Greetings! So Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense is Fox News personality Peter Hegseth. I guess Dennis Quaid and Hulk Hogan weren’t available…Awkward! Trump makes the traditional visit to meet with Joe Biden at the White House today…Looks like Trump is creating a Department of Government Efficiency. Sounds like an oxymoron to me…Who was the GOP’s 2024  biggest election night loser?  Kari Lake, the conspiracy-spewing Arizona candidate for the U.S. Senate, per American Greatness…Mark Halperin cites four behind-the-scenes Trump supporters who helped power his way to victory in a Foxnews.com opinion piece.  The list includes Walt Nauta (remember him from the Mar-a-Lago documents case?), who still toils away as a loyal aide to The Donald…Nearly  90% of “Saturday Night Live’s” campaign jokes targeted Trump, according to a study by the conservative Media Research Council (NewsBusters)…Songs from two MAGA-friendly musicians topped Billboard’s digital sales charts. Tom MacDonald landed No. 1 with  Goodbye Joe (about a certain lame duck POTUS) followed by Lee Greenwood’s  God Bless the USA.  Why are these two tunes ruling the charts? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the rightward wind…Many of you have reached out to me, voicing your intentions to keep reading TheRighting in the perilous months ahead.  I’m compiling the correspondence and I’ll post it early  next week.  Thanks to all who responded…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! It’s not just the right peddling conspiracy theories. According to The New Republic, a wave of doubt about the election results is appearing in some corners of the left.  “Much of the objection appears to have to do with what Harris supporters perceived as less voter turnout…The next four years may go by very slowly if Harris supporters spend it contesting election results like many right-wingers did after Trump’s loss in 2020.” The UK-based The Telegraph posted an article in a similar vein observing that “left-wing conspiracy theorists claim Elon Musk used satellites to ‘steal’ the U.S. election”…Vile right wing statement  of the week (and it’s only Tuesday) via  RedState: “All it took was the election of Donald Trump for women to stop one of the most coveted and upheld activities of the feminist left...being a slut.” Here’s the article…In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, dozens of TheRighting’s readers dropped their free subscriptions.  I call them news deserters and not in a pejorative way. Many said they were tuning out all news media.  Turns out, MSNBC is also experiencing a news deserters plague. Mediaite notes the liberal news network’s ratings “cratered” late last week.…Not everybody is tuning out.  One reader of TheRighting says he’s staying with me on the frontlines. Steve Stroh wrote last week expressing joy because reading TheRighting’s “well-researched, well-edited, human-curated info in TEXT feels like a superpower these days.” PS: If anyone else wants a letter published please write to me at Howard@therighting.com.  I will consider all submissions….Meanwhile, if you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard