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[@jimgeraghty](/creator/twitter/jimgeraghty)
"The Greatest Day of Trumps Second Term So Far National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-greatest-day-of-trumps-second-term-so-far/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-13T14:08Z 372.7K followers, 159.2K engagements


"Why the Democrats Activist Class Couldnt Celebrate the Cease-Fire They Demanded National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-the-democrats-activist-class-couldnt-celebrate-the-cease-fire-they-demanded/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-14T14:13Z 372.7K followers, 26.6K engagements


"Chuck Schumer Hopes Americans Forget that the Filibuster Exists National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chuck-schumer-hopes-americans-forget-that-the-filibuster-exists/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-13T19:34Z 372.7K followers, 13.9K engagements


"J.D. Vance’s Unusually Broad Definition of ‘Kid’ and ‘Young Boy’ National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/j-d-vances-unusually-broad-definition-of-kid-and-young-boy/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-15T20:27Z 372.7K followers, 43.9K engagements


"Why the America First Trump Administration Is Bailing Out Argentina National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-the-america-first-trump-administration-is-bailing-out-argentina/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-15T14:28Z 372.7K followers, 7920 engagements


"Bessent: Another $XX Billion Is Coming to the Rescue of Argentina National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bessent-another-20-billion-is-coming-to-the-rescue-of-argentina/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-15T20:07Z 372.7K followers, 7350 engagements


"Trump Sure Looks to Be Pursuing Regime Change in Venezuela National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trump-sure-looks-to-be-pursuing-regime-change-in-venezuela/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-16T14:21Z 372.7K followers, 6015 engagements


"Checking In on the Worlds Greatest Deliberative Retirement Home National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/checking-in-on-the-worlds-greatest-deliberative-retirement-home/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-15T13:53Z 372.7K followers, 13K engagements


"The Modern Democratic Party Is Now Functionally Anti-Israel National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-modern-democratic-party-is-now-functionally-anti-israel/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-16T14:19Z 372.7K followers, 153.1K engagements


"The Views Take on the Jay Jones Scandal Is Ignorant Even byViewStandards National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-views-take-on-the-jay-jones-scandal-is-ignorant-even-by-view-standards/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-17T14:11Z 372.7K followers, 36.4K engagements


"In Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed who turns XX in November announced he will run for another term. He will face a primary challenge from an East Providence elder care worker which sounds like I am being snarky but as Dave Barry used to write I swear I am not making this up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978459369835548851) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T13:54Z 119.5K followers, 2671 engagements


"Meet the Real Graham Platner National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/meet-the-real-graham-platner/) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-18T12:56Z 372.7K followers, 16.4K engagements


"The Views Take on the Jay Jones Scandal Is Ignorant Even byViewStandards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979188469063618835) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T14:11Z 119.5K followers, 2291 engagements


"Also in today's Morning Jolt the formerly world-famous climate change activist Greta Thunberg has made a series of bombshell accusations against the Israeli government contending Israeli guards physically abused her while she was detained earlier this month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979201172603875810) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T15:01Z 119.5K followers, 2141 engagements


"Now if this happened the way Greta Thunberg described its a terrible abuse of power on the part of those Israeli law-enforcement officers and the perpetrators should be identified tried for crimes and punished if found guilty. But if this did not happen the way she described its a terrible false accusation that should discredit her permanently. The fact that her accusations have been largely ignored by the U.S. mainstream media is a hint that shes simply not that interesting or reliable or credible to news institutions that once celebrated her effusively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979201489252811087) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T15:03Z 119.5K followers, 4566 engagements


"Its easy to forget that Greta Thunberg was Timemagazines Person of the Year in 2019 less than six years ago. Timecould have picked anyone else including you. (After all you were the magazines pick in 2006.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979204798034375123) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T15:16Z 119.5K followers, 6282 engagements


"Many of us on the right felt like the lefts spotlighting of child activists the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School the Green New Deal-supporting schoolkids who harangued the late California Senator Dianne Feinstein etc. was an attempt to find advocates who were exempt from conventional criticism. If you disputed or made counterarguments against these kids and you would be accused of attacking children. But Thunberg is now XX years old and as a no-longer-child activist she apparently just isnt as interesting to the U.S. media as she used to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979205135302529372) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T15:17Z 119.5K followers, 16.4K engagements


"The defense from Graham Platner is that I dont think any of that is indicative of who I am today really. He insists that he is not a communist. The posts are from 2021 a whole five years ago. Platner was XX at the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979531963808489482) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-18T12:56Z 119.5K followers, 16.4K engagements


"No more No more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979574970431779308) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-18T15:47Z 119.5K followers, 3993 engagements


"In an otherwise joyous Morning Jolt a pause for a bitterly sad note: Chinese authorities on Friday detained Ezra Jin Mingri a pastor who founded Beijing Zion Church in 2007 according to his daughter Grace Jin who lives in the United States. All U.S. efforts to push for his release are appreciated. Seems like a good topic for a presidential Truth Social post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1977748950380683313) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-13T14:51Z 119.5K followers, 49.7K engagements


"Also in today's Morning Jolt continuing the Democratic Partys youth movement Maine Governor Janet Mills announced shes running for the U.S. Senate at age XX. Janet Mills is older than the Frisbee cake mix the Wurlitzer jukebox the Polaroid camera and the credit card"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978123632141295933) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-14T15:40Z 119.5K followers, 9783 engagements


"Chuck Schumer Hopes Americans Forget That the Filibuster Exists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978447423102976437) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T13:06Z 119.5K followers, 2135 engagements


"No we dont want a failed or Chinese-dominated Argentina. But it would be hard to begrudge MAGA-minded Americans or anyone else really wondering how the same administration that earlier eliminated the U.S. Agency for International Development which had an average annual budget of $XX billion just spent close to that sum to purchase Argentinian pesos. This administration really cant stand foreign aid . . . except for the days that it really supports foreign aid. Why the America First Trump Administration Is Bailing Out Argentina"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978468829530411308) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T14:31Z 119.5K followers, 5435 engagements


"Bessent: Another $XX Billion Is Coming to the Rescue of Argentina"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978553407368532179) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T20:07Z 119.5K followers, 2650 engagements


"Vice President J.D. Vance weighing in on the racist Hitler-praising and other appalling comments in a chat group of the Young Republicans: The reality is that kids do stupid things especially young boys Vance said on The Charlie Kirk Show.They tell edgy offensive jokes. Thats what kids do. And I really dont want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke telling a very offensive stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives. Kids. Young boys. These are grown men in their mid-20s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978558386481377556) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T20:27Z 119.5K followers, 7966 engagements


"This is lame excuse-making attempting to downplay the significance of a whole bunch of Republican staffers sounding like some hideous hybrid of David Duke and Andrew Dice Clay. And yes you have the First Amendment right to say terrible things; and your bosses have the right to say you are an embarrassment to this office pack up your desk and get out of here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978558667449631182) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T20:28Z 119.5K followers, 8698 engagements


"I can remember when conservatives thought it was absurd that Obamacare allowed people to stay on their parents health insurance plans until age XX. The thinking was by that point in your mid-20s youre a grown adult and should be buying your own health insurance. Who knew that by the year 2025 a Republican vice president would be insisting that a man in his mid-20s still qualifies as a young boy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978558770075914643) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T20:29Z 119.5K followers, 20.6K engagements


"@james_schardt If Guinta's remarks were so harmless and these were just dark jokes taken out of context why did his boss NY assemblymember Mike Reilly fire him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978569731389984768) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T21:12Z 119.5K followers, 3796 engagements


"Bessent: Another $XX Billion Is Coming to the Rescue of Argentina"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978818430636597630) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T13:40Z 119.5K followers, 1814 engagements


"If You Want Indictments in D.C. Is Jeanine Pirro the Right U.S. Attorney National Review"  
[X Link](https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/if-you-want-indictments-in-d-c-is-jeanine-pirro-the-right-u-s-attorney/) [@NRO](/creator/x/NRO) 2025-10-17T13:13Z 372.7K followers, 3526 engagements


"I'm not saying Justin Fields holds the ball too long but you can measure his release time on a sundial. #Jets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1977381270284865901) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-12T14:30Z 119.5K followers, 3980 engagements


"Defeat is an orphan; success has a thousand fathers. Theres something absurdly funny about Joe Bidens secretary of state Antony Blinken metaphorically rushing on stage like Kanye West to Taylor Swift and declaring Imma let you finish but this is essentially the plan that we developed over many months and more or less left in a drawer for the incoming administration and Im very very glad they picked it up. The Greatest Day of Trumps Second Term So Far"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1977738247162794281) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-13T14:08Z 119.5K followers, 5718 engagements


"Now the filibuster may not be the most commonly known and understood aspect of the legislative process but its not exactly obscure either. Democrats such as Kamala Harris have argued that the filibuster shouldnt exist for years now insisting that it is a relic of Jim Crow as Barack Obama put it. (Apparently its only a relic of Jim Crow and morally unacceptable when Republicans use it; when Democrats use it the filibuster magically transforms into a noble and constitutional tool to ensure the rights of the minority party.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1977820145872453808) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-13T19:34Z 119.5K followers, 11.8K engagements


"There is a fairly widespread mythology within the ranks of the Democratic Party that one of the big reasons Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election is because Joe Biden and his administration were too pro-Israel and insufficiently sympathetic to or helpful to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Harris herself believes it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978101896326815916) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-14T14:13Z 119.5K followers, 12.4K engagements


"When you dig into the numbers of those who voted for Biden in 2020 but not Harris in 2024 you find that when asked Did the Biden administrations policy of providing taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel make you more likely to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 or less likely or make no difference XX percent answered made no difference and X percent said it make them more likely to vote for Harris. For about seven out of ten people who jumped off the Biden bandwagon between 2020 and 2024 Bidens support for Israel was either a non-issue or a small factor making them want to support Harris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978102344077218065) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-14T14:15Z 119.5K followers, 4387 engagements


"The new Barack Obama Presidential Center will also double as the corporate headquarters of Omni Consumer Products"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978181724237349304) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-14T19:30Z 119.5K followers, 9931 engagements


"Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who just turned XX declared that it is disappointing that some Democratic leaders are urging Governor Mills to run for the U.S. Senate in 2026; he prefers Graham Platner. Because if theres anything that Sanders hates to see its a hard-fought long drawn out Democratic primary. Maine governor Janet Mills is 78; if elected she would be XX at her swearing-in ceremony; at the end of her first term she would be 85"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978459097616797991) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T13:53Z 119.5K followers, 2676 engagements


"As you contemplate the number of senators who are XX or older - in some cases _much_ older - running for another six-year term I will remind you that in 1995 Time magazines cover story was whether Bob Dole at XX was too old to be president"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978459586949435536) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T13:54Z 119.5K followers, 7592 engagements


"Argentina uses the peso. As currencies go its particularly unstable. And when I write particularly unstable I mean that over the past decade the Argentinian peso has lost XX percent of its value against the dollar. For comparison during the time period the Syrian pound lost XXXXX percent of its value against the dollar and the Syrians were dealing with a 13-year brutal civil war with chemical weapons and ISIS and every horror under the sun. Why the America First Trump Administration Is Bailing Out Argentina"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978467928157602292) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T14:28Z 119.5K followers, 2484 engagements


"America's Young Communists Really Believe True Communism Has Never Been Tried"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978819316452561182) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T13:44Z 119.5K followers, 4525 engagements


"The Modern Democratic Party Is Now Functionally Anti-Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978828138034418122) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T14:19Z 119.5K followers, 2100 engagements


"New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani insists he has no opinion about the future of Hamas but he is adamant that if Bibi Netanyahu ever sets foot in New York City the NYPD will arrest him on war crimes charges. Needless to say there are some gargantuan legal questions about whether the NYPD could arrest a foreign leader who has diplomatic immunity over a charge that the U.S. federal government does not recognize as legitimate; also note that the U.S. government does not recognize the International Criminal Court which issued the arrest warrant. In other words even if mayor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978828260935946578) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T14:19Z 119.5K followers, 2100 engagements


"The American people just arent being told much about these strikes. (Would you really need eleven people on a boat to smuggle drugs or is that a sign that the boat was involved in human trafficking Was it a good idea to blow up the boat if as national security officials told Congress it had turned around and was heading back to shore) As I noted at the beginning of September after the first military strike on a boat the administration accused of holding Venezuelan drug smugglers the Pentagon never held an on the record briefing about that operation what it intended to achieve and what was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978828579669496253) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T14:21Z 119.5K followers, 3615 engagements


"Also in today's Morning Jolt I keep hearing from Democrats about what a charming and charismatic guy Mamdani is but if you ask him one tough question he starts spouting nonsense like a malfunctioning robot from Westworld"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978829333612368149) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T14:24Z 119.5K followers, 2400 engagements


"Different how Explain to me why the American people should get extensive and detailed information about a strike on the Iranian nuclear program but little to no information about missile strikes against boats in intenrational waters that are reportedly running drugs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978830241628926359) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T14:27Z 119.5K followers, 4119 engagements


"Why should we expect a second summit with Putin to be any more productive than the first one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978873781985628291) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-16T17:20Z 119.5K followers, 5463 engagements


"JD Vance's Unusually Broad Definition of "Kid' and "Young Boy'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979167704280965241) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T12:48Z 119.5K followers, 1911 engagements


"*ahem* In light of the recent acquittal of a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent during a protest against immigration officials. If You Want Indictments in D.C. Is Jeanine Pirro the Right U.S. Attorney"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979173844968423899) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T13:13Z 119.5K followers, 3526 engagements


"As noted above Joy Behar is about six weeks older than Joe Biden. Apparently its ageist to notice that the grandma gets confused and keeps saying things that arent true and sound cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. We just went through this last year where the octogenarian president kept sounding like he had lost his marbles and somehow folks like you and me were the bad guys for noticing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979200759133544456) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T15:00Z 119.5K followers, 2554 engagements


"Oh f*** right off with this. I don't like people who say "I love Hitler" or who make jokes about sending people to gas chambers. This isn't "the Left's frame" this is standing up for the bare minimum level of common decency and I don't give a flying f*** about anybody else's approval"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1978562938223956211) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-15T20:45Z 119.5K followers, 106.7K engagements


"These folks are not "conservative" in any useful definition of that term because they look at modern America and don't see anything worth conserving; they look at our country and express unbridled contempt. Their philosophy is closer to a raging anarchism a desire to tear down all institutions all traditions all previous standards and mores in hopes that they will rule the rubble that is left when they're done"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979171254830571550) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T13:02Z 119.5K followers, 42.2K engagements


"Cryptic subtweet; Man you really Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked the crap out of that strawman dude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979259720872419536) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-17T18:54Z 119.5K followers, 2718 engagements


""They're the most forgettable franchise in the NBA they haven't been good since they had Gretzky his novels are assembly-line schlock--" "Uh Jim you're misunderstanding what the 'No Kings' protest is about.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/jimgeraghty/status/1979576063392153766) [@jimgeraghty](/creator/x/jimgeraghty) 2025-10-18T15:51Z 119.5K followers, 2460 engagements