Tuesday, November 11, 2025
40 million dead and wounded, the equivalent of 177 million in 2023
Ukraine war casualties to date are estimated at 1.5 million, 1.1 million of which are Russian.
Chief Democrat among them is Trump though lol
It's amazing how Schumer is somehow to blame for the seven Senate Democrats and one Independent who voted with Republicans for the continuing resolution, led by John Fetterman from the very beginning.
So-called fiscal hawk Republican Jodey Arrington (TX-19) won't run in 2026, says Trump is committed to reversing the curse of public debt but doesn't know where the president is lol
Let me tell you where you are, Jodey.
Four months after you passed the Big Ugly Bill under reconciliation rules, rules which Mike Crapo in the Senate turned on their head, you are a whisker away from another $2 trillion in debt added to the public debt since July 4th.
Jodey's just puttin' lipstick on the pig and saying, See ya!
... Arrington said he had faith Republicans in Washington would pick up his mantle of fiscal hawkishness, or as he's often called it, "reversing the curse" of public debt.
"The president's committed to it, he talks about it all the time. He's actually doing something about it with very difficult decisions, not politically popular decisions. This is all about political will," Arrington said. "Trump's doing it. Mike Johnson is committed to it… And we have a growing number of fiscal hawks who are absolutely dogged on this issue."
But he said he would continue to push for further fiscal reforms for his remaining year on Capitol Hill, including another budget reconciliation bill to follow up on the big, beautiful bill.
"I don't know where the Senate Republicans are. I don't know where the president is and can't speak for the White House. But the House is at the ready," Arrington said. "It's been our most consequential tool to support the president and the strength of the country, and I don't see any reason we wouldn't utilize it to its fullest extent."
More.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Too little too late: Sean Davis of Federalist and Daily Caller fame says Republicans have no accomplishments, young people have no hope
... Republicans right now have no accomplishments, no plans, and no vision. Why on earth would anyone be excited to go vote for them 12 months from now? ... You cannot have a viable country or future when half your country and all its young people are locked out of the economy and locked out of ever owning a home or much of anything beyond next month’s streaming subscription. ...
Quoted here.
Yeah, well, you should have thought of that sooner, because the way these things work it takes a Herculean effort to get just one or two important things of consequence done when you become president, and you have to get started right out of the box.
Obamacare was one such thing for Democrats. It's still here fifteen years later, and Republicans have no alternative to it except to try and kill it, and they can't even do that, same as in 2017.
This is Groundhog Day, all over again.
The Bupkis Administration, Part Two.
Gang of eight Democrats in the U.S. Senate join Republicans to end the longest federal government shutdown in history
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)
Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
... The Senate voted 60-40 to move forward on a House continuing resolution, which now carries a bipartisan compromise to fund veterans’ affairs, military construction, Congress, and agriculture through the end of the fiscal year, with the rest of the government funded through January 30.
In return, Democrats have been promised a December floor vote on extending the expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, though it is not guaranteed to pass. ...
More.
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Mad King Ludwig rages against the machine: When Trump pardoned the J6ers, figuring out who deserved it and who didn't was just too hard for him, and so is figuring out Obamacare
He has no clue what to do about Obamacare, so he proposes murdering it.
It's his solution for everything else, so why not?
Kill the lawfully allocated federal spending, kill the federal workers administering it, kill the agencies they worked for, kill the inspectors general making sure you comply with the federal laws you break with every breath, kill Greenland, kill Canada, kill the Houthis, kill the Iranians, and kill the drug boat operators.
Are Venezuelans next? Nigerians? And how many U.S. citizens swept up in ICE raids will die in custody, like the 20 foreigners who already have?
Bankrupting the insurance companies overnight as he is suggesting is simply the political equivalent of what Luigi Mangione did to the United Healthcare CEO.
These pronunciamentos he keeps uttering are piling up into one great heap of nothing more than a mountain of irritable mental gestures, if you don't count the actual bodies left behind.
Republicans repealed Obamacare 37 times after 2010, but it's still alive.
They still have nothing.
A sane person observes that the options are limited with a five seat majority in the U.S. House and a three seat majority in the U.S. Senate, but sane does not describe Mad King Ludwig. He is intent on shoving down the throats of the American people whatever he can no less than Democrats did with Obamacare fifteen years ago. The Uniparty, folks.
Everything Trump does is done with the subtlety of a brick. If only he restricted himself to building.
But that is impossible for him, because he has desires . . ..
Save the greater sage grouse from the worshippers of electricity, the renewable energy phonies, AI data centers, NV Energy, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, the Bureau of Land Management, and of course Donald Trump
This poor little bird has an awful lot of enemies.
Oliver Roeder, Financial Times Magazine
“In Nevada, it’s very hard to piss everyone off, and this has been about the closest example.”
Saturday, November 8, 2025
The Republican-controlled U.S. House will not have been in session for almost 80% of its work days in 19 weeks, which a more competent GOP would be using to advance its agenda
The Epstein files quietly wait for them to return.
Democrat Adelita Grijalva, elected on September 23rd, remains unsworn-in.
Friday, November 7, 2025
McDonald's reports quick-service restaurant traffic down nearly double digits in 3Q for lower income consumers, up nearly double digits for higher income consumers
But overall guest counts were contracting at McDonald's, which must mean the lower income traffic drop overwhelmed the increase from higher income consumers.
The traffic trend down for lower income consumers has persisted for almost two years, according to the story.
CNBC here.
... “Amid industry pressures, dynamic change, and aggressive competition, winning the fight for contracting traffic means staying customer-obsessed,” Erlinger wrote in the memo, which was viewed by CNBC. The company did not immediately respond to request for comment. ...
“While we maintained a positive comp guest count gap, overall [guest counts] continue to decline-- underscoring the need for disciplined pricing, value, and affordability,” he wrote in the memo. ...
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Erick Erickson repeats the myth that Trump cannot turn out the vote unless he is on the ballot
Seen here:
“Lame duck status is going to come even faster now,” Erick Erickson, the popular conservative blogger and radio host, wrote on social media. “Trump cannot turn out the vote unless he is on the ballot, and that is never happening again.”
Turnout for Democrats was YUGE yesterday.
Trump did that:
In Virginia, 59% of the electorate said cuts to the federal government had affected their finances, and two-thirds of those voters backed Spanberger, who is on pace to win by 14 percentage points, the largest victory for a Democrat in a Virginia governor’s race in decades. A full 37% of the electorate said they cast a ballot to oppose Trump, with 99% of them voting for Spanberger.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Even Laura Ingraham, who used to have good sense about these things, climbs on the MAGA bandwagon of foolishness
"Do unto others before they do unto you".
Cernovich is delusional when he says that the absence of Trump on the ballot yesterday equated to lower voter turnout and GOP losses
Trump being absent from the ballot explains nothing about yesterday. This might come, however, from an ulterior motive in support of a Trump 2028 run. As such it is disinformation for his ignorant followers.
Yesterday's turnout was high, and arguably precisely because of Trump, for doing nothing about inflation and for literally beating people up in the streets everyday in ICE operations.
Who could be so stupid?
Virginia turnout yesterday broke the record.
NYC mayoral turnout yesterday was the highest since 1969.
New Jersey turnout yesterday at 3.2 million plus was higher than in 2021 at 2.6 million. Democrat voters were energized to turnout.
Gee, I wonder why?
Trump won in 2016 with the lowest turnout in two decades, when the GOP also won both House and Senate. Trump underperformed John McCain 2008 in 13 states in 2016. Hillary underperformed Obama 2008 in 39 states in 2016. It was truly a Revulsion Election. Nobody liked either one of them, they just disliked Hillary more.
But when turnout was at an all time high, in 2020, Trump lost everything: the presidency, the House, and the Senate.
Low turnout has almost always favored Republicans. It is tried and true election wisdom. High turnout not so much.
Cernovich is allied with the likes of OG MAGA Steve Bannon, an ex-con, who is probably the chief advocate of an illegal Trump 2028 run.
What a shock, right?
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Trump, the head of the new party of violence, says assault and battery by immigration agents hasn't gone far enough
“Have some of these raids gone too far?” O’Donnell asked.
“No, I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama,” Trump said.
“You’re OK with those tactics?” O’Donnell countered.
Yet another bad legal take from a Trump lawyer: The 2020 fake electors need federal pardons for fake state crimes
... the fake criminal charges against Trump and his electors, lawyers, and supporters. ...
Vice President under George W. Bush, Dick Cheney has passed away at age 84
Cheney had had a heart transplant in 2012.
Maybe the best thing about him was that he was kicked out of Yale. Twice.
Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies
Monday, November 3, 2025
Trump is in big trouble with the voters on the economy and constitutional rights
Blue Wave incoming.
Poll: Frustration with Trump gives Democrats an opening a year before the midterms
Around
two-thirds of voters say Trump has not lived up to their expectations
on the economy and the cost of living, according to the new NBC News
poll.
... Meanwhile, protecting democracy
and constitutional rights is a top issue to voters, alongside costs, as
Trump continues an expansive agenda of executive actions on immigration
and other key policy areas. And a majority of voters believe he’s done
more to undermine the Constitution than defend it.
... The October 2025 results mirror NBC News’ polling in August 2010, months
before midterm elections that were seen as a repudiation of President
Barack Obama. At that time, two-thirds of Americans
said Obama and his administration had fallen short of their expectations
on the economy, as the country struggled through the aftermath of the
Great Recession. ...
At Rasmussen Reports Trump disapproval has been running at a record high 53% for five consecutive days
See for yourself, here.
I reckon the government shutdown and the 60 Minutes interview in which Trump doubled down on many bogus claims aren't going over so well.
Why isn't co-conspirator 1 charged in the crimes of Ali and Mahmoud? Why the discrepancy of 2 arrested in the one story, 3 in the other?
Is it because co-conspirator 1 is the FBI informant who suborned these two into plotting a terrorist act?
And how did these young men have all this money to buy, legally by the way, all the weapons and gear mentioned in the stories?
2 US citizens arrested in alleged ISIS-inspired Halloween plot: DOJ
Two men were arrested on Friday for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired Halloween attack in Michigan, according to court records unsealed on Monday. ...
The FBI was first alerted to the men after a 2024 review of one of the unnamed co-conspirator's phones. When that person returned to the United States, a Customs and Border Protection officer searched the phone and found "Google searches related to 'ISIS' and the 'Islamic State,' and pictures of what appear to be Co-conspirator 1 in military-style clothing with weapons," documents said.
While the co-conspirator was traveling abroad, Ali and Mahmoud participated in a group call "discussed traveling overseas to join Co-conspirator 1 and then later traveling together to Syria to join ISIS," the documents said. ...
Michigan terrorism suspects were plotting to attack Ferndale, feds say
Three days after announcing their arrests on social media, the federal government brought criminal charges against two metro Detroit men, alleging they plotted to carry out a terror attack over Halloween weekend in Ferndale, except the FBI got to them first.
According to a criminal complaint filed on Monday, Nov. 3, Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, both 20, are charged with having AR-style rifles, shotguns and handguns that would be used in a conspiracy to commit a terror attack and provide material support to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror organization. ...
According to the complaint, the investigation into the defendants goes back a year, and includes an undercover FBI informant who secretly recorded conversations involving a group of Michigan men who the government says planned and trained for months to carry out an attack in Michigan over the Halloween weekend. ...
Mahmoud and Ali are among five men initially encountered by law enforcement on Oct. 31. Three of the men were arrested and two were questioned and released. The men — ages 16-20 — were arrested in predawn raids in Dearborn and Inkster that drew praise from Michigan's governor, the state attorney general and the president of the United States. ...
OMG, speaking of 1984's holy trinity, lawyer Robert Barnes names the three stooges OG NeverTrumper Tucker Carlson, former client Alex Jones, and alt-right Steve Bannon the holy trinity of true MAGA lol
Just another Manic Monday.
Real Clear Politics platforming Barnes tells you it really is 1984.
Does Israel have a stronger supporter in the world than Donald Trump? Is he a political pariah, too?
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2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner wants war in Venezuela
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
Sunday, November 2, 2025
So the FBI's great Michigan Halloween terror plot was a conspiracy among teenagers to get together to smash pumpkins?
BUT YOU SAID IT WAS ISLAMIC STATE EXTREMISM!
Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed
A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI Director Kash Patel’s allegations that his 20-year-old client and four other young suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack on Halloween weekend. ...
The investigation involved discussion in an online chat room involving at least some of the suspects who were taken into custody, according to two people briefed on the investigation who could not publicly discuss details. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The group allegedly discussed carrying out an attack around Halloween, referring to “pumpkin day,” according to one of the people. The other person briefed on the investigation confirmed that there had been a “pumpkin” reference. ...
Since the 9/11 terror attacks, the FBI has foiled several alleged attacks through sting operations in which agents posed as terror supporters, supplying advice and equipment.
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