Flotsam and Jetsam - Hamas Down But Not Out

Yep, still talking about the truce in Gaza. Austin Bay credits Trump's Power Success, Obama-Biden's Wages of Weakness. Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller, Former Obama Official Ben Rhodes Can’t Bring Himself To Give Trump Credit For Israel-Hamas Deal. Satire from the Free Bacon, Biden says I'm Just That F—ing Good: Gaza Peace Plan Was the Opening Act of My Bold Second-Term Agenda. "And by the way, Kamala had nothing to do with it. She's a moron who could never be president." At WokeSpy, Gavin Newsom Blasted for Mocking Hostage Release in Deleted X Post. He does at least mimic shame? John Sexton at Hat Hair hears Mamdami Won't Credit Trump for Ceasefire and Won't Say Hamas Should Give Up Weapons. Matt Van Swol @matt_vanswol, "So he wants to ban all guns from Americans, but doesn't want to ban guns from Hamas? Make that make sense." Scott Pinsker at PJM, The New Politics of Peace: From Zohran Mamdani to the Schumer Shutdown, Welcome to the Revolution! From NYPo, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell roasted for crediting Biden for Gaza peace deal. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Democrats Warn We Are Now Further Away From World War 3 Than Ever Before."

Driscoll at Insty, SCENES FROM A STARVING POST-GENOCIDE HELLSCAPE: Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "BREAKING: Palestinians are posting videos titled “1st day in Gaza without war.” Bustling malls, fully supermarkets, and the brand new iPhone 17 for sale. You have been manipulated for over two years." Truth is always the first casualty in war. PJM's Stephen Kruiser, Now the Big Question — Will Hamas Beg to Be Finished Off? From Da Wire, IDF: Hamas Undermines Ceasefire Deal After Handing Over Wrong Body, "The bodies of three other hostages were recovered, but the fourth "does not match any of the hostages."" They had so many to chose from. At Hat Hair Capt. Ed hears Trump to Rampaging Hamas: Disarm, or We'll Disarm You and CENTCOM Enters The Chat With Warning to Hamas; Trump Escalates. VodkaPundit at Insty, SPOILER: HAMAS WILL DO NONE OF THESE THINGS.

At Hat Hair, a Larry video Dems Overplay Their Hand: Johnson Digs in, Torches Schumer's Shutdown Dream and Capt. Ed cites Axios: Dems Quailing in Trump Fight Over Schumer Shutdown and CNN's Enten to Schumer Shutdown Dems: Not So Fast on Your Midterm Hopes ... and Dave Strom hears Chuck Schumer Calls for Violent Insurrection.  PJM's Charlie Martin The Democrats Are Running Out of Feet to shoot. LifeZette, Democrats Again Vote to Keep Government Closed as They Blame GOP for Government Being Closed. OTP, Dem Lawmakers Storm Speaker Johnson’s Office, Berate Capitol Officer, And Tamper With Signs. Ace, Haxios: Democrats Are Afraid to Sue Trump Over His Shutdown Manuevers, "Trump and Scott Bessent are prioritizing paying the military and paying welfare payments for single mothers. They are de-priortizing paying bureaucrats. An Axios piece reporting that while Democrats want to force Trump to pay their bureaucrat friends first and foremost, they're too afraid to sue Trump and to make their own priorities clear." Jarvis @jarvis_best, "We don't need all these federal workers. Marco Rubio can do it all himself. He's fine." Ben Whedon at JTN, San Francisco Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during shutdown, "U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued the decision, saying “It’s very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs, and it has a human cost."" The Peacock, Judge blocks Trump from firing federal workers during government shutdown for now.

At News Wax, Trump: Six 'Narco-Terrorists' Killed in US Strike off Venezuela Sarah Anderson at PJM sees U.S. Bombers Appear to Send Maduro a Message — With Some NSFW Sky Doodles. VodkaPundit at PJM, You Realize, of Course, This Means War (With Trump). Sundance at CTH, New York Times Reports on Presidential Finding Memo Authorizing CIA Activity in Venezuela. Leakers gonna leak. At ET, Trump Threatens Tariffs Against Spain Over NATO Defense Spending Shortfall, "The U.S. president had suggested that Spain could be thrown out of NATO after opting out of the 5 percent gross domestic product defense spending target."

At Da Blaze, The ruling class doesn’t hate Trump’s style — it hates his success. Dave Strom examines The Absurdity of #NOKINGS. Townhall.com @townhallcom, "LMAO — @POTUS has the press cackling. "I would like to go to the beach, like Biden...My legs are not quite as thin as his. My body is a little bit larger than his. I’m not sure it would be appreciated on the beach...Somebody told [Biden], he looked good in a bathing suit.""

Althouse, Only? "I'm reading this NYT column by Jessica Grose: "Kennedy’s Comments on Circumcision Are Only Going to Confuse and Shame Parents."  The headline makes it sound as though human beings cannot be trusted with information. We'll only get confused or descend into shame."

At RedState, Democrats' Odds of Gaining Control of the House Are Sinking Fast, New Numbers Show says Rusty Weiss hopefully. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn, hears the New Jersey Governor's Race About All Tied Up, Jersey Mikie's Panic Attacks Getting Fugly. From OTP, Mamdani Issues Apology To Police Over Racist, Wicked Remarks. Until he gets in office. Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed documents that Spanberger Refuses To Say If Men Should Be Allowed Into Girls’ Locker Rooms — Again. Dave Strom, Forget Jay Jones for a Second; Spanberger Is Really Radical and The Case of the Group Chat... Robert Burns @RobertBurns82, "NC DEMOCRAT Rep. Cecil Brockman who voted against the NC parental rights bill to keep pornography out of schools and inform parents about children who wanted to change their sex, has just been arrested for statutory rape and indecent liberties with a minor. You can’t make this stuff up." Fox News @FoxNews, "Dem governor in hot seat after whistleblower rips disturbing sentencing pattern for illegal child rapists." Ace has Another Surprise: The Grifter Who Traded Defense Stocks While Serving on the House Armed Services Committee and Who Cheated at Annapolis Turns Out to be Taking Money from a Chinese Communist Party Agent, Too, "A perfect Democrat candidate for governor in the corrupt state of New Jersey." At Alpha News, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison caught on camera not clapping for veterans arriving on Honor Flight. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " HOLY CRAP! The Minnesota Director of Elections ADMITTED that illegal aliens can vote if they get a driver's license https://x.com/i/status/1978135823234064752/video/1 STATE REP: Someone could get their driver’s license...they register to vote, it doesn’t match with the Social Security number, so they’re flagged. But they come in as long as they have an ID, which is that driver’s license, and they sign that they are eligible to vote, they can vote, and they’re then no longer flagged! DIRECTOR: There are reports generated post-election for voters challenged that counties can run after they've cast a ballot...STATE REP: So the answer is YES."

The Horn News, Kamala Harris freaks out over devastating nickname. HOT SPOT@HotSpotHotSpot, "Kamala Harris becomes visibly shaken and furious after being called a “right-wing war criminal” We're used to it.

At Da Fed, Hans Mahncke thinks The Latest FBI Spying Makes Watergate Look Trivial. News Wax has a Report: Jan. 6 Panel Gave GOP Phone Data to FBI   C3 @C_3C_3, "Obama is in London again. Last time Obama made a trip to 10 Downing Street to meet with UK officials was when… They all got caught in the spying operation on Trump. Wonder who he’s meeting with now? The snake." From Twitchy, 'Hit a Nerve!' Nancy Pelosi Blows Up at Reporter Over a Totally Fair Question About January 6th. Townhall.com @townhallcom, "WOAH — Nancy Pelosi tells reporter to 'SHUT UP' when asked why she refused National Guard support on January 6th. The democratic party is fracturing."

From OTP, Grand Jury Expected To Indict Former National Security Adviser John Bolton For Sharing Classified Documents and James Comey, Letitia James Assigned To Separate Jury Pools. I doubt either one will be convicted, but the process is the punishment. WokeSpy reports Jim Jordan Calls Jack Smith to Testify Before the House Judiciary Committee.

Twitchy, Justice Jackson's DEI Disaster: Equating Race to a Disability in a Bizarre Supreme Court Meltdown. Constantly Underfoot @ConstantUnder, "This woman can't tell what a woman is without a biologist, but just diagnosed an entire race as disabled. - There's something really, really wrong, terribly wrong with her." Quote Greg Price @greg_price11, "Justice Jackson just compared black people not being able to create majority black congressional districts to disabled people not being able to enter a building before the ADA. "They don't have equal access to the voting system. They're disabled."" Sundance at CTH, Justice KBJ Compares Blacks to Disabled Persons Incapable of Voting. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Clarence Thomas Gently Explains To KBJ That Not All Black People Are Mentally Disabled, Just Her https://buff.ly/d4WmOvZ." Joe Cunningham at RedState explains The Voting Rights Act Probably Won't Be 'Gutted,' but the Supreme Court Appears Set to Restrain It. From OTP, Transgender Athlete SCOTUS Case Advances After Attempt To Dismiss.

Misty Severi at JTN reports Federal judge extends block on National Guard deployment to Portland by 14 days. "The Trump administration has attempted to send Oregon National Guard troops and California National Guard troops into Portland to help with unruly protests."  Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian wonders Can President Trump Deploy The National Guard To Portland Or Chicago?.

Ace reports Surprise! The Gang-Member Carjackers That Beat the Shit Out of "BigBallz" Aren't Going to Spend a Single Day in Jail ""Teens" will be spared actual punishment for carjacking and a violent gang assault." Elon Musk @elonmusk, "This was a racist verdict by a racist judge. The simple test to apply is if the races has been reversed, the White kids would be in prison. Equal justice for all!" Quote Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "BREAKING - DC Judge Kendra Briggs has allowed the two “teens” who jumped Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine to avoid jail and sentenced them to simple probation, stating her job is to “rehabilitate,” not punish." New York Post @nypost, "Teens who jumped ex-DOGE staffer Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine avoid jail, sentenced to probation https://trib.al/akKmAQ3". Sundance hosts President Trump Holds a Press Conference with FBI Director Kash Patel. Silverloch, Kash Patel Summarizes Major Successes From “Operation Summer Heat” - Credits Dan Bongino. 

From Da Blaze, Liberal media now claim Antifa doesn’t exist — despite years of their own reporting.

OTP, White House Reveals Illegal Migrants Who Accessed Medicaid Amid Healthcare Delays From Shutdown. That thing they keep denying keeps happening. The Peacock whines Meta removes Facebook page allegedly used to target ICE agents after pressure from DOJ.

Tim O'Brien at PJM, Pentagon Reporters Are Losing Their Press Credentials Today: Here's What’s Really Happening. At NewsBusters, Leftist, Language-Twisting PBS News Sees ‘Orwellian’ Era Dawning Under Trump.

At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed hears Hollywood Wonders: Should We Stop Blacklisting Jews Now, or What??, Dave Strom sees State Department Revoking Visas for Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death and John Sexton reports a Tenured Professor Sues College for Anti-White Discrimination. VodkaPundit at Insty, SO HE’S A TYPICAL WHITE PROGRESSIVE THEN: Kimmel Shows Shocking Indifference to Plight of Young Black Men. “Propagandist Jimmy Kimmel is not just ignoring the tragically high death toll for young black men in Chicago, he’s making it a laugh line on his ABC showcase.” AP, California’s Newsom signs a reparations study law but vetoes other racial justice proposals.

From Da Blaze, Activists outraged at queer erasure after Gov. Abbott orders removal of Pride crosswalk and BLM mural. YatLaw, New California Regulations on Transgender Identity and Expression Take Effect " An employee must be allowed to use the restroom facility that corresponds to the employee’s gender identity or gender expression. . . . Employers must honor an employee’s request to be referred to by a particular name, gender or pronoun, including gender-neutral pronouns," and so on. PJM's Vicky Taft predicts California Schools Are About to See Waves of Children Flee After Gavin Newsom's 'Demonic' 'Kidnap' Bill, "this law allows any adult, without verification, without parental consent, and without even notifying parents, to make medical and educational decisions for a child."

Mo' links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.16.25 (Morning Edition), but I'm running late. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: No Joy At Fenway at the usual time and place.