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My platform is limited, and I wonder why anyone should listen to me anyway, lol, but REE-LAX, people. Last night was a snapshot in a cyclical pattern that NEVER resolves to some sort of static political reality.
Though I want America to do well—no American should root for failure as a prelude to political advantage—I have every confidence that if the Dems surrender to their "energy wing" and try to implement even a third of what some of the outliers are giddily envisioning this morning, they will face a massive comeuppance. America is a centrist nation and no one is going to abolish prisons or summarily seize property or "key sectors" of the economy. Just will not happen.
Insofar as the pearl-clutching over the fact that in exit polls 18% of us identified as democratic socialists...keep in mind that a few years ago on our college campuses roughly 100% of students identified as trans (I'm exaggerating for effect, but the number was outlandish), and now we've basically reverted to the expected distribution.
We are a very emotional people and we get carried away; lots of sound and fury signifying nothing.
#Election2026 #Midterms2026 #BlueWave @ChrisCuomo
One of the coolest and yet most heart-tugging things about dogs is that they'll walk around for two hours with an old dead leaf stuck to their ear and never be the wiser.
Ridiculous.
Yes, elections have consequences, and as my pal @ChrisCuomo notes nightly, ICE should be able to do its job without summarily executing people. But must a consequence be that we condone illegality and disdain for the Constitution?
Officials who run sanctuary cities are criminals, in principle if not in fact, and we must figure out how to justify escorting them to Gitmo or similar.
#immigration @sanctuarycities #BlueWave
Steve Salerno ... ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ᴀ sʏᴄᴀᴍᴏʀᴇ ɪ ᴡᴀs ɢʟᴀᴅ retweeted
You need to understand that the views published in Salon are not contained.
They are thriving in Congress, universities, entertainment and corporate America.
Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It has been an extraordinary privilege. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
Apropos of #Hinojosa and Texas, a word on quality education.
If your high school graduates <10% of its students, it is a horrible program.
if your school graduates >90% of its students, it is also, almost surely, a horrible program.
Education must be rigorous enough that some children are indeed left behind.
This. No overstating its impact, as these people have the ear of the Left's most dug-in radicals.
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It didn't just "pick up," @nytimes. It soared. I'm happy for the country, of course, and I hope it isn't just a fluke...but does this mean we have to relitigate the question of who's best on the economy? Ugh.
nytimes.com/live/2026/11/06/…
Steve Salerno ... ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ᴀ sʏᴄᴀᴍᴏʀᴇ ɪ ᴡᴀs ɢʟᴀᴅ retweeted
My platform is limited, and I wonder why anyone should listen to me anyway, lol, but REE-LAX, people. Last night was a snapshot in a cyclical pattern that NEVER resolves to some sort of static political reality.
Though I want America to do well—no American should root for failure as a prelude to political advantage—I have every confidence that if the Dems surrender to their "energy wing" and try to implement even a third of what some of the outliers are giddily envisioning this morning, they will face a massive comeuppance. America is a centrist nation and no one is going to abolish prisons or summarily seize property or "key sectors" of the economy. Just will not happen.
Insofar as the pearl-clutching over the fact that in exit polls 18% of us identified as democratic socialists...keep in mind that a few years ago on our college campuses roughly 100% of students identified as trans (I'm exaggerating for effect, but the number was outlandish), and now we've basically reverted to the expected distribution.
We are a very emotional people and we get carried away; lots of sound and fury signifying nothing.
#Election2026 #Midterms2026 #BlueWave @ChrisCuomo
Steve Salerno ... ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ᴀ sʏᴄᴀᴍᴏʀᴇ ɪ ᴡᴀs ɢʟᴀᴅ retweeted
I love that just two days after winning an election by promising to focus on affordability, Democrats immediately pivoted to putting dicks in chicks’ bathrooms.
One of the first acts of the Democrat-controlled Congress will be a rule change so transvestite Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) will be able to use the women’s bathroom in the halls of Congress. trib.al/6rLD76Z
I don't mind all the eulogies of Trump/Trumpism. He earned them. But it bugs me just a tad that so many political writers are indulging in spirited one-upmanship with their peers, trotting out their best metaphors to shrink man and myth, now that it suddenly seems safe to do so.
I do quite like the ending of this @Quillette piece.
Of course...otherwise only the Asian kids would be able to pass them.
teapawt.org/i/trending/21184043617…
This may tell us a lot, not just abt Minnesota.
Among those with IQs at or BELOW 90, there's been a 6-fold increase in men and a 10-fold increase in women who graduate from college.
1. If "college-level work" is accessible to ppl with IQs below 90, is it still college-level work?
2. Could this explain the manifest dumbing-down of higher ed? Even, as I've researched, in settings like med school?
3. If we are not designing college to challenge our best and brightest...what's the point of it all?
The rate at which individuals with IQs below 90 (the US average is around 98) completed college has increased approximately 6-fold in men and 10-fold in women relative to rates in the previous generation.
Today, the average college student isn't all that much smarter than the average American. A degree from most colleges signals little more than what a high school diploma signaled 100 years ago.
It's worth noting that the position of the Democratic Party has been that college enrollment should be expanded, and most of the progressive wing of the party believes that college education ought to be subsidized by the taxpayer. In fact, college enrollment should be reduced and hundreds of non-selective colleges should be shuttered.
Dear GOP: I know, I know, we're all sick of the trans garbage...but you couldn't win on affordability, and this is the kind of stuff that really sticks in voters' craws. You have your finger on America's social pulse—this, DEI, race in general, the dangerously wacko prog lens on decriminalizing crime—you OWN THE DAMN FRANCHISE!—yet you play in sandboxes where you just end up getting sand kicked in your faces.
It's NOT "the economy stupid" if you can't win on it!
#Midterms2026 #Election2026 #BlueWave
We won our lawsuit against @NassauExec over his unlawful transgender athlete ban.
Transgender athletes have the right to play on the court or field like everyone else.
As long as I am attorney general, no New Yorker will be shut out of public life because of who they are.
Steve Salerno ... ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ᴀ sʏᴄᴀᴍᴏʀᴇ ɪ ᴡᴀs ɢʟᴀᴅ retweeted
So Trump disclaims responsibility for the bloodbath. This, after shouting for months, “pretend I’m on the ballot!”
Mr. President, did you think only hard-core MAGA types were listening? Sorry if you don’t see it as a referendum on you, but that’s ALL it was.
I’m betting 2/3 of the voters that swung the election to the left couldn’t articulate half of their chosen candidate’s positions on this or that (except for bland nostrums like “make life more affordable”). They might have rationalized their votes in policy terms, but this was clearly an anti-Trump groundswell.
You’re telling me that the voters in Texas who made Gina Hinojosa governor fully understood and supported, say, her platform on education? No way in hell.
Even a lot of the Republican voters you were counting on by now were sick of all the histrionics and silliness (how much time did you waste on getting your name on the Kennedy Center?) or at least ambivalent enough to not bother voting. That’s on you, 100%.
Whether or not you still deny that you lost in 2020, you lost last night, sir.
Steve Salerno ... ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ᴀ sʏᴄᴀᴍᴏʀᴇ ɪ ᴡᴀs ɢʟᴀᴅ retweeted
Some further thoughts on the self-care craze—and craze may be the perfect word.
Click link to read:
stevesalerno.substack.com/p/…
#MentalHealthAwareness #SelfCare #Psychology
Some further thoughts on the self-care craze—and craze may be the perfect word.
Click link to read:
stevesalerno.substack.com/p/…
#MentalHealthAwareness #SelfCare #Psychology