PUBLIC OCCURRENCES

Public Occurrences October 28, 2026

2026-10-28T01:04:42.118-04:00

Helluva way to start Wednesday. A substantial change in Associated Press' reporting:

Exit polls suggest no clear winner in Israel’s election, but Netanyahu is far from defeated

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli voters delivered a rebuke [previous: "sharp rebuke]to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘s far-right and religious governing coalition, but exit polls Wednesday suggested the election had no clear winner and indicated that the long-serving Israeli leader was far from defeated after three years of war ignited on his watch.

The exit polls suggested voters gave opponents of the current government a solid majority [previous: same] in the next parliament. But it’s not clear if those disparate parties — which include Arab-led factions who appear to have made a historic showing — are willing to form a coalition. If they are, it would likely take weeks of haggling.

[Netanyahu] called on his opponents to line up behind him and dismissed the idea of a partnership with Arab parties — whose constituents make up 20% of Israel’s population — as treasonous.

“We must establish a strong, right-wing, nationalist government,” said Netanyahu...

[That what you voted for Israeli Jews, Nazrael? Your state has already lost public opinion in the U.S. You, Israeli Jewry still have support. Now, idk. Come November 3, you will not have the U.S. House and the odds are slightly against you in the Senate. And come January 20, 2029, no matter who is the next U.S. president, you will not have their support. You know what I state as fact to be fact and you know that my projections are the likely.]

...who was facing off in the vote against his former military chief, centrist Gadi Eisenkot. “We must not endanger Israel and establish a government that relies on anti-Zionist Arab parties.”

While exit polls indicated Netanyahu would face a difficult path to return to office, in his defiant speech he made clear he had no intention of stepping aside. Even if he is unable to form a government, Netanyahu’s inflammatory rhetoric against the Arab parties could complicate any attempt by his opponents to partner with them and sets the stage for a potential new vote where the Israeli leader could make gains.

[That's what he did twice previously, Israeli Jews, and he remained in power. Five elections if I recall correctly? Israeli Jews, as I wrote yesterday, this is your dysfunctional system, your votes, your government. The result of your votes is, it seems now, "a strong, right wing, nationalist government,", for Nazreal. That is very ugly, Israel Jews.

[ Your state, along with mine, will attack Iran, and we together will commit more war crimes, more genocide and you will lose more Americans and more American elected representatives. Cutting off aid to Nazrael is a very real possibility. But you know that. Until January 20, 2029, you will be free to show the true, ugly face of Israeli Jewry to Americans and the world.]

The close results also suggest that Netanyahu’s opponents were unable to capitalize on the public anger and grief sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attacks to decisively unseat Netanyahu.

[Everything that I wrote yesterday was true, you know it was. An "unequivocal rejection" of Netanyahoo was required to have American future support. It looks like you have spoken and you have not delivered such a rejection. It seems real and plausible that Netanyahoo will continue as your Prime Minister. That is unequivocally unacceptable to most Americans and American politicians. But you knew that. You knew the risks, you knew the consequences and you decided to accept them.]

A setback for Netanyahu but not an outright defeat

[Americans needed outright defeat, Israeli Jews! I don't think Nazrael is going to survive without American support. I know it WOULDN'T have. Your preferred American president told your preferred Prime Minister directly, "Everybody hates you. Everybody hates Israel now. You'd be in jail without me." He said abroad, "Israel wouldn't exist without me." You knew that. It's one of the few things I have ever agreed with him about. You chose to risk it; you think you can survive on your own. I don't think you can. We'll see who's right.]

Israel’s leader, a savvy political operator who has delivered last-minute upsets in previous elections, appeared to have been rebuked...

[But those appearances were deceiving. You did not rebuke Netanyahoo.]

...by voters disappointed in his alliance with the far-right and angry over draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews.

[But he wasn't. We'll see who's right as soon as November 3 and we'll know for sure and it won't be you who are right on Jan. 20, 2029, if you exist at all to accept your defeat or claim your victory. You are, it looks likely tonight: Alone. Your choice. You were beseeched and warned.]

Public Occurrences October 27, 2026

2026-10-27T23:38:00.300-04:00

One Week to Go in Toilet Nation!

Democrats Appear to Hold Narrow Senate Edge with Week to Go

49 at least Leans D, 46 at least Leans R, 5 Toss-ups.

...Maine and Texas emerging as the likeliest majority-making contests.

Sabato October 27

Never saw this anywhere before:

Big clap to Larry Sabato at UVA.

RCP NO-TOSSUPS SENATE:

Dems Net + 5 Seats for 52-48 Majority.

RCP HOUSE:

Dems Net +25 Seats for 227-182 Majority (26 Tossups)

RealClearPolitics

Rooski AI Dezinformatsiya Targets Talarico, Texas, Brown, Ohio

7:05 pm:
Exit polls suggest a rebuke of Netanyahu but no clear winner in Israel’s election

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli voters delivered a sharp rebuke Tuesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with exit polls indicating voters gave his opponents a solid majority in the next parliament. Whether those disparate parties can form a government is uncertain and will likely take weeks of haggling.

Israel's system is complicated and fragmenting. Still, I don't get how an anti-Netanyahoo "solid majority" "will likely take weeks" to form a government.

Israeli Jews, this is your system, this is your government, this is your state. You know the stakes.

5:31 pm:

Live: Israeli exit polls indicate deadlock in pivotal election as Netanyahu faces main rival Eisenkot

Reuters

For me, this is the last chance for the Jewish PEOPLE of Israel. Netanyahoo, on trial at home for corruption, under indictment internationally for war crimes, and his settlers' coalition must be rejected UNEQUIVOCALLY. If not, as looks likely, if he and his coalition are returned, then my opposition to this Israel is transferred where it belongs in a representative democracy, onto the Jewish citizenry of Israel.

Future attacks, which are a certainty, on Israeli Jews by their enemies will not warrant intervention by the United States, if I have my way. The United States must not, it must not, intervene to perpetuate so loathsome a state from a debased citizenry bent on perpetuating it. I utterly condemn any attacks on civilians in war, retrospectively, prospectively or hypothetically, but as my American Jewish friend has said of Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza and elsewhere, and throughout Israel's existence, "those things happen in war."

3:42 pm:

"Hello, hello? Miami? Fontainebleau Hotel? Listen, I want to make a reservation

for one single room. Yes. How much?"

Bananas, 1971

SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said.
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FOLLOWING FATHER'S PATH

Jair Bolsonaro also went to the United States after refusing to concede to Lula in 2022, when former US President Joe Biden was in office. He eventually returned to Brazil but was later given a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after his supporters ⁠stormed government buildings in Brasilia.

NBA FTs

2026-10-27T22:44:32.861-04:00

Hotspurs 120 Excremento (0-4) 103

Beans 125 Rust (0-4) 124 OT. (Who else but Jayson Tatum? At the buzzer in OT)

Not officially final but I'm calling it. 3:11 left, Mamdani City (0-4, now 1-4) 104 Zollner Pistons (3-0, now 3-1) 89.

So now there will be fo' o'fers: Rust, Miamuh, Excremento, and Katrina City.

HT in Peoples' Square Garden, Mamdani City 51 Zollner Pistons 50

2026-10-27T21:41:51.400-04:00

There are yet five winless teams in the National Basketball Association. Miami has lost the most, 4, but then the defending champeen "Knickers" are going for their fourth L too; also running are everlosers Rust (winning :o in Beantown 102-101), Excremento ("trailing" 99-71 in Alamo) and Katrina City.

It's a simple game

2026-10-27T14:51:06.865-04:00

"Can't overthink basketball. For me, my shot not going in. I'm not going to overthink that. This year, I'm just taking more 3s. I mean that's that's really it."

-Bam Adebayo after his 8 pts, 3/10 (0/5) against D.

Why is he taking more threes? Because he wants to even though Eric Spoelstra would rather him not? Or because Spoelstra wants him to clear out of the paint for Giannis?

What?

2026-10-27T14:44:57.490-04:00

Giannis Antetokounmpo can opt out of his contract in the summer.

🤢🤮

"The offense, though, will be a much harder challenge for Spoelstra and his charges."

2026-10-27T13:26:09.157-04:00

-The Defector (previous)

Yeah?

-We outshot Ice 48%-47%.
-Zollner did outclass us 53%-38%
-We shot identically to Queens, 43%
-D. outshot us by one little peepy point 46%-45%.

Shooting does not explain 0-4.

-Against Ice it was rebounding, -18, and pts off turnovers, -14.
-Against Z it was shooting; (rebs -4).
-Against Queens it was rebounding, -11, and pts off turnovers, -10.
-Against D. it was missed FTs and rebounding, -9.

Somebody explain to me how a team with Giannis Antetokounmpo (9.9 reb/game career, 9.5 2026/27)and Bam Adebayo (9, 7.3) gets outrebounded in all four games, and badly, in three. Other than the obvious: Eric Spoelstra does not have his Bigs playing in positions (which don't exist since Spo plays positionless) where they can get boards.

Ditto

2026-10-27T12:46:25.982-04:00

Anyway, Miami lost to the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night and dropped to 0-4 for the season. Worse than that, the team has looked lost and overwhelmed in every single game.
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Let's start with the (slightly) less worrying side of the ball, the defense. In theory, adding a former Defensive Player of the Year like Antetokounmpo to a team that had a player who should have, in my opinion, won at least one of those awards himself (Adebayo) should have made the Heat a nightmare to play against. That's a lot of length and switching ability for teams to contend with, and it felt like the two of them could work together to wall off the paint and force teams into contested jumpers. In practice, though, it's a bit of a "hat on a hat" situation, as both Antetokounmpo and Adebayo look consistently confused about where each should be at any given time.

Ditto. Ditto.

Appalling

2026-10-27T09:55:46.675-04:00

BEIJING (AP) — Soccer star Kylian Mbappé apologized for comments in which he apparently referred to Mao Zedong, the founding leader of Communist China, as a dictator...

The Miami "Dolphins" have won more games than the Miami "Heat"

2026-10-27T09:45:20.821-04:00

Good morning Heaties!😁😁😁😁😁

2026-10-27T09:40:28.405-04:00

2026-10-27T00:03:01.738-04:00

"I feel like Bam is still tryna’ find his footing because Giannis doesn’t give a fuck. Giannis came to Miami doing what Giannis does, Giannis thinks. And I feel like Bam is kinda’ out of place a few times, kinda’ understanding what kind of spacing, ‘When is it my turn? How can we make this two-man game work?’”

That is ex-NBA journeyman Matt Barnes on his podcast. That is also clickbait for Barnes' podcast. Barnes doesn't know anything, he is just watching some of the games. That doesn't mean Barnes is wrong. I read the same thing in the box score. I believe that head coach Eric Spoelstra has totally misused this duo, which should have been formidable as a Two Big, bungled Bam's usage rate and has an ass-backwards game plan for this roster that is worse than the sum of its parts. Bam does look confused as to his role and lost on the court. It is not just Bam. "Multiple players", that was the reporting, said that there was a lack of communication on the court. I understood Spoelstra's plan for Bam and Giannis to be that on defense the three other players would funnel the offense toward the dual Black Holes. I assumed, I needed read this, that the obvious way to use a 6' 11" MVP and the 6' 9" muscle and hard body of the face of the franchise was to play a Two Big, Great Wall, Twin Towers game on both ends of the court.

"Face of the franchise": Let us remind ourselves: Bam Adebayo is the "Heat's" long-time CAPTAIN! Pat Riley said offseason that Bam was untouchable in trade. Semi-joking said hyperbolically the he might trade Bam for Victor Wembanyama and eight first round draft picks. Such a player cannot take a back seat to anyone. That has happened, it's not the only thing that has happened but it has happened. Giannis is nearly all correct to think that he would continue to do Giannis things on his new team. But Bam is right if he thought that their coach would scheme a way for him to continue to do Bam things, one of which is to be the team leader. Giannis does not get to call the shots. Spoelstra does. It is Spoelstra's call to devise a system to make Bam and Giannis even better together than each are individually. That has not happened, it's not the only thing that has not happened, but it has not happened.

This team is a shocking, embarrassing 0-4. That's on Eric Spoelstra. Bam is soldiering on as best he can. So are all the other players. It has not worked.

I'm not saying the "Heat" are a clown show...

2026-10-26T22:32:57.372-04:00

But if they tried a mic drop right now it'd bounce and break their nose.

NOOO!😂

2026-10-26T22:13:27.154-04:00

We lost it at the free throw line! 🤣 We were 14/25 they were 13/14. THAT is when you just suck at life.

LOL HEATIES! FT MIA (0 and FO') 109 DALLAS 113

2026-10-26T22:05:39.549-04:00

109-113, 10" left. Spo FTO

2026-10-26T22:02:21.547-04:00

99-106, 4:08 WE'RE GONNA LOSE

2026-10-26T21:52:24.749-04:00

HORSE OUT OF THE BARN! 97-104, 4:52 4Q, Spo FTO

2026-10-26T21:48:40.929-04:00

97-101, 5:30

2026-10-26T21:47:12.536-04:00

96-99, 5:50 left to play

2026-10-26T21:46:07.937-04:00

96-97, 6:01 4th

2026-10-26T21:45:37.351-04:00

D. leads. 93-95, 8:13 4th, Spo FTO. smh

2026-10-26T21:38:31.741-04:00

Miami 84-83, end 3rd

2026-10-26T21:29:42.242-04:00

Man, I can't read this game from the stats. 79-74, 3:05 3Q

2026-10-26T21:21:20.326-04:00

Miami 50%-44% shooting

Ditto 37%-33% trey

Rebs. 28-32

T.O.s 11-11

Horse won't stay in barn. 79-72, 4:49 3rd

2026-10-26T21:17:22.997-04:00