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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CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• “These text messages are the first time I was able to see they don’t want me alive."
  ‘This B**** Needs To Die’: New Jersey School Board Candidate Threatens Conservative Rival

• Properly executed, the Insurrection Act can bring a quicker end to hostilities and reduce property destruction, injury, and loss of life from what can ensue from lesser measures.
  Is it Time to Invoke the Insurrection Act?
  
• Democrats are hell-bent on taking the country down and assaulting or even murdering anyone who stands in their way.
  The Democrats’ descent into violence

• Jay Jones’ vile texts expose more than personal depravity—they reveal the left’s deeper creed: that pain, not principle, is the true engine of political change.
  Jay Jones and the Left’s Ressentiment

• America’s authoritarian elite have been wrong about everything, whether COVID, immigration, or elections, and our nation cannot survive that much longer.
  The Citizenry Can No Longer Tolerate America’s Authoritarians
  
• It doesn’t matter how unpopular Democrats’ policies are, they are not going to negotiate, they are not going to compromise.
  Democrats Are Giving Up On Democracy
  
• “There’s no Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization. There is not an Antifa. This is no different than if they announced they rounded up a dozen decepticons…”
  Democrats, Media Revive Bogus ‘Antifa Doesn’t Exist’ Narrative
  
• Yet what makes Goldman so notable is his consistent denial of abuses by Democrats, no matter what the evidence may show. Goldman has made himself indispensable as someone who is willing to deny the obvious while attacking anyone who dabbles in reality. If denial were an art form, Dan Goldman would be the Botticelli of the Beltway. (As it is he is the Bubonic Plague of Brazen Bastardy - jjs)
  Jonathan Turey Op-Ed: The Left’s most fervent, and most wrong, attack dog: NY’s Rep. Dan Goldman

  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s unorthodox mix of pressure, power, and pragmatism shattered old diplomatic molds—delivering a rare moment of calm to the world’s most combustible region.
  The Pieces of Trump’s Peace
  
• But at what price?
  Hostages Freed, and the World Celebrates
  
• No one should have confidence that a genocidal terrorist group will keep its commitments.  (Hamas is a mere subset of the larger group of 1.5 Billion Muslims that's the real problem - jjs)
  The worms in the Gaza deal apple
  
• We’ve learned nothing from Afghanistan and Iraq.
  The Hamas Deal Drags U.S. Into Gaza Nation Building
  
• “The first shots of World War II in Europe were fired in the port of Danzig. . . International administrations often suffer from legitimacy deficits.”
  The Historical Precedents for Trump’s Gaza Plan
  
• Bibi must be careful not to alienate his strongest ally in the world, no matter how much Hamas pushes him.
  Why Netanyahu Will Soon Face His Greatest Challenge
  
• Speaking from Jerusalem, Netanyahu opened with a direct appeal to Israelis. “Citizens of Israel, my brothers and sisters,” he began, “this is an emotional evening, an evening of tears, an evening of joy. Because tomorrow, children will return to their border.”
  Netanyahu: ‘Tomorrow Begins a New Path’ as Hostages Return; PM Hails War’s Victories, Warns: ‘Campaign Not Over’

• He gained a huge following on social media by posting fake content, accusing Israel of atrocities in Gaza.
  Famed Hamas Influencer ‘Mr. FAFO’ Reportedly Killed by Other Gazans After Israeli Withdrawal

• Roger Kimball: Trump’s latest triumph—brokering peace between Israel and Hamas—echoes Bagehot’s truth: civilization advances only when strength learns the art of deliberate restraint.
  The Physics and Politics of Peace: Trump’s Triumph in the Middle East
  
• The agreement involves both Israel and Gaza releasing all their prisoners and hostages, respectively, and for Israel to withdraw its troops to a designated position in the Gaza Strip. Vance said on “Meet the Press” that, while Trump does not plan to put boots on the ground, the U.S. will “monitor” both territories to ensure the terms of the peace agreement are followed.
  JD Vance Confirms Extent Of US Military’s ‘Boots On The Ground’ Involvement Following Middle East Peace Deal
  
• Yahya Sinwar told Hamas terrorists to film and broadcast their atrocities in real time.
  Hamas Leader Instructed Terrorists To Target Civilians On Oct. 7, Memo Reveals

• Those set to be released under the hostages-for-terrorist swap include “several high-ranking and notorious terrorists convicted of deadly attacks.” 
  "Palestinian" Who Stabbed Jewish Mother to Death in Front of Her Kids to be Released 

• The bloodshed began Saturday near the city’s Jordanian Hospital, when Hamas security forces exchanged gunfire with members of the Dughmush family — one of Gaza’s most powerful clans, long at odds with Hamas, the BBC reported.
  Fighting breaks out between Hamas and armed clan members in Gaza City: report

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH,"

• Nightly “protests” — often turning violent — outside Portland’s ICE field office have raged for months, with many participants identified as members of Antifa.
  Oregon’s Top Military Official Testifies National Guard Will Protect ‘Protesters at ICE Facility’ (Why has he not been relieved of duty and court-martialed? - jjs)
  
• Two dozen Democrat-led “states have joined a legal challenge to National Guard deployment in Portland, Oregon,” per PBS.
  Portland: Hundreds of Naked Bike Riders Join Protest Outside of ICE Facility (Water cannons at full pressure spraying ice water work miracles. That and hungry German shepards - jjs)

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The entire staff at the Community Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) received a layoff notice on Friday, an administration official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The program’s elimination comes as White House officials repeatedly warned that the administration would pursue mass firings and budget cuts if Democrats did not reverse course and reopen the government. (RELATED: Democrats Are Terrified Of Trump’s Shutdown Slasher — And They Should Be)
  Trump Admin Fires Entire Agency In One Swift Move Amid Schumer Shutdown
  
• Farmers are struggling with financial uncertainty, higher input costs, and the inability to sell their crops to their largest market, China, while relief is delayed due to the Senate Democrats’ government shutdown.
  Democrat Govt Shutdown Delays Farm Relief Amid U.S.-China Trade War.

  
  

• They're trying to shatter the oversight of the Supreme Court.
  Radical Fed Judges are ‘Cloward-Pivening’ the Supreme Court
  
• Back in February, we debunked the claim that Elon Musk was taking a chainsaw to the federal government (see “Musk Is ‘Shredding’ Government? Not Even Close”, lies spread by the mainstream media that fueled terrorist attacks on Tesla owners and dealers. We noted that the job cuts were minuscule compared to the mammoth size of the federal workforce, and that the spending cuts announced by that point were almost imperceptible next to a nearly $2 trillion annual deficit.
  You Heard It Here First: DOGE Didn’t Cut Much

• Political Theater Masquerading as Principle
  Sen. Murphy’s 'I’m Not a Hostage-Taker (But Really I Am)' Act

  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Whole mobs of deranged leftists in Chicago are showing up at schools, restaurants, neighborhoods, and the ICE facility itself, using guns and cars to attack law enforcement and coordinating on apps to help dangerous foreign lawbreakers escape. Unfortunately, this is a growing problem across the country. For example, take a look at one illegal alien thug finally in handcuffs thanks to ICE. (By Leftist Logic: IF Calling Up the Guard Saved Just One Life, Then Donald Trump Is a Saint, Right Dems? - jjs)
  ICE Arrests Double Murderer, Thwarts Chicago Would-Be Shooter

• Gov. Gavin Newsom is forced to shift the blame from climate change to….”Florida Man”.
  Death Penalty May Be on the Table for Man Charged in Palisades Wildfire

• His accused killer, a man with 33 arrests, walked free until he met a good man holding a door. And that act of kindness cost an innocent New Yorker his life.
  Repeat Offender With 33 Arrests Kills Brooklyn Church Usher After “Kind” Gesture

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• A review of Shanker Singham’s International Trade, Regulation and the Global Economy.
  America First and Our Economic Future
  
• The U.S. plans to impose a 100 percent tariff and export controls in response to China’s actions, escalating trade tensions.
  Trump: 100 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Starting November 1.

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• The settlement will allow priests to continue to hear confessions and uphold the seal of confession without threat of prison time or fines.
  Dem State Backs Down on Forcing Priests to Violate Seal of Confession.
  
• The world’s oldest hatred still has some of the old causes (Islam, Marxism, medieval Christianity, etc.), but today it’s largely driven by anger at Israel’s success.
  The Jealousy Lurking Behind Modern Antisemitism

  
  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• What's the worst that could happen?
  US to Train Pilots from Qatari Terror State That Harbored 9/11 Mastermind
  
• But remember - don't try to put a copy of the Ten Commandments in schools. We wouldn't want to push Christianity on anyone, would we? (Where are the BBQ trucks cooking Bacon with loudspeakers blaring Hava Nagila? - jjs)
  Islamic Call to Prayer Blasted Out Over Dearborn, Michigan
  
• The case is sparking outrage over perceived double standards in Germany’s justice system, with questions raised about why no charges have been filed.
  Leftist Mayor Tortured Almost to Death by Adopted Migrant Daughter.
  
• There are many ways of desecrating a church.
  Anonymous Arsonists and Credentialed Vandals

  
  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Whom and what are we to believe today?” Not Dan Rather.
  Dan Rather, Who Tried to Rig Presidential Election With Time-Traveling Typewriter, Says It’s a “A Dark Day In The Halls Of CBS News”

• Former colleagues part ways as radical left-wing network spins off from slightly less radical affiliate
  NBC’s Divorce From MSNSDAP Is Almost Final. Who Gets Custody of the Kids?
  
• There comes a time when even liberal Jews have had enough. (Meh, at some point they backslide and return to defending Leftism - jjs)
  How Antisemitism Turned CBS Against the Left

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• He has been under investigation for several years due to how he handled classified information, and Saturday’s meeting of federal prosecutors is to determine potential charges.
  Fomer Trump Adviser John Bolton Might Face Federal Charges

  
  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• Rebecca Bennett is challenging Republican Tom Kean in the Garden State's swingy 7th district
  New Jersey House Hopeful Warns of Existential 'Climate Crisis'—After Quietly Selling Off Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Oil Stocks

• incentives to buy battery-powered cars are falling by the wayside.
  EV Virtue Signaling Reaches The End Of Its Cord
  
• Many scientists, including scientists that have worked within the climate bureaucracy, know how fragile the claim that “climate change is caused by CO2” really is.
  The Climate Creed: How Fear Replaced Science
  
• Climate change isn’t flat. True understanding requires a three-dimensional view of the atmosphere—beyond the political spin and oversimplified “settled science” narrative.
  The Depth of Climate Knowledge

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The Educational Choice for Children Act will usher in a revolution in private K–12 education.
  A Revolution in Education
  
• A new book calls attention to how the educational establishment puts the interests of adults over those of children.
  Putting Kids Last

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Such a definition sets the stage for other language in the bill, which says, “This bill would expand the above definition of ‘machinegun’ to include any machinegun-convertible pistol equipped with a pistol converter and, thus, prohibit the manufacture, sale, possession, or transportation of a machinegun-convertible pistol equipped with a pistol converter.”
  NRA Puts Gavin Newsom on Notice: Lawsuit Coming over ‘Glock Ban’ (I better not compose a sentence using the words Glock and Newsom, you dig?! - jjs)

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• “Starting on Sunday, a dangerous coastal storm will begin to move past our state with extreme weather conditions for several counties, especially those on the Shore,” the acting governor said. “In preparation for this storm, I am issuing a State of Emergency for all 21 counties out of an abundance of caution, authorizing our state’s emergency services personnel to activate as necessary. I urge all New Jerseyans to exercise caution, monitor local weather forecasts and warnings, stay informed on evacuation protocols, and remain off the roads unless absolutely necessary.”
  Report: NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Missing as Acting Gov. Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Nor’easter Storm

• Schweizer said, “What people have to understand is that this election for mayor in New York is really a dark echo of the 9/11 terrorist attack. And you wonder, what do I mean by that? Well, look at the family itself, the Mamdani family itself, they are joined at the hip with the royal family of Qatar, the Al Thani family. They have  sent them millions of dollars, they have funded their projects. So why does this family matter? It matters because, back in 1996, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was granted sanctuary by this very royal family.”
  Schweizer: Mamdani Family Is ‘Joined at the Hip’ with Qatari Royal Family
  
• At least 170 of the 54,000 contributions allegedly came from donors with addresses listed as being outside of the U.S., according to the Post. Only U.S. citizens or legal U.S. residents are permitted to donate to political campaigns and political action committees under federal, state, and local law.
  Mamdani’s Mayoral Campaign Faces Calls To Return Thousands In Reportedly Illegal Foreign Donations (Who knew you could trace donations back to Satan? - jjs)

• The gubernatorial candidate appears to stand by the attorney general nominee amid ‘two bullets’ text scandal
  Just Won’t Quit: Spanberger Won’t Drop Jay Jones Endorsement

  
  POLITICS

• “Jason Miyares is surging in the polls and RAGA has been overwhelmed with millions in new donations.”
  Jay Jones Scandal Erupts, GOP Raises Millions (Dollars good, votes are better - jjs)
  
• The incident comes as Mamdani faces growing scrutiny over his campaign funding sources. The political newcomer has raised close to $16 million, far outpacing his opponents in private donations, the New York Post reported.
  Momzer Mamdani Chased Out Of NYC Park By Protester Slamming Him As An ‘Antisemite’
  
• “When Democrats in Hudson County are standing with us, you know change is coming”
  Republican Jack Ciattarelli Picking Up Endorsements From Democrats in NJ Governor Race

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The average Canadians at Universal Ostrich Farms are emblematic of people in this country who are fed up with the government routinely taking away their rights and asking them to not only accept it but to like it as well.
  Canadians' freedom is at stake in the fate of 400 ostriches
  
• It’s a bold move from Xi Jinping. It may backfire.
  China’s Rare-Earth Gambit

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Trump said his administration has identified funding to pay the 1.3 million active duty troops expected to miss their next paycheck, and will direct Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to ensure they are paid. The announcement comes as Senate Democrats continue to drag their feet in reopening the government.
  President Trump To Direct Hegseth To Pay Troops Amid Shutdown

• China-linked corporations are lobbying to block U.S. efforts to build GPS backups, leaving America vulnerable to foreign hacking of the navigation system that underpins our economy and defense.
  America’s Dependence on the GPS System Makes Us Vulnerable to Chinese Subversion
  
• The new legislation comes as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual defense policy bill that includes $879 billion in funding for the U.S. military. With their bipartisan passage in the Senate Thursday night, Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn’s “FIGHT China Act of 2025″ and Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty’s “Bio-Secure Act” are poised to clamp down on perceived vulnerabilities in U.S.-China security.
  Senate Approves ‘FIGHT China Act’ To Halt US Funds Fueling China’s Arsenal

  
  BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• The Taliban government said Afghan forces captured 25 Pakistani army posts and wounded 30 soldiers in what it called “retaliatory and successful operations,” Politico reported. Pakistan disputed the casualty count, reporting 23 troops died in the clashes.
  Afghanistan Says It Killed 58 Pakistani Soldiers (pass the popcorn - jjs)

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The sudden, intense focus on Tylenol use by pregnant women obscures even more what may be the real problem.
  Tylenol and Autism: More to the Story
  
• (It was designed to fail, but they failed to make it fail at the right time; when they had absolute power - jjs)
  Rep. Andy Biggs Calls for Repeal of Obamacare, Calls It ‘A Complete Failure’
  
• “Nobody likes Obamacare. It’s expensive, bad coverage. What we should do is write a new health care program.” Bingo: Once again, The Donald cuts straight to the actual impetus behind a standoff. (How about the Free Market?! - jjs)
  Can The Donald Flip The Script Again — On Health Care?

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• The trans activists have gained ground with censorship over the years, but not much longer, because the truth is kryptonite for gender ideology.
  SCOTUS takes up case challenging lie of trans 'conversion therapy'
  
• As the Supreme Court wrestles with their legality, psychologists and psychiatrists say the bans prevent them—and their patients—from exploring alternatives to hormone treatment and surgery
  The Problem With Conversion Therapy Bans

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Leftist animus towards Columbus is accompanied by accusations of genocide, rape, and mutilation of natives. There is just one problem.
  Celebrating Columbus Day
  
• National Congress of American Indians also led push to rename the Washington Redskins and got Biden to grant clemency to cop killer Leonard Peltier
  This Group Helped Cancel Columbus Day and Pardon Cop Killer Leonard Peltier. Now It's Helping Plan America's 250th Birthday Bash.

• Reversing the demonization of American history and heroes like Christoper Columbus.
  Patriotism is Fighting Back
  
• Christian Toto: Bill Burr, Jimmy Kimmel and more struggle with Strange New Respect syndrome
  Why RiyadhGate Spells Bigger Problem for Trump-Era Comics
  
• Thad McCotter: AI is giving humans more leisure than ever—but like the Spartans, we may squander it chasing amusements instead of pursuing the truly good.
  On Constructive Leisure

• Noah’s comments sparked backlash, with critics pointing to double standards and insensitivity.
  Subhuman Tree-dwelling Degenerate Scum Trevor Noah Mocks Charlie Kirk’s ‘Funny’ Assassination.
  
• Americans, especially those who have or want children, value bedrooms more than square footage.
  Open Floor Plans Are Killing the American Family
  
• John Stossel: When I was young, few people did this.
  Oh, the Suffering of Young People!

  HITHER & YON

• Why the Italian explorer is a lightning rod for Leftist venom.
  Hating and Celebrating Columbus

• The Nobel Committee discredited itself, but it also laid a subtle trap for Trump that he must carefully avoid.
  From Oslo To Obsolescence: The Death Of The Nobel Peace Prize

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1 Happy Monday

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 07:31 AM (Q4IgG)

4 I see anthony blinken is claiming credit for the peace deal in Israel for the biden administration.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2025 07:32 AM (0N4FZ)

5 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 13, 2025 07:33 AM (w3u3d)

6 Are the hostages actually free now?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 13, 2025 07:35 AM (Wx316)

7
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 13, 2025 07:36 AM (tljrc)

8 Let’s hope this peace holds.
I have my doubts, but this is the path chosen, now it’s time to travel and see where it goes.

Next up, Ukraine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 07:37 AM (6ydKt)

9 ‘This B**** Needs To Die’: New Jersey School Board Candidate Threatens Conservative Rival

Considering the 'fact' that all political violence is ultra - super - right - wing - MAGA* violence, lefty politicians sure do embrace it a lot.

* unnecessary spaces added for people like CBD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

10 "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."

Hopefully they were given specially equipt cell phones as parting gifts.

Posted by: fd at October 13, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

11 and 3) To enlarge the “fifth columns” within the U.S. from foreign entrants, including members of Hezb’allah, Tren de Aragua, MS-13, Barrio 18, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the red-green alliance of communists and radical Islamists within the country, to be positioned to engage in a range of active measures against the United States -- from militant attacks on law enforcement agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE, the DEA and DHS to more destructive terrorist attacks.

I have offered up to many leftist friends and family that they will not like their New Low Trust Society.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

12 Mornin’ Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at October 13, 2025 07:38 AM (EzGiP)

13 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Antifa, probably... at October 13, 2025 07:38 AM (53oGX)

14 Off stinky sock...

Posted by: Inogame at October 13, 2025 07:38 AM (53oGX)

15 8 Let’s hope this peace holds.
I have my doubts, but this is the path chosen, now it’s time to travel and see where it goes.

Next up, Ukraine.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 07:37 AM (6ydKt)


There will be a period of relative quiet. At some point, Israel will be attacked again by Muslims from within and/without.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 13, 2025 07:38 AM (x0n13)

16 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at October 13, 2025 07:38 AM (xatjc)

17 Good morning, everyone! I have the day off and took advantage of it to reschedule my PT appointment to this morning. Beyond that, I have very little to do.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 13, 2025 07:39 AM (7xrfc)

18 Columbus Day is my heritage. I come from a long line of people who like to have Monday off.

Posted by: Josephistan at October 13, 2025 07:39 AM (FLx59)

19 islam should be outlawed around the globe and the mosques turned into Dollar Stores and Papaya Kings.

Posted by: Bad Bunny at October 13, 2025 07:40 AM (Dmce/)

20 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Maybe Jon Corzine knows where to find Phil Murphy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 13, 2025 07:42 AM (xnmUA)

21
As days go, This is one we celebrate a dago... who might have been Jewish.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 13, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

22 6 Are the hostages actually free now?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 13, 2025 07:35 AM (Wx316)

Yes, at least all the living ones are. Less sure on the dead ones, but they'd have to go through identification anyway.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 07:47 AM (tOcjL)

23 "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."

Hopefully they were given specially equipt cell phones as parting gifts.
Posted by: fd at October 13, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)
---
Start a rumor they've been implanted with undetectable tracking/explosive devices.

They'll literally tear each other apart trying to find them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 13, 2025 07:47 AM (IBQGV)

24 21
As days go, This is one we celebrate a dago... who might have been Jewish.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 13, 2025 07:45 AM (x0n13)

Considering he wanted to convert natives to Christianity...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 07:48 AM (tOcjL)

25

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 13, 2025 07:54 AM (DDJSl)

26 There will be a period of relative quiet. At some point, Israel will be attacked again by Muslims from within and/without.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 13, 2025 07:38 AM (x0n13)

Lessons learned for Israel, at least.

It’s my hope that Hamas is a spent force, and maybe the Gazans have learned some very hard lessons as well.

There won’t be true peace until they can break the cycle of revenge passed on to the next generation.

If not, it’s just a time to rebuild and regroup before the next round of war begins for everybody in the region.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 07:55 AM (6ydKt)

27 Good morning again Horde, Happy Monday and Columbus Day. Thx as always JJ , great report.
Sad news for Pali BS. Saleh al- Jafawari the troll who did all the fake "news" reports from Gaza was killed in the crossfire between Pali clans in Gaza and Hamas . Anyhoo....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 07:55 AM (L1Wxc)

28 Just hanging out while waiting for the snow to stop.

Posted by: clarence at October 13, 2025 07:55 AM (UTVh+)

29 I suppose one has to have some faith, even against all odds that there will be peace.

I'm every bit as dubious about that with Hamas and Israel as I am about the left and conservatives here. But I suppose one has to try. At least someone wants peace.

Better than none wanting it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 07:56 AM (Q4IgG)

30 clarence. Waiting for our snow to start. Plenty in the mountains, nothing at 3500 feet yet.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 13, 2025 07:56 AM (2NHgQ)

31 Part of those terrorists released are going back to Samaria not gaza.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 13, 2025 07:57 AM (QGLzn)

32 Yes, Islam is "submission" but on top of that, because it is the only major religion that doesn't ban cousin marriage, we are also dealing with 50 generations of inbreeding. Look at the West's royal families. You can't fix inbreeding... (looking at you, King Charles III).

Posted by: Riddle at October 13, 2025 07:57 AM (T0JXm)

33 "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."

Israel should learn to execute terrorists so there won't be any to exchange.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

34 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 07:59 AM (3sX9I)

35 Read article over weekend the millions if not billikn getting funding Antifa groups, wish remember where it was.

Posted by: Skip at October 13, 2025 07:59 AM (xatjc)

36 Honestly, I don't think Trump is in this game for legacy; all you need to do is revert to his absolutely outstanding 2017 speech in Saudi to Arab leaders.

"Drive them[radicals] out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land, and drive them out of this earth"

Nothing has changed other than 'republicans' continuing to try to fracture MAGA.

Every country is involved in every country; we have been fvcking around everywhere for 70 years now and Trump is simply trying something different.

Posted by: Danimal28 at October 13, 2025 08:00 AM (1E4GV)

37 Scenes from coming attractions.

Trump will make examples of Deep Blue Enclaves including Chicago, home of Alinsky and his acolytes Hillary and Obama. He'll torch Pritzker and the Mayor.

Antifa's funding will be traced to NGOs and the likes of Soros. This is already underway, as Antifa has been declared a foreign terrorist organization.

If ICE agents get killed -- and I expect some will -- it's grounds for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 13, 2025 08:01 AM (dtajH)

38 Apparently, two people in the Knesset began protesting Trump and were removed. Any information on them?

Posted by: Jen the original at October 13, 2025 08:01 AM (4YY+I)

39 Considering he wanted to convert natives to Christianity...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 07:48 AM (tOcjL)

Did Columbus want that, or was it the priests who accompanied him?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

40 The Knesset is purportedly working on a measure to apply a death penalty.

May Marwan Barghouti be the first recipient.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 13, 2025 08:02 AM (QGLzn)

41 “Start setting homes on fire,” a communication from a Gaza City battalion commander named Abu Muhammed read. “Burn, burn. I want the whole kibbutz to be in flames.”

Instead they stole bicycles, TVs, and Nike's much like the non-violent rioters after Katrina needed bicycles, TVs, and Nike's to make their lives whole again.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

42 39 Considering he wanted to convert natives to Christianity...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 07:48 AM (tOcjL)

Did Columbus want that, or was it the priests who accompanied him?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

Columbus was a 3rd order Franciscan himself...read Chesterton...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 08:03 AM (tOcjL)

43 Happy Navy Birthday!

Posted by: Eromero at October 13, 2025 08:04 AM (jgmnb)

44 “Spain Shouldn't Apologize for Conquering America, But for Leaving It”: Alfonso Borrego Challenges the Black Legend

Alfonso Borrego—a direct descendant of the legendary Apache leader Geronimo—sparked international debate by declaring that “Spain should not apologize for conquering America, but for leaving it.”

Borrego's comments aim to dismantle the long-standing Black Legend , a historical narrative that unfairly portrays Spain's role in the Americas as purely oppressive and violent.

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:05 AM (RHGPo)

45 Fighting breaks out between Hamas and armed clan members in Gaza City

May it be a tie game at end of regulation and they are forced into sudden death playoffs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

46 Mornin’, All. Happy Columbus Day.

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

47 Saleh al- Jafawari the troll who did all the fake "news" reports from Gaza was killed in the crossfire between Pali clans in Gaza and Hamas . Anyhoo....
Posted by: Smell the Glove


*Holds envelope that formerly sat in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnal's back porch. Touches to forehead attempting to read by osmosis*

"What happens when you run out of Joos to shoot"

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 08:06 AM (3sX9I)

48 American Truckers’ Wages Rising With Illegals Being Taken Off the Roads

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:07 AM (RHGPo)

49 Bannon's WarRoom@Bannon_WarRoom

STEVE BANNON TENSIONS BETWEEN TRUMP AND BIBI:
'The President, had his game face on when he showed up. Bibi clearly was icy. This is a catastrophic defeat for the Israel first crowd and Tel Aviv Levin. I'm sure they're banging their heads on the wall. It's a catastrophic defeat because they overreached, they pushed this Greater Israel project and it came crashing down around them.'

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:07 AM (TGPs7)

50 “The RIFs have begun,” President Donald Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought wrote on X on Friday

A Yoda phrasing style would have made this a perfect quote.

The RIFs, begun they have.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:08 AM (gbOdA)

51 Yesterday I saw even Mark Kelly admit that Trump was able to do what Biden could never have…. Then 60 seconds later he was ripping Trump for shutting down the government because he doesn’t want people to have healthcare because he wants them to die… interesting juxtaposition

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 13, 2025 08:09 AM (+kWhq)

52 nec, I'm in Butte at 5300 ft. Looks like about 2".

Posted by: clarence at October 13, 2025 08:10 AM (UTVh+)

53 Happy Columbus Day, Y'All!

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

54 nice pic JJ, sums it up perfectly

and morning horde from a waterlogged and slightly flooded tidewater.

hope the flooding receeds soonish

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at October 13, 2025 08:10 AM (nXhwP)

55 American Truckers’ Wages Rising With Illegals Being Taken Off the Roads
Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:07 AM (RHGPo)

Wow. Who could have foreseen citizens wages rising as a result of getting rid of foreigners... starting with illegals. Totally unexpected, out of left field.

Trump got lucky again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

56 NBC News, that failing left-wing media company, celebrated a key milestone Monday in its ongoing divorce from MSNBC, the failing radical left-wing media company soon to be rebranded as MS NOW, the feminist news network.

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:10 AM (RHGPo)

57 The fella kneeling to the right of Columbus has a look on his face like he's just spotted the topless native chicks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

58 It's also....
National Kick Butt Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

59 STEVE BANNON TENSIONS BETWEEN TRUMP AND BIBI:

I didn't see that... Morn' all...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:12 AM (VE6XX)

60 Trump Proclaims End Of "Age Of Terror & Death" After Hamas Releases All Remaining Hostages

Welcomes "historic dawn of a new Middle East" in Knesset speech.

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (RHGPo)

61 Repeat Offender With 33 Arrests Kills Brooklyn Church Usher After “Kind” Gesture

This is what many progressives want. A citizenry that is scared of their own shadow and demands a stronger central government to protect them.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)

62
Welcomes "historic dawn of a new Middle East" in Knesset speech.
Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (RHGPo)

If only

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (VE6XX)

63 49 Bannon's WarRoom@Bannon_WarRoom

STEVE BANNON TENSIONS BETWEEN TRUMP AND BIBI:
'The President, had his game face on when he showed up. Bibi clearly was icy. This is a catastrophic defeat for the Israel first crowd and Tel Aviv Levin. I'm sure they're banging their heads on the wall. It's a catastrophic defeat because they overreached, they pushed this Greater Israel project and it came crashing down around them.'
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:07 AM (TGPs7)
******
What the hell is he talking about?
All I am seeing is a love fest this morning.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

64 The fella kneeling to the right of Columbus has a look on his face like he's just spotted the topless native chicks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


It was a chubby dude with moobs. But after two months at sea, we ain't judging.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 08:16 AM (3sX9I)

65 What the hell is he talking about?
All I am seeing is a love fest this morning.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)


The same....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:16 AM (VE6XX)

66 55 American Truckers’ Wages Rising With Illegals Being Taken Off the Roads
Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:07 AM (RHGPo)

Wow. Who could have foreseen citizens wages rising as a result of getting rid of foreigners... starting with illegals. Totally unexpected, out of left field.

Trump got lucky again.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

BTW did you notice that the 2 DL images I saw posted had the REAL ID Star?

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

67 Mark Kelly says Kamala Harris would be ‘incredibly strong’ 2028 candidate

.. how did this guy survive 117-days in space

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:17 AM (RHGPo)

68 This is what many progressives want. A citizenry that is scared of their own shadow and demands a stronger central government to protect them.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (gbOdA)

A citizenry that is scared of their own shadow and demands a stronger central government to protect them.

A citizenry that is stupid enough to fail to recognize that the government could have done more to 'protect' them and chose not to.

A citizenry that is stupid enough to fail to recognize that the government will use the additional power to further oppress the citizens because that is what the powerful usually do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

69 Repeat Offender With 33 Arrests Kills Brooklyn Church Usher After “Kind” Gesture

This is what many progressives want. A citizenry that is scared of their own shadow and demands a stronger central government to protect them.
Posted by: r hennigantx



When does the 'protecting' start?
Because I keep hearing that's what the people want, but I never see results.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 08:17 AM (3sX9I)

70 Steve Bannon only believes about 35% of his own bullshit.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

71 Bannon is something of a loose cannon.

Posted by: fd at October 13, 2025 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

72 Who was the bald guy sitting to the right of PDT in the knesset?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 13, 2025 08:19 AM (2NHgQ)

73 Maybe I'll just start calling him Loose Bannon.

Posted by: fd at October 13, 2025 08:19 AM (vFG9F)

74 When does the 'protecting' start?
Because I keep hearing that's what the people want, but I never see results.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 08:17 AM (3sX9I)

That too is the point. You must continuously vote for less freedoms until the problem is solved.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

75 BTW did you notice that the 2 DL images I saw posted had the REAL ID Star?
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)

Yeah. Anyone with half a brain knew that blue states, at least, were never going to verify citizenship. The last time I renewed my DL I had to take in proof of citizenship even though I already had a REAL ID. I guess Texas was concerned that someone had given out fakes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

76 I keep thinking the clocks changed last night. Feels like I lost an hour somewhere. Maybe I was abducted...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:20 AM (TGPs7)

77 "Guusied up as Socilaism."
You go ahead, get guusy. Mind the socilas.
Endorse if you must; I'm not even standing at the same
bus stop with these ravening swine.

You've got to be pretty hungry for agreement
to hang that on your office wall.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 13, 2025 08:21 AM (zdLoL)

78 I keep thinking the clocks changed last night. Feels like I lost an hour somewhere. Maybe I was abducted...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:20 AM (TGPs7)

AI tells me it's Nov. 2nd.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

79 A citizenry that is stupid enough to fail to recognize that the government will use the additional power to further oppress the citizens because that is what the powerful usually do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

I lived through the 60s and 60s seeing education destroyed to make black and white more equal (stupid).
I think the general lawlessness is allowed to spread so that ghettoness that effect blacks also becomes a standard feature of the suburbs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

80 > Mark Kelly says Kamala Harris would be ‘incredibly strong’ 2028 candidate

.. how did this guy survive 117-days in space
----------
With brain damage.... apparently.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 08:22 AM (Q4IgG)

81 I read the other day that Columbus may have been Jewish and a Mossad Honeypot....

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:22 AM (TGPs7)

82 White Powder Sent To Epoch Times Amid Escalating Intimidation Campaign

Envelope received as Chinese threat actors escalate a targeted campaign of impersonation, violent threats...

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:23 AM (RHGPo)

83 What the hell is he talking about?
All I am seeing is a love fest this morning.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

Steve Bannon is so full of it at least half the time…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 13, 2025 08:23 AM (ZtAny)

84 The media will refuse to acknowledge it’s Columbus Day.

They are going to ignore it until the next Dem president comes along and reverts it back to International Native Peoples Day or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 08:23 AM (6ydKt)

85 Time to go push the first snow of the season around.

fin.

Posted by: clarence at October 13, 2025 08:24 AM (UTVh+)

86 San Francisco Judge Considers Early Release for 91-Time Felon, Just 5 Years After He Killed 2 Women While High on Meth

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:24 AM (RHGPo)

87 It should be pointed out that not a single female or child was amongst the surviving hostages.

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:25 AM (RHGPo)

88 So Europeans brought smallpox, and we never hear the end of it.

Rarely mentioned is the natives of the New World gifting Europeans with syphilis in return.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 08:25 AM (6ydKt)

89 I had to take in proof of citizenship even though I already had a REAL ID. I guess Texas was concerned that someone had given out fakes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

I know I saw an article that said several offices in Tex were NOT forces everyone to have the required docs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

90 If Harris had won, would we be celebrating the hostages being freed?

they would celebrate Hamas surviving for another day

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:26 AM (RHGPo)

91 I lived through the 60s and 60s seeing education destroyed to make black and white more equal (stupid).
I think the general lawlessness is allowed to spread so that ghettoness that effect blacks also becomes a standard feature of the suburbs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

Well, religion has been destroyed to promote more promiscuity and fatherlessness. The swells are breeding an underclass so they can have serfs again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

92 Watched an old interview with Shelby Foote over the weekend. He mentioned one huge result of the civil war that never receives any attention: Before the war, more than 80% of school teachers were male… after the war it was more than 80% female. All the males died in the war. Think he was talking only about the state of Mississippi but probably similar all over…. To this day most schoolteachers are still female

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 13, 2025 08:27 AM (P/Wjn)

93 ‘DOESN’T BOTHER ME ONE DAMN BIT!’: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has HAD IT with NBC’s Kristen Welker whining about the prosecution of Letitia James and Comey

"You didn't CARE that Letitia James made up charges that no one's ever faced! That Alvin Bragg made up charges no one ever faced!”

“This may bother YOU that people are being held accountable — It doesn't bother me one damn BIT."

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:27 AM (RHGPo)

94 Happy Columbus Day to all youse guineas out there.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: diggety schwag at October 13, 2025 08:27 AM (AOsQT)

95 Where are the dead hostages? Where are the videos of the gazzholes blocking the vehicles transporting the bodies from wherever they were kept, and screaming in English, "free, free palestine."

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 13, 2025 08:28 AM (TJQqd)

96 As part of the phase one deal brokered by President Trump between Israel and Hamas, Israel is to receive 20 living hostages taken by Hamas and 28 corpses of hostages killed by Hamas. Hamas gets 2,000 prisoners released from Israeli detention, 250 of whom are terrorists sentenced to life in prison for murdering Israelis.

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:29 AM (RHGPo)

97 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 13, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

98 I know I saw an article that said several offices in Tex were NOT forces everyone to have the required docs.
Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

Not surprised. Either deliberate lawlessness or general laziness, it's to be expected particularly in an area with political overtones.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

99 Anyone ask crabby child Greta her thoughts on the hostage release?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 13, 2025 08:31 AM (P/Wjn)

100 It has been established that a great many of the arson attacks on churches in Western Europe – of which there were no fewer than 102 in France alone between 2018 and 2022, and over 200 in the UK between 2019 and 2024 – were indeed set by Muslims.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)

101 Preps for TX start now.

Have a wonderful day, everyone.

May the great feeling of a Ben Had hug lift your spirits.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 13, 2025 08:32 AM (u82oZ)

102 Lies, coercion, compulsion, calumny and violence. That is the entirety of the Leftist playbook.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)

103 I had to take in proof of citizenship even though I already had a REAL ID. I guess Texas was concerned that someone had given out fakes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I know I saw an article that said several offices in Tex were NOT forces everyone to have the required docs.
Posted by: r hennigantx


Paris, Texas didn't. I had everything. Expiring Txdl with Real ID star, CHL, Certified Birth Certificate, Social Security card.

I told her I had everything in this here folder. She glanced at the folder and said "don't bother, you're good".

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 08:32 AM (3sX9I)

104
Anyone ask crabby child Greta her thoughts on the hostage release?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 13, 2025 08:31 AM

another crack in her rice bowl

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 13, 2025 08:32 AM (tljrc)

105 Layoff Targets: 4,100 federal employees had been laid off

The most significant layoffs took place at the Treasury Department, with 1,446 employees receiving RIF notices Friday.
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The Department of Health and Human Services also saw major cutbacks, with roughly 1,100 to 1,200 employees affected, the filing states.

Friday’s RIFs also impacted approximately 466 Education Department employees, 442 Department of Housing and Urban Development employees, 315 Commerce Department employees, 187 Energy Department employees and 176 Department of Homeland Security employees.

Together, the counts mean at least 4,100 government staffers learned Friday they were losing their jobs.

It does not include upward of 30 staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency who were informed Friday they may soon be laid off and 126 staffers at the federal patent office who lost their jobs the first day of the shutdown.

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:33 AM (RHGPo)

106 Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich
Today’s Jerusalem Post

https://tinyurl.com/43hheuem

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

107 “RIFs will be occurring at CISA. During the last administration CISA was focused on censorship, branding and electioneering,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “This is part of getting CISA back on mission.”

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

108 105 Layoff Targets: 4,100 federal employees had been laid off

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:33 AM (RHGPo)

=====

A note:

The 4,100 number comes from a court filing from the administration which includes the language that it's a snapshot in time at the time of the filing (roughly noon on Friday), and that the total number will be "10x-20x larger".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 13, 2025 08:36 AM (GBKbO)

109 “RIFs will be occurring at CISA. During the last administration CISA was focused on censorship, branding and electioneering,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “This is part of getting CISA back on mission.”
Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

Hmmmmm... I'm seeing "will be occurring" when I should be seeing "have occurred".

Be better, DHS, be better.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

110 What a bad deal.

The least Trump could have gotten was for Israel to take the Maryland Padre and jail him in what's left of Gaza.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 08:37 AM (wr9U4)

111 Columbus Day! Or as the natives called it- There Goes The Neighborhood Day!

Posted by: Unwelcome Wagon at October 13, 2025 08:37 AM (oftw2)

112 Happy Columbus Day!

Posted by: Squid at October 13, 2025 08:37 AM (CzTK6)

113 I wonder if Trump's deal has an 'or else' clause. Because these Hamassholes will likely be up to their old tricks sooner or later. You can't negotiate with a people whose belief system mandates lying and double-crosses.
Trump's deal is a sincere effort, but this isn't over.

IMO YMMV

Posted by: Don Black. Message: diggety schwag at October 13, 2025 08:38 AM (AOsQT)

114 Does anyone have a link to Trump's speech to the Knesset (sp?) Some sites had it live but didn't seem to archive it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 13, 2025 08:38 AM (rZCVI)

115 There are tragedies in life, but this is not one of them...

Ian Jaeger@IanJaeger29

Comedian Stewart Lee says that he will not be performing in the United States under Donald Trump’s Presidency.

We do not care buddy.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:38 AM (TGPs7)

116 Layoff Targets: 4,100 federal employees had been laid off

Posted by: SMOD


Out of three million employees.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 08:39 AM (3sX9I)

117 Image at top: Columbus brings the puffy shirt to the New World.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: diggety schwag at October 13, 2025 08:39 AM (AOsQT)

118 Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR
@EssexPR

No women hostages survived the Hamas monsters, how telling

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:39 AM (NpAcC)

119 STEVE BANNON TENSIONS BETWEEN TRUMP AND BIBI:
'The President, had his game face on when he showed up. Bibi clearly was icy. This is a catastrophic defeat for the Israel first crowd and Tel Aviv Levin. I'm sure they're banging their heads on the wall. It's a catastrophic defeat because they overreached, they pushed this Greater Israel project and it came crashing down around them.'
====

Anyone who thinks this is true is a charlatan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 13, 2025 08:39 AM (7IbGD)

120 Israelies have promised not to spit on any Christians while Trump is in the country, so that's progress...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:40 AM (TGPs7)

121 A note:

The 4,100 number comes from a court filing from the administration which includes the language that it's a snapshot in time at the time of the filing (roughly noon on Friday), and that the total number will be "10x-20x larger".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 13, 2025 08:36 AM (GBKbO)

Although be aware, some of the extra RIFs were mistakes...like folks make here, CDC thought all non-essential were not needed and RIF'd 1200...but then rehired 600 12 hours later when they realized those folks were actually needed, just not in an emergency (which is all who can work now).

So, CDC was 600 RIFs in real numbers...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 08:41 AM (tOcjL)

122 Bannon fell off the sanity wagon some yers ago. Now he is just another fat troll looking for notoriety, and clicks that go along with it.

Posted by: runner at October 13, 2025 08:41 AM (g47mK)

123 Layoff Targets: 4,100 federal employees had been laid off

Don't more than that retire each week?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 13, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

124 Comedian Stewart Lee says that he will not be performing in the United States under Donald Trump’s Presidency.

Presumably he can still perform in the UK as he's likely to be a doctrinaire leftist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

125 @119 there have been stories over the last week that the leftist media operatives are trying to "divide MAGA" . This is probably one of the attempts

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 08:42 AM (L1Wxc)

126 Clean-up at comment 120, methinks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

127 If you remember, Greta traveled to the New World on some high tech sailboat about 5 years ago and has made three forays on a flotilla to support Hamas. I think she just likes to go on a Sea Cruise-like me!

Posted by: Frankie Ford at October 13, 2025 08:42 AM (oftw2)

128 116 Layoff Targets: 4,100 federal employees had been laid off

Posted by: SMOD


Out of three million employees.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 08:39 AM (3sX9I)

Trump is not gonna reduce DOW or ICE/Coast Guard at DHS (instead he's been increasing there)...and that's a significant part of that number...

I mean, in real numbers, Department of Ed may be under 2000 now, so there's not much left to go in real numbers...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 08:42 AM (tOcjL)

129 Israelies have promised not to spit on any Christians while Trump is in the country, so that's progress...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:40 AM (TGPs7)

don't you have zero hedge to stalk ?

Posted by: runner at October 13, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)

130 106 Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich
Today’s Jerusalem Post

https://tinyurl.com/43hheuem
Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

Fitting... Can't wait for the "million" person No Kings march on Saturday....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:44 AM (VE6XX)

131 129 Israelies have promised not to spit on any Christians while Trump is in the country, so that's progress...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:40 AM (TGPs7)

don't you have zero hedge to stalk ?
Posted by: runner at October 13, 2025 08:43 AM (g47mK)

Yes... That was particularly nasty

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:44 AM (VE6XX)

132 Islamic jihadists just want to kill Jewish people. It's their only desire, their motivating factor, they are single minded in their goals and ambitions.

Which is what makes it so curious that every time a new "radical, fundamentalist Muslim leader" takes over an Arab nation they spend all their time slaughtering Christians and other Muslims, and never Jews.

And every time the current Muslim dictator (I.e. Gaddafi, Hussein, et al) get toppled, it's the Christians that get cleansed.

Posted by: So weird at October 13, 2025 08:45 AM (IqKUv)

133 Enough about Israel's war on terrorists... what about our war on terrorists?

How many Antifa have been captured or killed? Still 0? If they're an international terrorist organization as Trump proclaims, I should be seeing headlines about Logan and Dakota getting their greasy little heads splattered on the wall of a dingy coffee shop during a nonbinary social justice poetry slam.

*taps watch*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 13, 2025 08:47 AM (BI5O2)

134 “RIFs will be occurring at CISA. During the last administration CISA was focused on censorship, branding and electioneering,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “This is part of getting CISA back on mission.”

What "mission"? Zero them out, get rid of them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 08:47 AM (WHfpM)

135 I guess we're fortunate Columbus sailed west and didn't just go on a Mediterranean Cruise, or a Viking River Cruise like we might today.

Posted by: Upgrade With Balcony And Drink Package at October 13, 2025 08:48 AM (oftw2)

136 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is asking its enforcement attorneys and a small team of examiners to flag investigations that uncovered potential “debanking” of customers based on religious or political beliefs, even as the agency’s fair lending and other enforcement efforts have largely screeched to a halt.

CFPB enforcement attorneys received an email Sept. 26 instructing them to “identify current and past investigations where we obtained information related to an entity’s reasons for refusing to open accounts, freezing accounts, or closing accounts.”

The review is tied to President Donald Trump’s August executive order that required federal banking regulators to stop what the president and his allies consider unlawful denial of banking services, according to the email obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

137 LINKAPALOOZA!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at October 13, 2025 08:48 AM (WQDw6)

138 Yes... That was particularly nasty
Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:44 AM (VE6XX)


notoriously keeps hitting AOS threads with deranged Candice Owens' and fatso Tucker Carlson's greatest quotes

Posted by: runner at October 13, 2025 08:49 AM (g47mK)

139 Let’s hope this peace holds.
I have my doubts, but this is the path chosen, now it’s time to travel and see where it goes.

Next up, Ukraine.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 13, 2025 07:37 AM (6ydKt)

You obviously don't know muzzie history. As long as there are Jews and Christians, there will never be peace. I give this treaty less than a month before it's blatantly broken.

Your naivety is troubling.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 08:49 AM (g8Ew8)

140
Democrats pissed off that the stupid ape Trump got Zionist hostages released.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:49 AM (tgvbd)

141 [ UK Chancellor of the Exchequer ] Rachel Reeves could impose a surprise 'one off' tax on wealth in Budget next month

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

142 G'mornin' everyone!

54 degrees, overcast

incremental progress,
and who knows, maybe the horse will learn to sing, right?

at least there will be more armed Israelis next time ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 13, 2025 08:50 AM (kHop/)

143 Sal and Rocco just pulled in with the trucks. Our annual Columbus Day cigarette and household appliance sale is a go in the back parking lot.

Posted by: The Sons of Italy, Youngstown, OH at October 13, 2025 08:51 AM (gm9Sb)

144 American Truckers’ Wages Rising With Illegals Being Taken Off the Roads

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:07 AM

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

ICE has ARRESTED an illegal alien semitruck driver from India in Oklahoma, his ID said "no name given" - and ICE Director Todd Lyons is FURIOUS

"It's REALLY scary. To see that on a license? 'No name given?!' And there's a 'REAL ID' in the star in the corner!"

"I can't believe we're giving illegal aliens these driver's licenses, these sanctuary states, trying to make it 'welcome' for these people. And this is a CDL LICENSE, transporting hazardous goods, materials at times."

They are endangering the lives of Americans. Pull all funding.

X video: https://bit.ly/4nU8GqC

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 13, 2025 08:52 AM (P5BPp)

145 If you remember, Greta traveled to the New World on some high tech sailboat about 5 years ago and has made three forays on a flotilla to support Hamas. I think she just likes to go on a Sea Cruise-like me!
Posted by: Frankie Ford at October 13, 2025 08:42 AM (oftw2)

Frankie was gayer than me. Real flaming homo.

Posted by: Zombie Liberace at October 13, 2025 08:52 AM (Dmce/)

146 What "mission"? Zero them out, get rid of them.

If they did SWAT raids on the entities they discovered, killed all of the participants and burned the place to the ground like the Bee Keepers, I can get behind them remaining.

Otherwise its just a clearinghouse for black hats looking for willing buyers of their Day Zero breaks.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 13, 2025 08:52 AM (a4flb)

147 Good morning and thank you JJ. The politicians on the left really struggle with impulse control, don’t they?

Posted by: Piper at October 13, 2025 08:53 AM (PRqXW)

148 Going to get over an inch of rain today. Winds up to twenty mph. Coming down in buckets in Mid Hudson at the moment.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 08:53 AM (L1Wxc)

149
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer ] Rachel Reeves could impose a surprise 'one off' tax on wealth in Budget next month
Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

Mythical creatures:

Unicorns
Blemmyes
Cynocephali
One-Off Tax

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:53 AM (tgvbd)

150 Fitting... Can't wait for the "million" person No Kings march on Saturday....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:44 AM (VE6XX)
*******
Chuck Schumer is giddy.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

151 My local pizza shop is closed on Columbus Day. Don't seem right.

Posted by: Crusty Old Gent at October 13, 2025 08:53 AM (oftw2)

152 It was funny when someone on AF1 asked Trump if he wanted Tony Blair at the soon to be formed Roundtable of Peace, to which he said he did not know. lol, Tony you tried this for 20+ years , also, charity begins at home , go clean up the UK from the jihadis, and crack down on vile antisemitism, before you try this in the ME.

Posted by: runner at October 13, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

153 Jess is a muckraker supreme...

Jessica Machado@jessmachadoshow

An eye witness just informed me they saw a plane crash in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and it is on fire. I have no other details at this time.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 08:54 AM (TGPs7)

154
Going to get over an inch of rain today. Winds up to twenty mph. Coming down in buckets in Mid Hudson at the moment.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 08:53 AM (L1Wxc)

Hope this doesn't affect the Yankees game.

Oh, that's right, the Yankees aren't playing any more.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:55 AM (tgvbd)

155 150 Should be one of the greatest freak shows evah.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 13, 2025 08:55 AM (gm9Sb)

156 ...Department of Ed may be under 2000 now...
So, you're telling me there's an easy ~2000 that can be terminated right now, right?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (cWffP)

157 I don't have much admiration for Columbus as a person. He was kind of a confidence man, and got in trouble with his patroness, Queen Isabella.

That said, he was enormously brave and a superb navigator, and his discovery of the New World (even though he always thought that it was still part of the Old) was the most significant event in secular world history.

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

158 155 150 Should be one of the greatest freak shows evah.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 13, 2025 08:55 AM (gm9Sb)

You can bet it will get wall to wall coverage too...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (VE6XX)

159 FYI - On fed gov numbers...AI was the best place for this...

"As of June 2024, the Department of Defense has approximately 1.29 million active-duty military personnel, about 761,600 National Guard and reserve members, and around 789,600 civilian employees, totaling approximately 2.85 million personnel."

DOW is wildly the biggest department...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (tOcjL)

160 I have a complaint to file: I’ve always had to work on Columbus Day (including today) and when I was a schoolboy we always had class on Columbus Day… what kind of a holiday is that??? Where do I file my complaint?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (FNvF+)

161
Am I wrong or has this government shutdown largely disappeared from the news?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)

162 Your naivety is troubling.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 08:49 AM (g8Ew8

Lot of that going around.

But in many cases, I think it's not naivety so much as a psychological defense mechanism. Otherwise they'd have to admit that 1) all their 10/7 changed everything analysis was badly wrong, and 2) that Trump helped broker a bad deal.

Posted by: cognitive dissonance isn't just a river in egypt at October 13, 2025 08:57 AM (aVC53)

163 The politicians on the left really struggle with impulse control, don’t they?

They don't struggle at all; they just immediately give in without reservation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 13, 2025 08:57 AM (a4flb)

164 148 Going to get over an inch of rain today. Winds up to twenty mph. Coming down in buckets in Mid Hudson at the moment.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Your turn. Squalls, rain, wind, all weekend here in Eastern NC.

Posted by: Moosie Drier at October 13, 2025 08:57 AM (oftw2)

165
Can't wait for the "million" person No Kings march on Saturday....
Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 08:44 AM (VE6XX)

999,990 white people!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:58 AM (tgvbd)

166
The review is tied to President Donald Trump’s August executive order that required federal banking regulators to stop what the president and his allies consider unlawful denial of banking services, according to the email obtained by Bloomberg Law.
Posted by: SMOD


Sounds like political retaliation for when Trump & Family were 'debanked', and for good cause.
If this political retaliation is not stopped soon Trump will be retaliating for many things that were not done.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 13, 2025 08:58 AM (/lPRQ)

167 A lot of folks fail to realize how small the Columbus three ships were. I don't even know if they made the cut for being a ship as opposed to a large boat. I've seen walleye charter boats out of Ashtabula Harbor OH that looked bigger than the description of Christopher's.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 13, 2025 09:00 AM (gm9Sb)

168 The only reason there's peace in the Middle East is the robust framework we put in place during President Biden's watch.

Posted by: Anthony Blinken at October 13, 2025 09:00 AM (0sNs1)

169 Happy Monday!

We can celebrate today.
We have a win today.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 13, 2025 09:01 AM (GbwPZ)

170 Oh, that's right, the Yankees aren't playing any more.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They are all on a Carnival Cruise with the Astros!

Posted by: Chicken Tender Melee at October 13, 2025 09:01 AM (oftw2)

171 Oli London
@OliLondonTV
Mark Ruffalo, who is worth an estimated $90 million, suggests replacing capitalism:

“We just created the most number of billionaires…we could do this. But it’s gonna take some re-imagining of what America is. What our economic system is.”

https://tinyurl.com/53tu3xbj

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

172 >>The only reason there's peace in the Middle East is the robust framework we put in place during President Biden's watch.
Posted by: Anthony Blinken


Heh, I saw his tweet.

Anybody, quick!
Tell me ONE Blinken accomplishment.

A legitimate win for America, not some cynical answer like "he extracted a lot of money from China for the Bidens."

Posted by: Lizzy at October 13, 2025 09:02 AM (GbwPZ)

173 Fun Columbus-related fact: The Russian idiom corresponding to our "to reinvent the wheel" is "to discover America (otkryt' Ameriku)."

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

174 Impossible to exaggerate the pathological cognitive dissonance and malice of the Sunday talk show harpies railing on about Trump's "weaponization" of government. I'm waiting for just one conservative guest to respond, "Aside from being a journalist, are you a living, functioning human being? Where have you been for the last four years? Did you say anything when Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were frog-marched in leg irons for doing nothing but asserting a legitimate executive privilege, when half the country was declared domestic enemies and threats to democracy by the president, when Trump was dragged into court on five separate and baseless charges, when his supporters were swatted in their homes, when the fortunes and families of countless aides were ruined by merit-less lawfare persecutions, when Appalachian storm victims with Trump signs were passed over for relief... are you nothing but a completely mindless and malicious propagandist?"

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 09:03 AM (WHfpM)

175 This is what many progressives want. A citizenry that is scared of their own shadow and demands a stronger central government to protect them.
Posted by: r hennigantx

I see it differently. I think they want us dead.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 09:03 AM (g8Ew8)

176 Happy Columbus Day to you, JJ, and to everyone. The Morning Report is a perfect antidote to my morning doom scroll through the NY Times. Thank you!

Posted by: Oglebay at October 13, 2025 09:04 AM (2ap+5)

177 @154 we Yankee fans have moved on to "wait til next year". Rooting for Giants now
Only thing this rain interferes with is my golf round

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 09:04 AM (L1Wxc)

178 161
Am I wrong or has this government shutdown largely disappeared from the news?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)

It doesn’t affect anyone out in flyover country, so no one really cares. I’m happy Trump has finally started firing people.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 13, 2025 09:04 AM (mzEwx)

179 Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially dating pop star Katy Perry, with the couple spotted kissing on her yacht off Santa Barbara

https://is.gd/segTr3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 13, 2025 09:06 AM (L/fGl)

180 This is what many progressives want. A citizenry that is scared of their own shadow and demands a stronger central government to protect them.
Posted by: r hennigantx

I see it differently. I think they want us dead.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

They want exactly what the muzzies want: Our submission or our death.

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

181 179 Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially dating pop star Katy Perry, with the couple spotted kissing on her yacht off Santa Barbara

https://is.gd/segTr3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 13, 2025 09:06 AM (L/fGl)

Perfect for each other....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 09:07 AM (VE6XX)

182 ... are you nothing but a completely mindless and malicious propagandist?"
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 09:03 AM (WHfpM)

I think this question has been settled for quite some time.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 09:07 AM (g8Ew8)

183 2) that Trump helped broker a bad deal.
Posted by: cognitive dissonance isn't just

I don’t think Trump is some kind of God. He is capable of making mistakes, we know this. That said, I don’t believe for a minute that he fully trusts those in Palestine. The difference here is other Arab Nations telling them they are not supportive of them and they need to knock it off. I also hope the invisible ink agreement is when Hamas does something dumb, everyone is keenly aware they will be blown into the dustbin of history. I hate this for the small number of normal people there, like all 2 of them. Also babies and children who didn’t ask for this at all, but war is ugly and it’s why it’s the last resort, not the first.

Also, as much as I hate to note it, we do need to be strategic in that area with Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Because they really should be the ones to help send Hamas to meet their makers. I can dream.

Posted by: Piper at October 13, 2025 09:07 AM (PRqXW)

184 This whole "shutdown" and mass firing of Federal employees is... complicated. The current round of RIF's do trim some 4000+ employees. But, if/when funding is restored, and at a level that any affected agency, bureau or department can support rehiring, they will.

I think Trump and his team's next phase in the shutdown will be to trim budgets to the point where RIF'ed employees cannot be rehired with whatever money said entity has on hand. Assuming some FedGov entities are not totally dissolved. Which is a much longer pull for this administration.

Oh, and Congress gets paid throughout this ordeal anyway... so why should they care how long it goes on. Their pissing and moaning is all for show.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

185
Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially dating pop star Katy Perry, with the couple spotted kissing on her yacht off Santa Barbara

Probably lots of butt stuff.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 09:08 AM (tgvbd)

186 I'm sorry folks, but Israel is not our friend, though they may be an ally or protectorate, as Bannon calls them. They, like other foreign entities exert too much influence on the American political process.

Since I see Israel as just an ally, nothing special, I feel I can ridicule them as much as any other insufferable ally or political party like the French or British or Democrats.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 09:08 AM (TGPs7)

187 Oli London
@OliLondonTV
Mark Ruffalo, who is worth an estimated $90 million, suggests replacing capitalism:

“We just created the most number of billionaires…we could do this. But it’s gonna take some re-imagining of what America is. What our economic system is.”

https://tinyurl.com/53tu3xbj
Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

Let's start by requiring all actors to live on the median income for their area and put in 40 hours, per week, of volunteer effort at a MAGA approved charity during times when they are not filming.

I'd like to start my re-imagining with that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

188 161
Am I wrong or has this government shutdown largely disappeared from the news?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)

It will reappear if there's an aviation disaster. Democrats will allege that "Trump's shutdown" crippled air traffic control.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 09:09 AM (WHfpM)

189 172 >>The only reason there's peace in the Middle East is the robust framework we put in place during President Biden's watch.
Posted by: Anthony Blinken

Well he is certainly making it difficult for the harpies on the left to criticize the plan, isn’t he? Maybe we should send a thank you note.

Posted by: Piper at October 13, 2025 09:10 AM (PRqXW)

190 Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially dating pop star Katy Perry, with the couple spotted kissing on her yacht off Santa Barbara

https://is.gd/segTr3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 13, 2025 09:06 AM (L/fGl)

Perfect for each other....
Posted by: It's me donna


They both sit when they pee.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 09:11 AM (3sX9I)

191
It will reappear if there's an aviation disaster. Democrats will allege that "Trump's shutdown" crippled air traffic control.
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 09:09 AM (WHfpM)

Whereas controllers taking "sick days" is crippling air traffic control.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 09:11 AM (tgvbd)

192 Am I wrong or has this government shutdown largely disappeared from the news?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 13, 2025 08:56 AM (tgvbd)

It doesn’t affect anyone out in flyover country, so no one really cares. I’m happy Trump has finally started firing people.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 13, 2025 09:04 AM (mzEwx)

Plus, they decided that talking about the shutdown was hurting the Dems. I'd bet that Trump finding the money to pay the troops will get the Dems to fold since that was, likely, their last card to play in trying to fuck over the country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

193 You obviously don't know muzzie history. As long as there are Jews and Christians, there will never be peace. I give this treaty less than a month before it's blatantly broken.

Your naivety is troubling.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 08:49 AM (g8Ew

Of course it will be broken, it’s designed to be broken. Hamas will never disarm, but that’s not Stage 1, which is the return of the hostages. Once the hostages are back, Israel has what it wanted more than anything. Stages 2 - 20 were to benefit the Palestinians.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 13, 2025 09:11 AM (mzEwx)

194 Oh, and Congress gets paid throughout this ordeal anyway... so why should they care how long it goes on. Their pissing and moaning is all for show.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

I wasn't paying full attention, but someone somewhere pointed out that there's some big DC protest coming up and the Ds are scared it will turn on them if they cave. Once that's over, all bets are off.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 13, 2025 09:11 AM (pIfcn)

195 172 >>The only reason there's peace in the Middle East is the robust framework we put in place during President Biden's watch.
Posted by: Anthony Blinken

The only robust framework I recall was of neo-fascism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 09:12 AM (WHfpM)

196 Let's start by requiring all actors to live on the median income for their area and put in 40 hours, per week, of volunteer effort at a MAGA approved charity during times when they are not filming.

I'd like to start my re-imagining with that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)
*******
And each one must tear down their walls around their mansions and house at least 5 illegals.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

197 ICE has ARRESTED an illegal alien semitruck driver from India in Oklahoma, his ID said "no name given" - and ICE Director Todd Lyons is FURIOUS

-
The Man With No Name has given up gunslinging for truck driving?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 13, 2025 09:12 AM (L/fGl)

198 Funny post at Hot Air showing the "famine" victims in Gaza. Many of the people could stand to read Ace's Gainzzz columns

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 13, 2025 09:12 AM (L1Wxc)

199 I saw reproductions of Columbus' ships a while back. The largest was about 60 feet long.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 13, 2025 09:12 AM (YJZdF)

200 Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially dating pop star Katy Perry, with the couple spotted kissing on her yacht off Santa Barbara

Probably lots of butt stuff.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


You really think she'd wear a strap-on?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 09:12 AM (3sX9I)

201 Since I see Israel as just an ally, nothing special, I feel I can ridicule them as much as any other insufferable ally or political party like the French or British or Democrats.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 09:08 AM (TGPs7)

In other words, you have absolutely no clue to what you're saying.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 09:13 AM (g8Ew8)

202 > It will reappear if there's an aviation disaster. Democrats will allege that "Trump's shutdown" crippled air traffic control.
---------
No "essential" FedGov employees are RIF'ed. Not the people who work for the National Weather Service and put out weather alerts, or the FAA's air traffic controllers, or TSA or... (the list goes on and on.)

The clown who holds the elevator doors open for Congress is "essential."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

203 t186 I'm sorry folks, but Israel is not our friend, though they may be an ally or protectorate, as Bannon calls them. They, like other foreign entities exert too much influence on the American political process.”

They “exert influence” as you say because me and a whole lot of Americans like me see them as the top of the sphere against a largely barbaric Muslim culture trying to destroy Western Civilization.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 13, 2025 09:14 AM (mzEwx)

204 חג שמח

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 13, 2025 09:14 AM (yF8Zh)

205 My son's favorite model of human behavior is a village where every family owns a single cow except for the rich peasant, who owns two. The single cow families form a democratic mob and kill both of the cows along with the rich peasant and his family and burn down his house.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 13, 2025 09:15 AM (2ap+5)

206 why does every zero hedge troll think they can use AOS to spill their deep seated anti-Jew venom and not be called out, then hide under "legitimate criticism" wall ? do they think the commenters are stupid and will not see through it, or they will not be called out or challenged ?

Posted by: runner at October 13, 2025 09:15 AM (g47mK)

207 The only reason there's peace in the Middle East is the robust framework we put in place during President Biden's watch.
Posted by: Anthony Blinken


Heh, I saw his tweet.


Of course, if it was for Otto Pen's demonic and bat scat insane foreign policy of celebrating, nurturing and underwriting terrorism in the Middle East, there wouldn't have been an October 7.

Yeah, that framework of death, misery and chaos forced the retaliation, "genocide" and for Trump to yet again, clean up a Demonic Party president's mess.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 13, 2025 09:15 AM (a4flb)

208 Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially dating pop star Katy Perry, with the couple spotted kissing on her yacht off Santa Barbara

Probably lots of butt stuff.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You really think she'd wear a strap-on?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 09:12 AM (3sX9I)

All while he's shouting, "Put your rocket in me, Astronaut!"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 09:15 AM (ExV1e)

209 ICE has ARRESTED an illegal alien semitruck driver from India in Oklahoma, his ID said "no name given" - and ICE Director Todd Lyons is FURIOUS


I could see the cop shooting the guy and a whole Monty Python skit breaking out.

"Who'd you shoot?"
"Nobody."
"You shot someone!"
"No I didn't"
"Yes you did!"
"No I didn't. Tell me his name!"

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 09:15 AM (3sX9I)

210 204 חג שמח
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 13, 2025 09:14 AM (yF8Zh)

Greetings to you...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 09:15 AM (VE6XX)

211 No "essential" FedGov employees are RIF'ed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

It's not only about being RIF'd.

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy acknowledged that controllers are under immense stress, worrying about mortgage payments and basic expenses, which affects their focus and performance. He noted that staffing levels had dropped as low as 50% in some areas during peak times."

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 09:16 AM (WHfpM)

212 The clown who holds the elevator doors open for Congress is "essential."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

The clown who holds the elevator doors open for Congress is probably employed by Congress and, therefore, not subject to the shutdown.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 13, 2025 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

213 "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"

I disagree with the premise: Conventional military means have not been used against Gaza.

Conventional military means would have solved the problem entirely.

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at October 13, 2025 09:17 AM (2HD0o)

214 I'm sorry folks, but Israel is not our friend, though they may be an ally or protectorate, as Bannon calls them. They, like other foreign entities exert too much influence on the American political process.

Since I see Israel as just an ally, nothing special, I feel I can ridicule them as much as any other insufferable ally or political party like the French or British or Democrats.

Posted by: Mister Ghost

But your comment had Jews spitting on "Christians," not on "Americans." Your statement was religious in nture, not geopolitical.

Posted by: Bulg at October 13, 2025 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

215 >>I think Trump and his team's next phase in the shutdown will be to trim budgets to the point where RIF'ed employees cannot be rehired with whatever money said entity has on hand. Assuming some FedGov entities are not totally dissolved. Which is a much longer pull for this administration.


What I've read is that the RIFs are being based on programs/projects, so that they end the project/program when it's workers are let go. If it were an across the board RIF, each project/program leader could hire back -- but not when the program leader, and its funding(?), is cut.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 13, 2025 09:17 AM (GbwPZ)

216 Former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially dating pop star Katy Perry, with the couple spotted kissing on her yacht off Santa Barbara

Probably lots of butt stuff.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You really think she'd wear a strap-on?
Posted by: rickb223

All while he's shouting, "Put your rocket in me, Astronaut!"
Posted by: I used to have a different nic



THAT has got to make the top ten comments of the week. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2025 09:17 AM (3sX9I)

217 In other words, you have absolutely no clue to what you're saying.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

This drive by insult and obligatory smear brought to you by AIPAC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 13, 2025 09:18 AM (a4flb)

218 I see it differently. I think they want us dead.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 09:03 AM (g8Ew

Ok add an AND to my comment

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 09:18 AM (gbOdA)

219 when someone claims that they are just treating Israel as another ally, and then spend majority of their posts in the anti-Israel and anti-Jew sphere, time to axk questions what the fuck are they doing here

Posted by: runner at October 13, 2025 09:18 AM (g47mK)

220 >>>No "essential" FedGov employees are RIF'ed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

It's not only about being RIF'd.

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy acknowledged that controllers are under immense stress, worrying about mortgage payments and basic expenses, which affects their focus and performance. He noted that staffing levels had dropped as low as 50% in some areas during peak times."
Posted by: Ordinary American at October 13, 2025 09:16 AM (WHfpM)
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While that is probably true, the FAA has routinely had issues with ATC staffing levels and always complains about "stress" as their job, by nature, is "stressful."

The last time they had to worry about being fired was when they walked off their jobs, and were fired.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2025 09:21 AM (Q4IgG)

221 I guess we can’t even for 15 minutes celebrate a peace deal for Israel that Israel seems happy with, can we? Nope, just endless doomsaying.

Israel has much more to gain or lose from this deal that we do. They wanted the deal and they are happy with the deal.

My take on this deal is much closer to Kurt Schlicter’s in his column today than the doomsaying here.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 13, 2025 09:22 AM (MHP2v)

222 >>ICE has ARRESTED an illegal alien semitruck driver from India in Oklahoma, his ID said "no name given" - and ICE Director Todd Lyons is FURIOUS


Wait 'till he meets all of the truck drivers' fellow "No Name Given" relatives!!

Oklahoma's Operation Guardian a few weeks back uncovered many such foreigners using CDLs issued out of NY to "No Name Given."

This gal has been documenting it for months:
https://x.com/maybedanielleee

Posted by: Lizzy at October 13, 2025 09:22 AM (GbwPZ)

223 Americans, especially those who have or want children, value bedrooms more than square footage.
Open Floor Plans Are Killing the American Family

All true.

We wound up putting up some walls in our "open space" to make another bedroom for our Darling Spawn(TM).

Though in fairness, open space is kind of nice when said niblets of very young and they can run and romp around in that space even when the weather sucks.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 13, 2025 09:22 AM (iJfKG)

224 A few more thoughts on Israel...

I fully support their right to exist in the Middle East, though based on ancient land ownership and continued existence in a specific geographic area, you might have a case for giving the US back to the Indians.

And they are surrounded by a lot of bat shit crazy neighbors with murderous intent, so they have a right to defend themselves.

But the Greater Israel thingy is not our problem and we should not be supporting them with our tax dollars or military

Civilizations rise to fall in the Middle East, so if they want to annex more land, well, it happens, but it is not our burden, fiscally or militarily.

And I want them out of the political/socio process here, much too much influence.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 13, 2025 09:22 AM (TGPs7)

225 Morning, News Folken,

I'm all exercised, washed, fed, and ready to hit the grocery (Walmart and Aldi) for my week's supplies. Maybe I'll go out for a coffee after and bring the laptop along.

The Post Awful is closed today, right? I put a bill payment into the drop box inside the station this morning, but I expect it won't go out until tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 13, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)

226 >>I'm sorry folks, but Israel is not our friend, though they may be an ally or protectorate, as Bannon calls them.

If you're taking your info from a guy who fails body hygiene 101 you might be making a big mistake.

Just because you think you have some incredible insight into the region that nobody who actually lives their doesn't, that doesn't make you right.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2025 09:23 AM (viF8m)

227 ... ruined by merit-less lawfare persecutions, when Appalachian storm victims with Trump signs were passed over for relief... are you nothing but a completely mindless and malicious propagandist?"

Blink, blink.... long pause....
"Trump is a fascist."

Posted by: New Name at October 13, 2025 09:24 AM (/lPRQ)

228 The REAL ID Star really pisses me off.
This is a 20 YO law finally enforced and the modern CSA is illegally handing out IDs that will allow serious terrorist on planes.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 09:24 AM (gbOdA)

229 I disagree with the premise: Conventional military means have not been used against Gaza.

Conventional military means would have solved the problem entirely.

Posted by: Egg Shen, Bus Philosophiser at October 13, 2025 09:17 AM (2HD0o)
-

So, too, conventional PMs and COSs, though they seem hard to come by these days.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 13, 2025 09:24 AM (yF8Zh)

230 >>All while he's shouting, "Put your rocket in me, Astronaut!"




Not the first world leader who luvs Katy Perry, heh:

https://tinyurl.com/4hjy3pyp

Posted by: Lizzy at October 13, 2025 09:26 AM (GbwPZ)

231
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent SCORCHES China for announcing aggressive export controls that would strain global economies on the same day as President Trump's Gaza peace deal

"Trying to get leverage in front of a meeting with Donald Trump is a BAD IDEA! [Trump] turned the tables with his two very good tweets on Friday, talking about raising tariffs and implementing any sanctions that we need to."

"Maybe it was a MISTAKEN attempt to try to gain leverage before the two leaders meet in Korea in October."

"The Chinese are VERY big on symbolism! I can tell you was HIGHLY inappropriate for them to announce these export controls on the day that the peace deal was announced and overshadow that."

"The Chinese economy is doing very poorly. Maybe they're trying to take focus off that. The US is pushing for peace, China is financing WAR, purchasing Russian oil, Iranian oil...maybe it was to distract from that."

"It was a miscalculation. We are communicating now."

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

232 The rule of holes.

https://is.gd/capNgB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 13, 2025 09:27 AM (L/fGl)

233 Just because you think you have some incredible insight into the region that nobody who actually lives their doesn't, that doesn't make you right.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2025 09:23 AM (viF8m)
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Simply count the number of times Mister Ghost has griped so much against all of the Arab and Muslim PACs versus his allusions (or illusions) to the Israeli government and AIPAC.

Then add in Qatar.

MG is a Jew-loathing clown, nothing more.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 13, 2025 09:28 AM (yF8Zh)

234 Nations don't have friends, they have interests.

Posted by: Statecraft 101 at October 13, 2025 09:29 AM (ZdGdU)

235 >>Fun Columbus-related fact: The Russian idiom corresponding to our "to reinvent the wheel" is "to discover America (otkryt' Ameriku)."



Heh, somehow I find that amusing, not insulting.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 13, 2025 09:29 AM (GbwPZ)

236 It was funny when someone on AF1 asked Trump if he wanted Tony Blair at the soon to be formed Roundtable of Peace, to which he said he did not know. lol,

I'm sure nobody in the region wants the British running Palestine again

Posted by: SMOD at October 13, 2025 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

237
MG is a Jew-loathing clown, nothing more.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 13, 2025 09:28 AM (yF8Zh)

Exactly

Posted by: It's me donna at October 13, 2025 09:29 AM (VE6XX)

238 >Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 13, 2025 09:14 AM (yF8Zh)
----

what is the vibe on the ground there, regarding Trump's deal

what are people saying that we are not hearing

Posted by: Don Black. Message: diggety schwag at October 13, 2025 09:29 AM (AOsQT)

239 I guess we can’t even for 15 minutes celebrate a peace deal for Israel that Israel seems happy with, can we?

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We don’t do happy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 13, 2025 09:29 AM (L/fGl)

240
A
R
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Posted by: r hennigantx at October 13, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

241 “ Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!”

Psalm 66:5

Posted by: Marcus T at October 13, 2025 09:32 AM (b97Gk)

242 Am I glad to see Israel's hostages released at last … ? Yes, and thank You, Lord. BUT: There will be follow-on consequences, and their beginnings didn't take long to appear on-scene with the public executions in the square.

As good as it is to see hostages and families reunited, the question is stiill: At what price, and cui bono?

A rare and precious opportunity to 'Glassify Gaza!' has been missed. It will not come again. Why should Gaza have been treated differently from Hamburg, Dresden, Nagasaki, or Hiroshima? Nothing has ended - only restarted in a different form.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 13, 2025 09:33 AM (ayRl+)

243 That Columbus painting is in Spanish museum and it was attacked by two lunatic women with red paint.

We live in an intolerant and unreasonable age.

Posted by: torabora at October 13, 2025 09:35 AM (KtOUo)

244 what is the vibe on the ground there, regarding Trump's deal

what are people saying that we are not hearing

Posted by: Don Black. Message: diggety schwag at October 13, 2025 09:29 AM (AOsQT)
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See Dr No's response above.

Our youngest pup is disgusted that he served in Gaza numerous times only to have Israel crawl back out and watch the same thing happen again in the not too distant enough future.

Signing off. Holiday coming up.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 13, 2025 09:38 AM (yF8Zh)

245 I did listen to most of Trump's speech finally. It was very good!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 13, 2025 09:39 AM (PFs9e)

246 Though in fairness, open space is kind of nice when said niblets of very young and they can run and romp around in that space even when the weather sucks.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 13, 2025 09:22 AM (iJfKG)

But what happens if mommy and daddy want to reconsummate their deep love for each other?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 13, 2025 09:42 AM (g8Ew8)

247 I would return the terrorists in body bags.

We do not reward bad behavior.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 13, 2025 09:43 AM (ZmEVT)

248 >>Am I glad to see Israel's hostages released at last … ? Yes, and thank You, Lord. BUT: There will be follow-on consequences, and their beginnings didn't take long to appear on-scene with the public executions in the square.


There are always consequences. The world didn't just wake up to the fact that Islamic terrorists exist. Nobody who hasn't been living on the moon doesn't understand what's going on. So does Trump's team.

The war is over. Hostages are coming home. It would be great if we could have 1 hour without DOOM! I'm so old I remember having that as a daily thread and it was completely wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2025 09:48 AM (viF8m)

249 Come on, man. At least let them TRY, ok ?

The entire world is heralding this deal, so if Hamas violates the agreement - which they almost certainly will - it literally gives Israel carte blanch to utterly annihilate Gaza and Hamas with it.

I'm sure all the released prisoners will end up on the receiving end of high explosive ordinance soon enough

Posted by: deadrody at October 13, 2025 09:56 AM (qf6NU)

250

So what did Columbus unleash with the discovery of what has become America?

Thus far, it has become the most exceptional country on this planet, populated with an extraordinary people who are governed, not ruled by a political system unique in history.

It has further demonstrated an ability to meet and prevail over issues that can and have destroyed lesser countries, with an unbroken record of success. This ability has become part of our heritage of continuing the struggle of our predecessors to ensure our Republic endures. As it has done, and will continue to do.

So you hold that head HIGH and PROUD, because you are Americans--it is indeed your heritage to do so.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 13, 2025 10:02 AM (vFbHf)

251 47 Saleh al- Jafawari the troll who did all the fake "news" reports from Gaza was killed in the crossfire between Pali clans in Gaza and Hamas . Anyhoo....

Sure would be ironic if al-Jafawari was trying to stage one of his fake videos when he got shot.


Oh, wait, did I say "ironic"? I meant "funny as hell"!

Posted by: JB1000 at October 13, 2025 10:06 AM (JSu2X)

252 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J., as always

I'll still be praying families of all Hamas and Islamic Jihad hostages have closure soon. And I'll keep my own counsel about this matter at least for today.

NY Post, Politics
Trump urges Israeli president to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu in off-script moment: ‘Greatest wartime’ leader
By Ryan King, Published Oct. 13, 2025, 9:06 a.m. ET

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 13, 2025 10:06 AM (NFX2v)

253 Israel could change that arithmetic if the EXECUTED heinous terrorists instead of saving them for a prisoner swap.

Posted by: susan harms at October 13, 2025 10:32 AM (Kkd7F)

254 “This” in a headline - clickbait.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 13, 2025 10:40 AM (XaI3x)

255 First Axios, then MXM News, now The National Pulse. Why give any attention to news orgs that treat its readers like idiots?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 13, 2025 10:41 AM (XaI3x)

256 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 13, 2025 10:46 AM (y5yzD)

257 "The Citizenry Can No Longer Tolerate America’s Authoritarians"

Don't forget about collateral deaths like this one, due to and already massively incompetent medical system being strained beyond redemption:

People dying of neglect.

https://archive.ph/yEBX6

Posted by: SSilverMD at October 13, 2025 10:57 AM (ZIKtD)

258 (death came a year and a half later due to unrecoverable starvation)

Posted by: SSilverMD at October 13, 2025 10:59 AM (ZIKtD)

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