News roundup
(1) I think this is the right decision:
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the execution of the terrorist-traitor Army Maj. Nidal Hasan will not be live-streamed. Trump’s order overrides Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s earlier decision to make the death-by-firing-squad viewable by the public.
I already weighed in on the idea of livestreaming the execution, in this post. I was not in favor.
(2) It seems it’s okay to say abusive and racist things about white people, and of course about Jews. I hear it all the time, especially about white people – and often said by white people. Apparently these virtue-signalers feel they’ll get extra virtue points from trashing themselves.
(3) Democrats apparently don’t want Kamala Harris as their candidate in 2028. But did they ever want her as their candidate? She certainly didn’t do well in the 2020 primaries. And in 2024 she was foisted on the party after it was caught in a Biden dilemma of its own making. The amazing thing is that she came as close to winning as she did. Most Democrats and Trump-haters either held their noses and voted for her, or thought she was perfectly okay. The latter group contained many people who didn’t watch her interviews.
(4) Banks discriminated against conservatives. No surprise there:
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Debanking Review on Wednesday. Miranda Devine first broke the story in the New York Post. The 47-page report, titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” draws on a hundred thousand complaints and fifty thousand internal bank records from 2020 through 2025. It names JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.
Every one of them hid behind the same excuse: “reputation risk.”
What did these banks fear? Bad press, protests, attacks from activist outfits like the Southern Poverty Law Center, and retaliation from regulators and politicians. So they purged anyone who might draw that heat. Christian organizations lost service over their views on abortion, LGBT issues, and traditional family values. Gun makers and retailers, Arctic oil and gas, coal, detention facilities, tobacco, and e-cigarette companies all saw financing dry up.
And it will happen again if Democrats regain control.
(5) Democrats talk about affordability but won’t be delivering it. Anyone who’s been paying attention should know that. But a great many people don’t pay attention. “Affordability” is therefore a smart campaign strategy.
When Democrats talk about affordability they remind me of the kid who kills his parents and then complains about being an orphan.
Democrats are economic illiterates whose insane policies (mass immigration, wage and price controls, green energy, universal healthcare, high taxes, unlimited spending, etc.) create shortages that put upward pressure on prices.
Wow, where to begin?
1. I can see a case either way in the Fort Hood shooter execution. Most societies I would imagine have practiced public execution as a way of discouraging miscreants, but those were more-or-less homogenous societies where everyone knew and/or was related to everybody else. It’s only been in the last 200 years or so that we’ve had large groups of foreigners living among us who have very different norms and beliefs, not to mention in many cases despising the host population. So it’s hard to tell what the deterrent effect might be, if any.
As for the method, I have yet to see anyone suggest that Hasan get a free helicopter ride.
2. About those self-hating white people, I think it was Joe Sobran who observed that “in their mating and migratory habits white liberals are no different from the KKK.” (I may not have that quote exactly verbatim, but you get the idea.)
3. “Reputational risk?” As Daffy Duck used to say “har har, it is to laugh.” These same financial institutions fall all over themselves to do business with pornographers, sleazy politicians, left wing non-profits, and even Jeffrey Epstein fer crissakes. What “reputational risk” really amounts to is “we’re afraid of the howling communist mob or we’re fellow travelers.”
4. Hard to believe that it was almost 50 years ago that Reagan asked the public “are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” Republicans, as Kissinger once said about Arafat, “never miss an opportunity to miss any opportunity.” Romney could have and should have borrowed that line against Obama but for some reason didn’t (copyright violation?). Maybe he was afraid of being the guy who made Obama a one term president.
It’s a reasonable wager they were harassing dissenters because officials from regulatory agencies were leaning on them. (Though it is amazing the number of officials in private companies willing to listen to a skeevy outfit like the $PLC; Idocracy is now).
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The ‘reputational risk’ bushwah was always a manifest lie. (For starters, who knew that the wife of Gen. Michael Flynn had an account at Wells-Fargo, or knew ‘Lori Flynn’ was married to a retired Marine General).
About those self-hating white people
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Actually, they think quite well of themselves. It’s white people who have jobs and trades rather than careers that they despise (along with the police, the military, corporate management, and old money not financing NPR).
Romney was like michigan j frog, very loud in some circles in public silent againsr obama yes the execution was long over due of course the govt was responsible for letting hasan run rampant
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I saw that this morning. I thought they had infiltrated the culture and education systems. Banking? Unlike Neo, I was surprised.
Meanwhile,
CNN Shocked That Jewish Support for Dems Falls From +49 to +13
So celebrating October 7 wasn’t a great idea after all?
I’m entirely in favor of live streaming Nidal Hasan’s execution, provided that it is done in an undeniably “unclean” manner. The point is not cruelty but deterrence. Just before his execution, it should be made undeniably clear that he will be executed in what Islam declares to be done in an “unclean” manner. The purpose being, by their own beliefs, to permanently deny him entrance into ‘paradise’… Using their own beliefs against them is the key to deterring jihadist recruitment. Flip the reward/risk metric so that paradise is no longer in their minds a certainty but rather, at best a ‘maybe’…
@Banned Lizard: “CNN Shocked That Jewish Support for Dems Falls From +49 to +13”
Hmm … Perhaps some conservatives will have to recalibrate their puzzlement, “Why do Jews keep voting Dem?”
Well, there IS a huge, huge problem…and given the scope of this contagion, it’s depth and it’s lethal, brain-numbing appeal, I’m not sure it’s surmountable…
“Behind Closed Doors: Wild GW [University] Conference Devolves Into Anti-Israel Hatefest Plotting How To Resist ‘Zionist Billionaires’ and ‘Weaken the Zionist State’;
“Participants had to sign a two-page confidentiality agreement and promise not to identify attendees, take pictures, or record their rantings”—
https://freebeacon.com/campus/behind-closed-doors-wild-gw-conference-devolves-into-anti-israel-hatefest-plotting-how-to-resist-zionist-billionaires-and-weaken-the-zionist-state/
+”Bonus” (Michael Oren)
“The Price of Intelligence;
“Even if those who betrayed their country and fellow soldiers in NAZA are brought to justice, the environment that spawned their crime, that fostered and nurtured it, will remain intact.”—
https://claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com/p/the-price-of-intelligence
H/T Powerline blog (for both).
File under: Night of the Living Israel-Destroyers.
Plus…Brendan O’Neill with another flourish of lament and outrage…
“Ireland has been conquered by Israel Derangement Syndrome”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/15/ireland-has-been-conquered-by-israel-derangement-syndrome/
H/T Powerline blog…
#5.
“Democrats talk…”
…in another heart-stopping episode of “Russiagate Redux”! (Or should that be “The Sequel”?—or The Sequel of The Sequel of The Sequel…?)
…As the vaunted Liberal Media—National Enquirer wannabes, all…with apologies to that illustrious publication—continue to make up “news”.
(Granted it’s pretty imaginative!…)
“MS NOW Retracts Report That FBI Director Kash Patel Landed In Russia”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ms-now-retracts-report-fbi-director-kash-patel-landed-russia
Question: If they continue to promulgate gloriously absurd BalderdaSh with their oh-so-“inventive scoops”, what difference does it make if they’re given access to the White House or not…?
(5) I consider myself MAGA and a strong Trump supporter. However, this 30-second add for JB Pritzker’s reelection campaign for Illinois governor is effective, showing Trump saying “Affordability is a hoax” and “Prices are coming down.”
People can see high prices and smaller product packages when they shop.
Pritzker is a rotten Democrat. He took the new weight loss drugs and dropped 80 lbs or whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH3bnXMIQC8
Re4, “Banking? Unlike Neo, I was surprised.”
I’m guessing that physics guy was still teaching when all these opposition suppression tactics went down. Plus, the propaganda media mostly neglected to report on the outrage!
This led to the Right-side search for a right friendly bank. They found one in rural Oklahoma. The re-branded Liberty Bank.
I’m still considering tossing them some of my business their way.
One thing the Left was surprised about was how easy big business really is. The left has perfected the technique of create a problem, blame the right, and promise (if elected) to fix it. Facts do not matter. I see oppression in the future.
It’s not just that some voters don’t pay attention. I am convinced many are intentional suckers. It is so much easier than actually thinking bout the issues. Too bad we are all stuck in the same boat.