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Good gawd.
- [Insert musical background] "Hello darkness, my old friend . . . ."
- When I'm wrong, I'll admit that I was wrong. And I've never been more wrong.
- I'm still trying to process all of this because I haven't yet.
- This was full onslaught of a win. From all accounts, Trump won all the states he was expected to and then won, or will win, all of the "battleground" states. He'll even win the popular vote. Incredible. Unbelievable.
- North Carolina elects a Democratic governor, but voted for Trump over Harris. Florida votes over 50% in favor of abortion protection, but choses Trump.
- So what happened? I don't know. The conventional wisdom is that the Hispanic male vote was a big difference. (A record 46% for Trump per exit polling.) But it's much, much more than just that.
- Or maybe electing a black woman is a big ask in today's America.
- But I do know there will be no "stop the steal" campaign. There will be no attack of the Capitol. And Joe Biden will show up on inauguration day.
- I take Trump at his word. There will be mass deportations of illegal immigrants, he is your "retribution", he will imprison his enemies, pardon the Insurrectionists, he will silence media outlets he doesn't like, allow a "violent day" of policing coupled with police immunity, and he intends to be a dictator "from day one." And, make no mistake, there will be no guardrails this time around. There will be no one around him to tell him no.
- Republicans took back the Senate and will probably increase their margin in the House. Once again, no guardrails.
- I actually watched Trump's acceptance speech live at around 2:00 in the morning. "We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible and it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing. Look what happened! Is this crazy?"
- He also spent two minutes on Elon's "spaceship", stopped down the speech for a full minute to invite golfer Bryson DeChambeau to the stage (video), and for someone reason let UFC CEO Dana White take the microphone.
- The federal criminal cases are now dead. The state cases are legally alive but might as well be dead.
- And will his Justice Department prosecute Jack Smith, the federal special prosecutor?
- Wise County didn't disappoint. (Side note: Hey Wise County, your court and jail web site is down this morning.)
- Side note on how big a Republican victory this was. Even in deep blue Harris County, Texas, Republican judges were beating Democratic judges in district court races.
- And this is deep drilling, but look at what happened on Texas state appellate judge races across the state:
- Regarding my prediction yesterday, they aren't going to take my trophy away, will they?
- Bright spot: At least a transgendered football player won't tackle me on the way to my car today.
- In the end, we found out who are country is. Fear and anger wins. This is Trump's America. We've never seen anything like this. Good, bad, or catastrophic, we deserve the storm that is coming.
