Only He Who Commands Can Be Blamed

By Rich Kozlovich

The US Navy is different in many ways than the rest of America's military with it's many traditions.  When these traditions were developed Navy Captains were usually thousands of miles away from higher authority and were often forced to make decisions that would usually be made by higher authority, but they didn't have radios in those days, and they were on their own.  If their decisions worked, they got promoted.  If their decisions caused problems, they were kicked out.   Often times the very same decision could be acceptable in one arena and not acceptable in another.  Being a Naval Captain in those days could be tricky, which I will come back to.   

Also, the Navy is the only branch of the US military that can defend the nation entirely on their own.  Why?  First, the Navy has...the Navy.  Secondly, the Navy has the finest military ground force in the world; the US Marines.... and yes... the Marines are part of the Navy.  Third, the Navy has the finest aviators in the world...Top Gun is Navy... and there's not a Air Force pilot alive that can land on the bucking deck of a carrier.  Fourth, the Navy has the finest special forces unit in the world, the Navy Seals, and they are all capable of scaring .... everyone!

The Navy also has a rule (going back to my first point about Navy Captains) only he who commands can be blamed, which brings me back to this midterm disaster, which is huge.  As of right now, Democrats will control the Senate 54-44, and 228-139 in the House, and that number may increase.  

Trump is being blamed by just about everyone for this midterm disaster, and while I think he merits criticism, the blame deservedly needs to be well distributed. Vance, in what seems to me an attempt to assure his nomination in 2028 is making sure Trump and Hegseth are getting the blame by saying the GOP loss was because of the war.  While a great deal of the blame needs to be spread among the RINO's, nonetheless, Trump has to take responsibility for that failure since he commands.  

It appears Mike Johnson .... and I think wisely.... will not seek to remain House GOP leader, with "get 'er done" Ohio Representative Jim Jordan running as the minority leader in the House, and I think that's a shoo in.   John Thune, who I think deserves a huge degree of blame for this humiliation, actually has the crust to think he should run as the Republican Minority Leader in the Senate.  The outcome of those election choices will be telling about the Republican leadership, and the 2028 election.  

Have no doubt, the conservative base is going to demand accountability from the Republican leadership, not only at the national level, but among the state party leaders as well.   Will they get it?  We'll see, but given the history of the party, they'll get nothing more than a token response.  Unlike the Navy the Republican party has few in their leadership that could be the equivalent of a Top Gun or Marine force, and no special forces to send in to deal with unfolding disasters, and no Navy to go out and get things done.   The Navy is scary, and configured to defend the nation, but the Republican party is configured in such a way it's incapable of defending the nation, and they don't scare anyone.  

Now we have is a Marxist/Islamist cabal running the Congress, a cabal where one side are champions of DEI, "secularism, feminism, LGBTQ, and economic equity" and the other side that "demands the supremacy of its interpretation of sharia over secular law, rejecting individual liberty, religious pluralism, and equality under the law."  Their common enemy?  Whites, conservatives, traditional Christians and Jews, and the American Constitution.  What happens when their common enemy is defeated?  This is a cabal heading for a conflict where only one can survive, and if you want to see what will happen. Take a look at South Africa.  

The black population of South Africa are not descendants of an indigenous black population.  They're the descendants of those who migrated to South Africa for economic reasons.  An economy created by the white European settlers.  The demands by the leftists of the world, especially from the celebrities, to end apartheid destroyed a prosperous stable white controlled nation and turned it into a violent corrupt black run sewer.  The celebrities of today with their Marxist/Islamist demands are of the same breed of nitwit, and their demands will cause the same kind of disaster for America and western civilization as they caused in South Africa.

 

P&D Geopolitics Edition

By Rich Kozlovich 

I've stored a lot of information over the last couple of months from around the world, much of it from subscription sites so I can't link the information, so you'll just have to take my word for what I'm presenting... or not.... as it pleases you.  However, I think I can say without much argument, the world is a mess. So, let's do this alphabetically starting with Africa.    

Nations all along the Red Sea and Persian Gulf are in throes of agony of some kind.  Somalia has been a mess for years, but say they will hold elections next spring but the opposition is unsatisfied.  Being unsatisfied is almost a foundational social paradigm throughout the Middle East, but Somalia is a poster child for dissatisfaction.  

Ethiopia is at war with itself, and with Eritrea which supports the Ethiopian insurgents, which could draw in Egypt and Sudan.  The Congo's political arena is facing turbulent waters as there's a new "a new political-military coalition that aims to challenge President Felix Tshisekedi's government and restore state institutions, including through the use of force"

I thought this was worth a moment of time as this kinda comes out of nowhere:

Morocco Turns Israeli Weapons Technology Into Defense Industry as Algeria Watches - Rabat is moving from buying Israeli systems to building them, with deliveries planned from March 2027, while Algeria, armed by Russia, keeps backing the "Polisario Front, which is an armed national liberation movement seeking independence for Western Sahara."

In Asia South Korea Wants to Take Wartime Military Command Away From American General, which would put a South Koran commander in charge not only of S. Korean forces but American forces... if I understand that correctly.  Given how this new South Korean government wants to execute their former president for treason and is getting cozy with N. Korea and China, perhaps it's time American forces came home as South Korea is engaging with Russia to offset North Korea's militant attitude.

South Korea is considering an "expanding military mission in the Middle East" as an anti-piracy measure from the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz.  I would have to assume oil is the issue, but if they can do this, they should be able to defend themselves, and North Korea is going to spend massively to upgrade their navy to "off set" the forces of surrounding nations. 

China's export issues remain, as China wants to impose export controls on "40 technologies across artificial intelligence biomedicine and photovoltaics, including outright export bans in some cases."  Why?  I have no idea.  China's also having issues with the EU as the European council now backs "market-closure instrument, safeguards on chemical and machinery due to unfair trade practices or coercion."  In September China bought soybeans from the U.S. to the tune of 1.3 metric tons. 

China is not a freedom of expression nation, and most certainly not a freedom of religion nation, and doesn't even like it in nations that practice it as Falun Gong practitioners were attacked outside of the Chinese Consulate in Toronto. 

In Central Asia Kazakhstan is becoming more economically independent from Russia as they've now joined the "World Bank's Metals and Minerals Compact, becoming the first Central Asian participant and setting a target to attract $20 billion in mining and processing investment."  Where is this heading? Kazakhstan is a land locked nation that has very real economic potential but they can't be seen as taking sides, and they're not.  China likes the influence they can exert there because no matter what anyone says, China and Russia are not friends. Russia ...and I'm guessing here.... should like it because it creates an economic sphere from which Russia can benefit, and Russia needs that, but they're doing a high wire balancing act, and it seems to me they're doing it pretty well.  As this writer says, Kazakhstan is a bridge between the North, South, East and West.  

In the Middle East, and I will have more on this in another post, the Houthis are out of control and even attacked the Presidential palace in Aden.  All this is giving drive to what's called the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, to which Syria is now wanting to join, which I find interesting as there are issues between Turkey and Syria.  And we're shocked why?  Have no doubt this will become more about Israel and the "Palestinians" than Iran and the Houthi down the road. 

"Syria is considering joining the Mecca joint defense pact with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani said. Talks are underway, al-Shibani indicated, describing Syria as an integral part of regional security. He also emphasized that regional stability depends directly on what happens in Gaza and finding a path toward an independent Palestinian state. Israel will oppose Syria's membership, but it likely can;t stop Damascus from joining."

Saudi Arabia is most likely to respond with "intensive" air strikes and are outsourcing ground operations to Yemeni allies.  Are full scale military operations on the table?  Supposedly, but this is Saudi Arabia, ....lots of money, stunningly weak military..... and a nation that's taking some serious damage to their economic bottom line over oil exports.  If Saudi Arabia can't be filthy rich, it can't be a nation.  I will have more on that in the next Geopolitics Edition. 

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to offer Saudi Arabia direct military aid through U.S. mediation, but the offer so far has fallen flat, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman remains reluctant to openly accept Israeli support, despite his country's escalating campaign against the Houthis in Yemen." 

"U.S., Iran: Two Ships Sink Around Strait of Hormuz as Iran Expands Attacks on Commercial Vessels-Two cargo vessels sank around the Strait of Hormuz in recent days after being struck by projectiles, marking the second and third vessels to sink in the region since the start of the Iran conflict in February."

"What Tehran Owes -Trump answers Iran's reparations demand with a counter-invoice, and the American courts wrote the numbers years ago: ninety judgments, $102 billion outstanding, zero paid. Plus the main section: the corporate enablers of Iran that Western governments documented in their own files and never sanctioned."

I think this piece is really thought provoking, and I agree. 

Tom Barrack Will Demolish Trump’s Legacy (Oct 13): Michael Rubin argues that Tom Barrack, the ambassador in Ankara and envoy for Syria and Iraq, has reworked American policy in Turkey’s favor, from the F-35 to a waiver for the S-400, and that the consequences will be laid at the President’s door.

I really don't understand Trump's reasoning over Turkey as it's making a lot of noise in the Mediterranean with Greece over Cyprus, and injecting itself into the politics of African nations.  They're not a force for stabilization in my view, in fact, I think they're just the opposite.   

I have a lot more stored and will continue this discussion again tomorrow.  I probably should have one every day, but I hate jumping the gun as so very often I find a story needs time to fill out properly, and I like having a lot of background information.  

Saving "Our Democracy" Through Tyranny

By Rich Kozlovich

There was a big backlash against Senator Elissa Slotkin for:

.......threatening legal persecution for young people who took jobs in the Trump administration: "I want young people coming out of school to say, 'Should I work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity… I want them to be like, 'Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don't want.' I want that deterrence message sent."

She not only threatening "young people who might choose to consider working for the Trump administration, which is probably illegal, she went on to claim Trump is going to ‘come up with national security incident’ to change election outcome."  What evidence does she offer?  None!  One has to wonder whether or not she's certifiable... actually.... being potentially certifiable is a common thread in the Democrat party. 

1. Washington Warned Us About Slotkin’s ‘Deterrence Message’
2. Who is Hiding Senator Elissa Slotkin's Secret Work With Joe Biden's Ukrainian Crime Syndicate

While she took some heat, she actually was openly demonstrating the fascist streak that runs through the entire democrat establishment.   

1. Schiff once again wants to impeach Trump
2. Carville: Dems Will 'Investigate the Hell Out' of Trump's Corruption
3. House Dem: ‘My Priority Number One’ Ousting Hegseth
4.  Democrats’ Plan to Weaponize the Govt. Takes Shape
5.  “Subpoenas,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote.
6. “Noem, Markwayne, Miller, Homan, Bovino, what’s up?” Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL) .....“Clear your schedule.”
7. “Thank you, Mr. President. Our thank you will come in January — with subpoenas,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) 

The Republicans warned Democrats would go back to weaponizing government and go after the first family, business leaders, and cabinet secretaries. 

 "Saving Democracy" By Prosecuting Political Adversaries: A Roundup - Here in the U.S., with few exceptions, we have a commendable tradition that victorious politicians do not use the criminal justice system to prosecute or otherwise disable their rivals and adversaries.    At the presidential level, before Trump the two most prominent examples against that tradition were the prosecution of Aaron Burr by Thomas Jefferson in 1807, and the prosecution of Eugene Debs by Woodrow Wilson in 1918. Otherwise, our defeated presidential candidates have gone peacefully to retirement.    

But then, after Trump was defeated in 2020, that tradition was abrogated in rather spectacular fashion........ Notable about all the Trump prosecutions is how completely flimsy were all the charges against him. The idea was rather transparently to use control of levers of government power to disable the main adversary in the political arena. Meanwhile, the people involved sanctimoniously wrapped themselves in a claim that they were "saving our democracy."

They're using the same kind of rhetoric now as they've done since the beginning of the socialist movement.  Whether it involved social issues, environmental issues, or politics in general, they're always saving humanity.  But once in power, they deliver tyranny because "Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out"!  Most People Have No Idea How Insane Democrats Have Become, and "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore".   

The 2026 Midterm Election Results

"The people have spoken, and now they must be punished." - Mayor Ed Koch

By Rich Kozlovich 

Well, I gotta tell ya... I'm shocked... but one thing is now clear, the demographics of America is now just like France, England, and Europe; embracing national suicide.  As I watched the obviously insane policies promoted by the left, and all the violence they perpetrated I actually believed it would shake up the general population against them.   As it turns out; support for violence, irrational behavior, and insane polices "is" the general population. 

Thoughts on the midterm election - Democrats.......flipped both the Senate and the House and did so massively. According to The New York Times, Democrats currently have 54-44 control of the Senate and 228-139 control of the House. Both numbers could improve for Democrats in the next days and hours. 

That’s not a tiny victory; that’s huge.......

What rational person would believe El-Sayed with his support of terrorists could win in Michigan, or Talarico, a truly strange man, would win in Texas?  The man who Republican John Cornyn couldn’t wait to congratulate! In Minnesota Peggy Flanagan, the Lt. Governor who was part of the administration that allowed massive levels of fraud to be perpetrated in their state won.  And who really thought "the semi-incestuous Troy Jackson", another truly strange man, would defeat long-time Senator Susan Collins in Maine? 

In Ohio, DeWine's pick for the Senate to fill Vance's seat, John Husted, lost to of all people, Sherrod Brown, and Vivek lost to that amazingly incompetent, and I think corrupt, Amy Acton, who was responsible for massive economic pain in Ohio for her lies over COVID.  Truthfully, I thought Husted was corrupt and Vivek was corrupt and lazy, but they were picked by the party, and is a clear demonstration Ohio's Republican leadership needs purged of the intellectually corrupt Kasich/DeWine cabal.  

1. Somalis Celebrate After Ilhan Omar Easily Wins Reelection in Minnesota, Despite Criminal Investigation
2. Darline Graham Loses Lindsey Graham’s South Carolina Seat to Pediatrician
3.  Democrats Just Flipped Another House Seat and Republicans Have Max Miller to Thank
4. The Red-Green Alliance Has Seized New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District 
5. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms Flips Georgia Governors Seat Against Rick Jackson
6.  New Jersey GOP Rep Kean Loses Reelection, After Long, Unexplained Absence From Congress
7.  Scandal-Plagued Democrat David Crowley Wins Governor’s Race in Wisconsin
8.  Ilhan Omar Shares Excitement Over Illinois Democrat Juliana Stratton’s U.S. Senate Win: ‘Inshallah’
9.  Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms Flips Georgia Governors Seat Against Rick Jackson
10.  Democrat Chris Pappas Defeats Republican John Sununu to Win New Hampshire Senate Race
11.  Democrat Rebecca Bennett Flips U.S. House Seat in New Jersey
12.  Moore Wins Second Term as Maryland Governor
13.  Democrat Rob Sand is next governor of Iowa.
14.  Letitia James wins reelection.
15.  Greg Abbott loses in Texas.
16.  Republicans lose in Kansas.
17.  Kathy Hochul wins easily.
18. Democrat Megachurch Pastor Adam Hamilton Unseats Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas
19. Becerra Wins Ca Guv
20.  Josh Shapiro Wins Second Term as Pennsylvania Governor
21.  Klobuchar Wins Minnesota Governor’s Seat
22. Booker Wins in N.J.

As massive a loss as this is, there were a few bright spots and at this point it looks as though Alaska might pick the Republican Dan Sullivan, and yet this is still a close race in spite of all the election corruption of the Peltola campaign that's been exposed.  If neither of them get over 50% there will be a runoff election since Alaska has that stupid Ranked Choice election process, which is why the Democrats ran a fake Dan Sullivan to dilute the vote.  Ohio chose radical Democrats for the Senate and Governorship, but supported Ohio Issue 3:

 "Ohio's Issue 3 passed, which enshrines voter ID into the state's constitution. Ohio already requires photo identification to vote in person, but moving that rule from statute into the constitution means legislators can no longer change it without voter approval."  

It's amazing how the Republicans can snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.... but ....again.... the people have spoken, and now they must be punished.  

1.  Tommy Tuberville Is Alabama’s Next Governor, Barry Moore Wins Senate Seat
2.  GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito Wins Reelection in West Virginia Senate Race
3.  Republican Ashley Moody Beats DSA Democrat Angie Nixon for the US Senate
4.  GOP Harriet Hageman Wins Wyoming Senate Race
5.  The Arkansas Line: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Tom Cotton Both Bring Home Big Wins
6.  Republican wins in Oklahoma, rare blowout tonight.
7.  Byron Donalds is next governor of Florida.
8.  Former MLB star Mark Teixeira wins U.S. House seat in Texas
9.  GOP Sen. Ashley Moody Defeats DSA Candidate Angie Nixon in Florida Senate Race

The exit polls claim 60% blame Trump for higher prices, and 88% say cost of living was the key factor their vote. Yet the prices are less that they were under Biden, and the price of energy overall is lower than under Biden, and the economy has surged.   Under Democrat control and regulations the Democrats wanted in order to send the price of energy through the roof.  Somehow the public thinks those who created this problem will fix it?  Imagine that.

So, what's next? What's next isn't good.  In Virginia they passed and amendment for right to murder the innocent unborn right up until the moment of birth.  Efforts to make abortion on demand will be driven by Congress, and efforts to make sure only American citizens can vote will be stopped.  The Democrats promised if they won they would resort to lawfare to destroy the lives of Republicans, and they will. They'll pass the Green New Deal and Medicare for all, and make no mistake, this is the DSA's coming out party.  DEI, with all the Woke insanity that goes with it will be back with a vengeance.

• 2026 Ballot Measure Results: Voters Decide on Abortion, Voter ID and Tax Questions Across States

Here was Victor Davis Hanson's take on what all this means, including for 2028, and how I see it.  Our government has evolved into an imperial presidency, as demonstrated by Bill Clinton and Obama when they lost the Congress in their second terms. While Trump will still pretty much do what he wants on foreign policy, and domestically he'll use executive orders, just like Obama who had "a pen and a phone".  He will not be able to get federal judges or prosecutors appointed for the next two years as the Democrat controlled Senate will refuse to confirm them.  "The Democrats will overreach, And we know that in the House, there will be a circus of subpoenas, impeachment, and lawfare. We’ll see that nonstop."   "It will be pure Lavrentiy Beria stuff: “Show me the man (or woman), and I’ll show you the crime.”

•  New Chairman of House Oversight Threatens: Lawyer Up!

He can veto Democrat legislation but the Democrats will end the 60 vote rule to override a veto, as that's a Senate rule, not a Constitutional requirement, and I expect that will be among the very first things they change, as a result, his vetoes will all be overturned.   

 

Is there a bright side to all this?  Maybe!  This might be the wake up call needed to purge the Republican party leadership. Not only at the national level but at the state level. I find most leadership roles in most states are filled with arrogant Kasich style “conservatives”, who like Kasich “define conservatism as they see fit”. Which in my opinion is why Ohio Republicans picked two losers who lost to Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton.   Here's J.D. Rucker's the Seven Silver Linings for the GOP and America After Midterm Obliteration.

1. America Gets a Full Preview of the Democrat Agenda Before 2028
2. The GOP Establishment Can No Longer Pretend Their Stewardship Worked 
3. Trump’s Executive Authority Remains Intact for Two Years
4. The Base Will Demand Real Accountability Instead of Excuses
5. Cultural and Economic Pain Will Create a Clearer Contrast
6. A 2028 MAGA Reshuffle
7. Faithful Americans Will Finally Stop Looking to Politics for Salvation

Finally, this article appeared in Insight and Issues, Gridlock Is Good quoting M. Stanton Evans saying:   

 

“Gridlock is the next best thing to having a constitution.".......  So, the only thing we know for sure is that for the next two years, Washington, D.C., will be in a state of gridlock while Democrats unleash a torrent of investigations, impeachments, and endless claims of corruption and wrongdoing........ 

That’s not to say there is no risk. Democratic socialist wins today can provide tremendous momentum going into 2028. And if Democrats, God forbid, do win the White House that year, the country will be all but lost. But it’s just likely that emboldened radicals in the Democratic Party will turn off far more voters than they gain.   So, our advice is to let Democrats have their celebrations. Enjoy the gridlock for the next two years. And get busy laying the groundwork for massive victories in 2028, when the elections really matter......

Many years ago I read about a study to see why people made the choices they made.  The took students and broke them up into two groups.  The first group, the larger of the two, was in on the scam, and other group, which was substantially smaller, was the control group and were expected to just answer as they saw fit.  

They showed two sentences, and asked the students which was longer?  Sentence one was longer than sentence two, but those in on the scam all voted that sentence two as being longer.  Over 90% of the control group voted in agreement ignoring the reality of their own eyes fearing to stand up for what was right.  After this election, I'm not so sure this can be turned around since the nation's demographics are against it, the nation's system of education is against it, the deep state is against it, the main stream media is against it, and the public has demonstrated, just like these kids, it doesn't have the courage to stand against the crowd and are stunningly stupid, and you can't fix stupid.  

 

 

 

What I'm Reading: The "Big Tent" Hypocrisy

 By Rich Kozlovich 

Over the last few days the left has been reeling over Democrat Representative Haley Stevens endorsement of Mike Rogers with Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) calling her endorsing Rogers over El-Sayed sad.  Well, Dingell has never been one of the brightest pebbles in the brook, so, let's analyze this a bit.  

Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for Senator from Michigan over Abdul El-Sayed, who is an Anti-America, anti-Constitution, anti-capitalism, Muslim/Marxist antisemitic who is on the side of terrorists, and so the Democrat leadership wants to expel her from the party, but not El-Sayed.  Did I get that right?  I didn't' miss anything did I?

Jon Stewart rages at Haley Stevens for not supporting El-Sayed, so can we assume he's also anti-America, anti-Constitution, anti-capitalist, and a supporter of Islamists and Marxist who are antisemitic and is on the side of terrorists? Right along with Debbie Dingle and the Democrat leadership who supports El-Sayed and must support all he represents?  Did I get right also?  Interestingly, no one from the Pravda bothered to ask Debbie or any of the rest of them that question.  Imagine that. 

The hypocrisy from the Democrat leadership is rampant, and we're shocked why?  Chuck Schumer betrays the Jews and Israel:

 For most of his years in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, a Democrat and currently the Senate Minority Leader, declared himself the champion of the Jews, especially the country of Israel. But he has ignored his allegiances, condemning a fellow Democrat who refuses to support a candidate whose values, as shown by his personal and familial history, his affiliations (e.g., Hasan Piker and virulently radical Muslims), and his own statements, are anti-American and virulently antisemitic......

Let's take Nancy Pelosi for instance who is one of her loudest detractors saying:

"Haley Stevens has chosen to dangerously betray Michigan families’ healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement of Mike Rogers. @AbdulElSayed must win — because Michigan and our country deserve better."

Yet just a week ago she proclaimed:

“When you say Israel doesn’t have the right to be a Jewish state, that’s antisemitic as far as I’m concerned with all that… it’s more than concerning. It’s wrong. It’s wrong. And it isn’t a reflection of the Democrats in the Congress of the United States.”

What was so different between Nancy Pelosi's views and Haley Stevens views? 

“We have to stand with country. We can’t stand with hate, we can’t stand with Hasan Piker… when you see hate, when you see him standing with Hasan Piker, and repeated hate, it’s not acceptable.”

Nancy Pelosi has never had an ounce of intellectual integrity her entire career. She’s the one who said they had to pass Obamacare to see what’s in it. One thing she represents is another solid argument for age and term limits on Congress, right along with the federal judiciary.  

But ya just gotta love America's Gollum, James Carville, a man who's a gift that keeps on giving as he declared:

 "Your political career is over,"......."If you think that these Republicans are going to treat you as anything other than what they view you as, and that is, let me just break the news to you, a used condom. The Democrats don't even think you're worth a used condom. But that's about where you are." "You made your bed, sleep in it," 

Am I the only one who thinks Carville is just a bit certifiable?  No, apparently not!  "The Western Lensman added: "Carville's cheese has slid all the way off the cracker.... "Commentator David J. Freeman said: "Their elder statesman went straight for the gutter. Democrats lecture you about respecting women right up until a woman steps out of line."...."Political pundit Scott Jennings noted: "Never seen anything like the anti-woman crash out going on [right now]. Wow."

Greg Gutfeld hit them where it hurts, and there's no rational come back to his statement:

......Democrats have been saying for months that they are a ‘big tent’ party. So the tent is big enough for people like Abdul El-Sayed and other radical leftists, but not big enough for Haley Stevens?  The truth is that Democrats have reduced their entire world view into either being on their side or being seen as the enemy.

Daniel Greenfield says if they can expel Haley Stevens, for opposing hate, they can expel the DSA for promoting hate.  "The excuses are gone." The Democrat party reality is that Anti-America, anti-Constitution, anti-capitalism, Muslim/Marxist antisemitic who is on the side of terrorists, party members like "Rep. Ilhan Omar.... Mamdani’s DSA insurgents like Dariazila Avila Chevalier, the WTC terror sheikh’s translator, Hisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy, .....Graham Platner and Abdul El-Sayed", are all acceptable but Haley Stevens is not.  The Big Tent is "just a lie to fool the electorate....."

As for the Pravda media's take on all this, former Trump official noted to a CNN panel:

When Republicans break with our party, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and others, you guys lionize them as being ‘courageous’ and so ‘brave.’ And now you guys are like, she’s lost her mind! She’s clearly wacky. But when it’s our team, you guys are like, look how brave, what a profile in courage.

As it turns out not only is Hayley Stevens unshaken by loud mouth leftists she actually attended a church service with Mike Rogers.  So, what's my take on all this?

First, maybe her political life really is over... but so what... politics isn't a real life anyway.  Family and the upholding of traditional values that creates a stable society is real life, which is what so many prominent people refuse to grasp and why so many in entertainment have failed marriages.  

Second, she might become a Republican after the midterms, whether that's a good thing or not, but it's still a possibility.  

Third, she just might be a lot more popular among a silent cabal of old line moderate Democrats than is realized, and form a cabal that could become a powerful caucus in the party.  I don't see that happening because the base is filled with far left radicals who are violent, virulent, unrelenting and cruel, and it would take a level of courage to defeat them that simply doesn't exist.  

As the reporter in Charlie Wilson' s War said... We'll see! 

The 2026 Midterm Election, Part VII

By Rich Kozlovich,  Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!", Post updated today.

No form of government is flawless,  Every government leftists has ever overthrown had flaws, which the radicals/anarchist/Marxist/Islamists exploited at an emotional level to generate outrage among the people, especially the young and dumb.  However, while their message may be laudable, and understandably appealing such as; "end poverty, discrimination and suffering.  Offer affordable housing, free higher education, universal health care", and ....now here's the tricky one.... "economic fairness"... , it's the outcome that matters.

 

Who doesn't want things to be "fair".  But who can define "fair"?  Who wrote the book of fair?    It's been my experience what's fair is based on who's ox is being gored. Who exactly wrote the Book of Fair? There is no Book of Fair and it can't be codified without being unfair to someone, anyone or most for that matter. Who decides what's fair? I certainly don't want some government bureaucrat in Washington DC who went to college and then to work in the government, who never had a real job, never started a business, never put his home on the line with the bank to keep that business running, never had to skip a paycheck in order to meet payroll for his employees, never had to work 14 hour days for weeks on end telling me what's fair.

 

When a totalitarian government imposes "fairness', everyone will find they will ultimately be stunningly "unfair" to a lot of people.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.   No matter what promises are made, here's what they will ultimately deliver:

 

"runaway spending, suffocating regulation, costly green-energy mandates, and open immigration policies that strain public resources — have helped create the hardships now used to justify still greater government control.  The proposed cure is more of the disease."......."The lesson is unmistakable: Charitable works, political accommodation, and reassuring alliances do not necessarily diminish an extremist movement’s ultimate ambitions, particularly when the alliance is with Islamists.  Nor does cooperation today guarantee protection tomorrow.

 

As David Horowitz has said, "Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out".  Did it ever occur to these young demonstrators to ask why it is millions fled communist/Islamist totalitarian nations, many to America, but no one is "fleeing" America to live in those nations?

 

Totalitarians have been with us forever, and have only one moral foundation they adhere to religiously.  Do whatever it takes to get and hold power in order to control everyone's life.  If they can't get that power legitimately, they'll cheat.

 

Top congressional Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, filed suit this week alleging the administration has unlawfully pressured states to clean suspected noncitizens off their voter rolls and has leaned on local election officials to comply. Schumer called it bullying. He called it un-American. He said the voters decide elections, not Trump.  

Fine. Then let only the voters who are legally entitled to decide actually be the ones deciding. That's the entire point of a clean roll. Democratic leadership is suing to stop a process aimed at confirming that the people voting are the people legally allowed to vote, two weeks before an election. Read that sentence as many times as you need to. That's not a lawsuit defending voting rights. That's a lawsuit defending the status quo of whoever's currently on the rolls, questionable eligibility included.

That nullifies legal votes by diluting them with illegal ones. That's how a candidate can run a campaign largely from his basement, speak carelessly about black voters in ways that would have ended a Republican's career in a single news cycle, and still walk away claiming 80 million votes with a straight face.............. This cycle, from a pure narrative standpoint, should be a layup for the party out of power. Inflation fatigue, approval numbers, a president voters have spent years being told to resent.  But they're nuts. And these are difficult, genuinely concerning times to be voting in anything but full possession of the facts.

1. So San Diego says it's having trouble finding translators for all those thousands of non-English-speaking voters out there  while the U.S. Department of Justice reports that nearly a third of noncitizen voters have cast a ballot......... 
2.  1 in 3 LA Non-Citizens in ‘Sample’ Had ‘Voting History’ And may even be as high as 60%.  The thing that the media says isn’t happening? Boy, is it ever happening........
3. Watch: Pro-Katie Hobbs Canvassers Are Willing to Let Noncitizens, Felons Vote - Undercover video captured canvassers aligned with Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) saying they don’t believe in asking about immigration status or actively encouraging self-identified noncitizens and felons to register and vote. All of that, of course, is completely illegal.....
4. Why Do Democrats Continue to Peddle This Lie About Mary Peltola and Dan Sullivan? - First, we learned this last summer: Democrats found a man named Dan Sullivan, and a Democrat operative helped file his Senate candidacy paperwork against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK). We knew about the plan; Joe wrote about it in May.......
5.  Exposed: Mary Peltola Knew of Plot to Recruit Spoiler Candidate Named Dan Sullivan Even Campaign Lawyers Involved! - Democrats in Alaska reportedly created a plan to find a second candidate, also called Dan Sullivan, as Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan (R-AK) and Alaska Democrat U.S. Senate candidate and former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) face off against each other......
6. Why Is Decoy Dan on the Run? - If retired Petersburg, Alaska teacher Daniel J. “Decoy Dan” Sullivan truly wants to represent Alaska in the Senate, he’s not doing a very good job campaigning for the job. His official position statement, as provided to the state’s Division of Elections, reads in part, “I will not stand by while professional politicians try to rig the system,” yet campaign finance records show he’s spent nothing actively campaigning, and nearly all of his campaign contributions have gone to a Washington, D.C. law firm........
7.  Evidence Suggests Alaska’s ‘Decoy Dan’ Illegally Colluded With Democrat Dark-Money Group -Americans for Public Trust outlined in a Federal Election Commission complaint how “Decoy Dan,” a purported spoiler candidate with the same name as Alaska’s incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, may have violated federal election laws by coordinating with a dark money group. Recent reporting by The New York Times alleges that Democrat candidate Mary Pelota’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee actively recruited candidates to confuse voters and manipulate Alaska’s U.S. Senate race............ 

If they can't take power by cheating, they use violence. 

1. Is the DSA Open to Violent Revolution? An Organizer’s Remarks Raise Some Serious Questions. - A top organizer within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has raised a disturbing question about the movement’s ambitions: whether some within its ranks envision not just an electoral revolution, but a violent one. .....
2.  A Warning From France - The chaos in the streets of France has a familiar ring to Americans who watched several cities burn in the summer of 2020. What started as “mostly peaceful” protests were quickly hijacked by chaos actors who whipped up excitable populations into a looting and pillaging frenzy, resulting in police crackdowns in the best cases but utter destruction in the worst cases......
3. The DSA Is Planning to Import Europe’s Riots and Burn the Republic Down - France is on fire. Cars torched, city halls ablaze, hundreds of police officers injured, businesses looted, and the media still calls it “student protests.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a calculated campaign by organized, well-financed hard-left networks to sow anarchy across Western civilization.  And according to Issues & Insights, the Democratic Socialists of America already have the playbook to bring the same chaos here.......

Tomorrow's election day, and the violence the DSA was planning hasn't occurred, but the planning did occur with this goal:

 

The goal is sustained mass violence and street clashes designed to push President Donald Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act. Once invoked, Democratic governors and progressive organizations would treat the order itself as evidence of “fascism” and a reason to undermine federal authority....

 

I have no doubt violence will erupt after the election if the left fails to take control of either house of the Congress.  The DSA is deceiving, sinister, and abominable, and have no intention of giving up if they lose, and they'll immediately start working on the 2028 election.  So, what happens if the Democrats take over both houses of Congress and then the Presidency in 2028?   

 

"They will make Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico states, expand the Supreme Court, open borders..... blank amnesty".....Medicare for all, which will be a disaster, taxes will be increased, and while Democrats claim they only want to tax the rich, make no mistake, once Wealth Taxes in put in place it won't be only for billionaires, it will ultimately include anyone with investments.. and...hand them "permanent one-party rule.” 

 

Here was Victor Davis Hanson's view of this midterm three weeks ago saying:  

 

Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism......

 

If they win here's what he thinks will happen:

1. The House they'll spend two years impeaching Trump, investigating and hounding his family and supporters.
2. They will block any legislation they don't approve of.
3. They will attempt to appease Iran and except their promise they won't be bad little boys any longer.
4. The price of energy will soar because they have to stop global warming.
5. Allow unbridled immigration.
6. Prevent anyone from ending fraud to social services that's costing the nation billions of dollars. 
7. Impose DEI on government and private enterprise, with "the idea that race, outward appearance, gender, and sexual preference are essential rather than incidental to one’s identity is a central doctrine of the contemporary Left. Race-based hiring, admissions, dorms, and graduations would return and proliferate."
8. Reparations will gain traction.  
9. Islamic efforts to impose Sharia law will have greater impact on America's laws and culture.   
10. Regulations will proliferate. 

If this happens government will grow and bureaucrats will once again unconstitutionally usurp legislative and executive powers.  But not all may be well in the Democrat party, as this author asks: Will anti-socialist Democrats swing the midterms?, noting "there’s a hidden demographic on the left that many polls possibly are not accounting for."  NBC News data analyst has some bad news for Dems in Minnesota.

We'll see!

Updated today:

1. Report Exposes 50+ Election Integrity Threats Before 2026 Midterms - There are more than 50 threats to election integrity in the United States ahead of the 2026 midterms, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI)........America’s elections face threats from every direction – foreign adversaries, political operatives, dark money, and government officials who refuse to enforce the rules,” GAI president Peter Schweizer said in a statement. “This report exposes more than fifty documented vulnerabilities.”......
2. Democrats’ Alaska Ballot Operation Went Beyond ‘Decoy Dan’ Candidate - Washington Democrats didn’t just put a second “Dan Sullivan” in the Alaska Senate race — they also boosted Republican Gerald Heikes, a perennial candidate for office, with the help of Chuck Schumer and a longtime Alaska Democrat consultant named Jim Lottsfeldt in a year-long effort to boost Democrat Mary Peltola in Tuesday’s general election.......
3. Here We Go: Maricopa County Claims “Power Related Issues” Causing Vote Center Closures - The Maricopa County Elections Department announced on X, “Due to power related issues, the Vote Centers located at Paradise Community College and Sunset Canyon School are temporarily closed. Please visit https://Locations.Maricopa.Vote to find a nearby voting location.”........Lake told The Gateway Pundit, “Maricopa County is up to its old tricks again. Vote centers are closing over supposed power issues, a fire alarm got pulled at a site in heavily Republican Mesa, voters are being told during ballot curing that ballots were cast they didn’t know about, and we’re still dealing with the same late-night activity at the tabulation center.”.......

Update, 11/2/26:

• Nearly 2,500 Registrants Listed as At Least 110-Years-Old on Michigan Voter Rolls - There are nearly 2,500 registrants listed as at least 110 years old on Michigan’s voter rolls, a Help America Vote Act (HAVA) complaint from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleges.........
• Watchdog: Almost 10,000 Dead People on Los Angeles County Voter Rolls - There are nearly 10,000 dead people on Los Angeles County, California’s active voter rolls, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleges in a Help America Vote Act complaint filed with state election officials.......

Cartoon Roundup and The Week That Was

By Rich Kozlovich 

Violence erupted in France two weeks ago and hasn't abated.  In fact it's increasing and spreading to other nations, with threats from the far left they intend to have the same kind of rioting here in America.  I have six pieces dealing with this midterm election, four of them appearing this week.  The seventh, and last one,  will appear on Monday.  Then we're going to see what happens, and it will be interesting.  Who will emerge victorious?  We're coming to a pivot point in American history.  One party wants to destroy the Constitution and the other party doesn't have what it takes to defend it.  The young are so misinformed and indoctrinated with leftist swill they think socialism is the answer to all our problems, as it seems they still "Feel the Bern".  History shows socialism "is" the problem.  

The Week That Was 

1. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part VI
2. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part V
3. China Will Like Xi.... or Else!
4. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part IV
5. The 2026 Midterm Election, Part III
6. France: If it Looks Like a Civil War, It Must Be a Civil War
7. The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
8. Observations From the Back Row

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The 2026 Midterm Election, Part VI

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!". 

Democrats are running their midterm campaigns with this hard and fast rule. Anything goes!  The polls say there will be a "blue wave" and the Democrats will take over both houses of Congress.  Yet, over and over again we find that polls... and pollsters.... are totally corrupt. 

I stopped paying attention to polls 30 years ago as it was clear to me they were all all designed to favor Democrats, and leftist agendas.  It's been said statistics is the arcane science because you can make them say anything you want them to say.  Polls are even worse.

As one writer stated, polls are the AIDS of American politics, showing how wrong they've been while favoring Democrats, or favoring DSA candidates against other Democrats as in the case of El-Sayed giving him a double digit lead in the Michigan primary senate run.  He barely won.  These polls are scams.  Wedgewood Polls, who was noted for pushing the Democrat agenda admits they made up everything!   They claim it was just a social experiment, saying: 

“an experimental project to demonstrate the vulnerabilities, lack of oversight, and overall low barrier to entry in the modern political polling industry. We wanted to test a simple hypothesis: How easy is it for an entirely fabricated polling firm to gain traction, be taken seriously, and expose how little scrutiny exists in media and public commentary? The short answer: Far too easy.”

A social experiment to fix the corruption that permeates polling?  Really?  Well, maybe and maybe not, but the fact is their polls impacted the election and caused serious damage to people running:  

“As one of the candidates featured in these polls — the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) — here’s the impact of this ‘experiment’: Donations dried up. Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do. Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out,”......

“Sure, a point was proven. Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people poured their hearts, time, energy, hard-earned money into something they believed in — for a year-and-a-half, and it was treated like a game. Our volunteers gave their all. And then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down.”

Wedgewood wasn't alone in this kind of manipulation.  It turns out a firm called SoCal Strategies may well be peddling fake polls.   

1.  NYT and Nate Silver Included a FAKE Pollster Pushing Democrats
2.  Just In Time for Midterms, President Trump Supposedly Trailing In Another Faux Fox Poll
3. Trump’s Approval Among Voters Has Stabilized, But Is That Enough To Boost GOP In Midterms? I&I/TIPP Poll

According to Bret Baier of Fox News the Republicans could outperform the polls and hold the Senate, and as it turns out Republicans are leading in early voting in key battleground states. Traditionally, the party in power loses seats in midterms, but the 2026 Midterms just might fool everyone.   

As I said at the beginning, the Democrats are running the midterms with this hard and fast rule. Anything goes! So, if polls no longer work, they can always fall back on something that's been tried and true for them in the past.  Voter fraud.  

The Pravda media insists voter fraud is rare and this is just a scam by Republicans to suppress voting.   Well, yes that's true, they're wanting to suppress voting by people who have no right to vote.  Non citizens who are here legally and illegal migrants have no right to vote in America.  

1.  ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ Feds: 405 Noncitizens Voted 1,500 Times 
2.  The ‘Myth’ of Noncitizen Voting Strikes Again: 48 Foreign Nationals Charged

In Minnesota Somalis are told they can show up to vote without proof of citizenship.  James O'Keefe and Cam Higby have been charged with with felonies for daring to expose the shocking flaws in that state's voter system.  

In California a LA County clerk says they have no way to verify citizenship of five million voters, and "First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli told The California Post it’s “very highly likely” noncitizens have already voted, as the Justice Department fights to have California set aside ballots tied to more than 20,000 suspected noncitizens."

1. Trump Administration Again Demands California Perform Voter Roll Checks

The left excels at lies, logical fallacies, twisted reasoning and "projection", claiming their opponents are doing what they themselves are practicing or have practiced in the past. They're claiming Trump is undermining the integrity of the vote to keep the Republican Party in power, but we've already seen how Democrat run states have already destroyed the "integrity of the vote".  

1. Report: Dozens of Democrats Silent on Alaska Election Rigging While Calling GOP a ‘Threat to Democracy’
2. Top GOP Senator Accuses Chuck Schumer of Yearlong Collusion to Plant “Decoy Dan” Sullivan in Alaska Race 
3. Dems Cheating in Alaska Is So Bad, Even “The View’s” Cat Ladies Are Horrified

They're also upset that Trump might have federal agents monitoring the polling places to prevent illegal voting.  First of all, just how many agents do they think the federal government has, and if illegal voting isn't happening, or is as rare as they claim, then why would it matter if agents were there or not?   

Update, 11/1/26:

1. California city councilwoman says her district is one third illegals, and she wants them to vote - Voter turnout has fallen in Orange County, but not by a third.  As California's non-citizen voting problem draws more attention, and judges overrule the Trump administration's efforts to shut it down, meet one of the problem's enablers, who unwittingly outlined the scope of what's happening...............
2. DOJ Flagged 300,000 Possible Non-Citizen Voters - We’re seeing this now play out in California and Washington where secretaries of state insist that there are no non-citizens registered to vote, then admit that they have no ability to check the citizenship of whoever is voting, but insist that there’s no reason to believe that there are non-citizens voting because it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote… and so they don’t have to worry about non-citizens voting.......
3.  It's Happening Again - 20,000 Ballots 'Minimum' Found Belonging to Non-Citizens, Yet California Refuses to Isolate Them - We are eight days from the midterm elections, and shenanigans are already afoot in California. The Trump administration is moving to block 20,000 mail-in ballots from the state’s count, demanding they be set aside over fears that noncitizens filled them out. If those ballots are put with the others, they will be indistinguishable. The New York Post reported that First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, along with Attorney General Todd Blanche, is asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to have California put those ballots aside and verify each voter’s citizenship status....................
4. 25 Percent of Non-American Citizens in Single Town Illegally Voted in at Least One Federal Election: Nonprofit - According to a revelation out of one Maryland community, a substantial share of non-citizens allowed to vote locally also cast ballots for other races. According to the American Center for Law and Justice, roughly one quarter of the non-citizens that Cheverly, Maryland, allows to vote in local elections have voted in at least one federal election.  “This is either evidence of massive voter fraud where non-citizens are voting in yet another state or gross incompetence on the part of voter registry officials,” the ACLJ wrote...................

The 2026 Midterm Election, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Daily Reminder of Just How Awful Democrats Are!, ''You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!". 

Recently I've been asked if I think the Republicans will hold the Congress after this midterm.  I said the Republicans, in spite of themselves, will hold Congress.  Their legendary ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory has been usurped by the Democrats by offering the biggest circle of babbling radical circus clowns to ever run for public office in American history.  The biggest thing Republicans have going for them are Democrats.  Otherwise, the Republican party is a party without form or merit.   

Mitch McConnell holds nearly $7.4 million campaign surplus away from Republican  committees.  The man is vile and corrupt to the bone.   He'll soon be gone, and I don't just mean out of office, and the nation will be better off, but he's not alone in his perfidy.  

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski endorsed the Democratic candidate to be Alaska's next governor.  Trump calls her the party's worst senator, and the Bush family still haunts Republicans, with Bush raising money for Senate candidates, but not for Ken Paxton.   George Bush's daughter Barbara donated $2500 to Talarico's campaign. She's almost as bad as Dick Chaney's daughter. 

This midterm election is exposing many in the party for who and what they are, which they've deceptively hidden from the American public for many years. The youngest Bush brother, Neil Bush, openly stated he voted for Talarico, a stunning weird man saying: “I have been enormously impressed by the way he approaches complicated and controversial issues".....and ..... my genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico."  

 Ya just can't make this stuff up.  

Talarico is a truly weird man, and yet Neil Bush is "enormously" impress with him and his character? I wonder if Neil Bush is certifiable?  

Ken Paxton says his primary opponent, John Cornyn, is working against him, to teach those Republicans a lesson.  Cornyn denies it but given events, does anyone believe him?  Both Cronyn and Tellis were defeated in their primaries, but that hasn't prevent them from being insufferably in an attempt to "ingratiate themselves with Democrats, who also hate them".

Karl Rove is openly supporting a Democrat in Texas because he believes he created the conservative Republican party and resents "his" party having been taken away from him by the peasants, so he spouts out vitriol against legitimate conservatives in the Republican party at every opportunity, especially against Trump. 

Former Governor Chris Christie: says Trump created a rotten moral core in the Republican party, and, GOP Rep. Bacon: Trump's deportations aren't humanitarian or Christian enough.  How about this,  crime plummets under Trump, and his deportations are a major factor in that happening.  How's that for being humanitarian and Christian enough?  

If the Republicans hold the Senate will Thune run to be the Senate leader? Make no mistake, he'll run again.  The big question is will he be chosen again?  Mitch's cabal has been weakened by primaries, but you can't beat someone with no one, so, who will challenge him as the Republican's leader?  That will be interesting to watch.  

1. Republicans Are a Cancer. Democrats Are The Grim Reaper. - The Republicans are the cancer. They have refused to pass the SAVE America Act or rein in a rogue judiciary. They have indicted exactly zero people for the theft of the 2020 election, for the Russian Collusion hoax, for the COVID travesty, for ActBlue illegally funneling billions into Democrat coffers, or for the persecution of the J6ers, all the while spending like drunken sailors. And their greatest failure is not nuking the filibuster, something that will have a half-life of about one millisecond once the Democrats need it gone.

Republican Senator Tim Scott is nonetheless convinced Republicans will not only hold the Senate, but may well expand their hold.  Then we come to the polls and voter fraud, which I will address in Part VI