“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
–Ecclesiastes 1:9.
The Schumer Shutdown has come to a close. Government incompetence is gone. Government incompetence is back.
“We are talking about a coordinated effort of eight senators with the knowledge of Leader Schumer, voting to break with the entire Democratic Party in exchange for nothing. And now people’s health care costs are going to be skyrocketing . . . But I think that when we talk about this debate about the Democratic Party, it is, indeed, about the party writ large and our ability to fight or not.”
—Puddin’head.
Puddin’head conveniently forgets that the Obamacare subsidies were a pandemic temporary “emergency” spending item, that Democrats scheduled to end under the China Joe Administration. She voted for that bill. But now, she seems to have forgotten all about it.
The Democrats, having lost the Schumer Shutdown, have turned to smearing President Trump with the Epstein Files. They selectively released redacted emails which they claim demonstrate Mr. Trump was a predator. He was not. In fact, one of the redactions was the name of an Epstein victim who claimed consistently and often that Mr. Trump was never inappropriate with anyone.
The Epstein releases also reveal that media personalities and “journalists” were working with Epstein to stop Mr. Trump’s political career as early as 2016. Hmmm. Shades of Russia! Russia! Russia!
Democrats are fond of asserting that Epstein and Mr. Trump were close friends. Hmmm. Then why did emails show that Epstein thought Mr. Trump was one of the worst people on Earth, did not “have a decent cell in his body”, and was “dangerous”. Wow. Some close friends!
Another fun fact. Jeffrey Epstein was a big Democrat. He was not prosecuted by the Democrat Obama Administration, in which China Joe served as Vice-President. No, Jeffrey Epstein was not arrested on federal charges until 2019, when Donald Trump (R.) was President. Had he lived, he would have been prosecuted by the Trump Administration.
The Epstein files are but low grade gossip. The prosecutions are done. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison. Jeffrey Epstein is dead. President Trump ended his association with Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade before his criminal investigation began. If there was anything in the Epstein files that incriminated the President, it would have been released long ago. This is just the Democrats trying to damage Mr. Trump. Because they have nothing else.
The Democrats are melting down because they did not get their way on spending, the Schumer Shutdown was a temper tantrum destined to fail, and Donald Trump is still President. Orange Man Bad. TDS.
A dear reader is a stereotypical sufferer of TDS. He believes that since Mr. Trump installed gold fixtures in the Oval Office, and since the Kremlin has rooms with gold fixtures, this is proof positive that Trump is an admirer and puppet of Russian President Putin. His TDS is slowly, but surely rotting his brain. It is a sad case.
My favorite French restaurant in New York City has gold fixtures. The Kremlin has rooms with gold fixtures. Does this mean that the restaurant owners are clandestine Russian spies? Nope. Indeed, no one who can bake a cheese souffle that delicious could ever be considered even remotely Russian.
The U.S. Mint stopped coining pennies after more than 230 years. No more “penny for your thoughts?”
Representative Eric Swalwell (D. Ca.) is being investigated for criminal mortgage fraud. That’s a shame.
No it is not a shame. Eric Swalwell deserves whatever bad thing comes his way. He is a jerk.
On the subject of jerks, Representative Jasmine Crockett (D. Tx.) went on CNN to smear Trump over the Epstein emails. She made several false assertions, which CNN hosts called her on, and when she attempted to continue certain falsities, CNN pointed out that it was her fellow Democrats, not Republicans, who concocted those falsities. For once, Representative Crockett was left almost speechless.
There is a revolt underway at the Democrat National Committee. DNC Chairman Ken Martin informed all D.C. based staff that they would return to 5 days a week in the office, beginning in February 2026. Employees called the mandate “cruel” and “callous”, particularly in light of . . . Donald Trump being President, in Washington, D.C. My goodness!
The DNC staff’s union is threatening litigation. Whoa! A bunch of white collar political staffers belong to a union? Good grief!
Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D. Ca.) former Chief of Staff, Dana Williamson was arrested by the FBI on public corruption charges. Allegedly, Mr. Williamson committed bank fraud, wire fraud, and engaged in conduct to defraud the United States government.
A Georgia State judge ruled that a Savannah ordinance making it a criminal offense to leave a gun in an unlocked motor vehicle was unconstitutional under both the federal and State constitutions. Savannah’s Democrat mayor vowed to continue to enforce the ordinance anyway. The heck with the constitutions!
Representative Chip Roy (R. Tx.) is introducing a bill to freeze all immigration until the situation in the United States stabilizes. This is actually a very good idea, which is not new. From 1924 until 1952, immigration into the United States was largely paused in order to allow immigrants present in the United States to be assimilated.
Oregon Democrats are outraged over the announcement that ICE plans to construct a new detention facility in Newport, approximately 100 miles from Portland. Let the jackhammers begin!
An Illinois federal judge indicated that he intended to order the release of several hundred illegal aliens, holding that their detention likely violated an agreement between the China Joe Administration and an illegal alien advocacy group. Sigh. Will we ever rid ourselves of the corruption and malfeasance of the China Joe Administration?
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted overwhelmingly to condemn President Trump’s deportation of illegal aliens. Which is interesting, since the Catholic Church’s official position is that the Church recognizes and supports a country’s right and authority to establish, maintain, and protect its borders.
“ . . . boiling down the United States to its immigrant population is ridiculous, especially at this stage in history. The people who crafted it might have descended from immigrants, and that’s great, but many of the people who made America great were born here.
George Washington was born in Virginia. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio. George Washington Carver was born in Missouri. Elvis Presley was born in Mississippi. John D. Rockefeller was born in New York.
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‘Immigrant’ is just a description of how you arrived here. What makes America great — what it’s based on — is the ability for someone who has nothing, like an immigrant, to become something far greater than what he or she started as through hard work and determination. The freedom to be what you want is what America is.
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The left and the politically correct love to tout the value of immigrants today, not because they actually care about immigrants, but because it’s fashionable to do so in this political climate. That, in itself, is the only reason the left currently thinks immigration is so great; they see it as a middle finger to the Trump administration, and they believe they can get use out of immigrants, both legal and illegal, as a voting bloc.
The moment immigration stops being useful to them, Democrats won’t have much to say about this being a “country of immigrants” any longer.
What we are is a country of free men and women, not one of immigrants. It’s fine and dandy to look back and say that immigration is in its roots, but boiling this country down to how well it can virtue signal about immigration is like looking at a well-made steak dinner and saying it’s a meal of salt. There are way more moving parts, and immigrants only make up a fraction of them.
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We haven’t been a nation of immigrants for some time. We are a nation with a lot of immigrants, but not ‘of immigrants.’ We’re certainly not a country based on immigrants either.”
–Brandon Morse.
Venezuela’s economy has been in a free fall for more than 2 decades. The increased pressure by the United States on its narco-trafficking threatens to damage Venezuela further. So naturally, China is throwing Venezuela a lifeline, and stands poised to take over much of its economy. This could very easily lead to a direct conflict between the U.S. and China, in our own hemisphere. Not good. The resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine cannot come soon enough.
Legendary New York Post hockey writer Larry Brooks has died at age 75. R. I. P.
ABC News correspondent James Avila has died at age 69. R. I. P.
I wish all you readers an enjoyable and relaxing weekend. Monday is but 2 days away.
GFK
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