Roundup
(1) Pigs fly, and MSNBC gives Trump credit for his Middle East negotiations.
(2) Letitia James must have thought she was immune from having to answer for her own deceptive record-keeping. But instead she’s been indicted for fraud:
New York state Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges of bank fraud and making false claims to a financial institution that netted her nearly $19,000 in savings on a loan for a second home, according to the Department of Justice.
James indicted Trump for far far less – essentially, a made-up crime. I would bet she never thought the GOP would go after her, despite this – and/or she thought she’d be successful in her prosecution of Trump and he would never have the power to go after her.
(3) One might think that the “Israel is committing genocide!!” folks and the “Ceasefire now!!” crowd would be singing Trump’s praises. Nope:
The people who’ve been noisily clamouring for an end to the war in Gaza are either mute or they’re moaning. Don’t trust that snake Benjamin Netanyahu, some say. If I thought a genocide was being executed in Gaza, a crime as cataclysmic as anything the Nazis did, I’d be on the streets celebrating this morning. Yet these people can barely be arsed to put a thumbs-up on Instagram.
We know why: it’s because Trump has called their bluff. In fact, this could prove to be one of the most consequential bluff-callings of modern times. Trump hasn’t only managed to get two mortal enemies to sign on the dotted line of a deal. He has also, as a side effect, torn off the veil of pacifism worn by Israel’s legion loathers in the West and compelled them to come clean. He has created a situation where the true aim of this army of Israel haters – the dismantling of the Jewish State – will have nowhere left to hide. …
They’re iffy about Trump’s plan for some one simple reason: it leaves the Jewish State intact and it demands the surrender of Hamas. It thwarts their dystopic dream of dragging the Middle East back to 1948, before the modern state of Israel existed. Everyone can now see that what falsely presented itself as a peace movement was in truth a ruthless campaign of delegitimation, demonisation and even destruction waged against the world’s only Jewish nation by our post-reason elites.
(4) The man arrested for starting the Palisades fire seems to be a Trump-hating guy who was obsessed with climate change worries, but also was just very very odd and angry, threatening relatives as well. This seems to be the pattern for so many recent killers and other public enemies: a combination of politics and mental disturbance fuels their violence.
(5) A documentary about Melania Trump will be released in January. The woman is incapable of looking bad. There’s only good and very very good and excellent.
(6) Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, but then again the nominations were closed at the end of last January. Meanwhile, it was awarded to Venezuelan activist Maria Corina Machado, who dedicated it to “the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support for our cause!”
Amazing.
Actually, James did not indict Trump for anything. Her lawsuit against him is civil and concerns quite a bit more than $19,000. Trump’s criminal indictment in New York over the Stormy Daniels payment was obtained by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
djf: My recollection, which might not be accurate, is that Letitia James campaigned for her current position with a promise to “bring Trump to justice.” That sounds like she promised to get him without having a clear idea what she would charge him with. It sounds vindictive, and is not a good reason to elect someone, but I do not live in NY so I don’t know who she ran against and whether or not her electoral win can be chalked up to poor opponents or vindictiveness.
That does not justify the possibility that Trump is seeking vengeance in turn and that this explains the fraud indictment. Perhaps we will learn during the course of the trial that there really is something to the charge. I hope so.
2) Karma, if I ever saw it.
3) They were never for peace, only for the destruction of Irael. They’re now exposed.
4) The climate cultists have hit on wildfires as one of their best tools to frighted people into submission to their agenda. Arson is useful in that regard. This guy was also a pyromaniac – perfect.
That said, the fire would not have done the damage it did if the fire department had been properly led, and there had been water for fire fighters in the Santa Ynez reservoir. Fingering this guy does not absolve the mayor and governor of their failures.
5) Melania, yes. She’s much more than just a pretty face.
6) We all know the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t that prestigious anymore. The award to Obama diminished it quite a lot. Trump doesn’t need awards from reluctant grandees. He knows he has saved many lives in many places. That knowledge is a prize worth having.
Off topic for this post, but I thought you, Neo, and others would be interested in this item: A day or two ago I was saying that I thought “neo-Confederate” was overstating the situation with state and city governments resisting Trump. Well, maybe that’s true of the governments, but some leftists are totally on board with the idea:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/its-time-for-soft-secession/
“Soft secession, powered by the presidential ambitions of multiple blue-state governors, could, should it come to that, be the proving ground of a new confederacy. ”
Soft for now, but clearly they are not opposed to the idea of a formal rupture. Wanting to restrict commerce with red states is pretty close to that.
And I thought they would be shamed by knowing that they’re using the same logic as segregationists resisting federal civil rights pressure. Ha. Yeah, I know: no shame.
J.J.:
Yes, the Obama award diminished it – but it was already meaningless because Arafat had gotten it.
F:
The evidence against James seems strong, at least as it’s been described so far.
And yes, she campaigned on a promise to get Trump.
djf:
You are correct – it was a civil suit. But there were no plaintiffs except James’ AG’s office. See this:
She was looking for a crime but couldn’t find one. She couldn’t find a plaintiff for a civil suit either, so – like The Little Red Hen – she did it herself.
The time of talking is quickly drawing to a close!
My earlier comment was not a defense of James nor do I deny that she ran for office on a promise to “get” him. I was just correcting the misstatement that James “indicted” Trump over a matter concerning less than $19,000. Her case against him was civil and alleged that he “saved” millions in interest through fraud (that’s her allegation; I am not getting into the merits of the case). FWIW, the state Attorney General in NY has very little power to bring criminal prosecutions, which are entrusted to the county district attorneys.
#1, #3, and #6 all together:
I just saw a pic making the rounds from “decent” left leaning Democrats I know this afternoon: a golden statue of a horse’s rear end, with the caption, “This is the award he really deserves.”
I know it shouldn’t, but their hatred continues to stun me, even from what Neo has designated as decent people, and I agree. These are people I know personally, and apart from their terminal cases of TDS, live decent, normal lives
physicsguy:
I understand. My sister, now the last other surviving member of my immediate family, wished Trump had been killed at Butler.
Neo, nowhere did I say that there were plaintiffs other than James. Of course she, in her official capacity, was the only plaintiff. The government brings civil cases all the time. And James was not interested in finding private entities to bring a lawsuit (it is doubtful the “defrauded” banks could have sued Trump successfully for numerous reasons under the rules applicable to litigation by private parties). James wanted to bring the case herself, under a vague statute empowering her office to bring suits to stop “fraud,” with very lax standards of proof and newly shortened statute of limitations, so she could control the litigation and bankrupt his organization. That was the whole point.
I wrote a cheery little note, entirely non-political, to a niece in California. She hasn’t replied. I fear I’m being “ghosted,” since she knows my political leanings.
Neo’s “decent people” are anything but that.
At best they are the useful idiots of the left, willfully living in a bubble of ignorance that fits their chosen narrative. They are hugely destructive to our society through their hatred and acceptance of massive violence against their political enemies.
First to go in the civil war they seem to crave so stupidly.
bill:
They are very decent in their personal and professional lives.
I was certainly one of them for the first 30 years of my adult life. I was the same person then as now.
“Yes, the Obama award diminished it – but it was already meaningless because Arafat had gotten it.” – Neo
Oh yeah, how did I forget that one? The Nobel Prize is no longer noble.
Letitia James bought a property in Virginia and said it was her primary residence and then promptly rented it out. Making false statements on a mortgage application is commonly called fraud.
If the Nobel committee had known that Maria Corina Machado, would praise Trump, they never would have given her the peace prize.
Well there is always the IG Noble Prize
The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2025) FULL SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cP4xKd_L
Om, I get “This video is unavailable” from YouTube by using your link.
Marlene:
Well there is always the 2024 Ig Noble Prize (which is working)
The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukBwV9Lap2A
Try again for the 2025 Ig Noble Prize ceremony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cP4xKd_L4&t=16s
I find it abhorrent that ‘someone’ else will pay her legal fees, whether the NY taxpayer or the contributors to a fund raiser. Unless she is convicted and assigned jail time, she will basically get away with this no worse for wear. I.e. actions should have consequences.
Will she resign in the interim? hahaha… who am I kidding.
how we got here in part
https://x.com/TherouxPeter/status/1976279879672090941
another tablet exclusive,
why the intelligence establishment was largely blind on october 6th, and afterwards,
well it won’t garner him another lawsuit,
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-video-jd-vance-destroys-abcs-george-stephanopoulos-so-he-gets-mad-cuts-him-off-and-goes-to-a-commercial/
https://x.com/SamAntar/status/1977097284920934686
sure that makes sense