Flotsam and Jetsam - Swimming in Candy Wrappers

Only two trick-or-treaters came to take the candy. There's only a couple of day until we find out where the country is going.

Joe Concha at WaEx, The Dan Sullivan scheme: Another ‘conspiracy theory’ turns out to be true. At Twitchy, Is the ‘Decoy Dan’ Scheme Criminal? Douglass ‘Ricky Vaughn’ Mackey Weighs in (and a Deep Dive). News Wax, FBI Visits Dan J. Sullivan Donor in Candidate's Hometown as Alaska Senate Inquiry Widens. Derek Hunter at TownHall thinks Confident People Don’t Do What Democrats Are Doing at the End of the Campaign. Thomas Hern @ThomasMHern, "Caroline Sunshine embarrasses Karen Finney on CNN. "I think it is a disgrace that Democrats don't think that a woman of color can win a Senate seat on her own." "You still haven't answered my question, which is why do the Democrats in Alaska not think a woman of color can win?""

Shifting to Michigan then Texas, Sundance at CTH notices Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is Angered Because Pete Hegseth’s Family Supported Him, and plays basketball better, too. Nick Arama at RedState thinks Pete Hegseth's Dad Leveled El-Sayed, Then Came the Clips That Finished Him Off. Nicki Minaj @NICKIMINAJ, "If you listen carefully it’s a misplaced anger at his own parents for not making him feel worthy that turned into raging jealousy of other children who had parents that lifted them up and poured into them. He’s projected all of that onto white people. ..." Quote Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou, "Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed rants about how white kids had it better than him when he was a kid." Hat Hair's Betsy McCaughey has The Real 'Dr. El-Sayed' in His Own Words. Jack @jackunheard, "This might just be the best video on the internet. Reporter: “What has attracted you to the Mike Rogers campaign?” Detroit voter: “Well, he’s an American.”" At Althouse, "The Senate race in Michigan... will test moderate and independent voters’ appetite for a combative brand of unalloyed progressivism." "The party’s activist class believes Dr. El-Sayed’s success next week would establish a proof point that left-wing populism is a winning message, even in swing states. He has embraced an economic agenda that sharply attacks the billionaire class and taken a clear stance against Israel. Centrist Democrats fear that a potential El-Sayed triumph in an otherwise favorable climate for Democrats could be badly misinterpreted as a mandate." That's how the NYT puts it... I suspect the Times wants El-Sayed to lose." Hat Hair's Capt. Ed asks Today's Big Question: Will Haley Stevens Renounce El-Sayed? PJM's Tim O'Brien has Bad News, Abdul. Tucker Carlson Wants to Be Your Bestie. From the Free Bacon, At Talarico Rally, Jasmine Crockett’s Pastor Calls ICE ‘the New KKK’: Talarico Thanks Him for His ‘Kind Words’, "The Dallas pastor, who’s seeking Crockett’s seat, previously praised Karmelo Anthony as ‘our friend’" Ted Cruz @tedcruz, "Every voter in Texas should watch this before Election Day." Quote America @america, "5 minutes of James Talarico in his own words. Send this to your friends in Texas and let them know today is their last day to Vote Early." Jen O'Connell at RedState yells RETRACTED: The George W. Bush Project Caves, Endorses Ken Paxton in Order to Save Texas.

A Hat Hair video suggests Swing Voters Are Still Shopping, and It's Time for the GOP to Seal the Deal. Jeff Anderson at Da Fed tells you What The Midterm Senate Polls Won’t Tell You (And Where They Might Be Wrong). From Althouse, "Democrats were far more enthusiastic about taking the poll than Republicans were. Registered Democrats were more than twice as likely as registered Republicans...." "I'm reading "We polled Kansas. Democrats wanted to talk. Republicans, not so much. The Post is publishing results of its Kansas Senate poll in the interest of transparency and to highlight the challenges the poll faced" (WaPo)(gift link)." Dave Strom at Hat Hair hears NPR Reveals a Democrat Scheme to Rig AIs Into Deceiving Voters. At Insty, VOTE… WHILE IT’S STILL THE PRIMARY WAY OF SETTLING POLITICAL DISPUTES: 

Rusty Weiss at RedState laughs as Gavin Newsom Viciously Mocked Over Chest-Pounding Election Warning to Trump. Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, " TRUMP JUST WENT THERE Trump posted a "Life Before Obama" checklist on Truth Social. ISIS, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, the Russia Hoax, expensive Obamacare, and TDS all made the list. The day after Obama got on stage to say he's "tired of being divided," Trump handed him the receipt. Obama started it. Trump is finishing it." Ryan Fournier @RyanAFournier. "BOOM!" Brandon Gill just EXPOSED Obama’s fake “unity” garbage: He weaponized the IRS, spied on Trump, and insulted half the country—now he wants peace? Give me a break. Gill is fearless, calls out the Democrat BS, and doesn't back down. A massive rising star. More of this, please!" Hat Hair's Stephen Moore has a Gas Attack: Blue States Have the Highest Prices at the Pump.

varrock @varrock, "My old job consisted of telling White people they were evil, and then giving $200m/yr to Somalian NGOs with no strings attached. I did this for 20 years. The private sector, for some reason, does not value these skills and I'm struggling to find a job. This is Trump's fault." Quote Nightmare Vision @GodCloseMyEyes, "please read this piece, it was so good. it’s about dei officers in the federal government being cleaned out and many being unable to find new jobs because they were put on “dei watchlists” that come up in google searches in the exact same way it did for right wingers who had..." Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine, "A popular republic coming undone due to the unbounded passion for equality? If only people had predicted that." Quote wanye @xwanyex, "What feels like a big shift in liberalism in my lifetime -- maybe it's always been this way? -- is the progression from, "we should help the people at the bottom" to "every single person deserves the same as anybody else." I'm enough of a bleeding heart for the first thing, but..." Quote _s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ @st_louis_stan, "Can people like this come up with a single good reason why we should use taxpayer money to pay poor, unproductive people to take up the single most." Tom Kratman @TKratman, "Our thought for the day, riffing a bit off of one of Pournelle's thoughts on peace: "Communism" is the name of the alleged ideal we attribute to an oligarchy under which, by the cover of pleasant sounding political and social (and genetic) nonsense, that cannot bear objective close scrutiny, all power is gathered into the hands of a new, tiny, highly nepotistic, amorally familistic, corrupt and completely unprincipled ruling class, itself backed up by control over the means of information, a massive propaganda administration, unbounded by even a stunted sense of integrity, a lapdog judiciary, and a secret police with unreviewable powers of incarceration, enslavement, torture, life, and death, in order to advance themselves and their heirs under the lie of advancing mankind. Contrary to the common mantra, not only has it not "never been done right," it has _always_ been done _exactly_ right for its true purpose, cited above."

Hat Hair's Beege Welborn sees Pole-r Opposites and a Mexican Stand Off Shaping Up: Nawrocki and Poland v Tusk and the EU MORE. WarTranslated @wartranslated, "Poland's Constitutional Tribunal crisis is deepening, with police still guarding the Warsaw building where seven judges have been stuck since overnight, and judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska moving to revoke prior authorities and push judges to work remotely. Two ambassadors have quit over it, Romania's citing an illegal takeover and France's saying he can't do his job with this going on back home, while the tribunal insists on X that its site got hijacked and chairman Święczkowski is still in charge." At CTH sundance has an Alarming Update on Coup Effort From Polish Media. Seattle Extremist @SeattleIndepen1, "So a CIA agent masquerading as a politician visits Poland and a month later they have a coup. And now she’s threatening a coup in the US. Hmmm. It’s probably nothing." Quote Erikaaa @ErikaCA47, "Last month, Elissa Slotkin brags about how she went to Poland and Hungary and "brought home the playbook to get out of 'authoritarian' governments." WTAF. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Radosław Sikorski is celebrating the..." Ben Sellers at RedState sees Elissa Slotkin Just Revealed Her Ties to Color Revolutions in Europe’s Last Two Free Countries. Lloyd Billingsley at the Chronic examines the CIA Amigas, Slotkin and Spanburger. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "In just these past two weeks we have seen: 1. Widespread civil unrest and riots in France. 2. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Albania. 3. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Italy. 4. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Spain. ... 15. The uncovering of a Color Revolution plot in the USA led by embittered former USAID employees and ex-military members. That’s a lot to be happening all at once, don’t you think? And the USA is having midterm elections next week. You know, if I was a conspiracy-minded type I might be connecting some dots here..."

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "The center of the Brazil story is not Flavio Bolsonaro but rather Alexandre de Moraes, who has utterly destroyed the credibility of the Brazilian justice system and its democracy through years of escalating persecution against critics, dissidents and political opponents, all while the Brazilian left celebrated him for doing it...." Dan McCarthy at RCP fears Brazil and Venezuela Face a Tough Road Back to Sanity.

From sundance, Joint Humanitarian Mission to Evacuate Oleshky Citizens a Success, Prime Minister Mark Carney Says Canada Prepared to Wait on Trade Deal Until U.S. Gets a New President and Keir Starmer Says U.S. Will No Longer “Bankroll Europe’s Defense.”

Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin, "THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD. The U.S. poverty rate just hit an all-of-history low. American households recorded their highest real median income in history. It gets better. 975,000 new jobs were created JUST in August and September 2026, according to the latest household survey. That's nearly a million more Americans working in just two months. And we're supposed to believe Trump's economy is a disaster? Official child poverty fell to just 13.4 percent, its lowest recorded rate. And that's before we even talk about violent crime dropping to its lowest rate since 1900: that's a BIG quality of life improvement, especially for children in inner cities..."

From Twitchy, ‘Yes, This Is Real’: Harpy Senator Grades 'Melania Trump’s' Statement, Gives It an F-Minus. It was a verbatim quote from someone else. 

PJM's Matt Margolis thinks The Ilhan Omar Immigration Fraud Case Is Bigger Than We Thought.

At BA,Tom Knighton is Schooling Kagan on Originalism and the Second Amendment. 

John Sexton at Hat Hair, sees an Obama-Appointed Judge May Block Construction of Trump's Arch, Tanya Chutkan. You might remember her as the DC judge who allowed Jack Smith to prosecute Trump, and jailed numerous J6ers without bail. But I'm convinced she's completely non-biased in this.

From Shooting NewsWeek, Anti-Gunner Vandalizes 9/11 Memorial To Spread His Hatred for Guns. "Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, 31, was arrested at the 9/11 Memorial he defaced Monday night. He was charged with criminal mischief, making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments. Tijerina painted the URL of his anti-gun website onto the marble stonework surrounding the North Tower of the reflecting pool. He then boasted of his insane criminal act on his website."

From Stacy McCain, who has a personal stake in this, Brett Kimberlin: Still GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

CIS, ‘The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies’, "Fairfax County, Va., sheriff won’t even make the call." Brandon @LibOrNormal, "The greatest thing I've seen in a long time!! Liberal White Woman..... Meet PAVEMENT." For blocking ICE agents. 

From WJ, a Leftist Candidate Accidentally Emails Own Notes to Reporters, Admits She's Terrified for Own Safety from Islamists in Party. At Althouse, [M]y speech was not a critique of Arabs or Islam, but of Islamism... a toxic ideology conceived and promoted by the terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.” ""Let’s see which reporters take the time to read this post and then correct their stories." Writes RFK Jr., at great length, at X. He links to various reporters, and I don't think any of them have responded..." InfantryDort @infantrydort, "This is a somber reminder that in a struggle for political power, the most intolerant side will win. Every single time. There are no exceptions. It is time to be intolerant of those who wish us destroyed. And intolerant of evil as a whole. No more turning the other cheek." Quote Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy, Replying to @kaukosaataja, "You have to think in caveman terms. These debates are two tribes recruiting allies. TPUSA’s argument is “The other tribe is mean.” The other tribe’s argument is “We outnumber them. We’re organizing to kill them. We tell them to their face and they do nothing.” Who’d you join?" InfantryDort @infantrydort, "The enemy of our age is literally global Bolshevism. And Bolsheviks are demons in human form. The modern enemies of civilization may not refer to themselves as Bolsheviks, but their end state is the same: gain and retain power by any means necessary and crush dissent. You’re seeing it happen everywhere. >Uprisings in Europe >A coup in Poland >Brazil jailing political opponents >Political persecution against INDIVIDUALS That’s how you know what they do is evil. They don’t talk about making life better, no. They talk about persecuting and punishing people...." Aaron Hanscom at PJM, Can the West Be Saved? ‘Strange Death of Europe’ Author Douglas Murray Says It’s Not Too Late. I hope he's right.

Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre, "40 years ago South Africa had nuclear weapons and a space program." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Johannesburg, South Africa, is reportedly on the brink of a "total collapse" of its water system as worsening shortages leave residents without running water for weeks." vittorio @IterIntellectus, "south africa went from a first world country with nuclear power and one of the largest railway systems in the world to a third world country in just 30 years progress is not a guarantee. decay is the natural state of things."

From the College Fix, No identified Republican professors found in Georgia Tech’s public policy department. From Campus Reform, 98.2% of political donations from Rutgers University faculty members went to left-wing candidates. They can do this all week and usually do. Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "In light of this, I motion that @elonmusk create a new MIT. One of my followers suggested it be called the Musk Institute of Technology. With merit, it would produce the most impressive graduates in the country. DEI for schools, nations and companies makes them dysfunctional, evil and insufferable. It’s the enemy of innovation and progress for humanity. Skin and sex should never be a thought in the process. Give the best tools to the best candidates and watch humanity flourish in the long run. That’s the path to greatness." Quote Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "It’s even worse than Anish notes here because boys make up 61% of the top SAT scores. So despite that fact and the fact that men apply about 2x as often to MIT; @MIT admits more women every year than men. It’s impossible for this to be merit based. Just mathematically impossible. x.com/anish_koka/sta…"

Also at the College Fix, New Title IX rule bolsters single-sex spaces, female students’ rights, legal expert says. 

Young women are dressing up as Sophie Cunningham for Halloween and RECREATING her famous finger point.. The left called her hateful for protecting girls' sports. Now she has over 9 MILLION followers across all platforms combined, and she’s become a role model for young girls across the country.. 🔥🔥

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) October 31, 2026