Deep Throat 2: This time it's personal!

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November 7, 2025

Day 38 without a federal government.  Every day sets a new record for how lost and desperate I've become.  Everything I see reminds me of what the federal government used to do for us before right-wingers took it away.  But they don't care what happens to us.  Why should they, they get to have a federal government where Trump is in charge.  Our side could all get "population reduction" and they'd just say we wanted that.

I don't even hear anything about how we're all supposed to go on strike.  We can't remember things that far in advance, they need to remind us regularly.  And if someone isn't going along, who are we supposed to report them to?  Maybe it's already happened and I missed it, so now I'm the one in trouble!  How can someone as stupid and lazy and incompetent as Trump do this to me without anybody noticing?

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November 7, 2025

□ [“On Senate Floor, Schumer Unveils New, Plan to End Shutdown"]

Yesterday I was negative, today I'll at least try to be positive.  They aren't seeing a big bump in support after this week's elections.  I still haven't checked the election results but I haven't heard anything about a massive change, seriously defeating Republicans.  Even in NYC, the biggest competitor was Andrew Cuomo.  The more normal members of the party are seeing problems with these elections, so now Democrats are trying to finish the shutdown and they don't have much leverage.

A one-year extension of Obamacare subsidies is their main talking point.  If they get that, then Congress will "address the health care crisis."  Wasn't that what Obamacare was supposed to fix?  And why only a year, why not make it permanent?  I'm thinking of John Galt's comments towards the end of Atlas Shrugged, where they aren't even trying for a long-term success, they'll take a year, a month, a week, assuming that there will always be another target to leech from.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says they're not going for it.  Re-open the government, *then* negotiate on Obamacare.  He's also made comments that he's willing to allow a vote on their demands which strikes me as iffy, although it may just mean that it'll go through whatever the Senate rules are to eventually reach a floor vote.  Why don't they just put these negotiations on CSPAN?

Trying to be positive, I do suspect Democrats are closer to breaking down.  They have all the propaganda and empty words but they have nothing to build on.  Republicans keep unanimously voting to re-open the government so if it's all on them, then the government should re-open.  The fact that it hasn't shows that they aren't the real problem and the majority of Americans know it.  We're still getting by without a government, haven't needed to build any replacements yet.  What does the left have, their "shadow government"?

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November 7, 2025

□ [“Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Schools Cannot Force Students to Use 'Preferred Pronouns'"]

Another strong win and not just because it prevents made-up genders from imposing their will upon everyone else.  It's also a point about freedom of speech, which means the right to insult people.  If you *feel* bad because someone doesn't use your made-up gender pronouns, that's your problem, not theirs.  And the taxpayer-funded government schools cannot dictate what words are required to come out of your mouth.  This shows that their whole point is to indoctrinate students into deciding what others are not permitted to say.

This may wind up going to the Supreme Court but something like this will be hard to overcome in any legal sense.  You can't just flip that around and decide 'oh yes we can censor anyone from saying whatever makes us feel bad!'  You could overrule the courts with this but that would just make any other decisions equally irrelevant.  I know very little about the judicial system (thankfully) but I do know that precedent is a huge part of it.  It totally helps our side and there's no way the *woke* side can find a precedent to help them, even if they get away with in the short-term.

This is just one small victory among the current conflicts going on through the judicial system.  It may not actually be a huge victory against the fake-gender agenda but only because they have already fallen from grace, as it were.  We know the left is still total-believers in this insanity but as far as I can tell, they have almost entirely gone silent about transgenders.  It's not a fight they can win, not now, not ever, and at least in public, they aren't even trying.  But the longer that lasts, the worse it'll get for them.

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November 7, 2025

□ [“Rand Paul Objects Twice to John Kennedy’s Proposal to End Pay for Congress During Shutdown"]

And this is why we can't have nice things.  Rand Paul's objections are all about how government workers should still get paid even if there's no government to pay them or that they should just re-open the government and ignore the problem.  Neither of those address the point that Rand is still getting his paycheck from taxpayers even without a government but it does show that he's not willing to change that in the slightest, which is the point Kennedy is making.

The people who caused the problem - Congress - aren't suffering from it in the slightest, unlike everybody actually effected by the problem.  That needs to be fixed and Kennedy's proposal is aimed at doing this.  No idea if it has a chance of passing but it would at least make everybody show where they stand on the issue, if they're going to keep getting paid no matter what or if they're willing to have the slightest inconvenience like everyone else.

I'm sure I've made a lot of compliments about Rand Paul over the years but this is just showing that he's really one of the Uniparty.  Which make sense, having inherited it from his father, who spent 23 years in Congress across three separate times in office.  He's not remotely an outsider, he's just presenting himself as one and now that I think about it, I don't recall much of that from Rand over the last decade or so.  There was probably something but he does seem to be coming off as one of those multigenerational congressional families.

Actual problem:  You're getting paid by taxpayers to do nothing.  Solution:  Stop getting paid to do nothing.  Rand's solution:  Avoid this entirely so he keeps getting paid.  Pretty sure there's 0% chance of the bill affecting this shutdown no matter what, it'll only be relevant for future shutdowns, so Rand is wasting even more time with these distractions.

Rand is also attacking Trump for the use of tariffs.  It's one thing to have this debate but this is just pointless.  If the tariffs are an actual problem - and I don't think they are - that's going to continue no matter what.  A better solution would be to put the requirements in writing for Congress to pass so that Trump or anyone else cannot do this again.  Yet another waste-of-time Rand is getting taxpayer-funding for.

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