Insurance Companies are the Flagship Institutions of the United Scams of America

Whether it's health insurance or home insurance or car insurance... it doesn't matter. The insurance concept is based on assessing risks over a large pool of potential insured people and cannot therefore work for every individual by definition. The law of averages always leaves outliers who have to pay for the built-in defect in the concept of insurance. Insurance companies have to be predators in order to survive.

If by coincidence all people insured by an insurance company make simultaneous claims, which is statistically improbable but can still happen, the company will be unable to cover all these claims without going bankrupt. Which is why insurance customers find themselves being denied coverage sometimes because they happen to be the outliers. After fires or floods that devastate entire neighborhoods, the insurer finds itself unable to cover all claims and has to make random denials just to protect its bottom line and remain in business.

If, for example, all people who are insured by a health insurer suddenly fall ill, the company cannot pay them all because it used statistics and projections to assess as low the risk of all people falling ill simultaneously. Which explains why every fall, when the so-called "open enrollment" period comes about, I receive a book of some 100 pages of expensive glossy paper explaining to me that this year my insurer would cover only left knees but not right knees, or gall bladder surgery but not hernia surgery, etc. You get the point. What companies do is to look back at the previous year's incidences and claims, and makes projections on their basis as to what events are likely to happen versus those that might not happen in the coming year. This is why it makes changes every year over what to cover and what not to cover. Insurance coverage is a moving target that does not have you, as an individual, in mind. Like sheep in a herd, the shepherd will sacrifice individual sheep to protect the herd. You as an individual insured person have no relevance to the company. This is collectivism at its best, as practiced in communist systems.

Which boils down to the conclusion that insurance is a scam by definition. A Ponzi scheme of sorts that cannot theoretically cover all the people that subscribe to it. It is surprising that people don't understand the risks associated with subscribing to an insurance, and that they stand a good chance of being denied coverage even though they pay their premiums on time.

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Tennessee woman says her $1,633 car warranty offered just $347 toward a $955 repair
Jennifer Green
Thu, November 12, 2026


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A Tennessee woman who bought an extended car warranty to protect her investment said she was left borrowing money for repairs — and waiting more than a year for a refund.

Tina Kirk paid $1,633 for the coverage, but when her car needed a $955 repair, the company offered just $347.05 toward the bill.

Here's what to know

The warranty plan Kirk bought had no deductible and a term of five years or 100,000 miles, according to NewsChannel 5 Nashville. Kirk, who lives in Decherd, purchased it shortly after paying cash for a 2012 Chevy Equinox.

Kirk said she was promised 24-hour roadside assistance along with full payment for repairs.

"He was just a really good salesman ... and said, 'Buy it today, you can get it for $1,600,'" she recalled.

Kirk said the warranty company would not pay the full bill for a fuel-pump repair despite a second estimate that put the cost at a similar amount. The pump failed a month after she bought the warranty.
More background

Kirk told NewsChannel 5 that she had waited more than a year for a refund after canceling the warranty. She had to borrow money to pay for the repair.

In 2025, the Tennessee Attorney General's office received 617 complaints about vehicle warranties and repairs. That total exceeded the complaint counts for landlord-tenant disputes, health services, and used car sales.

Kirk also said she had trouble reaching someone who could resolve the problem.

"I don't know that they're even legitimate. You call, they answer, but then they want to put you through to this department or that department and nobody answers," she told NewsChannel 5.
What's being done?

The state could have reason to investigate if other consumers report similar experiences. NewsChannel 5 said it helped Kirk file a complaint with the Tennessee Attorney General's office.

The warranty company said it would provide a prorated refund after receiving missing documents.

"I need my money. They didn't provide the service they were supposed to, so they should reimburse my money," Kirk said. "That's a lot of money to me. A lot of money to me."

Kirk isn't alone in facing repair bills she expected her warranty to cover. These stories describe car owners and homeowners dealing with denied coverage, disputed warranty terms, and costly repair quotes for vehicles and air-conditioning systems.

• A BMW X5 owner bought extra engine coverage but faced repairs exceeding its value.

• A Honda Accord owner says years of denied claims preceded a $5,000 head-gasket quote.

• A Canadian Toyota owner says a $13,000 transmission repair went uncovered over 370 miles.

• A homeowner with a 10-year AC warranty was told coverage expired.

• In Texas, a homeowner expecting warranty coverage received a $5,600 repair quote.

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The Great American Moron Confesses He is Evil and Corrupt...

 ... by using his infamously stupid Roy Cohn tactic: To deflect attention from your own filth, just accuse someone else of it. In the case of Trump, he accuses the victorious Democrats (who walked all over his decaying administration of wealthy highway robbers) of being evil and corrupt. 

Trump has always been transparent in this manner to all smart American voters. But to the 77 million imbeciles who voted for him (many have regretted it, obviously), his lies went down smoothly because the bulk of them are a herd of MAGA morons. Now that he lost "biggly", his bruised hands have gone worse and his bruised ego too.

Grandpa Trump woke up this morning still disgruntled at losing the elections and at the fast moving decomposition of his administration and his MAGA movement. By the way, Mississippi just confirmed it elected an African (Scott Colom) for Senator, which is the first time the state elects a Democrat since the 19 century, you know, what with the slavery and the racism of the white trash morons who used to run the state. [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw7vppyr80eeo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D]

But back to Trump. He still thinks that using uppercase letters in his inane posts really makes a difference, the poor idiot. He will remain disgruntled until he no longer knows what or who he is, which is when his brain smoothly transitions into full blown dementia, so easily that people will not even notice the transition. Will he take the billions he amassed by cheating with him to hell?

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Trump At 5:50 A.M.: 'Democrats Are Corrupt And Evil, And I Am The Exact Opposite!'
Ron Dicker
Updated Thu, November 12, 2026



Somebody woke up grumpy.

At 5:50 a.m. Thursday, President Donald Trump greeted the day with a corruption eruption at Democrats, whom he again accused of "cheating" to win the midterms.

Meanwhile, he denied that he and his administration are corrupt.

"THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite! Fight hard, Republicans, or you won't have a Country left!" he ranted on Truth Social.

Meanwhile, the president's self-dealings, including a gifted plane from Qatar and $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency earnings, have raised allegations of corruption that reportedly contributed to the Republicans' defeat in the midterms.

The president got nostalgic for his first term in another post, claiming intense Democratic scrutiny of his tax returns "FOUND NOTHING except that I paid my taxes and did everything right."

That's not entirely true. Trump raised eyebrows by not paying federal income tax for years, The New York Times reported. In his first year as president, he forked over just $750 in federal income taxes to Uncle Sam and somehow paid nothing at all in 10 of the previous 15 years, according to the newspaper.

"Now, in order to deflect from MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION & CRIME, they are at it again, illegally threatening Republicans with knowingly false accusations and charges," Trump wrote on Thursday. "Other than cheating, this is how they won the Midterms - But we won't let our Country go to hell!"

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Trump’s morning meltdown includes reminders he pays his taxes and false claims about presidential salary
Brendan Rascius
Thu, November 12, 2026 

Trump’s morning meltdown includes reminders he pays his taxes and false claims about presidential salary

President Donald Trump sought to cast Democrats as the party of corruption early Thursday, boasting in a series of Truth Social posts that he pays his taxes and refuses a White House salary.

His comments came less than two weeks after midterm voters signaled that concerns about corruption played a crucial role in their choices at the ballot box.

The Trump administration has faced persistent corruption allegations, including claims that he is profiting from the presidency. His cryptocurrency ventures, use of the pardon power and acceptance of foreign gifts have all drawn scrutiny as his personal wealth has ballooned.

The Democratic Party, the president wrote at 5:50 am, is "doing everything in their power to get away from MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION by saying, over and over again, that the Trump Administration is corrupt." He added: "THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite!"

"I, perhaps foolishly because the Fake News refuses to write about it, including in my First Term, don't even take a Salary, worth Millions of Dollars," he wrote. "I am the only President to have done so!"

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on November 09, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

While Trump has said he donates his salary, it does not reach into the six figures. By federal law, the president earns a base salary of $400,000. Past presidents have also given away their earnings, including Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy.

Forty minutes later, Trump returned to Truth Social to defend himself against corruption allegations, this time by highlighting his tax record.

"Does anybody remember, in my First Term, the relentless effort by the anti-American Dumocrats to get my personal Tax Returns, something that has always been off limits for anyone other than Donald J. Trump," he wrote. "Shockingly, they won this unprecedented right in the U.S. Supreme Court, and hired the best and toughest accountants in the Country to 'get Trump.'"

"After one year of intense work, these brilliant Democrat inspired accountants FOUND NOTHING except that I paid my taxes and did everything right," he added.

Trump was the only major party presidential candidate since the Watergate era to refuse to make his tax returns public on the campaign trail, although he frequently claimed he could not do so because they were under audit.

Some of his returns were later leaked to the press and obtained by Democrats in Congress.

[Update]: See a Pattern? Florida Evangelical "Reverend" Loves Them Young. Like Trump.

These are the kind of people who vote for Donald Trump. They like his "bad boy" persona, his criminal heroism, his endearing lawlessness and most importantly his proclivity for pedophilia. One of his Evangelical pastors in the God-fearing backward state of Florida was just sentenced to life in prison for sexual battery. This blog has continued to report on reverends, preachers, pastors and other filthy-titled embezzlers of credulous imbeciles whose money they use to build vast empires and amass fortunes with their megachurches. Here's a sample:

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/05/what-is-it-with-american-televangelist.html

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/05/apparently-resurrected-fornicating.html

https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/05/what-is-it-about-christian.html

AI says:
In Texas, approximately 300 priests and clergy members have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors over several decades. In Florida, while specific numbers for pastors and reverends are less frequently reported, there have been ongoing investigations and cases involving clergy sexual abuse, but comprehensive tallies are not readily available

Florida pastor Randon Lee Carroll listening to his sentence to life in prison for sexually battering a teenage boy.

The 41-year old "pastor" Randon Lee Carroll did tend to his flock of imbecile Christian sheep, with perhaps a preference for little boys. Last May 16, he raped a boy at his home, perhaps in his attempt to "save" the boy from his sins by inserting his gonadal proboscis in the boy's caudal aperture.  

Unfortunately for the rapist (and of course for his traumatized-for-life raped victim), the "reverend" was caught with his pants down and has been now sentenced to spend the remainder of his life in the company of horny criminal inmates (who might be of his own White Trash ilk or Hispanics or Africans or other undocumented immigrants) without the possibility of parole. He'd better not drop the soap bar in the shower lest he desires to be "saved" from his own sins.

White Trash reverend Carroll pled no contest to sexual battery of a victim over 12 but under 18 and under his custodial authority. He also pled to sexual performance by a child for videotaping some of the sexual acts.

During the sentencing hearing this past Tuesday, Chief Holmes County Prosecutor Jacob Cook said the defendant continued to shift the blame – he testified he “fell for it” and was “lured" by his victim or by the devil, although he could not produce any evidence for the "luring", or for that matter, for the existence of gods and demons.

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...And Catholic priests too, though these stupid blokes are forbidden from marrying, while the Evangelical morons can marry and don't have to molest and rape little children. But Catholic priests, many of whom secretly admit they are atheists, have the choice to leave the priesthood. No one put a gun to their heads to join the pedophile club. 

[Check out Daniel Dennett's investigation into atheist clergy who don't dare say they are]: Per AI:
Daniel Dennett is a co-founder of The Clergy Project, an organization launched in March 2011 to provide a confidential online community and peer support for current and former religious professionals who no longer hold supernatural beliefs. The initiative originated from Dennett’s research collaboration with Linda LaScola, whose 2010 pilot study "Preachers Who Are Not Believers" and subsequent 2013 book Caught in the Pulpit highlighted the isolation faced by deconverted clergy.

The project was established in partnership with Dan Barker and Richard Dawkins to address the practical and emotional challenges of leaving ministry, such as career transitions and loss of community. Dennett’s involvement included speaking about the project at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention and predicting that such communities would force religious institutions toward greater transparency and ethical reform.

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Attorney Hit With $400,000 Fine for Exposing Priest’s Inappropriate Relationship Says It Was Worth It
Tyler McCarthy
Thu, November 12, 2026


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An attorney who led the charge to expose a Roman Catholic priest in New Orleans for an inappropriate relationship he allegedly had with a minor has no regrets about the legal battle, even after getting slapped with a more than $400,000 fine.

According to a Wednesday, November 11 report from The Guardian, attorney Richard Trahant had been trying to expose former priest Paul Hart for years after discovering in 2021 that Hart had secretly admitted to having inappropriate contact with a 17-year-old girl he met during his time as a priest. On November 6, Hart was added to a list of Catholic priests and deacons facing credible claims of clergy abuse.

The story began when the Archdiocese of New Orleans filed for bankruptcy in 2020. This gave Trahant access to documents chronicling how Hart had confessed to the relationship, which occurred in the early 1990s.

The girl reported Hart in 2012, prompting his confession amid a private investigation at the time. The information was never made public until Trahant got his hands on the documents and took issue with Hart's current position as a teacher at a Catholic high school in New Orleans. He notified the school's principal and brought the story to a journalist. That journalist published a story in the New Orleans's Times-Picayune newspaper using additional sources and reporting beyond the limited information Trahant provided, as the attorney sought to avoid breaching confidentiality.

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Shortly thereafter, Hart retired from his role at the school in 2022, nine months before his death, after the principal was given documentation outlining Hart's past misconduct.

However, a federal judge ruled that Trahant's dissemination of the information he got from court documents in the bankruptcy case amounted to a confidentiality violation and slapped him with a $400,000 fine.

Speaking to The Guardian, Trahant said he wouldn't do anything different if given the option.



"Sure, it's exoneration – yet only after I paid a fortune," Trahant explained "But if the question is: was it worth it? The answer is yes, and I would do it again tomorrow."

Warrior Hegseth Was Laughing it out at Trump's 'Suckers and Losers' Arlington Cemetery

Pete Hegseth, the testosterone-boosted drunkard womanizing 'warrior', acted yesterday at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington in a manner consistent with Trump and MAGA's contempt for dead soldiers.

Whereas Trump's elitist father arranged for his coward son Donald's to receive five draft deferments from 1968 to 1968 before being reclassified as permanently exempt from military service in 1972 (It is beneath wealthy white trash American elites to serve in wars, they just decide to wage wars to which they send only Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans. poor white trash Americans and immigrants to serve and die); [See: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/10/jesse-ventura-donald-trump-is-coward.html]

Whereas "elite" White-Trash Donald Trump referred to US soldiers killed in battle as "suckers and losers"; Per AI:
Trump's former Chief of Staff General John Kelly publicly confirmed that Trump referred to fallen soldiers and prisoners of war as "suckers" and "losers." In a 2020 'The Atlantic' report, Jeffrey Goldberg detailed Trump’s 2018 refusal to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, allegedly because it was "filled with losers," and his description of Marines killed at Belleau Wood as "suckers." General John Kelly stated on CNN that Trump viewed those who served without personal gain as "suckers" because "there is nothing in it for them." The Atlantic also reported Trump calling John McCain and George H.W. Bush "losers" for being captured or shot down in combat;

And whereas Donald Trump continually derided the former hero and prisoner of war, the late Senator John McCain, as a "loser" for being captured by the Vietnamese during the war. Per AI:
At a 2015 campaign event in Iowa, Donald Trump called John McCain a "loser" and stated he was "not a war hero" because he was captured during the Vietnam War, adding, "I like people that weren't captured." In 2020, following reports that Trump privately referred to McCain as a "loser" and disparaged fallen soldiers, Trump denied the claims on Twitter, asserting he "never called John a loser." Fact-checkers confirmed the 2015 public remarks and noted that Trump had even tweeted an article headlined "Donald Trump: John McCain Is 'A Loser'" shortly after making the comments;

Sending Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans. poor white trash Americans and immigrants to serve and die in his Zionist-prodded war in Iran is not a problem for the coward criminal felon Donald Trump. To him, they're all suckers and losers for willing to die for their country, but he, on the other hand, is a very proud disgusting bigot who pretends to love America by hugging the flag even as he cowardly refused to serve for fear of dying in battle or getting captured. MAGA morons: Is this the man you call your patriotic Messiah?

To his credit, Pete Hegseth did serve, but he too is frivolously and incompetently sending young Americans to war while having the audacity to disrespect the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Kudos to the sentinel guard at the Tomb for reminding drunkard Hegseth to show respect for the dead soldiers. 
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Video shows soldier reprimanding Hegseth and advisers at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Haley Britzky, David Brooks and Natasha Bertrand, CNN
Wed, November 11, 2026



A US Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.

"All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times," the sentinel called out, stopping his patrol to face the group as they departed.

Hegseth was standing and taking photos in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver and senior adviser and deputy assistant Tami Radabaugh after the ceremony held at Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day. Some in the group were laughing and chatting after taking photos, prompting the soldier patrolling in front of the Tomb to yell out and correct them.

When asked for comment, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the "soldier correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum."

"The Secretary and the entire Department have always honored—and will always honor—the sacrifices our military men and women have made to keep America safe. While commemorating this solemn day, a soldier correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum," Parnell said.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is one of the most sacred war memorials in the US, marking the final resting place of an unknown soldier who was killed in World War I. A soldier assigned to The Old Guard, or 3rd Infantry Regiment, has been guarding the tomb around the clock, rain or shine, since 1948. Foreign dignitaries, presidents, public figures and politicians frequently visit the Tomb to pay their respects to American service members.

Hegseth and his team were at Arlington National Cemetery for a ceremony that was also attended by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

The defense secretary had been under renewed scrutiny and pressure in recent days after articles of impeachment were filed against him by outgoing GOP Rep. Thomas Massie. But in a procedural vote on Tuesday night, the GOP successfully blocked the impeachment process from moving forward, prompting Hegseth and his allies to claim vindication.

Hegseth stood accused by Massie of executing unlawful orders, including by waging war in Iran without congressional approval, ignoring laws about minimizing civilian casualties, and directing the Pentagon to carry out extrajudicial killings. In a press conference on Tuesday, Hegseth said the charges amounted to a policy dispute and not high crimes and misdemeanors.

President Donald Trump, who also faced criticism for behavior at Arlington National Cemetery when he filmed a campaign video there in 2024, stood by Hegseth leading up to Tuesday's vote and vowed to continue supporting him moving forward.

The Catastrophic Demise of AIPAC: Zionist Crimes Don't Pay

The unprincipled Zionists of AIPAC in the US buy up candidates on both sides of the political divide. This way their Zionist colony in Palestine is always sure to have support in any American administration and regardless of who wins an election.

But the Zionist colony in Palestine has shown its genocidal hand - after masquerading as a democracy  for decades - in its prosecution of its ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians. Whereas in the past it conducted its ethnic cleansing in a slow simmering campaign that it kept below the radars of human justice so as not to arouse revulsion, the post-October 7 retribution for the Hamas attacks has exposed its long-standing but secret "final solution" program to the Palestinian Question. Its genocidal colonial brutality vis-a-vis the native Palestinian owners of the land has now been witnessed live by all people around the globe. No amount of propaganda and no venerable newspapers can any longer falsify history as they used to do. No "Exodus" fiction on paper or in film can hide the lies any longer.

World opinion has tipped over from a guilt-laden fake sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust to a genuine revulsion at the utter barbarity and inhumanity that those victims of European racism have been doing to the innocent Palestinians. 

As a result, and in the American bastion of blind support to the genocidal Zionist colony in Palestine, those who have lied, cajoled, threatened, and bought their way into American consciousness are now paying the price for their criminal corruption of entire generations of naive Americans. The Zionist brainwashing of America by lobbying organizations like AIPAC (America Israel Political Action Committee) has been so effective that of all countries around the world, only the US continues to defend Israel's crimes against humanity. The Zionist lobby in the US has infiltrated every nook and cranny of American life, from day care centers, schools and universities, through Hollywood and the media, and all the way to the halls of Congress and the White House. As we speak, a Zionist is the Chief of Staff of the dumb white-trash President, steering him as one would a village idiot.

But the ride has seemingly come to an end. The mass murder of 100,000 innocent Palestinians in Gaza and the Jewish religious fundamentalist plunder of Palestinian territories has so shocked the conscience of the American population that it finally awoke to the farce and the decades-long underhanded manipulation of US public opinion. 

It opened a Pandora's box of occulted, though documented, historic facts over the actual prosecution of the charade of the "independence" of the Zionist colony in Palestine in 1947-1948. That "independence" was in fact a massive campaign of terror by European Jewish terrorist organizations (Haganah, Irgun, Lehi/Stern Gang, etc.) by sophisticated, wealthy and well-armed intruders and land thieves trained in Nazi and Fascist Europe against a largely rural, poor, unarmed and unsophisticated Palestinian population emerging from 400 years of Ottoman Turkish occupation.

There is no longer any doubt that the English colonial crooks, who were given a fiduciary mandate over Palestine by the League of Nations after WWI, betrayed their commitment to the Palestinian population by selling Palestine to European Jewish bankers disguised as a "Zionist movement" whose aim was to rape Palestine in a me-too colonial impulse of imitating the European empires of the time. If Belgium could take the Congo and rape it, why couldn't a consortium of wealthy bankers take and rape Palestine? The British were eager to sell Palestine in exchange for money to help them fund their war effort. But with the oil industry also emerging from beneath the sands of Arabia, it made sense for the British to set up a well-armed western outpost on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean with which to monitor the nascent oil fields further afield in the Arabian peninsula. Just as they did when they seized South Africa from the Dutch rapists in order to control the route to India.

Everyone now has access to information long hidden from the public, and that is what explains the sudden and explosive about-face in worldwide, American in particular, opinion on the Zionist colony in Palestine. 

The moral toxicity of AIPAC and its role in US politics are now diminished. We are told that candidates in last week's midterms were avoiding AIPAC like the plague because of its nefarious perception in US public opinion.

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US midterms put pro-Israel powerhouse AIPAC on defensive
Paul BLAKE
Wed, November 11, 2026


Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed mockingly thanked AIPAC in his victory speech (JEFF KOWALSKY)

For years, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC was a US political juggernaut, but deepening voter disillusion over US-Israeli ties and wins by openly Israel-skeptic candidates in last week's midterm elections have left it reeling.

Candidates of all stripes long courted the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's support. But what was once an asset has become a liability in many races, as favorable opinions of Israel plummet over civilian deaths in Gaza and the costly Iran war.

In the Michigan Senate race, AIPAC's once irresistible force ran into an immovable object.

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed -- who tapped into anger over US funding for Israel's military -- faced AIPAC-supported candidates in both the primary and general election, but emerged victorious to become the first Muslim senator.

The tens of millions of dollars spent by an AIPAC-affiliated group, the United Democracy Project, not only failed to beat El-Sayed -- they helped him boost his own messaging.

"To AIPAC... Thank you for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice," the Michigan politician taunted in his victory speech.

The tables flipped so completely that allies of El-Sayed's Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, reportedly even asked the group to stop spending on him at one point.

"They definitely have become a liability," Adam Wood, a veteran Democratic campaign strategist with City & State Public Affairs, told AFP, noting several campaigns he worked on in years past "coveted" AIPAC's support.

Another Democratic Senate success story, James Talarico, won in Texas with a similar message of ending US funding for Israeli offensive weaponry and keeping distance from AIPAC.

"I've never taken money from AIPAC, and I'm not taking money from AIPAC in this campaign," Talarico said early in his bid.

- Israel support plummets -

Officially, AIPAC is nonpartisan.

It has traditionally supported candidates from both the left and the right. According to its website, it only accepts money from Americans and its board is composed exclusively of Americans.

But the group has become a byword in US politics for Washington's tight ties with Israeli governments, including the outgoing far-right coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has asked Americans to rate their favorability of Israel on a scale of 0 to 100 regularly since 1978 and this year marked a record low: an average score of just 44.

That's down from 58 in 2022, when the previous midterms were held. And for Democrats, the numbers are all the starker: a drop in favorability from 52 in 2022 to just 30 today.

"Democrats started to really tank on Israel," Dina Smeltz, a former State Department official who is now a managing director at the council, told AFP.

Leftist Democratic star, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has branded AIPAC as "a right-wing organization that undermines democracy."

But support also appears to be faltering on the right.

On election day, President Donald Trump dialed into his favorite morning program, Fox & Friends, and made the surprising announcement that the US would be ending a major annual aid package to Israel -- something El-Sayed and others on the left have repeatedly demanded.

Vice President JD Vance said he'd been told by a trusted pollster that his party's road to recovery after the midterms annihilation will require, in part, changing "our relationship to Israel."

And other right-wing voices, including broadcaster Tucker Carlson and libertarian Representative Thomas Massie, have openly criticized Israel in recent years in ways unimaginable in the 2000s and 2010s.

Pro-Israel lobbyists are not going to go away of course.

AIPAC already has competition from the left-leaning pro-Israel J Street as well as the recently formed pro-Palestine American Priorities super PAC.

The aftermath of elections in Israel, with the possible political eclipse of Netanyahu, could also help AIPAC to find its feet again.

"It has been around for a long time, it has a lot of money," Smeltz said.

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White-Trash Democrat "Centrists" Owe Progressives Their Victory. Will They Pay Up?

White-Trash establishment Democrats could never cross the line in attacking Donald Trump where it hurts. As they complained, they also went along. Some of them turned their coats (John Fetterman, Joe Manchin, Haley Stevens...). These are not Democrats. They are disguised Republicans with a whiff of white trash racism and white entitlement. They demonized the progressives who actually laid down the battle lines with clarity of thought and purpose.

The spotlight will now be on those establishment Democrats who will waver and fear upsetting the status quo of a Democrat party always on the defensive against a Republican party constantly, and falsely, claiming the "patriotic" mantle by waving flags. I fear that the establishment Democrats will form a MAGA-like cabal to take down those progressives who did all the heavy lifting. It's happened before and is likely to happen again.

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The Much Maligned “Groups” Are the Reason Democrats Won the Midterms
Perry Bacon
Tue, November 10, 2026


The Much Maligned “Groups” Are the Reason Democrats Won the Midterms

After Kamala Harris lost two years ago, some Democratic-leaning commentators came up with a boogeyman: "the groups." Left-leaning organizations had forced Harris and other Democratic politicians to adopt progressive stances, particularly during the 2020 presidential primary Those positions doomed those candidates in 2024, these pundits claimed. Therefore, a Democratic (and therefore a democratic one) revival would require a diminished role for left-leaning organizations.

The groups didn't close their doors or stop pushing for a more progressive, anti-MAGA Democratic Party. Now that the midterms are over, we can say this emphatically: Thank goodness. The resounding victory for Democrats last week came in part because liberal institutions spent the last two years both forcefully attacking the Trump administration and organizing their communities to resist him—often as elected Democrats stood pat. People with titles like governor and senator would seem the logical leaders of the anti-authoritarian movement in America, but in reality, the heads of groups such as Indivisible are offering the courage and wisdom we desperately need.

Like almost all intra-Democratic debates, "the groups" narrative was in part about ideology and identity. Left-leaning groups tend to have fairly progressive positions. And in particular, they push left wing stances on issues involving gender, race, and ethnicity and are often led by women and people of color. Those lambasting the groups were largely center-left white people—the kind of people not under the gun over the past two years. The white centrists were just using new words for an old argument: A generation earlier this bloc of Democrats said the party was too beholden to "special interests," then personified by Jesse Jackson.

In the months right after Trump's reelection, anti-left, anti-group sentiment pervaded the Democratic Party. 

In January 2025, dozens of congressional Democrats backed an anti-immigrant bill called the Laken Riley Act, over the objections of civil rights and progressive groups. 

Blocs of Senate Democrats, desperate to cast themselves as reasonable and not beholden to liberal activists, voted for many of Trump's radical, unqualified cabinet nominees. Not a single Democrat voted against Marco Rubio's confirmation as secretary of state. (Now, many congressional Democrats say they regret their Laken Riley and cabinet votes. As they should)

Democratic lawmakers whined in closed-door meetings that liberal groups were encouraging rank and file Democrats to call members' offices and demand they stand up to Trump.

Democratic Party officials distancing themselves from activists and groups essentially gave a greenlight to centrist media, which always revels in bashing the left. "The Resistance is Not Coming. It's Tuning Out," claimed Politico. "Goodbye, Resistance," declared The New York Times magazine.

Then, reality struck. The Trump administration was laying off federal workers en masse, shaking down law firms, universities, and other institutions, terrorizing liberal cities, and filing charges against dissenters. It turns out that citing poll-tested talking points about the economy wasn't sufficient to stop authoritarianism, no matter how often center-left pundits and politicians insisted that the key was to essentially "roll over and play dead."

Groups and activists decided to fight Trump, despite the risks of an authoritarian regime potentially jailing them. A grassroots network started protesting at Tesla showrooms across the country, trying to weaken the business of Elon Musk, one of the architects of Trump's destruction of the federal government. Those protests helped drive up Musk's unpopularity and he left Washington a diminished figure.

After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer allowed a Trump-backed government funding bill to pass with little resistance, Indivisible called for his resignation. He didn't, but Schumer and Senate Democrats were shamed into not greenlighting Trump's budgets in the future. Indivisible organized anti-Trump rallies in cities across the country in April 2025, ending the dumb discussion about the resistance's demise. The protests organized by the group in October were even larger, drawing out more than 5 million people.

Left-leaning groups in Los Angeles, Chicago, and mostly notably Minneapolis organized aggressive opposition to Trump's immigration raids in their communities, even as Democratic Party officials largely followed the advice of the anti-groups contingent, which argued any discussion of immigration benefits Trump.

Amid this resistance, Trump's poll numbers keep plunging. Those on the center-left and many in the media act [as] if the president's unpopularity is entirely self-inflicted, particularly his decision to join Israel in going to war with Iran, which caused gas prices to shoot up. But it's hard to imagine that American voters decided entirely on their own that Trump's actions went too far. It was critical to have a strong activist community loudly casting the administration as authoritarian, essentially forcing the media and Democratic officials to stop ignoring the obvious.

Trump was unpopular before the Iran war even started. The percent of Americans who disapprove of Trump had jumped from 39 percent at the start of his term to 58 percent long before he kicked of the military misadventure. Lest we forget, the 2025 election, held before the war, was also a blue tsunami.

Many of those groups also did campaign work. In the run-up to the election, Black Voters Matter and other groups mobilized African-Americans in the South, resulting in an unusually high-Black turnout that helped flip key districts and states.

The groups didn't just lead an electoral turnaround. They also defended the targets of the Trump administration directly. Groups such as the NAACP, National Education Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, often leading to his policies being stopped.

The groups of course will not get much credit. Center-left politicians and pundits want to attribute the massive Democratic victory to anti-Trump sentiment, good Democratic candidates, bad Republicans ones, and centrist messaging, despite little evidence that the messaging in particular mattered much. The anti-left, anti-groups narrative was advanced the last two years by the Times news and opinion pages, many other prominent centrist news outlets, and by many staffers at left-leaning organizations such as Pod Save America, The Atlantic, and The Bulwark. This collective hivemind isn't going to admit that it said people should ignore those fighting the fascists hardest for electoral reasons and were wrong about both the fighting and the elections.

But Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, the heads of Indivisible, have been much smarter and tougher in fighting fascism than Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer the last two years. Greenberg and Levin won't get titles like Speaker and Majority Leader. But we can recognize that pair and people like them as the actual leaders of America's anti-authoritarian movement. Let's hear it for the groups.

Little Moron Speaker Johnson is a Very Sore Loser: Blames American People for His Failure

Mike Johnson with Donald Dumb poking him in the back

This is typical of Fascists and Trump morons: They always reject any responsibility for their own actions and run around blaming everything and everyone for their own abject failure.

Speaker Johnson: The American people have spoken and you must obey them. Pack up and go back to your Louisiana swamps. The American voters made a huge mistake in 2024 electing the Great Moron Liar. Now they have corrected that mistake by kicking Trump's a--kissers - your kind - out. Another correction is also due in 2028.
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Mike Johnson Scolds Voters For Making 'Wrong Choice' In Sore Loser Meltdown
Ron Dicker
Updated Tue, November 10, 2026 



House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was a sore loser upon his return to Capitol Hill Monday, scolding voters for making the "wrong choice" while claiming Congress under Democratic control will be a two-year "circus" and a "great tragedy."

CNN's Manu Raju caught up with the lame-duck speaker in a hallway and asked him if Donald Trump should course-correct after voters gave the House and Senate back to Democrats in the midterm elections.

"I'm not going to tell the president how to do his job. We have an incredible record of the first two years of his term, and I expect more success in the days ahead," Johnson replied. "I'm sorry that the voters made the wrong choice. I really do believe that this next two years is going to be a bit of a circus. It's going to be chaos, and I hate to say that, but I think that's where the Democrats are gonna lead the House."

"That's a great tragedy, it really is, because if we had kept the majority, we would stay on course to continue delivering for the people," he added.

Asked by the gaggle if he would table a resolution by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Johnson answered: "Impeaching a Cabinet secretary right now, especially the Department of War in the middle of hostilities abroad, would be a terrible, terrible look. ... We don't impeach Cabinet secretaries for political gain or for cheap tricks, and I think that's what this is."

Johnson, who was reelected to the House, has decided not to pursue the House minority leader post for the next term.

In the immediate aftermath of Democrats' sweep, Johnson praised Trump's "massive wins" in his second term and warned "this Democrat House majority will be led by the most radical and extreme leftists in American history."

Too Late now to Call Trump on His Blatant Corruption

Instead of draining the swamp, Trump has filled it with more scum

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Fox’s Brit Hume Flags Trump Family’s Exploding Wealth as a Problem for Republicans: ‘People Are Hurting’
Kathryn Wilkens
Tue, November 10, 2026



Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume suggested Monday that President Donald Trump and his family's rapidly growing wealth caused voters' concerns about government corruption as Republicans suffered sweeping losses in last week's midterm elections.

Hume joined Monday's edition of Special Report, where anchor Bret Baier highlighted a Fox News poll showing that 55% of respondents considered government corruption "crucial" to their congressional vote. Another 36% called it a "major factor."

"That's a massive number, if you think about it. We saw nine in ten people, essentially, say this was important or a factor," Baier observed.

"Yeah, one way or another, it was important to them," Hume replied, adding:

When times are tough, and we're going through an economic transformation of an extraordinary degree, and prices are high, even though jobs are plentiful, people are hurting, and that was a big issue in the election. They look at Washington, and they see the president, apparently a rich man to begin with and never afraid to talk about how rich he was and is, suddenly several billion dollars richer, according to Forbes magazine. They see his sons involved in cryptocurrency businesses that are netting them a large amount of money, and they don't like the look of that.

The discussion followed comments from former Trump administration adviser Calley Means, who resigned last month and accused senior officials of "doing things for other reasons, particularly in many cases to enrich their families" during a Friday appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.

Hume said those allegations "only add to the equation."

"I'm suspicious of them, but they may have the ring of truth to people who are disillusioned by what they're seeing in Washington generally," he added.

Baier then turned to Trump's interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat on Sunday, during which the president was pressed about his net worth increasing by $3 billion since returning to office.

Douthat asked why Trump had not divested from his family's cryptocurrency ventures, including World Liberty Financial, which has attracted foreign investment. The president maintained that his sons manage his businesses and that he knows little about their operations.

"I don't think the president really has a good answer on this subject. Really, he doesn't," Hume concluded.

The Fox News chief political analyst praised Douthat's questioning, saying Trump was "sort of stuck there in his answer on why he didn't simply divest, 'cause he's rich as Croesus anyways. He never really answered that question, and it was very well put to him by Ross Douthat."

MAGA-gop Troglodytes Celebrate Midterms Festivus: The Airing of Grievances

The Troglodyte barbarians of the MAGA-gop are undertaking a review of their debasement by, and for, Donald Dumb, on which the American people pounded their gavel in the midterms. 

The following are the MAGA-gop's own assessment of why the American people wiped the floor with them:

- They denied Trump's criminality and defended him against impeachment and removal from office

- They chose blind party loyalty over loyalty to the constitution and democracy

- They did little to defy Trump's unpopular war with Iran and his tariffs 

- They defended his vulgarity and his manly "he speaks his mind" bullshit

- They are now regretting not having defended the Hispanic community (both US citizens and immigrants) against Trump's attempt to "bleach" America white.

- They are only NOW decrying Trump's bad negotiations with Canada, tariffs, lack of support for Ukraine, his friendship with other barbarian dictators around the globe including Putin, Bolsonaro, Milei and Kim Jong Un

- They are only NOW complaining about Trump's allowing more Argentinian beef into the US to save the hide of his equally moronic friend Javier Milei

- Although they supported his Medicaid cuts and his closeness to data centers, they are now saying it was a mistake not oppose the Great Moron on these issues

- They regret not having exploited enough their standard anti-abortion platform (which is absolutely not a priority for the American people)

- They only NOW regret their own move to "abandon" poor people and the working class.

- They regret not having stood up to the Great American Moron who did not take Americans' concerns about rising prices

- They are now realizing that they need to act in a more independent fashion and not be enslaved by fear of the senile demented idiot Trump. Even so-called "independent" MAGA-gop members of congress like Susan Collins did not survive because they sat too much on the fence and did not have the courage to choose country over party

- They are now lamenting their own cowardice on the release of the Epstein Files. They covered up for Trump.

- As would be expected of the racism engrained in the MAGA-gop DNA, not one post-midterms regret mentions Trump's racism and xenophobia, confirming that the entire conservative establishment in the US is founded on white supremacy and racism against immigrants.

- Similarly, not one MAGA-gop is lamenting Trump's blatant corruption and his personal financial profiting while in office.

Some Republicans are even cannibalizing their own MAGA-gop party by going after each other as the blame game goes awry. Republican congressman Rep. Thomas Massie wants to impeach the dumb superhero warrior Pete Hegseth. According to him, "Hegseth is breaking the law and must be held accountable... for engaging in hostilities in Iran for more than 90 days without congressional authorization".

To his credit though, Massie had been regularly critical of Trump and his Zionist-prodded war against Iran. He had previously hammered the Trump administration to release the Epstein Files.
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Republican infighting escalates after election drubbing
Burgess Everett
Tue, November 10, 2026 


Republican infighting escalates after election drubbing

Fresh off what one senator called a "good old-fashioned shellacking," Republicans are now turning to a more painful phase of their post-election soul-searching: the airing of grievances.

Several senators are unhappy about a rush to reelect the GOP's Senate leadership team after voters repudiated the party's reign in Washington. A small but vocal minority is pushing to delay leadership elections beyond Tuesday, giving more time for a potential challenger to emerge against Majority Leader John Thune and his team.

Thune's allies say the move is unnecessary, won't change the result, and will only lead to more intraparty fighting after an election that could cost the Senate GOP as many as nine seats. Either way, the party's second-guessing of Thune and President Donald Trump — not to mention its uncertainty about its own agenda — will come to a head on Tuesday morning in the Old Senate Chamber.

"I saw five signatures on a letter," Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told Semafor of his colleagues advocating for a delay. "I think we have to talk, but I don't see why we'd need to change the leadership to do that."

Beneath the procedural battle are huge debates within the Republican Party about where to turn next. A party that did little to defy Trump's unpopular war with Iran and his tariffs now must figure out what strategic adjustments to make — or, perhaps, whether to make none at all.

Cramer blamed the stunning losses on "bad negotiations with Canada, tariffs, not supporting Ukraine enough to end the war" and allowing more foreign beef into the US. He said "people who are overly surprised" by the election result "probably aren't being honest with themselves."

Retiring Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who dubbed it a "shellacking," said the "war in Iran is extremely unpopular. I don't know what the secretary is briefing the president [on], but it's not working."

"We need to have a tough, family conversation. We just lost seven Senate seats. And there may be more," said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. "I see a lot of blame shifting going on in all of these postmortems. I think it's probably time for people in Congress to take responsibility for what Congress did."

Hawley cited Medicaid cuts, the GOP's closeness to data centers, its turn away from anti-abortion priorities, and its move to "abandon" poor people and the working class. He said he couldn't pledge his vote to Thune or the rest of the leadership team right now.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who is leading the effort to delay the leadership election, was even more harsh: "After that stunning defeat, we just can't continue on business as usual. I mean … that kind of defeat demands change."

"You can't come off a defeat like that and just ram through elections and just elect that leadership team by acclamation," Johnson said. "It's obnoxious, particularly at this moment."

Trump said on Monday that it's up to the GOP senators to make a call on Thune, calling him a "very fine man" but lamenting that he wishes "they could get more produced." Thune said he didn't see how delaying the election "solves anything" but agreed the GOP needs to discuss its future.

'Just move forward'

Johnson's bid to delay the leadership elections means that before taking any votes on them, the GOP will have a special conference meeting beginning at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

They will then vote on whether to delay the elections of Thune and the rest of the leadership team, which includes Whip John Barrasso of Wyoming; Conference Chair Tom Cotton of Arkansas; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., the policy chair; and Conference Vice Chair James Lankford of Oklahoma. The GOP is also expected to select Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, a top ally of Trump, as its new campaign chair.

A similar delay bid failed in 2022 after the GOP lost one Senate seat. Though the losses this month are several magnitudes greater, several Republican senators said they don't expect the vote to prevail. Some think the effort to delay is merely a smokescreen to undercut Thune.

"This is a question that will come up tomorrow: If there's a desire for a leadership change, then let's make the leadership change. I don't sense that, and so I think we ought to just move forward as planned. We'll have a vote, the majority will rule," Capito told Semafor.

She said the election was a wakeup call for Republicans to take Americans' concerns about rising prices more seriously: "Message received."

That doesn't mean it will necessarily translate into a binding bipartisan effort to end Trump's tariffs or wind down the Iran war. And for either idea to clear the Senate, the GOP's votes will be required — even with what could be a brawny 56-seat Democratic majority in the Senate and a House majority in the 250s, Trump can still wield the veto pen.

"Ultimately, I think the lesson is: We needed senators to act in a more independent fashion. But even Susan Collins — who was very independent — didn't survive it because the whole election became about Donald Trump and whether he was concerned about gas prices," said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Voters, Paul concluded, "were just mad."

Paul said he was probably OK with a leadership vote on Tuesday after a "frank discussion." He added that his hope coming out of the election would be more Republicans joining him in voting against the Iran war and tariffs.

The View From The House

Change may not come for the Senate GOP. But across the Capitol, House Republicans will see a big shakeup as they choose a new minority leader in a race between Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Steve Scalise, R-La.

Burgess's view

Thune doesn't even have a challenger, it's hard to see a scenario where he isn't reelected as leader on Tuesday. But the anger within the Republican Party is real, and perhaps a bit misdirected.

Few senators beyond Paul want to blame Trump for the party's crushing losses, but midterms are as much a referendum on the president as they are on the Congress.

This is just the beginning of what's going to be a long and painful debate within the GOP about whether Republicans are still Trump's party — or whether they should change course, if they're capable of it.

The Truth from the Fool's Mouth. Trump: GOP Midterms Rout Caused by Great Dislike for Israel

For once, the Great American Moron acknowledges the truth. America's decades-old blind support for genocidal Israel is behind the midterms shellacking of the neanderthal republicans. Like the other neanderthal institution known as the Catholic Church, American conservatism is so fossilized it takes it decades to come to terms with an established fact, namely in this case, America's blindness to the rape of Palestine and its enslavement and subservience to the creepy Zionist colonial mountain of lies and crimes.


Watch Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" as it tells a similar story of a horrendous crime and the agony it took to come to terms with it.
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Trump says ‘great dislike’ for Israel contributed to Republican midterm losses
Tal Shalev, CNN
Mon, November 9, 2026


[Zionist War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office surrounded by US criminal felon Donald Trump and his butlers the hillbilly moron J.D. Vance and the vendido Marco Rubio, on April 7, 2025] - Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images


President Donald Trump said a "great dislike" for Israel was one of the reasons the Republicans lost in the midterm elections, along with the Iran war and the subsequent rise in gasoline prices.

"I think if I was on the ballot, it would've been a much different situation because you saw the level of popularity and love," Trump said in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday. "But there's something beyond that. They didn't like the war. They didn't like the fact that gasoline went up, 'cause I had it down at a low, and there's a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel."

Trump's comments underscore a sea change in US politics where Israel once had bipartisan support, as well as strong backing from Republican and Democratic presidents. But the extent of US military and financial support for Israel emerged as a frequent political liability during the midterm elections.


Michigan's Democratic Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed may have been the most prominent critic of Israel during the elections, but he was far from the only one. Even Vice President JD Vance suggested Republicans would have to rethink their once-stalwart support of Israel moving forward.

Trump said he agrees with Vance's position that the war with Iran is among the reasons for the Republican loss. But he said he doesn't regret his decision to launch the war. "You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon. I think, historically, this will be a very good decision. Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not. But you know, I have to go with what's right for our country. If they had a nuclear weapon during my term, I would be excoriated far worse than what's happened."

The president also said that other countries, including Israel, would have to share the costs of the war. 

US Navy sailors load ammunition onto an F/A-18F Super Hornet on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of the Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran February 28. - US Navy/Reuters

"Those countries that we've protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we've had for the war 'cause without us, they wouldn't exist. Without us, Israel would not exist," Trump said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long presented himself as the leader best able to manage the relationship with the United States and particularly Trump. But in just a matter of days, Trump has signaled major changes may be coming.

"Democrats and Republicans are competing to see who can distance themselves from us more," wrote Israeli journalist Amir Tibon on X. "And if we don't act quickly, the new Congress will start holding up arms sales." Tibon called for a new government that can begin "repairing the damage Netanyahu is leaving behind."

On the day of the US elections, Trump said he would end $4 billion in annual aid to Israel this year, potentially cutting off one of the key elements of Israel's security strategy. Days later, Netanyahu said the aid would shift to a "partnership," but didn't say whether Trump had given him a heads-up about the surprise announcement.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog made an oblique reference to the shift in American and international perceptions of the country on Sunday, as he tasked Netanyahu's rival, Gadi Eizenkot, with forming the next government.

"The challenges facing the State of Israel are immense. Some demand urgent and immediate attention," he said. "Iran does not pause for a moment in its schemes and threats. We must work to build a diplomatic horizon in the region and for the day after the war."

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Outrage Over Philly Zionist Shop Boycott Ignores Abject Dehumanization of Palestinians

For decades, and culminating with Trump's unabashed racism and hatred of all non-white trash people, including Arabs and Muslims, who he said come from "shithole countries", the United States encouraged the Zionist genocide and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine. At the same time, Trump's own foot soldiers are none else than the white Christian supremacist criminals who began their careers a century or two ago as avowed anti-Semites, not to mention their genocide and ethnic cleansing of the native American Nations who are the real owners of the land, and their hatred of those Black Africans they kidnapped and brought as slaves to work in the white-trash-owned plantations in the southern states.

The current outrage at the anti-Zionist protests in Philadelphia is a hypocritical bigoted attempt to portray the protest as anti-Jewish. It is not anti-Jewish. It is anti-Zionist. The businesses targeted by the protests fund criminal settler organizations and the ultra-religious barbarians of the Netanyahu government in illegally-occupied Palestine, and therefore by extension they fund the killing of innocent Palestinians, the demolition of their homes and villages, the uprooting and burning of vast olive orchards owned by the Palestinian villagers, and the expulsion of these indigenous Palestinians who have lived in Palestine for millennia long before the Eastern European illegal migrants, land thieves and murderers landed on the shores of Palestine some 80 years ago. 

How can anyone express outrage at a peaceful protest against supporters of genocide and ethnic cleansing but remain silent over decades of barbarity by western Zionists against innocent civilian Palestinians? Where do these people get the gall to feel outrage? Where do they get the gall to forget that it was German and European Nazis, and not Palestinians, who perpetrated the Kristallnacht and the Holocaust? 

Tensions flared in a Philadelphia neighborhood Sunday after a bike ride protest was organized to boycott several Zionist Israeli-owned restaurants. The protest targeted at least six restaurants in Philadelphia known for their Zionist ties and their funding of the barbarian settlers of the Netanyahu government in the Zionist colony in Palestine. 

As riders cycled through the streets waving Palestinian flags, a handful of pathetic Zionist collaborators turned out to oppose the demonstration. 

Naturally, the guilt-inflicted and brainwashed establishment of the city condemned the Bike Ride protest, falsely claiming it to be antisemitic. Most establishment politicians in the US have been raised on Zionist propaganda and do not dare oppose the filthy Zionist narrative lest they lose bribes from AIPAC and other Zionist lobbying organizations.

The fact that no property damage was reported by police goes to show that the protest was a peaceful expression of solidarity with the Palestinians who are killed, murdered, expelled and starved every day by the Zionist colony's government.

The organizers of the peaceful anti-Zionist protest said, "There are business owners in our community who have raised funds for the Israeli military, hosted Israeli soldiers, were praised by Benjamin Netanyahu, or expressed support for Israel."

The organizers also pushed back against the false "anti-Jewish" criticism, claiming their ride had been "grossly misrepresented" and describing themselves as a nonviolent social cycling group. 

Zionist propaganda has long tried to impose its disgusting position on such anti-barbarity protests. Zionists insist on equating Zionist=Jew=Israeli, such that any criticism of the barbaric Israeli policies or of Zionism as a racist Jewish supremacist movement is automatically translated as "antisemitic", thus reviving in the "Pavlovian trained minds" of brainwashed westerners the guilt at what white Europeans did to their Jewish communities throughout the first half of the 20th century.  This essentially shields any barbarity by Israel from criticism and renders Israel immune to criticism even as it objectively is committing mass murder and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous people of Palestine who never did anything to Jews prior to the Zionist invasion, the expulsion and land theft of the 1930s and 1940s.

But this past week's midterms have revealed a tsunami-level change of American perceptions of Israel. The younger generation of Americans has almost completely rejected their parents' generation's blind support for a colonial murderous usurper of Palestinian land and killer of Palestinian children. Access to information through the Internet and the uncovering of long occulted archives have exposed the lies with which the older generation has been bamboozled to feel sympathy for the criminal and hatred for the victim.

Israel is the only - and last - colonial invader that demands that the world views it as a victim of its own (raped Palestinian) victims. ENOUGH!

Trump: Sore Loser and Coward Who Hasn't Dared Claim Election Fraud This Time Around...

... because he is terrified at the prospect of a multi-pronged investigation leading to his impeachment and removal from office.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, Governor-Elect of the state of Georgia

Never forget that with Trump every statement or accusation he makes is really a confession or a reflection of his own state of mind. Here he is saying that the US "took a giant step back" in the midterms results where the American people smashed Trump and his MAGA Neanderthal cult.

The reason he is saying this is because he knows that his own election and MAGA movement did take the country back hundreds of years with their rigid conservatism, back to Ku Klux Klan racism, back to white trash supremacy, back to religious bigotry, back to monopolies and corruption by his ilk of billionaire criminals. This is a Roy Cohn tactic in which he deflects his own crimes, failures and weaknesses by throwing them back onto his rivals and enemies. Like a child.

The Great Moron Trump is also claiming that Democratic leaders are sending "threatening" letters and messages to Republicans. The truth is that the Democrats are not doing anything to threaten the Republicans, and in fact they are talking about bipartisanship and seeking to work together with the defeated Republicans. But Trump and his subservient spineless DOJ lawyers have been harassing and filing frivolous unsubstantiated claims against any and all Democrats who stood up to the Great Criminal Moron. Trump's past two years have been nothing but seeking retribution against the Democrats because they exposed his malfeasance, corruption and his treasonous behavior.

Only fools are left out there who believe this demented loser.

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Election 2026 live updates: Trump says US took 'giant step back' through midterms
ABC NEWS
Sun, November 8, 2026



Democrats won several key races in the high-stakes midterm elections -- with ABC News projecting that Democrats will take control of the Senate and the House.

President Donald Trump continued to criticize the results of Tuesday's midterm elections, saying in a post to social media on Sunday that they represented a "giant step back in History" for the U.S. and blaming them for the past week's stock market sell-off.

"America took a giant step back in History with the results of the last Election -- Even the Stock Market, which has been a 'ROCKETSHIP' under 'TRUMP,' took a one day, 3 Trillion Dollar loss. But have no fear, we will be back, BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!" Trump wrote.

-ABC News' Nicholas Kerr

President Donald Trump is claiming, without providing evidence, that Democratic leaders are sending "threatening" letters and messages to Republicans and that he is directing the Department of Justice to investigate this alleged "criminal act."

"Threatening letters have been sent to many people, all innocent, from Democrat Political Leaders. By copy of this statement, I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!" he wrote on his social media platform.

The president does not specify what "letters" he is referring to or how this would constitute a "criminal act." This allegation comes in a long post slamming Democrats for suggesting impeachment efforts of Cabinet members, with the president accusing them of "extortion" and insisting that his administration has not committed any wrongdoing.

Eric Lee/Reuters - PHOTO: President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he disembarks Air Force One at Space Florida's Launch and Landing Facility, in Merritt Island, Fla., Nov. 6, 2026.

"The Democrats are going around threatening a lot of people, including the Attorney General of the United States, and others, with Impeachment and many other forms of punishment, even though they admit they have no reason to do so, and there have been no impeachable acts committed, or even thought of, by the victims of this illegal process. This is extortion at the highest level, and they should be held accountable for this," Trump said.

This comes after Democrats reclaimed both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections, prompting anticipation of new congressional oversight. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is expected to reintroduce a privileged resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which could come as early as Monday.

Trump also claimed, without providing evidence, that Democrats are "threatening" Republican donors simply for their party affiliation, with the president referring to this as "weaponization."

-ABC News' Emily Chang

Los Angeles Mayor-elect Nithya Raman made her first public appearance Thursday night, giving her victory speech after incumbent Mayor Karen Bass conceded the Los Angeles mayor's race.

Raman spoke to a gaggle of reporters and unsuspecting patrons at the Original Farmer's Market, saying she's made amends with Bass and City Hall over phone calls and is now focused on gaining public trust.

Raman also paid tribute to the mayor and thanked her for her service. She mentioned she and Bass have agreed to a smooth transition of power and went on to add that she's committed to working in tandem with city council.

"No matter what happened during the campaign, that is in the past now. And all of us, every single member of that city council and I are here because we love Los Angeles and we know that we need to work together in order to address the challenges that we have ahead," she said.

Raman added that her priority is instilling public trust in city government.

"I want to tell every single Angeleno out there, I am going to work so hard. And everyone behind me is going to work so hard to earn your trust, to earn you trust, and to earn the trust. To earn the trust of everyone across this city and to make people believe in Los Angeles again, to make believe in its City Hall again."

-ABC News' Clarissa Gonzales

Keisha Lance Bottoms joined ABC News Live on Thursday, just days after becoming the first Black woman to be elected governor in the United States.

"My heart is full. I have so many emotions," the governor-elect told Linsey Davis of her historic win. "I'm still soaking it in ... all of it hadn't hit me yet, but it's coming."

Brynn Anderson/AP Photo - PHOTO: Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks at an election night event, Nov. 3, 2026, in Atlanta.

When asked about working with President Donald Trump and his administration, Bottoms said she would work alongside fellow governors to see if they can find "common ground."

"I'm looking forward to talking with other governors across the country who've had to deal with this Trump administration and determine, you know, is there a reasonable person or a reasonable space where common ground can be found?" she said.

With 96% of the expected vote reported in Mississippi as of 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, Democrat Scott Colom slightly leads with 49.0% of the vote (466,747 votes) followed by Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith with 48.9% of the vote (464,925 votes,) according to election data.

Colom only leads Hyde-Smith by 1,822 votes.

Getty Images/AP - PHOTO: U.S. Senate candidate for Mississippi Scott Colom, November 4, 2026 in Jackson, Mississippi and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Flowood, Miss., Nov. 3, 2026.

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim

Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith's campaign said Thursday that it believes the Republican incumbent will still win reelection, while it remains prepared for potential legal challenges in the close race.

"Cindy Hyde-Smith is going to represent Mississippi in the United States Senate for the next six years. We believe thousands of votes remain to be counted from dozens of Republican counties, and we are confident those votes will reinforce her path to victory," the campaign wrote in a post on X.

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim

The NAACP said on Thursday that it is sending "national legal, policy, and field staff to Mississippi, bolstering the capacity of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference to help voters navigate ballot cure requirements and ensure every eligible vote is counted and certified."

Photo by Azariah Wells/Jackson State University via Getty Images - PHOTO: Jackson State University Students Head To The Polls On Midterm Election Day

"We're working to ensure Black voters are heard and we won't stop until their votes are certified," Derrick Johnson, the National NAACP President, wrote in a statement.

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim

Democrat Scott Colom spoke with ABC News on Thursday at a diner in Jackson, Mississippi, as race between him and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith remains tight -- with around 1,000 votes separating the two, according to the current vote count.

Colom tells ABC News that his campaign didn't get much attention or resources outside of Mississippi until about a month ago because some in his party couldn't fathom that Democrats could flip a Senate seat in deep-red Mississippi.

Edgar Su/Reuters - PHOTO: Democratic candidate Scott Colom and his wife Nadia Dale Colom have their breakfast at a diner in Jackson, Mississippi, November 5, 2026.

He says that forced him to build a ground game that took him to many areas of the state and put him face-to-face with a lot of voters. Many of those voters gravitated toward him, he says, because they were tired of broken promises in Washington.

"The voters were betrayed. That gave us an opportunity to compete everywhere," he said.

-ABC News' Faith Abubey, Oren Oppenheim and Brendon Baur

Outgoing Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who conceded her Senate race to Democrat Troy Jackson, told The New York Times on Wednesday that she was "caught up in the Trump tsunami" that also took her Republican colleagues this election cycle, which saw Democrats pick up seven seats with the chance of possibly adding two more depending on the election results in Alaska and Mississippi.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images - PHOTO: Sen. Susan Collins greets supporters as she arrives for a campaign event at Ellis Family Market, in Patten, Maine, November 2, 2026.

"I was caught up in the Trump tsunami that swept away many incumbent Republican senators who have served their states well for many years and really care about our country," Collins told The New York Times.

Collins has survived tough races before, but 2026 proved different, as President Trump's unpopularity and agenda affected Republicans down the ballot. And although Collins emphasized her breaks with Trump during the election cycle, it proved not to be enough for Maine voters.

"Everybody ignores the fact that I voted to convict him in the second impeachment trial," Collins said. "What bigger break could there be? It is never enough. I want results and they want angry rhetoric."

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

Rep. Steve Scalise, who is seeking to become House minority leader, told Republican committee chairs in a letter Thursday to prepare for Democratic investigations in the next Congress.

The letter comes ahead of House GOP leadership elections scheduled for Nov. 10. Scalise is going up against Rep. Jim Jordan, the current Judiciary committee chairman, for the top position.

AP - PHOTO: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise in Washington, Jan. 7, 2026 and House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan in Washington, June 4, 2024.

"They will use their oversight authorities to harass the President, his family, cabinet officials, and they will seek to destroy our allies," Scalise wrote of House Democrats in the letter. "You all will be a key line of defense in this fight, and we must maximize our remaining days in power to prepare for what is coming."

Scalise said GOP chairs should "take inventory" of what Democrats will focus their oversight efforts on, identify administration officials and allies that are likely on Democrats' target list and consider "how recent Supreme Court decisions and the August 2026 opinion issued by the White House Office of Legal Counsel will factor into oversight going forward."

-ABC News' Lauren Peller