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WOOF! Obama Accidentally Reveals Virginia's Gubernatorial Race Is NOT Going Abigail Spanberger's Way https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/10/16/obama-just-accidentally-revealed-virginias-gubernatorial-race-is-not-going-abigail-spanbergers-way-n2420429

The best part is that they cannot reopen the government until this No Kings rally ends this weekend. No way are Democrats risking their unhinged base camping outside their offices over the weekend. They’ll vent and then cave days later. What the Hell Happened to the Dems on CNN Last Night? Matt Vespa On CNN, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spewed nonsense, with AOC even accusing Deloitte of dumping toxic chemicals into riverways. Deloitte is an accounting firm. Sanders finally said the quiet part out loud, which is that this shutdown is meant to defeat Trump. It’s not about the American people. The question that really got under their skin is whether Chuck Schumer did this to avoid a primary challenge by AOC, which led to a Sanders mansplaining session. Sorry, these are their rules. AOC even did a gender lecture about how the GOP is poisoning young men and gravitating them toward toxic masculinity. Yeah, lady, this crap is why no one likes Democrats. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/10/16/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-democrats-last-night-n2665032 .

The Voting Rights Act Probably Won't Be 'Gutted,' but the Supreme Court Appears Set to Restrain It By Joe Cunningham If you only read the headlines after the Supreme Court’s re-argument in Louisiana v. Callais, you’d think conservatives on the Court were sharpening their knives to “gut” the Voting Rights Act. The reality inside the courtroom was more nuanced—and, for those who actually care about constitutional limits, more encouraging. The justices weren’t preparing to demolish Section 2. They were trying to rescue it from the legal contradictions that have plagued redistricting for forty years. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prohibits any map or election law that “results” in minority voters having less opportunity than others to elect their candidates of choice. In 1986, the Court’s decision in Thornburg v. Gingles established a three-part test: a large and compact minority population, political cohesion, and majority bloc voting. In Allen v. Milligan (2023), Chief Justice John Roberts reaffirmed that Section 2 can still require states to draw majority-minority districts under those conditions. But what happens when satisfying Section 2 forces a legislature to make race the overriding factor in its map—a move that violates the Equal Protection Clause? That’s the core of Louisiana v. Callais. Louisiana found itself trapped between two conflicting commands. A federal court instructed the legislature to create a second majority-Black district under Section 2. The moment it did, another set of plaintiffs sued, saying the new map— which passed our legislature as Senate Bill 8—was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under Shaw v. Reno. Louisiana Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga put it bluntly at argument: “Louisiana would rather not be here… we would rather not be caught between two parties with opposed visions.” His point: the state can’t simultaneously comply with both Section 2’s racial awareness and the Constitution’s racial neutrality without clearer boundaries. https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/10/15/the-voting-rights-act-probably-wont-be-gutted-but-the-supreme-court-appears-set-to-restrain-it-n2195116

Fetterman Torches Dems on Shutdown, Stuns Forum Crowd With Refusal to Call Political Opponents ‘Fascists’ Rusty Weiss Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized Democrats for the ongoing Schumer Shutdown, accusing them of holding the government hostage while suggesting they are prioritizing their party's own interests over the best interests of the American people. Fetterman made several comments during NewsNation’s live town hall at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday that demonstrate why he is considered a maverick among Democrats in the Senate. “I follow country, then party,” he explained. What a novel idea. “You don’t hold the government hostage,” Fetterman added, noting that the Schumer shutdown is “what the Democratic Party wants to do.” “I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. But they are not fascists, they’re not Nazis, they’re not trying to destroy the Constitution and those things," he insisted. "I refuse to call people Nazis or fascists. I would never compare anybody — anybody to Hitler.” Isn't it remarkable that perfectly reasonable comments like this actually stand out in today's Democrat party? https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/10/16/fetterman-torches-democrats-on-shutdown-stuns-crowd-with-refusal-to-call-political-opponents-fascists-n2195117

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Just look at the board today, I have posted on the Middle East Peace situation. The government "Shutdown" The Supreme Court debating redistricting Jack Smith updates Media fake news. US bombing drug smugglers Transgenders failing. Voter fraud. And the usual suspects on this board have spent the entire day pushing a Politico story about young republican jackasses spouting foolishness on a chat board. (and when you point out the hypocrisy of their excusing someone actually proposing murder online, they say that you are deflecting ) .

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It's almost like these people have no critical thinking skills. Translation: I’m not good enough to compete against my peers, but I’m a complete narcissist who is not above stealing opportunities from women to feed my ego!

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There's an outstanding quote at the end of Bull Durham, when Susan Sarandon's Annie Savoy comments on the skyrocketing success of Tim Robbins' dimwitted pitcher, Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh: 'The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.' If that line isn't Kamala Harris to a T, then we don't know what is. Of course, Harris is also not cursed with intelligence, articulation, or sobriety, but we digress. Recently, Harris has been making the media rounds, desperately trying to rehabilitate her image as an abject failure, and it's not going well. But don't tell that to her. She thinks she's doing great. In fact, as she told Kara Swisher, she thinks she is superior to any other presidential candidate in American history. Just ask her: LOL. Move over, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. Kammy's got you all beat. Someone needs to tell her that the voices in her head after her third box of wine don't count as 'some people.' https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/10/15/lol-kamala-harris-was-the-most-qualified-person-to-run-for-president-says-kamala-harris-n2420382

As we told you earlier this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth wasn't exactly upset to see many media outlets protest the Pentagon's new press policy by wrapping themselves in the First Amendment and refusing to sign. Hegseth waved goodbye. Here are a couple of examples: When other credentialed outlets and journalists spread lies about the Russia collusion hoax, or the Covington kids hoax, or the Kavanaugh rape hoax, or the Ukraine impeachment hoax, or the COVID-19 natural origin hoax, or the peaceful BLM riots hoax, or the suckers and losers hoax, or the Hunter Biden laptop hoax, or the Biden’s-brain-is-totally-fine-you-guys hoax, The Federalist fearlessly reported the truth. Corrupt corporate journalists published lies and regurgitated regime propaganda and were given awards. We published facts and the truth, and the U.S. federal government responded by waging a global war of illegal censorship against The Federalist. They profited from lies, while we were punished for reporting the truth. Where were these self-styled First Amendment defenders when we were illegally censored and targeted for debunking Deep State lies and hoaxes? Many of them not only refused to defend us, but cheered the illegal censorship efforts against us. NBC News, for example, colluded with Big Tech to demonetize and deplatform us for criticizing the government and the corrupt corporate news media. So you’ll have to forgive our skepticism of corporate media’s ostensible new love of press freedoms and the First Amendment. We actually read through the new Department of War media access guidelines, and we found zero new restrictions on the ability of journalists to report on or criticize the government. Many corporate journalists eager to grandstand will claim otherwise without evidence, but we will show you what the actual document says. MORE AT https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1978494207032541682?

“OH, SHUT UP” IS ABOUT ALL I HAVE LEFT TO SAY ABOUT OBAMA: Obama Accuses Trump of Wanting to ‘Steal’ and ‘Rig the Next Election’ https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/10/14/obama-accuses-trump-of-wanting-to-steal-and-rig-the-next-election-n4944870

GO BEYOND THE SCARY HEADLINES: Pentagon Reporters Are Losing Their Press Credentials Today: Here’s What’s Really Happening. “The new rules will restrict reporters’ physical access to people and locations within the Pentagon, reorganizing newsroom space in the building, and, in some situations, reporters will require an escort to move around certain parts of the building. This is standard procedure in most military installations, and, for that matter, just about any private company or organization in the country.” https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2025/10/15/pentagon-reporters-are-losing-their-press-credentials-today-heres-whats-really-happening-n4944881 But these 'principled' media outlets won't agree to this, so out they go. .

No decision yet, but the outcome seems likely. Principal Deputy Solicitor General Hashim Mooppan just completely silenced Sotomayor's argument for Louisiana's second black majority district: "If these were white Democrats, there's no reason to think they would have a second district. What is happening here is their argument is because these Democrats happen to be black, they get a second district. If they were all white, we all agree they wouldn't. That is literally the definition of race subordinating traditional principles."

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Frank always has high ground up in his ivory tower @leh-nerd skin-erd .

The Israel / Gaza conflict is over for now. The hostages have returned and a tentative peace is holding. Hamas, who have been hiding in civilian clothing behind their women, have suddenly come out and are now executing Palestinians. Some are executed for 'collaboration' with Israel, others in clan power struggles. The question on a lot of people's minds is where are all the super-vocal Western voices now? You know, those who were so upset about the 'genocide' they stormed campus building, tore down Israeli hostage posters and constantly demonstrated for 'Ceasefire Now' with neatly preprinted placards. Hamas are executing Palestinians in the street… where are the placards??? where are the virtue signaling celebrities??? https://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2025/10/14/hamas-killing-palestinians-west-yawns-n2420351

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Public Health Destroyed Its Own Credibility Long Before RFK Jr. Arrived. FTA: We need spend little time remembering the unscientific, patronizing and erroneous advice and dictums issued from the medical and scientific establishment regarding the coronavirus during the pandemic. Social distancing, masks, school and business closures — almost all of it was unnecessary. These totalitarian measures saved relatively few lives, cost our nation trillions of dollars, and imperiled the educational and social development of an entire generation. Yet who, exactly, has admitted their errors or paid any serious price for their disastrous “expert advice” and “recommendations”? The unflappable and unrepentant Anthony Fauci has paid no price for his errors, nor has former Planned Parenthood president and WaPo contributor Leanna Wen. Admittedly, I myself am a bit hesitant when it comes to RFK Jr.’s medical assessments and recommendations, which also seem to sometimes lack sufficient evidence and rely more on foregone conclusions about the harmful effects of certain drugs or foods than unbiased, longitudinal research. That said, to accuse him of eroding public distrust in our nation’s medical establishment is risible. RFK Jr. didn’t vitiate the medical establishment’s reputation. They did it to themselves. Much more at the link: https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/15/public-health-destroyed-its-own-credibility-long-before-rfk-jr-arrived/