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Anonymous ID: 169638 Nov. 15, 2024, 9:16 p.m. No.21995238   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>21994801

ty Baker.

 

>>21993772 PB

discussed on this notabled podcast LB

see ~50min mark

https://rumble.com/v5pq4qt-gaetz-report-meltdown-lefty-resistance-failing-trump-packs-doj.html

 

Politico admits what everyone on the left is feeling: BURNOUT.

 

The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It’s Tuning Out.

11-15-24

 

in the weeks before the 2024 election, no media platform had more catnip for Donald Trump’s detractors than the Drudge Report. Much of the time, its exclamation-pointed homepage banners were trumpeting the GOP candidate’s physical decay: Here, a link to Trump unable to open a garbage truck door! There, a newspaper editorial about his alarming cognitive decline! Just as often, they were announcing his danger to the republic. “EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO DEMOCRACY,” blared a typical late-October headline.

 

One week after the election, it was a different story: Punching in Control-F on the Drudge homepage and searching the word “Trump” this Tuesday returned exactly zero hits.

 

Was it a temporary blip? No doubt. Presidents always drive news, and Drudge always finds it. But the site knows the audience well, meaning its post-election programming choices are also a good indication of where the emotional energy of anti-Trump America is headed: Instead of tuning in, the audiences that fueled the post-2016 resistance are checking out. A slew of other early media data points suggest the same thing.

 

For a country wondering whether the return of Trump will drive an immediate return of the public fury and journalistic energy triggered by his first win, it makes for an early hint that the answer will be: Nope.

 

On TV, after beating CNN on election night for the first time ever, MSNBC saw its audience plummet: In the six days after the election, Democrats’ favorite network tumbled from its 2024 prime time average by 36 percent. CNN was off by 19 percent. During the same period, Fox exceeded its typical 2024 number by 56 percent……

 

Where Trump’s first victory triggered blue America’sfightinstinct, the aftermath of this year’s win is looking a lot more likeflight.

 

It stands to reason that media consumption would be the earliest indicator. So much of the post-2016 resistance was actually a product of the specific news cycle right around that year’s election day: Fury about the Comey letter, Russian interference and the Constitutional unfairness of an Electoral College that had once again given the White House to the vote-count loser. Taken together, they were the animating factors driving the tendency to view the first Trump administration as illegitimate and the 45th president as an occupier.

 

Shocked, outraged and convinced that a feckless pre-election press had bungled the coverage, Trump antagonists devoured the furious hi news and analysis — and then used their anger to fuel street protests, pussy-hat purchases and an upsurge of subscriptions to media outlets promising to speak truth to power.

 

This time, there’s no menacing foreign power to expose, archaic Constitutional provision to bemoan or bumbling FBI director to blame. And there’s no sense of anomaly, either. The people, in their wisdom, made Trump the legitimate president. About the only piece of establishment unfairness to snipe about is the unthinking media tendency to describe his 50.1 percent (and falling) as a popular landslide. Instead, the signature anti-Trump media output of the month has been mea culpas from commentators who got it wrong. Not exactly a genre to make a grieving Harris voter click……

 

Now, if the great blue tune-out of 2024 is what it appears to be, there won’t immediately be some new burst of energy to help serious publications grow back their numbers.

 

Instead, the left will have to wait for actual presidential deeds to drive the backlash. For better or worse, those will happen soon enough.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/15/trump-presidency-liberal-media-resistance-00189655

 

The first Trump administration sparked waves of public activism and aggressive media coverage. This time, not so much.

Anonymous ID: 169638 Nov. 15, 2024, 9:43 p.m. No.21995362   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5418

https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1857579416471372198

 

Victor Davis Hanson

@VDHanson

Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?

 

Many of Trump first-round picks share some common themes.

 

One, many, who were in the past victimized by government bullies and cowardly bureaucratic grandees, or proved sharp critics of the administrative state, are now, in karma-style, in charge of the very agencies that hounded him.

 

So, Elon Musk, perennial target of government regulatory functionaries, was once policed, but now he polices the bureaucratic police.

 

Robert Kennedy, Jr., proposed overseer of government health programs, was often blasted as a crank by the subsidized scientists and the administrators within HHS whom he will now direct.

 

Pete Hegseth fought the military DEI machinery while a solider in the ranks and wrote a book about the corruption of the Pentagon. He will now, if confirmed, run the Pentagon.

 

Tulsi Gabbard was improperly put on a national security travel watch list as a supposed security threat—and now will be a guardian of our security as Director of National Intelligence.

 

Tom Homan was derided by the Biden administration and its Homeland Security minions as a fanatic border hawk; now he will run ICE and deal with the detritus of Biden fanaticism on the border.

 

Two, none of these appointments are traditional swamp creatures. Few rotate from the think tanks. This time around there are no retired “Wise Men” or retired four-stars. Few are Uniparty magnificoes revolving back into high government from their DC university or New York corporate and investment waystations. None are DEI, cover-our-identity-politics-base candidates.

 

By design, their past government service resumes are thin—few past undersecretaries of these or special assistant to those. And there are not a lot of suffixed alphabetic letters or prefixed long-winded titles that adorn their names.

 

In other words, they are vaxed from the sort of acculturated administrative state mindset that has alienated and terrified the citizenry.

 

Three, they all share a reputation from the mainstream media, bicoastal elite, or administrative state guardians as a little “out there” or even “crazy” and “nuts”, whether RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, or Pete Hegseth. So, their opponents rightly fear they are immune from mainstream media disparagements, the usually leftwing generated hoaxes, and beltway tsk-tsk scorn.

 

Fourthand finally, they are not radicals or nihilists. Rather, they are reformers who are trying to trim or eliminate bloated government machinery, or return institutions and agencies to their normal functions and original missions. In contrast, the last few years of Biden governance chaos and near insurrection were abnormal—and dangerous.

 

Destroying the border and breaking the law to allow 12 million to enter illegally were nihilist.

 

Stealthily routing government cash, to circumvent the law, to a communist Chinese-run viral gain-of-function engineering lab is beyond the belief.

 

Creating a commissar system in the military that demanded ideological orthodoxy over meritocracy, or the Chairman of the JCS secretly communicating with his People’s Liberation Army counterpart to warn about his own commander-in-chief’s stability was insurrectionist.

 

Weaponizing the DOJ by performance-art swat home raids on opponents, and collusion lawfare waged by local, state, and federal indictments against a former president and presidential candidate were un-American.

 

Asymmetrical prosecutions and FBI fusion with social media to censor the news were sheer government anarchy.

 

There are legitimate questions about the confirmability ofMatt Gaetz, or his prosecutorial experience, or some of his alleged past excesses, but his very accusers were mostly quiet about the weirdos, creeps, and revolutionaries in the Biden administration—accused of stealing women’s luggage at airports, or lying that a subordinate “racist” border patrol whipped in slave-master fashion innocent would-be immigrants, or trying to fix a felonious presidential son’s sentencing to avoid the accustomed legal consequences of his criminal behavior.

 

In sum, the currently loud censors have zero credibility given the unprofessional, weaponized, and nihilist examples they have bequeathed.

 

4:20 PM · Nov 15, 2024

Anonymous ID: 169638 Nov. 15, 2024, 9:52 p.m. No.21995422   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5453 >>5597 >>5610 >>5617

CHINA TO U.S.: LET’S BE FRIENDS!

 

China’s ambassador Xie Feng insists Beijing wants to be partners, not rivals, with Washington—right before labeling Taiwan a "flashpoint" and demanding opposition to what he calls “separatists.”

 

Meanwhile, Beijing hopes Trump’s tariff plans will alienate U.S. allies, giving China room to boost its global clout.

 

Because nothing says "friendship" like hoping your buddy’s policies backfire.

 

Source: Reuters

 

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1857662550940266623