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.

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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

Lebanese Christians Love Donald Dumb Because He's an Ideal Corruption Hero

Lebanon is at the very top of the most corrupt country on earth list. It ranked 153rd out of 182 countries in the 2025 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index.

Corruption is endemic in Lebanon. It is engrained in the DNA of the Lebanese, and is the most sublime export they carry with them when they leave the country as emigrants fleeing corruption!!! This is identical to the Zionist Nazis in their Disneyland colony in Palestine who fled the German Nazis and carried with them the Nazi ideology and methodology which they have been using to gang rape Palestine with their buddies the crooked English and the moron Americans.

When Trump surged on the political stage some time around 2014, the Lebanese Christians, the Maronite Catholics in particular, fell in love with him. They saw in him the mirror image of their own "smartass" corruption ideal they look up to, and believed that his "Christian" ego, albeit fake and bigoted, will deliver them from their minority complex vis-a-vis their Muslim compatriots. The Lebanese, however, are very poor recorders of their history. The collective memory of past wars, massacres and tragedies is quickly erased and swept into the trash bin, general amnesties are declared, and their smartass intelligence is immediately put back to work on illicit schemes to steal and bribe, borrowing from worldwide criminals upgraded corruption methodologies after the hiatus of wars, massacres and tragedies.

Little, therefore, do these pseudo-Christians (of whom the Pope himself has tired for sending him an assembly-chain manufactured "saints" for beatification) remember their immediate history. The only US president who has rushed to defend the Maronite Catholics of Lebanon against Islamo-Arab Fascism was the Democrat John F. Kennedy who dispatched 10,000 US Marines to Beirut in 1958 to protect them from Egypt's Nasser Arab-Muslim Fascism.

Since then, and beginning in the late1970s, Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, George Bush and Donald Trump have promised Lebanon's Christians much but delivered nothing but betrayal and backstabbing. The reason is that the US never wants to displease the Islamo-Fascist barbarians in the Arab world whose Islamic identity could not stand the fact of an "Arab" country being led by non-Muslims.

These duplicitous Arab countries funded and armed the Palestinian militias of Yasser Arafat during his war against the Lebanese State in the 1970s and 1980s. Arafat's PLO and its affiliates had been implanted in Beirut after Arab Muslim King Hussein of Jordan massacred them in September 1970 and evicted them out of the country and into Lebanon where they waged war against the Christians of Lebanon using money and weapons supplied by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, the UAE, Egypt etc.

At the same time, high on their billions of dollars from newly discovered oil beneath their sands, these Arab Muslim countries also dispatched preachers all over the western world to begin an Islamization crusade aiming at converting the European continent and the Americas to Islam. They also funded programs for the teaching of Koranic Arabic across the West and built mosques at supersonic speed in western capitals where blind liberalism had rendered their political elites effete political castrati.

In 1974, in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab oil embargo and the October war between Israel and the Arab countries, Ronald Reagan dispatched his War Criminal State Dept Secretary Henry Kissinger to the Near East. In Damascus, Kissinger made a pact with the Syrian tyrant to invade and annex Lebanon in exchange for ceding the Golan Heights to Israel. For the next several decades and until his ouster in 2025, the Stalinist Assad regime in Syria never mounted any resistance against Israel - no rockets firings, no terrorist attacks, no militias, no resistance bullshit on the Golan (which was not only occupied, but was annexed by Israel) - while in Lebanon the Syrian occupation fueled, incited and backed a whole bunch of terrorist organizations (from Palestinian groups to Hezbollah today) supposedly resisting a hypothetical Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon. The US basically gifted Lebanon to Syria which gifted the Golan to Israel in exchange.

Later, the US moron Republican president Ronald Reagan dispatched his marines to Beirut in 1982 to save the hide of Yasser Arafat nearing utter destruction by the Israeli invasion and siege of Beirut, again in order to please the oil-dripping Saudis and their Gulf satellites. But when the newborn (in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979) Iranian Hezbollah mass-murdered 243 of his marines and servicemen on October 23, 1983 at Beirut airport by the first ever truck-bomb terrorist attack, Reagan packed his body bags and his remaining marines and fled like a rabbit. The very next day, on Monday October 24, he invaded the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada as a distraction from the unfolding tragedy in Beirut, supposedly to combat a communist threat there! The Maronite government of President Amin Gemayel was betrayed by Reagan and it fell to Hezbollah and Syria and Lebanon began its "detention" in the Syrian occupation Gulag.

In the mid-late 1980s, when American and western hostages were being held hostages like animals by the Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon, George H W Bush still bound by Reagan and Kissinger's alliance with Syria tried to impose a Syrian puppet president on the Lebanese. The latter rejected the US envoy's ultimatum of "vote for Michael Daher or you'll get chaos" and Lebanon descended into another level of hell with the Syrians pounding the Christian areas of the country like the Israeli pounding of Gaza of late. Finally, to conclude their political assassination of Lebanon's Christians on behalf of Saudi Arabia and Syria, the Americans asked the Israelis to grant the Syrian Airforce a one-day authorization to bomb the presidential headquarter where the last free Christian president was bunkered. Up to that day and after that day, Syria was prohibited by Israel from using its air force over Lebanese airspace.

Despite promises he made in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks by Saudi nationals against US soil, and after Syria and Hezbollah assassinated the Saudi puppet prime minister of Lebanon, one Rafik Hariri, George W Bush endorsed the Lebanese criminal warlords' return to power under a Saudi-sponsored regime that tolerated Hezbollah and sidelined and evinced the Christians from any role in government.

For the past six decades, Christians across the Middle East have been persecuted and forced to flee their countries like Egypt, Irak, Syria and Lebanon, and of course Palestine. All of this soft ethnic cleansing has been carried out with the sponsorship and complicity of US Republican administrations. And the dumb Lebanese Christians continue to believe that the West and the US "love" them because they are Christians. The reality is that the West has largely turned secular and no longer sees its interests through the religious lens as it used to do at the height of colonialism during the 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition, having sponsored the creation of a religious-based artificial country, namely Israel, in the region, the West is reluctant to endorse yet another non-Muslim entity, a Christian one in the case of Lebanon, as it continues to kiss the oily behinds of Muslim Arab monarchs and dictators.

Ignorant of their own past and corrupt to the bone, Lebanon's Christians, the Maronite Catholics in particular, continue to wax nostalgic of a special relationship with the West that goes back to the time of the Crusades a millennium ago. Their brutally stubborn conservatism and ultra-religiosity continue to hamper any social, cultural or political progress, to which one must add the fact that their Catholicity is pretty much hated by the the Protestantism of the Anglo-Saxon-dominated West.

Yet, the Christians of Lebanon have elevated Donald Trump to the level of a Crusading savior who will, in their poor minds, demolish the Muslims and give them back the power they held before 1970, notwithstanding the fact that it was Republican presidents who have since engineered the descent into hell of Lebanon's Christians. The US has two major interests that preclude any serious attention to Lebanon's Christians: 1- The oil of the Muslim Arabs, and 2- The Zionists in Palestine.

In the 19th century and early 20th century, there was no Israel and there was no oil in Saudi Arabia. The only lever the West had to interfere and intervene in the region was the Christians of Lebanon. Their status of a minority in a sea of Muslims dominated by the Ottoman Turks was used by the West (at the time consisting of England, France, Prussia (Germany), Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire) to penetrate the declining Ottoman Empire. That equation now no longer holds, but the stubbornly idiotic Christians of Lebanon persist in believing that the West will rescue them.

With Donald Trump's massive routing in this past week's midterms, the Maronite Catholics of Lebanon are depressed. Their problem, however, lies in their own multi-disease syndrome: Corruption, abject ultra-religiosity, tribalism and feudalism. There are currently five political poles in the Lebanese Christian landscape, all of whom were warlords during the 1970s-1990s. They are indistinguishable politically as they have no real political or ideological platforms: They each rule over a region like feudal lords of old, they all serve the primitive Maronite Catholic Patriarch, and constantly fight among one another over who will become the next powerless castrated figurehead president of Lebanon, still customarily assigned to a Maronite by the constitution. Even as their community is threatened in its existence - a majority of Christians has emigrated during the past six decades of war and Christians currently are a 25% minority of the country's demography - the Christian leadership is unable and incapable of coming together, establishing a common political platform that outlines any strategy for surviving this moment of the region's history.

Today's Christian leadership consists of disunited, ignorant and corrupt criminals. How can such a leadership navigate the tumultuous changes in the region that threaten the existence of the last free Christian community in the East?

Trump's MAGA Mortal Sin Against the American People

Trump was punished for sinning against the great American Dream
Janet Daley
Sat, November 7, 2026


The president may have wrapped himself in the flag, but he failed to understand what it means to be American - NurPhoto

This was not all about the price of petrol. Whatever you may have heard, last week's tumultuous events in the United States were more than a protest at the pumps, or even rage at the price of eggs. Which is not to say that the cost of living was not a big factor in the cataclysm.

But it is necessary to understand that, for Americans, a rise in the cost of goods which are essential to a functioning life is not just a practical problem: it is an existential threat.

The reason that you, or your parents, or your grandparents came to America was to "better themselves", to be free from poverty or the low expectations of their social position in the old country, and most importantly, to ensure that the next generation – their children – would be better off than they were.

Any circumstances, particularly those that arise from political decisions, which undermine that intention are unforgivable. They are a sin against the great American dream.

This can be quite difficult for Europeans – who have largely retained their paternalistic attitudes to class in spite of generations of supposed meritocracy – to grasp. For Americans to find themselves less affluent or financially secure than their parents expected to be is not just disappointing or infuriating. It is shameful.

Trump's electoral cataclysm is not explained by high prices alone - iStockphoto/eyecrave productions

If they can justifiably attribute the blame for this disgrace to elected political leaders, their fury is boundless. So yes, the cost of living was a considerable factor in the rout of Donald Trump's Republicans. But it was more an expression of moral outrage. American voters had been robbed of what should have been their birthright: self-improvement and proud independence.

There was another, less tangible, dimension to this repudiation of the Trump presidency. Alongside their profound Calvinist belief in material success as a sign of fortitude and virtue, Americans are raised with a reverence for their country's constitutional principles, a reverence that is also difficult for Europeans – even those who live in revolutionary republics – to comprehend.

The critical separation of powers between the executive and legislature, which is designed explicitly to prevent autocracy, is drilled into schoolchildren in the way that Roman Catholic pupils might be taught the catechism.

That division of authority between the branches of government means that no member of Congress may serve in a presidential cabinet, which is why Marco Rubio had to resign his Senate seat to become Trump's secretary of state.

This is precisely the opposite of our system, where no one who is not a Member of Parliament may serve in Cabinet (David Cameron had to be given a peerage before he could be appointed Foreign Secretary).

America's Founding Fathers are still seen as the ultimate moral arbiters - Universal Images Group Editorial/Universal History Archive

Here, a prime minister with a parliamentary majority can pass a party programme into law, in the knowledge that some future government might reverse it. The American founders were determined to limit such power in a presiding head of state with a rigorous system of checks and balances.

Watching Trump barging through those boundaries, sometimes using tactical work-arounds, without a thought for the spirit in which they were conceived, was truly shocking. How could he have been permitted to undermine the integrity of the country's most fundamental institutions?

I found it difficult to believe as I watched his bullish defiance that, however desperate voters might be for solutions to intolerable problems, somewhere in the consciousness of America there were no misgivings.

You may have noticed, as a bemused British observer, how frequently US politicians refer with solemn reverence to the Founding Fathers for ultimate moral sanction. That is because the Founders, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, are secular saints.

Without them – and the sacred documents which they composed – the United States, and the possibility of being American, would not exist. To threaten the integrity of those principles is to undermine what being an American means: the only thing that it can mean.

Unlike other republics which were created by revolutions in existing countries with established populations, America was invented as an embodiment of an 18th-century idea. It is populated by people who voluntarily accept the social contract that it offers, which is articulated in the Constitution.

The behaviour of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has struck many as profoundly un-American - AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT

Yet here was a president who arrived at his first inaugural waving his fist in the air like a tinpot dictator, swore vengeance against competitors who were his legitimate opponents, became outraged when he discovered that he did not have absolute power, and shamelessly monetised the presidency to make himself, his family and his cronies even richer than they had been.

So where was the American patriotic conscience? Surely the redneck army which British broadcasting finds so irresistible as comic interview fodder could not be all that was left in a country which has the highest proportion of university-educated people in the world?

Watching the news coverage assiduously, you could still catch glimpses of it. When those ICE raiders with their masked faces descended on communities to seize what they assumed were illegal migrants from the streets (or from the workplaces where they were earning a living), there were often furious protests, not from the terrified "illegals" who were being led away in handcuffs, but from righteous onlookers who regarded this treatment as profoundly un-American.

What now? Trump and his sidekicks are on the attack, of course. In their panic and outrage, they are choosing some bad targets: labelling any suggestion that Americans might need some form of universal healthcare as communist – when the US has one of the lowest life expectancies in the developed world, and even affluent families fear that extended illness could bankrupt them. But the Democrats, drunk on their electoral triumph, may yet fall into factional disarray.

There is scope for a Republican to emerge for the next presidential contest. JD Vance, however hard he tries to distance himself, is implicated in this terrible presidency and so, unfortunately, is Marco Rubio.

My bet would be on the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, the only reasonable Republican left standing. But that discussion is for another day. The good news now is that America does remember why it was created, and why that still matters.