Israeli attacks on Palestinian children increase since October — yeah, peace and ceasefire my ass!!

Paulo Kirk

Nov 02, 2025

Reagan, 1980:

“Instead of putting up a fence, why don’t we make it possible for (immigrants) to come here legally and open up the border both ways.”

But . . .

The war on drugs also inspired President Ronald Reagan’s partial border closure in 1985. Aptly named Operation Intercept II, it suffered a similar fate.

The Mexican authorities were unable to find a kidnapped Drug Enforcement Administration agent, and the White House once again decided to use the border to force them into more vigorous action, closing nine checkpoints.

Ordinary Mexicans saw this border closure as yet another form of “Yankee imperialism.” They wondered how the disappearance of one agent could cause such an uproar when hundreds of Mexicans had been killed as a result of our “war on drugs.” The abducted agent was later found dead.

Although the border was reopened within a matter of days, once again, the shutdown severely hurt the border economy – as well as relations between the two countries.

Those who lived through the 1980s were under the impression that the Reagans were the bottom of American ugliness and stupidity in politics. How could the US go lower than that presidency, which had a B-movie actor playing a president? But the US did hit a new bottom with George W. Bush, who had nothing to recommend him but the pure luck of being born into a family with money and influence. Dim Bush was massively incompetent and managed to bankrupt the US with two costly wars and the biggest economic crash since 1929. The really astonishing thing is, as bad as Bush was, he wasn’t bad enough to prepare us for the new bottom, Trump.

What’s terrifying is the idea of going lower than Trump is no longer unimaginable precisely because we keep hitting new and more shocking lows. Who is next in line? Kid Rock? We no longer can dismiss this possibility. But to see how far down we’ve gone from the Reagan years, you only need to read a New York Times article that was published on September 24, 1985. It concerns Nancy Reagan’s trip to Mexico after the 8.0 earthquake. She not only went to Mexico but also brought “a letter of sympathy” from her husband, The Gipper, and a check as “down payment” ($1 million—$2.3 million in today’s value) for “United States Government disaster aid to Mexico.” At the time, this was considered to be common decency even for phony, stupid, and racist white American politicians. The new low inflates the phoniness, the stupidity, and the racism but eliminates any kind of decency.

Trump’s speech at the the UN was plain (Qaddafi) insane. His response to the 8.2 earthquake that rocked Mexico earlier this month was famously slow, and he when he finally got around to saying something, he lied about the cause of the delay (the Mexican president’s cellphone wasn’t working). That lie is so dumb, it’s insulting. Trump can’t even make the effort to come up with a halfway-believable lie (this is one of the things that separates him from Bush II, who could at least recognize, though dimly, the value of plausibility). Despite tweeting something about yesterday’s earthquake, one is almost certain that in the absence of the generals (who now run what they can of the White House), Trump would have said nothing and gone on and on about his “fucken wall.”

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel was among 25 other Attorneys General that filed a temporary restraining order against the U.S Department of Agriculture for trying to unlawfully stop SNAP benefits.

Two Federal Judges ruled that the Trump Administration must use SNAP’s contingency fund to run the program during the government shutdown.

If the pause would happen, 1.4 million people from Michigan would of struggled to put food on the table.

“It’s over 492,000 children, over 38,000 veterans, seniors are 36 percent of our recipients. 51% of those households have at least one person with a disability.” Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, said.

[Yes, Dana Nessel is Jewish. She was born in West Bloomfield, Michigan, is of Jewish faith, and has publicly expressed support for the Jewish community and spoken out against antisemitism.]

Amazon’s CEO has finally spoken up about the company’s 14,000 layoffs earlier this week, and he claims the motive was not at all financial.

JEWS, man, misanthropes, transactional, emotionless, fucking whores of shekels: [Andy Jassy is of Jewish Hungarian ancestry.]

“The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven, not right now at least,” he said about the job cuts. “It’s culture.”

The job cuts this week, which mostly affected middle managers, follow a June memo in which Jassy said Amazon will need fewer employees thanks to the “efficiency gains” brought on by AI. In a separate memo announcing this week’s layoffs, Amazon’s senior vice president of people said the layoffs were about adapting to “transformative technology.”

Jassy also mentioned Amazon’s business has grown over the past years. The company has about 1.55 million total employees, with 350,000 corporate employees alone. As of December 2019, prior to the pandemic, the company had 798,000 total employees, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The hat trick — undercount to over-exploit and under-fund: A recent study suggests the global population may be significantly higher than the official 8.2 billion, with billions of people possibly uncounted in rural areas. Researchers from Aalto University found that existing datasets often underestimate rural populations by 53% to 84% due to challenges in data collection, potentially leading to misallocations of resources.

According to Láng-Ritter, the findings suggest that the needs of people living in rural areas have been under-represented in decision-making globally compared to urban areas. Inadequate demographic data may have led to insufficient resources for health care or transport in rural regions, for example.

‘In many countries, there may not be sufficient data available on a national level, so they rely on global population maps to support their decision-making: Do we need an asphalted road or a hospital? How much medicine is required in a particular area? How many people could be affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes or floods?’ he says.

We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Preface to The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon (1961)

Where oh where is Ho Chi Minh?

Hegseth in Vietnam to strengthen defense ties. WTF?

Gotta have a Plan D, Celtics: Ireland’s tourism industry has long relied on key international markets such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France. However, the latest figures for 2025 reveal a troubling trend for the Irish tourism sector as visitor numbers from several major markets have dropped significantly. The decline in tourism revenue is a result of multiple factors, including changing travel preferences, economic uncertainty, and the ongoing challenges posed by rising operational costs.

Listen to a real Irishman:

We can only dream that weapons went to radicals, man, revolutionaries.

The U.S. Marine Corps has been directed to ramp up its security around its ammunition and explosives after a government audit found annual inspections did not meet Department of Defense standards.

Ahh, we are the Wretched of the Earth, Jews and Americanos:

Anduril’s jet-powered drone flew for the first time on Friday, the company and the U.S. Air Force said, marking a significant step for the defense tech company’s drone ambitions.

The operational logic is clear when viewed through the lens of the Indo-Pacific. U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that the People’s Liberation Army Air Force is fielding new crewed and uncrewed platforms at a “frantic pace,” closing the window in which a small number of exquisite U.S. aircraft could dominate the battlespace. CCA is Washington’s answer to that problem: instead of buying only very expensive fighters that are risky to deploy inside Chinese air defenses, the Air Force wants hundreds, and ultimately more than a thousand, autonomous or semi-autonomous aircraft that can be surged, lost and rapidly replaced while preserving human pilots for the most complex missions. Anduril’s rapid flight test therefore has geopolitical weight: it is a signal to Beijing and to U.S. allies in the region that the United States can actually turn the autonomy narrative into metal, software and flying combat power. It also offers a counterpoint to the troubled Replicator effort, which has struggled to get enough reliable drones into the field on time.

The Los Angeles-based company, which won an Air Force contract last year to produce a prototype drone that could serve as a “loyal wingman” alongside fighter jets, demonstrated the drone’s flight at a California-based testing site, the Air Force said.

Nazi’s need no fucking supervision!

A federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled that Border Patrol Commander-At-Large Gregory Bovino does not have to attend daily meetings with a judge to discuss federal immigration agents’ use of force in Chicago, as the judge had ordered earlier this week.

A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis’ order for Bovino to attend daily hearings in her courtroom would place her “in the position of an inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator” of an ongoing lawsuit over immigration agents’ tactics.

They also said Ellis’ order “sets the court up as a supervisor of Chief Bovino’s activities, intruding into personnel management decisions of the Executive Branch. These two problems are related and lead us to conclude that the order infringes on the separation of powers.”

Is the sun setting on the U.S. economy? No jobs report again. But these numbers show how the U.S. economy is doing.

Week in pictures: From Israeli strikes in Gaza to floods in Vietnam.

VD spreading far and wide with this fucking hillbilly:

JD Vance defends saying he wants his wife Usha to convert to Christianity

“I hope she may one day see things as I do,” the vice president said.

What to Know About SNAP as Judge Orders Emergency Funding: A pause in food assistance would hit recipients, retailers and food banks

Kick Ass WOMAN:

“No, she hasn’t,” the vice president told the Times when asked if Usha Vance had converted to Christianity.

“That’s why I feel bad about it. She’s got three kids. Obviously, I help with the kids, but because I’m kind of the one going to church, she feels more responsibility to keep the kids quiet in the church. And I just felt kind of bad. Like, oh, you didn’t sign up to marry a weekly churchgoer. Are you OK with this? And she was more than OK with it, and that was a big part of the confirmation that this was the right thing for me,” he added.

Room Temp and Third Grade Reading Level:

O’DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.

O’DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here’s the thing — I know nothing about it.

Kick Ass WOMEN: