Oh, No! DOJ Seeks Perjury Indictment Against January 6th Fabulist Madison Cornbread
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Madison Cornbread, no!
Noooooo!
Federal prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson may have lied to Congress in her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News....In a series of depositions and public committee testimony, she said that Mr. Trump and Meadows had been warned on Jan. 6 that some of his supporters were carrying weapons to the Capitol, but that Mr. Trump said he didn't care and tried to order officials to remove the magnetometers.
LOL, sure.
She also relayed a story she said was told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, in which Mr. Trump grew incensed after his lead Secret Service agent declined to drive him to the Capitol after the president had delivered a speech to supporters.
Her actual claim was that Trump reached over from the back seat to wrest the steering wheel of the limousine while shouting some comic book villain dialogue like "Curse your insolence, knave! I shall have vengeance this day!" or some bullshit.
Her account was later contradicted by Mr. Trump's driver, who in sworn testimony claimed that the president never tried to grab the steering wheel.
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In an unusual move, the Civil Rights Division -- and not the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. -- is handling the Hutchinson investigation, sources said. It was not immediately clear why that office was assigned the case.
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MORNING RANT - The Memphis Situation: Tennessee Shouldn't Need Federal Help; “Bake the Cake” Rules Should Apply to Pizza Parlor Denying Service to Guardsmen
—Buck Throckmorton
There is a story that I somehow missed a few months ago about a Memphis pizzeria that refused to serve National Guard troops. I have some thoughts about that incident, which I’ll get to in a moment, but this also reminds me of something I meant to write about the larger Memphis situation, but never got around to.
Specifically, it is a disgrace to the state of Tennessee that we have a failed city that has sunk to a such a state of lawlessness and anarchy that the federal government had to take control of the streets. To be clear, the National Guard troops in Memphis are from Tennessee, but the greater overall Memphis Safe Task Force (“MSTF”) is headed by President Trump, run by the U.S. Marshalls, and has involvement from the FBI, DEA, ATF and other federal agencies.
The MSTF has been a tremendous success. Per a 9/29/2026 press release from the US Marshalls service, in the year since the National Guard moved in, Memphis has seen an overall 38% decrease in serious crimes, including:
• Murders down 37%
• Sexual assaults down 30%
• Robberies down 47%
• Aggravated assault down 29%
I am grateful to President Trump for coming to Memphis’ rescue, but Tennessee shouldn’t have to run to Uncle Sam to police our prominent failed city. If Memphis needs a takeover, the state should do it. I hope Marsha Blackburn will be more assertive as governor when it comes to dealing with Memphis than Governor Bill Lee has been.
If Memphis cannot be rehabilitated, it should be dissolved into smaller municipalities. Those sub-sections of Memphis that are capable of becoming self-governing cities should be given that chance. Any remaining parts of Memphis that are not capable of self-government should become a ward of the state until they can be reconstructed into a functioning municipal entity. The same applies to Shelby County as a whole. Whatever restrictions there might be in Tennessee law that would impede this can easily be fixed by amending the state constitution.
To be fair to Governor Lee, he did sign legislation a few months ago authorizing the state to take over Memphis’ failed schools. In accordance with the new law, the governor appointed an oversight board for Memphis schools, but Federal District Judge Waverly Crenshaw (an Obama appointee, of course) put a temporary restraining order on the new board. Fortunately, that restraining order is about to expire and it looks like the state will start administering Memphis schools. That is a start.
As for the pizza incident involving the National Guard…
A Memphis pizzeria owner is facing fierce backlash after refusing over the weekend to serve members of the National Guard deployed to the city to combat crime.Miles Tamboli, proprietor of Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza, sparked the controversy by turning away troops stationed in the city since September 2025 — and he declared in a Thursday statement that he would “make the same decision tomorrow.”
Tamboli argued that utilizing soldiers trained for overseas combat in local law enforcement roles has compromised city safety.
I would defend Mr. Tamboli’s right to refuse service to National Guardsmen - no matter how vulgar his actions might seem to me - if conservative business owners had a similar right to refuse service based on conscience, beliefs, and values. But that is not the case. There are two sets of rules based on the politics of the business owner.
Per Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, public accommodations (which includes private businesses) may not deny service based on race, color, religion, or national origin. Tamboli’s Pizza is apparently free to deny service to Americans wearing their country’s military uniform, but Patriot Pizza is prohibited from denying service to gang members, cross-dressing men, or jihadis.
The extent of how one-sided the denial-of-service rules are was evidenced by the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. Jack Phillips, a Christian, was willing to sell a gay couple a wedding cake, but he refused to create a custom cake with two groom toppers on it. The state of Colorado Civil Rights Commission pursued punitive actions, including mandatory re-education for Phillips and his staff for the purpose of making them endorse sex between two men. The case went to the Supreme Court where Justice Roberts and the Supremes effectively punted on the case, allowing the state of Colorado to continue its persecution of Mr. Phillips.
Based on the Masterpiece Cakeshop precedent, it is only fair that Tamboli’s should be forced to make a custom pizza with “Support the National Guard” spelled out in pepperonis.
Again, my original principles would be that both Masterpiece Cakeshop and Tamboli’s Pizza should be able to refuse service to anyone they want, including soldiers or gay men. But that is not to be. My succeeding principle is that the left must abide by the rules they impose on conservatives.
Bake the pizza, bigot.
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
The Morning Report — 10/9 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Continuing on from my rant in yesterday's editorial about RINO scum and traitors like Tom Tillis, John Thune and all the rest who will gladly allow the Democrat/Left to destroy the country so that they can loot the treasury as their reward, I got a bit hot under the collar on the latest episode of the podcast linked here, and at or near the top of the sidebar and at the popular outlets linked at the bottom of this post. Yes while the GOP establishment must be utterly obliterated and every elected official must be anti-Leftist to the bone and utterly ruthless in combatting them, in every position from local dog-catcher all the way up to President of the United States. I did not mean to imply that you should sit out an election or that allowing a Democrat to win (steal) an election let aloe actively voting for one to punish/purge the GOP is madness in the extreme, and in no way, shape or form do I countenance that at all!
This is all a long way of saying that Republicans don’t always agree. Infighting has always existed, and it is exaggerated by the leftist media, which sees an opportunity to make things worse for us. But I say to hell with them. At least Republicans are still arguing about what they believe. The Democrat Party, meanwhile, seems willing to broaden its coalition to include just about anybody with a grievance and a protest sign: Maoists, radical Islamists, militant feminists, blue-haired lunatics who take over city blocks, anti-civilization Antifa bomb-throwers, and, worst of all, Ivy League graduates.
As CBD and I tried to underscore, with the Democrat/Left in power and controlling all or even part of government would mean none of us would be safe. Frankly that we somehow survived eight years of Obama considering his chief adviser Bill Ayers at one point agreed with one of his acolytes that once he and the Weathermen had overthrown the American government and seized absolute power would have to liquidate at least 25 million of us deadeners who would refuse to be reeducated and submit to their plans for paradise on earth.
Larry Grathwohl is the military veteran who volunteered to infiltrate the Weather Underground as an FBI operative in 1969. He is probably best-known for his firsthand account of a Weatherman meeting at which the organization's leadership, including the future Professor Ayers, discussed the logistics of how, after the communist revolution they were trying to spearhead, they would murder the ten percent of the American population that would likely remain resistant to the communists' re-education program. Grathwohl has often been interviewed about that meeting and about his days among the Weather Underground (WU). The focus of those interviews used to be on the radicals and their terrorist operations. More recently, interviewers have turned to Grathwohl to help them highlight Barack Obama's own radicalism, by reminding people of the true nature of the "guy in Obama's neighborhood."
Yeah, Tillis, Thune, Collins, Murkowski and all the rest are venal, amoral pigs. But they're not going to engage in the aforementioned. Yeah, we'll be poorer and frustrated when they're in office but we won't be rotting in a mass grave should the Ocasios, Talaricos, El-Sayeds and all the rest win the next election or two which would then be the last ones ever held.
And on a very closely related note, this happened yesterday...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he tried to negotiate with President Trump to release the “criminal illegal alien” and alleged gang member who was shot by ICE Thursday in the Bronx as he called for the abolishment of the federal agency.“Around 4 p.m. this afternoon, a New Yorker was shot by ICE agents in Marble Hill,” a furious Mamdani told reporters at the late-night press conference near the scene of a rowdy anti-ICE protest in the borough. “For the past two hours, I’ve been on the phone with President Trump and [DHS] Secretary Mullin negotiating the release of the man ICE agents shot. Those negotiations were unsuccessful,” Hizzoner said. The migrant, identified by the NYPD as Oscar Belgal, 28, was shot in the neck and hospitalized before he was taken from NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital by unmarked ICE vehicles, according to the mayor. Mamdani — who spoke over protesters’ chants labeling him “complicit” — called Immigration and Customs Enforcement “rotten to its core” and is an “agency that must be abolished” in the fiery speech. “What does Trump have to say about all of this?” he demanded. “Now I made clear to the president, to the secretary, our request [is] that ICE agents leave the scene entirely — as well as the demand that ICE stop its enforcement actions in New York City.” The Department of Homeland Security said ICE had been attempting to arrest Belgal, of the Dominican Republic, who they claimed has ties to the Trinitarios gang when the shooting occurred. . . However, moments before the press conference kicked off around 11:20 p.m., “ICE put the man in an unmarked vehicle and whisked him away,” Hizzoner said. “Let me say this plainly, what happened today was an outrage,” Mamdani fumed. “Today’s shooting is only further devastating confirmation of what we have long known, which is that ICE operates with impunity, that they sow chaos and terror across our country, that they have killed far more of our neighbors than they could ever have claimed to save,” the mayor said.
in other words, we have Hitler complaining that the Allied armies have killed too many Waffen S.S. before they had the chance to exterminate all the untermenschen and conquer the world!
As if to underscore both these stories, we have this madness:
When pro-terrorist activist Mahmoud Khalil appeared on CNN Monday, Kaitlan Collins asked if he would condemn Hamas. He, of course, would not, calling the question “silly” and “disingenuous.” It isn’t “black and white,” he whined. Even if you oppose Israel’s reaction to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the answer is still black and white for any person with a conscience. Certainly, it should be for any person who wants to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. But the fact that Khalil can’t condemn Hamas — and anyone paying attention understands that he supports the terrorist army — tells us not only that he deserves to be deported, but that it’s imperative we deport him. During the 1960s and 1970s, immigration officials grilled newcomers to the US about their affiliations with communist parties. Why would we import people who want to destroy our system? Newcomers were, and still are, compelled to disavow associations with illiberal movements, violent groups and ideologies. They were also required to promise not to engage in any subversive or revolutionary activity.Well, Khalil’s entire job as an “activist” is to engage in subversive or revolutionary activity.
Khalil is an Algerian, incidentally, not a Palestinian — though he is a champion of Palestinianism, one of the most nihilistic, bigoted, violent, anti-Western ideologies of the age.
There’s no anti-American or Marxist protest or riot anywhere in the world these days where Palestinian flags are not prominent.The French, of course, don’t need much impetus to riot.
. . . The red-green alliance between Islamists and communists isn’t new — it’s just more popular than ever.
France has over 5 million Muslims.
What you see happening this week on the streets of Paris is exactly what Khalil hopes to see in the United States.
We saw as much when he was the lead “negotiator” for Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which rioted at the school in 2024.
The group’s goal is to fight for the “total eradication of Western civilization,” “global intifada” and the “armed resistance” of Hamas. . Yes, free speech is a universal right.
And while I support Khalil’s natural right to express himself unfettered in his home country of Algeria, or anywhere else he ends up living, there is no unfettered right to be in the United States.
There is certainly no unfettered right to citizenship.
And the only useful adjective to describe the act of knowingly handing it to people who incite unrest and detest us is suicidal.
There's intentionally swallowing rat poison and then there's cancer that comes from within! Aside from those we insanely import, we have our own homegrown fellow citizens IN NAME ONLY, who seek our destruction.
Where have you gone Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, our nation turns its blackened, bruised and bleeding eyes to you!!!!!!
Wow, like so many positive waves, now I bid you all to have a great weekend!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Staying home on the basis of principle may make a disaffected Republican feel virtuous, but it accomplishes nothing.
Republicans Are Fighting Again. Let’s Enjoy the Show.
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Daily Tech News 9 October 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts. (Notebook Check)
Who expected the numbers to be much worse.
One of them tried to blame it on "macro conditions", which is of course pure bullshit, unless he's referring to the scale of the price increases.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 8, 2026
—Doof
Adirondack Mountains, New York - From Aesthetic vibes
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Meteor Shower Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Milky Way seen from White Pocket, AZ
by Adventure with Paige
Another cool shot here
The Draconid Meteor show is supposed to be tonight. Peak time is 9pm on the east coast. Between 5 and 10 meteors will be visible per hour.
Panther uses a cliff as his climbing tree.
Baby rhino practices charging.
Baby elephant builds a nest of palm fronds to nap in.
Red panda pup practices pouncing and generally being an annoyance to its mom.
Loki the mischievous raven.
Muskox vs. giant pumpkin. The outcome was in doubt for longer than I would have guessed.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A supposedly healthy young man, James Talarico, has his campaign putting out the word that he's been missing in action for 11 days due to the flu.
The flu? It takes a 30 year old a week and a half to get over the flu? And he can't even make brief appearances during his long convalescence?
Ed Morrissey @EdMorrisseyAs of this morning, Talarico's campaign schedule does not have a single event for the candidate planned before the election. That's not the "flu," that's the "fled."
Trump says he's hearing "bad rumors." So he's confirming my theory that Talrico is suffering from The AIDS Crazies.
Ladies and Gentlemen, upon information and belief, James TalaFREAKo, who is running for the United States Senate in Texas, is MISSING IN ACTION! No one has seen him for an extended period of time. Where is he? What is wrong with him? Bad rumors are coming out. He should immediately report to a Debate Stage against Ken Paxton, who is ready, willing, and able, one of the best Attorney Generals in the Country, and will soon be, hopefully, a United States Senator representing the Great People of Texas!Thank you for your attention to this matter.
President DONALD J. TRUMP
Twitchy tells Bari Weiss to get her absurd Democrat operatives under control.
CBS News @CBSNewsThe U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton, the pugnacious Republican state attorney general who speaks about a refusal to compromise.
ElizaRenae @eliza_renaeHey @bariweiss the health reporter who wrote this article you're using, Darius Tahir, is an activist stenographer.
This language is laughably loaded and biased.
Describing Paxton as 'pugnacious' and 'non-compromising' while portraying Talarico as a 'calm' 'seminarian' is preposterous.
Talarico is a mouth-foaming radical who is so far out of the mainstream that he would stand out in Portland as a kook. He is creepily obsessed with mutilating and sterilizing other people's children. His economic policies are straight out of the DSA manual, and neither his church nor his seminary affirm the deity or necessity of Christ.
Balls were dropped in the case of the Muslim extremist FlyDubai co-pilot.
A string of security failures across Oman, the UAE and Israel allowed the flydubai co-pilot to get into the cockpit, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The lapses nearly led to an aviation disaster reminiscent of 9/11, despite authorities having reasons to be concerned about him.The failures began in Oman, where authorities had scrutinised Hamam al-Hammami's online activity and found he showed too much interest in radical ideology to be trusted as a pilot at state carrier Oman Air. They banned him from flying, sent him to a deradicalisation programme and moved him to a desk job, but did not broadly communicate their concerns about him.
Oman flagged him, but the warning did not travel
When al-Hammami joined flydubai in February, the airline did not contact Oman to vet his previous experience, the WSJ reported. It conducted a criminal-background check, but the earlier concerns that had led Oman to remove him from flying were not passed on to the new employer. The operator, flydubai, later assigned him to the sensitive Tel Aviv route, which he flew multiple times.
Oman's handling of the case also created another missed opportunity. People familiar with the matter said that had the country formally withdrawn al-Hammami's pilot licence over its concerns, the action would likely have been flagged to the UAE. Instead, the concerns about his extremism were not communicated more widely.
Even Israel dropped the ball. Which means that hormone-drenched madwoman Ana Kasparian is about to accuse them of deliberately allowing the poor Muslim to be used as a prop for Mossad propaganda.
...Airline operator flydubai had submitted the manifest for Flight 1073, but Israel's transportation ministry said it did not believe it had the authority or expertise to vet foreign flight crews. The ministry also said it had never asked to access a database created in 2023 to help authorised agencies review passenger and crew information because it did not know the database was operational or that it could use it.
There was an even more basic warning that should have stopped al-Hammami from flying to Israel. Pilots from countries such as Oman, which does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, are barred from flying to the country. Yet al-Hammami was allowed onto the Tel Aviv-bound flight.
The K-8 school River City Science Academy (RSCA) in Jacksonville, Florida, has confirmed to Mazelit's Corner that their after-school teacher who recently went on a viral rant against Jews has now been fired.
"The staff member in question is no longer associated with RSCA or any of our campuses" said Laura Palarine, the school's media rep, on Thursday morning.
The staff member in question?
Miss. Jaden Salameh, a Florida TikToker and now disgraced-teacher -- whose words shocked hundreds of thousands of Jewish netizens when she posted a TikTok video of herself titled "My controversial opinions that are 100% correct."
In her video -- which has been viewed nearly half a million times on X alone -- Jaden Salameh argues a litany of antisemitic tropes to her audience on her now-deleted TikTok page.
"There's one group of people who own literally everything," the self-described Palestinian woman says, adding that Jews "own the banking system, the White House, the legislative, executive, judicial branch."
"We send all of our money to this country," she claimed, adding that Israel was "literally curated out of thin air."
Mamdani showed up at an alleged vigil to honor the victims of October 7, whom he essentially said were valid targets due to Israel's occupation of Gaza.
Even though he is obviously a strong supporter of terrorist murder and rape, Muslims
heckled him for not being honest enough in his pro-Hamas agitation.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up at a Union Square vigil marking the Oct. 7 massacre, candle in hand, and the people who helped put him in office were waiting outside the barricades to inform him that the revolution does not do thank-you notes.
Not even a little bit.Honestly, he had to know this was going to happen. These crazy pro-Palestinian nutballs flip out if the people they support don't spend every minute hating Israel. It's what they do.
These same pro-Palestinian protesters banged drums over the speakers, branded him a traitor and a sellout, and charged the city's first Muslim mayor with genocide for the crime of standing near Israelis who were mourning their dead.
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France Races Towards a Debt Crisis as the Nation Continues to be Besieged by Violent Foreigners Demanding to be Paid for Peace
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before getting to that, let me offer a completely-unrelated bit of history. Via Google AI:
Danegeld was a tax raised in Anglo-Saxon England and Francia from the 9th to the 11th centuries to pay tribute or protection money to Viking raiders to stop them from ravaging the land.Key Historical Facts
• Meaning: The word comes from Old English, literally translating to "Dane payment" or "Dane yield".
• Early Tribute vs. Army Tax: Originally known as gafol when paid directly to Vikings as bribes, it later evolved into a kingdom-wide land tax called heregeld (army tax) used to fund a standing defensive force or pay mercenary armies.
• King Æthelred the Unready: The practice became most prominent during the reign of King Æthelred II (978--1016), who paid massive quantities of silver pennies (such as £10,000 in 991 CE and up to £48,000 in 1012 CE) to buy off invaders
With that irrelevant, off-topic mention of large bribes paid to violent invaders to not loot and pillage and kill them, let's turn to a completely different subject.
France's, uh, guests are demanding, supposedly, more "resources" for schools.
This demand comes at a very bad time. Because France's dysfunctional government is made up of alleged "centrists" and even some "conservatives" in a coalition with socialists and communists, no one can agree on a budget.
So they just keep borrowing money, growing the deficit more and more.
You can only borrow freely until the markets begin to doubt you can ever repay your debts. And then the cost of borrowing rises, and you have to borrow more and more at higher and higher interest rates until it becomes impossible to repay the debt and then people stop lending you money completely, and your finances collapse.
France is now in this doom-loop of increasing debt and compounding interest on the debt.
For most of the past decade, lending money to France was considered almost as safe as lending money to Germany.That belief is now breaking down, and it is happening fast.
Last week, investors demanded up to 5% a year to lend to the French government for 10 years. France had not faced borrowing costs that high on its 10-year bonds since July 2002.
The extra return investors want to hold French debt instead of German debt rose to its highest level since the eurozone debt crisis of 2011-2012.
France now pays more to borrow than Italy and Greece, two countries that sat at the centre of that crisis.
This matters well beyond the bond market. Government borrowing costs influence the rates on mortgages and business loans and the interest bill that every French taxpayer ends up covering.
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Beyond the rise in France's 10-year bond yield to 5%, its widening gap with Germany shows investors are increasingly concerned about French debt.
Its premium over Germany's equivalent Bund reached 152 basis points, or 1.52 percentage points, returning to levels associated with the 2011 eurozone crisis.
Intesa Sanpaolo strategists, led by Gian Marco Salcioli, argue that the speed of the move matters more than its level.
When yields jump this fast, they say, the fear shifts from the price of borrowing to the risk of not being repaid in full, and France is the clearest example.
"The move tends to transform rate risk into something broader, first and foremost credit risk," Salcioli said in a note to clients.
Díaz-Alvarez said this was "the largest weekly widening in said spread in seventeen years."
France is dealing with a major debt crisis and social unrest ahead of its presidential election next year.Why it matters: Worries are rising about contagion in Europe and beyond, and the situation is drawing comparisons with the sovereign debt crisis that rocked the European Union in the 2010s.
"Government bond yields in France are spiraling out of control. Contagion to the rest of high-debt Europe is unfolding rapidly," Brookings' Robin Brooks wrote recently.
Where it stands: Yields on government debt are rising across Europe and in the U.S., but the situation in France is worse.
Investors are demanding higher yields to hold French debt, compared with bonds from Germany, which are seen as a safer alternative.
On Friday, the difference, or spread, between the two countries' bond yields, was the widest it has been since the debt crisis.The spread is widening due to "higher sovereign default risk in France," Macquarie's Thierry Wizman wrote in a note Thursday titled: "Are the French Toast?"
Meanwhile, the foreign guests continue ravaging the countryside while demanding the peasants pay them more money in exchange for a few months of pillage-free "peace."
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Cornell Sexual Assault Survivor: This Whore Sodomized Me While I Was Too Drunk to Consent
—Disinformation Expert Ace
By "sodomized," he means she gave him a blow-jay while he was drunk and passing in and out of sleep. Therefore, by the credibly-accused rapist's own argument, he was unable to consent to such an act and she raped him by mouth.
And this is not a sex act you can force on someone except through actual force -- holding a knife to their neck, for example. Which is not what she claims happened. She claims she had just been too drunk to give "real" consent.
And oral sodomy is an act, I'm told, which requires considerable effort and seems unlikely to be performed by someone too drunk to even form the mental state of consent.
Why is there no justice for this sexual assault survivor?
'Cornell 7' frat bro claimed accuser 'sodomized' him and that school didn't care he was sex-assault 'survivor:' reportThe frat brother at the center of the "Cornell 7" gang-rape allegations claimed to campus officials that the accuser "sodomized" him -- and complained nobody cared he was a sex-assault "survivor," an explosive new report says.
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Ingalls -- the Chi Phi brother who the accuser said sparked her alleged 2024 gang rape -- wrote to campus officials in a seething email that the Ivy League school was guilty of "gender discrimination" and "entrapment" as it conducted its investigation into him and six of his fraternity brothers over the alleged horror.
"You received information that I was sodomized by her while I was incapacitated back in November, and you never once thought to alert me of my rights under these procedures as a survivor of this assault?" Ingalls said in the February 2025 missive to Cornell's Title IX office and obtained by ABC.
"The very fact that I had to bring this to your attention now in February confirms my worst fears: that this process is rolled [sic] with gender discrimination," he said.
The email came three months after the woman, only identified as Jane Doe in her civil lawsuit involving the allegations, accused Ingalls of inviting her to his frat house and plying her with drugs and alcohol, then propositioning her for a three-way that quickly escalated into rounds of fraternity brothers stopping into the room to join in on the sex.
Doe insisted she was too intoxicated to consent and called the incident rape -- something she also told Campus police in 2024, about three weeks after the alleged attack.
But Ingalls was also drinking and drugging heavily that night -- with a 2024 statement from Doe describing how he kept falling asleep during the encounter before waking up to rejoin the alleged assault.
After Doe made rape claims against him, Ingalls tried to frame his own intoxication to suggest that he was the victim that night, Cornell investigative documents showed.
I mean, why isn't he?
It's as if they know this whole "crisis" is made-up ideological horseshit.
"Believe survivors," the campus activists and leftist politicians admonish us.But which "survivor" statements are we supposed to believe?
In the weeks following her alleged gang rape at a Cornell University frat house in 2024, "Jane Doe" was unequivocal: She had not been raped.
A day after the incident, she texted one of her sex partners, saying "non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal and honestly I really liked being with u" -- and she suggested another get-together.
The next day she texted him again, including an affectionate note: "I luv you king."
She angled herself an invitation to the annual Halloween party at the frat where she was allegedly raped.
Up to that point, Doe's statements and her behavior had been consistent: She considered herself a voluntary participant in group sex, after she'd deliberately downed 10 shots of alcohol.
After the alleged assault she solicited further contact with her rapists, considered them her friends and sought to revisit the crime scene for more partying.
For an actual rape victim, such behavior is inconceivable.
But the rumor mill was circulating: Jane Doe's sorority mentor told her that people were shaming her as a "slut."
The frat's president disinvited her from the party "for her own good."
Doe was furious.
That's when she played the assault card, nearly a month after the incident.
Yet the campus rape industry cannot tolerate Doe's earlier honest self-evaluation.
If females take full responsibility for their own behavior, the lucrative, bureaucracy-bloated grift will come crashing down.
So the college assault complex has a surefire method for erasing such moments of clarity: Don't believe those "survivor" statements.
Females are only credible as purported victims.
As NPR put it last week, a victim's initial statements "often cannot be taken at face value" because they are the product of her "trauma."
That means the only statements from a "survivor" that can be believed are statements claiming that she has been raped.
College rape allegations, in other words, are unfalsifiable: Heads the campus rape complex wins, tails the truth loses.
In fact, the seminal surveys of campus rape that jump-started the assault complex depended on this double standard.
Go back to the 1987 study that produced the fantastical statistic that up to one in four co-eds will be sexually assaulted in college.
To generate that finding, academic rape researchers did not ask "survivors" outright if they had been raped -- because doing so yielded disappointing results.
Rather, the researchers decided whether or not an alleged victim had been raped, based on her description of her (overwhelmingly consensual) sexual encounters.
When asked directly, 73% of the survey respondents whom the academics classified as victims said they had not been raped at all.
The academics chose not to believe them.
Even more damningly for the reliability of this research, 42% of the college women whom the researchers classified as sexual-assault victims went back for more sex with their putative assailants.
Again, inconceivable behavior after being subjected to the second worst crime, after murder, a female can experience.
Subsequent feminist rape studies have repeated this same discrepancy between the researchers' results and the subjects' own views.
Wow: New text drops showing "Jane Doe" was a willing participant in the orgy and was critical of those who thought she was a slut.
She says she's catching a lot of "heat" from "the Phi Phi girls" -- sorority girls were calling her a slut.
"I don't think we should feel any shame... our body our choice."
And so, the accusations began, almost a month after the event.
This is a real rape victim you guys.
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Citing Microsoft's Practice of Laying Off American Workers and Replacing Them With H-1B "Indentured Servants," Trump Suspends Microsoft's Ability to Use the Green Card Program
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Should have been done long ago.
Hit Disney next.
The terrorist-aligned AP is sad.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas as it accuses the company of fraud.Supporters of the Republican president have long argued that various programs like the one Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of abusing essentially empower American companies to recruit foreign workers for jobs that end up undercutting Americans. In a wide-ranging announcement Thursday, Vance and other top administration officials also called out universities over their use of J-1 visas for international students and information technology outsourcing firms.
The announcement came hours before Trump was scheduled to award the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, part of an event at which he is granting some of the nation's most prestigious science and technology awards to his tech billionaire allies.
Thank you for that completely irrelevant Democrat party attack line in the middle of the article, AP.
Vance said the program from which Microsoft is being suspended requires companies to advertise jobs in America before applying to the Department of Labor to show they need to give a foreign worker a green card because of a lack of American workers."They'll put an advertisement in a small-town newspaper. They'll go out there and say that 'We have advertised for a position with our company, and nobody is responding to it.' And they will use that lack of response to then go and replace American workers with what is effectively foreign indentured servants," Vance said. "There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has used this system more than Microsoft."
Microsoft is No. 5 among U.S. employers when it comes to using H-1B visas, according data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Amazon is No. 1.
Um, the "system" he's referring to includes fraudulently "advertising" for positions where the advertisement is intended to never be seen. So your attempt to "correct the record" with another Democrat party attack line fails.
Now for some more Democrat-Corporate Party messaging:
...Doug Rand, a former senior adviser at USCIS during the Biden administration, called Vance's announcement "incoherent."
"If the Trump administration were truly concerned that H-1B workers are 'indentured servants,' then the last thing they would do is block companies from helping their own H-1B workers get green cards," he said. "Once you have a green card, you're no longer dependent on your employer for your immigration status -- you're a permanent resident who can change jobs and negotiate higher wages without fear."
These are just the figures for a single year:
Vance said Microsoft last year laid off 6,000 American workers but also obtained 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards.
"If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants," Vance said in a White House news conference announcing the decision. "Our message to Microsoft is: You're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers."
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The H-1B program has long been a target of Trump supporters who say that the program undercuts American workers and is rife with abuse.
H-1B visas are meant for high-skilled jobs that are difficult to find American workers to fill. Technology companies are the biggest users, with nearly three-quarters of approvals going to workers from India.
Trump also moved to punish so-called universities for abusing the system. Foreigners come over to study at universities and work at jobs during and after their study. Trump wants colleges to pay $70,000 per student to cover the costs to the government of this pain in the ass.
And also, cut down on abuse -- I imagine that many foreigners are coming just to take a couple of credits per semester, using the program as a backdoor to scam what is effectively another H-1B visa.
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Rubio Delivers Speech at the Acropolis, Rallying the West to Embrace Western Values and Western Roots
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It seems strange that anyone would even have to advocate for this.
Ben Whedon for Just the News:
Rubio's Acropolis speech pitches Trumpism as a return to Western rootsSecretary of State Marco Rubio in a speech Wednesday at the Acropolis in Athens cast the Trump administration and its broader movement as a conscious revival of the foundational principles of Western Civilization and urged Europe to follow its lead.
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Rubio's decision to deliver the speech against the backdrop of the Acropolis was deliberate. The ancient site is perhaps the most widely known monument associated with classical Greece, which scholars have traditionally viewed as the progenitor of what is now called "the West."
"For thousands of years, the civilizations that built what stands behind me have captivated the imagination of the Western world," Rubio opened. "The things we owe to this place as Americans -- and as Westerners -- are actually far, far deeper. What blossomed here in this place was the Western desire to uncover all that ignorance, darkness, and distance had kept hidden from the mind of man."
But Rubio went beyond romantic invocations of the ancient past and insisted that the modern Trump administration was working to advance a classically-influenced theory of politics. He further spelled out a tangible theory of statecraft on the world stage and encouraged European nations to adopt it themselves.
"For all their lofty ideals, the ancient Greeks were not naive," Rubio argued. "They understood that nations have interests. They understood that statecraft requires prudence and diplomacy. But they also understood that it requires the ability to wield force with prudence when diplomacy fails."
"They understood that power requires not only having the means to defend yourself, it requires the credibility that you are willing to use it. This is the classical understanding of politics and of statecraft that the Trump administration hopes to reclaim, reclaim not just for our country, but for the whole of our civilization. We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago."
Rubio then went further to explain how to weave those ideas into the political landscape of a modern, increasingly international world, saying "[n]ational interests did not vanish in the face of international institutions" and that nations still faced threats that required them to respond.
He stated that the path forward was to rebuild international institutions while "understanding that the purpose of these things is not to abolish the sovereignty of the nations that constitute them, but is to defend them, and that nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognize their common interests."
That position seems to come as a rebuke of globalism, cultural uniformity, and mass immigration on a large scale as many Western nations shift toward the political right in response to the influx of non-Western immigrants.
The full speech is here.
The speech begins with a narrative about the rise of democracy and western values. I'll skip past that to get to the part where he begins to make his argument.
This passage is about the need for actual competition in a society, and standards of excellence, lest that society devolve into shapeless, useless communism.
For the Greeks of antiquity, the pursuit of excellence was the very principle of man's existence. They organized all of civic life around contest, ambition, competition: in philosophy and poetry, in sculpture and drama, in athletics and art, in war and statecraft. The classical Greek city was an arena for great men to test and prove themselves, to hone their potential through perpetual struggle -- to be the best, the strongest, the most beautiful, straining to inch ever closer to perfection.Now I know that to modern ears, what I just described, this way of life, may sound odd; it may even sound cruel. The ideal of many ideologies in our time has, frankly, become a world of perfect safety, devoid of risk or failure, with neither the glory of victory nor the shame of defeat. Too often these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure no one will lose; we preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average, the ordinary, the mediocre.
The men who made the Parthenon, they built upwards. They held that the highest and most noble aspiration in life was to surpass all others, to strive to be the best in all things. The ancient Greek city-states were filled. They were filled with intense passion and rivalry and faction and conflict. But from that constant struggle for distinction -- from that came the great flowering of art and philosophy and political and intellectual energy that would transform a collective of Mediterranean cities into the birthplace of the greatest civilization in the world.
The thumos, as the ancient Greeks called it -- the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride -- is the heart of great civilization. And without it? Without it, nations lose their will to fight, the will to strive, the will to survive.
Today, too much of the West has forgotten this quality. Over time, we in the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world. Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt. We no longer believed we deserved and had earned our greatness.
The word "nationalism" became a dirty word. And so we tore down our monuments; we condemned our own history. And in too many places, we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit. In the process, we opened our borders and outsourced our industry, and allowed our militaries to wither and to decay.
And with every passing year, we seemed to outsource more of our sovereignty, transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies far beyond the reach of our control.
But others were all too happy to fill the vacuum that we left -- the vacuum left behind by our weakness. And as the West's confidence faltered, its adversaries and its rivals only grew more assertive, building up their own wealth and their own power in our stead.
And now, today, we find ourselves at a crossroads. Because the next decade and the decisions we make will write the story of the next century. The course we take will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and servitude and decline. We will either choose to act now or lose the choice to act at all.
Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice. We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power: to take back control of our critical supply chains, to reindustrialize our economy, to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future.
We choose to reach for new frontiers: in advanced manufacturing and super intelligence; in drones, weapons, and warfare; in chips, minerals, cyber, and every other domain of human possibility. To unleash our energy, to rebuild our factories, to return our astronauts to the moon and launch a new age of exploration in space.
That's a refutation of fake, communist "equity," in which everyone is a winner and everyone gets a participation award, and of course no one accomplishes or produces anything because there's no benefit to doing so.
He also attacks transnationalist "Davosism," the socialist dream of all national borders melting away into one gigantic ultrastate.
Now it's has become fashionable today to believe that enlightened foreign policy means prioritizing the global community over one's own people. And I think here, too, we have much to learn from the men of ancient Greece because they knew that there was nothing selfish or wrong about loyalty to your nation, nor anything selfish or wrong about fighting to defend its interests above all else.
They believed -- fiercely -- in the ideal of the great man: the exceptional individual who obtains immortality through his own deeds. But they believed that glory and fame, those things were won through striving, sacrificing and achieving greatly for something larger than yourself. The recurring hero of the ancient Greek world was the man who was willing to pay any cost for a cause worthy of his loyalty.
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These -- these are the qualities that would shape the Western moral imagination. From the Christian martyr who refused to betray his faith to the patriot who gave his life for his country; from Saint Thomas More to the Battle of the Alamo, running through the immortal closing words of the Declaration of Independence of the United States which says, "We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
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This is wholly different from what we see, even now, for example from fanatics like the radical mullahs of Iran, whose cult of death hails child suicide bombers as national heroes, and portrays martyrdom as an end to itself.
Our heroes -- our heroes may be willing to die for their cause; but our heroes do not worship death. It is precisely because we value life that we come to recognize the heroism in those who would sooner sacrifice it than to betray their principles. Now, we take the West's conception of these things -- heroism, honor, duty -- we take these things for granted. We assume that these somehow are universal to all people in all times and in all places. They are not. They are the product of a distinct character, a distinct character which arose here and shaped the whole story of the civilization that came after it. A civilization that we must fight to defend today with the same passion as our forefathers did.
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The greatest Americans of every generation have carried the unmistakable features of their forefathers -- born in Athens, formed by Rome, baptized in Christendom, hardened in the furnace of medieval Europe, endowed with the English genius for liberty, and then carried across the Atlantic to be reborn on the shores of a new world.
Together, we must now rediscover that spirit. We are at an inflection point -- an inflection point not only in the history of my nation, but an inflection point in the whole of our civilization.
The threats we face today are every bit as real as they were on the dramatic stage of antiquity.
National interests did not vanish in the face of international institutions. War did not disappear simply because we preferred peace. Other states continued to arm, to seek influence, to compete for territory, and technology, and resources, and markets, and energy, and power.
And now, there is war again. There is new competition between great powers again. There is vulnerability, aggression, terrorism, a whole universe of new threats and attacks again.
And so we must rebuild our institutions and our alliances to face these threats together -- understanding that the purpose of these things is not to abolish the sovereignty of the nations that constitute them; it is to defend them. And that nations need not abandon their distinct identities in order to recognize their common interests.
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Don't Call Them Somali Gangs. Call Them Well-Armed Doctors and Engineers.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Somali community, and the left generally, continues to rage that Somali gang members are called Somali gang members. They want them called "American" gang members. And they insist that the problem isn't Somalis, it's just guns.
Violence tied to Somali-American gangs in the Twin Cities metro erupted in recent days, with law enforcement recovering nearly 100 casings after a gunfight captured on a resident's surveillance camera -- as officials warn they need help to contain the problem before it escalates.
Video of that shootout below. When you have a Somali tribal beef that involves shooting one hundred bullets next to suburban bedrooms where children are sleeping, people's indulgence of endless migrant crime begins to run out.
The warning follows a burst of violence across several Twin Cities suburbs -- including a Bloomington shootout that left nearly 100 shell casings and another shooting in Eden Prairie -- as law enforcement says the incidents have entered a retaliation cycle and officials race to disrupt the groups before the violence evolves into more entrenched drug- and money-driven crime."We have the opportunity to fix it," Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said of a surge in Somali gang violence across the Twin Cities -- but warned authorities could be facing a much more difficult problem if the groups escalate the resources they use.
"It's early. Once they evolve into drugs, we're in trouble. Once they evolve into money, more money, we are in trouble," said Fletcher, whose county is anchored by St. Paul and runs along the west bank of the Mississippi River.
Fletcher estimated that about 300 juveniles are involved and said part of the problem lies in the Somali gangs' relative novelty to local law enforcement and what he characterized as a reluctance to aggressively prosecute offenders across the river in Minneapolis.
"We need more people focused on this problem. Because 50 kids in this 300 need to go to jail, 25 need to be prosecuted by the feds for RICO and and another 25 need to be prosecuted at the local level. Take 50 of the most active out of the mix, and we will see dramatic changes," he said.
But the lesbian tank operating as Hennepin County's DA says that we shouldn't resort to simplistic answers like putting criminals in jail.
He ascribed some of the reticence to neighboring Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, saying she has not been sufficiently "aggressive" in prosecuting such offenders."One of the misconceptions is that somehow when you prosecute people, put them in jail that you're destituting them to some terrible life. This is how kids get corrected," he said.
Moriarty's office pushed back on the assertion, with spokesman Daniel Borgertpoepping saying the neighboring communities are "looking for solutions" and that Moriarty's prosecutors "communicate daily with law enforcement [and] will participate in any group that moves us toward sustainable public safety."
"The way we approach prosecution of violent crime is consistent regardless of the race or ethnicity of those involved," Borgertpoepping said.
Uh-huh.
Citizens know this is bullshit. One railed against the endless flow of obfuscatory left-wing bullshit to hide the real problem.
"We don't need more virtue signaling, yard signs, DEI initiatives, or community conversations that lead to nowhere. We need competent government, accountability, and safe neighborhoods," he said, also blaming Moriarty's office for "refu[sing]" to properly address the issue.He also suggested officials have sometimes generalized the ethnicity of those involved, remarking that it "feels more comfortable for some people to say East African. I don't even know that that's a fair term, because 98% of these gang members are Somalians."
Yesterday I mentioned a police chief stating that these gangland shootouts aren't even about money or drugs (yet). They're just well-off teenagers who are devolving to the Somali preference for internecine warfare.
In nearby Bloomington, where about 100 casings were recovered from the scene of a late-night firefight that appeared to involve automatic weapons, Police Chief Booker Hodges took a confrontational tack toward the suspects who remained at large -- while warning they do not fit the typical stereotype of gang members.
"They're coming from two parent homes, living in apartment buildings with $3,500 a month rent, driving Beamers and Mercedes. They're not dealing with money. There's no drugs in the house. They're purchasing legal firearms," he said.
Michele Tafoya, running to be a senator from Minnesota, is campaigning on the issue.
The Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota is sounding the alarm about crime levels in the state amid a wave of Somali gang violence and a foiled terror plot by an American born to Somali parents."I hear a lot of concerns from Minnesotans on the campaign trail about crime, and no matter what form that crime takes, Minnesotans know that they feel under a level of threat that has increased lately here in Minnesota, and in the last week and just today," Michele Tafoya, running as a Republican against Minnesota's Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "We saw the arrest of an 18-year-old Somali American citizen to Somali parents arrested for a terrorist -- planning a terrorist attack -- at the Mall of America during a Hmong celebration."
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The FBI alleges Mohamud had digital communications beginning in December 2024 with a confidential human source he believed was a member of al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist terror group and offshoot of ISIS.
"I can't wait until I kill kuffar man. October 24 is the day insha Allah," one of the messages said. "Kuffar" is a term used to refer to non-Muslims, and "insha Allah" means "God willing."
The Hmong people are indigenous to Southeast Asia and boast a relatively large population in the United States.
"We have a large Hmong community here in Minnesota as well, and he basically stated that he wanted to take out anyone who was not a Muslim. He also noted that the Mall of America is owned by people who are Jewish," Tafoya said. "And so this was his plan, and thank goodness for the FBI in Minneapolis here and local law enforcement for catching onto this plan and derailing it well in advance. This is a guy who has pledged his allegiance to ISIS. Again, he is of Somalian descent and terror is alive and well and thank God we averted this massive crisis."
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"And we have had Somali-related -- Somali gang-related -- attacks here locally in our suburbs at a high school football game during homecoming, at a Catholic Church parking lot, at a gas station, and this is all just really started to peak here in the last couple of weeks. So it's undeniable. Our law enforcement here are calling it out as the product of Somali gang violence, and we've got to identify it, and we have to find a way to deal with it."
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"I don't know how you can legislate that assimilation, but we simply cannot tolerate the level of crime," she said. "We've seen it with fraud here. It's in the paperwork that the Feeding Our Future fraud was largely ... in terms of percentage, probably 98%, Somali people involved in that fraud," she said.
"What I do think is any guests of this country who commits crime should be sent home with no pathway back," she said. "If you're coming here to be a guest of this country or to live in this country you cannot break our laws, and if you're an American, you cannot break our laws, period."
Below, the shootout caught on surveillance cameras.
Imagine living with this.
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El-Sayed, Ready to Campaign with Shit-Fingered Midas, Previously Said Obama Was a Failed President Who Left the Country Off Worse Than When He Found It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
'The list of his failures goes on': El-Sayed's Obama criticism resurfaced ahead of campaign rallyFormer President Barack Obama is set to hit the campaign trail for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed later this month, years after El-Sayed criticized Obama's presidency at times as a failure, saying it left the country no "better off."
In comments reviewed by CNN's KFile from Obama's 2012 reelection through the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, El-Sayed faulted him for perpetuating war, eroding civil liberties, overseeing record deportations and preserving economic and healthcare systems that he said favored corporations over ordinary people.
LOL. The "Deporter in Chief" fake-insult was contrived by Obama in league with open borders advocates to claim he was a super-deporter when in fact he threw the borders wide open. He didn't deport people -- he pulled another statistical sleight-of-hand and redefined persons merely turned away at the border as "deported," which they had never before been counted. This allowed him to greatly inflate the number of "deportations" he was conducting and thus claim to be a border defender instead of what he was, a border eraser.
He also dismissed the Affordable Care Act as insufficient and argued that Obama's incremental approach helped create the conditions for Donald Trump's rise....
El-Sayed's criticism of Obama was often searing.
In a 2012 HuffPost essay written shortly after Obama won reelection, El-Sayed -- who said he had voted for him -- accused the president of failing to deliver the "hope and change" that defined his 2008 campaign. "This leader has perpetuated war, violated our civil liberties, deported more people from our shores than any other president before him, and the list of his failures goes on," he wrote.
Obama's tepid prosecution of the War on Terror was too much for this proud and arrogant terrorist spokesman.
"That memory will serve not as a reminder of the history we made that night -- but of the silly emotions of a naïve young man who didn't understand that hope and change required more than flowery prose and a winning smile," El-Sayed wrote of Obama's first election. "I have little hope because there has been less change."
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El-Sayed also took shots at the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature accomplishment and legacy across his two terms, calling it a "watered-down reform that kowtows to the interests of healthcare lobbies."
Full communism or bust.
El-Sayed said that Obama's fake recovery -- propagndized with another sleight-of-hand redefinition, changing "jobs created" to "jobs saved or created" -- was in fact fake.
"There's frustration [among voters] with the fact that they're being told by elites that their economy is back and that they should just be happy," El-Sayed said. "But it's not. Frankly, the economic comeback has largely benefited corporations and has not really benefited people like them."
This is a story that Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed -- by the way, he told critics to "keep my name out of your mouth," so f*** you, Vain Terrorist, I'll use your full name every time I refer to you -- does not need. Black voters are already wary of him.
A little good news, maybe: Early voting has started in Michigan and ballots from Trump counties are coming in at a faster rate than they have before.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
Cutting taxes is always...ALWAYS...a good idea. The leviathan needs to be fed to live, and cutting taxes decreases what our feckless and cowardly legislators can spend.
Except...it doesn't. they are happy to spend money we don't have, simply by borrowing from the world. And $40 trillion later, that is one hell of a bill coming due.
Trump Says He Is Considering Suspending Federal Gas Tax
In an Oct. 5 post on Truth Social, he said, "What's driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because Record Numbers of Barrels are coming out now on an almost daily basis, but the word, 'Refineries,' where Russia's are being blown up by Ukraine, and where ours are being closed up, in Blue States, like California."
The federal gas tax is 18.4¢/gallon, which yielded about $25 billion in 2025. That's not a small amount of money, but the economic benefit of cheaper gasoline might make up for some of that tax loss.
As for the refinery crisis in America? Yes, and we should have been building them for the last 40 years, but thanks to the watermelons in almost every state, and onerous and restrictive federal regulation, building a refinery is a huge undertaking. California has been closing refineries since the 1980s, and America has lost about 10 refineries just this decade!
Perhaps President Trump can nationalize the recently closed refineries in California in the interest of national security. And fast-track the expansion of existing refineries and the building of more in red states that are amenable to high-paying jobs.
To be fair, American refineries have become more efficient and have expanded production significantly, so the raw number looks worse than it is. But spreading production around the country is a good idea, simply to make sabotage of our refining capacity a more complex operation.
And of course the delightful bonus of stick a thumb in the eye of the rabid environmentalist left never gets old!
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The Morning Report — 10/8 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Let me say that as repulsive and distasteful as I find the likes of Bernie Sanders, Titty Caca Ocasio-Cortez and of course the Mamdani/El sayeds, I know they're coming for my throat and my bank account. So I can deal with knife-wielding terrorists and tyrants heading straight at me. But some traitorous scumbag eager to plunge a shiv in my back is something else entirely. So, with that be it resolved that Tom Tillis and everyone like him in the GOP, the Grifting Oleaginous Parasite Party must be completely and utterly destroyed. Even if it means losing seats in Congress or perhaps even the Presidency, we must have an effective, engaged and dedicated political party that truly reflects and represents our will and recognizes the existential threat that comes from the Democrat Party and who and what it represents. And with that, as the set-up you can guess the rest, but here it is anyway as your emetic for the day:
Wednesday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said the Republican Party should ditch President Donald Trump’s populism and “go back” to its conservative core.
To a repugnant desiccated coprolite like Tillis, that means surrender to the Left and Islam, and let us lying, criminal traitorous scumbags wet our beaks in peace! If somehow the supposed Blue wave fails to materialize come the Midterms, well hopefully we won't be saddled with a fresh crop of Tillises, which means President Trump's agenda for his final two years is likely dead in the water, which would be exactly the same thing but without impeachments, or perhaps with impeachments depending upon the status of J.D. Vance, that is railroad him as well and install Mike Johnson or Hakeem Jeffries as POTUS?!
If all that isn't enough to gag a maggot, I give you the following items.
Jessica Valenti, a feminist writer and creator of the Substack “Abortion, Every Day,” called abortion “an affordability issue,” and contended that “you’d be hard pressed to find something more important to your financial life than whether or not to have a child, than whether or not that you’re gonna be forced into pregnancy, or not even just forced into pregnancy, but forced into massive medical debt because your pregnancy goes wrong and you can’t get an abortion.”
The Lindsay Clancy Social Contagion feels even more real after this latest report about a Texas mother accused of trying to murder her two small children. One child is just ten months old. The other is three years old.
Well it's Texas so I'm sure if James Talarico should defeat Ken Paxton, he'll get right on this. That is make this a common occurrence!
Ugh. Even with this, and in the wake of yesterday being the third anniversary of the Islamic Mass wave of butchery from Gaza which the aforementioned story is Islamic in its theme... For some reason I'm still optimistic about the future, as you can see from my posting the essay about Marco Rubio up top. Y aqui
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is currently traveling to Iceland, Greece, and Portugal, stood where the West was born and urged our allies to reject its decline. The imagery was stunning, but the message was more important — it's something that's been a theme throughout Rubio's time at the State Department over the last 20 months: We must maintain the values that make us great.
When was the last time any real American leader spoke this way and actually meant it?! Should he, by some miracle, become President at some point in the future he will be outstanding (his baggage from his early days, in particular the Gang of 8 amnesty foolishness), and of course the opposition from the Democrat/Left and worse the Tom Tillis saboteurs of the GOP should they still be a factor.
And so here's to better days, but for now I bid you all to have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- We take the West’s conception of these things heroism, honor, duty – we take these things for granted. We assume that these somehow are universal to all people in all times and in all places. They are not.
Wow! Marco Knocks It Out of the Park — Again — With a Speech on Protecting Western Values
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Daily Tech News 8 October 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- I wondered recently when Saleforce blamed their failure to increase profits on their AI spending habits what the hell they were doing with it, because while they didn't put a number on it the figures they did mention implied it is in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year, enough to build twenty production-grade compilers or one public toilet in San Francisco.
Well, it's not Salesforce, but I have found someone doing something useful with AI coding tools: ArtCraft. (Get ArtCraft)
ArtCraft itself is an AI-assisted art program. That's not the neat part, though.
The neat part is the smaller associated apps.
PhotoCraft is a photo editing program. VectorCraft is a vector graphics program. FilmCraft and EffectCraft are for video editing and effects. DesignCraft is for document layout.
If this sounds like the offerings of a certain major software company to you, you are not alone.
And it's all free as in beer and as in speech. Download the binaries, download the source code, and do whatever you want with them. All the programs run on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, and on web browsers.
Early days yet; two programs are in alpha and the others haven't even got that far, but this is what we'll be seeing a lot more of in the future.
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Wednesday Night ONT - October 7, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Early morning activity planned here, so won't be around much in the ONT comments tonight. Please don't make a mess of the place. The cleaning charge is horrific. JQ is in charge and will rule with an iron fist.
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Deep Dark Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Inside Grundtvig's Church, Denmark
By: kenny ollseon
They're putting up the Krampus decorations already? They've completely commercialized the true meaning of Krampus!
A cat does cat-like things.
The now-abandoned Summit Tunnel at the Donner Pass.
A lot of fuzzy mouths to feed. This guy thinks he's a dog owner but when you have twenty huskies in your house you're more of a dog hostage.
Supposedly, a tricky paint job on the front of this building creates the illusion that it's warped by non-Euclidean energies from Yuggoth. I'm wondering if it's actually AI. If not, it's a very impressive illusion.
Larry Byrd doesn't get talked about much these days, except when talking about Dee Reynolds, but he was pretty good.
Ever get out of bed but you can't shake the sleep off your back?
1949 film to advertise the Boeing 337 Stratocruiser.
Dog would like some attention now please and thank you.
The longbow v. crossbow argument has a new entrant: Chakram? And how about the simple sling?
Hot chick with a lion cub.
Ace the Bat-Hound. (Silver Age Batman had hound named Ace.)
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper (from Mission Impossible 4), by drone.
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