Why didn't anyone tell me there were going to be consequences for doing this? I nearly saw a hateful meme! Why didn't the government stop it? I need help!

Day Three without a government.  It's all so icky that I just don't know what to do anymore.  It's like when you've got this date with a hot chick, but you have to ditch your best friends to go out and buy some new clothes, but the credit card machine isn't working so you start screaming and crying and breaking things, so then you get arrested and sent to jail where your cellmate is this big black guy named Earl, who thinks he's the boss of this ward, but then he gets killed by someone three cells down who was arrested for tax fraud of all things, and child-molesting, so you start regretting the fact that you never became an accountant.

Yeah, it's exactly like that.  Trump did this.  Wow, is there anything he can't do?

Competing Proposals Fail in the Senate as Schumer Shutdown Drags On
October 3, 2025

□ [“Virginia AG Nominee Texts His Fantasies About Killing Prominent GOP State Politician"]

Lots of news today, not sure I'll even be able to cover everything.  This guy posted this in August 2022 and it's just being noticed?  He's running for election now and this hasn't been brought up, fantasizing that he had three bullets and was with Hitler, Pol Pot and then Speaker of the Virginian House, whom he said would get two of the bullets.  And this is clearly the sort of person the Uniparty is trying to promote to higher ranks.

□ [“Russ Vought Freezes $2.1 Billion in Chicago Infrastructure Projects in Chicago – Specifically Projects Using Race-Based Hiring"]

Vought is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, overseeing resources and funding.  And now they're hitting Chicago.  This will be interesting because these projects, as well as NYC and other Democrat-run states, are used to funnel money to their own people.  Just because of the locations, these probably have the most funding, and will be the hardest hit by suddenly having to pay for things themselves if they really want it.  Portland is also an obvious target.

□ [“David Hogg’s PAC Spends Millions on Consultants While Candidates They Back Come Up Short"]

It's mostly hidden from the public but we're also seeing infighting among the left.  The hustlers and grifters are being noticed, or rather, exposed by Democrats who are sick of these people, or just want to eliminate a rival.  Hogg's not even being smart about it, yet somehow he made it to a high position at the DNC, at least briefly.  BLM is also suing George Soros, something about not giving them all the money they're entitled to.

But these are at least slightly giving us a sense of who is on which team and what they are doing.  There's still no specific division between the sides but I think most people recognize that we have started Civil War 2.0.

6-3 Supreme Court Allows Trump to End Biden-Era Protections for Thousands of Venezuelans
October 3, 2025

Secret Service SUV Parked Outside White House Catches Fire
September 29, 2025

□ [“Trump Declares Drug Cartels Are ‘Unlawful Combatants,’ US is in Armed Conflict With Them"]

This is interesting.  I haven't really paid attention to the cartels but they could largely be seen as foreign allies for the war we're fighting here.  Or to put it another way, global contacts for the war around the world.  Someone, not sure who, recently posted an interesting summarization of what we're facing here: [Note, I'm simplifying the quote for my own convenience]

For the Democrat party, SPLC is the targeting wing, Soros is the financial wing, Antifa is the military wing, legacy Media is the propaganda wing.

The SPLC is the only part of that I haven't paid enough attention to really consider, but that's where it becomes clear what the cartel's role is.  Democrats are a convenient tool but it's not specifically for them.  Otherwise, you might quibble, but this is effectively a good summery of the enemy we face.  This is where we can start looking for their connections as individual groups, whether they're all tied to China or the *woke* agenda or whatever the central command is.

I get the impression people will start looking into the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The FBI has cut ties with them according to Kash Patel.  It's noted that they can point to who needs to be shot.  The 2017 shooting at a Congressional baseball practice was by an SPLC/Bernie Sanders fan.  They did identify Charlie Kirk's group as a target although it's not said if the shooter was a fan.  One of the difficult things to figure out is how subtle influence can get and still be responsible for what happens.

Teenage Lesbian Kiss in Netflix Kids’ Jurassic Park Cartoon Sparks Outrage and Subscription Cancellations
October 3, 2025

□ [“P. Diddy Combs Sentenced to More Than 4 Years in Prison"]

He brought prostitutes across state lines.  That's what he's being punished for.  WTF?  This just comes off as a skit to distract the public.  If that was all he did, however atrocious, why was he given any attention?  And whatever happened to the famous people who were supposed to be part of his 'parties'?  Something is being faked, either the publicity Diddy got for being prosecuted or the court verdict just pretending to care in the slightest.

□ [“Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Sentenced to Eight Years Due to His Transgender Struggles"]

And this comes out the same day.  Try to murder a Supreme Court justice and this is what you get.  The guy who made it into Nancy Pelosi's house should decide to change his gender, he'd get several decades taken off his sentence.  More than anything, it's that these judges are showing they've picked a side and it's not the law.

Gotta admit, I don't know what to do about this.  The judicial system is broken but there's no way to decide who is going to make this decision.  We can't trust them but how do we organize a resistance?  Or what is Trump supposed to do?  Even if he installs his own supporters, that's just a temporary solution and the left won't go with it either.  I dunno, I suppose I'm just annoyed to see that this is what all the P. Diddy nonsense was reduced to.

Vladimir Putin Praises Charlie Kirk Following His “Disgusting” Assassination by Radical Leftist
October 3, 2025

□ [“Hamas Moves Toward Peace:  Agrees to Hostage Release and Partial Backing of Trump’s Plan"]

Several days ago, Trump released a "20-point plan."  The fact that he started with insisting the hostages be released within 72 hours shows how pointless this is.  He keeps demanding this and it doesn't happen.  *IF* Hamas agreed, Israel would release thousands of prisoners, which also shouldn't happen.  Hamas would be required to be peaceful with Israel, not gonna happen, and then Gaza will be run by an unelected group, along with the UN and Trump.  That's just covering the first part of this plan and it sounds totally stupid.

Hamas may be willing to stop being in charge, at least officially, but that won't mean anything.  The Philistines voted for them and haven't seen any reason to regret that yet.  Hamas will pick their people to be on the committee and the UN still wants to help destroy Israel, so nothing will change.  I suspect Hamas is only going this far just because they realize they can be easily wiped out if the "oppressive" Israel ever decides to live up to their reputation.

Trump is getting things done around the world but things like this just look like total failures-waiting-to-happen.  I haven't even gotten around to his increasing support for Ukraine.  Then there's the negotiations with China which seem to be going somewhere but no idea where.  Bad enough what we've got going on here in the states but if you really want to be part of a global war, you need to declare it.  And don't support the enemy.

FBI Agent Fired For Refusing to Arrest and Perp Walk James Comey
October 3, 2025

Maybe I should start being naughty to make sure Santa Claus doesn't leave a federal government for me under the tree.

Day Two without a government.  The people who disagree with me are suffering through all the misery their politics have brought on them.  The people who agree with me are happy and go-lucky and not wearing a bra.  [hold on for a second.]

But life without a government is tough.  One of my shoelaces broke today.  The government is supposed to prevent that!  How can life go on when things like this happen?  I blame the people who disagree with me.  There's just too many of them.  Maybe we should get together and discuss how to eliminate them.  But we'll need someone in charge.  How many votes can I get?

Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor
October 1, 2025

Immigration Judge Denies MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia Request For Asylum
October 2, 2025

□ [“Trump administration freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects"]

NYC is run by leftists and has a lot of rich people who leftists say aren't paying enough taxes.  Sounds like an easy solution.  What's their soon-to-be-installed leftist mayor going to do about it?  Otherwise the city's going to need to figure out some way to deal with two subway projects, one of which is a tunnel under the Hudson.  It's not something you can just stop.

I'm also curious what annoyances New Yorkers had to deal with with this going on, and whatever else was part of this $18 billion funding.  Not sure how subways have to deal with it but on the ground level, you have to deal with detours because construction has taken over the area for months.  It's New York so the suckers are probably used to it but this just seems very irritating.

□ [“Ten Months After the Fires, Only Two Reconstruction Permits Have Been Issued in Malibu"]

And across the country, leftism provides the same results.  It's rumored that this land is set aside to go to China or Muslims or something, so maybe that's it.  But it should be noted that the state government promised to speed up the process and here it is.  You can completely understand the response John Galt gave when asked what government could do for him, "Get out of my way!"

Two Delta Planes ‘Absolutely Smash’ into Each Other at LaGuardia Airport In New York City
October 2, 2025

□ [“Syrian British Citizen Named ‘Jihad’ Kills Two People at Manchester Synagogue on Yom Kippur"]

Partially Europe looks easier to identify the actual war as it starts.  There's the Muslims, there's the leftists, there's the increasing protests to the censorship and war-mongering.  But we aren't European so their media isn't as free as the US is supposed to be.  But to the extent any of it is understandable or believable, this is what we're looking at.  Western civilization, and perhaps the whole world, is in a 'war' mentality.

□ [“Pope Leo XIV Blesses a Block of Ice as Climate Activists Perform ‘Earth-Worshipping Ritual’"]

If there was any doubts about this guy, here you go.  There are times I wonder whether John Paul II was part of the *woke* or maybe it was that the point was that he would inspire leftists to complete their takeover of the church.  Either way, here they are.  It seems impossible to do but people like Leo and his predecessor give the impression is that their whole goal was to be in charge of something so they could destroy it.  It should be noted that we see that sort of thing happening in leftist American organizations.

□ [“German Left Party Calls for Assassination of AfD’s Alice Weidel After Justifying Kirk Killing"]

Then there's Germany, acting like, well, Germans.  And no one anywhere is telling these people to knock it off.  That's how we know they're all on the same side.  Even worse, they're obviously pushing this against their own people at the same time they're trying to get to war with Russia.  Nobody's going to fight this war for them and no one will defend them against attacks.  At least Russia has centuries of experience with this sort of insanity, what's Europe's excuse?  Oh, right.  Leftism.

□ [“Scottish Police and Immigration Officers Arrest Fake ‘African Tribe’ in the Woods"]

There was a news report a month or so ago of a black American single mother ditching everything to go join this fake tribe.  Deluding people to believe that they had a kingdom in Scotland four hundred years ago?  And it obviously fools some people.  Well, there were only three involved, one male, two females, but the fact that they were allowed to do this shows that something has gone very wrong.  These are the sort of people the rulers of Europe are counting on to achieve their goal.

Newsom’s $20 Min. Wage Has Now Nuked 20,000 Fast Food Jobs in California
October 2, 2025

□ [“Female Reporter Violently Attacked by Antifa; Portland Police Refuse to Arrest Attacker"]

The American equivalent of what's going on in Europe.  You can physically attack a woman and the leftists in charge will support that as long as the victim is conservative.  Essentially all leftist rhetoric about 'fairness,' 'equality,' 'anti-violence' includes the unspoken phrase 'until we change our minds.'  Which they always will at some point.

But they must realize that this won't last long.  Too many people are armed and you do have the right to defend yourself.  Is this what the leftist elites are expecting to happen?  Especially if the attacker is black, this could cause more problems.  It's why civilized societies don't allow violent attacks in the first place, but that's not where we are anymore.

If the police were ordered not to intervene - and 'I was only following orders' is not a great defense, jus' saying... - then citizens are going to start handling it themselves.  About all the left can do is try to form gangs and start doing the same thing, but most of them would be lacking the training and arms.  There would be chaos but it seems like it would be fairly short-lived, unless they have some foreign allies ready to step in.  And thinking about it, they're probably begging China to save them from the tyrant.

CNN’s Dana Bash Laughs With ‘Hanoi Jane’ Fonda on Hollywood’s Newest Effort to ‘Resist’ Trump
October 1, 2025

□ [“CNN Cuts Off Speaker Johnson as He Says Democrats Demand Illegal Alien Healthcare Funding"]

This cannot be helping CNN's ratings.  Why would you pretend to be a "news" network if you deliberately shut people off like this?  And what is your audience supposed to think?  Do they just accept that you're going to prevent them from hearing anything you don't like?  If that audience was interested in what you were reporting, they will never consider going someplace else to look up what Johnson was saying on the same topic?

As it is, the obvious video clips are increasingly publicized.  The main one is probably the June 2019 Democrat primary debate where every single candidate raised their hands to show their support for funding healthcare for illegal immigrants and that was at least a dozen potential candidates.  Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders were among that group, yet Democrats are now claiming that they had never heard their party ever suggest support for such a thing.  Looking it up, I was surprised to see that the debate wasn't aired on CNN, it was NBC instead.

This just seems guaranteed to not win any support for Democrats or their pet media.  Frankly, you'd have to be extremely desperate and stupid to see that it'll just drive people away.  I'm sure it's a common analogy but the left traps people in a bubble.  Once a crack is formed and people start seeing the world outside the bubble, they start breaking through even more and soon have been freed from the bubble.  And doing things like censoring a politician on media - well, the left would call it "censorship" if it happened to them - is exactly the sort of thing that will encourage people to break free.

Ireland Offering Up to €10k to Migrant Families to Drop Asylum Claims and Return Home
September 29, 2025

Israeli Forces Intercept Aid Flotilla Near Gaza – Greta Thunberg and 500 Activists Detained
October 2, 2025

Russia To Nationalize and Sell Foreign Assets if European Leaders Seize Russian Frozen Assets
October 2, 2025

For my sweety's birthday, I got rid of the federal government. Wow is she grateful! I need to stop posting now.

Oktoberfest Shut Down; Killing, House Fire, Bomb Detonation and a Suicide Put Munich in High Alert

October 1, 2025

□ [“Schumer Shutdown Day One:  Two Proposals to Reopen the Government Fail in the Senate"]

Day One:  Last night when I went to bed, we had a federal government.  We had hopes and dreams and those little candies that are crunchy on the outside but chewy inside.  Now we have none of that.  It's all gone, stolen from us by evil men.  Because they're trying to control us, that's why we'll never have a government again.

But they can't beat me!  I'll govern myself!  I'll campaign vigorously, and spend every penny I have on ads to win my vote.  The debates will be harsh.  The speeches will win over every one of my votes.  No one will even notice that I didn't have a primary, because Democracy is at stake!

That's why I don't need a federal government.  I can just go out and do it myself.  And I'm trustworthy, you'll never see me abandoning myself like that heartless wench!  I'm good!  I'm loyal!  I'll be there when I need me the most!  I'll never be so lonely again!  I'm not crying, you're crying!

October 1, 2025 Jane Goodall, chimpanzee researcher, age 91

I'm curious how long the House funding bill remains active.  This is all from memory but it's been a week or so since they passed it.  I'm pretty sure normal bills can stay until at least the end of the term, or end of the year, but funding would probably be held to different rules.  The Senate can pass their own bill which then needs to be merged with the House and then go up for a vote again.  Like I said, I don't remember the specifics and am not remotely interested in looking them up.

I don't see any patterns but it does look like Democrats are having trouble with their members.  One or two Senators have started voting with the Republican bill.  To Veep Vance, this is a sign that the shutdown won't last very long, they're breaking apart.  Can't we have both?

The central concern seems to be that the Big Beautiful Bill had eliminated the methods used to provide illegal immigrants with free health care.  The Democrat version of the bill that would re-open the government restores those methods.  There's other things like funding NPR and PBS but it looks like this is the main concern.  Why not just get leftist doctors to provide free healthcare for illegals and charge Americans more for their treatment?

OMB Director Russ Vought Eliminates $8 Billion in Green New Scam Funding to Liberal States

October 1, 2025

□ [“Pelosi is Agitated When Asked About AOC Telling GOP Senators to Directly Negotiate With Her"]

This is an subtle indicator of the problems the party is having.  AOC is presenting herself as the one to talk to and Nancy doesn't like that.  I hadn't heard about this so I don't know if it's true, but it sounds like Nancy doesn't either.  She makes the generic public statement about how wonderful AOC is but points out this isn't her job.  AOC is the one who decides that, Nancy.

It's also rumored that AOC is considering running for POTUS - as she's finally old enough - or Senator, where she'd be challenging Chuck Schumer in a primary.  And now she's calling the shots while Nancy Pelosi is babbling like an old woman.  She really didn't sound good in this video and probably wasn't even drunk.

For a long time, I've thought that leftists were aiming towards the modern equivalent of a "cultural revolution," what Mao had the young people do in his last decade.  They needed to purge out the old no matter how dedicated they'd been to Mao for decades.  Not sure if AOC has any authority or if she's just riding the waves but that's effectively what's going on here.  No matter how dedicated a Democrat you are, at some point you've got to be sick of looking at these old people.

This may be why old videos suddenly popped up of Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking out against illegal immigration and, in Hillary's case, specifically testifying to Congress against providing them free health care.  The party's not allowed to publicly ask them what changed their mind but they can at least put this out to remind the public that they're just saying whatever it takes to keep power.

University of Delaware TV Network Thanks “Charlie Kirk’s Killer” – Then Tries to Cover It Up

October 1, 2025

Shutdown Not Stopping Democrats From October Retreat at Luxury California Resort in Wine Country

September 30, 2025

Ireland rises:  10,000 Christians march in Dublin to defend faith, family, and tradition

September 30, 2025

□ [“White House Trolls Press and Hakeem Jeffries by Playing Sombrero Meme in Briefing Room"]

A few days ago, there was a meme of Jeffries wearing a sombrero, Mexican music playing, and so on.  It wasn't that interesting but Trump certainly thought it was.  But the Democrat reaction to this is definitely interesting.  You can argue that Trump should have better things to do and you would be right.  But leftists really need to find a better way to complain than just saying something is "racist."

They've thrown in a few others, with Trump's approval.  By the way, I don't think he's handling his social media posts.  The reason might be good or bad but I think the writing style has changed in the last several months, much more text than before.  But whoever's handling it at least has the right targets.

Anyway, stuff like this shows that Trump and his people think, probably correctly, that they have a handle on this.  *IF* going without a government is so horrifying and oppressive and all that stuff, why are Democrats so determined to make everybody suffer until illegals get free health care?  And who do they think they're going to convince?  Portland, Oregon is preparing a naked gay bicycle race to protest, what planet do you have to live on where you think this will help anybody?

They're really going to need Antifa or China or whoever's replaced Al-Qaida/ISIS to strike if they expect to go anywhere with this.  As with previous shutdowns, nobody cares.  The rest of us have our own lives to get to, which those obsessed with politics always ignore.  As usual, I didn't even notice Trump's meme until the left started complaining about it.  There's probably going to be more of this every few days, mocking the Democrat inability to do anything.

Multiple People Arrested After Feds Uncover Massive Immigration Fraud Scheme in Minnesota

October 1, 2025

□ [“JB Pritzker Claims it’s Dangerous to Call Democrats ‘Fascists’"]

You'll punish people for getting your fictional pronouns wrong and order the internet to silence people who say things you don't like.  "Fascist" is close-enough for government work to use on you.  As you've shown for the last several years without any punishment whatsoever from the government.

Pritzker is just trying to show off to the rest of the party.  IIRC they haven't had a nationally-successful state executive politician since Bill Clinton, and that was a long time ago.  He's also egotistical enough to want to challenge Gavin Newsom and isn't that interested in the truth.  A couple days ago he insisted the 25th amendment should be used on Trump, which means he hadn't paid attention to the last several years.  Who is really going to take him seriously?

He's doing it now for more than just the shutdown, the feds have moved into Chicago and arrested a couple dozen Tren de Aragua members.  They've also gone into Memphis and if they haven't entered Portland yet, they're ready to go.  It's unclear if these are just federal agents or if troops are included, they're probably being vague on this for a reason.  I was pretty sure Trump would use the shutdown to make this happen.

Now the states need to decide what they're going to do without a federal government.  Even worse, they claim to want the federal government back, which means they can be prosecuted for fighting it.  It's a trap whichever way you go, so whoever's making decisions for Pritzker better get ready for it to blow back on them.

Supreme Court Allows Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to Keep Her Job… For Now

October 1, 2025