Political Instability Report

On Sunday, thousands of people joined protest marches in Croatia against a surging far right following a spate of incidents that have fueled both ethnic and political tensions in the European Union country (AP Video/Sasa Kavic).

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

You can tell he's not "limp wristed", because of his flannel shirt & that working guy jacket he bought from the tee vee.Xian theology or Nazism? Hard to tell, innit?

I Can Think Of Someone Else "A Lot of People Don't Like". Can You?

Meaning if you don't like someone, they're fair game, right?

April Rubin / Axios:

Trump with MBS on Khashoggi: “A lot of people didn't like” him  —  President Trump said “a lot of people didn't like” journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a Tuesday meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). … - Saudi officials rejected the report's findings, calling it a “negative, false and unacceptable assessment.”

Irie Sentner / Politico:   Trump again threatens ABC's broadcast license, this time over Epstein questions
Associated Press:   WATCH: Asked about Khashoggi murder, Trump says ‘things happen’ and MBS ‘knew nothing about it’

Meghan Blonder / The Washington Free Beacon:   Panic at CNN Over Rumored Sale to Saudis: ‘It Scares the Hell Out of Me’

Caitlin Doornbos / New York Post:   Trump scolds ABC reporter Mary Bruce over MBS questions, threatens to pull broadcast license

Austin Mabeus / CNN:   ‘Very painful’: Jamal Khashoggi's widow on Saudi crown prince visiting the US

Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:   How M.B.S. Won Back Washington

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:   Trump Berates Mary Bruce of ABC News After Question About Jamal Khashoggi

Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:   Khashoggi's widow responds to Trump calling him ‘extremely controversial’

John T. Bennett / Roll Call:   ‘Things happen’: Trump defends MBS on Khashoggi murder, slams ABC reporter

Katie Jerkovich / RedState:   Trump Shows Off His Latest WH Addition to Saudi Crown Prince MBS in Classic Move

Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:   MBS tells Trump he wants to join Abraham Accords, but path to Palestinian state crucial

Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:   Saudi Crown Prince ditches Senate meeting after ‘sensitive’ concerns about guest list

Ray Hartmann / Raw Story:   This White House disgrace makes no effort to conceal Trump's sheer contempt

Mark Alfred / NOTUS:   Trump Threatens ABC's License for Asking About Khashoggi Killing and Epstein Files

Sayan Bose / The Sun:   Trump claims Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince ‘knew nothing’ about bone saw murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

more at Mediagazer »

Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field  —  The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press. The news of journalist Olivia Nuzzi's affair with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

more at Mediagazer »

Toilet Paper USA

Here's some vandalism: This reporter recently encountered fascist bullshit on bike lockers at a Metro station.

And just because you're offensive doesn't mean you're right. Just, you know, deceased.

Peeled right off & they belong to us now!

Daily Californian:
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
Emilie Raguso / The Berkeley Scanner:   UC Berkeley students arrested as Turning Point event nears

Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:   Protests as rightwing Charlie Kirk activist group makes final campus tour stop

Fox News:   Bloody brawl breaks out as agitators protest TPUSA event at UC Berkeley in California

NewsNation:   Arrests made as protesters clash with police at Turning Point event at UC Berkeley

C'mon, doesn't "T.P." mean to vandalize something?

Do It, Don! I Dare You!

I've news for you, fantasizing four-eyed fruitcake: Donald "Lumpy" Trump is no Julius Cæsar.

Can't Handle The Truth

"Cancel Culture"

Ethan Sandweiss / WFYI Public Media:
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation  —  A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes — “Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice” — while the university investigates a complaint by a student against material she presented.
Katie Daviscourt / The Post Millennial:   Indiana University lecturer removed after calling MAGA ‘covert white supremacy’ during presentation

Death to squealing informer "complaining student" rats!! I hope the squealing rat who turned me in to the pigs sees this & finally realizes what a piece of shit he is.

Better Late Than Never, WaPo

The grim reality.

Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce  —  The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying the agency is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.

Beat the Bezos bozos by twelve days. The Dep't of Labor Xhitted these on 23 Oct. I stole it from Hullabaloo 26 Oct. 16 days for the WaPo to notice. Wake up, WaPo!! Wait. Might be a poor choice of words. WaPo owner Jeff would prefer you stay in your somnolent stupor.

Today In Mental Illness

If he's such a racist, why does this taco-bending wop-a-dago bog monkey (According to Fuentes, he is of Italian, Irish and Mexican descent.) buffoon appropriate African-American culture like that?None of those "races" are "white", & he no doubt hates himself for it.

Oh My, Dick's Dead

Guilt by association. Remember when he decided he'd be the best vice-presidential candidate, although he lived in Texas & wasn't eligible because Bush lived there too? So much for the Constitution, right then & there. Fuck you, Dick.

My heart pumps piss for you, hateful murdering anti-American bastard!

Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump White House snubs ex-VP Dick Cheney, offers no condolences on his death
Max Rego / The Hill:   Pelosi honors Cheney as a ‘patriotic American who loved his country’
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:   Karoline Leavitt Dishes Out Ice-Cold Answer on the Death of Dick Cheney
Marcie Jones / Wonkette:   Is Dick Cheney In Hell? A Wonkvestigation!
CBS News:   No reaction yet from the White House on Dick Cheney's death

National-Sozialismus On The March!

The Oganized Will Of The Nation

Stalin Fan Fuentes Tells Jews To
"Get The Fuck Out of America"

Zack Beauchamp / Vox:

The GOP's top think tank just defended an open Nazi  —  On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right's leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition.  —  You might think I am exaggerating.  I assure you I am not.
Emily Brooks / The Hill:   Heritage president defends Tucker Carlson's interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes

Peter Montgomery / People For:   Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts: Conservatives Shouldn't Cancel Nick Fuentes

Rod Dreher / Rod Dreher's Diary:   Weimar America Slouches Toward Birth

Robby Soave / Reason:   Deplatforming Nick Fuentes Won't Stop Antisemitism

Peter Laffin / Washington Examiner:   The Groypers are at the gate  —  It's been an uncharacteristically slow news week for President Donald Trump's second term.

Charlie Nash / Mediaite:   Heritage Foundation Defends Tucker Carlson From ‘Venomous Coalition’ of Conservatives ‘Attacking’ Him: ‘Their Attempt to Cancel Him Will Fail’

Will Sommer / The Bulwark:   One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media

Mike Brock / Notes From The Circus:
Welcome to Your Reckoning  —  Republicans discover—with shock!—that white supremacists …
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:   Trump's Top Border Patrol Goon Roasted for ‘Nazi’ Look

Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:   NAZIS ARE BAD: Heritage Foundation Staffers Subtweet Their Boss Over His Defense of Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes

Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
McConnell pans Heritage Foundation for its defense of Tucker Carlson's Nick Fuentes interview
David Sivak / Washington Examiner:   Ted Cruz heaps criticism on Tucker Carlson over Nick Fuentes interview
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:   Cruz, McConnell slam Heritage president's defense of Tucker Carlson

Howard Koplowitz / al.com:   Mitch McConnell rips GOP's ‘intellectual backbone’ over Tucker Carlson's white nationalist guest
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   Mitch McConnell slams top GOP think tank: 'Don't ‘carry water for antisemites’

Jewish Insider:   Heritage Foundation president refuses to disavow ‘close friend’ Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes over antisemitism Kathryn Wilkens / Mediaite:   Mitch McConnell Slams The Heritage Foundation: ‘Conservatives Should Feel No Obligation to Carry Water for Antisemites’

Novi Zhukovsky / New York Sun:   Conservative Rift Widens as Heritage Foundation Defends Tucker Carlson's Platforming of Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   MAGA In Full Civil War Over Heritage/Carlson/Fuentes

Media Matters for America:   Mark Levin rails at Tucker Carlson for hosting Nick Fuentes, and calls Carlson, Fuentes, Candace Owens, and Steve Bannon “mentally unhinged bigots”

Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes
Rachel Leingang / The Guardian:   Tucker Carlson's interview with far-right antisemite Nick Fuentes divides conservatives

David Strom / HotAir:   How Hard Is It to Reject Nick Fuentes?

Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:   Conservatives must choose between Charlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson

Tess Owen / Slate:   Tucker Carlson Gave a Softball Interview to a Neo-Nazi. Republicans Are Having a Meltdown—but Not for the Reason You'd Think.

New York Sun:   Heritage's Shocking Remarks on the Jews

Ed Driscoll / Instapundit:   THIS IS HOW THE RIGHT DIES:  —  That Heritage now finds itself defending Tucker Carlson's interview …

Matt Brown / Associated Press:   Heritage Foundation head defends Tucker Carlson for hosting white nationalist with antisemitic views

Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:   ‘Moral Cowardice’: Erick Erickson Torches JD Vance for Entertaining Anti-Semitism

Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Show Notes:   Did You Not See What I Saw?  —  I saw children murdered.  Their blood pooled around them.

Jewish Insider:   RJC, conservatives condemn Heritage's defense of Carlson, Fuentes

Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:   Heritage Foundation Defends Tucker Carlson Over His Interview With Holocaust Denier

Rod Dreher / Rod Dreher's Diary:   America's Crazy Train

Phillip Nieto / Daily Mail:   Shock defense of Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes sparks ‘rancid’ GOP civil war

Gabe Whisnant / Newsweek:   Ted Cruz Issues Stark Rebuke of Tucker Carlson for Nick Fuentes Interview

Collin Anderson / The Washington Free Beacon:   Heritage Foundation President: 'Don't Cancel Nick Fuentes,' as Stalin Fan Fuentes Tells Jews to ‘Get The Fuck Out of America’

David Bernstein / Reason:   Crisis on the Right as Heritage Foundation President Roberts Seems to Go Groyper

The Times of Israel:   Head of US right-wing think tank defends Tucker Carlson after talk show with antisemite

Robert Davis / Raw Story:   MAGA think tank chief under fire after claiming ‘canceling’ neo-Nazi ‘not the answer’

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:   Heritage Foundation Soils Itself, Embraces Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes

Kade Heather / Chicago Sun Times:   As Nick Fuentes' star rises in wake of Charlie Kirk's death, he quietly settles battery charge

Andrew Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:   Heritage Foundation president stands by Tucker Carlson after host platforms antisemitism

Justin Baragona / The Independent:   Heritage Foundation denies distancing itself from Tucker Carlson following Nick Fuentes interview

Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse:   Thoughts On The Carlson Interview

Peter Montgomery / Flux:   Nick Fuentes enters the Republican mainstream in softball Tucker Carlson interview

Un-Rest Up-Date

The government shut down the internet, imposed a curfew, and deployed the military after protests began on Wednesday.

Whatcha gonna do when your elections are "disputed", Yankees? Lie back & enjoy it?

Daily Affirmation

Thursday Terror Threat

Although all the testosterone in my body has run into my shoes & I have no more S-E-X drive, I still have the desire to kill, starting w/ those who've hurt me. I'd start w/ good ol' mom & dad, but they're deservedly dead after they abandoned me, leaving me a fucking orphan. (See how it's been so far?)

Everyone else I've known has either actively hurt me (An excellent example: Letting me be homeless when you owned a house & were allegedly my friend, you witch!!) or made others hurt me, because they're cowards hiding behind the fucking pigs. You cost me a wk. of my life & you called the fucking police three times over 15 or so yrs. to get it done!! You think you're getting away w/ it?

Speaking of literal-minded Philistines who squeal like stuck pigs for any or no reason, listen to this paean to murder& tell me why one of you little shits hasn't called the fucking police about these guys & their threats? Is it because every last one of you is the filthiest of hypocrites, & a stupid fucking chump besides?

I do give myself credit for knowing what would set off the easily-chumped sheep, typing "I've no reason to live* & might as well just start the killing". What sort of person is more concerned about the lives of a slumlord & some tenants so scummy they've since been evicted, than about the suffering of a one-time friend? Neighbors whom I wouldn't have blamed for anything if I hadn't assumed they'd called the police previously, rather than the squealing rat bitch who did†. He'd've had their blood on his punk hands too if I had meant it, the unpseakable piece of crap. Well, now I have a reason to live! REVENGE!!

Never forgot what started all this, the negligent cheap bastard Shah of Sunset slumlord who allowed my bathroom ceiling to collapse, almost injuring me. Where's your outrage about this, two-faced phonies? Still fucking waiting.

P.S.: I won't need the Colt Gold Cup .45 automatic that the National Tracing Center or whatever it is thinks I have. (Because every goddam police ossifer & computer person is, by definition, a retarded fucking moron who is completely incapable of performing the slightest portion of their job properly.) Thanks a lot for that too. Really enjoyed having a bunch of oinkers toss my ap't. looking for a gun that doesn't exist. I'd prefer to kill you chickenshit assholes w/ my bare hands, or a stick or something, unless you hide behind the pigs, which I would expect of you cowards.

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*NB: No one does, whether or not they'll admit it. I stopped lying to myself, you can too.

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†I wonder if he was intelligent enough to realize that & that's why he called the police again, this time offering more "incriminating information than the month before. If so, makes him an even worse piece of shit. I obviously should have chosen better friends.

A "National, Militarized Police Force"? Nothing More American.

Take a day and walk around
Watch the Nazis run your town
Then go home and check yourself
You think we're singing 'bout someone else
 — F. Zappa, "Plastic People"

Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:

Revealed: Pentagon orders states' national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’  —  Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 National Gfreuard members across the US to carry out Trump's order on subduing civil unrest  —  A top US military official has ordered the National Guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian.
[...]
Janessa Goldbeck, a former US Marine Corps captain and chief executive of the Vet Voice Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group, said the order represented “an attempt by the president to normalize a national, militarized police force”.
She predicted that force would be used to send troops to states led by Democratic governors without their permission and could be used to suppress turnout and disrupt the fair operation of elections.
In a worst-case scenario, she said, “the president could declare a state of emergency and say that elections are rigged and use allegations of voter fraud to seize the ballots of secure voting centers”.
Patty Nieberg / Task & Purpose:   Leaked memo details National Guard plan for a ‘quick reaction force’ in US cities

Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Quick Reaction Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots
Jim Mishler / NewsMax.com:   Pentagon Orders National Guard ‘Quick Reaction’ Units

We'll see how well the states do organizing their little riot squads.And we'll see how well this goes.

The Hill:
Trump directs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons  —  President Trump said on Wednesday that he has instructed the Defense Department (DOD) to immediately begin testing U.S. nuclear weapons on an equal basis to China and Russia.  —  “The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country,” Trump wrote.
Washington Post:   Trump announces plans to test nuclear weapons, just before meeting with China's Xi
Ismail Shakil / Reuters:   Trump asks Pentagon to immediately start testing US nuclear weapons
Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner:   Trump orders Pentagon to begin nuclear weapons tests

Delusional pin-dick trying to keep up w/ who he thinks the big boys are. See also: Wanting live bombs.

One person familiar with the planning said White House officials insisted to Navy planners that Trump “needed to see explosions” instead of just a “big splash” during the Oct. 5 demonstration.

Homoerotic Subtext From 1984

Or Is This 1954?

Either way, does nothing to convince me that most right-wing men aren't closet cases*. (Maybe most robots, too.)
Digby does note the grotesque white nationalism, not to mention the paternalistic sexism.

From the United States Department of Labor.

An ideal world w/ handsome young honkies working "manly" outdoor jobs, "Dick & Jane" exurban families, & plenty Xian churches. Not an office worker (or city) to be seen. And a man don't need no high school ejimacation to do man work. Keep 'em dumb & work 'em hard, right boss?

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*NB: We reg'lar heterosexual fellers don't concern ourselves much w/ what LBGTQ people are doing. Excessive interest can be a tell, moralistic hypocrites.

You Think?

I dunno. Looked horrible to me.

What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.

We (more accurately, the AP) previously noted the poisoning & burning of olive trees in the West Bank.

[The NYT/Drop Site]

Final Solution?

Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate GOP chair declines hearings on Trump's boat attacks off Venezuela … - Risch told Axios he has been “briefed on it and feel comfortable with where we are.”  — The U.S. has now struck nine vessels, killing more than 30 people whose identities are still unknown.
Mark Swanson / NewsMax.com:   Senate GOP Chair Declines Hearings on Boat Attacks
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Trump indicates he won't seek congressional approval for targeting drug traffickers Washington Examiner:   Trump says land targets ‘next’ in Pentagon drug trafficking crackdown

Courtney McBride / Bloomberg:   Trump Says US Eyes Land Strikes Next After Drug Boat Attacks

Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
Jeff Charles / Townhall:   Trump Administration Is Preparing Unprecedented Action Against Drug Cartels

This fat son-of-a-bitch is promising to commit murder; any of you chickenshit informers going to call the police so they can take him to psychiatric jail? Or is that just for the powerless like me? Two-faced fucking hypocrites.

Geheime Staatspolizei Time In America

Geheime Staatspolizei in Ukraine.

VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester

“Your name was brought up.”

Can't wait 'til these sons-of-bitches come knocking on my door.

The White House Being Destroyed

Have Some More "Peace". On Your Head, W/ A Stick!!

Nice hoods. Issued by the Jew Klux Klan?Only difference between this & 7 October 2023 is that these cowards didn't have the guts to kill anyone this time. They'll probably be allowed to beat a few vicious terrorist olive farmers to death & burn all their trees w/o punishment before the guns & rockets are brought out to start the real ethnic cleansing.

"I.C.E. Out Now!": Bystanders & Protesters Stand Up For Rights

An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on New York City's famed Canal Street turned chaotic Tuesday afternoon, as bystanders and protesters confronted federal agents and tried to block their path. (AP Video: Jake Offenhartz).

I'm (somewhat) encouraged, at least until they start shooting. Anybody's guess what happens after Kent State II.

The City:

Military-Style Immigration Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors  —  Chaos erupted in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, as dozens of masked federal agents targeting street vendors on Canal Street were met with droves of New Yorkers who joined in a spontaneous protest of the arrests.
New York Times:   Federal Agents Stage Raid on Canal Street in New York City

Fox News:   Protests erupt as ICE agents raid NYC Chinatown street vendors allegedly selling counterfeit goods

Associated Press:   Angry New Yorkers confront immigration enforcement agents on famed Canal Street

Felipe De La Hoz / Hell Gate:   Masked Federal Agents Storm Canal Street in Raid Targeting Immigrant Vendors

New York Post:   ICE agents make busts on Canal Street in NYC's Chinatown in effort to crack down on illegal vendors

Jake Offenhartz / NewsMax.com:   Immigration Agents on NYC's Canal Street Confronted by Protesters

WTOP News:   Immigration agents conducting sweep on NYC's famed Canal Street confronted by protesters

New York Daily News:   ICE agents arrest street vendors along Canal St. in lower Manhattan

abc7NY:   Federal agents carry out joint ICE crackdown on illegal vending on Canal Street in Chinatown