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The Snapshot
Thursday, October 16, 2025. As Chump's shutdown continues his 'peace plan' implodes as though it was the American economy, the Young Republican hate chat,
This
happened on the same day that Trump met with a political ally,
Argentine President Javier Milei, at the United Nations, just before
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $20 billion buyout, an
infusion of U.S. dollars into Argentina's central bank to try to
stabilize that country's tumultuous economy.
Trump’s
slipping approval in every swing state highlights growing voter unease
in the regions most likely to decide control of Congress and the balance
of power in Washington. His declining support could weaken Republican
prospects ahead of the 2026 midterms.
As we noted yesterday, Donald Chump was trying to take a
victory lap -- one. He's still trying today. He's made it about half
way round the track. You've seen his body, you know how much weight
he's hauling. He may never complete that lap. Even with people
cheering him on -- even with people who know better (Dan Abrams, I'm
looking at you) cheering him on.
But
it doesn't matter at this point.
Now you go your way, baby, and I'll go mine
Now and forever, 'til the end of time
I'll find somebody new, and baby, we'll say we're through
And you won't matter anymore
Now and forever, 'til the end of time
I'll find somebody new, and baby, we'll say we're through
And you won't matter anymore
-- "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," written by Paul Anka, first covered by Linda on her HEART LIKE A WHEEL album
As Linda Ronstadt sang, "And you
won't matter anymore." That's where we are now with Donald Chump. That's because the crowd has drifted, the
stadium is empty and it's just a fat and wobbly man trying to complete
that lap as he huffs and puffs, sweating causing his orange foundation
to drip onto the track.
No one even cares enough to holler, "Come on, fat boy, you can do it!"
And the time window is collapsing as well. Bel Trew (INDEPENDENT) explains:
And
less than 24 hours after Donald announced this “everlasting peace”,
Palestinians were still being killed in Gaza, aid trucks stopped from
going into Gaza and a row broke out about the failure of Hamas to return
the bodies of dead Israeli hostages.
All of these grim, and sadly all too predictable factors, threaten to topple the whole ceasefire process.
Again,
cease-fire. Not a peace plan. A lot of lying and fooling, shaking and
baking took place. There was never a peace plan -- thanks to the
British press which pushed back on that lie repeatedly. Pablo O'Hana (UK's METRO) observes, "It’s a shallow 20-point ceasefire and hostage agreement, devoid, in my view, of any meaningful content. This isn’t a peace deal. It isn’t even a peace process."
Some Americans are slowly learning what Fred Trump sussed out in a matter of days: Donald is an all around failure. Anna Commander (NEWSWEEK) reports:
A
new poll released on Tuesday shows that 57 percent of Americans believe
the U.S. economy is getting worse—the highest percentage in over a
year.
Public sentiment about
the U.S. economy has grown increasingly negative in the closing months
of 2025. According to recent polls, a majority of Americans now believe
that economic conditions are deteriorating, a trend that coincides with a
government shutdown, inflation concerns, and widening partisan divides.
Analysts
note that such pessimism can impact consumer confidence, policy
decisions, and political outcomes in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm
elections.
Why
do they think that? Because their own eyes are stronger and far more
reliable than anything they could ever see on FOX "NEWS." Chump has
tanked the economy. Christopher Kuo (WALL STREET JOURNAL) reports:
During
a recent trip to the supermarket, Kelvin Lin was surprised to see that
the price of a rib-eye steak had jumped to $32.99 a pound.
It had been several dollars cheaper two weeks earlier, he said.
Lin,
a 33-year-old software engineer who lives in New York City, complained
to the butcher but ended up buying the steak anyway. “It feels
terrible,” he said.
Inflation
in the grocery aisle is picking up, and stinging consumers. Consumers
said they are cutting back on purchases, stockpiling certain foods or
exploring more-affordable stores.
“It’s
perturbing and upsetting,” said Mark Bookbinder, a 68-year-old engineer
who lives in Cincinnati. He has been struck by steady increases in the
prices of sliced turkey, cereal and yogurt.
Albertsons
Chief Executive Officer Susan Morris said on a Tuesday earnings call
that shoppers are choosing smaller package sizes and using more coupons
to reduce their grocery bills. She said the supermarket company is
looking to cut costs to help counter inflation.
“We
see them sticking closer to their shopping list, maybe not buying that
extra item, that extra bottle of whatever,” Morris said.
He's
a failure. He's destroyed everything. Remember his promise that his
tariffs (taxes on American consumers) would result in 90 deals in 90
days. If you're generous, he got seven deals in 90 days -- if you're generous. His failures have harmed the country. Chris Brennan (USA TODAY) explains:
China,
which until 2024 was the biggest importer of American soybeans, has
retaliated against Trump's chaotic trade war tariffs by refusing to buy
the crop from our country now, shifting its purchases to other
countries.
Farmers like Bartman watched with
dismay as China, on Sept. 23, bought 7 million metric tons of soybeans
from Argentina, a quarter of that country's crop this year, after
Argentina suspended export taxes to make the deal.
And
where was Milei on Oct. 14, on the same day Bartman spoke from his
tractor? The Argentine president was being welcomed at the White House
by Trump. The two men stood for pictures, flashing big smiles and
thumbs-up gestures.
A journalist asked Trump
what his message was for the people of Argentina. His answer: "We love
them. We'll be there for them. They have a great leader, a very great
leader."
He'll be there for them. He just won't be here for you or for me or for any of the American people.
While Americans suffer for his actions, he's bailing out Argentina.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is rightly calling it out.
Chump is not serving the American people.
He lies and lies and hopes that the American people forget the lies. Robert Davis (RAW STORY) quotes US House Rep Ro Khanna stating:
He
sold the American people on lowering prices on day one. He sold the
American people that he's a business guy, that he's going to get the
economy moving, and he's done nothing for America's farmers. Grocery
prices are up. You know what I would do with that $20 billion? I
would give that money to the American people who have had a 26% increase
in coffee tariffs and coffee prices because of the irrational tariffs
on coffee. He's made food prices go up. He's hurting America's farmers,
and then he's giving the money away to Argentina. We're adding insult to
injury by then taking the business away from American farmers and
selling it to China.
Exactly. Chump's destroyed our economy. He's destroyed the job market. Adam Downer (DAILY BEAST) notes:
Trump-tapped
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran broke ranks with the MAGA
administration and admitted that the economy is sinking under President
Trump.
Miran on Wednesday undercut the
president’s rosy view of the economy, pointing out that the labor market
has become weaker since Trump took office.
“The
economy was weaker in the first half of the year versus where it was
last year,” Miran told CNBC anchor Sara Eisen at the network’s Invest in
America Forum.
Though Miran, 42, didn’t directly
criticize Trump for the issues with the economy, he did blame the
weakened economy on factors directly caused by his administration.
“Yes,
the labor market continued to weaken in the first half of the year,” he
said. “I think part of that was due to uncertainty over policy. We
might have had the biggest tax hike in history, so maybe there were
firms that were holding off on investing until the tax hike was done.”
Fed Chair Jerome Powell spoke Tuesday in Philadelphia to the National Association for Business Economics. Eleanor Pringle (FORTUNE) notes:
Powell
suggested the employment side had weakened further, saying: “While the
unemployment rate remained low through August, payroll gains have slowed
sharply, likely in part due to a decline in labor force growth due to
lower immigration and labor force participation. In this less dynamic
and somewhat softer labor market, the downside risks to employment
appear to have risen.”
He added that
while official data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is delayed given
the government shutdown, “available evidence suggests that both layoffs
and hiring remain low, and that both households’ perceptions of job
availability and firms’ perceptions of hiring difficulty continue their
downward trajectories.”
All of the above combines to explain the news Martha McHardy (NEWSWEEK) reports:
President
Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen below water in every major
swing state for the first time since taking office, according to a new
set of state-level polls.
The latest Morning
Consult survey shows the president’s net approval is now negative across
all seven battlegrounds expected to decide the 2026
election—Pennsylvania (-2), Michigan (-5), Wisconsin (-8), Arizona (-2),
Georgia (-1), Nevada (-3), and North Carolina (-3).
Regrets collect like old friends
Here to relive your darkest moments
I can see no way, I can see no way
And all of the ghouls come out to play
And every demon wants his pound of flesh
But I like to keep some things to myself
I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn
-- "Shake It Out," written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, first appears on Florence & The Machines' CEREMONIALS.
Vanity Fair magazine has published an exclusive excerpt
of the forthcoming memoir of the late Virginia Giuffre, a victim of
late Jeffrey Epstein, whom she met while working at President Donald
Trump's Palm Beach country club.
Giuffre,
Vanity Fair writes, completed work on the manuscript for “Nobody’s Girl:
A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” in October 2024.
Just
weeks before her death by suicide in April 2025, Giuffre wrote to her
collaborator on the book, Amy Wallace, “the content of this book is
crucial… It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the
issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of
justice and awareness. In the event of my passing, I would like to
ensure that “Nobody’s Girl” is still released.”
The excerpt Vanity Fair has published takes place in 2000, when a 16-year-old Giuffre worked in the spa at Trump's Mar a Lago.
Giuffre's
father, she wrote, "was responsible for maintaining the resort’s
in-room air-conditioning units, not to mention its five-championship
red-clay tennis courts, so he knew his way around, both indoors and
out."
Giuffre got her job at the spa after passing a drug and polygraph test, she wrote. She also detailedTrump's employee handbook.
The
ones assaulted often forgotten and/or ignored by the press. Virginia
refuses to be silenced. Does Chump think she was a 'hoax'? And what
happens when Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson is unable to stall any
further to protect Chump? What happens when he has to seat Adelita Grijalva? Annie Karni (NEW YORK TIMES) reports:
The
Arizona secretary of state on Tuesday certified the election of
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a special
election 22 days ago in her state.
But Speaker Mike Johnson is still refusing to seat her while he keeps the House out of session during the government shutdown.
So
on Wednesday morning, a group of Arizona lawmakers gathered in front of
the Capitol and accused Mr. Johnson of protecting pedophiles,
obstructing the will of voters and taking an unprecedented political
action in refusing to perform the simple ministerial duty of swearing in
an elected member of Congress.
“This delay is not procedural, it is intentional,” said Ms. Grijalva, who is poised to provide the final signature
needed to force a floor vote on whether to demand that the Trump
administration release the Epstein files. “He is doing everything in his
power to shield this administration from accountability. That is not
leadership, that is obstruction.”
Makes
you wonder what Chump has on Mike -- photos of Mike as a wedding guest
with a man kissing him on the cheek? Who knows? Senator Ruben Gallego
is quoted in the report stating, "Speaker Johnson is covering up for
pedophiles, did you guys get that? Speaker Johnson is covering up for
pedophiles."
As
we've noted for weeks now -- yes, it has been weeks, she was elected
September 23rd -- refusing to seat her is denying her district a voice
in the House of Representatives. She was duly elected. But Our Lady of
Conversion Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in. The American people
have had enough of princess' nonsense and the calls for the princess to
seat Grijalva are growing louder. Jacob Wendler (POLITICO) reports:
Arizona
Attorney General Kris Mayes threatened legal action against House
Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday for failing to seat Rep.-elect Adelita
Grijalva.
In a letter to Johnson,
Mayes accused the House GOP leader of violating the Constitution by
unnecessarily delaying the Democrat’s swearing-in ceremony.
“Arizona’s
right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to
representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for
debate and may not be delayed or used as leverage in negotiations about
unrelated legislation,” Mayes, who is also a Democrat, wrote in the
letter.
It is time for Johnson to stop lying and to stop hiding. Ailia Zehra notes:
House
Democrats marched through the halls to Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R‑La.)
office Tuesday evening, chanting in unison: “What is he afraid of?
Epstein!” Their protest targets Johnson’s refusal to swear in Rep.-elect
Adelita Grijalva (D‑Ariz.), despite her election being certified by
Arizona officials.
[. . .]
Opponents
point to earlier instances this year when he promptly administered the
oath to Republican members during pro forma sessions — something he has
declined to do for Grijalva.
Kate Santaliz and Andrew Solender (AXIOS) report that Johnson has wet his Pampers and adults in the room are rolling their eyes as he throws a tantrum:
"Is
Speaker Johnson saying Members can no longer walk in the halls of the
people's House to express our viewpoints?" Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández
(D-N.M.), the chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus, said in a
statement to Axios.
"The real question everyone
should be asking is why Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva has not been sworn
in. Speaker Johnson keeps changing the story of why he can't swear her
in, and this is his latest attempt to distract us," she said.
"We
will keep calling attention to his failure to swear her in. We will
keep showing up in the halls of Congress demanding that we return to
work so we can address the Republican health care crisis."
A
Women's Caucus spokesperson stressed that the protest was "peaceful" and
denied the characterization that lawmakers "tore down" a poster. Video
shows Barrágan removing the poster and placing it on the ground.
Adelita Grijalva spoke with Jen Psaki last night on MSNBC.
We noted the scandal of The Young Republicans chat yesterday that glorified Hitler, the Holocaust, racism, sexism, homophobic and violence. Miss Sassy JD Vance always has a lie -- remember, he knew he was lying about Haitians when confronted during the campaign. He has no respect for the truth. He's jut a fat man in a girdle -- which Ruth pointed out, please remember, his spanx were on display in a photo during the campaign.
Let's stop for a minute. The press failures. I'm just so damn sick of them. Fir four years, Chump was president and we had to read crap nonsense from serious outlets suggesint ght Chump's organe skin was most likely due to some illness. No, it was make up. Only no can mainstream press admit that. JD Vance wears eye liner. The mainstream press didn't want to admit that during the campaign. Why can't they just be honest?
JD Vance is ons tage with his hands in the air and his shirt rides up revealing he is wearing Spanx. That is news. Only Ruth covered it ("Does JD Vance wear SPANX?"). That is news. And it's news for any number of reasons including vanity but especially considering that Chump and Vance were attacking drag queens, cross dressers and transgender people while both 'men' were wearing make up and JD was in a girdle.
Back to the point we were on. JD is cheap little liar who now thinks he can lie to protect the adults -- not young boys, not children -- who were part of the chat reported on by POLITICO's Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo:
Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
“Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” he continued.
This isn't a one day story. JD Vance's lies alone means it's not a one day story. Pam Bondi screeches when the entire country doesn't want to pretend Charlie Kirk wasn't a racist. She hisses and threatens and forgets what free speech is as did panty waist JD Vance. (I know 'panty waist' is an insult but not sure what it means but if you're a man wearing girdles in secret, it seems like "panty waist" is a word that would apply to you.)
Chump and Vance cannot be allowed to succeed in their efforts to normalize hate. As Mike noted, "Those chat files are disgusting and represent the worst of America. People defending it or minimizing it are disgusting. "
Let's note a variety of reports and reactions.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
The Snapshot
Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Chump's followers shine back at him with all the shared hate in their hearts, Chump's reopened Gitmo again, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin wants serious answers regarding ACA, and much more.
Let's start with Lawrence O'Donnell last night on MSNBC.
Michael Bartels remains on the government dime via his job in the administration. He's still being paid by the US taxpayers.
The disgusting I-Love-Hitler chats was reported on by POLITICO's Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo:
Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
“Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers,” he continued.
Read the article, these are disgusting people. And they are ugly people. Bobby Walker, for instance, i a surprisingly overly confident male who must have never encountered a mirror or any other reflective surface in his entire life. Or do most Young Republican males today aspire to look like an obese female stand up comic from 1984?
The reporters note:
The private rhetoric isn’t happening in a vacuum. It comes amid a
widespread coarsening of the broader political discourse and as
incendiary and racially offensive tropes from the right become
increasingly common in public debate. Last month, Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated video
that showed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero beside
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose fabricated remarks were
about trading free health care for immigrant votes — a false,
long-running GOP trope. The sombrero meme has been widely used to mock
Democrats as the government shutdown wears on.
In his 2024 campaign, Trump spread false reports of Haitian migrants eating pets and, at one of his rallies, welcomed comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and joked about Black people “carving watermelons” on Halloween.
Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after POLITICO published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.
Peter Giunta’s time working with New York Assemblymember Mike Reilly “has ended,” the Republican lawmaker said. Giunta served as chair of the New York State Young Republicans when the chat took place. Joseph Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for that group, is no longer an employee of the New York State Unified Court System, a courts spokesperson confirmed.
Another chat member, Vermont state Senator Sam Douglass, faced mounting calls for his resignation as well, including from the state’s Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, and Douglass’ fellow Republican lawmakers, who called his statements “deeply disturbing.”
POLITICO’s in-depth look into how one group of Young Republicans spoke privately was met Tuesday with widespread condemnation in New York, Washington and beyond. The members of the chat — 2,900 pages of which were leaked and reviewed by POLITICO — called Black people monkeys, repeatedly used slurs for gay, Black, Latino and Asian people, and jokingly celebrated Adolf Hitler.
In a bipartisan outcry, members of Congress and other political leaders from around the country said they were appalled by the contents of the group chat. The board of directors of the National Young Republicans said every member of the chat “must immediately resign” their state organization.
THE BULWORK has already covered this appalling story.
And Ben's covered it at MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.
Ben: Notable that Donald Trump, happy to give 20 billion dollars to Argentina
while ripping away healthcare from 20 million Americans. I guess that's Putting America Last now, isn't it Donald?
We're focusing on the Young Republicans and 'peace deal' but I thought Ben's point there needed to be highlighted. Here? We've never credited Chump for a peace deal because there has been none. What he did was a "pause" or "cease-fire." That's what we've called it while the American press has too often embarrassed themselves. And as Ava and I noted Sunday in "Media: Can Dems stop caving, can the media stop whoring?" the British press has had no problem being accurate while too many in the US press have lied and whored.
British outlets continue to tell the truth. Kevin Schofield (UK HUFFINGTON POST) writes:
A
BBC Middle East expert has delivered a brutal reality check to Donald
Trump’s claims that the war between Israel and Hamas “is over”.
The
US president made the bold prediction as world leaders gathered in
Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt to sign a peace deal ending the two-year-long
conflict.
Under the agreement, Hamas agreed to hand
over the remaining Israeli hostages it had been holding captive in
Gaza, while Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners from its
jails.
However, lengthy negotiations are still
due to take place to agree the finer details on how the agreement will
deliver a permanent peace.
On Radio 4′s Today
programme on Tuesday, BBC international affairs editor Jeremy Bowen
said: “There’s actually almost no detail about how it’s going to be
implemented.
“Donald Trump essentially stated the destination, but he didn’t say state how you got there, and that seems to be his style.
“It’s
important to get some clarity from looking at what it is and what it
isn’t. It is not a peace deal, it is not a peace process, it’s a
ceasefire and hostage agreement.
“Now that’s a
considerable achievement in itself, and it tries to go on to state where
it wants to go, but it doesn’t say how you get there and that’s a real
problem.
Donald Chump
has brokered no peace deal. We've called it a pause or a cease-fire.
That's all that's happened. Ava and I pointed out that British outlets
grasped this even when US outlets did not. Ehud Olmert of England's THE INDEPENDENT notes:
It
is not a peace agreement. The title Trump suggested for the conference
now taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh – “Peace 2025” – has nothing to do
with what has happened so far.
The crucial
question now is whether the temporary cessation of the war, Israel’s
partial withdrawal from Gaza, and the continued minor activity of Hamas
will be a starting point for a bold political move that will change the
entire Middle East and bring about an Israeli-Palestinian peace based on
two states.
Again,
the British find it so easy to state the basic facts. But then in the
US, we have so many idiot fools. Doubt it? Look at this statement:
I
pretty much can assure you that once those doors are opened, it will be
a scene of absolute, abject horror... It’s been a terrible, terrible
two years for them, because not only are they there, you know, they’re
probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are
the pawns and the chips that Hamas had. Now, Hamas has given up all of
its leverage, by the way, by giving them all up. So that is a victory
for the Israeli side
Those are Christiane
Amanpour's words and she uttered them on CNN and has now apologized for
them. Why? Because big baby idiots have comprehension issues. She
did not imply that the hostages had it easy. She stated they were
likely treated better by Hamas than Hamas treated the average Gazan.
Because they loved the hostages? No, because the hostages became chips
used in a negotiation. There's nothing contorversial about her
statements unless you're an idiot who can't comprehend. Maybe it's time
for all of us to start asking if English is MAGA's second language
since it's so difficult for them to follow?
Amanpour’s
comments had MAGA in a rage. “You can feel how mad she is with the
release of hostages by Trump,” Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell
posting on X, adding, “she’s a sick woman.”
Oh
look, a woman-hating gay man from Glenneth Greenwald's generation and
political grouping. They were the worst. Ask any lesbian from that
generation about the conservative gay men with the chips on their
shoulder (I don't want to be known as a bottom! Even if I am bottom!)
and how they hated and loathed women in their pathetic attempts to
reassure themselves that they were manly -- gay or no gay, you can't
tell them that they're not.
No, Dick, Christiane is not "a sick woman" but you are certainly a sick man.
So
is Isaac Schorr. MEDIAITE needs to pull him off any story that has to
do with Israel because he can't show any objectivity and he bends the
truth to the point that it breaks. There is no peace deal, you stupid
fool. Nolink to his garbage but the garbage I'm commenting on right now
is his article attacking Cornel West.
But back to Richard Grenell. Where's his condemnation of the Young Republicans' comments in their now exposed thread?
He makes time to willfully misconstrue Chrisiane's comments and to weigh in. But he's got nothing to say regarding these racists, homophobic and sexist comments by the Young Republicans?
You'd think he'd want to call it out.
That everyone in the administration would want to.
Donald Chump is still wrongly taking a victory lap for his cease-fire. And he'll be doing that for at least two more days because it takes a fat boy a lot of time to haul all that around a track.
And how does it look, as he claims to care about the Jews in Israel, that his most intense followers are praising Hitler and wanting another Holocaust. How does that look?
It looks like he and his followers are full of s**t. Is that why his gut's so big? He can't take a dump anymore and it just stays in his body getting toxic?
Donald's delivered nothing to this world but hate. The Young Republicans in that chat are disgusting but let's never forget that it was Chump's womanly hips that birthed them.
MOTHER JONES tries to tell the truth about the cease-fire but maybe next time speak to someone rationale? That might allow for the trashing of Joe Biden not to be in there or for the idiot being interviewed to stop changing the goal posts from comment to comment. MOTHER JONES published a s**t poor article. We can't afford that right now. There are too many important things going on in this country. (And don't forget this Saturday's NO KINGS protests across the country.)
While garbage Brit Daniel Levy fondles and sniffs Chump to MOTHER JONES, Carol Rosenberg (NEW YORK TIMES) reports that the despot has reopened GITMO to imprison those kidnapped off American streets:
Federal agents have moved about 20 migrants to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a Defense Department official said on Tuesday, repopulating the holding site for detainees designated for deportation for the first time in nearly two weeks.
The identities or nationalities of the detainees were not immediately known. All were believed to be men.
Trackers spotted the flight after it left a Homeland Security Department hub in Alexandria, La., on Monday afternoon. But the first confirmation came on Tuesday, after the federal holiday, from a defense official who was not authorized to be identified by name.
The operation raised to about 710 the number of migrants who had been temporarily held at the base since the Trump administration’s deportation operations began in early February.
Chump's immigration war is destroying the country. It's destroying our rights. It's destroying our safety. It's destroying our economy. He's destroying businesses that depend upon foreign travelers to this country. He's destroying farming. On farming, Dave Smith (FORBES) reports:
At
the Fortune Most Powerful Women (MPW) Summit Tuesday morning, Land
O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford warned that American farmers face a critical labor
shortage that could lead to a “black swan event” if the U.S. doesn’t
institute more pathways for legal immigration. “While there might be
some discussion on undocumented, et cetera, this is critical for the
health of the economy,” she said.
Ford,
who chairs the Business Roundtable’s immigration committee, told the
MPW audience that farmers “absolutely need labor,” adding that “we need
more legal immigration” as an economic driver for businesses and the
broader U.S. economy. For some context, America’s agricultural sector is
currently grappling with mounting pressures from trade disputes, farm
bankruptcies, and an increasingly restrictive immigration environment.
“These
are folks who oftentimes try to get American labor [but] are struggling
to do so,” Ford said. “They absolutely need labor, and if they don’t
have it, that’s yet another element—and it could be a black swan event
for a farmer if they don’t have somebody who can help and be on [the]
farm.”
The term “black swan event,” for those
unfamiliar, refers to an unpredictable occurrence with severe
consequences that appears obvious only in hindsight. In agriculture,
such events can include natural disasters, disease outbreaks, or severe
labor disruptions that threaten food production systems.
In other disturbing news from THE TIMES, Ruth Igielnik and Jazmine Ulloa cover a new poll, "Nine months into President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, registered
voters largely support the idea of removing immigrants who have arrived
in the country illegally, even as majorities say they feel his methods
have gone too far, according to the latest survey from The New York Times and Siena University."
How can it be both?
The easiest answer would be muddled questions.
But that's not the case if you break down the poll.
So what's going on?
Reality leaks out to some and not to others. FOX "NEWS" and other firght-wing outlets do not cover reality.
So you can get people thinking that we do need to deport non-criminal immigrants who have been here forever and also people who say that Chump i going too far.
We're not consuming the same news.
We're not witnessing the same reality.
If we were, it'd be over right now. ICE physically attacking a rabbi? ICE shooting at priest?
There's no support for that.
But not all Americans are getting truth when they sit down to watch partisan infotainment that they think is news.
How many Americans, for example, will learn of the story Robert McCoy's notes at THE NEW REPUBLIC:
Federal immigration enforcement agents allegedly interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in south Portland, as first reported Monday in Willamette Week.
Citing public dispatch records and two confidential internal reports filed by the ambulance workers, Willamette Week reported that agents blocked an ambulance on the evening of October 5 as it tried to exit an ICE facility with a protester who had suffered a collar bone injury.
Federal agents allegedly delayed the emergency workers manning the vehicle for several minutes, repeatedly requesting to ride in the ambulance to the hospital—even after having agreed, due to their lack of arrest paperwork, to simply follow along in their own vehicle instead.
After some delay, the driver began moving the vehicle toward the garage’s exit, when a plainclothes man with a partial face covering reportedly stepped in its path, urging the driver to stop so as not to hit a group of officers in riot gear standing about 15 feet away.
Eventually, seeing the group of officers line up in apparent “preparation for the gate to open so they could escort the ambulance” off, the driver reported having inched forward a bit further. But the delay stretched on, as federal agents stood “incredibly close” to the vehicle and behaved aggressively, the driver recounted. One of the crew members decided to get out to “calm and deescalate the situation,” they later wrote.
Deciding to join them, the driver, according to their report, put the emergency vehicle in park, which caused it to lurch forward slightly. An agent evidently interpreted the vehicle’s forward movement as deliberate, and is said to have begun threatening the driver.
The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face, stating, ‘DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU, I WILL ARREST YOU RIGHT NOW.’”
“I was still in such shock,” the driver said, “that they were not only accusing me of such a thing, but crowding and cornering me in the seat, pointing and screaming at me, threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting, and that we were essentially trapped.”
Chump's gestapo is nothing but goons who can't get jobs anywhere else because they're uneducated sociopaths.
Federal agents deployed tear gas on Chicago residents and more than a dozen police officers on Tuesday, the latest clash in the nation’s third-largest city as the Trump administration has carried out its immigration crackdown.
The clash began on Tuesday morning when federal agents were seen chasing a car through a working-class, heavily Latino neighborhood on the city’s far South Side, witnesses said. An S.U.V. driven by the federal agents collided with the car they were pursuing, the Chicago Police Department said, sending that car into another vehicle that was parked nearby.
After the crash, dozens of additional immigration agents in masks arrived and residents emerged from their houses, gathering on streets and sidewalks, throwing objects at agents and shouting, “ICE go home!”
As the agents left, they released tear gas, apparently without warning, sending people coughing and running for cover. Among those affected by the gas were 13 Chicago Police Department officers, the police department said, and at least one officer was seen rinsing his eyes out with water from a neighbor’s garden hose.
They need to go home and get the hell out of Chicago. They need to go home and kneel before their shrines to Donald Chump. Salute their Fuhrer.
Why
Trump might admire Egypt’s regime is no secret. Trump has made enemies
out of his stateside opposition, publicly calling for the political
persecution of Democratic lawmakers that have dared to object to his
agenda, including Pritzker, Senator Adam Schiff, California Governor
Gavin Newsom, and more.
Just last week, the
president threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a 19th-century law
that would let him utilize the military for domestic purposes, to quell
fictitious bedlam that he has claimed has taken over Democratic cities.
One
such area that Trump has honed in on is Portland, Oregon, a city better
known for Voodoo Doughnuts and cold brew than hellish riots. Late last
month, the president ordered the National Guard to the hipster paradise,
but his rationale for sending them was not informed by statistics or
data—instead, it was because of something he saw on TV.
Other
crime stats that have informed his decision to federalize the law
enforcement of American cities were completely imagined. When Trump
deployed hundreds of National Guard members to Washington in August, he
blamed the city’s rising crime data—from 2023. The cherry-picked
statistics misrepresented the state of crime in the nation’s capital,
which, according to data from the Metropolitan Police Department that
was touted by the FBI, had actually fallen last year by 35 percent.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Tammy Duckworth's office:
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) led all Democratic members of the Illinois congressional delegation in sending a letter to health insurance companies to request answers about how the potential expiration of the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits would impact Illinoisans using the marketplace to purchase insurance. Today’s letter comes as the Republican-led government shutdown continues and Republican congressional leaders and President Trump refuse to extend the ACA tax credits that expire at the end of 2025. If these tax credits are not extended by the end of the year, more than four million Americans could lose their health coverage, and more than 20 million Americans are expected to see a significant rise in their premiums.
“We are writing to request information about how the potential expiration of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA; P.L. 111-148) enhanced premium tax credits would impact patients, health care providers, and hospitals in Illinois,” the lawmakers began. “The ACA established premium tax credits, helping lower- and middle-income families lower their health insurance premiums for plans offered through the marketplace. These premium tax credits made health care affordable for millions of families, small business owners, and farmers across the country.”
In 2021, Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan, establishing these enhanced premium tax credits to support Americans in affording their health insurance. In 2022, Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act, extending these critical enhanced premium tax credits.
“To make health care even more affordable, the American Rescue Plan Act (P.L. 117-2) enhanced the premium tax credits. This measure ensured that eligible households would not contribute more than 8.5 percent of their income to their health insurance premiums and allowed more middle-income Americans to access the premium tax credits,” the lawmakers wrote.
“Due to the beneficial impact these enhanced tax credits had for American families, Congress extended them as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-19) through the end of 2025. The enhanced premium tax credits helped double enrollment in ACA health plans from 11.4 million Americans in 2020 to 24.3 million Americans in 2025. In Illinois, ACA enrollment grew 59 percent, from 292,945 Illinoisans in 2020 to 465,985 in 2025. The enhanced premium tax credits have allowed more Americans to access primary care visits, prescription drugs, mental health and substance use disorder services, maternity care, and other essential health benefits,” the lawmakers wrote.
Continuing their letter, the lawmakers emphasized that if Republicans in Congress allow these enhanced premium tax credits to expire, premiums for more than 22 million Americans, including 395,850 Illinoisans will more than double—from an average of $888 to $1,904 each month. But some Americans could see even steeper premium increases.
“In Illinois, a 60-year-old couple with an income of $82,800 could see their annual premium increase $17,018—254 percent—while a family of four with an income of $64,000 could see their annual premium increase $2,571—226 percent. Such a large premium increase is unsustainable for most families. In fact, more than four million Americans will become uninsured due if Congress does not act, including 106,000 Illinoisans,” the lawmakers wrote.
The lawmakers underscored that health care providers and hospitals will lose critical revenue if Republicans allow the tax credits to lapse. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation projects that hospitals and health care providers across the U.S. could lose more than $32 billion in revenue, while uncompensated care costs could increase by $7.7 billion, in 2026.
“For hospitals and providers in Illinois, lost revenue could amount to $372 million, while uncompensated care costs could increase by $129 million. This is in addition to the congressional Republicans’ $1 trillion Medicaid cut included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which will reduce federal Medicaid funding to Illinois by 19 percent over the next decade. We worry that health care providers and hospitals will face even more severe financial hardship if the enhanced premium tax credits expire, and patients will suffer,” the lawmakers wrote.
Concluding their letter, the lawmakers requested details about the potential impacts of Republicans refusing to address this health care crisis.
The following insurance companies received a copy of the lawmakers’ letter: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna Group, Molina Healthcare, Celtic Insurance Company, Mercyhealth, and Oscar Health Inc.
A copy of the letter is available here and below:
October 14, 2025
Dear [CEO],
We are writing to request information about how the potential expiration of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA; P.L. 111-148) enhanced premium tax credits would impact patients, health care providers, and hospitals in Illinois.
The ACA established premium tax credits, helping lower- and middle-income families lower their health insurance premiums for plans offered through the marketplace. These premium tax credits made health care affordable for millions of families, small business owners, and farmers across the country. To make health care even more affordable, the American Rescue Plan Act (P.L. 117-2) enhanced the premium tax credits. This measure ensured that eligible households would not contribute more than 8.5 percent of their income to their health insurance premiums and allowed more middle-income Americans to access the premium tax credits.
Due to the beneficial impact these enhanced tax credits had for American families, Congress extended them as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-19) through the end of 2025. The enhanced premium tax credits helped double enrollment in ACA health plans from 11.4 million Americans in 2020 to 24.3 million Americans in 2025. In Illinois, ACA enrollment grew 59 percent, from 292,945 Illinoisans in 2020 to 465,985 in 2025. The enhanced premium tax credits have allowed more Americans to access primary care visits, prescription drugs, mental health and substance use disorder services, maternity care, and other essential health benefits.
If the enhanced premium tax credits are not extended, premiums for more than 22 million Americans, including 395,850 Illinoisans, will more than double—from an average of $888 to $1,904 each month. Some could see even steeper increases. In Illinois, a 60-year-old couple with an income of $82,800 could see their annual premium increase $17,018—254 percent—while a family of four with an income of $64,000 could see their annual premium increase $2,571—226 percent. Such a large premium increase is unsustainable for most families. In fact, more than four million Americans will become uninsured due if Congress does not act, including 106,000 Illinoisans.
Health care providers and hospitals across Illinois also will be impacted if the enhanced premium tax credits are not extended by the end of the year. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hospitals and health care providers across the United States could lose more than $32 billion in revenue, while uncompensated care costs could increase by $7.7 billion in 2026. For hospitals and providers in Illinois, lost revenue could amount to $372 million, while uncompensated care costs could increase by $129 million. This is in addition to the congressional Republicans’ $1 trillion Medicaid cut included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which will reduce federal Medicaid funding to Illinois by 19 percent over the next decade. We worry that health care providers and hospitals will face even more severe financial hardship if the enhanced premium tax credits expire, and patients will suffer.
To help inform our legislative efforts to improve health care for Illinoisans and better understand the implications of letting the ACA tax credits expire, we request that [health insurer] respond to the following questions by October 22, 2025:
- How many Illinoisans does [health insurer] cover? Please provide statewide figures and a breakdown by congressional district.
- How many Illinoisans does [health insurer] cover who receive the enhanced premium tax credit? Please provide statewide figures and a breakdown by congressional district.
- For Illinoisans who are covered by [health insurer] and receive the enhanced premium tax credit, what is their average premium reduction? Please provide statewide figures and a breakdown by congressional district.
- If the enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire because of congressional Republican inaction, does [health insurer] plan to increase premiums for Illinoisans next year?
- If so, please provide the justification for such premium increases.
- If so, please provide the average statewide increase and a breakdown by congressional district.
- If the enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire because of congressional Republican inaction, does [health insurer] expect the Illinoisans it covers to lose coverage?
- If so, please provide estimated statewide coverage losses and a breakdown by congressional district.
- If so, what continuity of care plans does [health insurer] have in place for Illinoisans?
- When would notices of premium changes be sent to Illinoisans?
- How many Illinoisans will [health insurer] have to notify?
- How will [health insurer] inform Illinoisans (e.g., mail, e-mail)?
- What processes does [health insurer] have in place to ensure that Illinoisans will be informed before their coverage is renewed?
- If the enhanced premium tax credits expire, are there specific counties that will cease to be a part of [health insurer’s] service area?
- If so, approximately when will such a decision to exit be made?
Thank you for your timely attention to this important issue.
Sincerely,
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