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Here's today's roundup. | Two Decades Past Retirement Age, Nancy Pelosi to Retire
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Nancy Pelosi made her long-awaited retirement announcement on Thursday, finally preparing to pass the torch after nearly four decades in Congress. She delivered the news in an X video, which you’re free to subject yourself to here.
Originally from the gritty streets of Baltimore, Pelosi personifies the American Dream. She entered politics with a net worth of roughly $3 million and will exit as the owner of assets valued somewhere between $250 million and $400 million. Her wealth’s growth considerably exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, cementing her legacy as one of history’s wisest and most shrewd investors. Either that, or she’s a serial insider trader.
Donald Trump celebrated the former speaker’s looming exit shortly after the news broke, calling her an “evil woman who did a poor job” and heralding her retirement as “a great thing for America.” Numerous Republican lawmakers called on Congress to honor her by banning its members from trading stocks.
Pelosi will remain in office until her term ends in January 2027. Read more.
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Pro-Kirk Assassination Furry Running for Congress |
Nancy Pelosi may be retiring, but Congress will still have plenty of crazy Democrats. A new one could take office after the midterms.
A “furry” who identifies as a honey badger, celebrated the murders of Charlie Kirk and the UnitedHealthcare CEO, and claimed “America deserved 9/11” is running for one of Michigan’s House seats. The candidate, 36-year-old IT contractor Samuel Smeltzer, seeks to topple Republican incumbent Tom Barrett.
Smeltzer, a self-declared United States hater and China lover, is running because he believes his party “needs Honey Badger energy." His platform includes higher taxes for the rich, calling Republicans Nazis, and support for the “furry community” and the “queer community.”
Smeltzer’s official campaign statement on the assassination of Charlie Kirk described the Turning Point USA founder as “a white supremacist who preached stochastic terrorism” while labeling his killer “an Alt Right Groyper who was radicalized by Nick Fuentes.” This candidate clearly needs help. Read more. |
GOP Congressman Introduces MAMDANI Act to Block New York’s Federal Funding |
"If New Yorkers want communism, we should let them have their wish and not artificially prop them up with our successful capitalist system.”
That was Congressman Buddy Carter’s reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s triumph in Tuesday’s New York City mayoral election. The Republican lawmaker is proposing a block on federal funds to the Big Apple in response to the socialist’s win.
Carter is expected to formally introduce his proposal on Friday, presenting the House with the MAMDANI Act to prevent New York from receiving Washington’s money for as long as the Uganda-born Zohran occupies Gracie Mansion. The two-page bill states that "any unobligated Federal funds available" for the city "are hereby rescinded" until the mayor-elect is gone.
Congress has never enacted a similar law. Read more. |
“RIP NYC”: 50 Cent Blasts Mamdani on Defund the Police
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It’s safe to say Zohran Mamdani will not be New York’s most pro-police mayor. Check out this tweet of his from the George Floyd era:
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Music and multimedia mogul 50 Cent expressed worry over how Mamdani’s anti-law enforcement views will affect crime in the Big Apple this week, writing on Instagram, “I think [Zohran’s] intentions are good, but his Tax plan is gonna run the big money out of the city and if he defunds the police they are gonna purge.”
Mamdani won his race because of prices, not policing or social policy. With that being the case, we wonder what percentage of his voters even know about his crazy views on police, trans, drugs, and crime.
This man really should have been easy to beat. The establishment just needed to run a candidate with a populist economic platform and non-insane views on the other things. It’s too bad they didn’t have it in them. Read more.
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Supreme Court Ends “Gender Identity” Passport Madness |
A victory for common sense.
The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration permission to only issue passports indicating biological sex, not “gender identity,” on Thursday, ruling that doing so represents the government “merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.” The ruling comes after a Biden-appointed judge demanded the president allow transgenders to choose their own sex designations.
This entire issue requires an Overton window shift. Republicans saying “there are only two genders” doesn’t go far enough. There are zero genders. The whole thing is fake. There’s no word for the race, eye color, or height with which people can “identify.” What makes sex different? Read more.
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Trump Reaches Deal to Slash Obesity Drug Prices |
Yesterday’s Morning Note reported on the Trump administration’s plans to focus on costs of living. The issue gave Democrats easy campaign material in this year’s elections, and the White House wants to solve it to give voters a reason to vote red in 2026.
The president took a step in the right direction on Thursday, announcing deals with pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to slash weight loss drug prices. The agreements will make doses of the manufacturers’ upcoming obesity pills available for $145 per month through Medicare, Medicaid, or TrumpRx. Similar treatments currently cost north of $12,000 a year, Trump said in the Oval Office.
RFK Jr. touted the announcement alongside the president, saying it will have “dramatic effects on human health” and lead to Americans losing 125 million pounds over the next 12 months. Current high prices serve as a barrier for members of the obese community to access the medications. The deals will take effect in mid-2026. Read more. |
DHS Celebrates “Lowest Border Crossings in October History”
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The U.S. had a record-low number of border crossings last month, according to newly compiled Department of Homeland Security data.
“Preliminary data for October, the first month of Fiscal Year 2026, shows record-low encounters, sustained control across all sectors, and the sixth straight month of zero releases by the U.S. Border Patrol,” the agency announced this week. “Thank you, President Trump and our brave DHS law enforcement. You make America proud!” Secretary Kristi Noem added.
Standout statistics include a 79% drop in border encounters compared to October 2024, six consecutive months of zero releases, fewer total encounters in nine months under Donald Trump than the Biden administration’s monthly average, and a 95% daily average decrease since the presidential transition.
Earlier this year, Trump said that “all we really needed” to secure the border “was a new president.” Those words continue to ring true. Read more. |
Psycho Sandwich Thrower Gets off Scot-Free
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There’s a new law of the land in our nation’s capital.
If you buy a Subway footlong, head to an anti-Trump protest, scream at a federal officer for being a “f**king fascist,” and pelt the sandwich at his chest as hard as you can, you will face no legal punishment. Such behavior is completely okay in Washington. It’s not even a misdemeanor.
A DC court on Thursday let ex-DOJ staffer Sean Dunn off scot-free for perpetrating the tasty assault described above, agreeing with his defense that the attack was nothing more than a “harmless gesture.” You can watch footage of the incident here. It looks pretty vicious.
While this story is ultimately amusing, it exposes an obvious double standard. If a January 6th election justice protester did the exact same thing while Congress authorized Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, does anyone really think they would have escaped punishment? Of course not. The previous administration probably would have put them on the no-fly list. But a liberal sandwich thrower who thinks diversity is our strength? No consequences whatsoever. Read more. |
Irish Police Investigate Rogue Lion that Turns Out to Be a Dog
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Irish police were concerned.
An apparent “lion-like” creature roaming through the country’s western woods put law enforcement on high alert this week, prompting an investigation into the potential public safety threat. But fear not. It turns out witnesses fearing an invasive Saharan presence had nothing to worry about. The beast wasn’t a lion at all. It was a dog with a snazzy haircut.
Cops announced the seamless capture of the four-legged fugitive on Tuesday, bringing County Clare locals relief to learn it was in fact a “very friendly” dog named Mouse.
Lions are not native to the European country’s cold and rainy climate. The government doesn’t even permit residents to own large cats. If they want to see one, they’ll have to visit the zoo. Or adopt Mouse. Read more and see photos here. |
This may be the least surprising thing you’ve read all week: Marjorie Taylor Greene is right.
The Georgia lawmaker dropped the hammer on the Congressional GOP on Thursday, blaming their bizarre focus on foreign agendas over American interests for the party’s defeats in this week’s elections.
“I think domestic policy should be the most important issue that the president and the Republican-controlled House and Senate are working on,” she said during a CNN interview. “And that showed up in the election.”
Greene also slammed the herds of fake Republicans working to hijack MAGA, chastising them for “keeping [the president] on nonstop tours around the world and nonstop meetings with foreign countries’ leaders.”
“[It’s] not America First,” she exclaimed. “It’s just not.”
Amen to that.
We wrote on Wednesday that solving America’s cost-of-living crisis is the GOP’s ticket to electoral dominance. Zohran Mamdani's triumph in New York makes this clear. The Uganda-born socialist is off the rails on policing, trans, drugs, and crime, but the people chose him anyway. Imagine how well common-sense conservatives would do if they, too, zeroed in on affordability. It could be a red wave unlike anything since 1984.
So how come a similar tsunami didn’t come crashing down on Tuesday? What’s prevented the Republican Party from prioritizing what voters actually care about, which is domestic issues?
Other countries.
Money for other countries, wars for other countries, negotiations for other countries, security guarantees for other countries. And strange worship of their leaders, too.
We’re willing to accept that dishing out some offshore charity is worth entertaining. America shouldn’t necessarily erect impenetrable metaphorical walls on its borders and pretend the rest of the world doesn’t exist. Maybe some international aid is good. We’re open to hearing the case.
But revolving the entire government around the agendas of foreign powers? Behaving like Lindsey Graham and treating Asian and European capitals as more important than South Carolina’s? That’s too much for voters to handle. It’s too insulting. They will revolt.
You know who doesn’t act that way? Mamdani. It doesn’t matter how many times Ted Cruz calls us pseudo-communists. The socialist mayor-elect was his race’s only candidate whose program solely focused on New York. That doesn't mean we endorse his crazy views. He's off the rails on a lot. But he's not wrong on everything. Remember his primary debate, when every other politician drooled over the chance to flee the Big Apple for a distant land, but Zohran said he’d rather stay in his own city? That’s the attitude the people want. Put America first.
Whichever party does will enjoy lots of victory parties.
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November 7, 1944: FDR wins his fourth term. America’s 32nd president defeated Thomas Dewey in an Electoral College landslide, becoming the first and only commander in chief to win the White House four times. Roosevelt’s victory came amid the U.S.’s entrenchment in the Second World War, fighting both the Germans and the Japanese after entering the conflict three years earlier. The president maintained his office despite being in serious health decline and died a few months into his term. Harry Truman assumed the presidency with no knowledge of the Manhattan Project. |
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