It has been a week since Americans went to the polls to repudiate the Woke Democratic Party, coastal elites, socialists and Soros-backed district attorneys, among others.

The voting trend was clear, yet still we await final results as some states and precincts seem to be counting ballots for as much as 10 minutes a day before breaking to go out and protest what they are finding.

All of this has come in the wake of a multi-year campaign in which the main Democrats’ talking point was Donald Trump was Hitler and his supporters were Nazis/fascists.

I’m moved by it all to compile a news and views blog post, Hitler/Nazi/fascist edition.

NEWS: Clueless Joe Biden has invited Trump over for lunch Wednesday to discuss the transition.

VIEWS: I’m not sure I’d be inviting Hitler over to share a meal. On a side note, Trump will be there, but his wife Melania (Eva Braun, presumably) told the Bidens to shove it regarding the invite, labeling the would-be hosts as “disgusting” according to one report.

NEWS: The Kamala Chameleon campaign is credited with collecting $1 billion or so in campaign contributions and still somehow sitting $20 million in debt at this date. A list of expenses reported to the Federal Election Commission included $1 million to Oprah Winfrey’s production company, Harpo.

VIEWS: Video shot by a TMZ reporter is circulating in which Oprah says she was paid “nothing. Ever” to endorse Kamala. Followers of linguistic gymnastics note she did not deny her company was paid, presumably to host that so-called Detroit townhall meeting. You would have thought billionaire Oprah needed another million like Hitler needed another bullet in the brain. And, considering the election opponent was Hitler, shouldn’t Oprah have done her “sista” a solid by doing the gig for free? Side note: Oprah never should go out in public without her customarily heavy makeup job.

NEWS: When Kamala Chameleon eventually got around to making a concession speech, she assured the crowd, and presumably the nation and world, “It’s going to be okay.”

VIEWS: To recap, if you bought into Democrat talking points, control of the United States has been won by an alleged Hitler and his gang of Nazis and fascists. But, there are no worries according to Kamala Chameleon? Could it be the people pushing this narrative didn’t even believe it themselves?

NEWS: A prominent theme of the election buildup was that many celebrities – including one, ironically named America – would be rushing out of the United States if Trump won.

VIEWS: It would seem “Hitler” anticipated this and closed the border to trap them here. How else to explain no movement on this front? But, no, Trump only wants to close the border to incoming illegals. Celebrities are free to leave, and not let the border gate hit them on the butt on their way out. On a related note, leftist media types had whined for months about being rounded up and put in concentration camps, ironically their prescription for Trump and his supporters had the Democrats prevailed. Consider this yet more hysteria not based in fact. Hitler’s propagandists would be so proud.

NEWS: Stock markets have been on a sharply upward trajectory since Trump won.

VIEWS: I presumed the German stock market didn’t celebrate Hitler coming to power. To confirm this, I searched for “Did German stock market soar when Hitler came to power?” Google’s AI overview response was “No, the German stock market did not soar when Hitler came to power.” In summation, to believe Trump is Hitler, you must also believe that investors, be they professionals or amateurs, are asleep at the switch on this matter and willing to lose big due to their ignorance.

NEWS: The very same Democrats who in the past have accused skeptical Republicans of being election deniers, now are denying election results.

VIEWS: One would think any election deniers in the Hitler years would have had the lifespan of an adult mayfly – about one or two days. Yet, here we sit a week after voting has closed and Democrats are sending in the lawyers to contest Dave McCormick’s apparent Senate win in Pennsylvania, which had been called for the Republican McCormick by Associated Press on Nov. 7. No one is reported to have died due to this election denying. And the apparent House control by Republicans also remains unofficial. No less a source than decisiondeskhq,com called the House for Republicans days back. But others have been slow-walking making final declarations, despite Republicans leading in most races with votes still to be counted and Democrats needing a miracle to prevail. These self-righteous deniers scream that all votes must be counted first. This did not stop LameStream media from calling California for Kamala Harris early. In a story posted on NPR.org at 10:38 p.m. eastern time on election night, AP was cited as having called the state for Kamala. The same story noted that polls closed at 11 p.m. Eastern in California, about 22 minutes AFTER the story had been posted.

NEWS: Far left cable news network viewer ratings are plummeting, with MSNBC down 23 percent post-election and CNN down 40 percent.

VIEWS: Viewers are voting with their feet. Having been sold a bill of goods for years, they are dropping out, or moving to more reliable purveyors of information. It seems these biased cable news outlets have borrowed a page from Hitler and committed suicide.

There’s a fine line between being Nostradamus or Nostradumbaxx. Sometimes, with a little help from our friends, we are on the right side of history.

I say this because, sometime back, I parroted here the thinking of a cousin that Kamala Harris was destined to be our first woman president, with her also being non-white (either black or Indian) thrown in as the topping on the cake.

This cousin theorized Kamala might win the election vs. Donald Trump after having been tossed into the fray when Democrats ran a coup on the sitting president who also was the party’s nominee for a second term, Clueless Joe Biden.

Failing that – and God knows Kamala Chameleon messed up royally in the election undertaking despite having a $1 billion war chest – cynical Democrats just might have Joe step aside and let her be president until Trump takes over in late January.

She’d be president 47, or maybe just 46 ½. When I was a young man, there was a game show, Queen for a day. Kamala would be a winner on Prez for a few weeks.

Already, the suggestion is being floated as a trial balloon on the left-wing cable news sites. Predictably, these propagandists love it. I got an email today from my cousin, in case I’d missed the story. I had not.

Alas, it still might not happen. First off, Joe still gets back pains from the dagger Kamala, Nancy Pelosi and the Obama clan shoved into his spine to get him off the ticket. His rapid-fire endorsement of Kamala after that coup, some argue, was more an attempt to lock those interlopers into having to go with her as a candidate likely to lose than it was an atta girl for Kamala.

Biden’s various verbal “gaffes” and other strange acts during her campaign suggest Clueless Joe was less than a white dude for Kamala.

Once again, Joe might opt to be slow to go.

Plus, I doubt there is time to 25^th Amendment his aging butt and get Kamala seated in the Oval Office before the Trump administration barges in the door and starts measuring for new drapes.

Joe making a move along the lines of what the lads of the movie “Animal House” tabbed a “stupid and futile gesture” to give Kamala a ride on the merry-go-round seems unlikely.

Admittedly, it again might not be Joe’s choice. But this time I expect DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!! to be even more intractable as her days as a modern day Marie Antoinette draw to a close. They’ll need the jaws of life to force her through the White House door even a minute early.

This all fails to take into consideration how cheesy and unseemly such a tawdry gesture of seating Kamala would be.

Are Democrats willing to be so transparent on the matter of cheapening what otherwise would be an outcome of historic dimension? Never mind, we all know they would.

Today is Veterans Day, once a time of celebration and acknowledgement of the great contributions to our nation and our freedoms made by those who served in our military.

These days, not so much. It’s more viewed as just another day off work or school.

A quick trip to my front porch this morning showed four houses on the block flying American Flags. All four of us fly them virtually every day. Not a single household had felt moved to share in the day’s celebration by joining us.

Growing up, my family had been big on respecting Veterans Day. My late father fought in the Korean War and had a multi-decade run in both the National Guard and Naval Reserve. I still remember my joy when he came back from one of those summer camp deployments with army fatigues uniforms for me and my brother. We were probably nine and five years old at the time.

Pictures of three uncles on my mother’s side of the family, all in their World War II uniforms, were on walls of my one grandmother’s house every day of every year.

I had cousins who fought in Vietnam.

My son has a close friend who has made the U.S. Army his career. I have had several friends who did the same.

And what of me? I reached 18 years of age in 1973 just as we were slinking out of Vietnam. I had registered for the draft, but it was almost over by then. For all of you who think history began when you were born and never bother to learn otherwise, the draft was a process in which the government would demand some join the military and contribute for a period of years.

It’s all volunteer now.

Back then, I got classified into some sort of holding category, denoted with an H on my draft card. If they needed to do more drafting, they’d let me know, Otherwise, continue with our life.

I joked that the H meant in case of war, I’d be held as a hostage.

There are no pictures of me in military uniform, except maybe as a kid in those aforementioned gift fatigues from my dad, and one I can remember when I wore an actual uniform top of my dad’s.

You will not hear me telling false tales of carrying weapons of war in combat, as Tampon Tim claimed to have done.

I never served, but I have great respect for those who did serve honorably and without false valor claims. I wish I had more company on that front.

To borrow from supporters of cranky Vermont socialist senator Bernie “Feel the Bern” Sanders, today is Feel the Burns time in these parts.

The laborious Cambria County vote-counting procedure that was conducted in the wake of a technical and leadership failure on election day, at last has produced a verdict. According to several media sources, most notably the Associated Press, Frank Burns has beaten back a concerted effort by outside interests to replace Burns with Amy Bradley for the seat representing the 72^nd Legislative District.

Bradley now can retreat to her place in the area’s elite power base that controls non-profits, not-for-profits, charities, foundations and other behind-the-scenes groups.

Meanwhile, Burns will keep working for the area — right out in the public.

I have written that Burns is a Donald Trump-like figure in his party. Neither is true to traditional party policies and methods, but both win elections by connecting with the people, not party leaders.

To quote from the Associated Press story reporting the Burns win, “Burns, a conservative Democrat who supports gun rights and opposes abortion, has regularly found himself voting against his fellow House Democrats. He has long been an electoral target of Republicans, while many other similarly situated western Pennsylvania districts long ago flipped to the GOP.”

Burns staying in office is a triumph for many, a repudiation of area elitists, and a positive reflection on Trump Make America Great Again supporters who didn’t blindly vote for Bradley even if she did have ads touting a Trump endorsement.

I voted for Trump. I did not vote for Bradley. Apparently, judging by the many Republicans for Burns yard signs I saw in past months, I was not alone in making this calculation.

Count me in the group that believes, had Trump known of Amy’s association with once-secret plans to bring Afghan refugees to Johnstown, he might not have been offering an endorsement.

But even if Trump was fully aware, this is what’s great about MAGA people. Despite assertions to the contrary made by LameStream media and leftist zealots, we are not in a cult. We do reserve the right to think for ourselves.

We did exactly that in the race between Burns and Bradley.

Common sense has prevailed, and yet another candidate endorsed by our local Woke Gazette has lost. These election gifts keep on coming.

As of Thursday night, the latest vote count I was able to find for the Burns-Bradley race for the District 72 seat in the Pennsylvania House had reached a reported 53 percent of the total. That’s almost two days after voting ended.

Have they farmed out the vote count to a stereotypical PennDOT road crew, with eight watching for every two actually working?

Too bad Myopia 2025’s plan to slip Afghan immigrants into the area behind the backs of the public was outed and dropped. I’m sure those unskilled newcomers would have worked cheap and counted well.

If the goal of those in charge of the county election process this time was to make Cambria County a statewide and national laughingstock, mission accomplished.

The noon broadcast of Johnstown’s NBC affiliate, which seems to think it’s State College’s NBC affiliate, had an amusing, perhaps Freudian slip. A reporter covering the Burns-Bradley story said a county commissioner was “overlooking” the vote-counting procedure.

I’d think “overseeing” the procedure would be more accurate verbiage. But “overlooking” seems to work, too, in some ways.

The delay in finalizing results is drawing attention because there is a lot at stake here.

Perhaps Cambria County can provide enough votes for declared U.S. Senate victor Dave McCormick to push his lead above the mandatory recount differential.

The control of the state house appears to hinge on whether Frank Burns or Amy Bradley prevails.

Last, but not least, Bradley is the final hope that the Johnstown Woke Gazette might have one high-profile endorsement actually win a race.

The predictably left Johnstown operation where, in the interest of full disclosure, I worked for 20 years or so, had to endorse Democrat Kamala Harris for president and Democrat Bob Casey for Senate, just because they’re Democrats and Donald Trump is a very bad man. McCormick is bad, too, since he backs Trump.

Understand, editorial management seems to think it serves readership more politically aligned with liberal hotbed San Francisco than conservative outposts such as Jacksonville, Fla.

Newsroom staff is similarly mis-aligned politically with the area and there were reports of dour faces among the crew when national election results began pouring in Tuesday night.

Also, they’ve taken to locking the front door of the place, with a sign telling people to knock. I’m guessing they fear that Hitler Trump will come looking for them to exact revenge because he was not endorsed.

Relax, he’s not that kind of guy. More to the point, with a circulation that on a good day challenges 12,000, you’re not exactly a national voice.

That didn’t prevent the publisher from writing an editorial that appeared in the Nov. 2, 2024, edition seeming to imply the local offering was superior to the Washington Post or L.A. Times because it had the courage to endorse candidates, circulation be damned!

How disappointing for this self-proclaimed crusader that Kamala went down in flames to Trump and his MAGA supporters.

Then there was Casey, who had stayed closer to MAGA guy, McCormick, by showing himself to be the consummate, desperate politician that he is. That meant Casey running ads attempting to link himself to Trump on issues of trade and tariffs.

How ironic, since no less a source than the venerable New York Times, in the same Oct. 19, 2024, story outing Casey for his hypocrisy in embracing Trump, noted that Casey “gained prominence for his resistance to many of former President Donald J. Trump’s policies.”

That Casey was and is a political animal, willing to say or do anything to stay in power, was the theme of many McCormick ads. They seem to have worked.

But hypocrisy is no stranger to politics – or endorsements. I’ve received mailers from the Bradley campaign basically accusing Burns of being a stooge of Philadelphia politicians, not showing up for work, and doing nothing to help our area. Bradley’s TV ads don’t have a lot of good things to say about Burns, either. And the bulk of those Bradley ads attacking Burns are said to be on the dime of a Philadelphia backer.

The Woke Gazette people explained their Bradley endorsement was due to the “professional and mature campaigning” method she and Kamala shared. That would be Bradley sharing methodology with Kamala, who called Trump a fascist, a Hitler, and had surrogates, including Joe Biden, calling Trump supporters garbage, racists and misogynists.

If that’s professional and mature, I don’t want to see unprofessional and immature.

Perhaps the Woke Gazette, in the spirit of full disclosure, might have shared that Bradley was aligned with Myopia 2025 on the Afghan plan, as is/was the newspaper. Can it be mere coincidence that the man who held the paper’s publisher title before the current guy, left the media operation in February 2023 to become – wait for it – executive director of Myopia 2025?

Considering that the Woke Gazette’s Nov. 2 piece went to great lengths to rip Trump, it seems more than a bit inconsistent to accept that the “professional and mature” campaign of Bradley included ads making great hay of Trump endorsing her, seemingly during his Johnstown campaign stop.

I’m not sure how someone with a Trump endorsement would be worthy of a Woke Gazette endorsement.

Keep on preaching, Woke Gazette, and indulging in copious amounts of self-congratulation. But be aware, your flock is dwindling with each day.

While we wait for Cambria County to share with us the outcome of the Burns-Bradley state house race, let’s call roll on the losers and winners from the national election.

LOSERS

Sunny Hostin (The View host handed Kamala Chameleon a softball question about what she’d do differently than Biden and it turned into a friendly fire grenade when Kamala couldn’t think of a thing).

Robert De Niro, Willie Nelson, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and Mark Cuban (All celebrity white dudes for Kamala who should be red with embarrassment over how little their advocacy helped her campaign).

Lamestream media (Ratings were down, Washington Post circulation is tanking, and they all were in mourning after their candidate lost).

Pollster “Alka” Selzer (Her attempt to boost Kamala morale with a late Iowa poll showing the Chameleon ahead by three points looked bad when Donald Trump carried the state by 13 points or so),

Beggar boy Zelenskyy (The money spigot for Ukraine is about to be turned off).

Illegal immigrants inside the U.S. and approaching the border (Enjoy it while it lasts).

Democratic elites (Go find someone else besides the working class to tell how stupid and vile they are)

Precious metals (Gold and silver dropped on Trump’s election, because he eliminates a lot of problems).

Iranian currency (The rial hit an all-time low after Trump’s election).

Lawyers (A landslide outcome reduced their election workload).

Made up pronouns and genders (We now can go back to he and she, men and women).

Trite cliches like “unburdened by the past” (No more trips to Kamala’s word salad bar).

Kamala’s Dougie (Her angry side seeped out on occasion during the campaign and I doubt she’s taking this loss well – plus, she’s going to be around the house a lot more now).

Tampon Tim Walz (He’s reduced to being Minnesota’s governor, but he might get a side gig as an Elmer Fudd impersonator).

Manufacturers of the Walz everyman wardrobe of blaze orange and camo (Now they just have their customary clientele, not a lot of leftist posers).

Kamala and Tampon Tim impersonators (That ship has sailed)

Minnesota residents (They get Walz back as governor).

Censors and other heavy-handed, self-appointed guardians of discourse (We’ll take it from here, thanks).

DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!! (She really liked being relevant, chairing cabinet meetings and living in that big White House).

The Democrat’s Blue Wall of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin (It proved about as effective as France’s Maginot Line in World War II. Trump won all three blue wall states).

Dour women named Whoopi, Joy or Sunny (Just my View of things).

WINNERS

Atlas Intelligence, Quantus, Rasmussen and Trafalgar (Unlike Alka Selzer, these pollsters were very accurate).

The American populace (Many probably don’t yet realize that this election saved the nation).

Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom and Josh Shapiro (Kamala losing benefits all three).

Cryptocurrency fans (You people got a big boost).

Stock markets (All raced higher on the Trump victory).

The world (This globe’s beat cop is back on duty and bad actors know it).

Working men and women (No longer will you need to endure being called garbage).

Truth, justice and the American way (Sounds like something Superman would say).

Men of all races (They proved they finally could do something right — vote for Trump).

Trump supporters in general (Those Nazi, deplorable, bitter clinging, pieces of garbage shoved it in the face of the ruling elites).

Tyrus (This regular panelist on Fox’s Gutfeld show has been saying for weeks that the election would not be close, and it wasn’t).

Elon Musk (Tesla stock was up big in price Wednesday and now he need not worry about MSNBC harpy Maddow getting her wish of him having zero government contracts moving forward).

Freedom of speech (Musk buying Twitter (X) got the ball rolling on that front and the Trump election seals the deal).

Peanut the Squirrel (His death at the hands of the New York deep state was avenged by the election outcome).

Secret Service members (Soon they no longer will need to fear bites from Biden’s dog – at least 25 such occurrences according to published reports).

Diddy (Being in jail made him unavailable, so he was not shamed into making a Kamala endorsement. His former squeeze Jennifer Lopez probably wished she had been in jail, too).

Afraid that Trump’s election victory was just a dream, I awoke this afternoon (I was up really late overnight) and rushed to the TV and computer to confirm it.

Thankfully, no dream. It’s reality, and a nightmare for the Democrats who remain in denial despite the nation’s electorate pointing out to them, most emphatically, that they are out of step.

I’m left with an abundance of thoughts.

The Lord does work in mysterious ways. Trump losing in a highly suspect manner in 2020 only led to the strengthening of his political movement. The Democrats and Deep State mistakenly sought to use the opportunity of his defeat to attempt to destroy him, failed, and it only made him stronger, producing the kind of massive election triumph that would not have been possible without the time spent in the political desert.

The yard sign fairies seem to have been very active overnight on my block, with virtually all indicators of Harris support gone – vanished, I say. But Trump signs, banners and flags remain proudly in place.

Cambria County was on the lips of the nation yesterday, but not in a good way. No, it was our typical ineptitude, in this case the inability to take and process votes without glitches, that got us some time in the national spotlight. We should be so proud.

I want CNN, MSNBC and major broadcast networks to own the election-denier, threat-to-democracy labels they love to throw at Trump and the political right. The citizenfreepress.com site I have come to love in recent days, called the election for Trump, publicly, at 10:41 p.m. EST last night. Fox finally made the call at about 1:20 a.m. and Trump had a victory speech. I wrote a massive blog piece before going to bed at about 5 a.m. At that time, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, etc., still were holding out conceding it was over. This, despite Kamala Chameleon pulling the plug on herself and very publicly noting she was going to bed.

There were reports at about 2 p.m. Wednesday that Kamala had called Trump to concede. She was scheduled to make a public appearance to confirm as much at 4 p.m. or so. Welcome to reality.

To restate a point I made in the previous post, it was Trump’s genius for feeling the pulse of America that won this election. His McDonald’s stint. Riding in a garbage truck. His inexhaustible energy at rallies. Rising almost immediately after being shot and fist-pumping to the crowd in Butler. And, almost as important, he put young, savvy, highly motivated social media influencers in charge of the Republican ground game. People such as Charlie Kirk and Scott Presler pushed this effort over the top and won several states, along with key House and Senate races, through their enthusiasm and hard work.

I love all the finger-pointing going on among Democrats. I’m reminded of the favorite expression of Johnstown native and former long-time Joe Paterno assistant coach Tom Bradley, who loved to say when you point the finger at others, the thumb points back at you. Kamala Harris lost this race mostly because of Kamala.

It was Kamala Harris who tried to hide from the public. It was Kamala Harris who went on the wildly partisan TV show “The View” and told their viewership (and the rest of the world as the clip went viral) that she would change “Nothing” from the Clueless Joe Biden years.

I took a financial hit for the country, seeing my net worth decline Wednesday as the traditional stock markets and the dollar soared on the Trump win, while gold and silver (my interests) tanked. Happy to do so. I did make a few bucks by purchasing a small, speculative position of Trump’s DJT stock during Tuesday’s regular stock market hours and selling it for a profit in the aftermarket Tuesday night after it began to look good for his election prospects.

I’ll give myself a .500 batting average on my thoughts regarding VP picks. I argued that Trump could have helped himself by having someone like Tulsi Gabbard as his VP. Maybe, but Trump sure did OK with JD Vance. I will take a victory lap on my thinking that Harris blew it taking Tim Walz over Pa. Governor Josh Shapiro. In her defense, there is some speculation that Shapiro was not interested, preferring to see her go down in flames so as to have no Democratic (or Republican) incumbent to run against in 2028, when he just might have presidential aspirations.

Hypocrisy being the favored mode of the Democrats, it is not surprising that today they no longer are lobbying for liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside, or for an end to the Senate filibuster rule, now that they are in the minority.

Our nation’s Attorney General Merrick Garland and his special prosecutor Jack Smith have thrown in the towel on persecuting Trump with further Lawfare. Maybe Fani Willis and Letitia James, the Atlanta and New York Lawfare warriors, soon will get the message – Trump won.

Immature Harris campaign staffers are posting snarky messages on social media, including that this transfer of power will be peaceful, unlike in 2020. It reminds me of Shillary staffers stealing the W keys off White House keyboards on the way out the door, a swipe at George W. Bush. We’ll see how Kamala handles herself in her public appearance scheduled for within the hour of this writing.

I will spend the rest of this day, and likely many more, basking in the warm glow of Trump’s triumph which, as previously stated, is a win for all of us.

Victory and repudiation mixed in the wee hours of Wednesday when, while I was watching election coverage on Real America’s Voice and also streaming the Charlie Kirk show on my phone, word came that Fox News had declared Pennsylvania for Donald Trump.

It was an iconic moment that put Trump at the required 270 electoral votes to win the election. U.S. president 45 is back as No. 47 and our country has been snatched from the abyss of socialist collapse.

Trump likely will add more electoral votes as the counting continues and is anticipated perhaps to win the popular vote, too. All this was too much for opponent Kamala Chameleon, who left her “victory” party attendees to stew in their own juices as she ducked them like she ducked Joe Rogan, sending a surrogate to tell them she wouldn’t be appearing.

Once again, we are reminded that Trump is amazing beyond words. Left for dead politically, and almost literally by a couple of would-be assassins, he has outdone himself.

As Trump said himself in his victory speech it’s all “crazy.”

I have maintained that Trump’s first presidential run was the greatest feat in American political history.

To get there, he had to beat his own Republican Party that had yet another Bush primed for the nomination. Trump had to beat the LameStream media and he had to beat the Democrats.

Those Democrats did not take well to that defeat in the 2016 election.

So they, the Deep State, The Swamp, kept right on doing what they had done during the campaign when they had spied on him and made false claims of Russian collusion. This progressed to them filing false charges against him. They impeached him on ridiculous allegations, hamstrung him by overhyping a virus to shut down the economy near the end of his first term.

They continued to weaponize the justice department to persecute him with legal charges, some of which he still faces. They got him banned from social media by calling in favors from their high-tech sycophants.

Somewhere along the line, the American people had seen enough. They came to realize Trump had been victimized, mistreated and ostracized unfairly. The more the leftists attacked Trump like a pack of rabid wolves, the more empathetic the public became in support of him.

They understood Trump spoke the truth when he said if they could do it to him, they could do it to anyone.

Trump never gave in to the oppressors, be they political hacks or media hyenas. He was defiant and he inspired his people in the Make America Great Again movement that grew strength even with him out of office after a 2020 election loss that stretched the bounds of believability.

All those votes that just appeared for Biden, were missing Tuesday into early Wednesday when Kamala could have used them.

Trump has made inroads with blacks, Hispanics and other groups Republicans normally can’t count on for support. Kamala Chameleon lost ground with those one-time guaranteed Democrat voters. The reason is simple: Trump identified with their concerns about inflation, illegal immigration, disappearing jobs.

Kamala Chameleon thought she could dazzle them by denying her Marxist record and putting a few celebrities on display at rallies.

Kamala also trotted out past presidents, counted on some traitor Republicans and even enlisted an Elmer Fudd type to be her running mate as vice president.

The voters issued a massive rebuke to that. The Democratic Party hierarchy was repudiated in this election and you can bet they’re hurting.

Taylor Swift and Oprah couldn’t push Kamala over the top.

Nor could J.Lo or Cardi B.

The voters said no to Barack and Michelle, to Bubba and Shrillary.

So long, Kamala and Dougie.

Bye, bye CNN and MSNBC.

See ya, Nancy and Chuck.

You’re blacked out, The View.

In your face, Clapper, Mueller, Comey, Strzok and Page.

Sayonara, Liz and Dick Cheney, John Kelley and Mad Dog Mattis.

Look at me now, Fani and Letitia.

Nice try, Merrick and Jack.

The Democrats played candidate limbo for this election, smug and overconfident that they could go lower now by running a ticket of Frick and Frack and get them elected. It was a pairing ideologically on par with Karl Marx and Chairman Mao, who promised to take this nation down the garden path to socialism and economic stagnation, spicing the journey with an unlimited influx of illegals and full-Woke policy.

It remains for the raging leftists to poke through the ashes of the dumpster fire that was the Harris campaign. It all began when Clueless Joe Biden’s failing mental state was outed beyond rehabilitation by his pathetic debate performance vs. Trump.

The very same people who had denied any mental or physical decline at all on Biden’s part, now forced him out of the nomination he had earned. In a nod to political correctness and identity politics, Harris had to be the replacement.

She was, after all, a non-white woman. That she also was ranked as one of the worst vice presidents in U.S. history didn’t matter.

Barack and the people running things were confident they could make the empty pants suit palatable.

Turns out, they couldn’t.

Interesting theories have arisen already about intra-party subterfuge. Some think that perhaps Bubba saying while campaigning for Kamala that Laken Riley would be alive today if only illegal immigrants had been vetted better, was an intentional gaffe.

Maybe Bubba wants Democrats to come back to reality from the hard left, a drift that would have accelerated under Kamala and Tampon Tim.

Was it a message that DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!! wore a Republican red ensemble on election day?

Did Barack and Michelle lecturing blacks that they had a duty to vote for Kamala help or hurt?

Clueless Joe putting on a MAGA hat for the media, coming into the White House briefing room for the first time ever just as Kamala was about to make a policy speech elsewhere, him calling Trump supporters “garbage” even as Kamala was making her final campaign speech almost literally on the White House lawn, couldn’t all have been unintentional, could they?

And what of the media that absolutely hates Trump, from the cable television hacks to the pollster “Alka” Selzer who bragged she would drop one in Trump’s lap and put out a late poll that claimed Kamala was winning Iowa by three points. Trump won the state by 14-plus points.

One CNN propagandist, as Kamala’s defeat was all but sealed, was wistful that the candidate hadn’t had longer to sell herself to the nation. That happens when you pull a coup on the nominee. And the way Kamala Chameleon struggled to answer simple questions, 10 years would not have been long enough.

Why do these people hate Trump so much? Because he represents common people that they also look upon with disdain. We truly are, in their eyes, “deplorables,” “Nazis,” “garbage,” and bitter types “clinging to guns and religion.”

Trump owes a great debt to the likes of the aforementioned Kirk. The Republican National Committee outscourced its ground game to an army of young, social media savvy types. It worked.

Republicans also took the Senate. If they can get a little lucky and hold the House, Trump’s agenda can advance. He has an all-star team of advisors already onboard.

They, like Trump, recognize how important this time is for the nation.

We’ve gotten a reprieve with this election. But Trump and Republicans must take full advantage of it.

It’s 10:30 a.m. and I’m back home after voting – I think.

I filled out an eight-race ballot at my polling place inside the Southmont Borough Building, but the scanners still are not working. So, I was instructed to feed my ballot into a slot that led to a “lock box” beneath the scanner.

Presumably at some future time my ballot will be scanned successfully and my votes duly recorded. I can only hope that will be the case.

Scanners also were not working at my son’s Westmont polling place so he performed the same ritual.

I had no lines whatsoever at my polling place and only one of those customary candidate spokesmen standing outside, a young man representing Frank Burns. I relieved him of the nail file he offered me and went inside.

Later, while picking up my son at his voting site, there were lines and I had a brief wait. Outside was Frank Burns himself and I took the opportunity to introduce myself to him as a Burns Republican. We had a nice chat about the area political, healthcare and media scene.

A cousin had reported to me that he faced no lines while voting very early today in Somerset County and, imagine this, no technical glitches, either.

Now, we sit back and await results.

It begins.

‘Tis election day, with all the attendant discord we’ve come to expect.

A caller very early today left a message for me that Cambria County voting machines are not properly scanning ballots and he’d get back to me with any updates. That was about half an hour ago (8 a.m.-ish).

He got back to me with an update at 9. This is a poll watcher, by the way. He’d been told flash drives distributed by election officials for voting machines were not working. Supposedly couriers were being sent out with fresh flash drives – to all county polling places – in an attempt to correct the problem.

The county Republican office is trying to get voting hours extended to help address this problem. In theory, people showing up where voting machines are not working still can fill out a provisional ballot, although this source has heard people are being allowed to leave with ballots and then bring them back, creating a nightmare break in chain of custody.

I’ve bumped into similar problems in the past and we’ve all seen videos of people in various states hitting touchscreens to vote for Republicans and having the vote register instead for the Democrat opponent. One such example I saw came from early voting in Kentucky this election.

My plan had been to head out late morning to vote, thereby giving early arriving voters a chance to move through the system and then allowing me to beat the noon rush. My son will go out to his polling place at that time. This failure of the machines puts a crimp in that strategy.

I’m hoping for a pleasant experience, but anticipating the worst.

And I wonder aloud – again — why we can’t have paper ballots, proof of voter eligibility and same-day results? Other countries do it.

Need more counters? Hire more workers? And not necessarily virtually all Democrats, as is the case documented in such hotbeds of Democrat vote counting massage as Fulton County Georgia (Atlanta), downtown Philadelphia or Detroit.

While waiting to go out to vote, I hit my new favorite web site citizenfreepress.com. I stumbled onto this font of information recently and make it a must-visit often each day. It’s Drudge before Drudge went totally Woke.

I also like zerohedge.com, but this citizenfreepress.com effort posts a more timely, never-ending list of links to interesting stories and social media posts.

Already today, there was note of a James O’Keefe (formerly Project Veritas) hidden camera sting of a Philadelphia operation insisting people could vote as long as they are residents of the city, giving them some sort of bogus ID number, and sending them across the street to where a voting worker told the undercover person this was correct procedure.

Also, there are reports of four court-appointed Republican election workers being thrown out of a Philadelphia precinct, long lines of (supposedly) Trump voters in Bucks County, and problems at a two-district polling place in Allegheny County that had proper paperwork and officials to operate just one polling place.

The good news is that late last night podcast king Joe Rogan endorsed Trump, taking some wind out of those Democrat sails. Rogan’s recent three-hour interview with Trump had 38 million views in the first three days. Rogan’s audience hits hard the Trump demographic of young male voters.

Kamala Chameleon passed on Rogan for a long time, then tried to set up a shorter, one-hour interview on her turf. Rogan declined and now he’s endorsed Trump.

Trump was in Pittsburgh and three other stops yesterday with his closing argument and I watched parts of all four rallies courtesy of Real America’s Voice cable channel, a welcome part of my satellite television package.

My take is that Trump is winning — in Pennsylvania and around the nation. We may never know due to the sort of demonstrable election misconduct and/or malfeasance we already are getting. Meanwhile, Democrats whine because non-citizens are not allowed to vote, or suspect votes are not allowed to trickle in days or weeks late and still be counted.

Remember all this the next time the leftists want you to accept blindly strange results from suspect elections.