The MAGA "Messiah": The Greatest Ever Pedophile, Rapist, Womanizer, Adulterer...

... not to mention his avaricious obsession with money, with his own moronic greatness and, as of late, with men's and women's butts. He sure is special. 

He will surely be missed. But wait: He might still claim to be immortal with the power to resurrect from the great beyond where he, like the rest of us, will some day go.

Why would the fake Christians and the racists of the white trash supremacists love a man with such credentials? Simple: Because he is a racist like them. All other criteria don't matter to the white trash bedrock of American "civilization": They are willing to ignore the man's chronic insanity and criminality as long as he is racist like them.

Former Miss Switzerland is a blonde, just like all those incompetent dumb blonde bimbos Trump surrounds himself with. But she's Swiss, i.e. she's neutral. Neither republican nor democrat, hence a reliable witness.
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Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul Alleges Donald Trump Raped Her at the Plaza Hotel in 1993
A report from House Democrats details Keul’s claims about the alleged 1993 incident, while the White House denies the allegations
Angelique Brenes
Tue, October 27, 2026 


Beatrice Keul; Donald Trump
Credit: Beatrice Keul/instagram; Aaron Schwartz/Getty

Beatrice Keul alleges Trump raped her at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November 1993

House Democrats' report details the allegations and examines Trump's alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein

The White House denies the allegations, saying they are untrue and Trump has been "fully exonerated" in connection with Epstein

Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul alleges that President Donald Trump raped her at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November 1993, according to a new report released by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee examining Trump's alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

The report presents Keul's account in detail for the first time and alleges that Trump, Epstein and others used the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant, a competition for young women ages 16 to 22, as a "'hunting ground' to prey on vulnerable young women and girls."

Trump has not been charged with a crime in connection with Keul's allegations. In a statement to PEOPLE, White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis denied the allegations and reiterated the administration's position regarding the president's ties to Epstein.

Beatrice Keul and Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel During the American Dream World Finals in 1993 - Credit: the house judiciary committee

"None of these allegations are true," Bis said. "This 'report' is nothing more than a desperate attempt by crazed Democrats to distract Americans from the surging Republican momentum driven by President Trump's historic achievements. The President kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar-a-Lago because he was a creep, and he has been fully exonerated of anything related to Epstein."

According to the report, Keul was 24 and working as a model and financial services professional when she was recruited by Jill Harth to attend the November 1993 pageant in Atlantic City and New York.

During a press luncheon at the then-Trump-owned Plaza Hotel, Trump allegedly approached Keul and promised to help her obtain a visa and gain admission to New York University, according to her account in an interview with committee staff cited in the report. Epstein allegedly approached Keul shortly afterward and made similar promises, including an invitation to attend a party at Mar-a-Lago.

Later that day, a Trump representative allegedly invited Keul upstairs to meet with him. According to the report, Keul believed the meeting could help advance her career and education. Once inside a suite, Trump allegedly grabbed her from behind and raped her, tearing her dress and causing bleeding and bruising on multiple parts of her body. Keul described the alleged assault as "brutal."

Following the alleged assault, Trump repeated his promises to help Keul with a visa and NYU admission and made her promise to remain silent, telling her, "[T]he show must go on," according to the report.

Keul finished the pageant in a terrified "daze" and returned to Switzerland, declining to participate in another Trump-sponsored pageant in Hawaii several weeks later, the report alleges. Several months after the alleged assault, Trump called her in Switzerland and again offered to help her obtain a visa and admission to NYU, but she declined.

Beatrice Keul
Credit: Beatrice Keul/instagram

The House Judiciary Democrats' report cites other accounts that it says support its allegations, including a 1997 sexual assault lawsuit filed by Harth against Trump. The report also draws comparisons between the alleged promises Trump made to Keul and accounts from women who told the committee that Epstein used promises of education and career opportunities to recruit and control victims.

The White House's denial comes amid previous sexual abuse allegations against Trump, including those made by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her in a New York City department store in the 1990s.

Carroll first publicly detailed her allegations in her 2019 book, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal. She alleged that Trump forced her against a dressing room wall at Bergdorf Goodman, held her in place and raped her. Trump denied her claims, saying in an interview that she was "not my type" and that he had never met her, despite photographs of the pair together.

Carroll sued Trump for defamation in 2019 and filed a separate lawsuit for battery and defamation in 2022 under New York's Adult Survivors Act. In May 2023, a civil jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a lesser finding than rape, and for defaming her.

Trump ultimately paid Carroll the $5.6 million he owed her after the jury's verdict. He continued to challenge the verdict, but the Supreme Court declined to reconsider the case in August.

Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan of Kaplan Martin LLP, welcomed the Supreme Court's decision in a statement to PEOPLE.

"I'm pleased that the United States Supreme Court has declined again to hear this case," Kaplan said.

"As a result, the jury's unanimous verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and then defamed E. Jean Carroll is now final and cannot be challenged in any court," she added.

Trump has also continued to challenge a separate jury verdict requiring him to pay Carroll $83 million in damages in a defamation case.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.

Read the original article on People

Another Trump-Voting Moron Regrets Her Vote After Developing Cancer

Such a typical story of inbred American morons who believed Trump's lies. Having voted for the Great Criminal Moron three times on the basis of religious BS, and now that she has cancer and Trump has favored health insurance scammers and billionaires to the detriment of average Americans, she cannot afford healthcare costs and high deductibles, and so she now hates Trump. Unprincipled idiots who believe the lies of the conservatives' "god and country" horse manure, instead of supporting the Democrats' health, education and equal opportunity platform.

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She voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the bills
JESSE BEDAYN
Sun, October 25, 2026

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Ford Expedition rumbled to a stop and Cindy Banda’s bedazzled flip-flops landed on the asphalt of the Houston cancer center’s vast parking lot. She threaded through the rows of cars, a tally of patients who gather here to sit with chemotherapy needles or lie on radiation machines.

The elevator dinged open. A year ago in this building, surgeons removed Banda’s right breast, and she still didn’t know whether treatment had expunged the cancer from her body. Doctors had told her it would be tough to beat.

“I’m more of a positive person myself,” Banda said, now sitting with a white wristband in a dim waiting room. But the bills are harder to dismiss, and the single mother with six children in her care repeated something like a mantra. “Keep the house. Keep the cars. And just keep the kids stable.”

That’s true for many Americans, as rising healthcare costs leave more families with a sinking feeling after seeing the bill for surgery or medication. Heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, about half of registered voters said healthcare costs are a major problem for them and their families, up from a little more than one-third four years ago, according to a Fox News poll from September.

With party control of Congress at stake, registered voters are nearly twice as likely to say they trust Democrats over Republicans to handle healthcare, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from the same month. Those frustrations, combined with broader concerns over rising prices, have sapped support for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.

Banda knows how that feels. She backed Trump in each of his three campaigns, motivated by her opposition to abortion. But when cancer came, the ensuing scramble to make ends meet was painful enough to rearrange her priorities, and she started to think about voting Democratic for the first time.

The 46-year-old was ushered into a sterile room for her appointment, her phone lit up with a text. “Please contact TD Auto Finance.”

“This one’s $1,300,” she said of the car payment bill. “I have to go back to work.”

She had been on sick leave from her job selling internet service for one year, and she needed the income to support her three kids and three more she had taken in after her sister’s death.

The doctor said her reconstruction surgery could be scheduled early next year. “I was hoping for maybe December,” Banda said, “only because I’ve met my deductibles.” Come January, she would have to pay down the $7,500 again. Earlier may be possible, the doctor replied, if the skin around her surgical scar loosens.

The evening had cooled slightly by the time she walked back through the rows of parked cars, their ebb and flow marking the tide of sickness, survival and death in a small corner of a colossal healthcare industry that saves lives while taking in over $5 trillion every year.

Banda paid $8 for parking as she left.

Confronting death and debt in America before a midterm election

Two weeks later, Banda was back at work, making door-to-door rounds to sell Spectrum’s Wi-Fi in McAllen, her city along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley. Banda, holding blue flyers, walked along a row of storefronts, some that shuttered since she last was in the area.

She hadn’t had a sale and commission since October of last year, after the biopsy and diagnosis.

The doctor who gave her the news had hugged Banda, and she sobbed even though she never really sobs in front of other people. During chemo, her children took turns buzzing off her wispy hair. When her 9-year-old daughter’s hand quivered, a teenage cousin helped guide the clipper over her mother’s scalp.

Banda’s first impulse was to maintain normalcy, stability, for the children.

But that requires roughly $7,000 a month for utilities, mortgage, car payments and groceries, along with the two water leaks. Then, even with insurance through her job, the surgeries, chemo and radiation added up to over $25,000 that she’s been paying off, making Banda one of tens of millions of other people in the United States in medical debt.

Banda tries not to dwell on death and debt.

“It’ll consume you,” she says. She smothers those thoughts beneath her bubbly demeanor and avoids being alone. But that truce, between her insistence on positivity and the fears that it covers, is brittle.

Certain thoughts still arrive uninvited. Banda’s late sister, Melissa, didn’t have life insurance. Banda makes sure it’s a payment she never misses.



“Sometimes I think, and I shouldn’t think like this, but I’m worth more gone than here,” she said one day. “Obviously, the goal is not that, the goal is to beat it,” she continued, “to keep the house and keep the cars.”

So far she has, with the help of others.

On top of child support, the father of Banda’s 9-year-old often pays $400 a week for a nanny to help with the kids. Banda’s own father sent her $700 before for her recent Houston appointment, one of his many cash infusions. Her high school classmates, who she hadn’t been in close touch with in decades, fundraised by selling grilled chicken, rice and beans from a roadside tent. Two GoFundMe fundraisers raised nearly $30,000 and Banda rented her late sister’s house while putting her own in forbearance.

But months of insecurity takes its own, sleepless toll. She needed to sell some internet services to catch up.

After sticking the Spectrum Wi-Fi flyers onto empty storefronts, she drove to pick up her kids from school. The following day she had a morning meeting at a barbershop for what would be her first sale back at work.

Turning on Trump and voting Democratic for the first time

A lifelong Christian, Banda had voted her anti-abortion stance in past elections. When her sister was kidnapped and murdered by her ex-husband in 2020, Banda retreated from religion. The cancer brought her back to church with an apology to God, but it also made her rethink her politics.

She voted for Trump in 2016, and his first four years seemed steady, so she voted for him again in 2020. Democratic President Joe Biden’s tenure, including the tail end of a global pandemic and rising inflation, felt like bedlam, so she voted for Trump to return to the White House in 2024.

But two years later and fighting an expensive disease, she had found no respite from high prices.

So when James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminary student running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat, visited one of Banda’s fundraisers — speaking about his diabetes and his work in the Texas Statehouse to lower the price of insulin — it moved her. “Imagine if he can do that for the cancer,” she said.

Talarico and his Republican opponent, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, have different approaches to healthcare. Talarico wants all Americans to be able to join Medicare; Paxton proposed a $25,000 tax deduction for out-of-pocket medical expenses.

Talarico also supports a law guaranteeing abortion access nationwide, which Banda has voted against for years. But after she slid into debt to stay alive, after her grocery bills mounted and the high school had to comp the kids’ soccer gear she couldn’t afford, Banda’s anti-abortion concerns have been superseded by costs.

“Because it’s what I’m living,” she said. “I’m living it.”

Banda cast an early ballot for Talarico. “Never voted Democrat before today!!” she wrote in a text with blue heart emoji.

Her news will come on Election Day, in a doctor’s office

Banda had just started a new cancer-targeting medication that cost $16,000 a month, reduced to $500 by insurance. By the afternoon, she was nauseous and fatigued, unable to eat. The malaise would keep her home the next day. She would miss the meeting with the barbershop to close her first deal since getting sick, though she felt confident it was in the bag.

But Banda pushed through the discomfort one evening to join her family as they replaced the flowers at her sister’s tomb.

She drove past the headstones and oak trees in the evening’s slanting light, and the family gathered around Melissa Banda’s tomb in an open-air mausoleum. There was no speech. Their eulogy was her father, Fidel Banda, methodically clipping and arranging the flowers for his daughter.

Banda walked along the wall of tombs. She will find out on Election Day whether the cancer is in remission or whether it’s spread to her organs.

“This one’s for me,” she said, pointing to a blank tomb next to her sister’s.

“Mom!” said her daughter with the huffiness of a 9-year-old. “Why would you say that?”

Banda smiled and added, “in a hundred years.”

Crime Soars in US. Debunks Trump's Claims About Immigrants

With millions of immigrants deported, crimes have soared in the US, debunking the senile criminal Trump's claims that immigrants - and not US-born white trash morons - are behind criminality in the country. Check: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/03/crimes-du-jour-by-us-born-white.html

White trash Americans are by far the major cause of drug use (and hence drug trafficking) and criminality in the US. But the inbred racists of this country continue to peddle the Big Lie that only immigrants cause crimes and that once we deport millions of hard-working, tax-paying immigrants, there will no longer be any crimes and violence.

If anything, Trump's racist incitements against immigrants have unleashed a wave of violent crimes by racist, anti-semitic, Christian supremacist white trash morons.
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12 injured, including 6 children, in shooting near Florida university, police say
MICHAEL O'KEEFE and BILL HUTCHINSON
Sun, October 25, 2026 



At least 12 people were injured, including six children, amid a Saturday evening shooting in Tallahassee, near the campus of Florida A&M University. Eleven of those who were injured had gunshot wounds. Six victims are adults and six are young people, including an 11 years old. At least three victims have sustained serious injuries and one of those is in critical condition. 

Meanwhile,  a woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in New York City's Central Park over the weekend. A man approached the 39-year-old victim near East 66th Street and Fifth Avenue on Saturday evening, displayed a knife and sexually assaulted her.

This assault is the latest attack to occur in Central Park. Last week, a woman riding her bicycle through the park in the evening was attacked by three men who hit her in the head, and she fought back. One of them grabbed her bag before they fled. She sustained injuries to her face, neck and back.

[Updated] The Tide Has Turned. Today Brazil. Tomorrow the US

Out with the Fascists. Out with the autocrat dictators. Out with the criminals. Out with the racists.

The Bolsonaros were booted out in Brazil yesterday.

Anti-Trump and Nobel Prize winner Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has returned home.

Next week, the American people will kick Trump and his savage goons in the butt and out of our lives.

There was never anything wrong with democracy, but because it pushes aside the billionaires, the corporate swindlers, the racist supremacists, the warmongers, the ultra-religious barbarians, the parasitic capitalist scammers and the dictatorial imbecile so-called "great men", the latter have tried over the past two decades to reverse the march of equality, solidarity, pacifism and human rights that has lifted millions out of poverty, hunger and ignorance. The wealthy criminals of this world (Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro and their clones) have used fear and religion to fool people for a while, but people have now seen and experienced what a bunch of crooks and corrupt felons the whole lot of them is, and as long as elections remain the key to effecting change, people are voting with their brains and no longer with their emotions.

President Lula: Congratulations.
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Lula is declared winner of Brazil's election as Bolsonaro rejects results
ELÉONORE HUGHES, MAURICIO SAVARESE and ANNA-CATHERINE BRIGIDA
Updated Sun, October 25, 2026 


Supporters of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrate after he won the presidential runoff in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Lucas Landau) (AP Photo/Lucas Landau)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America.

With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil's electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, giving him 51.8% of the total vote. Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.

Lula's triumph bucks a regional trend of victories for right-of-center presidential candidates allied with Trump. It also means Latin America's largest economy, with a GDP of $2.6 trillion per year, will likely continue defying Trump's demands, despite the pressure of increased tariffs.

Lula's win confirmed by electoral court

A video published by Lula's campaign shows the veteran leader celebrating with First Lady Rosângela da Silva and allies after his runoff victory was confirmed by Brazil's electoral court. Wearing star-shaped red glasses, he kissed his wife. Hundreds of his supporters began gathering on Sao Paulo's main artery to celebrate the victory.

In Rio de Janeiro, cars beeped their horns and a woman dressed in red — the color of Lula supporters — shouted "You lost! Cry harder!" to four men in yellow and green sipping beers, Bolsonaro's signature colors. A huge roar echoed in the street as the result was confirmed.

Rodrigo Valentim, a 51-year-old businessman and supporter of Bolsonaro, said that another Lula government would harm the economy. He pointed to financial markets' positive reaction to the result of the first round, when Bolsonaro bested Lula.

"I don't understand how people can vote for Lula," he said. "The country is collapsing."

Lula is set to begin his fourth non-consecutive term as president on Jan. 5, 2027.

Bolsonaro rejects results after confusion at polling places

The electoral court's announcement ended an evening of confusion at polling places after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ruled three minutes before the scheduled end of voting to keep polls open for two more hours, following requests by both candidates. Lula's request came after issues with buses that provide transportation to polls in Sao Paulo and Salvador, two cities that tend to favor the incumbent. Bolsonaro's request was due to heavy rains in Brazil's south, where he is favored.

The decision delayed tallying the votes by two hours. It was unclear how many polling stations stayed open after the scheduled closing time. Polling stations in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro closed shortly after the original 5 p.m. deadline, reporters for The Associated Press observed.

Bolsonaro, whose father is serving a 27-year prison sentence for attempting a coup after he lost the 2022 presidential election to Lula, pointed out that Zanin is Lula's former lawyer and criticized him for "changing the rules of the game in the middle of the game."

"It's impossible to recognize the results of the election in the context of these things that happened," he said.

Lula overcame concerns about security and cost-of-living concerns

Bolsonaro bested Lula by more than 2.2 million votes in the first round of the election earlier this month. Sunday night's apparent victory by Lula marked the first time since Brazil's military dictatorship ended in 1985 that the second-highest vote-getter in the first-round elections won the presidency.

Lula faced a tough reelection battle because of concerns about the cost of living and security. Bolsonaro made a tough-on-crime approach the cornerstone of his campaign and pledged to bring down food costs while Lula, trying to lure undecided voters, has invested in costly incentives.

Both have been hit by corruption suspicions involving family members and allies, with Bolsonaro implicated in a sprawling scandal rocking Brazil. Lula previously spent more than a year in prison on corruption convictions that were eventually annulled.

This will likely be the last victory of the veteran leader's political career. Lula began his political career in the 1970s as a union leader. He then helped found the Workers' Party, which he represented as a presidential candidate three times until he finally won it in 2002. He was reelected four years later and was succeeded by one of his cabinet ministers, Dilma Rousseff, in 2010. She was reelected in 2014.

Rousseff was impeached for accounting maneuvering in 2016 amid a sprawling corruption probe, which also ensnared Lula. He tried to run for president again in 2018 but was jailed in March after being convicted.

Lula was released from prison after 580 days and saw Brazil's Supreme Court annul his sentence after police found messages that showed the judge who convicted him was biased. He quickly became one of former President Jair Bolsonaro's biggest critics and narrowly beat him in 2022.

Since he lost the first round, Lula reorganized his campaign, appealed to young voters, put millions of Brazilians on the streets to defend democratic values and his legacy, raised fears of another Bolsonaro administration and boosted several government initiatives.

He joins Trump and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega — all aged 80 — as one of the oldest presidents in the Americas.
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Savarese reported from Sao Paulo. Brigida reported from Brasilia.
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Lula’s Surprise Victory Is a Beam of Hope in a Dark World
Hugo Albuquerque
Mon, October 26, 2026 


Lula has once again reached the masses. But this fourth term must entail governing in a different way. (Alexandre Schneider / Getty Images)

Following a stunning, inspiring turnaround driven by mass mobilization of the Brazilian people, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won his fourth presidential election. This achievement marks an unprecedented shift in Brazilian political history: never before has a candidate who trailed in the first round managed to come back and win.

The election — which pitted Lula against Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently imprisoned for an attempted coup d'état following his defeat in the 2022 elections — was marked by obscene interference from the Trump administration, with Big Tech companies like Meta acting shamelessly in favor of the far right. All this in a context where other interventions in the region by Trump were successful, leading to the election of far-right presidents — most notably in Colombia — which created the sense of an invincible Trumpist wave across Latin America.

Defeated by about two million votes on October 4, Lula gained more than ten million new votes on October 25, while Flávio Bolsonaro received just over three and a half million more than in the first round. Lula increased his vote share in virtually every Brazilian municipality after having been written off just three weeks ago. What changed in such a short time provides a lesson for socialists the world over.

How a Victory Is Built

While pro-Lula demonstrations began immediately after the defeat in the first round, driven largely by student organizations, the Workers' Party campaign sought to connect with a new generation on the left wing. At the same time, it triggered a genuine earthquake in the party's communication strategy, brought about by the arrival of Congressman André Janones, recently reelected as a candidate for the center-left party Rede.

Lula, who is eighty, invited an entirely new generation of newly elected congresspeople to Brasília immediately following the first round of voting. Despite the growth of the far right at the expense of the traditional right and center in the legislative elections, held concurrently with the first round of the presidential race, the Left made gains in the National Congress, bringing in young figures who are adept at social media and communication and who brought fresh energy to the campaign.

Among these rising stars are twenty-one-year-old representative Ana Elisa — hailing from Minas Gerais, Brazil's quintessential swing state; Erika Hilton, a trans woman reelected with a record number of votes; Jones Manoel, a communist from Pernambuco (Lula's home state); and Guilherme Cortez, a representative who identifies as a twink. They all represent a generation of young people with millions of Gen Z fans in Brazil; they are social media stars, despite the platform algorithms favoring right-wing content.

But the campaign's most notable figure was forty-two-year-old Janones, who created a WhatsApp group dubbed Exército de Lula (Lula's Army) that grew to over ten million followers, through which he carried out organized and disciplined agitation and propaganda. Nearly one in every ten Brazilian voters joined a single group in just three weeks. Janones is often snubbed by the old intellectual left-wing elite, yet he has always been popular with the masses. Now he has become a true celebrity.

Working from the assumption that Meta's algorithm was biased against the Left, Janones orchestrated major social media campaigns, such as encouraging Lula's supporters to post Instagram photos of themselves wearing the Brazilian national soccer team jersey, a garment once a symbol of unity but subsequently co-opted by the far right. This action was joined by countless Lula supporters and made a major splash on social media one day before the failed demonstration organized by Flávio Bolsonaro on 

Avenida Paulista, a vital hub in the city of São Paulo.

The strategy was a success, with Janones playfully repurposing the far right's military vocabulary, referring to his followers in Lula's Army as "soldiers." Beyond the algorithms, this move by Janones subverted the semiotics of recent years, during which the Bolsonaro family mobilized its vast base using military terminology — a natural enough approach, given that Bolsonaro and many of his key behind-the-scenes figures are or once were military men.

The Brazilian Far Right Cornered for the First Time

Even after its defeat in 2022, the far right remained a powerful force on social media, driven by a combination of effective communication and preferential treatment by the platforms' parent companies. During the Lula administration, posts by pro-Bolsonaro Congressman Nikolas Ferreira garnered higher engagement than those of global pop stars. This was used to wage a dirty yet highly effective opposition campaign against the third Lula administration.

While Lula appeared mired in a series of political missteps upon his heroic return to the presidency in 2022, leading a complex Broad Front coalition, his opponents seemed unbeatable on social media and effectively connected with the Brazilian people. Obviously, the criticisms from the far right had little to do with the problems facing Lula's third administration; rather, Bolsonaro allies leveraged the government's relative unpopularity to advance their own agenda of dismantling Brazilian democracy.

After defeating Bolsonaro in 2022, a victory that echoed his own political comeback from his time as president in the 2000s, Lula seemed trapped in a Groundhog Day scenario, where every government crisis was amplified by mass agitation from the far right. Curiously, this state of stagnation only came to an end in the last three weeks. Janones's strategy brought fresh air, pulling millions of activists out of a potentially deadly depression, given the imminent return of fascism, as veteran journalist Luiz Carlos Azenha stated. Janones's insane twenty-four-hour live stream before the elections was preceded by a live stream with millions of views featuring testimonials from many Brazilian artists, showcasing perhaps the very best of Lula and Brazil. From that point on, the Right lost its comfortable monopoly on communication.

Lula has once again reached the masses, for the first time since returning to the presidency. But this fourth term must entail governing in a different way. It will require an approach closer to his first two terms, in which Lula was able to set the terms of debate within the country, yet with a need for more intensive dialogue and action with the masses of Brazilians who delivered this election for him. All of this is taking place in a world that is, quite literally, on fire. The economy will be a problem, and Lula will have to confront a bourgeoisie that desires a more savage capitalism than anything seen before, even in Brazil.

For those who saw Flávio Bolsonaro acting as if he were already president on October 25, Lula's surprise victory was a historic relief. For those who have lived through the last few weeks in Brazil — attending massive demonstrations, unprecedented in the country's electoral history, and growing furious at every debate between Lula and Flávio, as well as at the cruel and boundless arrogance of the right-wing leader — the operative word is, finally, hope.

This article originally appeared in Jacobin, a democratic socialist magazine publishing long-form essays and analysis on politics, economics, and culture. Subscribe to the print edition for $20 a year.

Trump's GOP-MAGA Genuinely Believe their Supporters are Dumb

The dummy Ronald Reagan was married to the idiot Nancy who, even as a Christian imbecile, regularly consulted a charlatan diviner and astrologer, but kept it secret for fear of alienating the dumbass Republican base who have all found Jesus.

If you don't know you're dumb as a cow, all you have to do is become a MAGA moron. 

Trump has said it many times, including the recent "I can say whatever the hell I want and you'll clap". Which is why they go around lying and making up stuff and "alternative facts" that the dumb morons behind them will swallow lock, stock, and barrel because they are largely ignorant illiterate peasants from the boonies.
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Scarborough Eviscerates GOP’s ‘Closing Argument’ 11 Days Ahead of the Midterms: ‘Americans Aren’t as Stupid as You Think They Are’

Kathianne Boniello
Fri, October 23, 2026


Scarborough Eviscerates GOP’s ‘Closing Argument’ 11 Days Ahead of the Midterms: ‘Americans Aren’t as Stupid as You Think They Are’

Joe Scarborough framed President Donald Trump's praise of a controversial political ad as a "closing argument" for Republicans 11 days ahead of the midterms — and warned, "voters are watching."

The Morning Joe host eviscerated Trump Friday for his insistent praise of the attack ad in the Ohio governor's race between Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton.

The Ramaswamy campaign ad features' Acton's estranged mother, Donna Arthur, who lambasts her daughter in the clip as a "liar" and urges people not to vote for her. The family's stunning backstory — including Acton's decades-old allegation that her stepfather raped her for years from when she was age 9 to 12 and that her mom sided with the perpetrator — has turned the ad into a lightning rod for the GOP.

Trump has now repeatedly praised the ad and turned his criticism on the press for covering the intense criticism of the spot.

Scarborough said the president is now "bringing the entire Republican party down just 11 days ahead of the midterms" and later added, "now they're all associated with one of the lowest political ads in political history."

He played several clips of Trump lauding the ad.

"Is that Orwellian, Donald? Is that good is bad and bad is good, Donald, is that what you're doing?" Scarborough raged.

"Who wouldn't use such an ad? Well, you say you would. It's called hitting pay dirt. No, it's called getting in the dirt. Getting in the mud," he added.

"You know, Donald, Americans aren't as stupid as you think they are," the host said. "And you certainly know that if your father had been accused of raping you and your sister and you had to be taken out of the home when you were 11 years, 12 years old, and your mother had fled the state with the rapist, with a child rapist. Yeah, the press would all be criticizing that ad. You know that this isn't about the press.

"I mean, it's so stupid. I can't, I cannot believe how stupid this is. What you're doing in the final stages of this campaign to hurt Republicans. I really can't," he said.

"But this isn't about the press," he said. "This is again, about the sitting Ohio governor saying this is a sleazy ad. Take it down. The sitting Ohio secretary of state, Republican also saying it's a sleazy ad. Take it down. The sitting Republican senator – who again, whose body and whose backside you've been lusting after and praising for the past week –says, take it down."

"I don't know if you think that you're talking to three-year-olds and they don't understand, but Americans understand. They understand. And for Republicans, this is horrible news.

"You start the week defending, getting in bed with Vladimir Putin, doing everything you can to destroy freedom fighters in Ukraine, doing everything you can to undermine western democracy, to undermine western civilization. And then you follow with this?" he asked.

"Listen, man, it's 11 days. In 11 days, Americans vote. And you're talking about this at a time when people can't afford their lives," he said.

"Whether it's their grocery bills that are higher than ever, whether it's health care that's been made higher than ever by your bill that gave tax cuts to billionaires and multinational corporations, or when they tried to put gas in their car to get to work, or when they tried to put diesel in their trucks," Scarborough pointed out.

Scarborough went on to include the Jeffrey Epstein controversy — and the GOP's broken promise to release the files if elected to power, tying it to Trump's praise of the Ramaswamy attack ad.

"Republicans are putting quite a closing argument forward. Now we're used to seeing distractions in the final days before an election, but becoming the party of pedophile protectors? I mean, there's a theme. There's a thread running through here."

He then recounted the disturbing details of the criminal accusations at the center of Acton's story:

Not only are the top Republicans smearing a woman who is a child rape victim, and Donald Trump called it pay dirt, the president saying the rapist's wife, who fled with the rapist and lived with the rapist until the rapist died and hasn't see her daughter since the state took her away from the mother and the rapist.

Donald Trump calls that woman a mother who showed, quote, a lot of courage. Courage. Courage. Courage for a woman who left the state with a man charged with raping her 12 year old daughter.

"…And that Republicans is your leader," he added. "That is the person who represents you. That is the person voters are going to be passing judgment on when they vote for you. And he calls siding with a child rapist courage."

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As in Their Troubled Trouble-making History, Modern-Day Hebrews are Committing Suicide

Their history is no different from all other peoples' histories, the difference being, though, that they wrote it down distorted as myths and fabrications on stinking goat skin parchments, and that for some reason made their garbage unique and/or sacred among the religious garbage of all other peoples.

For example, the exile to Babylon was not unique to Hebrews when the Babylonians, and later the Persians, descended on the Near East. Yes, the Hebrews were taken as slaves into exile, but so were the Canaanites, the Phoenicians, the Arameans and other Semitic peoples in the region. Yes, the Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem was destroyed, but so was the Temple of Melkart in the most powerful city at the time, Tyre. But because they wrote it down, the Hebrew story came down in history as the only one, as if the Hebrews were the unique targets of the Babylonians, a narrative exploited by the Hebrews and their descendants to claim they were the only victims around, as they continue to do today.

Be that as it is, the mythology and garbage of the Torah tells us that the Hebrews were in a constant state of trouble-making and infighting that inevitably and periodically led to their demise. One exile after another, one betrayal of Yahweh after another (the Golden calf in the Sinai, the worship of Phoencian Baal under Jezebel, etc.).

Here we are now in the 20th and 21st centuries, with an Indo-European amalgam of barbarians from the steppes of Russia and Eastern Europe who converted to Judaism a few centuries ago claiming, on the basis of religion and not on ethnicity, kinship with the Hebrews of old and ownership of Palestine by virtue of the garbage mythology of the Torah/Old Testament.

In their colony in Palestine, the re-named Zionists benefited for some time from their status of victims of their European brethren in the Holocaust in which barbarian Europeans murdered 6 millions of these converted Jews. They exploited the guilt they drilled into their European butchers to illegally invade Palestine and drive its people off its land into squalid refugee camps and create a brand new Zion-on-the Mediterranean resort. But the history of their pseudo-ancestors, as written in the Torah, is now coming back to haunt them: The divisions of the Hebrews have resurfaced into today's Israel, for one and only one reason (not unlike the divisions of Muslims into a pleiotropy of sects, each claiming to hold the true message of the big Zombie in the sky known as Dieu, Allah, Yahweh, Baal, Gott, Dios, God etc.), namely that the whole construct of religion is to create an exclusive club that claims to hold the Truth while others outside the club are relegated to heretics, sinners, lowlifes, and so on. Basically, religion is a Fascist construct.

Israel is today wracked by a civil war between Indo-European Caucasian Europeans (Ashkenazi) and Semitic Arabs and Persians (Sephardi). The former founded the Zionist colony with Socialist progressive ideas, while the latter were even more backward conservatives who were imported later to give the impression to the world that the Zionist colony is diverse and cosmopolitan and to claim that these Arab and Persian Jews were "persecuted" by their communities in which they had lived for millennia in total peace and harmony. Anti-Semitism never existed in Muslim Arab and eastern regions while it flourished among the white European murderous Christian communities. Even today, there are thriving Jewish communities in Morocco, Tunisia, Iran etc.

Israel, like all other colonizing barbarians, is doomed. The Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arab Muslims, the Crusaders, the Mamelukes, the Ottomans, the French, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese and the English, all colonizing invaders ... they all came, ruled for a while, then left. Why would the European colonizing invader Zionists be any different? They don't have the demographic advantage and they are unable to make friends. Their belief that only violence can deliver peace to them is as absurd as the Crusaders' Kingdom of Heaven could a thousand years ago. Sooner or later, they will have to dust off their European (and American) passports, pack their belongings and return whence they came.

As you will read below, as Israel mutates from a liberal, progressive socialist colonial entity at the time of its birth into today's fundamentalist Jewish Daesh under Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, the descendants of the founder stock of Zionists have actually begun packing and leaving.

"We must free ourselves from them if we are ever to make any real change"

"I have hatred towards the Haredi.' This is an unsustainable situation"

"They are being killed because their rabbis teach them twisted Torah"

"religious nationalists are deeply religious themselves, yet feel the Haredim look down on them as religiously inferior"

"Mr Eisenkot ... has promised to crack down on what he described as "Jewish terror" 

"Many mutter darkly about leaving the country for good if another Netanyahu-led government emerges"

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The CIA, civil war and the total collapse of Israel
Henry Bodkin
Fri, October 23, 2026


An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish person is dragged from a road by Israeli police during a protest on Sunday against army recruitment - ABIR SULTAN/EPA/Shutterstock

The green light had been given; the mission was ready to go.

At an Israeli base deep inside Gaza, the soldiers of the Givati Infantry Brigade's Rotem Battalion were preparing to embark on a combat patrol.

Yet upon opening the door of their Namer armoured personnel carrier, they refused to enter.

Despite the increasingly frustrated entreaties of their commander, the operation was ultimately scrapped.

Why? Because, according to multiple reports on the August incident, there was a female paramedic inside the armoured vehicle, and for the troops involved, who came from Israel's Ultra-Orthodox community, this was a far bigger problem than the risk of being mortally wounded by Hamas.

Sixteen were subsequently sentenced to military detention, an outcome that provoked deep resentment in the highly religious federation of sects also known as the Haredim.

After all, it has been pointed out, these young men were at least willing to fight for their country – albeit on the condition that the military made accommodations for their strict theological rules.

By contrast, tens of thousands of other Haredi refuse outright, citing a higher duty to a life of intensive prayer and scripture study.

As the country approaches what has been billed as a crossroads election, this is one of several critical fault lines in Israeli society which some fear have the potential to tear it apart.

The prospect of an inconclusive result on Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu trying to hang on as prime minister, or indeed a replacement government led by Gadi Eisenkot that attempts to crack down on West Bank settler violence, could each act as the match to the tinderbox.

These combined crises, plus the economic strain of rising military spending, potentially put Israel at risk of not just societal fracture but civil war, according to a classified Central Intelligence Agency assessment reported at the start of the month.

The alleged report, supposedly written by the agency's Red Cell, a unit tasked with challenging prevailing intelligence assumptions, has so far only been reported by Dropsite News, an outlet that is consistently critical of the Israeli government, and has not been confirmed by the US government.

However, for some independent analysts, such a warning is not unreasonable.

Beth Oppenheim, a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the country was now so polarised that, whether Mr Netanyahu managed to cling on to power or not, there was likely to be a backlash from the other side.

"There are huge existential questions for the country's future at stake in this election," she said.

"It's a real scope for conflict and civil unrest between religious and secular."

Bnei Brak is a major Haredi community near Tel Aviv - Eyal Warshavsky/for The Telegraph

This week, 42 Haredi men were arrested at Ben Gurion Airport, accused of evading the draft.

Earlier in the month, a major riot tore through the city of Modi'in after military police tried to arrest one suspected draft dodger.

In post-Oct 7 Israel, where it is typical for reservists to serve more than 100 days a year, often on the front line, it is a controversy so bitter that to some extent it has reset dividing lines of party politics.

All of Mr Netanyahu's key opponents, including two former top generals, talk tough about forcing the Ultra-Orthodox into uniform.

But on the streets of Bnei Brak, a major Haredi community near Tel Aviv, the young men concerned warned against it.

"If the military police come down here and try to drag men out of the Yeshivas, there will be an explosion," Gavriel Weinberg told The Telegraph. "I'm 26, and I've got two kids – I study the Torah. It won't work."

A 19-year-old called Israel agreed.

"They sent me my draft papers, but I ignored them," he said. "I'm not worried about it."

Meanwhile, Israeli violence in the West Bank reached unignorable levels last week after Heidi Levine, a Washington Post photojournalist, was beaten so savagely by settlers she nearly lost a finger.

The next day, a delegation of European diplomats was also attacked in the occupied Palestinian territory, while the 78-year-old mayor of a small French town was allegedly struck with an iron bar.

Even after 10 settlers were arrested – which happened only after the US ambassador kicked up a stink on social media – it looked like a situation that was out of control.

In the liberal strongholds of Tel Aviv, Haifa and Herzliya, middle-class Israelis look on appalled, furious that the communities which, in their view, act so brazenly against the national interest, whether by depriving the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of manpower or tarnishing Israel's reputation abroad, appear to do so under the cover of increasing government patronage.

Many mutter darkly about leaving the country for good if another Netanyahu-led government emerges following next Tuesday's vote.

More probable, perhaps, is a return to the mass demonstrations that gripped Israel in 2023 over Mr Netanyahu's attempts to weaken the judiciary, a movement that found its successor in the "bring them home" rallies that called for the hostages' homecoming to be prioritised rather than defeating Hamas.

During the final month of the election campaign, The Telegraph has visited multiple communities that were once on Israel's fringe, but are now at the heart of the debate about its future.

On a windswept hilltop between Jerusalem and Hebron, 12 national-religious Jewish families and their supporters were celebrating the formal inauguration of Israel's newest West Bank settlement.

Named Gad Natan after two Old Testament prophets, the collection of prefabricated dwellings situated above the vineyards and olive groves of the nearby Palestinian villages was, the inhabitants said, intended as a "seed" for a much larger conurbation in the future.

Religious Zionist Party volunteers campaign during the inauguration of the new West Bank settlement of Gad Natan - Eyal Warshavsky/for The Telegraph

To the background noise of children playing in a mini funfair and a religious-themed rock band on the temporary stage, the new settlers spoke of the need to keep up the pace of Israeli development in the West Bank.

Chovav Rapport's father was born in Cardiff, where he still has family.

A father of four at 29, he works for the IDF in Be'er Shiba.

"The main challenge is more building," he said. "We have to keep going."

He confided that he may vote for Bezalel Smotrich, the Religious Zionist Party finance minister who, since 2022, has used his executive power to affect a revolution in settlement building in the West Bank.

Alternatively, he may vote for Mr Netanyahu's Likud.

Ms Oppenheim argues that Mr Netanyahu's Likud, which is not traditionally associated with the national-religious settler movements, has been taken over by national-religious ideology in the last few years, which would explain why Mr Rapport felt comfortable choosing either Mr Smotrich or Mr Netanyahu.

Mr Rapport's shortlist echoed that of nearly all the settlers who spoke to The Telegraph at Gad Natan that day.

At the inauguration, Orit Strock, the Religious Zionist minister of settlements, spoke on stage about the need to kill off the Oslo Accords, the deal brokered with the Palestinians and Jordan by Yitzhak Rabin, the former prime minister, who was subsequently assassinated by a religious nationalist activist. The Oslo Accords were a series of agreements in the 1990s designed to set the framework for a negotiated two-state solution, which determined interim zones of municipal and security control within the West Bank between the IDF and the Palestinian Authority.

Orit Strock, the Religious Zionist Party minister of settlements, poses for a photograph during the inauguration festivities - Eyal Warshavsky/for The Telegraph

Dvir Glasser, a 28-year-old school counsellor, said he would probably vote for Mr Smotrich because he supported his ideas about the "transfer" of Palestinians out of the West Bank.

He takes out his phone and opens Google's chatbot. "You know, I just asked Gemini 'what should we do about the Palestinians?', but Gemini is too kind! They hate us.

"Should they be transferred?" he added. "We prefer that they choose to go. We'd support that."

Mr Eisenkot, formerly Israel's top soldier, has promised to crack down on what he described as "Jewish terror" in the West Bank, the widespread spate of anti-Palestinian violence perpetrated by a minority of settlers.

However, several incidents this summer, such as the so-called "siege of Qusra", where violent settlers appeared able to defy and deter soldiers from removing illegal outposts, suggest that a concerted effort in this direction could quickly escalate into intra-Israeli violence.

Last week military sources said the army was reinforcing troops in the West Bank to guard against a surge in settler violence and the rapid establishment of more illegal outposts to thwart a future government's plans to clamp down on the practice.

A few days later, at a trendy converted warehouse in Tel Aviv port, talk of Palestinian transfer – a polite term for ethnic cleansing, in the view of critics – was also in the air.

Only this time among a younger, more urban crowd.

This was a campaign Q&A event for Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) leader and the national security minister in Mr Netanyahu's government.

Also a religious nationalist who grew up in a West Bank settlement, he is often lumped together with Mr Smotrich by the diplomatic corps and foreign press.

However, he represents a distinct ideological tradition – one that is little understood abroad: that of Meir Kahane, the ultra-nationalist rabbi whose Kach party was banned from the Israeli elections in 1992 for inciting racism and which was later designated a terror organisation by the US.

It is, essentially, a Jewish supremacist worldview, and it has found a charismatic, rambunctious new exponent in Mr Ben-Gvir, whose party is polling better than that of Mr Smotrich.

In Tel Aviv, he garnered cheers by boasting about how tough he had made conditions for Palestinian prisoners – although he didn't mention his most eye-catching policy, a so-far failed attempt to surround one prison with crocodiles – and how many guns he had allowed into the hands of Israelis.

He delights in releasing videos showing him taunting Palestinian prisoners, often convicted terrorists, in their cells.


Supporters cheer Itamar Ben-Gvir during a rally in Tel Aviv last week - Eyal Warshavsky/for The Telegraph

In one of his most recent videos, he tells the man to his face that "god willing" he will be hanged – a major new policy of his, symbolised by the shiny little noose he wears on his lapel.

Hershy Kelner, who emigrated to Israel four years ago, said he regarded Mr Netanyahu as a moderate whom Mr Ben-Gvir was – just about – keeping on the right track.

"I want Israel to get more right-wing," he said, citing the 2023 murder of teacher Lucy Dee and her two daughters by Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank as an important factor in his political outlook.

"If they want me dead, I don't want to live with them. I want them out."

An 18-year-old from Beit Shemesh, who gave only his first name, Gavriel, agreed that the prime minister would be "left-wing" without the Otzma Yehudit leader.

Amid the beer and hot dogs on the fringe of the Tel Aviv event, he explained that he also believed that the Palestinians as a people should be removed.

"The idea that giving them more land makes them peaceful is a fraud," he said.

A shopper in Tel Aviv examines a key chain bottle opener in the shape of a gun decorated with a photograph of Itamar Ben-Gvir - Eyal Warshavsky/for The Telegraph

Before the national security minister went on stage, his female spokesman explained to the handful of international journalists that her party leader had no interest in speaking to us – and didn't care what we thought about it.

"His priority is the Israelis in that hall," she said.

In fairness, nearly all the other party leaders have also determinedly ignored the foreign media during this election campaign.

But it is the explicit relish with which Mr Ben-Gvir and Mr Smotrich - both of whom have been personally sanctioned by Britain - disdain international opinion that creates a clear dividing line with the non-religious nationalist right, which keeps a wary eye on international opinion.

Mr Netanyahu, after all, delights in his reputation as the "Trump whisperer", his supporters telling anyone who will listen that while many Israeli politicians speak English, "Bibi speaks American".

For liberal Zionists, the ideological descendants of David Ben-Gurion and fellow Labor pioneers who founded Israel, this election is a nauseous mix of hope and dread.

It is common to hear the more affluent liberals talk of emigrating if another, as they see it, extremist government gets in.

Bezalel Smotrich speaks at an event marking the inauguration of another Israeli settlement in the West Bank last month - Erik Marmor/Getty Images

A Kan News poll in August found that 12 per cent of Israelis said that the election result would affect their decision whether to emigrate, while a third knew someone who had left during the previous two years.

Such data should, of course, be treated cautiously.

However, Ms Oppenheim suggested Israel after October 2026 might be different.

"A lot of people are waiting to see what happens," she said. "It wouldn't be at all surprising if there was quite a big exodus after this."

Exodus or riots – either way, the tensions and trigger points between Israel's Right and liberal-centrist camps are plain to see.

But there are also fault lines within the right that are potentially just as momentous for Israel's social fabric.

The issue of Haredi enlistment, or non-enlistment, in the IDF has stoked deep resentment among religious nationalists.

The latter community over-contributes to the military effort.

Between October 2023 and 2025, 34 per cent of IDF soldiers killed in action were religious nationalists, despite the community making up around 17 per cent of Jewish Israelis.

Moreover, religious nationalists are deeply religious themselves, yet feel the Haredim look down on them as religiously inferior.

Recent comments from Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of the Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, which supported Mr Netanyahu's coalition until July, cannot have helped.

The 96-year-old blamed the young men being killed on the battlefield for their own deaths, suggesting they should not have been fighting in the first place.

"They are being killed because their rabbis teach them twisted Torah," he said, according to Channel 12.

Yehoshua Pfeffer is an Ultra-Orthodox rabbi who supports the Haredi Public party, a new grouping which aims to better integrate the Ultra-Orthodox community into Israeli life by encouraging a larger proportion of young Haredi men to join the army, while allowing the most gifted scripture students to stay in the yeshivas.

The party's supporters have faced threats from the mainstream Ultra-Orthodox community.

An Israeli soldier walks past a religious group in central Israel earlier this month - ILIA YEFIMOVICH/AFP via Getty Images

Nevertheless, they hope to make an electoral breakthrough next week.

Rabbi Pfeffer told a public meeting in Tel Aviv on Thursday that a young religious nationalist man had recently approached him to admit he had "a dark spot in his heart" towards the Ultra-Orthodox, because of the enlistment issue.

"He said: 'Rabbi, I have hatred towards the Haredi.' This is an unsustainable situation."

Moti Leitner, the 33-year-old Haredi Public leader, is now publicly challenging the mainstream Ultra-Orthodox rabbinical leadership, which broadly opposes enlistment, to grasp the nettle.

His party accuses them of leaving a "vacuum" of leadership over the issues of army manpower and social integration, leaving the way open for young rioters of the type who smashed up Modi'in this month.

"We must free ourselves from them if we are ever to make any real change," he told the meeting.

Before sitting down, Mr Leitner made, arguably, a radical choice for a Haredi politician.

With passion, and to some surprise, he chanted "Am Yisrael Chai".

It broadly means, "The people of Israel live", a solidarity slogan associated with the strength of the Jewish nation, not specifically the state of Israel.

These days, however, it is often used in a nationalist context.

It was almost as if Mr Leitner was trying to drag his ever more populous community across the societal fault line and into the Zionist mainstream – by the scruff of the neck, if necessary.

To that extent, there are grounds for hope.

And it should not be forgotten that Israel's claim to be the only real democracy in the Middle East is a meaningful one.

Despite the rancour and alleged corruption of recent years, it still has the institutions and, crucially, political culture to allow it to navigate its internal differences peacefully.

Whether it does so remains to be seen.

But it begins from a much stronger place than all of the countries that neighbour it.

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Good News: AIPAC Support Has Become Toxic to US Candidates for Office

AIPAC is the Zionist American arm of the Zionist colony in Palestine, a.k.a. Israel. AIPAC buys candidates for American elections on both sides of the political divide. That is not a sign of principled posture or of lack of bias. It is more an effort to keep American politics entangled with the genocidal foreign colonial Jewish supremacist colony in occupied Palestine currently engaged in the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of the indigenous people of Palestine. 

With a massive reversal of fortunes for Israel in American public opinion - on account of the genocide and the rape of Palestine by foreign radical terrorist settlers - it has become toxic for US candidates for office to be associated with the accomplice in the genocide, namely AIPAC.

Over the past two decades, young Americans have discovered the long occulted barbarity of the creation of the Zionist colony in Palestine. Zionist propaganda and monopoly over the information during most of the 20th century created a false narrative to justify the atrocities, massacres and terrorism perpetrated by Zionist terrorist groups (Stern-Lehi, Irgun, Haganah, etc.) in their first ethnic cleansing campaigns of the 1930s and 1940s. Virtually all Zionists who descended as illegal migrants onto Palestine during the British control of Palestine came from Europe as colonial settlers who brought with them and implemented the barbarity of their Fascist and Nazi homelands. Some 600 Palestinian villages were erased from the map and millions of indiogenous Palestinians were evicted from their ancestral land into refugee camps. Any resistance by the victims of Zionist genocide and ethnic cleansing was drilled into the public discourse as "terrorism", when the facts are that it was the Zionists who practiced terrorism against a largely innocent Palestinian population to drive them off the land.

Instead of the facts, Zionist propaganda drilled two false claims into the international debate: one, that the land belongs to them by virtue of the biblical Bronze Age garbage of the Torah some 3,000 years ago (when in fact modern Jews are unrelated to the biblical Semitic Hebrews and are modern-day Indo-European converts), and two, that being victims of barbarian Europeans somehow entitled them to mass murder and displace the indigenous Palestinians who never did them any harm.

In the US, the propaganda lobby arm of the Zionist colony in Palestine has lost its monopoly and stanglehold on US public opinion. Any candidate who receives money from AIPAC (America-Israel Political Action Committee) is now seen as complicit in subverting American democracy to serve the barbaric colonial European settlement in Palestine.

Several Zionist organizations in the US (AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League ADL, etc.) have in recent years been branded "biased" and "unreliable" in their assessments of US politics because of their blind support for genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

After several American politicians became the target by a large swath of American public opinion of harsh criticism following their endorsement by AIPAC, the Zionist lobby group  announced yesterday that it will no longer officially endorse candidates in US elections or send direct donations through its political action committee. That is a major victory for justice in Palestine and for the truth in the American public debate over the dirty financing of US politics. 

The Truth About the Inbred Hillbilly Moron JD Vance

He changed his name three times. He changed his religion three times, including an atheist phase. He's a dumb white supremacist racist chameleon who married a dark-skinned Hindu so he can pretend to be "tolerant", all the while urging her to convert to his evangelical crap. JD Vance is a Yale graduate but he was admitted under a DEI program aiming at helping morons from Appalachia like him become civilized. But alas, Yale didn't stick. His insult-laden language has not only revealed his racist DNA, but it also demonstrates his despair at foreseeing his inevitable kick out of American politics, at which time he can go back to his shed in Appalachia and hump a few sows.

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JD Vance is America’s worst insult comedian
Amanda Marcotte
Wed, October 21, 2026 


Vice President JD Vance speaks during a campaign rally on Oct. 13, 2026 in Tyler, Texas. Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images

Theories abound as to why JD Vance, once a promising Yale Law graduate with a best-selling memoir, went MAGA. Some argue that it was always a mistake to confuse the vice president's cosmopolitanism for intellectual sophistication, pointing out that "Hillbilly Elegy" is a bad book that panders to ugly right-wing stereotypes about his working class family of origin. Others suggest he is an empty shell who will become whatever it takes to gain money and power, as evidenced by his constantly shifting attitudes about race and religion. The truth likely falls in the "why not both?" arena. After all, empty and insecure people have often been drawn to far-right ideologies.

But there is one under-appreciated possibility for the MAGA turn of a man who once called Donald Trump "America's Hitler": that he finally found an audience willing to laugh at his unfunny jokes.

Vance is clearly embroiled in a lifelong struggle with a common ailment of self-serious men who consider themselves profound geniuses. He longs to be the funniest guy in the room, but he is unable to understand how humor works. But the vice president has discovered what second-rate talents that end up as the "comic" relief on Fox News learned long ago: The right-wing crowd doesn't care if you're not funny just as long as you're cruel.

Vance is taking full advantage of MAGA's lack of discernment in the last weeks of the midterm campaign. During a stop in Texas supporting the Republican Senate candidate, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, Vance responded to a fan by saying, "I love you, too, sir. And in a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico." The audience roared with laughter, apparently unable to realize that calling Paxton's Democratic opponent "gay" is less witty than if Vance had made fart noises with his armpit.

The vice president can't stop with tedious jokes about Talarico, who is leading in statewide polls. On his way to Texas, Vance falsely accused Talarico of having "a weird focus on transgender kids and drag queens," topics that he and Trump bring up every chance they get. Vance added, "typically people who say stuff like that tend to have some pretty unusual search histories."

But Vance isn't content to simply dabble in homophobia and transphobia. Racism is also his forte. During a North Carolina rally on Monday, he called non-white congresswomen "crazies" and mispronounced the name of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. When a protester jumped up to demand that the Trump administration release the Epstein files, Vance suggested, apparently taking note of the young man's darker skin, that the protester was in the U.S. because of "illegal border crossings."

At another event, Vance called Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate, a "little weasel" who should "shut his mouth and show a little gratitude." This was not out of character; the vice president often demands that people of color bow and scrape before white people for graciously allowing them to exist. But this time he got rebuked by the far funnier El-Sayed, who responded that Vance "had a cute little rally" with the "five people who like him."

But the vice president's lack of wit was perhaps best illustrated at an Ohio rally in support of GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, when he suggested that Dr. Amy Acton, the Democratic nominee, has a substance abuse problem. "I did promise Amy that I would meet her at a bar later. I understand she's into that sort of thing," Vance said, pausing for laughter that even the MAGA audience could barely muster.

Vance's implication can be traced to a Republican ad that paints Acton as an alcoholic after a 2019 incident in which the police were called during a loud fight with her husband. The call was reported not violent by officers, and her campaign claims the situation is being blown out of proportion. (Acton has also been hit with ads featuring insults from her mother, Donna Arthur, with whom she has been estranged since 1978 after Arthur refused to support her when she accused her stepfather of molesting and raping her between the ages of nine and 12. According to the New York Times, Acton's stepfather entered a not-guilty plea and was indicted by a grand jury, then went on the run from Ohio before standing trial.)

Vance's stream of insults ring particularly noxious when considering that he spent the summer portraying himself as a heartfelt Catholic convert whose salvation has imbued him with a newfound sense of Christian grace. In an obvious effort to soft-launch a 2028 presidential campaign, the vice president published "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith" in June, and strived mightily to convince interviewers they were beholding a humble servant of Jesus Christ.

Vance told USA Today that "my faith tells me to fight against" the blind pursuit of ambition and instead "focus on the good" and "make wise decisions and moral decisions." In an excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal, he wrote that he's learned "to love all parts of our Christian communion," including those "who voted for me and those who didn't." He went on "The View" with this gentle Christian message, claiming regret over "boneheaded" insults in the past, such as when he described childless women as being "miserable," "sociopathic" and "cat ladies. The hosts weren't having it, though, pointing out that there is nothing of Christian communion in the administration's attacks on Black people and immigrants, and leaving a visibly uncomfortable vice president to pretend not to know what they were talking about.

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Vance may be able to wriggle around his very un-Christian insults and falsehoods about Democratic politicians by calling politics a "dirty business," as he did in the Wall Street Journal. But it's impossible to square his claims of grace and salvation with the utter nastiness he unleashes on immigrants, most of whom are Christians themselves. He has yet to apologize for falsely accusing Haitian immigrants — most of whom are Catholic, like himself — of stealing people's dogs and cats to eat them. Shortly after publishing "Communion," Vance accused immigrants of making America "dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous." (This is also flat-out false, as immigration has been proven to boost the economy, and the country is objectively cleaner than it was decades ago, when a thick cloud of smog hung over many American cities.) 

[Those who dirty up America and make it the third-world of the first-world are his own filthy inbred white trash morons from the backwoods and the boonies of America. The constant inflow of educated immigrants is what made America great throughout the 20th century, while his own white trash kind were moonshining, getting drunk and bedding their sisters and mothers].

Through it all, Vance seems to be hoping that the crowd that sees his "Christian charity" face isn't the same one showing up to hoot at his lame "no homo" jokes about the devout Talarico. This behavior was on display during his recent CBS town hall event, where he tucked away the bad insult comedy and put on his choir boy mask. The dishonesty and hypocrisy reached stratospheric levels when audience members, including a Catholic nun, challenged Vance on his support for mass deportations and his racist lies about immigrants.

"To the extent that my rhetoric has been imperfect here," Vance said, "that's on me." Then he framed the administration's widespread abuses as reasonable, even compassionate, restrictions on immigration.

His comments came mere hours after he falsely blamed the riots in France on immigrants, posing on X that "liberals imported the third world into France and other countries" while "ignor[ing] fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility." No doubt Vance would deflect and deny if he were confronted on it, but there's no way to interpret his words except as a claim that people of different backgrounds cannot live together without violence — a frequent insinuation of his that is never slowed by the fact that his own wife and children are Indian-American.

This is ultimately why — despite the undeniable ugliness of Vance's insults of Democrats, immigrants, queer people and single women — his humor rarely generates the outrage he's clearly trolling for. Vance tends to come across as more of a pathetic striver than an effective bully. Verbal jabs work a lot better if the would-be roaster has a sense of self- confidence, or at least the ability to fake it. Whether he's speaking of love or hate, Vance never really seems to be talking with any conviction at all, beyond the hope that whatever he's saying will win him more power.

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