"We Have Guns Too": Totally Drunk Indiana Democrat Goes On Live TV, Makes Ass

A Democratic candidate for local office in deep-red rural Indiana delivered a rambling, apparently intoxicated performance during a televised candidate forum, responding to a standard policy question by declaring she would fire Republicans, calling MAGA supporters racist and unintelligent, and closing with the line "We have guns too."

Jaime West, the Democratic nominee for Fayette County Council District 4, appeared on LocalTV3's October 9 candidate forum, hosted by Connersville News-Examiner managing editor Amy Graham-McCarty. When asked what one decision she would make that might be unpopular with some voters but in the county's best interest, West paused, asked the moderator to repeat the question, and then answered: "Firing all Republicans. I wouldn't let them... I don't even talk to them. I don't like them."

She continued that the county's own state representative had voted against her own party, then shifted to blaming local voters for "this ICE coming into our communities, stealing people's jobs." West distinguished between "good Republicans" and "these MAGAs," describing the latter as "just racist and aren't very intelligent at all." She also claimed she had been "threatened so many times to my face by MAGA," including an allegation that "the sheriff's nephew threatened to blow my head off."

The Fayette County sheriff says he has "5 nieces and 0 nephews." Sheriff Zac Jones told Fox News Digital he doesn't know West, and Fox noted it wasn't immediately clear which sheriff she meant.

When given a final opportunity for closing remarks to voters, West said, "We have guns too."

The clip, amplified on X by journalist Ryan Grim with the caption noting it was what happens "when you're at happy hour and are reminded you agreed to do an interview about your race," has circulated widely. Viewers and local online commenters have widely described West as appearing intoxicated during the forum. Fayette County, Indiana, is heavily Republican; Donald Trump received roughly 77-78% of the vote there in 2024. West faces Republican Gary Keener Jr. in the November 3 general election. Early voting is already underway.

Watch this to the end, you won't regret it. This is what happens when you're at happy hour and are reminded you agreed to do an interview about your race.

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) October 13, 2026

County council seats typically focus on budgets, taxes, and basic local services rather than national immigration or partisan purges. West's on-air answer treated the position as an opportunity to exclude the majority of her potential constituents from consideration.

The full segment remains available on LocalTV3. Neither West nor the Indiana Democratic Party immediately responded to requests for comment from Blaze News, and Fox reported West could not be reached.

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/13/2026 - 20:30

Military's Top Archbishop Tells Catholic Troops To Seek Exemption From Hasan Firing Squad, Likens Livestream To Terrorists

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the Catholic Church's archbishop for the U.S. armed forces, told Catholic service members assigned to Nidal Hasan's firing squad to request to be excused, in a statement Monday that also condemned War Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream the Dec. 3 execution of the Fort Hood shooter.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services  (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Broglio, who led the U.S. bishops' conference from 2022 to 2025, wrote that he wanted to "express my disapproval of what is proposed regarding the execution of the terrorist Hasan." "Do we really want to imitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries?" he asked, according to CBS News. He also questioned broadcasting to the world the execution of "a man in a wheel chair." Hasan has been paralyzed from the chest down since military police shot him during the 2009 attack.

The statement cites the Catechism and Pope Francis on the Church's opposition to capital punishment, then lists the costs Broglio sees in a public killing: "moral injury" to the soldiers who carry it out, the exposure of young viewers during the nation's 250th anniversary year, and the effect on the military's reputation. He asked people of goodwill to push for the decision to be reconsidered, or at least to keep children from watching. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to CBS's request for comment.

A specific unit has already been picked to carry out the execution, and officials are weighing the psychological toll as they choose which soldiers will fire, CNN reported Saturday, citing sources. Because the execution is being carried out under a legal order, it is unclear whether those soldiers can decline. One source noted that while many soldiers have killed in combat, this would be different: the prisoner would be immobile and positioned as a target.

Hegseth's announcement caught people across the Pentagon and the Army off guard, three sources told CNN; for many, his interview last week with Jack Posobiec aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was the first they heard of a public execution. Hegseth said it would be public "because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."

Army regulations limit the witnesses at a military execution to a short list that includes the prisoner's family, the victims' families, the press and a chaplain. One source said Hegseth, acting Army Secretary Adam Telle and Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell's team settled on a livestream as what "public" would mean, and the Pentagon confirmed the livestream on Thursday, saying details would follow.

President Trump told reporters Saturday he hasn't made a final call on the livestream, a day after saying he "absolutely" approved it. "There are two thoughts: don't show it and show it," Trump said at the White House, adding that he knows "what the military would like to do" but "I'll make a decision," according to NBC News. He also reposted on Truth Social a Dallas News piece in which pastor Robert Jeffress, a longtime ally, backed a public execution.

Broglio's statement follows Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who called the livestream "a barbaric promotion of a culture of death" on Friday. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty with a post on X saying "the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment," without mentioning Hasan. Broglio's opposition predates the livestream: when Hasan was sentenced in 2013, he said "the church teaches that unjustified killing is wrong in all circumstances. That includes the death penalty."

In October 2021, as the Pentagon threatened to punish troops who refused the COVID-19 vaccine without an approved exemption, Broglio wrote: "No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience." Hegseth hailed the troops discharged for refusing that vaccine as "warriors of conscience" last year, after the Trump administration ordered them reinstated with back pay.

The livestream has drawn objections from both parties. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she "would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America," and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said the "death penalty is not entertainment," per CBS. House Speaker Mike Johnson told CBS that some House Republicans have "concerns" he plans to raise with the White House, warning the video could become "a recruiting tool for future terrorists." Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) called the plan "beyond disgusting," and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called public executions "medieval." Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, said he didn't know whether the livestream would actually happen and that he wouldn't watch it, as we reported.

Trump signed off on execution by firing squad, on Hegseth's recommendation, earlier this month, and the Army has set it for 1 p.m. Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, as we noted last week. Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist, killed 13 people - 12 soldiers and a retired soldier working as a civilian - and wounded more than 30 at a soldier readiness center at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009, as troops prepared to deploy. A court-martial convicted him in 2013, and the Supreme Court declined to review his case last year, Stars and Stripes reported. Alonzo Lunsford, a retired staff sergeant who survived the attack, told CNN that broadcasting the execution "is not acceptable."

If it goes ahead, it will be the first military execution since the Army hanged Pvt. John A. Bennett at Fort Leavenworth in 1961, and the Army's first by firing squad since Pvt. Eddie Slovik was shot for desertion in France in 1945. The Death Penalty Information Center says it has no record of any U.S. execution being livestreamed. The last known large-scale public execution in the country was the 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea before roughly 20,000 people in Kentucky.

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/13/2026 - 20:05

Trump Hints At Possible Meeting With North Korean Leader

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 12 that he might meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his planned visit to Asia next month.

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, on June 30, 2019. Susan Walsh/AP Photo

Asked by a reporter whether he expects to meet Kim during the trip, Trump said: "I may. That will be exciting, won't it? But I get along with him."

The president is expected to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen, China, scheduled for Nov. 18-19.

The Epoch Times reached out to the White House for further details but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

Trump said in August he planned to meet Kim later this year but gave no details.

"He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons," Trump told reporters on Aug. 19. "We should have never have allowed it to happen. If I were president, I wouldn't have let it happen, but he's got them."

Trump met with Kim three times in 2018 and 2019 during his first term. Negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear program collapsed in 2019 due to disagreements over North Korea's denuclearization efforts and the easing of U.S.-led sanctions.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been rising over the years because of North Korea's repeated missile tests.

The United States, South Korea, and Japan, in response, have enhanced their deterrence strategies and expanded their joint military drills, which the North Korean leader portrays as invasion rehearsals.

The North Korean leader said earlier this year that relations with the United States could improve if Washington abandoned what he called a hostile policy against Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported on Feb. 26.

Kim said the country would never give up its nuclear weapons and ruled out the possibility of engaging in talks with South Korea.

North Korea unveiled a new defense industry museum featuring various weapons, including the Hwasong-20 intercontinental ballistic missile, on Oct. 11.

A display in front of the Hwasong-20 launcher appeared to show a world map depicting ranges extending beyond the U.S. mainland to the Middle East, Australia, and South America, said Shin Jong-woo, secretary general of the Korea Defense and Security Forum.

"The exhibition appears intended to highlight the achievements of Kim's defense science development program," Shin said. "It gave the impression of propaganda aimed at gaining a strategic advantage ahead of a potential North Korea - US summit."

Kim attended the opening ceremony alongside his wife and daughter, according to state media.

North Korea fired several missiles toward the sea off its eastern coast on Oct. 12, with one projectile traveling more than 559 miles, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The South Korean military said it has strengthened surveillance to prepare for additional launches and remained on an all-out readiness posture, adding that it would share relevant information with the United States and Japan.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense also detected the launch, saying that the projectiles landed near North Korea's east coast or in the Sea of Japan. The ministry said it was assessing whether the missiles had violated Japan's territorial waters or exclusive economic zone.

North Korea's missile launches came just days after South Korea launched its first hypersonic glide vehicle on Oct. 8. South Korean presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said the launch was successful and that it marked a major milestone in securing a new deterrent.

Jill McLaughlin, Evgenia Filimianova, Guy Birchall, and Reuters contributed to this report.

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/13/2026 - 19:45

Today July 19 2013 Here is the news conference by Governor Rick Snyder and emergency manager Kevyn Orr explaining why they claimed bankruptcy.

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Rochester, N.Y. -- She says she had no warning that someone was going to search her car after she left to catch her flight. So the woman contacted News10NBC.

We found out it happened to her because she valet parked her car. Those are the only cars that get inspected.

So if security feels it is necessary to search some cars in the name of safety, why not search all of them?

Laurie Iacuzza walked to her waiting car at the Greater Rochester International Airport after returning from a trip and that's when she found it -- a notice saying her car was inspected after she left for her flight. She said, “I was furious. They never mentioned it to me when I booked the valet or when I picked up the car or when I dropped it off.”

Henry Kissinger actually publicly stated that those who oppose the New World Order are "terrorists".

Henry Kissinger in a speech given in Istanbul, Turkey on May 31, 2007, while the Bilderberg conference was simultaneously underway, just a few miles down the road.

"In the Middle East, we live in a different world. The nations do not represent historic entities in the same sense that European nations did. Turkey of course does, and Iran in a considerable extent does. But in the region in between, the borders were drawn by the victors of World War I on the basis largely of what would facilitate their influence. So therefore, the identities of these countries, and of their borders, can be challenged more easily."

"What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system, and they're trying to regroup it to a radical Islamic fundamentalists kind."

Detroit has become the largest city in Unites States history to file for bankruptcy after decades of decline and mismanagement rendered the city insolvent. Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder, said on Thursday that there was no other option to tackle the city's $18.5bn of debts. Al Jazeera's Caroline Malone reports.

Detroit has become the largest city in Unites States history to file for bankruptcy after decades of decline and mismanagement rendered the city insolvent.William Black, a professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, talks to Al Jazeera about Detroit filing bankruptcy.

7/18/13 - Anti-government activist Adam Kokesh, who is currently jailed on drug charges and is facing a firearms charge in D.C., says he will someday run for President on a platform of abolishing the federal government. Since July 9th, 31-year old Adam Kokesh has been incarcerated in a cell in the Fairfax County jail which measures seven by seven-and-a-half feet.

On Independence Day, Kokesh had a colleague record a video of the pro-gun activist loading a shotgun on D.C.'s Freedom Plaza. The District has strict gun control laws that generally forbid the carrying of firearms. U.S. Park Police and D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department opened an investigation.

Several days later, U.S. Park Police used a flash grenade when their SWAT team served a search warrant at Kokesh's home in Herndon, Va. Kokesh was arrested when officers said they found hallucinogenic mushrooms at the house.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview, Adam Kokesh denies any connection to the drugs. Here is part of the transcript of that interview with Kokesh: "If they found a stash of magic mushrooms in my house, they were not mine. ANY IDEA WHOSE THEY WERE, OR WHY THEY WERE IN YOUR HOUSE? I'm pretty confident that, whether or not they found anything, the full paper bags that [U.S. Park Police] brought into my house would insure that they had charges to bring against me. ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT THOSE DRUGS WERE PLANTED? Yes."

Kokesh, who has been arrested several times before by U.S. Park Police, says that agency has a "vendetta" against him, but he believes the evidence in the drug case is weak.

Federal officers have now filed a weapons charge against Kokesh for wielding the shotgun in D.C. on the Fourth of July. Here's more of the interview: "WAS IT A REAL SHOTGUN AND WERE THEY REAL SHELLS GOING INTO IT? Yes. ON THE VIDEO YOU POSTED? Yes. YOU DID KNOW THAT WAS ILLEGAL IN D.C.? It's called civil disobedience."

Adam Kokesh believes the Second Amendment to the Constitution will provide him a successful defense against the D.C. gun charge.

The former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq plans to someday bring his anti-government views before voters. "ARE YOU RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT? Yes sir, in 2020 on the platform of: orderly dissolution of the United States government. WHY IS THAT A GOOD IDEA? Why is having a federal government a good idea at this point?"

Adam Kokesh believes the U.S. military is more harmful than helpful to American security, and the government -- as a whole -- has burdened its citizenry with debt.

Adam Kokesh is 70% disabled from his term of military service. He says he lives only on that money.

His supporters, through their website, adamvstheman.com, are asking supporters to send money for bail and send money so a private attorney can be hired. Kokesh is currently being represented by a public defender.

Kokesh remains in custody in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, and, if he is freed on bond, he faces extradition to D.C. to face the gun charge.

July 18, 2013 - Bill O'Reilly Interviews Donald Trump on Economy, China, and Obamacare



Trump would be a hell of a lot better president then Obama, at least he is willing to do what needs to be done instead of creating some BS healthcare system .He's a businessman, he knows how to make deals, he will get tough on China (even if he has ties made in China in which I don't think he knew or maybe he thought we're a screwed country so why not just sell them to stupid people who will only buy them anyway), I don't believe what they say about his net worth (in which they say isn't worth much). Trump has a big fat heart inside I believe it.

Here it comes Detroit about to be largest Bankrupt City .The city of Detroit files for Chapter 9 federal bankruptcy protection, making the automobile capital and onetime music powerhouse the country's largest-ever municipal bankruptcy case. WSJ Global Autos Editor Joe White reports.


This news really ruined Obama's golf game today ... ya America is crumbling apart , but we have 15,000 Russian soldiers to help fix it I hear!!

Steve Keen Exposes Financial Fallacies and Debates the Mortgage Debt Jubilee!


"I don't understand gold." Yes, that's what our beloved Fed Chairman actually told Congress today. Maybe that's why Germany wants 300 tonnes of it back. That would be gold the Fed is holding on its behalf. We have just one word for you Finance Minister Schaeuble: tungsten. But don't worry, Chairman Bernanke assured the S&P 500 -- now at all time highs -- that the monetary QE stimulus will continue until the economy can stand on its own feet. Such anthropomorphization is quite quaint for an econometrician, isn't it? We debunk the likes of Bernanke and talk about the mortgage jubilee with economist Steve Keen.

And, Jamie Dimon can't seem to find a chair that isn't the hot seat. JP Morgan is about to shell out a few hundred million in a settlement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. That would be for allegedly manipulating energy markets in California, Enron style. Barclays already settled for $435 million. And a similar settlement for JP Morgan would amount to -- well just one sixtieth -- of its $26 billion in revenues reported last Friday. No word yet on how much it actually profited from allegedly bilking Americans.

Finally, subprime is back. The Consumer Financial Protection Board just strengthened mortgage underwriting standards. But if you don't fall under the new rules, don't worry. Because the guy who helped write the rules at the CFPB just went private -- and started a company that will service the very market his old regulatory body now excludes. And, yes, they're even providing interest-only financing -- because that worked so well in 2008. You can't make this stuff up! Perianne breaks down the boom-bust cycle.

Unorthodox ufologist Norio Hayakawa presented his views and research on UFOs, clandestine government activities, and the mysterious Dulce, New Mexico area, rumored to house an underground base. The state of New Mexico itself has been a hotbed of paranormal and UFO activity going back to 1947, he reported. Starting with the Roswell Incident, "the year 1947 was the beginning of a conditioning of belief systems...carefully orchestrated for future events," he commented.

He believes the Roswell crash was staged "by an unknown intelligence" in collusion with an elite part of the US government. UFOs are neither flying nor objects, but rather part of an intelligence that co-exists with us and has the ability to materialize, he explained.

Hayakawa was one of the first to bring Project Bluebeam to public attention in his 1995 documentary video Secrets of Dreamland, which suggested that a covert government would have sufficient technology to artificially simulate a UFO threat in order to bring about a forced global unity.

Regarding Dulce, he has not found direct physical evidence for an underground base there, yet, there have been many strange reports and sightings in the area which encompasses the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. "I think there's a reality on another level that we may not be able to see with our physical eyes" and a base could exist at Dulce in a non-physical realm, he shared.

Biography:

Norio Hayakawa calls himself an unorthodox ufologist and activist. He has spent almost 10 years specifically investigating Area 51 in Nevada. He says that there is much more to Area 51 than just superficial facts made public about this well-known base. In 1990 he also began to investigate the strange goings-on at Dulce, New Mexico. After more than 45 years of researching the UFO phenomenon, he says that a conditioning of belief systems have been orchestrated since 1947 by a manipulative force that is preparing mankind for a near future mysterious scenario. The ingrained and "altered" realities behind both Area 51 and Dulce will play a role in that scenario. In March of 2009 he organized the first-ever Underground Base conference in Dulce, New Mexico.

Wikipedia
The term shadow government (also cryptocracy) besides its party political meaning can also refer to what is sometimes called "the secret government" or "the invisible government," an idea based on the notion that real and actual political power does not reside with publicly elected representatives (for example the United States Congress (or the Cabinet of the United Kingdom) but with private individuals who are exercising power behind the scenes beyond the scrutiny of democratic institutions. According to this belief the official elected government is in reality subservient to the shadow government who are the true executive power.

Conspiracy-oriented literature postulates the existence of a secret government who are the true power behind the apparent government. Examples of such literature include works by Dan Smoot, William Guy Carr, Jim Marrs, Carroll Quigley, Gary Allen, Des Griffin, David Icke, Michael A. Hoffman II and John Coleman. Some of these authors believe members of the secret government may represent or be agents for groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, The Royal Institute for International Affairs, The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, CIA and MI6 in co-operation with international banks and financial institutions such as the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. Also popularizing the idea was the hit US television show, The X-Files.

In his novel Coningsby, Benjamin Disraeli stated that "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes". One definition of a shadow government is a "secret government within the government". This secret government is the "real" government that controls the legitimate and visible government's agenda. The network of people constituting this secret government are bound by some common agenda known only to each other and/or the people they represent. The agenda may be that of a secret society who have infiltrated the government (examples include Freemasons, Skull and Bones men or Illuminatists). In this case the agenda of the network is known only to those members who are bound by an oath of secrecy.

The shadow government is also considered by popular authors[who?] to be behind black budget projects and covert operations.

One of the most popular conspiracy theories about a shadow government is the notion of a "Zionist Occupation Government

Travelers on their way to Britain might want to leave their phones at home after it was revealed they could be seized and browsed through by police. And amazingly it's totally legal, as Tesa Arcilla reports.


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