Friday, November 06, 2026

JD did that long tweet saying Republicans suffered over the Iran war, it was the Iran war, only the Iran war, no other problems. Democracy Now! notes otherwise. And use the "c word."

 

Corruption Watchdog: Voters "Have Eyes" & Saw Trump "Enriching Himself" at Their Expense

 And the Trump family, him and his offspring, were not alone. The billionaires getting their tax and business breaks shift the burden of financing the government on the little guys, who see it as that immediately but felt powerless to fight it. Candidates ran saying they had fight in them. Now the problem will be the Dem establishment who were in bed with the Repubs in serving the donor rich, and will want to continue business as usual. That is why Schumer has to go. That is what JD hoped to sweep under the carpet. Or choose a parallel cliche.

The establishment Dems, voicing but not doing will be the big stumbling block progressives will face.

It is unclear if there will be an answer since there are more establishment types than progressives, so numbers stand against good government actually taking root.

Watch the video.

And note, JD is trying to hide the truth under a hat. And playing the money in politics game is a Schumer thing also. 

UPDATE: Make it clear. Schumer is into the money to get candidates elected. Not like Trump and offspring, in it to enrich themselves, first, the campaigning wins second. But Schumer is a bit too indiscriminate about whose money he takes and what's expected in return. It has to be made squeaky clean or it remains a failed system overly favorable to the wealthy and their class warfare against the rest. 

And then there is the Israel bias, with a blind eye to how the Israelis conduct themselves. That cannot be accepted. 

 

 

It is widely reported, Stephen Miller will from now on be Trump's Chief of Staff. Vomit worthy individual gets promotion is an alternate phrasing

 It is on X. Wiles out. Stephen Miller to be Trump's Chief of Staff. JD is supportive.

 https://x.com/JDVance/status/2118789426813821141

 

Don't just say it. Do it. Watch out for the door knob.

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/minnesota-gop-senate-candidate-denied-171314543.html

"A CNN KFile review found that, in the years before launching her Senate campaign, in tweets and on her podcast, Tafoya repeatedly said she planned to leave Minnesota," the network reported. "At times she described Minnesota in sharply negative terms because of its politics, while often identifying herself as a part-time Floridian and praising that state as a model of conservative governance.

"In just the past three years," the report continued, "Tafoya told followers at least four separate times that she planned to leave the state."

Better without her. Sooner the better. The DC fat job exit door is closed. What's holding things up?

 

 

 

This is a major hypothetical thought experiment - might Iran - if giving up nuclear ambitions and cooling state religion emphasis by getting more secular people into power - prove a better regional hegemon than Israel has been? Keeping a stable self-interested world oil economy perspective at the Strait of Hormuz and tempering Gulf Arab chutzpah rather than allying in tricky ways with it?

 The headline poses the question of long term best world interests. It is an open thread in that posing the question says Crabgrass is not viewing that outcome as off the table, but with Crabgrass not expressing a biased view one way or the other. The Gulf Arabs do need checks and balances. They reportedly get into intrigues. As with Kushner during Trump 45. They throw the weight of their wealth around a lot. 

Less might be more.

It need not be as with the Shah as a U.S.A. known puppet. That failed big time. But with their own chosen people running their show, their way, with a worldview of economic needs of other nations for stability and fair pricing. The Persians are not a dumb or weak people. Trump's war has shown that. 

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With elections being held many places settling government balances after the voting, might this be a better time to expand weighing new viewpoints, rather than any time else? 

Bibi time is or might be on the wane. AIPAC is showing itself to not be of much use or value to rank and file American regular people. It specializes wrongly. Or has so specialized. It needs tooth pulling. Reform by any gentler way being unlikely to work.

 


 

Purge the surrogate appears to be a Republican ploy to get an impeachment but not a Senate removal vote, thus keeping the status quo while trying to redirect blame to the surrogate and not Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/04/politics/pete-hegseth-impeachment-trump 

It is Trump's Iran war and Hegseth had nothing to do with the Trump tariff mess. On that tariff score, impeachment of Scott Bessent would matter more than Hegseth.

BOTTOM LINE: It is all Trump's fuck-ups, too numerous to count, but the shooting war and tariff war are key. Surrogates are syncophants, but it is Trump, Trump, Trump, and nobody else important enough to shift blame. Trump is the top, middle and bottom of the blue wave. All else is posturing.

If the Republicans want a sacrificial animal, only Trump satisfies the bill. Stow the rest. Stow removal arguments that some underling purge will satisfy needs.

UPDATE: Can you say crypto corruption? Jarad and the Trump 45 Gulf Arab slush funds? There is not even a cabinet level person to purge there. And Stephen Miller behind ICE excesses, is not cabinet level.

It all comes down to Trump. Him. His family. Corruption was a major election factor, and the Hegseth jump-on is not about corruption. Corruption was separate from Hegseth's incompetence and ill directed ideas. I.e., demonizing/scapegoating Petey is only a part of the need to say the loss was all Trump, primarily Trump, and Hegseth under the bus is a "So what?" 

 

 

AJ posts, "Israel’s President Herzog to name candidate to form government on Sunday - Announcement comes after majority of Israeli lawmakers endorse Eisenkot over Netanyahu."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/6/israels-herzog-to-name-a-candidate-to-form-government-on-sunday 

The item is direct and clear, but one excerpt, mid item, and later:

Eisenkot, like Netanyahu, has ruled out forming a government with the Arab-led parties. Both of those parties nonetheless recommended him, giving him the support of a comfortable majority of lawmakers.

“We want to do things that we did not do in the past in order to remove this criminal government,” Ahmad Tibi, a senior member of the Joint List, which represents an alliance of Arab parties, told The Associated Press news agency.

[...] Once nominated by Herzog, the candidate will have 28 days to try to forge a government, with a possible 14-day extension.

[...] Israel’s Central Election Committee said on ‌Wednesday that the election’s integrity had not been compromised. The head of the committee, Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg, has called on Israel’s elected officials to protect public trust rather than shake it.

“This is a real danger. One of the foundations of democracy is the peaceful transfer of power,” Sohlberg ‌told ‌Herzog at his residence on Wednesday. High voter turnout, including among the Arab minority, was a blessing, he said.

Netanyahu’s allies on the far-right, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, have called for the immediate arrest and interrogation of Arab party leaders. 

Bibi is not in a position of strength, although neither he nor Eisenkot appear to be two-state supporters.

That is a Crabgrass inference, not part of the article's reporting. It is how Israel is, which says the U.S. needs to set policies in its own interest. With sole focus there. The conflict with Hezbollah continues. 

UPDATE: 

‘Like a bolt from the blue’: Israel’s president shocked by Trump announcing end of aid

 

 

An exercise in "Be careful what you ask for, depending upon who you are." Voters were asked, and voters did.

 

not that great an idea, other than for the blue wave -- it goes to show

 A reckoning is due.