Good morning one and all to another incredible day! Yes, the government is still shutdown.
Democrats Block Legislation To Pay Troops During Shutdown
Trump Admin ‘Decimates’ Office of Population Affairs During Democrat Shutdown
Grand jury indicts former national security advisor John Bolton on 18 felony charges
US prosecutors charge Smartmatic in alleged $1M Philippines bribery case
Patel says FBI found more weaponization crimes, close to solving command and funding for Antifa
DOJ brings first Antifa-related terrorism charges in Texas ICE attack
175,000 Americans Apply for Jobs at ICE
Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Deploy National Guard in Illinois for Now
Trump, Putin plan Hungary meeting on Ukraine war, Zelenskyy to visit White House Friday
Trump Rule Sidelines 6,000 Truckers Over English Tests
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“The Trump administration has laid off many Office of Population Affairs (OPA) employees during the Democrat-led government shutdown — a move that “decimates” an agency overseen by the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS)”
Who? Was is it you do here?
“through its Title X family planning program and promoted sex changes for minors”
Fire everyone, and demolish the building.
Yes.
They have affairs with various members of the population?
Just another case of Congress delegating its tasks to the Executive Branch!
Morning all… morning Banjos.
Never heard of that outfit.
Oh, it promotes abortions. Yay.
Remember the simpler times of like 10 months ago when the left would say, with a straight face, that “your tax dollars dont pay for abortions”?
Lies, damned lies, and whatever comes out of the left’s mouth.
The three stages of leftist gaslighting:
1) That doesn’t happen, and anyone who says it does is a conspiracy theorist.
2) Okay, that happens but it’s not a big deal.
3) Why are you not celebrating that it’s happening?
“The three stages of leftist gaslighting:”
So much that…
Well–well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn citizens so the politicians don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you libertarians?
So Bob, and myself, also Bob, still need to know what you do here…..
So this is what winning feels like.
Happy Friday Glibronis!
Ah… the “cause as much pain as possible until we get our way” strategy proceeds… But when they’re in the slimmest of majority — that’s a Mandate From The People(tm)!
He says as if we expect anything but rank hypocrisy from politicians these days….
I swear it is as if Schumer, in his desperation to stop Abuelita AOC from primarying him, is simply making every single decision that would cripple the democrat party’s talking points. Seriously, “We shut down government AND we fought to keep troops from getting paid, so we can give illegals (and using language tricks to pretend they are not is all they have there too) free healthcare we don’t give to our own US citizens” sounds like a winner to me, if what you want to win is a brutal loss.
In the general, yes — but it seems to be one thousand percent what their rabid base wants… and that’s who’s going to be voting in their primaries. Chuckie is presumably safe enough that if he gets through the primary, the general is a done deal — and I expect most of the Senators with him are in a similar boat.
So Schumer is trading the 2026 and likely the 2028 elections, for his own personal seat….
Sounds like a democrat.
Also sounds like Rhinos
I got paid monthly in the army.
So far I wouldn’t have missed a paycheck.
“Patel says FBI found more weaponization crimes, close to solving command and funding for Antifa”
Have told everyone getting supper agitated no arrests have happened yet, that to make sure you win the cases, you need time to get the facts lined up for court. Looks like that is starting to get closer to coming to fruition…
I’m not supper agitated — I just want the funders and backers to get their just desserts, Alex. I can be patient.
Give it another 6-9 months and it is gonna start cooking..
“I just want the funders and backers to get their just desserts”
Sounds like another convert to the R C Dean program of more frequent and enthusiastic use of the guillotine
How can you have any pudding if ye don’t eat yer meat?
So, you are saying that so far, everything’s been an appetizer to the main course
Building a legal case that is solid, especially in a government rife with political appointees, put there to weaponize it in favor of the globalist marxist cabal by Obama’s 3 admins, takes time. I find people that thought the arrests would start on day two, just because THEY KNEW these people were bad guys, to be counterproductive. I do not want half-assed prosecutions and shit shows like the left did to Trump and his lawyers/people, that are clearly political in nature. I want hard cases that will be won even in deep blue areas (and if not show that the blue areas are now lawless and political) that land these fucks in jail.
I have little hope that crooks like Obama and Hillary Clinton will go to jail, but I will content myself with the unavoidable realization that Obama was the most corrupt and ran the most criminal administration in US history, and that Hillary not only helped him, but planed to one-up him if not for the fact that the rigged 2017 election was still won by Trump. Burn the left’s heroes into ashes and leave no doubt they are Satan’s army.
Good points Alex. Let me just add that in addition to uncovering physical evidence, there are also witnesses to be interviewed and various applications of the carrot and the stick to entice them to testify. And as much as I hate the technique, parallel construction takes time. The ultimate goal is not just decapitation of the leaders but uncovering and disrupting the entire network.
“ The ultimate goal is not just decapitation of the leaders but uncovering and disrupting the entire network.”
Tonio wins the Interwebs today…
So, so much that… If the snake is not decapitated and the money chain is not wrecked, the evil we saw under the 3 Obama admins will come back on steroids.
Tonio and Alex, we have a good example from today’s links. In the Texas case, they uncovered a network of people, encrypted chats discussing the plan, and a stash of 50 guns. Sounds like they have flipped a few people too. Those are the cases we want to see.
If the nation has a problem — yo, they’ll solve it. Check out the memes while JD revolves it….
ICE ICE baby!
ICE hasn’t been defunded, I guess
LOL
I’m not seeing anywhere if 175,00 is a lot more than normal.
“The 10 suspects in the ambush attack on the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas are seen in front of a photo from the scene of the crime. Top row, left to right: Marciela Rueda, Savanna Batten, Joy Gibson, Meagan Morris a.k.a. Bradford Morris, Autumn Hill a.k.a. Cameron Arnold. Bottom row, left to right: Zachary Evetts, Nathan Baumann, Ines Soto, Elizabeth Soto, Seth Sikes. (Johnson County Sheriff’s Office)”
One out of five are claiming to be trans.
But there is no pattern of recruiting and growing militant, angry, and violent fuckwads by team blue…
Photo/article
https://www.fox4news.com/news/alleged-shooters-accomplices-alvarado-ice-facility-ambush-appear-federal-court
Only one out of the group looks like he has a chance in prison…
Soto will be alright. He’ll be trading the others for cigarets.
Handheld radio coordination, planning via Signal chat, blowout kits, faraday bags…these people have pretty good field craft for losers.
Take out the funding and support networks, and the frontliners with fieldcraft start withering on the vine.
A good point, Sheldon.
Of course. I brought this up because I think it’s important to dispel the myth that Antifa is ineffectual or incompetent.
Of course, they made some mistakes as well. Just off the top of my head, there were sixteen people involved in the planning and execution of this hit. That’s way too many. A direct action cell should consist of no more than 3-4 people.
Like all groups of people, you get a bell curve of competency. This will include a lot of very incompetent people, and some people who are capable at what they are doing.
In short, what I’m saying is that the organization’s members are both incompetent laughingstocks and dangerous radicals who can cause damage.
It’s almost like they’re getting funding from somewhere.
“I think it’s important to dispel the myth that Antifa is ineffectual or incompetent.”
So much this. That is exactly what they and their apologists want us to believe.
Applying the leftist gaslighting trifecta above to this, we get:
1) Antifa doesn’t exist as an organization. It’s just a bunch of antifascists acting separately.
2) Okay, Antifa does exist as an organization, but they are ineffectual and disorganized.
3) Antifa is just anti-fascist people. If you’re not anti-fascist (by our definition of fascist) you are objectively pro-fascist or yourself a fascist.
The problem with presenting people with a false dichotomy is that eventually they start to believe it, and since it is false they simultaneously see your side doing awful things, and the other side… not. So if you are either antifa or a fascist, and antifa is blocking the road you have to take to get to work, or pick up junior at little league, and just burned your Uncle’s restaurant down, fascists starts sounding kind of awesome.
And this is how you get more fascists.
1 out of 5 are Trans, but what do you suppose the ratio of federal agents to useful fools is?
Funny how States Rights and limited Federalism is suddenly a thing in the Federal Courts system…. Hope it doesn’t flare up like last time that was the argument for Democrats keeping their menial laborers….
We can avoid all this shit, and even more, by simply codifying into law that the US Census can’t count illegals for apportionment of congressional seats and thus rig representation for the states doing this shit. You think any of these “sanctuary states/cities” would spend another dime of tax payer money or fight so hard to prevent deportations, if their agenda to rig the vote for themselves just goes up in flames after the census no longer counts the illegals?
At this point I think it might have to be an Amendment — just a law, it is going to be district shopped and struck down as “Unconstitutional” faster than New York state trots out another gun law when they lose with the Nazgul.
“At this point I think it might have to be an Amendment”
And I suspect based on the fact over 70% want these people deported, that it would pass…
No one in the government cares.
Here’s hoping some sanity can prevail and some sort of consensus can be reached then. Preferably with zero further (still don’t like that damned rare earths treaty with Ukraine) “security guarantees” from the US and/or NATO, the sane measure of keeping Ukraine out of the EU and NATO, etc.
But we’ll see… be nice to get all these brush fires stamped out. (Also would be nice if you didn’t let the CIA run wild in Venezuela, OMB… dangnabbit…)
I suspect Putin freaked out that India is actually reducing the amount of oil they are buying from Russia, putting their oil pipelines in jeopardy. If the flow of oil comes to a halt, all those pipelines will end up destroyed this winter (the oil freezes and cracks the pipes, permanently wrecking YUGE sections of that line, requiring complete replacement), and that will cripple the gas station with nuclear weapon’s ambitions. The thing I am worried about is Trumps admin throws Delhi a remittance bone and they do not nuke the H-1B program finally for this help from India..
He’s probably also a bit concerned that Trump is threatening to provide Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, which can strike 1,500 miles into Russia.
The Tomahawks aren’t game changers any more than the last game changer was a game changer but Putin’s actually rational and reasonable when it comes to talking. The Russian demands are going to be sky high because they’re winning the war but talking is better than not talking.
Ukraine has homegrown drones that are already striking that far (or nearly that far) into Russia.
“Ukraine has homegrown drones that are already striking that far (or nearly that far) into Russia.”
And that is the s3econd piece of the puzzle. The Ukrainians have changed their strategy to go after the Russian oil and gas infrastructure with a high degree of success. Russia is surviving the current sanctions by selling oil & gas. if that dries up – whether it comes from disruption by attacks or more sanctions – the economy goes belly up. That means the oligarch will kill Putin. And that is what Putin wants to avoid.
1) It is a start… I suspect there are more to deal with that shouldn’t have a CDL.
2) Now look at deporting them given I’m betting most were let in by the PPP Admin as “asylum” (I love the “asylum from India” of all places BS… bet all the green card holders fighting their way through the legal process working for the tech companies wish they’d known they could get away with that… most of my coworkers I’ve noted going through these processes take like a decade and lots of money…)
I saw an article that the new “proper” blood pressure stats are 110/70.
DOT drivers are going to be passing out after taking medication to push their BP down that low.
Um, no that’s “faint if you stand up too quickly” pressure.
Shit. I’m on three different meds to get down to 140/90…
And that’s really just a scheme to promote and sell more hypertension drugs. It’s basically marketing for big pharma.
Yeah, BS.
Two here.
The one health metric that’s been universally solid for me has been blood pressure, where it doesn’t vary far from 120/80. No meds, it’s just stable.
Yeah, no issue with BP for me, the wife, on the other hand…
Blood pressure is an indicator not a disease.
The American heart association is a farce and needs to be ignored.
It’s an industry group created to push seed oils and a grain based diet.
It is the opposite of scientific.
WTF, the DOT physical is a schem to sell more BP meds. It’s a joke. BO is all they care about. You can be 150 pounds overweight but if your BP is a touch over 130/90 you have to come back in a year and pay them again instead of every two years.
Sell more meds.
Pay clinics more.
It has ZERO to do with safety.
lol No shit.
Which means it disproportionately favors American drivers. Wouldn’t want to put it that way, of course.
And American-born “Latinos” speak perfectly good English, so there’s a bit of a stolen base there.
Is it a “Trump rule”, or a directive to enforce “49 CFR § 391.11 – General qualifications of drivers”?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/391.11
So like almost everything else with Donald’s heartless cruelty, it’s just enforcing existing law. I am shocked.
Based on my experience, sidelining 100% of DOT drivers would be a good start and almost all would fail a simple literacy test. The so-called professional drivers are completely out of control. Then there’s the Shitintruckistanis in their shorts and flip flops. Clowns from the circus.
The CDL should be eliminated.
But what about the jobs at DOT physical “clinics”? How will weighmasters know if you can fog a mirror?
Was driving down the Blues yesterday, right at the 6 mile downgrade sign (and just after signboard with weights and speeds), saw a guy going way too fast with his brake lights in solid and wasn’t even started. Halfway down passed another pulled over on the shoulder. $20 says he was cooking his brakes.
Let me guess, Swift?
The CDL shouldn’t exist.
Neither should non English speaking drivers. At all.
End chain migration.
Cofefe!
Work work work work work.
I owe, I owe, it’s off to work I go…
*Benny Hill salute*
It sounds like you’ve had enough covfefe already.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the brew of the beans that thoughts acquire speed.
The teeth acquire stains.
The stains become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
The beans must flow.
The Office of Population Control—er, Affairs, has been reduced by a tenth.
They lined them up, counted every tenth person, and said, “You’re fired!”
Literal decimation!
Would be better if they got retroactive abortions.
This may be to local, but i figure i will announce it.
Wife plead no-contest to two charges of: FAILURE TO OBEY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER – MISDEMEANOR. Wednesday.
no fine, expunged in six months, self monitored parole.
Apparently as of date of plea the DA’s office was still getting phone calls from neighbor (and now state house rep) pushing against any plea deals.
2 years 2 months of BS. 2 felonies, 3 misdemeanors reduced to this, dying with a whimper.
What is wrong with your neighbor?
Which one? LOL
This neighbor was the planning committee chairman who escorted the serial lot splits on the 80 acre parcel beside us. It went from 80 acres to 6 parcels at the county level, and one or two weeks later into 14 parcels at the town level.
This neighbor’s children worked for the developer
This neighbor worked for the developer.
This neighbor did not disclose this nor recuse himself at the board hearing.
This neighbor did not even have the courtosey to inform us about the lot spilt hearing after he made a big speech about telling people about what was going on.
This neighbor is whom my wife was topless protesting that started all of this.
The neighbor one a primary runoff to become house member by 10 votes in the last election cycle.
The neighbor’s wife has filed to protective orders against my wife. But has not shown up in the court for hearings.
Sounds like a bunch of headaches.
How are the sheepies? 🐏🐑🐑
I have to many rams. We temporarily have a “RAM truck” and i need to move some to market this weekend.
With the federal furlough i have time to catchup on a lot of maintenance stuff. Just need some rain to work on fencing.
“This neighbor is whom my wife was topless protesting that started all of this.”
Fascinating. Did she originate this trend?
Not the best outcome. Not the worst.
Your neighbor is a dick.
Agree. Glad it is over for you and yours, RD. Still bullshit.
This is great news! Also I hope your neighbor steps on a rake and falls off a cliff.
Seconded.
It is a good thing I’m not a DA.
If I were and I had to actually bring charges against someone for “failure to obey”… any plea deal would have to include logged watchings of the South Park Cops episode. At least 5 or 6 times. After all, if you’re trying to force “RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!”… go for broke.
That story would make a great political attack ad, although I can understand why you and your wife want no part of that.
Stay tuned…..
I’ve posted this before, but:
Corruption fucked me so hard, I am here to moan (NSFW)
I hope this is a great relief to you and Mrs. ‘bodru, even if it’s not completely over.
Random thought and a little off-topic… but Cav’s comment on the health monitoring for truckers made me think “Sheesh they overmonitor” then “Just wait until automation takes them out of the equation anyway in a few years” to “Or they could just use railroads for stuff where the automated trucks would work (long hauls across states)” to “Hey… come to think of it… what ever happened with the other technology of the 1900s — the tantrum throwing longshoremen’s unions?”
Speaking of things that really need to happen — modernizing our ports (and ship building industry, frankly…). If the idiot UN goes through with this… seems like a great opportunity to tell them to jump in the Pond and present ourselves as a cheaper shipping option (of course, since China is exempt from everything else as a “developing economy” doubtless they will be too… but still worth competing with them)…
I still see cargo trains on the regular around here.
I don’t know the numbers on why long-haul trucking is compeditive with intermodal rail to short haul trucking.
Don’t know the numbers either, but loading and unloading is a huge labor cost.
So’s driving each container individually across the country. Most of the cargo we’re talking about is containerized.
Ditto. There’s a line that runs through our town. It’s fairly well traveled.
I’m guessing the biggest benefit of the trucks is speed. They can sustain 65mph for a long stretch of the route. The train is stuck going 45 through the populated areas.
There is an at-grade crossing nearby. Getting caught by a slow, long freight train occurs too frequently.
Also fuck NJ for sending trash trains through here.
Each train can take 200 long haul trucks off the highway. Each heavily subsidized Amtrak takes one train off the rails, putting 200 trucks back on the highway. This is supposed to be a victory for the environment.
Train fetishists don’t care about the environment. They demand nationalization of rail so they can force prioritization of passenger service over freight.
Train fetishists don’t care about the environment.
Correct. But they claim to do so by ignoring that “[e]ach heavily subsidized Amtrak takes one train off the rails, putting 200 trucks back on the highway,” and doing a shallow analysis of carbon footprint per rail passenger mile versus carbon footprint per automobile passenger mile, and cooking the books by assuming 100% full trains and 1 passenger per gas-guzzling car/SUV. They also do the renewable energy scam by claiming that trains can be 100% powered by solar/wind, ignoring that everything South of DC requires diesel locomotives because no electric train infrastructure there.
The environmentalists go along with this fantasy because of their hatred for cars.
They demand nationalization of rail so they can force prioritization of passenger service over freight.
They also find common ground with all of the various groups who are against personal ownership of automobiles, against roads, against freedom of movement, etc. This is just one part of the vast, interlocking network who hate the civilization we have built, who hate our way of life.
They demand nationalization of rail so they can force prioritization of passenger service over freight.
Of course they do, because everything they do is always exactly backwards. Let’s take the rail network which is ideal for transporting heavy goods between production points and distribution points, neither of which vary quickly, and repurpose it for moving people who need to go all sorts of places at all sorts of times, and who when given the opportunity abandoned the trains in favor of the automobile in everyplace except a tiny metropolitan handful where moving between hubs was more convenient than parking.
Speed.
Labor cost.
Point of service, manufactures dock to yours.
No rail union involved.
Toino Obama’s trans sec had a stated goal of eliminating as many CDL drivers as possible. Trucks/cars are bad. Trains and their unions are good.
“Ain’t no law without a cop to enforce it”
Tax all you want, collect what you can get.
Ain’t no cop that can’t make a bad situation worse.
The US has the largest rail system in the world, and it is primarily devoted to moving heavy cargo (that is not super time sensitive) long distances. Any passenger rail that shares its rails is secondary to moving that cargo.
Getting a medical card is a joke.
Show up, pay them upfront, it’s up to $150 now from $80 when I started.
Read eye chart, get BP taken.
Be told that if you’re 135/95 you have to be on BO meds for life and see them once a year to pay them more instead of every two years.
The entire process needs to be discarded.
“A U.S. military drone strike in the Caribbean on a drug smuggling vessel Thursday left two to three survivors, a U.S. official tells Fox News.
The partially submerged vessel, described by the source as “big,” was operating in international waters when it was hit.
The U.S. military launched search and rescue assets, including a rescue helicopter, but it is not clear if any of the survivors were rescued, the official said.
The extent of their injuries was not immediately known, the official added….
It is not clear how many crewmembers were on board.”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-military-drone-strike-caribbean-leaves-survivors-official-confirms
So there were two or three survivors out of who knows that might have been rescued from a “big” something that may have been smuggling drugs?
Seems like the boats could be followed to their final destination and the bad guys/cargo/boat could be seized. Fair trial and all that nonsense…
Exactly, that’s why I have issues with what they’re doing. It sets a hell of a bad precedent.
That wouldn’t be dramatic enough, even with the claim that the fentanyl seized “would have killed 200 million Americans.”
“Seems like the boats could be followed to their final destination and the bad guys/cargo/boat could be seized. Fair trial and all that nonsense…</em<"
No cigar. Those half submarines are built to quickly be scuttled. all the people picking the survivors up will get is a bill to repatriate these people so they can try it again.
Light em up, baby!
The boats final destination might not be in US waters/territory. If they dock at a port you can be damn sure they have protection from the local government/military so that’s several other layers of the onion we’d have to peel. I’m uncomfortable with blowing random boats out of the water, but this is certainly an effective technique that doesn’t rely on others.
I’ve personally seen video of drug transshipments in the Bahamas that were being guarded by uniformed Bahamian national police.
Im starting to think we are doing this for Maduro and the strongman front is cover for a backroom deal.
He keeps his Iranian personal guard, there to protect him from the Venezuelan people, paid with money from drug trades…
No money, no guards…
“Who is Reneé Rapp? Whose anti-Trump rant at concert sparked online backlash
With passion, Renee blasted ICE, the Trump administration, and President Donald Trump, showing her blend of music and activism
In a jaw-dropping, zero-apologies bold flex, singer-actress Renee Rapp delivered a fiery political statement mid-show at her Bite Me tour stop at Portland’s Moda Center on Monday night, October 13, 2025, hyping the crowd to fever pitch….
During the live Bite Me concert, a moment captivated the crowd, as Rapp declared with unapologetic clarity, “Let’s just f**king make it abundantly clear. F**k ICE, f**k this administration, and f**k Trump!”
Her raw, fiery words hit hard with the crowd, sparking cheers from tons who were all in, while she’s also facing backlash online from Trump supporters.”
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1351430-who-is-renee-rapp-whose-anti-trump-rant-at-concert-sparked-online-backlash
much stunning so brave
Don’t know, don’t care.
*with regards to some random ‘entertainer’ flaking out mid-concert.
Can’t say I disagree with the headline, though… but like you I can’t say I terrible care who she is either.
Who, indeed?
We’ve all seen her name now, so it appears to have worked.
A music artist incoherently mouthing off on stage about politics? Well that’s never been done before…
Did they then go out and try and fire bomb Ice Cube’s tour bus?
I remember seeing Pearl Jam in Seattle during the Bush years, parading around with a Bush mask on a stick and making similar comments. On the way home I asked my wife if they do that same schtick when they play Dallas or a USO show for the troops.
Dear whoever you are,
Bite me.
She’s got a fucking foul mouth.
“Halloween mask–wearing creeps terrorized a widow in Virginia as chilling doorbell footage showed the trio trying to break into her home and threatening to kill the occupants inside.
The three suspects showed up at the Alexandria home — about eight miles from Washington, DC — around 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to the homeowner’s daughter, Shayla, WUSA9 reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/17/us-news/chilling-doorbell-footage-captures-trio-wearing-halloween-masks-threaten-to-kill-widow-family-at-virginia-home/
yikes!
some cultural enrichment?
That’s what shotguns are made for. Also, 10 minutes and still no cops? Great response time officers.
fire two blasts?
I see they passed How to Get Shot 101. Good for them.
September US Treasury statement is out.
The Treasury reports a surplus of $198 billion for the month of September. My eyeballing of the statements is that tariff revenue (customs data in the report) stayed the same at $30 billion. The surplus came from an increase in income tax revenue due to quarterly tax payments and a decrease in spending. I suspect the decrease in spending is a one time thing. I think the shutdown, if I remember the dates correctly, started after the period the statement covers, but I am open to being corrected here.
I eyeballed the fiscal year data in the statement.
FY 2024: revenue $4.918 trillion, outlays $6.734 trillion, deficit $1.816 trillion
FY 2025: revenue $5.234 trillion, outlays $7.009 trillion, deficit $1.775 trillion
OMB mid-year FY 2026 projection: revenue $6.011 trillion, outlays $7.612 trillion, deficit $1.601 trillion
My quickie no caffeine analysis:
The Treasury department is expecting an increase in revenue of about $800 billion. Tariff revenue increase so far this year has been steady, based on my eyeballing of the numbers, since the Trump tax (remember a tariff is a tax) increase at about $25 billion per month, so if that trend continues we’ll have an extra $300 billion for FY 2026 due to tariffs. Since other tax rates have not gone up, and in fact there was some tinkering with tax deductions/lowering rates in some cases (no tax on tips turns out to be nowhere near what it was made out to be, I think it was Sensei that posted a WSJ write-up on the reality of it a while back), the Treasury is assuming a strengthening economy bringing in more tax revenue.
Outlays go up by $600 billion. Some Trump spending cut. Remember, this is an OMB, an executive branch office, projection.
The net effect is decrease in the deficit by $175 billion, assuming all projections are correct. The national debt continues to go up, but now by a slightly smaller number. Inflation will continue.
Thanks DEG. Last paragraph says it all.
Fuck you, cut spending.
By half.
So he only killed 10% of the office? That’s barely a good start…
They got aborted.
“A Minnesota public high school appears to have held classes open to black students only — a possible violation of the US Constitution’s most fundamental anti-segregation laws.
South High School, a part of the Minneapolis public school system, held two elective courses titled “HS BLACK Culture – Building Lives and Acquiring Knowledge” during the 2024-25 school year.
The classes focused on the “lived reality” of black men and women in the US — and appeared to be open only to black students, a syllabus obtained by the education watchdog group Defending Education and first reported by the Daily Mail showed.
“Open to: All black male students,” the listing of one class read, while the other read, “Open to: All black female students.””
https://nypost.com/2025/10/16/us-news/minneapolis-south-high-school-appears-to-have-held-all-black-classes/
If you are black, wouldn’t you already know the “lived reality”?
The problem is when your lived reality doesn’t align with the “lived reality”. It’s a “stay on the plantation” class.
They might have the wrong “lived reality” instilled into them so the class is designed to ensure victimhood is cemented in their minds. Cant have any stray from the narrative
Or what trashy said
They may have a false consciousness that they aren’t oppressed by whitey.
What are the odds the class is taught by an AWFL?
I’ll put my money on a morbidly obese black woman from the suburbs.
So progressive. *swoon*
You shitlords want these poor students to shed their true selves?
It is absolutely amazing that they think/thought that this is legal. It is even more amazing that I think they will reverse course on this. (I am not even holding out hope that anyone involved will be fired or punished).
Best case: Des Moines hears about this and poaches all of our DEI experts to fill the gap in their district after their superintendent was so cruelly arrested.
“Trump accused Democrats of using the ‘blue slip’ rule to block his judicial nominees from moving through their Senate confirmation.
The rule allows for senators from the home-state of the nominee to veto district court judge and U.S. attorney nominees.
The commander-in-chief told his followers on Truth social his eight ‘highly respected’ attorney nominees ‘will not be confirmed for their positions in various Highly Consequential States only because they’re Republicans.’
Trump then appeared to shift the blame to Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, 92, for honoring this ‘blue slip’ rule on behalf of the Democrats…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15201909/Trump-tears-Republican-senator-stupid.html
Sounds stupid
Sen. Chuck Grassley, 92
Instead of terrorizing widows in an old folks home, he’s out there pretending to be fit to govern.
I’d take an upper age limit on congresscritters before term limits.
We need the Monty Brewster rule for all elected offices. “None of the above” is always a choice, and if it wins, then there is another election in a set amount of time with the office going vacant for that time. In the next election all those who lost to “none” are forbidden from running. Keep doing this until a candidate can beat “None”. This would take care of a great deal of the incumbent problem and make voting a hell of a lot more fun.
I’d prefer that if ‘NOTA’ wins, then the position is abolished. It obviously wasn’t that important in the first place.
Ultimately, some roles need to exist, even if the applicants are unfit for them.
In fact, adjudicating that the applicants are unfit for purpose does not imply that the role is unimportant. It might reflect a view that it is important, and these yahoos should be kept out of it as a result.
I agree with UCS on this. NOTA shows that the office was too important to trust to the numbskull candidates that ran and lost to it, so keep having an election until a suitable candidate has won. I’d go as far as to say we don’t really have any choice when we vote for an elected office if we don’t have the NOTA option.
There were two videos I saw recently (that I’m too lazy to find links to) that both showed old pols hanging on to the arms of aides to avoid falling. The first was Pelosi blowing up at some reporter for asking about illegals getting free healthcare. The other was McConnel falling.
If you can’t fucking walk, get a wheelchair.
Better yet, if your age has caused issues with your mobility, maybe it is time to hang it up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15200473/Kristen-Stewart-shares-sweet-hug-leading-lady-Imogen-Poots-premiere-directorial-debut-Chronology-Water-BFI-London-Film-Festival.html
You’re a multimillionaire and not Syd Vicious. You can afford real jewelry.
-Imogen Poots
What an unfortunate name. Also, the brunette, whichever one she is, looks like Emma Watson on a heroin bender.
That is the “beaming” Kristen Stewart.
I’m not joking when I say that her look is quite reminiscent of the drug related mugshots the local police dept circulates on the internet.
The splotchy tattoos, the pasty pale skin, the bags under the eyes, the ratty hair, and the vacant “I’ve done horrible things for drugs” stare are all the same.
The main difference is that her smile still includes all her teeth.
Imagine the horrible things she’s done for acting and directing roles…
Vegan lesbian Trashy.
“A Massachusetts woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly threatening to kill federal agents who were carrying out an immigration arrest outside the Malden District Court last month….
According to federal prosecutors, Terrill then began making violent threats. She allegedly yelled, “Charlie Kirk died, and we love it… we’re coming for you, gonna kill you.” The entire exchange was captured on agents’ body-worn cameras and allegedly on Terrill’s own cellphone.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/woman-charged-after-threatening-to-kill-federal-agents-shouting-charlie-kirk-died-and-we-love-it-in-massachusetts
Anyone see John Carpenter’s Vampires? The vampire hunters have a rig that drags vampires out into the sun. Maybe ICE could put a winch on their trucks and drag people away by their nose rings.
I have to keep reminding myself why it’s a very bad idea to give in to my emotions and advocate a “shoot to kill” approach.
But man do they make it tempting to drop the rational response.
But ultimately, that would be wrong…
I’ve been thinking about this. At some point there is a shift from “political violence is wrong” to “political violence is reality”. At that point, it’s less about should we shouldn’t we and more about ending the threat.
I don’t know how close we are to that line, but I think a lot of the less philosophical on the right are starting to wonder what crossing that line would look like. Many of them see this as an asymmetrical war, not as civil unrest.
I’m worried about that future date when someone else is giving the order and decides once again that through no fault of my own that I am an enemy of the state.
I share this issue. I now viscerally hate the antifa/BLM/Pro Palestine/Climate warriors, but I don’t want to live in the country we would become if we round them up and kill them.
Terrific book, and a very underrrated movie. But then, I can watch James Woods chew the scenery forever…
In this case, maybe they can winch them into a bath or a delousing or something.
Oh, and I would fully support a federal law stating that if your name is Bethany, you are forbidden from getting any Amerindian-themed tattoos…
I’ve never seen it, sounds interesting.
If you’ve never seen someone spend too much effort to make an animated vid about the name Tiffany, I recommend this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI
“The individual who rented a U-Haul truck that dropped off riot supplies and equipment to the 24-hour occupation outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Southwest Portland has been identified as trans-identified Antifa militant Michelle Paulette Backes, born as Michael Patrick Backes, according to documents reviewed by senior editor of The Post Millennial Andy Ngo.
Backes, who uses the alias “Bunny Quinn,” has a checkered history working as a prostitute, where he has produced controversial pornographic content out of his former home in Houston, Texas, titled “Daddy and Boy International.” He currently charges $600 for a two-hour hotel room visit, according to Backes’ escort page, and only accepts cash.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-trantifa-prostitute-michael-michelle-backes-seen-delivering-riot-supplies-outside-portland-ice-facility
No.
Broken people doing stupid shit is par for the course and I’d rather be the towel boy at the Minotaur Milking Farm than have to spend a couple of hours with that.
Speaking of the aged and infirm, has anybody mentioned McConnell’s little tumble yesterday?
“Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed legislation to study inequalities in youth sports, a move likely to draw ire from Republicans who believe the measure is intended to support transgender athletes.
The legislation, Assembly Bill 749, creates a commission to examine whether a new state board or department is needed to improve access to sports regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income or geographic location.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-13/bill-to-study-inequalities-in-youth-sports-attacked-by-critics-as-supporting-transgender-athletes-signed-by-newsom
OFFS!!
Totally setting himself up to sweep the Red States in 2028!
Federal Government Shutdown – Day 17
Its Friday, have a great day and weekend!
Oh, no, the aliens have taken over OBE’s reporting!
I’m going to a non-protest tomorrow since we don’t have a king. There will be food, games, and vendors. Then I might finally try to get k8s working on the pi cluster.
Ya we are going to Big Bone Lick Salt Festival tomorrow to see the baby buffalo and enjoy some local history.
Then maybe the USS Nightmare
https://www.ussnightmare.com/
Errr…Bison.
Bison bison Bison bison bison bison Bison bison?
“Big Bone Lick Salt Festival”
Oh, my.
That’s good enough for government work.
Have a good weekend OBE!
Thanks! You too!
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/mayor-brandon-johnsons-2026-budget-targets-social-media-corporate-head-tax/
“Taxes that may be framed as targeting the “ultra-rich” could push more businesses to leave the city or avoid investing here altogether, worsening the city’s long-term revenue outlook.”
Here is a crazy idea: cut spending.
Raising the cost to employ people is certainly a bold strategy. How exactly does the social media user fee work?
“Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its cancellation of a $7bn grant program aimed at expanding solar energy in low-income communities, according to court papers.
In a statement on Thursday, California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, announced two lawsuits by a group of states that received grants under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Solar for All program. The EPA’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced the termination of the program in August. The agency said in an email that it would not comment on pending litigation.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/lawsuit-trump-cancel-solar-energy-program
Buy your own solar panels.
Why do you hate Low Income Communities, Mr Bonta? Why do you want them to suffer with inefficient, unreliable power?
Am I the only one who consistantly misreads his name as “Bonita”?
These the same people that were behind the other green energy racket? Like the $2 billion spent on putting up EV charging stations that actually put up 7 stations while all the money disappeared?
You don’t expect these states to fund their grift on their own.
“The stakes are bigger than anything that happens tomorrow. Because these politicians are not just talking. This smear campaign is one skirmish in the all-fronts war on a vaguely defined leftwing entity the administration calls “antifa”. This war – declared in the 25 September national security presidential memorandum, Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence – is not just supported by propaganda. Disinformation is its essence…..
Commentators on the “Hate America” blitz, including some of the events’ organizers, have called it an attempt to silence dissent by scaring would-be marchers into staying home. My hunch is that diminishing the crowds is just half of the strategy. The other half is more pernicious. With Ice and the military already dispatched to terrorize Black and blue cities, such language may inspire civilian paramilitaries – many of them armed, organized and trained – to go into the streets and cause mayhem.
These militias took action on 6 January 2021. They are itching for another opportunity to attack the “enemy within”, and they don’t need explicit orders to do so. “Hate America” is the phrase that could impel them to act….
Maga wants nothing more than violence at the marches. Any violent clash, no matter who starts it, will be a green light to the administration to step up the policing crackdown, including on Saturday. The White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, has been tossing around the word “insurrection” to describe peaceful opposition to the Trump agenda. The president could use anything construable as chaos to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/17/no-kings-protest-weekend-maga
These retards live in opposite land.
Many (if not most) Progressives have real trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy. That may be the core of our problem as a society.
I agree. They have created an ecosystem where they believe in straight up lies that are easily disproven. And if you talk to one of them, they will fight like hell to stay in that bubble. I have no idea how what to do about it.
I have no idea how what to do about it.
The part that I struggle with is the chump effect. I’d be much more amenable to living and letting them live if they were confronted with the consequences of their idiocy. Instead, they get to reach into our pockets and grab wads of cash to fund their idiocy, degeneracy, and anti-social agenda.
You can’t win a fight where you’re funding your opposition better than you’re funding yourself. The single biggest line item in my budget is the check that I cut to these people.
“These retards live in opposite land.”
More like made up land…
What they pretend is happening has no bearing on any version of reality.
Whoops.
I’m pretty sure pools have a drain valve, so you don’t have to cut them open to let the water out.
Why not just use the drain plug?
People don’t understand how heavy water is.
I saw “Heavy Water” and started thinking up snark about deuterium and tritium.
Then I read the rest of the comment.
🙁
A pint’s a pound the world over.
But is a pound a pound?
But is a pound a pound?
7000 grains of wheat
I can only understand these weights if we measure in giraffes or whales
7000 grains of Khorasan? Emmer? Einkorn?
Ok, they were just trying to destroy that thing…
Nobody is stupid enough to think that is how you empty that thing,,,
Google nooz coverage of the NYC mayor debate offers “context” articles. From the New York Times and the Guardian. They want you to be able to properly understand the issues.
The context is that Mamdani’s an idiot.
But he is a dreamy commie idiot, so yay?
I watched a tiny bit of that yesterday. He’s an idiot but compared to the other idiots, he’s downright charming. He is going to win.
Watching that debate was like watching something from a different country.
Amazing luck to have basically no opposition.
Stop worrying
Despite frequent criticisms that the democratic socialist would drive business out of the city, Zohran Mamdani delivered the most cogent answer onstage in response to a question on fostering a business-friendly city.
In a hypothetical scenario in which Mamdani would be pitching a business to choose New York over Dallas for its headquarters, the assemblymember told a fictional CEO the New York under his mayoralty would be one in which their employees could thrive in an affordable and lively environment with a reputation for a bustling “arts and culture” scene that “makes the city so special.”
And they all lived happily ever after.
“So, Plano it is.”
Free shit will win every time even after the voters realize it is actually…shit they are getting
The idea that employers will decide to locate in NYC because their employees will be happier is hilarious. He’s going to arbitrarily kill off an industry of sorts, NYC’s bodegas and the local markets that are left, on the stupid whim of government run grocery stores. All it takes is another idea to come into his head to ruin another one.
I doubt a single Government Cheese store will open let alone put anything out of business.
Recently on the trail, Mamdani has taken his pitch directly to the city’s business community, delivering speeches at separate events hosted by the Association for a Better New York and Crain’s Business New York in an effort to woo the city’s influential business lobby. That practice appears to have paid off.
Stronger together.
I saw California is going to be selling insulin.
How long before there’s a totally unexpected shortage?
Selling? Dirty Capitalist!
Or fentanyl is gone but a great black market for insulin.
If they take over the grocery stores also they can stretch the insulin supply. I am pretty sure you need less insulin when you are starving to death.
“More so, I think that within that complexity is a more insidious (and therefore, more terrifying) problem: liberal white women’s ignorance of their own whiteness.
Is Taylor Swift racist? Yes.
Is she actively, explicitly anti-Black? a Trump supporter? pro-eugenics? I doubt it.
But that’s actually what worries me more: that there are so many liberal white women who move through the world never making connections between their whiteness and white supremacy.”
https://www.melissafabello.com/blog/taylor-swift-racism
https://www.melissafabello.com/
Most insufferable white woman?
Xanax and wine/book clubs used to keep this in check
The internet was a mistake.
“Politicized relationship coaching”
Otherwise known as, “How to never get another date and die alone with your cats.”
In a non-judgemental space…until you say you are dirty right-winger or a man
Errybody a little bit racist.
“Most insufferable white woman?”
You can never reach peak insufferable.
Another picture that’s worth a thousand words (all of them nagging and/or scolding…)
The smug was too much, I had to tap out.
Friday Funbags is being indicted.
https://archive.is/BtQiP
Animal’s commute looks pretty sweet
I have family in port allsworth.
It’s like that.
Deep Swiss Thoughts
Does this explain Swiss’s weird antipathy towards puns? Is he still trying to cope with rejection?
Compared to Glib puns those are pretty weak sauce.
No mention of cheese.
Supposed to
More than 20 states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the agency’s decision to cancel a $7 billion program that aimed to make solar power accessible to low-income households.
The program, called “Solar For All,” was established in 2022 under the Inflation Reduction Act and had appropriated grants to deploy rooftop and community solar projects. It was part of the Biden administration’s push to reduce carbon pollution and was supposed to make solar power more accessible to nearly a million additional U.S. households.
That’s what it was supposed to do. Now tell us what was actually happening.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks Jimbo
Sort of familiar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2k43NJycE
Am I the only one that hates these sort of videos?
I was always just happy to be done with the deployment.
Just come back and see people, no need to do all that.
Not as bad as the ones at sporting events though.
Ron:
I almost always pass on the reunion videos you are talking about. I used this one because the guy wasn’t in uniform and I think he was returning from Germany.
I also thought the obliviousness of Gramma was funny. I can see Mrs. Holiness being “tricked’ like this pretty easily.
In my limited experience (coming home on the Freedom Bird from Okinawa) with returns to the Land Of The Big PX, most of the married guys were interested in finding the nearest broom closet (or for the extra patient, their car in the parking lot) to reunite with their wife. Videos of those reunions would not pass muster for a Family Friendly site.
I like the dog ones. Those furry fucks don’t give a shit.
I wanted my unit to leave me in Iraq.
I would have done every day of my time in, 5 years, ten months and one week deployed if it would have meant I wouldn’t have had to spend a day around the degenerates of my command and fort Campbell.
Deployment was the best of my time in.
The EPA has been aggressive in its attempts to claw back clean energy funding approved under the Biden administration. The new lawsuit will test whether the agency has overextended its reach in this case. The states behind the legal challenge had hoped that the funding would boost solar supply, reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity production and lower the price of energy.
“Congress passed a solar energy program to help make electricity costs more affordable, but the administration is ignoring the law and focused on the conspiracy theory that climate change is a hoax,” Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown said in a news release. EPA’s decision “jeopardizes” about $156 million for Washington state, according to the release.
Earlier this month, a group of nonprofits and solar installers filed a similar lawsuit over the program’s cancellation.
They “had hoped”. That makes it sound as if none of those things actually happened. But the “advocate community” and approved installers got a place at the trough, so the program was a success and shutting it down is genocide.
A third lawsuit, filed this month in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island by solar companies, homeowners, nonprofits and unions, relies on similar arguments. It claims the EPA’s action would cause nearly a million people to lose access to affordable solar power, and that “hundreds of thousands of good-paying, high-quality jobs will be lost.”
This is fantastic idea which for some inexplicable reason can’t happen without government support.
Why aren’t these claims laughed out of court?
What do you guys think of the No Kings thing tomorrow? I’m about 50/50 on anything serious happening. The last one was lame and mostly boomers standing around. But I have heard that Antifa is planning things, especially in areas where they are not allowing Trump to use the National Guard to protect ICE. One good thing, it’s going to rain in Chicago tomorrow so hopefully that helps keep things quiet.
Wouldn’t running riot in areas already suffering for lack of action on crime just hurt their position? Or are they trying to provoke an official response for propaganda purposes?
I am sure they are planning some kind of bullshit ops to claim they are fighting Hitler and his armies…
I’m thinking they’d go after ICE facilities. The locals would cheer them on as heroes.
Or are they trying to provoke an official response for propaganda purposes?
This.
For those more conspiratorially minded, this is Podesta Plan stuff.
You mean the same feds on Jan 6 instigating?
I expect the local edition to be as lame as the last. Their choice for location is fortunately away from businesses.
Doubt anything other than the usual stuff will happen in Little Beirut. Despite the administration’s claims, the burning war zone lacks actual flames.
The offending item
“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye,” he said. “My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”
In February, similar flags were delivered via the United States Postal Service “to multiple congressional offices,” a GOP Hill staffer, not from Taylor’s office, told POLITICO. An image obtained by POLITICO of one of those flags appears to be similar to the one displayed in Taylor’s office, showing a U.S. flag apparently altered with a red marker and whiteout to form the shape of a swastika.
Good gravy.
There is a unobscured pic of the gruesome image accompanying the article. To my eye, it looks more like it’s intended as a statement of disapproval. Needs more labels.
They were really promoting the second season of Peacemaker.
But the Hill aide — granted anonymity to speak openly — said that flag was “obvious and unusual enough for us to take a photo before throwing it out.”
“It was plainly obvious to us that there was a swastika on the flag with the naked eye,” the staffer said. There was no investigation, and the flag was thrown away, “like we would hate mail,” the staffer said.
You not going to get on the nightly news that way.
They were really promoting the second season of Peacemaker.
I can’t remember. Was there something like that in The Man In the High Castle?
Probably, I only made it through the first season of that.
They replaced the stars with a swastika.
It is unclear how the flag in Taylor’s office came to be displayed, how long it was there, and why Elia seemed unaware of it during a video call.
“It was clearly behind him, on the screen,” the Hill staffer on the call said.
I’d stick that on the bulletin board as an entry in the “retard hall of fame” section.
I said yesterday it was a setup. The flag has clearly been altered. Either someone altered a flag that was already there on the board and the aide didn’t notice, or someone put the flag up on the board and the aide didn’t notice.
What are the pins around it?
I have some weird political pins in my collection too. USSU stuff, Mao, Clinton, Hitler youth, Bush
Go left
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin on Friday encouraged New Yorkers to vote for Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in the New York City mayoral race, just weeks ahead of Election Day.
“He’s running to make NYC more affordable for everyone and has captured the nation’s attention with his incredible campaign,” Martin, who was elected by fellow Democrats to his position earlier this year, wrote in a post on X in a thread highlighting downballot Democratic candidates with election coming up soon. “Go vote for Zohran this November!”
Pander to the fringe. That’s how you win elections.
I’m sure those Flyover Democrats all desperately wish they could cast a vote for him.
I love it. Please continue your support for radical communist islamists, DNC.
Who says they can’t?
They can use Joe Biden’s midnight plane ride system to send all the progressive rubes into NYC on voting day to vote in person.
Voting Tourism
The hot new trend. Vote locally via mail in ballot, then fly to some fun city to vote for the right thinker there.
Comrades will subsidize hotel rooms and meals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope,_Oregon#Rajneesh_movement
Bussed in bums to vote.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the Democratic party’s presidential nominee in last year’s presidential election, also offered a tepid endorsement of Mamdani last month, telling MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that, “Look, as far as I’m concerned, he’s the Democratic nominee and he should be supported.”
Let’s face it. The guy actually won a primary, unlike some people.
I thought “No Kings” was a play off “We wuz Kangz” or just “No Kangz.” Apparently not, but I found this hilarity:
“The phrase “no kangz” is a derogatory internet slang that is a variation of the racist meme “we wuz kangs”. The expression 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥.”
An expression now = a symbol. Much like ‘speech is violence,’ just as ‘silence is violence’ in their (literally) retarded world ‘view.’ These ‘protests’ are all block parties, with folk getting paid and driven to wherever it is they’re supposed to be, to carry whatever sign they’re told to, likely given a drink /bump, and to say they’re against whatever they’re told to be against. Because they’re against it, cuz duh, dummy.