Obama mocks Trump's White House but now a new look at his own reveals what everyone missed

 UK Daily Mail 

 He said: 'I've taken care of the White House. I've fixed it with the finest artisans in the world. The White House is now in the best shape it's been since 1792 when it was built. It's in beautiful shape. You take a look at it, it looks beautiful, and I'm proud to do it.'

. . . "Since returning to the White House last year, President Donald Trump has demolished the East Wing to make way for a 90,000sq ft ballroom, installed a granite helipad on the South Lawn, paved over the lawn of the Rose Garden with a stone patio and erected a 'Walk of Fame.'

"There have been so many new gold embellishments – including a 24-karat trim to crown moldings, doorframes and seals in both the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room – that former President Barack Obama has said he thinks his successor has 'the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.'

"'He should be on HGTV,' Obama said of Trump while stumping at a midterm rally in Ohio last weekend.

"Those jokes brought in a flood of Republican criticisms, like from Vice President JD Vance, who said: 'Obama, without even trying to be, just can't help himself for being super elitist.'

"Here was snooty Obama poking fun at the ever-affordable Cheesecake Factory, a beloved American restaurant chain where diners can gorge themselves on infamously gargantuan portions without breaking the bank (a $12 slice of cheesecake can weigh up to half a pound)." . . .

. . . "It's almost hard to know where to look when you walk in.

"At the 18-foot-tall marble columns? The gilded trim? The tall archways? Or the chandeliers? Perhaps your eyes trail up to the fantastical gold-detailed ceilings. Maybe they fall towards the black-and-white checkered floor." . . .

. . . "Private donations have also funded Trump's $1.9 million Rose Garden makeover, which now resembles the president's West Palm Beach club with its Mar-a-Lago-like yellow umbrellas and white patio furniture." . . .

. . . "He's swapped out the greenery on the mantle of his office for a row of elaborate gold vessels. He's dressed the fireplace, ceiling and crown moldings with bright metallic gold appliqués. He's also heavily decorated the gallery wall with ornate gold frames and decor.

"Trump, for his part, said the White House 'was in terrible shape' until he 'reskinned the building beautifully with the highest, most talented people anywhere in the world.'

"He said: 'I've taken care of the White House. I've fixed it with the finest artisans in the world. The White House is now in the best shape it's been since 1792 when it was built. It's in beautiful shape. You take a look at it, it looks beautiful, and I'm proud to do it.'"

Much more about the Trump changes; do not expect praise for them. - Search

The Morning Briefing: Dems Will 'Protest' Anyway, So Let's Give Them a Good Reason To

PJ Media

"For a few more hours at least, we can hope that Soros has to spend some money."

. . . "For a couple of weeks I've been thinking of the words of Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now: "Someday this war's gonna end." If we're lucky, the "someday" for this midterm slog will arrive this week. Wishful thinking, I know. California might still be counting ballots from 2024.

Both Chris and Catherine wrote great motivational posts yesterday, which you should pass along to any fence-sitters you may know. Fortunately, we don't seem to have as many of them on this side of the aisle as we used to. 

What I want to examine quickly today is the one given in this election: the Democrats will not be happy, no matter what the outcome. They're inherently miserable people, and forever in search of reasons to be aggrieved. 

There's also the fact that their real goal is one-party rule, so no margin of victory is going to satisfy them. Rick wrote last week that Dems are pre-planning a tantrum as a response to any victory that isn't a blowout for them. 

Yesterday, my good friend and partner in thought crime Stephen Green wrote a most sobering column that chronicles some real problems the left might cause should they find themselves in an extended fit of pique. To the surprise of no one, there is Soros money involved in some of it. 

We live in an ever-changing world, but one reliable constant is that the Democrats will always be on their worst behavior. I remarked many times during the God-awful Biden puppet presidency that the Democrats never once acted like they got everything that they wanted in the 2020 election.

Hmmm... maybe they felt guilty about something. Kidding, they'd need consciences and a moral code for that." . . .   More.

Dems Turn to Misogyny Against Haley Stevens, Say She Is Controlled by Her Fiancé | The American Spectator  

In the minds of Democrats, Haley Stevens became a mindless damsel controlled by her romantic partner the second she turned against one radical Democrat…

Oh, Sure. NOW they tell us! Iranian Regime Plans Disruptions and Cyber Attacks on U.S. Election Day –

 PJ Media  

Iran International repeated the Iranian officials’ claim that they didn’t endorse particular candidates, but then made it clear that the Iranians certainly want Democrats to gain seats in Congress:

"The genocidal Iranian regime already urged Americans to vote Democrat in the midterm election, and now it is prepared to do everything possible to ensure that result.

"Notably, an astonishing number of pro-terrorist Arab politicians won elections in Israel last month, some of them under suspicious circumstances.

This is exactly why the Trump administration should have finished off the regime before the midterms. As long as the ayatollahs are in charge of Iran, they present a massive national security threat to the United States and our allies, particularly Israel. We’re not talking about a problem that exists in isolation on the other side of the world. We are talking about a regime that has plants in America, proxies around the world, and a fanatical cultish ideology. Remember, the regime already threatened to activate supporters across America to aid its assassination effort against Donald Trump and sow chaos." . . .

. . . "Unfortunately, the Iranian regime knows that such a large portion of the American population is inclined to blame our country for everything, totally delusional about Islam, and biased toward Trump, that the regime doesn’t even have to have plausible propaganda. It just needs to use the right catchphrases to inflame gullible Americans.

"Don’t let irregularities or sudden issues on Election Day discourage you. Don’t allow the Iranian propaganda to fool you. Voting for Democrats wouldn’t end any wars; it would simply put us at a disadvantage in fighting them." . . . More.

'He's Not Going Moderate': Undercover Tapes Catch Talarico's Inner Circle Admitting His Act

The key is honesty and sincerity. If you can fake that you'll win every time. TD

RedState 

"Matt Menard, identified as the father of Talarico’s girlfriend Brianna Menard, went further. He told the undercover journalist not to “put too much stock into border security comments,” described Talarico as “not going moderate” and “a progressive,” said he supports a pathway to citizenship for everyone, and claimed the candidate would “absolutely stop” current ICE enforcement tactics if Democrats took control of Congress. " 

ChatGPT

"James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group has once again gained access inside a Democrat Senate campaign, releasing undercover footage Monday of people close to Texas Senate nominee James Talarico describing his moderate public messaging as a calculated play for red-state voters. The recordings, released the day before Election Day, capture a county Democrat chair, the purported father of Talarico’s girlfriend, and a regional organizer openly distinguishing between what Talarico says on camera and what they say he actually believes.

Williamson County Democrat Party Chair Kim Collins Gilby is heard saying Talarico “will not vote to close… the border” and has spoken of putting “a welcome mat out at our border.” She also suggested his CNN town hall comments on transgender surgeries for minors were intended “to make himself appear more centrist,” adding that “he’s very liberal” and that “we’ve got to get elected so that we can do something.” 

On the campaign trail and in high-profile settings such as the CNN town hall, he has presented himself as pragmatic and open to stricter border measures, declaring “I’m a border security Democrat” and criticizing the Biden administration for “not securing the border.”

TALARICO TAPES: Williamson County Democratic Chair and James Talarico’s Girlfriend’s Family Reveal to O’Keefe That Talarico Is Portraying Himself as a Moderate to Win Over Texas Voters, but Privately Holds Very Progressive Positions on Border Security, Immigration, Abortion, and Transgender Surgeries for Minors “James [Talarico], he's not going middle.” “He's [Talarico] definitely going to play the middle ground because he's in Texas. but he is a lot more progressive on it [abortion].” “Don't put too much stock into border security comments…“He [Talarico] and I have spoken about these issues.” “He [Talarico] probably said that to try to make himself appear more centrist. He's very liberal…but we've got to get elected, so we can do something.” @jamestalarico @texasdemocrats @wilcotnyd @wilcotxgov @kimg_atx

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 2, 2026" . . .   More. 

ChatGPT

El-Sayed's clueless answer made strongest case against his own position

Rooke: El-Sayed's clueless answer made strongest case against his own position   . . . "During the interview, El-Sayed was asked how he squares his self-professed pro-Constitution, pro-individual rights views with issues like transgender athletes. His answer was telling, as it exposed a fundamental reason protective parents shield their children from technology.

Douthat: "What about the rights, what about the rights of parents to control over their children's education? Because a lot of places where there's tension between Islam and Muslim voters and what I'm calling cultural liberalism are around issues like what is taught in school? What happens with transgender kids on sports teams and so on, right? Like, these are places where rights are in conflict, right? What do you think happens there?"

El-Sayed: "The whole world, all the world's information in your pocket. The notion somehow that you are going to prevent your child from being exposed to something that you may find disagreeable, and that that is going to be because of school, is so profoundly outdated because, of course, you have all the information and they have all the information. So here's the thing about it. I think it's really important for us to recognize that the free flow of information is actually a beautiful thing. It's really important, and the most important thing you can do is not try to protect a person from seeing a thing. It's about trying to make sure that as you coach your kid through the world that you are engaging with them and saying, 'Here's what I believe. Here's what you may see in the world. You get to make your choices about who you're going to be in the world.' But that's going to require us to make do with the fact that, like, the internet is a real thing." . . .Open the Youtube video

Lifelong Democrat voting Republican as Abdul El-Sayed fear keeps him ‘up at night’

Diplomat who cheered suicide bombing that killed 241 US Marines just attended El-Sayed banquet  . . . "Charara's other posts include praising a drone attack on American soldiers at Al-Tanf base in Syria that occurred in 2021, for which Iran and Hezbollah were said to have been responsible.

"In October, Charara attended the Arab-American Civil Rights League's annual gala in Dearborn, where he stood for pictures alongside hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian from The Young Turks.

"Why do we tolerate this person in our country?

"And just as importantly: Why would anyone vote for a man who has close ties to a terrorist sympathizer?

"These people are laughing in our faces as they unapologetically, openly condemn us as evil infidels they wish to rule over.

"Michigan is becoming an Islamic state and could elect the first Muslim member of the Senate today." . .  .

Abdul El-Sayed: A Muslim Brotherhood Puppet and a Grave National Security Threat   "On NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he would “set the record straight” on his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

"'No,” El-Sayed quickly replied, before clarifying that neither he nor his family have any ties to the international Sunni Islamist network.

"El-Sayed is lying. The Democratic Senate hopeful is running as the most thinly veiled Trojan horse in American political history — on behalf of the Brotherhood and the Islamism it embodies." . . .

Let us pray the contemptible student reciting her Charlie Kirk poem does not reflect the average American of her generation today, of all days. TD

Posts on the midterms

 Abdul El-Sayed's Election Eve Nightmare Just Got Even Worse – RedState

Another Michigan Democrat supports Mike Rogers! Former Democratic congresswoman Hanson Clark publicly supported Haley's decision, expressing her support for Mike Rogers and stating she would vote for him. Democratic support for Mike Rogers reached a record amount. 

Barack Obama’s DOJ Found Evidence of Ilhan Omar’s Sham Marriage and Buried It for a Decade - Renewed Right

"Let that be the lesson: commit immigration fraud early enough, and the Obama Justice Department will give you a pass. But the statute of limitations problem may not protect Omar after all."

El-Sayed’s Answer on Men in Girls’ Locker Rooms Is the Worst Thing Any Sane Parent Could Imagine – RedState . . . "When asked about conflicts over transgender kids on sports teams, El-Sayed argued that such concerns are largely manufactured.

"They aren't. They're very real. There are countless examples of biological males either hurting females in sports or exposing themselves to young women and girls in locker rooms. To be clear, there are three stages the Left uses when trying to downplay horrific things — 1) It's not a real thing, 2) It happens, but it is extremely rare, and 3) It's real, but here's why it's actually a good thing." . . . 

Uncle Paul's Parodies

Victor Davis Hanson: The Final Countdown to the Midterms

"There’s no doubt that Donald Trump will be impeached, and there’s no doubt that everybody around him will be subpoenaed. There will be investigations. He will not be able to get an appointee confirmed by a partisan Senate should he lose it. But if we look at the Clinton-Obama precedents, it didn’t bother them a bit." 

 Lifelong Democrat voting Republican as Abdul El-Sayed fear keeps him ‘up at night’  "Those are the words of lifelong Democrat Mark Whitefield who is deeply concerned about the prospect of Abdul El-Sayed winning Michigan's upcoming Senate race.

"He outlined one of the major hurdles facing El-Sayed in his quest to beat Republican Mike Rogers on Nov. 3: a growing fear among the state's Jewish community over his past comments.

• Nightmare for Abdul El-Sayed as Democratic rival's fiancé backs Republican
• Democrat chasm widens as progressive El-Sayed wins in vital swing state primary

"Whitefield is the former president of Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan's Oakland County, which was targeted by terrorist Ayman Mohamed Ghazali in March." . . .

What They Never Tell You About the Days After Gettysburg

Root History

"On the morning of July 4th, 1863, Robert E. Lee's army was retreating from Gettysburg — and the town of 2,400 people woke up to approximately 50,000 casualties scattered across three square miles of Pennsylvania farmland. Nine wounded men for every single resident. This video isn't about the battle itself. It's about what happened after the guns fell silent, and what it actually took to survive the aftermath.

"We cover the overwhelmed medical system that still couldn't keep pace with the volume of wounded despite Jonathan Letterman's newly reformed ambulance corps, the civilians who turned their homes, churches, and barns into makeshift hospitals, the nearly 4,000 dead horses that created a public health crisis of their own, and the months-long burial crisis that left hundreds of Confederate soldiers in unmarked graves for over a decade. It traces the creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, the reburial effort that began that October, and how all of it led directly to the 272 words Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19th, 1863 — words written specifically to answer what that much loss demanded to be answered. "This is the human cost behind the casualty numbers, and what a country does when it isn't prepared for the scale of what it just survived."

Watch Dem Get Angry as Host Calmly Corrects His Lie, It Didn’t End Well for Him

The Rubin Report

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of “Raging Moderate’s” Scott Galloway grilling Abdul El-Sayed with facts that destroy his narrative about Israel committing a genocide in Gaza.

UPDATE: Former El-Sayed staffer among group indicted for antisemitic threats and vandalism

"One of Abdul El-Sayed’s former campaign staffers was among the group of anti-Israel activists who were indicted for terrorizing members of Michigan’s Jewish community and University of Michigan officials.

"Mariam Odeh, 24, was indicted in June for vandalizing the homes of University of Michigan administrators in an attempt to coerce them into cutting ties with Israel, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan. Odeh and the seven other activists she was indicted alongside have all pleaded not guilty.

"Odeh, from Dearborn, Mich., was paid almost $750 as an hourly employee for the El-Sayed campaign, the Detroit News first reported, citing internal campaign documents.

“Upon discovering an error in reviewing our HR files, we’d like to correct information on her [Odeh’s] employment for transparency. She was hired in February as an hourly employee and left the campaign on April 15. The campaign issued one missed hourly back payment in May that will appear on our next FEC filing,” El-Sayed’s spokeswoman Roxie Richner told the Detroit News back in June.

"Odeh allegedly participated in vandalism and protests that included putting fake corpses on the lawns of faculty members, as well as spray painting anti-Israeli sentiments on the driveway of the president of the university at the time, according to prosecutors.

"Federal officials announced Friday the addition of four more alleged co-conspirators to the indictment." . . .

Charlie Kirk and First Amendment abuse

 What percentage of these loathsome people with microphones and bullhorns are women and why? Why do we hear a chorus of young female voices cheering every evil act?  TD

Susan Quinn - American Thinker

"Why should these comments be acceptable under the protection of the First Amendment? The fact that none of his descriptions of Kirk were true can’t be countered."

"We’ve seen and heard plenty of obnoxious, hateful comments over the last few years, usually directed at the Right by the Left. But the latest revelation of a smear against Charlie Kirk, former CEO of Turning Point USA, by a spoiled and ignorant college student, enraged me on multiple levels.

"The revelation came out over one year after the original rant. The young woman was Isabela Casahuga Lemgruger, 19, a student at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA). Everything about her “poem” that she recited was obscene.

"There have been other people, including teachers, who have shown their hatred of Charlie Kirk through their reprehensible social media comments. But Lemgruger stood out as particularly egregious. (After the brief introduction in the video, her comments are only a couple of minutes in length.)

"Why does this incident in particular rank so high on the evil scale? First, the young woman is an immigrant from a very wealthy family that has lived in nine different countries; her lack of appreciation for this country and its laws was tragic. Second, her sneering veneer was sickening, considering that she was celebrating the death of a principled, Christian husband and father of two children. Third, she was gleeful about her opportunity to denigrate an honorable man who had just been killed. And finally, her advocating her effort to demonstrate the First Amendment was a travesty. 

"As if her display of arrogance were not abysmal enough, the political commentator to whom she spoke, Christian Collins, demonstrated his ineptness in countering her attack. His short rejoinder was to say that he would pray for her." . . . More.

SMUG/ ARROGANT/ PRIVILEGED: Synonyms  Words appearing most in articles about Isabela Casahuga Lemgruger

There Is Nothing Progressive About Progressives

 Daniel Winston - American Thinker

"To call yourself progressive is to claim the future as your permanent address and to assign everyone who disagrees with you a seat somewhere in the moral lowlands. It is an annexation of time itself, performed before the argument begins. But a claim that large invites an obvious test.

"Take the movement’s central commitments one at a time and ask of each whether it carries us further from the arrangements that humanity spent centuries and oceans of blood escaping, or back toward them. Run that test honestly, and the results are close to uniform. Nearly everything the contemporary left says is regressive in its essence. Not merely mistaken, not merely excessive. Regressive.

"Sir Henry Maine wrote in 1861 that the movement of progressive societies had been a movement from status to contract, from a world in which your position was fixed at birth by blood and caste to a world in which you were judged by what you did. That sentence contains much of what the modern world achieved through actual progress.

"Now consider a hiring regime that sorts applicants by ancestry, a university that admits by lineage-adjusted formula, a conference that assigns speaking authority by pigmentation. That is not the frontier of human freedom but a caste system with a diversity officer, installed by people who loudly imagine themselves the heirs of the abolitionists.

"Consider what has happened to speech. Every free society had to fight its way out from under blasphemy law. Progressives have rebuilt the ancient apparatus and renamed the parts.

"There is a body of doctrine that may not be questioned. There is a category of statement punished not because it is false but because it is profane to the nouveau religion. There is excommunication, which we now call cancellation. There is a Holy Office, and it now calls itself a misinformation desk. There is the public confession, in which the accused stands before the assembly and recites his failings in the approved vocabulary, hoping to be readmitted. Mao’s cadres called that a struggle session. Nobody calls it progress except the people running it." . . . More.

Daniel Winston is a marriage and family therapist who studied for decades with Dr. David Schnarch. He runs twelve-hour intensives for couples, has trained more than 150 senior therapists worldwide in the Crucible Approach, and volunteers as an emergency medic and on a search-and-rescue team.

Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting [RCV] Experiment Takes a Sinister Turn

"Democrat Mary Peltola’s scheme to dupe voters in the Senate race vindicates critics of ranked-choice voting."

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

They long ago declared war on election integrity and applaud Mary Peltola for duping the voters. Even if she loses they will ignore the lesson that Alaska teaches us about RCV.

"If you look at the history of Alaska’s elections since it was admitted to the Union in 1959, it becomes obvious that it is not a “blue” state. The last time Alaska’s voters cast their ballots for a Democrat in a presidential election was 1964, and they haven’t elected a Democratic Senator since 2008. Likewise, only three Democrats have won Alaska’s at-large House seat in the last 67 years. This is to be expected considering that Democrats constitute only 12 percent of the state’s electorate. Still, in 2020, they managed to dupe the voters into scrapping their traditional election process and replacing it with an “improved” system that would somehow reform campaign financing — Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV).

"If the Democrats had any genuine interest in honest elections, they would have avoided RCV like the plague. It is a system that is quite deliberately designed to disfranchise as many voters as possible while creating chaos and confusion among election officials. This was clearly illustrated by the results of Alaska’s first full scale experiment with it during the 2022 midterms: A state where Democrats are a tiny minority and which President Trump won by double digits in all three of his White House runs somehow elected Democrat Mary Peltola to its at-large seat in the House. Peltola was kicked out by the voters after only one full term, but RCV may allow her to seize the U.S. Senate seat currently held by GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.

"This seems implausible until one grasps how RCV works: Voters rank candidates in a given race according to preference. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the votes cast on the first ballot, a series of elimination rounds redistributes the votes until one candidate finally reaches a majority. If some voters have marked their ballots for only a single candidate, and that candidate fails to reach the final round, their ballots are thrown away. This quite literally disfranchises those voters because their ballots are not counted in the final tally. In 2022, Mary Peltola finally crossed the 50 percent line 16 days after Election Day. This is not what Alaskans thought they had voted for in 2020. As Kimberly Strassel wrote at the time in the Wall Street Journal

:

Two years ago, left-leaning outside groups quietly funded Alaska liberals (posing under the vanilla title Alaskans for Better Elections) backing a ballot initiative to do away with the state’s perfectly good election system. It was replaced with a “top four” primary and a ranked-choice general election. Most Alaskans didn’t know what they were voting for, since the initiative was a mind-numbing 25 pages of single type, and its boosters tucked the voting part into the garble. The initiative instead led with a provision claiming it would eliminate “dark money.” . . .

. . . ""The spread of RCV will … multiply opportunities for fraud and induce Americans to vote for candidates they would not support under ordinary circumstances." More.

Texas Judge to Lawyer: Your ‘White Mediocrity’ Can’t Handle ‘Black Excellence’

Could her favorite TV choices be Joy Reid and MSNOW?

Legal Insurrection  

"Anti-white racism exists, and this case strikes me as a prime example. Most of us would agree that Brown’s behavior crossed a line and demands accountability."

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown

"Texas lawyer Ezra Young filed a misconduct complaint against U.S. District Judge Ada Brown after she subjected him to a series of despicable racial insults during an April hearing in Dallas. Young represented a black female professor who filed suit after being denied tenure.

According to the hearing transcript obtained by Bloomberg Law, Brown, a black and Native American woman, said, “I think what’s happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?” She added, “You should write that down. I mean, you — I’m — you look like a White man, right?”

Young politely informed her that he was not white, but Latino.

“Well, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?” she asked.

“I’m fair-skinned, Your Honor, yes.”

Brown replied, “You’re the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York.”

In another exchange, Brown alleged that Young had engaged in “racial bullying” of black attorneys involved in the case." . . .More.