Well deserved

The Trumps have enjoyed a highly lucrative two years, riding a wave of crypto deals and other business enterprises into billions of dollars in new wealth. But around 7:10 p.m. ET Tuesday night—as some of the early election results were just beginning to stream in—the first family’s fortunes changed.

That’s when markets started turning against some of the Trumps’ most valuable ventures. The drop started with the price of the $TRUMP meme coin—an essentially useless bit of crypto that the president helped create shortly before returning to office. Truthfully, $TRUMP has been a bit of a dud in terms of an investment for awhile—after hitting a high of $74, it has slid farther and farther; it was hovering around $1.60 through Tuesday afternoon and early evening. But then it dropped precipitously.

[...]

Something similar happened with the WLFI token—a crypto asset created by World Liberty Financial, the Trumps’ decentralized finance company. The token, which can be bought and sold but is mainly used to vote on decisions about the company’s operations, was worth about 5.1 cents at 7:10 p.m. By 8 p.m. it was worth 4.6 cents. The price briefly recovered overnight but plummeted again Wednesday, hovering around 4.7 cents by mid-afternoon.

Shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of the president’s Truth Social platform, also took a nose-dive in after-hours trading, beginning a little after 7 p.m. The stock closed Tuesday at $5.95 per share. It opened Wednesday morning at $5.37. By Wednesday afternoon, it had fallen below $4.60, an all-time low.

[...]

If the Trump financial products have served as a way for people to win the president’s attention, ingratiate themselves, or just get as close as possible, the rebuke voters delivered to Trump last night instantly makes him, and his businesses, a less attractive investment.

  Mother Jones

It's going to be fun watching countries and companies who have been dancing with Trump start leaving him on the dance floor alone.

I won't be surprised if the Trumps all take their money and run to another country. In fact, Trump mentioned something about moving to Israel a couple days ago.

Good riddance.

Answering the question: What should Dems do first?

 Sideline Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

It's not retribution: it's cleaning up the mess and preventing further corruption.

Hakeem should go outside AIPAC DC and actually find out what the American people want.

UPDATE 04:44 pm:

The message for the GOP couldn't be clearer

 

No more concerns from Susan Collins!  No more Lauren Boebert bullshit!  Ken Paxton, Greg Abbott, adios!  A black woman is going to be governor of Texas! Abdul el-Sayed won Michigan!

Look at all the flipped seats.  Finally, America understood the assignment.  They understood their interests.  It's a shame it took the near destruction of the country for them to do it, but, they did it.

A Fox News ("News") commentator this morning said he was surprised at the depth of the "tsunami", indicating that even state and local offices have flipped to Democrat.  Now, hold their feet to the fire, America.  And that goes double for Jeffries and Schumer.

Robert Garcia has warned the crooks and swindlers who have aided and abetted the Trump crime family to "lawyer up" - I expect there's a lot of that going on today.  

And I'm looking forward to the Trumps moving to another country.

“If we’re really going to take on the affordability crisis, we’ve got to take on the corruption of the Trumps because they’re stealing people’s money, their labor,” Garcia told Punchbowl News.

  LGBTQ Nation

And, speaking of another country, it's going to be fun seeing other countries who've been dancing to Trump's tune leave him standing alone on the dance floor.

And one last caution: 

Aside from all the crazy, dangerous shit Trump will pull between now and the new Congress, they're going to be pressuring Alito and Thomas to retire so they can replace them with young hard right MAGA judges (think Aileen Cannon) so they can hold SCOTUS for decades to come.  Democrats MUST attend to SCOTUS reform.  And stop going along with GOP appointments and maneuvers.

UPDATE 4:20pm:

I  hear murmurings that Hegseth's job is on the line.  Stay tuned.

WHAT A NIGHT

 And, I'd like to personally welcome Texas to the 21st century.

UPDATE 11/04/2026:

Today's the day you save democracy - VOTE BLUE

 Be careful out there.

UPDATE 10:30pm:

Well done, America.

UPDATE 11/04/2026:

Another example

 Trump's quick, tacky, cheap schemes paid for by our tax dollars.

Are billionaires why we can't have nice things?

Well, they're part of the problem, anyway.

If Democrats regain power in Congress and they don't get some of the problem solved, they should be replaced by Progressives and Democratic Socialists.

Just in time for the midterms

The Social Security Administration has sent out emails extolling the (fake) virtues of Donald Trump's greatness.  It begins...

Under President Donald J. Trump, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is transforming into a model of excellence, one that meets and exceeds customer expectations for fast, accurate, and secure service. In 2026, SSA gave Americans back 200 million hours of time they previously would have spent waiting for service, equivalent to putting 100,000 work years back into the economy.

This should count as campaign contribution and/or interference.  Your tax dollars at work.

Also, it's pure bullshit.

 

Vote on Tuesday

 

Worth a full read

Washington, D.C. (October 26, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a sweeping new Committee staff report, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up,” detailing evidence involving 11 women, five of whom directly accuse Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault in Jeffrey Epstein’s close company or presence. The report concludes that, based on the available evidence and witness testimony, Trump and Paolo Zampolli—who until recently served as a senior Trump Administration official and diplomat—may have been co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s.

[...]

“Donald Trump says he knew Jeffrey Epstein ‘just like everybody in Palm Beach knew him.’ Not exactly. Evidence involving 11 women tells a completely different and far more damning story about their relationship and the abuse of young women and girls that took place in their network. Five women have directly accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company or presence; others have indicated that Epstein or Maxwell attempted to traffic them to Trump. These women have spoken to investigators and, in some cases, testified under oath, yet Trump’s Justice Department has shut down investigations, deliberately withheld evidence and, through Todd Blanche, prevented Ghislaine Maxwell from discussing a survivor whose account implicated Trump—all while insisting there is no basis upon which to investigate Epstein’s possible accomplices. Trump’s Justice Department appears to be covering up these crimes to protect the President.

  House Judiciary Committee

How did this come to be?

 

Oh what a surprise

 

VOTE EARLY

Vote early.  It's a hedge against Republican efforts to steal the election.  One of the possibilities in the offing is that they seize the voting machines.  If you vote early, there are fewer votes to steal that way. 

Vote by mail if possible, but do it now, because there's talk of the post office holding up mail close to election day.  

More reasons...

And vote Democratic.  Republicans in power increases the chance that your right to vote at all will continue to be under attack.

Elite Democrats out in the open

 

Vote Democrat.  The best possible news for the country (including even MAGA Republicans) is that the DSA will gain control.  

Is MTG having any influence?

 

Yeah, and fuck Chuck.

Tomorrow...

 

YWA Birthday

October 13, 2003.  Twenty-three years!  Good god.  No wonder we're slowing down to a crawl.

Everything out there is bullshit.  Turn to your inner self for guidance.  Good luck.  It's all in the game.

Blessings.

No Kings protests

 

ICE is very much still active

 

UPDATE 10/07/2026:

Day 2, ICE in Rockford:

VOTE

 

This is why Aileen Cannon will not release the report

 

MTG!

 

Is she gonna vote Democratic in November???

And, wait! John Kennedy???!

MTG will be able to say she was one of the first to dump Trump.

The states are united no longer

It's every state for itself in the era of Trump.

 

Maine - and US citizens - will finally be rid of Susan Collins

 

On second thought, it's not guaranteed.

I wonder if she's "concerned".