MAHA Consultant Calley Means: Susie Wiles Was Running a Buckraking Operation Out of the White House and Letting Big Pharma and Big Ag Write Policy If They Just Hired Her Lobbyist Daughter

There may be reasons Susie Wiles was fired.

Apparently her old lobbying firm, Ballard Partners, racked up $186 million since she was installed as chief of staff.

Ballard Partners' more than $88 million in lobbying revenue last year was, at the time, the most any firm had reported since the Lobbying Disclosure Act took effect in 1996, even after adjusting for inflation, a CBS News analysis of Senate lobbying disclosures found. Through the first three quarters of 2026, the firm has already surpassed that, reporting more than $98 million.
The fortunes of Washington lobbying firms tend to rise and fall with changes in administrations, as companies hire them to try to influence policy. But after an election that saw government corruption polling as a top issue for voters, questions about who has profited from political connections are intensifying. Ballard Partners is now among those ensnared in the MAGA feud.

Over the weekend, I listened to the Joe Rogan interview with former MAHA advisor Calley Means. Means alleges that Susie Wiles and her "Talahassee lobbyist staffers" were running a very corrupt cash-for-policy operation out of the White House.

Note that Means stresses that he does not believe Trump knew about most of this. I mostly believe that -- Trump is a delegator and doesn't seem to get involved in anything except his three biggest issues.

For example, Means claims that it is an open secret that if you want her to push a policy, you hire her daughter, who works for one of the biggest lobbying firms, for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then you get what you paid for.

He also claims that Means hid from Trump the truth about polling so Trump didn't know he was in political trouble. He claims she and her corrupt allies just pushed minor issues that moved few votes, like No Tax on Tips, as the clocked ticked down to midterms doomday.

I recommend listening to the first half. The second half is just repetitive and listless.

Google AI:

* The Allegations: Means accused Wiles and a close-knit group of White House officials of bowing to corporate lobbyists, prioritizing midterm campaign donations over public health, and blocking components of the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) agenda championed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
* Specific Claims: Means alleged that Wiles resisted initiatives to improve children's diets due to sugar-industry pressures, pushed for approvals of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes tied to tobacco donations, caved to kratom industry lobbying, and protected corporate interests regarding glyphosate/Roundup litigation.

Another claim: That she blocked what Means calls a "no-brainer," a reform to school lunch programs which would limit donuts and sugar soda and establish a minimum level of protein for meals.

He says she did this because of Big Sugar and Pepsi paid her to do it.

Calley Means, who resigned as a top federal health official two weeks ago after clashing with the White House, on Friday accused President Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, of bowing to "unrelenting" pressure from industry lobbyists while prioritizing political fund-raising over Americans' health.
In a two-hour interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan, Mr. Means said that Ms. Wiles withheld support from his efforts to make children's diets healthier, citing the need for sugar industry money. He said her team demanded more approvals of flavored e-cigarettes, a top priority for major tobacco companies that donated at least $20 million to the G.O.P. in 2026. And he said they gave in to heavy lobbying from the kratom industry to relax proposed restrictions on products often referred to as "gas station heroin."
"Susie said to me many times: 'We need money for the midterms, Calley. We need money for the midterms,'" Mr. Means said.
Ms. Wiles and the White House were not immediately available to comment. The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services have responded to past allegations of lobbying influence on the administration's health care policies by saying the administration consistently acted in the best interest of the American people.
Mr. Means, a close ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who helped build the Make America Healthy Again movement, avoided criticizing Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Trump. He directed his ire almost entirely at Ms. Wiles, a former lobbyist and political consultant, who he asserted had "spent her career taking money," including from the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries and from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a former client.
As the blame game escalates after Republicans' stunning losses in the elections this week, Ms. Wiles is becoming a target of finger-pointing, with some former officials and MAGA supporters calling for her resignation.
Mr. Means framed Ms. Wiles and her top deputies as welcoming lobbyists into the White House while sidelining Mr. Kennedy and infantilizing Mr. Trump. Mr. Means made a larger argument about the corrosive role of corporate money in politics, but also suggested that the president should "exorcise" Ms. Wiles and her aides "from the White House."

Some of what Means claimed struck me as false or just stupid but the overall charge that Wiles was running a buckraking operation, with her daughter as a bagwoman, sounded plausible. Means is either telling the truth or he just made the case for a huge defamation case against him. We'll see if Wiles lodges such a lawsuit.

He claims that Wiles was behind pushing for liability immunity for Bayer for its glycosphate herbicide. She pushed this as a "national security issue," with the implausible claim that we had to grant Bayer immunity to keep the production of phosphorous (an ingredient in the herbicide) reliable for... making explosives.

That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. How do you make phosphorous available for bombs by making sure it's being used by the ton for herbicide?

Then again, Means' argument was itself stupid -- despite the fact that the government does not consider glycosphate cancer-causing, he wants everyone to be able to sue Bayer for producing glycosphate. He claims this is a "free market issue."

But any jury will reward a plaintiff with an injury millions and millions just to be nice, whether they find any connection between the deep-pocketed corporation or not. Surely Means is not so stupid as to not know this -- but he sure pretends he doesn't.

He's also one of those cranks who is determined to end vaping for adults -- but For The Children, you understand.

He does point out that the farm states of Kentucky and Iowa have the highest cancer rates in the world, particularly for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and glycosphate is linked to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. But the industry, and the government, blocks a scientific review of the claimed connection.

There must be some reason that two states in the developed west have such aberrantly high levels of cancer, and we should know why.

I don't know where I am on the policy-- I would like a review as well, and would grant immunity if the review found no cancer link to glycosphate -- but I sure don't like how the sausage being made here, with Big Pharam and Big Ag just delivering millions of dollars to Wiles and her friends and family in exchange for policy outcomes. (Allegedly -- we'll see.)

Give it a listen, make up your own minds.

I find this interesting: Stephen Miller, the man replacing Wiles, says he's going to start denying "big business" carte blanche as to its claimed needs.

That sure sounds like Miller thinks Wiles was delivering policy outcomes to deep-pocketed industries and corporations.

Though this makes it sound like Miller is chiefly interested in rejecting industries' claims that they need illegal workers:

The replacement of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles with her hardline deputy Stephen Miller shuts the door through which many CEOs softened Trump administration policies or sought favors, and sets the stage for more direct confrontation with business in the second half of Trump's term.
Even CEOs skeptical of Trump's chaotic style and his hostility to trade and immigration found that they could, with the help of Wiles and now-former tech czar David Sacks, talk Trump out of his aides' most aggressive immigration moves, from worksite raids to canceling TSA PreCheck.

Means also disclosed what we on the right have known for years, that the leftwing bureaucrats circulate How to Subvert the President manuals in order to defy the orders of the duly-elected president.

"He's [Kennedy] got a 90,000-person agency. He's surrounded by demons who want him out and want him destroyed," former Kennedy adviser Calley Means told Joe Rogan. "And Trump's sitting at 2 million people."
"So, his staff is all completely compromised?" Rogan asked.
"Yeah, for the most ... especially the whole infrastructure," Means, who resigned from the White House on Oct. 22, claimed.

He mentioned a manual titled something like "How to Subvert the President" being circulated among leftwing bureaucrats.

Why this was allowed, I don't know.

BTW: If you missed Buck Throckmorton's story about Ron DeSantis attacking the GOP's age-old and apparently incurable Terminal Corporatism, do give it a read.

"Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that?"
"Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism."
"The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist Republicans who propagate these crony policies."
"If it's cronyism versus socialism, there's going to be enough people who are going to choose socialism."

You may have heard that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick kept blocking attempts to limit the sale of Nvidia chips to China.

The firm that Howard Lutnick used to lead, which has now been handed off to his 20-something Nepo Baby Sons, Howard Lutnick's son's owns $362 million in Nvidia stock?

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent President Donald Trump and top Cabinet members a classified memorandum detailing the relationship between the Huangs and the intelligence indicating that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy. The White House directed the Commerce Department to put Alice Huang's Megaspeed on the entity list of companies that pose national security concerns.
Lutnick refused this request in May; he refused a second attempted crackdown order from Trump in August; and on Nov. 5, Lutnick reportedly stonewalled Trump again. And evidently, this wasn�t because Lutnick knew too little. Rather, the Commerce Department spent months last year conducting an investigation into Megaspeed and specifically whether it was illicitly smuggling Nvidia chips into China, only for Lutnick�s direct underling, Jeff Kessler, to invite Nvidia to reach out to Commerce about the case, bringing the department;s inquiry to an effective end.

I am sure it is just a coincidence that Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that Lutnick led for 35 years before passing it off to his 20-something-year-old sons Brandon and Kyle, has a $362.3 million stake in Nvidia, which makes up 7% of Cantor's entire portfolio.

On a scale of "Not Surprised At All" to "Totally Surprised, Dumfounded Actually, Just Totally Blown Away," how surprised are you to learn this?

The practice of securing political power and then putting out your otherwise-unemployable children into positions where they can act as your bag-men is not limited to the Biden Crime Family.

There's some more good news: Now Stephen Miller is locking the lobbyists out. No White House staffer can even speak to a lobbyist without his express permission.

A DOZEN LOBBYISTS TOLD POLITICO:
�He eschews relationship-based favors. He doesn�t sway easily on issues. He�s ideologically driven and fiercely loyal to President Donald Trump.
�That makes his elevation to chief of staff difficult for lobbyists seeking to influence the administration in its last two years, a dozen GOP lobbyists told POLITICO.�
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) November 13, 2026

Story here:

Stephen Miller is about to upend the way lobbyists work with the White House.
According to a memo from the chief of staff office first obtained by POLITICO, White House staff must receive prior approval from the Office of White House Counsel if they want to meet with a lobbyist.
"No President in history has fought more relentlessly, selflessly or courageously for the American People than President Trump. Following his example, White House staff are expected to dedicate their time unwaveringly to the working people of the nation," the memo from Miller's office said.
The prior approval covers meetings on the White House complex with registered lobbyists related to government policy. The Office of Public Liaison will continue to serve as the primary point of contact for engagement with external stakeholders, the memo said.
The memo likely won't shock lobbyists on K Street where Miller has few friends.
He eschews relationship-based favors. He doesn't sway easily on issues. He's ideologically driven and fiercely loyal to President Donald Trump. That makes his elevation to chief of staff difficult for lobbyists seeking to influence the administration in its last two years, a dozen GOP lobbyists told POLITICO.
"The thing with Stephen is, he's not someone that a lobbyist goes in and has to crack or try to win over," said Hunter Morgen, a lobbyist at Ballard Partners who worked with Miller at the White House during the first Trump administration. "He doesn't operate based on relationships. He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president's agenda."

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1 First??

Posted by: tubal at November 13, 2026 02:08 PM (Gqar8)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 13, 2026 02:09 PM (NcvvS)

3 the Blade falls

Posted by: ace at November 13, 2026 02:09 PM (1wjle)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 13, 2026 02:10 PM (hG5L0)

5 Everybody get their millions and billions before it goes kerflush.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 02:11 PM (wOO3z)

6 whereas nothing like this would have happened under biden or kamala

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 13, 2026 02:11 PM (CWTWj)

7 Afternoon, All., Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

8 I'm just f***** annoyed with politics at every level and with everyone.

And in less than an hour I can start drinking.

Today is a cold gloomy day and that calls for bourbon and sour patch gummies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:14 PM (XV/Pl)

9 What does this have to do with exploding whales?

Posted by: wth at November 13, 2026 02:14 PM (UjdFS)

10 Hmmm.

One thing that struck me about the late western empire roman period is how everyone acted as if things were not falling apart and their own personal issues were all that mattered. One reason the west stumbled along for so long is that they were living on the fumes of their forefathers going all the way back to the second punic wars (my personal turning point and the point at which they glide to greatness instead of pushing themselves along. Last moment of true hardship.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 13, 2026 02:15 PM (lbtIB)

11 Even CEOs skeptical of Trump's chaotic style and his hostility to trade and immigration found that they could, with the help of Wiles and now-former tech czar David Sacks, talk Trump out of his aides' most aggressive immigration moves, from worksite raids to canceling TSA PreCheck.

There's an infuriating video going around of a white male contractor bragging that he voted Democrat to help him keep his illegals, some of whom he's had for 20 years. People like that need to be arrested.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 02:15 PM (2ocoG)

12 So Susie Wiles was like the nanny in The Omen when she jumped off the balcony and hung herself she said I did it all for you Trump I did it all for you....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at November 13, 2026 02:15 PM (9bpxs)

13 Howard Lutnick's son's owns $362 million in Nvidia stock?
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Now worth about 20 % less. So, good job guys.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 02:15 PM (pp9sJ)

14 @9

>>What does this have to do with exploding whales?

Exploding whales is a metaphor for late stage constitutional republic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:15 PM (XV/Pl)

15 The replacement of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles with her hardline deputy Stephen Miller shuts the door through which many CEOs softened Trump administration policies or sought favors ...

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I was disappointed in The Trump Administration allowing the sale of less than new & cutting-edge AI chips to Chy-na ... along with the desire to save TikTok.

I guess it's clear now that they (Wiles and Co. -- even Trump himself?) were lobbied successfully by Jensen Huang, Larry Ellison, and who knows how many others?

Ugh ...

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 02:16 PM (abSpR)

16 Allen G had a solution to all of this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 02:16 PM (g8Ew8)

17 I am reposting, but this here thread is appropriate, about Stephen Miller :

""Katie Miller
@KatieMiller
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A DOZEN LOBBYISTS TOLD POLITICO:

“He eschews relationship-based favors. He doesn’t sway easily on issues. He’s ideologically driven and fiercely loyal to President Donald Trump.

“That makes his elevation to chief of staff difficult for lobbyists seeking to influence the administration in its last two years, a dozen GOP lobbyists told POLITICO.”

R Lobbyists lost.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)

18 Today is a cold gloomy day and that calls for bourbon and sour patch gummies.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:14 PM (XV/Pl)

I've got scotch and chocolate, I'll join you.

Posted by: Bear Grylls at November 13, 2026 02:17 PM (aKiSo)

19 @16

>>Allen G had a solution to all of this.

To be honest, I don't think we have near enough salt.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:17 PM (XV/Pl)

20 Maybe we should drop a few exploding whales on IRGC HQ, sort of a crossing the energy beams approach.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 02:17 PM (pp9sJ)

21 I was disappointed in The Trump Administration allowing the sale of less than new & cutting-edge AI chips to Chy-na ... along with the desire to save TikTok.

Cutting edge chips are nothing without the right people. China's AI progress has ground to a near-halt since Anthropic found a way to lock them out of copying Claude.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 02:17 PM (2ocoG)

22 This Wiles story and the story about Lutnick story about Nvidia sound a lot like the first Trump administration.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (yG4gY)

23 @18

>>I've got scotch and chocolate, I'll join you.

Scotch and chocolate?

This combination intrigues me.

I still have a bag of Halloween candy somewhere.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (XV/Pl)

24 The lack of MAHA policy advances was one of my pet-peeves, especially food safety and that stupid covid shot that continues to this day.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (n5tGW)

25 Imagine if Wiles had not been COS for 2yrs and Miller was.

I realize this doesn't matter, but I never liked her pompous arse nor hear beady eyes.

I realize you can't help if you are born with beady eyes (I wasn't), but they are a flag of distrust for me. Especially if too close together.

Her daughter's lobby group have also profited bigly since 2024. I read that somewhere.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (hzuYO)

26 I think Susie Wiles was a Trump attempt at a bridge with the GOPe class in the hopes he could get them off their rears and, you know, do something. I struggle with how easy it seems to be to shank people you are supposedly supporting in politics. I am stupidly loyal and I don’t understand it at all.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

27 Willowed:

How's the ticker doing, Cap?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2026 02:11 PM (pcQaI)
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Fine. Echocardiogram yesterday showed no abnormalities. Minor episodes of afib continue, so I may have an ablation at some future date.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (amcLV)

28
The grifters are at every level, every department, and in both parties. So sick of this crap. Does anyone have any scruples?

Posted by: Luigi Mangioni at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (OkYzo)

29 People have to realize the WSJ was only ever nominally conservative.

It famously had a conservative editorial page and published conservative letters. But it's news division was always questionable. Or as Google calls it, "center".

I call it the Fox Gambit.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (rXvAA)

30 Rogan himself lobbied Trump about some untested psychedelic drug. Now it is going to be legit. Did he bring that up at all ?

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (AKptf)

31 I remember in 2024 my parents were concerned about Trump picking Wiles as chief of staff because they thought she was a hack and a deep state whorepigmonkeypisser

I poo pooed that but on reflection I see I poo pooed poorly

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (fapp/)

32 Ha. whoops

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (aKiSo)

33 I've got bourbon and pretzels, so I'll join in.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (n5tGW)

34 Pretty sure Bayer is not the only maker of glyphosate now. I believe it is off patent. I use it for weeds, and regard it as being safe to handle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (pcQaI)

35 Well she's a witch. And a self dealing witch.
What shall we do with witches?
Throw her in the Reflecting Pool!

Posted by: torabora at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (Wt1Rs)

36 >>I've got scotch and chocolate, I'll join you.

Scotch and chocolate?

This combination intrigues me.

I still have a bag of Halloween candy somewhere.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (XV/Pl)
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Scotch and chocolate is the best.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (amcLV)

37 I've got bourbon and pretzels, so I'll join in.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (n5tGW)

I am at work. Cocksuckers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (QX8aE)

38 Susie Wiles Was Running a Buckraking Operation Out of the White House and Letting Big Pharma and Big Ag Write Policy If They Just Hired Her Lobbyist Daughter

And kiddos this is known as "fascism" in which the government controls business but lets business set policy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (TMNW7)

39 I still have a bag of Halloween candy somewhere.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (XV/Pl)

Some culinary pairings are born of necessity...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (aKiSo)

40 DeSantis fired her, after, allegedly she helped him win an election. Now I wonder if she came to him with some lobbyist BS, and favors, and he told her to take a hike.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (AKptf)

41 The imperial city of DC knows how to take care of it's donors. Wiles was just doing her part as was Lutnick. SMH

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 02:21 PM (Qu9v+)

42 Wiles and Lutnick are long time political operatives, and upper end politics runs on money. Even in Congress the parties allocate chair and memberships to committees based on the money the members bring in and give to the party.

They probably didn't get the message that things were supposed to be different.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 02:21 PM (rbvCR)

43 Hi, Piper! Great news -- my license renewal at the DMV yesterday went off without a hitch!

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 02:21 PM (77rzZ)

44 I am at work. Cocksuckers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (QX8aE)

Drinking on the job is an American tradition.

Well, maybe an Irish American tradition.

But the point is it is a tradition.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 13, 2026 02:22 PM (yG4gY)

45 @40

>>Now I wonder if she came to him with some lobbyist BS, and favors, and he told her to take a hike.

People raise and spend billions of dollars to get jobs that pay, at most, a couple of hundred thousand.

There's a reason for that, and it's not born of civic duty.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:22 PM (XV/Pl)

46 Over the weekend, I listened to the Joe Rogan interview with former MAHA advisor Calley Means. Means alleges that Susie Wiles and her "Talahassee lobbyist staffers" were running a very corrupt cash-for-policy operation out of the White House.

She should have been frog marched out in cuffs.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2026 02:23 PM (hvM3T)

47 Pretty sure Bayer is not the only maker of glyphosate now. I believe it is off patent. I use it for weeds, and regard it as being safe to handle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (pcQaI)

Probably shouldn't spray it on your bread and cornflakes before eating.
I use it to clear brush from road and driveways. Nothing works as good as it does and I am a little concerned if it goes away.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 02:23 PM (rbvCR)

48 There's an infuriating video going around of a white male contractor bragging that he voted Democrat to help him keep his illegals, some of whom he's had for 20 years. People like that need to be arrested.
Posted by: Ian S.

And hanged for slaveholding and or -trafficking.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 13, 2026 02:23 PM (vJrRc)

49 Drinking on the job is an American tradition.

Well, maybe an Irish American tradition.
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Probably Russian-American, too.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 13, 2026 02:23 PM (amcLV)

50 Hi, Piper! Great news -- my license renewal at the DMV yesterday went off without a hitch!
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 02:21 PM (77rzZ)

Now you will be voting Dem in 49 States!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 13, 2026 02:23 PM (pcQaI)

51 Given Lutnick's long-rumored fascination with young men, some readers might be surprised he has children.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 02:23 PM (pp9sJ)

52 Miller's stance is even better than the bit from Clancy's Executive Orders (I think) where Congressmen were putting a 10-minute timer on their desk whenever a lobbyist walked in.

Posted by: Octochicken at November 13, 2026 02:23 PM (oCS0o)

53 It's funny that everyone complains about lobbyists, but this move will be criticized for weeks.

Posted by: InZona at November 13, 2026 02:24 PM (WnqXg)

54 Lutnick is the Grampa Walton of DC.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 02:25 PM (wOO3z)

55 K Street is absolutely incandescent with rage that Miller 'won't deal in the marketplace of reciprocal favors.'

Sounds like a good thing to me!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing at November 13, 2026 02:25 PM (yKhjs)

56 Stephen Miller 2028 -- The Candidate You Don't, But Most, Deserve!

/I know in our current neo-anti-Semitic "civilization" & culture that he likely wouldn't stand a chance ... even sans massive election fraud

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 02:25 PM (L9+aP)

57 Sour patch gummies and bourbon is just the right amount of salty/sour/sweet.

It's a great combo when you don't want the cocktailness of a Gimlet but don't want the stiffness of straight bourbon either.

I've always tried to find an good in-between drink.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 02:25 PM (XV/Pl)

58 Rogan himself lobbied Trump about some untested psychedelic drug. Now it is going to be legit. Did he bring that up at all ?
Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 02:19 PM (AKptf)

You know what I love about being here? People having deep opinions about an interview they never bother to listen to.

Runner, they discuss it in the first FIVE MINUTES, I know that because I drove for 10 minutes with it on and only heard the beginning of the 3 hours.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 02:26 PM (rbvCR)

59 People sometimes forget that the main motivator of people getting into politics is to collect bribes.

I have dealt with many, and all but a few would demand a bribe before they would even talk to you.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 13, 2026 02:26 PM (0U5gm)

60 The practice of securing political power and then putting out your otherwise-unemployable children into positions where they can act as your bag-men is not limited to the Biden Crime Family.

In Hunter Biden's infamous trip to Ukraine he went with Whitey Bulger's cousin and Mitt Romney's bagman.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2026 02:26 PM (sKqQm)

61 I don't care about "money in politics" all that much.

What I do care is if that money is being funneled towards keeping barbarians and psychopaths out of the Senate.

You can grift and graft and embezzle all you like to build your stupid bridge, but I had damn well better be able to drive across that river to get to work when you're done.

So keep your filthy money in politics, go ahead, but don't you dare suck up all that cash saying "we need this to win" and then shove it all into your pockets while I sit here surrounded by the mutants and pederasts you were supposed to protect me from with all that money.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:26 PM (aKiSo)

62 Exploding whales is a metaphor for late stage constitutional republic.

It might be concluded that should a constitutional republic ever wash ashore in the United States again, those in charge will not only remember what to do, they’ll certainly remember what not to do.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 13, 2026 02:26 PM (f2Jjf)

63 There's an infuriating video going around of a white male contractor bragging that he voted Democrat to help him keep his illegals, some of whom he's had for 20 years. People like that need to be arrested.

Deporting illegals should have been paired with jail time for those that employed them - I was saying that from the get go...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2026 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

64 54 Lutnick is the Grampa Walton of DC.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 02:25 PM (wOO3z)

Grandpa Walton was a commie in real life.

Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 02:27 PM (itAg7)

65 I am stupidly loyal and I don’t understand it at all.
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (ZdaMQ)

*******
Because you are a nice person, Piper. As I am. I remain incredibly naive and think because I am honest and loyal everyone is who is close to me. I've been wrong at least twice.

My best friend for 42yrs, I found out in 2007, had been stabbing me in the back since college, another friend said.

Complicated & novel worthy, but this "friend" made horrible choices in life (she's an attorney). I stood by her with her first really, really bad choice of eloping with her first husband. I defended her to others. Because I felt she'd do this for me.

After a bunch of stuff I cut off that toxic relationship. Done. My husband saw through her when he met her in college. I defended her with some sort of Stockholm Syndrome.

I learned, forgave her (super important), but I'll never do more than make a polite thank you at funerals and haven't since 2007... as I am a person of integrity.

I would never lower myself into her pigpen with words as I don't negotiate with terrorists. She's alienated her entire family. I learned what "malignant narcissist with BPD" means the hard way.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 02:28 PM (hzuYO)

66 Lutnick is the Grampa Walton of DC.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 02:25 PM (wOO3z)

Grandpa Walton was a commie in real life.
Posted by: TxAnn

He was fond of strapping young men, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 02:29 PM (wOO3z)

67 Over the past 12 years PDT never questioned Wiles' loyalty, nor did anyone leak that she and her daughter were basically common crooks?

I'm beginning to believe that PT really has put too much faith in women, Noem, Wiles, Habba, Zacharia, Bondi ...
Not reading anything negative the past 2 years about Wiles, other than the VF article, I thought she was protecting DT. I'm so disappointed.

Posted by: old chick at November 13, 2026 02:30 PM (F3Dlr)

68 There's an infuriating video going around of a white male contractor bragging that he voted Democrat to help him keep his illegals, some of whom he's had for 20 years. People like that need to be arrested.

Yeah it is literally a federal crime to knowingly hire illegals. Farms do it constantly but they have plausible deniability "he showed me paperwork." But openly stating you intentionally hire illegals? Dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:30 PM (TMNW7)

69 this "friend" made horrible choices in life (she's an attorney).

The parenthetical. lol

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 13, 2026 02:30 PM (yG4gY)

70 I was too late to comment on Buck Throckmorton's post, but this reminds me a lot of Theodore Roosevelt and his rocky alliance with banking and big corporations. His own day saw socialism and anarchism surging, and he felt they would succeed if Republicans didn't show more concern for the poor and ordinary working people. Tariffs and protectionism were a big question in his day as well. There are many parallels to Trump. Likewise defending the Monroe Doctrine and protecting America from her enemies. Even the Panama Canal. I hope today's Republican party can champion true capitalism---free markets, private property, individual liberty, competition, rule of law, etc---while separating itself from corruption and how big corporations use the government to crush competition. There is an opportunity to ground that message in American history and Republican tradition, so I hope more conservative writers take advantage of it.

Posted by: frammish at November 13, 2026 02:30 PM (rcENI)

71 Ugh. I think i intended to tie in a Death of the Roman Republic related tangent to that rant which is why I said "Senate", but I forgot and then left it dangling so now it doesn't make any sense at all. Just in case anyone was wondering. I don't suck at life all day, honest. It's really just a hobby.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:30 PM (aKiSo)

72 .
.
Hire Wiles' daughter as a proof reader. "He also claims that Means hid from Trump the truth about polling ..."

Posted by: Marooned at November 13, 2026 02:31 PM (bUgzg)

73 "The thing with Stephen is, he's not someone that a lobbyist goes in and has to crack or try to win over," said Hunter Morgen, a lobbyist at Ballard Partners who worked with Miller at the White House during the first Trump administration. "He doesn't operate based on relationships. He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president's agenda."

So he has clear understanding of assignment.

Posted by: Eromero at November 13, 2026 02:31 PM (LHPAg)

74 the overall charge that Wiles was running a buckraking operation, with her daughter as a bagwoman

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: Jos. Robinette Biden at November 13, 2026 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

75 Visiting my parents, dad is in a rehab center here

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 02:32 PM (qEb4U)

76 I'll note that Katie Miller quit her job at Tesla, sold her stock, and has forfeited her right to any future Equity, so her husband can take this job and everything is above board. Oh, and her podcast is pretty good.

Wish the democrats had the integrity to be equally transparent with their own investments. Looking at you, Ro Khanna and your Nvidia stock sales.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 02:32 PM (Toos7)

77 Hi, Piper! Great news -- my license renewal at the DMV yesterday went off without a hitch!
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 02

Good! I knew it would be fine. ☺️

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 02:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

78 but I forgot and then left it dangling

The Bob Dole. He can help with that.

Posted by: zombie Bob Dole at November 13, 2026 02:34 PM (0sNs1)

79 You know what I love about being here? People having deep opinions about an interview they never bother to listen to.

Runner, they discuss it in the first FIVE MINUTES, I know that because I drove for 10 minutes with it on and only heard the beginning of the 3 hours.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 02:26 PM (rbvCR)

Very passive aggressive there, buddy.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 02:34 PM (AKptf)

80 "The thing with Stephen is, he's not someone that a lobbyist goes in and has to crack or try to win over," said Hunter Morgen, a lobbyist at Ballard Partners who worked with Miller at the White House during the first Trump administration. "He doesn't operate based on relationships. He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president's agenda."

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[In best Marlon Brando doing Col. Kurtz impression:]

"The horror ... the horror ..."

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 02:34 PM (L9+aP)

81 There's been speculation that Wiles was responsible for some of Trump II's more disastrous staff picks. IIRC, she was primarily responsible for overseeing the vetting process for a number of staffers who later, sometimes sooner than later, had to resign due to stupidity. Or worse.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2026 02:34 PM (RORbl)

82 "He doesn't operate based on relationships. He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president's agenda."

So he has clear understanding of assignment.

Posted by: Eromero at November 13, 2026 02:31 PM (LHPAg)

RIGHT?!

I love that Mr. Morgan, Lobbyist, Ballard Partners, simply can't fucking grasp that the President's Chief of Staff has an absolute duty to advance the President's agenda.

The fact that 'I support my principal' is mind-bottlingly foreign to this dickhead says so very much about the lobbyist industry and quite a bit about Mr. Morgan, too.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, preparing at November 13, 2026 02:35 PM (yKhjs)

83 AI summary:

White House chief of staff Stephen Miller is cracking down on internal meetings with blogger Ace of Spades. The move came days after former Trump administration adviser Calley Means alleged former chief of staff Susie Wiles allowed the controversial blogger to constantly pester attractive female White House communications staffers with sexual requests and innuendo. White House staff now must receive prior approval from the Office of White House Counsel for meetings in the White House complex with Mr. O'Spades.

Records revealed that Ace of Spades sold Nvidia shares around the time the chipmaker's stock reached record highs. This led to online speculation as to whether Mr. O'Spades shared mistresses with Nvidia former CEO Jensen Huang and obtained inside information via pillow talk with the Chinese honeypots. Mr. O'Spades has claimed he is a language maven and taught himself Mandarin at the age of 29.

A massive outage at website Ace of Spades HQ began Thursday and impacted 74 countries within hours. Mr. O'Spades placed the blame on a coordinated internet attack by a by a hacker army inspired by Tuq'r Qatarlson. However, only some morons were affected.

Posted by: AI responses may include mistakes at November 13, 2026 02:36 PM (7MI8n)

84 I don't suck at life all day, honest. It's really just a hobby.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:30 PM (aKiSo)

------------

I think I'll make that my next Nic ...

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 02:37 PM (L9+aP)

85 @83 this can't be real AI !

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 02:37 PM (AKptf)

86 He does point out that the farm states of Kentucky and Iowa have the highest cancer rates in the world, particularly for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and glycosphate is linked to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. But the industry, and the government, blocks a scientific review of the claimed connection.

>>> I'm torn on this one. On the one hand, we do have fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides being sprayed around us on a regular basis. On the other hand, we have a ton of people living past 90, and statistically, the longer you live, the more likely you are to get cancer (thank the Ruskies for setting off so many nuke tests in the mid-20th century).

Either way, I am definitely not opposed to this possible connection being investigated by the government.

Posted by: pookysgirl, still a Hawkeye at November 13, 2026 02:37 PM (Wt5PA)

87 He was fond of strapping young men, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 02:29 PM

Weren't we all ...

Posted by: zombie Lindsay Graham (R-Hades) at November 13, 2026 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

88 I dont think Trump had any knowledge of this, but he certainly should have. Your chief of staff has $186 million in billings for her lobbying firm? Are you kidding me?

The problem with Trump is there's just so much of this, like with the Crypto, Jared Kushner, Guilfoyle, the Trump kids making these huge deals. Trump hawking all kinds of stupid shit NFTs, watches, shoes etc. Its death by a thousand cuts and the public has noticed, corruption was one of the biggest issues according to the public.

Trump and his family are insanely wealthy, just go out of your way while President to look like that's not your focus.

Posted by: Leupold at November 13, 2026 02:37 PM (i63ur)

89 62 Exploding whales is a metaphor for late stage constitutional republic.

Finally watched the 2009 Watchman movie. I liked the pirate comic (and its fancy pants symbolism of the larger themes) woven throughout was animated. Gross he used bloated human and shark corpses to float his raft, though.

I know Alan Moore was a commie pedo degenerate, but man, the comic has not aged a day. Still as relevant in our bloated carcass of an era. Rorscharch is the true hero.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 02:37 PM (Toos7)

90 Good reading. Thanks Ace.

Posted by: scampydog at November 13, 2026 02:37 PM (2bFN5)

91 >>Note that Means stresses that he does not believe Trump knew about most of this.

If only he had staff meetings.

You see, that is the problem with those public suck-up spectacles that he holds.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 13, 2026 02:38 PM (uUHnE)

92 "He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president's agenda."

How DARE he?

Well, actually, that's his job. Not sure why it is a mystery to people, except that apparently nobody has been doing that job, at all, for years.

Rather refreshing to find someone with an actual spine and a pair.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 02:39 PM (5WPt1)

93 He also claims that Means hid from Trump the truth about polling so Trump didn't know he was in political trouble.

Means hid? Or Wiles hid?

Posted by: Emmie at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (ppsv1)

94
Weirdly, the proper taking of graft depends on being moral.

You are put into the position of receiving sweet, sweet graft by the voters who expect certain things done on their behalf.

Like safe streets, good schools, good jobs, protection from foreign invaders, etc.

You, the politician, is not put in place to ignore your constituents/voters or to do the polar opposite of what they request. And you're certainly not there to destroy the society your voters live in order to make insane amounts of money.

Self-control, a-holes. If the money goes against your voters wishes, refuse it. There'll be plenty of other opportunities.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (YSUhf)

95 Rather refreshing to find someone with an actual spine and a pair.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 02:39 PM

I'm here for you.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (0sNs1)

96 So is it "bad hires" or is everyone who hangs around or wants to work in DC just a pos

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (rXvAA)

97 Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2026 02:26 PM (rbvCR)

OT: Have you been inside the Old Mill farm store in your neck of the woods,? If not, see if they will give you a tour of the storage area. It's fascinating and was built in 1919 with some parts older. The fetching Mrs Beartooth and I got a tour last week.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (KWbVO)

98 22 This Wiles story and the story about Lutnick story about Nvidia sound a lot like the first Trump administration.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM (yG4gY)

Yup, just covered up til after midterms...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (Gb7+b)

99 There's been speculation that Wiles was responsible for some of Trump II's more disastrous staff picks. IIRC, she was primarily responsible for overseeing the vetting process for a number of staffers who later, sometimes sooner than later, had to resign due to stupidity. Or worse.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

That does not speak well of PDT.
If Wiles made one or two bad picks then it might have been overlooked by Trump as he had good faith in her, after that though, he ultimately was the person that should have noticed the trend and replaced Wiles much sooner.

Posted by: old chick at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (F3Dlr)

100 Susie Wiles, yet another of the Fabulous Trump Women that have not worked out very well.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (vbXSk)

101 She's alienated her entire family. I learned what "malignant narcissist with BPD" means the hard way.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I get it, the good guy should prevail in the end, but the reality is that isn’t the case, is it?

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

102 I know Alan Moore was a commie pedo degenerate, but man, the comic has not aged a day. Still as relevant in our bloated carcass of an era. Rorscharch is the true hero.

Rorschach is a perfect example of Authorial Intent, I think its called. This is a phenomena in which he author means one thing and readers take it as another.

Allan Moore hated Steve Ditko, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and everything Ditko created to represent that such as Mr A, The Question, and even elements of Spider-Man. One of the key elements of these questions is the anonymity of the hero: he wears a mask that obscures his face.

So Moore created Rorschach and tried to make him as disgusting, weird, unliked, and crazy as he could... but also made him badass and RIGHT, as in correct in his assessment of the world and response to it.

And everyone loves Rorschach when they are supposed to love Ozymandias, in Moore's worldview. He's the hero that ignores right and wrong and just does what Moore thinks has to be done.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:41 PM (TMNW7)

103 40 DeSantis fired her, after, allegedly she helped him win an election. Now I wonder if she came to him with some lobbyist BS, and favors, and he told her to take a hike.
Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 02:20 PM (AKptf)

Seeing this now...almost 100% yes. In fact, I'd bet she wanted the quid pro quo and he said "see ya"...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:41 PM (Gb7+b)

104 this managed decline shit is getting tiring

@BNONews 1m
BREAKING: Tanker collides with river cruise in New Orleans; rescues underway

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 13, 2026 02:42 PM (nEUC6)

105 I get it, the good guy should prevail in the end, but the reality is that isn’t the case, is it?
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM

In fairness, Ralphie did me in.

Posted by: Black Bart at November 13, 2026 02:42 PM (0sNs1)

106 Even around Trump… a guy who’s sacrificed so much to do something positive for the country, you still have grifters buzzing. I had thought Wiles was one of the good ones but maybe not. Still have fond memories of her father calling games with John Madden.

And Lutnick… he is of the type that unfortunately can easily ingratiate themselves with Trump. If you’re rich and you can talk Trump seems to have a soft spot for that…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 02:42 PM (M+uMR)

107 That does not speak well of PDT.

Well, one of Trump's major weaknesses is that he is loyal. If he likes you, he likes you no matter what, for far too long. He'll stick with a backstabbing incompetent scumbag out of loyalty. Now, loyalty is a virtue of a good leader, but he takes it too far.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:42 PM (TMNW7)

108 I fully agree that there's a decent amount of evidence that some farmers in some regions are wrecking the environment by dumping far more herbicides and pesticides on their fields than they ought to, along with a bunch of other practices that could stand to be optimized if for no other reason than just to make the farm run better. But farming is horrendously risk averse and don't have the luxury of dicking around with new methods just to see if it works, so if you need 100lbs of poison per acre to do a thing, you better put 300lbs on just to be sure because it's basically your livelihood on the line, it isn't laziness or stupidity. It's a factor of safety, labels be damned.

The real laziness and stupidity are the idiots who find out that a poison is poison and then say we should ban everybody everywhere from ever having access to that one poison for any reason (while ignoring the gobs of other toxic shit that's involved in all kinds of other processes).

They don't want a solution to make farming better. They only want to drive out all the pesky kulaks so ADM and Blackrock can buy all their land at a discount.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:43 PM (aKiSo)

109 106 Even around Trump… a guy who’s sacrificed so much to do something positive for the country, you still have grifters buzzing. I had thought Wiles was one of the good ones but maybe not. Still have fond memories of her father calling games with John Madden.

And Lutnick… he is of the type that unfortunately can easily ingratiate themselves with Trump. If you’re rich and you can talk Trump seems to have a soft spot for that…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 02:42 PM (M+uMR)

Hot women and rich sweet-talking men - Trump's 2 weaknesses...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:43 PM (Gb7+b)

110 Question asked: "Why don't white people get credit for ending slavery"

Question answered, very very wrongly: "White people have to take credit for starting it first"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

111 Tanker collides with river cruise in New Orleans; rescues underway

If this is true (anything with the word "Breaking" especially in caps and with a police car flasher tends to be fake)... 80% chance DEI hire

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:44 PM (TMNW7)

112 107 That does not speak well of PDT.

Well, one of Trump's major weaknesses is that he is loyal. If he likes you, he likes you no matter what, for far too long. He'll stick with a backstabbing incompetent scumbag out of loyalty. Now, loyalty is a virtue of a good leader, but he takes it too far.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:42 PM (TMNW7)

Seems Vance has that problem, too...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:44 PM (Gb7+b)

113 So is it "bad hires" or is everyone who hangs around or wants to work in DC just a pos

Yes.

Posted by: Halfhand at November 13, 2026 02:44 PM (gYco6)

114 96 So is it "bad hires" or is everyone who hangs around or wants to work in DC just a pos
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026

It is a very bizarre culture for sure.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 02:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

115 It seemed to me that Robert Kennedy and MAHA got little press time or publicity -- for something as important as health issues.

I hear that susie wiles transitioned to another place in Trump's political operation. I hope it's cleaning outdoor bathrooms on the ninth tee

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 02:45 PM (2sX6p)

116 Seems Vance has that problem, too

I think that is the most positive interpretation of Vance's associations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:45 PM (TMNW7)

117 So is it "bad hires" or is everyone who hangs around or wants to work in DC just a pos

Posted by: ...

From DC to a small town city council, crooks descend on the people with purse strings like flies on a cow patty. Even podunk 5,000 population towns. The purpose of being in politics is the graft.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 13, 2026 02:45 PM (0U5gm)

118
And everyone loves Rorschach when they are supposed to love Ozymandias, in Moore's worldview. He's the hero that ignores right and wrong and just does what Moore thinks has to be done.

They "handled" that by making Rorschach's followers in the TV show the KKK.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2026 02:46 PM (sKqQm)

119 Brandon and Kyle.

They ruin everything

Posted by: Todd at November 13, 2026 02:46 PM (FUMQC)

120 Well, one of Trump's major weaknesses is that he is loyal. If he likes you, he likes you no matter what, for far too long.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm like that, obviously by all the people I have defended in this administration, not to mention people like my neighbor and the town drunk and ... well I can understand DT being loyal to a fault.
In my case I only hurt myself though.

Posted by: old chick at November 13, 2026 02:47 PM (F3Dlr)

121 She's listing to starboard pretty good

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 02:47 PM (J4Dwc)

122 Lutnik should be fired b/c he endangered national security knowingly...and b/c we can't fire Wiles b/c she already quit.

But I doubt Trump does it b/c he'd never get another Cabinet Secretary in...so it's 2 years with an acting in the spot...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:47 PM (Gb7+b)

123 I would never lower myself into her pigpen with words as I don't negotiate with terrorists. She's alienated her entire family. I learned what "malignant narcissist with BPD" means the hard way.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 02:28 PM (hzuYO)

I grew up with my BFF, from the age of about 10 until we left for college. Also after college, we shared apartments and did all sorts of things together. Shared everything.

She moved to CA later for a job, got connected with the LGBTQ crowd, and decided I was the devil because I shoot guns and I'm Catholic, and she was all in as a fag hag.

I didn't change, but she did. And it was all my fault. She wouldn't discuss any topic where she was correct and I was obviously wrong; it "wasn't worth" her time. No idea why I was suddenly persona non grata.

I kind of miss her, we share a love of painting and other things, but it really was her choice. I rather regret spending so much emotional capital on her over the years. Wasn't worth it in the end.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 02:47 PM (5WPt1)

124 We were definitely overdue for a retarded wiffle ball bat fight between Trump staffers. Inconsequential. Trump was our only electoral choice absolutely, but I'm def looking forward to the end of this long retarded road trip. Will be strange once he's finally off the map.

Posted by: Made in the USA at November 13, 2026 02:47 PM (hyQrc)

125 Traitor Bondi's literal first act was to elevate the Epstein case to the highest level possible and then pull a whoops whoopsie.

She knew exactly what she was doing. The bidding of her masters.

Bitch. But not much more could be expected from a Friend of Trayvon. I don't know where Trump even got the idea to hire her. Probably Chris Christie again.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 02:48 PM (rXvAA)

126 Rorscharch is the true hero.

I find it hard to believe that Moore didn’t, at some level, know this. Rorschach is a mirror image of Veidt. Like Veidt, Rorschach had a superior intelligence; like Veidt, he was cynical about the potential of lesser people.

He was intelligent, “excelling at schoolwork… particularly in the fields of literature and religious education.”

They both believed themselves superior, Veidt believing himself more intelligent, and Rorschach believing himself more moral. But despite his flaws and disdain for humanity, Rorschach maintained to the end the right and responsibility of individuals to act as individuals. It was right to fight evil. It was wrong to punish collectively. He was willing to die rather than acquiesce to the punishment of people he didn’t even like.

In a sense he provides the same message as Moran’s wife in Miracleman: “You’ve forgotten what you’re asking us to give up.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 13, 2026 02:49 PM (f2Jjf)

127 Will be strange once he's finally off the map.

Posted by: Made in the USA at November 13, 2026 02:47 PM (hyQrc)

I fear it's gonna get strange much faster than that.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 02:49 PM (rXvAA)

128 I don't know where Trump even got the idea to hire her. Probably Chris Christie again.

He has a bit of a weakness for blonde women

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:49 PM (TMNW7)

129 Sexist!!

Just kidding.

Posted by: LASue at November 13, 2026 02:49 PM (lCppi)

130 keep the production of gladiator movies (an ingredient in sad clowns) reliable for... old greek homos.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2026 02:49 PM (y0nWZ)

131 Grifters go into politics because one is more likely to escape prison time in that role as opposed to breaking into houses to steal.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 13, 2026 02:50 PM (0U5gm)

132 [A blast from the past for the over-29 crowd:]

"On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Sometime earlier, Madison’s wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?"

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 02:50 PM (L9+aP)

133 I’m so disgusted right now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2026 02:50 PM (yVYSZ)

134 Posted by: Halfhand at November 13, 2026 02:44 PM (gYco6)

I walked into that and deservedly so

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 02:50 PM (rXvAA)

135 The purpose of being in politics is the graft.

Perhaps it has always been this way, but it seems to me that this is how things get when people see no future ahead, so they just plunder while they can. I keep calling these times the "looting phase" of the American empire.

Posted by: Halfhand at November 13, 2026 02:50 PM (gYco6)

136
I get it, the good guy should prevail in the end, but the reality is that isn’t the case, is it?
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2026 02:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

****
The clincher was is that she thought I was the same as her to our friend!

Told lies about my bedridden father, that I was, "mollycoddling him as he could walk if he wanted to." He declined postop with exacerbated Parkinson's.That one of our sons was gay. Lie after lie to hurt me.

The last time I spoke to her on the phone I said something that angered her and her voice changed like the exorcist! Seriously! And I had the audacity to LAUGH as I thought she was kidding. The possibly worst thing ever to do to a narcissist! And not on purpose! Lol!

She's a very, very unhappy woman. Many affairs. Hates her second husband, etc. Verbally abused her elderly parents and the list is long. Unless she's repented, she had no faith at all in God.

I have pity for her but not enough to ever be anything but a few cordial words to her. At my father's funeral she had to go through a wall of men to speak to me as they know her and they know what happened. I certainly do not fear her or whatever she's said about me as a pathological liar.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 13, 2026 02:50 PM (hzuYO)

137 Question answered, very very wrongly: "White people have to take credit for starting it first"
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

Um... excuse me but... didn't black people sell black people into slavery?

Also, don't black people kill black people by monstrous magnitude more than white people do?

Um....

Maybe one day facts will matter again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 02:51 PM (5WPt1)

138 K Street is absolutely incandescent with rage that Miller 'won't deal in the marketplace of reciprocal favors.'
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Miller 2028 has a ring to it.

"It's Miller time" memes would be glorious.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 13, 2026 02:51 PM (vSvIl)

139 we share a love of painting and other things,
Sad clowns?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2026 02:51 PM (y0nWZ)

140 The Thune remaining the Senate Republican leader makes me truly believe that things will never be fixed barring some sort of Franco like US general making that Franco move. Thune blocked the bill that might have secured the election. This is like an NFL coach who lost nearly all the games two years in a row, while refusing to start Brady in his prime, not getting fired but instead getting a multimillion dollar contract extension. The "elites" will never stop trying to install a nepo based security state backed by AI surveillance and likely eventually drone enforcement

Posted by: Azjaeger at November 13, 2026 02:52 PM (3/XaG)

141 They both believed themselves superior, Veidt believing himself more intelligent

That story is a good example of trying to write someone smarter than yourself. It can be done, but it is very difficult and works best in short stories.

Alan Moore is obviously very intelligent and gifted (if increasingly unstable and perverted). But he tried to write someone even smarter whose entire plan would fall apart within weeks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:52 PM (TMNW7)

142 138 K Street is absolutely incandescent with rage that Miller 'won't deal in the marketplace of reciprocal favors.'
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Miller 2028 has a ring to it.

"It's Miller time" memes would be glorious.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 13, 2026 02:51 PM (vSvIl)

I would love him...but he's unelectable...

If Trump stirs up lib hate, Miller stirs it up 100x Trump's level and doesn't really soften or use humor...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:53 PM (Gb7+b)

143 Every time I hear the word "Lobbyist", I release the safety on my Browning!

Posted by: Stephen Miller at November 13, 2026 02:53 PM (Ssbab)

144 Um... excuse me but... didn't black people sell black people into slavery?

Also, don't black people kill black people by monstrous magnitude more than white people do?

Um....

Maybe one day facts will matter again.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2026 02:51 PM (5WPt1)

Didn't Democrats buy them? Don't Democrats run those cities? Aren't most of these blacks Democrats?

If only there was some kind of pattern. If ONLY

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 02:54 PM (rXvAA)

145 >>> And everyone loves Rorschach when they are supposed to love Ozymandias, in Moore's worldview. He's the hero that ignores right and wrong and just does what Moore thinks has to be done.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:41 PM (TMNW7)

Ozymandias and Thanos. Liberal heroes.
I don't get why Dr. Manhattan didn't kill both Ozymandias AND Rorscharch at the end, that would merit justice. But then we can't have the nihilistic message truly hit home if the villain gets killed, I suppose.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 02:54 PM (Toos7)

146 I don't know where Trump even got the idea to hire her. Probably Chris Christie again.

He has a bit of a weakness for blonde women
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:49 PM (TMNW7)

There’s a funny Babylon Bee headline that goes something like: Trump subcontracts the hiring of his next press secretary to the Miss Universe pageant

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 02:55 PM (M+uMR)

147 Posted by: Azjaeger at November 13, 2026 02:52 PM (3/XaG)

It's a demoralization operation.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 02:55 PM (rXvAA)

148 But he tried to write someone even smarter whose entire plan would fall apart within weeks.

Again, not trying to defend Moore here, but I think the Tales of the Black Freighter story-in-the-story shows that even if the plan didn’t fall apart within weeks, Veidt would think that it was falling apart, react ever more violently to maintain it, and be himself the destruction of it.

Veidt is going to be just as paranoid as the Black Freighter protagonist, with the same result.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 13, 2026 02:56 PM (f2Jjf)

149 Also, don't black people kill black people by monstrous magnitude more than white people do?

The challenge here is that if you accurately and historically catalog black people's culture, history, actions, and natures, it is extremely difficult to not come across as racist.

White people are just as awful in our pasts, but in different ways. We're usually more sophisticated, sneaky, and cunning but larger scale in our evil. White people also tend to generate more impressive lasting visible cultural impact like skyscrapers, the Sphinx, going to the moon, and the Panama Canal.

Whereas black peoples' awfulness tends to be smaller in scale, more brutal and personal, and has virtually no cultural impact. Lord alone how many thousands of years or centuries people have been living in Africa, and they still are stone age except where white people had an impact. Black people tend to have lower IQ, less creativity, less ambition, and less curiosity.

Both are equally sinful, but one seems more impressive and useful than the other.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:56 PM (TMNW7)

150 I would love him...but he's unelectable...

If Trump stirs up lib hate, Miller stirs it up 100x Trump's level and doesn't really soften or use humor...
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I don't see how that matters. All the left is, is hate. It will be directed at whoever 2028's Hitler turns out to be.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 13, 2026 02:56 PM (vSvIl)

151 I don't get why Dr. Manhattan didn't kill both Ozymandias AND Rorscharch at the end…

If Ozymandius hadn’t survived (Manhattan could, of course, have killed him before he even started his devil’s bargain speech) then Tales of the Black Freighter would have had no relevance.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (f2Jjf)

152 150 I would love him...but he's unelectable...

If Trump stirs up lib hate, Miller stirs it up 100x Trump's level and doesn't really soften or use humor...
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I don't see how that matters. All the left is, is hate. It will be directed at whoever 2028's Hitler turns out to be.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 13, 2026 02:56 PM (vSvIl)

True, but Miller is also dirt poor...and you can't run a campaign from nothing when the big money players of the party also won't support you...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (Gb7+b)

153 There should be no Press Secretary, in my opinion.

If you're a good little newsface you get your name on an email list and every day you get a pdf of the briefing. You can reply with questions if you like. You might get an answer.

And then that whole briefing room can be gutted for something more erudite and useful to the nation, like a foosball table and a kegerator.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (aKiSo)

154 Veidt is going to be just as paranoid as the Black Freighter protagonist, with the same result.

I agree, Viedt would be constantly trying to fix things, constantly trying to upgrade and micromanage everything. He'd want everyone to be robots under his perfect philosopher king tyranny.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (TMNW7)

155 137 Question answered, very very wrongly: "White people have to take credit for starting it first"
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

Um... excuse me but... didn't black people sell black people into slavery?

Also, don't black people kill black people by monstrous magnitude more than white people do?

Um....

Maybe one day facts will matter again.
Posted by: tcn in AK

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White man's sin was that he took a brutal practice from Africa and M. E. (castration, worked to death, horrible abuse) and turned it into a *mostly* humane economic system where the slaves actually thrived (higher survival rate and living standard that non-slaves in Africa!)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (uUHnE)

156 "He doesn't operate based on relationships. He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president's agenda."

That's great. Two years too late. Why the hell wasn't he Chief of Staff from Day 1 of this Administration.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (P5BPp)

157 Brandon and Kyle.

They ruin everything

Posted by: Todd at November 13, 2026 02:46 PM (FUMQC)

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* snort *

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (L9+aP)

158 >>> Miller 2028 has a ring to it.
"It's Miller time" memes would be glorious.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 13, 2026 02:51 PM (vSvIl)

As I said in a previous thread, Miller might be bald but he has aura. Confident, smart, bold. And as far as I can tell, his integrity has not yet been polluted. Please no affairs, Miller. Katie is awesome, don't do it!

Miller's aura and smarts could get him through a RNC debate no problem. But the dems won't vote for him because Jew.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Toos7)

159 143 Every time I hear the word "Lobbyist", I release the safety on my Browning!
Posted by: Stephen Miller at November 13, 2026 02:53 PM (Ssbab)

Robbyist?!

Posted by: Touch My Huang at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (yG4gY)

160 I worked on Henry Hyde's first congressional campaign. I was amazed at the arrogance and inflated egos. Presidential politics must be incredible.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (2sX6p)

161 156 "He doesn't operate based on relationships. He operates based on policy outcomes that will advance the president's agenda."

That's great. Two years too late. Why the hell wasn't he Chief of Staff from Day 1 of this Administration.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (P5BPp)

B/c he wasn't a rich sweet talking man or a pretty female...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Gb7+b)

162 White man's sin was that he took a brutal practice from Africa and M. E. (castration, worked to death, horrible abuse) and turned it into a *mostly* humane economic system where the slaves actually thrived (higher survival rate and living standard that non-slaves in Africa!)

Well, and European white men did this (other than in the Caribbean and South American mines, for instance). Arabic ones treated their slaves like meat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (TMNW7)

163 They're all on the take.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (Z40qK)

164 Dems are gonna have fun with this... Will they be able to fit it in their criminal investigation schedule ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (+gK6I)

165 That's great. Two years too late. Why the hell wasn't he Chief of Staff from Day 1 of this Administration.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (P5BPp)

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Indeed. You're paraphrasing my comment last week the day Trump appointed him.

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 03:00 PM (L9+aP)

166 When was the last time the US had a president with a successful second term? Maybe Ike (though he had a heart attack)?

LBJ — Vietnam
Nixon — Watergate
Reagan — Iran-Contra
Clinton - L’affaire Lewinsky
W — Iraq quagmire
Obama — Maybe, but how successful can it be if the voters picked his polar opposite?
Trump — Not looking good after the halcyon days of DOGE last year

Maybe the American system has simply run its course…. Sad bananas

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 03:00 PM (M+uMR)

167 I don't see how that matters. All the left is, is hate. It will be directed at whoever 2028's Hitler turns out to be.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at November 13, 2026 02:56 PM (vSvIl)

Correct. Reagan was suffering from dementia according to the left and also the master mind of every white man evil on the planet and then Bush The Alive was a village idiot who was responsible for every white man evil on the planet, etc, etc.

Posted by: Masterminds at November 13, 2026 03:00 PM (Ssbab)

168
That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. How do you make phosphorous available for bombs by making sure it's being used by the ton for herbicide?

At the most basic level, by having a larger, more diverse customer base for phosphorous, the theory is that it allows for economies of scale in phosphorous production. So it's not totally without merit.

It becomes a stupid argument when you consider that there are multiple industrial markets already, which dwarf it's military use. The most important use is in agriculture, where it's essential for food production, not just as a herbicide but in modern fertilizers as well.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 13, 2026 03:00 PM (y9nCu)

169 Africa, and they still are stone age except where white people had an impact. Black people tend to have lower IQ, less creativity, less ambition, and less curiosity.
They invented maths but that got stolen by them old greek homos.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2026 03:00 PM (y0nWZ)

170 OT

EXCLUSIVE Obama CIA Director John Brennan's son arrested on child pornography charge after 'sexually explicit' materials found on his phone

Daily Mail

Posted by: wth at November 13, 2026 03:01 PM (UjdFS)

171 89 Rorscharch is the true hero.

You people don't understand. I'm not locked in here with you. YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!

One of the greatest lines ever!

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 03:01 PM (2Drhq)

172
WHITE PEOPLE

Our Evil Is Impressive And Breath-Taking In Both Scope And Reach. Your's....Meh.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 03:01 PM (YSUhf)

173 33 I've got bourbon and pretzels, so I'll join in.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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I've got Texas HoneyDew (100 proof liquor made from honey) May I join the party?

Posted by: Bonecrusher at November 13, 2026 03:02 PM (JNTt1)

174 this is the worst possible thing to suggest in the modern age, but I don't think that slavery is necessarily such an evil thing. We enslave prisoners to work in jails, for instance. The idea of working off debt seems a lot better not just for society but personally than bankruptcy and courts.

Slavery as a concept is greatly damaged by the most horrific abuses it was reduced to and the concept of chattel slavery where children of slaves were slaves, and only certain groups. That kind of thing, or working people to death, is evil and has no place in society.

But I think there is a place for it in modern society as an alternative to simply jailing everyone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 03:02 PM (TMNW7)

175 True, but Miller is also dirt poor...and you can't run a campaign from nothing when the big money players of the party also won't support you...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (Gb7+b)

It's entirely possible that it's exactly what we need.

Nobody gets involved in politics, because politics doesn't need us and politics doesn't want us. Nobody cares about your little community group or your town council, you ain't pulling in any cash for ad buys or PR bills or some Real Person's daughter-in-law's seven figure wedding.

You get a guy with some name recognition, good history with the previous movement that almost made it, and nothing but two nickels to rub together? That dude's gonna get some real grassroots traction on day 1 just from social media hype. Let that ember burn and grow in actual communities of actual people who don't need to be paid to get out there and do something with the hope of it actually working, and who knows where it could go.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 03:03 PM (aKiSo)

176 There should be no Press Secretary, in my opinion

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And you're paraphrasing my comments from 2016, which included zero contact with the MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia: you take your message straight to and interact with the people, as Trump did going on all those young and hip podcasts.

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 03:03 PM (L9+aP)

177 If true, this is a shining example of bureaucratic process thinking.

In NYC, the construction crew that was working next to the building that collapsed received a stop work order. Inspectors found the building that collapsed had a wall that was in poor condition and had major deficiencies.

The construction company PAID A FINE and NYC granted them a permit to continue working without addressing the physical reality the stop work order was based on.

Then the building collapsed, almost certainly due to the improperly shored up adjoining ground and walls.

It's so perfect. Government and process is everything. Gravity and other aspects of the physical world are unimportant.

http://tiny.cc/c9md101

Posted by: bonhomme at November 13, 2026 03:04 PM (mkw2N)

178 The lack of MAHA policy advances was one of my pet-peeves, especially food safety and that stupid covid shot that continues to this day.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 13, 2026 02:18 PM

A big part of Trump's MAGA movement in 2024 was those who joined because of MAHA. With the lack of MAHA policy advances the past 2 years, those people likely left the movement.

I guess we can thank Susie Wiles for that. And Trump for making her his Chief of Staff. Wonderful.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 13, 2026 03:04 PM (P5BPp)

179 Grifters go into politics because one is more likely to escape prison time in that role as opposed to breaking into houses to steal.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 13, 2026 02:50 PM (0U5gm)

Politicians are the same as Gen. Sherman said about journalists: too lazy to work, too cowardly to steal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 03:04 PM (BI5O2)

180 Chicago's chief financial officer resigned today, citing the fact that her job requires absolute honesty, since the bond markets rely on her reports. I wonder what she was told to lie about.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 13, 2026 03:04 PM (0U5gm)

181 Correct. Reagan was suffering from dementia according to the left and also the master mind of every white man evil on the planet and then Bush The Alive was a village idiot who was responsible for every white man evil on the planet, etc, etc.

Reagan, was, apparently suffering early stage Alzheimer's in his second term

But yeah. Trump is apparently the puppet of Russia, China, Israel, and North Korea at the same time while masterminding the Nazi takeover of the western world. This stuff doesn't have to make sense to the left, its purpose is not explanation but fuel for rage and hatred and fear.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 03:05 PM (TMNW7)

182 It's so perfect. Government and process is everything. Gravity and other aspects of the physical world are unimportant.

http://tiny.cc/c9md101
Posted by: bonhomme at November 13, 2026 03:04 PM (mkw2N)

That's some real third world shit right there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 03:05 PM (aKiSo)

183
It's entirely possible that it's exactly what we need.

Nobody gets involved in politics, because politics doesn't need us and politics doesn't want us. Nobody cares about your little community group or your town council, you ain't pulling in any cash for ad buys or PR bills or some Real Person's daughter-in-law's seven figure wedding.

You get a guy with some name recognition, good history with the previous movement that almost made it, and nothing but two nickels to rub together? That dude's gonna get some real grassroots traction on day 1 just from social media hype. Let that ember burn and grow in actual communities of actual people who don't need to be paid to get out there and do something with the hope of it actually working, and who knows where it could go.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 03:03 PM (aKiSo)

As we mentioned this morning, we need a party that learns the current game and spends the money on true get out the vote operations in all 50 states that actually brings out voters to vote for us...

That will not be a cheap endeavor...

Yes, Elon will back him - but is Elon's money enough?

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 03:05 PM (Gb7+b)

184 Everyone says Trump works 16 hour days or whatever. What is he working on exactly if he doesn’t even know what his chief of staff is going?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 13, 2026 03:05 PM (Z40qK)

185 OT

EXCLUSIVE Obama CIA Director John Brennan's son arrested on child pornography charge after 'sexually explicit' materials found on his phone

Daily Mail

Posted by: wth at November 13, 2026 03:01 PM (UjdFS)

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Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 03:06 PM (L9+aP)

186 "Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that?"
__________________

The answer is much simpler than assuming that young people have the brains to associate cronyism to capitalism and form a coherent conclusion using critical thinking.

How about this? They don't know the damn meaning of Capitalism. They don't know the damn meaning of Socialism. Instead, they are perfectly content to diligently respond in a way that someone misrepresenting both wants them to respond. In other words, the knee-jerk trendy position.

You give the young proponents of Socialism WAY WAY too much credit. They have no idea what they are advocating.

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

187 > Obama CIA Director John Brennan's son arrested on child pornography charge after 'sexually explicit' materials found on his phone

Good lord. Brennan and his spawn are disgusting.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 13, 2026 03:06 PM (mkw2N)

188 this is the worst possible thing to suggest in the modern age, but I don't think that slavery is necessarily such an evil thing
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Well leftists certainly agree.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 03:06 PM (rXvAA)

189
If you're a good little newsface you get your name on an email list and every day you get a pdf of the briefing. You can reply with questions if you like. You might get an answer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 02:58 PM (aKiSo)

*opens pdf*

"Fuck You"

Signed, President I.T. Cur

*drags pdf to Recycle Bin on Desktop*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 13, 2026 03:06 PM (y9nCu)

190 EXCLUSIVE Obama CIA Director John Brennan's son arrested on child pornography charge after 'sexually explicit' materials found on his phone

Daily Mail

Posted by: wth

There are no coincidences.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 13, 2026 03:06 PM (0U5gm)

191 Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that?

They aren't fond of one or against the other, they just want to go back to the Lockdown days where they can play video games all day and get doordash from government checks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 03:07 PM (TMNW7)

192 IIRC, the principal 3 Trump concerns are:

1. Pounding Diet Coke like a viking poet;
2. Getting the second scoop of ice cream added like Sinatra a the Trop; and
3. Overfeeding fish like a boss

Posted by: Oglebay at November 13, 2026 03:07 PM (2ap+5)

193 184 Everyone says Trump works 16 hour days or whatever. What is he working on exactly if he doesn’t even know what his chief of staff is going?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 13, 2026 03:05 PM (Z40qK)

CEOs work a lot, but don't know what Ron in accounting is doing, unless the CFO tells him...

RFK to Trump "Why isn't X getting prioritized for MAHA?"
Trump to Suzie "Why isn't X getting prioritized for MAHA?"
Suzie to Trump "Sir, that's on my list...for now, we need to concentrate on X, Y, and Z in the short term and make them happen" (and X, Y, and Z never happen and thus always stay at the top...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 03:08 PM (Gb7+b)

194 So the black freighter comic is symbolic of Ozymandias' paranoid journey? I thought it was symbolic of the whole red scare, arms race, paranoid era Moore set up, where they scare themselves into their own destruction. Even after they "survive," they did so at the expense of society's soul. But the beauty of actually good art is there's so many interpretations! And not just one "The Message."

And the Comedians cynicism is more timely than ever. Stanton did a great job playing him.

Finished marathons of the Conjuring and Insidious movies, it was funny to see the lead guy also played Nite Owl!

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 03:08 PM (Toos7)

195 Dems are gonna have fun with this... Will they be able to fit it in their criminal investigation schedule ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2026 02:59 PM (+gK6I)

She likely knows where their bodies are buried.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 03:08 PM (rXvAA)

196 It's so perfect. Government and process is everything. Gravity and other aspects of the physical world are unimportant.

http://tiny.cc/c9md101

Posted by: bonhomme at November 13, 2026 03:04 PM (mkw2N)

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Communism Kills?

/Who Needs History?

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 03:09 PM (L9+aP)

197 At least some young people are genuinely, viscerally enraged that they have to work in order to have money to buy things with. Like it is some personal affront to their very person. They act like a spoiled child of Royalty shocked that they might have to do something rather than have a little person do it for them, like lift a foot to step on a stair.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 03:09 PM (TMNW7)

198 Daily Mail apparently has been staking out Jensen's SF home in great detail:
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Friends and family of embattled tech tycoon Jensen Huang have been gathering at his $38 million San Francisco mansion in the hours following his dramatic resignation after being exposed as a serial love cheat.

Exclusive Daily Mail photos show a stream of food deliveries arriving at the seven-bedroom Pacific Heights pad and being handed to a uniformed housekeeper – including one from aptly named local chain Proposition Chicken which included enough chicken and fries for four people.

Huang, 63, was forced to resign as CEO of leading AI company Nvidia earlier today after his affairs with a glamorous Chinese spy and an employee were revealed.

Since the news broke, the ousted Nvidia boss has maintained a low profile, with a factotum spotted arriving at his palatial pad early Thursday morning followed by a van containing boxes large enough to contain office effects.

The unmarked white van left after less than 30 minutes, taking another set of boxes with it – all addressed to a UPS Store in Oakland, California.

Posted by: beckster at November 13, 2026 03:09 PM (kX27y)

199 Tanker collides with river cruise in New Orleans; rescues underway

If this is true (anything with the word "Breaking" especially in caps and with a police car flasher tends to be fake)... 80% chance DEI hire"

It is true, could also be Chinese on some ship flagged in some odd country, with poor quality controls.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2026 03:09 PM (vbXSk)

200 All these mentions of Ozymandias and I thought we were discussing the single greatest episode of TV ever made… we’re not talking about Walter White??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 03:10 PM (M+uMR)

201 One of the reason socialism is perceived as fine by yuutes is that the right has called everyone a socialist for 30 years. Bill Clinton was a socialist. Pelosi is a socialist Obama is a socialist Biden’s a socialist. Every democrat governor is a socialist.

And each time we were told if these people are elected we’ll all be living in Cuba. When it didn’t happen people started thinking hmm maybe socialism isn’t so bad bad after all.

Something about boys crying wolf.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 13, 2026 03:11 PM (Z40qK)

202 Nood

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 03:11 PM (M+uMR)

203 Sometimes I wonder... *why* is money so important in politics? I get it, mostly it's ad buys and paying consultants. But ads do nothing, and consultants do even less. Elections are swayed almost entirely by media and culture. Your goofity ass black and white "bluh bluh bluh is a socialist" ad that cost a hundred million bucks to cut and you aired it four times on a channel no one watches? Why are we paying for that? Hire door knockers. Hire trolls to fuck with people online. Hire people to set up little cells of supporters to coordinate a thousand tiny floods of coordinated social media blitzes. Whatever, just do something other than piss actual billions of dollars up a rope doing the same shit over and over.

I truly can't believe that "ad buys" is the only reason campaigns are so expensive. It has to be mostly corruption and wheel greasing and everyone involved in the process deciding to pay themselves four year's lavish salary all at once, if it's not just directly bribing election officials at this point.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 03:13 PM (aKiSo)

204 OT

EXCLUSIVE Obama CIA Director John Brennan's son arrested on child pornography charge after 'sexually explicit' materials found on his phone

Daily Mail

Posted by: wth at November 13, 2026 03:01 PM (UjdFS)

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Over/under on odds of him being a victim of child molestation by his father?

/The line opens at 97% ...

Posted by: ShainS at November 13, 2026 03:13 PM (L9+aP)

205 I am pretty certain the words "electable" and "unelectable" no longer mean a thing.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 03:15 PM (rXvAA)

206 MAHA was not inactive,

they got a bunch of dyes banned, removed several shots from suggested lists, set up the Trump pharmacy system, set up superior nutritional guidelines for hospitals, funded nutritional training in universities, added support for regenerative agriculture, including related executive actions, farm-to-school grants, and commodity purchases for nutrition programs, phased out mercury in vaccines, and most of all the USDA changed requirements for SNAP benefits excluding illegals and people who could work at least part time.

Its just not sexy news stuff and doesn't generate rage clicks on social media, so you don't hear much about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2026 03:15 PM (TMNW7)

207 nood terrorist pilots

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 13, 2026 03:15 PM (vJrRc)

208 The cancer question is personally interesting...

However, "rates" and changes in given rates are fairly useless in comparisons without baseline data....

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 03:16 PM (pfXMo)

209 Something about boys crying wolf.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 13, 2026 03:11 PM (Z40qK)

The left has been calling every R president from Nixon to Trump fascist and Hitler for three decades who were going to turn dictator and start WWIII after genociding every ethnic, racial, gender and sexual group.

So going by your theory, everybody under 30 should be pro-fascist, pro-genocide and anti-communist.

Young people are turning to socialism because everything they know about politics comes from public schools, social media, and the wider culture which has been pushing socialism good and hard for thirty years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2026 03:20 PM (6ydKt)

210 Wiles, and now lutnick with the Nvidia(Megaspeed) chip sales. It’s going to be an interesting next two years!

Posted by: Unkaren at November 13, 2026 03:34 PM (TgU4U)

211 If this is true, nail her butt. She and her daughter don't just get to go home and count their millions.

Posted by: Margaret Thatcher at November 13, 2026 03:54 PM (rrDTe)

212 I think that it may have been Howie Carr who pointed out that the "consultant" who books the "ad buys" gets a 15% commission. I believe that was when Bernie Sanders' wife or daughter was his campaign "consultant" for ad buying purposes.

You see how it works. You get $2 Million in donations. You buy $2 Million worth of ads. You "earn" $300K. Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: boatbuilder at November 13, 2026 04:01 PM (AosIJ)

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