SILO RED, SILO BLUE: From Harvard Law School to Silo Red!

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025

What makes Kayleigh run? In translation, Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Lapdog, ends in the following way:

And it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and splendid life would begin; and it was clear to both of them that they had still a long, long road before them, and that the most complicated and difficult part of it was only just beginning.

As written, and in translation, that's how the story ends.

Nabokov described Lady with Lapdog as "one of the greatest stories ever written." He gave six reasons why it was great, the sixth of which was this: "the story does not really end."

That was a story about a love which was forbidden under the prevailing rules of a given age. It was also a story about a man who finally discovers his soul, to his surprise, perhaps a bit later in life.

"The most difficult part was only beginning?" That's the way matters stand in Gaza, or at least so many specialists say. We'll link you to excerpts from a pair of opinion columns at the New York Times:

Bret Stephens
Why Israel Won the War
Israelis rallied and won—at least inasmuch as a lasting victory is ever possible in the Middle East...The current cease-fire brings a set of difficult questions about what comes next—for Israelis and Palestinians and everyone else invested in their future. 

Thomas Friedman
Mr. Trump, on the Middle East, Please Move Fast and Break Things
I realize it is early, but right now I don’t even see the baby steps to the next phase. I see no U.N. resolution on the table creating the Arab/international peacekeeping force to oversee Hamas’s disarmament and security in Gaza until a proper Palestinian security force can be created. I see no money on the table for the billions that will be needed for reconstruction, and I have no idea who is supposed to appoint and manage the cabinet of Palestinian technocrats who are supposed to run Gaza instead of Hamas, which is already using its Interior Ministry and police forces to reassert control in Gaza.

Stephens and Friedman are different people, coming at this from different perspectives. But they're saying a somewhat similar thing about what may lie ahead.

Similarly, here's a news analysis piece by the Times' Halbfinger and Rasgon. Also, a Washington Post opinion piece by Max Boot:

David Halbfinger, Adam Rasgon
Now Comes the Hard Part for the Gaza Cease-Fire Plan
Getting Israel’s hostages released from Gaza and stopping the war may have taken two years and the direct efforts of the American president and the leaders of several Arab and Muslim nations. But that was almost certainly the easy part.

Getting Hamas to give up its weapons, and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip—key preconditions for Israel to pull out of Gaza fully, as both President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday—could prove a lot harder.

Max Boot
Why the Gaza ceasefire won’t lead to lasting peace
The war’s end presents an opportunity...to resurrect the long-dormant two-state solution. But while the Trump peace plan slightly opens the door to Palestinian statehood—it speaks of creating conditions “for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood”—both Israel and Hamas appear intent on slamming that door shut.

The first precondition for making progress toward lasting peace would be for Hamas to disarm—point 13 of Trump’s 20-point peace plan—leading to the “demilitarization of Gaza.” Far from giving up its weapons, however, Hamas has reemerged to assert control over the parts of the Gaza Strip that are no longer under Israeli occupation.

Friend, do those observers all seem to hail from some perch inside the deep state? We give you the current perspective from the Wall Street Journal:

Ma'Ayeh et al.
After Israeli Withdrawal, Hamas Launches Violent Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza
As Israeli troops pulled back last week to facilitate a deal that freed the living hostages still held in Gaza, Hamas surged security forces in behind them—a public assertion of authority intended to make clear the group remains the enclave’s governing power.

The most difficult part is just beginning—unless you're taking you cues from the clown show staged last night in the Fox News Channel. On the primetime show in question, the status of events in Isreal and Gaza were pseudo-assessed by this grab bag of usual suspects:

Gutfeld!: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Erin Maguire: Republican strategist
Joe DeVito: comedian

A different discussion emerged from this group, in which everyone agreed with the host of the show.

How dumb can these corporate messengers get? The bloated blowhard closed the short pseudo-discussion. This is why such analyses are being written, the fatuous fellow now said:

TYRUS (10/14/25): I think it's jealousy.

GUTFELD: Yeah.

TYRUS: ...We've heard amazing depictions of how this all went down. I think my favorite one was [adopts mocking voice], "Oh, now they think it's peace because Gaza's nothing but rubble?"

 Whose fault was that? Hamas!

This was a highly simplistic pseudo-discussion, ordered up by the CEO who's known as "Sends in The Clowns."

Meanwhile, can termagants have rabbit ears? As best we can tell, the host hasn't compared the women of The View to horses or cattle or even to "livestock" this week. Last night, though, his opening brief patter of jokes included this observation:

GUTFELD: On today's show, Joy Behar said, quote, "Republicans are afraid of us."

Come on! It's not like being a stupid bitch is contagious!

AUDIENCE: [Laughter]

GUTFELD: It was actually worse—the original draft. I'm not kidding.

Yes, that's what he said. That's what he said in Silo Red, as Silo Blue loudly snored.

(The Fox News feminist sat there and took it. On Monday evening's show, she said that Candidate Spanberger (D-Va.) looks like the kind of woman who pees standing up, if you get what that means.)

This is the type of imitation of life the CEO orders. Millions of people who watch this program believe they're watching real discussions of actual news events.

As we noted at the end of last week, the squalor of this squalid TV show is slowly spreading down into The Five. This brings us back to Kayleigh McEnany who giggled and played, at the end of last week, as she pretended that she was looking at videotape of a famous person's colonoscopy.

"It looks like the Holland Tunnel in there," she said, speaking on the nation's most-watched "cable news" program.

Full disclosure:

We've been using language during this report which isn't traditional journalistic language. Over here in Blue America, our journalists lack an established language for talking about sheer stupidity performed by unqualified players.

We ourselves aren't especially qualified to discuss the state of play in Gaza. That's why we would link you to people who are.

On the imitation of life called the Fox News Channel, such distinctions are being broken down, discarded. At some point, McEnany decided that she would enlist for a role in the production of this powerful corporate product.

As we began to sketch last Friday, McEnany can't be portrayed as dumb. Her academic record seems to rule that out. Here's what the good book tells us:

Kayleigh McEnany

Kayleigh Michelle McEnany (born April 18, 1988) is an American political commentator, media personality, and former political spokesperson who served as the 33rd White House press secretary during the first Trump administration from 2020 to 2021.

Early in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, she was a critic of Donald Trump but over time became one of his staunchest defenders.

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McEnany was born and raised in Tampa, Florida...McEnany attended the Academy of the Holy Names, a private Catholic preparatory school in Tampa. After graduating, she majored in international politics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., and she studied abroad at St Edmund Hall, Oxford...

McEnany attended the University of Miami School of Law for her first (1L) year before transferring to Harvard Law School. At the Miami School of Law, McEnany received the Bruce J. Winick Award for Excellence, a scholarship awarded to students in the top 1% of their class. She graduated from Harvard in 2016.

Following her stint at Oxford, she rocked the world as a first law student, then got shipped to the Harvard Law School. Along the way, she flipped on Trump. Since then, she has signed on for a significant role inside Silo Red at the Fox News Channel.

She signed on to play a role in that channel's endless array of silly pseudo-discussions. Last week, that had her saying, on The Five, that the non-existent videotape of somebody's colon looked like the Holland Tunnel.

It's time to tear these silos down, but how do people get into these silos? Why would this high-IQ player behave in these ways?

For the record, Gutfeld himself got flipped RE Trump. In his case, it seems that he may have flipped on the advice of the CEO. But what makes these transitions occur? When we return tomorrow, let's take a quick look at the record.

Today, the hard part is just beginning for people who want to see real peace in the theater at hand. Unless you watch the Fox News Channel, in which case the president has accomplished his latest peace deal and only the jealous say different.

Over here inside Silo Blue, this is all completely OK. We Blues lack an established language for discussing corporate product of this type—for discussing this type of dimwitted assault on the very possibility of the American project.

Tomorrow: What made the two stars flip?


58 comments:


  1. "Over here inside Silo Blue, this is all completely OK."

    Yeah, completely OK. Always. Every sound heard from inside your BlueAnon "silo" is so dumb it hurts. Oh well.

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  2. One pundit’s opinion
    “ Perhaps Hamas leaders don’t have the internet and are completely unaware of how Israel and President Trump have said this is going to play out if they run afoul of the plan. Israel is going to systematically destroy what remains of the organization, and President Trump has promised the full blessing of the United States in its efforts to do so.”

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    1. Donald the Dove promised that?
      Why is he so anti-war?

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    2. Maybe Hamas doesn't have phones either and maybe they communicate with each other using hand signals, or even smoke signals over campfires using blankets. The destruction of Hamas is most likely not on Trump's agenda given that he has so many fishing boats to destroy in the Caribbean.

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  3. The point of the ending of Lady with a lapdog is that the man who entertains himself idly by seducing married women falls in love with a married woman who he cannot have because her husband is too powerful to divorce and too dangerous to anger, so he cannot have the woman he finally loves. There is no resolution that results in them being together, which is his comeuppance for his previous bad treatment of women.

    Revealing that Somerby doesn't understand what has happened at the end of the story and has to quote Nabokov about what makes the story great. Again, it sounds like he didn't read it. He is like a school kid who goes and quotes the last paragraph then cites someone else's opinion about what it means, without ever reading or caring about the story, which is about mistreatment of women.

    Nabokov is, of course, a great writer. There is some irony though in quoting the author of a book about Humbert Humbert who lusts after a preteen girl on the topic of another story about men being unable to fulfill their dreams with off-limits women. Or did Somerby think no one would notice? Is he chuckling over this? Does he think he is being sly, hidden in his intentions, when he couldn't be more obvious?

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    1. "(Somerby) has to quote Nabokov about what makes the story great."

      Why do you say he HAS to? Does everyone who quotes Nabokov on a literary matter do it because they have to?

      Immediately following the Nabokov quote is a paragraph which appears to be Somerby's reasonable-sounding take on the story:

      "That was a story about a love which was forbidden under the prevailing rules of a given age. It was also a story about a man who finally discovers his soul, to his surprise, perhaps a bit later in life."

      You might have noticed this paragraph if you weren't in such a rush to produce your incoherent theory that Somerby quoted Nabokov--not because of Nabokov's expertise in Russian literature--but for some other pseudo-ironic reason I can't quite make out but which seems to envision Somerby chuckling and twirling his mustache like a cartoon villain.

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    2. He HAS to because he (1) probably didn't read the story again but came across Nabokov's opinion somewhere, and (2) isn't willing to give his own opinions, either because he has none or he doesn't want to expose his ideas to public view. Somerby twists himself into linguistic pretzel shapes to avoid making definitive statements. He has talked about that short story many times over the years and never mentioned the ending of the story or what it might mean for the characters in the story, never talked about what the author intended as the meaning.

      There is no indication the man "discovers his soul" as Somerby claims. He meets a woman who he wants to leave her husband (unlike the others he has seduced and then dropped) but she cannot because of the husband's threat to the rake. He finds out what it is like to want someone you cannot have, just as he mistreated the string of women he seduced. Tables were turned on him. There is no rueful awakening as Somerby claims but the story ends with the lovers confronting circumstances they wish to change but don't yet know how to deal with. Open ended. No Hollywood resolution as Somerby proposes. No "a bit later in life". And if the love was forbidden as Somerby claims, how was the man able to commit a series of seductions of married women in the first part of the story? What is forbidden is the woman leaving her husband, not because of prevailing rules (which we already being ignored by the rake) but because her husband would punish them both, being a powerful figure. Read the story yourself.

      Nabokov was the author of the book Lolita. It is about a man who boards with a family who has a preteen daughter. He falls hopelessly in love with her but can do nothing to act on his feelings without being evicted, no longer seeing her again and being despised by her family and the community. He is tormented by his attraction and the conflict between wishing to act but being unable to do so. The book was highly praised for the writing, but controversial for the sympathetic portrayal of the pedophile. The main similarity is the wanting what one cannot have in both stories. It makes sense that Nabokov might be asked about the Lady With Lapdog story. The unexplained part is why Somerby cares so much about this particular story which he interpets in his own idiosyncratic manner, applying it to all sorts of situations where it doesn't fit. Often he quotes it to discuss the widespread gossip at the beginning when the lady first arrives at a resort.

      Somerby tends to defend cads (Roy Moore, Brock Turner, Trump). His sly references to the author of a book sympathetic to pedophiles who praises a story about a rake who serially seduces married women seems right in character for Somerby, but he disguises what the book and story are about. I don't know Somerby but his repetition of this dynamic in various contexts suggests he does some private chuckling and mustache twirling. He certainly likes to hide behind plausibly deniable implications.

      I get it that you don't do implication or subtlety and you ignore context in favor of literal meanings. That doesn't mean there isn't more going on. If you ever meet Somerby, you can ask him about this stuff. He is the only one who knows what he means, but anyone with any training in parsing literature and its possible meanings (who went to college and took English classes for example) knows that the surface is not all that exists and not all that was intended by the author -- and that includes Somerby. Literary criticism deals with possibilities not certainties, unless the author has somewhere written about what he or she meant or intended in their own work.

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    3. Author intention extends to subconscious meanings that may not have been deliberately intended but that emerged from the author's psyche as part of the creative process. Psychiatrists sometimes call this "leakage" since the author may be unaware of the meanings emerging from his or her choices. People who choose not to make subconscious material explicit often deny what is obvious to others. It really doesn't matter whether they do or don't, as long as the story itself works on its own for readers.

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    4. It is hard to believe that Somerby doesn't know who Nabokov was, but remotely possible. Harvard is supposed to produce grads who know why famous people are famous. Somerby giggles about his own games and jokes often.

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    5. Oh shit, 12:25. Slabby has been triggered, letting us all know why she hates Somerby's blog, even while admitting this:

      "He is the only one who knows what he means..."

      And then:
      "Literary criticism deals with possibilities not certainties, unless the author has somewhere written about what he or she meant or intended in their own work."

      Both sentences reveal the Slabby boner that Slabby always exposes, which is that this website advertises it's mission right in the subtitle, which she has been, thus far, unable to see.

      Leroy

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    6. "The main similarity is the wanting what one cannot have in both stories" (Lolita and the Lady With a Dog).

      Awfully misleading statement since in Lolita, while there is an initial period of frustration, Humbert Humbert eventually runs away with/kidnaps Lolita and has carnal knowledge of her as they hightail it across the American west.

      Kind of an important, theory-destroying detail to leave out.

      And if you think Lolita is a book "sympathetic to pedophiles", you know nothing about literature.

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    7. A+ for animosity, D- for reasoning.

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    8. Twelve year old girls are very beautiful.

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    9. Twelve year old girls are children.

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  4. "As we began to sketch last Friday, McEnany can't be portrayed as dumb."

    Why would someone's first impulse be to portray her as dumb -- unless proven otherwise? Because she is blonde? Because she is female?

    Whose knee-jerk reaction is to portray a woman as dumb, only to be frustrated when he finds out she went to school? Who reacts like that to women? Assholes like Somerby. The rest of us might assume she is dumb because she says or does something dumb, regardless of her looks or her college attendance or her job or friends in high places. Dumb is as dumb does, for most of us. But Somerby describes a different process, where a blonde woman is assumed to be dumb based on her looks but then has to be ruled not-dumb because she went to a good school.

    Along the way, Somerby says McEnany "flipped on" Trump, as Gutfeld did. When someone flips on another person, it means they turn against them, are no longer on their team. To my knowledge, both McEnany and Gutfeld are Trump supporters, right wingers, who praise Trump and have not become never-Trumpers, so what does Somerby mean? Did he mean to say that they "flipped out" on Trump, joining Trump's following, which means the opposite of abandoning him?

    What is wrong with Somerby? (Don't bother answering -- we know.) We can see for ourselves what McEnany and Gutfeld say, but this is an odd construction that Somerby is using when he describes them discovering and becoming enthusiastic about Trump.

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    1. Good question, @12:15. I would guess that by "flipped", Bob means "became so supportive of Trump as to become irrational" Like "flipped one's wig."

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    2. Earth to above commenters: use of the word "flipped" is not ambiguous, It means these individual were to some degree opposed to Trump and later jumped headfirst onto the Trump bandwagon. (Duh). It's a common usage. It doesn't means flipping one's wig.
      As to anon 12:15's ardent defense of MAGA, Kaleigh McEnany -this is solid proof that this anon voted for Trump and is one of his big fans.

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    3. If that were true, you would say that they flipped on whatever they believed before discovering Trump, not Trump. The never-Trumpers have flipped on Trump. I am @12:15 and I defended McEnany because I dislike the stereotype about blonde women being dumb. But you know that.

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    4. "Why would someone's first impulse be to portray her as dumb -- unless proven otherwise? Because she is blonde? Because she is female?"

      As is perfectly obvious to any but the most inattentive reader, Somerby says this after having pointed out that McEnany "giggled and played, at the end of last week, as she pretended that she was looking at videotape of a famous person's colonoscopy."

      Somerby is saying that, despite the stupid things she says and does on Fox News, she's actually smart.

      Somerby wasn't saying anything about women or blondes that you so lazily want to ascribe to him.

      It's so fun refuting you because it takes a little effort but not very much.

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    5. By saying she flipped he’s implying she’s a dolphin.

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    6. @3:10 Your example of McEnany giggling and playing, according to Somerby, is another example of the stereotype about blonde women. It doesn't absolve Somerby. It further illustrates his application of the stereotype to McEnany, which he then says she doesn't fit. When Colbert laughs and plays during his monolog, does anyone think he is stupid, to the point of saying, despite this Colbert is smart?

      You have to assume someone is dumb before you can contradict that impression and say she is actually smart. Where would the idea that she is dumb come from, if not from stereotypes about women? That "giggled and played" is how sexist men think about women. When men do it, they are laughing. Why is there a special word for it when women laugh? Why would anyone think that only dumb women laugh and play?

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    7. men = chuckle, women = giggle

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  5. "The next step is the hard part." But, what is "The next step"?
    I'd say it's getting the Gaza barbarians to live like civilized people. This would be a remarkable achievements. In all the past Middle East conflicts, the fighting eventually ceased but those Gazans never stopped being inhuman.

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    1. Quaker in a BasementOctober 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM

      "...those Gazans never stopped being inhuman."

      Inhuman, David? That's just stunning.

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    2. The banality of evil. David is a poster child for the intellectual and moral rot.

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    3. Well, many consider Zionism being a form of Nazism. So a Zionist calling a sub-ethnic group inhuman is par for the course.

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    4. Gaza barbarians. It is so much easier for an Israeli sniper to take out a starving 14 yo barbarian in a food line. DiC is protoplasmic garbage a this point, an incredibly nasty piece of work. Dehumanizing children makes him feel good.

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    5. Israel, backed by the USA, is a barbaric power.

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    6. Trump wants to build luxury condos along the Gaza coast. That's what this "peace" plan is about.

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  6. This is why ICE agents wear masks
    There is credible intelligence that members of Mexican drug cartels have offered a "tiered" bounty system for hits against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers,

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    1. No, that is why members of cartels wear masks.

      This is like people wearing masks when shopping or going to the movies so they won't become victims of muggers. If cartels want to collect such a bounty, all they need to do is go to ICE buildings and wait for them to come out. If they are wearing masks, they are more easily identified as ICE or CBP agents, not less identifiable. There is no need to see their faces because those guys are obviously ICE when they are wearing their own masks and riding in their black SUVs without license plates.

      This has to be the goofiest piece of disinformation the right has come up with. Do right wingers believe nonsense like this? Do they think the word "tiered" makes this idiocy sound more real? Taller ICE agents are worth more than shorter ones, I suppose.

      Don't you feel silly, David, typing stuff like this?

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    2. Quaker in a BasementOctober 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM

      "Credible intelligence," but not intelligence that will be shared because, you know, sources and methods and whatnot.

      Where's "I Check My Own Facts" David? Where'd that guy go?

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    3. Quaker in a BasementOctober 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM

      The original source for the claim David quotes is a press release from DHS.

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    4. Nonsense, as usual. That credible intelligence is a work of fiction. It doesn't pass the basic smell test. I don't know addled one has to be to believe this shit.

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    5. Only as far as the Daily Caller newsletter bullet points.

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    6. This coming from DHS is scary because it sets up a situation where ICE and CBP can shoot anyone and call it self-defense because of the bounty.

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    7. My grandchild has credible evidence that Santa ate those cookies by the fireplace.

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    8. Dickhead is a fucking disruptive troll. He is here for no good purpose. Ignore the fucking racist fascist bastard.

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    9. David in Cal is no more a racist fascist bastard than any other standard-issue Right-wing piece of shit.

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    10. Why would the Mexican drug cartel have any interest in killing ICE agents. What possible reasons would they have? This is utter nonsense and one should be embarrassed to even consider it seriously.

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    11. The right is trying very hard to tie immigrants with drug gangs because then they can claim the US is being invaded, Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act and become a full-fledged dictator. There is no evidence justifying this, but it is part of a plan for turning America into an autocracy, destroying our democracy and the protections of our Constitution.

      Those fishing boats that Trump claims are drug boats are part of this plan to portray innocuous things as dangers, Venezuelan drug cartels crossing international waters to invade the USA. They aren't catching real drug gang members so they are lying about those they arrest, and arresting anyone who fits the profile of someone from Venezuela or Mexico (brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking people).

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    12. I am concerned because ICE will not hire women as ICE agents. Here is a well-paying, prestigious job that Kristi Noem has proven can be done by women, and yet they are only hiring men. Where is DEI when you need it? I can kill puppies with the best of them, if given a chance!

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  7. "“the administration, the commissioner, the chief of police of Los Angeles said, ‘if they didn’t go in we would have lost our city.’ now they already lost twenty-five thousand houses to fire because they wouldn’t let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they should have done. I tell you, you better do it. but they didn’t do it, and we had uh, twenty-five thousand homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. it would have been a different kind of a thing if they did what they were supposed to do. we had to break in. we broke in and had the water come down. the actually pro— they said ‘for the environment,’ great, they lost twenty-five thousand houses. it’s incredible.”

    This was part of Trump's eulogy for Charlie Kirk at last night's award ceremony. Notice how Trump's proposed solution to the CA fires has morphed into something that he actually ordered done, something that happened. We in CA know it didn't occur, because there is no such thing as a handle you turn to make Pacific Northwest water flow into CA, much less one that is being barricaded so that Republicans cannot turn it without breaking down a door.

    This is demented fantasy spoken at an inappropriate occasion where Trump either forgot where he was and what was going on, or didn't care because it was another chance to tell gradiose stories about himself, or both. This is not normal. When are people going to admit that Trump has dementia? This story doesn't make any sense and it certainly did not happen.

    And he makes up his own facts again too. Official sources report 12,000 to 15,000 structures burned (businesses and garages and other buildings burned in addition to homes). Trump inflates this to 25,000 because facts don't matter to him and one number is as good as another, the higher the better, since he is trying to make LA look bad again. As a side note, people who have applied for FEMA aid after the fires have received nothing from the federal govt to date. I think that alone should be an impeachable offense.

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  8. Maybe if Trump murders enough Venezuelan fishermen he'll finally get that Nobel Peace prize.

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    1. The woman who did win it, who is from Venezuela, offered her prize to Trump to make him stop, but he just destroyed another boat yesterday. Can't someone teach him how to play video games instead?

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    2. The woman who won the prize is a Venezuelan magat. Trump should be proud of her.

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  9. Quaker in a BasementOctober 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM

    Back in May, the Trump administration canceled a $20M flood prevention grant for the Alaskan village of Kipnuk, saying it was "wasteful DEI spending."

    You'll never guess what happened this past weekend.

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    1. very stable genius at work

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    2. Yes, and if they did burn $20M on wasteful DEI spending, everything would've been completely different.

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    3. You could offer $20M to the first person who identifies the Republican voter who isn’t a bigot, and save yourself $20M.

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    4. @2:16, the grant was for flood prevention. If it had gone forward, it would have prevented some of the damage done by recent flooding. That is not wasted money.

      Remember those girls in Texas at the religious camp, who were washed away and died in their beds by flooding that no one warned the camp about, because they had cut the job of the guy who was supposed to warning people of such events. What at waste saving those girls would have been, amirite?

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  10. David in Cal,
    Which hoax is your favorite?
    The Holocaust, Climate Change, or the Republican voter who isn’t a bigot?

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  11. Quaker in a BasementOctober 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM

    War-ravaged Portland is now safe from Antifa clarinetists:

    "A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility, which has recently become a site of daily clashes between federal agents and demonstrators.

    "Oriana Korol, 38, was playing “Ghostbusters” with her group — the Unpresidented Brass Band — during a massive protest outside the ICE facility in Oregon’s largest city Sunday evening when federal agents arrested her, her loved ones said. She has since been taken to a jail in Washington as her husband and bandmates demand answers about her arrest."

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  13. "Over here inside Silo Blue, this is all completely OK."

    Silo Blue (aka Blue America, we blues, blue voters) is like Antifa. If anything, it is an ideology, not a group of people with membership cards and insignia on their uniforms.

    To the extent that I know members of Silo Blue (despite the loose affiliation among us), most do not consider Gutfeld OK. We don't want our news to be manufactured by corporate interests and we aren't in favor of anything Trump or the right is saying and doing, in Gaza or anywhere else. We have strong concerns about a lot of stuff that Somerby doesn't acknowledge.

    I don't speak for Silo Blue or anyone else, not even Democrats or members of the local Democratic Club in my community. Somerby tries to blame and speak for his invention, Silo Blue, which to my knowledge isn't a thing. In that way, he gets to make generalizations but none of us has standing to contest what he says. That's a fool's game.

    I don't like Somerby. I don't agree with what he says here. I think he has personality problems and cognitive issues nearly as bad as Trump's are. I wish he weren't writing this kind of crap every day because much of it is harmful disinformation about people who have enough to worry about without this. Somerby should find a hobby, or forget writing and just watch Fox 24/7, like other crabby old men do. It has been decades since he had an interesting insight about anything. Meanwhile, like Trump, he sullies everything he mentions.

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