Nuclear medicine is one of those cool specialities that doesn’t get enough attention. While nuclear energy has enjoyed a revival in recent years, little attention has been paid to nuclear medicine. That’s probably partly because explaining it in technical terms inevitably removes some of the magic and partly because many people fear radiation and don’t want to think about it.

But nuclear medicine deserves attention. Not all of the world's nuclear reactors are used for producing energy; they are also used for producing radioisotopes for medicine and industry, training, and other purposes. They are known as research reactors, and there are currently around 220 research reactors in 53 countries. In the heyday of nuclear development, in 1975, there were 373 neutron factories in 55 countries. //

Outside of the wealthier nations, there is a significant shortage of equipment and workforce for nuclear imaging around the world, and one study found that:

A comprehensive scale-up of imaging, treatment, and care quality would avert 9·55 million (12·5%) of all cancer deaths caused by the modelled cancers worldwide, saving 232·30 million life-years. Scale-up of imaging would cost US$6·84 billion in 2020–30 but yield lifetime productivity gains of $1·23 trillion worldwide, a net return of $179·19 per $1 invested.

Healthy people benefit humanity. For those living in the poorest nations to gain access to improved healthcare, nuclear medicine will play a vital role going forward, although when and how that will happen remains to be seen.

OCASIO-CORTEZ: That's right, that's right, and listen, it's not even to deny the fact that these ads were effective in certain areas. What I think people are paying too much attention to is the first half of that ad, which says, that said, "Kamala Harris is for they/them." Everyone is focusing on that. They're not focusing on the second half of that ad where he said, "Donald Trump is for you."

OCASIO-CORTEZ: And Democrats very often, in their messaging, they speak in this, in terms and in concepts, and not in the second person. "I care about you," and political races are not about one candidate vs. another candidate. Too often, it gets pigeonholed like that. It is a race about who cares about you more.

Is it too cliche to use the term "cope" to describe the above? Because that's cope. The idea that those Trump ads were not effective because they accurately described the Democrat position on transgenderism is nonsense. Sure, there is some truth to the idea that the now-president-elect successfully convinced voters he cared about them, but the juxtaposition with Harris' views on transgenderism in those ads was the entire reason that argument worked. Would an ad simply saying "I care about you" have been as effective? Of course, not.

Democrats won't want to admit the obvious, though, because that would mean admitting their obsession with transgenderism is actually the problem. This isn't a messaging issue for them. Speaking in the "second person," as Ocasio-Cortez says, won't suddenly make boys playing girl's sports acceptable to most Americans. Nor will it make "gender-affirming care" for minors popular.

In other words, Democrats have a position issue. Until they change those positions, which will in turn change how they talk about them, they will continue to lose support among normal Americans. Ocasio-Cortez and others who want to gloss over that are doing their party no good. On the contrary, they are inadvertently telling us exactly why they lost.

FrontierMath's difficult questions remain unpublished so that AI companies can't train against it. //

On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI world because it contains hundreds of expert-level problems that leading AI models solve less than 2 percent of the time, according to Epoch AI. The benchmark tests AI language models (such as GPT-4o, which powers ChatGPT) against original mathematics problems that typically require hours or days for specialist mathematicians to complete.

FrontierMath's performance results, revealed in a preprint research paper, paint a stark picture of current AI model limitations. Even with access to Python environments for testing and verification, top models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, o1-preview, and Gemini 1.5 Pro scored extremely poorly. This contrasts with their high performance on simpler math benchmarks—many models now score above 90 percent on tests like GSM8K and MATH.

The design of FrontierMath differs from many existing AI benchmarks because the problem set remains private and unpublished to prevent data contamination. Many existing AI models are trained on other test problem datasets, allowing the AI models to easily solve the problems and appear more generally capable than they actually are. Many experts cite this as evidence that current large language models (LLMs) are poor generalist learners.

Rubio has proven himself as a hawk against America’s most dangerous adversary: China. //

Rubio tweeted in response: “Last month China banned me. Today they sanctioned me. I don’t want to be paranoid but I am starting to think they don’t like me.”

President-elect Donald Trump has turned to his legal defense team to fill the top three positions in the Department of Justice after the position of Attorney General. //

These appointments show why the fixation on Matt Gaetz is mostly posturing. This team has not only worked for Trump; they have worked together very successfully. They are seasoned trial lawyers, and two of them know how the Department of Justice works. They are the guys who will be in charge of Justice's day-to-day operations, and any substantive reform of that agency will be their doing.

The great legal minds inside the Department of Justice who ran the various legal cases against Trump and his associates, the jaywalkers and trespassers of January 6, and pro-life grandmas may have just entered the FO stage of FAFO. //

It wasnt me
an hour ago
It's a lot more Fun when the Rabbit's got the Gun. //

Hank Reardon
an hour ago
Gaetz as lighting rod. Allowing Blanche/Bove/Sauer to go about shoveling out the barn. //

edhuff Tommy
25 minutes ago edited
Biblical analogy: Trump (Moses) to Deep State (Pharoh): "Set my people free. " //

emptypockets Chris Co
16 minutes ago
Gaetz was the flash-bang he threw in first. A disruptor to rattle them all. His FU to the Left and those who've bedeviled him and us all "under color of authority".

All his picks are to some extent disruptors because that is what he ran on being and doing--disrupt the corruption and the status quo sickening us all...physically and metaphorically. //

Tommy
2 hours ago
I hate to say it, but it looks like 4 years in the abyss has turned trump into a super badass. Trump 2.0 seems lightyears ahead of what a 2nd term would have been. Dems might actually think twice about lawfare and rigging elections. Nah, just kidding on that one. //

JCsGIRL70 Tommy
an hour ago
As they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". That certainly applies here, so his "loss" in 2020 was a blessing in disguise. It exposed the evil & utter depravity of the Dems plus Trump learned some very hard lessons very publicly that have made him a legend & folk hero to many.

Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool

In its Tuesday night hit piece on Hegseth, authors Joe Gould, Robbie Gramer, Paul McLeary, Connor O’Brien, and Jack Detsch published critical remarks from an anonymous defense lobbyist, who gave the game away by lamenting how the Trump nominee isn’t embedded in D.C.’s military-industrial complex.

“Who the f-ck is this guy?” the source reportedly said. The lobbyist wanted “someone who actually has an extensive background in defense. That would be a good start.”

The authors went on to fearmonger that Hegseth’s nomination “will do little to quell fears inside the Pentagon” that the former president will select a defense secretary who agrees with his agenda — something presidents have been doing for centuries. They also noted, “Trump’s campaign trail rhetoric has primed fears that his second term could see a swift and divisive overhaul at the Pentagon.”

Got that? The left’s problem with Hegseth isn’t that he’s a Fox News commentator. It’s that he’s someone from outside the incestuous government-defense contractor system who actually cares about the men and women in uniform. //

For all of their unhinged outrage about his nomination, Hegseth understands the biggest problems plaguing the military better than the Democrats and media hacks calling him “unqualified.”

During his recent interview with fellow veteran Shawn Ryan, the Army veteran eloquently explained how the sole purpose of the military should be winning wars — not conducting left-wing social experiments. He further chastised the Pentagon bureaucracy for its ineptitude and detailed the ongoing threat that Red China poses to the United States and the global security environment. //

For the left, Hegseth’s biggest crime is his willingness to buck the corrupt system that’s been allowed to fester in D.C. for decades. Unlike many of his predecessors, he understands that the men and women who wear the uniform are devoted human beings and not pawns in a geopolitical chess match that can be cast aside to fulfill the wants of the Pentagon blob that’s shepherded Washington’s failed foreign policy for decades.

His outsider status makes him a threat to the bureaucratic rot infecting the highest levels of the military. And that’s the reason he’s the perfect man for the job.

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Researchers describe global catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence, asteroid and comet impacts, climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, and supervolcanoes, including causes, likelihood, consequences, uncertainties, and possible changes. //

This report summarizes what is known about the risks associated with six threats and hazards: artificial intelligence; asteroid and comet impacts; sudden and severe changes to Earth's climate; nuclear war; severe pandemics, whether resulting from naturally occurring events or from synthetic biology; and supervolcanoes. //

Global-Health Global-Security Global-Climate-Change Space-Science-and-Technology Emergency-Preparedness Artificial-Intelligence Natural-Hazards Public-Health-Preparedness Nuclear-Weapons-and-Warfare

Now, a report required by the U.S. government per the 2022 Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act has given us an assessment of the various risks humanity faces. Climate change didn't make the cut.

• https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2981-1.html

• https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/global-existential-risks

//

Note the conclusions: There are three categories of risk. Existential risk, global catastrophic risk, and global catastrophic and existential threats - both. Artificial intelligence, asteroid and comet impacts, nuclear war, pandemics, and supervolcanoes rated a "yes" in all three risk categories.

The only one that rated a "no" was climate change.

Pearl Harbor
Faith Hill Hans Zimmer
"Heart of A Volunteer"

Though WaPo acknowledged Trump narrowly won Springfield, it did not disclose that he had lost it twice before //

That changed last week when Trump carried Springfield by a razor-thin margin of roughly 150 votes out of more than 20,000 cast. The flip helped drive up Trump's margin in Clark County to its highest level: Trump won 64 percent of the county vote this time around, the highest margin for a Republican presidential candidate in at least four decades.

In his latest bout of schooling his co-workers, a CNN panel that featured Jennings got onto the subject of RFK. Geoff Duncan said there's "intellectually" no reason by RFK Jr. should be the HHS secretary, and at best should be an "advisor." Duncan said that there's nothing on his resume that qualifies Kennedy.

It should be noted that the current HHS secretary is Xavier Becerra, a lawyer who was once California's Attorney General, who also has no health background, but this is never brought up by the left. The assistant secretary for the HHS is Rachel Levine, a man who thinks he's a woman.

Jennings tried to confront Duncan with this fact by asking what the qualifications of the previous heads of the HHS were, even before Becerra, causing Duncan to reveal his cards.

"RFK Jr. is a nut."

Again, I remind everyone of Rachel Levine, but I digress.

With Duncan's true reasoning now laid bare, Jennings began his offensive.

“Okay, so that's different from what you just said," said Jennings. "You just said he doesn't possess the requisite managerial experience, but then we get to the real issue here, which is you want to insult the man." //

These other panelists, who are clearly on the left, have no desire to put the blame on the institutions or the elitists who run them, elitists that many of these people are friends with. Notice that while they try to blame someone like Kennedy for spreading "misinformation," what they're ultimately saying is that you're still to blame for COVID spreading.

The institutions that told us to do all of these things ended up hurting us even more, as Jennings pointed out, but these elitists can't admit that. Notice they didn't linger on how the masks didn't work, or the lockdowns made it worse; the only attack they have is that "RFK. Jr. is a nut," and that our institutions aren't as trusted anymore because of nuts like him.

A younger rival may have learned how to sabotage those showers by disrupting water flow.

I was driving with my brother, the preacher, and my nephew, the preacher’s son, on I-65 just north of Bowling Green when we got a flat. It was Sunday night and we had been to visit Mother at the Home. We were in my car. The flat caused what you might call knowing groans since, as the old-fashioned one in my family (so they tell me), I fix my own tires, and my brother is always telling me to get radials and quit buying old tires.

But if you know how to mount and fix tires yourself, you can pick them up for almost nothing.

Whatever your office setup, the most important thing is to move. //

Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death. The obvious response to this frightful fate is to not sit— move. Even a few moments of exercise can have benefits, studies suggest. But in our modern times, sitting is hard to avoid, especially at the office. This has led to a range of strategies to get ourselves up, including the rise of standing desks. //

However, studies on whether standing desks are beneficial have been sparse and sometimes inconclusive. Further, prolonged standing can have its own risks, and data on work-related sitting has also been mixed. While the final verdict on standing desks is still unclear, two studies out this year offer some of the most nuanced evidence yet about the potential benefits and risks of working on your feet.

The same types of angry diversions that consumed Democrats over the past eight years could easily undo Republican governance. //

The lesson comes in the form of a quote from an individual whose political resurrection closely resembles that of Donald Trump, former President Richard Nixon:

Always give your best; never get discouraged; never be petty. Always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that FEMA Director Deanne Criswell and FEMA reservist Marn'i Washington violated the civil rights of conservative Floridians by denying services to anyone displaying Trump campaign signs or banners. //

This saga began with a whistleblower leaking internal FEMA communications to the Daily Wire after they were ordered to avoid residences displaying items supporting President-elect Trump's candidacy. //

The supervisor who, in imitation of an episode of The Wire, documented a criminal conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Trump voters, has confirmed in television interviews on two occasions, the last being today, that what she did was carry out agency policy. According to her, workers were told to treat the homes of Trump supporters as though there were vicious dogs on those properties. //

charlie
an hour ago
This behavior is reminiscent of Hitler's treatment of Jews, gays, and gypsies. Yet we on the right are called fascists, and Trump is called Hitler. Seems to me there is a tremendous amount of projection in the thinking and behavior of the left. If there had been rainbow signs in those yards rather than Trump signs, the left would be exploding with rage. Why isnt this behavior considered a "hate crime" and punished as such? IMO, the FEMA employees who crafted and implemented this 'rabid dog' policy should be facing 25 to life sentences

Open source tool chooses to become more open than ever

The move comes just weeks after we reported that it wasn't strictly FOSS any more. At the time, the company claimed that this was just a mistake in how it packaged up its software, saying on Twitter:

It seems like a packaging bug was misunderstood as something more, and the team plans to resolve it. Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model in place for years, along with retaining a fully featured free version for individual users.

Gaetz isn’t ‘unqualified’ to lead the Justice Department. As a victim of the DOJ, he might be the best person to reform it.

“At 9 o’clock they realized they hadn’t plugged the machines in. They also realized at about 8:30 or 9 o’clock that they don’t have enough people [poll workers], so now they’re calling firefighters,” Brandtjen said. City officials reportedly had to bring in as many as 40 firefighters, health workers, and IT employees to assist in the ballot recount.

By 11 a.m., Brandtjen said, Central Count had processed just 5,000 absentee ballots out of the 108,000 mountain of early votes to be counted. Mid-afternoon, Republican observers noticed the seals on the machines had been broken, not locked as they should have been at that point.

Milwaukee election officials were forced to pull more than 30,000 ballots and begin the count over, as observers raised concerns about ballot security and integrity. The ballot count dragged on and on.

Of the13 different speed counters, Brandtjen said at no point did she see them all operating at the same time.

“…[T]his is a plan to go as late as possible to make sure there are only a half-dozen people left in the room,” the lawmaker said. “All of these things just lead to absolutely no confidence in the process. For those who have done it multiple years, it was the worst they’ve ever seen.” //

Brandtjen said there’s no reason for Milwaukee to finish ballot counting at 3 or 4 in the morning.

“To go late, I think, is a plan to see if there is a way to find additional allots or make up the difference for candidates,” she said. //

Robert Spindell, a Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, agreed that Central Count was plagued by too many problems that should never have happened and that it appears to him that those running the show “wanted the results from Central Count to come in very late.” //

But Hovde said the problem is bigger than Milwaukee. In the video, he noted the nearly 8 million names listed on the voter rolls of a state with less than 6 million residents. The database includes more than 3.6 million “active” voters, eligible voters cleared to vote in elections.

The report is well done, and each of the six risk areas are worth their own focused post here at THB.3 In the remainder of this post, I highlight what the report says about climate change — which the report does not identify as an existential risk.

The assessment recognizes that changes in climate have many significant consequences for people and ecosystems, but the corresponding risks are local and regional, not global: //

The report acknowledges diplomatically that activists often characterize climate change as an existential risk, which reflects “subjective values and worldviews” rather than scientific judgments of real-world risks: //

However, the assessment largely rejects these outliers and is very clear in its conclusion that climate change does not present a catastrophic health risk — even over the course of a century: //

The report acknowledges some of the extreme claims found in the scientific literature from those in the catastrophist planetary boundaries community as well as some of the outlier work in climate econometrics. However, the assessment largely rejects these outliers and is very clear in its conclusion that climate change does not present a catastrophic health risk — even over the course of a century:

The Limehouse Golem
Johan Soderqvist

In reporting on a radiation study, a nearly universal practice of the 'experts' is to show us only the subjects' total doses. They do this despite the fact that usually what is measured is the dose rate profile, often in the form of daily doses. The total dose is computed by adding up these daily doses, and then tossing aside everything but the total. Analyzing radiation harm by only looking at total dose is like an electrical engineer attempt to analyze a complicated circuit by only looking at the annual energy input.

The human body is an extremely complex circuit. It has to be analyzed dynamically. The essential element of SNT [Signmoid No Threshold] is not the shape of the acute dose response curve, it is chopping the dose rate profile into repair periods, and analyzing each period separately. //

Where would we encounter 1 and 2 mSv/d dose rate profiles for decades? That's an easy one. Space travel. The astronauts in Low Earth Orbit get between 0.5 and 1.0 mSv/d, with occasional spikes during solar flares. High Earth Orbit or a trip to Mars will about double that. If LNT were valid, the shielding requirements would be prohibitively expensive.

NASA can't afford LNT. That's why it ignores all the EPA and NRC limits. The EPA says more than 1 mSv per year is unsafe. NASA says 1 mSv per day is routine. That's the difference between the top and bottom of Figure 1.

NASA is not the only entity that cannot afford LNT. Space travel is a luxury that humanity may or may not be able to afford. The benefits of manned space travel are at best speculative. The benefits of cheap nuclear electricity are undeniable and cornucopic. If we can correctly trash LNT to go into space, surely we can junk this counterfactual hypothesis to get cheap nuclear.

The Israeli attack on Iran in late October destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin, according to three U.S. officials, one current Israeli official and one former Israeli official.

Why it matters: The strike — which targeted a site previously reported to be inactive — significantly damaged Iran's effort over the past year to resume nuclear weapons research, Israeli and U.S. officials said.

   One former Israeli official briefed on the strike said it destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it.
   Iran has denied it is pursuing nuclear weapons. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a statement last week that "Iran is not after nuclear weapons, period."
   The Iranian mission to the UN declined to comment for this story.
   The incoming Trump administration will include several key national security and foreign policy officials who are hawkish on Iran, which could lead to increased U.S. pressure on the Islamic Republic.

Some added flavor here:

Flashback: Last June, the White House officials privately warned the Iranians in direct conversations about the suspicious research activities, Axios reported.

   The U.S. hoped the warning would make the Iranians stop their nuclear activity, but they continued, the officials said.

A U.S. official said that in the months before the Israeli attack "there was concern across the board" about the Iranian activity at the Taleghan 2 facility.

   The Iranian nuclear weapons research even led the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to change its assessment about the Iranian nuclear program.

You don't say?

The news comes on the heels of the arrest of a former CIA official for leaking classified documents regarding Israel's plans ahead of the strike. //

Cafeblue32 Musicman an hour ago edited

Just make us a net exporter of fuels again instead of an importer, and Trump can drop the price of oil by dumping more in the market. He did that in 2020, in April taking it down to 20 bucks a barrel. He told the bad actors that are oil nations that he would drop it down to 1o bucks if they kept it up. That's why we didn't have war. A strong military deterrent is smart. But using business to make it to they couldn't afford war is how we had no wars last time without firing a shot.

Trump knows what Democrats will never admit: whoever controls the oil controls the world. He proved it last time.

What is it Roosevelt said? "Speak softly, but carry a big stick"? With Trump we have the double whammy- a great business strategy to drive the baddies broke, backed by the most terrifyingly badass military ever seen on earth. Under Hegseth, I expect we'll see that.

Young Americans’ historical and civic illiteracy is a danger to the Republic, and it cannot be allowed to continue. //

Trump created the commission the day before Election Day in 2020 with the purpose of “[establishing] a clear historical record of an exceptional Nation dedicated to the ideas and ideals of its founding.” Its goal was to provide a much-needed corrective to anti-American propaganda masquerading as history such as the “1619 Project,” whose “radicalized view of American history lacks perspective, obscures virtues, twists motives, ignores or distorts facts, and magnifies flaws, resulting in the truth being concealed and history disfigured.” The commission’s report, published two days before Trump left office, sketched out a basic curriculum that balanced American exceptionalism as reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with the darker aspects of our history, such as slavery and Jim Crow.

Black Magic
an hour ago
What is thoroughly disgusting about these actions are some of the core issues that need to be addressed and put to bed for good.

I'm 71 years old, and I grew up in an America that experienced social upheaval on the scale of george floyd riots except it was the Martin Luther King assassination, wars that people poured into the streets to protest against and what, at one time, was considered the ultimate threat to our country, the assassination of our President.

Through all of this and much much more, all the way up till the end of the last century, we had one constant we could all count on, we were all Americans and had each other's backs. We would fight like cats and dogs over various things but just like family (at least the way I was raised) you never abandoned each other and you ALWAYS stuck together to fight an existential threat to your family.

Then we were confronted with Barack Obama, the man that was going to pull us all together and end the divisions in America. Instead we got the great divider that stirred up racial passions and destroyed nearly all of the advances we had made in race relations. It turns out, that was intentional and most likely entirely playbooked by Saul Alinsky, an avowed marxist and communist admirer. We were literally being pyshoped by a sitting President and his communist/marxist advisers - and likely other communist countries that saw an opportunity they NEVER thought they would have.

Trump was born of this self inflicted division and chaos from the woke left and attacked non stop his entire Presidency and afterwards, as they truly feared he had what it took to turn the tide back to American greatness and patriotism.

Then the questionable (not in my opinion) loss to pos biden and the same enemies of America raised their heads again and doubled down on their divisiveness and attacks on anything and anyone that loved and yearned for the America of old to return. All of the conspiracy theories we have been told were nonsense are being exposed to sunlight and we are finding they were not theories at all but actual conspiracies.

I hope they BURN those associated with this FEMA scandal/conspiracy and make an example so harsh no one will consider this type of action again. The most recent election has shown Americans want to go back to the days of working together to improve and strengthen America and the minority votes President Trump received show it is popular across the entire racial spectrum.

We want to be the America that shows the world how it is done and with the mandate Trump has been given and the desire of the electorate to throw away all of the division and ginned up racial animosity we can go back to the days of Tip O'Neal and Ronald Reagan when opponents respected each other and would fight for their ideas but could have a beer at the end of the day and congratulate our opponents on their victories and tell each other,"I'll get you next time" in good natured sportsmanship, something sadly lacking recently but I believe on the horizon and making a comeback.

I am very much looking forward to the progress America is going to make going forward and can easily imagine the reinvigorated greatness to come.

Thank you God for this opportunity.

The question is: What if this is not an organic or accidental occurrence, but an actual campaign to further divide the country? //

This isn’t exactly new. I remember the same trend cropping up after the 2016 election. The more I saw what was happening, the more I concluded that this appears to be a vast psyop aimed at fomenting more division.

Yes, it might sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat. But it’s hard for me to believe this shift is 100 percent organic.

The fact of the matter is that there are forces in America that want us to be divided instead of united. They are willing to go so far as to encourage people to end relationships with friends, family, and even spouses because of how people voted.

This, combined with the incendiary rhetoric that has come to define American political discourse, makes it easy to see what the play is here. The key question to ask is: Who benefits?

The people who gain the most from a divided America are the elites and those running the government. While Americans are at each other’s throats, these people expand the size and scope of the state and make it ever more intrusive in our lives. They manipulate the government in a way that benefits them at our expense. //

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons
2 hours ago edited
Cui bono? (Who benefits?)

The globalists benefit, which includes the uniparty running our country. Who is their master? The prince of this world.

We desperately need Trump and his appointees to succeed, but it will only happen through many prayers and conversions of hearts and souls.

Ephesians 6:12 “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.”

On Thursday, Enten did another deep dive into the numbers, looking beyond the areas Trump won to big blue cities like San Francisco and Chicago that he lost but where he still gained significant ground, finding some pretty staggering double-digit percentage increases across the board, with the driving forces behind them in those cities being illegal immigration and crime: //

penseroso
5 hours ago edited
Trump beat Harris 64 - 36 in Staten Island. That puts Staten Island between Tennessee and South Dakota in terms of percentage. Not all of us in New York City are crazy liberals.... //

OrneryCoot
5 hours ago
This is striking fear into Democrat leaders like nothing else. They are losing minorities who, heaven forbid, don't vote based on their skin color or ethnicity but rather on their priorities. If this continues, the Democrats will have to change their entire platform to be viable. The Republican party needs to look hard at this data as well, to see what drove their successes and keep it going. If the Democrats can no longer rely on the 'demographics is destiny' plank of their party ideals, they are going to spend a very long time wandering in the wilderness. Let's hope that they do, and get lost while they are there. //

Cynical Optimist
4 hours ago
I contend that the Trump popular vote win was far greater than the numbers indicate because the Trump agenda was more popular than it translated in vote totals. If we were to add to the popular vote number all of the people who hate Trump because of who he is but who would have voted for someone else who had his same policy prescriptions and agenda, it would have been an epic landslide. A lot of people voted for Harris just because of Trump's personality, a lot of people voted against Trump in spite of being sick of the crime and millions of illegals and the homelessness in our cities and the Biden foreign policy boondoggles. They didn't vote for Harris because they believed she would fix anything, they voted against the guy they believed was a criminal and a monster on a personal level, people influenced by a ten-year-long media propaganda and attack campaign against a leader the likes of which the world has never seen. Some of them are lifelong Republicans.

So did Trump - or more accurately, conservatism - actually get 90 million votes of support instead of 75? 100?