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Trump: Rogers 'Obliterated' El-Sayed in Mich. Debate

 

President Donald Trump said Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers "completely obliterated" Democrat opponent Abdul El-Sayed in Thursday night's debate, praising the former congressman in one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races.

"Mike Rogers, the great American Patriot and Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, completely obliterated Mohammed El-Sayed in the big debate tonight," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"If this was a fight they would have stopped it," the president added.

Trump, who repeatedly called El-Sayed "Mohammed" rather than Abdul, accused the progressive Democrat of holding extremist views and making false statements.

"Mohammed is a Jihadist lunatic who hates our Country, the Black People of Detroit,

 

 and wants to see the U.S. fail," Trump wrote.

"I won Michigan BIG, and know that Mike Rogers, a total winner, is the man for you!!!" Trump added.

Thursday's debate was combative, with the candidates repeatedly exchanging personal attacks and continuing their arguments during a commercial break.

Moderator Rick Albin repeatedly tried to restore order.

"I'd like to be a part of the debate, too," Albin said.

"In 30 years of doing debates, I've never seen it continue during the commercial, but it did," he later remarked.

Rogers accused El-Sayed, a former public health official, of misrepresenting his medical credentials, calling him a "con man."

El-Sayed countered that Rogers would serve as a "sock puppet" for Trump.

Despite Trump's enthusiastic endorsement, Rogers has recently broken with the administration on several issues.

Rogers reiterated during Thursday's debate that the war with Iran must end quickly and defended his opposition to Trump's tariffs on Canada.

"We know that Canada is not our enemy," Rogers said in a campaign advertisement released Wednesday.

Rogers also criticized federal immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, saying authorities could have handled them differently.

El-Sayed faced questions about his positions on Israel and Iran, issues that have generated concerns among some Jewish voters in Michigan.

Asked whether he would support providing weapons to Israel if it were attacked, El-Sayed said he opposed using U.S. taxpayer money to subsidize foreign wars.

El-Sayed also declined to say whether Iran or Israel posed the greater threat, calling the question "ridiculous."

Trump had attacked El-Sayed on Truth Social late Wednesday, calling him a "RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer" and reiterating his "COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT" of Rogers.

El-Sayed, who was born in the United States to Egyptian immigrant parents, accused Trump of targeting him because of his name and Muslim faith.

Rogers narrowly lost Michigan's 2024 Senate election to Democrat Elissa Slotkin by fewer than 20,000 votes.

El-Sayed secured this year's Democrat nomination by defeating Rep. Haley Stevens in a closely contested primary.

Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who supported Stevens in the primary, appeared alongside El-Sayed on Thursday as the party sought to unite ahead of November's election.

Credit: newsmax.com 

 

Hoo Boy: Mike Rogers Goes to Town on Abdul El-Sayed in MI Senate Debate

Well, they had the Michigan Senate debate on Thursday with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers. 

It looks like Rogers was not shy about going to town on all the problematic issues that El-Sayed has, while the Dem often stood there, looking peeved and aggrieved. 

One of the attacks El-Sayed is constantly trying to make is that Rogers has a home in Florida. But as Rogers pointed out, that's a bad attack when the reality is that El-Sayed owns property in the United Arab Emirates. "At least Florida is in the United States," Rogers said on Thursday. 

 

Oh, my, that was good. 

Then there was the problem that the "doctor" can't actually practice.

El-Sayed would like you to think he'd solve your healthcare issues. Of course, we've heard that line from Barack Obama before, and it just messed things up even more. 

Rogers said El-Sayed would take away your private insurance, still cost you more for everything, and raise your taxes. 

El-Sayed claimed you could keep your private health insurance if you wanted to. Where have we heard that before? And that's inconsistent with what he's said on prior occasions.

Rogers ripped El-Sayed badly for failing to mention the Oct. 7 attack on the third anniversary. Not only were more than 1,000 people killed, but 49 of them were Americans. 

El-Sayed, amazingly, tried to frame it as making political gain on other people's pain.

I reported earlier that El-Sayed was asked by a reporter who was the greater threat to the U.S.: Israel or Iran. But he was asked that question at the debate, and he still couldn't do it, calling it a "ridiculous hypothetical." 

Unbelievable. He has no business being in the Senate. 

But it sure sounds like Rogers may have done him in here, but good. 

Credit:  https://redstate.com

 

More Info on NYC ICE Shooting As Anti-ICE Agitators Cause Chaos

There was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) involved shooting in New York City on Thursday. 

We reported on some of the immediate details, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was already whipping up the anti-ICE screed before the facts were even known.

Now the Department of Homeland Security has released a statement on the matter. 

On October 8, at approximately 4:00 PM ET, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession. He has associations to the Trinitarios gang, the same gang who brutally shot a CBP officer last year. 

This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk.

During the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the criminal illegal alien was injured. 

ICE officers immediately rendered aid. The individual is alive and at a local hospital. The FBI and HSI are on the scene. The incident remains under investigation. More information will be shared as it becomes available.

So once again, someone was allegedly released into the community because of Democrat policies. Somehow I missed that in the rants of people like Mamdani. They can't just wait for the facts. 

Meanwhile, the anti-ICE crew was already galvanized and out on the streets. They were causing chaos outside of the hospital where the man who was shot was taken.

About 300 activists gathered outside the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, yelling for ICE to get “off our streets." 

“From Palestine to Mexico, all these walls have got to go,” the group chanted. “We want ICE off our streets. No justice, no peace...F**k ICE...Quit your job." Some wore masks or keffiyehs. 

There was a shoving match as the NYPD tried to keep people back with barricades. Socialist Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier got shoved to the ground, as did one of the white-shirted members of the NYPD (who are usually of higher rank). 

Agitators also pushed back against the barricades and tried to block federal vehicles, as you can see here. You even had one guy saying, "We have to fight our way out of this by any means necessary," and that ICE "must be completely destroyed," as seen here.

Credit: https://redstate.com 

 

USAID Gets Gutted and All of a Sudden Everyone Stops Being Gay

It’s the purge, LGBT edition. Okay, it’s not. We’re not Iran, but the number of youths identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual is in freefall. Call it the ‘un-gaying’ of America or whatever, but there has been a long-overdue course correction since the end of the COVID pandemic. For a time, youth rates of LGBT identity were off the charts; some called it a fad. If those rates had held, by 2050, everyone would be gay (via WaPo):

Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than they were a few years ago, according to a new analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

The decline is particularly striking among ninth-grade girls, according to Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University who published her analysis of the 2025 data on her Substack “Generation Tech.” In 2021, 30 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual. Last year, 17 percent did.

“It really does look like a free fall,” Twenge said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.”

 

Twenge has been researching generational differences for decades. As part of that work, she regularly analyzes data from the CDC’s biennial Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.

The “free fall,” Twenge found, mostly comes from a huge drop in the number of freshmen girls who identify as bisexual. While 26 percent of ninth-grade girls identified as bisexual in 2021, only 13 percent — half as many — did in 2025.

Online, conservative activists celebrated the news as a win brought on by the Donald Trump administration.

“Amazing what happens when you cut the Department of Education and USAID,” Terry Schilling, the head of the American Principles Project, wrote on X.

The rate of boys who identify as gay has been steady, remaining the same for the past 10 years. Twenge says the decline had its roots under Biden, and it’s puzzling why only girls’ sexual orientation numbers were affected. 

When did this start under Biden? Does it matter? It accelerated big-league under Trump, and USAID being dismantled and roped into the State Department seems to jibe with the timeline. At any rate, it makes for a better story, so look what happens when you gut USAID — everyone stops being gay, as our Siraj Hashmi said:

Credit:  https://townhall.com

 

The January 6 Committee's Star Witness Better Have a Good Lawyer

Okay, she probably already has a lawyer, but the fact remains: she’ll need a good one, at least until she’s out of the woods. The Trump DOJ is moving to indict Cassidy Hutchinson for providing false testimony before Congress. She was the January 6 select committee’s star witness, a dog-and-pony show that wasted taxpayer dollars. Hutchinson decided to spill the beans about what happened during that little riot, including a patently untrue, laughable anecdote about Trump trying to commandeer the Beast to head to the Capitol. That’s not even grounded in reality. A federal grand jury has heard evidence for charges 

 

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has heard evidence concerning possible false statements former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Fox News Digital has learned.

Additional evidence could be presented to the grand jury as soon as next week, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The proceedings remain in the grand jury phase, and no final decisions have been made about whether the matter will result in criminal charges, the source said.

[…]

During a nationally televised hearing in June 2022, Hutchinson provided testimony about Trump's actions on Jan. 6, including an account she said she heard from another White House official about the president's reaction after being told he could not travel to the Capitol.

Her account of an alleged confrontation inside the presidential vehicle was subsequently disputed by other individuals familiar with the events.

We’ll see what happens, but I would expect the worst. That saying about grand juries and ham sandwiches comes to mind. 

Also, I'm dropping this piece from The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway and Tristian Justice to rehash a few things. 

Credit: https://townhall.com  

 

Feds and local police launch joint law enforcement initiative 'Operation Save Skid Row,' executing series of raids across downtown L.A. and surrounding areas

Federal authorities and local law enforcement agencies launched a major joint law enforcement initiative dubbed “Operation Save Skid Row,” executing a series of coordinated drug enforcement raids across Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding residential areas.

The multi-agency sweep, carried out by federal law enforcement alongside the Los Angeles Police Department and local task forces, targeted over two dozen alleged drug dealers and distributors accused of orchestrating narcotics distribution rings that deliberately preyed upon the neighborhood’s vulnerable homeless population.

Law enforcement personnel served dozens of search and arrest warrants at private residences, temporary shelters and makeshift street encampments throughout the 50-block containment zone of Skid Row and surrounding neighborhoods. Investigators revealed that multiple suspects posed as homeless individuals living in tents to blend in while running open-air narcotics operations.

The large raid resulted in major seizures of illicit substances, including lethal doses of fentanyl, illicit methamphetamine and cocaine, along with illegal firearms, high-end luxury vehicles and substantial amounts of cash accumulated through daily street sales.

City leaders and prosecution officials described the action as a necessary step to dismantling the organized criminal networks that profit off addiction and perpetuate high rates of violent crime in Downtown L.A.

Officials emphasized the need to draw a clear line between organized narcotics suppliers exploiting vulnerable residents and the unhoused individuals struggling with substance use disorders, promising expanded treatment access and shelter resources alongside strict criminal prosecution for high-level distributors operating in the district.

“That is why this is such a historic operation. It is the largest operation targeting Skid Row and these drug dealers in Los Angeles history,” L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said during a news conference.

“We are very focused on not just having a one-dimensional, go out and take off street dealers; we’re trying to get street dealers, mid-level distributors, and then the source of those drugs as well,” LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell added.

As part of today's Operation #SaveSkidRow, the FBI and our multiple partners arrested 23 defendants out of a total of 28 individuals who are charged in federal criminal complaints with narcotics trafficking, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, in and around the Skid Row… pic.twitter.com/5tl9kyWW1A

 — FBI Los Angeles (@FBILosAngeles) October 8, 2026

Credit:  https://www.oann.com/

 

Paxton and Trump Mock Talarico with Missing Posters, Demand Debate

 Joe Biden did the same thing in 2020, is this another rigged election?

The Texas Senate race just got louder. What started as a short absence by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico — his campaign says he had the flu and was appearing virtually — has turned into a full-blown Republican sound-and-light show. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s rally chants, mock “missing-person” posters, and President Donald Trump’s public taunts have pushed the story into the final stretch of a high-stakes campaign.

The Scene: Posters, Chants, and a Presidential Push

Republicans seized the moment like a political NFL team recovering a fumble. Paxton led supporters in a “Where is James Talarico?” chant, his campaign circulated mock missing‑person posters and demanded “proof of life,” and President Donald Trump labeled Talarico “MISSING IN ACTION” while pressing for a debate. The Paxton campaign’s theatrical approach is meant to generate viral headlines, and so far it’s worked: the optics are headline‑friendly and easy to repeat on social media.

 

 The Debate Question: Who’s Afraid of the Stage?

Talarico says he has accepted multiple debate invitations and plans to return to in‑person events. That may be true, but optics matter more than intention in the closing days of a campaign. Paxton has a history of dodging on‑stage matchups, so Trump’s call for a debate flips the script and tries to paint Talarico as the one hiding. The result is a messy public argument over who will step onto a stage — and voters pay attention to who shows up and who makes excuses.

What’s at Stake: Late Voters, Momentum, and Trust

This flap comes at a delicate moment. Early voting is underway and late undecided voters can be swayed by a single viral image or rally chant. Republicans are betting that repeated questions about Talarico’s whereabouts will stick and raise doubts about his fortitude. For Democrats, letting a narrative about absence fester is risky. Whether the public sees a candidate legitimately recovering from a flu or a campaign that can’t keep its nominee in front of voters will shape turnout and fundraising in the days left.

Watch List: What Should Happen Next

Here’s what we should expect and demand: Talarico should show up — not just tweet — and lay out a clear schedule for returning to the trail and the debate stage. Paxton should either accept the debate offers or stop pretending the issue is Talarico’s availability. Reporters should verify medical claims without invading privacy, and they should press Paxton on who paid for the posters and whether he will actually debate. If this race were a TV drama, producers just found a ratings stunt. The real test is whether either campaign converts the noise into votes.

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US Debt Tops $40T — Markets Push Back, Buybacks Won’t Save Us

 The United States just cleared a grim milestone: the federal ledger topped roughly $40 trillion. That number should not be treated like a party trick. It is a flashing red light. Markets noticed. Washington offered short-term tricks. The real question is whether our political class will bite the hard medicine or keep feeding the addiction that sent the bill to our kids.

Debt crosses $40 trillion — not a magic number, but a dangerous one

Treasury’s daily accounting shows total public debt outstanding at just over $40 trillion. That’s roughly equal to our annual output — about 100% of GDP — and it has climbed fast. The Congressional Budget Office now says net interest costs are running near $1 trillion and will only grow under current law. The Government Accountability Office has been warning that this fiscal path is unsustainable. These are not opinions from the cheap seats; they are the official scorekeepers telling us we are spending tomorrow’s money today.

Short-term calm, long-term risk

Investors pushed long-term Treasury yields higher as the debt load grew and demand for long paper weakened. A high-yield 30-year auction and rising mortgage and bond rates were the market’s way of saying “this costs more.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to calm things by expanding buyback operations for longer-dated notes. Fine — buybacks are a tool. They are not, however, a structural fix. They are a temp band-aid on a growing wound.

Who pays? Every American household feels it

Higher long-term yields do not just hurt the federal budget. They raise mortgage rates, auto loans, and business borrowing costs. That squeezes families and slows growth — the very engines that could help pay down debt. Meanwhile, interest expense is becoming one of the largest lines on the federal ledger, crowding out priorities. The political class can argue about blame and slogans, but the math is brutally simple: more debt plus higher rates equals higher taxes, fewer services, or both down the road.

Fix it or keep kicking the can — the choice is political

 

We are at a fork in the road. One path is fiscal responsibility: honest budgets, entitlement reform, lower waste, and policies that promote real growth and competition. The other is more of what Washington already offers — gimmicks, insider carve-outs, and short-term management that leaves the core problem untouched. Conservatives should push for real reform and restore competitive capitalism, not grandstanding that ignores how the federal ledger actually works. If we want to be the nation of inventors and risk-takers that we claim to be, we must stop being the nation of spenders for the political class. That’s the hard truth. If our leaders refuse to act, the market will act for them — and that bill will be painful for ordinary Americans.

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