Flotsam and Jetsam - All Hallows' Eve

Sundance hosts President Trump Meets with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping – Livestream Links and Secretary Scott Bessent Provides Background on Trump/Xi Discussions and Agreement. Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN reports Trump says China to buy US farm products, export rare earth minerals in exchange for tariff cuts "President Trump also announced a potential deal with China to purchase U.S. energy" and help with fentanyl. From LifeZette, Trump Hammers Out Major Deal With Xi to Slash Tariffs, Boost U.S. Exports. But the Free Bacon claims A Potent Replacement for Fentanyl Is Emerging in the U.S. and Experts Say China Is Behind It. "'China is the number one source, not even a close second,' former DEA agent tells Free Beacon." I'll bet Xi's position is that it's not covered.

From Breitbart, Trump Administration Overhauls Biden’s DEI Broadband Program that Connected Zero Households in 4 Years. Just give them Star Link. Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks It's Bizarre, but Democrats Are Arguing That Trump Is Senile. If that is senile, I hope to be so senile. 

From News Wax news that CBO: Shutdown to Shave Up to $14B From US Economy, fortunately mostly in areas that need a razor taken to them, WashPost: Dems Holding Govt 'Hostage;' End Shutdown Now and Trump Renews Call to Replace 'Obamacare,' End Shutdown. Military.com hears Vice President Vance Says Troops Will Be Paid as Pressure Builds on Congress to End the Shutdown. Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland, "Senate Minority Leader AOC has told Schumer to create a fake problem to solve to end the shut down. He's gonna have Senate Dems vote for the CR as the only way to restore SNAP. It's all a fake sideshow." Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal has A Modest Proposal for SNAP Amid the Schumer Shutdown and Jacob Adams says ‘Shame on the Senate Democrats’: Florida Congressman Slams Democrats for Shutdown and Refusal to Pay Troops. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "He’s losing. He was always going to lose." Quote David M. McIntosh @DavidMMcintosh, "Chuck Schumer is melting down. Democrats have absolutely lost the plot on the shutdown. The only thing they can do now is reopen the government with a clean CR." Hat Hair's Duane Patterson thinks Democrats Setting Themselves Up to Cave Twice in Two Weeks on the Same C.R. due to the timing problem we've already identified. By now, most of the CR the House passed will have elapsed. Sen. Lankford to Newsmax: Moderate Dems May Vote With GOP on Shutdown. PJM's Matt Margolis sees Scalise Just Ended Schumer’s Shutdown Spin With a Brutal Reality Check and thinks Jasmine Crockett Accidentally Proved Republicans Are Right on the Shutdown. "“You don’t have 60 in the Senate. That means you have to talk to the other side.” Cute. Except here’s the part she conveniently left out: The current government shutdown, which began on Oct. 1, is the first in American history triggered by the refusal to pass a clean continuing resolution." Amy Curtis at TownHall hears Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers Blames Trump for SNAP Shutdown While Sitting on $370 Million. Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog, "Well, congratulations then. EBT feeds Doritos to fat people AND funds private jets also. Billions of dollars are funneled to Walmart, junk food companies, and Coca Cola through food stamps. You’re getting ripped off by the poor and the rich at the same time. What a great program!" Quote WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor Replying to @MattWalshBlog "I’d rather my tax dollars feed families Doritos than fund private jets." From Twitchy, Kamala Harris Loses It Ranting About Trump's Ballroom and Starving Babies. Catturd ™ @catturd2, "Two more days until the Democrat Party starts starving little children because they want to give illegals free healthcare." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Democrats Vow To Starve As Many Food Stamp Recipients As It Takes To Get Free Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants https://buff.ly/6ZGT5F8."

From Sundance, Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at TPUSA Conference and Answers Questions – Full Video and Transcript. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Please don’t miss this… Tonight was just remarkable. When have you ever seen a sitting Vice President take hostile questions for a straight hour from the American people? No vetting, no screening. JD Vance took the fire tonight — and crushed it. Proving he’s 48 every day." Jen O'Connell at RedState has the clip, JD Vance Hits It Out the Park When Confronted by Student on His 'Inter-Cultural' Marriage, Immigration.

Cheryl Hines

At PBS, WATCH: Health Secretary RFK Jr. announces new FDA move to fast-track biosimilar drug approvals. Althouse finds "There’s just mutual headshaking. It’s like you lock eyes and you shake heads and you move on"/"It’s a sense of betrayal, like, who are you? Were you always like this? I don’t know you anymore!" "Said unnamed acquaintances of Cheryl Hines, quoted in "Cheryl Hines’s MAGA Makeover Has Her Hollywood Colleagues Scratching Their Heads: 'I Don’t Know You Anymore!'/'It’s a sense of betrayal, like, who are you?' says one industry insider, of the Curb Your Enthusiasm star and wife of RFK" (Vanity Fair)" and "Bobby’s doing the eulogy and in the middle of it, his older brother—of which he only has one, Joe Kennedy, former congressman from Massachusetts—starts cursing him and throwing a scene." ""In his mother’s funeral. This happened?! You were there? You witnessed it.... Talk about the physiological response in your body when this was happening." Billy Bush was pressing Cheryl Hines about something she wrote about in her forthcoming book "Unscripted" (commission earned)."

At Da Signal, Hegseth on Fentanyl, Narco-Terrorists, and America’s Response: ‘It’s Self-Defense.’

Matt Margolis says Wait, There Are Still Democrats Who Claim That Biden Wasn’t Cognitively Impaired? Ace, Key Biden Advisor Ian Sams Previously Claimed that Biden Was Sharp as a Tack. Only Now Does He Admit: I Only Met With Biden Twice In the Two Years I Worked For Him. "Via Twitchy, he previously swore to the American people that Biden was, as they say, sharp as a tack." From Da Blaze, Reporter humiliates Kamala Harris over Biden health cover-up: 'That is a world-class pivot'. See the video, Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC "NEW: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Sarah Ferguson *REPEATEDLY* CALLS OUT Kamala Harris for ducking question on Biden's decline FERGUSON: "Wasn't his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?" HARRIS: *Rambles about TRUMP* FERGUSON: "I want to interrupt you — because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you."" Anxious anxiously Biden "didn't want" 2024 debate, Harris says, Jay Caruso @JayCaruso "This 14 second video had so many cuts its almost like a claymation film." Quote Joe Biden @JoeBiden May 15, 2024, "Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again." At Da Caller, ‘Shut The F*ck Up’: James Carville Tears Into Hunter Biden, Says ‘He Was Guilty Of Some Sh*t’, no sh*t! Jim Geraghty at NRO looks at The Left’s Disingenuous Pile-On of Karine Jean-Pierre. It's like making fun of the retarded. It's fun for a minute, but then you feel bad. 

Stacy McCain, Who Democrats Are, What Democrats Do It is no surprise, then, that we see Democrats on the verge of electing Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City. Mamdani, whose anti-police rhetoric was widely known, got 56% of the vote in the Democratic mayoral primary, in a city where Kamala Harris last year got 75% of the vote in the presidential election. NYPo reports a Bidding war frenzy and soaring prices hit Connecticut homes as NYC buyers flee amid fears of a Mamdani win and Mamdani’s 9/11 crocodile tears reveal his callow self-regard — and total unfitness for office. From Breitbart, Nolte reports Criminal Referrals Filed Against Zohran Mamdani for Alleged Foreign Contributions. John Kass fears Zohran Mamdani’s New York is Infecting America. Philip Klein @philipaklein "Did @BillKristol ever believe anything he said he did for decades?" Quote, Kendall White @kendallwhite01 "As far as I know, this is the first time @BillKristol has explicitly said he would vote for Mamdani. Somewhat surprising, though I guess it really shouldn’t be." PJM's Athena Thorne asks Why Aren’t We Doing More of This to Zohran Mamdani? and Rick Moran sees The DSA Is Having a Moment and We Should Be Very Afraid.

Carl Campanile and Ryan King at NYPo claim Ciattarelli, Sherrill in dead heat for NJ governor in final days of campaign: poll. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Once Upon a Shoo-In: Jersey Mikie Has an Old Fashioned Fight on Her Hands. Ace, Schmock Schmoll: Ciattarelli Now Virtually Tied With Cheater and Grifter Mikie Sherrill for NJ Governor, "Sherrill 49%, Ciattarelli 48%, 2% undecided. And this is via a public poll, and those tend to skew Democrat by three or more points." It still means it's not outside the margin of fraud. At the Pop Times, Jack Ciattarelli Gets Green Light to Sue Mikie Sherrill Over Opioid Crisis Remarks. Dave Strom worries Could There Be a November Surprise?

End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Omar Fateh waves foreign flag, speaks a foreign language, pledges his loyalty to Somalia, tells Somalians to elect him This is a rally in Minneapolis." David French @DavidAFrench, "Ten years ago, many of us started warning about the rise of the alt-right, and we were told to shut up and focus on the left. Well now anti-Semitism, racism, and conspiracies are exploding all over the right (especially with young Republicans), with some of the biggest voicesShow more." Brother Seamus@WaynePelota, "The Democrats are about to nominate a guy for Senate with a literal SS tattoo, but do go on about a minority population of very online dumbasses on the right. It’s what the audience you’ve created expects." VodkaPundit at Insty, THE DEMOCRATS ARE ALMOST BEYOND PARODY: "But only almost." At PJM VIP he writes his Thursday Essay: What in the Actual Hell Is Wrong With the Democrats? Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Jon Karl say to Newsom: You Know Your Friends Think You Have An 'American Psycho' Vibe, Right?

Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher, "Biden admin used the apparatus of the state to surveil basically all of their political opponents and their organizations. By FAR the biggest scandal in American history. By far." Quote Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber, "The Biden FBI set up a dragnet on American media companies, including Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, OANN, Sinclair, the works. Fucking insane. x.com/C__Herridge/st…" Ace, Revealed: Jack Smith and Christopher Wray Subpoenaed the Donor Lists and Emails of Every Single Conservative Organization on "Biden's Enemies List", "Trump is such a dictator he works backwards through time." At JTN John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavyreport the FBI memo opening Arctic Frost probe into Trump was thin on evidence and justification, experts say. "Biden DOJ investigations into Trump were born in sea of retribution: The picture of the politicized nature of the Arctic Frost investigation into Donald Trump continues take shape, and it's not pretty, " Misty Severi, Trump Media blasts Jack Smith for subpoenaing bank records "Nunes said TMTG was one of the 400 Trump-aligned individuals and organizations that Smith "spied on" in his probes, and that Smith's team issued a "shockingly broad, secret subpoena for our banking records,"" and Jim Jordan threatens to subpoena Jack Smith for deposition, change FISA rules "The comments come after recent documents showed that the Biden administration's FBI opened an investigation into President Donald Trump and hundreds of his allies over their Jan. 6 activities with weak evidence," and Ben Whedon hears Brandon Gill hints at impeachment articles for Judge Boasberg, "Cruz, for his part, pointed to Boasberg's sign-off of an effort to spy on Republican senators." Sundance, Senators Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt Call for the Impeachment of DC Judge James Boasberg. "Now that they personally become a target of Lawfare practices, suddenly the Senate wants to see some actionable accountability. Funny that." Fred Lucas at Da Signal sees 4 Likely Next Steps From Congressional Probe of Jack Smith and ‘Arctic Frost’. Dave Strom notes Pravda Ignores Arctic Frost Story. Sean Davis @seanmdav, "Federal sources confirmed to
@FDRLST that Biden’s DOJ deliberately chose the name “Arctic Frost,” rather than follow the customary procedure of using a randomly generated name from agency computers. Why? Because Arctic Frost is also a type of orange tree cultivar that can withstand cold temperatures. The name itself proves the entire corrupt operation was designed from the beginning to take down the Bad Orange Man and his Florida estate. It turns out that Donald Trump can withstand filthy Beltway blight just as well as he can handle the cold." Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard, "I really, really need the political right to understand how existential Arctic Frost was to our entire movement. I literally don't care who Tucker had on his podcast. Joe Biden's government tried to judicially assault us all out of existence, and was very close to doing it."

Sundance notes the FBI Leadership Stakes a Position in Opposition to Expanded Authority of Director of National Intelligence "It has often been said that a person cannot serve two masters. Throughout years of reviewing the activity of the FBI, one larger picture is clear; the primary mission of the FBI is to protect the interests of Washington, DC – not to protect the interests of truth."

 

Ace woke up and noticed Antifa Terrorists Are Being Arrested and Convicted, "Finally. Andy Ngo reports that an Antifa terrorist, "Anarchy Marie, has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting the sniper who shot an agent at an ICE facility in North Texas." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.30.25, Twitchy, Federally Indicted Democrat Kat Abughazaleh Quits Interview After Clip Of Her Blocking ICE SUV Is Shown, Jeff Charles at TownHall, This Progressive Candidate Thought She Would Stop an ICE Vehicle – Now She's in Deep Trouble "Kat Abughazaleh, a progressive Democrat running for an open House seat in Illinois, faces federal charges after attending a protest at a U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement processing center outside Chicago." News Wax cites DHS: Death Threats Against ICE Officers Soar 8,000% Shipwreckedcrew discusses The Insurrection Act: Officials In Blue States and Cities Are "Running with Scissors" Expecting Nothing Bad Will Happen From Opposing DHS/ICE. "The factual preconditions for invoking the Insurrection Act have already been met -- only President Trump's forbearance in asserting his lawful authority has prevented it from happening."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.30.25, Twitchy, Trump Officials Flee to Military Bases: Left-Wing Threats Force Miller, Rubio, and Noem into Hiding. John Sexton reports an ISU Teaching Assistant was Arrested for Threatening to Kill President Trump. Commentary comments on The Assassination Fan Base "Once horrifying, the targeted murder of prominent people now comes with a built-in subculture and cheering section." NYPo, Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson scores court win after making same request as Luigi Mangione, to wear civilian clothes in court to avoid prejudice. Brianna Lyman at Da Fed sees Nicolle Wallace Is Blatantly Lying About Democrats’ Assassination Prep.

Jeff Charles fears Letitia James Might've Found a Way to Avoid Being Convicted of Mortgage Fraud "The mortgage contract James signed does not prohibit renting out the house, according to POLITICO’s review of the contract and legal and real estate experts. In fact, the key language in the contract expressly allows renting under certain conditions." The AP whines the Justice Department is investigating fraud allegations in Black Lives Matter movement, AP sources say. John Sexton, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is Under Investigation for Fraud.

Shipwreckedcrew laughs at "They Are Deporting Me Too Fast, Please Make Them Stop" Says Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia Protest Leader to District Court. "The Anti-Israel Columbia Protest Leader -- In His 30s -- With A Removal Order based on lying on his visa application tells a judge without jurisdiction that he should make the Government slow down." Fox News, ICE says suspect accused of killing teen in second drunk driving incident was in US illegally "Franklin Oriel Fajardo-Arana has an active warrant 'for a separate DUI offense,' ICE says". At OTP, Pritzker Asks Federal Officials To Pause Immigration Operations On Halloween. But News Wax reports Noem Denies Pritzker: ICE Will Be Out on Halloween. Trick or treat!

OTP reports an Ousted CBS Reporter Threatens Suit After Contentious Huckabee Interview. Before the Bari Weiss takeover. At Da Mail, Gayle King expected to depart CBS News in bombshell move amid Bari Weiss takeover. From the Wrap, ‘The View’ Sets Marjorie Taylor Greene as Guest After Co-Hosts Call for More Republicans on the Show "The Republican congresswoman will visit the ABC talk show on Tuesday." I'm pretty sure they won't walk all over her, although she was clearly chosen because of stances she's taken against Trump. From NYPo, CNN’s Jake Tapper says Gen Z will be ‘a lot more conservative’ after schools forced lefty politics ‘down their throats.’ Rebellion is a thing. 

From Da Wire, Loudoun County Schools Manipulated, Deleted Evidence In Transgender Locker Room Filming Case: Lawsuit "The school is punishing boys who questioned why there was a girl filming them in a locker room." At Insty, Driscoll wonders rhetorically Why is Glamour honoring men as its Women of the Year? J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling, "I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier. Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are."

More links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.30.25, but it's time to get ready for trick or treat.