Saturday, October 31, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Halloween Edition

I'm going as Dan Sullivan. No middle initial. PJM's Cathy Salgado hears Trump Calls for Disqualification and Prosecution of Peltola, ‘Decoy Dan’ in Alaska Senate Race. Twitchy notes Chuck Todd Defends Dem Name Trick in AK—Until He's Reminded When the GOP Did It They Went to Prison. Chuck Todd @chucktodd, "Careful assuming only one side does these things. See FL GOP and the state senate in 2020. The question is whether there is a big enough constituency that either believes politics should be better than this or whether most folks assume politics is this cut throat and it’s just..." Quote Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank "The Kennedys doing underhanded things is an old American tradition." pmcallFreeAafia FreeKhan Pardon Assange/Snowden @pmcall, "Those Republicans in Florida were also arrested, tried & sent to prison. Thank you for letting us know what should happen to the Democrats who were involved in this scheme in Alaska." The Federalist @FDRLST, "Lyman: Dems Claim Voter ID Is Too Confusing But Not ‘Decoy Dan’ Ballot Trick." Drew Holden at Holden Court says Stop Pretending Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist. "It isn’t a conspiracy theory, and voters know it."At Althouse, Darkness on the eve of election, "The view from Memeorandum — where I've gone for many years to see an overview of the day's talked about headlines — is a non-view:"  Shipwreckedcrew is the Lawsplainer: California Officials Will Be Federal Prosecuted If They Ignore Evidence Of Ineligible Aliens Voting In Federal Elections "The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has recognized that ”deliberate ignorance” when “aiding and abetting” others to commit crimes satisfies the “knowledge” element in criminal cases."

VodkaPundit at Insyt says SOCIALISM IS JUST PEOPLE WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING ORDERING AROUND THE PEOPLE WHO DO THINGS UNTIL NOTHING GETS DONE.  At the Victory Girls, Haley Stevens’ Fiancé Goes Red and Leaves Her Seeing Blue. "Michigan Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens is in quite the political pickle. Her fiancé, Jason Turkish, is a lifelong Democrat. But he’s voting for Republican Mike Rogers in the Senate race. Turkish accuses Democratic nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed of putting Michigan’s Jewish community at risk. El-Sayed also happens to be the man who defeated Stevens in the primary. And she’s still backing him. Talk about a house divided." The NYPo Ed board is concerned; Hochul just confessed: She’ll give Mamdani his tax hikes next year. America @america, "Democrat Texas Senate Nominee James Talarico: “The Supreme Court needs to be overhauled… I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices.”" PJM's Matt Margolis says come and get it, And Here It Is: Proof That Talarico Is a Pervert! On Friday, our sister site Townhall reported that an email address belonging to Talarico appears in leaked records from the 2011 breach of Fling.com, an adult dating site. The profile tied to that address used the username "mohawk787" and listed its interests as "FETISH," "GROUPSEX," "SEXUAL RELATIONS," "ONLINE FLIRTING," and "OTHER." He'd be far from the first perv in Congress. Talarico's campaign claims it was a computer hack. 

Stephen Kruiser at PJM, NYT — Yeah, Obama Totally Knew About Omar's Immigration Incest. Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "The Ilhan Omar "married her brother" story was originally broken by @realDSteinberg at the @powerlineUS blog and @PJMedia_com in 2018. Media covered it only to try to bury it. It was treated as a conspiracy theory. Now we know the feds knew it in 2016." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "DHS Agents Seize Ilhan Omar's Phone But Decide To Let Her Keep Pager."

Elon Musk @elonmusk, "My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will: 1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate. 2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority. 3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority. This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word. All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one."

General @TheGeneral_0, "Obama got caught with his pants down by telling a really stupid "joke", and it backfired tremendously. Then he lied about "they mobilized a whole government response to that joke". No they didn't, BO. You just got caught being a d!ck." Quote Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins, "Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to..."

From Shooting News Week, Virginia AG: AR-15s Are Really Just Machine Guns That Shoot Semi-Automatically…Or Something. That is kind of the key distinction.

At WaEx, Hegseth firing Sylvia isn’t office politics — he smoked out a wartime mole. InfantryDort @infantrydort, "I think Pete Hegseth saved the U.S. military from falling into the ideological abyss. I also think he's done it with every single card in the deck stacked against him. A calcified bureaucracy and screeching "civil servants" who gnash their teeth any time "merit" is mentioned." Quote RationalActor @RationalActR, Replying to @infantrydort, "I am curious what you think of what Hegseth is doing. It’s been awhile since I was active duty. Since leaving it’s obvious that they commenced with a social experiment and they also politicized the institution. The warriors were ousted and professionally destroyed. And Now?? InfantryDort@infantrydort, "To say nothing of the fact that he's experienced the most hostile media treatment imaginable." cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander, "I rise to remind everyone that this is not a new development. Longer than 6-month deployments became a normal occurrence well a decade and a half ago and became normalized in 2013 after years of seeing them. At the time: "Eight-month deployments are becoming the fleet standard, with some stretching much longer. For instance, destroyers Barry and Gravely returned from nine-month cruises in November that were extended due to the Syrian crisis...." Quote Brent D. Sadler @brentdsadler, "A feature of a too small Navy in a too dangerous world… this was predictable decade plus ago and we need to fix this and return deployments to nominal 6 months." Quote U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute, "Long Deployments to Be Navy Standard For Next Couple Years, MCPON, CNO Say — USNI News."

So, is NATO ally Poland's democracy about to go tits up in a color revolution orchestrated by the Eurocrats? Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Holy Smokes - Looks Like Poland Might Be in the Middle of a Tusk-Orchestrated Coup UPDATE and MORE. Mario ZNA @MarioBojic, "COUP UNDERWAY IN POLAND! PM Donald Tusk has just sent police to storm Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw in the middle of the night. Tusk waited until President Karol Nawrocki left the country before ordering the police takeover. Nawrocki was halfway to Senegal when he abruptly turned his plane around and rushed back to Poland to confront the unfolding crisis. The EU, which backs Donald Tusk, has STILL NOT issued a statement on this unprecedented crisis or condemned the attempted coup." At EuroNews, ECB President Christine Lagarde to step down next February, months before her mandate ends "As Euronews reported, rumours first emerged in February that Lagarde planned to leave early so that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz could oversee the choice of her successor before France's presidential election in April of next year." From Ace, Candidate of Germany's Far-Left Party "Die Linke" Confesses that Islamists Control Her Party and That She Fears They Will Kill Her.

Open Source Intel @Osint613, "An Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat yesterday killed two commanders from Hamas's military wing, the IDF said. One of them, squad commander Ihab Jamil Abu Takiya, was involved in holding many hostages early in the war, among them Noa Argamani and Emily Hand. Platoon commander Ibrahim Jihad Muhammad Abu Ashiba was also killed. According to the IDF, both men were advancing attacks on Israeli troops and civilians in violation of the ceasefire."At Am Think, Monica Showalter thinks about the Barbaric election aftermath in Brazil. "Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes reared his ugly head again." At Insty, VodkaPundit warns BUCKLE UP: Taiwan 2027 conflict window remains valid, Army Pacific commander says.

Insty hisself at substack worries about Life today under Late Democracy, "Can a system survive when so many people don’t believe in it?"EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince "It’s quite telling that democrats keep screaming about who they’re going to investigate and send the Feds after but never a mention of what crime? Usually you mention the crime or act you want investigated." Quote Senator Alex Padilla @SenAlexPadilla, "INVESTIGATE ELON MUSK." Collin Rugg @CollinRugg, "NEW: Robert Reich calls for the "defunding" of Elon Musk, calls for Democrats to go after Musk's companies. "Democrats ought to [start] laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink & SpaceX... It should be a public corporation." Does he want Musk to drop another $50M on the midterms?" Look for spare change in the couch in his office. He doesn't have a home. Karol Markowicz @karol, "Concerned about fascism so they're picking people at random to prosecute when they get power. To protect against fascism." Quote Western Lensman @WesternLensman, "Kara Swisher adds DOGE's "Big Balls" to the Democrat target list. "They could just pick a few people. To me, that's the way you go. You pick like a Hegseth, a Musk, and I don't know, Big Balls.""


Bob Hoge at RedState hears a Not Smart Florida Woman Threatens to Shoot Trump at Rally, Learns a Hard Lesson Indeed. She can go as a clown for Halloween.

Prowler @derzum_, "Verifiably, Trump has the largest effort of de-legalization, denaturalization, visa revocation and real deportations, on top of the greatest cuts to overall legal immigration in over a century" and "So far the Trump administration has terminated TPS for 1.1 million aliens, ended the parole of 500k, overseen removal orders against over 440k asylum seekers, revoked more than 300k visas, facilitated over 200k self-returns, and secured more than 130k voluntary departure cases," and "Confirmed cases of voluntary departure have soared to the highest levels in history. Illegal aliens are increasingly giving up in immigration courts, in fear of mass deportations. There have been more voluntary departures in 21 months of Trump than in 6 years of Obama, combined."

Noah Pollak @NoahPollak, "I wish more Republicans understood this. Education is one of our country's few genuinely existential problems. Our K through PhD system is a vast communism factory. It barely gets mentioned in our political debates." Quote Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "“Why does this keep happening on college campuses?” Universities are not a side quest for communist revolutions. They are the headquarters. They are the brain trust. They are the recruiting farm. Communist revolutions are spawned on campus." Quote Utah College Republicans @UtahCollegeReps, "College Republican attacked while peacefully tabling at the University of Utah."

Matthew Harwood at Expression, Government officials admit his Halloween decorations are legal. Why won't they leave him alone? "In Bristol Borough, a Halloween display tests what “voluntary” means."

Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher, "So true, UN, the real problem with men being maimed and killed in war is that women have to pick up their slack with the housework." Quote UN Women @UN_Women, "Conflict places more of the care burden on women and girls' shoulders. #Peace and security require more than their unpaid labor. Women and girls must be at the heart of peacebuilding."

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