Free Chat Friday: October 09, 2026

You need to understand that bigly concept, per capita, to get the pizza slice references.

Please feel free to share any headlines we may have missed, videos, cartoons, or just talk amongst yourselves. Enjoy the day, your weekend and most of all be safe!

2026 Election:

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office … If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" — here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-09T00:25:49.383Z

^^^This!^^^

Nothing but silence from Mike Collins when Jon Ossoff asks him if the 2020 election was stolen.

Well played @ossoff
pic.twitter.com/dsUVDEar9o

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) October 9, 2026

CNN obtained audio of GOP Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton privately telling donors that Sen. John Cornyn “wants me to lose” the race. pic.twitter.com/OQGnHKIWtv

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 9, 2026

Mike Rogers claims that El-Sayed "supports the death panels that Canada implemented" 🤔

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-09T00:03:22.650Z

The Worst People in the World:

Jason Selvig: “Do you feel like your life is better than a year and a half ago?”

Trump supporter: “I do, yes”⁰⁰JS: “In what way?”

TS: “Uhm, there’s more things being done. Uhm. Changing a lot of stuff that Biden had messed up”

JS: “Like what?”

TS: “Uhm, just a little, I… pic.twitter.com/Z1sJtaU5Pt

— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) October 8, 2026

The Gestapo:

ICE agent fired 7 rounds into car with 5-year-old inside in Marble Hill, authorities say

 There are growing calls for transparency Friday morning after an ICE agent shot a man in Manhattan, with his 5-year-old son in the backseat of his car.

The Department of Homeland Security said the man was an “illegal immigrant” with a long history of run-ins with police.

Authorities said ICE agents were trying to detain 28-year-old Oscar Belgal at about 4 p.m. Thursday when agents opened fire, striking him in the neck in the Marble Hill neighborhood.

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security said Belgal is from the Dominican Republic and has prior arrests.

Belgal was inside a vehicle at the time of the shooting. Officials said his young son was seated in the back seat.

I am angry tonight.Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.ICE makes this city less safe.We want them out. Now.

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov) 2026-10-09T03:55:07.690Z

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov) 2026-10-08T23:10:52.256Z

Markwayne Mullin: "We wasn't aware the child was in the car, but do you know was? Oscar. Oscar knew he had a child in his car. Oscar chose to accelerate at a high rate of speed … the public outcry should be also toward this criminal, this thug, this gang-banger, this possible murderer"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-09T13:36:57.576Z

The Worst and Most Corrupt President Ever:

Donald Trump passed over for Nobel Peace Prize he’s long coveted

 President Donald Trump was bracing for defeat. Still, he made a last-minute push, arguing in the Oval Office this week that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for intervening to settle or prevent conflicts around the world.

It didn’t work.

On Oct. 9 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to South African lawyer Navi Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Pillay has dedicated her career to promoting human rights law by defending the anti-apartheid movement and investigating crimes against humanity.

The decision denies Trump an award he has long coveted and frequently griped about not receiving, months after he ousted Venezuela’s leader in a military operation and launched a war against Iran.

Craven Assholes: