Ex-Staffer: Katie Potatey Focused on the Quiet, Shy Staffers for Bullying and Humiliation

Psychopaths develop a skill for choosing victims.

I'm talking about Katie Porter but I heard someone, I think one of the guys on the Ruthless podcast, call this gourd-shaped monstrosity "Katie Potatey" and that's the only name I'll use for her going forward.

I will also correct the NYPost, which erroneously refers to Katie Potatey as "Katie Porter."

Katie Potatey targeted 'softer spoken' underlings for abuse, was 'downright mean', ex-staffer warns voters

By Chadwick Moore

Katie Potatey was exposed for berating a staffer and throwing a tantrum during an interview in two video clips this week.

And the California governor candidate is even worse when cameras aren't rolling, one ex-staffer told The Post Friday.

One of the lawyer and politician's cruelest tactics is dehumanizing her young underlings by referring to them in the third person -- while in their presence.

"It was easier for her to do these things to the quieter ones, the more soft-spoken ones, who wouldn't be like, 'hey, that's not okay,' " Sasha Georgiades, a former Wounded Warrior Fellow and Navy veteran who served in Porter's office from 2020--2022, told The Post.

"Going after the people you think aren't going to fight back -- I think it speaks a lot about a person's nature when they do that.

"Especially in arena like politics, which you're here to serve people. Actually, you're here to serve those quiet people more, at least that's my viewpoint on it," she added.

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Georgiades described a Jekyll and Hyde boss, never knowing which Katie would show up.

"If anything went wrong, she would flip on a dime," Georgiades said, recalling one incident where her young team had setup a Facebook video shoot but picky Potatey didn't like what they had done.

"She's talking to me while the other girl is in the room, telling me, 'I don't even know why she's here. I can do this job better than her.' And this is, like, very inappropriate. The girl's in the room with us," Georgiades said.

"It is dehumanizing and it's demoralizing. It makes you question: why am I even doing this?" Georgiades reflected.

In July 2022, Georgiades released text messages with Potatey exposing her shockingly toxic work environment. Potatey and Georgiades had both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an in-person staff meeting. Porter then sent angry text messages blaming the asymptomatic Georgiades for infecting her--and then fired her.

Potatey's campaign didn't immediately return The Post's request for comment.

The explosive former congresswoman was also accused of having a short fuse by her ex-husband, with whom she has three children, who described in a restraining order how she had once allegedly dumped steaming mashed potatoes on his head and had chastised him with swear words in front of their kids.

Oh! So maybe that's why Ruthless called her Katie Potatey. I assumed it was just due to her figure, which resembles a sack of spuds with a gland issue.

Below, Katie Potatey speculates about Trump's "demise," fantasizing about him having a heart attack.

Katie Potatey, maybe you should worry about your own cardiovascular health.

Or don't. Healthy at any size!

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Schmolls: Jay Jones Now Trails in Virginia, with Winsome Earle-Sears Now Behind By Just Two Points

Jay Jones' sick fantasies about watching children die in their mother's arms, and Deep State Operative Abigail Spanberger's absurd dodging of the transgender question, have suddenly made Virginia competitive in all three statewide races:

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🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, who wants Republicans and their children to die, FALLS WAY BEHIND Jason Miyares (R) -- and Winsome Sears (R) is within striking distance for governor

AG:
🔴 Miyares: 49% (+6) [WOW]
🔵 Jones: 43%

Governor:
🔵 Spanberger: 47.7% (+2.6)
🔴 Sears: 45.1%

REPUBLICANS - GO VOTE!

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In New York, Governness Kathy Hochul is very "vulnerable."

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Oct 8

2026 New York Governor Election Poll

🔵 Kathy Hochul: 48%
🔴 Elise Stefanik: 43%

Grayhouse/Landon Wall | 1,250 LV

And that five point lead narrows when respondents are reminded of Hochul's (unreciprocated) endorsement of Ugandan terrorist and communist Zohran Mamdani.

This race doesn't go to the polls until next year, but it's still interesting to see Democrats flailing even in the bluest of blue states.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul retains just a five percentage-point lead against potential 2026 Republican challenger Elise Stefanik -- and loses that advantage when likely voters first hear about both candidates' records, according to a new internal poll.

Stefanik trails behind Hochul, 48% to 43%, on an initial ballot but narrowly beats the incumbent Democrat, 46.4% to 45.9%, when voters leaning toward voting in the 2026 race hear about the governor endorsing New York City mayoral front-runner and socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, the poll found, among other issues.

If Mamdani wins Gracie Mansion, up to 47% of independent voters also said they'd be less likely to vote for Hochul or other Democrats up and down the ballot in the midterms.

The survey, paid for by Stefanik's leadership fundraising committee E-PAC, showed likely gubernatorial voters also downgraded Hochul for her record on supporting bail reform in New York and other cost-of-living concerns.

Hochul's job performance rating is also underwater, 56% to 39%, and at least half of the likely voters polled strongly disapprove of the Democrat.

Meanwhile, just 34% of the likely voters said as of this month they were ready to re-elect Hochul, while 59% said it was time for someone new.

Pollster Landon Wall, of the firm Grayhouse, said his survey of 1,250 likely 2026 midterm voters reveals Hochul is in a "deeply vulnerable position."

In New Jersey, Jack Ciattarelli is tied with the sinking cheater and swindler Mikie Sherril. (Ignore Scott Pressler's typo about Ciatterelli being the governor of Pennsylvania.)

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The Niece Living at Big Tish's Mortgage-Fraud Scam-Pad Is, Get This, a Criminal Fugitive

Big Tish has a family of criminals. Including a criminal absconder.

Lock. Her. Up.

The tenant living in the Virginia house at the center of New York Attorney General Letitia James's federal indictment is a 'fugitive' from justice, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

James has reportedly allowed her grandniece Nakia Thompson - along with Thompson's three children - to live in the three-bedroom property in Norfolk since 2020.

Now, in an embarrassing twist for Donald Trump's nemesis, Daily Mail has discovered that Thompson is officially listed as an 'absconder' who is being sought by authorities in North Carolina for failing to finish her probation.

'Ms Thompson was sentenced to probation for misdemeanor convictions for assault and battery and trespassing, and has willfully avoided probation supervision,' Keith Acree, communications director for the North Carolina Department of Corrections told Daily Mail.

'An absconder is considered a fugitive,' Acree added. 'Thompson faces arrest if she is located in North Carolina.' He said her crimes of assault and trespass are considered 'non-extraditable' due to their low level.

The 36-year-old told a grand jury in June that she had been living rent-free at James's home -- now valued at $235,000 -- since the Attorney General bought it, claiming that James pays for even basic upkeep, the New York Times reported.

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On the NCDC website is an appeal for information leading to Thompson's whereabouts, along with a mugshot and an offender number -- 0898340.

During her time at New York state's top prosecutor, James has championed her work bringing fugitives to justice, including the extradition from Pakistan of a Medicaid fraud ringleader.

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When approached by Daily Mail, Thompson simply said 'no comment', before bizarrely adding that she was 'very much in college, and very much a graduate'.
Before moving to James's home in 2020 -- which the prosecutor had purchased for $109,000 -- Thompson had a string of brushes with the law in Virginia and North Carolina, records show.

In 2005 she was placed on probation in Forsyth County, North Carolina, for simple assault, and the following year was handed a suspended sentence for two counts of assault against a government official, according to NCDC.

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Low-IQ Narcisist and Epic Failure Joe Biden Wants Credit for Trump's Success In the Middle East

Joe Biden is a corrupt demented fool who has always fancied himself a foreign policy genius. No matter how stupid his plans were, and how often they failed, he clinged to the old fart fantasy that he was a world-class Machiavel.

On Friday, Politico reported that Biden's staffers had "mixed feelings" about the Trump Team's winning of the hostages' freedom. They claim they were happy they were to be released.

But, more importantly, they were spiteful that Trump had accomplished what they failed to achieve.

And as usual, you can ignore everything before the "but."

As the world hopes for the remaining Israeli hostages to soon return home from Gaza, one group has bittersweet feelings about President DONALD TRUMP's progress toward ending the Israel-Hamas war.

Biden administration officials are thrilled that a ceasefire is taking hold and that the hostages will be freed. But they also have a bit of sour grapes -- arguing that they laid the groundwork for Trump's effort and that he could have executed on it much earlier.

Trump, some noted, took office in January with a ceasefire in place, but the truce collapsed and Trump spent months doing little as Gaza sunk into further despair.

As one Biden administration official put it, Trump "inherited a ceasefire that fell apart due to a lack of U.S. engagement, allowed Israel to implement a strategy of starvation, got dragged into the war with Iran and ultimately started to exert leverage only after the botched strike in Qatar last month." The bottom line? "It's good that he came around," the former official said. "But it's a tragedy that it took so long."

Some former aides to President JOE BIDEN are suggesting Trump's 20-point plan may be built off a blueprint they left behind, but the Trump team has made no such admission. Former Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN alluded to this in a recent podcast, saying of the much-ballyhooed Trump 20-point plan: "This is essentially the plan that we developed over many months and more or less left in a drawer for the incoming administration, and I'm very, very glad they picked it up."

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Some former Biden officials, including senior aides to the president and vice president, have been soul-searching in recent months about whether they could have done more to stop the war. But NatSec Daily didn't get any sense that the Biden administration officials were embarrassed or jealous that it was Trump and not them who finally imposed this settlement.

"'Jealous' isn't the right word," a second former Biden administration official said, adding that there's a sense that "because Trump is depraved most of the time, when he does something he's supposed to do he gets more credit than he deserves."

Politico is really claiming that this shows no signs of embarrassment or jealousy.

Deep State Operative and author of the "51 Intelligence Officials" psyop Anthony Blinken claims that Trump merely extended the ceasefire that he and Biden already achieved.

On X, Biden -- who is undergoing treatment for cancer -- said that he was "deeply grateful and relieved" that the Gaza war is approaching its end.

"The road to this deal was not easy," the Democrat wrote. "My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war."

But Biden also gave Trump credit for getting "a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line."

LOL. Biden brought the ball 90 yards to the 1-yard line and Trump merely punched it over the goal-line, huh?

"Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety," he concluded.

On Monday, Blinken said Trump's 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip was based on one developed by the Biden administration.

In a lengthy post on X, Blinken, who served in the Biden administration, outlined how Trump was able to secure the peace agreement. He noted that Arab states and Turkey have said "enough" to Hamas, and said the response also showed that other Iran-backed groups -- Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi rebels -- were not coming to Hamas' aid.

"It starts with a clear and comprehensive post-conflict plan for Gaza," Blinken wrote. "It's good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden administration developed after months of discussion with Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority."

Blinken said the Biden administration briefly secured a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in January, resulting in the release of 135 hostages before the deal fell apart.

He also questioned how Trump could secure a permanent peace plan.

Biden thinks he deserves credit because of his "plan" for peace. This plan for peace being, we should have a peace plan.

Wow, what a foreign policy genius.

But that's like a football coach saying that his plan for a victory is that he thinks his team should wind up with more points than the other team.

Via Ed Morrissey, the WSJ reports that Trump's plan was a touch more developed than that. Since his inauguration, Trump has begged and bullied and bought off all of Hamas' supporters, diplomatically isolating Hamas, and getting even its backers in Qatar to tell it to take this deal or else we're done with you and you're on your own.

Egypt and Qatar told Hayya the deal was his last chance to end the war, according to the officials. They pressed Hamas to understand that holding the hostages was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of legitimacy to keep fighting.

The next day, joined by Turkey, they warned him that if Hamas didn't approve the plan it would be stripped of all political and diplomatic cover; Qatar and Turkey would no longer host the group's political leadership, and Egypt would stop pressing for Hamas to have a say in Gaza's postwar governance, the officials said.

It was enough to get Hamas to agree to release all its hostages in Gaza and sign on to the first part of Trump's peace deal, giving up what had been its most important bargaining chip to keep a seat at the table. While modifying its acceptance with heavy caveats that reflected its concerns about the deal, Hamas had given Trump an opportunity to declare victory and set the stage for a hostage release early this week.

Trump's plan: Isolate Hamas and bully its patrons into forcing it to take the deal

Biden's "Plan:" Draw up a list of "Nice to Have" wants

Now that Trump has succeeded where Biden -- plot twist -- failed constantly, Biden thinks he's owed credit for Trump's success.

Joe Biden has praised Donald Trump for his success in negotiating a peace deal which allowed the 20 remaining Hamas survivors to return home.

But he also tried to take some credit for the monumental deal, claiming his administration had laid the groundwork for Trump to negotiate.

'The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war,' Biden said in a statement to X on Monday.

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Supporters gathered in the streets to celebrate their hostages coming home
Trump has been hailed a hero in Israel as Israelis celebrate the release of the hostages

He later addressed a peace summit with global leaders where he called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East.

'We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put the old feuds and bitter hatreds behind us,' Trump said, and he urged leaders 'to declare that our future will not be ruled by the fights of generations past.'

The whirlwind trip, which included the summit in Egypt and a speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem earlier in the day, comes at a fragile moment of hope for ending two years of war between Israel and Hamas.

'Everybody said it's not possible to do. And it's going to happen. And it is happening before your very eyes,' Trump said alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.

Nearly three dozen countries, including some from Europe and the Middle East, were represented at the summit. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited but declined, with his office saying it was too close to a Jewish holiday.

Trump promised to help rebuild Gaza, and he urged Palestinians to 'turn forever from the path of terror and violence.'

'After tremendous pain and death and hardship,' he said, 'now is the time to concentrate on building their people up instead of trying to tear Israel down.'

Israelis have little doubts about whether it is Biden and Blinken or Trump, Rubio, and Witikof who deserve credit:

Israeli lawmakers chanted Trump's name and gave him standing ovation after standing ovation. Some people in the audience wore red hats that resembled his "Make America Great Again" caps, although these versions said "Trump, The Peace President."

And Trump blasted Biden and Obama for their failures and weakness:

But Trump also took the opportunity to lay blame on former Democratic presidents for their failure to stabilize the region.

'All of the countries in the Middle East that could have what we're doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden,' Trump said.

'There was a hatred towards Israel.'

'Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak, I guarantee you that,' he added.

Even this graceless, charmless hag realized that it is self-defeating (and self-revealing) to attempt to deny credit to Team Trump:

Trump's former presidential competitor Hillary Clinton also praised the deal at the weekend.

'It's a really significant first step and I really commend Trump and his administration,' Clinton said on CBS News.

On the other hand, there's America's First Homosexual President, the graceless Kenyan Muslim Obama.

He refused to even mention Trump in noting the hostage deal. Even CNN's low-IQ shill Abby Philip thought this was petty, even by the low, base standards of the narcissistic homosexual Obama.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Bombast and hyperbole are some of the hallmarks of president Trump's communication, but the reality of his administration's policies are quietly impressive.

For instance, this bit of news will get very little airplay among the savagely anti-Trump mainstream media, but it will be a concrete and powerful message to the people who must rely on the President for almost everything, including their lives!

America's Troops Come First as Commander in Chief Steps Up During Shutdown to Make Sure They Get Paid

"We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS," the president declared. He explained that "our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th," so he was compelled to act.

No big deal for the self-described intelligentsia who live in their cloistered communes on the Upper West Side and Hyde Park and Noe Valley, but a very big deal indeed for a young E4 with a pregnant wife. And perhaps a big deal for that E4's parents, who all of a sudden notice that the President of The United States actually gives a sh*t about the welfare of their son.

That's a powerful message, and one that will go completely unnoticed in those leftist enclaves, because they don't know a single person who is in the armed forces, and very probably don't even know anyone who has ever served!

It's difficult to get past the sound bites and the combative press conferences and find out what the President and his administration are doing. They are methodically dismantling the massive administrative state, and refocusing the government's attention on the people of the United States. Behind much of the loud braggadocio are carefully constructed policies that may not yield immediate results, but will nudge the leviathan in a better direction, while simultaneously flensing the fat from the government whale.

There is a long way to go, and it will take many years, but think of the incredible progress we have made already, less than nine months into President Trump's term!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Deserted Landscape
Malcolm Roberts

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The Morning Report — 10/14/25

Good morning kids. And so the Israeli hostages have been liberated, and from many quarters, President Trump is being hailed as a peacemaker, even from some of his bitterest critics on the Left. Of course the usual gaggle of degenerates and scum have their own spin on Gaza.

Zohran Mamdani-linked Democratic Socialists of America denounces ‘conditional’ Israel-Gaza cease-fire deal, demands ‘Palestinian liberation’

And after sucking on some Mein Kampf whippets, this decrepit scumbag joined in on the Jew-baiting as is his wont to do

The Vermont senator, who has called for a ceasefire for the past two years, also used the moment to call for an end to the US-Israel alliance

So, despite many singing President Trump's praises and nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize, and despite my reservations about exchanging Israeli hostages and the remains of the victims of Islam, for the figurative and literal cutting edge of Islam in the form of hundreds of devout Muslims who observe the Koran by planning plotting and executing the slaughter of Jews in Israel and all over the world. Sadly, 10/7 will happen again, or a number of smaller scale 10/7's will happen over and over that will add up to or exceed the body count of the worst slaughter of Jews since the end of the Second World War.

That is and has been the status quo for 1500 years and unless and until there is a radical change in the mindset of every Muslim on planet Earth, more blood of innocents will flow in Israel and everywhere else where Islam has gained a foothold.

Meanwhile, over on the Ukrainian Front, President Trump has flipped his golden bouffant coiffure:

President Donald Trump once again threatened to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Putin doesn’t stop the war.

Trump made the remarks on Air Force One late Sunday night, even saying he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

Sorry, but this is fucking nuts. I would doubt that Vladimir Putin would launch ICBM's on Ukraine and certainly not on us. But miscalculations happen and that leads to hair getting mussed, as General Buck Turgidson would warn.

In 1914, Europe stumbled into a war no one wanted and few understood;a war that destroyed empires and redefined civilization.
Today, Washington risks repeating that mistake, this time with nuclear weapons on the table. Through arrogance, ignorance, or incompetence, the United States is drifting toward direct confrontation with Russia, the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, with consequences that could be apocalyptic.

President Trump last week said he has “sort of” made a decision about supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine or NATO allies.
He wants to learn more about “what they are doing with them” before making a final decision. His goal is to avoid escalating the conflict, but his words suggest he is doing anything but.

Is Trump posturing, playing 5-D chess as some claim, or joining the warmongering wing of the GOP?

PS: LoPecia Pressley can go to hell.

And the sooner we can obliterate the Ford Foundation and all the other ne'er do well undeserved degenerate inheritors of wealth, obtained by mere lucky sperm club membership, the better off we all will be.

Have a good day!

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Daily Tech News 14 October 2025

Top Story

• One of the UK's innumerable regulators has fined 4Chan £20,000 for... Well, basically for telling them to get fucked, which the British didn't take too well in 1776 either. (The Verge)

  "Today sends a clear message that any service which flagrantly fails to engage with Ofcom and their duties under the Online Safety Act can expect to face robust enforcement action," Ofcom enforcement director, Suzanne Cater, said in a statement.

  
  
  4Chan has responded by suing Ofcom in federal court... In the US.
  
  4Chan could be in more trouble still if they don't kiss the ring:

  Starting from tomorrow, 4Chan additionally faces a daily penalty of £100 for either 60 days or until 4Chan complies with the information requests, up to a maximum of £6,000.

  Yes, I'm sure that will do the trick.

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Overnight Open Thread (10/20/2025)

It's easy to second-guess our politicians, particularly when they insert themselves into complex and seemingly intractable geopolitical issues.

President Donald Trump has done something in the Middle East that Eisenhower couldn't do, Nixon couldn't do, Reagan couldn't do, the Bushes certainly couldn't do, and we won't even mention Obama and Biden.

He has forged a consensus and ended, at least temporarily, an ugly event in a region that is famous for ugliness. Will Hamas honor the ceasefire? Maybe. Will they return the remaining bodies? Maybe. Will they reconstitute and once again threaten Israel with destruction? Maybe.

But the odds are better now than they have been for the entirety of Israel's existence as a modern nation, and that is a very impressive accomplishment, especially when much of the West is at best ambivalent about President Trump!

There will be time to pick the agreement apart, and I am not holding my breath for a lasting peace, but still, it is far, far better than it has ever been!

It was a stunning achievement in most respects, and the fact that the world isn't clamoring with adulation for President Trump is a sad commentary on the rest of the world, not on President Trump.

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Columbus Cafe

Do I have something on my back?

Mondays.

Goose is so proud of her eggs.

A pigeon sandwich.

Work smarter not harder.

Tarantulas are the cats of the spider world. I realize this makes neither species more popular.

Those dumb animals about the lion with the guy from Ferris Buehler.

This dog is Reflex-Maxxing to get chicks.

Summer fun.

Little skitterbugs.

Dog shows his friend, the cow, his favorite toy. The cow don't care.

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Ultimate Slot Racing Championships Open Thread

This slotless race track cost, I believe, forty million f***ing Deutschmarks.

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NYC 1960s Open Thread

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The Kentucky Derby of Swine Open Thread

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Geronimo Open Thread

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Dogs Are Good Eggs Open Thread

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Heroic Elephants Save the Townsmen From Giant Mutant Pumpkins Open Thread

Hello everyone. I'm taking the day off and just posting open threads and the cafe.

I hope the storms didn't cause you too many problems.

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The Trump Administration’s Purge of Illegal Truck Drivers Is Having a Huge Impact

There have been several high-profile, deadly crashes in recent months involving semi-trucks being driven by foreign nationals and/or operated by shady operators whose ownership is a layer of shell companies. The recent video of an illegal alien from India causing a fatal wreck when performing an illegal U-turn has received a great deal of attention. The Trump administration is cracking down, especially as it applies to aliens who are not licensed to operate these vehicles. The crackdown is revealing that a great many of these drivers are in the country illegally.

The enforcement crackdown also reveals that the problem is being exacerbated by blue states that are extending commercial driver’s license (“CDLs” to foreign nationals who don’t speak English or know U.S. traffic laws. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement just arrested an illegal alien who was provided a CDL in New York under the name, “NO NAME GIVEN.”

Craig Fuller is a former trucking and logistics executive who now operates Freightwaves, a publication dedicated to those industries. After Donald Trump’s election in November, Mr. Fuller was thought to be a candidate for Transportation Secretary, and although he didn’t get that job, Fuller has the ear of all major players in the trucking and logistics industries.

In recent days, Mr. Fuller and Freightwaves have been documenting a massive federal effort, ”The Compliance Crunch,” to go after drivers operating illegally. This is obviously also disruptive to those enterprises who put unskilled and illegal drivers behind the wheel of semi-trucks.

With immigration authorities and regulatory agencies targeting any trucks on the road in violation of federal regulations, massive fraud is being revealed, including:

• Carriers bring foreign truck drivers in on tourist visas, have them drive for 90 days, at which time they leave and are replaced by another driver on the 90-day cycle. Per Craig Fuller, “Entire fleet business models [are] built around this.”

• Eastern European drivers are being brought in by organized crime syndicates from their home countries, and operating with little understanding or respect for US laws.

• Because of the crackdown, alien truckers are starting to ditch their trucks along highways, leaving them for the trucks’ owners to come pick up.
• ICE and cooperating police agencies are aggressively patrolling truck stops.

• Carriers that rely on cheap foreign truck drivers are reporting massive absenteeism. Per Mr. Fuller, “This is going to destroy entire business models. Trucking companies only survive through cashflows of running freight. They are toast if this goes on.”

• Truck stop parking lots are suddenly much emptier than normal.

• ICE is also showing up at businesses where shipments are loaded and unloaded, verifying that the truckers have legitimated CDLs. Shippers therefore are becoming proactive in ensuring that only legal drivers are backing up to their warehouse docks, and refusing to load or receive shipments from non-compliant drivers.

• Trucking companies and freight brokers are being advised by legal counsel to immediately cease working with non-US domiciled truck drivers and those who lack a legal United States CDL. Mr. Fuller quotes one of them as telling him, “Plaintiff attorneys will scorch any broker or carrier for hiring an illegitimate driver.”

• Insurance companies are likely to refuse to provide insurance going forward for companies unless they prohibit the hiring of truck drivers lacking US-domiciled CDLs.

As to this last point, Craig Fuller states that “It’s all over” in regards to the business practice of employing illegal aliens and unqualified foreigners to drive semi-trucks on American roads.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)
Sebastiano del Piombo

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The Morning Report — 10/13/25

Good morning kids. I am absolutely overjoyed that the long suffering hostages in the clutches and maw of the anti-human, satanic Islamic barbarians are at long last freed and that their friends and relatives can embrace them, and their suffering has also come to an end, and that even the remains of the dead victims have been returned so that their families can have some sort of closure, cold comfort as that may be.

With all of that said, the two questions that Israelis and indeed everyone in the civilized world must ask themselves; First, what did it cost them? And then, what comes next?

The arithmetic of this exchange should give everyone pause. Israel will release over 1,700 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 serving life sentences for the most heinous acts of terrorism. These aren’t stone-throwers or protesters. These are the architects of the Park Hotel Passover massacre, the planners of the Sbarro pizzeria bombing, the orchestrators of attacks that turned school buses into crime scenes. Each has blood on their hands and expertise in their heads.

Hamas is trading 48 hostages—20 living and 28 dead—for 1,700 experienced operatives—a massive force multiplication that transforms tactical defeat into strategic victory. Every released prisoner returns to Gaza or the West Bank as a hero, a symbol of resistance, armed with years of additional training and burning with renewed purpose.

History provides a grim preview of what comes next. Yahya Sinwar, the architect of October 7, spent 22 years in Israeli prison studying Hebrew, analyzing Israeli society, planning his revenge. Released in the 2011 Shalit deal among 1,026 other prisoners, he used his freedom to orchestrate the deadliest day in Israel’s history. Today, Israel is releasing another generation of potential Sinwars.

In all fairness, I was not held hostage nor were any of my loved ones, so who am I to criticize this deal when these poor people can at long last see the sunlight and feel the embrace of their loved ones.

But as this essay notes and quite correctly, it is not a question of "IF" but of "WHEN" the next and likely even bloodier 10/7 happens. And given the nature of Islam and its 1500-year plague on humanity and civilization have shown, it and its adherents will never cease in their quest to not merely wipe out every Jew in Israel, but every non-believer on Planet Earth until the entire world submits to Islam. Just as a reminder, the very word Islam itself translates as "Submission." And no, not some philosophical metaphor but literal submission of body, mind and soul to Islam or else death.

It is indeed a joyous day when the innocents can taste freedom. But to unleash the bestial adherents of Satanic Islam on the world as the price of this, It is a price that in my estimation that should not have been paid.

It certainly is understandable in terms of Israeli politics as to why Bibi Netanyahu agreed to this. Israelis were sick and tired of both having to waste more and more blood and treasure dealing with Gaza and fed up with the lack of any progress in freeing the hostages via conventional military means as well as the spectacular ops against both Iran and Qatar.

President Trump like any decent human being wanted to put an end to the bloodshed and do what he could to free the hostages but certainly his desire to burnish his legacy as well as quite justifiably stick it to the institutional diplomatic peace process stooges who have spent decades isolating Israel and rewarding its enemies while failing utterly in promoting anything remotely resembling real peace and stability in the Middle East and anywhere in the world.

So as both Bibi and Trump crow about the release of the hostages, their prognostications about the Abraham Accords and a rosy future for the region I fear will be for naught, given the nature of Islam.

Unless and until the demonic bloodthirsty aims and goals which are spelled out plainly and clearly in the Koran and Hadith and recited from the podia of every mosque great and small wherever Muslims live every Friday and Five times a day whenever that hideous screeching call to prayer is blasted from the minarets, Are articulated to the public and the leaders of the Civilized (i.e. non-Muslim non-Leftist) world loudly and consistently demand every Muslim denounce and renounce them, there will never be peace.

Despite George W. Bush's pig-ignorant lunacy of declaring we are not at war with Islam even as the ruins of the World Trade Center were smoldering months after the 9/11 attack. ISlam certainly was and remains in a state of war with the world. Period, full stop.

There will only be peace in the Middle East and the world as a whole when the practice of Islam goes the way of the Dodo. And like that one vial of smallpox, only one copy of the Koran is left, locked away in a vault somewhere so that it can be studied only as a warning for future generations to guard against.

Ditto, Leftist/ Communist/ Socialist/ Progressivism.

Stories of Democrats’ violence against Americans have become regular.  And yes, I meant to say it exactly that way.  I can’t think of a single Democrat who’s said or done anything in the last ten or twenty years (maybe longer) to make America safer, stronger, more prosperous, or more united.  Once upon a time, we might have been able to say Democrats and Republicans disagreed on the best way to achieve the same desired end-state.  No more.  Democrats are hell-bent on taking the country down and assaulting or even murdering anyone who stands in their way.

Examples abound.  From miscellaneous civilians to bureaucrats to media figures and celebrities all the way up to elected officials, Democrats are escalating political violence and posing real threats to Republicans and the principles of a free society.

Death to Islam. Death to Leftism. May God open the hearts, minds and souls to the evil that has possessed them so that they may reject them and repent their evil ways, lest they suffer eternal damnation, and perhaps the righteous retribution at the hands of all of us that they seek to destroy.

If that is the choice they make, may we wield a terrible swift sword of justice and smite them once and for all.

Happy Columbus Day one and all, as we celebrate a brave and intrepid soul who discovered a new world and paved the way for the spread of Civilization to this hemisphere and laid the foundation for the greatest nation on the face of the earth to be born. GOd bless America now and always!

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Daily Tech News 13 October 2025

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• Hackers breached a service used by Discord to verify users' age and identity and leaked 70,000 ID documents. (BBC)
  
  Money quote:

  Some online commentators have claimed that the data breach was bigger than Discord has revealed.

  That was a week ago.
  
  

• Hackers now claim to have stolen 2.1 million ID documents from Discord in a 1.5TB data breach. (Notebook Check)
  
  Yes, that is bigger than 70,000.

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