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.
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