SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2026
Our Halloween edition: This being the day called Halloween, we bring you a picture of delight.
Yesterday morning, at 5:59 a.m. Eastern, just before Morning Joe started, Ali Vitali, hosting Way Too Early, described this holiday scene:
VITALI (10/30/26): And finally, some Halloween news to end our show.
President Trump kicked off the start of Halloween by welcoming families to the White House yesterday evening. The president and first lady Melania Trump handed out full-size chocolate bars to trick or treaters.
About six thousand people were on the South Lawn taking part in this annual event.
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It was quite the way to kick off this holiday weekend.
Vitali's a good, decent person. If you watch the videotape of her brief report, you'll see boys and girls sporting some excellent Halloween costumes as they cadge those full-size candy bars.
For our money, the little girl presenting as the Barbie doll inside the Barbie box will be hard to beat this year for pleasure, joy, excitement and fun. For a still shot of this outstanding effort, go ahead—just click here.
There's a great deal more to be said at this time. But the ghosts and the goblins are all about, and Reds and Blues both enjoy this day, and so we'll just leave it right here.
Next Tuesday, spirits will be using us! The danger facing our struggling nation will motor ahead from there.
ReplyDeleteSo, you like the girl in the Barbie box. Okay, I guess.
Happy Halloween to you too, Bob.
I’d rather see her in a Cecelia box.
DeleteJust another endearing moment with the pedophile in chief.
DeleteI’d like to see Cecelia in a Barbie box.
DeleteSo Bob just ignores the girl in a Russian dress with the boy in a Russian tank commanders dress uniform. So transparently anti-democratic and pro Russia all the time. Fucking assholes.
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DeleteAnti-Dumbocratic and pro-Russia is good.
The rate Putin is losing troops (nearly 2,000/day) he will be sending the little boy to fight in Ukraine next week. He won't have a tank to command though. Ukraine done blowed them all up.
DeleteYou retarded Dumbocrats have weird jerk-off fantasies.
DeleteI just want Uncle Vova to stop the war. Then, may Russia thrive in peace!
DeleteAbdul El-Sayed is forty-two years old today. That’s right, he was born on Halloween.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday!
DeleteWhich one did President Trump fondle though, with Melania watching?
ReplyDeleteAll of them Katie.
DeleteFondling is good, actually. Only the most annoying feminists are against it.
DeleteAnother lie.
DeleteNo. It’s my first lie. Up to now I’ve been good.
DeleteLiar.
DeleteNo, really. This is the first time I’ve stepped out of line.
DeleteTrump is not just a pedophile, he loves it so much he became a pedophile protector as well.
DeleteSomerby appears to have missed the point of the Barbie movie.
ReplyDeleteIt had a point?
DeleteWomen rule, men drool.
DeleteSeriously? Was it degenerate feminist propaganda? I’d been meaning to get around to watching it. Now, maybe not.
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Delete"Somerby rarely passes up an opportunity to diss [Herwig]."
DeleteHere's what came up when I put "Herwig" into the Search box:
"No posts matching the query: Herwig."
In my experience, children don't find excitement and joy in their costumes but in the ritual sorting and swapping of preferred and less preferred candy with friends after the trick or treating.
DeleteNote the emphasis in the article about the full size candy bars being given out. Are we supposed to consider that generous coming from a billionaire? The value of those full size bars comes from the relative poverty of the kids and their parents, who would consider that an extravagance in the context of their own lives. We weren't allowed candy when we were kids, except for Halloween. Trump has never known deprivation, until now when judges are telling him he cannot do anything he wants with our nation's monuments.
I searched myself and found that I mistakenly spelled her name Herwig above, when her name is Greta Gerwig. I apologize. You will find Somerby dissing Gerwig on Feb 5, 2020. Somerby dissed Gerwig when her film Little Women came out. He spent days panning it because of changes to the ending.
DeleteI apologize for my confusing mistake. But you will see that I am not lying about Somerby's prior opinions about her film.
DG, you might have just corrected me instead of being snarky. At first, I thought it was Somerby who had misspelled the name, which caused some delay in recognizing my own error. It is better to be direct.
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DeleteThe right found the film very upsetting. It was made by Greta Gerwig. Somerby rarely passes up an opportunity to diss her. It wasn't about little girls though, so perhaps Somerby didn't see it. The film made Greta Herwig the first solo female director to gross over a billion dollars.
DG wanted to imply that Somerby has never dissed Gerwig, a misleading comment trying to make @3:57 seem to be a liar when Somerby clearly has a hard-on for attacking Gerwig, based on the several posts about Little Women.
DeleteGross, indeed.
DeleteGerwig was in a Woody Allen film, To Rome with Love.
DeleteDid Allen fondle Gerwig? If not, why not? What kind of costume was she wearing?
Delete3:55 - Well, first if I'd realized it was a simple typo, I wouldn't have posted. I was not familiar enough with her work to know that her last name was "Gerwig" rather than "Herwig." So I apologize for that.
DeleteBut I will say that I read the 2/5/20 post, and what Somerby says is that he found her movie confusing because of all the time shifts. In my view, a six-year-old movie review hardly warrants the conclusion that "Somerby rarely passes up an opportunity to diss [Gerwig]."
4:08 - In my view, what is "gross" is 3:59's suggestion that Somerby is s pedophile.
DeleteWell, there is something about Somerby and little girls.
DeleteIs it a progressive value to casually and baselessly slime someone as a pedophile?
DeleteProgressive? Who’s progressive?
DeleteGerwig portrays the character of Jo (from Little Women) as an adult with agency, ambitions, a talent for writing and the aggressiveness to pursue her goals while helping her sisters. This kind of active adult woman is the opposite of the passive in pink child in that box costume, the girls who accept their social role as a good, never demanding, self-sacrificing and nurturing feminine ideal -- the kind that men like to defile and then order around to serve their needs, while keeping them dependent so they have no other options. Go read the manosphere sometime.
DeleteIt isn't just that Somerby goes into raptures over young teens, but that he dislikes strong adult women. Part of the pathology of pedophiles in general is that they are intimidated and thus hate the kind of women who won't stand for their grooming and abuse. As the Carly Simon song goes: "You don't like strong women 'cause they're hip to your tricks." The kind of men who prey on young girls avoid adult women because they cannot manipulate them as easily and because they are afraid of being criticized or laughed at, being found deficient as men. This is part of their hate for women, their misogyny.
It takes a couple of misogynist parents to dress up their kids that way. And a pedophile wanna-be to find that cute, much less imagine that the kids are having fun that way. But those guys think the kids they seduce like it, want them, are finding all that "pleasure, joy, excitement and fun" themselves while being abused.
Somerby has a history of defending men, particularly older men, with a fondness for young females, sometimes even underage females.
DeleteSomerby may be a pedophile. It may be a reasonable inference from his writings, but it may also be the case that Somerby is not a pedophile at all. It could be the case that Somerby is on a pedophile spectrum, and on one end of that spectrum or somewhere in the middle, or not on that spectrum at all.
Anything is possible.
As far as I can tell, no one is directly accusing Somerby of being a pedophile.
If you take the comments at face value, there is no direct accusation of Somerby being a pedophile.
Now, one could go beyond a literal reading of the comments to make a claim that Somerby being a pedophile is inferred.
But that would be kind of wild coming from someone who insists we only read Somerby in an excessively literal manner.
It may be that Somerby enjoys provoking his readers with ambiguous borderline pedophile-type remarks about young girls, so that he can laugh up his sleeve. It may be that he believes, like nazis and tech bros and various manosphere types that the age of consent should be lowered, women should be assigned as sex slaves to men (by the govt) and we should implement a Handmaid's Tale style dictatorship in which women breed white children and keep their mouths shut. Somerby's equally odd remarks about sexual politics in The Iliad being bred in the bone, condoning trading and owning women, is a sincerely held position, or another kind of chain-yanking jab at feminist women and wokeness.
DeleteWe don't know what is true because Somerby is both slippery and dishonest and does not wish to be authentic in what he writes here, just as he does not state his real political views, pretends to be liberal while advancing right wing talking points.
Ultimately, Somerby's real views don't matter to us. Whatever they are in real life, I am glad I don't know him in person and I wouldn't want to meet him, because my friends are among those who are not afraid to be who they are. They are willing to form relationships based on mutual respect, not the game playing Somerby indulges in here.
I do care about the results of the upcoming election. Somerby is not helping Democrats, so that puts him on the wrong side of the ledger for me. YMMV. The rest of what he writes is ongoing assholery.
Spot on.
Delete"As far as I can tell, no one is directly accusing Somerby of being a pedophile."
DeleteThis is your defense? That you're too chickenshit to say it directly, even when you're hiding behind anonymity?
Somerby is the one being coy.
DeleteStrong independent women don’t need me, and I don’t need them.
DeleteToday’s odd post, finding something endearing about the kiddies in front of the pedophile, contrasts with this:
ReplyDelete“the New York Times still has not told readers of a new rape allegation against Donald Trump that was made public on Monday in a report the New York Times dishonestly dismissed on grounds that “it largely cites allegations that have already been public.” The word “largely” is doing an awful lot of work in that sentence, given that the report includes a new rape allegation.”
Read it here https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-multi-front-war-to-delegitimize.html?m=1
The NY Times has some good reporters but it is owned and operated by right wing neoliberals, and because of that the NY Times is absolute garbage and the little crumbs they offer of decent reporting here and there does not ameliorate the mountain of garage it puts out.
DeleteSomerby thinks little girls dressed as flight attendants are cute.
ReplyDelete"the little girl presenting as the Barbie doll inside the Barbie box will be hard to beat this year for pleasure, joy, excitement and fun"
Wait until she figures out that it is very hard to use the bathroom in such a costume, that she cannot really participate much in whatever play the other kids are doing. Actual parents learn to create costumes that allow their kids unobstructed vision, freedom of movement, and access for bodily functions, including eating and drinking. Somerby is obviously not empathetic to the needs of the child within the costume.
But this is just a Republican stunt intended to "own" the feminists. What actual woman would want to be wrapped up and kept on a shelf, even figuratively?
I don't see where the actual pleasure fun, enjoyment and joy are to be found when walking around in that costume, even at Trump & Melania's pretend playhouse.
The over-the-top suggestion about pleasure is creepy because what is the fun of wearing a costume obviously manufactured by MAGA parents at a White House function? These are kids. Second, this sounds a bit like a call-out by Somerby to the kind of guys who find pictures of children fun for their own pleasure, enjoyment, even joy.
DeleteWhy does Somerby write sentences like that if he doesn't want readers to think he has ulterior motives? Even little girls don't have that much fun while playing with their own Barbie dolls.
Just wait till she has menarche in a costume like that.
DeleteAnonymouse 4:03pm, “pleasure, joy, excitement, and fun” precisely describes how kids feel when counting the days until Halloween. You can add “mischievousness” on the day of the holiday.
DeleteYou're such a skunk.
Agree.
DeleteCounting the days? Cecelia, you are buying into media portrayals of halloween. I supposed you think children have visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads before Christmas too.
DeleteSomerby likes to romanticize things. Why would parents drag their kids to a White House event that is purely for propaganda purposes when they could allow their kids to attend a neighborhood or family party where the kids are the focus and they would actually have fun?
Kids shouldn't be used as political pawns. Seeing Trump and phony baloney Melania grinning in a posed shot of three girls dressed alike in pink is nauseating in its manufactured cheer. Trump doesn't enjoy anything except sex and indulging his appetite for Big Macs and bullying and sensation-seeking activities such as UFC cage fights, airforce flyovers and watching people hit each other. None of that shows a capacity for enjoying someone simply like Halloween. When you throw in his leering perversion with young teens, the effect is worse. The two girls outside the Barbie box were just about the age when Epstein and Trump committed ther rapes. Men like Trump have no business taking pictures like these. It is sickening to good decent people who actually care about kids, instead of canceling aid programs for them, child health insurance, vaccination programs, and even college scholarships.
I find the photos that Somerby is swooning over and linking to be an abomination.
This obvious pre-campaign stunt may appeal to MAGAs, but they are a turn-off to the rest of us.
The male skunk plays no role in raising the young.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk
The male skunk is polygynous.
DeleteTrump enjoys sex. That right there is the main thing wrong with him.
DeleteAnonymouse 5:02pm, the more you babble, the less convincing you are. The anonymouse’s comments weren’t aimed at Trump—they were meant to take a shot at Bob. You’ve got Christmas and Easter at the White House to look forward to. Pace and brace yourself.
DeleteYour friend, Cecelia…
DeleteSomerby is an asshole who was thumbing his nose at his readers with today's essay.
DeleteAnonymouse 5:29pm, you’re a ridiculous piece of work.
DeleteTrump has not seen his tiny penis in years and neither has anyone else.
DeleteTrump has been morbidly obese for years.
Stormy was probably the last person to see his minuscule manhood, when Trump coerced her into unprotected sex with a false promise about becoming a cast member on the reality show that had hired Trump as a cast member.
This event occurred shortly after Trump's third wife had given birth.
Most of Trump's sexual assaults occurred in the 80s and 90s when he was best friends with Epstein.
Woody Allen was part of Epstein's circle.
DeleteAI says: "Gerwig expressed regret for acting in Allen's 2012 film To Rome with Love and stated she would never work with him again. Her comments followed public sexual abuse allegations made against Allen by his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, which Gerwig said made her realize her past collaboration added to another woman's pain."
Woody Allen is 90 years old and Greta Gerwig is 43 years old, making Allen 47 years older than Gerwig.
I have a small penis, and I don’t like being insulted about it.
DeleteWoody Allen never abused Dylan Farrow. Mia Farrow made that up and gaslighted Dylan, who was and is mentally disabled.
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ReplyDeleteI touch my asshole and I sniff my finger.
And I post the most idiotic word-salad. A million times more idiotic than anything any one of you can imagine. Hallelujah!
I am Corby.
If this were a real blog, Somerby would moderate his comments and get rid of nonsense like this.
DeleteYou are absolutely correct.
DeleteThis is a right wing vanity blog that attracts loony right wing trolls.
DeleteYou are absolutely correct.
DeleteIf Somerby moderated his comments he'd get rid of all you Haters.
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