MAUREEN DOWD sums up Obama.

Obama did not like persuading people to do what they didn’t want to do.... He wanted them simply to do what he had ascertained to be right.

He knew the proles were too dumb to know what's best for them.

JUST LEAVE YOUR 'CALIFORNIA VALUES' BEHIND: Nearly 50 percent of Californians say they want to move out soon.

MOLES.

OUR RULES ARE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, NOT US: Liberals (once again) exempt themselves from the rules.

SAMANTHA BEE DECIDES it’s America’s fault that she’s vulgar.

One of the benefits of Trump Derangement Syndrome is that it has ripped off the progressive mask and exposed them as the lowlifes they really are.

CALIFORNIA BLOCKHEADS fail to block shipment of Elon Musk’s '(Not A) Flamethrower'.

And Elon Musk made a cool $11 million....

SOCIALISTS RUN OUT OF EVERYTHING but zeroes.

“THE WORLD IS FULL OF STUPID AND ANGRY PEOPLE, and most of them live in Portland.”

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN on marijuana. (And they misspelled 'marijijuana' too.)

NANCY PELOSI indicates Democrats have settled on bold midterm strategy of running against a good economy: "You’re better off these days without a job."

STAND BACK AND ENJOY: The Democrats’ circular firing squad continues to form up.

But of course your betters in Washington D.C. know what's best for you proles....

PELOSI SLAMS JOBS REPORT: strong employment numbers mean little.

Actually they mean a lot: the 'little people' can't be as easily controlled when they aren't on a diet of government cheese.

BEN RHODES updated.

Heh.

REALITY WINS: HBO election documentary shows what happens when Democrats' overconfidence collides head-on with reality.

OBAMA ON TRUMP VICTORY: What if we were wrong?

My favorite part(s) of the Fox News story were the two pictures that accompanied it:

Smug Obama --

-- replaced by not-so-smug Obama.

Whether the photo substitution was inadvertent or intentional, it captured the Democrats' pre-election/post-election shock perfectly.

THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS: What do socialists usually do with your money?

KURT SCHLICHTER: Defeating the top 5 obnoxious liberal arguments.

THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES: Does high-tech highway design make us less safe?

More generally, the Peltzman effect suggests that every place in America reachable by the tentacles of the bureaucratic Nanny State is riskier today than ever before.

From my 'wayback machine' I recall predicting that accidents (and insurance rates) would increase after Texas introduced its first seat belt law in September 1985. It happened. The only upside was that the number of accident-related deaths did subside as fewer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_AwardsDarwin award candidates died.

RELATED: Does regulation breed financial illiteracy?

FORWARD, NOT BACK: Building a time machine.

Forward is easy; back, not so much.

BUT. BUT. BUT... The self-anointed can't possibly be racists.