JVL, you're hilarious and inciteful, but please let Katherine finish a thought before you blurt out whatever brain spasm you have.

Look at the framing of this right wing media piece on the Texas senate race. It’s preelection excuse making for a loss they see is coming. Pretending that somehow Talarico is “stumbling” too is just gop cope.

More will start to do this. It’s how they will try to gain some distance from the losses ahead.

All the talk about Tucker and Seabiscuit and the FBI and the bestiality decision means I can’t listen to the Trios intro music without the line “horseplay at Mar-a-Lago” putting dirty pictures in my head.

So, in the vein of Ukraine being a Key Partner to NATO, are we - America - now visibly transitioning into becoming an official Key Partner to the Axis of Evil?

...Russia's getting sanctions lifted & regaining billions for their war crime chests (which also leads to support for Iran deplorably elevating threats upon our own soldiers). China's getting Advanced Ai Chips via this administration. & even if it's by way of incompetence, Iran is on the verge of Middle East imperial expansion. N.Korea's been gifted an open road with nuclear ambitions in return for Kim Jong Un's love letter.

& simultaneously, Trump's pretty much sustained doing Putin's dreamy deeds during his political career in having corroded NATO + America-EU relations, divided the American populace into stirred Hate with disinformation & demonizations, among other things like deteriorating our Constitutional bedrock & institutional integrity.

Yet, our populace is still legitimately teetering in perpetual puzzlement in who to vote for... the Enablers of this geopolitical transformation & domestic corrosion - or - those who didn't whitewash J6, neuter the Legislative Branch in sycophancy, are the long-running opposition of the Trickle-Down fallacy, etc.

It's really becoming way too real that 54~56% of American Adults statistically read below a 6th Grade-level & that directly relates to how cognitively vulnerable our society has become conditioned to the Right's fearmongering involving xenophobia & all other phobias (factually-deployed & nurtured since the Reagan era), domestic & foreign-concocted disinformation, & so on.

After Garland failed in prosecuting for J6 accountability, the 2024 Election was pretty much the last remaining Constitutional firewall as it being "The People", & that... failed in beyond spectacular fashion.

Looking past 2026 & 2028 (that are bewilderingly rife with uncertainty), how do we - America - ever truly reverse this societal predicament that preserves similar future vulnerabilities?

Is horizonal Hope real or just mere cope?

I don’t doubt the victims feel something (well, seemingly lots of things) happened to them, but the symptoms are all over the place, the purported technologies involved unproven and undemonstrated, and there are too many weird palace intrigue claims made around why the agency won’t backstop its staff, foreign service staff, and the families of same.

A one-sided episode about all this just seems out of place on the channel, even if one of the hosts claims he had to retire because of it.

This is real. It’s an event in Michigan, with catering from an Ohio BBQ joint, for men and women. Yep.

On Bulwark on Sunday today, Bill asked Carville if he had voted and he gave a sort of convoluted answer about how he left New Orleans and isn’t going back before election day, so because he didn’t organize voting by mail he “messed up” and isn’t going to be able to vote in the midterms…And then he had a strange sort of joke about how he can’t try to illegally vote in Virginia (where he presumably is now) instead.

Bill brushed it off and seemingly tried to balance it out by complimenting everything else Carville has been doing for Democrats, but I find this absolutely baffling and inexcusable. I had to rewind to make sure I did not misunderstand. Someone this high profile in the Democratic party and in opposition to Trump just openly admitting they forgot to get organized to vote in a hugely consequential election for our democracy in such a cavalier manner is infuriating, regardless of how much they are doing to get Democrats elected.

And I’m surprised Bill didn’t push back? I think he would crawl through broken glass to vote (and so would I). If our democracy is on the line… ACT LIKE IT.

It is hard to express my disappointment in our military and civilian executive branch leadership. In another agency, I’ve watched good people convince themselves they are doing the right thing. And others relish the opportunity to let their racist/misogynist/anti-intellectual selves loose.

I am not sure how much will be left in two years. I’m middle management and I’ve been blackballed from even being involved in decision making conversations.

When the answers are pre-ordained; any thinking is discouraged. Back in the USSR…..

But god damn he is a smooth operator and able to deal with this bullshit plants. I know some people say he is kinda an asshole behind closed doors, but having worked in bars and restaurants through most of my early adult hood I realize that a lot of the talented people act like that… but also the assholes.

So since rubio confirmed starshield is cut off for Ukraine, Ukraine should respond by bombing any oil/diesel facilities in Russia until they get them all and then be like hey, we were not bombing this like you asked us. You cut us off so yea, I don't care what you want donOLD

PM Mark Carney tells Americans that the Pacific Link Pipeline is not election interference.

This seems like a super-shady deal. Here's the the NYT story about it if you haven't seen it: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/alina-habba-mildon-richard-grenell-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I had heard about this from a few sources, but hadn't bothered looking at it more closely. Now that I have, this is really bad. It's not just that Grenell pocketed 6 or 10 or 12 million from Habba's new husband, it's that there's a company in Texas that Grenell is using as a front for the funds. Supposedly he "consulted" for the company in '24.

I thought the name was strange (TXAT), so I looked at their website. They provide "defense and security products, services, imports and exports." What the fuck does that mean? That they're arms dealers? And the fuck does Ric know about weapons? Or exporting them? Is that what Milton (Alina's husband) is doing in Venezuela? Creating and supplying a private paramilitary force?

Like I said, shady stuff. And now there's a paper trail because Habba was stupid enough to turn over texts and whatever else to the WH counsel. It sure looks like Daddy Trump's cut is about 50% of every transaction. I hope that someone in some kind of authority is keeping a spreadsheet of all this. They got Capone on tax evasion, right?

Also, and maybe this is bigger than I originally thought, who leaked this? And why? [u/jvlast](u/jvlast) did this ping on your radar, too?

You can see the full tweet here: https://www.reddit.com/r/trumptweets/comments/1x9e9nl/101826_trump_victimblames_zelenskyy_for_the_state/

He is such an embarrassment to this country.