Bad Deal for Ukraine

Plus: Executiongate, in defense of tradwives, New York gun case, and more...

Trump's deadline for Ukraine: President Donald Trump is apparently pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, drafted up by special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, by American Thanksgiving—aka six days from now.

The draft plan kind of sucks for Ukraine. It would force Zelenskyy to massively reduce the size of Ukraine's military—from around 800,000 to 600,000—and even turn over territory to Russia that hasn't yet been conquered, which has historically been a sticking point for the Ukrainian delegation. It's a bright red line of something they don't do. "Russia would receive 'de facto recognition' of its control of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk, as well as of the areas of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia it has illegally seized, with the conflict in these regions frozen on the current front line," reports The Washington Post. And while "the draft rules out Ukraine's membership of the Nato military alliance, it keeps the door open for its membership of the European Union," notes the BBC.

Ukraine isn't starting from a strong position. "Russia has made further advances in the east of the country. Moscow's long-range strikes on Ukraine's grid has left most of the country facing power cuts," adds the BBC. "Allegations of serious corruption in Ukraine's government have also led to political infighting and diverted attention from the war."

Meanwhile, "it doesn't seem like everyone in the Russian government is interested in this," a source familiar with the situation told the Post.

In terms of deterrents, if Russia decided to attack Ukraine again at some point in the future, the deal notes that all current sanctions would be reinstated and recognition of the territories they acquired would be revoked. But how exactly would that work in practice?

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Scenes from New York: "Justice Democrats, the organization that helped power Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's rise to Congress in 2018, will test New York City's political climate by throwing its support behind an insurgent challenger to Representative Adriano Espaillat," reports The New York Times. The challenger is Darializa Avila Chevalier, a social justice organizer (fake job!) from Harlem.

Avila Chevalier is also an investigator in a public defender office in Harlem, and has also lead protests against the Israel-Hamas war at Columbia University. (You can guess which side.) In the past, she helped lobby for the removal of a Central Park statue of the 19th-century gynecologist J. Marion Sims.

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• "Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he sees room for the US central bank to cut interest rates again in the near term as the labor market softens," reports Bloomberg. "In the text of a speech he delivered Friday in Santiago, Chile, Williams said downside risks to employment have increased while upside risks to inflation have eased."
• A group of lawmakers posted a video saying federal law enforcement "can refuse illegal orders" and "must refuse illegal orders." They continue: "This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens." They say that "right now the threats of our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad but right here at home." The president, pissed off by this, called this "seditious behavior, punishable by DEATH!" The White House then had to issue a statement, um, clarifying that Trump wasn't actually calling for the execution of members of Congress.

TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE SAYS

— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) November 20, 2025

• Disturbing:

Senior citizen with no arrest history broke some unduly burdensome gun laws because he wanted to protect himself—a bet that paid off when he was put in a situation in which he needed to use deadly force. Rather than give him a permit for the gun he ended up needing (and never… https://t.co/DKmuLNl0aA

— Rafael A. Mangual (@Rafa_Mangual) November 21, 2025

Comments

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It was so nice seeing all the democrats mourn for Darth Cheney.

Theo Wold
@RealTheoWold
Rachel Maddow once described Dick Cheney as the "maestro of terror."

Now, she sits proudly next to Anthony Fauci and James Carville at his funeral because he endorsed Kamala Harris.

It's an important reminder of what President Trump's meteoric political rise represented: A rejection of Maddow's liberal elitism and the old guard Republican Party of Bush and Cheney.

Donald Trump's very existence is a complete repudiation of them-- and they're now all on the same team because of it.

[Marshal]

I like this one:

[x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1991536201233273022]

What a moment at the Cheney funeral. A light hearted exchange between old political rivals George W. Bush and Al Gore had President JoeBiden and DrBiden laughing along.

It felt like a glimpse of the country we used to be, and the country we could still be without the constant chaos Donald Trump injected into our politics.

Presumably he means we should return to the days when Dems / the left both called everyone who disagreed with them Hitler and also criticized the Hitlers for their extreme rhetoric driving their supporters to violence and everyone just accepted it as normal.
Truly it was the golden age of leftism in America.

[Chumby]

The Steamy Steamer Team D Starting to List

BREAKING - President Trump on Jeffrey Epstein: "Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, who ran Harvard, was with him every single night, every single weekend. They lived together. They went to his island many times. I never did."

- Insider Paper (from Fox News)

Bill Clinton was at the island? I’m shocked!

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

26 times

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

This goes deeper.

https://x.com/jameshartline/status/1991712515785650285?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

Scandal grows as the Democratic Party's fraudulent Release The Epstein Files Hoax implodes. Congressional Democrats and Democratic Party leaders who attempted to smear President Trump and Congressional Republicans with their Release The Epstein Files Hoax have now been implicated with deep financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein's biggest enablers, acomplices and ring leaders in Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

Democrat megadonor Larry Summers is now at the very center of the Epstein scandal. Summers served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 during Bill Clinton's presidency, as the 27th president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, and as the eighth director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010 during the Obama presidency.

Summers has donated vast amounts of money to Democrats including many currently serving in Congress. He recently made another sizeable contribution in 2025 to Democrat Maggie Goodlander for her congressional campaign in New Hampshire.

In addition to large campaign contributions to a sizeable number of Democrats currently serving in Congress, many of whom are the lead smear merchants in spreading the Release The Epstein Files Hoax, Summers has dumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Cadaver Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and the DNC.

Summers and his wife traveled to Epstein's Orgy Island for their honeymoon. Summers also maintained intimate email correspondence with Epstein long after he had been convicted and jailed on child prostitution charges in 2008.

I will be exposing every single one of the Democratic Party's Release The Epstein Files hoaxers and their ties to Jeffrey Epstein, his enablers and a host of other sexual predators.

Scoundrels in the Democratic Party will learn that hoaxes have consequences.
@DataRepublican @T_Q_Gardner @labtechleigh @jacktronprime @RNCResearch @RapidResponse47 @GOP @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @AGPamBondi @TheJusticeDept @HouseGOP @GOPoversight @PressSec

Summers is in this up to the last hairs on his head.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Jeffries taking donations. Plaskett coordinating with epstein. The dems are all over the files.

Meanwhile they keep saying trump is mentioned 1500 times.... in a derogatory manner by epstein.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

It’s amazing how many Democrats were well connected to Epstein. It’s also shocking that Shrike has nothing to say about it, LOL.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Kung fu shrike has been trying.

[Chumby]

Maybe trying to chaff & redirect away from any spittin tobacky moguls that visited Neverland Island.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Fucking ripples man.

https://www.atlantafed.org/research/inflationproject/feature/2024/10/23/business-inflation-expectations-relatively-unchanged

Business Inflation Expectations Remain Relatively Unchanged at 2.2 Percent

Firms' inflation expectations for the coming year are relatively unchanged at 2.2 percent. Sales levels and profit margins compared to "normal times" increased, according to the Atlanta Fed's latest Business Inflation Expectations survey.

[Chumby]

Give Peas a Chance

UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL TELLS AXIOS THAT ZELENSKY HAS INFORMED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HE DOES NOT REJECT NEGOTIATIONS ON THE PEACE PLAN ...

- Market News Feed

Eurotrash EUnuchs reportedly not included in the process.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

About that "bad" jobs report...

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/native-born-workers-rise-2-million-under-trump-new-record-high-foreign-born-plunge-16

To wit: in September, the number of native-born workers surged by 676K (after the August drop of 561K), while foreign-born workers dropped by 70K.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Huh kinda like Trump had in mind. But it seems unpossible because Americans won't do those jobs.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Better to kick citizens to welfare so they vote Democrat.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The draft plan kind of sucks for Ukraine.

Oh, Elizabeth. You don't understand negotiations at all.

[Chumby]

Russia is presently liberating a bit of territory. And VVP reluctant to sign anything with the current nazi criminal puppet regime in Kiev. He recalls when NAFO committed to not expand east of East Germany. Trump would need to lift oil sanctions for this to happen. FSB not sharing all the details.

[Mickey Rat]

A criminal dictatorship is "liberating" Ukrainian territory?

Do not forget to breathe while you are gobbling Putin's nutsack.

[Chumby]

Russia has elections, unlike Ukraine or the team D primary.

Nazi slavers that support the current CIA globohomo color revolution puppet bandera regime can warboner in person by volunteering for their foreign legion:

https://www.ildu.com.ua/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The sunk money and taxpayer dollars for the US suck even more.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

When you take into account that we kind of started this shit with Euro Maiden, it’s probably fair. We should’ve left well enough alone and kept Victoria Neuland at home, preferably in a jail cell.

[Chumby]

Nuland could have been a product tester at Ben & Jerry’s. If they kept the doors standard size she’d eventually not be able to leave keeping her far away from meddling in the business of foreign nations.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Jeffy would’ve been jealous.

[Chumby]

Should ask him his favorite B&J flavor should he waddle back into the comments.

[Chumby]

Too Cheeky?

Colchester, Essex. A binman was caught on camera punching a naked man who was cycling in a charity event after mistaking him for a pervert.

The cyclist, who was taking part in a World Naked Bike Ride event, was then punched by Turnage, causing him to fall to the pavement.

Turnage, 46, of Colchester, was sentenced to 14 months in prison, suspended for two years, earlier this month.

https://t.me/leaklive/29813

Cyclists don’t go to heaven.

[Use the Schwartz]

"mistaking him for a pervert."

Hmmm.

[shadydave]

"A binman was caught on camera punching a naked man who was cycling in a charity event after mistaking him for a pervert."

I'm pretty sure that wasn't a mistake.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The challenger is Darializa Avila Chevalier, a social justice organizer (fake job!) from Harlem.

Back in my day that was a community organizer and anyone holding the moniker was presidential material.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
.@ASDschools put a “disclaimer” on the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

“The Anchorage School District does not endorse these materials or the viewpoint expressed in them.”

You cannot make this up.

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1987690892648444245

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Mamdani show is already the funniest thing on TV.

Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
Q: “How are you getting the $700M to make the buses free if the Governor is not for raising taxes?”

MAMDANI: “Through the raising of the state's corporate tax.”

Q: “But she said no…”

MAMDANI: “The most important fact is that we fund it, not the question of how we do it.”

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1991484566503321696

[Medulla Oblongata]

Cross that one off my list. I was hoping to get that Mamdani quote posted today!

[Chumby]

This is delightful. NYC about to enter into the “Find Out” half of the equation.

[Marshal]

Isn't it odd the left's concern over blatant lies suddenly stopped? Surely it's just an oversight.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

This guy is about to make Brandon Johnson look smart.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It would force Zelenskyy to massively reduce the size of Ukraine's military—from around 800,000 to 600,000...

Trump knows that signers of his peace plans never actually mean to disarm as agreed.

[Chumby]

Russia also knows not to trust western agreements.

[Fist of Etiquette]

why tradwives don't deserve to be disparaged...

Oh, sure, now that Trump's back in office you feel safe to come out for tradwives.

[Fist of Etiquette]

THAT'S A JOKE. Anyone who wants to subject friends and strangers to their offspring is always going to be for tradwiving.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Well trump ended their au pairs.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Amazing study of how much fraud is in thr Somali community and Minnesota and how US tax dollars are now the biggest gunder of an Islamic terrorist group in Somalia due yo it.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab

“The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

CAIR caught funding violent agitators.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/18/us-news/muslim-group-cair-cutting-1000-checks-for-anti-israel-agitators-who-have-been-disciplined-by-colleges/?utm_social_handle_id=17469289&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_social_post_id=577980387&utm_source=twitter

[Chumby]

Weird that happened under Walz’s watch.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

At least schoolboys have the tampons they so desperately need.

[shadydave]

This is sort of what bothers me about Reason: this story should be absolute libertarian catnip. It's everything libertarians warn about, it's an absolutely brutal example of the depravity of the State.

But in their cultural sphere their fellow travelers want to absolutely bury this. Leading with this sort of thing is likely to get you identified as a member of an "out group" they don't want to be identified with.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he sees room for the US central bank to cut interest rates again...

SHUT UP AND PLAY THE SUPERMAN THEME.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

The Imperial March would be more apt for his position.

https://youtu.be/vsMWVW4xtwI?si=ZngBS7bSBxNW5h6L

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Jaws

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Jurassic Park

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

New data provided to Ernst by the Trump USDA purportedly shows how, from June 2023-May 2025, $524 million in food stamp payments (aka taxpayer money) were used at fast-food restaurants. The vast majority of this total of these payments came from California, where more than $475 million was used at such dining facilities.

The second-ranked state to use the most SNAP benefits at fast-food restaurants was Arizona ($41.4 million), which was followed by New York ($3.6 million), Michigan ($1.3 million), Rhode Island ($995,900), Massachusetts ($649,000), Illinois ($479,000), Virginia ($308,500) and Maryland ($8,600), respectively.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/20/sen-ernst-introduces-bill-to-end-blue-states-fast-food-snap-abuse/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

New fart reducing feed for cows is killing the cows. Not sure what they dodnt understand. No cows no farts.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/11/norway-pauses-use-of-fart-reducing-cattle-feed-in-wake-of-danish-cow-tastrophe/

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Bill Gates smiles.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I'm surprised the cows haven't all exploded.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

All for no measurable gain.

[Chumby]

The Juice Ain’t Worth the Squeeze

Acquitted Murder Suspect OJ Simpson, Who Bragged About Getting COVID Jab, Dead from Cancer

https://www.infowars.com/posts/acquitted-murder-suspect-oj-simpson-who-bragged-about-getting-covid-jab-dead-from-cancer/

One final jab at OJ. Now that he’s gone, folks can’t needle him about killing his ex-wife and that waiter returning her sunglasses.

[shadydave]

There is no better argument for atheism than the fact that Norm MacDonald died before OJ Simpson.

[Chumby]

The candle that shines twice as bright burns for only half as long.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Maybe Trump can talk his socialist buddy into pardoning the old man who protected himself.

[Longtobefree]

" . . . clarifying that Trump wasn't actually calling for the execution of members of Congress."

Until after their arrest, trial, and conviction - - - - - -

[shadydave]

"Queens senior citizen who fatally shot would-be mugger headed to prison for four years"

Ben Shapiro: "Why didn't he just leave? You don't have a right to stay where you've been your entire life."

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He never got used to being mugged.

[Quicktown Brix]

Maybe not, but he did get used to living in a high crime area and acted accordingly.

Now he just has to get used to living in a dem nanny state regime.

[shadydave]

A pensioner from Queens probably has significantly less flexibility when it comes to that sort of thing. And he has every right to demand law and order from the authorities and defend himself when he doesn't get it.

Sending him to prison is obscene.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Another illegal immigrant truck driver kills people...this time a Guardsman on maneuvers. Seems to have gotten his license in NY state.

https://x.com/BorderHawkNews/status/1990959984880820489

ICE detains Georgian illegal suspected of causing crash that killed Indiana National Guardsman on I-65 this weekend.

Spc. Terry Frye, 23, died after his Humvee was forced off the highway by Goderdzi Gujabidze, who swerved "abruptly" in the car hauler truck he was driving, authorities say.

Local authorities say Gujabidze required an interpreter to communicate with them in English.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/20/us-news/stefanik-blasts-hochul-after-illegal-immigrant-trucker-with-new-york-license-in-deadly-wreck-should-have-never-been-driving/

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Sucks, but probably best for Ukraine. Unless they wager Europe is going to fund their effort entirely.

[Mickey Rat]

Until a few years pass and we get the third round of Russia trying to gobble Ukraine up.

[Quicktown Brix]

We could all use a few years off. How old is Putin, anyway?

[shadydave]

Whatever Putin's flaws (and he has tons), it still bothers me that nobody seems to want to discuss what happened in 2014, the United States heavy involvement in it and how it leading to this was pretty much inevitable.

World conflicts tend not to be "good guys vs bad guys." They tend to be "bad guys vs bad guys."

[Fist of Etiquette]

TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE SAYS

TACO Trump strikes again.

[SQRLSY]

Butt He still wants to "Hang Mike Pence" and "Execute General Milley"!!!

Patience is a virgin, they tell me! Just give shit some time!!!

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Pipe down, Melvin.

[Chumby]

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[Quicktown Brix]

TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

Better than executing some Caribbean churles in boats...just sayin'...

[Mickey Rat]

"...why Betty Friedan and the second-wave feminists were wrong on a few counts,..."

A few counts? The world their vision has helped create is shaping up to be quite a catastrophe. Emotionally miserable and nihilistic.

[Quicktown Brix]

Queens senior citizen who fatally shot would-be mugger headed to prison for four years

**rolls up newspaper**

No! No! Bad!

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he sees room for the US central bank to cut interest rates again in the near term as the labor market softens," reports Bloomberg..."

Uh,
"U.S. employers added surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, government says in delayed report"
https://apnews.com/article/jobs-unemployment-economy-trump-tariff-bf603d63e13d6dc1083e9a6616c7ffee

[mad.casual]

But how exactly would that work in practice?

The way it's working in practice right now.

[mad.casual]

right now the threats of our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad but right here at home.
...
Senior citizen with no arrest history broke some unduly burdensome gun laws because he wanted to protect himself

SSDD