MUH DEMOCRACY™ II:
Slotkin has, in many ways, done us a favor. She has revealed the ultimate purpose of lawfare, which is to override the will of voters.
This is no longer about Trump, if it ever was. The simple truth is that the left has built a long-term system to subvert election results and… https://t.co/bNsk3UyVnn
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 19, 2026
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: ‘Why Is Everyone Investing in Texas?’
“Texas has been one of the biggest winners of the blue state exodus, and now it’s pushing to become a real financial powerhouse.”
“If Texas were its own country, its economy would be the eighth largest in the world. Bigger than Russia, bigger than Canada, bigger than Italy. That’s the state’s preliminary 2025 GDP, $2.9 trillion, measured against every other nation on Earth.”
“Goldman Sachs is building an 800,000 square foot campus in Dallas. When it opens, more than 5,000 people will work there. It’ll be the firm’s second largest office in the United States. Goldman isn’t moving its headquarters, but between 2015 and 2024, 314 companies did. Nearly half of them, 154, went to Dallas Fort Worth. By 2026, Texas had 57 Fortune 500 headquarters, more than any other state, with about $2.8 trillion in combined annual revenue.”
Profit is helluva motive.
DAVID HARSANYI: Why The Law Must Apply to Ilhan Omar.
AS CIVIL WAR THREATENS: Migration Skeptics to France: We Told You So.
DON SURBER: How Trump got Hasan’s execution accepted. “What President Trump did was think past the sale. He made everyone agree to executing the bastard by turning the argument into whether we should televise it. Dilbert creator Scott Adams noticed in 2015 how Trump frames issues.”
MUH DEMOCRACY™:
🚨Heads Up, Virginia: AG Jay Jones’ 10-page election directive is the DataRepublican blueprint in real time@DataRepublican laid it out: coordinated clashes with the federal government to delegitimize it and hand legitimacy to Democratic state officials — specifically governors… pic.twitter.com/hxZ3Q3wwIZ
— ((( Charlottesville ))) (@CvilleBubble) October 19, 2026
DataRepublican laid it out: coordinated clashes with the federal government to delegitimize it and hand legitimacy to Democratic state officials — specifically governors & AGs.
‼️Virginia’s AG just ordered election officials to:
• Deny ordinary DOJ monitors access to polls
• Tell federal agents to leave and call local police
• Document badges, weapons, vehicles & movements
• Challenge federal subpoenas
• While eliminating Election Day voter eligibility challenges❌No specific unlawful federal operation identified—just preemptive resistance that sets up the “red line” showdown and shifts authority to the state and transfers legitimacy and control to Democratic state officials — in Virginia’s case, leftwing extremists Governor Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Jay Jones.
❌This is an operational plan, not theory.
❌The conditions for escalation are being set in advance.
🇺🇸SHARE with your friends. VOTE REPUBLICAN.
And here’s the link to that Virginia election bulletin.
HEY, IT’S A THOUGHT:
Once we liberate Iran we can produce an expeditionary force made up of Iranians who hate Muslims. https://t.co/yBYLm2Kg1e
— @instapundit (@instapundit) October 19, 2026
OPERATIONS ECONOMIC OUTCAST: U.S. Targets A7 Network Over Alleged Role in Iran Sanctions Evasion.
ANDY KESSLER: Have Some Manners, People: We’re too deep in the era of ‘me, me, me’ to care about common decency and courtesy. “I’m not pining for a return to the Victorian era, but politeness and decency should include respect, common interest and nailing a spike into today’s rampant narcissism. Many of my incoming emails are as courteous as a mule kick to the head. I’m used to it, but please don’t dictate a response to this column on your next flight.”
Well, it’s hard to be polite in this environment:
I was flying to New York and while boarding the woman in front of me was struggling to get her bag into the overhead bin. I asked if she needed some help and she said no. About an hour into the flight a flight attendant pulled me aside and asked what I had said to her. Turns out… https://t.co/8EHL8QTKfF
— Nocturnal Nick (@foxluvsbunny) October 18, 2026
LIGHTNING DEALS: CelerSport Men’s Athletic Work Crew Boot Socks. #CommissionEarned
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR EDITION): Blaze at St. Petersburg oil sites as Kyiv launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia. “One person was killed, and five more were wounded in the attack, which sparked fires at both the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the city’s Ruchi oil depot, said local Gov. Alexander Beglov. A logistics center belonging to Russian retailer Ozon and a data center for local tech giant VK were also targeted, both companies confirmed.”
ALL BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF BEING CALLED RACIST: Jeffrey Carter: France Burns, But So Does the US.
Napoleon knew how to deal with riots in Paris.
DISPATCHES FROM FARANSĀ:
Confused tourists arrive in Paris
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 18, 2026
POWERLINE BLOG WAS ON THE ILHAN BROFO OMAR STORY YEARS AGO, BEFORE IT WAS COOL: Missing Ilhan’s missing defense.
BUY GUNS AND AMMUNITION, BECAUSE IF THIS HAPPENS WE’RE LOOKING AT CIVIL WAR:
The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan .
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.… pic.twitter.com/cyPpofdZOj
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 18, 2026
GENEROSITY IS WASTED ON THE EVIL.
Europe gives them free healthcare, free housing, free education, every social program, and a quality of life they could never have back home… yet they will still loot and destroy the West into the third-world.
There is no magic soil.
A nation is simply it’s people.— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 17, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KNEW THAT FREE SPEECH MEANS LITTLE IF IT DISAPPEARS THE MOMENT A MOB OBJECTS. Jacob Mchangama revisits Douglass’s confrontations in this week’s update with those who sought to silence him and the lessons his defense of free expression holds today
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab pushes 1st launch of next-gen Neutron rocket to 2027.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Palestinians Finally Granted Own Country https://t.co/jMPl6ZC8RV
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 17, 2026
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Mother referred to Prevent for ‘over-identifying with Israel.’
When Holly Passmore heard a knock at her front door at about 11am on July 4 last year, she assumed it was an Amazon delivery.
Instead, the 44-year-old mother-of-two from County Durham found two plain-clothes police officers on her doorstep wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel.
“They said it was a safeguarding matter,” recalled Ms Passmore, who cares for her nine-year-old son, Rex, who has severe autism, while studying for a master’s degree.
She assumed they were concerned she had taken her son into a war zone.
“I said, ‘Well, my son didn’t go to Israel. He stayed here with my mum and my daughter, who’s 20’,” she recalled. But the female officer replied: “No this is about you – because you may be at risk of manipulation.”
The officers from Durham Constabulary were investigating an anonymous referral to Prevent, the Government’s counter-extremism programme.
British authorities once again do the meme:
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