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October 20, 2025
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO SHOW UP:
Declining fertility is an almost totally liberal problem. https://t.co/DYP9A87MgK
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 19, 2025
This is why lefties are so threatened by homeschooling and other modes of resistance to grooming.
DOUGLAS MACKINNON: Failing cities like Chicago should heed Ken Griffin’s warning: No tax base, no money.
Thanks to President Trump, and also to the rhetorical feud now taking place between him and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Chicago is now getting a great deal of attention. But guess what? The Windy City was already awful long before that feud.
As the Chicago Tribune reported several years ago, over the past 60 years, more than 40,000 men, women and children have been murdered in the city, with hundreds of thousands wounded. Although many are not aware of that shocking statistic, it can be assumed that Ken Griffin knew of it. Why? Because Chicago had served as the headquarters for Citadel for more than three decades when he chose to leave it forever.
In explaining his rationale for moving his world-famous hedge fund to Miami, Griffin said in part: “Chicago, you know, unfortunately, over the last six or seven years, has been engulfed in a series of problems, which has been our headquarters for years. Asking people to leave Chicago for New York or Miami has not been hard.”
Note to far-left socialist-leaning mayors, politicians and activists: If you drive out billionaires and job creators, then your “free is for me” policy initiatives will collapse.
Well, yes — but the socialist-leaning mayors, politicians, and activists take their cut off the top.
PHYLLIS CHESLER: Communism and Prostitution.
Why would a socialist-communist paradise require the degradation of womankind in order to be able to pay for…Stuff?
Mamdani, New York City’s Mayoral frontrunner, is in favor of de-criminalizing it, which is the same as legalizing what he and others call “sex work.” In my view, “sex work” is not work. It is violence against the girls and women and against the boys and men who are trafficked into it, either due to extreme parental abuse, psychiatric fragility, enormous poverty, and a complete lack of economic alternatives. “Working” as a prostitute, is like working in a plutonium factory and being assured of a very short shelf life. Although there are rare exceptions, I do not see women of wealth choosing this so-called job.
Why would a socialist communist paradise be so impoverished that it would have to cater to male lust and damn its most vulnerable victims? Won’t there be employment for everyone? If not, why not?
Historically, Soviet Russia, communist China, and communist Cuba all viewed it as a capitalist and “foreign” practice and outlawed it. In the Soviet and Cuban cases, that practice returned, because the state needed tourist dollars to pay for their gulags, torture chambers, and dachas. In China’s case, it slowly returned as an illegal and “invisible” activity but one needed in order for the prostituted to earn better money and/or in order to obtain privileges from their leaders.
In 2017, the New York Times assured me that there was so much sweet, sweet love and sexytime flowing in the former Soviet Union, that the entire nation resembled the Chateau Marmont when Led Zeppelin was in town, thus rendering prostitution completely anathema.
JULIE BURCHILL: How do so many women end up as ‘Feminists for Islam?’
Jewish women have had to put up with enough monstrous bullying and belittling from the world generally over the past two years (BELIEVE ALL WOMEN – UNLESS THEY’RE JEWISH, as the saying has it). And now the poison of anti-Semitism seems to have trickled into the very heart of a conference where women of all races and belief systems should feel safe. But sadly, we’ve seen before that Islam and diversity, though often used in tandem by politicians and other clueless scolds, are often strangers to each other. Here at the FiLiA conference was evidence of a strange beast – here was Feminists for Islam.
Those of you of a certain vintage, who as children saw the 1967 film Dr Dolittle starring Rex Harrison, might recall an unfortunate critter called the ‘pushmi-pullyu’, a creation of author Hugh Lofting, which had two heads on opposing ends of its body. As you can imagine, the creature looked miffed a lot of the time. Little wonder then that Wiktionary defines the colloquial use of the term as ‘a person who behaves in a conflicting or contradictory manner’. Feminists for Islam are such P-Ps that they make Queers for Palestine seem semi-sane.
As Mark Steyn has written, “our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.”
No Kings is really the geriatric boomers last gasp. pic.twitter.com/Qdvv6QOmw4
— Rev. Dr. Ashanti Van Buren+ (@AshantiVanBuren) October 18, 2025
Fortunately, unlike what the left allows the other side of aisle, thoughtful conservatives create an extremely safe space in which our elders can relieve the youthful exuberance of their Vietnam-era salad days:
They get to hold their protests without a care in the world. No snipers on buildings shooting at them. No masked thugs attacking them. Every media outlet fawning over them. Irony levels fit for a King.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 19, 2025
“DEADLY REVENGE” ON OUR CAMPUSES. Students for Justice in Palestine calls for deadly revenge after activist is killed in Gaza infighting. But it gets funny: “The leading anti-Israel campus coalition called for violent retaliation after a Palestinian influencer was killed in a firefight between Hamas and a rival militia—calling the local faction a ‘Zionist proxy.'”
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AT THE WASHINGTON POST?
Hell just froze over: @washingtonpost blames Hamas for death and suffering in Gaza. But months of denial by most of the world media gave Hamas cover, inverted cause and effect, and helped prolong the war. But don’t expect this honesty to become a trend. https://t.co/qbZGOfyStw pic.twitter.com/tBRPfeABUO
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) October 20, 2025
The newsroom needs far more improvement, but almost any change is welcome.
ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX lofts 10,000th Starlink satellite to orbit on record-tying 132nd Falcon 9 launch of the year.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink internet satellites lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT; 12:24 p.m. local California time).
Those 28 included the 10,000th Starlink spacecraft ever to reach orbit, which a SpaceX employee noted on the company’s launch webcast: “From Tintin to 10,000! Go Starlink, go Falcon, go SpaceX!”
It was also the 132nd Falcon 9 liftoff of the year, equaling the mark set by the rocket last year — and there are still nearly 2.5 months to go in 2025.
If the company maintains this cadence, they’ll finish the year with 160 or so Falcon 9 launches, plus five Starship flight tests.
KURT SCHLICHTER: J.D. Vance Comes Home to the Marine Corps. “Watching the Vice-President work the crowd, including off-script banter and signing a bunch of the Devil Dogs’ covers thrown on stage, is watching a future master learning his art. Republicans, we’ve got somebody special in J.D. Vance. Now, I’ve known that for a long time. I’ve had the chance to talk to him and his wife, and, importantly, my wife had a chance to talk to him and his wife. My wife approves of them, and so do I. We both meet a lot of politicians; a lot of them are nice but unexceptional. Some are stiffs. Not the Vances.”
I agree. I hung out with J.D. a couple of times before he went into politics, and had lunch with him and Usha and their firstborn (then a baby) when they were passing through Knoxville. They’re good people, and super smart. And not fake at all.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dude, Where’s My King? “We all know that the entire premise of the No Kings tantrum is utterly ridiculous. That’s no surprise, because the Democrats are forever proceeding from false premises. My mom asked me to explain what the protests were all about. It’s even more absurd when you hear it out loud. I told Mom that everything that the Democrats are in a rage about is based on falsehoods they tell each other about President Trump and those of us who support him. They get their news from memes on Facebook and radicals at the Huffington Post. Never have so many been so ignorant and so loud.”
OF COURSE IT’S IDIOCY, IT COMES FROM THE LEFT:
In fact, the sentiments expressed by the Founders were based solidly on English common law principles. Their basic argument was that they had not abandoned their inherited rights *as Englishmen* merely by emigrating to America.@minordissent
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 20, 2025
YEAH, IT’S THE RAGE OF A PARASITE CLASS FOR THE MOST PART:
The protests today are a great barometer to show just how wonderfully effective President Trump and this administration have been in deconstructing the government leviathan and its liberal pet projects.
The folks who turn out for this have one thing in common: That they want…
— RedPillTruth2024 (@RedPillTruth20) October 18, 2025
I’ve looked at about 100 pictures of the protesters from today’s march.
Old white liberal women, beta males, gays, lesbians, and misinformed and misguided college kids.
A real freak fest of hateful and stupid people.
That’s all I have to say about that.
— RedPillTruth2024 (@RedPillTruth20) October 19, 2025
“THE GREAT FEMINIZATION:” A compelling theory of woke. “Andrews’ thesis is simple: ‘woke’ has become so powerful because our institutions have become feminized, and women have different values than men.”
APPARENTLY THE “KING’S” POLICIES ARE POPULAR WITH THE CITIZENRY: Morning Greatness: Americans Support Antifa Terror Designation.
VISIT EARLY AND OFTEN: After a Ban of Almost 4 Months, the Blog No Pasarán Has Been Restored to the Internet.
A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: WA school district REINSTATES teacher who replaced words of National Anthem with ‘f*ck ICE, f*ck Trump, free Palestine.’
EXCLUSIVE: Issaquah High School Teacher Kelsy Early, who sang "F*** ICE & F*** Trump, Free Palestine" to the National Anthem & bragged on Tiktok she wanted to similarly change to the Pledge of Allegiance in her classroom has been REINSTATEDpic.twitter.com/VKS5ojorM9
— Ari Hoffman 🎗 (@thehoffather) October 19, 2025
No nose ring, but the crazy eyes are in full effect.
The self-proclaimed centrist, 41, who has made political neutrality a focal point of her plans for the network, hit journalists with the seven-word question during a private Tuesday meeting, The New York Times reported.
‘Why does the country think you’re biased?’ she asked – leaving the staff and stars of the country’s top news program baffled and unable to respond.
Weiss’s question was awkward, as three anonymous sources told the newspaper.
The 60 Minutes reporters – including standouts Anderson Cooper, who doubles as a long-time CNN anchor, and Lesley Stahl – see themselves as impartial, the insiders said.
Previously: The Liberal Bias of CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Should CNN really be that comfortable with the ‘face’ of their network giving such an unchallenged platform to such a biased commentator? Wouldn’t it be more fair to at least have someone to rebut his point of view, or to add a different perspective? Put another way, how often has Cooper had on, as guest, Maher’s equivalent on the right, say his old pal Ann Coulter, who appears to take a similar approach to Maher’s in the business of outrage? Yes, we are aware that Coulter has appeared on AC360, but the tone of those discussions appear very different than the amused and convivial conversations that Cooper shares with Maher.”
And another flashback: CBS “60 minutes”: Instead of listening to the hostages, Stahl chose to glorify Hamas.
WHY GEN Z IS LEANING HARD RIGHT:
No Country for Young Grads.
They studied. They borrowed. They believed in the dream and got ghosted by the job market.
AI took the entry-level spots.
Foreign visa pipelines filled the rest.
Now half of America’s new grads are in jobs that don’t even need a degree.We didn’t… pic.twitter.com/USqsLdFZjF
— Hany Girgis (@SanDiegoKnight) October 18, 2025
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DISPATCHES FROM THE SHARPTON CHANNEL: Robert DeNiro calls Stephen Miller the ‘Goebbels’ of Trump’s Cabinet.
Actor Robert DeNiro drew a comparison between White House homeland security adviser Stephen Miller and Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels.
DeNiro offered a prediction during MSNBC News’s The Weekend on Sunday that President Donald Trump “will not want to leave” his position when he reaches his term limit in 2028*.
“[Trump] set it up with, I guess, he’s the Goebbels of the Cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he’s Jewish and he should be ashamed of himself,” DeNiro said.
This television segment from DeNiro comes after other celebrities have called Miller a white supremacist, among other names. The reference to Goebbels followed Miller’s speech at the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, which critics online compared to a speech Goebbels made in 1932.
As Neal Pollack wrote in Spectator World last month, “Do people really think that Trump won’t leave office after his term is over? He’ll be 82. He’s going to leave. Just like the weather in Chicago, if you don’t like the President, wait a minute.”
* Given De Niro’s recent health scare, please don’t let him see this tweet:
I really don't think the libs are gonna like this one. Please don't share it to them or tag them in the comments. pic.twitter.com/37EQeftxXn
— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) October 19, 2025