The beatings will continue until everyone loves the world's first good genocide.
Saturday, October 31, 2026
LIVE UPDATE
More rebel scum: Haley's campaign spokesperson.
LIVE UPDATE
DREAMER OF ISRAEL and self-appointed Speaker For The Jews And Blacks, Haley Stevens, has faced a minor setback, as treasonous Mallory McMorrow has switched sides to support the rebel forces.
DARTH BASH has sent her elite siths to hunt her down.
Anything Else Happening These Days, CNN?
Top of CNN. Live updates!
Fierce fighting has broken out between the dominant pro-genocide wing of the party, and its anti-genocide rebels. Pro-genocide state media is very concerned and is doing its part to smash the rebels.
Friday, October 30, 2026
No Fair
I suspect this will be the last time this is allowed to happen, though I could be wrong!
Taibeh, Israel — For decades, many Palestinian citizens of Israel stayed away from the polls, refusing to legitimize a system they say has oppressed their people, sidelined their concerns, and failed to represent them.
But this time felt different: after four years under the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, hundreds of thousands of Arab voters decided they could not afford to sit on the sidelines.
They turned out in record numbers – nearly 80% – to vote on Tuesday, compared with 53% in the last elections, according to the Mossawa Center, a civil society organization promoting equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel. That turnout gives Israel’s Arab parties unprecedented political sway with 19 seats in the 120-seat parliament.
I get why many boycotted, though it definitely served the interests of their oppressors to do so.
Gramps Is Awake
I wonder what prompted all of this.
Two scheduled campaign appearances by Donald Trump – one in Kansas, another in Iowa – that Trump had initially backed out of are now back on, according to the White House.
“Rallies are BACK ON! President Trump loves his supporters, and in addition to nearly 20 tele-rallies, he will hold back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday,” the White House said in a statement. “No one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump!”
Good Enough For Journalism
That fucking newspaper:
The federal investigation of Representative Ilhan Omar is focused in part on whether she entered into a sham marriage in 2009 to help a man suspected of being her brother obtain a green card, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
... [several paragraphs later]
It is unclear what evidence prosecutors, then or now, have showing that the person Ms. Omar married was her brother. Marrying anyone for the sole purpose of securing a green card is illegal under federal law. Marrying a sibling is illegal under state law, but it is not clear whether state authorities ever investigated the matter.
Suspected by who? SUSPECTED BY WHO, MOTHERFUCKERS???
A "sham marriage" can be many things, but "[with a] man suspected of being her brother" is an entirely different thing.
I'm not suggesting the first charge has merit, but it is a highly subjective call. Fronting the "her brother" aspect of this, with precisely zero evidence to support it, is quite incredible for the paper that doesn't report on the suspected raping activities of the president.
This should be a story about how anything can jump from the right wing fever swamps to mainstream media and the DOJ but you can see why the NYT doesn't take that angle.
Arthur "Dash" Sulzberger, suspected (by me) of having a dungeon filled with trafficked children...
All My Apes Gone
I guess it was a mistake for me to have a billion bucks in Binance.
Binance has confirmed that cryptocurrency firms have frozen at least $2.54 billion following a security incident on Thursday, though it’s far from clear that the tally reflects the complete extent of the damage. (See update below.)
Making a rhetorical point here, not looking for explanations, but if I tried to transfer 7 figures internationally, at least one of the involved banks would probably put a hold on it, and the tax authorities would get a note, yet with these guys...
Money laundering, fraud, and theft is the entire point and "we" have spent years pretending otherwise.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Installing Malware Everywhere
The Butlerian Jihad is inevitable.
Earlier this year, sources tell WIRED, a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal account for Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent. It appears that the agent used by the contractor, who is employed by global consulting firm Accenture, then sent information about the DOD system, including login credentials, to a high-risk third-party website.
"AI" gets referred to as the plagiarism machine, but its arrival marked the moment when everybody just said "fuck it" to all privacy and network security concerns.
It's gonna be like trying to get rid of bedbugs.
Sure Why Not
We are living in Southland Tales.
Elsewhere, Bill Pulte, a top federal housing official and purveyor of A.I.-generated images and memes that make their way to the president’s social media feed, spends some of his time making posters. He recently made one of Senator Jon Husted of Ohio, a Republican whose backside Mr. Trump has admired, for the president to display while riding aboard Air Force One.
I don't mean this in a "lol the president is gay" sense, but people who have spent some time around dementia patients know things can get a bit freaky.
Maybe It's Happening
Gramps is a little tired.
President Donald Trump has canceled an appearance at a Kansas rally on Saturday, his only scheduled campaign-trail appearance the weekend before Election Day.
The president will instead participate in a series of virtual rallies. It’s unclear whether he will reschedule the Kansas event.
Oops We Enshittified Ourselves
I was wondering how Google was enhancing their revenue by jamming AI answers up top, and the answer is that they aren't.
So that’s the first problem, likely driven by more consumers using AI chatbots to find answers. The other issue is that Google’s take on AI search isn’t pulling in revenue like standard web search yet. According to Schindler, each AI Mode query earns less revenue compared to a similar web search—there are fewer ads, and they cost less to run.
A Party With A Racism Problem
For the second straight year, center-left Democrats have spent much of the campaign cycle attacking and undermining a compelling Muslim candidate who is also a target of the right. This is shameful and despicable. A Democratic Party that won’t fully accept Muslim candidates isn’t a party that actually practices the principles of democracy, diversity, inclusion, pluralism, and multiculturalism that it preaches.
After Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York last year, he faced deep hostility from his own party. Longtime New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the party leadership, falsely implied that Mamdani had spoken favorably about “global jihad.” Gillibrand, Barack Obama, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs, Senator Cory Booker, and numerous other prominent Democrats refused to endorse Mamdani ahead of the general election, even though they usually back candidates who win Democratic primaries. Many of these Democrats either stated outright or leaked via their aides disagreements with Mamdani on Israeli-Palestinian issues and/or ridiculous claims that he was insufficiently concerned about antisemitism. Kamala Harris said she supported “the Democratic nominee” in the race, refusing to use his name.
A year later, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing a similar resistance. El-Sayed, unlike Mamdani last year, is running against a Republican in a state that Democrats desperately want to win. So Obama, Schumer, Gillibrand, and other party leaders are backing his candidacy. But some Democrats, such as Representatives Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Hillary Scholten of Michigan, are publicly refusing to back El-Sayed, again citing Israel and antisemitism concerns.
I, Too, Think AI Is A Dumb Term For Whatever It Is
For different reasons than Trump (his is dumber, dumber with a 'b'), but he isn't going to have any more luck changing it than I would.
You can make Mr. Google change the map, but you can't change a term that's already achieved this level of common usage.
The Internet Of Shit
One day nuclear war will start because the password on Hegseth's beer fridge is 123456.
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is treating the spate of mysterious freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States in August as a suspected hack, according to four officials familiar with the matter.
Between the malware that is AI infesting everything and DOGE handing the keys to whoever the fuck, I expect many problems in the future!
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Oh BiBi, You Scamp
We should ask some Dem electeds if they agree (top of Haaretz right now).
I suspect that The Only Democracy in the Middle East is going to be even less democratic soon.
I suspect that The Only Democracy in the Middle East is going to be even less democratic soon.
Oh No
Testing the limits of any prison abolitionist.
Journalists fucking loved this guy and would tweet excitedly when A NEW PROJECT VERITAS VIDEO WAS ABOUT TO DROP.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has charged conservative influencers Cam Higby and James O’Keefe with felony counts of identity theft and unlawful voting after they disguised themselves and attempted to vote during the state primaries in August.Tried and failed to commit voter fraud and got arrested for it.
Higby and O’Keefe used hidden cameras to record their attempts and claimed they were exposing lax voter regulations in Minnesota in an attempt to reveal potential voter fraud.
Journalists fucking loved this guy and would tweet excitedly when A NEW PROJECT VERITAS VIDEO WAS ABOUT TO DROP.
Speaking of Extradition Treaties
Definitely one for President AOC.
A jet carrying the Brazilian far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in Miami, Florida, where the losing candidate in Sunday’s presidential election runoff is expected to hold a press conference.
Extradition Treaties
President AOC, this will be fun for you.
Yes I also realize nothing like that will happen. We can have some fun imagining, occasionally.
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Tuesday ordered a police investigation into alleged ties between a donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance and the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro in the run-up to Sunday’s election.I realize this is unlikely to get JD, but other countries indicting our faves could be a way around Trump's pardons.
Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino directed the Brazilian federal police to investigate the “nature” of the contacts between the Rockbridge Network, which was founded in 2019, and any Brazilian companies or political operatives to aid or finance Bolsonaro’s run.
It’s a crime in Brazil for a political candidate to accept funding or other campaign assistance from a foreign source.
Yes I also realize nothing like that will happen. We can have some fun imagining, occasionally.
And Then The Good Guys Won And We Lived Happily Ever After
I don't know anything about Israeli politics other than the mostly obvious, but I am pretty well acquainted with the long-running serialized fantasy series, Israel, that appears almost daily in our finer periodicals, even as its writers often express anger that anyone is interested in it.
This election was supposed to be a repudiation of Netanyahu, who had polluted the realm with his vile nastiness, and a restoration of the good kingdom.
It does not look like that at all, even if it is somewhat of setback for him, though I expect the writers of Israel will continue on as if it was.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Run Away
I guess he's coded white enough for asylum in Trumpland.
The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled Brazil and is on his way to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential election to the leftwing incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Youthful Indiscretions
I was young, too, one year ago, at 53.
State Sen. Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) has sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021. He dismisses his past sexual advances as “youthful indiscretions” that marked his 30-year marriage.The main issue is not infidelity, which is, aside from gross hypocrisy issues, between him and his wife. It's the unsolicited part:
Multiple sources say they had received or seen nude photos from Taylor, who is running for U.S. Congress in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District. Taylor acknowledged to the Scene that he had sent nude photos in the past but dismissed them as mistakes that have since been forgiven by his wife Kimberly.
“As I near 60 years old, the expiration date has come and gone on any of my youthful indiscretions,” Taylor tells the Scene when asked about a history of texting nude pictures. “Whatever story you think you’ve got, my wife is well aware of and we’ve worked through it a long time ago. My god and my wife have forgiven me, and I would consider everyone else doing the same.”
One individual — who requested anonymity, citing fear of retaliation — says they received an unsolicited nude picture from Taylor as recently as 2021, before he was elected to the state Senate. A second eyewitness source independently confirmed the nude photos sent by Taylor. At that time, Taylor was 53.We kids remember Henry Hyde's youthful indiscretions. Hyde was a youngster for that! 41-45!
Flávio
Never bet on Trump sticking by you. Why does nobody learn this.
Brazil’s leading right-wing politician, Flávio Bolsonaro, effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president Monday, minutes after President Donald Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf despite saying that Sunday’s vote “looked like another rigged election.”
...
“Flávio has given up,” said an adviser to the Bolsonaro family who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details. “He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”
And you have to be able to pay the price, which is a subscription, not a fee. What did Flávio have to offer?
Without defending, I get that there are people who think the Trumpers have made them an offer they can't refuse. I do not understand the people who are eager to make deals with President Deals.
There aren't many people that Trump puts above himself, and fewer and fewer as he gets more and more demented. If he puts you below him, then you are nothing but someone to extract from.
...rumor is he fled to Argentina then the US, though Argentina is denying he entered the country.
Le Pédophile Raciste
The focus of this story is largely about how out of power Dems are impotent, instead of the substance of the committee's report.
Basically, we journalists might treat this more seriously when you win the House.
I've seen this dynamic since the early aughts. Journalists then were openly mocking minority Dems when Henry Waxman was trying to do some oversight of our glorious adventure in Iraq. He held hearings in the basement!!! lol!!!
Basically, we journalists might treat this more seriously when you win the House.
I've seen this dynamic since the early aughts. Journalists then were openly mocking minority Dems when Henry Waxman was trying to do some oversight of our glorious adventure in Iraq. He held hearings in the basement!!! lol!!!
Somehow Republicans in the minority aren't treated this way.
Everybody knows the reality of Trump and Epstein, yet somehow being a supporter of Trump isn't itself scandalous.
Monday, October 26, 2026
Happy Hour
I bet many journalists were pissed they had to chuck out their "Bolsonaro wins/global rejection of the dastardly Left continues" prewrites.
...Ooops, double happy hour posts. Pick your favorite.
Better Things Are Possible
Pedestrianization of major streets isn't without difficulties, though the main one with this stretch of Oxford St. is about diverting buses, but generally once places are fully pedestrianized, it is quickly difficult to imagine they were otherwise before.
Much of Britain’s most famous shopping street will be closed to traffic from Monday as the long-awaited pedestrianisation of London’s Oxford Street begins.
About half of the 1.2 mile street will initially be vehicle-free, after decades of planning and dispute over how to best use the street, an important transport thoroughfare and the home for flagship stores for big shopping chains.
London's odd, for Britain, in that most British cities have long had large pedestrianized chunks in the core and London barely does.
Not that everywhere is a car free utopia, but places for pedestrians aren't alien.
Not The Onion
There is room for disagreements in all subjects, but I really have no interest in people who fail to acknowledge the reality of the state of Israel.
800 Palestinians in Gaza displaced after Israel destroys displacement camp
800 Palestinians have been displaced after Israeli forces set fire to a displacement camp in Shujayea, Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Public Works Ministry.
I don't care whether people personally use the word "genocide," but people who are focused on arguing about the use of such words are prioritizing nitpicking pedantry (correct or not) over, well, genocide.
And if you are discomfited yourself, spend some time looking at the past coverage of Milosevic, and remind yourself what that was all about.
Translating Elon
- Elon's orbital data centers are, unsurprisingly, a joke.
- He will instead muscle out all the potential competitors by buying up everything and using his status as a special boy to ignore all laws and regulations here on planet Earth.
America's Worst Humans
Amy Griffin:
tl;dr a NYT reporter threw some shade on this billionaire and her memoir, and Griffin responded by trying (though she denies) to get a university to deny her daughter's admission application.
Bolsonaro Down
I don't claim to know anything about Brazilian politics other than the obvious stuff, but Lula winning is enraging all the usual horrible people, so that's good.
My guide to ignoring most commentary on foreign elections from US commenters:
My guide to ignoring most commentary on foreign elections from US commenters:
- With very occasional exceptions (Carney getting elected in Canada comes to mind), most foreign voters aren't thinking about the US or Donald Fucking Trump when they vote.
- While Left and Right are, generally, useful heuristics for understanding political parties, other countries also have their "swing voters," critical to close elections, who are just as inscrutable as American swing voters. Moreso, if you are an outsider.
- You can't understand American politics without understanding the role of the American press, and the equivalent is true for every other country. So if you don't know much about the daily media of other countries (generally true of people who don't speak the local language), you don't know much about the daily politics there.
You can of course know a lot of things about Brazil without knowing the daily bullshit that is politics, but you are unlikely to have much to say about how an election swung this way or that.
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Vote Blue No Matter Who Update
Just trying to keep up on the rules.
There is a third option here, also, just don't go on TV right before the midterms with fellow Islamophobe Dana Bash. Keep quiet.
Rep. Haley Stevens sidesteps whether she still supports El-Sayed, criticizes outreach to Black votersI know that "do more outreach to black voters," who Stevens now speaks for, is code for other things that she won't be explicit about and have little to do with black voters, and so he can't actually meet that demand, but to normal people who don't speak this particular language, having a big event with Obama would probably seem like a good first step.
...
BASH: I want to get everybody else in. I just want to -- you're still fully behind Abdul El-Sayed?
STEVENS: Look, I'm on the Democratic ticket. I can't say that I agree with everything that's gone on. I wish that first debate had been more about that rubber stamp for Trump, because we have got a lot of chaos in Michigan. I don't want to debate who's the enemy of the United States. It's very clear that Iran is.
I didn't run my campaign on foreign policy issues, but that was litigated in my primary. I'm not looking to be front and center right now. I'm looking to be on the team to support my next governor, Jocelyn Benson, and, frankly, these great Democrats who are working their tails off who are going to make Hakeem Jeffries the first black speaker of the House.
BASH: You didn't mention Abdul El-Sayed in that last answer. STEVENS: Well, look, I would just say, you had asked me if I'm still on the team. I'm on the team.
There is a third option here, also, just don't go on TV right before the midterms with fellow Islamophobe Dana Bash. Keep quiet.
Sure, Like, Whatever
There are places in California that have better transit/walking than people think, but there isn't a spot in that giant state that isn't 100% carbrained.Larry Kudlow, interviewing Trump, claims that Californians "hate cars"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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It's Groundhog Day, Again
July 6:
WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States would either reach a deal with Iran or "finish the job," renewing his threat of military action as Tehran projects defiance following the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Now:
US President Donald Trump says the US is considering a possible attack on Iran as soon as Sunday, pointing out that Washington might have to “finish the job” or could reach a deal with Tehran.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
That'll Fix Things
Never bet against Susan Collins, sadly, as ridiculous as this seems at this late moment.
The Trump administration is lifting some of its 50% tariffs on Canadian goods two weeks before the midterm elections, after a Republican candidate in a key US Senate race said she had lobbied for the change.Maine voters are suckers for Susan Collins (Republican) pretending to save their state from the policies of Republicans. It's too late for any real impact, but not too late for the Maine media to fluff her.
From 30 October, tariffs will be eased on products including "plywood sheets, some paper products, certain machinery and refrigeration equipment", the White House said on Friday.
Republican Senator Susan Collins, who is in a tight race to keep her seat in Maine, first announced the exemptions, saying they would help her state's agriculture industry.
BiBi The Dove
I miss the old peace-loving BiBi, the one who always showed such restraint. NYT:
Was that his reputation? Amazing.
Was that his reputation? Amazing.
He long had a reputation for being risk averse and avoiding military confrontations, even as he cultivated an image as Israel’s Mr. Security. But that image, as well as Israel’s confidence in its own defense, was badly damaged that day.
Are They Planning To Hit Or Hit Back
There is a difference between "they are planning out to retaliate against the next US strike" and "they are gonna do this soon no matter what."
I know the Hegesth warfighting manual says it is unfair if other countries hit us back, but striking back and striking are different things!
The U.S. government has put employees on heightened alert across the Middle East and moved to reduce personnel levels at embassies and consulates because of intelligence showing Iran is in the advanced stages of planning attacks against Americans, U.S. officials said on Friday.Intelligence officials raised alarms to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a memo on Friday that warned about the dangers to State Department employees in the Middle East and other regions, the officials said.The memo, from Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, said that agencies had “received intelligence that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel. The lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and certain other countries.”
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Friday, October 23, 2026
Is The Mad King About To Blow Some More Things Up
I don't think The Markets have perfect foresight, but oil prices going up do suggest some people are getting a bit more nervous about whatever Trump's next steps are. Or Netanyahu's.
Sure Why Not
Absurd by even current standards.
The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s US Senate election if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in the critical contest which could decide the balance of power in the Senate.The lawsuit represents the latest attempt of the Trump Justice Department to insert itself in the administration of elections, running up against the minimal role the Constitution gives the Executive Branch. It alleges that a candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan could confuse voters and wants a court to potentially delay the certification of the election if Sen. Sullivan is defeated next month.
Basically it's: if Republican Dan Sullivan loses, declare he wins if you can find a couple of voters who claim they voted the wrong way due to confusion.
The administration is asking the court to declare unlawful the certification of a result that was “impacted by voter confusion” and to block election officials from certifying that result until there was an “investigation” into whether voters meaning to vote for the incumbent had cast ballots for other Sullivan.
Small Pleasures
I hope Vivek is enjoying himself.
The sentiment proved to be a bellwether for the audience Q&A. An answer Ramaswamy gave condemning sanctuary cities wasn’t enough for a hoarse-voiced attendee who repeatedly interrupted: “Damned immigrants are hurtin’ everybody! We gotta get all of ’em out of here!”Ramaswamy stumbled for a moment, responding that legal immigrants were still cool, which failed to satisfy the heckler. “All of ’em!” the attendee yelled. “Send in the military!”
I don't want any Republicans to win, of course, but he has made himself especially deserving of losing.
The Faces Of The Democrats
Centrist Dems worry, or pretend to worry, about twitch streamers and the impact of The Groups on what voters think about them, but having Rahm Emanuel out there every day isn't exactly inspiring to a lot of voters, either.
There's a general attitude that The Left isn't allowed to care about anything, and if they do they're just idiots for not voting for Democrats, who will at least be marginally better than Republicans. And, well, maybe not voting for Democrats does make them idiots. But lots of voters are idiots!This is the ninth (9th) major profile of Emanuel since December 2024 that failed to mention Laquan McDonald.
— Heather Cherone (@heathercherone.bsky.social) October 22, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Unless you believe the idiot members of The Left are less reachable than idiot supposed "swing voters" (which some people pretend to believe, but I don't think they really do), this isn't actually a smart way to approach politics.
Some prominent centrists could establish their cred by denouncing Rahm and his murder coverup now before he does more damage!
Some prominent centrists could establish their cred by denouncing Rahm and his murder coverup now before he does more damage!
When the Rahm 2028 campaign heats up, pay attention who joins Team Rahm, on the payroll or otherwise. Flushing out shitty people has some value.
Buck Passing
I bet what's happening here is that Donald listened to the last person he talked to (often, not always). He told Musk it was a great idea then someone else told him various reasons it wasn't.
In part because if Elon gets mad enough he'll do another stupid thing.
President Trump called Elon Musk last week and asked him to restore Ukraine’s full access to the Starshield satellite communications network, according to a senior administration official and a person briefed on the exchange.I'm quite happy to pin it on Elon, and Dem politicians should take the opportunity to do so, too.
Mr. Trump’s call to Mr. Musk, who owns the Starshield network, came after Ukrainian officials reported that they were encountering new limits on their ability to operate the military drones that have become essential to their war against Russia. The development raised alarms in Ukraine that Mr. Trump, who has demanded that Ukraine stop its drone attacks on Russian diesel refineries, might have instructed Mr. Musk to impose the limits.
Asked on Thursday whether he had made such a call to Mr. Musk, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Trump declined to say. “I don’t want to comment on it, you know, whether I called or whether somebody else called — doesn’t make any difference, I guess. The bottom line — he put it back,” the president told reporters.
When asked for comment, the White House pointed to Mr. Trump’s remarks.
It remained unclear on Thursday whether access to the Starshield network had been fully restored. Some Ukrainian officials said that was not yet the case.
In part because if Elon gets mad enough he'll do another stupid thing.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
The Big Money
I used to correctly say that the Dem-associated fundraising world wasn't a big scam (or nearly as big, at least) like the conservative fundraising world was. It is now.
If your $100 was in response to a fundraising text or email, the single most expensive way to raise money in American politics, $65 is instantly consumed by the cost of asking you for it. Asking this often, and this aggressively, is expensive. It means paying the data brokers who traffic in your personal information, the digital copywriters who draft the inexplicably bizarre messaging, the email and SMS providers who specialize in slipping past spam filters, the compliance lawyers, and, of course, the fundraising consultants. Another $2 goes to strategic consultants for advice on how to spend what’s left, and $14 to administration, travel, and staff. Of the $19 that finally goes toward advertising for the actual candidate, $6 is skimmed off the top as a placement commission before a single ad airs. In the end, barely $13 of your $100 buys real airtime or digital ads.
Don't Think That Will Happen
Supremos will say 6-3 Trump can sue anyone he wants but also doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to do.
Last week, the BBC asked the judge to order Mr Trump to appear after he cancelled an agreed date of 16 October, citing "matters of national importance".
The corporation argues the president is attempting to delay his appearance until January next year.
Judge Lett said Mr Trump must sit for a deposition by 11 December, or face sanctions up to dismissal of his lawsuit - unless the discovery period was extended past 18 December.
That might be a joke, but one way or another I doubt this deposition happens.
Everything He Touches
My first thought after reading the headline was that I bet they didn't enlist skilled movers and yep that was it exactly.
Two floor globes said to be used by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II are housed in the Pentagon, where subsequent generations of Army leaders became custodians of the artifacts, according to people familiar with their lineage and an accompanying plaque dating them to the 1930s.
The historical significance was attractive to Hegseth, these people said, and his staff requested that the secretary’s office become the new home to one of the 30-inch globes.
Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped it, sending the globe crashing onto its base and impaling the fragile shell near Antarctica, according to those familiar with the incident. The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide.
All of these people reject the idea that anybody knows anything they don't, that there is anything to know that they don't, that other people actually have useful skills. Expertise is woke nonsense.
And they are all toddlers:
The history staffers were furloughed due to a partial government shutdown stemming from a dispute in Congress over aspects of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. When the experts could not be reached, Hegseth’s staff decided to move the globe themselves, these people said.
It is unclear why Hegseth’s team did not wait for experienced help to move the artifact during the partial government shutdown, which ended the same day the globe was damaged. An “apparent lack of patience,” said one person familiar with the situation, appeared to be a factor.
Me want globe now!!!
Abundance!
The Abundance guys attempted to code all Nimbysm as misguided lefty stuff, knowing that was the easiest way to get all the usual marks on board. If hippies oppose something, it must be good!
West Jordan • When a data center campus moved in across the street from her quiet neighborhood, Susan Jurges said the first thing she lost was the view.The Oquirrh Mountains once stretched across the horizon beyond a grassy field, where goats and other animals roamed. In the mornings, from her kitchen window, she could watch the sun crest over the peaks.Now, three data centers obstruct that view, surrounded by generators that pump out what looks like black smog.Even so, Jurges said, “I could live with that.”Then came the noise.
Actual yimbyism was a lefty urbanist project, which they repurposed as right wing tech overlord "build smog belching unbearable noise factories next door" project.
It did serve as a useful way to flush out bad faith actors.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
We Got This
Jokes aside, it is the people with millions of dollars in campaign budgets, and who are extremely well-compensated, who are responsible, along with others with genuinely large platforms. I don't think this humble blog has zero influence on the world - and I do take that tiny responsibility seriously - but it is much much less than that of the CNN green room residents, your NYT "liberal" columnists, and the CEO of the Center for American Progress.
If things go well in the midterms, all of those people will take credit. If they don't, they will be desperate to blame people with much less power than they have.
And if those people can't pull it off when Republicans are this unpopular...
More Like This
Though most senior Dems haven't been better.
Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all. If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.
— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) 21 October 2026 at 19:00
Miserable Failure
Getting closer to sub-30...
More than three-quarters of voters see this election as their chance to change things up in Washington, the poll finds. Trump’s approval rating stands at a record low of 32%, and voters express broad dissatisfaction with both the economy and the state of the country nearly two years into unified GOP control of the federal government.
Sounds Bad
Our approach to war is that it's always unfair to respond in any way. And, well, maybe it is, but that doesn't stop it from happening.
Iran has threatened to cut undersea internet cables that run beneath the Strait of Hormuz to choke the global banking system.
Gen Hossein Mohebbi, spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), described the communication lines on the seabed as “legitimate new targets”.
Severing the cables could affect global systems, disrupting financial markets, bank transactions, healthcare and the consumer internet.
This Year's Soccer Moms
Every election cycle, savvy pollsters invent an important voter category, like "Soccer Moms." This year it's "Pedophile Parents" and Ramaswamy is gonna make sure those people go to the polls.
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor is pouring $4 million into a bombshell ad in which his opponent's estranged mother attacks her daughter — doubling down on the message despite fierce bipartisan backlash, Axios has learned.
Extremely savvy politics.
Asked for corroboration of that report, police and court officials in the Youngstown area could not immediately produce records from the 1970s. But the Acton campaign produced documents showing that Dr. Acton’s stepfather pleaded not guilty, was indicted by a grand jury and fled the state before trial. Though another warrant was issued for his arrest, he never appeared before a judge. He died in Pennsylvania in 2004.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Seize It
Not a surprise of course.
Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine
The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions
A feisty European prosecutor might meet him at the border, too.
Seems to be some buck passing between Trumpers and Musk, too, so who knows.
Some U.S. officials say that Musk acted unilaterally and that Trump didn’t specifically order any retribution against Ukraine. But a person familiar with the situation said Musk talked to multiple senior administration officials, including with Trump, before imposing the new speed cap, which Ukrainian officials said had allowed Russian missiles to evade their defenses.
Fundamentals
Most economic news seems to be average-to-bad, yet the stock market keeps soaring!
Who will be the bag holders?
Our Friends In The Middle East
Being a lefty noninterventionist (this is not an absolute position, just a strong lean), I, or people like me, get screamed at a lot for being too soft on whoever the Big Bad of the Day is. Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, Russia...
When we urgently have to go bomb the shit out of the Big Bad's innocent civilians, people like me tend to object, and not because we love Saddam or Gadhafi or Ahmadinejad or Assad or Putin usually, but because we don't like blowing people up and don't think we have a very good record of accomplishments when we do.
And then there's our ally Saudi Arabia. It might be the worst regime in the world, by whatever measure. Close to it, anyway. It isn't that I want to go bomb Riyadh, but I do wish that some of the people who love to scream at hippies for loving dictators would explain their silence on the country, occasionally.
The UK will deploy RAF Typhoon jets to defend Saudi Arabia in response to escalating Houthi missile and drone attacks, the government has said.
Sure there are always Realpolitik arguments, but lefty RealPolitik arguments generally don't get much consideration.
Real Men Go To Tehran
And there are no realer men than Bibi and Donald.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says both he and President Trump are “committed to completing the elimination of the Iranian regime” and recently “discussed this”.
The great thing about regimes is once you eliminate one then there's a new regime and you get to eliminate that one too.
There is no actual vision, real or fake, for what the next regime should be or how to achieve it.
No I have no idea what will happen.
Welp
20 years ago I would've said (and likely did, on this very blog) that while the US had an immense amount of ignored corruption, it was somewhat segregated from actual lawmakers themselves. Now I don't think this is true at all. Corruption in congressional offices is the norm, not the exception.
In early 2025, the FBI opened a sweeping investigation into bribery on Capitol Hill with Graham’s steakhouse dinner at the center. Kao confessed to federal agents that his business model consisted of bribing public officials in exchange for government contracts, and that the research Navatek was providing to the government was often worthless.The scheme involved some of the most powerful figures in Congress, he said — in both parties. In South Carolina, Kao told agents, Navatek made a campaign cash-for-contracts deal not only with Graham, but also with the state’s top Democrat, Rep. James Clyburn, and another influential Republican, Rep. Joe Wilson.Kao told agents that Graham in particular left little room for ambiguity: “This is how much I want, and how much I am going to give you,” Kao remembered Graham saying, according to notes one agent took during their debrief in late 2024.
Resistance to new electeds who don't come from within the normal channels is to some degree about ideological and clan replication, but it is also because newcomers might be shocked to find all the gambling in the casino.
Trump made all these investigations go away.
The Supremos have made bribery an almost nonexistent crime, but something doesn't have to be a crime to be incredibly corrupt, something many journalists have been pretending to forget lately.
It's Evening In America
I keep saying this, but I do think it's important to understand that an increasingly senile malignant narcissist will happily burn the world down on his way out. Things cannot go on without him.
His monuments (ballroom, Kennedy Center, arch, etc.) are his attempts to live forever, though in true Trump style he can't imagine doing that by putting his name on anything actually good, or spending his own money to do it.
Trump is very good at fucking things up with good intentions (I don't mean he is ever good, just that in his own mind his crackpot plans are genius). Imagine what happens when he fully turns to wrecking things on purpose?
Trump is very good at fucking things up with good intentions (I don't mean he is ever good, just that in his own mind his crackpot plans are genius). Imagine what happens when he fully turns to wrecking things on purpose?
He's already done some of this, such as destroying the Kennedy Center. That blast radius could grow.
Oh Canada
I also know nothing about Canadians politics. I don't think all separatist/independence movements should be dismissed out of hand, but this seemed to be Chud magnet.
Though in all these situations, "voting for independence" is the easy part. It's the details of the divorce agreement that matter, and can't be captured in an aspirational vote.
Nobody really knew what they were voting for with Brexit, for example, which was its own kind of separatist vote. It could've allowed for "Norway" or the shitshow they ultimately agreed to.
Though in all these situations, "voting for independence" is the easy part. It's the details of the divorce agreement that matter, and can't be captured in an aspirational vote.
Nobody really knew what they were voting for with Brexit, for example, which was its own kind of separatist vote. It could've allowed for "Norway" or the shitshow they ultimately agreed to.
Monday, October 19, 2026
Why They Changed It I Can't Say
Snowball
I suspect people will start missing their mortgage payments in nontrivial numbers.
Trump administration officials are preparing to impose financial penalties on millions of Americans in default on their federal student loans next year, according to five sources familiar with the matter.
The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors, three of the sources said, possibly as soon as November. The sources said those plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections.
I'm not going to yet claim that Trump will deliberately destroy the economy - he's pretty good at doing that with his brilliant ideas without intending to - but I will say that he will happily burn everything down on the way out.
Obviously this particular consideration is in itself corrupt, but it was also true during the whole student loan discourse during Biden's term. People buried by student loans are mostly not who The Discourse imagines them to beLast year, Treasury officials expressed concerns that too aggressively pursuing these measures could hurt low-income borrowers, two sources said. Staff also said they pointed out to senior Treasury officials that scores of Trump supporters would be seriously hurt by going after the wages and benefits of workers who are in many cases struggling to hold onto their jobs. Their message was, “This is not who you think it is. The demographics are not good for us,” one source said.
Vote Blue No Matter Who
Carville doesn't run The Democrats, of course, but his name is on half of their fundraising pleas.
Born Every Minute
We all (even me) get things wrong, but a reasonable take on the last few decades would be to see it as an era of elites being suckered by scammers over and over again, from Enron to Saddam-had-WMDs to mortgage derivatives to Theranos to Elon-Is-Tony-Stark to NFTs to various obvious fake things about Gaza/Israel to AI...
I'm sure I am leaving many things out.
It wasn't that people made mistakes, it was that the people-with-microphones shouted down anyone who disagreed, almost in unison, and then quickly moved on to embrace the next scam.
Sure some people were the cons, not the marks, but I think that often they are the same people simultaneously. Elon himself is both con and mark most of the time, in that he often does believe his own bullshit.
Sure, Elon
Vive
I haven't said anything about what's happening in France because I have no idea what's happening in France.
I have long recognized that I know absolutely nothing about the politics of countries other than the US and the UK, and almost everyone non-French weighing in on such things knows as much as I do.
"We" scoff at the opinions/knowledge of mostly clueless American swing voters when they express themselves to a NYT reporter, and those people know much more about American politics than almost every generalist US pundit knows about France.
I have long recognized that I know absolutely nothing about the politics of countries other than the US and the UK, and almost everyone non-French weighing in on such things knows as much as I do.
"We" scoff at the opinions/knowledge of mostly clueless American swing voters when they express themselves to a NYT reporter, and those people know much more about American politics than almost every generalist US pundit knows about France.
Our politics is often incredibly stupid, and so is the politics of France and every country. If you don't have any sense of the stupid bits, you don't really have any sense of what's happening, ever.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Inside the Khole
I struggle to believe there are any suckers left who buy this, but...
He is taking $250,000 deposits for a product that will supposedly start being produced, not sold, in 2028.
Grifts Inside Grifts
I get that people are corrupt, but I have a hard time understanding the fairly common mindset of people who see everything as an opportunity to grift.
The White House investigation into a dispute between two prominent Trump supporters, Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon, centers on a bank transfer from the Democratic Republic of Congo to a Texas defense company, people familiar with the matter said.
Mrs. Mildon, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, stormed into the Oval Office last week accusing Mr. Grenell of siphoning millions of dollars from a business transaction in 2025 organized by a Turkish investor who later became her husband. Part of the money, she claimed, was meant to be set aside for a donation to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts but was never delivered to the institution. Mr. Grenell ran the Kennedy Center at the time.
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Mrs. Mildon initially told White House officials that the money, $17.6 million, came from her now-husband, Turhan Mildon, whom she married last month. The initial set of documents that her husband’s lawyer submitted to the White House, however, redacted the name of the sender, according to the people familiar with the matter.
The White House later learned that the transfer was made from a bank account affiliated with the Congolese government, the people said. Mr. Mildon has previously acknowledged to The Times, through a spokesman, that he serves as an adviser to the Congolese president and holds a diplomatic passport of the country.
Americas Worst Humans
Thomas Teepell
In the now-viral video, we see a young white man in a gray long-sleeve shirt standing up in a crowd and shouting a question: “Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?” He aimed his question at Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a town hall event in Caro, Michigan, on Saturday. From the stage, El-Sayed met it with steely resolve. “Why are you asking the question?” he replied. “What are you implying?”...
The Handbasket is first to report that Tommy is Thomas Teepell, who, according to his X and Facebook profiles, currently lives in Detroit. Teepell served as Operations Director for Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley until February of this year, according to Legistorm. He then took a job as Political Director for the failed gubernatorial campaign of Philip Sarnecki, a Republican businessman in Kansas.
Tommy’s father is Timmy Teepell, a Republican strategist who worked for congressman and then Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal from 2004 to 2011; he also ran Jindal’s ill-fated presidential primary campaign in 2015. He joined the consulting firm OnMessage in 2011, and helped the virtually unknown Hawley get elected Attorney General of Missouri in 2016. Two years later, he helped Hawley become a United States Senator.
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
— Abdul El-Sayed (@abdulelsayed.bsky.social) October 18, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Saturday, October 17, 2026
If European Politicians Weren't Shit
They would be turning Musk in public enemy #1.
If only people had listened to me about Elon, years ago...
Nobody listens to Atrios.
Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, The Telegraph can reveal.He shouldn't just be worried about the consumer reaction.
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However, after what was described as a “night of carnage” in Kyiv because of the blackout, a senior source said Mr Musk had been alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe.
If only people had listened to me about Elon, years ago...
Nobody listens to Atrios.
Ah, Well, Nevertheless
RelatedThese Daily Mail stories aren’t just tabloid trash, they’re simply made up. Up and down the White House, everyone has been thoroughly impressed with Katie in just a few short days on the job. At the end of this second term, she’ll be remembered as one of the all-time greats. https://t.co/DLHxX9d2wq
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) October 14, 2026
Friday, October 16, 2026
A Bit Of A Problem
Not sure I believe it, but it is a problem if random people are freelancing with such things.
Q: If it wasn't you, then who gave the order for Starlink to go down in Ukraine? TRUMP: I don't know
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 16 October 2026 at 18:07
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Was She Hamas
Was honestly curious if the Post would cover this at all. American journalists have shown little solidarity with journalists, even their own colleagues, in Israel/Gaza/West Bank.
ABU FALAH, West Bank — Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers trying to gather their autumn olive harvest on Friday, setting groves on fire and slinging rocks in a coordinated assault that fits a pattern of escalating settler violence across the occupied West Bank.Also caught up in the attack was Heidi Levine, a veteran photographer for The Washington Post. Levine, wearing a protective vest clearly marked PRESS on front and back. She was knocked her to the ground, kicked repeatedly and stripped of her cameras and phone.She was taken to a hospital in the Ramallah area.Witnesses described a mass, coordinated attack in which dozens of men in black came down from a hilltop settlement near the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, where Palestinian families were picking their olives. Video of the incident corroborated the witness accounts.
The Only Man Who Deserved It
And the only man who ever will.
Donald Trump is likely to end up as the only political leader awarded the Fifa peace prize after Gianni Infantino was told at Thursday’s meeting of the Fifa council to make major changes or scrap the controversial award.
Offramp
Trump is looking for an excuse - any excuse - to declare victory and go home but I do not think he has any way of achieving that, absent a full unreality immersion tank of AI generated "news" and groveling apologies from fake Iranian leaders.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out the possibility that he would use a nuclear weapon against Iran as he continues to issue threats to the West Asian nation. In an interview with Newsmax, Trump also said that he has no plans to deploy ground troops to the Islamic Republic.
His people might do that for him!
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Some People Say That There's A Woman To Blame
Well, Trump does. Every time.
According to Politico, President Donald Trump has been calling up friends and allies to inquire whether it’s time for him to sack his longest-serving chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and replace her with a fresh face atop the White House totem pole.
Citing four sources with direct knowledge of the president’s conversations, the outlet reported that Trump has been floating several names for a successor to Wiles, the veteran Florida political operative who is the first woman to serve in the chief of staff position.
He reportedly has found no shortage of people willing to encourage him to dump his loyal aide overboard, with one GOP operative noting that Wiles has “burned a lot of people” in her time leading Trump’s administration.
A Republican elected official whose views have been solicited by the president said he has mused about elevating Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller or bringing in New York Yankees executive Randy Levine to run things as his top aide.
Not that I feel sorry for any of these people, but it is a pattern.
Sad Pete Hegseth
The thrill was going to last him a week, at least.
US President Donald Trump has called off plans to stream the Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad.
As criticism over the public display has mounted, Trump said on Thursday that "many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die".
As I said yesterday, Trump does maintain enough sense to know that there was no way that would come across well, even to most of the people who would be inclined to enjoy such a thing.
Sure Why Not
"We must do something, this is something" reasoning is incredibly dangerous when the only perceived options are reaching for bigger and bigger hammers (bombs).
Another US official noted that when the military plans, it develops a menu of options for policymakers that range from the high-end to low-end. Higher-end targets, including those that are located deep underground, require bigger bombs, and the MOAB is the biggest, the official added.
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But there are questions around whether the MOAB would be an effective munition to use against Iran’s nuclear facilities and other sites that are located deep underground. While the GPS-guided bomb is capable of destroying an area equivalent to nine city blocks, it likely lacks the capability to penetrate deep enough under the surface to destroy the suspected nuclear facilities at Pickaxe, which is believed to be fortified by layers of granite, and other remaining Iranian nuclear sites, sources said.
You can blow up stuff and kill people, but Iran is a very big country. Hell, most countries, even small ones, are very big countries relative to the scale of damage that non-nuclear missiles and bombs can do.
But we must do something! Dropping a big bomb is something!
Likely Van Jones will get on TV and inform us, after dropping some MOABs, that, once again, Donald Trump has become president on this day.
On The Trump Train
Working out for every eager participant in the Trump agenda.
Oct 14 (Reuters) - Oil giant Saudi Aramco's (2223.SE), opens new tab headquarters in Dhahran suffered extensive damage in an attack on Tuesday, with a fire spreading across several floors, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Much is above my pay grade, in that I don't know how to unshit Trump's bed, but I do know that he will regularly shit the bed of his closest partners and leave the unshitting to them.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Nothing But Grift
More sideshows to amuse us.
Place your bets: who wins this battle? Keep in mind that the winner isn't neccessarily the correct side, just the side that Trump likes more
- Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another one of his top advisers — former Kennedy Center leader Ric Grenell — failed to deposit a multimillion-dollar donation that her billionaire husband made to the center a year ago, according to four senior administration officials and three insiders briefed on the controversy.
- Grenell denied the accusations as "absurd" and a "lie."
- Habba and her husband, Turhan Mildon, declined to comment through a spokesperson.
Welp
FANNIE MAE sees higher mortgage rates through the end of this year and into 2027. Sees 30-year fixed at 7.4% for Q4 and 7.5% for all of next year. (via @dianaolick.bsky.social) @cnbc.com
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 14 October 2026 at 16:45
Pay Me
She wants wingnut welfare tenure, of course.
Kimberly Guilfoyle is threatening to bring the Trump family down with her following her shock ouster this week, insiders say.
Just gossip, but we can have a bit of fun.
Bad TV
Gramps still has some sense of what might not be the greatest show on Earth.
President Donald Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not initially know that Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down, two sources familiar with the discussions told CNN....One of the sources familiar with the discussions pointed to Trump’s deep understanding of imagery as a key reason why he may decide to ditch plans for the livestream. The president has also listened to the argument that a public execution by firing squad could serve as propaganda for foreign adversaries and terrorists to try to paint Hasan as a martyr, a Trump adviser told CNN.
"Deep understanding" that there really isn't any way to make shooting a paralyzed guy look good, even to (most of the) people who want to see live firing squads.
Men In Good Standing
One wonders what Musk will have to do to make him as unacceptable to Beltway journalists as Hasan Piker is.
Elon Musk has turned on Ukraine by imposing limits on his Starlink devices, Kyiv has claimed.Advisers to Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that military missions had been scuppered after restrictions were implemented on the critical communications devices without warning.
I mean, if I started posting various Musk quotes as my own then held a fundraiser for a Michigan Senate candidate, Kristin Welker would grill that candidate endlessly about me and those quotes.
Or if I could credibly be painted as a Putin sympathizer.
Musk can fund half the Republican party and take active sides in this conflict and no one says a word to his associates, the entire Republican caucus.
Biden should've seized Musk's company when this happened before.
KYIV - During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service the billionaire provided early in the war to help Ukraine’s military maintain battlefield connectivity.
America First
Ukraine isn't the only place where being "American" means nothing to the people who run America if it is inconvenient to the people in charge and their policies.
As President Donald Trump and his administration have ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine to stop striking Russian refineries, citing harm to American consumers, they have remained silent on recent Russian strikes on US businesses in Ukraine.This isn't surprising, but it is interesting that this is the first I am hearing of it.
Russia has escalated its attacks on facilities tied to American corporations – and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine writ large – over the past several months.
According to Andy Hunder, the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, Russian missiles and drones have damaged facilities belonging to some of America’s most notable brands, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, McDonalds and Oreo.
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