Libs: the US doesn't intervene in foreign electoral processes

The US:

Trump: US ‘would not be generous with Argentina’ if Milei loses

The presidents and their teams shared a work lunch at the White House after a private meeting was canceled due to Trump’s trip to "Israel"

U.S. President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a proposed support package for Argentina is predicated on Milei doing well in the upcoming elections. “We would not be generous with Argentina if he loses,” Trump said, referring to Milei. However, it was not clear whether the US president was referring to the October 26 midterms or the 2027 presidential elections. He said that Milei would be running against an “extremely far left” person, a possible reference to Peronist governor of Buenos Aires Province, Axel Kicillof.

What is he even going to do? Bomb us?

Anyways, Kicillof, my beloved extremely far left person.

“If he doesn’t win, we’re not going to waste that time, because you have somebody whose philosophy has no chance of making Argentina great again,” Trump added.

Trump’s comments came during a press conference during a work lunch with their respective teams in Washington D.C. to discuss the economic agreements announced over the past couple of weeks, including a full-on bailout and the purchase of Argentine pesos by the United States Treasury. Bessent spoke more directly about the midterms. “We’re confident that the president’s party and the coalition will do well in the election,” he said. “And this aid is predicated on robust policies, and going back to the failed Peronist would cause a US rethink.”

After Trump’s remarks, Argentine bonds and stocks plummeted in both the local and US markets. The peso also weakened slightly.

(lmfao)

Milei campaigned on a promise to dollarize Argentina’s economy, which he has since abandoned. Asked whether he would support such a move, Trump said that “anybody who wants to deal in dollars, they have an advantage over people that aren’t.” He also criticized the BRICS bloc of emerging economies as a project seeking to displace the dollar. However, Bessent said the U.S. administration was “very happy with the current currency arrangement.”

Before entering, Milei and Trump briefly posed together for photos at the doors of the White House. Asked by the press to give a message to the people of Argentina, Trump said: “We love them, we’re there for them, and they have a great leader.”

The Argentine president was scheduled to meet Trump for a 15-minute private meeting at the White House at 2 p.m, before the working lunch, but the tete-a-tete did not take place. An Argentine government source told the Herald that Trump’s trip to Israel for the Gaza ceasefire talks appeared to have forced the U.S. leader to rearrange his agenda. Trump returned to Washington on Tuesday at 3 a.m.

milei always left in the dust when he tried to speak with Trump lmao. I honestly think the orange man absolutely hates milei, he sees him as an inferior loser that achieved nothing in his life. Even Trump, despite everything, ran somewhat "successful" businesses, all milei did was yell, have sex with his sister, say he hates food and claim "he doesn't ejaculate for 3 months".

Milei and Trump were originally scheduled to have a 45-minute private meeting before lunch, but that was cut down to 15 minutes over the weekend. Milei arrived in Washington on Tuesday at 1 a.m. after leaving Buenos Aires on Monday afternoon. He is staying at Blair House, the president’s guest house.

Milei stood beside him, holding his thumbs up and smiling for the camera before the two went inside the building. They were followed by the Argentine delegation, including ministers Luis Caputo (Economy), Gerardo Werthein (Foreign Ministry) and Patricia Bullrich (Security), as well as Central Bank head Santiago Bausilli and Presidency Secretary Karina Milei. The lunch was livestreamed and press were allowed to be present in the room.

Afterwards, Milei attended a homage to Charlie Kirk, the far-right activist and Trump supporter who was killed by a sniper in September. His flight back to Argentina will leave at 10 p.m.

lmfao x2

Bailout

President Milei received a strong backing from the U.S. three weeks ago when Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent announced that the government was “ready to purchase Argentina’s USD bonds,” and that they would be granting a stand-by credit as well as a $20 billion swap line. The support was symbolic as well as economic, giving the Argentine government a boost of much-needed confidence and helping to strengthen the peso ahead of the October 26 national legislative elections. “We stand ready to do what is needed to support Argentina and the Argentine people,” Bessent said in his September 24 post announcing the measures.

The moves are part of a strategy by the U.S. government to assist the Milei administration after the peso reached an all-time low against the dollar. Argentina’s international reserves are critically low, and trust in the government has fallen after several political scandals and a defeat in the Buenos Aires province local elections. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent justified these decisions saying that Trump is “showing his confidence in [Milei’s] government’s economic plans and the geopolitical strategic importance of the relationship between the United States and Argentina.”

Asked about what’s in it for the U.S., Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo said in an interview on Sunday that Trump had not asked for anything in return and that the negotiations “benefit both countries.” He added that Argentina’s swap line with China remains in place despite the tensions between Beijing and the Trump administration. During Tuesday’s lunch, Bessent confirmed that was the case. “The American assistance is not predicated on the swap with China being closed. Any reporting to that effect is incorrect,” he said, adding that last week, when he said that Argentina was “committed to getting China out,” he was referring to Chinese “ports, military bases, and observation facilities.”

(There are no chinese ports or even military bases, there is one chinese satellite tracking post in Patagonia but that's it)

Doubts among investors

Wall Street was wary about the bailout ahead of the meeting. A Monday report by the US multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley said that the Argentine and US interventions in the foreign exchange market “seem unsustainable post elections” and expressed optimism that Milei and Trump would offer more details on Tuesday. This had not happened at the time of writing. In a separate report, British multinational bank Barclays said that investors were worried that Bessent could be creating a “communicational bridge to the upcoming election.” The document added that the government could keep its banded exchange rate system after the election, “relying on easy financing,” which they considered “very negative.”

“The economy would likely remain stagnant, real wages would not rebound, and Milei’s popularity would likely erode,” they wrote. The bank said that if Milei underperfoms in the midterms, “political pressure could mount on Trump if Milei looks like a lame duck.” The report said that this scenario was improbable, but cautioned that “the prospect of losing US support and facing governability problems is a risk that needs to be considered [going] into the election.”

Over 30 strikes north of the Litani River in Lebanon

Always pay your guys on time. Don't try telling them you can pay them later, the moment you admit you don't have the money they're no longer your guys. https://archive.ph/Pqq5W

Pentagon preparing to pull $8 billion from ‘unobligated’ R&D coffers to pay troops

The unusual move comes nearly two weeks into the government shutdown.

So what's up with Trump indicting Comey and Bolton? Fash infighting?

Will it reveal that Comey's Russiagate was complete bullshit?

i saw amusing statistic, when i was (darkly) looking at live goldbug reaction (tm): gold outperformed s&p in the last 9 years (since trumpo), flatout without leverage.

now this is crazy gameable with starting date (even a year earlier already breaks), from financial crash s&p still outdone gold significantly, but lmao. (also dow is a better index)

ah found where i saw it, now with amusing commentary and another date (2004):

'Making Greenlandic Families Human Shields': Indigenous Leaders Condemn Danish Militarisation Of The Arctic

Indigenous leaders from Naleraq, Greenland's only opposition party, are condemning the Danish colonial regime for using civilian Greenlanders as human shields through an aggressive military buildup that sacrifices their safety for US/NATO strategic interests.

If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter! [source]

I've seen a few stories of this nature lately, seems like Russia has disconnected the znpp from the ukrainian power grid

I suspect they will reconnect it to the Russian grid at some point as it is dangerous to have only local power available for cooling

https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-cuts-zaporizhzhia-plant-from-ukraines-grid-in-unprecedented-power-grab-12410

Israel Foreign Ministry Falsely Claims Palestinians Tore Apart A Beached Whale.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-foreign-ministry-falsely-claims

Anti racist counter protest in Naarm (melb vic aus) today was the most intense rally i've ever been to, cops let off 8-10 flash bangs and shot half a dozen people with pellets, and pushed us all the way back to the centre of the cbd (about 1.5km from parliament, where the racists were)

lots of people hit with pepper spray, i think i smelt teargas, but maybe it was aerosolised oc spray and the various bin fires

advanced ~~one man rule authoritarian~~ democratic tactics:

According to article 47 of the constitution, if the French Parliament is unable to adopt a budget seventy days after the law is presented, it can be passed into effect by an ordonnance, or presidential decree.

The deadline to pass a budget will run out this week. Macron trying to rule by decree would provoke another constitutional crisis that would undoubtedly require the Constitutional Council, one of France’s supreme courts, to weigh in.

In the meantime, Lecornu hasn’t resigned yet, and is trying to assemble a government. His last act in service to Macron, then, could be running out the clock.

from https://jacobin.com/2025/10/france-lecornu-military-defense-macron - some info about france doing their military deals

I read this news story (for now it is just a proposal from Bessent) and my mind couldn't comprehend that they want to set PRICE FLOORS, someone had to point it out to me. I glanced at what was written and I just assumed we are talking about the usual price controls, so setting price ceilings.

BREAKING: The Trump administration will set price floors across a range of industries to combat market manipulation by China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

[edit] and of course, every lib is calling Trump a Communist for this, lmao.

John Mearsheimer on Piers Morgan: "Ceasefire Will NOT Hold" Trump's Gaza Peace Deal

Piers being his usual dumbass self. He saw the word "ceasefire" and seems to want to give Israhell all benefit of the doubt again suddenly. Also Mears schools him on Russia/Ukraine and Western delusion over it.

“Rad'a continues striking with an iron fist... mercenaries and collaborators under fire

As part of the ongoing deterrence operation, the "Rad'a" force yesterday carried out a series of targeted raids on the dens of collaborators and enemy mercenaries, who tried to hide among the citizens. A number of them were neutralized, while others are under investigation by the competent security agencies.

These operations came after precise monitoring and intensive follow-up of the movements of traitors and those who conceal them, confirming that the security hand of the resistance is extended with punishment for those who sold their homeland, and mercy for those who chose to return before it is too late.

At the same time, recent days have witnessed an increase in the number of those who surrendered themselves to the security agencies in various areas of the sector, sensing the prestige of the resistance security and responding to the call to return.

We salute all the honorable citizens who provided accurate information that contributed to the success of the ongoing deterrence operations. Your awareness is the strong shield for the security of our society and our resistance.”

Rad'a... The field force

Follow: t.me/R1Gaza

https://t.me/R1Gaza/118

Portugal local election roundup: read my previous post about it here, and about the broader dire situation in portugal after last may's election here

The big winner was the ruling center-right PSD and its coalition partner CDS, the right has, in all its coalitions combined, taken the center-left socialist party PS' spot as the party with the most mayorships and won in the biggest 5 cities, another confirmation of the right-wing shift in Portugal that we witnessed pretty dramatically in May's legislative elections. The PS with 30% lost but not majorly, which to them is a win since at the legislative level they basically tied with the far-right CH but retained their heavy presence at the local level and they also took, for the first time, a couple of long-held PSD bastions that the PSD had never lost. The far-right CH got 3th with 11% and ONLY 3 mayorships, which is far more than they gained last time but really nothing special for a party that tied with the socialists at the national level and that constantly brags about having broken the 2-party system. As expected the communist party's coalition dropped to 4th place with 5.2% and 300k votes, which is more than we got in May's legislative elections which was expected, and we got 12 mayorships, 6 of them with absolute majorities, which is more than the far-right, but this is down from 2021's 8% when we got 400k votes. The coalitions of the post-trot demsoc BE with the green eurocuck L and the animalist PAN barely helped those parties in trying to matter at the local level, and honestly if the people who voted for them had voted for the communists we would've taken a lot more mayorships from the PS and the right.

We lost our biggest mayorship, city of Setubal, by a pretty huge margin but that was a complicated scenario with a former communist mayor that split from the party due to her being investigated for corruption running as an independent backed by the PSD, and apparently when she WAS with us she did a good job in the mayorship so people still support her. We also squarely lost Evora in the interior even though one of our best guys was the candidate. The one that personally hurts the most was losing Santiago do Cacem by less than 60 votes to an anti-communist coalition of the PS/PSD/CDS/IL that mascaraed as an "independent citizens movement", which really should be illegal to do since almost everyone in the "movement's" lists were from parties, the locality was governed by us for 50 years and it shows, positively, but it's a little solace that the anti-communist forces had to resort to such an underhanded stratagem to beat us. It's also dramatic how we've seemingly lost the little footing we had in the north of the country, a very conservative region where even the 1974 revolution barely changed things.

However we held on to quite a few of our other bastions and significant mayorships, and one of the most surprising events was regaining from the PS the increasingly important port city of Sines which we hadn't governed for 20 years, and looking at some results there were a lot of places where we lost or didn't gain the mayorship by numbers in the low 100s.

12 mayorships and 93 electeds to juntas all in different districts, at the time where the country has CLEARLY shifted rightwards, with local elections being far more crowded than they used to be with the far-right now being a valid option to vote for and a non-communist "left coalition" always available for anti-communist leftists that also don't want to vote for the PS, and all this with the specter of the communist party's anti-nato position on the Ukraine war which a lot of people still don't shut the fuck up about, all in all, it was not a terrible results, I just feel personally shitty because of Santiago like I mentioned.

For us it was a familiar night, similar to the last few elections, not a strong WIN to reward us for our hard work (which really matters in local elections), but also not the blowout LOST that would politically extinguish portuguese communism that the media keeps trying to manifest into reality (there were polls that showed us winning 0 mayors lol), it's another light to moderate lost that adds to the downward trajectory of portuguese working class politics however one where we still hold on to plenty of positions from which we can grow again (which hasn't happened in a while) maybe when times are better, we're still in a time of resistance and our weakening position in the country reflects both the state of organized labour and the shifting political identities in portugal (no one wants to be a communist anymore when they have so many other less controversial choices, like "green europeanist").

Speaking of spoilers in the capital Lisbon the communist party outperformed all polls and is set to tie for 3rd place with 10% with the far right, by less than 11 votes, with just 11 more votes we'd have taken a council member from the far-right. And as I explained before, the communists sat out of the broad "left coalition" that included the PS and every other left parties, and all throughout we've face accusations of wanting to spoil the PS' win against the right-wing mayor. Well they can eat my ass because that coalition lost but clearly not because of the communists, the communists got basically the same votes as 2021, around 26k, while all the parties in that coalition summed together lost 15k votes and only got 33% losing to the incumbent right-wing 41%. The fact that the communists didn't really gain much while the left coalitions lost votes just proves these coalitions are not just exercises of sum and addition and that if the PS wanted to win the mayorship and the support of the communist party all it needed was to not suck ass.

Next are the presidential elections in 2026, where the 3 contenders are a non-party frontrunner from the marine who was the guy that organized the covid vaccine distribution, the far-right guy, the center-right. There is a centrist to right-wing socialist party candidate that is demanding the rest of the left vote for him to stop the right, even though he's not even backed by his own party, the demosoc lady in the european party and one of the more respected guys from the communist party, one of our guys that gets people to say "oh he's really good...if only he wasn't a communist". Well, the struggle continues.

Israel to reopen Rafah crossing as planned: Report

Israel’s Kan public broadcaster is reporting that Israel’s government has decided to reopen the Rafah crossing today, as originally planned under last week’s ceasefire agreement.

Earlier, we reported that Israel was threatening to delay reopening the vital aid route. However, according to Kan, the decision was reversed after Hamas returned the bodies of four more captives on Tuesday night and said it would return more later today.

We’ll bring you more when we have it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/15/live-israel-restricts-aid-into-gaza-hamas-releases-bodies-of-4-captives

It seems like they're trying to posture for their genocidal populace, but might actually be flinching. Maybe "Israel" isn't confident it can resume the genocide without turning the entire "International Community" away. Or maybe they realized that openly stating to the UN in writing that you're weaponizing aid is a bit too much of a pro-gamer move when you're about to be prosecuted for genocide.

A salute to the Axis of Palestine.

And for red freedom, there is a door, knocked upon by every blood-stained hand...

Kamil Saeed Abu Hanish of Beit Dajan, Nablus, jailed since 2003 and sentenced to nine life terms plus 78 years was freed today through the steadfast resistance of Gaza’s people.

A leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Hanish spent 22 years in zionist prisons for his role in organizing and leading armed resistance during the Second Intifada.

As a student at Al-Najah, he helped found progressive student movements and the Popular Committee to Resist Normalization before his arrest.

Kamil is a writer, organizer, fighter, and leader. Today, he is free.

Today, Hikmat Abdel-Jalil, 38, from Nablus, will embrace freedom thanks to the Palestinian resistance and the proud and steadfast people of Gaza.

He was serving a life sentence in the occupation colonial prisons for his activities with the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and is accused of being behind numbers of operations.

Hikmat Abdel-Jalil is considered a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Zionist prisons. He has been transferred from one prison to another more than once as part of the prison administration's policy of targeting leaders of the prisoner movement.

The occupation courts sentenced him to life imprisonment. During the long period he spent in captivity, he became one of the front's prominent leaders, and was entrusted with a number of organizational tasks. He led a number of association organizations, and rose through the leadership ranks of the Popular Front's leadership bodies in the occupation's prisons.

Abdel-Jalil was transferred dozens of times between various Zionist prisons , and participated in dozens of prisoners' movement activities, protests, and hunger strikes, especially in the years 2004, 2011 and 2012.

He was born in the town of Beit Dajan on March 18, 1981. He grew up in his village and received his primary education in the village school and his secondary education in a school in the city of Nablus. He joined the ranks of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1998, and formed a partnership with his comrade, the prisoner Thaer Hanani, in every organizational, popular, or struggle mission.

The prisoner joined the field of military struggle with the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, and officially joined the ranks of the Brigades in 2003. He practiced his struggle role and carried out various struggle missions until he was captured on June 6, 2004

Today he embrace freedom thanks to the Palestinian resistance and the steadfastness of the proud people of Gaza, who face a genocidal offensive these two last years. Long live the resistance!

lol, soz for screenshot and if it's already been posted

Happy holidays!

https://youtu.be/_LGL8QqzsIw

17 October: "The day when the gun silencer trilled", and Palestinian vengeance was victorious

On this day in 2001, the PFLP's Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades carried out the successful assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi, Zionist far-right minister, ex-member of the terrorist Palmach gang that participated in the Palestinian genocide of 1948, and prominent Netanyahu supporter

The ZionNazi minister was killed in response to the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, Secretary General of the PFLP

The famous October 17 is considered the most prominent assassination in the history of the Zionist history, which took place in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Al-Quds

https://t.me/PalCommie/7532

Legendary Dead Or Alive And Ninja Gaiden Creator Tomonobu Itagaki Has Died. "I have no regrets, but I am deeply sorry that I could not deliver new works to my fans."

"BUT WHAT ABOUT KHAMAS!?!" by Spooky Scary Socialist

I wonder how much influence China's rare-earth controls are affecting the "Israeli" decision-making currently. The export controls were first added in April (against military use) and it was rumored at the time that they were affecting "Israeli" weapons production. I wonder if the current slight step back (e.g. agreeing to a ceasefire at all) is related to any supply chain difficulties, and if the new restrictions announced recently will exacerbate it.

Greenland’s Spiral Case: Colonial Ex-Official Threatens To Sue Indigenous Leader For Hurting His Feelings

Former Danish minister for Greenland Tom Høyem, 85, has resurfaced from retirement with threats to sue Greenlandic politician Múte B. Egede for defamation after Egede described the so-called “spiral case” in which colonial authorities subjected Inuit women and girls to systematic forced birth control as a genocide.

This is the current state of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Pakistani Army has already conquered about 10% of Afghan territory, cutting off Afghan access to the Wakhan Corridor, which connects Afghanistan to China.

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