There really is nothing more exciting than watching a pack of ICE goons slowly backing away from a giant frog as it walks towards them (especially when the goons are armed and the frog only has fancy dance moves).


https://x.com/piyushmittal/status/1974477938864070969



However, with the Trump admin getting increasingly desperate to stave off the Epstein Files being released (Mike Johnson can only delay the swearing in of the Democrat victor for so long, once the government is back to work he has no excuses left and the files MUST be released), their latest tactic:

https://x.com/evanhill/status/1976300205147373604

@evanhill

The Trump administration is preparing a crackdown on liberal political groups — including the funding arm of the Democratic Party — that will utilize the FBI, DHS, IRS and Treasury and Justice departments

Reuters article here:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-war-left-inside-plan-investigate-liberal-groups-2025-10-09/

Deprive your political rival of funding means no TV ads and no campaigning for the mid-term elections. All at the same time as a Republican ally purchases the company that provides voting machines to the various US states (and that Trump had accused of rigging the 2020 vote for Biden, a false claim that lost in court and cost FOX News about half a billion dollars in penalties). Dominion has been sold and will be renamed:

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/dominion-voting-systems-bought-election-ballots

and
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-machines-sold-elections

https://x.com/HarrisonBecker7/status/1976398480601133299

you need to pay close attention: Dominion Voting Systems have been bought by a Republican-backed group for an undisclosed amount… The voting systems in which are the most vital to our country are now controlled by one side of the aisle. And for the record I would say the same exact thing if a Democratic group bought Dominion as well. This needs to go viral and it needs to go viral FAST.

https://x.com/kristineshofner/status/1976475742755295524
@kristineshofner

Pair them up with ES&S machines that have been proved to be hackable and we can pretty much call the next election for tRUmp. But we can't let them win. We have to get out in huge numbers and maybe get someone to hack starlink during the election so they can't hack the numbers.

It's a nice recapture of Pepe. Makes frogs truly great again!

Let's talk about what happened last Friday and how it revolves around one of my predictions from earlier this year in March. Last week there was a major stock and crypto market meltdown that took a HUGE hit on investors, especially those who were heavily leveraged on crypto coins in the hopes that they would keep soaring upwards.

Read about that here:
Dow tumbles nearly 900 points after Trump reignites trade war between the world’s two largest economies
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/investing/us-stock-market

US stocks closed sharply lower Friday after President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs on imports from China, reigniting fears of a trade war that rocked global markets earlier this year.

The Dow fell 879 points, or 1.9%. The broader S&P 500 dropped 2.71% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 3.56%.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each posted their worst day since April as a slide in tech stocks led the market lower. The Dow posted its worst day since May. The S&P 500’s drop of 2.71% saw the index shed roughly $1.56 trillion in market value in one day, according to FactSet data.

Trump said in a social media post he is considering a “massive increase” in tariffs on imports from China, adding “There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World ‘captive’” over rare earth exports.

His latest threat stems from accusations that China is imposing export controls on rare earths, slow-walking previous agreements to free them up for US businesses.

Here's the tweet that started it all:


The end result of Trump's tweet: Bitcoin & crypto market records largest single-day liquidation in history, $19 billion was liquidated in 12 hours, of which $16 billion were long positions (i.e. people who would've reaped huge gains if the crypto market kept going up).






Some investors, especially the young inexperienced investors who borrowed money to put everything they had into crypto, lost their life savings:





I also saw folks online claiming that hundreds of people had committed suicide due to the financial losses but so far my own investigation has only found one person confirmed:

Ukrainian crypto trader Konstantin Galish — also known as Kostya Kudo — was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his Lamborghini in Kyiv following the market rout that wiped out roughly $19 billion and liquidated over 1.6 million accounts. Police reports and family statements indicate that he was experiencing severe depression and financial difficulties related to client funds lost in the crash, having reportedly lost more than $30 million tied to trading and investments

Let's return to one of my predictions from March 8th: https://gta.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=14083&p=3

- destroy the wealth of the average American e.g. fire them from their jobs, trigger a huge recession while at the same time letting prices skyrocket so that no one can afford anything: a car, a house, food, everyday items, etc.  America already has a long-standing history of creating massive asset bubbles where the average Joe loses most of their money: the tech bubble, the housing bubble, the mortgage-backed securities bubble, and now the crypto currency bubble. Get the suckers to bet their lifesavings on some worthless asset, then collapse it (while shorting that asset so that the insiders make billions off that collapse).

NOTE that at the same time, BlackRock bought $74 billion worth of Bitcoin... (google BlackRock if you don't know who they are, you should learn who they are). But more than super-rich insiders buying while the retail investors lose their shirts, the cypto community quickly noticed something about the hours leading up to the big crash:



Half an hour before Trump made the announcement, someone shorted Bitcoin and Etherium in the billions. For those who are not investment-savvy, to "short" something means you are placing a bet that its value or price will go DOWN, not up. If an asset is overvalued, shorting is a way to profit when that asset eventually falls back to a more normal price.  The key thing is that this mystery person bet BIG on their short and that is no small risk, if the crypto market kept going up, this is a life-destroying bet because the losses would be infinite).





Obviously the community quickly latched onto the idea that there is someone within Trump's inner circle who knew in advance about the announcement and considering that the stock market and crypto market were known to be overvalued, and considering the effect that Trump announcing tariffs had on the markets the last time back in April, it is an easy bet to make and this person went all-in.

Now who could it be... who could...



oh, hi there Barron Trump. That's who the community seems to have settled on as being the culprit. Because he seems to be constantly making millions upon millions on crypto, and has no job...



and obviously Trump is going to help out his family first. Not just with insider info, but arranging for a 19-year old to be on the board of one of the most popular social media platforms:



All of this is only speculation however. I've not seen any proof of who the big whale was, but I doubt it was Trump or Melania. Eric Trump is also involved in crypto, but so far the community seems more fixated on Barron as the culprit. Insider trading is a very very serious crime in the US, but with this administration, it's highly doubtful that anyone will actually do anything about it even if it was a Trump family member.

I'm not involved in crypto myself (because I'm not an idiot and don't believe in putting thousands of dollars into magical fairy dust) but like most of you, I do have a retirement nest egg that relies on steadily rising stock market returns to provide for an eventual comfortable retirement someday. This type of manipulation by a corrupt right-wing politician is what destroys lives, ruins any retirement plan (unless you are very conservative and only invest in GICs and market-linked investment products), and as I noted, can be used to help the rich to get richer while leaving the working poor of America with very few options than to take whatever work is available (ICE agent, service in the military, low-paying farm work, etc).

This latter point is most important because that will be how Trump creates his America, by destroying any wealth and savings that the average person has, and last week's example served all of those purposes.  It isn't THE big crash though, just one of many big crashes that will deprive some people of their life savings... with Trump there will be more manipulated events like this to come, while his family cashes in, and more and more people will fall victim to these bubble bursts.

The smart money, including myself because I remembered what happened in April, knew that within a day or two Trump would "magically" reverse this 100% tariff on China, which would trigger a massive upswing in the markets:





Sure enough Trump's sudden reversal, caused this to happen yesterday:

DOW         46,067.58     +1.29%
S&P 500     6,654.72     +1.56%
NASDAQ         22,694.61     +2.21%
Russell 2000    2,461.42    +2.79%

NOTE: The TSX was closed for Thanksgiving but today is catching up with the gains as well (at least as of the time of this writing).

My word of advice to you all: don't trust a right-wing politician who pushes crap like crypto onto you (hi Pierre Pollievre!) because they aren't doing it to help you out, but to help themselves out. If you believe anything else, then you are a sucker. As this poor guy found out the hard way last week:


NOTE: DCA refers to "dollar cost averaging"

We are living right now in both 1936 Germany but also 1928 America (i.e. right before the 1929 Great Depression and the BIG bubble bursting). This is a time to be cautious about what you invest in, have a lot of money on hand in case of a major recession, and again, don't trust what any right-wing politician tells you, both here and in America. Also, 60 Minutes did an interesting segment the other night with the author of the book "1929" and they talk about the bubbly nature of the asset markets (stocks, gold, silver, crypto...) Watch a clip of it here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lessons-from-1929-wall-street-crash-60-minutes-video-2025-10-12/
 

Proving there IS still some integrity left in D.C. Good for them. 

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Honestly there are days when trying to keep track of all the garbage spewing from the right-wing side both here in Canada and in the US gets exhausting so I have to pick and choose what to focus on. Today the highlight (or lowlight may be more accurate) is the huge uproar over leaked messages from a young Republican online chat that was filled with some really vile commentary about Jews, blacks, rape, etc.

If you thought that once Trump is dead and gone, and Stephen Miller is arrested and the Heritage Foundation is dismantled, that the Republican party would go back to merely being servants of the rich and powerful rather than being a proto-Nazi party trying to emulate Russia, then the content of these chat room messages show that the Republican youth, influenced by the likes of the Charlie Kirks and other right-wing podcasters, are going to be just as bad as Trump.














Here are two postings from The Other 98% that go into the details:

Leaked Telegram chats revealed how leaders of Young Republican chapters across several states joked about gas chambers, slavery, and rape while praising Adolf Hitler. Peter Giunta posted, “I love Hitler,” joked about sending rivals “to the gas chamber,” and mocked the NBA playoffs by saying, “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.” He and others also openly called Black people “the watermelon people,” a phrase used repeatedly in their conversations. The discussion threads showed an environment steeped in hate, with mockery of Black, Jewish, and LGBTQ people that went unnoticed by their peers until the leak forced national attention.?

The racist messages came to light after a former member of the group leaked the full Telegram chat logs to Politico, which first broke the story on October 14, 2025. Politico verified the authenticity of thousands of messages and published the contents in a damning exposé, with outlets like New York Magazine, The Washington Informer, and Yahoo News quickly following up on the report. Several members identified in the leaks held or recently held government positions, some with ties to the Trump administration. The Kansas chapter has since gone inactive and some members now face resignations, but the culture that encouraged such talk clearly runs much deeper.?

These young Republicans are very much products of the MAGA generation that Charlie Kirk helped shape. Kirk’s Turning Point brand encouraged a style of politics that celebrated provocation over principle—and now his followers trade Nazi jokes and racist banter online as the natural outcome of years spent normalizing bigotry in the name of “free speech.” This is the legacy he leaves behind: a generation that confuses cruelty with courage.

Here’s the full uncensored list of the Young Republicans leaders whose racist, rapey, pro-Hitler group text messages leaked in yesterday’s horrifying bombshell.

Let’s make sure their future potential employers to avoid hiring them like the plague!

These are the deplorables who “joked” with each other in private chats over the course of seven months during the Trump administration, thinking that they were impervious to accountability. Their lives all changed radically yesterday when Politico exposed their disgusting texts for all the world to see.
Of the nine people on the list, four are part of the New York chapter of the Young Republicans, two are from the Kansas chapter, two from the Vermont organization, and one from Arizona.

The New York participants are all senior members of the state’s Young Republican organization and are closely associated with Representatives Elise Stefanik and Mike Lawler. They Include:

Peter Giunta — The chair of the New York Young Republicans, Giunta was guilty of making a “joke” about gas chambers in relation to his campaign to become the head of the Young Republican National Federation.

“Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber. And everyone that endorsed but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber,” Giunta texted in the chat, adding that he only wanted “true believers” in his organization. He’s also someone who has proclaimed his allegiance to teenage New York Republicans who “support slavery and all that shit.” This is a man who felt comfortable joking about suicide, saying that he wanted to encourage another Young Republican member to “unalive himself on the convention floor.”

Giunta made a non-apology after his texts were discovered, claiming to accept “complete responsibility,” but going on to speculate that the messages released “may have been deceptively doctored.”

Bobby Walker — Giunta’s vice chair of the New York Young Republicans, Walker had the temerity to call rape “epic” in one of his texts. He also claimed that the texts may have been manipulated before offering a belated apology for his words.

Joe Maligno — The general counsel of the New York organization, Maligno thought that a jocular comment on gas chambers was an appropriate thing to write. "Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic," he contributed to one thread.

Annie Kaykaty — Kaykaty was another New York State Young Republicans national committee member who found gas chambers were a laughing matter. "I’m ready to watch people burn now," she wrote.

The chat participants from Kansas were no less offensive:

Alex Dwyer — The chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, Dwyer thought that it was funny to reply to a question about his hotel room number with “1488,” a number beloved by White supremacists because “14” symbolizes the 14 words in a neo-Nazi slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."  With “H” being the 8th letter of the alphabet, proto-fascists consider it as shorthand for “Heil Hitler.”

William Hendrix —  Dwyer’s vice chair in the Kansas organization, Hendrix has no problem dropping the N-word and homophobic slurs throughout his texts. A former communications director for Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, Hendrix also likes to engage in blatant racist stereotyping, as when he wrote: “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and Kool-Aid with that?”  

Samuel and Brianna Douglass — Samuel is a Vermont State Senator. His wife Brianna is a committee member for the Vermont Young Republicans. They both have no problem expressing their antisemitism freely. When Samuel informed the group that a procedural mistake over the number of delegates from Maryland allowed to attend the organization's national convention was possibly made by someone who was Jewish, his wife Brianna replied: “I was about to say that you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest.”

Luke Mosiman — How much worse can it get than having Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, call for the rape of the chair of the Young Republican National Federation, Hayden Padgett? In all caps, Mosiman texted “RAPE HAYDEN.” He also suggested trying to link white supremacist groups to an opponent before realizing that this plan could actually backfire and give more support to the other candidate.

While other Republicans have been quick to condemn these political operatives as rogue members of their party and have tried to disassociate themselves from them, the fact of the matter is that these were not just ordinary members of the public, but senior officials in the Republican Party’s youth organization.  They are about as representative of the values and behavior of the modern MAGA-fied version of the Republican Party as you can get.

Demonstrating his usual hypocristy, JD Vance rushed to defend the "kids":



NOTE that JD Vance unintentionally admits that he, Trump, and other senior Republican officials make WORSE comments about Jews, blacks, gays, etc. in the Oval Office every single day. Brilliant.





You can bet that it's not just one youth chapter of the Republican party that secretly spews this utter trash. Far-right ideology rots a country from within by poisoning those who seek to lead it politically and it's exactly why right-wingism is the wrong thing for Canada to embrace.

Yesterday's "No Kings" rally seems to have gone off astonishingly well. I've scanned social media and news for reports of any mass arrests or violent outbreaks and it seems that participants heeded the call to keep things serious but light-hearted. New York City police confirmed that they arrested no one at all, which is incredible considering the size of the turnout.

Turnout in America is estimated to be 7 million people, a larger turnout than the first No Kings rally a few months ago.

Since this is being covered by our local news, I won't inundate this thread with too many pictures, just a few to highlight the mood and scope of the rally:









This one from Montreal shows some nice creativity:











The most important lesson to learn about right-wing politicians is this one here:




The White House and Trump, didn't have much to say about the massive rally mocking him and his administration other than to post an AI video that demonstrates he is a mature leader and capable of handling rejection and scorn:







SEE the video here:
https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1979751641067954674
 

Back to broadcasting for a moment, I have no idea what to make of this.

Legendary broadcast journalist once called 'the most trusted man in America' Walter Cronkite appears in newly released Epstein flight logs

RadioActive wrote:

Back to broadcasting for a moment, I have no idea what to make of this.

Legendary broadcast journalist once called 'the most trusted man in America' Walter Cronkite appears in newly released Epstein flight logs

What I want to know is, whose names are in positions 2 and 3?

RadioActive wrote:

Back to broadcasting for a moment, I have no idea what to make of this.

Legendary broadcast journalist once called 'the most trusted man in America' Walter Cronkite appears in newly released Epstein flight logs

Good old Uncle Walter was quite the rogue in his day. He loved the company of attractive women and frequently stated that he wished he was younger during the Swinging 60s as he would have enjoyed being part of free love era . It was only a few months after his wife’s passing that he began “keeping company” with a younger woman, according to his biographer.