Open Thread

Good to keep in mind that Detroit voted for the white lady rather than El-Sayed. Another thing to keep in mind is that El-Sayed, like Obama, grew up whiter than I did. They’re all cosplaying theater kids, after all. But while there is…uh…a little mistrust between the overall black community and Jews, what is happening over in Gaza means pretty much nothing to them. To be sure, it means just about nothing to all of us…the people out there protesting are being sent out by paid agitators and probably 99% of them couldn’t pick Gaza out on a map if you gave them ten tries.

Nobody knows what will happen in a month. That’s the thing about the future: it hasn’t happened yet. But I am growing more and more confident that the DNC/MSM Narrative is 180 from reality. They are simply making it up, hoping to get the GOP into a defensive crouch rather than reaching out to battle Democrats who have nothing to offer the American people.

I guess there is now a push to secularize Catholic hospitals in Canada because the Left can’t stand the thought of there being even one place where they can’t murder a baby or grandma. There are still great Canadians – we see them all the time; but Canada is run by outright wicked people and their electoral system allows a party with 44% of the vote to corner every ounce of political power. This is just like the UK, of course. What “Democracy” actually brings…a system where there are no checks upon power. Keep in mind the battle wasn’t between Monarchy and Democracy back in the day…but about whether anyone could hold total power. Total power held by a King is just as bad as total power held by a transient political majority. Nobody and no group should ever be able to hold all power…our system prevents that, which is why the Left wants to pack the Court and abolish the Senate.

The video out of France is horrific – absolutely nobody has opened fire on the rioters.

No, they aren’t French. They aren’t youths. They aren’t complaining about education. They are trying to conquer France and impose an Islamist ideology. The French better find some guts and right quick.

Trump talking up American shipbuilding. This sort of thing is crucial – and why we simply must win. If we win just a couple more election cycles, we’ll get it all…lose and it is all over.

Nidal Hasan is to die via military firing squad on December 3rd. As stated many times before, I don’t support the death penalty. I don’t have much sympathy for Hasan, of course. But I will say this: execution by firing squad is too honorable an exit for him. He should be hung if we’re to kill him.

46 thoughts on “Open Thread”

  1. Cluster's avatar Cluster October 7, 2026 / 9:55 am

    El Sayed is a dual citizen, with Egypt. Democrats are allowing an infestation of cockroaches and we had better find some guts right quick too and call this out. We don’t want to end up like France, but that’s where it is headed.

    I just heard another Democrat calling for a wealth tax, and all that means is that the Democrats think they can spend billionaires money better than billionaires can and there is ZERO objective truth to that, based on history. Billionaires create jobs when they spend their own money. Democrats create personal wealth and homelessness when they spend other peoples money.

    I support the death penalty, and in fact I believe we don’t use it enough and it takes too long. The ultimate penalty should be used as the ultimate deterrent. I think Nidal should have been put to death while the memory of his actions were still fresh. As it is now, it’s a wasted opportunity.

    I am very confident on winning in NV. Democrats don’t even represent Americans anymore.

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook October 7, 2026 / 10:02 am

      I think Nidal should have been put to death while the memory of his actions were still fresh.

      My first thought when I read the name was, who the hell is Nidal Hasan? Then I saw that the execution is taking place at Fort Hood, and it hit me. To wait 17 years for justice to be served is a travesty.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan October 7, 2026 / 10:46 am

        We first had to get around Obama calling it “workplace violence”…

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan October 7, 2026 / 10:47 am

      Isn’t there some dispute about the dual citizen thing? Don’t get me wrong: El Sayed is not one of my fellow Americans…but I’ve heard that the paperwork isn’t 100%.

  2. Cluster's avatar Cluster October 7, 2026 / 11:02 am

    I want to thank France for showing all Americans what Socialism and Open Borders will do to a country. Don’t be France.

  3. Cluster's avatar Cluster October 7, 2026 / 1:15 pm

    The best way to combat socialism, is to give American children a slice of ownership of the greatest free market economy in the world. Thank you Trump accounts.

  4. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook October 7, 2026 / 2:15 pm

    Really encouraging news from Coffee & Covid today.

    It is turning into a Biden greatest hits tour. (“Greatest hits” meaning the one that are going down in flames.) Yesterday’s post discussed the Plasmic Echo disclosures, wherein Merrick Garland signed off a memo targeting Trump by tapping Suzie Wiles’ phones. We saw FBI Director Chris Wray enthusiastically endorsing it. Right after that, on Monday, DOJ dropped another disclosure. The new report proved how human snake Merrick “Grandma” Garland targeted all of us. Fox reported, “Biden’s ‘anti-MAGA task force’ sparked internal alarm across DOJ, new report shows.”

    This latest release —ignored by prestige media— appeared to be timed to its anniversary. Five years ago this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland diligently scanned America’s threat horizon. He noticed the cartels. He observed the fentanyl. He noted the baby traffickers, the Muslim terror cells that snuck across the open border, and the Learing Centers, blooming across the Heartland.

    Then, his blood ran cold as ice. He saw the true menace, the greatest, most pressing peril of all, bearing down on us like a high-speed train loaded with industrial explosives and driven by an infected chimpanzee.

    The greatest threat facing America in October, 2021? Moms at school-board meetings.

    Read the whole thing; it’s mind-boggling what they thought they could get away with.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster October 7, 2026 / 2:19 pm

      Bidens DOJ spied on Barron Trump but ignored the 300,000 other children who went missing at the border. That’s who Democrats are.

      I just read a report that 37 billionaires control over 200,000 acres of the Hawaiian Islands. And Democrats want to pretend they’re against billionaires LOL.

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook October 7, 2026 / 3:14 pm

        The amazing part was the amount of internal opposition there was, but in the end everyone went along with it. That’s the party that likes to claim the high moral ground – until it interferes with their agenda.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan October 8, 2026 / 10:56 am

      They went after Trump and company because they thought they’d never lose – or if they did lose, it would be to the RINO wing of the GOP who would never dream of holding them accountable.

      This is why, I think, there is the DSA push in the Democrat party – why even old line Democrats are embracing it. They realize it is a risk – that DSA positions might cost them some seats they could otherwise win. Heck, might even cost them the House next month (I expect it will). But their thinking is that the normal course of events will bring the Democrats back into a trifecta…and with the DSA radicals driving the train, they will pack the Court, give statehood to DC and Puerto Rico, import and legalize millions of foreign savages who will be settled in deep Red States…that they’ll be able to essentially make it illegal for us to win ever again.

      And they might be right – but I suspect they’ll eventually see it blow up in their faces. Trump and his successors aren’t the GOPe…they will actually point out what the Democrats are embracing, and thus give the American people a real choice.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan October 8, 2026 / 10:52 am

      And what is the Left upset about? That people are noticing the alleged perp’s parents are immigrants. “Why bring that up?”. Because it is a crucial bit of info – that we took these people in, they got a nice life and now their son – born in America – is a savage just waiting to kill.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 8, 2026 / 6:45 pm

      “Approximately 107,000 people of Somali descent called Minnesota home last year. They represented about 2% of the Gopher State’s 2024 total population.”

      So Somalis are given political control by Americans. We need to remember this.

      Almost 58% of the Somalis in Minnesota were born in the U.S. Of the foreign-born Somalis in Minnesota, an overwhelming majority—87%— are naturalized U.S. citizens. Yet in spite of being considered citizens, either by birth or by naturalization, the vast majority are dependent on the American taxpayer.

      More than 80% of households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota are on one or more forms of American taxpayer-funded welfare, new data published by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals.

      The data, based on 10 years of data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), shows drastic disparities between native-born American households and Somali households in Minnesota, where nearly 80,000 residents have Somali ancestry compared to zero who had Somali ancestry in 1990.

      In particular, the data shows that 81 percent of Minnesota households headed by Somali refugees are on one or more forms of welfare, including 27 percent who are on cash welfare, 54 percent who are on food stamps, and 73 percent who are on Medicaid.

      Compare this massive welfare use to native-born Americans residing in Minnesota, only 21 percent of whom are on one or more forms of welfare, including just 6 percent who are on cash welfare, 7 percent who are on food stamps, and 18 percent who are on Medicaid.

  5. casper3031's avatar casper3031 October 8, 2026 / 11:35 am

    I see why you guys are so scared of El-Sayed.  Born a raised in this country, he is smart good looking and well spoken. I love the fact that he isn’t afraid to go on FOX. I expect he will make a great Senator.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster October 8, 2026 / 1:03 pm

      Scared?? LOL, no one is scared of a cockroach. But here’s the thing with you Cap, people like you with immature emotions and a tribal mentality can be manipulated to believe anything. All one has to do is play on your emotions and make you feel like the good guy, and you’ll buy into what they are selling.

      • casper3031's avatar casper3031 October 8, 2026 / 1:33 pm

        Not sure why you think he is a cockroach. He was born and grew up in the U.S. He speaks English and was the captain of his high school football team. He is every bit American as you and I.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 8, 2026 / 5:49 pm

        “He is every bit American as you and I.”

        Well, probably every bit as American as you are, but that’s an awfully low bar.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster October 8, 2026 / 4:00 pm

        Wow. He played on the football team. Well he’s got my vote.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster October 9, 2026 / 8:30 am

        In yesterdays debate, El Sayed was asked, “who is the bigger threat to the US? Israel or Iran?”

        El Sayed answered; “that’s a ridiculous hypothetical. Both are dangerous in their own way”

        Rogers just won

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 8, 2026 / 5:47 pm

      Smart, good looking and played football—A Babylon Bee-worthy outline of vapid and shallow Identity Politics.

      Oh, and don’t forget the mandatory Lib sidestep claiming that distaste is really “fear”. That’s a staple of Lib chatter.

    • casper3031's avatar casper3031 October 8, 2026 / 7:02 pm

      The thing about  El-Sayed is that he doesn’t fit any of your stereotypes. Speaks perfect English, dresses like everyone else, very well educated. It’s hard to se him as some kind of crazed terrorist. He is also very effective in his appearances on FOX.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster October 8, 2026 / 7:19 pm

        You may be the most gullible person I have ever known.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 8, 2026 / 7:34 pm

        He is so funny. Every time I see someone all swoony over a guy for reasons like “speaks perfect English, dresses like everyone else, very well educated” the first thing that comes to mind is “Ted Bundy”.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 8, 2026 / 7:35 pm

        ” It’s hard to se him as some kind of crazed terrorist murderer”

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan October 8, 2026 / 8:38 pm

        He’s a wicked man, Cap – evil. Bad. Wants horrible things to happen to people. That he’s also a cosplaying fraud is neither here nor there – it is how he gets people like to you smile upon a modern Himmler.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 9, 2026 / 8:43 am

        I wouldn’t count on Casper actually believing the silly pap he is posting—it’s too inane and vapid even for him. I think it more likely that he thinks it is cute and darling to wind us up and is tittering to himself as he comes up with even more superficial and meaningless things to list as reasons to vote for him.

        This would work if it were not so believable, but from Casper it is pretty consistent as analysis of any candidate. Remember, this is the guy whose teaching career reached its zenith when he posted videos of him and his students lip syncing to music videos. As an attention-getting strategy it would only be effective if it didn’t support the Casper/doofus image.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan October 9, 2026 / 2:36 pm

        It is kinda sad – and so easy to get out of. And none of us can judge those who were fooled because to a greater or lesser extent, all of us were fooled at some point. But once you free yourself from the Op it is so totally liberating. You really can just think over things and come to your own conclusions without fear of offending lying idiots.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster October 9, 2026 / 8:38 am

        El Sayed is just another Nidal Hassan. They’re both cockroaches.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 10, 2026 / 12:09 pm

        Why is Casper going all fanboi over El-Sayed? Yes, it is that Borg/tribal brainworm thing that defines Dems, it is that “Oooh, he just looks so DREAMY in his nice clothes and I’ll bet he smells good too” aspect of what Casper admits influences him, but PJMedia author Pinsker makes an excellent point. Which is that when The One We Have All Been Waiting For exited stage left (see what I did there?) to the hinterlands of multiple mansions, trailing his failed efforts behind him like a tattered toy that never did come to life no matter how much Magical Fairy Dust his minions tried to scatter over it, the Caspers were bereft.

        Because they had no one to take his place. There were some feeble efforts to slip Michelle into his legacy, but she just wouldn’t fit no matter how hard they tried to feminize her and humanize her and make her even remotely likable. Nothing worked.

        They tried, oh so desperately, to cast Kamala in a leading role as The Next Black Hope but, in addition to not being black, she was hopeless. (Again, see what I did there?)

        And then they thought they might be saved, by an ethnic radical who seems clean and articulate, whose superficial characteristics are all the superficial Identity Politics lemmings care about, so the PR engines roared to life. And we have been presented with the fulfillment of the Lightbringer’s legacy.

        What’s so special about Abdul El-Sayed?

        He can do what the others cannot: El-Sayed represents the fulfillment of the Lightbringer’s legacy.

        [Haley Stevens] led El-Sayed by 8 percentage points in districts where more than 15 percent of the population is Black. Polling in July showed that just 21 percent of Black voters backed El-Sayed while 67 percent supported the House Democrat.

        A Michigan Education Survey also showed El-Sayed struggling with Black voters. Stevens notched 69 percent from the bloc; El-Sayed garnered 37 percent support.

        El-Sayed won 80% of Arab-majority Dearborn and college towns. Yet he lost the black vote in a landslide. And if he can’t capture black voters in November, the Democrats’ chances of winning the Senate will nosedive.

        Enter Barack Obama, our Once and Future Savior.

        It’s his last revolution — and his final revelation: He’s leveraging his presidential prestige to sell Abdul El-Sayed to black Democrats. It’s how he hopes to salvage his political legacy.

        That’s Obama’s final mission: Remind blacks that he had a funny-sounding name, too. Back then, the so-called experts said a man with a Muslim-sounding name like “Hussein” couldn’t win — and he became a two-term president!

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 10, 2026 / 1:29 pm

        “…and he became a two-term president!”

        And in the process he and black governors, mayors and most of all members of Congress showed us that very few black people are capable of governing. Bloviating, yes. Posturing for cameras, yes. Grifting and using insider influence for personal enrichment, yes. Inciting racial division and hatred, yes. Undermining the very structure of our Republic, yes. The successes of most black politicians are numerous. Too bad so few of them relate in any way to productive governance. Too bad they are so often in furtherance of either radical Leftist efforts to destroy the country or just plain incompetence. Not that the two are mutually exclusive.

        So it is getting to be harder for any black politician to be elected except by racist blacks and rabid Leftists eager to flaunt their imaginary moral superiority by electing the race they simultaneously treat as inferior chattel and vote sources by keeping them dependent on their 21st Century Massas. Even then, the black person a Lib will vote for has to prove subservience to the Leftist narrative, or be considered “not black enough” to be tolerated. The era of being electable merely by having an acceptable level of melanin is disappearing. Oh, we will continue to get the freaks like Mad Max Waters and Jeffries, elected only by hive mentality Libs and other black people who don’t mind making themselves laughingstocks by choosing to be represented by lunatics, but as time goes by the Crocketts, et al, will fall by the wayside, and we will continue to elect people like Byron Donalds on the basis of qualifications and character, not skin color.

        Obama, even with his secret support system paying for his identity and college degrees and supporting him as he was created and groomed and presented to a public that had been carefully set up to welcome a chance to prove it was not racist, never would have made it past the Illinois statehouse on merit and qualifications alone. He needed that last emotional element of national virtue signaling, that desire to tell the world “We are NOT racists and here is the proof”, and I think the number of Americans still willing to be manipulated by this is dwindling.

        But there are still some mental puppets who cherish their framed Time magazine covers blaring THE ONE WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR and wearing their Obama neckties, who are excited about another chance to elect him, if only by surrogate—-another clean articulate ethnic Muslim to flaunt next to their Pride flags and COEXIST bumper stickers.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 10, 2026 / 12:40 pm

        He is not the only one who fits this description. For example there is a guy—speaks perfect English, dresses like everyone else in his profession (a military officer) is very well educated (a psychiatrist) and to look at him it is hard to see him as some kind of crazed terrorist. He does not fit any stereotype—except, perhaps his ethnicity and his religion.

        Well, it WAS “hard to see him as some kind of crazed terrorist”—-until he fired on unarmed and unsuspecting people, slaughtering 13 and injuring another 32. I understand he was very effective in interviews, if “effective” includes successfully hiding his murderous intents and allegiance to the doctrine and ideology of his religion.

    • jdge's avatar jdge October 9, 2026 / 3:41 pm

      Bureaucrats who do little but flex their will without any concerns on who they harm, do NOT belong in any position of power. If the pastor’s setup poses a problem, city officials should be clear on what those issues are and then work with him on how to address those concerns. Why would anyone purposely push to prevent efforts in feeding over 1,000 needy people per day? Hidden agenda? Heartless bastards? Egotistical control freaks? If there were issues like health concerns or other safety considerations, it seems those could be discussed where alternatives would still allow the pastor to do the work of God. But to simply threaten with fines… these people are not the kind of people who should be running the city. They are not problem solvers and ultimately create more problems.   

  6. Cluster's avatar Cluster October 8, 2026 / 5:27 pm

    I love seeing this …

    DOJ Seeking Criminal Indictment Of Cassidy Hutchinson Over Jan. 6 Testimony

    They should also prosecute Christine Balsey-Ford

    Shameless liars, both of them. And BTW, Roger’s will beat El Sayed rather easily. The Black and Jewish communities in Detroit will not vote for him.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 8, 2026 / 5:53 pm

      Ford’s perjury is now beyond the statute of limitations, though I guess if we were to play by Dem rules we could find a federal crime to link to it to revive it (“conspire to interfere with a Constitutional process” for example) and then charge each and every lie as a separate felony. Isn’t that the way it is done?

      It’s not as if they haven’t left their playbook lying around….

    • jdge's avatar jdge October 9, 2026 / 3:47 pm

      I’ve seen several clips of his recent speeches and every one of them is highly relevant and impactful. Plus, it appears to me he’s playing his cards right with regard to what his next aspiration might be, without stepping on the toes of other good people to get ahead.

  7. Cluster's avatar Cluster October 9, 2026 / 9:10 am

    Never before in the history of this country, has one President been so maligned and mistreated by the “objective” media. The lies and half truths they have reported have torn this country apart and I hope they are held accountable. I just read a report saying the 95%+ of media coverage of Trump is negative and that is intentional.

    Trump is, without question, the greatest President since Lincoln. Hands down.

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook October 9, 2026 / 9:29 am

      It would be interesting to see, if he did something truly historic like fix Social Security, if the media would even report on it much less report positively. Many of the good things he’s done have gotten little to NO press.

  8. Cluster's avatar Cluster October 9, 2026 / 9:33 am

    Democrats have no clue how much we hate them, and how resolved we are to defeat them.

  9. Cluster's avatar Cluster October 9, 2026 / 10:54 am

    In yesterday’s debate, Letitia James was asked what previous NY AG she admired. She couldn’t answer the question. She didn’t know. She has zero institutional knowledge of her office, she has simply weaponized it. Which is the goal of every Democrat.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona October 9, 2026 / 12:23 pm

      She didn’t earn the job, she just had it handed to her.

      There is a long series of novels about an Assistant D.A. in NYC who went on to become D.A, written by a man who actually WAS the District Attorney in NYC (Robert Tannenbaum) and it is fascinating insight into the dysfunction of the judiciary in NYC, mostly due to the sheer volume of the population and the city’s inability to adequately deal with it but also explaining how the office works. And it is a massively complicated job even for an ASSISTANT D.A.—-reviewing incoming cases, evaluating them, assigning them, overseeing lawyers assigned to them, etc.

      It is no job for a DEI appointee, and even someone who went through the pretense of a NY election got that far by being appointed as the candidate.

      (BTW the Tannenbaum books are excellent. It’s possible to tell when he switched co-authors or ghost writers and the quality stuttered a little, but overall they are great, especially the earliest ones. The protagonist is named Butch Karp.)

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