for this woman.’ Or, ‘I’m not voting for this black woman.'”

Fox News anchor Bret Baier immediately fact-checked Williams.

“Well, no, that’s not what we see in our data,” he pointed out.

When Williams tried defending his position, anchor Martha MacCallum interjected to point out that many black male voters feel “that Democrats and elites put immigrants before” them. Undeterred, Williams responded by attributing Trump’s win to a “bro strategy and the white male turnout and white grievance politics.”

“He’s trailing among his prior 2020 numbers with whites,” Brit Hume shot back, putting a dagger in Williams’ narrative.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy then noted that Trump increased his share of support among black men and Hispanics, more evidence disproving Williams’ narrative that Harris is a victim of political racism.

Finally, Karl Rove prescribed Williams a dose of reality.

“I just think it is extremely odd to suggest that black men are somehow prejudiced because they vote for a white candidate who says, ‘I want to make certain that everybody has an opportunity to succeed in our great economy. I want you to be more prosperous, and I will do things that will make it possible for you to make a better life,'” Rove said.

“That is an appeal to their best instincts,” he explained. “He did not go out and say, ‘Vote for me because I’m not a woman. Vote for me because I’m a white man.’ That would not have attracted those votes. They got attracted to him because they thought he was a strong, effective leader, and they thought he would do something about the issues they cared the most about, which is an economy in which they think they get the short stick, inflation, which has decimated their purchasing power, and illegal immigration, which has affected their communities deeply.”

“And to suggest that somehow black men are racist because they supported a white man is just too far, Juan,” Rove chided.

Unfortunately, Williams refused to budge. In the end, he claimed that men supported Trump because he talks about “women in the most disparaging way.”

“I think they supported him in spite of that — not because of it. They supported him because he offered to make their life better,” Rove fact-checked.

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Now that we’re all breathing a little deeper following Trump’s epic historical comeback, there’s room for a little laughter.

And who better to supply it than legendary troll Alex Stein, who infiltrated Kamala’s Howard University watch party in Washington, D.C., last night dressed as … a white dude for Harris?

Donning a “White Dudes for Harris” hat and Mark Cuban-inspired glasses, Stein blended effortlessly into a joyless crowd.

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“We’re fully embedded; we’re in the belly of the beast,” Stein told Glenn Beck, as he photobombed other broadcasts and spoke to rally attendees — all of whom seemed completely ignorant to his trolling.

“Say hi to Glenn Beck!” Alex told one woman who was filming the “historic night.”

Grinning ear to ear, she waved back at the camera. “It’s gonna be a great night making history here!” she exclaimed, clearly none the wiser.

One bystander briefly caught wind of the trolling, but it took Alex all of five seconds to convince him that he was a real Harris supporter.

“This is D.C.,” the man said. “This is the number one Democrat stronghold in the country.”

“Joe Biden won with 93%. You think Kamala’s gonna get more than that?” Alex asked.

“It’s going to be lower because we still got sexism,” he responded, regurgitating a common leftist talking point.

“Misogyny is still an issue, Glenn,” said Alex.

To see Alex’s expert-level trolling, watch the clip above.

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President Donald Trump promised to usher in the “golden age of America” in his victory speech early Wednesday morning. At the open of trading hours later, the Dow gained over 1,320 points (in excess of 3%) while the S&P 500 index increased by 1.9% and the Nasdaq rose by 2.2%.

CNN indicated that this is the first time the Dow has jumped over 1,000 points in a single day since November 2022.

While some analysts suspect the decisiveness of the win may have put some investors at ease, others figure Trump’s policy proposals — especially those pertaining to deregulation and taxes — have investors excited.

Michael Block, COO at AgentSmyth, told CNN, “There is this huge perception of [a] business friendly, tax-friendly regime coming into place, especially with them winning the Senate.”

‘Business animal spirits could be rekindled once again.’

Republicans have secured a majority in the U.S. Senate and are poised to keep the House.

“Assuming the House goes Republican, we expect that a Red Sweep outcome will play out in a similar fashion to the 2016 playbook but to a lesser degree given a more mature economic backdrop and higher equity valuations,” Jeff Schulze at ClearBridge Investments told Bloomberg. “Business animal spirits could be rekindled once again from Trump’s pro-business approach.”

As it became clear Trump was going to win in a landslide, the price of Bitcoin rocketed from south of $70,000 to over $75,000 overnight, zigzagging around $74,400 Wednesday morning. This jump was energized by Trump’s embrace of crypto on the campaign trail.

In July, Trump told crypto boosters at a Bitcoin conference in Tennessee that he would make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.”

Not only did the U.S. dollar rise against the euro, the peso, the Japanese yen, and the Chinese yuan in response to Trump’s landslide win — the biggest rise since March 2020 — the New York Times indicated that yields on U.S. government bonds also climbed sharply. Treasury 10-year yields reportedly advanced 18 basis points to 4.45%.

While the American market was ostensibly made great again, European stocks took a tumble Wednesday afternoon. CNBC noted that the pan-European Stoxx 600 was down 0.68% by 4 p.m. London time.

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Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy said Vice President Kamala Harris drove away independent voters by running a campaign based on moral superiority and name-calling.

Portnoy, who announced in September that he would be voting for Donald Trump, demolished Democrat Party brass for running the “worst” campaign he’s ever seen.

“Independents or moderates … the Democrats gave us no choice. That was the worst campaign, and the pure arrogance and moral superiority have driven people away.”

Portnoy noted that the strategy of saying Trump is a threat to democracy only resulted in pushing people to his side.

“He didn’t just win, he won for fun. He won the electoral, he won the popular vote, he won [by] more votes than last time,” Portnoy explained.

‘You are alienating all these middle-ground people.’

Furthermore, the Barstool boss pointed to the name-calling used by Democrats and their supporters, typically in the final weeks of the campaign where Trump rallies were likened to Nazi rallies.

“If you say you’re voting for Trump, suddenly it’s ‘Nazi, you’re Hitler, you’re garbage.’ Enough!”

Portnoy added, “You are alienating all these middle-ground people.”

“He won clear, he won decisive, so when you call us that and you say that, you’re calling the majority of the country racist, Nazi, Hitler.”

For Harris’ part, Portnoy said in his social media video that there was an obvious call for change that the vice president wasn’t up to, and Harris couldn’t articulate any way she was different from President Joe Biden.

The Trump campaign continuously highlighted an appearance by Harris on “The View,” where she stated, “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” in regard to what she would do differently from Biden.

Portnoy added that change was sorely needed to solve issues like inflation, border policy, and conflicts in the Middle East, which he said Harris did not address.

Portnoy’s gripes extended to the Democratic Party as a whole, which he felt was gaslighting him by running a candidate who “can’t answer any questions” and “didn’t get any votes” when she ran for president.

“It’s garbage,” Portnoy stated.

“Democrats were the one saying Joe Biden was mentally fit for two years when he was a vegetable. He couldn’t make it off stage after a speech, and the Democrats would lie to our face.”

Portnoy ended his video by saying he voted for Trump because he felt he “had no choice.”

The sports personality has remained consistent leading up to the election, voicing that he was worried that if Harris was elected, states like California and New York would become the norm for the rest of the country in terms of their decay.

“I wouldn’t have voted for [Trump] in the Republican primaries,” he revealed but said that what Democrats have done is “far worse.”

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The American electoral system was stronger when the sun rose Wednesday than it was the morning before
— but not simply because President-elect Donald Trump won the White House. Nor was it left without suffering some lasting injuries, either.

Two things are essential for electoral government to function. One: Votes must be fairly and accurately tallied and reported. Two: The public must believe that is the case. If the first breaks down, the system is no longer representative. If the second breaks down, it doesn’t matter anyway. Accuracy and trust are the essential foundations of a free society (a key reason that “democracy” can’t simply be airdropped into Iraq, Afghanistan, or other places where governing honesty and mutual trust are not ingrained in the society).

The Democratic Party faithful were not asked who their nominee would be — they were told. The experts knew better, and maybe they did?

Going into Tuesday, both suffered in the United States. The previous presidential election was beset by “glitches,” new regulations, broken rules, and suspicious counts. It’s unlikely we’ll ever understand how 129 million people voted in 2016, 137 million in 2024, and a whopping 155 million in the mail-in no-check days-long COVID-emergency election, so let’s not dwell on it any longer. Either way: The trust was shattered.

The necessary ingredients to rebuilding that trust were not just a return to expectable numbers, but a quick election decided while Americans were awake. That’s a hard thing to pull off, but to their everlasting credit, election officials did it. While counties that (rightly or wrongly) had garnered suspicion publicly stated that it might take days or even weeks to count the ballots, by and large, results came in.

Better yet: Urban counties kept up with rural counties. Again, rightly or wrongly: Large, late-night, election-altering ballot dumps from partisan cities do a lot to undermine the opposition’s trust that the election is being run fairly and properly.

And then there’s the money. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and its friends raised nearly $1 billion in just months — almost three times the money Trump and Co. raised. Since the dawn of American politics, people have grumbled sagely that money buys elections. As with 2016, 2024 was a blow to this rule. That’s not to say the person with the most money deserves to lose — just that it’s healthy to see it happen from time to time.

Then there are the powerful interests, which have earned their reputations as the bogeymen of the republic since slaveholding planters first battled it out with Northeast traders. While Trump earned wider high-profile backing than at any other time in his political career, Harris garnered the support of the vast majority of the country’s rich and powerful. That billion-dollar campaign wasn’t built on $5 donations.

Sometimes the rich and the powerful are correct about what direction the country should be heading in, but again, it’s good to know they can’t always make that decision for us. And that’s where we get to the bad parts for American democracy: what it means and how it functions.

There is a powerful contingent among the American elites, in the federal and state bureaucracies, and in the sprawling world of international and national non-governmental organizations who believe that their strategic interests, plans for your children, novel concepts of fairness and justice, and opinions on morality, science, gender, and sex are the proper “democratic beliefs.” In this framework, opposition to their agenda is “anti-democratic.”

You see this method of thinking all across the United States, the Anglosphere, and the European Union. The United Nations is a particularly egregious offender. Like it or not, an overarching message since January 2020 has been that the experts don’t care what you think – and further, the experts will tell you what you think. As an exercise, next time you hear someone complaining about Trump’s “assault on democracy,” replace the word “democracy” with “the elite agenda” or “the bureaucracy.” There you’ll have it.

Harris’ nomination was the epitome of this and is both the reason the past four months have seen the worst of this rule-by-experts since COVID — and the second wound the Democratic Party has laid on American governance.

The Democratic Party faithful were not asked who their nominee would be — they were told. The experts knew better, and maybe they did? A primary would have been messy, and the money already raised needed to be protected, after all. The transition from President Joe Biden to his running mate might have been forced on the old man, but in public it would need to appear peaceful and seamless. The Democratic voters told whom they had picked, however, didn’t quite buy it.

Worse: It set a very undemocratic precedent. While it didn’t work out for Harris and the Democrats, we have now officially determined that you can replace a nominee without an election if it’s clear that the nominee is not going to win. That’s not great. It undermines the system and the trust, simultaneously.

Of course, few of the guilty parties are going to talk about that, if they even realize it at all. There will be no introspection, no autopsy. Harris will be blamed as the weak and lazy candidate she always was. Biden will be blamed as the fading and elderly, power-obsessed man he always was. But the people who put them there won’t look inward. After all: Everything they did, they did for their democracy. And you don’t want to be undemocratic, do you?

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It became abundantly clear in the early hours Wednesday that Donald Trump’s transition from America’s 45th to 47th president was going to be difficult for those liberals fed in recent months a constant diet of alarmist rhetoric and fascist accusations by the Democratic press.

Some Harris boosters have, however, managed to handle Trump’s landslide electoral victory better than others or, at the very least, than the vice president.

Just days after saying that “it’s not a stretch to call Donald Trump a fascist” and that it would be “Armageddon” were the Republican to win, former “Shark Tank” star and Harris booster Mark Cuban went online to wish Trump well.

“Congrats @realDonaldTrump,” tweeted Cuban. “You won fair and square. Congrats to @elonmusk as well. #Godspeed.”

‘Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s “hot stuff” but he’s absolutely nothing.’

While some commentators signaled appreciation for Cuban’s eagerness to congratulate the man he previously accused of fascistic tendencies, others seized upon Cuban’s tweet to mock the billionaire.

A handful of critics suggested, for instance, that Cuban’s recent suggestion on “The View” that Trump is never seen “around strong, intelligent women” helped mobilize women to vote for Kamala Harris’ opponent.

According to NBC News exit polls from 10 key states, 44% of American women voted for Republican candidates. The New York Post noted that reflects a two-point increase among women from the 2020 election.

Trump responded at the time, “Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s ‘hot stuff’ but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women. Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women – With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong.”

‘He won this one.’

Libs of TikTok replied to Cuban’s congratulatory message, “Thank you for your help with your closing comments about women!”

Another user wrote, “Couldn’t have done it without you.”

Unlike Cuban, Cenk Uygur, co-creator of “The Young Turks,” was initially not so gracious in defeat.

“Donald Trump is going to be the 47th president of the United States,” Uygur said in a flop sweat on his show.

“So buckle up. Brace for impact. We’re going to have four years of anarchy and chaos. My prediction, which is not a bold one, is they’re going to rob the place blind.”

“I’m not a big fan of the establishment, but they put some brakes in the car for Donald Trump, and he’s a guy who needed brakes,” continued Uygur. “Now there will be no brakes in the car. Steve Bannon is back. All the ghouls and goblins of the first administration that stayed through all of his corrupt and ridiculous demands are back. None of the people who had any sanity are back.”

Despite feverishly painting a picture of a nightmare situation under Trump, Uygur had a moment of clarity, stating, “We say that Donald Trump is unstable and unhinged, and I think that is true. But you know that old saying about how insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? So how crazy are we if we just go back to the Joe Bidens, the Nancy Pelosis, the Chuck Schumers, the Kamala Harrises — the same — the Hillary Clintons — the same dumbass people who have been taking donor money, taking it and taking it, and delivering no results.”

Uygur later composed himself and tweeted, “Trump and MAGA – congratulations. I hate it and I think it’s huge mistake. But you won fair and square. Trump tried to steal the last election, but he won this one. And that’s also democracy. If the American people want him back in, that’s the final word! I believe in democracy.”

Just after 1:40 a.m. Wednesday, the Kamala’s Wins account on X tweeted, “BREAKING: The other team has more electoral votes.”

Unlike Cuban, Uygur, and the Harris booster account, neither the vice president nor her campaign have acknowledged Trump’s landslide victory as of midmorning on Wednesday — despite having spent years complaining about Trump doing the same in 2020.

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Anti-oil activists allegedly vandalized the United States Embassy in London in the early hours of the morning after Donald Trump was elected president.

The activists, posting a video around 5:25 a.m. Eastern Time, said they were inspired to desecrate the building because they are fighting against big governments that they believe are controlled by oil companies.

“US Embassy painted orange as we reject fascism,” the group wrote on its social media pages.

Quickly placing blame on Trump, the group called Just Stop Oil added climate change alarmism into its claim that the world is quickly spiraling into “fascism.”

“This morning the world wakes to find it has slipped further into fascism as well as climate breakdown. Trump’s win puts the lives of ordinary people at risk, everywhere,” the group began.

“The only real winner of today’s election is the corporate power that controls the major parties in both the US and UK.”

The group went on to claim that Western political systems have been bought out by “big oil” despite the world facing the “biggest challenge of our time.”

That challenge being climate change, of course.

‘Democracy is hijacked by corporate interests and billionaires.’

The group suggested acts of civil disobedience in order to minimize the effects of “climate breakdown” and the “social collapse that follows.”

“As long as democracy is hijacked by corporate interests and billionaires, it will fail to deliver the change people are crying out for. This will always leave the door open for fake populists like Trump to exploit the disaffection many feel,” the statement continued.

Just Stop Oil also called for “ordinary people” to organize and create change because no “political leaders” are going to save the planet.

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The activists also advocated for the disruption of “business-as-usual,” which in the past has amounted to blocking roadways, interrupting sporting events, and vandalizing artwork.

In fact, two members of the activist group were recently sentenced for throwing soup on a priceless painting. In 2022, Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer threw tomato soup at “Sunflowers,” a Vincent van Gogh painting from 1888.

Just Stop Oil’s orange-paint protests have failed to garner public support no matter how often they are carried out. In fact, working-class people have countered the protesters with significant resistance in recent years.

Fed-up commuters have dragged protesters out of the streets by their hair and even off the top of trains to prevent further delays in their travel.

The U.S. Embassy in London was opened in 2018 and is the largest American embassy in Western Europe.

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper could not hide his astonishment when he learned that Vice President Kamala Harris badly underperformed compared to President Joe Biden four years ago.

Around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning — after Donald Trump had already won Pennsylvania and sealed his path to victory — Tapper sought to better understand why Harris lost, asking CNN chief national correspondent John King if Harris was overperforming in any areas of the country compared to Biden in 2020.

Harris’ dismal performance is raising an ironic question: Would Biden have been more competitive than Harris?

King then showed Tapper hard data showing that Harris was not outperforming Biden statewide in any state.

“Holy smokes!” Tapper reacted, according to a clip of their exchange. “Literally nothing?!”

“Literally nothing,” King confirmed.

Next, King showed Tapper counties where Harris had overperformed by 3% or more compared to Biden in 2020. At the time, only 58 counties in the entire country could be included in that tally.

Harris’ dismal performance is raising an ironic question: Would Biden have been more competitive than Harris?

For their part, Tapper and King believe he would not have been.

“I don’t want to be disrespectful to the president of the United States,” King began. “The vice president of the United States looks like she’s about to lose the presidential election. She was campaigning vigorously from the second she got the nomination until the votes counted today. Is there any evidence on the table that the president of the United States could do half of what she did?”

“No,” Tapper responded.

“A third of what she did?” King added.

“No,” Tapper affirmed.

Trump’s historic overperformance and a national red shift are two of the key reasons why he is headed back to the White House.

Trump, in fact, improved on his 2020 margins in more than 2,300 counties across America, while his margins decreased in fewer than 250, according to New York Times analysis.

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Republican candidate Tim Sheehy won the election for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat early Wednesday, defeating three-term Democratic incumbent Jon Tester.

Sheehy secured 53% of the vote while Tester earned only 45.2% of the vote, according to Politico.

Tester has served in the Senate for three terms since 2006, winning each election by slim margins. While Tester is a Democrat, Montana is known to be a ruby-red state that Trump-endorsed Sheehy had long been projected to win.

“THANK YOU, MONTANA!!” Sheehy said in a post on X. “We The People made our voices heard, we completed our mission, and now we will secure our children’s future and save America together!!”

Montana was one of the Senate races thought to guarantee Republicans an electoral edge to regain control of the Senate. So far, Republicans have flipped West Virginia and Ohio, securing the GOP’s Senate majority.

As Election Day approached, Tester and other vulnerable Democratic senators like Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania made an effort to moderate their positions and distance themselves from the Democratic Party.

Tester’s campaign emphasized points of bipartisanship and even aired an ad called “Republicans for Tester” that featured legislative accomplishments that former President Donald Trump signed off on.

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Voters in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Florida decisively chose to protect the lives of the unborn, voting against abortion measures, according to the latest election results.

This election cycle, so-called abortion “rights” were on the ballot in seven other states, including Maryland, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and New York.

‘Being pro-life is NOT a losing issue.’

South Dakota voters defeated Amendment G, which, if passed, would have legalized abortions in all situations in the first trimester of pregnancy. It, too, would have allowed the state to determine when to permit abortions during the second trimester but “only in ways that are reasonably related to the physical health of the pregnant woman.” Abortions in the third trimester could have been legalized as well when “necessary, in the medical judgment of the woman’s physician, to preserve the life and health of the pregnant woman.”

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, South Dakota banned abortion except in situations in which it is necessary to preserve the mother’s life.

Pro-life voters won in a landslide, rejecting Amendment G with a 19-point margin. All but four South Dakota counties voted against the measure.

This election cycle, Nebraska had two abortion-related measures on the ballot, including the “Right to Abortion Initiative” and the “Protect Women and Children” initiative.

The first measure, Measure 439, aimed to amend the state’s constitution, enshrining the right to infanticide until viability or when deemed necessary to protect the mother’s health. The second measure intended to amend the state’s constitution to ban abortions after the first trimester, with exceptions for medical emergencies, sexual assault, and incest.

Nebraska voters rejected Measure 439, which sought to expand the legalization of abortion, and instead supported Measure 434, an initiative that enshrines the state’s existing 12-week abortion ban.

According to the Associated Press’ election results reporting, just over 51% of voters cast their ballots against the measure.

In Florida, voters defeated Amendment 4, which would have effectively legalized late-term abortions by amending the state’s constitution, Blaze News previously reported. The measure required 60% approval to pass but received just 57.1% of the vote.

BlazeTV’s Liz Wheeler stated, “Amendment 4 in Florida which would’ve legalized abortion til the moment of birth has FAILED.”

“Praise the Lord,” she continued. “This is in [sic] incredible victory … and also an incredible lesson for Republicans. Being pro-life is NOT a losing issue.”

President-elect Donald Trump secured victories in all three states where abortion measures were shot down.

While the pro-life movement had a few wins on Election Day, abortion amendments passed in several other states, including Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, and Nevada.

In Missouri, voters passed Amendment 3, which will create a constitutional right to abortion. However, it also will allow the legislature to regulate access to abortion past the first trimester.

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As Donald Trump cruised toward a dominant victory in the 2024 presidential election Tuesday night, Trump-hating MSNBC host Joy Reid exhibited a decided lack of joy and issued some whopper statements as things began slipping away for Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.

For starters, Reid pouted and just couldn’t comprehend Harris’ electoral demise — and actually stated that the vice president ran a “perfect campaign.”

‘This dumb woman doesn’t accomplish anything. She doesn’t create or build anything. She spreads delusions due to mental illness. NBC should fire her immediately.’

“If this is an audition for managing a complex organization like the United States, Kamala Harris has passed the audition flawlessly,” Reid stated. “This in many ways has been a perfect campaign — a brief, and she barely had any time to put it together. But just as a managerial matter, it’s been brilliantly done.”

During the same MSNBC election night broadcast, Reid also threw shade at “white women” for failing to come through for Harris in the battleground state of North Carolina — a crushing loss for the Democrat nominee.

“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris; white women voters did not,” Reid lamented. “That is what appears happened in that state.” She went on to say that the Harris campaign wasn’t able to “flip enough white women” even though women in North Carolina “lost their reproductive rights.”

Reid added, “That message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman, this will be the second opportunity that white women in this country have had to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy.”

How are observers reacting?

As you might guess, a number of X users who watched Reid’s statements weren’t the least bit sympathetic to the MSBNC host.

In regard to Harris’ “perfect campaign”:

“The irony is Joy Reid actually believes this to be true,” one commenter said.”It’s so bad, they have to gaslight themselves at this point,” another user noted.”If she ran a perfect campaign she would have won,” another commenter reasoned.”They are so out of touch with reality it’s remarkable to watch,” another user stated. “Absolutely clueless.””The thing I don’t get is do they really think everyone else is so impressionable and stupid that they can just lie and make it true, or are they gaslighting themselves?” another commenter wondered.

In regard to Reid blaming “white women”:

“[Trump Derangement Syndrome] in full swing,” one commenter said.”For Joy Reid, it’s always about white people instead of people,” another user noticed. “She will never change that mindset.””This dumb woman doesn’t accomplish anything. She doesn’t create or build anything. She spreads delusions due to mental illness,” another commenter noted. “NBC should fire her immediately.””Joy Reid’s rant shows how desperate they are to shift blame,” another user wrote. “White women aren’t the problem; it’s the failed policies that don’t resonate.””Is she judging us by the color of our skin?” another commenter asked.

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President Donald Trump long cautioned supporters that they needed to turn out in such numbers that the election would be “too big to rig.” The American people obliged him, turning most of the map red and ensuring that the 45th president of the United States would become the country’s 47th president as well.

Not only is Trump expected to surpass 310 Electoral College votes, having won all seven key battleground states including the state where he was shot by a would-be assassin, he is also set to become the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years.

The liberal media, having made clear in advance that this was not the outcome they wanted, are not handling things well — especially not CNN talking head Van Jones.

Midway through what appeared to be a breakdown, Jones suggested that transvestic minors and illegal aliens are going to wake up scared and that black women are in for “a lot of hurt.”

CNN panelist David Urban, who served as senior adviser to Trump’s other successful presidential campaign, told Jones, “We need to recognize that over half of America feels very strongly about the things that Donald Trump feels strongly about: a secure border, the economy, crime. They might not like — he might not be a perfect messenger, but the message resonated.”

‘We’re not garbage.’

“Democracy is a luxury when you can’t pay your bills,” continued Urban, referring to the democracy-themed concern-mongering that Democrats leaned into in recent months.

Urban said that the multitudes of Americans who supported Trump are now sitting back, sneering at “the elite” and saying, “”We told you so. We’re not garbage. We’re hardworking people. We believe in these things,’ right? People don’t like to be talked down to.”

The Republican noted further that the coalition whose members found resonance with Trump’s message was racially and ethnically diverse.

According to CNN’s exit polls,

45% of Hispanic voters, 38% of Asian voters, 12% of black voters, 55% of white voters, and 53% of voters from other racial or ethnic groups cast ballots for Trump.
44% of Americans 18-44 voted for Trump, and 51% of Americans 45 or older did likewise.
60% of Catholics, 71% of Protestants, 19% of Jewish Americans, and 42% of Americans from other faiths voted for Trump.
64% of military veterans supported Trump. 49% of voters making less than $50,000 a year voted for Trump, while 48% voted for Harris.
54% of Americans with no college degree and 41% of Americans with a college degree voted for Trump.
54% of first-time voters cast ballots for Trump.
44% of voters from union households cast votes for Trump.

Rather than engage with Urban’s point about the diversity of the coalition behind Trump, Jones focused on the disappointment of certain voters that their racial identity would not be partially reflected in the person of the president:

There are African-American women who know a little bit about being talked down to and know a little bit about their economic dreams being crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months. And tonight they are trading a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. They were hoping that maybe this time, this time, one of their own could be seen as worthy. And once again they are facing rejection.

According to Jones, “it’s going to be harder than it should be tomorrow for [black women] to hold their heads up.”

‘Stooges will be stooges.’

The talking head suggested that extra to disappointed identitarians, Trump’s win is a “nightmare” for parents of cross-dressing youth and for foreign nationals violating American immigration law.

“If you are a parent of a trans kid, your child’s face was used as a springboard to power for somebody,” said Jones, intending his remarks as a barb against Trump, not the physicians who profit wildly off so-called “gender-affirming care” procedures on kids. “That doesn’t feel good.”

“There are going to be people tomorrow who are going to be handing clothes at the dry cleaners who don’t have papers,” continued Jones. “There are going to be people who are going to be cleaning your teeth tomorrow who don’t have papers, and they’re terrified tonight.”

The multimillionaire stressed that 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, and those people didn’t deserve to be respected and held and talked to. Those are the people going to pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decides to do.”

Molecular biologist Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University later responded to Jones’ rant, “Stooges will be stooges. Especially the stupidest among them.”

Jones was far from the only talking head finding it difficult to cope after it became clear that Harris had no chance of eking out a win.

Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks, for instance, suffered a meltdown reminiscent of his response to Trump’s 2016 electoral victory, this time attacking Democrats for delivering “loss after loss after loss.”

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