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Republicans -- Get This -- Compromise With Democrats for CR
—Ace
Before that, an update to the J6 pipe bomb story.
The story is on hold.
Steve Baker
@SteveBakerUSA
🚨Update on J6 Pipe Bomber Report🚨
After an abundance of counsel from trusted parties within and outside the government, we've hit the pause button so those interested parties can have some more time to look at the J6 pipe bomber evidence. There are things they need to do internally.
This is a real story. When it breaks, it's going to be a HUGE story. There are a lot of moving parts, but we need to give them time to do what they need to do, and I know everyone is waiting. Believe me. Tensions are running high. There have been a lot of sleepless nights the last two weeks. But this is a game-changer, and we don't want to do anything to jeopardize that right now.
I was up at 3:30 am preparing the video clips for the release on this morning's Glenn Beck Program. Contrary to what so many X complainers will say, this wasn't a hype stunt for views and clicks. And no, the government didn't silence us. Glenn and I both were pretty amped up to put it all out this morning. And we were both very disappointed when the decision to postpone was made.
The government's investigation into the J6 pipe bombs was going nowhere just two weeks ago. Today I can tell you that has all changed. A bunch of people got pretty spun up yesterday.
Hang tight. It's all coming.
DISAPPOINTED!!!!
Well, this is understandable. They are about to name a citizen as a criminal who has been sought (sort of...) by the feds for almost five years. The story can't just be dashed off like an internet post; it needs a full legal scub-down by defamation lawyers.
Still:
DISAPPOINTED!!!!
On to the story of Republicans caving.
Here's why Republicans are caving: Despite the fact that it is the Democrats keeping the government shut down, the propaganda media has convinced the cow-like public that it's the Republicans who are to blame.
If they do press on, if they do keep the government closed, Democrats will be acting with confidence that comes from a number of polls that show more people blame Republicans for the shutdown than blame the Democrats, who actually caused the impasse. Two polls out just before the election, one from the Washington Post and the other from NBC News, both found that more people blamed Republicans for the shutdown than blamed Democrats.
That seems odd, given the plain facts of the case: Democrats are filibustering the government-opening bill. But it makes more sense after looking at media coverage of the standoff. In a new report, the Media Research Center's NewsBusters studied broadcast newscasts for October and noted that "the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have hammered both congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock."
"Coverage across all three networks was conspicuously vague about how the shutdown had even occurred," the MRC report continued. "There were only 12 instances in which any of the three outlets hinted that Senate Democrats had voted repeatedly against a continuing resolution." Just informally reading print coverage of the shutdown, it's interesting to note that many articles discussed the internal Republican debate on ending the filibuster but did not specifically say the reason for the debate is that Senate Democrats are employing the filibuster to block a government funding bill that has majority support.
This must be because the GOP isn't anti-Israel enough. (According to Israel obsessives on the pseudoright.)
We're going to be delivering them a win in exchange for opening the government:
Andrew Desiderio
@AndrewDesiderio
THUNE told Senate Republicans to plan to stay here this weekend & that he'll tee up the House-passed CR for a vote TOMORROW -- but he said he was unsure if enough Dems would back it.
60+ would need to get on the bill and then amend
To the point about GOP skepticism -- Dems likely wouldn't provide the votes to advance the House-passed CR until there's clarity on *what* the final deal actually is.
CR end-date is still not ironed out, for example. And Dems demanding RIF language after R's expressed openness
I believe RIF means "Reduction in Force." Democrats want to force Trump to hire back all the useless leftwing bureaucrats fired by DOGE. Or maybe just fired during the shutdown. (But did we actually fire anyone during the shutdown, or did we just threaten to?)
How many we're agreeing to, I don't know.
Andrew Desiderio
@AndrewDesiderio
MORE -- Dems came to consensus that they should hold out a bit longer (i.e. block Fri procedural vote) to try to extract more from GOP, such as language on RIFs (which R’s injected into the convo)
Belief is they can get a better deal & shouldn’t fold for what’s currently on table
Early on, some R's privately grumbled about RIFs and blue-state funding freezes because Dems would likely use it as a bargaining chip in a deal to get out of the shutdown.
That is in fact what's happening
Byron York
@ByronYork
Bad precedent: Democrats will be rewarded for shutting down the government. Republicans did not insist on hard line. And biased media coverage helps shield Democrats from the consequences of what they have done
Well, if this just means that Trump will hire back people he fired during the shutdown and undo the funding freezes he imposed during the shutdown -- that's not catastrophic.
Look, let's be serious: Those were always bargaining points, intended to be leverage and ultimately bargained away.
If that's the price of opening the government and paying the troops and air-traffic controllers, shrug.
If that's all it is.
Democrats have also demanded that they be given a vote on spending taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens and extending the supposed "emergency" Obamacare subsidies Biden enacted.
But here's the rub: The deal they want is that that stuff would not require a 60-vote cloture vote to come to a vote, but would proceed directly to a vote where all you need is 51 votes.
Murkowski, Collins, Bill Cassidy and I'm sure a couple of other fake Republicans would then deliver Democrats their victory.
That would be a huge concession.
The Democrats never gave us anything.
The Republicans, of course, make concessions to terrorists.
"We Must Stop Fighting, We Cannot Divide the Right*" * "Except for Tucker Carlson Who Is Allowed to Continue #Cancelling All Jewish Republicans He Doesn't Like"
—Ace
David Strom has a good piece: How can the Tucker Apologists claim that we mustn't attack Tucker Carlson for his, erm, evolution, while his entire show consists of relentlessly attacking Republicans himself?
Is it just some Republicans -- and anti-Republican, anti-MAGA Nazis -- who are afforded this Identitarian Privilege?
Is it, or should it be true that in order to win, we should follow the principle that there are "no enemies to the right?"
On its face, the principle makes sense. After all, elections are won by adding together enough voters and voting blocs to get a plurality of the vote. Unless you have more voters than the other side(s), you lose. So if you see a group of voters who might be persuaded to vote along with you, it makes sense to either appeal to them or, at the very least, not criticize them.
This is the essence of some conservatives' arguments that the critiques of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts are counterproductive. Some would toss Candace Owens into the mix, but fewer because she now just seems kooky to people.
At least I hope so.
There are a number of problems I see with this seemingly plausible argument, morally, intellectually, and electorally, where the rubber meets the road.
First, let's get this out of the way: Nick Fuentes is not a conservative, nor is he somebody who could (at least reliably) be included in the Republican coalition even if we wanted him to be. He is a racist, authoritarian, antisemitic bottom feeder who says he is on "Team Hitler," admires Josef Stalin, attacks JD Vance for marrying his wife, and who literally campaigned against Donald Trump in the last election.
He's not only a scumbag, but he spends a lot of time trying to kick people OUT OF the Republican coalition because they don't fit his model for what America should look like.
Anybody who says "no enemies on the right has to explain why this is not a declaration of enmity TO the right:
"No enemies on the right?" Nick Fuentes is not on the right, and he has declared himself to be an ENEMY of the right. Anybody who defends him as a potential ally is an idiot or disingenuous.
A lot more clips at the article. I've spent the whole day retweeting clips of Nick Fuentes:
1, telling people to vote for Kamala Harris
2, jubilantly gloating that "MAGA" lost Tuesday's election
3, proclaiming that he will destroy MAGA
And this is the person that Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Matt Walsh tell us we must not "cancel" because he's "on our side" and we have no enemies to the right?
Even though he declares himself to be the right's enemy every chance he gets?
Are you quite sure you're advancing the Republican Party?
Because it sure seems like you are advancing the Nazi Party, at the direct expense of the Republican Party.
But whatever, Tucker Carlson is a "friend" to these people (which I imagine for most of them means that Tucker has DM'd them to plant his chosen stories, like my Best Friend Jake Tapper did with me, and they feel they must pledge their eternal liege-ship to this lord because he's Appeared on Television and anyone who's Appeared on Television is a high-ranking Nobleman).
I wrote about Megyn Kelly, Matt Walsh, and various other numbskulls and shills for Nazis claiming that to exclude Nazis from our party would be a "cancellation" and gee fellas, we don't cancel people, do we?
Why yes.
Yes we do. In politics -- you bet we cancel. In fact, "cancellation" is the primary tactical objective in politics.
Let me explain.
The Reaping Phase
@AceofSpadesHQ
A thread: "Cancellation" versus "Just normal politics"
A few years back, when people started really getting animated about cancelling cancel culture, people began suggesting that pumping out dirt about a political opponent during a campaign might be like "cancellation."
After all, a political campaign consists of digging up past statements and actions of a person to try to get them fired -- or at least not hired -- for a job. In this case, the job of being an elected official.
And so people began to wonder: "Wait, if I just dredge up derogatory information about a politician to try to get him 'fired' -- or turned out of office -- isn't that like a cancellation?"
The answer is, and always was: Yes, that is exactly like a cancellation.
But here's the thing: That's how politics works. It's how it's always worked.
The problem is not in "cancelling" politicians -- it's in waging political campaigns against private citizens.
In other words: Politics is dirty and what makes it dirty and seedy is exactly this nasty practice of digging dirt on someone who is usually a perfect stranger to try to keep them from assuming an office. It feels nasty. Because it is nasty.
But there's no other way to do it.
The problem came after Obama's Ascension when people, mostly on the left but sometimes on the right, began using the nasty tactics of political campaigns against private citizens holding private, not public, jobs.
Suddenly we didn't just have public votes about who would be mayor or governor or an elected judge.
No, suddenly we were having public plebiscites, usually on Twitter, about whether someone could continue in his job as an ARCHITECT at a private firm.
We weren't just combing through political candidates' twitter feeds to find statements that revealed their true intentions and true political beliefs.
Added on edit:
And we do this to judge their real agenda. Politicians lie, and we cannot compel them to take lie-detector test, so we comb through past statements to check if their current claims track with their prior ones.
Back to original post:
Now we were combing through private citizens' old statements to get them fired from their jobs as a truck driver.
Politics itself always has and always will involve this "cancellation" tactic.
The sin was in turning every single aspect of normal civilian life into a political campaign, where people were forced to issue political statements to appease a mob to remain employed as a doctor.
We must allow the dirty practice of dredging up old statements and ruthlessly interrogating people's characters and beliefs when "hiring" them for -- electing them to -- political office.
We must NOT allow this practice when determining if a plumber can remain a plumber.
Turning to Tucker Carlson: Tucker Carlson and his defenders are now claiming that it's similarly a "cancellation" when some people attempt to reduce someone's political influence or exclude him from a political movement.
WRONG. Just like with "canceling" a politician seeking office, politics ALWAYS consists of elevating political leaders, including thought leaders, you agree with and marginalizing or denigrating those you don't agree with.
Tucker Carlson can hardly dispute this, as he is currently waging nonstop political campaigns to reduce the influence of Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and anyone else he deems insufficiently anti-Israel.
It cannot possibly be the "rule" that Tucker Carlson can wage endless political war -- filled with nasty insinuations and questions about "dual loyalty" -- against his enemies but the rest of us are all required to bow to Tucker or else we "cancel" him.
Indeed, no one in the MAGA movement can possibly object to reducing people's influence or excluding them from positions of influence in a political movement because, of course, well did that together in displacing and ejecting the neocons and NeverTrumpers.
And there is and was NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. Politics consist of forming alliances and coalitions and, critically, excluding those from your coalition who do not agree with you or who would harm your coalition.
This is the most basic, fundamental aspect of the right of free association. When I form my political coalition, I have to define what it is, and more importantly, what it is NOT.
No one in MAGA would welcome in a bunch of Zohran Mamdani communists. We would suspect that they intended to subvert our movement and turn it into something antithetical to our beliefs (and we'd be right).
We do not have to "unite with communists."
There is nothing wrong with this. We MUST do it. If we just allow left-wing Democrats and actual communists (and jihadists) to "join MAGA," well, that's the end of MAGA. We would admit a large block of people who want to change MAGA into an Islamist-Communist movement.
So now comes Tucker Carlson demanding we change MAGA -- and remember, the top dog of MAGA is vociferously pro-Israel -- and that we have to admit some extremely unsavory, Nazi-leaning (at least) antisemites into the party.
And when we say "No," he says: You're cancelling us.
Is that cancellation? Is it also "cancellation" if I say that AOC, Zohran Mamdani, and Elizabeth Warren also must not be permitted to be influencers and leaders in MAGA?
What is the difference, apart from some people really really liking Carlson's antisemitic turn?
Tucker's guest and apparent ally Nick Fuentes told us "Grow up, Hitler was cool, just admit it."
Well let me say to the Tucker/Fuentes supporters: "Grow up, stop claiming we're not allowed to do politics in actual politics."
Tucker wants to change MAGA. I like it as it is.
All of these are arguments are self-serving and cynical, just attempting to privilege one political position -- the anti-Israel and usually antisemitic one -- as beyond contestation and argument and political opposition.
If Tucker Carlson can continue endlessly attempting to eject -- to "cancel" -- Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, and Ben Shapiro from his 'Face It, Hitler was Cool" movement, then we are allowed to similarly eject, to "cancel," him.
Period.
Grow up.
End of Twitter thread.
Seriously -- I'm supposed to "unite" with this guy, who constantly attacks the right and threatens to destroy the right in future elections?
And if I tell this malignant faggot of a Hitler-loving Twink to fuck off -- I'm "dividing the right?"
Fuck you!
My message to every MAGA Inc talking head who ignored what the America First people have been saying.
I am no fan of Lindsey Graham, but how can Tucker's "friends" and sycophants tell me I can't push Tucker out of the party, when Tucker spends every day nominating Republicans for cancellation?
I agree that some of these people should be cancelled -- but how can Tucker and his Army of Cucks then tell me I shouldn't dare cancel Tucker because that would be like being a soyboy beta cuck SJW?
Their other move is claiming that "Tucker and Nick Fuentes are just criticizing Israel, are you saying we can't criticize Israel?"
When is Israel mentioned in the below clip?
It's not complicated at all
Jews are running society
Women need to shut the fuck up
Blacks need to be imprisoned ( for the most part )
Here, Fuentes calls for the "death penalty" for any American Jews who hold any position of power in American politics or culture.
Again, no "criticism of Israel" -- just a demand that Jews be purged from American society, by means of executions.
I don’t get why people are buying Fuentes’ makeover. As he moves closer to the mainstream he’s busily denying violent intent — yet his 2024 statements made it clear.
"At the high levels of society and specifically among the Jews. They are evil doers. They are people that worship… pic.twitter.com/h1bxxssiLE
Just lmao at the logic: Because the Left falsely smeared the Right as Nazis, therefore actual Nazis must be embraced by the Right.
There's this self-serving mass delusion in the content creator Right that cancel culture was bad because Nazis were canceled. Cancel culture was bad because PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T NAZIS were canceled.
Obviously correct, but she's a Crafty Jew so do not be mesmerized by her Jewish word-sorcery.
But this Venomous Jewess makes a good point: No, we shouldn't cancel people that the left calls Nazis.
But how about... the people who self-identify as Nazis? Who routinely say "Heil Hitler"?
Who instruct us that Hitler was "really really cool"? Who record "Fuhrer Friday" podcasts?
Who demand the execution of Jews who hold positions of influence in America?
Who routinely throw up the Seig Heil salute?
Not the fake one the left sees when anyone on the right lifts his arm up.
No, I mean real, deliberate, full-on Nazi salute, right in your face?
How about that kind of Nazi?
Can we cancel a Nazi then?
Nick Fuentes is a Nazi.
He loves Hitler, the Nazis, the Holocaust, and fascism.
His ideology is anti-West, anti-American, and anti-Christian, all under the disguise of "America First" and fake Catholicism.
And fuck the brain-damaged fat weak alcoholic tubby rich-bitch child of privilege and Nazi propagandist Tucker Carlson for attempting to mainstream Nazism and doing it so loudly and openly that the rest of us -- who were content, nay eager, to just pretend this bullshit away and sweep it under the rug -- must finally confront it?
Oh, and after attempting to destroy TPUSA and hatefully attacking Charlie Kirk -- claiming he wasn't a "real Christian" -- he's now down to claiming that TPUSA staffers arranged the Kirk assassination (most likely in partnership with Perfidious Jews) and that maybe Erika Kirk was involved.
Seriously?
Seriously?
These are the people we need to "unite" with to win big in 2028?
Nazism and unhinged hate are real vote-getters now? All the kids are into Hitler and slander against widows?
Yeah I don't think so.
I think some people would like Nazism to be super-popular, though, and are wish-casting their desires into reality.
The Blaze: We've Identified the J6 Pipe Bomber and It's a Government Worker at a Three-Letter Agency
—Ace
Intel Report Daily
@TruthNinja316
🚨J6 PIPE BOMBER HAS LIKELY BEEN IDENTIFIED🚨
The person responsible for planting the pipe bombs has been ID'd. They are a female. They are from a 3 letter agency. They did work for Capitol Police. I know the name but can't name the person out of respect for the person who worked this story masterfully... @SteveBakerUSA
The "lead suspect" is a woman, and high government official.
'She's one of us!' Steve Baker stuns Glenn Beck with bombshell revelation about J6 pipe-bomb suspect
Joseph MacKinnon
November 05, 2025
Beck indicated that the suspect will be named as soon as the relevant agencies have 'battened down the hatches.'
Blaze News investigative reporters Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman have spent years working to identify the masked individual who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021.
Baker, whom the Biden FBI arrested over his January 6 reporting, revealed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday that they have finally locked in on a suspect. What's more, Baker hinted that the suspect's imminent identification will implicate and shame at least one federal agency.
Baker told Beck, "When I pulled this thread, I was so shocked by what I saw, I immediately took it to a source in one of the most important, highest-level investigative federal agencies in the country. I immediately took it to our sources there, and I said, 'You have to see this.'"
"After they looked at it for about two hours, the response that I got back was, 'Holy F,'" continued Baker. "And then the follow-up response was, 'She's one of us!'"
When pressed by Beck about his confidence level in the suspect ID, Baker said, "I will tell you that from gait analysis -- that's the analysis of the hoodied bomber ... compared to the gait analysis of this individual in private life and at work -- that the actual software hit at a 94% accuracy."
"Human analysis from the experts in intelligence is much higher," continued Baker. "They looked at it and went, 'My God, that's it. We got it.'"
In the below interview, Glen Beck says the Blaze will publish the story... tomorrow. And since these were posted yesterday, that means "today." But I don't see an update at the Blaze.
Is this real? I dunno. I have heard rumblings that the bomber has been identified for a few months. I wasn't told who it was, just that a researcher knew who it was and was absolutely confident in her belief. I only mention that as the teensiest, tiniest little scrap of information that suggests that maybe this is real. (It's very weak confirmation, but it's all I have.)
Here's the latest video surveillance of the pipe bomber walking around on January 5, 2021. The bomber is, I think they say, 5'7", which is a very possible height for a woman.
🚨J6 PIPE BOMBER HAS LIKELY BEEN IDENTIFIED🚨 The person responsible for planting the pipe bombs has been ID'd. They are a female. They are from a 3 letter agency. They did work for Capitol Police. I know the name but can't name the person out of respect for the person who… pic.twitter.com/BmjGya1Bci
I mean, if this is someone working for the FBI or CIA or even ATF... wow.
And the entire government will be implicated -- you seriously just couldn't figure out the bomber was one of your own? Or you abandoned leads when it started to show it was one of your own?
Beck said, "This is one of the biggest stories -- I think it is the biggest scandal of my lifetime, maybe in the last 100 years. It is monstrous."
If indeed the bomber is a member of the Deep State, and the other Deep Staters just couldn't identify her -- Whoops! Whoopsie! -- then yes, it is a governmental scandal on the order of Julius Caesar's assassination by senators.
Jeffrey Epstein's Former Cellmate Alleges: James Comey's Daughter, Federal Prosecutor Maureen Comey, Said That I Could Walk Free If I Falsely Claimed That Epstein Implicated Trump in His Pedo Schemes
The former cellmate of infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein has claimed that Epstein said New York federal prosecutors had offered him a deal if Epstein agreed to implicate Donald Trump, then serving his first presidential term.
Epstein, who was arrested on child sex-trafficking charges in July of 2019, was transferred to the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan and shared a cell with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who at that time was awaiting trial. Tartaglione was eventually convicted on a quadruple-murder charge, while Epstein died in the jail a month after being arrested.
In a pardon application obtained by the New York Post, Tartaglione wrote, "Prosecutors ... told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Epstein's crimes he would walk free."
"Epstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didn't have to prove anything, as long as President Trump's people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were 'her people, not his [President Trump's]," the filing stated.
Tartaglione added in his petition that Epstein told him "President Trump was not involved in Epstein's crimes."
Now, remember, jailhouse testimony is notoriously unreliable and people will say anything in hopes of currying favor from whoever is in a position to set them free.
Now that I've wasted your time with that: People are claiming it's AI.
I got very annoyed at Democrats always trying to criminalize the use of obvious altered video for parody purposes, claiming that "some people" -- dolts and people without high levels of skepticism -- might believe the obviously altered parody videos are real.
I would never endorse laws against this stuff, but I've got to tell you, it's becoming very, very annoying to always be forced to doubt what your own eyes are seeing. I used to like doing the Cafes; not so much any longer. I always feel like I'm being scammed by AI content farmers.
And I'm afraid you Big Meanies are going to beat me up and call me Lamont the Big Dummy if I get swindled!
Supposedly, the price would drop, eventually, to $245 per month for those paying cash. We'll see.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk unveiled a deal on Thursday to slash the prices of popular GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs for the government's Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as for cash payers.
The move is aimed at increasing access to the treatments through U.S. Medicare for people aged 65 and over and the Medicaid program for low-income people, which together provide healthcare coverage for nearly half of all Americans.
U.S. patients currently pay by far the most for prescription medicines, often nearly three times more than in other developed nations, and Trump has been pressuring drugmakers to lower their prices to what patients pay elsewhere.
"GLP-1s have been top of mind and not just because of the cardiometabolic benefits that they provide, but also because it is an issue of fairness and utilization and pricing and access and affordability for the American people," an administration official told reporters.
Starter doses of rival weight‑loss pills being developed by Lilly and Novo, if approved, will cost $149 per month for all Medicare and Medicaid enrollees and via the White House's new direct-to-consumer site, TrumpRx, senior administration officials said.
For currently available injectable GLP-1s used for diabetes and other covered health issues, prices would fall to $245 per month for patients with Medicare or Medicaid, they said.
On TrumpRx, the average price of injectables and pills will start at or below $350 monthly and is expected to trend downward to $245 within two years.
I tried to get on Mounjaro. The cost was something obscene like $1400 per month, but you could sign up for a coupon and "only" pay $550 or something.
$350 would be expensive but, I guess, obtainable.
Think about all the money I'd save on Ho-Ho's.
In Medicare, patients' co-pays will be capped at $50 a month, officials said.
Commercial health insurers would also be able to access prices estimated to be 25% lower than current cash prices, they said.
The government will also expand coverage for GLP-1s under the deal, officials said, to overweight patients with prediabetes or heart problems, obese patients with comorbidities and severely obese patients, accounting for 10% of Medicare patients.
Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants, Who Boomers Know as "Nancy Pelosi," Finally Retires
—Ace
I mean, this was obvious, but when Pedophile Enabler Scott Wiener announced he was running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, it was pretty obvious that Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants had put out the word among her Closest Groomer Friends that she was going to retire. The Twink Groomer Friend of All Pedophiles Scott Wiener would not have had the balls to challenge her if she were running again.
Granny Rictus sure made a lot of millions of dollars trading with inside information during her 40 year career.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't seek re-election at the end of her current term, ending a roughly four-decade career in Congress for the key Democratic power player who had been the first female speaker.
"I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be the first to know I will not be seeking re-election to Congress," Pelosi, 85, said in a video message to her constituents.
You already told your Pedophile Advocate successor Scott Wiener.
The Golden State Democrat had faced speculation this week that she was planning to announce her plans to skip re-election following Tuesday's off-year elections.
Representative Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she will retire when her term concludes in early 2027, ending a remarkable career in which she rose to become one of the most powerful women in American history.
Ms. Pelosi, 85, was the nation's first and only female House speaker, and she will have represented San Francisco in Congress for 39 years when she leaves office. She has served during an era of seismic change for American society and her own city, from the throes of the AIDS crisis to the legalization of gay marriage, and through the meteoric rise of the tech sector and the nation's extreme polarization.
She entered political office later in life and became a hero to Democrats for the way she wielded immense power to push Obamacare, climate change legislation and infrastructure programs through Congress.
"With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative," she told her constituents in a nearly six-minute video posted on X early Thursday morning, with clips of San Francisco's iconic cable cars and colorful Victorian homes flashing in the background.
The two sides of the coin that is President Donald Trump was on full display two days ago. His amazing ability to motivate and energize an otherwise detached electorate -- when he is on the ballot -- and his equally amazing ability to infuriate and motivate the Democrats.
And that's where JD Vance has a tremendous opportunity. As the presumptive front-runner for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, He has the next two years, before the 2028 campaign begins in earnest, to create a persona as "The Anti-Trump." But not on policy, where the President and he are in broad agreement. No, it will be in tone, presentation, and image.
Donald Trump's bombast and hyperbole is an integral part of his public face, and in most cases it works to heighten awareness of the topic at hand and, frankly, to pique the interest of disinterested potential voters. But it also raises the hackles of his implacable enemies and, frankly, can blur the message. But that message is vital...love of America, respect for the working man, the desire for American industry to be unequaled, and for his beloved country to be a safe, prosperous, and happy place, with secure borders, a powerful military that is rarely used, a vibrant domestic economy, and the probability of upward mobility for most.
Is JD Vance any different? No, of course not. That message, until recently, would have been completely unexceptional, were it not for the shambling wreck of the Democrat/progressive movement dragging us into 3rd World territory.
But without the lightning rod that is Donald Trump, the Democrats, who can get their compliant flocks frothing at the mouth by the mere mention of the President's name, will lose a powerful recruiting and motivational tool. And the more JD Vance can separate himself from Donald Trump's unique personality, the weaker the Democrat strategy will be when directed at him. Thus the suggestion that he becomes the "Anti-Trump."
The president then turned to Vice President Vance, quipping, “Why don’t you act like that? JD doesn’t behave like that. JD butts into conversations. I wanna have that for at least a couple of days. Okay, JD? We’ll keep you long term, but a couple of days of that would be very, very nice.”
This is exactly the way that JD Vance can create the image of an independent and powerful executive who is more than happy to confront Donald Trump if necessary, but will always be measured and calm in public.
Hyperbole is the politician's stock in trade, but with a thoughtful and quiet delivery, JD Vance can create distance from Donald Trump that will still allow him to communicate the broad strokes of an America First policy. It will also neuter the Democrat shock troops, who operate on rage and adrenaline. Three more years of Donald Trump will, hopefully, leave them exhausted, and the American people bored with their unending, unthinking, and hysterical responses to everything that the President does or says.
Yes, I am a fan of JD Vance. Will he be the nominee? Who knows! But the bench is reasonably deep, so if he fails to secure the nomination, I am confident that there are others who will be good candidates, especially with the possibility of Governor Hair Gel Newsom as the Democrat candidate, with all of California's miserable baggage piled high around him!
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Good morning kids. Of course the main story remains the fallout over his past Tuesday's Election Day insanity. Yes, the most high profile race was of course New York City deciding that a full on Bloodthirsty communist Jihadist was the ideal choice to be mayor. Other significant races included the passage of California's gerrymandering law that will effectively eliminate five GOP congressional seats and Virginia electing a thug with homicidal fantasies as its top law enforcement officer.
what I cannot understand are the mixed signals whereby we have all kinds of polls and indicators that younger generations are turning away from the Democrat Left "brand" as it were and that in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination many seem to be returning to traditional religion and church, rejecting wokeism and on and on and on. And yet there are polls (yeah, I know) showing that the aforementioned youths are embracing socialism with a vengeance, of course not really knowing or understanding it's bloody legacy and toll of human life approaching over 200 million in little more than a century. Of course this goes hand in hand with the brainwashing and malediction and inculcation of hatred of country and society.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a foiled Halloween terror plot, according to a law enforcement source. The individuals, identified as Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sederat, were taken into custody on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation that could lead to additional arrests. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau assisted federal authorities in locating and apprehending the suspects. It remains unclear whether the two are among the unnamed co-conspirators mentioned in earlier court documents. Feds Catch Two More in ISIS-Linked Halloween Plot.
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats wield chaos as a strategy, overwhelming voters with nonstop turmoil that obscures blame and rallies key groups—leaving Republicans scrambling to counter before the clock runs out. Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?
In case you hadn't noticed how brazen far-left Democrats have become since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, allow me to introduce you to a woman who previously admitted that she was living in the U.S. illegally and who just won an election to become the next mayor of St. Paul, Minn. The left isn't even hiding the fact that illegals are participating in our political/governmental systems anymore. Illegal Immigrant Wins Mayoral Election in Major City
The DHS enacted a rule on Wednesday titled “Protection of Federal Property” that allows more law enforcement action against rioters, the agency told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive statement. Officers guarding DHS buildings may arrest those wearing a mask while committing a crime, using “unmanned aircraft” such as drones to damage federal property, tampering with government tech systems, obstructing access, impeding federal employees from performing official duties, disorderly conduct and threatening to commit any violent crime. EXCLUSIVE: Feds Find New Ways To Show Anti-ICE Rioters Who’s Boss (call me when ICE responds with machine gun fire and flamethrowers - jjs)
Marxism targets the disillusioned with the lofty-sounding idea of the working class controlling the political, economic, and social structures and thereby the means of production—no more working for The Man! Mamdani's win is a tribute to mass migration
Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair told Politico the GOP fumbled the 2025 elections because they did not talk about affordability, something Trump will be focusing on for the midterms. Democrats won a series of high profile elections Tuesday, a year after Trump won the presidential election. Blair reacted to the results in an interview with Politico, telling the outlet that Democrats won because they focused on affordability. (RELATED: Unhappy With Election Results? Blame Women) Top Trump Advisor Admits GOP Fumbled Tuesday Elections, Must Focus On Affordability For 2026
If there is a downside in this for Alvin Bragg, it’s that a soon-to-be neutered NYPD will be less likely to pull his chestnuts out of the fire by keeping crime under control through stepped-up enforcement, as it has over the last few years. The truth is that Bragg and Mamdani are two sides of the same coin. But it’s going to be hard for the public to point a finger at anyone other than Mamdani when public safety begins to deteriorate. With Alvin Bragg’s re-election under a Mayor Mamdani, ‘justice’ in NYC is about to get worse
What observers have called an “Islamist” or “Jihadist” attack, the kind long known in French cities, has struck ‘La France Profonde’, or deep France, with at least ten injured by a man driving a car into members of the public on a picturesque island best known for its fishing community and slow pace of life. ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Suspect Arrested After ‘Deliberately’ Running Down Pedestrians
A young revolutionary is about to come face-to-face with political reality. (He's the entire perpetually Leftist NY city council rolled into one man stuffed inside an Ayatollah - jjs) The Clock Now Ticks on Zohran Mamdani
Kelsea Bond in Atlanta, Georgia, Denzel McCampbell in Detroit, Michigan, Danny Nowell in Carrboro, North Carolina, Ayah Al-Zubi in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frankie Fritz in Greenbelt, Maryland, and four Minneapolis, Minnesota, candidates won city council races after receiving DSA endorsements, according to multiple reports. The results show that DSA-style radicals bucking the establishment left through Mamdani marked a wider trend. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Ally’s Name Mysteriously Ends Up On Hamas-Linked Group’s Guest List) Mamdani’s Socialist Org Makes Progress Flooding Local Offices With Radicals Across US
Jacob Frey secures a third term as mayor, continuing his (fake-as-a-3-dollar-bill) moderate approach to governance and rejecting the more progressive policies championed by Fateh. Somali-American Fails in Bid to Become Wokest Mayor.
Maduro, during an event with members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) broadcast by his regime’s flagship propaganda television channel VTV, claimed that he finds himself “still surprised” to see coverage of himself in U.S. media. As such, he said that he feels “more famous” than Taylor Swift and other international artists. Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro: ‘I’m More Famous than Taylor Swift’ (Big deal, as John Lennon quipped, the Beatles were bigger than Jesus! - jjs)
Another month has passed, and so it is time for my monthly update on the never-ending sunspot cycle on the Sun. using NOAA’s own monthly update of its graph of sunspot activity and annotating it with extra information to illustrate the larger scientific context. Sunspot update: Solar activity continues to decline as predicted
Just as Trump had given no reasons why he had withdrawn Isaacman’s nomination in late May, in his announcement Tuesday Trump made no effort to explain why he had changed his mind. Trump renominates Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christopher F. Rufo: The racialist influencer represents a spectacle that demands cool analysis rather than emotional reaction. What Everyone Misses About Nick Fuentes
On his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel sought to explain why ticket sales for the Kennedy Center have fallen since President Trump named himself chairman. Through a satirical ad from Trump, Kimmel claimed the answer lies in anti-woke programming that is also pro-Nazi. Kimmel Skit Claims Nazi Programming To Blame For Decline In Kennedy Center Ticket Sales
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In a survey of over 300 executives from large US and UK game companies, 72% either slightly or strongly agreed that Steam constitutes a monopoly over PC games.
So by "developers" you mean... Not developers.
Many customers are so adamant about only purchasing games through Steam that the industry's largest publishers, including EA, Ubisoft, and even Microsoft, have tried - and failed - to withhold their titles from the service.
Because Steam works. The competitors less so.
The one standout is GOG, which gets in your way even less than Steam.
"Client" product sales - that is, the CPUs normal humans buy - were up 46% to $2.8 billion. Gaming revenue soared by 181% to $1.3 billion, though the market is still dominated by Nvidia and AMD's gains are a result of moving from "adequate" to "pretty good" rather than stealing the market lead.
Total revenue was $9.2 billion for the quarter, up 36% from last year, and profits were up 61% to $1.2 billion.
Pricing problems aside, DDR5 is going to be with us for a while. DDR6 is not expected until 2029 or 2030. Updates like MRDIMM Gen2 are set to double the speed of DDR5 by the simple trick of using two banks of chips at once, so we'll probably be fine.
(A footgun is a gun designed explicitly for shooting yourself in the foot.)
I've said before that Unicode is a semantic Superfund site, and Python has been around longer than Unicode - though not by much - so it's not surprising that some things are painful.
I do wonder though if there are any programming languages where Unicode is not painful. Unicode attempts to create a single character set merging every human language in history despite the fact that the rules resolving said characters are often mutually contradictory.
This is where you boot your PC up and are met by a demand for your BitLocker password, usually despite you never having heard of BitLocker in your life and certainly not having consciously set it up with a password.
Meaning - if you don't have another PC handy to research the workaround this time - your data is being held ransom by your own computer.
Microsoft had a similar bug back in May. And July last year. And August of 2022.
Windows 10's lack of updates looks better every day.
Not At All Tech News
My house has artificial turf at one side and the rear (between the house and a retaining wall) which the builders told me they put in because keeping a lawn alive in those areas would be too much work.
I tried to talk them down a bit on the price because I knew I wanted to replace it with something less plastic, but they weren't having it, and it was a sellers market right then with a big chunk of NSW under water.
Anyway, I had a sudden thought today that the surface under the fake grass was rather hard underfoot, and if for some reason they had concreted it that would drastically limit my options. (I'm thinking of a mix of pavers and pebbles, maybe a couple of strategic shrubs, but shrubs don't grow well in concrete unless you really don't want them to).
Peeled back a segment.
Nope. Just packed earth. All good.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Need some rain here, to be honest. Ground is as hard as a window pane.
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 5, 2025 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb fodder and mystery clicks. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
[Top photo: Lost River Butcher Block, Lost River, West Virginia]
"Barron, it's Dad. I know you're studying hard and getting good grades. Keep it up. Just calling to make sure you don't miss the Wednesday ONT. Your mother always says that ONT knowledge is just as important as book knowledge. She's a smart woman."
The odds of a flying triple cat attack from the bushes in Japan is low, but is never zero.
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Since Doof ended the ONT last night with a magazine for Morons, question for Horde wisdom: are there any good print magazines left?
Not so long ago, there was a magazine for every niche interest. Almost everything that existed in real life, history, hobbying, the working world, or even science fiction had a following and at least one magazine. Magazines are a rich time capsule treasure trove of source material for the anthropologist and sociologist.
Many magazines have gone away, gone online only, shrunk in size, gone woke, or otherwise failed the signal to noise test (or some combination of those). Are there any good ones still out there? On any subject? At any price?
This is not a dig at magazines in general (other than Teen Vogue). The world of print advertising has changed and the interweb is a difficult competitor. Advertising dollars have largely gravitated to social media of various forms. Online is fine, but there is no substitute for flipping the pages between your fingers.
Is any magazine still publishing that should be known among the Horde? Think broadly and include magazines that are worthwhile, even if they're not in your particular area of interest.
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Her: "Where would we put a giant sized TRex? We don't have room."
Me:
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What could go wrong? This sounds like something an evil villain would conjure. Why do I envision being beneath a giant magnifying glass and fried like a bug?
California-based start-up Reflect Orbital has applied for a government license to launch a giant mirror to space next year. The mission is meant to be the first step in the company's ambitious plan to operate a constellation of more than 4,000 solar reflectors to boost solar power production in twilight hours on Earth.
According to the company's application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Reflect Orbital wants to fly its demonstration satellite EARENDIL-1 next year, with an expected launch date in April. Once in orbit, the satellite will unfold a mirror that measures 60 by 60 feet (18 by 18 meters) in order to demonstrate its ability to direct sunlight down onto targets on Earth. The company, which won a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force in May, says its future constellation will deliver light on demand after sunset and before sunrise to paying customers on Earth, effectively extending the daytime hours.
Reflect Orbital claims on its website that its constellation will enable solar power generation at night, make crops grow better and stronger, possibly replace urban lighting, provide emergency illumination in disaster zones and enable people to work into the night.
Reflect Orbital's spokesperson told Space.com in an email that by 2030, the company envisions a constellation of 4,000 of such satellites, circling Earth in a sun-synchronous orbit following the boundary between day and night.
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Food thread adjacent:
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The World Series may be finished but the quest for baseball knowledge continues:
Sammy Hagar's Eddie Van Halen tribute for the big ONT finish:
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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Daylight savings time returns on March 8, 2026. Burrow wisely. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Freaky: A double amputee tests her bionic arms, and her wireless, remote-controlled, detachable bionic hands. Is this real? I don't know, it's a long day and I'm dead.
Sen. John Fetterman tore into Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday after the former House Speaker unleashed yet another unhinged attack on President Donald Trump, calling him "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." Speaking on Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum, the Pennsylvania Democrat said Pelosi's rhetoric was "way over the line" and proof that his party has lost all sense of proportion.
"The worst creatures on the face of the earth are Hamas or like the leadership of Iran -- there's a lot of people on that," Fetterman said. "I would never use those kinds of terms, and I wouldn't describe our president -- you can really disagree with him, and I do disagree, but I don't think that's really entirely appropriate. But that's her words for that. So for me, that's just a different kind of a Democrat."
Pelosi, who's reportedly weighing retirement after Tuesday's elections, made her remarks on CNN, sneering that Trump is "a vile creature" and "the worst thing on the face of the Earth." When pressed by reporter Elex Michaelson, she claimed Trump had "turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court," "abolished the House of Representatives," and "chilled the press." She even accused him of "scaring people who are in our country legally."
NEWS: Speaker Mike Johnson Warns Tucker Carlson, Conservatives Against Amplifying Antisemitism
Pressed by @NRO about whether Carlson’s views and voice in particular have a place in the conservative movement following his decision to give Fuentes the opportunity to air his… https://t.co/XiFaacVJpXpic.twitter.com/SgkblcgWF2
Heritage President Kevin Roberts, Who Defended Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes: I Was Misled, I Didn't Know the World's Most Famous Internet Nazi Nick Fuentes Was a Nazi
—Ace
Before getting to that: There is an idea being pushed by Nick Fuentes -- and now by Tucker Carlson and his various simps and cucks -- that it is absolutely crucial to the conservative movement that we accept in Nazis like Nick Fuentes.
Where did this idea come from? Nick Fuentes has been attacking the actual conservative movement for years and telling his "Groyper" supporters to vote for Kamala Harris.
Nick Fuentes, who noted World War Two Revisionist Scholar Tucker Carlson attempted to mainstream, told his supporters to vote against Trump and for Kamala Harris. He also vowed to destroy Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk.
I have avoided even learning about Fuentes because 1, I'm not super-interested in "speech patrolling the right," 2, I'm tired of the left-wing media telling me who my thought leaders are (hint, it's not Nick Fuentes) and 3, he's a loudmouthed, crude, moronic asshole who routinely praises Adolf Hitler and he's just not worth my time.
HOWEVER, now that Tucker Carlson gave him a fluffer interview mainstreaming his views (while avoiding talking about what his views actually are), I'm forced to discuss him.
Here's what Nick Fuentes says about JD Vance:
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OUCH! #MAGA is eating its own.
Here's what Nick Fuentes says about VP JD Vance...
"He is literally a fat, gay, race traitor that married a jееt."
From context, I understand "jeet" to be a slur for an Indian.
I am not upset he is insulting Vance or his "jeet" wife.
I am pointing out that, contrary to the claims of Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and even Matt Walsh, who says we must stop fighting about Nick Fuentes and simply "unite" with him for the good of the party, Fuentes and his Gay Nazi fans are not part of the party, and they actively campaign and vote for Democrats, and fight to destroy MAGA and the GOP so that his version of a reconstituted Nazi Party can rise up in his ashes.
In other words: We have won many elections without Fuentes and his Nazis, and in fact we won 2024 despite Fuentes urging his supporters to vote for Kamala Harris.
So why, exactly, do we need to turn the GOP into the New Nazi Party to win? How can Tucker Carlson claim that Nick Fuentes is vital to our futures?
In terms the Nazis would use: The Nazis are not looking to assimilate into the party.
They are looking to replace the party.
The Nazis have a replacement theory of their own.
And I say: "They will not replace us!"
Candace Owens, meanwhile, is telling her supporters to not vote at all "until we find out who killed Charlie Kirk." Who she's pretty sure is Binyamin Netanyahu and also, All Jews, Generally.
As Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh instruct us: It is important to form a coalition with these rock-ribbed Republican and conservative stalwarts to avoid "dividing the right."
If you criticize them, remember, you're "cancelling" them, and you wouldn't cancel a Nazi, would you? Hypocrite!
I'm not the biggest fan of Ben Shapiro but his exposé of Fuentes and his frequent utterance of "Heil Hitler," Holocaust denial, and constant claims that a cabal of "occult" demonic Jews rule the world, is outstanding.
Watch at least the first five minutes. No, Fuentes is not just "trolling the libtards" by saying he's a Nazi. He's an actual Nazi.
The back half of this takedown is even better, as he demonstrates that Fuentes has been attacking Tucker Carlson for a long while, and Carlson fears that Fuentes is stealing his base of antisemitism-curious conspiracy theorists away from him. So, Shapiro says, the "coward" Tucker Carlson -- who will not speak the antisemitic conspiracy theories that drive him, but instead has on guests whom he gives tongue-baths to who will speak the words that Tucker Carlson will not -- just interviews people with Interesting Theories about Jews, and then says "It's important we have these 'discussions,' about which topic I will not specify."
He means "the JQ" -- Nazis' shorthand for the "Jewish Question" that Hitler answered in 1940-1945. What shall we do with these Jews who live among us, subverting us?
Well, if it's important to have discussions about whether or not Jewish Warlocks are hypnotizing gullible Christians into selling their souls for them, that it's also important to have discussions about whether Tucker Carlson is now simply a Nazi.
Either we can have these controversial yet "important" "discussions" about all controversial matters, Tucker, or we can't have them at all. It's not just you who gets to decide who will be demonized and have hate-mobs whipped up against them.
Bonus points to Shapiro for repeatedly stating, correctly, that Tucker Carlson is a "cuck" who "cucked out" to Nazis.
No to the groypers. No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash. No to those who champion them. No to demoralization. No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit. No to anti-Americanism. No. pic.twitter.com/71TModtGWq
Shapiro also calls out Carlson for something I've repeatedly pointed out myself: Tucker Carlson has a big problem with the pro-Israel Trump, but he knows his audience is pro-Trump, so he attacks Trump's positions by assigning them to MAGA enemies like Lindsey Graham and then attacking Lindsey Graham.
Yes, Graham is odious. And yes, Graham said "Bomb Iran."
But Trump said "Bomb Iran" too, and when Trump said it it was more important, because Trump said that as a command to the US Air Force.
But Tucker Carlson is a wormy, sniveling coward, so when he attacks the pro-Israel Trump he pretends he's talking about other people.
Be a man, Tucker. You want to take on Trump? Then stop hiding behind Lindsey Graham and take on Trump.
But you won't. Coward.
We're getting a lot of "Just stop arguing, unite the right even if it means uniting with Nazis" from people I have lost a lot of respect for, like the formerly stellar Jesse Kelly.
Kelly acts as if it's the Dirty Jews who are provoking this dispute and that "both sides" are equally to blame, the Nazis who say "Jews Will Not Replace Us" and the Jews who object, "We're not replacing anyone."
Especially if that kid wasn't my kid in the first place, but some snotty teenage hitchhiker in an SS uniform who broke into the station wagon while we stopped for lunch at Stuckey's
People will claim this is "just about Israel." It's not. Tucker Carlson has, over the past couple of years, repeatedly accused Jews of murdering Christians, platformed Nazi sympathizers who say the US entered World War Two on the wrong side, stated that there was no one on earth he hated more than "Christian Zionists" -- Christians who think the Jews should have a home of their own (funny, no one ever questions whether the British should have a home of their own, or the Irish), attacked Mark Levin and other politically-active Jews of "dual loyalty," etc.
If you haven't noticed, an awful lot of people, including Hamas terrorists, claim "I just opposed the government of Israel" but then attack non-Israeli Jews. Tucker Carlson is now a proud member of that group.
He also, of course, gave a tongue bath to Putin and claimed that Akshually Russia is a Super-Advanced High-Functioning Democracy.
And he claimed that Hamas was not a terrorist group, pleading ignorance on the subject, claiming that while other people (Jews) claim it's a terrorist group, he has no evidence of this, and that Hamas "seems like a political organization to me."
And then: Platforming the Nazi and agreeing with everything the Nazi said.
This was inevitable. This is where the Tucker Carlson Train was always headed. He knows people aren't ready for full-on Nazism yet, so he's using the tactic of boiling the frogs little by little so they barely notice they're in a warm bath of Nazism.
He claims "of course I didn't allege the Jews did it" before immediately laying out a trail of bread crumbs that, when followed, leads directly to "The Jews did it."
I joined the Republican Fucking Party to traffic in the old "Loose Change" Bush Blew Up Tower 7 conspiracy theories? I now have to co-sign Rosie O'Donnell's "Fire Doesn't Melt Steel" metalurgical proofs?
If this is the Republican Party, or this is what the Republican Party becomes, then I'm not part of it. So Tucker and Steve Bannon can scheme about how many more "Republicans" we have when we mainstream Nazism and white supremacy, but they had better count on millions and millions of people fleeing the party.
I did not sign up for this bullshit. I will not become a Nazi to "own the libs."
With that ugly backstory out of the way -- and I have avoided discussing this on this site for a while; this is not a fight I sought to have, with anyone -- we now come to Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage, who really threw gas on this fire by claiming that anyone who had a problem with Tucker Carlson's turn towards Nazism is just a dirty "Cancel Culture" wokester and we shouldn't cancel anyone, including Fuentes, including any other out-and-proud white supremacist Nazi.
This fight raged all through the weekend, with Heritage's anti-semitism task force resigning rather than continue employment at an organization which has officially declared that antisemitism to be a respectable position in rightist thought.
Dana Loesch as been a star on this issue. She interrogated Kevin Roberts and left him babbling like a baby. Heritage's public statement spoke of a "venomous coalition" -- Jews, non-anti-semites -- that organized to say "Enough" to Tucker Carlson.
She asked him if it was also "venomous" for Tucker Carlson to say that there was no one on earth he despised more than Christian Zionists.
(0:02:26) Do you still stand by the views in your posted video? (0:04:08) Does criticism equal cancellation in this context? (0:05:11) Was there enough pushback… pic.twitter.com/EVJUE83BYs
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Dana Loesch Calls Out Conservative Influencers for Sacrificing Principles to Social Media Stardom!
"You pay attention to who talks about this and who doesn't because the people that don't talk about it are the people that are trying to guard their ass."
In a fiery segment on the Dana Loesch Show, the conservative commentator lambasted prominent figures on the right for their reluctance to confront controversial ideologies within their ranks, attributing it to a fear of jeopardizing lucrative platforms and audience access.
Loesch highlighted how many have remained silent on divisive issues, driven by a desire for "adjacency to that influence," such as sharing stages with high-profile personalities like Tucker Carlson or embarking on campus tours for personal acclaim. "That's why a lot of these people don't speak out," she asserted, urging listeners to scrutinize the quiet ones: "You pay attention to who talks about this and who doesn't because the people that don't talk about it are the people that are trying to guard their ass."
I admit I'm one of the people who ducked this issue, at least on the blog. I did talk it up on X. As I said, I wasn't eager to get into this fight -- but I'm also not going to run cover to Tucker Carlson, who plainly has something wrong with him. (He's slurring his consonant clusters just like Biden did, now. "Abstract" gets pronounced "abstack." S's frequently become Sh's.)
I'm pissed at people like Matt Walsh and Jesse Kelly. If you want to remain silent -- THEN STAY SILENT. Don't peddle this bullshit that the Nazis and the people the Nazis are slurring and saying should be "given the death penalty" are both equally to blame.
On with Dana Loesch:
Loesch dismissed excuses for avoiding criticism of figures like Candace Owens, mocking the notion of her as a "young mom" at 36 years old as mere deflection, and warned that such silence prioritizes "the lifespan of their digital economy more than the health of the movement on the right."
Loesch expressed hope that her words would "convict them in their hearts and minds," labeling their timidity "shameful" in 2025, when some conservatives hesitate to denounce admiration for figures like Stalin due to backlash from online "troll armies." She defended the right to distance oneself from harmful ideas as "free association," not cancellation, and scorned those who cry foul as "a bunch of sensitive snowflake sissies who should be disbarred from any other contributions to conservative discussion."
And now, as Heritage is at the crossroads of either officially becoming Stormfront Central or just closing up shop, Kevin Roberts decides that he was misled by a junior staffer who misled him about the content of Nick Fuentes' beliefs and Tucker Carlson's warm welcome of those beliefs. That staffer has now resigned, and Roberts would like to keep his Grifter Job Please and Thank You.
The Washington Free Beacon obtained video of a meeting today at the august conservative think tank after Roberts asked the board to address the staff. Referring to his defense of Tucker Carlson and his interview with Nick Fuentes, whose Stalinophilia blew up the final weeks of the election season. "I made a mistake," Roberts told his staff, and in the process admitted to a series of them:
"I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop," Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts told the staff of the conservative think tank on Wednesday, a week after he posted a video decrying a "venomous" coalition attacking the right-wing podcast host Tucker Carlson--and declaring the Heritage Foundation would always defend him against "the slander of bad actors who serve someone else's agenda."
Roberts said he was willing to resign but felt a "moral obligation" to repair the situation and had told the organization's board of directors: "I made the mess, let me clean it up." ...
While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel "our friends," he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a "limiting principle."
"You can say you're not going to participate in canceling someone ... while also being clear you're not endorsing everything they've said, you're not endorsing softball interviews, you're not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should've made that clear."
One limiting principle would be to research the issue before issuing statements on behalf of the organization. Admitting that he still "didn't know much about this Fuentes guy," Roberts explained that he simply trusted his now-former chief of staff to do his thinking for him. "This is an explanation, not an excuse," Roberts told Heritage staff:
Roberts said his former chief of staff, Ryan Neuhaus, who has since resigned, wrote the script for the video and deceived him into believing colleagues had approved the message. "Our former chief of staff had the pen," he said. "When the script was presented to me ... I understood from our former colleague that it was approved, it was signed off on by the handful of colleagues who are part of that. Still my fault, I should have had the wisdom to say, 'Time out, let's double check this.'"
Bull. Shit. As I said, I have avoided the bother of looking into Nick Fuentes because he's literally nothing to me and I do not feel the need to research anyone the left claims is one of my "thought leaders." However, I have seen enough little clips of Fuentes saying "Heil Hitler" and questioning how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust (in a very cute, very clever little speech in which he refers to Jews as "cookies" and wonders how many ovens you'd need to bake six million "cookies") to know that he is not someone I should rush to defend.
Again, if you want to stay silent, stay silent. Do not rush to defend people who sure seem to be actual Nazis -- not fake Nazis as the left is always alleging, but real, bona-fide, "Heil Hitler" Jews should be "given the death penalty" Nazis) and claim you're just being a Free Speech Angel.
By the way, Ed Morrissey mentions Stalin. During Tucker's "interview" -- really his puff-piece promotion -- Fuentes avoided mentioning his open admiration of the "bad ass" and "cool" Adolf Hitler, but he did confess his admiration for Josef Stalin.
Sensing this would be a bridge too far for the audience he is bread-crumbing towards Nazism, Tucker expressed surprise and changed the subject, saying "We'll circle back to that."
But just like Jen Psaki, he never did. He didn't want to show any disagreement with Fuentes, so he just cucked out for his bull and changed the subject to something more agreeable. Like the "heresy" of "Christian Zionism" or something.
I know some people still like Tucker Carlson and so I'm not eager to get into fights with you. I will, however, not cuck myself out for Tucker Carlson like he cucked himself out to appeal to Nick Fuentes' Nazi audience. I will not lie for him, I will not minimize his evil, and I will not urge that we "united" with him so that he continue mainstreaming Nazism without anyone kicking up a fuss.
If he wants to keep having these "important discussions," then you better bet I will be right here ready to have these "Important discussions" right beside him.
The United States job market did better than expected in October in terms of job growth, with over 40,000 new private sector jobs.
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It is important that these jobs were in the private sector, a marked contrast to the Biden administration's job market, when all the touted "job gains" were either in the federal government or going to immigrants.
In contrast, as of July, under the Trump administration, employment of American-born workers had reached a record high while jobs for foreigners declined. While legal immigrants can strengthen our economy, the decline in employment of U.S.-born men -- particularly blue collar workers -- was a serious Biden administration crisis which the Trump administration has corrected, partly by discouraging employment of illegal aliens.
Remember, the government is shut down which is causing economic disruption and decline. So 42,000 private sector jobs is a win.
We are approaching America’s Golden Age under President Trump.
Jobs are booming, inflation is falling, and Main Street and Wall Street will rise together in an era of Parallel Prosperity. pic.twitter.com/bAA49pid7u
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) November 4, 2025
(And women -- a 22-year-old woman is in intensive care, as is a 69-year-old man.)
They're your fellow countrymen.
Right?
Right, "French Man"?
Driver rams into pedestrians in western France, five injured
There's another descriptor for this "French man." Apparently he's a "driver."
No additional facts needed nor wanted!
SAINT-PIERRE-D'OLERON, France, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A French man rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on Oleron island off France's Atlantic coast on Wednesday, injuring five people and shouting "Allahu Akbar" when arrested by police, officials said.
I wonder if that tips the authorities to the motive of "French Man"/"Driver."
Officials including Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the motive for the attack on a quiet island popular with summer tourists remained unknown, adding that the suspect was not on a watchlist of radicalised individuals.
Motive unknown! Perfect. May it always be unknown. We cannot risk backlash against Muslims, even if that means consenting to the murders of tens of thousands of non-Muslims.
"This morning, starting at 8:40, an individual driving his vehicle went on a journey during which he deliberately hit several people who were in his path, either on bicycles or on foot," Nunez told reporters on the island.
"Five people were hit during his journey, which lasted about 35 minutes." The suspect's car struck pedestrians and cyclists in various areas of the island, officials said.
It was a journey of self-actualization for this Austere Religious Scholar.
Nunez confirmed media reports that the suspect shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is Greatest") when arrested, but said that was only one element in a broader investigation.
Just one single element. Probably means nothing. Just something one says, you know. Like "Gesundheit."
Two of the victims were seriously injured, including the parliamentary assistant of a far-right National Rally lawmaker, Nunez said.
Probably deserved it.
Note that the National Rally is identified as "far right" while the "French Man" is identified as "Driver."
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Nunez said the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office was not in charge of the inquiry at this stage...
One of Biden's Inner Circle Had Four Million Reasons To Cover Up Biden's Galloping Dementia: A $4 Million Bonus if Biden Were Re-Elected
—Ace
This is from last week, but I only saw it Friday night.
Mike Donnilon was one of the five people gatekeeping access to Biden, and hiding Biden in the basement, and running the government as Sundown enjoyed his 19 hours a day of "naps."
He had reasons beyond mere partisanship to hide Biden from the world (and hide the world from Biden).
A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that he stood to gain up to $8 million if the Democratic leader won re-election in 2024, newly released video shows.
Michael Donilon served as senior advisor to the president for the entirety of Biden's four-year term. Their relationship goes back decades, however. Donilon first worked for Biden in 1981 when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware.
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Donilon was then asked whether there were any circumstances under which he would have received a bonus, to which he acknowledged there was.
"What were those circumstances?" House Oversight Committee staff asked.
Mike Donilon walks to Marine One
Donilon said, "That Joe Biden would have been re-elected president of the United States."
That sum would have been $4 million, Donilon acknowledged, in addition to the $4 million he was already paid.
He defended it as "fair agreement" when asked if he believed it was a significant sum of money.
Donilon was then asked, "Do you think that the prospect of a significant payday, say $4 million, could impact someone's judgment in general?"
"Well, I think under the circumstances you're discussing, the incentive was to keep the president in the race. I, at the end, gave him the judgment that he should withdraw," Donilon responded.
"At the end." When the Democrat Party and Democrat-Antifa-Media Party all demanded Biden withdraw, he means.
The House Oversight Committee released video of Donilon's interview and others on the heels of its final report into Biden's autopen use.
The GOP-led report accused Biden's inner circle of actively conspiring to keep signs of diminishing mental acuity from the American public up until when he dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., heaped doubt on whether Biden actually signed off on all of his executive actions when the autopen was used -- in particular, the thousands of clemency orders he authorized during his term.
Comer said Biden's autopen-authorized actions should be considered "void" and called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review the matter.
Watch Mike Donilon, Biden's former senior advisor, squirm as he admits he made $4 MILLION from the campaign and stood to get a $4 MILLION BONUS if Biden won re-election.
Virginia voters just handed the state's top law enforcement job to a man who fantasizes about shooting Republicans in the head. Democrat Jay Jones, a former state delegate with a history of unhinged remarks, narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Jason Miyares on Tuesday, winning 51.6% of the vote with 80% of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. His victory marks a stunning comeback for a candidate who spent the final stretch of the campaign explaining away violent threats and a sketchy community service arrangement tied to a reckless driving case.
Jones's troubles began when 2022 text messages surfaced in which he told then--Republican colleague Carrie Coyner he'd give former House Speaker Todd Gilbert "two bullets to the head" and "piss on his grave." Coyner also recalled Jones remarking in 2020 that "the deaths of a few police officers could save other lives."
Just two days before those texts leaked, court records revealed that Jones had satisfied a reckless driving sentence -- after being caught going 116 mph in a 70 -- by logging half of his required 1,000 hours of community service with his own political action committee, Meet Our Moment. Prosecutors later appointed a special investigator to look into whether Jones misrepresented those hours. The deal spared him jail time and left him with only a $1,500 fine.
Miyares, whose mother escaped communist Cuba and who made history in 2021 as Virginia's first Hispanic attorney general, ran on law and order. But Democrats rallied around Jones despite the violent rhetoric and ethics questions, proving once again that partisan loyalty trumps basic decency.
I hope you are proud of yourselves. You sure "owned" Donald Trump and MAGA.
Yep. We hear all the time about decency being on the ballot and how "grab 'em by the pussy" was totally disqualifying. Trump is mean. He doesn't conform to the country's norms.
Women, in particular, are all about decency, norms, and kindness I am told, and the vote totals clearly show that. [Sarcasm. See exit polls below. -- ace]
I don't know what to say anymore to you guys, except that I don't recognize the country I grew up in. Virginia Democrats elected a governor who encouraged people to embrace their rage and gave the nod to a man who said that he would put two bullets in the head of one of his colleagues and be happy to see his children die in their mother's arms.
Only 46% of Virginia voters thought that was disqualifying, and as far as I can tell, every single one of them was a Republican.
BTW, I did something yesterday that I'm not sure was the right thing. About midday, I saw the betting markets moving slowly, and then more decisively, to predict Democrat wins across the board. I know some of you saw them too. But I didn't want to mention them because, in case they were wrong, I didn't want to pull a Dan Rather Florida call and depress voting.
I don't know if just embargoing information was the right call. I did say I was feeling negative about our chances, without saying why.
As you can probably tell, I'm in a rancid mood. This is the one race I thought we'd win.
How are you? Do you have more perspective and equanimity than I'm managing to show?
NOTE: This piece was written before final election results came in last night. As a result, this is not about yesterday's winners and losers, though it is election-related. Feel free to go off-topic to the news of the day
On one of the weekend threads, I saw a comment that enraged me. Not because the commenter was wrong or offensive or because he was dishonest or anything like that, but because his comment underscored a very real problem that surfaces in nearly every election: the powers that be playing language games to con the public:
We voted early last week here in Texas. 17 constitutional amendments on the ballot. I skipped one because I could not understand what they were trying to accomplish the language was so convulated.
This is so common with ballot language that you can set your watch by it. Somebody wants to put one over on the public, and so writes something so confusing that they get the outcome they want through pure inscrutability. It isn't even as simple as "vote for or against or sit it out," because depending on how it is written, any of those things can be what the con men who wrote it actually want. The "see who's for it and decide accordingly" approach is usually better, but even that is still fraught with peril.
Here's an example from the great state of California:
Eliminates Recently Enacted Road Repair and Transportation Funding by Repealing Revenues Dedicated for those Purposes.
Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation.
What does that mean? If you concluded, "repeals a tax cut and raises taxes," go collect your winnings. You're one of the few who would read, "tax hike" instead of "tax cut" based on that language.
There are countless examples, and it is representative of one of the most opaque and corrupt part of the elections process. But what to do about it? Law is complicated (on purpose, but nonetheless it is complicated) and consequences can be hard to judge. Differences of opinion are real, and many are valid. It's a tricky problem. I have periodically thought about this problem, usually when confronted with appalling ballot language in Colorado (that state is terrible on this front).
One idea I've had is what I call the "C-Average Standard." First, create ballot language according to whatever rules apply today. Then, the finalist language is distributed to high schoolers at schools within the jurisdictions subject to the ballot measure, at least one high school per school district. The students to whom the ballot language is distributed must have a "C" average - a GPA of 2.0-2.75. Not the total dumbasses, but also not the top students. The "average" students. Have them read it and then describe its effects. No computers. No phones. Test-taking rules.
If more than 5% or 100 students - whichever is smaller - fails to accurately interpret the effect of the ballot measure, the language is rejected and the sponsors have to try again. Do it until C-average high school students can understand the issue. If the ballot writers fail to develop comprehensible language before the ballots are printed, the measure is canceled and does not go to a vote at all.
The "C-Average" standard would have resulted in a total rewrite of the example above. It looks like a tax cut, and that's what a lot of people would say about it. If you don't know in advance that the "recently enacted road repair and transportation funding" law that was to be repealed was a cut to the gas tax, there's no way you would know. The ballot language makes sure of that, because it was written by con men looking to put one over on the voting public.
What would you do about deceptive ballot language? Is it a solvable problem at all?
Podcast: The elections! NYC, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California, and the future prospects of the Republican party...
Update on Scott Adams:
Scott Adams had approval for this cancer drug but they hadn't scheduled him to get it. He was taking a turn for the worse. Trump had told him to call if he needed anything, so he did. Talked to Don Jr (who is in Africa) , then RFK Jr, then Dr Oz. Someone talked to Kaiser and he was scheduled. Shouldn't have needed it but he did and he says it saved his life.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Podcast: Historian and Pundit Robert Spencer joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the Islamists in our midst: Mamdani in NYC, all across Europe, and others.
Schmoll: 53% of New Jersey likely voters say their neighbors are voting for Ciattarelli, while 47% say the cheater/grifter Mikie Sherrill The "who do you think your neighbors are voting for" question is designed to avoid the Shy Tory problem, wherein conservative people lie to schmollsters because they don't want to go on record with a likely left-winger telling them who they're really voting for. So instead the question is who do you think your neighbors are voting for, so people can talk about who they themselves support without actually having to admit it to a left-wing rando stranger recording their answers on the phone.
Interesting football history: How the forward pass was created in response to the nineteen -- 19! -- people killed playing football in 1905 alone The original rules of football did not allow forward passes. The ball was primarily advanced by running, with blockers forming lines with interlocked arms and just smashing into the similarly-interlocked defensive lines. It was basically Greek hoplite spear formations but with a semi-spherical ball. As calls to ban the sport entirely grew, some looked for ways to de-emphasize mass charges as the primary means of advancing the ball, and some specifically championed allowing a passer to throw the ball forward.
