Modern Immigration Is A Far Cry From That Of Our Ancestors

The lives that many of our ancestors lived before they made the sometimes arduous trek to America were difficult for many reasons. Poverty of course, but religious persecution figured prominently, and the simple almost world-wide limitation on upward mobility was a huge driver of immigration. No matter our great-great-grandfather's intelligence and drive and desire to better himself, he was stuck as a serf or a blacksmith or a tenant farmer, and it was very difficult to change those circumstances.

Thus the allure of America! But to get there was difficult and expensive, and there was no guarantee that when he arrived he wouldn't be put right back on the ship and sent back to Russia or Germany or Sweden or Italy or...

And that was just the beginning! He had to work...hard, and learn English, and fit into the culture that was American Exceptionalism. There was no welfare or immigration assistance or government payments for new arrivals or public medical care or public housing or any of the myriad services that current immigrants are given.

So who came to America?

The smart ones. The tough ones. The ones who truly valued freedom and chafed under the Czar or the Kaiser or the King or the Emperor. The great mass of people who were miserable, but unwilling to challenge themselves with the great unknown of leaving what they had, no matter how pitiful, stayed, and were gobbled up by the cataclysms that shook Europe.

That selection turbocharged America, which was already the destination of the best and the brightest from its beginning.

But all of that changed with modern transportation, the burgeoning welfare state, and the radical change in our immigration policies that began in the 1960s. No longer did America want immigration to be a reflection of the country. No...the progressives wanted a flood of new voters who would support their cradle-to-grave welfare dreams.

And where to find those people? In countries without a foundation of personal freedom, the rule of law, and at least some sense of entrepreneurship and personal responsibility.

And that's what we got! People who came here to be cared for by government, not to expand their lives and enjoy the fruits of liberty.

It's as simple as that, and the progressive cant that claims the new immigrants (both legal and illegal) are functionally identical to the great immigrations of the 19th and into the early 20th century is arrant nonsense.

A peasant from central America or China without education or any political conviction other than a desire to be cared for is a radically different person than the 19th century immigrant from Germany or Russia who came to America with nothing, built a small business, sent his children to college, and created vast wealth for America.

And that filter of expense and difficulty and fear of the unknown has largely been removed, so there is no impediment to armies of societal leeches invading our country. Hell, there are American charities that teach illegals how to navigate the welfare systems for maximum payout, even before they get here!

How to fix it? President Trump has tightened restrictions on legal immigration, and has simply enforced the law on illegal immigration. It is an excellent start, but the societal modifications necessary to return America to the concept of the melting pot are still very much in flux.

Love of country, respect for individual responsibility, freedom as a powerful driver of political behavior...all need to return to the fore. And that begins with education, which has been completely hijacked by the rabid progressives of the educational establishment.

Yes, it is a tall order, but the indications are modestly positive!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 12:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 25, 2026 12:00 PM (NcvvS)

3
President Trump has tightened restrictions on legal immigration

___________

Is it the tightening of restrictions or is it no longer tolerating the non-enforcement allowed to grow?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:04 PM (eRlcH)

4 How to fix it? President Trump has tightened restrictions on legal immigration, and has simply enforced the law on illegal immigration.

Yes, it's important to remember that 'illegal' immigration is the problem and we must enforce the law that already exists.

Posted by: dantesed at October 25, 2026 12:06 PM (Oy/m2)

5
*takes deep breath*

Ahh, a spacious new thread!

*manspreads*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:06 PM (eRlcH)

6 3WPs.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 25, 2026 12:06 PM (DGD6U)

7 Well said, CBD. My ancestors all showed up in North America between 1615 and 1875. Loggers, farmers, people just trying to make a go of it here and give the next generation a better life.

As to the leeches, they are enabled by a class of people who get rich by 'helping' them.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 25, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)

8 Too late.

1/3 of the country is non American and they’re young and love to pump out babies that we pay for. Half the actual American population hates itself and wants cultural suicide.

We’re just a decade or so behind Europe’s descent.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre Delecto at October 25, 2026 12:07 PM (cFp1s)

9 Another part in all this, there wasn't welfare in the old days.

So if you came to America you had to work...or starve.

Now ALL illegals and a significant portion of legal immigrants cross the border and start collecting benefits that equal what the upper class back home would have.

Its insane. We had debates in the old days about how generous our welfare net should be for citizens...and the government now gives way way more then that to foreigners

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2026 12:08 PM (sKqQm)

10 But the left says we aren't reproducing and need new bodies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2026 12:09 PM (Cqx++)

11 I really detest this crap of We need Immigration Reform BS, there are laws in the books that worked a very long time until the last 40 years.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 12:11 PM (Ia/+0)

12
But the left says we aren't reproducing and need new bodies.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2026 12:09 PM (Cqx++)

__________

The Left is also asking how can we bring babies into a world doomed by Climate Change and Trump.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:11 PM (eRlcH)

13 But the left says we aren't reproducing and need new bodies.

They also say American living standards are unsustainable and need to be curtailed while arguing we should bring those millions of foreigners here and elevating them to American living standards

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2026 12:11 PM (sKqQm)

14 The problem isn’t just illegal immigration.

Close to a million legal immigrants become citizens every year. Their first act after becoming citizens is registering as Democrats and filing out welfare applications. Or for the more advanced ones taking over every tech job.

We need an end to ALL immigration. Not a year from now, but tomorrow. It will never happen though. Congress loves immigration. Chamber of commerce loves cheap labor, Democrats love the votes.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre Delecto at October 25, 2026 12:13 PM (cFp1s)

15 The Left: the world is overpopulated and you need to stop having babies. Also the Left: not that you're not having babies we HAVE to import third worlders.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at October 25, 2026 12:13 PM (f3KQn)

16 now

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at October 25, 2026 12:14 PM (f3KQn)

17 >>But the left says we aren't reproducing and need new bodies.

And yet they are wildly enthusiastic about eugenics and abortion.

As Musk said the other day, it's objectively true that the Great Replacement has already happened in parts of Europe.

When people accept this has been the plan of globalists for a very long time it all makes sense. We should stop them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2026 12:14 PM (viF8m)

18 Hard times make hard men. Hard men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.

America was a "melting pot." Canada tried to be a "Salad bowl." See where that got them.

We have to make sure immigrants:
1. Have marketable job skills and will not be "public charges.
2. Come here to assimilate.
3. Never forget 1. and 2.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2026 12:14 PM (LOvBA)

19 I think the massive amount of fraud involved in most "government care" programs like welfare and Medicare certainly created the circumstances for illegals/migrants to "be taken care of."

It didn't help that our political betters made a point to advertise that... far and wide. Plus, get massive kickbacks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2026 12:16 PM (RORbl)

20
While we're at it, no more bilingual education. No language except English in any government office or publication. Learn English or leave.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:17 PM (eRlcH)

21
Also: no Irish

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:18 PM (eRlcH)

22 The first immigrants were not the poor. They were wealthy enough to pay for passage. Entire clans came together.

When the Italians, etc. came in the 19th century, most had marketable job skills.

When Ted Kennedy and his gang of assholes opened the country to the great unwashed, it has since deteriorated.

The big lie is that America is bad/evil.

If that is true, why does most everyone want to come here?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (LOvBA)

23 Bad news, everyone.

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)

24 Most of the illegal invaders only come here for the cash payoff, medicaid and whatever other swindle they can grab with both hands and ship home to whatever shithouse they came from. They don't want to work and won't if they can grift and steal.

Cut off those freebies and most would leave or not come here at all.

Posted by: Somali Joe at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (Ssbab)

25 How to fix it? President Trump has tightened restrictions on legal immigration, and has simply enforced the law on illegal immigration. It is an excellent start, but the societal modifications necessary to return America to the concept of the melting pot are still very much in flux.

Trump has do nothing except enforce the laws that congress wrote. The next democrat president is going to open the flood gates wide open the same day they they get sworn in.

This is going to be the pattern we will face going forward. democrats will allow uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration and republican presidents will turn it off and not a single law has changed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (I43vL)

26
NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)

___________

Must mean Trump is doing the right things.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:20 PM (eRlcH)

27 "Okay, we'll take the ni@@ers and the chinks. But not the Irish!"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2026 12:20 PM (LOvBA)

28 @9. It's insane.---18-1

That about sums it up. We think our government is smart?
Our government is full of fools and con men/women. Downright disgusting.

Posted by: Case at October 25, 2026 12:21 PM (Dd7BU)

29 Do they award Pulitzers in snark?

https://tinyurl.com/dy3ujbdk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:22 PM (ndZc7)

30 Obama is senile, or even possibly, demonically possessed.

The faggot cannot speak without lying.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2026 12:22 PM (LOvBA)

31 The collapse of the welfare state will be a beautiful thing.

C'mon France. Lead the way!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 25, 2026 12:23 PM (Sco7b)

32 Bad news, everyone.

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)
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https://youtu.be/a8yZKMow0ME?t=47

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 25, 2026 12:23 PM (DGD6U)

33 Bad news, everyone.

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Wow, just wow. smdh

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 25, 2026 12:23 PM (ftFVW)

34 NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)

Does that mean more pallets of cash will solve the problem?

Posted by: dantesed at October 25, 2026 12:25 PM (Oy/m2)

35 27 "Okay, we'll take the ni@@ers and the chinks. But not the Irish!"

Posted by: no one of any consequence

There you go, quoting me again.

Posted by: Olson Johnson at October 25, 2026 12:25 PM (d1f3k)

36 Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."

Obama is literally doing the "it's only a flesh wound" thing. The only strategy he knows is "picking up dudes at a gay nightclub".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2026 12:25 PM (QZThv)

37 >>It didn't help that our political betters made a point to advertise that... far and wide. Plus, get massive kickbacks.

The MEALS Act is the legislation that opened the doors to massive fraud mostly by the Somalian community in Minnesota. It was advertised as a bill that would help feed children and the poor during the lockdowns when schools were closed.

In reality it removed all the safeguards for overseeing how and where the money was going and hundreds of millions of dollars were shoveled into that program. Do you know who sponsored the MEALS Act in the House?

Ilhan Nur Said Elmi aka Ilhan Omar.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2026 12:25 PM (viF8m)

38 He just misspoke.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Talarico is asked about his prior woke comments.
His response?
He was "inarticulate."
"I think what I've regretted is kind of how I phrased certain things."
"When you pull out maybe the most inarticulate of those things to make an attack ad, I certainly regret not articulating my position more clearly."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:25 PM (ndZc7)

39 Sounds like Obama's on the same payment plan as Tucker.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2026 12:26 PM (RORbl)

40 Cleavon Little was a great comedic actor.

The first season of "Temperatures Rising" was hilarious. James Whitmore was the chief of surgery. Just effing great.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2026 12:27 PM (LOvBA)

41 We used to call the JEF.

Posted by: Olson Johnson at October 25, 2026 12:28 PM (d1f3k)

42 Barky's Islam is showing

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 12:29 PM (Ia/+0)

43 Vlad Tepes had a point.

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at October 25, 2026 12:30 PM (z6ONu)

44 I imagine this is bullshit but who knows?

The Minnesota Star Tribune
@StarTribune
Minnesota sues L’Oréal for selling toxic hair products to Black girls and women
. . . .
"Building off historic racist stereotypes, the largest cosmetics company in the world knowingly marketed and sold hair products that increased cancer risks to Black women and girls, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

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OK, definitely bullshit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:31 PM (ndZc7)

45 Also: no Irish"

Awww, prairie shit...

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:32 PM (pfXMo)

46 America was a "melting pot." Canada tried to be a "Salad bowl." See where that got them.

Canadians love tossing salad.
They're gayer than Elric.

Posted by: Fartbringer at October 25, 2026 12:33 PM (v0bWZ)

47 Building off historic racist stereotypes, the largest cosmetics company in the world knowingly marketed and sold hair products"

Wait until they find out who the Jheri Curl was named after...

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:34 PM (pfXMo)

48 Don't make him mad. You wouldn't like him when he's mad.

https://tinyurl.com/4ef7ewub

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:34 PM (ndZc7)

49 The education system wasn't hijacked. We gave it away.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 25, 2026 12:34 PM (ua/lL)

50
>>the societal modifications necessary to return America to the concept of the melting pot are still very much in flux.

=================

Yes. That awful future congresswoman who is literally from Ethiopia has stated that Americans need to LEARN SOME MANNERS AND MORALS and FIX THEIR CHARACTERS and that the people to teach it to us are those "from the South," by which she of course means south of our border. She's literally said this.

A little about her, since it's another name we'll have to get used to: Melat Kiros, defeated a long-time white female incumbent in a solid blue CO district, 29 years old, currently a student ("the efficacy of reparations, universal basic income and regulatory reform in achieving social, economic, and environmental equity") and she's a member of the DSA. She'll be a great replacement for Ilhan.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 25, 2026 12:35 PM (mmrXZ)

51 NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)
+++
What's really sad is that anybody still gives a rat's ass what that lying pos has to say.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2026 12:36 PM (Lo97M)

52 Minnesota sues L'Oreal for selling toxic hair products to Black women and girls....

Toxic? Is that why Target and Walmart put them in locked cases?

Posted by: PabloD at October 25, 2026 12:36 PM (mXZsC)

53 What's really sad is that anybody still gives a rat's ass what that lying pos has to say.

Nobody in any position of power or influence does, which is close enough to total irrelevancy.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2026 12:36 PM (QZThv)

54 When Ted Kennedy and his gang of assholes opened the country to the great unwashed"

It was "how to maintain power".
Worked for Tammany...

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:37 PM (pfXMo)

55 What was your first clue, Sherlock?

GOP Lawmaker Warns DSA Movement “Rooted in Antisemitism and Jew Hatred, Marxist Theory”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:39 PM (ndZc7)

56 That awful future congresswoman who is literally from Ethiopia has stated that Americans need to LEARN SOME MANNERS AND MORALS and FIX THEIR CHARACTERS and that the people to teach it to us are those "from the South," by which she of course means south of our border. She's literally said this.

Of all of the ways the CIA/USAID tries to force the entire world to fit through the prism of the DNC, "the global south" is the most retarded. Not least of which because the US south they're referencing was Democratic when it was bad, and now largely isn't.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2026 12:40 PM (QZThv)

57
What's really sad is that anybody still gives a rat's ass what that lying pos has to say.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2026 12:36 PM (Lo97M)

____________

Nobody except the MSM does. The Kennedy Democrat is extinct. The Clinton Democrat is nearly extinct. Even the Obama Democrat is an endangered species.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:40 PM (eRlcH)

58 Don't make him mad. You wouldn't like him when he's mad"

Oh, no. There goes Tokyo...

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:40 PM (pfXMo)

59 >>Nobody in any position of power or influence does, which is close enough to total irrelevancy.

I think he's a lot more involved behind the scenes than is reported. He supercharged the open borders globalist shit. He's enraged Trump is tearing it apart.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2026 12:41 PM (viF8m)

60 Thx CBD.
The leftists I know here in my overrun hometown (overrun by leftists and illegals) think that anyone who criticizes any illegal is racist. No matter what evidence is in front of them or what history is told to them, it won't matter. That's what we are up against

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 25, 2026 12:42 PM (vJPf4)

61
America was a "melting pot." Canada tried to be a "Salad bowl." See where that got them.

That sounds like the race relations class I attended while in the Navy. They said that we should not think of a melting pot but rather as a Mulligan stew where each ingredient has its own unique flavor.

That was in 1974

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2026 12:42 PM (Cqx++)

62 Ilhan Omar Defends Her “Real Name” During Confrontation at Mall of Somalia

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Rumpelstilskin?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:42 PM (ndZc7)

63 Nobody except the MSM does. The Kennedy Democrat is extinct. The Clinton Democrat is nearly extinct. Even the Obama Democrat is an endangered species.

Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice birthed the Democrat Party's Islamism and "free Palestine" bullshit, so in that sense the Obama Democrat hangs on. But I doubt those ladies can pass the purity tests their own ideological children are going to subject them to.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2026 12:42 PM (QZThv)

64 29 years old, currently a student"

PhD candidate in organic chemistry? Theoretical physics research?

No? Hmm.

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:43 PM (pfXMo)

65 Ilhan whats-her-name sings a song. Libs of TikTok translates:

https://tinyurl.com/5d7sxj7z

הבא להרגך, השכם להורגו

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 25, 2026 12:43 PM (DGD6U)

66 The leftists I know here in my overrun hometown (overrun by leftists and illegals) think that anyone who criticizes any illegal is racist. No matter what evidence is in front of them or what history is told to them, it won't matter. That's what we are up against

In my AO they say the same then complain about increasing rates of crime, traffic, housing prices and urbanization. "Why isn't anyone doing something about the real issues we face not immigration?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)

67 "We gave it away."

No ma'am. They convinced the sheep to vote the wolves into power.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2026 12:44 PM (LOvBA)

68 Rumpelstilskin?"

Lord Farquaad...

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:44 PM (pfXMo)

69
Ilhan Omar Defends Her “Real Name” During Confrontation at Mall of Somalia

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Rumpelstilskin?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:42 PM (ndZc7)

________

Goldberg

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:44 PM (eRlcH)

70 Goldberg"

golf clap

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:46 PM (pfXMo)

71 Lord Farquaad...

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 12:44 PM

Someone on X pointed out that Greta Thunberg and Abigail Spanberger have the same face if you ignore their hair (or paste Greta's Lord Farquaad onto Spanberger), and now I can't unsee it.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2026 12:46 PM (QZThv)

72 Sounds like Barky shows up occasionally to a lesser Marxist campaign then half gearted talks about the candidate then glorifies himself.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 12:46 PM (Ia/+0)

73
But I doubt those ladies can pass the purity tests their own ideological children are going to subject them to.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2026 12:42 PM (QZThv)

___________

Like Nadezhda Krupskaya, they'll survive but be utterly marginalized.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 12:46 PM (eRlcH)

74 28 @9. It's insane.---18-1

That about sums it up. We think our government is smart?
Our government is full of fools and con men/women. Downright disgusting.
Posted by: Case
=========
Too many people treat organizations as its own living and breathing entity. It isn't. Some people in government are smart, some are dumb and most are average.

What is true is that all of them in the organization are responding to incentive structures and seeking to maximize their own gains while pawning off losses off to the collective society.

That applies to The Gay Old Party, the Democrat Communist Party, the FBI, etc.

To get organizations to operate properly, you have to change the incentive structures embedded in these organizations. Thus, Trump is dragging the GOPe kicking and screaming away from its Chamber of Commerce donor incentives, Hegseth is dragging the DoW away from its Globo Homo societal change agenda to that of winning wars, etc. etc.

Changing organizational incentive structures is hard which is why a lot of reform attempts fail--the people in the organization benefitting from the current incentive structure do everything possible to derail and destroy reform.

Posted by: whig at October 25, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

75 66 The leftists I know here in my overrun hometown (overrun by leftists and illegals) think that anyone who criticizes any illegal is racist. No matter what evidence is in front of them or what history is told to them, it won't matter. That's what we are up against
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The Democrat-Communists figured out long ago that people are both easily manipulated and intellectually lazy. Including all the "Republicans" who apparently have decided to sit this election out.

Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at October 25, 2026 12:48 PM (Ovx+P)

76 Who's real stupid?

What veteran actor Mandy Patinkin did Friday, though, is another matter.

The Jewish star, best known for movies like “The Princess Bride” and “Yentl,” threw his support behind Abdul El-Sayed. The Michigan Democrat is running for the Senate, and he has more baggage than most politicians.

That’s being kind.

What’s far less kind? His unsavory connections. He’s on record writing a letter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, a designated terrorist group. That missive begged the organization to “purge the media and the police.”

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Must be some BDSM thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:49 PM (ndZc7)

77 Brazilians are voting today. Interesting to see how things turn out now that USAID isn't "helping democratize" Brazil.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2026 12:52 PM (viF8m)

78 Must be some BDSM thing.

"F**k me like one of your French goats" - Mandy Patinkin, probably.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2026 12:52 PM (QZThv)

79
Trump has do nothing except enforce the laws that congress wrote. The next democrat president is going to open the flood gates wide open the same day they they get sworn in.

This is going to be the pattern we will face going forward. democrats will allow uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration and republican presidents will turn it off and not a single law has changed.
Posted by: Mister Scott

==============

Exactly. I'd like to see the next the Republican president of 2028 go on a purge that will go down as a phase in American history. The Purification, I don't care what you call it. Milk our existing laws for every possible denaturalization, denial of entry, cancelation of green cards, etc. Ooh, I said "milk," that's racist.

IANAL, and I'd like to know how many of our immigration laws and statutes can be changed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 25, 2026 12:53 PM (mmrXZ)

80 Well, that's not very polite.

Bill Maher: “We’re Heading Down the Same Road” as “Nation of Moochers” England

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:53 PM (ndZc7)

81 Mandy Patinkin. Not really a "has been." More of a "never was."

C'mon man. The Princess Bride was a one-hit-wonder for him.

Nobody watched Yentl.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 25, 2026 12:53 PM (LOvBA)

82 All true, but it misses one important, obstinate issue.

Let's say we waved a magic wand and transformed all the peoples of the world, from the pirate Somalis to the indolent masses of Latin America, into rugged individualists with the work ethic of the Protestants, the rigorous faith of the Catholics, and the family values of the Jews.

We still can't take anymore. The staggering load of undesirables we've already taken in has torn all our social safety nets it didn't already obliterate. It has fragmented our society and destabilized our political system. We have foreign swine at war with our customs police in the hearts of our cities. They crawl around our campuses poisoning our youth against the country, and intimidating those who won't rebel.

We have more foreigners than we can deal with as it is.

Sorry, Mary, there's no more room at the inn.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2026 12:54 PM (BI5O2)

83 The leftists I know here in my overrun hometown (overrun by leftists and illegals) think that anyone who criticizes any illegal is racist. No matter what evidence is in front of them or what history is told to them, it won't matter. That's what we are up against
+++
I think they have overdone it with the racist and everything phobic.
When everything is racist or some sort of phobic nothing is.
It's all just background noise.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2026 12:56 PM (Lo97M)

84 Shooting Near Florida A&M University Leaves 11 Wounded, 2 Seriously

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The good news is it doesn't appear to be terrorism. Just good, old fashion thug violence at a homecoming party.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:57 PM (ndZc7)

85 The Mandy example above. Senators Shumer and Slotkin campaigning with him. Bernie Sanders just gave him $1M.

Jews are supposed to be smart right? Yet they support people like el Sayed who would slit their throat and smile while doing it.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre Delecto at October 25, 2026 12:58 PM (cFp1s)

86
Ilhan whats-her-name sings a song. Libs of TikTok translates:

https://tinyurl.com/5d7sxj7z

הבא להרגך, השכם להורגו
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

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And those aren't just standard anti-social rap lyrics. The Powerline guy who got tips on Ilhan back in 2016 from terrified Somalis says they're contacting him again to report her continued threats and coded messages, some originating from European accounts this time.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 25, 2026 12:59 PM (mmrXZ)

87 They wouldn't just let him be himself.

Trans Furry Sex Offender, 29, Busted Trying to Enroll in High School as Teen Girl — And It’s Not His First Time

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 01:00 PM (ndZc7)

88 Bill Maher: “We’re Heading Down the Same Road” as “Nation of Moochers” England

—

Also Bill Maher: But Trump says mean things so I’ll still vote D across the board.

Fuck that worthless piece of shit.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre Delecto at October 25, 2026 01:01 PM (cFp1s)

89 Mentioned in the ONT: there has been a political earthquake in British Columbia. NDP Premier David Eby (socialist scum) called a snap election at a time when the opposition BC Conservative party was leaderless. It did not end well for him. Election was yesterday (a Saturday election!), and as of this morning, B.C. Conservatives have 64 seats in the Legislature, the Dippers 27, and the Greentards, 2.

Imagine Washington or Oregon suddenly flipping GOP at that scale.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 25, 2026 01:01 PM (1z+WB)

90 What veteran actor Mandy Patinkin did Friday, though, is another matter.

The Jewish star, best known for movies like “The Princess Bride” and “Yentl,” threw his support behind Abdul El-Sayed. The Michigan Democrat is running for the Senate, and he has more baggage than most politicians.

He was fantastic in 'Dead Like Me' - stealing every scene he was in but the writing was great too.

Since we're on Michigan. NBC had 'Meet the Press' on this morning. 2.5 million weekly viewers. ONLY 16.5% below the age of 54.

Mike Rogers was on. Man, that Welker chick was a BITCH. Constantly trying to get in her points and arguing something he said 12 years ago. Rogers was great and got out his talking points though. And he did mention the prominent Dems and blacks who are supporting him.

And because I was folding laundry and it was too early to start cutting myself, I left it on to see Gretchen Whitmer. For some reason, despite Welker telling Rogers she wasn't on any side, that interview was so friendly. If they were in a studio together they would have been stroking each other's hair after the scissoring. What a disgusting love fest.

2.5 million viewers. 83.5% above age 54.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 25, 2026 01:01 PM (Sco7b)

91 Leftists can't give up their position to oppose another Leftists fir fear of being shunned.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 01:02 PM (Ia/+0)

92 The Mandy example above. Senators Shumer and Slotkin campaigning with him. Bernie Sanders just gave him $1M.

Jews are supposed to be smart right? Yet they support people like el Sayed who would slit their throat and smile while doing it.
Posted by: Lucky Pierre Delecto

They're special and connected. That would never happen. Besides, the goatrapers were brought here to spit our throats.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2026 01:03 PM (r2Icn)

93 Shooting Near Florida A&M University Leaves 11 Wounded, 2 Seriously

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The good news is it doesn't appear to be terrorism. Just good, old fashion thug violence at a homecoming party.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
+++
Just some future doctors and engineers blowing off a little steam at an HBCU.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2026 01:04 PM (Lo97M)

94 Slit

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2026 01:04 PM (r2Icn)

95 Video Game Creator Manuel Otto Dead at 30 After Apparent Suicide on Twitch Livestream
. . . .
Manuel Otto, a German influencer who created the popular multiplayer game Stick Run, has died at 30 after setting himself on fire during a Twitch livestream.
. . . .
In the video, which can be found by searching “Stick Run” or his name on X, Otto can be seen dressed in feminine clothing, then laying down on a couch where he lights himself on fire.

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Better or worse than feeding yourself to a tiger?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 01:04 PM (ndZc7)

96 Immigration Must end.

Posted by: JoshO at October 25, 2026 01:05 PM (xL2KH)

97 https://tinyurl.com/3pwhw6ea
Short tour of the cllck tower building now destroyed in France

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

98 AOP, does this mean there's hope for British California? Won't the retarded residents correct their mistake at the earliest opportunity? Too much to hope that this is other than an oddity, that it reflects any real departure from the destructive idiocy that passes for "politics" among the majority?

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2026 01:09 PM (U/Byj)

99 Watching women’s gymnastics world championships.

Not particularly impressed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 25, 2026 01:10 PM (yEz+x)

100 Let's say we waved a magic wand and transformed all the peoples of the world, from the pirate Somalis to the indolent masses of Latin America, into rugged individualists with the work ethic of the Protestants, the rigorous faith of the Catholics, and the family values of the Jews.

We have more foreigners than we can deal with as it is.

Sorry, Mary, there's no more room at the inn.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2026 12:54 PM (BI5O2)

I respectfully disagree. Your scenario negates my objection to the open door policy we've had in place since the early '60's. Had all who entered been of the stock you describe, this country would be the envy of the world and no one would dare mess with us.

Our current scenario is due to overwhelmed services that should not have been offered in the first place. Had immigration consisted of the individuals you describe, I'll argue that our landmass would expand into other territories to accommodate the increase..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 25, 2026 01:10 PM (08OqX)

101
Just some future doctors and engineers blowing off a little steam at an HBCU.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 25, 2026 01:04 PM (Lo97M)

__________

Sad to say, HBCUs, which once had standards and a purpose, are admitting anyone who can fog glass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 01:10 PM (eRlcH)

102 There's a vid of Omar yelling about getting rid of "those people". She was talking about the Somali clan that helped Frey win the mayoral election over Omar Fateh who is from her clan. She's a murderous loon just like her real father

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 25, 2026 01:11 PM (vJPf4)

103 Clock tower

Think I need to clean my phone screen

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 01:12 PM (Ia/+0)

104 Any of my fellow Catholics here?

The American Catholic church, two weeks before the election, has Exodus 22:21 as the Old Testament reading this week: "...for you were aliens in the land of Egypt...."

So naturally the backup priest includes this in the homily -- the parish priest would have known his audience. Please point to the place in the Bible where it says migrants and their offspring are entitled to free healthcare, loans, welfare, etc.

My kid warned me not to get my blood pressure up. I already had a shitty day with work before I went to church.

I swear to God, I fucking hope I live to see the day they take away the Catholic tax exempt status.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 25, 2026 01:13 PM (qwx/I)

105 And now for some cheerier items.

Toddler feeds carrots to horses.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfdce7j

Hippos eat watermelons whole.

https://tinyurl.com/69nxnhev

Baby pygmy hippo.

https://tinyurl.com/4b255c8s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 01:13 PM (ndZc7)

106 Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)

Kinda explains his complete failure in foreign policy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2026 01:14 PM (2WIwB)

107 Shooting Near Florida A&M University Leaves 11 Wounded, 2 Seriously"

"Near"?

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 01:14 PM (pfXMo)

108 >>Kinda explains his complete failure in foreign policy

Was it a failure? From our standpoint the answer is pretty clear but I think Obama and his puppet masters got exactly what they wanted.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2026 01:15 PM (viF8m)

109 Sad to say, HBCUs, which once had standards and a purpose, are admitting anyone who can fog glass."

Hey, that's our standard. Well, that and if the prospective student can get student loans...

/ your State college...

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 01:16 PM (pfXMo)

110
I respectfully disagree. Your scenario negates my objection to the open door policy we've had in place since the early '60's. Had all who entered been of the stock you describe, this country would be the envy of the world and no one would dare mess with us.

Our current scenario is due to overwhelmed services that should not have been offered in the first place. Had immigration consisted of the individuals you describe, I'll argue that our landmass would expand into other territories to accommodate the increase..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 25, 2026 01:10 PM (08OqX)

I think we're in agreement for the most part. I'm saying that that was then, and this is now, and it's too late. IOW, we can no longer offset the bad immigrants with good ones, and immigration reform can't address it.

We need a moratorium. I think 25 years would be a good amount of time to sort out our problems before taking a second look at immigration policies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2026 01:17 PM (BI5O2)

111 AOP, does this mean there's hope for British California? Won't the retarded residents correct their mistake at the earliest opportunity? Too much to hope that this is other than an oddity, that it reflects any real departure from the destructive idiocy that passes for "politics" among the majority?
Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2026 01:09 PM (U/Byj)

Well. the BC Conservative party is not exactly fire-breathing Trumpian conservative. But the incoming Premier, Lorne Doerkson has pledged to triple LNG exports, which would mean a bunch of new drilling and pipeline construction

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 25, 2026 01:18 PM (1z+WB)

112 for you were aliens in the land of Egypt...."

Left off the do not "mistreat" or "oppress" (depending on translation) part, huh?

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 01:19 PM (pfXMo)

113 Yes, it is a tall order, but the indications are modestly positive!

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I'm not sure what to make of this, but my daughter-in-law, a naturalized citizen originally from Colombia, has lived in the States for ~25 years. Her employment outside the home in that time has been almost all in the realm of helping immigrants navigate the system (housing, health care, etc.) working for various "non-profits". She is hard working, diligent, earnest and bilingual. For the last two years, she has not been able to find employment in that sector.

Could be the closing of the southern border or a temporary delay hoping for a Dem/Socialist return to power. Maybe a decrease in funding from USAID or NGOs. Maybe a demographic shift away from Latin Americans.

I don't know if that is a positive development or not.

Posted by: muldoon at October 25, 2026 01:19 PM (I0N4X)

114
I swear to God, I fucking hope I live to see the day they take away the Catholic tax exempt status.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 25, 2026 01:13 PM (qwx/I)

___________

In the nine years I've been a parishioner at my TLM church, I've never heard any politics from the pulpit. And today was the Feast of Christ the King. Nothing about immigration in the Introit, Lesson, Epistle, Gospel, Secret, Communion or Post-Communion readings.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2026 01:20 PM (eRlcH)

115 What many people consider to be America's golden age for achievement was from 1925 to 1965, where we not only restricted immigration, but we also had institutionalization and lobotomization of the insane, sterilization of morons and imbeciles, etc.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 25, 2026 01:20 PM (qwx/I)

116 So naturally the backup priest includes this in the homily -- the parish priest would have known his audience. Please point to the place in the Bible where it says migrants and their offspring are entitled to free healthcare, loans, welfare, etc.

Correct. The Church should be telling these illegal invaders to stop breaking the law and stay in their own shithouses and make them into not a shithouse. But all they can do is babble about global warmering, how great gay ass sex is and how peaceful muslims are...

Posted by: Stop The Madness at October 25, 2026 01:22 PM (Ssbab)

117 CBD - ya nailed it! … "Love of country, respect for individual responsibility, freedom as a powerful driver of political behavior...all need to return to the fore. And that begins with education, which has been completely hijacked by the rabid progressives of the educational establishment."

I'm not that concerned for myself. I'm 82. I'm almost outa here. It's my daughters and their families I'm concerned about 'cos they're they ones who'll be left behind to deal with this shit. I'd really like to see a genuinely SERIOUS 'alien-immigrant-terrorist' removal process begin immediately, but then there are a lot of things that fall in that category.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 25, 2026 01:23 PM (ayRl+)

118 @112 That's why I had ellipses in my quote, as I wanted to emphasize that specific dependent clause.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 25, 2026 01:23 PM (qwx/I)

119 NBC had 'Meet the Press' on this morning. 2.5 million weekly viewers"

Bravo Sierra. Seriously.

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 01:23 PM (pfXMo)

120 leavon Little was a great comedic actor.

The first season of "Temperatures Rising" was hilarious. James Whitmore was the chief of surgery. Just effing great.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

You been watching FredFlix, too?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 25, 2026 01:24 PM (Tgu1F)

121 Her employment outside the home in that time has been almost all in the realm of helping immigrants navigate the system"

That's sad, really.

Posted by: man at October 25, 2026 01:25 PM (pfXMo)

122 It takes a man's weight in ammunition to bring him down.
Mostly because its wasted

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)

123 Manuel Otto, a German influencer

********

You know who else was a German influencer?

Posted by: muldoon at October 25, 2026 01:28 PM (I0N4X)

124 It takes a man's weight in ammunition to bring him down.
Mostly because its wasted
Posted by: Skip

So Pritzker is immortal?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 01:29 PM (ndZc7)

125 You know who else was a German influencer?
Posted by: muldoon at October 25, 2026 01:28 PM

Karl Benz?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2026 01:33 PM (DyLV2)

126 I ain't dependent on nobody!

Posted by: Clause at October 25, 2026 01:33 PM (qw50h)

127 "...for you were aliens in the land of Egypt...."

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Well, Egypt isn't known for ICE.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 25, 2026 01:34 PM (ndZc7)

128 Learn to coal.

Posted by: The West Virginia Employment Commission at October 25, 2026 01:35 PM (qw50h)

129 They make ammunition every day

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2026 01:36 PM (Ia/+0)

130 “Nation of Moochers”

*********

'Tis the story of "Many the Moochers"
They were some lowdown hoochy coochers!

Posted by: muldoon at October 25, 2026 01:36 PM (I0N4X)

131 we can no longer offset the bad immigrants with good ones, and immigration reform can't address it.

We need a moratorium. I think 25 years would be a good amount of time to sort out our problems before taking a second look at immigration policies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2026 01:17 PM (BI5O2)

Ah, I misunderstood the power of your magic wand. If the sluggards get to stay, or are not transformed, then I agree that a no vacancy policy is warranted until their numbers are thinned..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 25, 2026 01:36 PM (08OqX)

132 Happy Saint Crispin's Day.

We few. We happy few. We band of morons.

https://tinyurl.com/56h7udy9

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2026 01:37 PM (viF8m)

133 NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."

Quick, let's weaken them by airlifting pallets of cash to them.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 25, 2026 01:38 PM (fFjM7)

134 126 I ain't dependent on nobody!
Posted by: Clause at October 25, 2026 01:33 PM (qw50h

You're totally dependent on all those elves who make the toys.

Posted by: The Great Pumpkin at October 25, 2026 01:40 PM (euUL9)

135 @ 112 for you were aliens in the land of Egypt .... "
____________________________________________

Aaaaaaaaand … the point IS … ? All non-Egyptians are aliens in Egypt.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 25, 2026 01:40 PM (ayRl+)

136 133 NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started."

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Obama always had a knack for seeing what we knuckledraggers couldn't see. He's a genius. Just ask him.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 25, 2026 01:41 PM (4Je4D)

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