Firing Hegseth

Plus: Martha Stewart's poor person costume, Nvidia shares slide, and more...

Impeach the man: Yesterday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. "Massie has alleged that the war is unconstitutional, because the Trump administration launched the conflict without the approval of lawmakers and has since continued military action despite Congress demanding that the Pentagon cease hostilities," reports The Washington Post. Massie has long opposed executive abuse of warmaking powers and has frequently admonished his colleagues to serve as legitimate checks on the president, specifically when it comes to foreign policy.

The resolution alleges, per NPR: "3 charges for illegally waging war against Iran in violation of the War Powers Resolution; 1 charge for ignoring laws designed to minimize civilian casualties; 1 charge for overseeing 'extrajudicial killings' in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean with strikes on alleged drug boats; 1 charge for suppressing free speech, brought in connection to the effort to punish Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for a video telling service members they can refuse illegal orders; 1 charge for the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro without congressional authorization; 1 charge for illegally waging war against Yemen in violation of the War Powers Resolution." The full text can be found here.

These "sham articles of impeachment," Hegseth said, "didn't work against President Trump, and it won't work with me." Massie is just "one disgruntled and defeated congressman" who hopes to damage the president's reputation, per Hegseth.

Democrats are likely to side with Massie, and "as few as three Republican defections or absences could allow the charges to advance to the Senate for trial," notes The New York Times, though "Republican leaders could delay the matter, [and] Democrats could take it up when they assume power in January. The Constitution requires two-thirds of the Senate—a difficult target—to vote to convict and remove an official from office."

"I'm being polite here," Massie insisted to reporters. "What is an impeachment? An impeachment is just firing someone, really. You don't go to prison. You don't go to jail. You don't pay a fine. When the Democrats get in charge, they are going to be very vicious." This is correct; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D–N.Y.), presumed to be the next speaker of the House, has already spoken publicly about how he supports impeachment efforts against Hegseth.

"The so-called secretary of defense has abused his power, undermined our national security, and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran," Jeffries said on ABC's "This Week," adding that "Pete Hegseth has got to go."

The War Powers Resolution has been repeatedly ignored, time and time again—a perennial frustration of Massie's. "What's at heart here is the balance of power between the executive branch and Congress," he added.

Massie recently lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger, but intends to most likely run again in 2028. It's kind of wild that there are so few independently minded politicians (who've actually read the Constitution!) left and that Massie types are so rare. More updates here as the Hegseth impeachment progresses.

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Scenes from New York: For Halloween, Martha Stewart dressed up as a poor person.

Martha Stewart deletes 'offensive' Halloween costume photo after being accused of mocking homeless people https://t.co/sVQ23zBHV3 pic.twitter.com/KsSaX4Spzt

— New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2026

It was apparently an impromptu, last-minute choice, and she has apologized for it (saying she "intended to bring more awareness to the very serious subject of homelessness," which seems…implausible), but the news cycle keeps going.

"I know many people are suffering economically," wrote Stewart. "Wearing a costume like I did was insensitive and not funny. I am very sorry."

I find it a little funny, personally, that Stewart can't seem to make up her mind about her own persona: Is she an everywoman trying to democratize the art of hosting (for fun and profit), or is she so well connected that she can know when to sell 4,000 shares of biotech stock just before its value tanks? How on Earth did she make friends in prison if she's so out of touch? Still, a society that rakes its 85-year-olds through the coals for their ill-advised decision making even after they've deleted the evidence and apologized for it is one that needs to better understand forgiveness.

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QUICK HITS

• "Nvidia's shares slid 4.3% today after the company's board launched an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang had been a spying target after a romantic relationship with an executive suspected of working for Chinese intelligence," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The chip giant lost about $230 billion in market value, making it the worst performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and second weakest in the S&P 500."
• "Parents track their kids everywhere they go. Location tracking might start, for younger kids, with an AirTag slipped into a backpack, jacket, or shoe. (Skechers now makes shoes with a dedicated compartment in the sole.) For kids old enough to have their own smartwatch or phone, the GPS is built right in—and so parents keep tracking them into adolescence and even beyond," writes Sarah Zhang for The Atlantic. "Even among college students, one-third were being tracked by their parents, according to another study, conducted in 2021 by Michaeline Jensen, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Five years later, Jensen says, that number is even higher: More than half of college students are being tracked, per her unpublished data."
• "By a vote of 73-25 on Monday night, including 22 members of the Democratic caucus, the Senate advanced its permitting reform deal—a strong indicator the bill will ultimately pass the chamber," reports The Washington Post. "This could mark a historic achievement and a chance to reinvigorate the country's ability to meet its energy needs." Environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club have opposed the legislation, naturally.
• Democrats embrace tougher-on-crime policies—or at least Democratic voters do—after the long prison-abolition activist frenzy.
• Lol:

Pangram is good, but has some well-known failure modes, like:

- A time you heard it didn't work
- A school essay you wrote years ago that it flagged as AI (you don't have a link or the essay text handy)
- A different AI detector got it wrong, and they're all the same, right?

— Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart) August 6, 2026

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yesterday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Is this for calling people fat or for fucking up the president's war effort?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It has now been a week. Let's check in on the affordability.

Moving J6 plaque to a more prominent spot.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/11/09/congress/jan-6-plaques-future-01155916

Restart if the open borders invasion.

Reuters
@Reuters
Hundreds of migrants, mostly Hondurans, left the Mexican border town of Metapa de Dominguez in a caravan and walked to the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state. Migrants told Reuters they foresaw a weakening of President Trump's anti-migrant policies after the midterm elections

https://x.com/Reuters/status/2119691458093711418

This along with zero compromise on the open border demands.

McGuire answered, “I’m not going to compromise on ICE. Look, I think that — here’s what we need to do: We need comprehensive immigration reform. We need to advance a pathway to citizenship for millions of residents who are working day and night, paying their taxes, paying into Social Security. And we need to rein in ICE and hold ICE accountable. It can’t be one or the other. It has to be both. We heard from Donald Trump just earlier this week, who said that he’s gone too far on the immigration crackdown.”

Undoing the referendums considered conservative that passed. Like no boys in girls sports.

https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/matt-calkins-democrats-push-overturn-girls-sports-vote-shows-they-dont-actually-care-democracy

Raising minimum wage.

PBD Podcast

@PBDsPodcast
Pete Buttigieg Says Raising the Minimum Wage WON'T Kill Small Businesses

PBD: “Who do you think is impacted if you raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour? Amazon, Walmart, Target, they can raise it. The guy that can’t afford it is that small shop in Hope, Arkansas. Amazon’s across the street, Walmart’s across the street, and Joey’s Place that’s been there for six years is out of business. Raising the minimum wage hurts that guy. It doesn’t hurt the Fortune 500 companies at all.”

Pete Buttigieg: “I’m not interested in who it hurts. I’m interested in who it helps. We have enough experience now, both as a country and states doing it on their own, that we know you can do it gradually enough that it doesn’t kill the small business owners.”

And dont forget all those price control statements.

Seems like affordability just means socialist rule.

Oh. And a return to the mortgage crisis.

The Assembly
@InTheAssembly
BREAKING: California voters just passed Prop 37. Buyers of newly built homes can now put down 3% instead of 20%. How: the state lends you the other 17% as a second mortgage, funded by up to $25 billion in bonds. On an $800,000 home that's $24,000 down instead of $160,000.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Meanwhile in what was obvious to anybody paying attention, drmocrats spent 2 years fighting anything to help the economy while running on affordability.

Now post election, half the democrats in the senate finally voted yes on a bill to stop activists from stopping construction and speeding up permitting.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nearly-half-senate-democrats-join-gop-advance-permitting-overall

Including a limit of no more than 2 years for federal decisions on environmental approvals and restraints on agencies’ abilities to withdraw permits once granted.
Amending the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by reducing the scope of its applicability, i.e. who can sue and on what grounds, and shortening the litigation window.
Accelerating the buildout of transmission lines by enhancing FERC’s backstop authority, which gives the federal government more authority to approve major lines and helps projects move through the permitting process much faster.
On data centers, the bill is a step up from the Ratepayer Protection Act in that it forces more energy behind the meter and establishes rules to ensure data centers are responsible for energy costs until all incremental costs are fully recovered (even after contract terminations).
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Today, most NEPA challenges have six years to be filed. BAAJA cuts that to 150 days, and only people who commented during the review and can show direct harm get standing.

Even a winning NEPA challenge gets a remand "without vacatur or issuance of an injunction," per the Bipartisan Policy Center, so the project keeps moving while the agency fixes its paperwork.

Of course this bill fixes the very issues caused by democrats. A bill that has been sitting for almost a year.

A bill reason should have been championing.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I’m not interested in who it hurts.

Says it all.

[Fist of Etiquette]

3 charges for illegally waging war against Iran in violation of the War Powers Resolution...

Congress reasserting its powers and duties just in time for the Islamocommies to take control.

[Fist of Etiquette]

What is an impeachment? An impeachment is just firing someone, really.

Clinton was impeached but not fired.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Turns out NYC had different requirements for child abuse and pedophilia for the criminals if they were immigrants.

Scott Mechkowski
@ScottMechkowski
🚨 They didn't lose the child's age. They were trained to leave it out.

Under federal immigration law, sexual abuse of a minor is an aggravated felony. For a noncitizen, it means mandatory detention, deportation and a permanent bar from ever coming back. In my 24 years at ICE ERO, those were the cases we never let slide.

The key element is the child's age. Take the age out of the conviction and you take out the aggravated felony.

According to the House Judiciary Committee report, the Bronx DA's 2019 plea-bargaining guide told prosecutors in these cases to "offer something that does not have the child's age as an element."

Think about what that means. A grown man commits a sex crime against a child. He pleads to something that, on paper, could have been against an adult. The record that reaches ICE no longer shows a child victim. The removal case falls apart, and he stays here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

When the Democrats get in charge, they are going to be very vicious.

Wait, am I not getting free health care next year?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

If by healthcare you mean MAID, then probably yes.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Hilarious Colbert had to be rushed from Harvard from the same protestors he loved.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/11/stephen-colbert-evacuated-from-harvard-event-after-fire-alarm-as-striking-students-protest/

Philly Palinazis are crying they had counter protestors to their protest.

https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/philly-dsa-claims-counter-protest-is-repression/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Western media has been blaming the gunman in Poland on the right wing. Turns out to be a gay loving liberal.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whole-world-repeating-lie-eu-lawmaker-challenges-far-right-msm-narrative-polish-gunman

The media will always lie to defend the left.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's kind of wild that there are so few independently minded politicians (who've actually read the Constitution!) left and that Massie types are so rare.

He independently went all in on Epstein and full constitutional speed ahead on the Zionists.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Good and bad news for Jeff.

You can cure Type 2 diabetes with diet snd exercise.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/type-2-diabetes-patients-21-times-more-likely-achieve-remission-intensive-lifestyle-changes

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

DSA is going after your children.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/red-sprouts-school-board-races-dsa-years-long-effort-reach-children-gains-momentum

[Fist of Etiquette]

Martha Stewart deletes 'offensive' Halloween costume photo after being accused of mocking homeless people

She dressed as a male homeless person. A trans costume doesn't buy your way out of a struggle session?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Back in the day, kids dressed like hobos for Halloween all the time. She just went retro.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The chip giant lost about $230 billion in market value...

All tail costs something, but this was extra expensive.

[Fist of Etiquette]

More than half of college students are being tracked, per her unpublished data.

Cornell parents need to call their sons when they see 8 blips converge on a Friday night.