Here Are The Corporate Media Meltdowns You’ve Been Waiting For
As the inevitability of Donald Trump's electoral victory became clear, leftist hysteria kicked into high gear.As the inevitability of Donald Trump's electoral victory became clear, leftist hysteria kicked into high gear.As expected, liberal media melts down over multiracial, working-class Trump victory — especially Van Jones
President Donald Trump long cautioned supporters that they needed to turn out in such numbers that the election would be "too big to rig." The American people obliged him, turning most of the map red and ensuring that the 45th president of the United States would become the country's 47th president as well.
Not only is Trump expected to surpass 310 Electoral College votes, having won all seven key battleground states including the state where he was shot by a would-be assassin, he is also set to become the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years.
The liberal media, having made clear in advance that this was not the outcome they wanted, are not handling things well — especially not CNN talking head Van Jones.
Midway through what appeared to be a breakdown, Jones suggested that transvestic minors and illegal aliens are going to wake up scared and that black women are in for "a lot of hurt."
CNN panelist David Urban, who served as senior adviser to Trump's other successful presidential campaign, told Jones, "We need to recognize that over half of America feels very strongly about the things that Donald Trump feels strongly about: a secure border, the economy, crime. They might not like — he might not be a perfect messenger, but the message resonated."
'We're not garbage.'
"Democracy is a luxury when you can't pay your bills," continued Urban, referring to the democracy-themed concern-mongering that Democrats leaned into in recent months.
Urban said that the multitudes of Americans who supported Trump are now sitting back, sneering at "the elite" and saying, "''We told you so. We're not garbage. We're hardworking people. We believe in these things,' right? People don't like to be talked down to."
The Republican noted further that the coalition whose members found resonance with Trump's message was racially and ethnically diverse.
According to CNN's exit polls,
- 45% of Hispanic voters, 38% of Asian voters, 12% of black voters, 55% of white voters, and 53% of voters from other racial or ethnic groups cast ballots for Trump.
- 44% of Americans 18-44 voted for Trump, and 51% of Americans 45 or older did likewise.
- 60% of Catholics, 71% of Protestants, 19% of Jewish Americans, and 42% of Americans from other faiths voted for Trump.
- 64% of military veterans supported Trump.
- 49% of voters making less than $50,000 a year voted for Trump, while 48% voted for Harris.
- 54% of Americans with no college degree and 41% of Americans with a college degree voted for Trump.
- 54% of first-time voters cast ballots for Trump.
- 44% of voters from union households cast votes for Trump.
Rather than engage with Urban's point about the diversity of the coalition behind Trump, Jones focused on the disappointment of certain voters that their racial identity would not be partially reflected in the person of the president:
There are African-American women who know a little bit about being talked down to and know a little bit about their economic dreams being crushed, who tried to dream a big dream over the past couple of months. And tonight they are trading a lot of hope for a lot of hurt. They were hoping that maybe this time, this time, one of their own could be seen as worthy. And once again they are facing rejection.
According to Jones, "it's going to be harder than it should be tomorrow for [black women] to hold their heads up."
'Stooges will be stooges.'
The talking head suggested that extra to disappointed identitarians, Trump's win is a "nightmare" for parents of cross-dressing youth and for foreign nationals violating American immigration law.
"If you are a parent of a trans kid, your child's face was used as a springboard to power for somebody," said Jones, intending his remarks as a barb against Trump, not the physicians who profit wildly off so-called "gender-affirming care" procedures on kids. "That doesn't feel good."
"There are going to be people tomorrow who are going to be handing clothes at the dry cleaners who don't have papers," continued Jones. "There are going to be people who are going to be cleaning your teeth tomorrow who don't have papers, and they're terrified tonight."
The multimillionaire stressed that it's "not the elite who are going to pay the price. It's people who woke up this morning with a dream and are going to bed with a nightmare, and those people didn't deserve to be respected and held and talked to. Those are the people going to pay the price for whatever Donald Trump decides to do."
Molecular biologist Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University later responded to Jones' rant, "Stooges will be stooges. Especially the stupidest among them."
Jones was far from the only talking head finding it difficult to cope after it became clear that Harris had no chance of eking out a win.
Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks, for instance, suffered a meltdown reminiscent of his response to Trump's 2016 electoral victory, this time attacking Democrats for delivering "loss after loss after loss."
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Van Jones refuses to hide his pessimism for Kamala Harris in the most critical swing state: 'Nothing making me happy'
Van Jones is feeling bad vibes.
For a campaign that has tried to sell Americans on the idea of a Kamala Harris presidency by, in part, appealing to vibes, Jones explained Monday on CNN that he isn't feeling good about Harris' campaign in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.
'That is 70,000 votes we bled away. That is the margin for victory.'
"I'm just nervous all the time, so I don't feel good about nothing, and I'm not going to feel good about nothing until it's over," Jones said.
There are good reasons to be nervous, Jones explained. He cited problems for Harris in Philadelphia and issues among Jewish voters.
"I'm worried. Philadelphia is where we've got to run up a big margin. But Philly overall has been trending down, not in terms of going toward the Republicans, just people not getting out to vote," Jones said. "It's a bigger, tougher fight in Philly to get that vote count up than it has been in the past. That has me worried.
"The other thing that has me worried is the Jewish vote in the suburban areas. Biden won the Jewish vote by 70% — 70 to 30 — last time. Some polls show Kamala at 50-50. That is 70,000 votes we bled away. That is the margin for victory," he explained.
The final problem that Jones diagnosed is the star-studded rally and concert that Harris is hosting in Pennsylvania on Monday. Jones said it gave him eerie vibes that remind him of 2016.
"The other thing makes me nervous is in 2016 we had a big, star-studded event right on the edge of the election, and we lost the state. I don't think people understand working people sometimes have to choose: Am I gonna go to the big, cool concert this week and pay for babysitting for that, or am I gonna try to figure out a way to get to the polls? I don’t like these big, star-studded events," he said.
"I can't show where they've helped us win. In fact, it probably helped us lose last time," he added. "I don’t want people going to concerts. I want people knockin' on doors. I want people out there fighting for this thing. I'm just nervous, nervous, nervous."
In fact, Jones admitted that "there's nothing making me happy about Pennsylvania."
That's a significant problem for Harris because, in all likelihood, whoever wins Pennsylvania will win the election. Harris can lose Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia while winning Wisconsin and Michigan — but she cannot lose Pennsylvania. On the other hand, if Trump fails to penetrate the blue wall by winning Pennsylvania, he most likely will lose.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama's 2012 campaign manager is sounding the alarm for Democrats.
Jim Messina, a career Democratic operative, admitted on Sunday that early voting returns are "scary" for the Harris campaign, alluding to significant early voting gains among Republican voters.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that Trump is benefiting, because Republicans could be cannibalizing their traditionally strong Election Day turnout. But the early voting returns are nonetheless a positive indicator that the election results could turn in Trump's favor.
That's why, according to Messina, his Democratic friends are calling him and "panicking."
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Watch Van Jones tell Bill Maher why Trump is wrong to fight crime
One thing the left is really good at is misinterpreting something Trump said or did and using that twisted lie to bolster their "Trump is racist, sexist, fascist, etc." narrative.
For example, CNN’s Van Jones took a section of Trump’s Agenda 47 that laid out plans to combat the rampant crime the Biden administration has allowed to escalate and turned it into Trump is “locking up all the black men.”
Dave Rubin plays the clip of Jones explaining why fighting crime is wrong to Bill Maher.
“This is what’s on his website. He says he’s going to ‘require local law enforcement to do stop and frisk,’ which 80% goes against black people,” Jones began, reading from Agenda 47.
“He says he’s going to ‘instruct the DOJ to dismantle every street gang’ — in other words, the feds are going to be in your neighborhood trying to figure out which one of your kids should go to federal prison.”
“He says he’s going to ‘indemnify all cops,’ so you can't sue cops basically,” Jones continued, adding, “Black men are about to get conned.”
“The best con artist in the world is going to tell black men, ‘I'm going to lift you up.’ In fact, he's going to lock you up. He's going to lock you up for the stuff that Kamala Harris is trying to decriminalize,” he ranted.
Dave points out some irony in Jones’ words.
“Van, why do you think that all black men are in street gangs?” he asks rhetorically.
Further, “They don’t do these things to lawful people,” he says. “Now, that doesn’t mean that there can’t be a bad cop that might do a stop and frisk unfairly or unjustly — and that should be dealt with.”
“What Donald Trump is talking about there is that in cities — like in the city [Van Jones and Bill Maher] shot that very video right there, Los Angeles — the mayor of L.A. is no longer doing proper policing. You can trespass and jump over people's fences and set up a tent and they won't do anything; you can smoke crack outside of city hall,” says Dave.
As for Jones’ insinuation that Donald Trump is racist against black men, it’s easily debunked considering “Trump literally had lowest all-time black unemployment.”
To hear more, watch the clip above.
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CNN analyst: Kamala is the ‘worst polling Democrat in history against Donald Trump’
A CNN analyst has done something incredibly brave on the network — which is, of course, telling the truth.
The analyst, Ryan Girdusky, did the unthinkable and brought up Kamala’s flip-flopping and disastrous performance in the polls on a panel with CNN’s very own Van Jones.
It began when Van Jones admitted that the Democrats had “bad ideas” in 2020, and Girdusky looked at Jones directly and blamed the Black Lives Matter movement and its emphasis on equity.
Then, he went after Kamala.
“At 60 years old, which is about what she is, she had a transformational life experience apparently, where in 1,000 days she has changed from a Bernie Sanders Democrat to a pro-choice Bush Democrat,” Girdusky explained to the confused panel.
“She has abandoned almost every position, not just on fracking,” he continued, noting she was also for reparations. “She was gung-ho for a multi-trillion-dollar policy, never mentions it, she’s completely against it.”
“Obviously, the transgender illegal aliens in prison, which she did sit there and say that she was for. She was against ICE, she was for open borders, defund the police,” he added.
Then he went for the jugular, calling her the “worst polling Democrat against Donald Trump in history on national polls.”
“No one is performing worse than her, no one’s performing worse ... among blacks, among Hispanics. The worst performing Democrat in modern history among those demographics, the worst performing polling-wise among Jews. She is losing key factions of the Democratic base,” he said, adding, “She is not doing well.”
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is surprised and a little impressed.
“That was very interesting. I want to give Ryan credit there, like a sort of double credit because first off, he’s sitting with a whole bunch of un-friendlies, but notice he’s laying out information,” Rubin says. “Look what happens when someone comes on there and calmly tells you the truth. They sit there sort of slack-jawed.”
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CNN's Van Jones has moment of clarity about why Harris didn't pick Josh Shapiro
Vice President Kamala Harris' final decision of running mate came down to the choice between two Democratic governors: Tim Walz of Minnesota, a blue state that Harris was poised to win anyway; and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, a critically important swing state with 19 electoral college votes where President Donald Trump is presently leading in the polls.
Harris ultimately picked Walz — who apparently fabricated details of his military service, prompting allegations of "stolen valor"; allowed BLM rioters to devastate Minneapolis; and transformed his state into a haven for child sex-change mutilations.
While Shapiro has been dogged by an intra-office sexual abuse scandal, CNN talking head Van Jones acknowledged Tuesday that he was likely sidelined for another, "darker" reason.
CNN host Jim Acosta asked Jones whether he thought it was "a little risky that [Harris] didn't go with Shapiro to kind of lock down Pennsylvania."
Jones responded, "The conservatives, the right wing, the Republicans — they were chewing their fingernails down to the knuckle because they were afraid of a Josh Shapiro, they were afraid of a Mark Kelly. They are not as afraid of this new governor because they think they can define him."
"So here's the challenge you've got in this party, and people don't want to talk about it. We got to talk about it," continued Jones. "On the one hand, you have a lot of young people concerned about Gaza. You have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others. They have not felt seen by the Biden administration. You started hearing that 'Genocide Joe.' That was building."
'You also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party.'
According to Jones, "those folks needed to have a candidate that they could feel comfortable with."
Whereas Walz is a leftist Lutheran who has expressed support for a peaceful solution to the Israel-Hamas war, Shapiro is a proud Jewish American who let people believe for decades that he volunteered for the Israeli military and has reportedly compared anti-Israel protesters to the KKK.
Leftists seized upon Shapiro's identity and support for Israel after learning Harris was considering him as a running mate and quickly transitioned from their "Genocide Joe" campaign to a "Genocide Josh" campaign.
The website for the "No Genocide Josh" campaign stated, "Electing a Vice Presidential nominee with anti-Palestinian and pro-war views will depress turnout among Muslim, Arab-American, and young voters, and greatly reduce the excitement that comes with a new nominee."
"It is in Harris's and the Democrats' best interests to listen to their base and ensure that both their new VP pick and their platform support the majority of Democrats and Americans who want social and economic justice for workers and an immediate ceasefire in Palestine," added the anti-Shapiro site.
Although Walz has condemned anti-Semitism in the past, expressed support for Israel as "America's truest and closest ally" in the Middle East, and spoken out about pro-Hamas supporters' antagonism of Jewish students, Jones intimated that prospective Harris voters' prejudice might cut deeper than policy positions.
"You also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party," said Jones. "You can be for the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot, but there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there."
"And there has to be conversations about how much of what just happened is caving into some of these darker parts in the party. So that’s going to have to get worked out. It's going to have to get talked through," added Jones.
Jones is neither the first media personality nor the first Democrat to admit the Democratic Party has a major anti-Semitism problem.
In May, comedian Bill Maher noted that while there might be anti-Semitism on both sides of the political spectrum, "The left wing is even worse."
Michael Rapaport, who was in recent years one of Trump's most outspoken critics, indicated earlier this year that he was considering voting for the Republican in large part because of the left's growing antagonism toward Israel and Jews.
After spending a lifetime as a Democrat, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind joined the Republican Party last year, stating, "The Democratic Party has become so radicalized, so radical, run by the radicals, that people who are moderates or conservative Democrats are not welcomed in the Democratic Party."
Jones is also not alone in suspecting that Shapiro was kicked to the curb in order to appease anti-Semites in the Democratic Party.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) told CNN Monday, "Those in the overly online left who are attacking Josh Shapiro's pro-Israel positions in a different way than they are attacking non-Jewish veep contenders' positions, they're just telling on themselves. There's a strong undercurrent of antisemitism."
"Every contender's positions on all policy issues, their track records in elective office, all of that is fair game. That is totally open to be subjected to interrogation and to questioning by the Harris team, by observers. But holding him to a different standard because of his religion just simply isn't who we are as a Democratic Party," continued Auchincloss.
Evidently Auchincloss was off in terms of his optimistic assessment of his party.
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