Grandmaster Cafe
—Ace
Fossils look like baby xenomorphs
The creature is Australian Crinoid (Jimbicrinus Bostocki)
A pure white squirrel.
ICYMI: Dog packs for the big trip.
Man saves a baby swan from a fishing line, and the swan-mom and swan-dad thank him.
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Trump Blows Up Another Venezuelan Drug-Smuggling Vote While Rand Paul Cries His Short Little Heart Out
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Trump blew up more drug smugglers.
The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.Those who died in the strike were aboard the vessel, and no U.S. forces were harmed, the Republican president said in a social media post. It's the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as Trump's administration has asserted it's treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the strike Tuesday morning, said Trump, who released a video of it, as he had in the past. Hegseth later shared the video in a post on X.
Trump said the strike was conducted in international waters and "Intelligence" confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with "narcoterrorist networks" and was on a known drug trafficking route.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
The savages who wracked campuses with vandalism and violence, supposedly to compel a ceasefire and "stop the genocide," say that they're not going to stop the vandalism and violence.
Because "peace" was never the goal -- only Islamic Conquest.
[LATimes:]"While the news of a ceasefire is welcome, nothing fundamentally changes at UCLA or colleges in general," said Dylan Kupsh, a doctoral computer science student at UCLA who was part of an encampment last year that was attacked by pro-Israel vigilantes.
"Our university is still invested in the oppression of Palestine. Students won't rest until the university divests," said Kupsh, who has faced student discipline procedures for participating in actions that the university alleges violated campus policies...
Amanda, a student at USC who participated in pro-Palestinian encampments, said concerns remain on her campus.
"We see that our school, like all the others, is very worried about being seen as antisemitic by the government, so they are even stricter about protests and speech than they used to be," she said.
Speaking of Islamic Conquest, Islamic propagandist Christiane Amanapour claimed that the Israelis held illegally as hostages by Hamas terrorists for two years were treated better than "the average Gazan."
See, you can't blame Hamas for taking hostages because Israel is holding all of Gaza hostage, don't you know, and Hamas treats its hostages better than Israel treats its hostages.
CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour claimed Israeli hostages, who were tortured and starved for two years by Hamas, were treated better than Gazans."They're probably being treated better than the average Gazan because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had," Amanpour said Monday morning on CNN News Central.
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Videos released over the past two years have shown malnourished Israeli hostages enduring brutal treatment. Survivors have said they were starved, tortured, electrocuted, and forced to dig their own graves. One freed hostage, Ron Krivoi, said "ordinary Gazans" beat him. Another, Evyatar David, was forced to dig his own grave in a Hamas propaganda video released in August.
Yes But Jews.
NBC "News" attempted the same gambit, claiming that Israel's capture of terrorist and battlefield fighters is exactly like Hamas taking civilian prisoners at a music festival.
"I remember distinctly a UN official already describing Gaza as a graveyard for Palestinian children and here we are two years later, nearly 20,000 children dead and much needed aid. They have nothing to go back to, but they have their land. And for Palestinians, boy, that is what they have fought for -- for -- for decades. I myself right now am outside Ofer prison. This is the largest prison in the West Bank."...
"But over to Gaza, 1,700 Palestinians detained in Gaza will be released. They are in some cases minors, doctors, nurses, journalists who have never been charged. It's really important for people to remember that they've been held under what's called administrative detention. It's a controversial practice that allows Israel to detain people for an indefinite period of time without charging them. These people do not know why they have been detained and so, in the eyes of many Palestinians, you ask them, they consider those people held without charge also as hostages. And Palestinian officials will tell you that they believe Israel has been arresting them, arresting as many as they can to gather to amass as many bargaining chips as possible for these negotiations."
This little angel didn't do nuffin'. He is a Gentle Giant who was just turning his life around when the Racist Israeli Police arrested him (for ten bombings including of a schoolbus which killed seven children).
Human disaster area Alec Baldwin crashed his car while illegally passing a truck on the right and immediately blamed the other driver.
Newsmax has obtained exclusive dashcam footage that appears to contradict Alec Baldwin's account of how he and his brother Stephen Baldwin were involved in a car crash Monday afternoon.
The 1-minute, 29-second front-facing video, taken from the commercial truck Alec Baldwin claims cut him off, shows the truck making a legal right turn onto Montauk Highway in East Hampton, New York, before Alec Baldwin's white Range Rover comes into view -- and moments later, slams into a tree along the roadside.
The footage begins with the truck exiting a parking lot and making a routine right turn.
Roughly 30 seconds in, Alec Baldwin's vehicle appears to attempt to pass the truck on the right, before veering onto the shoulder and striking a large tree head-on.
The video then captures the aftermath, including the Range Rover's crumpled front end.
In a video posted to Instagram late Monday, Alec Baldwin claimed a "garbage truck the size of a whale" cut him off, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision.
"To avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I hit a big fat tree and crushed my car -- my wife's car," he said.
But the dashcam footage obtained by Newsmax tells a different story.
The truck Alec Baldwin blamed for "cutting him off" does not appear to impede his path.
Instead, the footage shows Alec Baldwin's vehicle attempting to maneuver around the truck after it had already completed its turn.
There is no visible indication that the truck forced Alec Baldwin from his lane, nor any sudden obstruction requiring evasive action. Seconds later, his SUV loses control and crashes into the tree.
He's not being investigated, of course.
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CNN: Sadly, The "Male Gaze" Is Back, and Heterosexual Men Are Attracted to Attractive Women Once More
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Colin Duffy @TheRightDuffOct 13
Leftism, at its core, is nothing more than deeply internalized jealousy of people who are more traditionally attractive, socially competent, physically capable, or financially productive.
Get ready to hear some Home Truths you haven't heard every single day from the debut of Ally McBeal.
This summer, I got cultural whiplash.
As a child of the '90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother's and grandmother's generations' fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social misogyny.
In the past decade in particular, I saw the evidence of progress in my media diet. The movies, shows, books and advertisements I consumed were increasingly giving women a seat at the table. Heroin chic fell away, and body positivity entered the fashion world.
Those are the only two options: Heroin chic (which, by the way, has not been a trend since the mid-nineties, and was barely a trend even then) or "body positivity," meaning the celebration of morbidly obese women (and never obese men or even short men).
Stories about a woman stealing your man were traded for celebration of the "girl's girl" who resisted the competition for men's attention.
Yes we know. Hollywood has avoided romance -- I mean, heterosexual romance -- for fifteen years due to the demands of feminists/political lesbians who insist that no woman should ever fall in love with a man.
And when my husband and I got married earlier this year, our vision of what our life could be included wide-ranging possibilities, influenced in part by the movies and shows we grew up with. We saw, read and listened to stories of involved fathers, successful mothers and well-matched partners who supported one another.It seemed like women were taking a deeper breath without such heavy cultural restrictions.
I have a sneaking suspicion that her "wide-ranging possibilities" are actually an extremely narrow range of woke-approved possibilities.
From women fighting to end child marriage in Africa to women demanding equal pay, to women teaching other women to love their bodies regardless of shape, color or size, women are empowering women all over the world.
There it is: the "wide-ranging possibilities." Current Year Netflix.
Then there was a shift.
Enter the heroes -- Sydney Sweeney's calcium cannons.
Was it around the 2024 presidential election? Or since the overturn of Roe v. Wade? Maybe when men's rights activists pushed back against #MeToo? Whatever the catalyst, a change in the political environment seemed to connect with a social change that brought back narrow, and at times constrictive, ideas of womanhood depicted in media.
She claims this is a "constrictive" vision, when it fact it is simply allowing "wide-ranging possibilities" that she and her hysterical neurotic lunatic ideologues made forbidden for fifteen years.
The recent rise of weight loss medications coincided with social media influencers sharing ways to get smaller and no longer celebrating bodies of all sizes.Advertisements followed suit, making men's desire once again a dominating factor in how stories are told, and how women are portrayed.
How had these discarded ideas made their way back into circulation? Didn't we all agree we were through with them?
LOL. No we didn't. You just #cancelled pretty women without asking the guys about it or the conventionally-attractive women that you shamed out of the public square.
The culprit, I have learned, is the male gaze.
The problem is always the male gays.
And the female gays are even worse.
It was always there, but now it has stepped back into the spotlight.The male gaze came roaring back this summer.
American Eagle ---- whose partner brand Aerie has been known for marketing underwear to women with imagery that celebrated stretch marks, cellulite and a range of body sizes -- ran a controversial ad campaign starting in July. The ads sell jeans to women featuring actor Sydney Sweeney, who many men see as a sex symbol, insinuating the clothing would make men find them more attractive.
The horror of selling clothing with the suggestion that you might look better in a particular cut of dress!
..."Most typically, the male gaze is about representing women in media solely to satisfy heterosexual men," said Dr. Linda Tuncay Zayer, professor of marketing and John F. Smith, Jr. Chair in Business Administration at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago.
In movies and entertainment watched primarily by men, then yes, I think such fare should "satisfy" men by pleasing them. I know that the idea that any man in the world might take pleasure in anything is toxic and horrifying to you.
You left-wing lunatic bitches and stuff your crap with all the 300 pound diabetic amputees that you like. (Sorry, female Morons, I've got to look out for the lads first and foremost.)
If you are observing women in movies, TV, fashion, social media and marketing and they don't feel as fully materialized as their male counterparts, that is the male gaze."The woman's value is reduced in so far as existing for pleasure or basically an object," Zayer said.
It's Bond girls. And a long, lingering shot panning up a woman's body in an advertisement for soda. It's when an action movie accessory is running through explosions in tiny shorts and flowing curled hair before collapsing helplessly in the hero's arms. And a social media star making a recipe while all dolled up and explaining her steps in a soft, sultry voice.
What is amazing about this piece is that it's so Basic Bitch. She is explaining to us the concept of "the male gaze" in the Year of Our Lord 2025. We already heard all of this absurd anti-human bullshit in 1998.
But this world-beater imagines she's breaking new ground here.
I like how they always claim that James Bond girls are just for "the male gaze" and have no agency. It's such an empty-headed cliched trope. What's the last James Bond movie these bimbos actually watched?
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The male gaze has always been around -- art in the eye of the male beholder -- but the term came into modern existence as a feminist theory coined by film critic Laura Mulvey in 1975.
Yes, so why are you telling us about it fifty years later?
Her next article will be about the Miracle Fastener: Velcro.
Although it started as a lens through which to view film, Mulvey specifically calling out Marilyn Monroe's appearance in "The River of No Return" and movie director Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," it has expanded to encompass cultural perspectives that keep men's stories, experiences and interest as the societal priority and treat women as objects rather than active participants.
In entertainment primarily consumed by men, yes, men will be the most important characters, the stories will be appealing to men, and the POV will reflect men's assumptions.
Whose assumptions should they reflect? Lunatic feminists?
You have your bullshit chick flick nonsense where the female characters are the heroes and the male lead is merely the object of desire to be won. No one bothers you about that.
But you are determined to Colonize Men's Spaces.
The male gaze includes stories told about women in relation to a male character (think wife, daughter, victim) and media in which the camera angles and visual storytelling make the audience feel like they are viewing the women from a heterosexual male's perspective, Zayer added.
In a James Bond movie?! How awful for you.
It may even be hard to recognize when media is coming from the male gaze because it is so pervasive, Zayer said. "We're kind of a goldfish in the water where this is part of our culture," she added.As you try to identify it, Zayer stresses the male gaze is not just about the way something looks -- it's about power. And media matters.
Have you noticed that this world-beater has located and interviewed one single "expert"?
And here's her preference: All movies and TV shows and advertisements should be directed by the female gaze.
The dominance of the male gaze hasn't gone unchecked. Storytellers have been presenting alternative ways of viewing women for many years.
Often when women are shown as sexy or sexual on screen, it is a performance for men and doesn't include their own search for pleasure or complex storylines. On the other hand, there is the female gaze, with shows and movies like "Bridgerton" and "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" demonstrating how women can be sexual without being objectified.
Mothers and daughters weren't accessories to the men in their lives when Greta Gerwig joined the ranks of the few female Academy Award-nominated directors -- for the 2017 film, "Lady Bird." The film's focus on the mother-daughter relationship helped audiences explore coming of age and the experience of womanhood.
Related articleOpinion: The female gaze is taking over page and screen, and it is hot
I just wanted to include that link for a related article. It gives the game away. Equality is not sought -- domination is the goal.
...Take the Bechdel test, coined by cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel in a comic strip. To pass it, a book, film or show must have at least two women; they must talk to each other, and about something other than a man. Failing the test is a good sign that media is part of the male gaze ---- and you can probably think of plenty that can't check any of those boxes.
Oh wow, she's talking about the Bechdel test.
She should write about her life story. That would make for a compelling article. Imagine being the first woman on your block to have AOL and the spending three months straight reading articles on Jezebel and the Mary Sue and then getting flash-frozen in Cold Fusion mishap (just like in that Keanu Reeves science-fiction movie that's currently in theaters) and not being revived and woken up until thirty years later in 2025.
Whereupon you send an "e-Mail" (that is short for "electronic mail" ) through the "World Wide Web" to the new cable news channel CNN and ask them if they would like an explanation of your Vintage Windows 95 hot-takes on feminist media criticism.
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Ex-Staffer: Katie Potatey Focused on the Quiet, Shy Staffers for Bullying and Humiliation
—Ace
Psychopaths develop a skill for choosing victims.
I'm talking about Katie Porter but I heard someone, I think one of the guys on the Ruthless podcast, call this gourd-shaped monstrosity "Katie Potatey" and that's the only name I'll use for her going forward.
I will also correct the NYPost, which erroneously refers to Katie Potatey as "Katie Porter."
Katie Potatey targeted 'softer spoken' underlings for abuse, was 'downright mean', ex-staffer warns votersBy Chadwick Moore
Katie Potatey was exposed for berating a staffer and throwing a tantrum during an interview in two video clips this week.
And the California governor candidate is even worse when cameras aren't rolling, one ex-staffer told The Post Friday.
One of the lawyer and politician's cruelest tactics is dehumanizing her young underlings by referring to them in the third person -- while in their presence.
"It was easier for her to do these things to the quieter ones, the more soft-spoken ones, who wouldn't be like, 'hey, that's not okay,' " Sasha Georgiades, a former Wounded Warrior Fellow and Navy veteran who served in Porter's office from 2020--2022, told The Post.
"Going after the people you think aren't going to fight back -- I think it speaks a lot about a person's nature when they do that.
"Especially in arena like politics, which you're here to serve people. Actually, you're here to serve those quiet people more, at least that's my viewpoint on it," she added.
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Georgiades described a Jekyll and Hyde boss, never knowing which Katie would show up.
"If anything went wrong, she would flip on a dime," Georgiades said, recalling one incident where her young team had setup a Facebook video shoot but picky Potatey didn't like what they had done.
"She's talking to me while the other girl is in the room, telling me, 'I don't even know why she's here. I can do this job better than her.' And this is, like, very inappropriate. The girl's in the room with us," Georgiades said.
"It is dehumanizing and it's demoralizing. It makes you question: why am I even doing this?" Georgiades reflected.
In July 2022, Georgiades released text messages with Potatey exposing her shockingly toxic work environment. Potatey and Georgiades had both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an in-person staff meeting. Porter then sent angry text messages blaming the asymptomatic Georgiades for infecting her--and then fired her.
Potatey's campaign didn't immediately return The Post's request for comment.
The explosive former congresswoman was also accused of having a short fuse by her ex-husband, with whom she has three children, who described in a restraining order how she had once allegedly dumped steaming mashed potatoes on his head and had chastised him with swear words in front of their kids.
Oh! So maybe that's why Ruthless called her Katie Potatey. I assumed it was just due to her figure, which resembles a sack of spuds with a gland issue.
Below, Katie Potatey speculates about Trump's "demise," fantasizing about him having a heart attack.
Katie Potatey, maybe you should worry about your own cardiovascular health.
Or don't. Healthy at any size!
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Schmolls: Jay Jones Now Trails in Virginia, with Winsome Earle-Sears Now Behind By Just Two Points
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Jay Jones' sick fantasies about watching children die in their mother's arms, and Deep State Operative Abigail Spanberger's absurd dodging of the transgender question, have suddenly made Virginia competitive in all three statewide races:
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@EricLDaugh🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, who wants Republicans and their children to die, FALLS WAY BEHIND Jason Miyares (R) -- and Winsome Sears (R) is within striking distance for governor
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🔴 Miyares: 49% (+6) [WOW]
🔵 Jones: 43%Governor:
🔵 Spanberger: 47.7% (+2.6)
🔴 Sears: 45.1%REPUBLICANS - GO VOTE!
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In New York, Governness Kathy Hochul is very "vulnerable."
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2026 New York Governor Election Poll
🔵 Kathy Hochul: 48%
🔴 Elise Stefanik: 43%Grayhouse/Landon Wall | 1,250 LV
This race doesn't go to the polls until next year, but it's still interesting to see Democrats flailing even in the bluest of blue states.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul retains just a five percentage-point lead against potential 2026 Republican challenger Elise Stefanik -- and loses that advantage when likely voters first hear about both candidates' records, according to a new internal poll.Stefanik trails behind Hochul, 48% to 43%, on an initial ballot but narrowly beats the incumbent Democrat, 46.4% to 45.9%, when voters leaning toward voting in the 2026 race hear about the governor endorsing New York City mayoral front-runner and socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, the poll found, among other issues.
If Mamdani wins Gracie Mansion, up to 47% of independent voters also said they'd be less likely to vote for Hochul or other Democrats up and down the ballot in the midterms.
The survey, paid for by Stefanik's leadership fundraising committee E-PAC, showed likely gubernatorial voters also downgraded Hochul for her record on supporting bail reform in New York and other cost-of-living concerns.
Hochul's job performance rating is also underwater, 56% to 39%, and at least half of the likely voters polled strongly disapprove of the Democrat.
Meanwhile, just 34% of the likely voters said as of this month they were ready to re-elect Hochul, while 59% said it was time for someone new.Pollster Landon Wall, of the firm Grayhouse, said his survey of 1,250 likely 2026 midterm voters reveals Hochul is in a "deeply vulnerable position."
In New Jersey, Jack Ciattarelli is tied with the sinking cheater and swindler Mikie Sherril. (Ignore Scott Pressler's typo about Ciatterelli being the governor of Pennsylvania.)
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The Niece Living at Big Tish's Mortgage-Fraud Scam-Pad Is, Get This, a Criminal Fugitive
—Ace
Big Tish has a family of criminals. Including a criminal absconder.
The tenant living in the Virginia house at the center of New York Attorney General Letitia James's federal indictment is a 'fugitive' from justice, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.James has reportedly allowed her grandniece Nakia Thompson - along with Thompson's three children - to live in the three-bedroom property in Norfolk since 2020.
Now, in an embarrassing twist for Donald Trump's nemesis, Daily Mail has discovered that Thompson is officially listed as an 'absconder' who is being sought by authorities in North Carolina for failing to finish her probation.
'Ms Thompson was sentenced to probation for misdemeanor convictions for assault and battery and trespassing, and has willfully avoided probation supervision,' Keith Acree, communications director for the North Carolina Department of Corrections told Daily Mail.
'An absconder is considered a fugitive,' Acree added. 'Thompson faces arrest if she is located in North Carolina.' He said her crimes of assault and trespass are considered 'non-extraditable' due to their low level.
The 36-year-old told a grand jury in June that she had been living rent-free at James's home -- now valued at $235,000 -- since the Attorney General bought it, claiming that James pays for even basic upkeep, the New York Times reported.
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On the NCDC website is an appeal for information leading to Thompson's whereabouts, along with a mugshot and an offender number -- 0898340.
During her time at New York state's top prosecutor, James has championed her work bringing fugitives to justice, including the extradition from Pakistan of a Medicaid fraud ringleader.
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When approached by Daily Mail, Thompson simply said 'no comment', before bizarrely adding that she was 'very much in college, and very much a graduate'.
Before moving to James's home in 2020 -- which the prosecutor had purchased for $109,000 -- Thompson had a string of brushes with the law in Virginia and North Carolina, records show.In 2005 she was placed on probation in Forsyth County, North Carolina, for simple assault, and the following year was handed a suspended sentence for two counts of assault against a government official, according to NCDC.
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Low-IQ Narcisist and Epic Failure Joe Biden Wants Credit for Trump's Success In the Middle East
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Joe Biden is a corrupt demented fool who has always fancied himself a foreign policy genius. No matter how stupid his plans were, and how often they failed, he clinged to the old fart fantasy that he was a world-class Machiavel.
On Friday, Politico reported that Biden's staffers had "mixed feelings" about the Trump Team's winning of the hostages' freedom. They claim they were happy they were to be released.
But, more importantly, they were spiteful that Trump had accomplished what they failed to achieve.
And as usual, you can ignore everything before the "but."
As the world hopes for the remaining Israeli hostages to soon return home from Gaza, one group has bittersweet feelings about President DONALD TRUMP's progress toward ending the Israel-Hamas war.Biden administration officials are thrilled that a ceasefire is taking hold and that the hostages will be freed. But they also have a bit of sour grapes -- arguing that they laid the groundwork for Trump's effort and that he could have executed on it much earlier.
Trump, some noted, took office in January with a ceasefire in place, but the truce collapsed and Trump spent months doing little as Gaza sunk into further despair.
As one Biden administration official put it, Trump "inherited a ceasefire that fell apart due to a lack of U.S. engagement, allowed Israel to implement a strategy of starvation, got dragged into the war with Iran and ultimately started to exert leverage only after the botched strike in Qatar last month." The bottom line? "It's good that he came around," the former official said. "But it's a tragedy that it took so long."
Some former aides to President JOE BIDEN are suggesting Trump's 20-point plan may be built off a blueprint they left behind, but the Trump team has made no such admission. Former Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN alluded to this in a recent podcast, saying of the much-ballyhooed Trump 20-point plan: "This is essentially the plan that we developed over many months and more or less left in a drawer for the incoming administration, and I'm very, very glad they picked it up."
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Some former Biden officials, including senior aides to the president and vice president, have been soul-searching in recent months about whether they could have done more to stop the war. But NatSec Daily didn't get any sense that the Biden administration officials were embarrassed or jealous that it was Trump and not them who finally imposed this settlement.
"'Jealous' isn't the right word," a second former Biden administration official said, adding that there's a sense that "because Trump is depraved most of the time, when he does something he's supposed to do he gets more credit than he deserves."
Politico is really claiming that this shows no signs of embarrassment or jealousy.
Deep State Operative and author of the "51 Intelligence Officials" psyop Anthony Blinken claims that Trump merely extended the ceasefire that he and Biden already achieved.
On X, Biden -- who is undergoing treatment for cancer -- said that he was "deeply grateful and relieved" that the Gaza war is approaching its end."The road to this deal was not easy," the Democrat wrote. "My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war."
But Biden also gave Trump credit for getting "a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line."
LOL. Biden brought the ball 90 yards to the 1-yard line and Trump merely punched it over the goal-line, huh?
"Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety," he concluded.On Monday, Blinken said Trump's 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip was based on one developed by the Biden administration.
In a lengthy post on X, Blinken, who served in the Biden administration, outlined how Trump was able to secure the peace agreement. He noted that Arab states and Turkey have said "enough" to Hamas, and said the response also showed that other Iran-backed groups -- Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi rebels -- were not coming to Hamas' aid.
"It starts with a clear and comprehensive post-conflict plan for Gaza," Blinken wrote. "It's good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden administration developed after months of discussion with Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority."
Blinken said the Biden administration briefly secured a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in January, resulting in the release of 135 hostages before the deal fell apart.He also questioned how Trump could secure a permanent peace plan.
Biden thinks he deserves credit because of his "plan" for peace. This plan for peace being, we should have a peace plan.
Wow, what a foreign policy genius.
But that's like a football coach saying that his plan for a victory is that he thinks his team should wind up with more points than the other team.
Via Ed Morrissey, the WSJ reports that Trump's plan was a touch more developed than that. Since his inauguration, Trump has begged and bullied and bought off all of Hamas' supporters, diplomatically isolating Hamas, and getting even its backers in Qatar to tell it to take this deal or else we're done with you and you're on your own.
Egypt and Qatar told Hayya the deal was his last chance to end the war, according to the officials. They pressed Hamas to understand that holding the hostages was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of legitimacy to keep fighting.The next day, joined by Turkey, they warned him that if Hamas didn't approve the plan it would be stripped of all political and diplomatic cover; Qatar and Turkey would no longer host the group's political leadership, and Egypt would stop pressing for Hamas to have a say in Gaza's postwar governance, the officials said.
It was enough to get Hamas to agree to release all its hostages in Gaza and sign on to the first part of Trump's peace deal, giving up what had been its most important bargaining chip to keep a seat at the table. While modifying its acceptance with heavy caveats that reflected its concerns about the deal, Hamas had given Trump an opportunity to declare victory and set the stage for a hostage release early this week.
Trump's plan: Isolate Hamas and bully its patrons into forcing it to take the deal
Biden's "Plan:" Draw up a list of "Nice to Have" wants
Now that Trump has succeeded where Biden -- plot twist -- failed constantly, Biden thinks he's owed credit for Trump's success.
Joe Biden has praised Donald Trump for his success in negotiating a peace deal which allowed the 20 remaining Hamas survivors to return home.But he also tried to take some credit for the monumental deal, claiming his administration had laid the groundwork for Trump to negotiate.
'The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war,' Biden said in a statement to X on Monday.
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Supporters gathered in the streets to celebrate their hostages coming home
Trump has been hailed a hero in Israel as Israelis celebrate the release of the hostages
He later addressed a peace summit with global leaders where he called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East.'We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put the old feuds and bitter hatreds behind us,' Trump said, and he urged leaders 'to declare that our future will not be ruled by the fights of generations past.'
The whirlwind trip, which included the summit in Egypt and a speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem earlier in the day, comes at a fragile moment of hope for ending two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
'Everybody said it's not possible to do. And it's going to happen. And it is happening before your very eyes,' Trump said alongside Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
Nearly three dozen countries, including some from Europe and the Middle East, were represented at the summit. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited but declined, with his office saying it was too close to a Jewish holiday.
Trump promised to help rebuild Gaza, and he urged Palestinians to 'turn forever from the path of terror and violence.'
'After tremendous pain and death and hardship,' he said, 'now is the time to concentrate on building their people up instead of trying to tear Israel down.'
Israelis have little doubts about whether it is Biden and Blinken or Trump, Rubio, and Witikof who deserve credit:
Israeli lawmakers chanted Trump's name and gave him standing ovation after standing ovation. Some people in the audience wore red hats that resembled his "Make America Great Again" caps, although these versions said "Trump, The Peace President."
And Trump blasted Biden and Obama for their failures and weakness:
But Trump also took the opportunity to lay blame on former Democratic presidents for their failure to stabilize the region.'All of the countries in the Middle East that could have what we're doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden,' Trump said.
'There was a hatred towards Israel.'
'Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak, I guarantee you that,' he added.
Even this graceless, charmless hag realized that it is self-defeating (and self-revealing) to attempt to deny credit to Team Trump:
Trump's former presidential competitor Hillary Clinton also praised the deal at the weekend.'It's a really significant first step and I really commend Trump and his administration,' Clinton said on CBS News.
On the other hand, there's America's First Homosexual President, the graceless Kenyan Muslim Obama.
He refused to even mention Trump in noting the hostage deal. Even CNN's low-IQ shill Abby Philip thought this was petty, even by the low, base standards of the narcissistic homosexual Obama.
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
Bombast and hyperbole are some of the hallmarks of president Trump's communication, but the reality of his administration's policies are quietly impressive.
For instance, this bit of news will get very little airplay among the savagely anti-Trump mainstream media, but it will be a concrete and powerful message to the people who must rely on the President for almost everything, including their lives!
"We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS," the president declared. He explained that "our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th," so he was compelled to act.
No big deal for the self-described intelligentsia who live in their cloistered communes on the Upper West Side and Hyde Park and Noe Valley, but a very big deal indeed for a young E4 with a pregnant wife. And perhaps a big deal for that E4's parents, who all of a sudden notice that the President of The United States actually gives a sh*t about the welfare of their son.
That's a powerful message, and one that will go completely unnoticed in those leftist enclaves, because they don't know a single person who is in the armed forces, and very probably don't even know anyone who has ever served!
It's difficult to get past the sound bites and the combative press conferences and find out what the President and his administration are doing. They are methodically dismantling the massive administrative state, and refocusing the government's attention on the people of the United States. Behind much of the loud braggadocio are carefully constructed policies that may not yield immediate results, but will nudge the leviathan in a better direction, while simultaneously flensing the fat from the government whale.
There is a long way to go, and it will take many years, but think of the incredible progress we have made already, less than nine months into President Trump's term!
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The Morning Report — 10/14/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. And so the Israeli hostages have been liberated, and from many quarters, President Trump is being hailed as a peacemaker, even from some of his bitterest critics on the Left. Of course the usual gaggle of degenerates and scum have their own spin on Gaza.
Zohran Mamdani-linked Democratic Socialists of America denounces ‘conditional’ Israel-Gaza cease-fire deal, demands ‘Palestinian liberation’
The Vermont senator, who has called for a ceasefire for the past two years, also used the moment to call for an end to the US-Israel alliance
So, despite many singing President Trump's praises and nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize, and despite my reservations about exchanging Israeli hostages and the remains of the victims of Islam, for the figurative and literal cutting edge of Islam in the form of hundreds of devout Muslims who observe the Koran by planning plotting and executing the slaughter of Jews in Israel and all over the world. Sadly, 10/7 will happen again, or a number of smaller scale 10/7's will happen over and over that will add up to or exceed the body count of the worst slaughter of Jews since the end of the Second World War.
Meanwhile, over on the Ukrainian Front, President Trump has flipped his golden bouffant coiffure:
President Donald Trump once again threatened to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Putin doesn’t stop the war.Trump made the remarks on Air Force One late Sunday night, even saying he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:
In 1914, Europe stumbled into a war no one wanted and few understood;a war that destroyed empires and redefined civilization. Today, Washington risks repeating that mistake, this time with nuclear weapons on the table. Through arrogance, ignorance, or incompetence, the United States is drifting toward direct confrontation with Russia, the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, with consequences that could be apocalyptic.President Trump last week said he has “sort of” made a decision about supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine or NATO allies.
He wants to learn more about “what they are doing with them” before making a final decision. His goal is to avoid escalating the conflict, but his words suggest he is doing anything but.Is Trump posturing, playing 5-D chess as some claim, or joining the warmongering wing of the GOP?
PS: LoPecia Pressley can go to hell.
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Daily Tech News 14 October 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- One of the UK's innumerable regulators has fined 4Chan £20,000 for... Well, basically for telling them to get fucked, which the British didn't take too well in 1776 either. (The Verge)
"Today sends a clear message that any service which flagrantly fails to engage with Ofcom and their duties under the Online Safety Act can expect to face robust enforcement action," Ofcom enforcement director, Suzanne Cater, said in a statement.
4Chan has responded by suing Ofcom in federal court... In the US.
4Chan could be in more trouble still if they don't kiss the ring:Starting from tomorrow, 4Chan additionally faces a daily penalty of £100 for either 60 days or until 4Chan complies with the information requests, up to a maximum of £6,000.
Yes, I'm sure that will do the trick.
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Overnight Open Thread (10/20/2025)
—CBD
It's easy to second-guess our politicians, particularly when they insert themselves into complex and seemingly intractable geopolitical issues.
President Donald Trump has done something in the Middle East that Eisenhower couldn't do, Nixon couldn't do, Reagan couldn't do, the Bushes certainly couldn't do, and we won't even mention Obama and Biden.
He has forged a consensus and ended, at least temporarily, an ugly event in a region that is famous for ugliness. Will Hamas honor the ceasefire? Maybe. Will they return the remaining bodies? Maybe. Will they reconstitute and once again threaten Israel with destruction? Maybe.
But the odds are better now than they have been for the entirety of Israel's existence as a modern nation, and that is a very impressive accomplishment, especially when much of the West is at best ambivalent about President Trump!
There will be time to pick the agreement apart, and I am not holding my breath for a lasting peace, but still, it is far, far better than it has ever been!
It was a stunning achievement in most respects, and the fact that the world isn't clamoring with adulation for President Trump is a sad commentary on the rest of the world, not on President Trump.
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Columbus Cafe
—Ace
Do I have something on my back?
Goose is so proud of her eggs.
A pigeon sandwich.
Tarantulas are the cats of the spider world. I realize this makes neither species more popular.
Those dumb animals about the lion with the guy from Ferris Buehler.
This dog is Reflex-Maxxing to get chicks.
Dog shows his friend, the cow, his favorite toy. The cow don't care.
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Ultimate Slot Racing Championships Open Thread
—Ace
This slotless race track cost, I believe, forty million f***ing Deutschmarks.
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Heroic Elephants Save the Townsmen From Giant Mutant Pumpkins Open Thread
—Ace
Hello everyone. I'm taking the day off and just posting open threads and the cafe.
I hope the storms didn't cause you too many problems.
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