IT’S COME TO THIS: Tucker Carlson Jumps All the Sharks Finding Something Even Crazier to Blame on the Jews (Watch).
Wait—the Jews were running the Wuhan Institute for Virology??
Who knew? 🥴 https://t.co/zEUqjqfJBZ
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 21, 2025
Flashback: Look at What You’ve Become, Tucker Carlson.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: The View: Karine Jean-Pierre Says Democrats Need to Step Up and Be the ‘Opposition Party’ to Trump.
Karine Jean-Pierre stopped by “The View” on Tuesday and, when asked if Democrats are currently “meeting the moment,” her answer was blunt: “absolutely not.” According to the former White House press secretary, they need to step up more and actually be the “opposition party” to President Trump.
During her conversation with the ABC hosts, Jean-Pierre had a whole list of things the Democratic Party could and should be doing better, and at the top of it was not acting like Trump is a typical president. According to Jean-Pierre, Democrats need to remember that they actually have power in government.
“I think, right now, the Democratic party should be acting as the opposition party,” she said. “These are unprecedented times. We should not be acting, or they should not be acting as business as usual. And we need to see some fight, some teeth, some vigor, some strategy. That’s what I’ve been hearing from people since I left the administration.”
Jean-Pierre then pointed to the weekend’s No Kings protests as a key example of what politicians should be doing, and applauded the turnout of 7 million people nationwide.
“Where’s the Democratic party in doing the same and peaceful protesting?” she said. “Why are there not more lawsuits from the Democratic party? They need to take action on behalf of the American people, the people who are fearful. And it’s not throwing us under the bus!”
As Megyn Kelly points out, does KJP think that the “No Kings” protests weren’t a Democratic Party production?
Also, KJP managed to undermine the entire premise of her book during her appearance on another leftist outlet:
KJP stopped by the friendly confines of MSNBC Tuesday morning for a sit down with the Morning Joe crew. Now, keep in mind that the name of her book is Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House. So, how do you square this answer from the former Biden White House press secretary to a perfectly reasonable question from Jonathan Lemire?
LEMIRE: Here in the subhead is ‘a broken White House”… and if it’s not questions about his health, what made it a broken White House?
JEAN-PIERRE: So, the ‘broken White House’ is about this current moment… I talk about the story of– my personal side of the story of what happened and what I saw as White House press secretary. I think I can speak to it more in a different way, more personally even, than most people–
LEMIRE: So, tell us what you saw day in and day out.
JEAN-PIERRE: And so the ‘broken White House’ is the White House that is currently in– obviously has the administration, the Trump administration, and what I’m seeing.
She now wants us to believe that when she refers to a “broken White House,” she is talking about the Trump White House, even though the subtitle of the book is “an inside look” at it? Since when is she inside the Trump White House?
Curiously, it looks like Morning Joe may have pulled the video of her appearance from the MSNBC Website.
Colbert found himself at odds with former Biden Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre when she trashed the Democrat Party on Monday and said she never saw any indication of Joe Biden’s mental decline.
Colbert was argumentative with the former press secretary when she insisted she didn’t see Biden decline during her tenure in his administration and he pushed back, saying that Biden’s performance at the single presidential debate against Donald Trump was very concerning.
“No one is saying that he didn’t age,” Jean-Pierre exclaimed. “I’m talking about did he have… the mental acuity, was he able to govern? And the man that I saw nearly every day was someone who was engaging, understood policy, and was always putting the American people first.”
But Colbert was not convinced by Jean-Pierre’s claim that Biden was just fine.
“It was very personal for those of us who watched [the debate] too, because it was a shock to our system to see that. Because — I mean, you’re talking to a guy who helped raise $25 million for Joe Biden in March of that same year,” he told Jean-Pierre. “And three months later, I saw a guy who I had not seen backstage at the benefit that I did. It seemed like a dramatically different person. And at 81 years old, that’s not entirely unexpected. You can imagine why people got so worried.
“I don’t think anybody questioned his heart or his policies. But it takes more than that to be the President of the United States,” Colbert added. “And in a moment of great pressure on stage, we saw someone shock us and worry us, and nothing could assuage that worry. So I don’t think it was necessarily a betrayal of Joe Biden as other people saying, ‘We don’t think we were shown the Joe Biden that you saw.’”
Jean-Pierre insisted that the criticisms of Biden and the demands that he step down were a “really ugly assault on someone who had 50-plus years of experience and who, again, objectively had done a good job as President of the United States.”
Reason’s Robbie Soave asks what we’re all thinking: “Seriously, why is she putting herself through this?”
Kelly believes, “She’s clearly auditioning for a role on The View. She desperately wants it, because that is about her IQ class, but and she accurately predicts she won’t be be getting hired anywhere else.”
OLD AND BUSTED: “I’m Not a Witch.”
The New Hotness? “I am not a secret Nazi:” Maine Senate candidate responds to tattoo accusations.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner fended off allegations he harbors racist views after a video revealed what appears to be a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.
Why it matters: Platner drew the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as an anti-establishment outsider, but his campaign is already trying to clean up recently resurfaced Reddit posts where he espoused offensive views about Black people and sexual assault victims.
- Platner’s campaign shared video with Pod Save America of him singing shirtless that exposed a skull tattoo on his chest that resembles the “Totenkopf,” a symbol used by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS).
- The move was intended to get ahead of opposition research, and the GOP’s Senate campaign arm seized on the images, accusing Platner of having a “Nazi tattoo.”
Driving the news: Platner said in an interview with Tommy Vietor of Pod Save America that was released on Monday that the video was from his brother’s wedding, where he lip-synced Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.”
- “I am not a secret Nazi,” Platner told Vietor, adding that he got the tattoo in Croatia while deployed and was “very inebriated.” Platner said he and his fellow Marines chose “a terrifying looking skull and crossbones.”
As Jim Geraghty quips, “‘I just wish that at the tattoo parlor, Platner had asked a friend, ‘are we the baddies?’ Platner has declared, ‘I am not a secret Nazi.’ (Some might argue that when you’ve got an SS symbol tattooed on your arm, there’s not much secret about it.)”
UPDATE:
Platner is getting a pass because of his politics, not his gender.
We know this because many women got a pass for cheering on political murder. See Omar, Ilhan.
People pretend otherwise because they need to distract from what it says about their co-partisans. https://t.co/74fQ8WrzcX
— Legal Phil (@Legal_Fil) October 21, 2025
COMING SOON: Sequoia II, Potomac Boogaloo? Trump’s East Wing Renovation and the Case for Recommissioning the USS Sequoia.
From her berth in the Navy Yard, Sequoia was a beauty gracing the Washington landscape. She was smaller but no less august than the Lincoln or Jefferson memorials. She sat low and graceful in the water, the slender 104-foot porcelain hull contrasting starkly against the gray-green Potomac. Her decks were a patchwork of honeyed teak and varnished mahogany. It was said that the warm wood seemed to hold the afternoon sun inside it. She was not a large ship, but a dignified one. Her bow lines swept forward with a muted authority, and the gentle rake of her stern lent her a graceful poise. Her mere presence was a statement and representation of the skill and master craftsmanship of American shipbuilders.
Below the deck, twin six-cylinder Winston diesel engines hummed Sequoia along the Potomac at about twelve knots. She was not built for speed, but rather conversation and reflection. She was where Truman played poker, Kennedy celebrated his birthday, and where Nixon brooded over her wooden gunwales. It was an antiquated presidential command post, tidy and ceremonial. Her history bears repeating, as history so often does. She was where Roosevelt plotted naval strategy, Eisenhower received foreign guests, and Johnson built domestic coalitions. I make melancholy references to the Sequoia in the past tense, as she no longer serves the public in such a splendid manner, but there are hopeful plans and some resources available for her restoration as a museum ship.
It was, unsurprisingly, Jimmy Carter who killed the Sequoia. His Christian humility, which mandated a less ostentatious presidency, did her in. It was not a vile or sinister decision by Carter, but rather a simple mistake. He perhaps overestimated the public’s hunger for grand, but ultimately empty, populist gestures. Voters, with much bigger fish to fry, ended Carter’s presidency after one term.
It was a sad end to a noble vessel. The Congressional Record later reflected, “the Sequoia was the setting for Presidential meetings, negotiations and decisions of extraordinary significance and effect on the history of the United States and the course of world events,” and noted that “many Americans have visited the Sequoia and demonstrated support for her preservation and return to service.”
If anybody can resurrect the Sequoia, it’s Trump. But do we really want to see him morph from Al Czervik to Judge Elihu Smails?
THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Kohler Just Unveiled a Toilet Camera.
Kohler, best known for its plumbing products including toilets and faucets, is entering the photography game with a camera that goes inside a toilet and analyzes photos of people’s stool.
Kohler describes its new Dekoda toilet camera, as reported by CNET, as a “first-of-its-kind health tracker” that analyzes gut health, hydration, and whether there is blood in a person’s stool. Gut health and hydration are generally practical ways to measure a person’s overall health and inform potential lifestyle changes, but blood can signal a much more serious underlying health issue, and people are generally advised to pay close attention to their bowel movements.
Cameras and imaging technology have grown increasingly important in healthcare. Scientists are developing thermal cameras that may become part of routine checkups, companies combine photos and AI to identify a pet’s health problems, and patients have been swallowing pill-sized cameras to help doctors diagnose internal maladies for years. Rather than look inside someone’s digestive system, though, Kohler’s new camera looks at the output.
Turning Japanese? I really think so: Futuristic Japanese Toilets A Glimpse into the Future of Hygiene.
JIM GERAGHTY: Trump Leaves His Mark on the White House, Literally.
On the menu today: You know that a whole bunch of mainstream media institutions were just itching to offer some version of . . .
Page A1: Donald Trump Destroys White House (Continued on page A6)
Page A6: Wall as Part of Ballroom Construction Project
The demolition to prepare for the new ballroom facility on the White House grounds is underway, and a lot of people in Washington aren’t happy about it, and contend President Trump has rushed through the usual review and approval process in order to bring a little of that Mar-a-Lago style to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Read on.
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While the exterior of the White House looks largely unchanged from the first photograph taken of it in 1846, the interior has been completely gutted and rebuilt. I wonder how many Americans are even aware of the large-scale renovations conducted during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Historian Michael Beschloss wrote:
Except for the four exterior walls, today’s presidential residence is almost entirely a 1952 imitation of the original.
In 1947, the White House was in danger of internal physical collapse. One day, while President Harry S. Truman took a bath upstairs, a great Blue Room chandelier threatened to crash down on his wife, Bess, and her guests from the Daughters of the American Revolution. The president later joked that he might have unexpectedly dropped through the ceiling naked on the ladies below, and he confessed that the incident made him nervous.
The upstairs floor, he noted, “sagged and moved like a ship at sea.”
Upon investigating the situation, Truman was told that hasty renovations, demanded by various impatient presidents in the past, had led to the weakening or removal of load-bearing walls and other supporting structures. Beams were “staying up from force of habit only,” he was informed, and the mansion had become a firetrap. Truman later wrote that with so many thousands of visitors and presidential guests, “My heart trembles when I think of the disasters we might have had.”
The following year, his daughter Margaret’s piano broke through the floor of the family quarters. In August, Truman recorded in his diary that with his wife away, he had been “moved into the Lincoln Room — for safety — imagine that!” He wrote to his sister that the White House was “about to fall in.” That November, after the president won a full term over Thomas E. Dewey, the first family was whisked across Pennsylvania Avenue to reside in the presidential guest quarters called Blair House.
When I read about pianos crashing through the floor of the White House, I wonder how any teacher can make history sound boring.
Respectful previous occupants of the White House thoughtfully weigh in on Trump’s modifications:
Yes, between selling nights in the Lincoln bedroom to donors and her husband’s tutelage of the interns in the Oval Office, if anyone treated the WH as sacred it was the Clintons. https://t.co/h3vcDISVv0
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 21, 2025
Imagine if Trump installed a swimming pool there in 2025:
I mentioned that FDR built a swimming pool in the White House basement and imagine if Trump had done that, and THIS brilliant post popped out as a result. https://t.co/e9BaXcCasp
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 21, 2025
EVE BARLOW: Death Star of David.
I didn’t know this person in the video to follow was an actor. I judged her solely on all the other tells; her designer keffiyeh (looks silk?), her refined Irish accent, her jewels and fancy watch, the self-importance it took her to appear on a podcast and start preaching about something she admits she doesn’t even understand. All these things tell me she belongs to the community of the righteous aka the reality-divorced gentrified city-dwellers who have never held down proper jobs and glean all of their purpose from performing intellect. You’ll love this:
Seth Mandel quips, “One can only imagine [Denise] Gough trying to describe the concept of an Achilles’ heel.”
More from Barlow:
So this is Denise Gough. She’s an actor, who IMdb tells me stars in a Star Wars spin-off series named Andor. Therefore it’s concerning that my understanding of the Death Star is better than hers. As the preamble goes: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… “Free Palestine” is the QAnon of the Left, and everyone who supports it is doing some version of this word gumbo. It all points in the same direction. There’s a utopia but it only exists once the Jews are blasted into space. Notice the way she says “Palestine”, with marvel in her voice. Palestine signifies so much to her, bless her. Nothing to do with actual Palestinians, no. Talk about colonial mindsets. No, to Denise, Palestine is heaven, Palestine is the answer. Wait actually, Palestine is destiny.
It’s funny this holistic view of Palestine, because it’s accurate, from the point of view that it does not exist. Palestine is as fictional as Darth Vader himself, and people who are struggling with reality often turn to make-believe to cope with it. For these Western luvvies, Palestine is therapy. It’s their crutch to deal with the ensuing societal breakdown happening left, right and center. “Oh if only we could free Palestine!” they scream. These dolts think they hate religion but what they preach is deeply Messianic.
Exit quote: “Perhaps some of you may know that the word Islam translates in English to ‘surrender’ or ‘submission’. The word ‘Islamophobia’ is a device that appears to police prejudice but is — in fact — suppressing criticism of this extremism. It is not the same as – say – describing an act of racism against Muslims, ie, an intentional attack on a mosque. Christopher Hitchens warned us in 2009. He warned us not to surrender, and he also predicted that it would be the Christian and Jewish leaders who would fall foul and ‘hold open the gates’. Since the Manchester Jihad attack, the UK Board of Deputies have invited an Imam to their interfaith plenary. The fools should watch this:”
SCHLONGED: Alabama police arrest woman wearing phallic costume during ‘No Kings’ protest.
Those in or passing through Fairhope on Saturday may have witnessed a bizarre sight: a person dressed in a giant inflatable phallic costume being apprehended by local authorities.
In a video that spread on social media over the weekend, three officers from the Fairhope Police Department arrested and restrained a person attending a No Kings protest dressed in a costume shaped like male anatomy as others in attendance recorded the incident on their phones.
The person arrested was identified as Jeana Renea Gamble, a 61-year-old Fairhope resident, according to Lt. Shane Nolte with the police department. Other outlets have also reported her name as Reana Gamble Fletcher. On the social media app Threads, a user identifying herself as Gamble criticized local officials and their conduct. She previously posted a picture of her wearing the costume and carrying a sign that read “No Dick-tator.”
No Kings protests, also known internationally as No Dictators or No Tyrants protests, is a series of demonstrations, largely in the United States, against what the organizers describe as authoritarian policies of President Donald Trump and corruption in his administration.
Following the incident, Gamble said officers initially told her she was being arrested for “lewd and lascivious behavior.” A statement released by the Fairhope Police Department on Monday said she has been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors.
Why can’t she just wear a pussyhat, like normal well-adjusted middle-aged leftist women?
JOE CONCHA: No Kings is the Seinfeld of protests: A show about nothing.
The party has learned nothing after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, instead opting to continue the fascist/Nazi rhetoric, which has resulted in some protesters openly cheering Kirk’s death and even mocking it.
“Charlie Kirk is a piece of garbage,” one female protester told the Daily Signal in Washington on Saturday. “Hitler is dead. I’m glad Hitler’s dead. Evil people have no place in my world. He was a hateful human being. It was disgusting the things he said and did.”
And what was disgusting was that a Chicago elementary school teacher, Lucy Martinez, simulated Kirk getting shot in the neck in a video that has now been viewed millions of times.
“Let’s go to when [Trump] shoots himself in the bunker,” read another No Kings sign in reference to Hitler taking his own life as Allied troops were closing in on his bunker in Berlin at the end of World War II. “You gotta grab a gun, we gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out. The same machinery that’s on full display right there has to get wiped out,” shouted an unidentified speaker at a No Kings rally in Chicago.
And in Portland, one woman shared that she hoped to see “the obituary that we’re all waiting for tomorrow,” and confirmed to a reporter she was speaking about Trump.
So what were these protests really about? What was the goal? That’s about as clear as mud, because the whole theme of No Kings, as if we live in a country ruled by one, makes zero sense.
Trump was duly elected. In the Electoral College, it wasn’t even close over Kamala Harris (312-226). He won the popular vote as well. He can’t run for a third term. And if Trump were actually a king, protests would not be permitted.
We’re hearing that these protests will hurt Trump, but his numbers keep going up during a government shutdown that Democrats are responsible for. The RealClearPolitics average of polls has him at 45.4% approval, which is higher than Obama’s at this stage of his second term (43.7%) and George W. Bush’s (39.7%). Compare that with the Democratic Party, which stands at just 34.7% approval.
Popular podcaster host Joe Rogan, a former supporter of Bernie Sanders, summed up the makeup of the people who attended No Kings protests.
“All those people that are protesting on the streets, 99% of them are losers,” Rogan said. “The other ones work for the Fed. It’s FBI agents and losers, it’s all it is. The whole f***ing protest is FBI agents and losers.”
As Savanah Hernandez told Fox News’ Jessie Watters, “there were two different factions of protesters. We had the one faction who had no idea why they were there, no idea why they were protesting. They were simply programmed by CNN or whatever liberal mainstream media they’d been listening to, and they were there. You had the other faction of protesters who were there to call for political violence against their opposition.”
On the plus side, regarding the former group, a lot of elderly boomers got plenty of fresh air, sunshine, and aerobic dancing over the weekend. As Scott Jennings reminds his fellow CNN panelists, “you guys spend your time however you want. It’s a free country. Not a monarchy.”
Finney: Are you saying the people protesting at No Kings were wasting their time??@ScottJenningsKY: I don’t really care whether they do it or not. Listen, you guys spend your time however you want. It’s a free country. Not a monarchy.
Oof. 😂 pic.twitter.com/rTtIPOT19o
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 21, 2025
ONE YEAR AFTER TRUMP WORKED THE FRYER AT MCDONALD’S, THERE’S STILL NO EVIDENCE KAMALA EVER DID:
On Oct. 20, 2024, Donald Trump performed one of the finest acts of campaign trolling in the history of American politics by working the fryer and serving meals at a McDonald’s franchise in eastern Pennsylvania. “Now I have worked at McDonald’s,” he told reporters while wearing an employee apron and leaning out the drive-thru window. “I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala, she never worked here.”
Trump’s ingenious gambit had the intended effect by highlighting the lack of evidence for Kamala Harris’s dubious claim that she “did fries and … the cashier” at a McDonald’s in California during the summer of 1983. It all started in August 2024, when the Washington Free Beacon published a bombshell report on the weird circumstances surrounding Harris’s alleged employment. To this day, there is still no credible evidence to suggest that Harris actually worked at McDonald’s—a detail she revealed for the first time while running for president in 2019.
It was a riot following this story last year, as no one in the DNC-MSM would admit that it began at a conservative Website (the Washington Free Beacon) before Trump’s appearance at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s forced it into becoming a universally seen story. Of course, unlike the Harris campaign, we do know conclusively that Trump really was employed by McDonald’s in his youth:
REAL AMERICA’S VOICE AND THE REAL COST OF FREE SPEECH:
Robert Sigg is a quiet man with a big voice.
His company, Real America’s Voice (RAV), is the platform for “The Charlie Kirk Show” and other populist voices leading the “dare not ignore” charts. I was introduced to Robert after a mutual friend shared a column I wrote for RealClearPolitics, “Prove Charlie Right.”
When we spoke, his son Parker – his right-hand man and a rising star in the industry who effectively manages all of RAV’s programming – was by his side. Parker is just four years younger than Charlie Kirk. He was working in the family business at 15 years of age, chasing hurricanes for another Sigg property, WeatherNation – a politics-free outlet. As Sigg described it, “a take-an-umbrella or wear-sunscreen business.”
I wanted to talk to Robert Sigg about the behind-the-scenes war against his business, a campaign that includes a pernicious form of censorship through shadow advertising bans and Big Tech algorithm manipulation that leads to traffic starvation. At RealClearPolitics, we’ve faced some of the same subversive tactics.
RAV seeks to bring a unique voice to the marketplace of ideas. It’s one of the sources RealClearMedia’s properties draws from when presenting our across-the-spectrum report each day. Charlie Kirk, in fact, was published on RealClearPolitics the day of his assassination.
My firsthand experience is that RAV’s approach is not welcomed by those who control access to advertising and traffic. RealClear’s advertising score, in turn, gets dinged for aggregating RAV content – irrespective of the fact that we usually pair its offerings with liberal counter-programming.
As Glenn noted a couple of years ago, “Some People Don’t Like the New Ads. Sorry, the problem is that InstaPundit has been demonetized by Google, for unspecified ‘dangerous’ content. Between the overall trend of ad revenue decline — which hits everyone — and the trend of cutting advertising to right-leaning sites, and now this, ad revenue is down about 90% from its high, I’d estimate, and it may get worse.”
DAN GAINOR: The England we love is lost. If we don’t change, America will be, too.
I went to England on a history vacation. It turned into an archaeological expedition, uncovering the bones of a once-great civilization.
All the tourist sites are still there. You can still see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, recall the “V” for victory in the Churchill War Rooms or be inspired to pray at Westminster Abbey. But those are mere historical artifacts, like the pyramids of Egypt or the Acropolis in Greece. The ideals and most of the people who believe in them are long gone.
I was in London less than 24 hours before a terror attack killed two people in a Manchester synagogue. Police also killed the terrorist, a Syrian-born, 35-year-old immigrant named Jihad Al-Shamie, who they said had pledged himself to ISIS. Two innocent Jewish people are dead and a walking, talking metaphor was the cause. Jewish citizens admitted the assault was shocking but not surprising, given the rise of antisemitism in England.
As Mark Steyn warned 20 years ago: It’s the Demography, Stupid. “Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries. There’ll probably still be a geographical area on the map marked as Italy or the Netherlands–probably–just as in Istanbul there’s still a building called St. Sophia’s Cathedral. But it’s not a cathedral; it’s merely a designation for a piece of real estate. Likewise, Italy and the Netherlands will merely be designations for real estate. The challenge for those who reckon Western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the West.”
PARTY OF YOUTH UPDATE: Old, White Boomers Like George Conway Dance and Sing at “No Kings” Protests, with Megyn Kelly and Emily Jashinsky (Video).
BARI WEISS BEGINNING TO HAVE AN IMPACT? Ouch: KJP Gets Slammed by CBS Hosts for Defending Biden, Claiming to Be an Independent.
Even co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King participated, saying she also thought, based on the title, Jean-Pierre would be unsparing in her criticisms of the administration, Instead, King noted, Jean-Pierre wrote a book claiming she never saw anything — even leading up to the fateful June 27, 2024 debate — that gave her pause about Biden’s abilities:
[P]eople said, why didn’t members of his inner circle speak up about what many believe was the apparent decline of — of Joe Biden and you said you’re a member of the inner circle and you never saw the decline. After that I wrote, how? You even write, Karine, you were on the plane with him going to the debate and you didn’t see anything. It is so hard to understand.
Jean-Pierre tried to have it both ways, claiming she “didn’t see him until after the debate even though I was on” Air Force One.
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[Tony] Dokoupil cut in with this biting follow-up that blew holes in her fake move to become independent (which, if she lives in Virginia, doesn’t exist as there isn’t party registration): “Will you create a new party? Is that what you’re angling for?”
Jean-Pierre declared she’s not calling for a third party because “the history of third-party candidates in presidential” has never worked and she’s still “aligned with the values of the Democratic Party.”
Related: “Jean-Pierre revealed that she was leaving the Democratic Party in June while announcing her book. Before her high-profile White House role, she worked on multiple Democratic presidential campaigns and was an MSNBC political analyst,” and as her response to Dokoupil’s query illustrates, her talk of going “independent” was all a load of malarkey, to borrow one of her nominal former employer’s favorite words.
STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:
BREAKING: Atlanta’s “No Kings” Protest Was 90% White — Despite City’s 47% Black Population. 👇🏽
Even locals are calling it out — real Atlantans have jobs, families, and priorities, not time for another elite Saturday stunt. pic.twitter.com/mn0JwHgnbA
— Kristin Sokoloff (@ksoklower48) October 19, 2025
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Millions Gather To Express Total Ignorance About Political System https://t.co/KEXHiOSTel pic.twitter.com/mM951THRAZ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 18, 2025
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MATT TAIBBI: FEMA Workers Improperly Collected Data About Politics of Disaster Victims.
Last November 8th, on the Saturday after Election Day, one of the more bizarre post-scripts to Donald Trump’s re-election emerged in the form of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) decision to sideline one official accused of telling FEMA workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump” while canvassing for victims of Hurricane Milton in Florida. The Daily Wire spoke to multiple FEMA officials who produced screenshots of entries like “Trump sign, no contact per leadership”:
The most painful confirmation, however, came from then-FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, who testified after the election that the episode was an “isolated incident,” as well as “unacceptable” and “heartbreaking,” suggesting the problem was limited to one eventually-terminated Disaster Survivor Assistance crew leader named Marn’i Washington, adding: “I do not believe that this employee’s actions are indicative of any widespread cultural problems at FEMA.”
Washington didn’t take the CYA maneuver lying down. She made a series of aggressive media appearances, saying repeatedly “my orders come from my superior” from above when instructing subordinates to avoid homes that made some FEMA workers “uncomfortable” by featuring Trump paraphernalia:
Read the whole thing.
Flashback to last November: Florida Trump Supporters Wearing Their Skirts Too High.
US AND THEM: David Gilmour says there is “no possible way” he would work with Roger Waters again.
The two creative forces behind the legendary rock band [Pink Floyd] have been publicly feuding for much of the time since Waters’ departure in 1985, with the dispute becoming political in recent years. Last year, Gilmour stated that he would rather “steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin and Maduro” than reunite with Waters.
It appears that he has not softened his stance over the past 12 months. In a new interview with The Telegraph, he was asked what it would take for him to join forces with Waters again. “Nothing,” he replied. “There is no possible way that I would do that.”
Going into further detail in the 2024 interview, Gilmour explained: “Nothing would make me share a stage with someone who thinks such treatment of women and the LGBT community is OK. On the other hand, I’d love to be back on stage with [Pink Floyd keyboardist] Rick Wright, who was one of the gentlest and most musically gifted people I’ve ever known.”
Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson has also been vocally outspoken against Waters’ politics, accusing him in 2023 of being “anti-Semitic to [his] rotten core” and “a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac”. Gilmour re-shared Samson’s post, adding that “every word [is] demonstrably true”.
Pink Floyd co-founder and former frontman Roger Waters has been accused of sending an antisemitic email to his staffers proposing to write “Dirty k–e” on the inflatable pig habitually floated above his gigs.
London-based organization Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has released disturbing emails and interviews in a documentary titled “The Dark Side of Roger Waters,” which uncovers a series of allegations of antisemitic behavior against the rocker.
In one email, the “Comfortably Numb” musician, 80, allegedly suggested “bombing” audiences with confetti in the shape of swastikas, Stars of David, and dollar signs.
“Hey Guys, Who’s going to make pig? Would it work to go out on the stuka truss? I imagine it black with crossed hammers logo as 1980, but covered with symbols from Good by blue sky,’crosses, stars of david( that’s king david not david gilmour) crescent and star, dollar signs, shell oil shell, etc and epithets,’my pig right or wrong’ ‘f–k you’ ‘no,f–k you’ ‘dirty k–e’ ‘follow the money’ ‘Scum?’ etc. Roger,” one alleged email, dated March 25, 2010, read.
Odd how these reports just keep happening:
“Dirty kyke”
“Jew food”
“Fucking Jew”Is Roger Waters antisemitic?
Watch The Dark Side of Roger Waters now and decide for yourself.
Then add your voice at https://t.co/7F6c6M3nk1. pic.twitter.com/eh9n15DLsn
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) September 27, 2023
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: The ‘No Kings’ protests, like the tea party of 2009, are a warning to Trump.
—MSNBC, today.
Chaser: Rachel Maddow Shows Video of Man Being Teabagged in Gay Bar.
Rachel Maddow on Friday played a video of a man in underwear banging his genitals against another man’s forehead in a gay bar.
This was done to explain to her MSNBC audience the derivation of the term “teabagger,” the sexually-charged double entendre that sadly became popular this spring and summer as Tea Parties swept the nation.
According to Maddow, “This is where “teabag” comes from. This is a clip from a 1998 film by John Waters that`s called ‘Pecker.'”
As the dancer in the fictional gay bar squats to bang his genitals against a customer’s forehead, the emcee played by Martha Plimpton says, “Hey, Larry, no teabagging. You know the rules. No balls on foreheads.”
—NewsBusters, December 5th, 2009.
A WAKE TO REMEMBER: MSNBC Bids Farewell to Its Dying Audience.
The Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan hums with the sound of walkers, canes, and Medicare-approved stability sneakers shuffling on the brocade carpet. Several busloads worth of gray-haired radicals are milling about the historic auditorium. Some have shelled out thousands of dollars to be here for a chance to see their favorite MSNBC personalities denounce Donald Trump in person. Liquor drinks are extra. The exorbitantly priced bar opens at 10:30 a.m. We’re going to need it.
“MSNBC Live ’25: This Is Who We Are” is the failing left-wing network’s second live offering in as many years. Last year’s event was largely focused on how to stop Trump from winning the election and canceling democracy. This year’s summit is even more existential, if you can believe it. Two weeks after Trump’s decisive victory in 2024, MSNBC parent company Comcast announced it was cutting ties with the network. It will soon be required to ditch its NBC affiliation and rebrand as MS NOW (My Source for News, Opinion, and the World). The name change becomes official next month, but they’ve kept the old one so as not to confuse their elderly fans.
Other aspects of the event planning—spearheaded by Luke Russert, the boy-faced nepo baby—were less accommodating to a demographic that hates inconvenience and loves to complain. More than a few mobility-challenged attendees griped about having to walk down a flight of stairs to use the bathroom. Ushers were overheard discussing how to minimize injuries.
Both TV Insider and Cord Cutters News say that MS NOW name change will occur on November 14th. Left-leaning Hollywood bible Variety collates a surprising amount of snark about the name change: MSNBC Rebrand to ‘MS NOW’ Draws Derision, Confusion.
Social media users also immediately noticed the new name’s unfortunate association with the disease multiple sclerosis. “Sounds like a medical issue,” one user on X said about MS NOW. On Monday, “multiple sclerosis” was the No. 4 trending topic on X in the U.S.
In addition, some people read the “MS NOW” name as “Ms. Now.” And that continues “the problem they’ve faced since inception (that the ‘MS’ was an indicator that this was a network designed for women viewers ),” former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann wrote in an email — an issue that “has now been doubled (‘NOW? Like the National Organization For Women?’).” Olbermann, who left MSNBC in 2011, claimed he told the network to change its name “when I got there in 1997… I’m glad to see that my interoffice mail envelope finally got to the 52nd floor of 30 Rock.”
Others inevitably compared the MSNBC-MS NOW renaming to Warner Bros. Discovery’s switch from HBO Max to Max and then back to HBO Max. “After MS Now will be MS Go, and then MS Max, and then just MS,” quipped Washington Post media reporter Scott Nover.
The popular LizaMinnelliOutlives account on X duly noted that Minnelli, 79, has outlived the MSNBC name.
Meanwhile, it isn’t clear what MS NOW’s web destination will be at this point. The current website at “msnow.com” includes the text “Motorized Snow vehicles (SnowMobile)” and says in Korean: “A snowmobile is a vehicle that travels on snow. Equipped with skis and tracked wheels, it is used for winter recreation and transportation. Also known as a motor sled or snow machine. In Korea, it is used for maintenance, rescue operations, and cargo transport at ski resorts and other locations.”
If you type “ms-now.com” into your browser, you are redirected to meal-delivery service Marley Spoon, which is affiliated with Martha Stewart.
It was quite a weekend for MSNBC. Are they trying to get all the craziness out of their systems as the iceberg hoves into view?
● MSNBC Compares ‘No Kings’ Critics To Nazis.
● Robert De Niro slams Stephen Miller — who is Jewish — as a ‘Nazi’ in MSNBC rant.
● Enraging Bull: Actor Robert DeNiro Says Rural Americans Need the ‘Truth’ from MSNBC and Legacy Media.
● Actor Robert De Niro drops f-bomb on MSNBC’s ‘The Weekend.’
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
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