Moron Senator from Pennsylvania is a Chameleon: A MAGA-GOP disguised as Democrat

Pennsylvania: Rid yourself of this shabby-looking, slovenly, unkept idiot with a bald shaved head, tattoos, hoodies, and work boots who can't decide what his political sex is. A fence-sitter, a traitor, a waverer, odorless (well, not sure), tasteless, colorless, slithering reptile. He must be a well-paid hack by AIPAC.

As a descendant of German immigrants, he must have several ethnic cleansing and genocide genes in his genome. Here he is siding with the Zio-Nazi killers of American citizens in occupied Palestine. Apparently, he loves Israel more than he does America, perhaps out of Holocaust-inflicted guilt.

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Senate Republicans and John Fetterman Block Measure To Probe Killings of Nine Americans by Israelis in West Bank
Michael Luciano
Wed, September 30, 2026


AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Senate Republicans voted against a measure to investigate Israeli violence in the West Bank resulting in the deaths of at least nine Palestinian-Americans since 2022.See more

Senate Republicans voted almost unanimously against a measure that would require the State Department to investigate Israeli violence in the West Bank that, since 2022, has resulted in the deaths of at least nine Palestinian-Americans, as well as others who were victimized.

Settler violence in the West Bank, which features scores of Israeli settlements that are illegal according to several U.N. Security Council resolutions, has been surging. Reports of Israeli settlers and soldiers violently seizing and demolishing the homes of Palestinians are rampant. Among the victims are at least nine U.S. citizens, who were killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced an amendment calling on the State Department to submit a report to Congress on the matter no more than 30 days after adoption. The amendment lists several incidents to be probed:

Whereas protecting and supporting United States citizens abroad is one of the foremost responsibilities of the United States Government;

Whereas, since January 2022, at least nine United States citizens have been killed by violent Israeli settlers or Israeli security forces in the West Bank, including Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Amer Rabee, Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, Khamis Ayyad, and Nasrallah Abu Siyam;

Whereas the killings of these Americans in the West Bank have been met by a lack of accountability from the Netanyahu government and an inability to secure justice by the United States Government;

Whereas, in January 2022, Omar Assad, a 78-year-old United States citizen, was stopped at a checkpoint in his village of Jiljilya, dragged by Israeli soldiers from his car, and left lying on the ground outside with his hands bound behind his back, gagged, and blindfolded, where he died of a stress-induced heart attack;

Whereas, in May 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, referenced by some as the "voice of a generation", was shot in the head and killed near the Jenin refugee camp by Israeli security forces while she wore a vest clearly marking her as a journalist;

Whereas, in January 2024, Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a 17-year-old American boy, was shot in the head and killed, reportedly by an Israeli settler, an off-duty Israeli police officer, and an Israel Defense Forces soldier, while driving east of Ramallah;

Whereas, in February 2024, in circumstances similar to Tawfic Abdel Jabbar's killing, Mohammad Ahmad Alkhdour, another 17-year-old American boy, was shot twice in the head while driving, reportedly by Israeli forces, near the town of Biddu;

Whereas, in September 2024, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American raised in Seattle, was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier from a distance of 200 meters;

Whereas, in April 2025, Amer Mohammad Saada Rabee, a 14-year-old boy from New Jersey, was shot and killed at the entrance to Turmus Ayya by Israeli security forces, with reports suggesting he was shot a total of 11 times by two different guns;

Whereas, in July 2025, Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, a 20-year-old American from Florida who was visiting family in the West Bank, was beaten to death by violent Israeli settlers during a settler attack on the town of Sinjil, where eyewitness accounts report that settlers and Israeli forces impeded ambulance access for more than two hours;

Whereas, on July 15, 2025, Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the killing of Mr. Musallet a "criminal and terrorist act" and stated "there must be accountability";

Whereas, in August 2025, Khamis Ayyad, a 40-year-old Palestinian-American and father of five, died of smoke inhalation after violent Israeli settlers set homes and cars on fire during an attack on the village of Silwad;

Whereas, in February 2026, Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a 19-year-old American born in Philadelphia, was shot and killed in the West Bank village of Mukhmas, near Ramallah, by violent Israeli settlers during an attack on Palestinian farmers;

Whereas, in August 2026, Khamis Rabee Jabara, an 82-year-old Palestinian American, was hospitalized after Israeli soldiers used a flashbang grenade against him and then confiscated bystander footage of the incident in the village of Turmusayya…

The amendment failed 47-51. Of the 51 Republicans who voted, 50 opposed the measure. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) voted in favor. Every Democratic senator except Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) voted for the amendment.

"Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight," Van Hollen wrote on social media. "Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice."

In July, CNN reported that an Israeli settler in the West Bank pulled a knife on their crew just days after Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was detained by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the territory.

Michael Monsoor: Something Fine About Lebanese-Irish Immigrant Children

There is Senator George Mitchell of Maine - Father Irish, mother Lebanese. Successfully mediated and ended the Irish Troubles with the Good Friday Agreement

Robert Hennessey - Former CEO of Genome Therapeutics- Father Irish, mother Lebanese

Amy Yasbeck - actress, Father Lebanese, mother Irish.

Tom Shadyac - screenwriter, director, producer, Lebanese-Irish parents.

Gregory Jbara - actor, singer, Lebanese and Irish descent.

Catherine Keener - Academy Award-nominated actress. Father Irish, mother Lebanese

Vince Vaughn - actor with Lebanese paternal grandmother, alongside Irish European roots.

Adrienne Maloof - businesswoman and tv personality - Lebanese and Irish descent.

Ralph Nader - environmental activist and politician born to Lebanese immigrants.

Salma Hayek - Mexican actress - Lebanese descent

Zoe Saldana - American actress who is part Lebanese.

Shannon Elizabeth - actress and activist, Lebanese father

Jenna Dewan - dancer and actress, father is of Lebanese descent. How did Lebanese-Irish intermarriage shape American culture?

And many others. Yet, Trump is persecuting immigrants of all brands. His "Great America" would not be so great without its immigrants. In fact, except for its nearly exterminated native American population, all of America is nothing but a bunch of immigrants. 

But now Michael Monsoor, a hero of the US Navy

Monsoor was born April 5, 1981, in Long Beach, California, the third of four children of Sally Ann (Boyle) and George Paul Monsoor. His father also served in the United States military as a Marine and is Lebanese, and his mother is Irish. Here is his story:

Michael Monsoor had an escape route — the Medal of Honor recipient chose to save his teammates instead
Max Bacall
Tue, September 29, 2026 


Petty Officer Michael A. Monsoor sacrificed his life to save his fellow sailors in Iraq in 2006, receiving the Medal of Honor posthumously in 2008.

On September 29, 2006, Petty Officer Michael A. Monsoor of the United States Navy sacrificed his life to save his fellow sailors.

Fox Nation's new documentary, "Man of Honor: The Michael Monsoor Story" premieres Tuesday, exactly twenty years later, telling the story of the sailor behind the medal of honor.

Monsoor received the award posthumously in a ceremony at the White House April 8, 2008, according to the Navy's website.

Michael Monsoor served as a Combat Advisor and Automatic Weapons Gunner for Naval Special Warfare Task Group Arabian Peninsula in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Monsoor "distinguished himself through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty," the site reads.

While serving as an automatic weapons gunner in a combined SEAL and Iraqi Army sniper overwatch element during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Monsoor was placed in a confined sniper hide-sight between two SEAL snipers on an outcropping of a roof, which allowed the three SEALs maximum coverage of the area.

An enemy fighter hurled a hand grenade onto the roof, which hit Monsoor in the chest and fell to the ground. He was located closest to the exit from their position, but he did not run. Instead, he immediately leaped to his feet and yelled, "Grenade!" to alert his teammates, who would have been unable to evacuate before the explosion.


The Navy described Monsoor as "one of the bravest men on the battlefield, never allowing the enemy to discourage him. He remained fearless while facing constant danger, and through his selfless nature and aggressive actions, saved the lives of coalition soldiers and his fellow SEALs," adding, "He was a loyal friend and exceptional SEAL, and he is sorely missed by his brothers in Task Unit Bravo."

"Without hesitation and showing no regard for his own life, he threw himself onto the grenade, smothering it to protect his teammates who were lying in close proximity. The grenade detonated as he came down on top of it, mortally wounding him," the Navy wrote.

"Petty Officer Monsoor's actions could not have been more selfless or clearly intentional. Of the three SEALs on that rooftop corner, he had the only avenue of escape away from the blast, and if he had so chosen, he could have easily escaped. Instead, Monsoor chose to protect his comrades by the sacrifice of his own life. By his courageous and selfless actions, he saved the lives of his two fellow SEALs and he is the most deserving of the special recognition afforded by awarding the Medal of Honor."

Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Michael A. Monsoor received the Medal of Honor posthumously in a ceremony at the White House on April 8, 2008, for his actions in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Sept. 29, 2006.

Monsoor was survived by his mother Sally, his father George, his sister Sara, and his two brothers, James and Joseph.

Mike Sarraille, a retired lieutenant commander in the navy who served on SEAL Team THREE with Monsoor, offered Fox Nation an old military adage.

"Rule number one is young men die. Rule number two is you can't change rule number one. And rule number three, somebody must always walk point." [Walk point is a military term referring to the first and most exposed position in a patrol or combat formation, where the soldier (often called the point man) leads the unit, navigates the route, and scouts for threats like ambushes or booby traps]

ICE-GESTAPO's Gruesome Bleaching Mission of America

Where are the so-called bigots of "Angel Families" to protest these unwarranted killings by Trump's ICE-GESTAPO? Or perhaps their "foreign-sounding" names make them disposable human beings?
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
José Olivares
Tue, September 29, 2026


'Three people dying in one day is an amplification of what we've already seen,' says Andrew Free, a former immigration attorney and investigative journalist. Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/GoFundMe

It was 7am on 13 July this year. A warm, sunny morning, as residents of Biddeford, Maine, left their homes, got into their cars and began their commute. Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero came out of the apartment he lived in with his partner and daughter and drove off in his white car. Minutes later, neighbors heard three pops. Durán Guerrero was dead.

More than 1,200 miles (1,900km) away in Ocilla, Georgia, Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was shuffled on to a bus. Private sector guards and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were beginning the process of transferring him and several other immigrants from one detention center to another nearly two hours away. Ten minutes into the ride, he became unconscious. Doctors at a nearby hospital pronounced him dead.

Less than 24 hours later, Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, pulled up to a gas station near a busy highway in St Augustine, Florida, as the sun was rising in the bright sky. Soon after, he would lie dead on the road nearby, hit by a semitruck when running away from immigration officers.

Related: 2025 was ICE's deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody

There were no ties between Durán Guerrero, Arenas-Silva and Coronilla Durán, but within those 24 hours, the three men suddenly became connected as casualties in the latest phase of Donald Trump's aggressive anti-immigration campaign.

Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds.

The men in Maine and Florida were not even ICE's intended targets for arrest – they became "collaterals", as agency officials call them.

"Three people dying in one day is an amplification of what we've already seen," said Andrew Free, a former immigration attorney and investigative journalist who has for years extensively worked on ICE-related death cases. "The choices that the Trump regime has made since January 2025 have had the consequence of increasing the numbers of people who die in the field and in custody."

Throughout 2025 and into early 2026, federal immigration officials descended on cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. They swaggered in militarized gear and brandished their weapons and crowd-control sprays, while engaging in raids and arrests in a high-profile attempt to show that Trump's promise of "mass deportations" would be fulfilled.

An explosion of protests and public backlash grew, reaching a climax after the January 2026 fatal shootings of two US citizens in Minneapolis as they protested against what local leaders called "an invasion" by federal immigration officials.

Since then the flashy immigration enforcement mass operations have all but disappeared. Throughout the rest of 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has switched strategy: more low-key arrest operations by small groups of officers and more 287(g) collaborations with local and state police and sheriffs deputized to make immigration arrests. Also, quicker processing with less representation in immigration courts and White House-directed collaboration to target undocumented children are fueling enforcement that is quieter but just as ruthless.

Related: Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
[Stephen Miller is the Resident Nazi at the White House bunker]

A summer surge of enforcement means arrests are at a record high, with the majority now being people with no criminal history. And deaths keep ticking up "even though ICE's current tactics have been less visible than the chaos in Minneapolis at the start of the year", said Austin Kocher, an assistant research professor at Syracuse University and an immigration data and policy expert, in his Substack posts. At least 31 people have died in 2026 during interactions with immigration officials. Four people have been shot, 25 have died in detention and at least two people, including Coronilla Durán, have died while fleeing officials.

The 24 hours between the mornings of 13 and 14 July stand out as exceptionally deadly.

When contacted for comment, a DHS spokesperson sent along the three previous statements they had issued when the deaths originally happened in Maine, Georgia and Florida.

Much remains unclear about the three deaths in that period, but some crucial details are still known.
Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 25, shot while driving

On the Monday morning of 13 July when Durán Guerrero left his home in Biddeford, a city in southern Maine, ICE officer David Brouillette and other officers were reportedly looking for a different person, whose last known address was where Durán Guerrero had just exited.

Brouillette, 37, had recently been hired by ICE amid the immigration agency's push to increase arrests by bringing on more officials. With a blond-brown beard, baseball cap, sunglasses and a green tactical vest marked "POLICE ICE" over a navy T-shirt, Brouillette sat in a federal vehicle and watched the streets.

Related: The daily toll of an ICE arrest on a mother and three young kids: 'Why did they take my dad?'

As Durán Guerrero got into his white car and drove away, Brouillette and the officers spotted him, gave chase and attempted to stop the car.

The next few moments are still unclear, but neighbors suddenly heard the "pops" of gunfire in the quiet neighborhood. Brouillette had fatally shot Durán Guerrero.

A statement from DHS at the time said that the ICE officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but that Durán Guerrero "attempted to flee". DHS added the official fired at Durán Guerrero "fearing for public safety".

It has not been verified whether Durán Guerrero drove his vehicle in the way that DHS stated.

Surveillance footage obtained by the Associated Press appears to show a white car slowly driving in circles at an intersection. The footage was recorded after the shooting, with Durán Guerrero either dead or dying at the wheel.

The video then shows one of ICE's vehicles ramming into the white car to stop it. Two officers open the driver's door and Durán Guerrero's body slumps on to the asphalt. Two more ICE officers rush over.

"He had blood on his head, blood on his face. It was gruesome, just gruesome," a neighbor told Maine Public Radio. "I believe it was [Durán Guerrero's] wife that was sitting on the curb across the street, just crying hysterically."

The Colombian man was 25, with a dazzling smile that lit up his face below closely cropped dark hair. He lived with his partner, Karolina Rojas, and their three-year-old daughter, and he had authorization to live and work in the US. He was a food delivery driver and is remembered by his neighbors as a good man and hard worker.

"My son was a person who left his country to make a future for his family," Omar Durán, Durán Guerrero's father, told BluRadio, a Colombian news outlet.

Brouillette, the ICE officer, was hired by the agency after years of employment instability, according to reporting from the Associated Press, the Portland Press Herald and other outlets. He was recruited even though family members have made allegations of a history of violent behavior, including accusations of domestic violence and threats.

Attempts to reach Brouillette for comment were not successful.

About ICE's recruitment policies, DHS said: "The ICE Office of Professional Responsibility diligently applies the proper personnel vetting regulations, including guidelines for national security, and evaluates all available information for every applicant based on these factors." The ICE office of professional responsibility internally investigates any alleged misconduct.

DHS has still not publicly confirmed Brouillette's identity as the official who shot Durán Guerrero, nor commented on his alleged personal history. The agency has criticized the media for publishing his name, saying it put officers and their families in danger.
Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, died in ICE custody

Meanwhile, in Georgia, just after 7am on 13 July, Arenas-Silva sat in an ICE transport bus, surrounded by other ICE detainees.

The Venezuelan man had been held for a few days at the Irwin county detention center, a privately owned facility operating under contract with ICE. He and the other detainees were being transferred to the Folkston D Ray facility, another privately run detention center in the state.

Arenas-Silva, 45, had a myriad of physical and mental health conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, anxiety and depression, according to a preliminary death investigation report released by ICE. He relied on several medications to survive, his family and the ICE report said. He had been in the US since 2021 and an immigration judge ordered his removal in April 2026, a DHS spokesperson said.

Days before his death, ICE arrived at Arenas-Silva's home to arrest him.

"We implored ICE not to take him due to his medical needs, but they didn't listen to our pleas," Sonimar Arenas, his sister, later said.

While cuffing Arenas-Silva, the ICE officials only allowed him to take one of his medications with him, according to Sonimar. In a phone call from ICE detention, Arenas-Silva told his sister that ICE had not yet given him the medication he needed, according to a statement she later released.

The preliminary ICE death report confirms Arenas-Silva did not have all of his necessary medication on 10 July during his medical intake screening at the Irwin facility. A nurse noted that the only medication he arrived with was for anxiety, the ICE report says. That same nurse later confirmed he had other active medical prescriptions he never received.

Three days later, Arenas-Silva was shuffled on to the transport bus, where staff saw him interact with other detainees at 7.34am. But about 10 minutes later, Irwin detention center staff saw Arenas-Silva was unconscious. As staff dialed 911, the bus began driving to a nearby hospital, the report said.

Fifteen minutes later, Arenas-Silva arrived at the emergency room, "unresponsive and pulseless", the ICE report says. The medical staff worked on Arenas-Silva, but at 8.31am he was pronounced dead.

"While in custody, Arenas-Silva received medical care and was seen by medical professionals," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments. Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughout their stay.

"At no time during detention is a detained noncitizen denied emergency care," the statement added.
Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, 28, hit by truck while fleeing ICE

In Florida, Coronilla Durán, a 28-year-old Mexican tourist, had been enjoying a few weeks traveling in the US. Before 14 July, he had reportedly been in Atlanta, Georgia, and then traveled to St Augustine, the northern Florida city with beaches on the Atlantic Ocean.

Coronilla Durán and his wife, who had been married for 10 years, lived in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato with their then seven-month-old daughter and a seven-year-old son, according to reporting by the Miami Herald.

He was visiting friends and relatives in the US, while his wife was at home in Mexico. On the fateful July morning, Coronilla Durán and three other men pulled up to a convenience store at a gas station just before 7am. It is unclear who exactly he was with when he arrived there, next to a busy highway.

Details of exactly what unfolded next remain unclear, but a number of federal immigration officials spotted the men and approached them. For unknown reasons, Coronilla Durán and the three others took off running.

Related: ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump's mass detention agenda – report

As Coronilla Durán ran away from the federal officials, he continued to look back to see if they were giving chase. He ran into the busy highway, at first avoiding vehicles speeding by, witnesses told the Miami Herald.

But when Coronilla Durán arrived at the grassy median, he lost his footing, slipped and fell. He stood up, looked back at the immigration officials and continued to run into the next lane of traffic.

According to a bystander, as Coronilla Durán began to cross the other highway lanes, he lost his footing again and fell in front of a tractor-trailer. The witness said he immediately knew Coronilla Durán had been hit.

"The tractor trailer immediately stopped and attempted to render aid to the victim," a statement by Florida highway patrol said.

DHS has still not formally identified Coronilla Durán as the victim and only said homeland security officials "conducted an operation near St Johns, Florida. Florida Highway Patrol and HSI are investigating an incident resulting in the death of a Mexican national. We will provide an update when available." Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is part of ICE.

'At what time does this become indefensible?'

All three men's deaths are still under investigation by local and federal officials.

Durán Guerrero's parents traveled to the US from Colombia to collect his body. His killing in Maine led to protests there, especially since another deadly ICE shooting had taken place a few days earlier in Houston, Texas.

Durán Guerrero's death, and the subsequent reporting of allegations about Brouillette's personal history, led to calls for ICE to improve its hiring practices and to equip officers with body cameras. ICE officials were briefly instructed to stop pulling over vehicles.

The FBI referred all questions about the case to the Maine attorney general's office and the DHS inspector general's office. The Maine attorney general's office said it could not comment further because it is still investigating the shooting death. The DHS inspector general's office did not respond to a request for comment.

The Georgia bureau of investigations (GBI), a state-level agency, was asked by local county officials to investigate Arenas-Silva's death, according to a statement provided to the Guardian. A GBI spokesperson confirmed the investigation is open and active.

Arenas-Silva's sister continues to press for answers: "I am 100% certain that he did not receive proper care," she said in a statement. "I will seek justice for him and for everyone else who goes through this, so that other families do not have to endure what we are going through. No one deserves this."

In Florida, Coronilla Durán's wife flew into the US days after her husband's death to make arrangements with a funeral home. The Mexican government was assisting the family in transporting his body back to Mexico to be buried.

"The Florida Highway Patrol Traffic Homicide Investigation is currently ongoing," a spokesperson said in a statement. "There are no updates currently regarding that case."

Related: These journalists share vital reporting with thousands of US immigrants – all by text and WhatsApp

Free, the legal expert on ICE-related deaths, fears that ICE involved deaths are going to continue rising. Just over a week ago, an ICE official shot another person – this time in Austin, Texas. The man survived, but the shooting appears to have taken place during an attempted vehicle stop.

"Sometime soon, we're going to have four people die in a 24-hour period. And then it's going to be five," Free said. "What happens when we get there? What's the red line? For policymakers, for states, for companies – at what time does this become indefensible or unsustainable?"

In Durán Guerrero's case in Maine, one detail stood out to community members.

As neighbors gathered at the intersection watching the federal and local officials attempt first aid on Durán Guerrero, they noticed a small girl nearby, wearing a pink backpack and crying. It was the couple's daughter, who would never see her father alive again. Though, it turned out, she might have escaped an even worse fate.

Her mother recently collected some items from investigators and was told the girl's car seat, from Durán Guerrero's car, would not be returned. A bullet had pierced it during the shooting.

Hear this Live Witness of the American Dream in the United Scams of America

A Woman Lists the Struggles of Working in America as TikTok Sparks Debate And Hit a Nerve
Sohini
Tue, September 29, 2026



A TikTok video that was shared on Aug. 20 by @julie.says.things talks about how capitalism has affected the way the working class can live in America. With over 31,500 likes as of publication, the caption of the video says, "This is what capitalism was always going to lead to."

The video begins with a question-and-answer format in which the woman, Julie, plays the role of an average American. At first, she is asked if she has a high school diploma, and even after saying yes, she is denied a job. Next, she is asked if she has a college degree, a bachelor's degree or a master's degree; she says yes to all of them, but she is still told she will not be hired. However, she is given a form to fill out to see what other job roles she is interested in, yet she is told that none of those roles are real.

What happens instead is that her number gets leaked after she fills out a form in hopes of finding employment, and she gets incessant calls from random numbers that are trying to sell her something. But the catch is that she has no money to afford anything because she is not even employed.

Then comes the already heated real-world topic of health insurance. At first, she is told that there are going to be several deductibles, which are subject to minor whims from the company, and that things like childbirth, eye care, or needing an emergency sick leave are going to lead her to pay out of pocket for herself.

Plus, she also learns that she will neither be able to afford a house for herself nor basic life, nor be able to retire and relax, even though 2% of her already low income goes toward retirement every year straight from the source, aka her employer.

Despite all of these hurdles, if one still manages to get a job somehow, the video says that after getting the job, every single thing will be policed. One has to stay in the office for the exact designated hours, even if they are done with their job. Next comes the latest development: artificial intelligence, or AI, is going to be "shoved down your throat," which will only make it harder and longer to complete a simple task.



TikTok users discuss the realities of capitalist America in the modern day.

In the comments section, people were agreeing en masse. One said, "I was told I was unqualified for a job that required 2 years of experience or 1 year and a bachelor's. I have 6 years and a master's." Another older woman said that she is 65, but she understands how "young people are being crushed," and said that "we need a revolution."

Another person commented, "Now do a joke version." By that, they meant that even though this video might seem exaggerated to some, it is actually very true, and nothing about it is over the top.

MAGA's Xenophobic "Angel Families" Ignore Crimes by White Trash Americans

That is the only thing Trump can offer Americans for the midterms: More racism, more xenophobia, more hatred of immigrants because he has failed in everything else.

Instead of fighting, and making campaign marketing headlines about, ALL CRIMES, the vast proportion of which is committed by the white trash of America in their own backyards and communities, these racist xenophobes focus instead on the puny number of crimes committed by migrants because that is the only selling item that Trump can offer Americans on the eve of the midterms. Why does this sell? Because white trash America hates anyone who doesn't look like them.

To these hatemongers, white trash crimes are not crimes: They are domestic disputes, they are random crimes committed by non-criminals who just happen to misuse the Second Amendment, they are non-deliberate killings and rapes committed by mentally sick white people, they are hunting accidents, crimes by drug addicts, etc.... Although these crimes are behind the nearly 50,000 Americans who are killed every year by gun-toting white inbred imbeciles, Trump and his MAGA haters ignore them.

But crimes committed by migrants and immigrants are reaaal crimes, these MAGA haters tell us, targeting God-loving but bigoted Americans.

While Trump kills fishermen in the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of Latin America under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking, he never goes after the millions of white trash Americans who use these drugs and who create the demand for drugs. These white trash Americans are the high-end financiers of Wall Street. They are the elite white criminal politicians of Washington DC. They are the upper class criminals of Hollywood.

Migrants and immigrants in Trump's America are the equivalent of the Jewish community in Nazi Germany: An easy scapegoat and target that is unable to defend itself against the hatemongers and the racists of this country who are rooted in the colonial, slavery past of the European white settlers of the continent who are essentially playing the role of the German Nazis.

Moreover, the drug trade from the south to the north of the continent is also matched by the gun trade in the opposite direction: Gun-making companies in the US smuggle guns to the drug cartels in the south. Which explains why the cartels are so powerful. Which also portends to the failure of the current Latin American dictators and Trump-asskissers in their so-called war on drugs: The US gun manufacturers will not let them win that war. They will foment civil strife and unrest across Latin American to keep their gun-making and gun-selling business flourishing. That is in fact what the US dies with the entire world: It has to always have enemies in order to sell weapons in order for the dollar to retain value. Peace is the enemy of the dollar system worldwide.

But unfortunately, Americans by and large are credulous morons who are made to think that believing Trump's lies and being swayed by the hatemongering against migrants and immigrants is an act of patriotism.
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Donald Trump surrounded by his hatemongering "Angel families" whose pain is being exploited by Trump to win a pathetic few votes in the midterms.

Facing an impending disaster in the midterm US elections, the MAGA-GOP syndicated of hate is focusing on its core topics of crime and immigration -- and a key part of its messaging is exploiting the pain of the so-called "Angel Families." These are relatives of people killed allegedly by illegal or undocumented migrants, and Donald Trump's neanderthal conservative party hopes to blackmail voters into voting for his gang of thieves in exchange for his illusory fake protection by ICE-GESTAPO against those evil human animals known as immigrants and migrants.

What those racist Fascists do not tell the American people is that their own white trash inbred idiots commit by far more crimes on a per-capita basis than all migrants and immigrants alike.

Elizabeth Carter lost her son and daughter-in-law in a road crash a year ago in Oregon. The driver charged with homicide, Rajinder Kumar, is an undocumented Indian immigrant who obtained a truck driver's license in California.

Kumar crossed the Mexico-US border illegally in 2022 and was detained. He was released in California pending a hearing, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

After the crash, a fundraising drive allowed him to post bail and be released pending trial, infuriating the Carter family.

"We're rolling the dice with our children," Carter declared at a House of Representatives hearing.

Using their congressional majority, Republicans have held five legislative hearings to give a voice to Angel Families, an initiative that began taking shape in Texas in 2009.

In another case, Sheridan Gorman was 18 this March when she went for a nighttime walk with friends along Lake Michigan near Chicago.

An undocumented Venezuelan immigrant, Jose Medina, is accused of shooting her in the back as she ran from him.

Gorman died, and her mother Jessica's harrowing testimony two months ago reverberated inside and outside Congress.

"The fact that American safety is a partisan issue blows my mind. It should be everyone's issue," the mother told AFP at a Justice Department event honoring Angel Families. [But what she fails to say is that American safety can be much much improved by outlawing rampant gun ownership and the culture of entrenched violence across all American life. The sliver of puny violence that may be committed here and there by migrants and immigrants is insignificant in comparison to violence meted by white trash morons against other white trash morons]

- 'A fair trial' -

The Gorman family and relatives of hundreds of other victims have decided to campaign to change sanctuary state laws.

Oregon, like California, is a sanctuary state, meaning its laws limit cooperation with ICE on handing over undocumented immigrants or information about them.

Kumar was eventually detained by ICE and is awaiting deportation, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told AFP, but Elizabeth Carter wants him to face justice first.

"My hope is that Mr. Kumar gets a fair trial," she told AFP. "Billy and Jenny, my son and daughter-in-law, deserve their day in court."

Carter said she had never thought of illegal immigration as a problem for herself or her family.

"I was blissfully ignorant. I raised my children to care about their community, to volunteer," she said.

"I was incredibly unaware that allowing them in the country means that sometimes they're doing jobs they're not qualified for, don't have the proper training for, and that puts American lives at risk."

The immigration debate has grown increasingly bitter in the United States, with ICE accusing states of failing to hand over undocumented immigrants released from jail.

ICE raids across the country have also led to deaths, and the hearings in Congress have been tense, particularly when relatives on either side of the immigration drama take part.

Some Democratic lawmakers consider the five hearings on sanctuary states that often feature Angel Families to be excessive. They believe ICE is out of control.

"When we raise legitimate concerns about the thuggish way that the Trump administration is approaching immigration enforcement, Republicans try to blame everything on sanctuary jurisdictions," Democrat Pramila Jayapal said during a September hearing.

Democrats "are not worried about the citizens of the United States who are being killed. They are producing their phony records and biased records, blaming ICE, blaming Trump. It's unbelievable," Anatoly Varfolomeev, another father who has testified, told AFP.

His 19-year-old daughter Anya died in a 2021 road accident. The driver charged in the case was in the country illegally and was drunk at the time of the crash.

The driver had previously been convicted of other crimes in the US in 2014. He was deported twice but managed to return.

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Brazilians: Voting for Flavio Bolsonaro Will Damage Brazil's Image Around the World

Nepo-Baby Flavio is a moron son of a criminal seditious former president who led a huge mob of Fascist terrorists to attack the country's institutions. On January 8, 2023, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed and vandalized the country's National Congress, Supreme Federal Court, and the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasília. The attack was a copycat of Trump's white supremacist terrorist attack on the US Congress on January 6, 2021, as it was driven by Jair Bolsonaro's lies and false claims of electoral fraud. Jair Bolsonaro didn't invent political criminality, he just borrowed it from this buddy, the American criminal felon Trump.

In being some three years behind the Americans in their fall into Fascism and dictatorship, Brazilians at least have the benefit of watching what Trump has done to the US and to the world during his second term. A new corrupt Bolsonaro term under nepo-baby Flavio would be very similar to Trump's wrecking of America' economy, encouraging all the Fascist racist forces to commit crimes, support Fascist dictators around the world and enable the Zionists to perpetrate the worst genocide and ethnic cleansing of the 21st century in Palestine.

Despite Trump's claims that "America is now respected" because of his murderous violence, America is now loathed and laughed at by the entire world because it is led by a criminal idiot. Brazil still has a great reputation around the world. Voting for Flavio Bolsonaro would send Brazil down a spiral of surging inflation, high cost of living, heightened racism, increased dependence on a crude capitalistic America and a bigger divide between Bolsonaro's billionaire friends and the rest of the ever-struggling Brazilian people.

Like Trump's children, Flavio and his buddies will enrich themselves by the billions in suspicious deals while leaving every day Brazilians struggling to make ends meet. Like Trump's rape of the US national parks and open them for filthy corporations' destruction and pollution, Flavio will do the same for the Amazon forest and Brazil's pristine nature. If allowed to go forward, many of these criminal policies will take decades to reverse.

Under Bolsonaro, Brazil will inevitably monkey-imitate Trump's America. That is not a good image for a great country like Brazil, to be seen following Trump like a dog on a leash.
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Flavio Bolsonaro: political heir in his father's shadow
Fran BLANDY
Mon, September 28, 2026 

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, pictured wearing a photo of his father's face, has struggled to break free of the shadow of the former president (Pablo PORCIUNCULA)

Flavio Bolsonaro inherited his father's surname and powerful political base. But without the fiery style that helped Jair Bolsonaro energize and reshape Brazil's right, he has struggled to emerge from his shadow.

The 45-year-old senator was little known nationally before his jailed father anointed him as his political heir, and he had never expressed ambition to follow in his footsteps.

Despite a campaign marred by scandal and a corruption investigation, the Bolsonaro name helped propel him into a statistical dead heat with leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in polls before the October 4 election.

In interviews, Flavio Bolsonaro describes himself as a "more moderate Bolsonaro," but says his father will always be "my compass, my point of reference."

"I know I look like him. But it's hard to compare Pele's son to Pele," he said at a Rio de Janeiro rally.

While Jair Bolsonaro's incendiary style is controversial, it fired up the right and helped him go from fringe lawmaker to president in 2018.

Even though he is absent from the campaign, under house arrest for plotting a coup after losing Brazil's last election in 2022, Jair Bolsonaro's legacy has loomed large over the campaign.

"I would like to have Jair on the ballot. Since Jair isn't there, I'm going with Flavio," said Marco Antonio da Rosa, a 21-year-old law student at the Rio rally.

- 'I re-educated him'-

Born in Rio de Janeiro state, Flavio Bolsonaro is the eldest of the former president's four sons, and the one who most closely resembles his father.

On the campaign trail, he displayed the relaxed Carioca style and language that the city of Rio is known for.

He often wears jeans and a T-shirt with a targeted slogan: "The Amazon is ours" to emphasize Brazilian sovereignty over the rainforest or "Agribusiness is great" when courting farmers.

In online videos, he does not shy away from tearing up or losing his cool when talking about the plight of his father or what he sees as persecution from the judiciary against his family.

Holding a law degree, the younger Bolsonaro became a state lawmaker in Rio de Janeiro at age 21 and a senator at age 37.

Father to two daughters, he cultivates the image of a devout family man. A key campaign slogan of his is "come with faith."

In one video showing a busy family morning at home, his dentist wife Fernanda takes credit for him being more mild-mannered than his father, joking: "I re-educated him."

- The banker and the stepmom -

In September it emerged that Flavio Bolsonaro was under investigation for alleged corruption and money laundering linked to the financing of a biopic, "Dark Horse", about his father.

The film was bankrolled by banker Daniel Vorcaro, who is jailed in a multi-million dollar fraud case.

The Vorcaro case has ensnared many powerful people in Brazil and has dominated the election.

Bolsonaro had initially denied any contact with Vorcaro, or having flown in his private jet. He was forced to admit both after leaks from the investigation showed them to be true.

He also became embroiled in a family feud with his stepmother, the former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, who posted an Instagram video saying Bolsonaro had "disrespected me and mistreated me."

Michelle Bolsonaro accepted a public apology from Flavio Bolsonaro, but did not appear at any of his rallies.

In an earlier scandal when he was a Rio legislator, Bolsonaro was accused of involvement in a kickback scheme in which he took a portion of his aides' salaries, but the case was dismissed.

He has also faced scrutiny over his ties to Rio de Janeiro's militia figures.

- Tough on crime -

A hardliner on crime, Bolsonaro has praised the controversial security policies of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, and called for the building of "many, many prisons" in Brazil.

On social media, he embraces slick AI-generated campaign ads in which he often appears in a flight suit and aviator glasses piloting a fighter jet on a mission for Brazil.

In one, he leans out of the window shooting at drug traffickers on a boat.

"Compared to his father, he is more affable and personable...but that doesn't mean he isn't ideologically far-right," said political analyst Thomas Traumann.

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Look at What White Supremacist Criminal Moron Donald Dumb has Enabled in America

Trump's racist white trash sluts performing one of MAGA's favorite act.

Two white trash MAGA sluts in Cleveland - it seems Ohio is nowadays a hotbed of racism - hurl Trump's favorite insult against non-whites: "ARE YOU ILLEGAL?" Dumb white trash morons now are entitled to hurt, harass and insult other people that don't look like them by threatening them with the ICE-GESTAPO Fascist police. For these numskull racists who just walked out of the sewers of America, only whites are Americans. 
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‘Are you guys illegal?’: Cleveland women enter restaurant after hours, then allegedly turned racist when staff refused service
Robyn Miraflor
Mon, September 28, 2026 


Screenshot via @gaby_the_sociologist/TikTok

Servers at a restaurant in Cleveland were allegedly attacked with racist questions by two women who entered the establishment after closing hours and demanded service, leading to a confrontation captured in a viral TikTok video.

Being a server isn't easy, and more often than not, they have to deal with unruly customers—even when the restaurant is closed. That was the case for the servers at a restaurant in Cleveland, who informed a pair of women that the business was closed for the night, only to allegedly be attacked with racist questions for failing to serve them.

The incident was shared by Gaby (@gaby_the_sociologist) in a TikTok video that has since reached over 3.2 million views. According to Gaby, the encounter happened on Sept. 19 at The Flats in Cleveland, Ohio, when two women allegedly entered the restaurant after hours and wanted to order.

"All the workers did was politely inform them that the restaurant was closed so they could not give them food or the wifi password and the following ensued," Gaby said in her caption. Gaby claimed the two women, whom she described as "white," turned the situation into a race issue and questioned the restaurant's servers' "status" in the country.

The women allegedly kept asking racist questions

In the video, stools are visibly placed upside down on tables—a common practice that signals the restaurant is closed for cleaning. One of the women can be heard asking the server recording the video if they "could show your ID," before the other chimed in, asking if they "even work here" at the restaurant. "Can you show your ID? Please show your ID," one of the women asked again.

In the background, someone can be heard saying "no service." However, one of the women continued to question the servers as they went about their closing duties. "Do you guys have, like, American passports?" the woman asked. A male server can be heard responding, "What are you talking about? An American passport? Just go away, please."

The woman wasn't discouraged by the request and continued to challenge the workers about their immigration status in the United States. "Oh, my god. Are you guys, like, illegal?" the woman asked before asking for their names. During the encounter, the servers barely responded to the woman's questions, only speaking to repeatedly tell them they were closed.

One of the servers eventually had enough and threatened to call security. "Your security guard can get me," the woman said. "I'm an American citizen. Are you an American citizen?" The two servers confirmed they were American citizens before firmly instructing the woman to leave.

The women allegedly tried to involve police

The incident highlighted the challenges servers face when dealing with unpredictable situations, as they are often expected to handle them professionally while protecting the restaurant's reputation. At the same time, viewers couldn't understand why the women allegedly resorted to racist remarks.

"When I'm drunk I'm telling everyone I love them this is wild," one viewer said. Another added, "Stop blaming their racism on alcohol. They were racist before they got drunk. Stop excusing racism. Plsssss." A third commented, "I never understood why being from another country is used as an insult.. is it jealousy that makes a person act out like that?"

Some believe that Gaby's video could have repercussions for the women's future careers, as companies have previously fired employees after they were involved in public scandals. Others found the woman's requests absurd, considering that she was inside a closed restaurant. "'Can you show your ID?' Ma'am I think you've got this backwards," a viewer wrote.

Gaby claimed that the women tried to involve the police and used their "white femininity to victimize themselves" despite allegedly being the instigators. However, the video does not show any interaction with the police, and it's unclear what happened to one of the women, as only one remains by the end of the video.

Per Previous Post, Huge Cracks Erupt in Trump's MAGA Sinking Ship

Further to my previous post [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/09/44-days-to-go-before-american-voters.html], more MAGA sailors are jumping off Trump's sinking ship.

The report below is one such instance where a Trump-endorsed MAGA imbecile candidate finally had the guts to say no to the deranged moron in the White House. Salazar, who is from a migrant Hispanic family (Cuba), and after enabling the criminal felon's persecution of her kindred folks for months, is feeling the heat and has now finally dared criticize the racist white supremacist Trump for his targeting of Hispanic and Latino US citizens, not out of compassion and empathy but only to try to hang on by her nails against the looming disaster she and other MAGA cretins face this November. 

A massive tsunami of anti-Trump vote by Hispanic Americans is expected in the midterms. Trump's urging voters to "pretend" he is on the ballot is in fact having the opposite effect: Hispanic candidates are distancing themselves from the Great Moron, and by extension from his endorsed candidates, in order to appease angry voters who now hate Trump for lying to them during his 2024 campaign. Trump is now toxic to his MAGA candidates.

Evidently, the traditional reaction of the Moron-in-Chief to "disloyal" MAGA sycophants didn't wait: Trump is now barking and foaming at the mouth against Salazar because she decided to walk away from his racist anti-Hispanic program. And the traditional reaction of Trump's white trash followers is to tell Salazar to "go back to Cuba".
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Trump turns on Salazar after Florida Republican challenges his immigration crackdown
Ben Johansen and Ali Bianco
Sat, September 26, 2026


Trump turns on Salazar after Florida Republican challenges his immigration crackdown

President Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his criticism of Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), amplifying a series of social media posts attacking the Florida Republican and, in multiple instances, calling for her replacement ahead of her election in just over a month.

Trump reposted more than a dozen messages criticizing Salazar on Truth Social, the president's social media platform, including one user's post that read: "So we need a NEW Republican to Replace Salazar." Several Trump loyalists, including Laura Loomer, have for months called on the president to abandon his endorsement of her.

Salazar last week released a campaign ad filmed in front of the White House challenging Trump's immigration crackdown. In the ad, she said his administration's enforcement efforts had "gone too far" and warned that Hispanic voters who helped Trump win the White House in 2024 felt betrayed. Recent public polling has shown Trump's approval among Latino voters in decline.

Other posts accused the three-term congressmember of betraying Trump — echoing long-standing criticism from MAGA that the Florida lawmaker is pro "amnesty" as an immigration policy, a characterization that she has repeatedly denied.

The White House did not immediately respond to request for clarification on whether the president would be retracting his endorsement of Salazar.

Salazar's office also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The posts mark the sharpest break yet between Trump and Salazar, whom he gave his "Complete and Total Endorsement" for reelection as recently as August for doing a "truly fantastic job" representing Florida's 27th Congressional District.

The Cuban American member of Congress represents one of the most Hispanic districts in the country, where over 70% of the electorate is Hispanic. She also won her primary handily with over 80% of the vote.

Earlier this week, Salazar said she had a "fantastic conversation" with Trump about the issue and that he "listened."

In the days following the release of her new ad, Trump told reporters that he still supported Salazar and had seen the ad. "I'm very strong on the borders — and she isn't," Trump said. He also claimed she won her seat because of his endorsement in 2020, when she ousted former Democratic Rep. Donna Shalala.

The rupture comes as Trump's 2024 coalition has only grown more divided on the issue, according to the results of a recent POLITICO Poll that found an emerging crack in the president's base over how tough to be on immigration.

While Trump's MAGA base has increasingly pushed the administration to crack down further on illegal immigration and push ahead with their full-throttle mass-deportation rhetoric, the issue proved politically perilous for the GOP earlier this year. ICE crackdowns from Minneapolis to Texas to Maine prompted Democrats to urge battleground Republicans to turn the temperature down on immigration.

Salazar has come under fire from the MAGA base over the "Dignity Act," her sweeping bipartisan immigration proposal that would provide a pathway to legal status for immigrants who have no criminal record and have resided in the U.S. for multiple years. Salazar has pushed back, saying her proposal does not grant "amnesty" as it does not offer a pathway to citizenship.

Salazar's Miami seat is among Democrats' top targets to flip in November.

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Here's another Republican who is voting Democrat in November and is now the target of a terrorist MAGA threat.

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Karl Rove Says He Got ‘Credible Threats’ For Saying He'll Vote Blue
Pocharapon Neammanee
Updated Sat, September 26, 2026

Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove claimed he received "credible threats" after criticizing the GOP, but stood firm on his words, even saying he wouldn't mind facing down those who've threatened him.

"The threats that they made in the aftermath of my saying I was going to vote for John Rosenthal (D) did get me DPS parked outside my house for a week because of quote 'credible threats' that they won't tell me," Rove said Saturday during a question-and-answer session at the Texas Tribune Festival.

"I'd like to find who issued those credible threats, and meet that sumabitch in a dark alley someplace!" he continued.


Republican strategist Karl Rove says he received threats after criticizing the GOP and voting for a Democrat (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) via Associated Press

Rove's remarks follow a series of criticisms he made towards his party, which he claimed last week has been "infiltrated" with "conspiracy nuts."

He received backlash, mostly from President Donald Trump and his MAGA followers, for stating that he'll vote against "bigoted" Republican Bo French, who has come under fire for an apparent racist post he has since doubled down on.

The president flipped out over Rove's decision to vote blue in a fiery social media post calling him a "stone cold loser" and a "RINO," or "Republican In Name Only," on social media,

Rove was, however, unapologetic about his declaration, asking those who labeled him a RINO, "Where were you when we were fighting and scrapping to build this Republican Party? Where were you?"

"Where are these sons of *******?" Rove said.

"They're sitting there listening to Tucker Carlson mouth off. Or they're tuning in to Steve Bannon," he continued. "They can't be bothered to walk the precincts, raise the money, do the work necessary. And they're mouthing me and talking to me, and telling me I'm a RINO? To hell with them."

He told the audience the threats against him "served as an incentive" to write his Wall Street Journal column, formally declaring his vote against French.

"I said, if some guy's gonna be hearing about me making a comment and threatening me, and threatening a bunch of legislators, what the hell? In for a penny, in for a pound," Rove said.

44 Days to Go Before American Voters Give Donald Dumb a Spanking

The MAGA ship is adrift and taking water, the captain is demented and drunk, and though he promises dry land soon, his cowardly Republican sailors are jumping ship to save their hides. After he dragged a reluctant GOP on his way up, he is now dragging them down. If they had any spine, they would have not have allowed him to take them for a ride. But only Trump asskissers are left in the Republican party after the likes of John McCain are gone. Even previously decent republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski still refuse to come down the fence.

All that the jackass captain of the sinking ship can tell his herd of morons is to "pretend" he's on the ballot. Which means he knows those running under his banner are poor candidates who are unqualified to win on their own merits. But if voters vote for an unknown jackass MAGA republican on the pretense that a known jackass like Trump is with him on the ballot, his plummeting approval will make sure these MAGA candidates can only pretend they won come November 4. 

The way Trump operates, I think he knows his grip on the GOP and on the country has only two more lame years to go. Assuming he's not going to rape the constitution again, send a mob to DC and attempt some sort of coup to win a third term, he is out for good two years from now. What he'll probably do during the next two years is continue to "pretend" he's a great president by stealing other presidents' achievements, changing street names and geographical names, and building ugly structures to his vacuous glory. In contrast, his desperation at contemplating his bitter end might turn him into an even angrier madman waging wars and committing atrocities with his dictator buddies and his Zionist handlers.

Bottom line, he doesn't really care. You can tell he's more aloof, not making campaign stops in support of his jackass candidates. Since that poorly attended "convention" earlier this month, Trump has only made one campaign stop in North Carolina. He's old, ill, tired and less enthusiastic. He's made a lot of money while in office and probably no longer gives a shit about the GOP or the country for that matter. He just wants to retire, play with his $400 million plane and hit the links before he croaks. 

Good riddance. A few years from now, I imagine immigration officers adding one more question to their current Kafkaesque archaic questions about moral turpitude and being a member of the Communist Party: "Are you now or have you ever been a Trump MAGA moron?" 

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Republicans jump ship as Trump's anchor weighs heavy on party
Zac Anderson and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
Sat, September 26, 2026 

WASHINGTON — Republican candidates facing increasingly dire prospects in the midterm election are starting to stiff-arm their unpopular standard-bearer, breaking with President Donald Trump as he threatens to drag down the party.

In Florida, Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for governor Byron Donalds wiped prominent mentions of the president from his website and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar is criticizing the administration's aggressive deportation push.

In two key Senate races, Republican candidates Ashley Hinson in Iowa and Mike Rogers in Michigan are calling for an end to the Iran war. And in historically Republican Kansas, Sen. Roger Marshall is raising concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in the state.

The growing GOP angst around running on Trump's record comes as polls show most voters disapprove of the president and many of his core policies, including the U.S. war in Iran, sweeping tariffs on imports, and his hardline immigration crackdown.

Republican candidates have fallen behind Democrats in several key races that will decide control of Congress. Trump's approval rating ‒ which sunk to a historic low of 32% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll this week ‒ is weighing on GOP candidates, who often are closely tied to the president and now face an electorate that takes a dim view of his performance.

"You've got to show that you're different," Republican pollster and Cygnal founder Brent Buchanan said of GOP candidates appealing to Trump voters who have soured on the president.

The Iran war and its economic fallout, particularly high gas prices, have put Republican congressional candidates in an especially difficult position as they navigate their allegiance to the president and voter dissatisfaction.

Trump has further complicated Republicans' midterm efforts by pushing controversial data centers that power artificial intelligence despite a nationwide backlash against the sprawling facilities, and angering ranchers in heavily Republican western states by working to expand imports of foreign beef to lower prices of the grocery staple.

Republican leaders have largely stood behind Trump as he pursed his aggressive second term agenda, offering little resistance in Congress or on the campaign trail. That wall of support is starting to crack amid signs that a potential blue wave is building, powered by opposition to Trump.

Yet GOP candidates could have a hard time distancing themselves from the president, who has been eager to make the election a referendum on his leadership, urging voters to "pretend" he's on the ballot and pledging to be front and center on the campaign trail.

"This is way too little, way too late," said David Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Akron, arguing Republicans were "all for" making the midterms a referendum on Trump before his unpopularity in polls became clear. "These Republican candidates and elected officials are superglued to Trump, whether they want to be or not."

Taking the stage at the first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas earlier this month, Trump sought to rally his party around him ahead of the election. "On Nov. 3, the great American majority is going to stand up and continue to make America great again," Trump said.

Trump promised voters dividend checks of $5,000 if Republicans retain control of Congress, a proposal that was met with immediate skepticism among core MAGA allies and accusations of bribery from Democrats. He had supporters raise their hands, pledge their allegiance to him and promise to vote.

The event – dubbed "Trumpapalooza" by the Republican National Committee chair - was meant to project party unity and boost GOP voter enthusiasm, but even as Trump spoke there were signs within the arena of his party's struggles.

Many seats were empty and some battleground candidates opted to skip the event.

Among them was Hinson, an Iowa Republican congresswoman who is trailing Democrat Josh Turek in Iowa's Senate race despite Trump carrying the state by double digits in 2024.

Hinson kept her distance in Dallas, attending a campaign fundraiser but not stepping foot on the convention stage where Trump gave primetime speeches both nights. She put more daylight between herself and the president this week when she called far an "immediate end" to the Iran war. She isn't the only GOP lawmaker speaking out on the war as Election Day nears.

Earlier this month, two other Iowa Republicans locked in tight races, Rep. Zach Nunn and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, backed a measure aimed at ending military operations in Iran.

Rogers, a former GOP congressman from Michigan and the state's Republican nominee for Senate, released an ad this week saying "the war with Iran needs to end, and end quickly." Sen. John Husted, R-Ohio, made similar comments, as did Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany, the state's GOP candidate for governor.

"The president has final say in regards to this, but I just believe that we should be exiting Iran, that it's time to move on . . . time to come home, take care of business here in America," Tiffany said.

Tiffany and Hinson both voted repeatedly in Congress against directing Trump to stop the war, and Rogers has previously supported the president's efforts in Iran. The spike in fuel prices caused by the conflict has hit midwestern farm states particularly hard, though, and candidates there have been leading the rising GOP chorus to end the conflict.

With diesel prices at a record high and farmers feeling the pinch, Hinson, Rogers, Meeks and Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan all called this week for an embargo on selling the fuel abroad. Sullivan also skipped the convention as he faces a tough reelection campaign.

Buchanan said Republican candidates are struggling to win over Trump voters who are unhappy with the president's performance. His polling shows 12% of those who cast a ballot for the president are now wavering on voting for a Republican congressional candidate.

"That's why you're seeing these candidates break with Trump," said Buchanan, adding: "They've got to show that independent streak in order to pull as many of those 12% of voters back to them."

There are some signs Trump is starting to lose his grip on the Republican electorate.

A majority of Republican voters, 56%, in a poll from the opinion research firm Echelon Insights conducted last week said they consider themselves to be primarily a supporter of the Republican Party rather than a supporter of Trump. That compares to 59% who said they were more a supporter of Trump than the party when he took office for a second term in January 2025.

Yet Trump remains popular with his loyal MAGA base, creating a tough balancing act for GOP candidates. Hinson and Rogers didn't call out Trump directly in their statements, which don't mention the president.

"Republican candidates are in an extremely difficult position," said Nathan Gonzales, who runs the nonpartisan election handicapping firm Inside Elections. "If they try to distinguish themselves from President Trump in an effort to appeal to independent voters, they risk angering or alienating Republican voters who they also need to win."

In response to some Republicans breaking from Trump, White House spokesman Davis Ingle said the president remains the "unequivocal leader" and best messenger for Republicans.

"The choice has never been more clear: doubling down on President Trump's winning, commonsense agenda or the Democrats' extreme liberal policies and obstruction," Ingle said.

Trump's approval rating has dropped amid the war ‒ which he said would last a few weeks and is now nearing the seven-month mark ‒ and high gas prices triggered by the conflict.

Just 39% of voters approve of the president's performance in the Real Clear Politics average of recent polls, down from 43% at the start of the war and 50% when he took office last year.

Democrats are widely favored to win control of the House of Representatives, and they're becoming increasingly bullish about their chances to take the Senate.

Democrats need a net gain of four seats to erase Republican 53-47 seat advantage take control of the Senate, a bar that seemed improbable a year ago. But the backlash to Trump has helped Democrats go on offense in red states, expanding the map of battleground contests to include Senate races in Alaska, Texas, Ohio and Iowa, all of which Trump carried by double digits. Republicans trail in all nine of the most closely contested Senate battlegrounds.

Steve Deace, a popular conservative radio show host from Iowa, in an X post this week relayed his alarm about Republican polling that show Iowa congressional districts Trump won in 2024 by 15 percentage points are now "within the margin of error" in the midterms. He said Republicans in districts Trump won by 10 percentage points are running "underwater."

"If the environment is this bad in my home state, where Trump has been the most popular political figure over the last decade, I can't imagine where it is everywhere else," Deace said, comparing the war in Iran to a "2020 Covid lockdown level of political albatross."

With Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff leading in Georgia, Republicans turned to Michigan as perhaps their best chance to flip a Democratic-held Senate seat after Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination. Trump and Republicans have worked to make El-Sayed ‒ who is aligned politically with Bernie Sanders and would be the first Muslim elected to the Senate ‒ the face of Democrats nationally.

But a poll this week from Suffolk University found El-Sayed leading Rogers 47%-40% among likely Michigan voters. In another troubling sign for the Republican nominee, 48% of voters surveyed said they were casting their ballot "to change the direction President Trump is leading the nation," while only 20% said they were voting to support Trump.

Even in Florida and Kansas, red states where the GOP seemed firmly in control at the start of the midterm cycle, there are signs that Republicans are increasingly uncomfortable being tied to the president.

Florida has trended strongly to the right since its days as the nation's largest swing state, but not to the degree that Republicans can take the state for granted, said Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida.

"Florida Republican candidates realize this and thus in some cases are beginning to downplay their association with Trump or in some cases even criticize some of his policies," Jewett said.

Donalds, the Republican candidate for governor in Florida, attracted attention this week after his campaign website was overhauled to downplay his Trump endorsement, which had been prominently featured but was relegated to an endorsements section. Most references to Trump were erased from the website. After the changes drew media coverage, Donalds said on social media that he was "proud" to be endorsed by Trump.

Trump won Florida by 13 percentage points in 2024, thanks in part to his strength with Hispanic voters, but the president's approval rating with Hispanics has plummeted amid backlash to his immigration policies.

Salazar, a three-term congresswoman from Miami, said in an ad released this month that Trump's deportation push had gone "too far" and Hispanic voters who helped him win the White House "feel betrayed." Salazar is locked in a tight race in a heavily-Hispanic district in the Miami area.

Marshall, who is running for reelection against Democrat Adam Hamilton, also questioned Trump's immigration enforcement efforts in a social media post this week.

Marshall said ICE "needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement." His comments came amid increased ICE operations in a state where one recent poll showed Hamilton ahead. Trump carried Kansas by 16 percentage points in the 2024 election.

Trump so far staying away from top battlegrounds in midterms

Trump has said he plans to launch a campaign travel blitz to battleground districts and states in the final weeks before the election to boost Republicans in the 35 races he said will decide control of the House and Senate.

Trump's only campaign stop since the midterm convention has been North Carolina, where polling suggests Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley's race against Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper could be heading out of reach for the GOP.

Five weeks from the election, Trump is spending Saturday, Sept. 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee ‒ a safe Republican state ‒ to attend the Tennessee-Texas college football game. He's also planning campaign stops next week in ruby-red Alabama and Oklahoma, both far from ground zero of the midterms.

Politico reported that the president will campaign in Alaska, Iowa, Texas and Florida ahead of the election as he seeks to bolster red-state GOP candidates.

Cohen said many voters in swing states have "drawn a direct line" between high gas prices, their anxieties about the economy and Trump's decision to wage war on Iran, predicting it's likely to result in major Democratic gains in the midterms.

"I think we're looking at a blue tsunami," Cohen said. "I think 'wave' really doesn't capture the sentiment out there in the heartland. People are angry. And they understand that there's one person to blame."
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Donald Trump’s approval rating flips with white voters in red states
Sam Stevenson
Sat, September 26, 2026 

President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped among white voters in six states he carried in 2024, including a 19-point drop in Kentucky, according to Civiqs polling.

White voters, particularly those without college degrees, have formed a central part of Trump's electoral coalition. A large drop in approval among this voting bloc could be trouble for Republican candidates in key elections, particularly in Alaska, Ohio, and Texas.

Trump won white voters nationally 57 percent to 42 percent in 2024, including white voters without college degrees 66 percent to 32 percent, according to NBC News national exit polling.

The latest polls show approval ratings among white voters have dropped, putting Trump underwater in six states where he had net approval ratings of 14 points or more at the start of his term.

Kentucky recorded the largest movement, a 32-point shift in net approval from positive 29 to negative 3.

Texas followed with a 30-point swing, while Missouri moved 26 points.

Alaska's rating changed by 22 points, compared with 21 points in Ohio and 19 points in Arizona.

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for further comment on Friday morning.

By the Numbers

When Trump took office for his second term on January 20, 2025, 62 percent of white registered voters in Kentucky approved of Trump's performance and 33 percent disapproved, according to Civiqs polling, for a net rating of plus 29 points for the president.

By September 24, 2026, approval had fallen to 43 percent, while disapproval stood at 46 percent, a massive 32-point plunge in net approval from the voting bloc.

Texas also began from a commanding position.

Trump opened his term with 62 percent approval and 35 percent disapproval among white voters, a net 27-point approval.

The latest reading placed him at 44 percent approval and 47 percent disapproval, putting him underwater in the Lone Star State, which features a key Senate race for Republicans hoping to keep the majority in the upper chamber.

Missouri shifted from 61 percent approval and 36 percent disapproval to 46 percent and 47 percent, respectively, marking a 25 point swing in net approval.

Ohio, Alaska—both of which also feature key Senate races—and Arizona tell similar stories among white voters.

Ohio had a net approval drop of 25 points, Alaska 22 points and Arizona 19 points.

The Battlegrounds

The net approval drop among white voters is particularly notable in Alaska, Ohio and Texas. All three states feature key Senate races Republicans once thought were secure after Trump won each state easily in 2024.

As Trump's approval ratings have fallen, all three states have become Democratic targets as they hope to flip control of the Senate and House in November's midterms.

Recent polling in Alaska shows former Democratic Representative Mary Peltola leading Republican Senator Dan Sullivan has emerged as an important Senate battleground, with a September AARP survey finding Trump at 45 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval among likely voters.

Trump won the state by 13 points in 2024.

In Texas, Democratic hopeful James Talarico is leading in a number of polls over Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Trump won the Lone Star State by 13 points in 2024.

And in Ohio, polls show a close race between former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and incumbent Republican Jon Husted.

Trump won the state by 11 points in 2024.

The figures come from Civiqs' continuing online tracker of 132,219 responses taken between January 20, 2025, and September 24, 2026, so they measure changing opinion rather than polling on specific contests.

Because white-voter figures in an individual state are subgroup estimates rather than stand-alone statewide polls, small differences should not be treated as precise forecasts.

The Economy Adds To Trump's Midterm Risk

Recent national polling also provides wider context.

A CBS News/YouGov survey conducted from September 8 to September 11 found that 45 percent of likely voters viewed their congressional choice as opposition to Trump, versus 28 percent who saw it as support for him. The poll surveyed 2,460 adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

Economic judgments could also play a role in voter bloc's shifting approval. In the CBS/YouGov survey, Trump received 34 percent approval for his handling of the economy and 27 percent on inflation.

Eighty-seven percent of likely voters called the economy very important to their congressional choice, while 82 percent said the same about inflation.

What The White House Says

White House spokesman Davis Ingle previously told Newsweek that the "ultimate poll" was the 2024 election, arguing that nearly 80 million Americans backed Trump's agenda.

Ingle said the administration had made "historic progress" and maintained that the president was working to create jobs, cool inflation and improve housing affordability, with further effects expected as his policies continued to take hold.

Newsweek's reporters and editors used Martyn, our AI assistant, to help produce this story. Learn more about Martyn here. Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Ben Kelly and Geoffrey Rowland.