Today's News with Larry Schweikart

Today's News, October 23-24, 2025

Episode Summary

Trump’s “Deep State crimes” task force draws alarm from major media as Democrats face internal turmoil, with the DNC chair suggesting “resistance” beyond elections. An anonymous $130M donation pays troops during the shutdown, and Trump scores another Ninth Circuit win to deploy the National Guard. Crime and corruption dominate headlines—from NBA gambling arrests to a congresswoman’s ICE breach—while anti-Israel sentiment and school indoctrination spark cultural backlash. ICE is set to deport 600,000 illegals in 2025 as crime linked to illegal migrants rises. Economically, mortgage rates dip, Rivian cuts jobs amid an EV slump, rare earth concerns grow, and Coca-Cola revives cane sugar. Internationally, coal use hits record highs, Japan elects its first female PM with tough immigration plans, and Trump halts Canadian trade talks. Coppola’s “Megalopolis” flops, and National Bologna Day adds a lighthearted finish.

Episode Notes

IN POLITICAL NEWS


 

1) The New York Slimes and Reuters-rotor are deeply concerned that Trump actually has a "woking group" on the crimes of the Deep State and election stealing. That's cuz, eventually, it will end up with THEM. This apparently is extremely important to them because each ran a story with absolutely no new evidence, just fear. Oh, and it appears the Trump suing for $230 million from DOJ for the Russia Hoax, etc., is a very old story with little to it. Apparently the Hoax Newsters are having trouble getting anything to complain about with President Trump, so they are recycling stories two years old.


 

2) I frequently say the DemoKKKrat Party is the Party of Terror. Well, well, lookee here. The chairman of the DemoKKKrat National Commune says that we are getting to the point that "elections don't matter" and that "resistance" will look different. Now, squeeze me while I kiss this guy---oops, that was Jimi Hendrix. Didn't he say that? Anyway squeeze me as I think what he is saying is "the DemoKKKrat Party is going extinct so elections for us won't matter," and "we will use terror as a last resort because we absolutely do not trust the system.," Not surprising then that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave millions to terrorist-related groups.


 

3) An anonymous donor sent a check to the federal government for $130 million to pay the troops during the shutdown.


 

4) Jew-hatred is rampant in the teachers' unions. One sure-fire signal is that the unions support "Holocaust Remembrance Day," which numbers 11 million (not 6 million Jews) and seeks to generalize the Holocaust. This is important. My old mentor Prof. Robert J. Loewenberg once wrote an article called "The Trivialization of the Holocaust" in which he pointed out that this is a major goal of leftism, to take away the Jew-centric nature of the Holocaust so as to eliminate the religious/Jewish element and just make it about "man's inhumanity to man." But it wasn't. It was about a political group/ideology, that of the Nazis, seeking to exterminate a particular religious/ethnic group and to substitute Nazism in its place. (Note: the Loewenberg piece in St. John's Review from Winter 1982 does not have style embedded, so it's a chore to read.)


 

5) Eric the Red Adams has now thrown in with Nipplepin Venthoarder (Andrew Cuomo) to stop the Amazing Zohran. If only Curtis Sliwa now would join forces, they might have a chance of stopping this nutcase.


 

6) Iryna Zarutska's killer faces the death penalty. Good. Wish I could be there. And the so-called "Southern Poverty Law Center," which should be renamed the Fourth Reich Gestapo Center for Hate" filed a lawsuit supporting the Georgia teacher who said the "world is a bit safer" without Charlie Kirk.


 

7) NBA Coaches and players were arrested in a gambling crackdown. Kash Patel says this is just the beginning. Among other things, they were mobbed up and using jimmied card shufflers at gambling tables. Great. Now do NFL officials working the Kansas City Swifts football team. Over at the WNBA, according to the Babylon Bee, players insisted they were missing layups cuz they're poor players, not because they were mobbed up. Oh, and speaking of jail, the fat and ugly Congresswoman LaMonica McIver faces years in prison for trying to breach an ICE facility. What is it with certain groups thinking they must put a "La" or a "D' " in front of every name?


 

8) We know this only works one way. A DemoKKKrat Senate candidate for the ME senate seat has a Nazi tattoo and everyone in the Hoax News is fine with it. But let conservative youts joke about Hitler and they all freak out.


 

9) This murderer was arrested 40 times before killing a 51-year-old hotel resident. Odd. They managed to keep the Patriot Day (J6) people in jail for every single day of their sentence, but not murderers.


 

10) Also odd. The unemployed were the DemoKKKrats' biggest donor group.


 

11) President Trump wins again with the en banc ruling of the Ninth Circuit that he can deploy National Guard troops in Kollyfornia.


 

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS


 

12) Tom Homan says 600,000 illegal criminal aliens will be deported in 2025. Add to that another million self-deporters, at least, and we're at 1.6m per year, or about 8 million at the end of Trump's term.


 

13) After some begging and groveling by Groomer City bigwigs and a plea from the mayor, President Trump has canceled plans to "surge" troops into San Francisco to see if the mayor can get crime under control. Oh, and the idiot governor Gruesome did deploy the National Guard . . . to help with food banks. What the hell is wrong with these demonic navalpickers?


 

14) Meanwhile, in that pacific and bucolic wonderland called Benghazi-by-the-Lake (Chicago), a mere 14 were shot and only 4 killed over the weekend.Porky Pritzker and "Let's Go" Brandon are happy as clams that Trump has not been allowed to stop murders in that hole-in-the-wall.


 

15) The illegal alien invader who killed three in a CA trucking accident came into the country under Rutabaga. And the FL illegal who killed three? He failed his driver's test 10 times in two months. So of course the oleaginous Kollyfornia governor Gruesome gave out 61,000 commercial drivers' licenses to illegal currypots.


 

IN CULTURAL NEWS


 

16) The University of Virginia bent the knee to the Trump DOJ regarding the DEI investigations by agreeing to comply with all DOJ guidelines.


 

17) School choice in AZ rose 753% since 2022, which is why my local paper whines constantly about declining public school numbers. In Alaska, for example, the guidelines for social studies classes don't mention the Nome Gold Rush, the TransAlaskan Pipeline, Sarah Palin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Christianity. Riiiiight. Cuz it's so important to talk about black Alaskan lesbians.


 

IN TRANSOID NEWS


 

18) Jennifer Sey and her XX-XY line of clothes has launched a new ad series featuring actual female Olympians.


 

IN ECONOMIC NEWS


 

19) Still sluggish, but a dip in mortgage rates has caused demand to tick up.


 

20) David Blackmon, the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, says we face a new energy crisis of rare earth minerals.


 

21) DoorDash is no longer requiring Social Security #s fror drivers so that it can continue to use illegals. Or those crazy bot delivery vehicles. I guess they don't need no stinkin' licenses.


 

22) Sales of single family homes rose, but are still 23% behind 2019 levels.


 

23) Rivian has laid off 600 employees due to slow EV sales. This is another drag on the economy is that US corporations are slowly unburdening themselves of green, but in the short term those jobs haven't yet been replaced with oil patch jobs.


 

24) Who woulda guessed this? Russkie and ChiCom female honeypots are stealing Silicon Valley secrets.


 

25) Mehmet Oz found over $1 billion in fraudulent health care charges for illegals.


 

26) Coca-Cola will sell cane sugar Coke again.


 

27) First the Louvre, now a FL mall heist in which thieves cut a hole in the roof to steal $50,000 in sneakers.


 

28) Consumer prices rose only 3.3%, lower by .1.8% than the rate of M2 growth. Slowing, but hasn't quite stopped yet.


 

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS


 

29) They are now calling the Trump foreign policy in Latin America the Donroe Doctrine.


 

30) Even as they screech about wind and solar---and shiver while doing so---coal use has hit an all-time high.


 

31) Sanai Takaichi has become Japan's first female PM. She wants to deport all illegal invaders. What, no celebrations from the "Muh Women" activists?


 

32) The Canucks continue to spooge around on trade, so Trump ended all trade negotiations.


 

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS


 

33) I don't wish ill on Francis Ford Coppola, but it is reassuring once in a while to see that even these big names in entertainment are not immune from flops. Coppola had to sell his watch collection to cover the flop "Megalopolis."


 

AND FINALLY . . .


 

34) Today is National Bologna Day. Have to say since I was a kid I have loved bologna, especially with provolone or Swiss cheese. And no, I don't want to know how it's made.


 

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