Well, I was certainly wrong about the GOP possibly caving to the Ds in the shutdown. Now looks to be the opposite. I’m pleasantly surprised by the intestinal fortitude by the GOP. And having fun seeing the now radical base of the Ds foaming at the mouth at the “traitors”.
The Democrats didn’t want to go to Christmas
They ( the Democrats) are playing up to the Midterms. They have probably made a mistake
Too early.
Where is this dunes park exactly? It’s a more northern part of Brazil’s coastline, though still a ways south of French Guiana. It’s between Sao Luis and Parnaiba.
I thought I had seen something vaguely similar reading exposés on hot windsurfing spots across the world. Just 100 miles or so east, or downcoast from the dunes park, is Jericoacoara park which one of those spots.
@physicguy:Well, I was certainly wrong about the GOP possibly caving to the Ds in the shutdown. Now looks to be the opposite.
We’re being told this, but I haven’t seen anyone actually say they know what’s in the bill, and if it’s not the same thing already passed by the House then it has to pass the House yet.
All I see is bloggers quoting each other or politicians.
Before the weekend bloggers were repeating the legacy media narrative that the shutdown was hurting the GOP more, and now they’ve turned on a dime and are saying that the Dems are caving. I don’t think those can both be true, or that any reality has changed in three days.
Dems ask for cloture on a spending bill while R’s have a majority in both houses was unprecedented and would have caused no end of headaches for Republicans going forward if they caved. And we know from cold, hard experience that Republicans cannot win a government shutdown. For the R team, it was hold out, end the filibuster, or allow Democrats to essentially govern from the minority.
In a world where Republicans cannot get significant policy concessions from shutting down the government, I’m happy that Dems are now in the same boat.
Who is this “we” that CC™ speaks about having cold hard fancies?
(White House account, hosted by VP Vance, 3:42 min)
Once this shutdown is all sorted out – hopefully to the detriment of the
demonkrats – the dumbpublicans had best figure out how they will win the midterm elections in 2026.
If the Dems take the house and/or senate , Trump will be prevented from doing anything at all and perhaps, yet again, the Dems will impeach him.
It occurred to me that if the Dems were able to re-write the Constitution, it would look nothing at all like the original US Constitution. If the dumbpublicans were to re-write the Constitution, it probably would look very similar to the one we now have.
@ JohnTyler > “If the dumbpublicans were to re-write the Constitution, it probably would look very similar to the one we now have.”
Then the REPUBLICANS are not really all that dumb, are they?
An interesting comment from one of Matt Taibbi’s posts about Mamdani’s election.
https://www.racket.news/p/response-to-reader/comment/174091293
Robzo
“I was never a socialist. No one with my background could be.” [quoting Matt]
This reminds me of an anecdote that was well-known (albeit possibly apocryphal) in the USSR, concerning a diplomat from an African country who had enrolled his son at Moscow University. When he was asked, “Why would you do that, when you could send your son to any of the top schools in the UK or the US?” “Because I am quite certain that after a few years at Oxford my son would embrace Communism. After having lived in the Soviet Union for a few years, there will be little chance of that.”
“The Department of Justice is investigating whether Schiff falsified bank documents and property records to fraudulently secure favorable mortgage terms on his Maryland home while claiming a California condo as his residence during his 2023 Senate campaign.”
My biggest question in this case has always been WHY the loan company officials accepted the false declaration on the Maryland property KNOWING (as they must have) that Schiff had to have his primary residence in the state that elected him.
Somebody at the bank needs a perp walk as well.
My second biggest question, although somewhat rhetorical, is about the mindset of these politicians who can’t ever seem to have enough money, despite the rather generous emoluments of their offices, but feel they have to get more more more, even if that involves breaking laws to do it.
Narcissism, greed, entitlement? All of the above?
Or believing that they are, at the very least, Princes and Princesses.
Well, I was certainly wrong about the GOP possibly caving to the Ds in the shutdown. Now looks to be the opposite. I’m pleasantly surprised by the intestinal fortitude by the GOP. And having fun seeing the now radical base of the Ds foaming at the mouth at the “traitors”.
The Democrats didn’t want to go to Christmas
They ( the Democrats) are playing up to the Midterms. They have probably made a mistake
Too early.
Where is this dunes park exactly? It’s a more northern part of Brazil’s coastline, though still a ways south of French Guiana. It’s between Sao Luis and Parnaiba.
I thought I had seen something vaguely similar reading exposés on hot windsurfing spots across the world. Just 100 miles or so east, or downcoast from the dunes park, is Jericoacoara park which one of those spots.
@physicguy:Well, I was certainly wrong about the GOP possibly caving to the Ds in the shutdown. Now looks to be the opposite.
We’re being told this, but I haven’t seen anyone actually say they know what’s in the bill, and if it’s not the same thing already passed by the House then it has to pass the House yet.
All I see is bloggers quoting each other or politicians.
Before the weekend bloggers were repeating the legacy media narrative that the shutdown was hurting the GOP more, and now they’ve turned on a dime and are saying that the Dems are caving. I don’t think those can both be true, or that any reality has changed in three days.
Dems ask for cloture on a spending bill while R’s have a majority in both houses was unprecedented and would have caused no end of headaches for Republicans going forward if they caved. And we know from cold, hard experience that Republicans cannot win a government shutdown. For the R team, it was hold out, end the filibuster, or allow Democrats to essentially govern from the minority.
In a world where Republicans cannot get significant policy concessions from shutting down the government, I’m happy that Dems are now in the same boat.
Who is this “we” that CC™ speaks about having cold hard fancies?
Happy Birthday USMC, 250! Long may you shout, Semper Fidelis!
https://youtu.be/aTWsLqA2ynQ
(White House account, hosted by VP Vance, 3:42 min)
Once this shutdown is all sorted out – hopefully to the detriment of the
demonkrats – the dumbpublicans had best figure out how they will win the midterm elections in 2026.
If the Dems take the house and/or senate , Trump will be prevented from doing anything at all and perhaps, yet again, the Dems will impeach him.
It occurred to me that if the Dems were able to re-write the Constitution, it would look nothing at all like the original US Constitution. If the dumbpublicans were to re-write the Constitution, it probably would look very similar to the one we now have.
@ JohnTyler > “If the dumbpublicans were to re-write the Constitution, it probably would look very similar to the one we now have.”
Then the REPUBLICANS are not really all that dumb, are they?
An interesting comment from one of Matt Taibbi’s posts about Mamdani’s election.
https://www.racket.news/p/response-to-reader/comment/174091293
Robzo
“I was never a socialist. No one with my background could be.” [quoting Matt]
This reminds me of an anecdote that was well-known (albeit possibly apocryphal) in the USSR, concerning a diplomat from an African country who had enrolled his son at Moscow University. When he was asked, “Why would you do that, when you could send your son to any of the top schools in the UK or the US?” “Because I am quite certain that after a few years at Oxford my son would embrace Communism. After having lived in the Soviet Union for a few years, there will be little chance of that.”
And in the Good News department, we have this:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/11/10/senate-braces-for-adam-schiffs-indictment-n4945816
“The Department of Justice is investigating whether Schiff falsified bank documents and property records to fraudulently secure favorable mortgage terms on his Maryland home while claiming a California condo as his residence during his 2023 Senate campaign.”
My biggest question in this case has always been WHY the loan company officials accepted the false declaration on the Maryland property KNOWING (as they must have) that Schiff had to have his primary residence in the state that elected him.
Somebody at the bank needs a perp walk as well.
My second biggest question, although somewhat rhetorical, is about the mindset of these politicians who can’t ever seem to have enough money, despite the rather generous emoluments of their offices, but feel they have to get more more more, even if that involves breaking laws to do it.
Narcissism, greed, entitlement? All of the above?
Or believing that they are, at the very least, Princes and Princesses.
Lessons learned and not learned…
Remember Aldo Moro?
(Who?)
“Red Brigades Terrorist Dies at 72, But Is the Revolutionary Zeal Dead?”—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/red-brigades-terrorist-braghetti-dies-moro-revolutionary-violence-marxism-leninism/
+ Bonus:
The No Pasaran blog is, fortunately, back and it’s on a roll:
https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/
E.g.,
‘Useful Idiots: His Intellectual Mother’s “love for Russia was real, visceral”; a French writer admits that she “was particularly blind”‘—
https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2025/11/his-intellectual-mothers-love-for.html