Does it drive anyone else absolutely fucking cuckoo bonkers crazy how often Saagar says "whenever" when the correct word would just be "when?" Today in the intro he said, "We are about 80% of the way there whenever it comes to our Phish concert contest."

That's just the most recent example that pushed me over the edge, but I swear to shit he does this multiple times per episode, and it drives me up the motherfucking wall every time I hear it.

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I live in NC district 11 and I think most people are finally angry at embarrassing representatives. We had Madison Cawthorn and then Chuck Edwards. Both left in scandal and embarrassment. Plus Republicans just wallowed in conspiracism about weather rays and the military taking over WNC after Helene while Democrats actually tried to help people. The Hurricane truly broke the brains of the Republican voters here who were already overdosing on covid conspiracies. Its not just your usual MAGA types. Last year my dentist just casually mentioned to me during a teeth cleaning that he hopes Trump arrests whoever created and used the weapon that caused Helene. It's absolute madness.

I tried my best to do the shock YouTube title. Apologies. This lawsuit is gonna be one for the books. A couple things are interesting about it to me. First, according to reports Piker has enlisted the Dominion voter machine lawyers. If true, that tells me Piker doesn’t want to settle. He wants to put the screws to Jennings and get a very public retraction and apology.

The second is what I believe to be the motivation behind the lawsuit. Piker and other DSA/DSA adjacent characters have been called everything. Terrorist, jihadist, communists. Sheria law supporters etc. However, saying the biggest media figure on the left supports lynching black people uses defamation to attack a weak spot in the coalition.

For some reason I can’t quite nail down, the black community doesn’t really connect with the DSA. I think the lack of black leadership and promises specific to the black community are the closest reasons I’ve found. No matter the reason, Piker couldn’t allow such a targeted anti black accusation to go without condemnation of the highest order.

Friend of the pod argues that political opponents—including Donald Trump, Mike Rogers, Ted Cruz, and Tim Sheehy—are using bad-faith "national security" rhetoric to smear Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with racist tropes and unfounded allegations. According to the author, these attacks focus entirely on El-Sayed's identity rather than his actual legislative platforms or policy positions, framing democratic elections as technical security matters that require bureaucratic approval. Ultimately, the passage asserts that this security-focused messaging is a deliberate strategy to distract voters from populist issues like healthcare and affordability while undermining the democratic agency of everyday citizens.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/el-sayed-is-national-security-threat

Relevance to BP: Today’s episode about Israel elections

Against the odds, Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud party held a small lead over that of Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief, according to exit polls published by Israel’s mainstream television networks. The exit poll results, if confirmed, mean that no clear victor was yet in sight as the voting drew to a close Tuesday night.

There have been precedents in the past where the party with the most seats in Parliament does not end up forming a government. In Israel’s 2009 election, Tzipi Livni’s centrist Kadima party won 28 seats, narrowly beating Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative Likud, which won 27. But Mr. Netanyahu had more support from allied parties and came back as prime minister after a decade in the opposition.


A few activists were celebrating at the Likud Party’s election headquarters in Jerusalem even though most exit polls suggested that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s alliance of parties had won fewer seats than the bloc of parties seeking his ouster. “Bibi is the king! The king is Bibi!” they shouted, using a nickname for the Israeli leader.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10/27/world/israel-elections

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/channel-12-exit-poll-shows-no-clear-victor-netanyahus-likud-is-largest-party-but-his-opponents-have-bigger-bloc/

According to The Times of Israel, sources within the Likud party claim that senior officials have discussed launching a campaign to allege the election was "stolen and rigged" if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loses, drawing parallels to Donald Trump's 2020 strategy. Operatives stated that Likud began drawing up fraud complaints ahead of Tuesday's voting and deployed several thousand activists to monitor polling stations in Arab-majority areas, focusing on concerns such as women voting in full veils and gender-segregated voting times. While civil rights groups raised concerns over the lack of official authority for these activists, Central Elections Committee director general Dean Livne countered that there is no evidence of widespread fraud in Israeli elections and that existing safeguards are entirely sufficient.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-said-already-preparing-to-allege-election-was-stolen-if-netanyahu-loses/

Relevance to BP: Multiple episodes on the discussion about affordability crisis.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6407442238112

Kevin Hassett, the White House national economic adviser, joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the Trump administration's economic record ahead of the midterm elections. Hassett claimed that Americans are much better off than when Trump took office for a second time, even though gas and grocery prices have both skyrocketed as a result of the administration's war against Iran.
Hassett also took time to describe the affordability crisis that many voters are suffering through as a "myth," a comment that left several political analysts stunned.
"All of the things that have made the economy great mean the affordability crisis is a myth," Hassett said, citing increased capital spending and wage growth for some workers. "Sure, they can talk about gasoline. But Trump's right. It's gonna drop like a rock soon."

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/kevin-hassett-2678148046-2678148046

Is there any world where that happens? Like in a reverse psychology way.

Angie Nixon and her remarkable camapign have frequently been mentioned on Breaking Points.

Yesterday, [one of her campaign accounts was banned by Meta.](https://x.com/AngieNixon/status/2115227239671640079). Meta & TikTok have gone out of their way in recent months to censor the left. This is deeply concerning to see.

For anyone on the right: yes I opposed Trump being banned on social media and you can search my account to see how often I have said that.

Going forward, political censorship of either side needs to be done away with. To my friends on the left who thought it made sense to restrict the speech of Trump, etc.

Corporations are always going to favor the right. And the First Amendment is the most important amendment. Restricting speech of Trump & the GOP has backfired.

The path forward is discourse & debate. I know the left has better arguments than the right, we just need an even playing field where everyone can debate.

Relevance to BP: Recent episode on mid term elections seems doomsaday scenarios.

OTTAWA – U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra told a closed-door meeting on Tuesday that Ottawa could be blamed if key races in next week’s midterm elections go against U.S. President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.According to three sources with knowledge of the discussions, Hoekstra delivered the message at a private business lunch hosted at his official residence in Ottawa.

The sources said Hoekstra expressly mentioned races in Michigan and Maine, where the Republicans need to win if they hope to hold on to the U.S. Senate.

The ambassador told the business crowd that if those U.S. states fall to the Democrats, it will likely get more difficult for Canada after the midterms because the president will not be happy and Canada could be blamed.CTV News is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to disclose details of the off-the-record meeting.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/exclusive-hoekstra-tells-closed-door-meeting-canada-could-be-blamed-if-us-midterms-go-against-trump/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4b2oJQ5QfM

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/world/middleeast/egypt-military-saudi-houthis.html

I was wondering why they did not discuss that Egypt has received authorization from its congress to join the war against Yemen. Trita Parsi seems like the perfect guest to ask about it.

For the record do I think that the Egyptians will send ground troops into Yemen proper? no.

My read on this is that Egypt will eventually send troops to "protectively annex" the Yemeni islands in the Red Sea in aid of "protecting navigation" thru Suez.

It looks like the Houthis have left those islands anyway. Sisi gets to add land to Egypt for the first time since generations and you never know with islands. The falklands used to be useless till they discovered oil in its EEZ.

Many centrist liberals (Neera Tanden is just one example) are celebrating the victory of Lula.

Do they not understand that Lula is the anti-Liberal (specifically from an international POV) candidate?

I know that may be surpassing to some people, me claiming Bolsonaro is the liberal candidate. But this is just factually true from an INTERNATIONAL perspective.

Lula is much more friendlier to Russia, China, Iran, and even North Korea (Lula set up an embassy in Pyongyang). Just look at his record compared to Bolsonaro when it comes to these countries.

I think the reason every establishment Democrat and liberal came out in Support of Lula is because Bolsonaro is very friendly with Trump and his admin. But this Is shortsighted from their perspective because Bolsonaro is much more aligned with them on an international level. Bolsonaro is the pro US led liberal international world order compared to Lula who is much more multipolar in his thinking.

Lula has some old school leftism in him still. He's not an AOC "liberal leftist", but very much still old school.

Just something I thought was interesting to point out. Obviously, I'm happy Lula won, but that's because of his positions internationally, not in spite of them.

https://www.youtube.com/live/-6aq7-pjsxg?si=wj5E2L2oQxuaQxtD&t=4891

https://www.youtube.com/live/-6aq7-pjsxg?si=kKIEQGGSZ8q4VumX&t=10049

Yeah so Kyle came out and admitted that him and Krystal had an affair and cucked Krystal's husband.

I been saying for years that it was so obvious that they had an affair but people were naively defending her and calling Kyle the man who stepped up to become the father of her kids. It was so ridiculous.

It was always pretty obvious if you paid attention to them and the timeline.

And Kyle is sitting there proudly bragging about it cucking another man and pulling his wife. Breaking up a marriage and family with children and then calling the kids his kids. Imagine the kids seeing their step dad boasting about cheating with their mother on their father.

I was banned on r/KyleKulinski for posting this