Granted, it is a bit entertaining watch adults totally melt down over something as silly as their candidate not winning election.

However....

History has shown us that these people are unhinged and have little if any impulse or self control as evidenced by how often they simply attack. Now, they've been gaslighted for a year with train load of crap that would fertilize Kansas about how evil, horrible, racist, fascist Trump is, and they clearly believe it and are terrified.

Scared, unhinged, and little impulse of self control and easily influenced is a BAD combination.

https://thefederalist.com/2024...without-a-reckoning/

After Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning

We can’t just say ‘Oh well we’re all Americans in the end’ and pretend that everything is okay. Everything is not okay.

Back in July after the first Trump assassination attempt, I wrote that there can be no national unity, no burying the hatchet or cooling the rhetoric with people who have been encouraging political violence and pushing assassination prep for years. You can’t smack someone in the face with a hammer and then insist everyone calm down.

Trump’s election victory doesn’t change that. Those in the news media who spent years calling Trump a fascist and comparing him to Hitler, claiming he represents a threat to democracy and that he’ll use his presidential powers to go after his enemies, should not be forgiven. Their lies and nonstop propaganda should not be forgotten. No one should ever take them seriously again. When they try to engage the public square, they should either be ignored entirely or met with a wall of mockery and derision. They are enemies of the American people, whom they openly despise, and there can be no real unity with them no matter what they might say in the future.

Going forward, it should be a mark of shame to be associated with MSNBC, CBS News, and CNN. Same goes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Politico. All the “prestige” media outlets that perpetrated lies, distortions, and unhinged rhetoric about Trump should lose so much credibility that their reader and viewer bases collapse, advertisers abandon them, and they get broken up and sold off for parts. If Laurene Powell Jobs wants to run a vanity magazine for her own entertainment, fine. But let’s not pretend it’s a serious place where serious journalists work. We all know what it is now.

Legacy media outlets, the polling industry, the Democrat-funded nonprofits and the academics and activists who run them have all now been exposed as cogs in a giant propaganda machine. Kamala Harris was never ahead. She never had a chance of winning. There was no “joy.” She wasn’t “brat.” She didn’t even win the Democrat Party nomination, it was handed to her in a backroom deal. She isn’t relatable or cool, she’s the most cringey and fake person ever to run for president. Corporate media and the Democrats ran a massive psy-op on the American people to make them believe something that wasn’t true. And it failed. We should never forget that these people will say anything for the sake of power, so we should never trust them again.

For the government officials and institutions who tried to bankrupt and jail Trump, there should be more severe and formal consequences. On Wednesday it was reported that the Justice Department will be dismissing Special Counsel Jack Smith and dropping his cases against Trump before Trump takes office. That’s great, but Smith should not be allowed to simply walk away. He and everyone else at Biden’s DOJ who was involved in these lawfare cases against Trump needs to be investigated and held accountable for their actions.

And of course the problem goes far beyond Smith. What the Justice Department and the FBI did to Trump was one of the most egregious abuses of power in American history, and we shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders at it because Trump won. These agencies need to be dismantled entirely and re-built from scratch. The FBI in particular has shown itself to be an enemy of the American people and a danger to the republic. Its director, Christopher Wray, should not simply be allowed to resign. He should be removed and placed under criminal investigation.

Same goes for New York Attorney General Leticia James, whose lawfare against Trump is an ongoing scandal. James said on Wednesday that her office is preparing to “fight back” against the incoming Trump administration. She should be disbarred, at a minimum for trying to bankrupt Trump with a bogus fraud case in which there were no fraud victims.

Then there’s Liz Cheney, who in her role as vice chair of the Jan. 6 Committee has been accused of inducing witness perjury, destroying documents, and suppressing exonerating evidence. Cheney posted what seemed like a message of conciliation on X Tuesday night, saying we must accept the results of the election. But she shouldn’t get off so easily either. Her role in the Jan. 6 Committee should be fully investigated and she should face criminal charges if warranted.

The truth is, if Trump hadn’t won he’d be going to prison. For supporting Trump, Elon Musk would have been targeted by the government, bankrupted, and subjected to years of lawfare. The people who howled loudest about Trump weaponizing the government against his political opponents have spent years doing just that to Trump and his associates.

The idea that we should just forget all that now for the sake of unity is deeply misguided and naïve. If those responsible aren’t held accountable, they will never stop trying to destroy their enemies by any means they can. Before we ever achieve anything like unity in America again, there must be a reckoning and there must be justice. Without those things, the divisions in our country won’t be able to heal.

Even with a reckoning, unity will be difficult. We can’t just say “Oh well we’re all Americans in the end.” That won’t cut it. The stark reality is that there are a large number of our countrymen who are no longer Americans in any meaningful sense. As Glenn Ellmers has written, they “do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.”

After those who broke the law are held accountable, and those who lied are ostracized and ignored, we will still face the problem of disunity and division among our people. We will still be two nations occupying the same territory, with two irreconcilable visions of what the country should be. We can’t paper over those differences, and we shouldn’t.

To achieve real and lasting unity we’ll need a counter-revolution in America, a re-founding of the country. That in turn will require a conversion of the American people and a return to the ideals, principles, and way of life that made our republic possible in the first place.

clip added by me:

absolutely - their needs to be accountability for their actions - all of them - no matter who they are. And if it means building another prison, then I'm OK with that too

Decided to splurge for an election celebration.

Our local conservative talk radio guy has a good point today:


https://x.com/chrisstigall/sta...588563385385428?s=46

^ Good Bourbon!
You know that feeling you get at Thanksgiving after you ate way too much food? I got that feeling after consuming so much REEEEEEEE. I think I am going to "Puke and Rally"! These days are so awesome!

I agree PASig. It should be a part of "The Reckoning". There ain't a chance in hell that Biden got 81 million votes. Not a chance.

quote:

Originally posted by 83v45magna:
Some predictably stupid post election meltdowns. Some of the statements are so telling of the fundamental idiocy that is out there. They are nonetheless surprising and just disturbingly stupid.

Stupid yes, but surprising? "Come on, man".

quote:

Originally posted by vthoky:
Kimmel nearly melted down:

Nearly? "Come on, man".

quote:

Originally posted by SigSentry:
If not already mentioned ( I'm a little behind) ,probably the best aspect of all this is the Democratic leftists will realize it would have better that he won 2020 versus the trifecta now with the possibility of nominating 3 new scotus justices.

And don't forget the coalition of people the last four years of democrat insanity and government authoritarianism has created that otherwise never would have been had Trump been elected in 2020. I'm talking about people like Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr, and Elon Musk. Even Joe Rogan. Trump is in a much better position now as far as the support he will have when beginning his next term. I still loathe the Biden-Harris presidency, they have done incredible damage to this country, but in the long run, the MAGA movement may now be that much stronger.

The counter-revolution is nearly always bloodier than the original.

Agreed as good as President Trump was his first term he has been thrust into the crucible of fire these past four years and has come out the other side much stronger for it. He knows who to surround himself with now better than before and so far I am loving the folks he is bringing together!

Sorry if jib-jab. "Remember, you wanted this"

So the day shift secretary came in this morning on a rant and declared that democracy is dead.

Me: "Did you vote for Kamala in the primaries?"

Him: "No."

Me: "Do you have any idea now of the irony of your first statement?"

Him: "Huh? What?"

^^

Anti-Trump former Capitol Police officer is in the mountains, armed, drinking beer, ready for a ‘shootout’ with agents…

https://revolver.news/2024/11/...hootout-with-agents/

Michael Fanone knows how many of you feel today. He’s felt it for years.

Washington Post archive:

https://archive.ph/90jyr

^^^

Somebody should call the police for a welfare check. It may sort itself out.

From Don Jr.s Instagram account.



https://www.instagram.com/p/DC...04-a8e2-79f776ebf188

quote:

Originally posted by wcb6092:
Anti-Trump former Capitol Police officer is in the mountains, armed, drinking beer, ready for a ‘shootout’ with agents…

"If Tump wants him imprisoned, he'd rather be killed in a shootout. ""I'll die right here on my f---ing house"".

Works for me. Fitting end for a traitor.

^^A replacement? I know someone who'll be needing a new job fairly soon. And she has experience!

I like how Scott Baio didn't spare Ron Howard in that video a couple pages back.