OCTOBER 1, 2025

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.”

—Nathaniel Hawthorne.

“Yet, I can face the winter with calm. I suppose I had forgotten what it was really like. I had been thinking of the winter as a horrid wet, dreary time fit only for professional football. Now I can see other things—crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October . . . .”

—A.A. Milne, A Word for Autumn.

The Democrats are infuriated that the Republicans will not add $1.5 trillion in more spending to the House passed continuing resolution. They visibly tremble with rage, accusing Republicans of wanting a federal government shutdown, and to strip millions of Americans of healthcare. The Democrats are full of it.

First, there have been no cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid spending is actually increasing. What has changed about Medicaid is that 1) illegal aliens are no longer to receive it; and, 2) able bodied Americans have got to go to work, instead of lying on the couch in their parents’ basement watching Oprah.

Second, the Democrats are lying about Republicans eliminating Obamacare subsidies. These subsidies were part of emergency Covid pandemic spending. There is no more pandemic. Moreover, the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the Democrats, with no Republican votes, is the legislation that eliminated these Obamacare subsidies. Stated differently, Democrats killed the subsidies, and they are lying to the American people that the Republicans did it.

Why should some subsidize others’ healthcare? Where is that in the Constitution?

Oh. And the Democrats are also demanding the funding of National Public Radio and Television. Please notice that no one on cable news is telling you about this demand. Hmmm.

BRING ON THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

President Trump gave Hamas a choice, accept his peace plan, or Israel finishes the job of obliterating the terrorist organization. A rejection is likely coming. Hamas never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Secretary of War Hegseth met with the military’s flag officers yesterday, informing them that strict military standards were returning, there were going to be no more “fat generals and admirals”, racial quotas were gone, as is “woke culture”. The U.S. military’s purpose is to kill our enemies and break things. It sounds as if it will be returning to its historical roots.

“The idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let’s say it: white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology, it’s just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.”

–Hillary Clinton.

Why won’t she just go away? She is such an awful person.

Three (3) members of Congress, Representatives Summer Lee, Ayanna Presley, and Yvette Clark–Democrats all–publicly mourned the death of cop killer and communist Joane Chesimard. So too did the Chicago Public Schools Teachers Union. These are all people who refused to say a kind word about Charlie Kirk following his assassination. But let a murderer die, and . . . it’s just so sad. Very, very sad.

Dover, New Jersey Mayor James P. Dodd (D.) is backing the Republican gubernatorial candidate in this year’s election. Mayor Dodd says he is tired of crime, high taxes, sanctuary policies for illegal aliens, and other Democrat positions. GOOD FOR HIM!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is celebrating the anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s founding. What in the world . . . .

Mao Tse Tung’s Cultural Revolution was a campaign to rid China of “capitalist roaders” and enforce ideological purity.  The CCP branded landlords, intellectuals, and traditionalists as enemies and dehumanized them through propaganda.  Fueled by slogans like “to rebel is justified,” the Red Guards conducted “struggle sessions,” where they publicly shamed and tortured victims like the writer Lao She, who was beaten and possibly murdered.  Many zealots were recruited from colleges and universities by their instructors.  Ironically, many of those same professors were later targeted by the very students they had recruited.  In Guangxi, zealots took this vilification to grotesque extremes, going so far as to engage in cannibalism.  These acts were not spontaneous, but orchestrated.  Traditional culture was annihilated, Confucian temples were torn down, Buddhist relics burned, and opera banned as bourgeois.

The CCP’s rhetoric justified the violence, framing capitalists as subhuman threats, leading to massacres like Dao County’s 9,000 killings.  This systemic dehumanization left China scarred, with institutions hollowed out and a “lost generation” exiled to re-education camps.

Some of that sounds disturbingly familiar.  Although we haven’t seen incidents of cannibalism, or people being tortured and murdered in public, we are seeing college students attacking their Jewish classmates.  We’ve seen Democrat party leaders and media influencers openly calling for violence against members of law enforcement, conservatives, and Republicans, calling them “fascists,” “Nazis,” and threats to democracy using “Gestapo-like tactics.”  Some Democrats have called for Trump-supporters to be sent to re-education camps.  Maxine Waters urged supporters to publicly confront Trump officials, while Kamala Harris praised “mostly peaceful” riots that caused billions in damages and dozens of deaths.  Jesse Kelly likened Democrat rhetoric to jihadi programming, warning that it primes followers for violence.  The White House blamed Democrats’ “Gestapo” rhetoric for a 1,000% surge in assaults on federal agents.  Legacy media outlets like CNN and MSNBC continually frame conservatives as dangerous, much like how CCP propaganda vilified capitalists.  China’s suppression of dissent created echo chambers that fueled division, much like what passes for news programming on legacy media outlets.

–Kevin Finn, The American Thinker (September 30, 2025).

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D.) missed yet another opportunity to condemn Hamas and its terrorism. Why keep asking him? He clearly is pro-terrorist. He is a Muslim commie, for goodness sakes! He hates Jews. And America.

“We are witnessing a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women, who have through their presence in our nation been nurturing precisely the religious, cultural, communitarian and familial bonds that are most frayed and most valuable at this moment in our country’s history.”

–Cardinal Robert McElroy.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Washington, D.C., called President Trump’s immigration policies a “governmental assault” upon illegal aliens. A little hyperbolic, don’t you think? The illegal aliens are not nurturing this country. They are not supposed to be in this country. The President is enforcing the law. Which is his job. It’s a shame that previous Presidents did not do their jobs.

Former CNN host Don Lemon blames “white men” for all the nation’s troubles. Hmmm. This is what happens when you lose your job and stare at a screen all day. Your brain rots. Do not let his happen to you.

The return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to the airwaves was a huge success. For 2 days. Since then, the show has lost 64% of its audience. Because Jimmy Kimmel is neither funny nor interesting.

Iran agreed to accept the deportation and repatriation of 120 Iranians who illegally entered the United States. It is a start. WINNING!

The National Football League chose rapper Bad Bunny to headline its Super Bowl halftime show. Horrible decision. Who listens to Bad Bunny? And the man hates America, calls American sovereignty over Puerto Rico “colonialism”, wishes death on ICE agents, and is for open borders. Can the NFL not find an American loving patriot to headline the halftime show?

GFK