The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 10/2/25

Good morning kids. Well the Schumer shutdown is on, and despite the best efforts of the Leftist propagandists, it seems that the attempt to blame President Trump and the GOP is not working. Whether the public's perception that the Democrats brought this on themselves remains to be seen. But that said, the image of Schumer himself reacting to the shutdown by mugging for the camera with two thumbs up has got to be one of the stupidest moves by any politician in recent memory. And as that evil bastard has been around the block for decades, you'd think he'd know better. Hubris and diminishing geriatric brain function is a lethal combination and he's given the GOP a political advert that bookends nicely with that repulsive criminal hag Maxine Waters boasting about giving illegal aliens free healthcare or else she'd be leading the charge to shutdown the government.

Even the inept RNC can't screw up these horrendous self-owns by the Democrats and while nothing is ever certain in politics, the Democrat cheat machine notwithstanding, their prospects for the 2026 midterms, which are just over a year away (which of course is both around the corner and an eternity) are not looking rosy to say the least. Even New Jersey which is about as strong a commie redoubt as there is anywhere in the country might actually be in play for the GOP to snag the governor's mansion. All of the aforementioned caveats for sure are in effect. But a couple of high profile things are making the road to Trenton tough going for this Mikie Sherill. As of today, she and GOP challenger Jack Citarelli are running almost neck and neck. I'm sure CBD will be along at any moment to reassure us that crooked Bergen County will have a fleet of Buick LeSabres primed and ready to deliver trunkloads of Democrat ballots at just the right moment.

Also, the prospects of attractive and accomplished Winsome Earle Sears to beat horrendous harridan Abigail Spanberger in Virginia's gubernatorial race are also on the rise.

And elsewhere as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here and in the sidebar, as well as the usual outlets listed below, Secretary of WAR Pete Hegseth with encouragement and the blessings of his and our Commander-in-Chief is purging the vestiges of the poisonous rot of DEI within the military and restoring the morale and effectiveness from the top brass down through the ranks. And thank God for that, given the situation in the world today vis a vis the Chi-Coms, Iran and global Islam as well as their third-world hangers on that hate America with equal fervor and are more than willing to take pot shots at us at their behest or of their own accord.

Hegseth himself summed it up perfectly by declaring

"No More Dudes in Dresses!"

I assume that he was referencing the sickening debasement that is or please God was Admiral Richard/Rachel Levine. How many more Bitter literal KLINGERS (with apologies to Jamie Farr) are there in the ranks and when will they all be section 8-ed the hell out?! Of course one or more Hawaiian judges are ready to impose their will on us and declare such a move null and void.

Beyond those aforementioned threats, there's also the alien chest-burster gnawing the guts of Uncle Sam himself from within that must be utterly eradicated with absolutely no mercy.

Now is the time for full government action, and we've seen the deployments. I love the deployments. I love seeing Border Patrol out there doing what they're doing every single night. But we need to get proactive. We need to absolutely get proactive about this.
And what better place to do that than Portland? We know that Portland is one of the hot spots, probably the biggest hot spot. It's the only place, right? It's the only place in the whole country where the left has no leg to stand on whatsoever when they say Antifa doesn't exist, because the Portland chapter of Antifa has existed for 20 years. . . But when you have these poisonous, sick, cancerous elements in it, they must be treated like a disease, and the disease must be fought. The Cancer must be cut out. It must be eradicated. It must be wiped clean. And that's what we're going to do, folks, we're going to wipe them clean.

Again, whether the Democrat Party directly or indirectly funds Antifa, having them as your de facto good squads benefits them politically. And everything the Democrats do ultimately serves the cause of destroying the American nation and society as it was founded and intended to be. 200-plus years of history with rivers of blood and wastage of human life and potential is self-evident for all but the deaf, dumb and blind.

Sad to say, but it's us or them. You are either with us or you're with the terrorists. Who comes out on top and how the war is to be fought remains to be seen — the Left's eagerness and willingness to subvert the rule of law and to encourage and countenance violence and terrorism to all who oppose them is where we are at.

Also, I note that Kash Patel told the ADL to gey kocken affin yom! loosely translated from Yiddish, go shit in the ocean. (basically a polite way of saying go "F" yourself

“James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,” said Patel.

Like everything else that is infested with Leftists, it ultimately rots and dies. The ADL whose original intention was to call out and protect Jews from anti-semitism and other minorities from discrimination lost its way long ago and became cheerleaders and propagandists for some of the most noxious and extreme anti-American individuals and organizations while sliming conservatives and Christians as Jew-haters and so forth. Ironically it is conservatives and Christians who are the staunchest defenders of Jews and Israel while the Left falls all over itself to throw us into a mass grave, sadly Jews by birth only as its most vocieferous cheerleaders.

Now to dismantle the ACLU and SPLC with extreme prejudice. For far too long those hotbeds of Leftism have been used to legitimize and give cover to attack and demonize anyone and anything even red pubic hair's width to the right of Fidel Castro. Their ill-gotten status as defenders of freedom, plurality and the American way has got to be smashed once and for all.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump, unlike the UN, is brokering cease-fires and curbing threats by wielding U.S. power through trade, leverage, and force—favoring deals over endless wars.
From the League of Nations to the United Nations to Trump Global?
They walked in thinking they could weaponize chaos for political points, but the plan is unraveling fast. Republicans were ready for this fight, while Democrats are now scrambling to justify to the American people why they chose cheap political theatrics over keeping the government running. Reports already show cracks forming inside their caucus, and the longer this drags on, the uglier it looks for them.
This One Photo Captures the Schumer Shutdown Perfectly

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

“I mean, there is a reason why Putin said that wars are won by teachers.”
Randi Weingarten Implies U.S. is Under ‘Nazi’ Occupation
The time for the conversation, the dialog was ended, and we know which side ended it. We know.
JACK POSOBIEC: Now is the time for full government action against Antifa
What have we learned from the Democrats’ tumultuous history? Power is what they prize. Acquiring it, retaining it, and controlling others through its exercise is what they live for.
The Antifa War Instigators
The National Lawyers Guild is an activist group with a long list of goals, meant to change the ‘structure of our political and economic system.’ (Strip every member of their law licenses and shut them down as a domestic terrorist group - jjs)
This Well-Funded Legal Org Works To Protect Antifa Terrorist Cells From Prosecution
Funding Antifa is now domestic terrorism. The Dems are guilty. We have the proof.
How Trump Can Bust the Dem Money Machine Funding Antifa
The FBI’s decision marks a significant shift in policy, distancing itself from the ADL amid widespread criticism of its bias against conservatives.
Kash Patel Ends FBI Collaboration with Far-Left Anti-Defamation League.
Robert Spencer: The party of violence and authoritarianism is at it again.
Gavin Newsom Said This, and Then a Leftist Shot Up an ICE Field Office
Daniel Greenfield: Democrats hail a domestic terrorist and cop killer.
Party of Cop Killers
‘Ethics complaints motivated by partisan animosity are unethical, un-American, and detrimental to the profession of law and the pursuit of justice to which our profession is committed,’ the brief states.
Exclusive: Amicus Brief Asks DC Court To End ‘Unethical, Un-American’ Persecution Of Jeff Clark
The Big Lie.
Prager U Video: How the Left Rebranded Fascism as ‘Right Wing’

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
The raid involved several agencies and 300 federal officers, which took place on Tuesday in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Authorities have reason to believe that the apartment complex has been used as a hub of sorts for the violent gang members.
Massive Chicago Illegal Immigration Raid Targets Tren de Aragua Members
The federal government shutdown became official at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a stopgap funding bill before the deadline. While all non-essential operations will be paused until funding is restored, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that its mission to carry out large-scale deportation operations will not slow down.
EXCLUSIVE: Deportation Machine Will Carry On Despite Government Shutdown
A leader in the Sinaloa Cartel admitted in an interview with CNN that President Trump’s border policies are hurting business.
Sinaloa cartel leader admits to CNN that Trump’s border crackdown is stiffling criminal operations
Immigration fraud in this community has been the norm.
Vast fraud of Somali migrants, starting with Ilhan Omar, finally being exposed

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
This represents the largest one-year exodus of federal workers in 80 years, reports the far-left Reuters.
154,000 Bureaucrats Finally Exit Federal Payroll This Week
What if they gave a shutdw=own and nobody noticed.
You Call This A Shutdown?
Democrat Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and independent Sen. Angus King of Maine were the only members of their caucus to vote in favor of the stopgap funding bill, which would have kept the government open through Nov. 21. In footage exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Democratic members of the caucus who voted to shut down the government did not explain their vote.
EXCLUSIVE: Democrats Have No Answer For Why They Voted To Shut Government Down
"It’s crazy, and I don’t think it’s a tenable political situation for them to be in."
Five Brutal Consequences If Democrats Continue Government Shutdown
President Donald Trump fired Cook in August over allegations that she committed mortgage fraud.
Supreme Court Allows Lisa Cook to Stay on Fed Board For Now
ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al
The deployment underscores the potential for rapid escalation in the Middle East.
The U.S. Air Force Is Moving Refueling Tankers and Other Assets to This Country—With a Warning.
The order solidifies Qatar’s security ties with the U.S., enhancing its defense privileges and threatening a robust response to any attacks.
Trump Warns Israel and Iran: An Attack on Qatar Is an Attack on America.
There’s finally a deal on the table. Eight Muslim nations signed on. And yet...
Hamas says, ‘Yes, but’...and the world looks away
Hamas front group behind Greta Thunberg’s flotilla, documents recovered from Gaza show.
Report: Israeli Navy Intercepts Greta Thunberg’s Hamas-Linked Gaza Flotilla
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WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The suspects—two German citizens and one born in Lebanon—are scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Their arrests came just a day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
German Police Arrest 3 Suspected Hamas Operatives Over ‘Assassination’ Plots Targeting Jews
Amin Abedi Mofrad, 35, allegedly approached the reportedly intoxicated teenager and her friend near a parking lot in February, calling out to them from a bench around 11:30 p.m, prosecutors told the Oxford Crown Court, according to GB News. Prosecutor Patrick Upward said Mofrad grabbed the girl and “pulled on her jeans and her top,” despite her protests. The migrant then allegedly forced her to the ground. (Dear British men, you better start slitting some throats lest its your throats that ultimately get slit - jjs)
UK ‘Asylum Seeker’ Accused Of Raping 15-Year-Old Girl In Schoolyard, Dubbing Her His ‘Sex Doll’
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Gigi Sohn, the failed Democratic FCC nominee who was considered too radical even by Democrats, is criticizing Trump administration reforms to the $42.5 billion BEAD broadband program while reportedly working with some Republican state officials to undermine changes that remove DEI mandates and opened the program to satellite internet providers. (anal BEAD? - jjs)
Failed Biden FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn Works to Undermine Trump’s Broadband Reforms
“Dabhoiwala’s ire is reserved for the First Amendment.”
The End of Free Speech Liberalism
Americans also fear soaring energy costs from artificial intelligence.
Is AI ‘Dangerous’? 45% Of Americans Say Yes, And 54% Expect Job Losses: I&I/TIPP Poll
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
America has seen a trend of attacks on law enforcement.
Stop Killing Cops (Kill all the cop-killers and their promoters first - jjs)
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
If there was such a thing as a lie-o-meter, the arrow would be pointing off the charts every time Comey describes his career.
Comey, architect of the Russia Hoax, finally gets his reckoning (only when he's found dead in a prison shower, bleeding out from his anus - jjs)

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The project aims to reduce U.S. reliance on China for lithium, with production set to grow exponentially, potentially powering 800,000 electric vehicles (EVs) annually in its first phase.
Trump Acquires Major Lithium Mine Stake for U.S. Government.
Europe bankrolled China’s rise through green dogma—Trump and Vance warn America must choose sovereignty and strength or repeat Europe’s surrender.
Europe’s Green Suicide Is China’s Dream — America Must Not Repeat It
Mann more than anyone illustrated the decline in American science during the 21st century. For decades he put advocacy and politics above real research, faking data and viciously libeling those who questioned his work in order to prove human-caused global warming. When the climate science community chose to favor his political advocacy and blacklisting over good science, it showed that Mann’s dishonesty had seeped into all levels of science.
Climategate global-warming activist Michael Mann resigns from PennU after celebrating murder of Charlie Kirk
This is one small win for Californians, and one big win for the rest of the country.
California Pulls Plug on its Delusional Electric Truck Mandate
Letting states and localities export their regulatory preferences would create economic chaos and increase prices nationwide.
Colorado’s Cockamamie Climate-Change Lawsuit
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
DOJ says investigators will be looking into whether Iowa’s largest public school system is employing discriminatory DEI in hiring practices.
DOJ Opens Probe Into Des Moines Schools As Illegal Alien Superintendent Resigns
The government must immediately remove any federal funding from schools that commiserate with terrorists and arrest anyone aiding them.
Exclusive: CUNY’s ‘Global Antifa’ Course Encourages Students To Aid Domestic Terrorists
The courses will explore drag, race, and gender topics, requiring students to attend drag shows and participate in performance-based exercises.
Harvard Professor Leads Double Life as Drag Queen ‘LaWhore Vagistan.’
Congress should pass a Free Speech Restoration Act.
Get the FCC Out of the Censorship Business
Yet, for all this potential, there are grave downsides to the AI revolution in education, with the biggest problem being cheating.
The Double-Edged Sword Of AI In The Classroom
Management professor Nour Kteily said he was 'inspired' by the encampment and hoped to land 'some amazing wins' for its participants
Northwestern’s Center for Enlightened Disagreement Calls for Civil Dialogue. Its Co-Chair Negotiated on Behalf of Encampment Activists Who Called Jews Pigs.
ABORTION
“Prevention Park” was situated near the University of Houston and Texas Southern University. Another Houston facility also ceased operations on Oct. 1, leaving four locations in the Houston area.
Planned Parenthood Closes Mammoth Houston Abortion Facility

SECOND AMENDMENT
ATF’s engaged in the business rule became final on April 10, 2024. The rule is designed to expand the occurrences of point-of-sale background checks by counting certain private sales as business sales, thereby requiring the transfer to be handled via a National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background check.
Federal Judge: Biden ATF Rule on Firearms Sales Cannot Be Used Against NRA Members
Proper training addresses mindset, marksmanship, and decision-making under stress. It's not about checking boxes or reciting slogans — it's about preparing women for the real-world challenges they face.
Women don't need gun control activists telling them how to defend themselves
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
The House Oversight Committee may issue subpoenas for bank records, potentially leading to further investigations.
Epstein’s Ties to Banks and Hedge Funds Are Far More Extensive Than Previously Thought.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Griffin said, “And can I ask, have you formally apologized to the NYPD?”
Mamdani: I’m Having Conversations ‘Individually with Officers’ After Calling NYPD Racist
POLITICS
The tightening poll comes after a series of controversies that have defined Spanberger’s campaign. In September, she faced backlash after encouraging supporters to “let your rage fuel you” at multiple events, a phrase she has repeated on the trail. Earle-Sears, who is running on a message of unity, pushed back by declaring, “Virginia is for lovers — not rage.”
Poll: Winsome Earle-Sears Surges Within Margin of Error Against Abigail Spanberger in Virginia Governor’s Race
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The bad ideas that spawned the UN are deeply entrenched in the West.
President Trump Gives the Globalists Another Lesson – But More Are Needed
The sanctions target five individuals and a technology firm tied to the Iranian Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), which handles the nation’s nuclear program. While Iran’s nuclear program was set back considerably by the U.S. strikes on the Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan nuclear sites, Tehran has continued to pursue its nuclear ambitions.
Trump Admin Drops Hammer On 5 Individuals, Organization Tied To Iranian Nuclear Program

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
For first time in a long time, service members have leaders who actually give a damn about the mission and their well-being.
It Turns Out The Military’s Biden-Era Recruitment Crisis Was A Leadership Problem After All
"No more division, distraction, or gender delusions."
Hegseth To Top Military Brass: No More Dudes In Dresses
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The fraudulent scheme resulted in approximately 7,300 fake diplomas, posing significant risks to public health and safety.
More Charges in Major Nursing Diploma Fraud Case.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to advise clinicians on cautious use of acetaminophen during pregnancy.
This Harvard Study Linked Tylenol Use to Increased Autism and ADHD Risk.
Telehealth and home care coverage for millions of Medicare beneficiaries expired on Wednesday at midnight due to Democrats tanking a government funding bill that would have extended certain healthcare programs.
Democrats Double Down On Shutdown Despite Americans’ Healthcare Programs Lapsing
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Minnesota allowing males in female sports hit national news over a male pitcher on the softball team.
Trump Admin Says Minnesota Violated Title IX Over Males in Female Sports
Charlie Kirk is dead. Americans must face why.
Transgender Ideology Killed Charlie Kirk and It’s Destroying America (Merely part and parcel of the Eternal evil among us - jjs)

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Libs of TikTok has unearthed myriad shows on Netflix that are clearly aimed at children and that advance the transgender agenda.
Netflix is very invested in exposing children to cheerful transgenderism
Consumers’ Research has launched a nationwide campaign, including ads, billboards, and a website, to draw attention to Chubb’s policies and urge federal action.
This Insurance Giant Could Soon Face a Federal Probe Over DEI Policies.
Since 2001, we’ve seen the same problem play out repeatedly: People promise never to forget a life-changing event, and then they forget to remember.
We Are All Charlie Kirk…Until We’re Not
Charlie Kirk’s courage shows that true free speech comes with risk—standing against evil matters far more than defending mediocre jokes on late-night TV.
What If Johnny Carson Had Slammed the Followers of Martin Luther King?
HITHER & YON
“The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes,” the institute wrote on Instagram. “Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.”
Jane Goodall Dies At 91

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1 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)

3 "Even the inept RNC can't screw up these horrendous self-owns by the Democrats "

Never underestimate the GOPe.

Posted by: fd at October 02, 2025 07:23 AM (uH1zk)

4 Be back post-gym. Don't massacre each other.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 07:24 AM (fKaF7)

5 Day two of being dead from the government shut down.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 02, 2025 07:24 AM (0N4FZ)

6 Mooornin’!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at October 02, 2025 07:25 AM (EzGiP)

7 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at October 02, 2025 07:26 AM (f+JVJ)

8 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 02, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

9
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 02, 2025 07:27 AM (tljrc)

10 I assume that he was referencing the sickening debasement that is or please God was Admiral Richard/Rachel Levine.

It should be noted that Levine was an 'Admiral' in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which is part of HHS and not Defense. Hegseth would have had no authority over that freak.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

11 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 07:28 AM (Q4IgG)

12 Thanks, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 02, 2025 07:30 AM (K7MIk)

13 Giddyup and Darn Tootin!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at October 02, 2025 07:30 AM (JaGQD)

14 It happened on the strip where the road is wide (tack it up now)
Two cool shorts standin' side by side (tack it up now) (tack it up now)
Yeah, my fuel injected Stingray and a four-thirteen (tack it up now)
A revvin' up our engines, and it sounds real mean (tack it up now)
Tack it up, tack it up
Buddy, gonna shut you down…

Posted by: Chuck U Schumer at October 02, 2025 07:30 AM (UsFP+)

15 Sadly, Michael Mann didn’t exactly resign from Penn U; he just resigned his position as vice provost of something or other there, because it inhibited his activism. He’s still an exalted Professor there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 02, 2025 07:30 AM (WZaJc)

16 Trump Warns Israel and Iran: An Attack on Qatar Is an Attack on America.

Given that Israel had previously said that they wouldn't do it again, might this actually be targeted at Iran and people keep linking Israel to shit shit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

17 I can think of many better targets than Portland. Try any blue city in a red state. Use the resources to root out the Left in our America. Leave the other America to its devices. Let them have it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 02, 2025 07:37 AM (BI5O2)

18 Trump Acquires Major Lithium Mine Stake for U.S. Government.

On the one hand, I don't know that I'm a fan of the government having part ownership of companies. OTOH, it might be a way to shield those companies, somewhat, from any future Democrat governments.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

19 So let’s not be fooled by the sudden handwringing from Obama or the crocodile tears from network execs. As he says, cancel culture has reached a “new and dangerous level,” Business Insider. They censored, they rigged, they cashed in. And now the American people see the scam for what it is: a cartel of power, politics, and profit dressed up as “truth.” And no amount of gaslighting will cover that up anymore.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:38 AM (nyryp)

20 morning horde,

how is it not friday yet?

off to the content.

happy birfday jj

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at October 02, 2025 07:38 AM (nXhwP)

21 It's the only place in the whole country where the left has no leg to stand on whatsoever when they say Antifa doesn't exist, because the Portland chapter of Antifa has existed for 20 years

They’ve been around longer than that in Portland and Seattle.

Of course they were known more as ‘Anarchists’ back in the day.

As far back as 1999 they all became famous for “The Battle of Seattle” where the Anarchists sent out the Black Blocs during the WTO meeting there to protest and riot and destroy anything with a corporate logo on it.

Same people and groups, they’ve just changed their names to Antifacsist.

The Pacific Northwest has always been a socialist stronghold, but the Antifa/Anarchist groupscreally took off after some infamous incidents involving skinheads in the 80s and 90s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 02, 2025 07:40 AM (6ydKt)

22 Trump maneuvered Schumer and the other dumb Dems into the shutdown fiasco so easily it was like Trump was a big bully taking candy away from a baby. Dems are living in the past when all they had to do was shout “government shutdown” or “healthcare” and GOPe would run in terror and surrender. There’s a new sheriff in town…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 02, 2025 07:41 AM (FNvF+)

23 > I can think of many better targets than Portland. Try any blue city in a red state. Use the resources to root out the Left in our America. Leave the other America to its devices. Let them have it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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I think Portland could be a litmus test of sorts. It's more or less Antifa's home turf, base of operations, whatever. If Trump can, via the National Guard neuter them there it would be quite the signal to the other Antifa chapters.

It's also a test for Trump's anti-crime push. Portland is all about the Antifa terrorists, not specifically your run-of-the-mill thug crime like the capitol city or, say, Chicago.

The Antifa thugs haven't had any sort of push-back. At all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 07:43 AM (Q4IgG)

24 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at October 02, 2025 07:43 AM (rruQb)

25 Boulder County really is the bane of Colorado's existence.

It's Colorado's Berkeley.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Don't shut me down, bro at October 02, 2025 07:45 AM (AOsQT)

26 The Antifa thugs haven't had any sort of push-back. At all.

Hopefully a few get ventilated and a lot more go to prison. Root and branch.

Posted by: Zombie Buford T. Pusser at October 02, 2025 07:45 AM (UsFP+)

27 Holy moly! Bob and a
Tom show is still on? Is it their kids? Que nonstop fake laughter - show is terrible

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 02, 2025 07:46 AM (/6GbT)

28 Endeavor Air in the news again, and not in a good way.

Played bumper planes on the tarmac at LGA with one of the jets having its wing ripped off.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 02, 2025 07:47 AM (Y1sOo)

29 Admiral Richard/Rachel Levine

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Admiral Dick/Dickless Levine

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at October 02, 2025 07:47 AM (L/fGl)

30 Since commenting is slow and I'm sure you're all dying to know how my meeting with boss' boss went yesterday...

He asked if there was anything he could do to fix any work-related concerns I might have.

He asked me three times to reconsider, including stating that he would do anything in his power to help me get into any group I wanted.

We also asked me to delay announcing my departure to the department at large until they had a transition plan figured out so as to prevent widespread panic. I laughed at that.

Then we discussed nuts-and-bolts stuff. I've known him pretty much since he started at the company so the whole thing was pretty amicable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

31 Moronin', Hourde!
Posted by: Hans O'Lo at October 02, 2025 07:26 AM (f+JVJ)

Hey Grandpa! How's the baby?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

32 Four people were knifed after a man 'armed with a bomb' rammed a car into the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue at 9.31am today.

The attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, has been declared a 'Plato' incident - the national code-word used by police and emergency services when responding to a 'marauding terror attack'.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:49 AM (nyryp)

33 A solution to AI academic cheating is oral exams.

Posted by: Kingsman at October 02, 2025 07:50 AM (ehY6c)

34

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 02, 2025 07:51 AM (DDJSl)

35 The Cancer must be cut out

( yawn )

100% Bluster. 0% Action

Politicians know what needs to be done, they just don't want to do it. They hate America, and love to gaslight those who love America.

I view this is as a cruel form of mocking. They know what We The People want, they mouth the words, then then they step out of the light and return to their drugs and pederasty.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 07:51 AM (a4flb)

36 @30

>>Then we discussed nuts-and-bolts stuff. I've known him pretty much since he started at the company so the whole thing was pretty amicable.

I didn't see any additional monetary compensation so, if that's not part of their calculation then their failure to plan appropriately is not your problem.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2025 07:51 AM (TUDc/)

37 The "dudes in dresses" comment made by Hegseth might have been directed at a couple idiots who posed in women's uniforms for unofficial photos they then used on social media.

He should have made a comment about the "dog faced" soldier who wore some sort of mask for a photo shoot.

Although the Army was highlighted with this sort of perversion, every Command had a number of issues with mentally ill members strutting their freak-on in public.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

38 highly transmissible COVID-19 strain is fueling a wave of infections across the US. The XFG variant, informally known as “Stratus,” has been driving up case numbers. Stratus’ ability to evade immune system defenses has propelled it past NB.1.8.1 (aka “Nimbus”

as the dominant Covid strain.

Thank You, Anthony Fucme

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:52 AM (nyryp)

39 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

Congrats. I’d imagine it’s great to be that appreciated… but even better to be retired!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 02, 2025 07:53 AM (lepZb)

40
The Israelis should deposit the Swedish Doom Goblin in the middle of the Sinai Desert with a backpack of water and dehydrated food and then tell her to start walking.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 02, 2025 07:53 AM (TkTTq)

41 C'mon RIF. Please don't disappoint.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 02, 2025 07:53 AM (ZmEVT)

42 This week, federal officials made an astounding announcement: Nearly half of all immigrants in greater Minneapolis were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud. The fraud, uncovered in a September sweep, came in all kinds — sham marriages, fake death certificates and “other bizarre schemes,” as US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edley put it.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:53 AM (nyryp)

43 I posted this yesterday . Meme AI version of Blue Oyster Cults music for " Don't fear the reaper"
The reaper is Russ Vougt. I had to watch it couple of times to see Scott Bessent as a baby . And I liked JD Vance playing the guitar

https://tinyurl.com/wtt58tdx

Please pray for the safety, wisdom, strength and perseverance and honesty for people in the Trump administration if you're not already doing and are a praying person .Thanks

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2025 07:54 AM (Nx5jP)

44 I didn't see any additional monetary compensation so, if that's not part of their calculation then their failure to plan appropriately is not your problem.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2025 07:51 AM (TUDc/)

I might have been able to get a raise if I'd asked for it. He certainly seemed open to any request I might have made. Since I have enough money to retire, no longer find my job particularly enjoyable, and find TPTB in the parent corporation tedious, I would probably have declined any monetary offer which he could have made.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

45 Transgenderism and the US Military are incompatible, kicked them all out and prevent them from enlisting.

If someone develops the mental disorder after enlistment, shit can them too.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2025 07:54 AM (TUDc/)

46 Comey, architect of the Russia Hoax, finally gets his reckoning (only when he's found dead in a prison shower, bleeding out from his anus - jjs)

I heard that the judge that will decide Comey's case owes Comey his career. Absolutely a conflict of interest which means that there will be no recusal.

Instead of getting details, "conservative" talk radio wasted an entire segment talking about some has been Joy Reid and what stupid sounds came out of her mouth (as if anyone cares).

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

47 Good morning again Horde. Thx JJ girthy report.
The National Lawyers Guild was basically founded as an alternative to the American Bar Association which was viewed conservative. The ABA is now leftist, and the the NLG is still communist. Edf them in particular

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 07:54 AM (A2I8b)

48 In an executive order dated earlier this week, Trump declared that the United States will regard any attack on Qatar’s territory, sovereignty or critical infrastructure “as a threat to the peace and security of the United States” itself.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:55 AM (nyryp)

49 Congrats. I’d imagine it’s great to be that appreciated… but even better to be retired!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 02, 2025 07:53 AM (lepZb)

Since I don't ACTUALLY retire for another 71 days I can only hope.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

50 More Hegseth you might have missed:

Hegseth had announced last week in a video on social media that Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor.

the usual suspects are horrified

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Don't shut me down, bro at October 02, 2025 07:55 AM (AOsQT)

51 highly transmissible COVID-19 strain is fueling a wave of infections across the US. The XFG variant, informally known as “Stratus,” has been driving up case numbers. Stratus’ ability to evade immune system defenses has propelled it past NB.1.8.1 (aka “Nimbus” as the dominant Covid strain.

Thank You, Anthony Fucme
Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:52 AM (nyryp)

Shall I assume that we'll be informed that the unvaccinated will be dropping like flies any second now?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 07:56 AM (ExV1e)

52 “This” in a headline = clickbait

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2025 07:58 AM (EL2O4)

53 Supervisors move to dismantle the infamous Yee Haw commune tucked in the hills east of TrinidadAfter 25 years of warnings, fines and broken promises, Humboldt County supervisors finally voted last week to crack down on the infamous Yee Haw commune. Their unanimous decision set in motion plans to clear the 10-acre property of unpermitted structures and hazards, a move that would displace the approximate 10 residents who currently call it home and strip longtime owner Charles Garth of control. Officials say the site is riddled with environmental dangers and dotted with ramshackle dwellings that fail to meet even the most basic safety standards.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:58 AM (nyryp)

54 @44

>>I would probably have declined any monetary offer which he could have made.

Good, when I decide to hang em up, that is that.

I am in a position where I could retire right now, but I'm going to hang on till I'm 65, which is three years away.

Then I am done done.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2025 07:58 AM (TUDc/)

55 It's going to take a lot more than four years of Trump to deal with all the crooked shit that's been building for who knows how long.

Eight years of Vance will help, assuming he is as legit as he seems.

But the crooks aren't going to surrender any more than Hamas will.

Posted by: davidt at October 02, 2025 07:58 AM (i0F8b)

56 This week, federal officials made an astounding announcement: Nearly half of all immigrants in greater Minneapolis were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud

So?

Doesn't mean anything except that the system is highly corrupt and hopelessly broken.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:00 AM (a4flb)

57 Oh. look at the date. time for another dose of Ivermectin.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 02, 2025 08:00 AM (ZmEVT)

58 ‘There is no place for Jews in Britain anymore. It's over': Jewish security teams and police are called in to protect synagogues across the UK after suspected terror attack

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:00 AM (nyryp)

59 Just saw a clip of Mamdani on The Spew. He says he's not a communist he's a Democratic Socialist who believes in " dignity for all people" . The trained seals in the audience clapped. He's a communist and a jihadist , the New Shimmer of mass murderers.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 08:00 AM (A2I8b)

60 23 > I can think of many better targets than Portland. Try any blue city in a red state. Use the resources to root out the Left in our America. Leave the other America to its devices. Let them have it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

They are already going to Memphis as well...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 02, 2025 08:01 AM (tOcjL)

61 Good, when I decide to hang em up, that is that.

That was my position. I didn't arrive at the decision to retire precipitously and, therefore, would not have reversed course easily.

While I am not 65, which will make health insurance annoyingly expensive, I'm ready to be done.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

62 Officials say the site is riddled with environmental dangers and dotted with ramshackle dwellings that fail to meet even the most basic safety standards.

Sounds like my neighborhood.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:01 AM (a4flb)

63 Keir Starmer's attacks on Nigel Farage backfire: Labour plunges in polls as PM ramps up his war of words with Reform

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:01 AM (nyryp)

64 highly transmissible COVID-19 strain is fueling a wave of infections across the US. The XFG variant, informally known as “Stratus,” has been driving up case numbers. Stratus’ ability to evade immune system defenses has propelled it past NB.1.8.1 (aka “Nimbus” as the dominant Covid strain.

1) Hair…check.
2) Lighter….check.
3) Useless Face Diaper…check
4) Front End Loader For Stacking Bodies…check.
5) Floor Arrows Painted…check.
6) Lock Down The Old And The Chirruns…check.

Posted by: Fear and Panic Now! at October 02, 2025 08:02 AM (UsFP+)

65 Keir Starmer's attacks on Nigel Farage backfire: Labour plunges in polls as PM ramps up his war of words with Reform
Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:01 AM (nyryp)

Sargon of Akkad had a good video on the matter.

https://youtu.be/LNMtBIDOozg

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

66 Posted by: Fear and Panic Now! at October 02, 2025 08:02 AM (UsFP+)

I reckon that explains why I saw so many people driving alone in cars yesterday wearing masks. In one case, two masks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:05 AM (ExV1e)

67 It’s unclear whether Democrats managed to self-destruct on their own or were manipulated into it. The party of Really Big Government handed the administration a blank check for wholesale layoffs. Maybe Democrats believe a shutdown will encourage voters to rise up and demand restoring positions. Maybe they’re just insane. Nobody will notice or care if hundreds of thousands of surplus federal workers are fired, except the workers.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:05 AM (nyryp)

68 In an executive order dated earlier this week, Trump declared that the United States will regard any attack on Qatar’s territory, sovereignty or critical infrastructure “as a threat to the peace and security of the United States” itself.

Which is an empty gesture considering that all kinds of "threats to the peace and security of the United States" has been responded to by silence, apathy and inaction.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

69 Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs that the US dropped on Iranian nuclear facilities in June as part of the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:07 AM (nyryp)

70 "Even the inept RNC can't screw up these horrendous self-owns by the Democrats"

INSERT AI image of the RNC asking you to hold their beer.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 02, 2025 08:08 AM (r5nFF)

71 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2025 08:08 AM (nbziR)

72 “ “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 17:20-21

Posted by: Marcus T at October 02, 2025 08:08 AM (za++S)

73 > It’s unclear whether Democrats managed to self-destruct on their own or were manipulated into it.
-----

they're not finished yet
like an undead serial killer, they keep coming back
remember Wolfe's Maxim

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Don't shut me down, bro at October 02, 2025 08:09 AM (AOsQT)

74 Nobody will notice or care if hundreds of thousands of surplus federal workers are fired, except the workers.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:05 AM (nyryp)

VA will...and Winsome had been doing better than expected in early voting here...

It's why the VA Senators have not caved...I assume they (and MD) will wait for VA to go fully blue. NoVA early voting wave starts Oct 23 (runs til Nov 1) - this is when they go from 3 open sites to 16 open sites, so this may last that long if Winsome stays strong over the next few weeks of early voting...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 02, 2025 08:09 AM (tOcjL)

75 "Donald Trump is once again talking about the submarines he moved ‘over to the coast of Russia," this time noting that they are 'totally' undetectable," he wrote on social media.

That's when he joked: "It's hard to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - suggesting the notion that American nuclear subs are patrolling waters off Russia is a ruse.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:09 AM (nyryp)

76 Here's something to ponder with respect to Schumer and the shutdown...

What if he believes that he's gone as soon as AOC primaries him and that there's nothing he can do to fix that. What if he's decided to fuck over the party on his way out the door?

Once he's out of office there's literally nothing left for him. The universe ends once he's gone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

77 Today Is Holy Guardian Angels Day. 👼🏼

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

78 Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs... that will become a $500 million contract after years of delays and overruns because Boeing is gawdam shit show.

And the bombs will fall apart in mid-air.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 02, 2025 08:10 AM (r5nFF)

79 A gal tried to get me to see Dudes in Dresses open for the Indigo Girls back in '89.

I changed names, moved cities, and grew a beard instead.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 02, 2025 08:11 AM (LxER7)

80 I believe Schumer thought that once more the media would carry the day for the cause. They're trying mightily, but now the sweat and strain are showing, and the effort, the intention, their true alliance, are more exposed to more people than ever before.

He appears cornered. Will Trump offer him a token, a fig leaf, to reopen the government?

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2025 08:11 AM (UseAb)

81 German prosecutors announced in a statement Wednesday that authorities have apprehended three suspected Hamas members who were allegedly procuring weapons "for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions."

The trio has been charged with membership in a foreign terrorist organization and preparing an act of violence endangering the state, in a somewhat rare case, given Hamas does not tend to operate transnationally - especially in moments of direct, intensified war with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:11 AM (nyryp)

82 Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs that the US dropped on Iranian nuclear facilities in June as part of the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 08:07 AM (nyryp)

Well, if any company has shown its competence at building things to fall out of the sky, it's Boeing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

83 76 Here's something to ponder with respect to Schumer and the shutdown...

What if he believes that he's gone as soon as AOC primaries him and that there's nothing he can do to fix that. What if he's decided to fuck over the party on his way out the door?

Once he's out of office there's literally nothing left for him. The universe ends once he's gone.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

Dems always get a golden parachute when they leave...see Kamala and her $30M (and they hated her)...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 02, 2025 08:11 AM (tOcjL)

84 The party of Really Big Government handed the administration a blank check for wholesale layoffs.

Right, and we know the GOP will go straight to their favorite play: Grabbing Defeat From The Jaws of Victory

Maybe Democrats believe a shutdown will encourage voters to rise up and demand restoring positions.

It clears the deck of previous conduits of fraud, graft and money laundering. The bribes and payoffs will be huge as new rent-seekers come in and are vying for position at a renewed trough.

Maybe they’re just insane.

Evil too, Noetic effects of the Fall.

Nobody will notice or care if hundreds of thousands of surplus federal workers are fired, except the workers.

Except the governments of Virginia and Maryland who are terrified at the prospect of losing billions in income tax revenue and new unemployment claims.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:12 AM (a4flb)

85 80 I believe Schumer thought that once more the media would carry the day for the cause. They're trying mightily, but now the sweat and strain are showing, and the effort, the intention, their true alliance, are more exposed to more people than ever before.

He appears cornered. Will Trump offer him a token, a fig leaf, to reopen the government?

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2025 08:11 AM (UseAb)

What can he offer? It's already a clean CR.

Best Trump can do is say we'll do 9 weeks and not 7...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 02, 2025 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

86 What if he believes that he's gone as soon as AOC primaries him and that there's nothing he can do to fix that. What if he's decided to fuck over the party on his way out the door?

If true, and this is a suicide mission, why would all but a few Democrats join in? Or is it a "sin" against Satan and Man to vote differently from Schumer?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

87 > Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs that the US dropped on Iranian nuclear facilities in June as part of the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
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Boeing designed and manufactured the MOP's used. The USAF had an inventory of them numbered at around 24.

They used 18? in the Iranian attack.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 08:14 AM (Q4IgG)

88 " a move that would displace the approximate 10 residents who currently call it home and strip longtime owner Charles Garth of control. "

LORD Garth!

Posted by: Lord Garth at October 02, 2025 08:14 AM (uH1zk)

89 It's also...
Bring Your Bible To School Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

90 Hey, we netted positive congressional seats after the 2013 and 2018 shutdowns: Shut.It.Down. Cut in half. It is not affecting our lives out here...

Further proof 2020 was stolen.

Posted by: Danimal28 at October 02, 2025 08:15 AM (1E4GV)

91 What can he offer? It's already a clean CR.

Best Trump can do is say we'll do 9 weeks and not 7...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 02, 2025 08:12 AM (tOcjL)

Have the House amend the CR to say that Schumer must wear a clown costume in the Senate until all the actual appropriation bills are signed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

92 Don Donald's fig leaf. My offer is nothing.

>>@bennyjohnson

>>BREAKING: President Trump is meeting with OMB Director Russ Vought to discuss slashing Democrat-controlled agencies during the shutdown.

>>“I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can't believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT.”

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 08:15 AM (viF8m)

93 "Bring Your Bible To School Day.
Posted by: redridinghood "

The Lord's Armor

Posted by: Aunt Ester at October 02, 2025 08:16 AM (uH1zk)

94 I think Schumer and Pelosi are going to be purged by the AOC wing of the DNC

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Don't shut me down, bro at October 02, 2025 08:16 AM (AOsQT)

95 If true, and this is a suicide mission, why would all but a few Democrats join in? Or is it a "sin" against Satan and Man to vote differently from Schumer?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

Lower level Congress-beings are followers. They'll do what they're told.

And it's not like Dem officials are particularly bright. He doesn't need to tell them what he's doing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

96 >What if he believes that he's gone as soon as AOC primaries him and that there's nothing he can do to fix that. What if he's decided to fuck over the party on his way out the door?

What if this is the crooks' way of getting rid of Schumer?

Posted by: davidt at October 02, 2025 08:18 AM (i0F8b)

97 Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs...

What is this stupid fascination with fighting last century's wars?

Israel showed us the way with pagers. Ukraine is showing the way with drones. China is showing us the way by controlling our entire Congress. India is showing us the way by controlling all of the code of our nation's infrastructure (banking, insurance, transportation, etc.)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:18 AM (a4flb)

98 >>>BREAKING: President Trump is meeting with OMB Director Russ Vought to discuss slashing Democrat-controlled agencies during the shutdown.

to Democrats:
"I'm going to take all these wasteful government programs, and I am going to kill them in front of you."

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Don't shut me down, bro at October 02, 2025 08:19 AM (AOsQT)

99 They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT.”
Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 08:15 AM (viF8m)

No “Thank you for your attention to this matter”??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 02, 2025 08:20 AM (FNvF+)

100 A healthy and blessed Yom Kippur to the Jewish members of the Horde.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 08:20 AM (A2I8b)

101 Senator Bernie Moreno:

This Friday, I’ll introduce legislation that automatically forfeits the daily pay of all Members of Congress for the days the government is shut down. Not held, not delayed, not suspended, forfeited.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

102 @92 the fact that Trump mentioned Project 2025 will send the left through the roof. Cool

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 08:22 AM (A2I8b)

103 Call me naive but I find it hard to believe that even in insane NY that AOC could actually beat Schumer in a primary. Her little nutty district but the entire state? No

Yeah I realize the commie is lined up to beat Cuomo in NYC…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 02, 2025 08:22 AM (FNvF+)

104 Senator Bernie Moreno must have some unpaid bills stacking up and needs his cut, like... now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

105 The French are racist!

Close to Nine in Ten French Back Jailing Migrants with Deportation Orders

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at October 02, 2025 08:23 AM (L/fGl)

106 Today is a good day to dye.

Posted by: Ritt at October 02, 2025 08:23 AM (LFUjR)

107
Hey. Yo.

Couldn't get back to sleep after Diana woke me and asked to be let out (or on the bed, who knows?). Finally dozed off and slept until 6:30, which is horrifying.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2025 08:25 AM (tgvbd)

108 What if this is the crooks' way of getting rid of Schumer?
Posted by: davidt at October 02, 2025 08:18 AM (i0F8b)

And they fuck over the rest of the party to remove Schumer?

IIRC, the age group the Dems do best with at the moment is seniors. The seniors most likely to support the Dems are, probably, also the seniors most likely to be too afraid of actually going to the doctor. The Dems voted down an option to give that specific group a benefit in favor of a stronger shutdown.

Now, the media is tell those people that it's all Trump's fault and maybe that'll work but the fact that Trump has every government agency pinning the blame on the Democrats, and you have Thumbs Upchuck, it could be that they'll lose ground with that demographic as well.

It's almost as if the Dems had hired every GOP consulting firm they could find.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

109 I don't think Schumer's situation is all that complicated. The Democrat Party started drifting far left once the Obama faction took down the Clinton faction. The Squad and fellow travelers started replacing what for Democrats could be considered moderate with communists. They have all the energy on the left.

Nancy gave way to Hakeem and kept her seat but there is nowhere for Chuck to go but out with AOC nipping at his ass. He had no choice but to try an appease the radicals despite this move having almost no chance of working.

Trump's pretty good at boxing in his opponents.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 08:26 AM (viF8m)

110 Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 08:26 AM (viF8m)

This is no time for reasoned political analysis! We're wildly speculating here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

111 The Antifa thugs haven't had any sort of push-back. At all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Well, whatever you think of them, The Proud Boys did a little pushing back until they got the weaponized DoJ sicced on them.

But governmental push-back, point stands.

Posted by: Oedipus at October 02, 2025 08:28 AM (Z6vKV)

112 "Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” Queens Assemblyman and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D-NY) said he is having individual “conversations” with NYPD officers when asked if he plans to apologize past comments accusing the department of being racist."

Individual?? lol.

There are 33,000 police officers in NYC.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

113 Trump's pretty good at boxing in his opponents.

The problem is that most if not all of the GOP considers themselves to be passive-aggressive opponents of Trump.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

114 @103 resident of the Mid Hudson valley here. Nobody really likes Schumer , he was the next Dem in line. My county has been overrun by leftist from NYC . Add to that the upstate leftist cities of Albany, Rochester Syracuse, Binghamton and Buffalo and AOC has a shot. There are still a lot of more conservative Dems but they are dying out or moving in retirement to the South. Sorry South

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 08:29 AM (A2I8b)

115 Let them have it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Good and hard. Morning all. Thanks J.J.

Posted by: QED Texan at October 02, 2025 08:30 AM (fveCG)

116 Senator Bernie Moreno must have some unpaid bills stacking up and needs his cut, like... now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)
*******
I really like Bernie. I think this is a great plan. Let's see who votes for it. We had an

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

117 >>highly transmissible COVID-19 strain is fueling a wave of infections across the US. The XFG variant, informally known as “Stratus,” has been driving up case numbers. Stratus’ ability to evade immune system defenses has propelled it past NB.1.8.1 (aka “Nimbus” as the dominant Covid strain.

Thank You, Anthony Fucme
Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 07:52 AM (nyryp)

Meh. I died twice during the COVID Winter of Sickness and Death.

Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2025 08:31 AM (5rh/l)

118 I believe Schumer thought that once more the media would carry the day for the cause. They're trying mightily, but now the sweat and strain are showing, and the effort, the intention, their true alliance, are more exposed to more people than ever before.

He appears cornered. Will Trump offer him a token, a fig leaf, to reopen the government?

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2025 08:11 AM (UseAb)

I'd love to see a clip of DJT telling Chucky - "As the great Judge Smails once said, you'll get nothing and like it!"

Posted by: Doof at October 02, 2025 08:31 AM (wkXwO)

119 I’m just not prepared for the world to come to an end… and that will definitely happen on Saturday if Vanderbilt manages to defeat Alabama for the 2nd year in a row. Once an accident okay… but two years in a row is world-ending…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 02, 2025 08:32 AM (lepZb)

120 Today Is Holy Guardian Angels Day. 👼🏼
Posted by: redridinghood

I bought mine candy and flowers.

Lord knows, it's a thankless job.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2025 08:32 AM (nbziR)

121 The Trump Mariachi Band troll of Hakeem Jefferies is the best thing on the internet

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2025 08:33 AM (Dv3i1)

122 BREAKING: President Trump is meeting with OMB Director Russ Vought to discuss slashing Democrat-controlled agencies during the shutdown.

While I appreciate the effort to shut down Democrat controlled agencies (which is a cute way to say ALL agencies) the optics are just handing the Demonic Party enough to build a tall building of lies upon.

Can Trump discard every single one of the unauthorized programs? Its legal, its necessary, and will force this absurdly stupid, corrupt and lazy Congress to do their jobs rather than mud wrestle over the petty.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:34 AM (a4flb)

123 I'll say this about the Democrats; they certainly can replace and shift their members around to suit whatever agenda's hot. Pretty agile for such a large, and mostly insane party.

Unlike the sclerotic GOP.

It'll take us a half century to rid ourselves of the dead wood there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 08:35 AM (Q4IgG)

124 Today is a good day to dye.
Posted by: Ritt

ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2025 08:35 AM (nbziR)

125 Me sad Jane gone. She nice lady.

Posted by: Bingo The Chimp at October 02, 2025 08:37 AM (oftw2)

126 Yankees - Red Sox should be good tonight. Two rookies starting , Schlitter v Early.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 08:37 AM (A2I8b)

127 The fact is that the Left is only capable of coercion, calumny and violence. The political theatrics are degenerating, the ability to maneuver within a space of traditional, acceptable comportment shrinking almost daily.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2025 08:37 AM (UseAb)

128 The Trump Mariachi Band troll of Hakeem Jefferies is the best thing on the internet

Its fascinating that the Left can't meme. They can't even understand genuine humor and mockery.

Their idea of a joke involves wishing their opponents prison rape and death.

We are not the same.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 08:37 AM (a4flb)

129 HAAVAAD

All students are required to receive an annual flu vaccination.

For academic year 2025-2026, flu vaccines need to be obtained on or after 8/1/2025 to be compliant for the upcoming year. Noncompliance with the flu requirement will not impact your ability to register for classes for summer or fall 2025, but would impact your ability to enroll for spring 2026 courses.

Maybe 1 out of 10k 18 to 25 YOs need the flu vax.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

130 120 Today Is Holy Guardian Angels Day. 👼🏼
Posted by: redridinghood

Send Curtis Sliwa some money.

Posted by: Red Beret On #7 Train at October 02, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

131 119 I’m just not prepared for the world to come to an end… and that will definitely happen on Saturday if Vanderbilt manages to defeat Alabama for the 2nd year in a row. Once an accident okay… but two years in a row is world-ending…
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This would be a sure sign of the end times.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 02, 2025 08:39 AM (AdHga)

132 Has anybody heard where we stand with the Supreme Court weighing the legality of Trump's tariffs?

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2025 08:39 AM (UseAb)

133 125 Me sad Jane gone. She nice lady.
Posted by: Bingo The Chimp at October 02, 2025 08:37 AM (oftw2)

peace sign hookem horns wax on wax off jerk off motion indian sign (feather not dot) wipe tear

Posted by: Koko at October 02, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

134 >>Nancy gave way to Hakeem and kept her seat but there is nowhere for Chuck to go but out with AOC nipping at his ass. He had no choice but to try an appease the radicals despite this move having almost no chance of working.

Trump's pretty good at boxing in his opponents.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 08:26 AM (viF8m)

Nancy kept her House seat but was made Speaker Emerita, keeping a lot of luxury perks I'll bet. Schumer as you wrote has nowhere to go but out. A successor will want nothing to do with Schumer if Chuckles hangs around as a Senator. Neither will ranking Democrats on committees. Kevin McCarthy didn't hang-around after he was deposed in the House.

Posted by: Gref at October 02, 2025 08:40 AM (5rh/l)

135 Ya know, if the alternative to being a Nazi is allying myself with these creatures masquerading as humans, then I'll start Mein Kampfing my way through life.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 02, 2025 08:40 AM (l3pKY)

136 Nobody will notice or care if hundreds of thousands of surplus federal workers are fired, except the workers.
Posted by: SMOD

Make Northern Virginia real estate prices reasonable again!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2025 08:41 AM (Dv3i1)

137 Just saw a clip on X of Hakeem Jeffries on CNN. Jake Tapper of all people read him the part of the Dems' bill giving free healthcare to illegals. Temu Obama cannot catch a break.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2025 08:42 AM (ciXcx)

138 Make Northern Virginia real estate prices reasonable again!
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The prices are reasonable. The houses didn't print too much money. Retard Joe did that.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 02, 2025 08:43 AM (AdHga)

139
Maybe 1 out of 10k 18 to 25 YOs need the flu vax.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 08:37 AM (gbOdA)

Stupid. It's one thing if you're an old crock like me but very few young adults are at risk for dying of influenza.

It's a power trip from the university feeding on the neuroses of our youthful strivers.

I saw the same kind of ulterior motive during COVID, with teachers blubbering (via Zoom) that the Black Death would wipe out their little charges. Whereas there was no one less likely to die from it than children. The teachers just didn't want to go back to class.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2025 08:43 AM (tgvbd)

140 The defendants, which include nursing school owners and employees, are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Their conduct involved multiple for-profit nursing schools in Florida, all of which have since closed. At one time, these schools were authorized to issue diplomas and transcripts to individuals pursuing RN and LPN/VN licensure. In total, the fraudulent schemes generated approximately 7,300 fake diplomas.

ho lee fook

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

141 126 Yankees - Red Sox should be good tonight. Two rookies starting , Schlitter v Early.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Does Schlitter throw a good schlider?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

142 Its fascinating that the Left can't meme. They can't even understand genuine humor and mockery.

Their memes keep backfiring too. They posted one where Trump was depicted as an adorable kitten. Like, who makes a meme where adorable kittens are the bad guy?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2025 08:45 AM (ciXcx)

143 Schlitter v Early?
I don't know - third base!

Posted by: Lou Abbott at October 02, 2025 08:46 AM (XQo4F)

144 Its fascinating that the Left can't meme. They can't even understand genuine humor and mockery

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Those are human traits. The Left has never understood humanity..

Posted by: Josephistan at October 02, 2025 08:48 AM (FLx59)

145 - From an article in Zion's Fire, a magazine put out every 2 months by Zion's Hope.

Iran in Crisis
Unrelenting drought conditions in Iran have now become so critical that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned the public that excessive water consumption could push the capital into crisis. "In Tehran, if we cannot manage and people do not cooperate in controlling consumption, there won't be any water in dams by September or October."

Posted by: TeeJ at October 02, 2025 08:48 AM (cMU4o)

146 New York is being overrun by illegal aliens. As other states crack down and strip any public benefits, New York has doubled down on handouts for non citizens. They are even incentivizing the schools to take illegal immigrants by giving them more funding for each on they take. New York also still has illegal immigrants on their healthcare system, which is being subsidized by the federal government. The do it by hiding the citizenship status of the enrollees, something that will end once they lose the lawsuit that’s currently stopping HHS from getting that information. Once that shoe drops, it’s going to be a downward spiral for New York. They are already in fiscal trouble and the federal government keeps stripping their boondoggles one at a time. It’s going to be something to see- from a distance if you can.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 02, 2025 08:48 AM (7PBzX)

147 Does Schlitter throw a good schlider?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2025 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

Probably has a good schpilitter.

Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2025 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)

148
Trying to fix some solecisms in one of my playlists. I use Amazon Music for streaming, which is pretty good actually.

But just try searching on something fairly commonplace, in my case, "Ritorna vincitor" from Aida. The first things that come up are endlessly repackaged old mono recordings and squally Eastern European sopranos. It takes a lot of scrolling to get down to something reliable.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2025 08:49 AM (tgvbd)

149 Even the inept RNC can't screw up these horrendous self-owns by the Democrats

WLNSSEODQY.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at October 02, 2025 08:51 AM (0sNs1)

150 So do a little research:
1. Cares Act in 21 gave out billions for people to get Obamacare.
2. Obamacare does not requires legal immigration documentation.
3. Inflation Reduction Act in 22 added 2 more years (thru fiscal 25 or 2 days ago).
4. In total added about 9 to 10 million to Obamacare.
5. Around 28 to 35% of illegals have some type of health care coverage.
6. Dems shut down the Big Govt to extend this coverage.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

151 BungleCare drove up health insurance costs for all employed Americans, so, in that sense, Roberts was right; it is a tax.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 08:53 AM (x2qWz)

152 151 BungleCare drove up health insurance costs for all employed Americans, so, in that sense, Roberts was right; it is a tax.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 08:53 AM (x2qWz)

Thru 2019 (last year before the COVID bullshit) cost up 80%. With the subsidies since 21 up another 30%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

153 It is amazing that NYC politicians dominate the DC Democrats. Why would anyone want to replicate the lack of success they've had governing?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 08:54 AM (x2qWz)

154 Hadrian the Seventh at October 02, 2025 08:49 AM (tgvbd)

I've never tried Amazon Music. Streaming music is a hit or miss for me. Especially, the sound quality.

Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2025 08:56 AM (Oy/m2)

155 Thru 2019 (last year before the COVID bullshit) cost up 80%. With the subsidies since 21 up another 30%.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 08:54 AM (gbOdA)
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the big winners being health insurance companies and claims processors.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 08:56 AM (x2qWz)

156 If they elect Mamdani Mayor, the exodus from NYC is going to make the Trail of Tears look like a walk in the park.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 02, 2025 08:56 AM (7PBzX)

157 But just try searching on something fairly commonplace, in my case, "Ritorna vincitor" from Aida. The first things that come up are endlessly repackaged old mono recordings and squally Eastern European sopranos. It takes a lot of scrolling to get down to something reliable.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The FWP post is 2PM Eastern Time on Sunday.

Posted by: Concerned Viewer at October 02, 2025 08:58 AM (oftw2)

158 Mornin', All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at October 02, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

159 There are 33,000 police officers in NYC.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

One of them just got suspended for wearing his tactical gear including his weapons and pretending to be part of Trump’s security team at the Ryder Cup. He was only caught because he brought attention to himself when he dropped his magazine.

Oh and he had been on sick leave from the NYPD. Sounds like a real scammer. Internal Affairs should investigate his past .

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 02, 2025 09:00 AM (EYmYM)

160 Now that FedGov is officially closed down, I'm hoping Karoline Leavitt gives hourly updates, dressing down since the office is sort-of-closed. Is that wrong of me?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:01 AM (x2qWz)

161 my only concern, is the post office open? I don't want to waste a trip there if not.

Posted by: LASue at October 02, 2025 09:03 AM (lCppi)

162 Low volume of comments this AM. Effects of govt. shutdown?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 02, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

163 This is just sad-
Wtf is wrong with people?
Kalshi
@Kalshi
BREAKING: There's a 72% chance Democrats sweep and win all 4 key elections in November.

https://tinyurl.com/ycxwtcf6

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

164 [One of them just got suspended for wearing his tactical gear including his weapons and pretending to be part of Trump’s security team at the Ryder Cup.

Works all the time in the movies...

He was only caught because he brought attention to himself when he dropped his magazine.

There's the problem. Should have demonstrated mad martial art skilz instead.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 02, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)

165 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at October 02, 2025 09:04 AM (ZpEP9)

166 Libs of TikTok has unearthed myriad shows on Netflix that are clearly aimed at children and that advance the transgender agenda.
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Didn't Elon just call for a boycott of Netflix? Digging down, I bet there is some executive (or group) in the C Suite at Netflix with some crazy perversion.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:05 AM (x2qWz)

167 my only concern, is the post office open? I don't want to waste a trip there if not.
Posted by: LASue at October 02, 2025 09:03 AM (lCppi)
*****
They will all be open during the shutdown

Posted by: redridinghood at October 02, 2025 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

168 It is amazing that NYC politicians dominate the DC Democrats. Why would anyone want to replicate the lack of success they've had governing?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 08:54 AM (x2qWz)

I can remember when the MSM and Lefty pundits did a full court press and declared Cuomo the standard bearer on how to handle the COVID crisis. That’s like declaring Hamas being the example for a peace loving organization.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 02, 2025 09:05 AM (EYmYM)

169 161 my only concern, is the post office open? I don't want to waste a trip there if not.
Posted by: LASue at October 02, 2025 09:03 AM (lCppi)

USPS is its own animal
even though it needs about $15 B every 3 or 4 years

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

170 New York is being overrun by illegal aliens. As other states crack down and strip any public benefits, New York has doubled down on handouts for non citizens. They are even incentivizing the schools to take illegal immigrants by giving them more funding for each on they take. New York also still has illegal immigrants on their healthcare system, which is being subsidized by the federal government. The do it by hiding the citizenship status of the enrollees, something that will end once they lose the lawsuit that’s currently stopping HHS from getting that information. Once that shoe drops, it’s going to be a downward spiral for New York. They are already in fiscal trouble and the federal government keeps stripping their boondoggles one at a time. It’s going to be something to see- from a distance if you can.
Posted by: Vengeance at October 02, 2025 08:48 AM (7PBzX)

On the bright side (for some), this is bound to lower housing costs in the city.

Posted by: LASue at October 02, 2025 09:06 AM (lCppi)

171 Schumer will not be minority leader next fall. If he lasts that long

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 02, 2025 09:06 AM (FxH7T)

172 Two dead in UK Muslim attack. Stabbing people on Yom Kippur.

Posted by: Par For Course at October 02, 2025 09:06 AM (oftw2)

173 Libs of TikTok has unearthed myriad shows on Netflix that are clearly aimed at children and that advance the transgender agenda.
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Didn't Elon just call for a boycott of Netflix? Digging down, I bet there is some executive (or group) in the C Suite at Netflix with some crazy perversion.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:05 AM (x2qWz

They did but I believe that show was last promoted on Netflix in 2022. Still needs to be destroyed.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 02, 2025 09:07 AM (EYmYM)

174 my only concern, is the post office open? I don't want to waste a trip there if not.

Neither rain, nor sleet, rain, snow or the dead of night or a government grifting union job shall keep me from my appointed vacation and naps.

Posted by: USPS Layabout at October 02, 2025 09:07 AM (UsFP+)

175 I still would prefer to see Cuomo lose. I want his career dead forever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 02, 2025 09:07 AM (WZaJc)

176 Already seeing social media commentary that "Trump shutting down the government" caused the two Endeavor Air planes to collide on the ground at LGA.

Sure, Trump's fault. It couldn't possibly be DEI hires in the cockpit being woefully under-qualified when they were hired.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 02, 2025 09:07 AM (Y1sOo)

177 Didn't Elon just call for a boycott of Netflix? Digging down, I bet there is some executive (or group) in the C Suite at Netflix with some crazy perversion.
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Please recall, it was Netflix that awarded a retiring President $500M to develop scripts and advise on films cuz he's such a genius. Netflix stock did not see any weakness in their share price following this gift of stockholder equity. My conclusion was Netflix laundered Obama's 8 years of grift for a price.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 02, 2025 09:08 AM (AdHga)

178 It's hard for me to rejoice about the shutdown since it affects family members who are near and dear to me.

However, I'm happy to see the Democrats in trouble because they deserve it. I'm happy to see government downsized for real and pray it actually happens.

The family members affected are liberal, brainwashed and delusional about many things. I'm praying that all this helps them see the truth.

I sure do hope they see the photo of Shumer being all gleeful and happy at the harm he's bringing on their family and understand that he doesn't care about them.

Posted by: NancyB at October 02, 2025 09:08 AM (BV6iw)

179 USPS is its own animal
even though it needs about $15 B every 3 or 4 years
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

$15B to deliver mail two weeks after you send it.

Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)

180 Good morning! Day two and the sun still managed to appear. Maybe "shutdown" should be the normal state of affairs.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at October 02, 2025 09:09 AM (URhKg)

181 Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is now just three points behind former Democrat Rep. Abigail Spanberger in the race to become Virginia’s next governor, according to a new survey. The A2 Insights poll, conducted September 26–28, shows Spanberger with 47.7 percent support and Earle-Sears with 44.6 percent, placing the contest within the poll’s margin of error.
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and yet, some internet idiot claims Spanberger is 94% likely to win.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:09 AM (x2qWz)

182 Well finally the gop has actually shut down the government. They all must be high. Especially trying to pin the blame on us!

Eventually, we have to provide the votes. I just think sooner rather than later. A government shut down hurts the people we're trying to protect, federal employees. We must always keep in mind that Republicans love a shut down.

Your answer is to just capitulate? Then the republicans would continue to push for more. It is time to make a stand and the polls are showing that the majority are support dems on this extremely important issue.

The end game is not to give up Democratic votes for nothing, when the alternative is a continuation of horrible policies. They need to concede what we want: leave healthcare costs alone and release the Epstein files.

much as I respect Schumer and Jeffries, we're not winning the propaganda battle, and whatever they're trying to do isn't sticking. The only thing left to do is to cut some Dems loose, let them pass a CR, and when the ACA credits run out, and healthcare prices spike as they're expected to, beat the Republicans over the head with it for the next 12 months.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 02, 2025 09:10 AM (JCZqz)

183 and yet, some internet idiot claims Spanberger is 94% likely to win.
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Odd, since Jr High girls don't get a vote.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 02, 2025 09:11 AM (AdHga)

184 Didn't Elon just call for a boycott of Netflix? Digging down, I bet there is some executive (or group) in the C Suite at Netflix with some crazy perversion.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:05 AM (x2qWz

There's a 100 percent certainty you're right -- and the same at every 'entertainment' company in LA.

Posted by: LASue at October 02, 2025 09:12 AM (lCppi)

185 BREAKING: There's a 72% chance Democrats sweep and win all 4 key elections in November“

Looked up his site - he also says there’s a 53% chance Dems win the presidency in 2028, and that’s idiotic.
He’s just another shitposter with a gimmick to suck in money from leftists desperate for happy talk.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 02, 2025 09:12 AM (WZaJc)

186 Satan is the ultimate liar so it makes sense that his demons are also apt at lying, obfuscating, suppressing and misinforming.

It’s what the Left does as easily as breathing. The ends justify the means.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 02, 2025 09:12 AM (EYmYM)

187 175 I still would prefer to see Cuomo lose. I want his career dead forever.

well if he loses to that dilettante, yeah

even his narcissistic ass would have to stay under the rock from then on

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 02, 2025 09:13 AM (FHttA)

188 Portland is also transgender central. And, it would be pretty foolish to give the West Coast to the Left. If you won't fight them there, you won't fight

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 02, 2025 09:14 AM (kUxzU)

189 I'm not sure I'm on board with sending troops to crime ridden blue shitholes to save them from themselves and Antifa. DC was different as that is the nations capitol and should be under excessive control anyway, Trump has his hands full , especially with deporting millions of illegals. Let the left stew in their own shit till they beg for help.

Posted by: Ripley at October 02, 2025 09:14 AM (PTDkx)

190 Silver at $48.29 per oz. That means a pre-1965 dime has $3.45 worth of Silver in it.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 02, 2025 09:16 AM (Da7Vv)

191 One of the most overwrought talking points about shutdowns is the unbearable pain it is causing federal workers. These are some of the most overpaid and over benefited people in the country. The average compensation of federal workers far outstrips their private sector peers with the additional perk of making them almost impossible to fire no matter how bad they are. And they almost universally work against our interests.

I've done startups for most of my career and I have gone years between paying myself with no guarantee I will ever get paid unless the company works. These people might be inconvenienced for a couple weeks at which time they will get all the money paid back.

My sympathy meter for federal employees broke long ago and I have no interest in fixing it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 09:16 AM (viF8m)

192 How long does the FedGov shutdown need to go on before any cuts, or changes to the various agencies, bureaus and departments are made "official?"

And by "official" does that mean permanent?

There's speculation that if this shutdown goes on long enough Trump and his administration might make some fairly significant changes. So, if true, I cannot envision the left allowing the shutdown to persist beyond this purported timeframe... if it exists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 09:16 AM (Q4IgG)

193 My far-fetched theory: the left is ok with Trump letting go 100,000 fed employees because a good number of them can be used to march in the streets as protestors as the face of push back, and others be used as the Antifa foot soldiers in the coming days.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 02, 2025 09:16 AM (iB4S4)

194 Good morning friends. I thought I'd hang out here for a while. Any coffee left?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2025 09:17 AM (DCWfW)

195 To be frank, Trump should have taken care of the rioting blue shit holes in his first term . The strategy of letting them destroy themselves and reveal who they are was never going to work.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 02, 2025 09:17 AM (EYmYM)

196 Cuomo destroyed the mortgage banking industry and brought on the housing crisis in his term as HUD secretary in the Clinton administration, with his "Community Reinvestment" rules, requiring lenders to underwrite loans to bad borrowers.

Then he went on to rape and pillage his staff as governor, and murder thousands of older people as a side gig.

And yet, my own guess NYC will be far worse off electing a neophyte with zero management experience and lots of ideological certainty. But who knows, pick your poison NYC voters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:17 AM (Zmdyh)

197 There's speculation that if this shutdown goes on long enough Trump and his administration might make some fairly significant changes. So, if true, I cannot envision the left allowing the shutdown to persist beyond this purported timeframe... if it exists.
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A great time to RIF several agencies.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 02, 2025 09:18 AM (AdHga)

198 ADL once did good work. I went to some of their dinners and fund-raisers. One of my mentors as a baby lawyer was active in ADL. But somewhere in the mid-2000s, it was captured by self-gassers who thought it was a great idea to abandon traditional friends and allies of Jews to play smell-the-ass with rancid leftwing commies and Jew-hating scum. I have no doubt that 90% of their membership supports “Free Palestine” dogshit.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 02, 2025 09:18 AM (+LTqD)

199 Remember how viruses work.

Deadly=low transmissibility
High transmissibility = less deadly

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 02, 2025 09:19 AM (kUxzU)

200 I had no idea how infested this site was with bots.

Ain't no way there's 200 comments when I know you all are dead from the Great Shutdown of '25.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 02, 2025 09:19 AM (vDfjn)

201 good morning grammie!

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 02, 2025 09:19 AM (FHttA)

202 Good luck to your Cubbies this afternoon grammie!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:19 AM (Zmdyh)

203 "One of the most overwrought talking points about shutdowns is the unbearable pain it is causing federal workers. These are some of the most overpaid and over benefited people in the country. The average compensation of federal workers far outstrips their private sector peers with the additional perk of making them almost impossible to fire no matter how bad they are."

That "public servants working for a pittance to serve their country" BS got old many years ago (started by Bill Clinton) yet still works on many, maybe most people.

Posted by: Ripley at October 02, 2025 09:20 AM (PTDkx)

204 Reid Hastings the founder an president of Netflix is a big supporter of the trans crap. He said his company is very welcoming and a safe place for trans people to work. Why would anyone be surprised the Netflix is pumping out pro trans propaganda especially for children

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 09:20 AM (A2I8b)

205 I'm not sure I'm on board with sending troops to crime ridden blue shitholes to save them from themselves and Antifa.

From what I'm seeing, Trump has so far threaded the needle on this pretty well. Chicago, Portland, etc can have high crime hellholes throughout the city, but they can't attack Federal facilities and officers engaging in immigration (primarily) enforcement operations. It doesn't appear they're patrolling, stopping random crimes in neighborhoods; they're defending Federal buildings, and arresting the Antifa assholes interfering with them, because the local cops won't.

The states and cities can choose to be lawless, to a degree, but Federal authority has to be maintained.

Posted by: Military Moron at October 02, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

206 {grammie}

Posted by: Delurking Just for a Minute to Hug Grammie at October 02, 2025 09:20 AM (A0sqA)

207 Good Morning grammie.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 09:20 AM (viF8m)

208 Let the left stew in their own shit till they beg for help.
Posted by: Ripley

The residents of the 4 block area around the ICE facility are sick of the mobs of cretins destroying that neighborhood. Portland Police are under strict orders not to respond to ANY complaint in the area. The shitheads need their heads cracked and the Feds are the only ones who can/will do it.

Posted by: Break Their Legs! at October 02, 2025 09:20 AM (oftw2)

209 I'm not sure I'm on board with sending troops to crime ridden blue shitholes to save them from themselves and Antifa. DC was different as that is the nations capitol and should be under excessive control anyway, Trump has his hands full , especially with deporting millions of illegals. Let the left stew in their own shit till they beg for help.
Posted by: Ripley at October 02, 2025 09:14 AM (PTDkx)

OTOH, never give the enemy a secure base from which they can launch operations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

210 Good luck to your Cubbies this afternoon grammie!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:19 AM (Zmdyh)

Thanks!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2025 09:21 AM (DCWfW)

211 Hey there JackStraw

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2025 09:21 AM (DCWfW)

212 Trump is really trolling now. He said he’s bringing in the author of Project 2025 to suggest government departments to eliminate.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2025 09:22 AM (QZThv)

213 The residents of the 4 block area around the ICE facility are sick of the mobs of cretins destroying that neighborhood. Portland Police are under strict orders not to respond to ANY complaint in the area. The shitheads need their heads cracked and the Feds are the only ones who can/will do it.
Posted by: Break Their Legs!

Let The Bodies Hit The Floor

Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2025 09:22 AM (nbziR)

214 Posted by: Delurking Just for a Minute to Hug Grammie at October 02, 2025 09:20 AM (A0sqA)

How did you get that hash?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2025 09:22 AM (DCWfW)

215 Note on Iran’s water crisis - Iran has always been a semi-arid region, and has depended on large irrigation and long distance water transport systems since Persian times. The Mullah’s. For 40 years, have put *no* effort into maintaining or upgrading these nationwide systems since they took power, and now they are all falling apart.
Iran is an area that has had many, many droughts over the last 2500 years. Ancient but advanced water control systems always helped them to weather these, but now those systems are decrepit and failing.
And that ‘s why Iran says it is all the fault of the News.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 02, 2025 09:22 AM (WZaJc)

216 All organizations become Leftist eventually. The Left are a cancer that spreads .

The Left are bold and will do anything to take the reigns of power . They will bully an organization’s leaders until they relent or quit.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 02, 2025 09:23 AM (EYmYM)

217 NEWBURGH, Maine — A woman in Newburgh said she ordered paper plates, rice and coffee from Amazon. When she opened the package, she said it looked like it had already been opened and retaped, so she expected those items to be damaged. Instead, she said she found all the items she ordered as well as hundreds of bundled, blank Maine state ballots for the November election. She said she called the Newburgh town office right away and handed the ballots over.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

218 One of the most overwrought talking points about shutdowns is the unbearable pain it is causing federal workers.

Without joining the argument over whether federal workers are overpaid or not... shutdowns happen. They've happened in the past, they'll happen in the future. While it no doubt sucks for anyone who was just hired, any long-term federal employee who is not prepared to withstand an extended shutdown has no one to blame but themselves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

219 Hegseth's brutal moral clarity is profoundly threatening. If not already high on hit list, he will be now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2025 09:24 AM (UseAb)

220 @MAstronomers
·
18h
🚨: James Webb ST found 42 pairs of giant planets, the size of Jupiter, floating freely in the Orion Nebula── Something that baffles science

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Don't shut me down, bro at October 02, 2025 09:24 AM (AOsQT)

221 - {{{ grammie }}} !!

Thought of you yesterday watching Cubs highlights.
Hoping they win it all, just for you.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 02, 2025 09:24 AM (cMU4o)

222 You finally got your revenge on my Mets, grammie. I'll be rooting for your Cubs today.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 02, 2025 09:24 AM (viF8m)

223 @196

>>But who knows, pick your poison NYC voters.

I don't give a sh*t about the fate of NY, I do not want Cuomo getting back into office, he can never be allowed to regain the reigns of power or a megaphone, because you absolutely know he is going to be the MSM go to guy on every f**king thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2025 09:24 AM (ytrOO)

224 OTOH, never give the enemy a secure base from which they can launch operations.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

Antifa itself has chosen Portland as the center of their efforts. Hit them hard there, then we don’t have to worry about hunting them down, they’ll gladly throw themselves into the fight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 02, 2025 09:24 AM (WZaJc)

225 My far-fetched theory: the left is ok with Trump letting go 100,000 fed employees because a good number of them can be used to march in the streets as protestors

Meh. A lot of them were just retiring early, and got other jobs. I view protestors (and least the violent, concerning Antifa ones) as unemployed 20-30 something Leftist losers leaching off family and easily manipulated by the siren song of socialism.

Although, the huge surge in elderly people at the more peaceful rallies (like No Kings) is hilarious. Get those Boomers out of the home for a few hours in the sun to relive their glory days of protest in the 60s-70s! Whatever Dem activist came up with the idea was a genius!

Posted by: Military Moron at October 02, 2025 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

226 >>> 194 Good morning friends. I thought I'd hang out here for a while. Any coffee left?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2025 09:17 AM (DCWfW)

Hi grammie! If there isn't we can always make more.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 02, 2025 09:25 AM (ULPxl)

227 > James Webb ST found 42 pairs of giant planets, the size of Jupiter, floating freely in the Orion Nebula── Something that baffles science
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I guess not every blob of interstellar gas becomes a star.

Sort of like late night TV hosts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 02, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

228 @220

>>Something that baffles science

Nothing floats freely in space, everything orbits something or is expanding outward as space-time expands outward at the speed of light.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 02, 2025 09:26 AM (ytrOO)

229 "The residents of the 4 block area around the ICE facility are sick of the mobs of cretins destroying that neighborhood. Portland Police are under strict orders not to respond to ANY complaint in the area."

They should contact city hall and raise hell. Or maybe they have. In any case I'd be interested to know who they have voted for and plan on voting for in next congressional/presidential elections

Posted by: Ripley at October 02, 2025 09:26 AM (PTDkx)

230 Iran has always been a semi-arid region, and has depended on large irrigation and long distance water transport systems since Persian times. The Mullah’s. For 40 years, have put *no* effort into maintaining or upgrading these nationwide systems since they took power, and now they are all falling apart.

So you're saying that the mullahs are California Democrats?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

231 All organizations become Leftist eventually. The Left are a cancer that spreads .

Then you have to kill it.

All. Of. It.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2025 09:27 AM (nbziR)

232 My selfish xenophobic take: Mamdani as mayor means more blue city a-hole emigrants coming our way.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 02, 2025 09:27 AM (UseAb)

233 Nothing floats freely in space, everything orbits something or is expanding outward as space-time expands outward at the speed of light.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Duuuuuude....

Posted by: High School Dropout Stoned out of his Mind at October 02, 2025 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

234 232 My selfish xenophobic take: Mamdani as mayor means more blue city a-hole emigrants coming our way.
Posted by: Ordinary American

But they'll have finally learned, right?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 02, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

235 Good to see you, grammie.

Posted by: dantesed at October 02, 2025 09:28 AM (Oy/m2)

236 I guess not every blob of interstellar gas becomes a star.

All of mine have. Some have even passed star status and became legendary.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2025 09:29 AM (nbziR)

237 Well, you know. What can I say?

Posted by: Delurking Just for a Minute to Hug Grammie at October 02, 2025 09:29 AM (A0sqA)

238 234 232 My selfish xenophobic take: Mamdani as mayor means more blue city a-hole emigrants coming our way.

a thousand percent that will happen to SE PA .. it's already happening.

and no, they learned NOTHING

Posted by: Black Orchid at October 02, 2025 09:29 AM (FHttA)

239 >I guess not every blob of interstellar gas becomes a star.
---

this is true
it has to do with how big the blob is when gravity does its thing
if it's not big enough, it won't 'flame on'
it'll just be a gas planet

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Don't shut me down, bro at October 02, 2025 09:29 AM (AOsQT)

240 "The residents of the 4 block area around the ICE facility are sick of the mobs of cretins destroying that neighborhood. Portland Police are under strict orders not to respond to ANY complaint in the area. The shitheads need their heads cracked and the Feds are the only ones who can/will do it."

Option two: residents take matters into their own hands, something that history says is inevitable in response to anarchy.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at October 02, 2025 09:30 AM (CwhoI)

241 Art up!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2025 09:30 AM (nbziR)

242 Also, it's a good time to take vitamin D, to strengthen your immune system. If you go to the doctor, make sure they check your levels

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 02, 2025 09:31 AM (kUxzU)

243 234 232 My selfish xenophobic take: Mamdani as mayor means more blue city a-hole emigrants coming our way.
Posted by: Ordinary American

But they'll have finally learned, right?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 02, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

It's entirely possible it has the opposite effect. People go where things are free (as in "without cost"), or at least easier.

Mamdani will make NYC the opposite of easier to live in. And "free" is irrelevant when there's none to be had. There's no price tag for six legged elephants.

At any rate, nobody from the third world was clamoring to emigrate to Kursk in 1974.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2025 09:32 AM (VoAdT)

244 The SPLC should get back to protecting pets.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 02, 2025 09:32 AM (2ap+5)

245 209 I'm not sure I'm on board with sending troops to crime ridden blue shitholes to save them from themselves and Antifa. DC was different as that is the nations capitol and should be under excessive control anyway, Trump has his hands full , especially with deporting millions of illegals. Let the left stew in their own shit till they beg for help.
Posted by: Ripley
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Urban D machines rely on gimmedats and criminals. Trump is splitting the gimmedats who while wanting goodies, they don't like the violent criminals. The violent criminals while Big Fed is around lose business (drug sales money) and that affects contributions to Big D in bribes, etc. The criminal factions are also the footsoldiers I suspect in padding the ballots. After all, election fraud is a slap on the wrist compared with the other crimes they commit on a daily basis and they are constantly revolving between jail, prison, and the streets.

So crack the Big D base wide open and you get less election fraud and gimmedats might not be as enthusiastic to vote for D (they won't vote R but might just stay home).

Posted by: whig at October 02, 2025 09:33 AM (WDjG6)

246 For 40 years, have put *no* effort into maintaining or upgrading these nationwide systems since they took power, and now they are all falling apart.

So you're saying that the mullahs are California Democrats?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 02, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)
======================
Wow- never of it that way...but, yes

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 02, 2025 09:34 AM (j1+Qt)

247 TEN MONTHS AFTER THE FIRES: Only TWO Reconstruction Permits Have Been Issued in Malibu, California

It will be a substate of Red China in 10 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 02, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

248 a thousand percent that will happen to SE PA .. it's already happening.

and no, they learned NOTHING
Posted by: Black Orchid
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Yet, they might also be a reason that PA GOP registrations are going up. If nothing else, the newcomers may be forcing existing PA residents to the right due to batshit craziness. PA GOP registrations keep gaining and Dem registrations keep falling.

Posted by: whig at October 02, 2025 09:34 AM (WDjG6)

249 Strong enforcement actions have the benefit of being a declaration that these are not, in fact, Your Streets. They are America's Streets. You don't get to shit them up and break stuff. Going in hot is kind of like seizing ownership amidst a power vacuum.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2025 09:36 AM (VoAdT)

250 It will be a substate of Red China in 10 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx
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Red China does not have ten years. Economy is really beginning to spiral downward there. We have about 110 percent debt to GDP. They have over 300 percent debt to GDP plus accelerated aging of the population.

Somewhat similar to Japan hysteria peaking in the mid 90's while their internal economy was imploding under debt levels and aging pop, China is following that path with the additional burden of massive corruption and pissing off all its neighbors by its arrogant actions.

Posted by: whig at October 02, 2025 09:38 AM (WDjG6)

251 China is following that path with the additional burden of massive corruption and pissing off all its neighbors by its arrogant actions.
Posted by: whig at October 02, 2025 09:38 AM (WDjG6)

Belt and Road, or whatever it's called, has really been a strategic failure for them after all, hasn't it? Probably already a net loss. It's basically "sub-prime nation building", though, so not exactly unexpected.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2025 09:40 AM (VoAdT)

252 From what I'm seeing, Trump has so far threaded the needle on this pretty well. Chicago, Portland, etc can have high crime hellholes throughout the city, but they can't attack Federal facilities and officers engaging in immigration (primarily) enforcement operations. It doesn't appear they're patrolling, stopping random crimes in neighborhoods; they're defending Federal buildings, and arresting the Antifa assholes interfering with them, because the local cops won't.

The states and cities can choose to be lawless, to a degree, but Federal authority has to be maintained.
Posted by: Military Moron
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Removing a lot of criminal aliens by ICE which is what the military troops are protecting does bring the crime rate down plus spiking drug prices reducing usage.

Posted by: whig at October 02, 2025 09:41 AM (WDjG6)

253 There is no place for Jews in Britain anymore. It's over': Jewish security teams and police are called in to protect synagogues across the UK after suspected terror attack
——
In the 1930s the science minded Brits took in a great many stellar physicists as the Continent went crazy and kicked out Jews from academia. “Come on over. We’ll find something for you to do” they said.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2025 09:41 AM (3VVY1)

254 Good morning friends. I thought I'd hang out here for a while. Any coffee left?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 02, 2025 09:17 AM

If not, we'll always be happy to serve you with a nice hot mug of Cream of Lutefisk soup!

Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at October 02, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

255 Belt and Road, or whatever it's called, has really been a strategic failure for them after all, hasn't it? Probably already a net loss. It's basically "sub-prime nation building", though, so not exactly unexpected.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Poland by shutting the main rail route through Russia and Belarus for Chinese EU imports highlights the risk. Other places soured as Chinese build shoddy products and left enormous debts for governments like Kenya for example with their rail system.

Basically Chinese don't really understand infrastructure investment as in China itself (or Soviet Union in the past), these projects are built for prestige but not via cost benefit analysis. Thus, often really shoddy construction, pissing off local populace because of Chinese guest workers get the jobs, and the local government becomes impoverished as the projects don't pay for debt service nor always are functional enough.

Posted by: whig at October 02, 2025 09:44 AM (WDjG6)

256 Basically Chinese don't really understand infrastructure investment as in China itself (or Soviet Union in the past), these projects are built for prestige but not via cost benefit analysis. Thus, often really shoddy construction, pissing off local populace because of Chinese guest workers get the jobs, and the local government becomes impoverished as the projects don't pay for debt service nor always are functional enough.
Posted by: whig at October 02, 2025 09:44 AM (WDjG6)

What is the Mandarin for "monorail", anyway?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2025 09:45 AM (VoAdT)

257 Dan gui lie che

....

That's not funny. I was hoping it would be funny somehow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2025 09:47 AM (VoAdT)

258 A Newburgh resident expecting an Amazon delivery of rice, paper plates and a toy lightsaber instead opened a box to find 250 state election ballots.

The discovery raised alarms about election security, leading the Maine Republican Party Chairman to call for a federal criminal investigation as the state is mere weeks from deciding on whether it will join 36 other states in requiring some form of Vote ID.

The package arrived Tuesday looking beat up and re-taped, as if tampered with. Inside, along with household items, were bundles of ballots packaged in tamper-evident packs of 50 — the same format used for official shipments to local clerks. Election officials who reviewed photographs confirmed the documents appear to be authentic 2025 ballots.

Posted by: SMOD at October 02, 2025 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

259 Hell, a “Democratic Socialist” is probably worse than a garden variety Communist. Collectivism and crack-pot fairy tale Economic theories, always end in a pile of skulls. The very people they purport to want to help. Every time.

Pol Pot was educated in France. He didn’t get all those wacky ideas in Cambodia. There is a certain strain of political rot in academia to be sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 02, 2025 10:01 AM (0/ySy)

260 "And as that evil bastard has been around the block for decades, you'd think he'd know better"? An Ed Morrissey level clunker!

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at October 02, 2025 10:23 AM (pKne7)

261 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Medicare/Medicaid related and both very important, imo.

1st >WHYY, COVID-19 Vaccines Trump Impact
'Pennsylvania governor announces new vaccine safeguards, expanded access to shots in executive order' Gov. Josh Shapiro’s executive order, issued Oct. 1, directs state agencies to create vaccine information hubs, safety net programs and insurance requirements, by Nicole Leonard, October 1, 2025

In part, "Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Wednesday that empowers several state agencies with the authority to make decisions on shots for diseases like COVID-19, chickenpox, hepatitis B and more.

“I want trained professionals who know science to be empowered to guide you,” Shapiro told patients and health care providers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I do not want you to be guided by someone like RFK Jr. who I believe is wholly unqualified to give medical advice and who is restricting our freedoms here in Pennsylvania and across the country.”

Also, "It requires state-regulated health insurance plans to cover all vaccines that have been proven safe and effective

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 02, 2025 10:27 AM (NFX2v)

262 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, regardless of any additional restrictions imposed by advisory groups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health is also tasked with creating a state-based version of the Vaccines For Children program, which provides free shots to kids who are underinsured or uninsured.

That includes an estimated 1.5 million children across the commonwealth, state officials said."

Reading the entire article is recommended. Bet PA will not be the only one. (BTW, trying to trust US Senator Fetterman, PA-D but he had to know when he voted with the Dems in Congress in support of continuing certain Medicaid programs. So, fooled again. And where is the elusive US Senator McCormick, PA-R?)

Sooner or later, someone will listen re: the never-ending political shenanigans of & in PA.
--
2nd >NBC News, 'What the shutdown means for Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs,' today

In part, "Fortunately for everyday people, core programs like Medicare and Medicaid will keep running because their funding is built into law. But a popular Medicare benefit - telehealth - has already ended for many, and so-called

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 02, 2025 10:27 AM (NFX2v)

263 discretionary programs, such as Community Health Centers (CHCs), may be at risk unless Congress acts soon."

Also, "Coverage for people enrolled in Medicaid - which is jointly funded by state and the federal government - will also continue throughout the rest of this year and some of next year, according to CMS."

Read the ^ article, if interested. Everything is just fine.

But also see, Telehealth HHS gov - Telehealth policy updates
"Learn about recent Federal legislation and policies related to telehealth."
Extensions of telehealth access options
Rural health
Behavioral health

In reality, the 'shutdown' is about temporary Medicare telehealth flexibilities in place during the COVID-19 'public health emergency' & extended through at least Sep. 30, 2025.

Don't want to revert back to certain physician fees and/or the in-person visit requirement extended until Jan. 1, 2026, for mental health services furnished via communication technology to beneficiaries in their homes? That's too bad. It's more than time to tighten up on program fraud.

The Dems. must be good with the waste, fraud, and abuse, keeping them vital - for the present - and their base at the ready. 🤷‍♀️

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 02, 2025 10:27 AM (NFX2v)

264 59 Just saw a clip of Mamdani on The Spew. He says he's not a communist he's a Democratic Socialist who believes in " dignity for all people" . The trained seals in the audience clapped. He's a communist and a jihadist , the New Shimmer of mass murderers.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 02, 2025 08:00 AM (A2I8b)

Which means at the request of 50% and one vote of the electorate, he will POLITELY steal the fruits of others’ labors, using the police to legally steal, and give it to others. If you fail to comply, the police will either deprive you of your liberty or kill you.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 02, 2025 10:43 AM (EL2O4)

265 Winsome “Votes But Not Enough” Sears isn’t going to win VA.

She’s a terrible retail politician running an invisible campaign. And her opponent has a literal hornets nest of fired-up, useless NoVA bureaucrats and functionaries who want to send a message to their Orange Life Paralysis Demon. It’ll be closer than many people think, but Spanbarger wins by at least 5 points

Posted by: Smfh at October 02, 2025 11:19 AM (V3hmM)

266 WMAL had a story on the way in to work this morning citing a poll showing Spam-berger up 10 points.

If you live in Virginia, just assume Sears is down by 10 and get out the vote accordingly.

Posted by: Area_Man at October 02, 2025 11:34 AM (A8fBn)

267 >The Hill (and about 100 others), Democrat confronts Johnson over Trump AI video: ‘It’s racist. You should call it out’ by Max Rego - 09/30/25

Featured is US Representative Madeleine Dean (PA-D), another Pennsylvania unpleasantry, imo of course, who must need the press.

Like many in Congress, she's under her maiden name. Her political connections seemed to have come about from hubby's family connections. IDK. One son was senior writer and deputy director of messaging in the Obama-Biden administration.

Her immediate family is - and has been - involved in the import (China, Taiwan, etc.) bicycle industry. As such, it's not unusual for a family member to carp in the press about a Trump administration law creating problems such as, but not limited to, tariffs that could affect family business ventures. But with such privilege, it's always boring at best, as is her drama.

BTW, it really heats up when she goes duo with US Representative Mary Gay Scanlon, PA-D.

Kathy Barnett would have been a thousand times better than Dean, serving PA as a whole.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 02, 2025 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

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