Mike Johnson Takes Accountability and Steps Down from House Leadership; Jim Jordan Elected to Replace Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Mike Johnson did what McConnell's protege and butt-boy John Thune refuses to do: He stepped down from leadership.
Jim Jordan was elected in his place.
I'm not thrilled about that either, but at least someone demonstrated some accountability.
House Republicans on Tuesday selected Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to lead Republican lawmakers in the minority in the next Congress.Members of the conference chose between him and Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
The vote was 106 for Jordan and 73 for Scalise, according to Punchbowl News.
House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to step down from leadership after the party's loss in the midterms.
In an update: One of the world's richest communists, the pro-rape Venture Socialist Bernie Sanders, declares that Schumer must go.
First thing I've agreed with him on in years.
Overton @Overton_NewsAnd...here...we...go.
This is going to be a bloodbath between the socialists and the establishment within the Democrat Party.
85-year-old socialist Bernie Sanders just publicly came out AGAINST reelecting Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic Leader in the next Congress.
SANDERS: "I personally have known Chuck Schumer for over 30 years. And I like Chuck. Nobody who works harder than Chuck Schumer."
"But in my view, the time is now for change."
"And I will not be supporting Chuck to be reelected as the Democratic leader."
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Jennifer Welch Bitches That She's Being "Cancelled" Just For Encouraging Assassinations and Murder
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Whoops. I thought I posted this an hour ago.
Before that: Glenn Reynolds thinks about the Democrats' Assassination Culture.
Dave Chappelle joins the pack of lefty haters with a fetish for political violence
It's been heartwarming to see, once these contentious midterm elections were past us, how the Democrats rolled up their sleeves and got right to work on delivering the things they'd promised: affordability, equal opportunity and world peace.Haha, just kidding.
Instead they immediately started seeking revenge.
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For all their "Love Trumps Hate" sloganeering, what we've seen from leftists lately is pretty much all hate, aimed at anyone who counters their agenda -- not just Trump, but his supporters, staff and donors.
Comedian Dave Chapelle's ghoulish remarks about the murder of Charlie Kirk are typical.
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Kirk paid the ultimate price for expressing conservative principles, and Chappelle is willing to approve that publicly -- to his audience's glee.
Meanwhile, NYU professor Scott Galloway last week damned Trump ally Elon Musk as a "traitor to the West" and called for his public execution, a la Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
If we're going to start executing traitors to the West, I've got a little list. . .
But Musk isn't on it, and Galloway might not like who is.
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Sarah Palin was accused of murder for putting out a list of "targeted" congressional districts; Jeffries' comment is at least as much of a threat.
If I had to guess, the Venn diagram of people who would cheer if Trump were assassinated, and those whose lawns bear "Hate Has No Home Here" signs, is pretty close to a circle.
All this is unspeakably dangerous, of course.
You can't have a democracy without civil society, and you can't have a civil society in which one large chunk of it is salivating at the prospect of murdering the other.
But that's what we see today, with much of "mainstream" culture egging it on.
And it's not just that this language is ugly and divisive: Democrats are actively promoting violence with this heated rhetoric.
They are creating -- deliberately, I think -- a climate in which unstable people are encouraged to commit acts of violence against their political enemies, without leaving obvious fingerprints.
On Friday, when an armed-to-the-teeth Venezuelan migrant was arrested near the White House saying he'd been "hearing voices telling him to kill President Trump," my first thought was: "Were those voices on MS-NOW, Bluesky, or on Jennifer Welch's podcast?"
Welch, who calls for speakers she disapproves of to be M U R D E R E D, is whining that she's being "cancelled" for dancing right up to the edge of a serious crime.
Thirty of her sponsors have announced they will no longer associate with this bloodthirsty botox-drunk witch
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktokUPDATE: 30 companies have now confirmed they will not advertise on the "I've had it" podcast after hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed at Charlie's m*rder:
Cash App
Chewy
Boll & Branch
Zenni Optical
Momentous
Honeylove
Casper
HexClad
Ethos
Branch Basics
Ladder
Nutrafol
Jones Road Beauty
ZipRecruiter
PAKA
Ember
BetterHelp
Primal Queen
Monarch Money
iRestore
HomeServe
Ridge Wallet
Lola Blankets
NOBL Travel
Dupe
One Skin
IQbar
Quince
Cozy Earth
ASPCA
Michael Knowles
@michaeljknowles18h
Crone Jennifer Welch has reportedly lost $7.6 million for cackling on air at Charlie's murder. That is a good start.
Here are the phone numbers of her two remaining advertisers:
* Article: 1-888-746-3455
* Quince: 1-888-618-9322
Note that the post of above says that Quince (whatever that is) already said they would no longer sponsor this skeleton-faced madwoman's show.
Western Lensman @WesternLensmanJennifer Welch says her advertisers were "harassed" into dropping the show.
"Sadly, some of the advertisers have caved. But we still have other advertisers, and we're still standing."
Little companies are apparently stepping in to try to save them.
They read a message from a brewery in Wisconsin that called Charlie Kirk "an awful human being" and wanted to help sponsor the show.
Welch called that "so sweet," then did a shout out for the company for free.
At last count, around 30 sponsors have dropped the podcast.
It's not because they were harassed. It's because these women are toxic.
But hey if you're a little company, just drop these hateful hags a message bashing Charlie. Maybe that'll get you a free ad read.
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Only Eight GOP Senators Have Called for a Delay In Senate Leadership Elections as John Thune Rushes to Push a Re-Election Vote;
Charles Schumer Might Be Purged by the Islamocommunists He Supported
—Disinformation Expert Ace
John Thune and his cronies want to rush the election of the next Senate leaders and hold a vote today.
Eight GOP senators have called for a delay to figure out if they need "new faces," given the big loss.
But it takes a majority of GOP senators to vote for a delay.
Senator Ron Johnson says if they hold the vote today, he'll walk out.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pledged to walk out of the room if his Republican colleagues proceed with leadership elections on Tuesday, after calling a conference to discuss the party's direction following significant losses for the GOP in the midterm elections.
"If you hold the election, I'll leave the room," he told the Washington Examiner in a Monday interview. "I'm not going to participate in elections for leadership tomorrow."
To delay internal elections, which are cast by secret ballot, Johnson will need support from a majority of the Senate GOP conference.
The Wisconsin Republican has been floated as a potential replacement for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) for when Democrats take control of the Senate in January, as some conservatives air frustration with Thune's leadership.
Johnson, who has denied his interest in leadership in the past, again shot down the prospect on Monday, but he did not definitively rule it out.
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The senator added that his request for a conference meeting was not a "hostile act" and was only intended to give the GOP the time to assess whether they wanted a change in leadership.
"We all like John Thune. We like him, OK?" Johnson said. "I don't want to say anything bad about him, but again, at some point in time, our supporters absolutely believe we have to hold people accountable, and probably are looking for a new face, or new faces."
GOP senators met today and did not agree on either holding or delaying the election.
Senate Republicans met Tuesday to discuss their future and were expected to reconvene in the afternoon as they decide whether to keep South Dakota Sen. John Thune as their leader. The meetings come just a week after steep losses in the midterm elections that cost them their majority.Thune is expected to be reelected in the secret ballot election, given that he remains popular with his GOP colleagues and is so far running unopposed. But senators left the closed-door meeting after two hours of discussions with no resolution on a way forward after an election wipeout that cost them at least seven Senate seats.
"We want to be thoughtful and do the right thing," said West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice as the meeting broke up. He said no obvious alternative had emerged, but "there is a legitimate argument that, good gracious, if we lost as badly as we lost, why would we continue on with the same leadership?"
At the same time, the current GOP leadership "didn't cause this problem to happen," Justice said. "They do a good job."
Did they?
The Washington Times writes that Chuck Schumer might lose his own post as Democrat leader as the Islamocommunists want a more radical -- and, let me add, less Jewish -- leader.
In a way, it is poetic justice. The newly elected hard-left Democrats whom Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York nurtured and fed now want his blood.Several of the Democrats elected this year to the Senate, such as Troy Jackson of Maine, Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, Adam Hamilton of Kansas and James Talarico of Texas, have announced that they will not support Mr. Schumer for majority leader when the new Congress convenes next year.
Veteran Democrats -- such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Christopher Murphy of Connecticut and Tina Smith of Minnesota -- have voiced frustration with Mr. Schumer's candidate recruitment and leadership in legislative battles.
Once the militants won their primaries, Mr. Schumer did everything he could to support them, including providing significant funding through his Senate Majority PAC.
Mr. Schumer's PAC gave $30 million to Mr. El-Sayed, despite the Michigander's hatred of Israel. Mr. El-Sayed will not even say whether he believes Israel has a right to exist, while the Palestinian cause is dear to his heart. That did not seem to present a problem for Mr. Schumer, who is Jewish.
When a Muslim terrorist attacked a synagogue that housed a kindergarten, preschool and daycare in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 12, while condemning the attack, Mr. El-Sayed said, "Hurt people hurt people." This would seem to rationalize the attack on children by a man whose brother Ibrahim, identified by Israel as a Hezbollah commander, was killed in Lebanon.
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Though a liberal, Mr. Schumer is not liberal enough for members of the Democratic Senate class of 2026. They want a minority leader in their own image -- not one who is merely skeptical of Israeli policies, but one who is rabidly anti-Israel; not one who seeks to reform the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, but one who wishes to "rip it apart," in the words of Sen.-elect Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota.
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Even if Mr. Schumer somehow survives the purge, he will be constantly looking over his shoulder to see how close the wolves are and what he needs to do to appease them next.
Obama-Connected Democrat Operative Van Jones Smiles as He Admits the "Affordability" Op Was, In Pure Obama Fashion, an Organized Astroturf Campaign
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Running an astroturf operation? With Concerned Christian Conservatives fretting about whatever the Democrats' Fake Issue of the Day is?
Where have I heard this before?
Jones admitted that the economy really isn't as bad as portrayed, and that the Democrats knew this (surprise!), but rather than simply program their candidates and campaigns with duplicitous messaging, they took it several steps further. And the Republicans never figured it out.Jones told Collins how the Democrats discreetly organized tens of thousands of people to serve as chartered trolls as part of the "American Accountability Network." Jones did not make clear whether these people were compensated or not.
I'm pretty sure they were.
"The Republicans never figured out what we were doing," Jones said in-studio to a smiling Collins. "There's something called the American Accountability Network (AAN), tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.8 million hit on Twitter, X, every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. And they never figured it out."
"The Republicans could not understand it wasn't bots. It was actual human beings," he said.
They are bots. Human-shaped bots.
Tim O'Brien adds:
He added that Democrats were having trouble getting any "traction" on culture war issues, but thanks to the AAN, the left "figured out how to get around all that."
Witch-faced shill Kaitlin Collins had no negative commentary on an admitted massive disinformation campaign, but instead was "fascinated."
Collins found all of this "fascinating." Of course, it's fascinating when Democrats do it, but if Republicans did it, it would be criminal to Collins and her ilk.
Video at the link.
Anti-American Operative Thomas Massie Demands Impeachment of Pete Hegseth; Pete Hegseth Blasts Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Yesterday I worried when I saw that Pete Hegseth would be delivering an address today. I feared he would be announcing his withdrawal from the administration.
I guess he still might do that but it's more likely he was announcing his coming rebuttal of Thomas Massie's latest screed against him.
Massie's argument was that Pete Hegseth should be impeached for limiting lawyers' ability to veto operations or impose lethal restrictions on troops fighting for America.
A veteran of the Global War on Terror offered his own reaction to Thomas Massie's work on behalf of the Caliphate.
InfantryDort
@infantrydortNah man. I'm not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can't.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that's not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about "courageous restraint." We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like.... actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn't that Washington finally found some aggression for a change. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I'm done pretending those are the same thing. We're all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
A former military lawyer notes that Massie continues whining that the US attacked narcoterrorists smuggling drugs to the US by boat without having a lawyer give them permission.
It's always, ALWAYS drugs with these fucking hippies.
- Article IV.The basis for the next article is a claim that: "Secretary Hegseth willfully and systemically refused to comply with laws and directives mandated for the protection of civilians during the commission of armed conflict, chilled and rendered ineffective such components to prevent and mitigate harm to civilians, and therefore, foreseeably effected the death and injury of over 200 civilians [referring to the attack reportedly directed against an elementary school in Minab, Iran], to the manifest injury of the United States."
Tbh nearly every line of this article misrepresents various aspects of international AND domestic law in such an egregious manner that I'm tempted to do a deep-dive on just Article IV. Maybe there will be an opportunity to do so at some point in the future.
For now, I'll just focus on the core of this allegation: that SECWAR Hegseth failed to comply with legal "obligations" involving civilian harm mitigation & reduction (CHMR).
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The MAIN point to address here is that Congress doesn't possess the constitutional authority to FORCE DoW to implement specific CHMR practices. Congress can appropriate funds for such practices (Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 12). And Congress can "make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces" (Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 14).But POTUS is appointed as commander-in-chief of the military (Art. II, Sec. 2, Cl. 1). And practices related to civilian harm mitigation & reduction are strictly within the purview of CiC authority since they don't involve making rules for the armed forces (that authority is exercised by adopting the Uniform Code of Military Justice ... more about the UCMJ below).
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- Article V.
The essential basis for the next allegation is: "Secretary Hegseth abused the authority and trust vested in him as Secretary of Defense not only by directing the unlawful use of lethal military force, resulting in the summary execution of at least 243 persons in international waters, but also by using his office to compel members of the Armed Forces to carry out such operations under false legal authorities that he caused to be constructed and imposed upon the chain of command."
This claim is centered on the campaign of attacks directed against suspected narcoterrorists in international waters.
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The MAIN problem here (out of many) is the assertion that: "By subjecting persons merely suspected of criminal conduct to lethal military force without judicial process, without congressional authorization, and without establishing a lawful basis for treating such persons or vessels as military targets, Secretary Hegseth arrogated to himself and the Executive Branch the roles of judge, jury, and executioner and asserted a unilateral power to determine who may live and who may die."
Of course, the "without congressional authorization" element returns us to the analysis from the WPR articles involving the concurrent constitutional powers to "declare war" (Congress) AND engage in "hostilities" (POTUS).
Even so, the assertion that suspected narcoterrorists operating drug boats on the High Seas are MERELY "suspected of criminal conduct" is a gross misrepresentation of international law involving the resort to force (jus ad bellum) & domestic implementation thereof.
See, this article explicitly acknowledges that an interagency task force developed a classified memo that presented "a legal basis for such strikes" by determining that the "United States is engaged in a noninternational armed conflict (NIAC) with 24 Latin American Designated Terrorist Organizations."
Whether one disagrees with this determination or not, the EXECUTIVE BRANCH HAS THE AUTHORITY TO DO SO. And when it DID determine the existence of a noninternational armed conflict against drug cartels, by definition the adversary was no longer merely "suspected of criminal conduct."
Yes, trafficking narcotics IS criminal conduct. But saying it is ONLY criminal conduct would be like claiming al-Qaeda operatives are "only" criminals since they're engaged in activity that is against the law.
A drug dealer at home is a criminal. A narcotics trafficker on the High Seas that ISN'T part of a group the government has determined to be an adversarial belligerent in a (noninternational) armed conflict is ALSO a criminal.
But a narcotrafficker on the High Seas that IS part of a group the government has determined to be an adversarial belligerent is a criminal AND a civilian taking direct part in hostilities (DPH).
And what do we do with civilians DPH? Sure, we can detain them - but we can ALSO make them the object of attack pursuant to LOAC. That's what DoW did, that's what SECWAR Hegseth directed, and none of it constitutes a "high Crime or Misdemeanor".
Massie is also crying that Trump "kidnapped" Maduro, who again is a federally indicted drug-trafficker and therefore is a being deserving of special protection by nasty drug-obsessed hippie douchebags.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurleyI am reviewing the eight articles on the impeachment of Sec. Pete Hegseth. In my view, six of the eight articles should be nonstarters, including the Iranian articles. Presidents, including Clinton, Obama, and Biden, have asserted the authority to commence such operations...
...Outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie said yesterday that he filed the articles because he wants to "litigate" the underlying war powers of Congress. I agree with Massie about the need for Congress to assert its constitutional authority over the declaration of war. However, Trump was acting within the authority long asserted by his predecessor. More importantly...
...Massie is not going to "litigate" the matter through impeachments. Courts have not limited this authority and are unlikely to do so. This is a call for an impeachment by members who tolerated the exercise of the authority by Democratic members...
...It is equally baffling to seek to impeach on the basis of the "kidnapping" of former President Maduro. Trump was acting within the authority recognized by the courts in the Noreiga case. That was, to use Massie's term, "litigated." ...
Hegseth's own rebuttal was also unsparing.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday railed against the Republican congressman who introduced articles of impeachment against him and aggressively defended his leadership in the Iran war and other military operations."What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight, and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment," Hegseth said a day after Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., put forward the eight impeachment articles.
"It's a farce, and it's a stunt, and everybody knows it," Hegseth said during his first Pentagon news conference in six months.
The articles accuse Hegseth of waging war in contravention of Congress, carrying out extrajudicial killings tied to boat strikes in the Caribbean against purported drug smugglers and suppressing free speech by targeting Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a military veteran.
Massie, a libertarian who lost his Republican primary in May after clashing with President Donald Trump, kicked off the impeachment battle less than a week after a blue-wave midterm that will flip House and Senate control to Democrats.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is poised to be speaker of the House in the next Congress, on Sunday said Democrats are a "hard yes" on impeaching Hegseth. He reiterated his support on Monday in a press conference.
Hegseth added:
"This is not patriotism. This is sabotage"
Hegseth got a good grade from the boss.
"Pete Hegseth gets an "A" PLUS, PLUS, PLUS for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated, former Congressman, Thomas Massie, a TOTAL LOSER!" Trump posted on Truth Social.
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The Morning Rant: John Thune (And Others) Must Go!
—CBD
The paradigm of the brave and strong political maverick is mostly cover for rebellion and faithless behavior. We have far too many examples of it on the right side of the aisle, and the tiny number of examples on the left is telling. John Fetterman is the only one I can think of, and his rebellion doesn't extend to his votes. But even then, he is a big target and might not survive his next election.
In our lifetimes the worst example is John McCain, the supposed hero (I doubt it) and naval aviator (lousy at it) who made a name for himself by screwing his party, his state, and his country.
John Thune is rapidly rising in that pantheon of sh*t, and he is not the only one in the current Republican Party. There is some perverse pride among the politicians who confound the reasonable expectation that they support their party and their President. It reminds one of a rebellious toddler who has just learned the word and concept of "No," and uses it at every opportunity, even though the outcome is demonstrably worse than the other option.
His sabotage of the SAVE Act is well known, and an indelible stain on him as a senator and a human being. But he also kept the Senate in pro forma sessions to prevent the President from making recess appointments, which was damaging to the will of the people and to President Trump's platform. These things should disqualify him from any position of authority in the Senate, and make it difficult to win reelection in 2028.
Perhaps worse than his resistance to any meaningful legislation and work in the Senate was his arrogant pomposity in the face of overwhelming support for the SAVE Act. His pretend high-mindedness was galling, even as he pretended to be some sort of expert on the inner workings of the Senate. It was obvious that he was merely an obstructionist.
7 GOP Senators Move To Delay Thune's Coronation After Midterm Massacre
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is driving the effort and has collected the five signatures needed to request a meeting of the full conference, The Hill reported. Republicans Ted Budd of North Carolina, Rick Scott of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah and John Kennedy of Louisiana signed his letter, according to Axios.Two other Republicans, Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania and Jim Banks of Indiana, endorsed the delay in their own statements without signing, Bloomberg reported.
Johnson called Tuesday’s outcome a “stunning defeat” in the letter, The Hill reported, and has argued that rushing the vote would be “political malpractice,” according to the Federalist. Johnson wants the conference to examine what went wrong before it installs a leadership team.
“If you hold the election, I’ll leave the room,” Johnson told a Washington Examiner reporter Monday. “An election defeat of this magnitude demands change,” he added on X.
That bolded part is vital. The Republican Party failed in many ways, and while the blame does not rest solely with the feckless Senate leadership, John Thune's failure should be the catalyst for an examination of how the Republicans in the Senate support the administration's goals and how they respond to the American people's support for popular legislation.
Managing the decline is no longer an option! Although if an election cycle as a minority party will purge the Senate of its pathetic Corporate GOP placeholders, perhaps that would be worth it. Regardless, the idea of the maverick has damaged the prospects of the Republican Party, and the purge should be swift and violent and all-encompassing.
The left operates in lockstep, and savagely punishes the outliers who disturb the carefully crafted image of a unified party. That is why the emergence of the DSA is so disturbing...their party hierarchy cannot control them! And that is a good thing for the Republican Party and the conservative movement. But...the left never loses sight of its goals, and they will eventually integrate the DSA and its far-left analogues into the Party, or perhaps it will be the other way around. But either way, the path is always toward unity.
That is a lesson that has evaded the Republican leadership. JD Vance came from the Senate, and as vice-president he could have been a vital bridge between the administration and the Senate, but that would have required loyalty to the President and the goals of the American people, and he would have had to sublimate his own political goals...something he has clearly not done.
President Trump could have been more collaborative with the Senate, and perhaps that would have changed the trajectory of the SAVE Act defeat. But that is asking him to change his spots, and is simply not a reasonable expectation. And, after all, the President is the de facto head of the Party, and has every right to expect loyalty to his strategic vision, especially when it is supported by the vast majority of the American people!
But that requires a sea change in the way Republican lawmakers see themselves, and the voters must speak loudly and forcefully for that to occur!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. And if you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow me it would be much appreciated!
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The Morning Report — 11/10 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well, in the immortal lyrics of John Lennon, "Happy Christmas, War is over!"
President Donald Trump declared Monday that Iran’s military is effectively defeated and another U.S. offensive appears unlikely, signaling that the months-long conflict could soon end following talks with Qatar’s prime minister.
Gee, and such perfect timing the welcome announcement coming as it does precisely a week after the midterm elections where the conflict in Iran was in many quarters a campaign issue that in sone ways rightly or wrongly contributed to the disastrous showing for the GOP.
Will there be an official surrender on board the deck of the USS Missouri, conveniently parked somewhere in the Strait of Hormuz so that the Houthis can attack it a la the USS Cole with Islamikaze suicide boats? And no doubt Iran's renewal of its efforts to build nuclear weapons will go the way of its Mullah-controlled government — that is it will ramp up yet again.
On this fercockter sour note, yes it's not just the lyrics but it's also the fact that the music that it engendered included the vomitus inducing screeches of Yoko Ono. And so we go from the President's declaration on Iran to this madness about the border and immigration policy. I mean what the ever-loving Effing hell?!
President Donald Trump denied Monday that his administration is considering amnesty for illegal immigrants, clarifying remarks he made in an interview over the weekend suggesting he might be open to striking a deal with Democrats.During an interview with 60 Minutes, the president told CBS News’ Ross Douthat that he would “love” to work with Democrats on immigration, said the issue had both “helped and hurt” him in the midterms, and suggested that he might allow certain illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.
Working with the Democrats is the exact same thing as working with Hamas and Iran's Mullahs. Maybe, maybe they'll throw you some sort of a bone that has a huge string attached to it but in the next two years, if they can't actually impeach convict and remove you from office — remember they now control both chambers and they're on a mission from ...Satan... as they have been for years — they will do everything they can to completely undermine you by any and every means at their disposal. Because the real goal is not just removing you as their bête noire but removing every last vestige of America as founded, that is whatever yet remains of it, so they can cement absolute power generationally and forever.
Every generation of Americans is told that some emergency justifies setting the Constitution aside just this once. Today’s “emergency” comes with a slogan: saving democracy. Strip away the branding, and the Democrat Party’s structural agenda looks like something entirely different—and reminiscent of the old Bolsheviki power play 100 years ago but recast for gaining control of U.S. institutions. Two new states, a packed Supreme Court, the end of the filibuster, an end run around the Electoral College, federal control of elections, and a government apparatus for policing “disinformation” are not a plan to save democracy. Taken together, they are a plan to make a future Democrat Party majority permanent. That was the Bolsheviki goal, too....THE PATTERN: WIN ONCE, NEVER LOSE AGAIN...THE ACCELERANT: A COLOR REVOLUTION IN WAITING . . . There is a constitutional answer for the Democrats’ plan. Constitutional conservatives do not need to match the Democrats with a plan of their own. We need only insist on the rules the Framers wrote. If DC deserves statehood, if the Electoral College should go, if justices should serve fixed terms, then Democrats are free to make that case via constitutional amendments or Article V and persuade three-quarters of the states to agree. They know they cannot, and that is exactly why they are trying to go around it. The rest of us, in South Dakota and across the country, should refuse to let them.
The Constitution is what they've wiped their ass with for nearly 200 years now. There is nothing to stop them. The courts. please that is their first line of defense!!! So the question is How many divisions do they have? No really, should we God-Forbid wind up with a POTUS Titty-Caca AOC and VOP El-Sayed in the not too distant future, they'd have the military, would they obey their orders?
More to the point is that the question really is How many divisions do WE have?!
On these sour notes, one final thought: Tom Massie is a Titanic reeking, abject piece of shit.
Some people can take a hint. Soon-to-be former Rep. Thomas Massie is not one of those people. Voters in his Kentucky district sent him packing on May 19, and he seems intent on breaking whatever he can before he leaves at the end of the year. He does not even have the leverage to say he could have won a district Republicans lost on Tuesday. The man who defeated him in the Republican primary, Ed Gallerin, beat his Democrat challenger in the general by 13 points. Now he is going out with a bang, forcing an impeachment vote on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth this Wednesday. From his office: Massie is doing this because he doesn't dare do what he really wants to do: introduce articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. It is even more obvious since pretty much every one of the "high crimes and misdemeanors" listed by Massie are things Hegseth either did under orders from the Commander in Chief or with his approval.
As horrendous as last Tuesday was, if by some miracle we not only survive the aftermath but it it also leads to the complete evisceration of the GOP of cancerous lesions like Massie, Thune, et al and the restoration of a real pro-American anti-Leftist party we can rally behind then perhaps it will all be worth it.
Until then, hunker down, and God bless us all, and despite everything I bid you to have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Authorities made the first arrest of an individual in connection with the silver sedan that plowed into an informational sign at Lafayette Square Park. Video shows the smoldering vehicle as authorities tell the individual to get on the ground. In another video, the individual can be heard yelling, “Oh my God.”
Two Arrests Made After Incident Triggering White House Lockdown - Victor Davis Hanson:The 2026 midterm rout exposed Republican failures on the economy, Iran, and immigration. Trump can still recover, but Democrats risk overplaying their hand with a radical agenda.
The Midterms: An Autopsy
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Daily Tech News 10 November 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Anthropic has released Claude Mythos 5.2 (which you can't have) and Claude Fable 5.2 (which you can). (Tech Crunch)
Reports are that it's fine - and noticeably faster than Fable 5.1 which is frankly not a hard thing to achieve.
Plus you get a couple of weeks of free usage of these models specifically (depending on how long you've been a subscriber) that you can claim at any time through March. Doesn't reset your Opus or Sonnet usage though.
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Monday Night ONT - November 9, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. Welcome to the Monday overnight thread. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with Rootbeer.
Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. Trolls prohibited. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is still fair game.
[Top photo: Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, Manhattan - Berenice Abbott photo - 1936]
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Dogs and Cats Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Cleansing your dog's charkras. Or something. I don't know what this is.
Kitten thinks the lab's tail is a cat-toy.
Young elephant is in grade school bully mode.
Cat is trying to moonwalk and he's better at it than I ever was.
Dog accepts his fate at a member of the cat pack.
They're celebrating their big win over Duncanthrax.
This cat territorial aggression must not stand.
And on Sunday, dog rested. Though he also rested Monday through Saturday too.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Ooof -- I hope he's not stepping down. Rumor is that Trump blames him for the Iran war continuing.
Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohanNEWS: Pete Hegseth tells reporters he will hold a press conference at the Pentagon tomorrow morning.
Some Republicans are calling for a delay in the elections for Senate leadership -- to give challengers to John Thune the chance to announce their candidacies and start lobbying.
Sen. Dave McCormick (Pa.), a more moderate Republican from a key battleground state, is endorsing a call by conservative Senate GOP colleagues to delay the party's leadership elections scheduled for Tuesday."As I've shared with Leader Thune, I don't believe we should move to leadership elections until we have digested and debated the lessons of the midterms and how to move forward," McCormick wrote late Sunday in a statement. "We need leadership in place fast, but Tuesday is too soon."
"I know it's been the practice to go straight to leadership elections in recent years, but we should not rush it," he added.
The Pennsylvania Republican called last week's midterm election "the worst election result" for Republicans "in decades."
"We need a discussion about what went wrong, how we fix it, what we stand for, and how our agenda must focus on the concerns of the American people," he wrote online.
The DOJ is investigating Hillary Clinton's chief conspiracy theorist for rigging the Alaska election with a fake candidate.
key Russiagate lawyer known for his bare-knuckle election and legal tactics has landed at the center of the alleged Democrat plot in the Alaska Senate race to recruit a decoy candidate to siphon votes from their Republican opponent.Marc Elias departed from the Perkins Coie law firm in 2021 and set up his own firm, catering to Democratic Party candidates. About the same time, the Justice Department was investigating its role in the Steele Dossier and its Trump-Russia collusion allegations, and he could face questions about the role his law firm played in representing multiple participants in the alleged scheme to recruit the candidate known as "Decoy Dan" in the Alaska race and whether there was any illegal coordination under federal election law.
Elias and his firm, Elias Law Group, were named in the explosive pre-election New York Times report on how campaign officials for Alaska's Democratic senatorial candidate Mary Peltola coordinated with Democratic operatives and aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to recruit the decoy, Daniel J. Sullivan, whose name is nearly identical to incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan.
Surprise! Former Muslim Brotherhood spokesman celebrates Totally Not Muslim Brotherhood Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
I posted about that last week. But in case you missed it:
A former Egyptian lawmaker and spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood's political party is celebrating Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed's (D-Mich.) victory, hailing the Michigan result as a model for other Muslim communities and the wider Islamic world...He described the election of El-Sayed as an example of Muslims "working from within the political system."
The timing is mwah, chef's kiss. No Notes.
Patrick De Haan
@GasBuddyGuyBREAKING: the national average price of gasoline has fallen below $4 per gallon for the first time since August 10. $3.998/gal and falling, diesel also falling and is poised to fall below $6 soon.
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Nephew of Hardcore Black Racist Leonard Jeffries, Hakeem Jeffries, Says Democrats Won't Work with Trump's New CoS Stephen Miller Because He Gives Them the Ick
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They just want to make eggs more affordable.
Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that his party will not work with Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's new chief of staff, during an appearance on ABC's "This Week" Nov. 8."There's not going to be any opportunity, certainly, to work with Stephen Miller and what he represents," Jeffries said.
Miller was tapped to replace former chief of staff Susie Wiles on Nov. 6 and will step into the role on Nov. 9.
He is a long-time advisor to Trump, dating back to his first term, and the top architect of the Trump administration's anti-immigration crackdown.
I just want to point out that this racist grifter's racist grifter uncle pushed the most absurd of black racist conspiracy theories and antisemitc claims.
But he worked with Uncle Leo.
The president of City College said yesterday that he considered Dr. Leonard Jeffries Jr.'s conduct "racist" and "anti-Semitic," but had decided not to dismiss him as chairman of the black studies department because it would "deepen the sense of crisis on campus."The president, Dr. Bernard W. Harleston, said Dr. Jeffries's dismissal would have produced "conflict," both within the college, where the faculty senate is insistent upon the principle of academic freedom, and in the Harlem community around the college where Dr. Jeffries has supporters.
Still, Dr. Harleston said, Dr. Jeffries's behavior was "particularly offensive to me." He said he told Dr. Jeffries that, but declined to disclose the conversation.
In an hourlong interview, Dr. Harleston provided the first extended explanation of his handling of Dr. Jeffries, whose speeches and comments have set off a widespread and emotional debate both about the correctness of his claims and his right to make them in the name of academic freedom.
Dr. Jeffries attracted public attention with a speech at a state-sponsored cultural conference in Albany in July. In that speech, he accused Jews of financing the slave trade and disparaged Russian Jewry for Hollywood's portrayal of blacks. He also described a colleague as City College's "head Jew" and described Diane Ravitch, an assistant United State Secretary of Education, as a "sophisticated Texas Jew."
The New York Times, of course, refuses to tell its readers exactly what this hateful racist was ignorantly preaching.
The defunct liberal propaganda magazine Time showed a little leg on Jeffries' claims:
The professor offered the following observations:
-- "Russian Jewry had a particular control over the movies, and their financial partners, the Mafia, put together a financial system of destruction of black people." This was "a conspiracy, planned and plotted and programmed out of Hollywood" by "people called Greenberg and Weisberg and Trigliani . . ."
-- "Rich Jews" operating in Seville and Lisbon and Hamburg and Newport, R.I., and other cities financed the African slave trade.
-- Whites are "pathological," "dirty," "dastardly, devilish folks."
Leonard Jeffries, chairman of African-American studies at New York's City College, put on a surreal performance. For long stretches of his speech before an Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany last month, Jeffries made an intense and affecting case for blacks to study African history and learn the buried side of their own stories in America. But he kept veering obsessively back into a snarling racism. Strange to watch: the intelligent angels of his nature were wrestling with nasty little cretins. The cretins won a few rounds.
Diane Ravitch, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education, is a "sophisticated Texas Jew," Jeffries said, "a debonair racist." He repeatedly called her "Miss Daisy." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who has written against Afrocentrism, is "a weakling . . . slick and devilish." White people, including "very nice white folks," "distort history in what I call racial pathology. They are as diabolical as that." Jeffries sang out falsetto imitations of various Jews and other whites, manic little strokes of mockery and emasculation. Through it all, he invoked the liberating powers of truth. When he was finished, the audience gave him a rather tired standing ovation. He had gone on for almost two hours.
Whenever you hear ignorant black fake academics talking about melanin granting blacks superpowers, or claiming it was really blacks who built the pyramids but then rewrote history to deny them credit for the wonders of the ancient world -- that all comes from Jeffries and his completely-fabricated alt-history conspiracy theory "Afrocentrism."
Meanwhile, via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit. the Very Smart and Educated left is digging up dirt on Stephen Miller, including the scandalous fact that he was skeptical of the Duke Rape Hoax claims.
These very smart members of the Reality Based Community somehow missed the word "hoax" in "Duke Rape Hoax."
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Finally: Businesses Drop Sponsorship of Vile Ugly Hag Jennifer Welch After She Celebrates the Murder of Charlie Kirk (For About the Fifth Time)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Cash App, Chewy, Boll & Branch, and Lola Blankets said on Friday that they no longer sponsor or advertise leftist Jennifer Welch's I've Had It podcast, according to company statements and customer service messages shared online amid backlash.Cash App condemned violence in announcing it was no longer sponsoring the show. Chewy and Lola Blankets addressed their ties to the podcast in responses shared by customers, while Boll & Branch publicly ruled out future advertising. Their statements did not all specify when the sponsorships ended.
"We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast," Cash App wrote on X in response to a user who tagged the company and called for a boycott over its sponsorship of the episode.
"Does Cashapp support the mocking of a murder victim?" the user asked.
Chewy said it was no longer connected to the podcast in a customer service response shared by X user Val Candee.
"I do want to clarify that Chewy is no longer affiliated with or sponsoring the 'I've Had It' podcast," the representative wrote.
...The hosts had been discussing posts mocking conservative positions on abortion, vaccines, and transgender issues when Welch reached the comment about Kirk. Before reading it, she praised the people writing the posts and said their jokes made her feel patriotic.
"We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again," Welch read.
Both hosts lowered their heads and laughed for more than 20 seconds.
In related entertainment news: People have been wondering when James Gunn would be fired as co-president of DC's film division after the divisive Superman and unifying Supergirl. (It unified people in contempt.)
People thought that Gunn's move to put the Superman sequel in production early would keep him in the job at least through the film's release. In the industry, this is called the Kathleen Kennedy Gambit.
But the gambit didn't work for Gunn.
DC Studios Shocker: James Gunn, Peter Safran Stepping Down with Marvel Alum Jeremy Latcham to Take OverThe duo were believed to be safe amid the Skydance takeover of Warner Bros., but now have a former Kevin Feige protege taking over their division.
In a major shakeup that will send shock waves throughout Hollywood and the comic book world, James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down as co-CEOs of DC studios.
Skydance, which now oversees the division thanks to its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, has appointed former Marvel exec Jeremy Latcham to the post of president and chief creative officer of DC Studios.
Gunn and Safran are stepping down from their leadership roles effect Dec. 1, four years after taking over the job to much fanfare. The duo released three movies during that time (Superman, Supergirl and Clayface), as well as three live-action TV shows (The Penguin, Peacemaker season 2 and Lanterns), and had a decade's worth of plans in the works. In an Instagram post in which he talked about the highs and lows at DC, Gunn acknowledged that being an exec was "trying, to say the least." He added: "I dislike the at-times corporate nature of the job (thanks to Peter for taking the brunt of that.)."
The duo will still be in the fold creatively, at least on a few projects, as Gunn has Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow in post-production for a planned release next year, with the TV spinoff The People v. Gorilla Grodd also in post. Gunn and Safran remain producers on The Batman: Part II as well, for a 2028 release date. With their executive days done, the plan is for them to return full time to their creative work. Gunn rose to fame as the blockbuster filmmaker behind Guardians of the Galaxy, while Safran is a prolific producer on numerous DC and horror titles. Gunn revealed in his Instagram post Monday that he is writing one more secret DC movie, and that the characters they set up will live on beyond them.
"James and Peter launched a new era for DC Studios and led it through a period of real transformation, resetting the foundation and building a slate we're incredibly proud of," Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz said jointly in a statement. "We're grateful for their passion, contributions and commitment to this legendary brand."
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Per Skydance, Latcham will lead DC's film, television and animation slate, overseeing the creative pipeline, along with production, talent and strategy.
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The exit now puts into question the vast plans the duo announced when they took over and tried to steer the DC movies beyond the long shadow cast by the Zack Snyder era. Gunn and Safran started off with the successful launch of a new Superman movie last year but then stumbled big with Supergirl, a critical and commercial bomb. Their third movie, Clayface, has generated strong reviews and is a moneymaker.
So the guy who greenlit the racist replacement fantasy "Lanterns" is now out.
Good.
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Antifa Bike Group "Bike on Your Left" Leads Leftists in Protest/Boycott Against Israeli Embassy Restaurants Just Owned by Jews
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Remember, they're not antisemitic. They have nothing against Jews, nothing!
They just hate Israel. Ask Tuq'r and Me-Again.
Except... in a pinch, "protesting" Jews simply for owning restaurants will do in a pinch.
Oh, and they might have maybe scheduled this totally-not-antisemitic pogrom for the eve of Kristallnacht.
Coincidentally.
Three people were arrested Sunday, according to a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Police Department, as about 300 pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with roughly 200 pro-Israeli counterprotesters.Those arrested included a woman on an assault charge, a man on a disorderly conduct charge and a 17-year-old on an assault-on-police charge, according to the spokesperson.
Meanwhile, some of the restaurants targeted by the boycott were seeing long lines of customers supporting.
By early afternoon, all demonstrators had dispersed, police said, with no property damage reported.
On Oct. 31, the group announced plans to boycott what it called "Zionist establishments" in Rittenhouse Square in solidarity with the Palestinian community.
Half of the establishments targeted are owned by the Philadelphia restaurant group CookNSolo, whose Israeli co-owners have publicly supported and raised money for Israel.
The restaurant group has already been the target of a local "Boycott CookNSolo" campaign that says it protests the restaurateurs for "materially and ideologically support[ing] the ongoing occupation and genocide of Palestinians."
In some small good news, people supported the restaurants, stopping in to eat or buy gift cards to eat there later, and the antifa antisemites were well-opposed bu non-Nazis.
Arrests made, officers injured as massive counter-protests met 'bike boycott' in Rittenhouse Square
A planned "bike boycott" targeting six Jewish-owned restaurants in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square was met with an overwhelming counter-demonstration.
The boycott drew sharp criticism for taking place on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Despite heated shouting between the boycotters and the pro-business crowds, the demonstrations remained largely peaceful, with three arrests.
PHILADELPHIA - Tensions ran high in Rittenhouse Square on Sunday as a planned "bike boycott" targeting Jewish-owned businesses was met with an overwhelming counter-demonstration, drawing massive crowds of patrons who lined the streets.
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In response, a massive community food crawl was organized, resulting in lines that wrapped around city blocks.
At Huda, one of the targeted businesses, the outpouring of support was so large that a restaurant partner noted they might not have enough food to feed everyone in line. He encouraged the crowd to return on other days of the week, reminding supporters that businesses need ongoing patronage rather than just a one-day surge.
A planned bike rally targeting Jewish and Israeli-owned businesses in Philadelphia has drawn statewide condemnation, with police prioritizing safety.
The atmosphere on the streets was highly charged. Participants in the bike boycott, some riding bicycles with their faces covered, others marching on foot, moved through Rittenhouse Square while facing vocal opposition from the pro-business counter-protesters.
According to Philadelphia Police, approximately 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators--including about 200 on bicycles--and 200 pro-Israeli counter-protesters gathered in the square starting around 11 a.m. Sunday, with even more lining the streets.
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There was significant shouting and confrontation between the two sides, and police did confirm three arrests: an adult female for assault, an adult male for disorderly conduct and a 17-year-old male for assault on police.
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Two officers sustained minor injuries while assisting with an apprehension, though neither required medical treatment, police said. Additionally, a female counter-protester reported being assaulted by an unknown individual.
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The timing of the boycott has drawn sharp criticism, as it was scheduled for the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, which is the 1938 Nazi pogrom that sparked nationwide anti-Jewish riots in Germany.
Critics and counter-protesters called the timing deeply unsettling. The organizers of the boycott, however, claimed to be misrepresented. They described themselves as a nonviolent group exercising their First Amendment rights, stating that the connection to the Kristallnacht anniversary was a complete coincidence and that allegations to the contrary were "simply false."
Uh-huh.
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After a Mass Shooting in Poland's Historic Krakow Square, the Left-Wing President Attempting a Coup Against the Right Claims the Shooter Was "Fascinated by Right-Wing Ideologies"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Euronews, translated from the original Polish by Google.
A seemingly ordinary 24-year-old from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski had a gun permit, trained shooting and worked as a lathe. On November 7, he opened fire on people on the Krakow Main Market Square. It soon became apparent that his loved ones had [been murdered before the rampage at Krakow Square].
The tragedy on the Main Market Square in Krakow shocked Poland. On Saturday, November 7, shortly after 15.00, a black car of the brand Subaru appeared in the city center.The man driving it drove into the market plate and began shooting towards passers-by. People sought shelter in nearby restaurants, shops and tenement gates. Shortly after, the attacker moved through the streets of the city, followed by police patrols.
The perpetrator was 24-year-old Michał Oksimski from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. The man was shot during a police intervention and in critical condition was taken to hospital. He died Monday morning. Six people were killed in Krakow and more than a dozen were injured. In the course of further activities, the services discovered that on the same day in the family's apartment in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski another tragedy occurred. The bodies of the 24-year-old's parents and younger sister were found there.
A former classmate says he seemed to be "living in his own world."
As is common in cases of mass shooters, he annihilated his own family, and the cats, before shooting up strangers.
During the activities of the services in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, the bodies of three people were revealed: 53-year-old father Michał Oksimski, 52-year-old mother and 21-year-old sister. They all had gunshot injuries. According to preliminary findings, their deaths occurred on Saturday 7 November, even before the 24-year-old arrived in Krakow. Investigators suspect that the same man is responsible for the killings of family members and the subsequent attack in the city centre.Two shot cats were also found in the apartment
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It is still not known what prompted the 24-year-old to kill his loved ones and carry out an attack on random people. The prosecution analyzes secured phones and electronic equipment. A spokesman for the National Prosecutor's Office said investigators had at least four phones found next to the man and in the car, as well as devices secured in his apartment. They are to help recreate preparations for the attack, determine motivation and possible inspirations.
The EU whore and tyrant Tusk is attempting to claim he's a "right wing" shooter because of a single piece of evidence: He had a Gadsden flag.
One of the threads reviewed by investigators is whether he acted alone or whether someone could have helped him or influenced his decisions. At this stage, however, the prosecutor's office did not provide evidence of the participation of other people. The content and symbols found in its surroundings are also examined. According to media reports, the 24-year-old's room had a Gadsden flag, associated with, among other things, libertarian traffic in the United States. The prosecutor's office pointed out that this symbol has different meanings and its mere possession does not determine the ideological motives of the perpetrator.
I'm not ready to take anyone's word for it about what this guy's politics were. Some accounts say he's an antifa "anarcho-communist" who hated Christianity and supported all of the typical Antifa causes:
Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK4h
The entire narrative surrounding the Kraków terror attack has been thrown into serious doubt today.
Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski initially claimed killer Michał Oksinski was "fascinated by far right ideologies".
Is this just based on the Gadsden flag?
Now, a former schoolmate says Michał Oksiński showed no right wing tendencies, while a police source has reportedly suggested he may actually have held far left views.
There are also claims he attended Poland's pro-abortion protests in 2020 and may have supported open borders.
British media outlets, alongside media organisations around the world, were quick to run with the "far right" headlines.
It will be interesting to see whether those same outlets are equally quick to correct their reporting and apologise to the public if those claims prove false.
There are now calls for Kierwiński to resign from his position in Poland for spreading misinformation at such a dangerous time.
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Russell Brand Sentenced to Ten and a Half Years in Prison Over Rape Allegedly Taking Place in 2004
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I'll explain that in a bit.
Comedian Russell Brand was sentenced Monday in the United Kingdom to 10 and a half years in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.In his sentencing remarks, Judge Joel Bennathan said that Brand showed a "casual and arrogant disregard" for women denying him consent, the Associated Press reported.
In the course of his rise to stardom, Bennathan said, Brand became a "sexual predator."
This is another case of Two-Tier Justice.
Do you remember Henry Nowack? He was stabbed to death by an immigrant with a knife and stabbing fetish who lied to police and claimed Nowack Did a Racism and so deserved to die. The police chatted amiably with the non-stabbed "victim" of necessary anti-racist stabbing as the literal life oozed out of Henry Nowack's body.
He did not admit to cops that he'd stabbed the man and was dying on the street from blood loss. He compounded the stabbing by continuing to hide the fact that he'd stabbed the "racist," letting the man die without medical attention.
That asshole got... the absolute minimum of 21 years for race murder. And there's no question of his guilt.
Just double what Brand got for an alleged "historic rape" from 22 years ago.
I bring that up, because that immigrant race-murderer was just in court complaining that his sentence was too harsh. He wanted to halve the sentence -- down to ten and a half years, what the usefully-white Russell Brand got.
In a minor bit of good news, the court not only rejected his plea, but added four years to his sentence calling the earlier Two Tier Justice sentence "unduly lenient."
But it's still just twenty five years for a man who went out hunting a native citizen to murder and who then distracted cops with his hallucinatory Tale of Racial Woe.
Britain Justice Uncovered @justicewatchukNov 7
⚖️ Henry Nowak's killer asked for less time in prison and the Court of Appeal added four years to his minimum term.
Vickrum Digwa was serving life for stabbing 18-year-old university student Henry Nowak to death in Southampton when two challenges to his sentence came before the Court of Appeal this week.
Digwa argued that the 21-year minimum was too long, while Attorney General Ellie Reeves had asked the judges to increase it because she considered it too low for the crime.
Both arguments came back to what Digwa did on the street where Henry was walking home.
The two men were strangers, and Digwa was carrying a large dagger in a sheath on the outside of his clothes when they met.
After a brief encounter, Digwa drew the blade and stabbed Henry repeatedly.
Digwa then filmed Henry as he tried to get away and kept filming as he lay dying.
He told his mother, Kiran Kaur, to remove the knife, and he repeatedly lied to the police officers who arrived.
The appeal judges said the original sentence gave too little weight to two things.
The first was how Digwa used a large blade he already had to hand to kill an unarmed man.
The second was the cruelty he inflicted on Henry after the stabbing and the steps he took to obstruct the investigation.
That distinction mattered because the appeal judges agreed the trial judge could start at 15 years when working out the minimum term.
A higher starting point applies when someone takes a knife to the scene intending to commit a crime, and the trial judge found that Digwa had carried the dagger there without that intention.
The appeal judges accepted that finding and gave much greater weight to what Digwa actually did with the weapon and how he treated Henry afterwards.
They put the minimum term at 25 years, with credit for the 175 days Digwa had already spent in custody before sentencing, and refused him permission to appeal against the sentence.
Once Digwa has served the minimum term, the Parole Board can consider whether he can safely be released.
Any release would come with conditions for the rest of his life, and he could be sent back to prison if he broke them.
Henry's family is also dealing with a separate release decision involving the person who took the knife away.
Kaur was sentenced to three years for helping Digwa by hiding the weapon, and she is expected to leave prison early in December, around the first anniversary of Henry's death.
The Home Office has commissioned an independent review that will examine what the prison and probation service told the family about Kaur's early release.
Henry's father, Mark Nowak, put the timing plainly: "She'll be out for Christmas, and I won't have Christmas with Henry."
Below: I think this smug simpleton is called James O'Brien. I wouldn't have heard of him, except the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters talk about him a lot. He is one of the many hard-left "liberals" who is insanely and smugly wrong about every single issue and fact.
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Ooof: Trump Says His Immigration Policy Was Too Tough, Seeks Some Kind of... Comprehensive Reform
—Disinformation Expert Ace
On one hand, I expected a softening. I floated the idea that if Trump had softened on the immigration raids the summer before the election, the GOP might have done a little better. (Emphases on "might" and "a little.")
And who knows: This may be necessary to stop the Democrats from winning it all in 2028 and packing the country floor to rafters with immigrants (and immediately giving them full voting rights).
But on the other hand: this is a disaster.
I guess it depends on how serious Trump is about this.
Calling this a reversal is a pretty big understatement. Aside from tariffs, there has been no more consistent policy position in the Trump administration than "deport them all," and now Trump is suggesting that he can work with the Democrats on an amnesty bill that would normalize illegal aliens who have been here for some period of time -- say 10-15 years.
Trump on his immigration policy:
Trump: "I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A+ for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out. But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that-- that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally."
Douthat: "So you think your deportation policy--" / "Went too far--" Trump: "Too tough." Douthat: "It was too tough?" Trump: "I think it might be too tough, yeah."
Videos at the link.
People have said that Trump is an example of A/B market testing on the presidential level. He's constantly talking and pitching policy choices. He doesn't know if he'll follow through or not. He listens for the audience reaction to decide on "A" or "B."
That's mostly been good for us.
But there is a down side, and we may be seeing it now.
I've also heard that people with agendas always want to be the last person to talk to Trump, because his beliefs are often formed by the last person he talked with.
I guess John Thune and Co. were the last people he talked to.
Hello friends. I hope you are enjoying this cold and bright fall day.
THE MORNING RANT: Tesla Pulls the Plug on its Failed Cybertruck Because There’s No Mass Market for EV Pickups
—Buck Throckmorton
Tesla’s electric pickup truck, the Cybertruck, was announced in 2019 with great fanfare. It was touted as the electric “F150-slayer.” Hundreds of thousands of pre-orders were registered. The anti-carbon media swooned (this was before Elon Musk aligned with Republicans and Donald Trump) and legacy auto manufacturers panicked and started developing their own electric pickup trucks.
The Cybertruck finally went on sale in late 2023. It was a flop of legendary proportions. A few days ago, Elon Musk finally announced that he is pulling the plug on Tesla’s electric pickup truck.
“Tesla to pull the plug on Cybertruck after years of poor sales” [Reuters – 11/06/2026]
Elon Musk had predicted sales of 250,000 Cybertrucks per year, and that it would take on the Ford F150 as the dominant domestic pickup truck. Since the Cybertruck went on sale a little over three years ago, only 73,000 have been sold cumulatively. Sales peaked in 2024 at just 39k units, dropping to 20K in 2025, and tracking even lower in 2026.
In October 2026, Tesla sold less than 2,000 Cybertrucks while Ford sold more than 73,000 F150s, none of which were electric. (Ford sold exactly zero units of its recently-discontinued electric F150 Conflagration Lightning pickup in October.)
Musk and Tesla have been wildly successful selling electric vehicles as a daily commuter car to upscale professionals, especially those who own a house in which they can install a home charger. As a percentage of the light vehicle marketplace, it’s not a huge niche, but it still represents a lot of car buyers, and Tesla dominates it. A great many of the people whose station in life once steered them toward BMW, Mercedes, and Volvo are now driving Teslas. But they also tend to have at least one gas-powered vehicle in their garage.
Pickup trucks have a much different driver demographic. The upscale person who wants a pickup might already have a Tesla as his daily driver, so he chooses a gasoline-powered King Ranch F150 (or similar competitor offering) that can serve any pickup purpose, while still conveying affluence. For a person whose only vehicle is a pickup truck, however, the Cybertruck was not an option at all.
Despite the emphatic market rejection of electric pickups over the past few years, including the cancellation of the much-hyped flagships from Tesla and Ford, several more electric pickups have been announced. These include the Scout (owned by Volkswagen,) and the Slate from an investment group involving Jeff Bezos. Ford has also decided to lose several billion dollars more with yet another soon-to-fail electric pickup, the Fathom .
The new electric pickup companies are already hyping their pre-orders, with Scout and Slate both announcing they’ve taken deposits for more than 150k “reservations.” Unfortunately, pre-orders and reservations have a poor track record of converting into actual sales.
In Nov 2019, it was announced that 250,000 people had already put down deposits to pre-order a Cybertruck. As noted above, not even 75,000 Cybertrucks were actually delivered over three years before Tesla pulled the plug.
In 2021, Ford took deposits on almost 200,000 reservations for its F150 Lightning before closing new reservations due to “excessive demand.” Based on media buzz and all those pre-orders, Ford projected annual sales in excess of 150k electric pickup trucks per year. It barely sold 100k in total over the next five years, despite massive discounting to make the glut of unsellable Lightnings go away. The pre-orders had evaporated.
There has not been a commercially successful electric pickup truck because there is neither a market for one, nor a practical need. But like conquistadors in pursuit of the gold of Cibola, mismanaged auto manufacturers keep chasing the imaginary riches from a mass-market electric pickup. They are doomed to failure. If Elon Musk and Tesla couldn’t succeed in this market, it’s because the market doesn’t exist.
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