Remembering — and rejecting — the right-wing doomers



It's been more than a week since the 2024 election. Arizona and California are still inexplicably counting ballots, but the results are clear: Donald Trump and the Republicans crushed.

While many commentators have already shared their wish lists and recommendations, now is also a good time to remember the prognosticators who got their predictions terribly wrong.

This time around, the doomers posed a far bigger threat to Trump’s victory than the NeverTrump crowd.

The main offenders were those in the Democratic machine who actually believed their own exaggerations, along with their followers who bought into the crazy leftist rhetoric. Many truly thought Trump was a fascist who would overturn democracy and that Kamala Harris was the next Barack Obama — as if that were somehow a good thing.

Karine Jean-Pierre admitted that this messaging wasn’t meant to be taken seriously and that people are simply expected to forget it. Yet this hasn’t stopped the drama queens from shedding public tears and creating “coping spaces.” Much of this behavior seems performative, but many on the left genuinely fell for the propaganda. As I argue elsewhere, this needs to change, as it not only distorts and polarizes our politics but also perpetuates mental illness.

Another group, less well known, also harbored serious doubts about Trump’s chances. These were the influencers and fringe pundits who had already lost faith in the democratic process and believed the system was rigged beyond repair.

Some of their despair seemed justified, considering the 2020 and 2022 elections. In 2020, Democrats pushed for universal mail-in ballots, changed voting laws, and influenced the news media to promote Joe Biden, who spent much of his campaign in his basement, into the Oval Office. Many pointed to the 20-million vote gap between Biden and Harris as proof of widespread ballot stuffing and fraud in the last election. However, this gap seems to be narrowing daily and can be explained without invoking mass fraud narratives.

The 2022 election, otherwise known as the red wave that never was, also fueled conservative conspiracy theories after candidates with brain damage and those running their own election efforts won. Some blamed poor candidates, like Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker, but it's fair to say something seems off in states like Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada. That said, the 2022 results didn’t exactly signal impending disaster for the American republic or a totalitarian takeover by the left.

When Trump announced his run for president again this year, these right-wing doomers were primed to forfeit before 2024 even began. This wasn’t mere jadedness from some setbacks in the last two elections; these were false prophets telling patriotic Americans to give up on their country and prepare for the worst. In their view, everyone was a communist infiltrator, a traitor, a grifter, or an utter fool. They were telling people that the push to vote early was all a ruse to help Democrats win, that the “Chinese-run” Dominion machines would erase Republican votes, and that “if anyone thinks the Democrats are desperate now, just think of what they’ll do when the election season really starts happening.”

Beyond this, they were predicting mass riots across the country that would plunge the country into a civil war if Trump were to win.

Even though some of this paranoia had a basis in reality, culminating in two assassination attempts, much of it was just intended to demoralize conservatives and attract paid subscribers (“Follow me if you want the truth about this country …”). This time around, the doomers posed a far bigger threat to Trump’s victory than the NeverTrump crowd.

Fortunately, enough Americans turned out to vote anyway. Despite the warnings, some voted early, some mailed in their ballots, and others voted on Election Day. Trump’s lawyers and campaign organizers worked tirelessly to prevent any undue interference. Everything went smoothly, and as some of us predicted, the fallout has been minimal. Americans are ready to move on and look forward to better days.

One of the first orders of business should be to fix the current election system by requiring voter ID, in-person voting, and paper ballots. The next priority should be to purge the doomers and crackpots from the conservative movement.

Currently, they are the biggest obstacle to the conservative movement’s legitimacy and effectiveness. Although they played a role in removing establishment figures from the old GOP, those dinosaurs are rapidly becoming extinct. It’s time to bring new life and optimism to America.

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Katie Porter breaks out dictionary to defend her claim that she lost election by 20 points because it was 'rigged'



Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) found herself trying to play lexicographer on Wednesday after claiming she lost a primary election because it was rigged against her.

On Super Tuesday, Porter lost the primary election for the late Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate seat. Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey were the top two candidates in the open primary, each achieving more than 30% of the vote. Porter came in third place with 13.9% of the vote.

Porter responded to her embarrassing loss by claiming that billionaires had spent millions of dollars "to rig this election." That, she suggested, is why she lost.

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The outrageous claim — for which Porter offered not a shred of evidence — was widely mocked by Republicans, Democrats, and the media.

But that didn't stop Porter from doubling down.

Instead of eating her slice of humble pie, Porter tried to play a game of semantics and defended her claim about a "rigged" election.

In a follow-up statement, she said:

"Rigged" means manipulated by dishonest means. A few billionaires spent $10 million+ on attack ads against me, included an ad rated "false" by an independent fact checker. That is dishonest means to manipulate the outcome. I said "rigged by billionaires" and our politics are — in fact — manipulated by big dark money. Defending democracy means calling that out.

There are two problems with Porter's statement.

First, the word "rigged" does technically mean "to manipulate or control usually by deceptive or dishonest means" or "to fix in advance for a desired result," according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. But Porter is rigging her statement because the election was by no means rigged. Nobody manipulated or controlled it by deceptive means, and no one fixed it in advance for a specific outcome.

Nothing illegal happened to cause Porter to lose by 20 points; that was her accomplishment.

Second, Porter is not being honest. The "independent fact checker" that she cited is the Sacramento Bee, and the fact check to which she referred did not conclude with a ruling of "false." The rating was "mostly false" because, according to the Bee, the ad in question is "misleading." The ad claimed that "Big Pharma," "Big Oil," and "Big Bank" supported Porter's campaign.

The Bee, in fact, discovered that a pharmaceutical company, oil company, and bank did support Porter. But it was ruled "mostly false" because the bank services Asian Americans, while the oil company and pharmaceutical companies are not part of their industry's lobbying groups.

Splitting hairs, no doubt — and perhaps even "rigged" in Porter's favor.

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Rogan says the 2020 election was rigged by the media: 'It's wild sh** and no one cares'



Joe Rogan is unconvinced that the 2020 presidential election was rigged per se, but is certain the liberal corporate media meddled to guarantee a particular outcome.

In the July 4 episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the titular podcaster, joined by comedian Tom Segura, broached the subject of possible voter fraud in both recent and forthcoming elections after discussing which among the various controversial remarks made by Roseanne Barr on Theo Von's recent "This Past Weekend" podcast got it yanked from YouTube.

Barr had questioned how President Joe Biden could have won the 2020 election with "the most votes of any presidential candidate in history" while also winning a record-low number of counties.

"I don't know if there was some shenanigans with the election. I guarantee you it wasn't zero percent," said Rogan. "How much voter fraud was there? It's never zero."

In pursuit of greater clarity, Rogan appealed to a USA Today "fact-check," which stated, "With over 81 million votes, Biden received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history. It is also true that he won a record-low number of counties – but counties vary by population size, from those with a few hundred people to others with millions of residents, so county wins don't correlate with the popular vote."

This appeared to momentarily assuage the host's concerns, but then he called to mind a recent security assessment of Georgia's Dominion voting machines that allegedly found "dangerous vulnerabilities," then pulled up a CNN report noting the software won't be updated until after the 2024 election.

While still reluctant to conclude the election was meaningfully steered one way or the other by possible hackers or other rogue actors, Rogan stated that even if the 2020 election wasn't rigged in the manner suggested by former President Donald Trump, "for sure it was rigged by the media. For sure."

"Just the Hunter Biden laptop case and the Russia collusion case — just those two things, just those two narratives that they knew were not true, that they pushed out in front of everybody and that we know ... had to do with trying to get rid of Trump," said Rogan.

Segura chimed in, "One overreporting and one underreporting."

"That is, in many ways ... that's manipulation. It's manipulation of a public narrative. It's manipulation of what the people think is real and not real," said Rogan. "Everybody thought he was in collusion with Russia. It's what everybody thought."

The complete Durham Report released in May revealed that the FBI's Russian collusion investigation into then-candidate Trump was from the get-go a stitch-up predicated upon a false claim, originally approved and advanced by failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Durham indicated the FBI “did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations” made in the infamous Steele dossier — allegations long laundered with other baseless claims by the liberal media and top Democrats, resulting in some outfits receiving once-esteemed awards.

Rogan cited Fox News as the only major mainstream media outlet that didn't overwhelmingly push the false narrative, adding that "everybody else was pushing it."

"It was sold hard," said Segura.

"And it was not true," added Rogan. "And it's proven not true. And there's the Hunter Biden laptop thing, which they knew was true and they said wasn't true. ... They stopped people from sharing it on social media. They stopped people from sharing it on Twitter. Zuckerberg sat in that very chair and said the FBI contacted Facebook and told them it was 'Russian disinformation.'"

"It's wild sh** and no one cares," concluded the host. "No one's up in arms. No one's freaking out. 'Cause that is a way that you're gonna rig an election without rigging an election. Whether you like [Trump] or not, we have to follow the rules. We have to. And if we don't follow the rules 'cause you don't like somebody and we break the law because we don't like somebody, we don't want them to win, that's banana republic sh**."

That the media, big tech, and the administrative state apparently conspired against Trump to prevent him from remaining in office and did so without consequence is "scary," said Rogan, adding the intelligence community ultimately made good on Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer's threat — that "they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

Rogan likened this apparent totalitarian reflex to that wielded online to silence dissenting voices, calling it "dangerous."

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