HE CAN’T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE EVEN SOME OF THE TIME: Hakeem Jeffries Just Got Some Very Bad News.
It’s okay, Temu Obama, even the real Obama’s “prestige” has worn thin. You sure did try. (Our nerves, our patience, our ability to not laugh whenever we see a sombrero now.)
THE REALLY IMPORTANT NEWS: SpaceX Starship Flight 11 Ends Successful Test with ‘Soft’ Splashdown.
IT’S NOT A SCANDAL. IT’S JUST SOME DEMS SCREAMING: The Young Republican Chat Scandal: Dumb, Disgusting, and Definitely Not the Apocalypse.
On the dumb and disgusting… meh. It’s like people have never been in masculine environments and are totally unaware of “men at ease talking to men.” If you need a refresher it’s just group jokes. I’m not a man but I SHUDDER at the idea of some private chats being made public. (Not usually political, but stupid jokes nonetheless.) The left of course no longer has men, but the right, really?
IN CASE YOU SOMEHOW MISSED IT:
And my clanker song soundtrack (to be clear, I write the lyrics, not clankers.) will not get new additions to next weekend, due to a software thing, but it has grown, if you wish to poke at youtube. I’m also getting better at videos. Part of it is making the clanker’s hangups work for you. If it puts a venomous toad in a snazzy embroidered jacket? Run with it.
OPPRESSIVE REGIMES HATE THE FLOW OF INFORMATION: South African red tape will likely delay Starlink there for years to come.
SPEAKING OF THE BRITISH CROWN: I have just provided Ofcom’s enforcement docs vs 4chan, where the UK claims the First Amendment is no defense to its censorship, to several American free speech organizations. Media will publish today. They’re not after 4chan. They’re after you, and 4chan is in the way.
And for the X-Lacking.
4chan is throwing their tea in the harbor, without even disguising as Amerindians.
DEAR UN, WE FAMOUSLY REBELLED AGAINST TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION: Why the UN’s Ocean Tax Plan is a BIG Problem.
You ain’t King George. He didn’t depend on America for his very survival. And had better (and less rapey) troops. Don’t poke us.
EXACTLY HOW I FEEL: Stolen This, Taken That, Expropriated Another.
The Wankers who virtue signal with land acknowledgements need to be pointed at and laughed hard. Or perhaps in the case of males we should require them to do a gonads acknowledgement first. Because any male with enough testosterone to sire a child should be ashamed of echoing that stupid and cowardly nonsense. Stupid or cowardly. Choose one. Put the other one back. As for women doing this, you haven’t been conquered. Stop instinctively trying to claim security for your children by abasing yourself before your imagined conquerors. If you’re doing Land Acknowledgements, you probably already aborted the kids, anyway.
THE DEMS CONTINUE CONVINCED OF THE POWER OF THE LIGHTBRINGER’S COATTAILS: Virginia Democrats Bring in Obama to Endorse Embattled Abigail Spanberger.
Spoiler: his only power was a massive and fraud-inclined organization. Let’s hope that’s been curbed enough.
I’M OKAY. THERE’S JUST WEIRD STUFF GOING ON: The Long Silence.
FIDDLING AFTER INTENTIONALLY SETTING ROME ON FIRE: Democrats Vote Down Plan to Pay Troops, Leave for Another Long Weekend.
Maybe they can sell it all as being the GOP’s fault. Or maybe it’s their latest attempt to get the right to do a boog.
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO CONVINCE ME HE IS NOT PREPARING A WHITE HOUSE RUN: Fetterman Continues Defying Democrats in Remarks at Kennedy Center Town Hall Event.
OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.
JAY JONES FEIGNS BEING HAUNTED BY TEXT MESSAGE SCANDAL:
Virginia Democrats’ embattled attorney general nominee walked onto the debate stage Thursday night knowing he’d need to address the elephant in the room head-on.
“Let me be very clear. I am ashamed. I am embarrassed. And I am sorry,” Jones said in his opening statement, in which he also apologized to former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, his own family, and Virginia for the recently revealed texting scandal that has upended his campaign. He said that he cannot “take back” what he said in texts to a former colleague in 2022, but that moving forward, he will always take accountability for his mistakes.
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“Obviously, those text messages are indefensible, but I’ve known Jay Jones for a long period of time,” former Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said in a recent interview with National Review. “He’s a friend. He made a mistake, he apologized, he’s been accountable for that.”
“There are those on the right, particularly Donald Trump, who say wild, outlandish things and take no responsibility or accountability for what they say,” added Stoney, who ran unsuccessfully against Spanberger and then lieutenant governor nominee Ghazala Hashmi this cycle. “Jay, at least, has done that, and I think he still deserves to be the next attorney general.”
But behind closed doors, Virginia Democrats are in a panic. Jones’s donors and fundraisers are furious with Jones and have been inundated with text messages from friends asking whether they knew about the attorney general nominee’s skeletons before they agreed to help his 2025 campaign. Democratic operatives are in a tizzy over how to respond to the scandal. In private conversations, they’ve held out hope that early voting — which began on September 19 — will get Jones across the finish line and that he’d use the October 16 debate to convince voters that the 2022 text scandal does not reflect his character.
But the scandal is flooding the Virginia media and advertising market, forcing Democratic candidates up and down the ballot to address it in interviews — throwing a wrench into Virginia Democratic candidates’ closing pitch to voters as a result. Further complicating matters, Jones has been hit with bar complaints in Virginia and the District of Columbia, where he previously served as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General’s consumer protection bureau.
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These are the kids Jay Jones wants to kill btw https://t.co/euCe8Tx1W6 pic.twitter.com/mBw4mc34PF
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 4, 2025
WELL, YOU’RE THREATENING THE WHOLE FEEDLOT THERE:
De-listings are exceedingly rare and only really happen when there is (1) severe negative performance in the ETF *and* (2) persistent negative outflows, which is the exact opposite of how our ETF has performed since it launched in July, having generated 7.12% return since then.
— James Fishback (@j_fishback) October 16, 2025
AS P.J. O’ROURKE ONCE SAID, THE MEANS USED TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACY AREN’T NECESSARILY DEMOCRATIC. THE MARINES, FOR EXAMPLE, ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY.
"The Columbia Intifada, it seems, has died down — thanks to President Trump. His campus measures are unquestionably illiberal. But they’ve paradoxically helped to preserve reasonable discourse on campus."https://t.co/pLPZh9vdxK
— UnHerd (@unherd) October 17, 2025
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Aurora alert! Several coronal mass ejections are racing toward Earth and could spark impressive northern lights this week.
WHY SHOULD NYC VOTERS CARE THAT MAMDANI SUPPORTS HAMAS, AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST GROUP?: I can think of 9112001 reasons.
CAN WE TURN IT UP TO 11? Researchers Discover the Cell’s Secret Anti-Aging Mechanism.
NICE:
As a fan of Edward Hopper I couldn’t help but take this photo in Greenwich tonight. pic.twitter.com/WtOyuZ4vwW
— richard (@OSM_Photography) October 15, 2025
IN WHICH CYNICAL PUBLIUS EXPLAINS A THING OR TWO TO ABC’S JONATHAN KARL:
Dear Jon:
Hi, my name is Cynical Publius. While you may know me from X, I am also a sometimes-published commentator on matters of importance. In fact, you may recall my work in The Federalist during the 2024 election revealing Tim Walz' military cowardice. I'm pretty proud of… https://t.co/QkEwU693uf
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 16, 2025
I only wish CP had let Karl really have it.
TRIM YOUR NAILS: 360° Rotating Toenail Clippers. #CommissionEarned
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