Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Iran: Will the Power of the Purse Prevail in War?

So, Iran will once again become a nuclear threat to America and her supportive allies? TD

The New York Sun

"Senator Schumer boasts of the Democrats’ plans to end support for our warriors at the front."

Schumer, Donkey Hotey

Article here:Gleeful Chuck Schumer boasts Democrat-led Senate will stop 'wannabe king' Trump with 'legislative razor wire'  "Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries took starkly different postures toward President Trump after their landslide election victory — leaving uncertain the length of fuse until fireworks erupt among the outer-borough-raised trio.

"Schumer outlined an aggressive approach, calling Trump “corrupt” and a “wannabe king” who risks “legislative razor wire” if he isn’t careful.

"Jeffries, who like Schumer is from Brooklyn, side-stepped a reporter’s prompt about the Queens-born Trump’s jabs at his intellect and floated “bipartisan common ground” while downplaying the immediacy of an impeachment effort." . . .

"Schumer swatted down reporter attempts to ask questions, adding: “We are going to work hard to drive costs down with the president or without him. Period.”

"A source who knows Trump and Schumer said both are seasoned and press-savvy communicators and the new dynamics might pressure Trump “not to change, but to do some real business,” adding, “The president can’t help but gravitate to a winner.” More...

 'Power of the Purse': Schumer Indicates Democrats Will Defund Trump's Illegal Iran War | Common Dreams


Schumer after Dems take Senate vows to investigate Trump, 'entangle him in legislative razor wire'

 Just The News


"Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday took a victory lap after his party won control of both chambers of Congress and lashed out at President Trump and fellow Republicans, saying they "squandered" their majority. 

"Republicans received that opportunity two years ago and completely squandered it," the New York lawmaker said on Capitol Hill. "The GOP misread Americans' demand for change as a mandate to do Trump's bidding."

Schumer, who so far has not received a challenge to return as Senate majority leader, said Senate Democrats will focus on making life more affordable for Americans. However, he also delivered a sharp warning to Trump.

"Whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, entangle him in legislative razor wire."    More.

California voters reject voter ID measure that Democratic leaders campaigned against

 

Dark Angel

Just The News   "A ballot measure that would have amended California's constitution to require voters to provide government-issued identification to cast a vote was soundly defeated in Tuesday's midterm election. 

"With an estimated 60% of votes counted Wednesday, the measure had been defeated by 58.6% of the state's voters, according to the Associated Press. 

"In addition to ID requirements, Proposition 39 would have required voters to provide the last four digits of a government-issued identification number to cast a mail-in ballot. 

"Democratic leaders had rallied against the measure, arguing it would amount to voter suppression, whereas the GOP characterized it as a common-sense requirement that's been adopted in more than two dozen states, CalMatters reported. "

Republican bloodbath a reminder elections still are about the economy, first and foremost

 Just The News  

“I don't think we should over analyze it," conservative pollster Rich Baris says. "Republicans were the party that promised to fix the economy and inflation, put America first, ahead of the war lobby and the Washington grifters, and we didn't do it. And they punished us for it. And we deserved it." 

David Hitch

 "Democrats swept elections coast to coast on Tuesday night and seized control of Congress and prized statehouses in the deep red South, as Americans punished Republicans for failing to finish the job of taming inflation and fixing an economy about to be transformed by artificial intelligence.

"Hispanic, young and independent voters who powered Donald Trump’s improbable comeback in 2024 markedly shifted their allegiance to Democrats in the midterms, even putting a Democrat in a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas for the first time in a century and a Hispanic newcomer into the Texas gubernatorial mansion.

"Exit polls showed voters were fed up with high gas prices and inflation overall, and angry that Trump put America into a prolonged conflict with Iran before fixing the inflation he inherited from Joe Biden’s administration.

"Three quarters of voters in Tuesday's election described the U.S. economy as in "rough shape," and 39% said it was the primary reason for how they voted. Forty-four percent said their finances were worse today than when Trump took office.

"In many ways, Tuesday night resembled -- in reverse -- the 1994 election that ousted Democrats from power coast to coast during the Gingrich revolution and set the GOP on its modern path to power over similar frustration about affordability." . . . More.

Vance pins GOP's big midterm losses on Iran war, calls for pivot | Just The News

James Talarico Addresses the Nation After His Senate Victory. His Message Is Unbelievable.

 RedState  "James Talarico is going to be a Texas senator.

"The radical leftist is pivoting hard to the middle after his senate election victory against Texas attorney general Ken Paxton.

"He appeared on Fox News and gave a statement that is quite hard to believe.

"I look forward to working with him for all 31 million Texans."

"If you are wondering who Talarico is talking about, it is President Donald Trump.

"Talarico claims he's ready to work with President Trump, pointing to several issues where he believes Democrats can find common ground.

"He gave Trump credit for doing a better job securing the border, but also pushed for a "pathway to citizenship." That would be ballgame for the Republican Party, and Talarico knows it.

"The Democrat said he also wants to work with Trump on cutting housing regulations, using taxpayer money to build new homes, and legalizing marijuana.

"Well, this would certainly be a first. And it would be particularly astounding given that the radicalized Democrat Party has all but put out a bounty on the sitting president.

"As RedState colleague Teri Christoph reported, impeachment of Trump is all but assured with a Democrat-controlled House and Senate." . . .

Abdul El-Sayed Gave His Victory Speech. He Said Something Absolutely Chilling. 

. . . "He used Arabic religious expressions, including Inshallah, meaning "God willing," and Alhamdulillah, meaning "Praise be to God." The crowd applauded enthusiastically.

El-Sayed grinned smugly throughout the speech. And why not? He has successfully infiltrated the “liberal” Democrat Party and brought his Islamist extremism with him.

El-Sayed received overwhelming support in Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large Arab American and Muslim population.

According to a November 4 report from The Detroit News, unofficial election results showed 82 percent of Dearborn voters backed El-Sayed, compared with 17 percent for Rogers." . . . 

ChatGPT Political lovebirds

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report, Nov 4th, 2026

JWR 

Politico reports that Tuesday mid-term elections across the country set a record for the highest voter turnout in the history of U.S. mid-term elections. The stakes were high for both parties. I am so glad the election's finally over so we can go back to hating each other over the football teams we support.
Added by TD

• The Swing States elections featured pro-Israel free market capitalism in a death match against pro Palestinian sympathies and Socialism. Three networks predicted 3 outcomes. CNN predicted the Democrats would win, Fox News predicted the Repu
blicans will win and TCM aired Gone with the Wind.
• President Trump was interviewed Monday and Trump vowed to be Mr. Veto if the Democrats take control of the House or Senate. Both parties' merchandise describes the standoff perfectly. The Republican Party's tee-shirt reads Leave Me Alone! while the Democratic Party tee-shirt reads No!
• Fox News wise owl Brit Hume warned conservatives Sunday that voters were overwhelmingly concerned over the price of gas and its effect on the price of food. The candidates knew this. Last Saturday night, Republican candidates asked the voters to set their clocks back to before Trump hit Iran.
• Mar a Lago air security received a scare Sunday afternoon when a private Lear jet bound for the Caribbean with 8 passengers plummeted from the sky and crashed not far from Trump's estate. The captain in the cockpit had a Christian name so it was not likely to affect the election in Michigan.
• Joe Scarborough led the roasting of Democrat U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens for going to church in Detroit with GOP Mike Rogers and endorsing him. It was an all-day media witch burning. By nightfall, there was a statue of Haley Stevens in Salem, Massachusetts next to Elizabeth Montgomery's.
• President Trump noted Monday he's done rallies in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. It's always a thrill for him to take the stage when he's introduced. Trump takes great pride in being the only Confederate statue today that's being brought UP.
• President Trump spoke in Ohio and touted the benefits of Trump Accounts which could make every child in America rich by age 28. In addition, Elon Musk just announced he's going to give a share of his company to every kid in America. Not to be outdone, Hillary promised not to kill any of them.
• President Trump officially re-opened the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Monday where he delivered a mid-term election address to the nation. I'd like to think Trump divined a lesson from Abe Lincoln as he stood by the pool. Never attend a play at Ford's Theater if Robert de Niro's on the bill.
• The University of San Francisco dropped its mascot The Dons after 90 years Monday saying the name represents a vestiges of Spanish Colonialism. The name is political poison in California. Candidates named Donald are changing their name to Adolf for a better chance at carrying Hollywood.
• The NFL continues its marketing to Europe this Sunday when the Atlanta Falcons will play the Cincinnati Bengals in Spain, where chaos reigns. Right now the southern half of Spain is overrun with illegal immigrants and the rest of the country speaks Spanish. They might as well play in California.
• Martha Stewart apologized for posting a photo of herself on the front porch of her New York estate dressed up for a Halloween party looking like homeless woman. I don't see why. She's only worth $400 million, so by New York cost-of-living standards, she might not have been in costume at all.
• The Oklahoma City Gazette picked up my newspaper monologues this month which I'm happy to say could give me many chances to perform back home, because over the years I never enjoyed anything more than performing at banquets in Oklahoma. I've entertained 3 governors. I performed for 6.

Communists win

 Don Surber 

"Democrats do not care who wins the next war. They openly cheer Iran, don’t they? My message today is that recess is over. There are no more fun and games. Trump did his best and was thwarted by the RINOs who aid and abet this Soviet takeover."


. . . "In January, the USA will have its first Muslim Brotherhood senator, its first Texas steer senator and its first cousin-loving senator.
"I do not want to hear about Republicans failing to nominate good candidates especially when the Democrat hierarchy selected these losers. The cousin husband was brought in after the party nominated the dude with the Nazi tattoo, who later had to resign or face charges of rape.
"Hakeem Jeffries will become the General Secretary of the Politburo with Chuck Schumer scheduled to become the First Secretary of the Supreme Soviet. Spartacus, aka Cory Booker, may challenge Schumer.
"I’m rooting for Brian Schatz, the Hawaiian eying the job but that’s just so I can goof on that surname. Ralph Lauren said he changed his name from Lifshitz because nobody wants shit in their name. Apparently the senator is OK with having the past tense of shit as his last name.
"The names and the personalities don’t matter because the power resides with the globalists. A trillion dollars a year in trade surpluses gave Red China a fortune to pay off politicians on every continent except Antarctica. Those who push open borders are the ones who sold out.
"And they bought judges by the score as well. Easily half of the 670 or so of our federal district judges are on the dole via spouses and children.
"Consider Judge James Boasberg. His wife, Elizabeth “Liddy” Manson, earns a six-figure salary and founder and chairwoman of the board chair of Meadow Reproductive Health & Wellness.
"Their daughter, Katharine Boasberg, is a lawyer with Partners for Justice, which provides lawyers for illegal aliens." . . .
"One last thing, I often write that the first people evil tyrants attack are the Jews. Always. The rise of anti-Semitism under the guise of a Free Palestine is the tell. This is the result of American schools failing to teach children about the Holocaust. Anyone who calls Gaza a genocide mocks the actual attempt by Nazis to rid the world of Jews."

Did voters just not get enough Trump this election cycle?

A Modest Proposal Explaining the Midterm Rout | The American Spectator

Sarcasm abounds.

. . . “If our people vote,” President Trump said on the eve of the election, “we win in a landslide.” The landslide buried the wrong party.

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,” John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, “The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”

"What might have been if American voters had encountered more Donald Trump this election season? One can only guess. But I do know my Democratic neighbors who hate the president strangely want to see more of him stumping for Republicans in 2028."   

 Will Midterms Release The Real Frankenstein? - James Zumwalt

. . . "As Democrats of leftist colors lecture us on the rules society as a whole need to observe, Speaker Jeffries is now threatening that should Democrats win the midterms, illegals repatriated by Trump will be returned. Thus, Democrats promote not only the violation of our immigration laws but promise a Democrat-empowered U.S. government will facilitate the violation of societal “rules.”

"There is no shortage of examples that demonstrate Democrats’ position: control at all costs, even if the price is our country. Hopefully, the townspeople—i.e., voters—will have the sense to destroy Frankenstein." . . .

Sweep, schweep! - Joan Swirsky    . . . "What have the liberals, leftists, progressives among us demonstrated today — the midterm voting day in the USA — that they want?

  • They want Big Government to take care of them.
  • They want to embrace the noble and ongoing concept of fanatical antisemitism.
  • They want to re-open our borders to all those drug-traffickers and sex-traffickers and jihadists and career criminals whom Democrats have a soft spot for.
  • They want to try to punish those bad ol’ rich guys who run the world — but never the mega-rich globalists who fund their anti-American, anti-freedom campaigns.
  • They want to encourage the coups d’état in Poland and around the world to effectively threaten them into complying with their one-world agenda...or else!

"So goes the pendulum of history, occasionally wonderful for the voting populace but, in this instance, a study in colossal stupidity." . . . 

From what I’ve read, President Trump accepts this vote.  But guess what!  He is still president and still capable of proposing — and hopefully enacting — policies that are good and great for our country.

Haley Stevens: The Decisions We Make 

 . . . "Then came the ads. One, from a group supporting Abdul, tied the cost of groceries to America’s support for Israel. Another, from Abdul’s own campaign, featured Tucker Carlson, whose racist and anti-Black rhetoric has no place in a Democratic campaign. I heard directly from Black voters, Jewish voters, and others about how deeply these messages hurt. They deserved to be heard, not dismissed." She could have been smacked on the head by some senior Democrat.

Candidate Quality Mattered   . . . "The candidates he essentially hand-selected — Ken Paxton in Texas, Nordone in South Carolina, Whatly in North Carolina, to name three — failed miserably." . . .

US Jews remain firmly Democratic as Michigan's race shows fractures | The Jerusalem Post   "The findings indicate that, despite growing divisions within the Democratic Party over Israel and concerns about antisemitism, Jewish voters continued to favor Democratic candidates nationally." . . .

Taqiyya and Deception: The Quran’s Divine Permission to Lie to Non-Muslims

 Report: Islamic Groups Urged Violence, Got $47 Million From Taxpayers

El-Sayed has appeared at a number of the mosques and institutions listed, such as the Islamic Center of Detroit and the Islamic Institute of America.


. . . "[Middle East Forum] captured various kinds of public extremist and anti-American statements. Multiple speakers at certain Islamic institutions have demonized the United States as “the house of shaitan” (Satan), the “great Satan,” or “the belly of the beast,” according to the report. At the Islamic Center of East Lansing, an Arabic speaker prayed: “O Allah, deal with those who besieged them. O Allah, deal with the aggressor Jews. O Allah, count them in number and kill them dispersed, and leave not one of them.” A speaker at the Islamic Center of America prayed that “Zionists” would be “cut … limb from limb.” More than 90 statements “pray for the mujahideen or call for jihad, at 16 of the 36 institutions.”

"The overwhelming lion’s share of the taxpayer funds documented by MEF — more than $40 million — came from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) via the Michigan Department of Education in the form of school lunch dollars distributed to the Islamic Center of Detroit. Other funding sources included the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS), the state of Michigan, and local governments, such as the city of Detroit. The Michigan’s Islamist Pulpits site includes individual pages detailing the statements and (if applicable) funding of each of the Islamic groups. MEF clarified that “each institution received a request for comment before publication,” and their replies are documented in the database.

"Notably CAIR-Michigan received more than $100,000 from the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit. During a talk on the “Dangers of Extremism,” a speaker at the CAIR-Michigan event told the audience:

When someone leaves the fold of Islam or commits treason then it is permissible for them to be killed but even still it’s not your decision or my decision it has to come from the sultan or the imam or the Amir al-Mu’minin, or if a judge, if a hakem or a qadi, then gives the hadd, gives the punishment for this. Just you or I just can’t say, well, someone committed treason, then we go shoot him in the head. This is Islam — respects the law and order. This would be un-Islamic. Islam respects law and order, dear brothers. . . .

Abdul El-Sayed Speaks In Arabic In Victory Speech

 Taqiyya and Deception: The Quran’s Divine Permission to Lie to Non-Muslims - Updated American Standard Version 

. . ."Taqiyya is not some fringe or “misunderstood” cultural quirk. It is a deliberate, Quran-sanctioned doctrine that grants Muslims divine permission to lie, conceal their true beliefs, and deceive non-Muslims whenever doing so protects Islam or advances its cause. This teaching stands at the heart of Islamic interaction with the non-Muslim world, shaping behavior in ways that often remain hidden until circumstances shift in favor of open advancement of the faith. The doctrine operates as a strategic tool embedded within the religious framework, allowing followers to navigate situations of vulnerability by presenting a face that aligns with the expectations of outsiders while maintaining internal loyalty exclusively to Islamic principles." . . .

The Islamic Requirement to Perform Taqiyya and Lie to Non Muslims; Analysis

Remember this beautiful musical parody of the "British Caliphate"?

Footage: 18-year-old Turning Point volunteer violently attacked by grown man outside polling place

 MSN

"When faced with significant anger and aggression, he stayed calm. The only thing left to say is well done. May we all respond to the gathering storm with the same patience, kindness, and firm resolve."

. . . "The 18-year-old, who has not yet been identified, stood silently as the man kept yelling, "You sit there and dare to look me in the face and say I don't know anything?"

"He then lunged at the volunteer, shoved his middle finger into the young man's face, and said, "That's what I know."

"When the conservative activist didn't respond, the senior pulled back his arm and violently slapped him across the face, shouting "f*** you."

"Look at what the left has become.

"When faced with reasoned opposition, they respond with violence. When challenged, they turn the marketplace of ideas into a battlefield.

"A political rival becomes a mortal enemy, and an opposing ideology becomes an existential threat that must be resisted -- violently, if necessary.

"This is what we're up against.

"Throughout the entire exchange, the Turning Point Action volunteer stood completely still. He bore the man's verbal abuse without a word of defense. He refrained from responding in anger.

"And even when assaulted by a man easily three times his age, he remained stoic, impervious to the man's deranged attack." . . .

 ..." the American people have spoken and have proven, not for the first time, that emotions are more powerful than the intellect."

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Isa Casahuga-Lemgruber: How do we explain the casual malice of so many young people?

"How do people like Casahuga-Lemgruber, who both mocked and cheered the killing of Charlie Kirk in a "poem" with no moral decency, come about?"

Patricia McCarthy - American Thinker 

Ms. Isa Casahuga-Lemgruber may learn from the national backlash to her video but, most likely, the fix is in.  She will never be a kind or generous person qualified to raise children or to hold a position of prominence in any community.  

"If one has not heard about this young woman, Isa Casahuga-Lembruger, and her gleeful reading of a poem she wrote and read aloud on the campus of University of Texas at San Antonio at a Turning Point event, get up to speed. 

. . . "Casahuga-Lemgruber is so happily comfortable with her particular brand of evil, she is impervious to the natural reaction of normal people. 

"Her “poem” means to both celebrate and mock the assassination of Charlie Kirk.  She is so confident that her peers are on the same page as she is – hatred of all things essentially American and of people of faith – that she has no clue that she is not the heroine of this little show.  She is certain she will be celebrated for her brazen performance.  And she was, by the handful of fellow students at that event; college students seem to be the dumbest people on the planet these days. 

"Normal people throughout the country, however, were horrified by her depravity.  That is what the open expression of her/their revelry of a fine young man’s murder is, depraved.

"Ms. Casahuga-Lemgruber is the child of privilege, the daughter of immigrant parents, who attended a $30,000 private school. Her mother is from Brazil, her father from Spain.  Both parents are successful, work for name-brand companies, and seemingly wealthy.  Their daughter has had what on paper seems a first-class, expensive education – Catholic private schools all the way." . . . 

Mark Cuban says these 3 college majors will be worthless by 2030

 FinanceBuzz Money  

"For most college students, the point of getting a degree is to land a better job after graduation. Presumably, earning more makes it easier to pay for things and cope with increasing bills. Some degrees have always been more valuable than others, at least according to the job market. And as artificial intelligence (AI) breaks onto the scene, which degrees will remain valuable could change.

"This guide explores Mark Cuban's predictions on which college majors may be worthless in the coming years.

1. Computer science

"I'm going to make a prediction," said Mark Cuban in an interview with AOL in 2017. "In 10 years, a liberal arts degree in philosophy will be worth more than a traditional programming degree."

"As AI tools improve, they can now handle many of the basic tasks once done by entry-level computer programmers. That's making it very difficult to break into this field right now.

"With reams of data entry and spreadsheets to analyze, many traditional accounting jobs may not be around in the coming years. That's because AI tools are increasingly able to handle these tasks efficiently.

"I would not want to be a CPA right now. I would not want to be an accountant right now," said Cuban at the SXSW Conference in 2017. "I would rather be a philosophy major."

2. Accounting

'With reams of data entry and spreadsheets to analyze, many traditional accounting jobs may not be around in the coming years. That's because AI tools are increasingly able to handle these tasks efficiently.

3. Finance

A basic finance degree may not get you very far in the future. Since AI can tackle many of the basic financial analysis tasks that entry-level finance employees did, companies are beginning to turn to AI tools instead of hiring someone for the job.

"No finance. That's the easiest thing; you just take the data, have it spit out whatever you need," said Cuban in a recent interview with Business Insider.

Which degrees will become more valuable? . . . More.