News
Compiled by Michael Hernandez, 11-11-24
There are so many stories making up the mosaic of national/international news that we can’t cover them all every week. The biggest stories now seem to be: the Trump election, immigration, wars, weaponization of government, our nation going bankrupt, massive inflation, phony climate change controversy and related expenses of government/industry attempting to address these issues, and the Chinese threat. So here are just a few:
Nov. 7: Fox News By Chris Pandolfo
Biden Congratulates Trump, Pledges ‘Peaceful And Orderly’ Transfer Of Power
President Biden addressed the nation from the Rose Garden on Thursday after his vice president, Kamala Harris, conceded the 2024 presidential election to President-elect Trump. In brief remarks, Biden announced that he spoke with Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him on his victory and assure him that the entire Biden administration will work with his team “to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That’s what the American people deserve,” Biden said.
Trump will make a triumphant return to the White House in January after more than 72 million Americans voted for him, securing at least 295 Electoral College votes and a majority of the national popular vote. Harris claimed 226 Electoral College votes and won at least 68 million votes. Ballots are still being counted in several states. The results were the culmination of a tumultuous campaign, which saw the incumbent Biden win the Democratic primary only for him to withdraw from the race, at the urging of his party, after a disastrous debate performance against Trump in June. Harris was then nominated by Democrats to bear their standard without contest and without earning a single primary vote.
During the campaign, both Harris and Biden called Trump a “fascist” and argued that his re-election to the presidency would threaten democracy and prove dangerous to the American people. But after Trump’s decisive win, Biden changed his tune to emphasize unity. On Thursday, the president spoke about political campaigns as a “contest of competing visions.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-congratulates-trump-pledges-peaceful-orderly-transfer-power
Nov. 7: NewsMax By Solange Reyner
Dem Strategist Roginsky: Democratic Party Has Lost Common Sense
Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky says her party has lost “common sense” and the ability to “speak to people like they’re normal.”
“This is not Joe Biden’s fault, it’s not Kamala Harris’s fault, it’s not Barack Obama’s fault, it is the fault of the Democratic party not knowing how to communicate effectively to voters,” Roginsky told CNN Thursday.
“We are not the party of common sense, which is the message that voters sent to us. For a number of reasons, for a number of reasons, we don’t know how to speak to voters,” she added.
“Language has meaning. When we address Latino voters as LatinX, for instance, because that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think that we don’t even live in the same planet as we do. When we are too afraid to say that ‘Hey, college kids, if you’re trashing a campus of Columbia University because you aren’t happy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning that that is unacceptable.’ But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we don’t know what to say,” Roginsky said. The Democratic Party needs to “start being the party of common sense again,” she said.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/democratic-party-lost/2024/11/07/id/1187179/
Nov.7: Breitbart By Randy Clark
Leaked Report Warns Venezuela Sending Intel Operatives, Released Prisoners To ‘Neutralize’ Targets in U.S.
In a report reviewed exclusively by Breitbart Texas, human intelligence developed by frontline Border Patrol intelligence officers reveals the possibility of a formal covert operation being conducted by the Maduro regime. The operation is designed to infiltrate the United States using released inmates and pairing them with Venezuelan intelligence operatives to “neutralize” human targets within the United States.
The report’s narrative, generated by the Rio Grande Valley Sector Intelligence Unit (SIU), indicates that released inmates from Venezuelan prisons have been directed to travel to the United States alongside Venezuelan intelligence officers to track down former Venezuelan military members, politicians, and law enforcement officials within the United States and “neutralize” them. According to the report, the motive is to prevent the release of classified information that Venezuelan officials may possess.
Nov. 8: Breitbart Opinion By John Nolte
Indefensible Slow-Counting In NV, AZ, And CA Undermines Confidence In Democracy
It’s Friday, and they are still counting votes in Arizona, Nevada, and California. And the longer this inexplicable madness goes on, the less anyone should trust the results. Almost 11 million Americans cast their votes in Florida on Tuesday. The Sunshine State finished counting within a few hours.
If the idiots who run Arizona’s elections ever do decide to finish counting, we’re talking at most about 3.5 million total votes. The people who ride the short bus to count votes in Nevada probably won’t hit 1.5 million total votes. Sure, California has millions more voters than Florida, but we are talking about California, progressive California, the home of Silicon Valley. It’s freaken Friday and according to the New York Times tracker, only 59 percent of the vote has been counted.
We were told Thursday that Republican Sam Brown lost his bid to unseat Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen in Nevada. Well, I would have a lot more faith in that call if it were made Tuesday night and not after Democrat-run Clark County (where about 70 percent of the votes come in) had 48 hours for shenanigans. Did you know that in Nevada, ballots are accepted up to three days after Election Day even if they have no postmark? How is anyone supposed to have faith in Nevada’s democracy with ballots being lobbed over the transom with no postmark three days after Election Day? By then, anyone who wants to cheat pretty much knows exactly how many ballots need to be rounded up, and there is no need to even mail them. No postmark necessary. So who delivers them?
Out of Arizona, we are still waiting — still! — to see if Republican Kari Lake will become a U.S. senator. Considering how much the establishment hates her and that most of that state’s votes are counted in Democrat-controlled counties of Pima and Maricopa, how can anyone have faith in the results?
Democrats control absolutely everything in California, and the fate of who controls the U.S. House will likely come down to the former Golden State. How can anyone have faith in those results?
Nov. 8: Gateway Pundit By John Mills
Who Is On The Docket First With The “Spies Who Lie”?
Election 2024 is now mostly over. The Blue Team is trying to steal the down ballot races, and we need to get the celebratory marching band off the field to stop this stealth, mini, “Big Steal.” Presuming we stop the down ballot steal; the scope and scale of President-Elect Trump’s victory is decisive.
Trump won the popular vote, the electoral college and smashed the Blue Wall of defense in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Vice President Harris has conceded, and President Biden proffered a peaceful transition and showed his disappointment at Harris’s loss with a broad smile at his news conference.
Once the Trump Administration is onboard – what about the 51 Intelligence Officers that signed the infamous Hunter Biden Laptop Letter? In October 2020, the 51 stated the Hunter Biden Laptop was Russian Dis-information. That was a lie, they knew it was a lie, and it was the greatest Election Interference Operation in American History. For several of them, their actions possibly expose them to Felony charges.
· The Ringleaders – Blinken, Clapper, Brennan, and Hayden
· Make an example of one, get the others to flip
(Editor’s Note: To read more go to the Gateway Pundit.)
Nov. 8: Breitbart By Elizabeth Weibel
FEMA Official Instructed Hurricane Relief Workers To Skip Trump Supporters Homes
An official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instructed hurricane relief workers to skip over the homes of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a recent report.
Marn’i Washington, a FEMA supervisor, reportedly informed hurricane relief workers “verbally and in a group chat,” to “avoid homes advertising Trump,” in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, several “government employees,” told the Daily Wire.
The government employees explained to the outlet that as a result of the guidance, “at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags” in Lake Placid, Florida, had been skipped. As a result, residents did not have an “opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance.”
The government employees told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance. Images shared with The Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers, who wrote in the government system messages such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership.”
The Daily Wire noted that the government employees had been “part of a Department of Homeland Security surge capacity force team,” and had “volunteered” to assist FEMA, which was understaffed in the aftermath of a “second major hurricane.”
The outlet noted that the “FEMA agents” who were instructed to skip helping homes with Trump signs had been in Highlands County, “a deep-red area” that supported Trump by 70 percent in the presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Nov. 9: Breitbart News By Hannah Knudsen
Ohio Senator-Elect Bernie Moreno: ‘We’re Not Going Back To The Republican Party Of Old’
The Republican Party is “not going back” to the GOP of old, Ohio’s Senator-Elect Bernie Moreno said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, explaining that this is the new American Republican Party that will reestablish American greatness.
“President Trump has re-centered this country on American greatness, American ideals, a party that looks out for working Americans. And we’re not going back to the Republican Party of old. We’re not going back to the Republican Party that looks out for the elites, the Republican Party that placates its base by saying one thing and then acting completely different,” Moreno said, deeming the party of old “dead.”
“This is the new American Republican Party. And man, I am so proud to think about the opportunity to get the honor of being able to be in the United States Senate, representing the great people of Ohio, serving with President Trump. This is just something I can’t even imagine. Sometimes I have to pinch myself to imagine this is real, that I get to be in the United States Senate with President Trump to truly unleash American greatness,” Moreno said, predicting the country will look back on this period of time and recognize it as a reestablishment of American greatness.
“President Trump is going to take this country to new heights, and I’m insanely honored to even think I can play a small role in helping make that happen,” the Senator-Elect said, describing this as the “greatest political realignment in American history, and it’s led by President Donald J. Trump.”
Moreno said he is confident there will not be going any back, because once this agenda is implemented successfully and everyone sees and experiences the success with improved lives, “the people who didn’t vote for us will join the movement, because this is no longer Democrat versus Republican.”
Nov. 9: Fox News By Gabriel Hays
Harris Surrogate Gives Firsthand Account Of The ‘Epic Disaster’ Of Election Night Loss To Trump
DNC National Finance Committee member and Harris campaign fundraiser Lindy Li analyzed what went wrong with Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign that led to the “epic disaster” against President-elect Donald Trump this week.
Li told Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain on Saturday that multiple factors doomed the campaign in her opinion, including Biden’s choice for Harris to be his successor, the Harris campaign’s overconfidence in their polling data, and former President Obama’s delay in endorsing the vice president as the Democratic candidate.
“The truth is, this is just an epic disaster – this is a $1 billion disaster,” Li declared on Saturday morning, summing up the result of the Harris campaign. “I raised millions of that. I have friends that I have to be accountable to and to explain what happened because I told them it was a margin of error race. I was promised – [Harris campaign chair] Jen O’Malley Dillon promised all of us that Harris would win. She even put videos out that Harris would win. I believed her, my donors believed her and so they wrote massive checks.”
Nov. 10: Fox News By Michael Lee
Harris Paid Oprah $1 Million In Failed Bid To Help Campaign
Vice President Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions $1 million, just one example of millions the campaign spent on various entertainers during the vice president’s failed bid, for president.
The Harris campaign paid $1 million to Winfrey’s company on October 15, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, coming after a star-studded town hall that Winfrey hosted for the vice president in September.
Winfrey also appeared at Harris’ final rally in Philadelphia on the eve of Election Day, with the talk-show star offering a rare endorsement of a presidential candidate. “We’re voting for values and integrity,” Winfrey said at the rally. “We’re voting for healing over hate.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-paid-oprah-1-million-failed-bid-help-campaign-report
Nov. 11: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
President Trump Appoints Former ICE Director Tom Homan As “Border Czar” To Oversee National Security Across All U.S. Borders Including Maritime And Aviation Security
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Sunday night that former ICE Director Tom Homan will be the nation’s new “Border Czar.” Homan, a steadfast supporter of strong border policies and seasoned law enforcement leader, will be tasked with overseeing all aspects of U.S. border security, extending beyond the southern and northern land borders to include maritime and aviation domains. Homan will lead all deportation efforts, enforcing strict policies to remove illegal aliens from the country.
Homan’s most notable role was his appointment by President Trump as the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on January 30, 2017. He served in this capacity until his retirement on June 30, 2018. Prior to this appointment, from 2013, he held the position of Executive Associate Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), according to the Government Technology & Services Coalition (GTSC).
Michael Hernandez, from California is co-founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor. Mr. Hernandez can be contacted at [email protected] and is editor of the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and “Revive America: Make America Great Again.”
*Although the content appears factual, we classified this round-up as “Opinion” because it is somewhat one-sided)…
The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Citizens Journal Florida
