Good morning one and all to another amazing day! The birds are chirping. The sun is shining. And the government is still shut down!
Trump Says Substantial Number of Jobs Will Be Permanently Lost If Shutdown Persists
Senate Republicans confirm more than 100 Trump nominees as government shutdown continues
Schumer-Linked Group Reportedly Tells Democrats To Gear Up For Long-Term Shutdown
Senators Respond to White House Threats on Back Pay for Furloughed Workers as Shutdown Nears Day 8
Republicans see FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation as plot to chill Trump’s political comeback
Biden Intervened To Block CIA Report On Ukraine Concerns Over Hunter’s ‘Corrupt’ Dealings
FBI corruption probe picked up evidence Bill Clinton paid through backdoor, GOP senator says
Trump Admin Reportedly Floats Selling Parts Of $1.6 Trillion Federal Student Loan Portfolio
ICE Arrests 91 Illegal Migrant Semi-Truck Drivers in Licensing Crackdown
Texas National Guard deploys 200 troops to Illinois for federal protection mission amid protests
Maine Investigates Claim of 250 Unmarked Ballots Found In Amazon Package
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I have the idea that student loans cannot be cancelled through bankruptcy.
If Trump sells the student loans, would that change?
No. They would still be education loans covered by the bankruptcy discharge exemption.
That is exactly why I think no one will buy that portfolio. It will always operate at a loss.
No one will buy the portfolio at par. At 40 cents on the dollar there may be buyers.
Texas has invaded Illinois! The South is rising again!
It’s happening!
Toady!
You can tell the Texas Guard by their ten-gallon cowboy hat helmets.
This is the music that starts playing out of nowhere when they start crowd control:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs
I live in Illinois. *opens door and waves the American flag for our Texan brothers
I’m surprised Pritzker hasn’t banned that.
Those ballots were part of the Amazon Prime promotion deal.
Oh no!
Anyway…
Huh, maybe these parts of the Fed are unessential?
Shocking!
Um, its Non-Expected Service sir!
It could last another week, even
Same link as “FBI corruption probe picked up evidence Bill Clinton paid through backdoor, GOP senator says” fyi.
Clinton will take payment in any position.
Dress painting confirms this
The left’s talking point on this is hilarious. These senators were only being watched because they were instrumental in the iNsUrReCtIoN and they’re stupid to draw attention to themselves.
OK, the left might be stupid enough to believe that – but don’t you [i.e. them] dare insult me by expecting me to believe that.
“Biden intervened…”
Well, sunnuvabitch
It’s a start.
They’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
*narrows gaze Eastward*
🤨
I’ll be more impressed when they arrest the people that authorized issuing those licenses.
Kentucky is trying
My guess they will investigate themselves and find no *purposeful* wrong doing could be found.
Former KYTC employee Melissa Moorman filed a lawsuit in April alleging that she was required to share her log-in information with other employees while working at a KYTC office in the Nia Center.
That’s a big negative there.
“We should have realized something was odd when the emails were from a “User McUserface”
These people shouldn’t be driving trucks, they should be school superintendents…
Am i the only one that remembers George Ryan going to jail for the same thing?
George Ryan was a dirty Republican, not a noble, dedicated Democrat!
1) And nothing else happened.
2) I think we all pretty much knew this.
3) Fun how OMB was impeached for asking Ukraine to look into this when folks knew about it even then…
4) See f’ing (1).
The impeachment was goal oriented not process.
I saw that Trump is funding WIC with tariff money, during these hard times
Yes, You can still get your specific sized specific brand jar of peanut butter
Choosy cavaliers choose Jiff
Feed dem kids seed oils!
Well, that depends on which jobs how I’m going to react to that.
I admit, I am paying attention.
Good. Getting FedGov out of the loan business is good from a constitutional point of view *and* because private lenders that can’t legislate away bankruptcy and might actually look at return-on-investment, etc. could stifle the money spigot that’s grown administrators vs. actual educators so explosively since FedGov took over the entire market.
Of course — I would think completely divesting would require Congress. Which can’t even pass a budget. So not holding my breath.
Selling all.
Just like federally owned land.
Sell it all.
Day 7: Federal Government REDACTED Shutdown
Morale remains at acceptable levels, largely due to our inability to locate the morale survey forms.
Breakfast consisted of freeze-dried optimism and one (1) shared coffee filter, repurposed in accordance with the FAA Contingency Directives.
Spirits rose briefly when the vending machine blinked to life, only to reveal it was performing a mandatory self-audit. The cheese crackers, caked with months of dust, mock me. My mouth remains moist, desiring the chalky illusion of cheese.
I have begun speaking softly to the telegraph machine, hoping it might remember its purpose. It remains unresponsive, though its silence feels judgmental.
Management that has survived the initial onslaught of Congressional bluster has encouraged “innovative solutions to productivity gaps.”
I suggested bartering our remaining toner cartridges for information about the outside world. The proposal was forwarded to procurement, which has been offline since last Wednesday.
Pending further notice, all notices are pending.
There is talk of a rogue printer in the west wing still producing blank memos on schedule. If true, it is the last known functioning bureaucracy in the region.
I envy it.
Painfully your public servant, OBE, October 8, 2025
When things start back up that printer is going to be fired for violating the record retention directives. Memos are not supposed to be blank, they’re supposed to be Redacted.
The government needs a printer that automatically redacts all text.
And not have all of those document redactors on staff? That’s crazy talk!
We clearly need to give the work of the document redactors to said printer then create a whole new printer redaction verification unit to make sure the automatic redaction was done correctly.
I love these. Thanks. Please continue posting them.
Thanks! Of course!
Seconded.
🙂
OBE, as someone in the field, any thoughts on whether the allegedly-threatened Essential Air Service is actually essential?
I ended up learning about that when I was trying to figure out just why there are so many Cape Air flights to semi-random places – as far as I can tell, Cape Air (and others, like Boutique Air) have a business model of “a couple of actual, profitable routes and a bunch of routes to semi-random places which Uncle Sugar will cut us fat checks for”.
Good question. If the program was touched by the BBB or Infrastructure bills, then yes, they remain active according to our shutdown directives.
a couple of actual, profitable routes and a bunch of routes to semi-random places which Uncle Sugar will cut us fat checks for
Amtrak in the air.
Somehow schools are still open even though the Department of Education is closed.
Sure, they are open but not teaching anything.
Business as usual
“…chalky illusion of cheese.” Ah yes, those would be Lance cheese and crackers. And the wife wants to know what I find so funny from the WC.
This should be it’s own post. I would subscribe.
Me too…we could try to raise enough for OBE to order a pizza – if the G’s phones still work, that is.
Did someone say pizza?
Swiss – have you ever considered working as a hospital administrator?
Can you order pizza by telegraph? Are there any pizza delivery guys who would brave the abandoned tunnels leading to the tower?
Dunno, please send me a check so I can try
St. Louis style pizza.
Still using actual filters? Let us know when it’s paper towels.
Beautiful description of that weird, indestructible substance known as government cheese.
Are you talking to the nice machine in Morris code?
Just sweet nothings of dots and dashes
A couple of protesters in Canada were given 12 month stay at home sentences for not staying at home during the Plague of ‘20
I see the new, old, new narrative is NatG is a precursor for cancelling elections
If only the narrative would take form as a rope, to be wrapped around their necks.
The National Guard, or the people peddling the narrative? 😉
Narratives should choke the narrative believers.
If only we had listened to Meathead.
Then we would be listening to Heavy Meatal?
Taking a ride on Heavy Metal? Sounds fun.
A document that should never have been classified in the first place and was only classified to bury political embarrassment. The classification regime must be destroyed and people should be fired (or imprisoned) for falsely classifying things on political grounds.
^This, if we are going to have criminal penalties for disclosing or miss-handling classified information in a Republic then we absolutely need to have criminal penalties for classifying information that should not be kept secret. And rigid limits on what may be classified, for what reasons, and for what duration.
But how will pretend to hold onto the last threads of the lie that we are a republic?
Republic – a neologism combining repulse and the public.
In the latest Japan brar attack news:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251008_02/
RAMPAGE!!!!!!!!!!!
Honorable salarybear was hungry after night drinking sake!
I think ‘flax is on to something. The next big anime hit …”Salarybear”.
Who is driving? Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?!
I’d watch it. The bear should just be played straight, working, drinking, maybe with an incongruous hobby. But there needs to be a yandere woman in the office obsessed with Salarybear (who is oblivious, and also a bear)
Salarybear? Is that like a rent boy or something?
Don’t go turning my wholesome slice of life comedy into your yaoi fantasy ZWAK, and I think the bear would be a rent daddy in that case anyway.
STEVE SMITH ON LAMPAGE. BY LAMPAGE MEAN LAPE.
Pie has survived Storm Barbara.
They issues a “code red” warning for weather, closed the schools and it was a fucking nothingburger. A bunch of rain yes, but little wind barely no flooding. Something like less than 20 houses reported some flooding. Oh yeah and some 50 trees fell. wow.
Who was in danger of being fired for lack of warning?
they are blaming social media pressure because people wanted action or something
Closing the schools because you want some action is concerning. Is OMWC involved?
Welcome to the
weatherclimatepanic reporting for a species that can’t find its own assMuh SCIENCE!!!
Beware of false professors, who offer you peer reviewed research, but inwardly are a bunch of Asian teenagers who made the whole thing up for payment in bitcoin.
I’m sorry I missed “the old web” / “javascript” thread last night – for once, something where I know what I’m talking about and could contribute.
I’ll just add this (which I think I’ve linked to before):
PHP: a fractal of bad design
A sample:
(PHP fanbois: your retorts [“but Facebook!”] have already been addressed in the article)
I use smooth-faced pliers for bending component legs and straightening IC pins. And the tri-lobed screws are used as security screws on commercial electronic devices. That nail remover isn’t a hammer – you’re using all of your tools wrong. clearly for the wrong purpose.
Seriously. Why are you turning bolts with pliers? Pliers are for bending things. Wrenches are for turning bolts.
A assume they mean channel locks, and are using them to hold whichever part the wrench or socket isn’t turning.
Eww.
Doctors, jellyfish, and rounded-off bolts – my three deepest fears.
You need three things for that rounded off bolt – a grinder, a welder, and a torch.
First step – try grinding some flats into it.
If it still won’t go, weld a nut on it.
If all else fails, melt the bolt out.
No, pliers are for holding things, what you do after that is up to you.
Television bad guys have taught me that pliers are for fingers, when you are trying to plier information out of somebody.
The problem with all computer languages is they were devised by people (who really are diverse in the true meaning of that word) that love programming. And all believe in the One Language that should rule them all.
And that language is python.
I we saw that it was good.
VBA will have the last laugh….just you wait!
*sigh*
*taps sign*
“Use the right tool for the job – it works better”
I’ve been writing web sites/web apps for 25 years. I can agree with you here. PHP was terrible. But my current project at work is partly done in Go, which is “SO EASY!” Which is bullshit. I hate it, and it’s so bad I’m getting nostalgic for Ruby on Rails.
I like Go, but I’m using it for server-side stuff, not one of the MVC things. I do have to think at a lower-level than Python, though.
The Ruby On Rails app I support will be 20 years old soon. I need to kick the ass of the jerk who wrote it.
I can’t wait to retire it.
TBF, there are languages worse than PHP and I don’t mean purposely-bad ones, like Brainfuck.
I’m looking at you, AppleScript.
That all make no sense to me.
Especially how they interface with the processor at the most basic level.
Some sort of wizardry.
I’ll get the fires ready for the programmers.
Well, threedor, almost every darn thing mentioned in this thread doesn’t interact with the processor directly. There are other layers of programs that eventually translate the instruction into something that can work on the silicon. But most programmers don’t get into the weeds of the base operating system APIs and libraries their interpreted languages call. We haven’t started talking about the compiled languages wheich pre-burn in the interpretation to gain speed in translating to silicon.
A lot of people start to get brain-hurty the closer we get to bare metal.
So cyberpsychosis is real UCS?
Absolutely. Plug in too much chrome and you break the meat.
every room is a pentagon and the roof is upside-down. And you knock on the front door and it just collapses inwards and they all yell at you for breaking their door.
I’m more of a ‘practical’ programmer – i.e. no formal training as a programmer, but in a technical field that requires coding and interested/decent at it. I’ve done some PHP coding as part of web interfaces to track integration and testing of hardware components. Pretty? Not so much. Does it look like a web ‘app’? No, just basic HTML. Mobile friendly? Nope. Was it the latest hotness? Nope. Did it cost an arm and a let with 3rd party vendors and 3rd party support that had no idea about the technical aspects of the program? Nope. Was it functional? Yes. Did it get the job done? Yes. Did it get the job done cheaper and more quickly than any other solution on the table? Yes.
The door didn’t fall down. The rooms were square. Mostly.
I’ve used PHP on the IBM i platform (aka AS400) which supported Zend PHP. We used it because IBM would give it to you for free. We used PHP for integration with web based applications. One weird quirk of PHP I remember was that array indexes started at zero. With other programming languages I’ve worked with zero was an invalid arrary index value.
One weird quirk of PHP I remember was that array indexes started at zero.
I guess I’m completely acclimated to array indexing starting at 0, to the degree that 1-indexing bothers me. Even though 1-indexing seems more intuitively correct.
Speaking of indexing, in the interest of starting a civil war, that’s one thing I HATE about python (among many) is the wrapping of indices/allowing negative indices. Because it’s just so hard to type [N-1]. Talk about introducing a huge opportunity for very hard to track down bugs…
Zero based array indices are pretty common. The 1 based indices are (IME) the outliers. Mostly because C uses 0 based indices. My favorite criticism of PHP came from working with a WordPress plugin. There was a find function to identify if a particular plugin was installed on a particular site in a multisite WordPress installation. That function returned the index of the plugin in the list of plugins for that site. Unless the plugin wasn’t installed, in which case it returned False. The original plugin author used the result of that find function to disable a particular plugin (user specified, IIRC). However, the author used the function without checking to see if the return value was false, which resulted in the first (zero index) plugin in the list being shut down, since False got converted to 0. That led to a huge problem for me.
zero-based indexes come from the fact that computers count from zero, since that is the first state any set of bits can have before you start incrementing.
One-based indexes are a human compatability add-on that offends the sensibilities.
@PutridMeat I suppose 1 based indexing might be “more intuitive” for someone that taught themselves programming. For me, getting a CS degree and learning C and assembly, zero based indexing makes perfect sense. The root of it, as far as I know, is in C. If you have an array variable, it’s really a syntactic shorthand for a pointer to memory. So myarray[0] is really just pulling the value stored at the memory value of myarray,. and each subsequent index is myarray + (index * memory size of whatever’s in the array).
False got converted to 0.
That seems like poor programming. Facilitated by a huge weakness of languages that are not strongly typed. But that’s not a shortcoming exclusive to PHP.
@Unreconstructed – att the opposite end of programming complexity, I’m convinced that arrays in BASH are not really arrays. It just has different variables named array[0] array[1] array[2] but the user can’t tell because $array[$i] translates to the value they expected.
I’ve been retired for a couple of years now but I got my start in IT during the mid 80’s – prehistoric times before PC’s, the internet and web based applications. I supported ERP systems that were written in either COBOL or RPG, neither of which supported zero value array indexes.
From my COBOL experience, it doesn’t support half the things it was ultimately used for.
I will say, Greta is so autistic she effortlessly flowed from the world is on fire cause of climate to her current grift.
She is one step away from blaming the Jews for her failed predictions.
Greta isn’t running a grift. She’s a committed true believer. Her parents and handlers are the ones running the grift.
You think her parents still control her? I think she broke away from them when she got involved with this new nutty group.
“Greta Thunberg has been blasted as an embarrassment after she tried to highlight the “suffering” of Palestinian prisoners in a social media post — but used a harrowing photo of an emaciated Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/world-news/greta-thunberg-used-photo-of-israel-hostage-evyatar-david-for-palestine-gaza-post/
Or maybe she’s retarded?
I think that her parents (both hardcore internationalists) basically programmed her like Marvin the Paranoid Android, and she’s been running that program for years.
Her parents indoctrinated her, but she also appears to live in a hyper leftist bubble, and every bit of praise or affirmation she has received in her life has been for ‘protesting’. At this point she is kind of a trained seal protesting things she has no way of understanding as her only source of meaning. She is a true poster child for the left, the epitome of their world view.
CT and ES pretty much nail it – a retarded robot.
Comes from a family of actors.
The ugly duckling of the family gets the activist job.
Crack into Ass Wednesday!
https://archive.is/NKbL1
“California gubernatorial hopeful Katie Porter snapped and tried to storm out of an interview after being asked a simple question about President Trump — with the Democrat raging “I don’t want this all on camera.”
The irritated ex-California Rep. — who once allegedly dumped steaming mashed potatoes on her then-hubby’s head — was recorded trying to pull the plug on the sit-down with a CBS reporter last month.
Leaked footage of the bizarre encounter, which only surfaced Tuesday, captured Porter flipping out when the reporter asked how she planned to win Republican votes as she tries to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“What do you say to the 40% of California voters, who you’ll need in order to win, who voted for Trump?” the reporter, Julie Watts, asked.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/us-news/california-gubernatorial-hopeful-katie-porter-tries-to-storm-out-of-cbs-interview-after-meltdown-over-trump-question/
Very stable genius.
Wow. Her picture is all that we could hope for. Sort of like Dolores Umbridge and Barbra Boxer had a gamete fusion, and then the surrogate killed a fifth of vodka a day during the pregnancy.
Wait, that’s not a dude?
I thought Larry Fine was dead.
I looked her up. Apparently at one point she poured steaming mashed potatoes over her husband’s head. She is asshoe. God save California if she replaces Newsom. She would be even worse.
She IS a lump of steaming mashed potatoes.
Isn’t that what they all do?
“I’m speaking.”
I watched some of that video and Porter’s utter disdain over a softball follow up question was telling. You can tell she’s never been challenged much on her beliefs and if she does get a rare challenge, she throws a tantrum like a kid.
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MY COMPLIANT BITCH!!! /Porter’s view of the media
Isn’t that pretty much how all Democrats view the media?
You would think that kind of behavior would be off-putting in a grown-up, but nope. She still keeps getting elected.
Democracy is a giant failure.
Eh, Trump keeps getting re-elected, and half the country thinks he is worse than Hitler.
Crackdown on illegals driving commercial trucks?
How about driving in the U.S. at all?
Also, eliminate the CDL.
I’m not on board with wholly eliminating the CDL. I am open to reform, but not abolition. Seeing how poorly most drivers handle four-wheel vehicles, letting them handle eighteen wheel vehicles without verifying that they are not fucking incompetent is a minimum standard for interstate cargo hauling.
The CDL did not exist prior to 1993.
It is and was a federal power grab and a tool of the unions to price people out of the workplace.
Throw in the AHAs rediauliois blood pressure guidelines and it’s a total disaster. The medical card is a scam from top to bottom as well, it’s a cash cow for medical clinics and pharma to sell blood pressure meds.
Being generally opposed to drivers licenses, I can get behind this. However, I think you’d need to proactively (possibly through legislation at the state level) link liability for drivers’ actions to the shipping companies, or you’d enable a lot of mischief with “contract drivers” who were then solely liable for any accidents. Not because I love the ambulance chasers, but to ensure that there’s accountability at the same level as responsibility.
Drivers who smash trucks costing 200k+ don’t get rehired.
Drivers who kill people need to spend years turning large rocks into small ones.
Fatal accidents involving commercial trucks are in the 70-80% range caused by cars. We are the safest people on the road and it’s not the liscencing. It’s that our livelihood is directly tied to our behavior.
“A Kentucky man has been arrested after disturbing residents with a vile Halloween yard display showing what body bags labeled with the titles of local government officials.
Stephan Marcum, 58, of Stanton, was arrested Saturday and charged with terroristic threatening after a local prosecutor reported the display to authorities.
The grim scene, set up outside Marcum’s home on Court Street, featured several black plastic bags shaped like corpses, each tagged with the names or positions of city leaders.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15171703/kentucky-man-fake-body-bags-arrested.html
Is it a true threat?
Ya…labeled just with the titles?
In a Halloween display? Fuck off.
Also, politicians aren’t human beings and don’t deserve legal protections from anyone or anything.
Looks like he was right if they came after him b
As we have been shown repeatedly, college loans can never be fully repaid. It’s a perpetual stream of income.
I’m in. Just let me find a roll of nickels for that first tranche.
What will we do? How will we pay for our subsidized raw materials, subsidized insurance and subsidized loans without subsidized purchase relief. Also this was unforeseeable by the Trump administration.
America’s Soybean Farmers Are Panicking Over the Loss of Chinese Buyers
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/us-soybean-farmers-china-market-8749c5a2?st=7Ny7B4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They should have grown corn.
Every farm around me alternates corn and soybean crops. The soybeans restore nitrogen to the soil. But if they all did grow corn, we’d have too much for ethanol production.
You could always grow other crops besides those two.
I don’t know all the numbers, but I do know that farmers in eastern Arkansas (and other nearby areas) will switch between soybeans and rice depending on relative commodity pricing. So much so that we actually test our production fields for soybeans as a specific category of weed seed.
And not get our govt supports? That’s crazy talk.
Ugh. Government subsidies in agriculture…I see those all the time – from government mandated information about fields and crops planted, to the crop insurance and subsidies that force us (as a foreign owned company) to use contract farmers in order to protect our investments. We might still do that for other reasons absent those restrictions, but with the current subsidy regime it would be stupid.
“The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead
Soon they’ll be able to vote in Chicago.
And drive a truck in CA.
Do any of these ‘children’ have bodies, or any evidence they ever existed beyond a list prepared by Hamas’s propagandists?
“They appear in the casualty reports from the Hamas Ministry of Health, therefore they existed and were killed”
As much evidence as exists for the indigenous children buried at schools in Canada.
Beloved by police everywhere?
How Smelling Like a Doughnut Became the Latest Body Care Craze
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fragrance-scent-donut-cookies-cake-42931fa5?st=ir2hMe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Wouldn’t that attract insects?
“‘I don’t feel safe any more’: Dearborn’s Arab Americans on rising Islamophobia
Residents in Michigan city on edge as threats against their community rise, and some are reassessing their support for Trump”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/08/arab-americans-michigan-dearborn-trump
Maybe don’t blast a “call to prayer” at 5:30 AM?
Well, you could always move. There are many places where your way of life are the mainstream. Plus, you don’t have to turn them into shitholes, they already are.
At DePaul, freshmen have to take a Discover Chicago class where we learned about Chicago and talked to various people about their experiences of working and living in Chicago. We went to this Italian restaurant where the owner was an Italian immigrant. One of the questions that came up was how he felt about the Muslims in Italy complaining that there are crosses in the classrooms where their children were being schooled. His response was that when invited over dinner, you eat what the guest offers you.
This was back in 2003, so people weren’t as finnicky about such a statement, but it shows that many Muslims in Europe expected for their hosts to accommodate them and change their ways, while never even attempting to understand or assimilate into the European culture.
“We came not to praise Europe, but to bury it”?
It’s not about expecting their hosts to accommodate them.
It’s about conquering the infidel, and it’s not an infiltration. It’s a siege.
Given how the only thing I can find is his charges and nothing about his case…my guess was just a nutter but that would take away from their narrative.
No reason, just a random date. Guardian is such trash
It’s not the Jewish students chasing Muslims off the campuses or locking them in their classrooms at the Ivy Leagues.
They do know their readers.
“Now, Pearson is running for Congress with the support of Justice Democrats, a group that helps elect progressive House members like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D–Mich. He also has the backing of Leaders We Deserve, a group founded by former Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg, which seeks to elect a new generation of leadership in the party. Leaders We Deserve also announced a $1 million investment in Pearson’s bid.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/08/progressives-see-an-opening-in-tennessee/
He looks like a gay q-tip.
Holy shit Salon, how sloppy can you get?
In 2023, Johnson gained national attention after he and two fellow state representatives, Gloria Johnson and Justin Jones, were expelled from the state House by Republicans, who accused them of breaking decorum for participating in a gun-control protest.
Now, Pearson is running for Congress…
Trump says the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois should be tossed in the slammer, presumably for obstruction of justice. This has incited a deafening chorus of shrieks from the monkeys in the trees.
And how is this my problem?
Federal workers say they are frustrated, scared and angry after the White House threatened to withhold their back pay once the government shutdown ends.
Why it matters: Many of these folks are living paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to simply not be paid. It’s the latest blow to the country’s largest workforce.
No money for a rainy day? Too bad. It’s raining.
Im maintaining two homes…amd still was able to save for rainy day. Tighter, but just fine as I cut back on extras.
These people feel its owed to them.
So bureaucrats are as bad with their own money as they are with the public treasury?
Say it ain’t so!
If forced to live off savings, I’ve got enough liquidity to coast for three months on moderate frugality, then my CDs can be withdrawn without penalty which would be enough for maybe eight more months at the same moderate frugality. If I can’t find employment in eleven months… well, minus a month or two for taxes and insurance on the house and car. Call it nine months. If I can’t find employment in the time it takes to gestate a baby, I’ve got other problems.
How entitled do you have to be to actually express the belief that you should be paid for not working? Not just keep quiet and hope it comes your way, but to express righteous outrage when someone suggests you won’t get paid for… NOT WORKING?
Never mind. Saw even worse during covid with entitled ass-hats demanding they be considered essential – they most definitively were not; essentially politically connect, not essential in any real sense – and in the next breath being indignant that people would object to begin forced not to work and having their businesses destroyed.
Black Flag. Throats. Etc.
No concern that “the country’s largest workforce” contributes exactly nothing to the economy? In fact, drags it down?
“The left shares the view of the American Psychological Association, which argued in an amicus brief that this form of psychological distress in queer people, especially minors, is a result of “minority stress and stigma” and “systemic barriers to mental, physical, relational, and sexual flourishing.” This is a jargon-y way of saying that being raised to think your very identity is wrong can make a person feel bad about themselves. The treatment, then, is to counteract hateful messages with “affirming” therapy that holds that “variances in human sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression are normal.””
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/08/scotus-erases-the-role-of-parents-in-conversion-therapy-case/
They are still lying about this, by using vague language such as “queer”. This is about not having to affirm that children are the opposite gender. Then add in that this case is in Colorado where trans shit is pushed in schools, and there are all these progressive white people looking for minority status, including having a trans kid.
As with everything else, the left is pissing on your leg and telling you it’s raining. The trans movement keeps saying they are accepting kids the way they are. Except they’re not. They accept you, but you have to massively alter your body with chemicals and surgery in order to fully express what you are feeling, And THEN you are accepted.
As long as you adhere strictly to the Progressive cant. if you’re a trans conservative or libertarian…well, you can guess.
Five other federal employees independently told Axios that they were angry over this latest threat — after a year of layoffs and nasty rhetoric from the White House maligning their work.
Avila-Thomas notes that half of her colleagues have left this year, taking early retirement or pushed out by the White House.
The federal workforce overall is already down by more than 200,000 employees this year. Another 100,000 are expected to leave by December, an administration official said recently.
The news isn’t all bad.
UPS broke its plane?
Could be a truck.
It was Florida to New Jersey in a few hours, I think that leg was by air.
“Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is campaigning for reelection with a promise to uncover the truth behind alien life and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)….
“I SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The American people aren’t children to be spoon-fed half-truths or dismissed with vague excuses,” she said. “We deserve to know what’s really going on up there.””
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/boebert-campaigns-reelection-ufos-aliens
Tackling the important issues facing everyday Americans.
Look, maybe a few times, aliens that love whiskey wrecked flying saucers. Said aliens might have even picked up women in bars and made hybrid babies. It’s not an invasion. Stuff happens. Drop it, Boebert.
It is kind of demoralizing when you realize that our electoral choices come down to the party of Tlaib and AOC, and the party of MTG and Boebert.
Ask me again why I don’t vote…
Florida is electing more hot latinas, so there is that.
I thought UFOs are now called UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
Robot malfunction
“I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be,” Greene said in an interview. “I serve in Congress. We’re a separate branch of the government, and I’m not elected by the president. I’m not elected by anyone that works in the White House. I’m elected by my district. That’s who I work for, and I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and, you know, I think that has served me really well.”
Trump’s so far out in right field even Marj disagrees with him.
Or vice-versa…
Welp, I gotta go get fingerprinted tomorrow for another gummint gig, which means I’m going to get photographed with my buzzed head. I’m mortified.
Any reason why you cut off your hair?
Go to Spirit Halloween and get an Elvira wig.
Might as well do the whole outfit.
If you can simulate your Halloween avatar that would be perfect.
“Don’t you already have my fingerprints on file?”
The last few times I’ve gone in they just scan a couple fingers to confirm who I am.
I was fingerprinted at the VA 2 years ago and I was fingerprinted at the KCPD 5 months ago (no, I didn’t get the job–don’t know why).
Because you’re obviously a skinhead.
“Man arrested outside DC church had 200 explosives and manifesto targeting Catholics, ICE, Supreme Court, Jews
When police were attempting to clear the area ahead of the event, Geri was in a tent at the steps of the church, where he told authorities, “You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives,” per a police report, according to the Daily Wire. When police tried to remove him, the suspect replied, “Several of your people are gonna die from one of these.” He then gave them several sheets of paper in a manifesto called, “Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/man-arrested-outside-dc-church-with-200-explosives-had-manifesto-targeting-catholics-ice-supreme-court-jews-report
Was there anyone he liked?
In another age that guy would probably have been living in a hospital instead of a tent on the street.
Winston’s mom?
Firework vendors?
“Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, alleging the company failed to protect minors from sexual predators and explicit material, including violent simulations depicting the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Filed on Monday, the suit accuses the California gaming platform of operating as a “playground for pedophiles” by neglecting to implement any meaningful age verification, moderation, or parental safeguards. Roblox, which reports more than 111 million active monthly users, is used by roughly two-thirds of American children aged 9 to 12.
According to the complaint, predators frequently create fake accounts posing as children to contact and groom minors. “Roblox is designed to allow predators easy access to children,” prosecutors wrote, alleging that the company’s inaction has resulted in “harassment, kidnapping, trafficking, violence, and sexual assault.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/kentucky-sues-roblox-after-charlie-kirk-assassination-simulators-found-on-platform
Never heard of it.
It is a digital platform where the sexual deviant and criminal truly do prey on the young.
You’d be truly disgusted on what they allow.
I’m going to get photographed with my buzzed head. I’m mortified.
You could wear one of those rainbow clown wigs.
Does it come with a little dance or a chant?
As the end of 2025 approaches, a viral TikTok trend is helping people achieve their wellness goals: “The Great Lock In” encourages participants to finish the year strong by fully focusing on their life goals from Sept. 1 through Dec. 31.
Many people focus on exercise or eating healthier. But the trend can also help you achieve your financial goals.
There are no set rules for “The Great Lock In.” The phrase “lock in” is popular on social media and it means to focus intensely on a task.
“Something I like about this particular trend is that it’s like New Year’s resolutions’ little sister,” said Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, financial therapist and founder of Mind Money Balance, a financial wellness podcast and blog.
Aim high. It’s tiktok, after all.
Proposed chant:
“From the river to the sea, I’ll get in shape, you will see!
“The Great Lock In” is meant to help people achieve New Year’s resolutions that might have fallen by the wayside. If you started your year planning to pay down debt by cutting unnecessary expenses, and have yet to follow up on that, this challenge might help you with that goal.
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Today I will skip Starbucks. And then I will reward myself by going to the martini bar.