Good morning kids. In noting the passing of the longtime Democrat Rep-robate from Arizona Raul Grijalva, considering some of the items making news this morning , perhaps the word of the day is harbinger. And he's the second one to join the choir invisible in a week. A few notes from his rap sheet at the invaluable DiscovertheNetworks:
Former Democrat Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Former member of MECha, which seeks to facilitate Mexicos�reconquest of the Southwestern U.S.
Former leader of the Raza Unida Party
Supporter of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens
Hmm, racist and insurrectionist groups! Vaya con... something Raul. Certainly not Dios, since he is heading south of the border - between the lithosphere and the 9th circle of you know where. Let's leave it at that, but from my perspective we need more Wallenbergs, and no more Grijallvas.
With Democrats threatening to force a partial government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being confronted with a warning he delivered just last year.
The �Rapid Response� account on X for President Donald Trump�s White House posted on Thursday a �flashback� clip of Schumer�s remarks from September � when the top Democrat pinned a potential shutdown at that time on Republicans. �If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely on Social Security could be thrown into chaos �� Schumer said.
�So what changed, Chuck?� the White House account asked. . . �The Trump Derangement Syndrome continues,� said Sen. Thom Thillis (R-NC). �One of the first things Democrats did when they controlled the Senate was to make a failed push to nuke the filibuster because [Joe] Biden was President. Now they are shamefully filibustering and on the verge of shutting down the government to appease their radical base because Trump is President.� Elon Musk, who is overseeing the Trump administration�s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), replied: �Paging 2024 Schumer ��
The Democrats for years as we all know have shrieked about how shutting down the government will cause death and destruction from coast to coast, unless they get to raid the treasury to fund their bureaucracy (the real doomsday machine as we all know. So now the Democrats are having to swallow their own bullshit rhetoric about shutting down the government lest the public finally understand how generally unnecessary thbulk of the federal government is. And that only reinforces what DOGE is all about. And, so long as Mike Johnson and the GOP don't cave (a tall order) they have the chance at accomplishing in Congress what w is their duty, in slashing the budget and size of government through the budgetary process. One way or another, a lot of politicians are going to be foisted on petards of their or Trump's making!
But here's Chip Diller insisting that everything's under control!
To me, it sounds like a nail bragging about its rivalry with a hammer. (Or a bag of doughnuts bragging about its rivalry with Lizzo.) But nonetheless, here we are:�
�We have the Republicans on the run!� announced House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Turns out the Democrats aren�t just bravely battling back against President Trump. They�re actually winning � and now Old Man Trump is running scared!
In a call with party leaders, Jeffries described Trump�s recent speech to Congress as �one of the most divisive speeches by a president in American history� and predicted, because of the economy, MAGA�s end was nigh:
Keep huffing those whippets Hakeem.
Of course, when cornered, Democrats go to their strength: Incite violence. Do I really have to quote slithering vermin like Maxine Waters and Jeff Merkley? It's in the links for those who really need to get their blood boiling.
And talk like that gets the blood flowing, mostly from knife and bullet wounds inflicted on peaceful law-abiding Americans, as well as from bricks hurled a la Ignatz Mouse at Krazy Kat's head - - prepositioned on pallets from sources unknown. Patel and Bondi need to go after Soros, Antifa and ActBlue because that's where all the violence ultimately begins.
ANd it raises some cromulent questions about the nature of free speech that CBD and I touched on in the latest episode of the podcast, here and in the sidebar.
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