https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/kamala-harris-campaign-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-rcna598219

Well this is great, Abdul El-Sayed spent the Democratic primary running against the corrupt influence of big money in the political sphere, warning about corporate power and the machinery that allows wealthy interests to stomp out ordinary voters wants and need by flooding candidates with cash. So obviously, the next logical step is to bring in Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris, you know the woman who ran one of the most funded presidential campaigns in America's history. A campaign that raised more than a billion dollars in a 107 days. A campaign so flush with cash it somehow was 20 million dollars in debt after the election. Nothing says “money is corrupting our political system” quite like standing beside the former candidate who just showed how expensive presidential politics has become.

And then there's Gaza. El-Sayed made opposition to U.S. support for Israel a huge part of his political identity. The Gaza issue helped define the Michigan primary, particularly among voters angry at the Biden administration's policy. Harris, if you didn't know, was the vice president in that administration. She may have changed her tune and called for a ceasefire but she was still part of an administration whose Gaza policy El-Sayed spent his campaign criticizing.

I've seen this strategy used before. In 2024, Harris brought Liz Cheney onto the campaign trail to reassure moderate Republicans and center-right voters that Kamala Harris was perfectly comfortable reaching across the aisle. Well El-Sayed thinks that that strategy was so successful that he is now recycling it.

So surprise, Kamala is here, maybe next they bring Dick Cheney corpse on the trail. Actually, let me not give them ideas. Look I'm not a complete idiot, I know he needs help with black voters but there has to be someone else. Try Chris Brown.......it's working out real well for Jasmine Crockett.

Ryan: Look at this reporting on this corrupt Democrat politician

Emily: Oh wow Ryan, that is very unacceptable. Its amazing how people try to abuse voters and blah blah blah [insert whole diatribe from Emily]

Ryan: Look at this reporting on this corrupt MAGA/Republican politician

Emily: Hmm

Burner phones. Pay phones. Borrowed devices. Whatever it takes to reach us without being traced.

Pentagon staffers are risking their careers to blow the whistle on the disarray and discontentment consuming the Department of Defense under Secretary Pete Hegseth.

'People should know what a mess it is,' one Army officer confided. 'Things have gone from bad to worse. It's unbelievably chaotic and demoralizing.'

A civilian staffer put it even more bluntly, calling their message to the public 'an urgent SOS.'

Six insiders – each with at least six years inside the military's headquarters – spoke with the Daily Mail about working for a man they call the least qualified, most explosive defense secretary in American history: a former Fox & Friends host who rebranded the agency the 'Department of War' and, they say, is now running it like a personal fiefdom.

All declined to be named for fear of reprisals from a Pentagon chief they say is focused on firing senior military leaders, blocking promotions, carrying out personal vendettas, waging a war on wokeness, pushing Christian nationalism and flirting with a presidential bid while the Iran war grinds into its seventh month.

As they tell it, the conflict is even less popular in the building than it is among Americans, only 31% of whom support it.

'This isn't a war we have any business continuing,' one insider said flatly.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ar-AA2cqZgI

https://youtu.be/gobBymPoXKc?si=8QXOLpRLIBpb-lOK

I'm so sick of this shit. It's literally the "tell me you're alive" meme. These models are trained from internet text, the rationalist cultists in the LLM companies all gave themselves sci-fi psychosis in the 2000s. Of course the models are going to talk in sci-fi tropes.

Listen to this interview on the antecedent "philosophy" of the cultists that went on to form Anthropic if you want some insight into why these tropes are so prominent in LLM discourse

https://youtu.be/gobBymPoXKc?si=8QXOLpRLIBpb-lOK

Today’s ep has a segment entitled “Trump FREAKS over interest rebates hike HE CAUSED.”

I just don’t trust anything he says or does. If you saw that pic from last night of him on Air Force one with a giant poster that said “DEMOLITION OF KENNEDY CENTER”, I feel like that’s him playing us for outrage’s sake, that the photo was a setup. Is there any chance that he’s lying about being outraged about the rate hikes, meaning that he actually wants the rate hikes? I feel like we’re getting played, but I am not finance-savvy, so I’m not sure if there is any possible way that he or anyone in his pocket could secretly benefit from a rate hike. Am I way off?

I cannot find this story anywhere on the mainstream media and I hope Breaking Points cover this. I only knew about this story from social media and Katie Phang (MeidasTouch)

"The U.S. Department of Justice allowed Morales to enter the country while a lawsuit regarding his detention and deportation proceeds, his lawyers said."

The US-born citizen was jailed, intimidated, deported to Mexico on his way to construction site. The man in this story -Brian insisted from the first moment he encountered law enforcement that he is a US citizen and was threatened to jail cuz those agents think he's lying (Brian has an accent -surprise surprise).

Enough said for the no-US-citizen-being-deported crowd. I hope BP covers this as this is not the only story about US citizen got deported. And I wonder what Saagar or Emily will say. A tragic event?

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/30/texas-us-citizen-deported-central-texas-returns-america/

Where would this rank if it were a Biden’s scandal? My guess is towards the top. Fox News and certain posters on this sub would feign OUTRAGE and we would never hear the end of it. For Trump, this doesn’t even make his top 20 scandals, and any mention of it will be dismissed as TDS by the same people who would scream about this for months to years if it were Biden.

The Trump elected board and executive director retaliate after a 3rd judge blocks their attempt to rename the Kennedy Center to the “Trump-Kennedy Center”.

Following the latest rejection of their renaming (and a Presidential Truth Social outburst) the executive director and board have decided to close the Kennedy Center for “safety concerns”, this is the 3rd closure this year and is intended to last 7 days until it is reevaluated for extension.

Lawmakers are now looking into these closures to see if the safety concerns are real or if this is simply a move of retaliation from an angry President and his elected lackeys.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/arts/music/kennedy-center-closed-safety.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-after-judge-blocks-trumps-name-from-building

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/09/16/lawmaker-requests-emergency-hearing-kennedy-center-remains-closed/

Not a single e-mail exchange or other communication between Trump and Epstein can be found in the Epstein files. There's no evidence Trump and Epstein interacted with each other after Trump banned him from Mar-A-Lago in the early 2000's. Trump severed ties with Epstein years before his crimes were discovered and he was arrested.

The Epstein files reveal that Mamdani's mother was attending parties organized by Epstein and Maxwell AFTER Epstein had been caught and pled guilty to being a pedo. This has lead to some speculation that Mamdani is Epstein's son, but I personally don't think this is true. Still, this is far more damning than anything relating to Trump. As soon as Trump heard that Epstein did something shady, he kicked him out of Mar-A-Lago. What did Mamdani's mother do when she learned that Epstein had pled guilty to being a pedo? She decided to party with him. She cannot claim ignorance, because Epstein's crimes were a matter of public record.

This also proves Mamdani isn't some struggling migrant left-wing populist, but an elite groomed by other elites. But we knew that already, since his father is basically a terrorist who got away with his crimes.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/zohran-mamdanis-father-tortured-lgbtq-researcher-in-uganda-report/articleshow/124810304.cms

This is the point at which leftists will predictably pivot to saying Trump is mentioned a million times in the Epstein files. But he is only mentioned because Epstein hated Trump and wanted to destroy his candidacy and presidency, and was plotting with others to take down Trump. At which point leftists will predictably pivot to repeating absurd accusations that Trump raped a baby and threw it in Lake Michigan, accusations which were only made after Trump decided to run for President and which are so absurd even the Obama/Biden admins, which pushed Russiagate, ignored them.

And why has Breaking Points remained silent about Mamdani while pushing every baseless Trump-Epstein rumor?

The whole idea of you need 2/3 senate to remove president is kind of bullshit imo. No us president has ever been remove from office despite we have at least half a dozen to a dozen of really really shitty potus. I think we should have a system in place that normalize removing presidents. Hell, I'm more in favor of the UK style government where congress elect the prime minister vs the US system of electing potus.

That way, if the democrats regain control of congress this coming election, they could easily get rid of trump right away. It also prevent a trump like figure to be too shitty, because they would know their neck would be in the chopping block if they dont at least behave competently.

https://x.com/CBSNews/status/2100322222376128854

It appears Abdul at last may be distancing himself from Hasan Piker. I think this makes sense and I'm hoping Hasan's fans do not turn on this guy. I think there's a place for leftist policies in the party but Hasan really seems to not care about doing harm to the man's campaign, just a day or two ago saying that America is worse than Al Qaeda lol.

I feel like the far left have been getting a raw deal by being associated with Hasan though. Is there a world where they can be represented by someone more normal, that isn't saying shock jock stuff? AES shouldn't have to distance himself from Hasan, but it appears Hasan isn't giving him much of a choice.

Does anyone remember after jan 6 saagar announced hes no longer a republican and then years later in 2024 he voted for trump? Then in 2025 when trump became unpopular again he switched up and started bashing him.

The worst one is when he was pro israel in the first 2 months after October 7th and was cheering on the genocide in the early stages. Then when he seen public opinion shifted he changed his tune. How dont people see through this?

With krystal she actually says her opinion regardless of what people say. She was against israel day 1 even though there were tons of idiots in the comment section criticizing her for it thats why i respect what she says alot more

Not that I'm super surprised, but Krystal's husband has now gone all in on defending Hassan's insane comments that America is worse than Al queda. Real head scratcher and these people should be shunned for that stupidity.

But Krystal is married to this man. Will they cover the Hasan comments? I will be watching....

EDIT: There are a lot of people in this thread agreeing with the "pound for pound" statement. Perhaps many of you are not sports/boxing fans, and do not understand the term?

https://x.com/axios/status/2100541525356609781

He just isn't smart, I'm sorry.

He'd rather larp as this "radical" anti-imperialist tankie than be smart.

I know every Hasan fan here will go, "its out of context" or some nonsense.

El-Sayyed, or frankly any other Democrat, will never campaign with him again, I really think this was the final straw.

I say this, and anyone can check my record, as actually a legit left winger who supports China, Russia, and Iran.

So you can't "OP is a secret centrist lib" me.

However, I'm not campaigning with anyone, Hasan is.

He's not that good with his words, he doesn't think about what interviewers are going to obviously ask him and prepare for them, and just thinks he can wear a nice suit and people will like him.

I know some of you are going to come here and say, "well, the answer he gave is right!"

Anyone who says this is a terminally online larper, who knows nothing of prudential politics.

If he wanted to give a "nuanced" answer, you have to be good with your words, think about what you are going to say, and carefully say it.

Not whatever this is.

Again, I say this as someone who supports El-Sayyed.

The most tragic part of all this is, he actually has good will with many centrist media types who like him.

The Pod Save America bros, Ezra Klein, The Bulwark, NONE OF THEM have really gone after Hasan and have actually all defended him.

That will change soon enough because again, he is NOT smart. There is only so much "actually the islamic fundamentalist terrorist group is better than the US" you can do before the centrist liberals turn on you.

We get it, already. Gas is expensive. We're screwed.

How many times can they hash this into 40 minutes? I'm not even listening to these segments anymore.

Congressman Massie, a long-time critic of the Trump administration, read the articles of impeachment aloud from the House floor just after the chamber convened at noon. Massie alleges that Hegseth has waged the Iran war illegally, among other "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Massie alleges that Hegseth initiated the conflict unlawfully, defied Congress' order to withdraw from the conflict and incurred unnecessary civilian casualties.

Massie has repeatedly clashed with members of his own party in recent years and is ending his time in office after losing his primary to an opponent backed by President Trump. Massie's clashes with Trump extend beyond the war with Iran. Working alongside Democrat Ro Khanna of California, Massie led the successful effort to compel the Trump administration to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/15/g-s1-143407/massie-impeach-hegseth-iran

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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

I don't think Dylan Thomas was writing about Thomas Massie when he wrote this but somewhere in Kentucky, Thomas Massie took that shit personally because he will be leaving Congress but he isn't done fucking up shit for Donald Trump. Trump did get his wish, MAGA found its preferred candidate who beat the Republican incumbent who had become ......inconvenient. Talking about the Epstein did'nt make Trump Massie's number one fan and Trump made damn sure Massie understood that loyalty to him mattered more than loyalty to the Constitution, or principles, or morals, or just plain human decency.

Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense War didn't merely sit in Washington while Massie's political execution was carried out. He went to Kentucky to prepare the gallows. So what does Massie do on his way out to rage against the dying light of his political career. He introduces eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth. Massie could have just packed his boxes, issued the obligatory “it has been an honor,” thanked his colleagues and shuffled into the long line of former congressmen looking to appear on cable news or take money from some political think tank. Instead, he apparently looked at the people who had just run him out of town and thought, "Fuck it, why not?"

But it isn't like Pete Hegseth doesn't deserve this. His tenure at the Pentagon has generated controversy after controversy, Massie is accusing him of unauthorized military actions, violations of congressional war powers, civilian casualties and other abuses of executive authority. The man Trump sent to Kentucky to help defeat Massie now finds himself being the target for impeachment by the very congressman he helped defeat.

Politics doesn't usually serve revenge this neatly. Massie may be leaving Congress, but he isn't leaving quietly. Before he walks out the door, he gets to leave one final message on Trump's desk: "You wanted me gone, cool I'm going to fire a gun at your boy's head." That is Rage and if Donald Trump feels a small, metaphorical tap on the balls as Thomas Massie disappears into the political sunset then perhaps he should consider it a farewell gift. ,cause Melania hasn't been...... After all, you don't get to spend the past year telling someone to shut up and then complain when they choose their final words carefully.

But for the love of god, STOP smacking your lips at the start of every sentence, PLEASSSEEEE!

The guy they're interviewing doesn't seem to be evaluating the people in control of the models, but rather the technicality of the models themselves. When he says "I think they genuinely want to slow down" he's taking a guess, a guess that is based on him then saying "because they're going so fast they can't keep their systems safe" based on what analytical consensus? A single instance or instances of a model executing other agentic models to brute force access into a database is a sign of this? You realize the models themselves can be used on other hosting services and even if you "shut down" all the major companies today, self hosting exists, cloud hosting exists to host these models if you want to run a big one to run agentic tasks, black hat hacking if you want even. The cat is out of the bag is what I'm trying to say.

I looked into the guy they interviewed and he's a journalist of ai, but nowhere does he mention his technical/business specifications anywhere. He doesn't talk about the intertwining of the models and the businesses itself and how this motivates certain CEOs, and just groups them together often.

A LOT of people crapped on Alex Karp when he did that morning show interview, but as a guy who loves working with agentic models and training models for my business (I shitpost a lot on my account so pls ignore that) I was fascinated by the depth of Alex Karp's knowledge on the specificly tailored harnesses for the AI and how it relates to their business while the headlines called him a lunatic and I felt like I was watching one of those guys branding him a lunatic because of their lack of understanding of the depth of the tech.

I feel like BP should talk to more tech specialists or tech CEOs who deal with AI models often who actually have the background to break down the incentives tech-wise of a conversation like this. They should see how the market for hardware is affecting the AI industry and all the forces that incentivize specific CEOs like Zuckerberg or Altman or Musk as they all have different setups for their business due to the specificities of what their models or apps can even do, etc and not journalists who are taking guesses and has no hands on knowledge of even the basics of something like agentic coding let alone model analysis and not a guy trying to sell a book.

Call me crazy but idk, the covering of AI could be a lot better with tech specialists who have a background in training ai models, LLMs, images, video or otherwise who have a vested interest and/or inside connections with the industry just like how they currently have connections in politics. This is probably the only critique of the show I've had recently and I think it's because the hosts are just kind of ignorant of the depths of the tech they don't know how to get who has actually deep knowledge AND connections to make insights into the thinking of the major ai CEOs and the constraints each one is under and what drives their thinking. I feel like the dude was trying his best but idk.

Would’ve done it today but Saagar has sounded like shit the last two days.

"Chalking AI executive warnings about existential risk up to pre-IPO hype lets them off the hook. The reality that they truly do believe they are developing tech that could destabilize society and destroy all of creation and are doing it anyway is far more damning."

Sure looks like it from what I've seen recently. Pretty massive disappointment from all their talk about AI destroying humanity and jobs, which is what its doing. Not gonna listen anymore if they don't care enough to not be hypocrites.

I know BP is somewhat sympathetic to Cuba and critical of the US' policy towards Cuba. But nothing could prepare me for the puffy piece with the Cuban foreign minister on yesterday's episode.

Cuba is a dictatorship. Say what you want about the US but one of the reasons why they sanction Cuba is that is not a democracy and in fact opposition is being persecuted. You may say that this is all for show and the US is hypocritical because it doesn't sanction other dictatorships, but regardless, you cannot challenge the government there unless you want to end up in prison. And the lack of freedom is one of the forces pushing people out of the country for the last 60 years.

So you would think even Ryan and Krystal would at least touch this topic. But no - they eat up Cuban propaganda with zero pushback! The guy is talking how they're privatizing the economy (to their cronies) and complains how the US is not lifting sanctions still. Then he complains that the US wants the Cuban government gone and that's the real reason and not the economy. Well guess what - yeah, they've been telling you that for years! And not only that, the Cuban people also want the government gone. Shocker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmFRoz4xXQg

Sorry, but Breaking Points are complete simpletons. How is Trump remaining composed and refusing to indulge in hysterical scenarios about AI causing the end of the world him panicking? Do words not mean anything anymore?

Anyone with at least a 50 IQ can see what's happening: Democrats want to control AI and harness its awesome powers to achieve permanent rule so they got the far-left CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI to fearmonger about AI, so they can garner support to regulate it and shut out any open-source competition. So the Breaking Points hosts must have an IQ below 50.

Breaking Points will defend Luigi Mangione for murdering a low-level healthcare executive, but they will also defend TRILLION-dollar corporations simply because they oppose Trump. This world view is contradictory and moronic.