Comments on: The shutdown is nearly over

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:03:51 +0000

Correction: Google maps shows nine hours and change.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:20:51 +0000

The airlines have, I suspect, another issue. How far do you have to go to make flying better than driving?
I have some relations who had to go from the Detroit area to Chattanooga. Google maps shows just over nineteen hours driving. That’s google maps. Driving five over, and almost every mile is on I75, takes it down to eight and a fraction. Plus an hour for gas and such like.
So, flying out of Detroit Metro, you leave home when? To get to the airport the required number of hours prior to the flight. Eventually, off you go and in an hour or so, you’re in town. Get luggage, some kind of ground transport–rent, uber, friends–and you’re where you want to be. How much less time than driving? And you can only take what you can carry and/or the airline allows you to check. And your return is fixed, not variable as to local events of other interests.
When you drive, the seats are more comfortable, the company is whom you choose, your food is varied as to whatever choices you want to make. Interests on the way can be addressed. The scenery is better and the restrooms are more spacious and cleaner.
So how far….?

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:59:11 +0000

Aesop
Yes as to sources. Sometimes. But the stuff’s out there. Point is…fingers in ears and LALALALAL is the same as no source.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:03:29 +0000

@ Richard Aubrey – possibly attributable to the “centrists” of both parties (aka not the fanatics of the extremes) having far more sources of information available that the Democrats do not control; and also having a greater awareness of the extent to which Democrats (and their controlled media) lie.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:39:21 +0000

I think one problem is that the republicans didn’t catch the amount of blame–which would result in pressure–that the democrats had counted on.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:10:04 +0000

Shutdown?
SIMPLY because the Democratic Party Grift Machine has been hit—HARD—by MAGA.

(Keeping in mind that for the Democrats, it’s grift, grift, grift all the way down the line.)

And—surprise!—here’s the Obamacare Edition:
“The Obamacare secret at the heart of the shutdown: insurers made billions at taxpayer expense;
“Subsidies were greatly expanded by the Biden administration during the COVID-19 pandemic as an emergency measure, but Democrats have fought to keep them permanent. Those subsidies went mostly to Democratic donors.”—
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/obamacare-secret-heart-shutdown-insurers-got-rich-taxpayer-expense

Yep, DPUSA is the grift that keeps on grifting!
(To paraphrase those thrilling words: “Ask ~~NOT~~ what your country can do for you—ask what YOU can grift from your country!!”)

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:22:50 +0000

OTOH (not that this is actually anything new), maybe Democrats NEED shutdowns every so often so as to distract We the Sheeple from understanding what it is that the Democrats are REALLY doing….

“At What Point Does This Become Treason?”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-point-does-become-treason

Opening grafs:

The color-revolution playbook used by Deep State elites, some of whom are inside the Capital Beltway, has targeted President Trump and the populist movement for nearly a decade. If the White House and its staff fail to figure out how to dismantle these radical left networks, the same dark-money NGOs they declared war on earlier this fall, they risk a MAGA agenda being derailed.

A series of X posts by Jennica Pounds, also known as “DataRepublican,” has captured the attention of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and peeled back new layers of what appears to be the interworkings of at least one color-revolution-style operation orchestrated by Democrats, nonprofit groups, ex-USAID employees, and billionaires to undermine and destabilize President Trump’s MAGA from within….

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:05:36 +0000

“…because they didn’t give the Democrats everything they wanted!”

Indeed, but well, it was only a game, really…
A game of “chicken”…

The Chicken-Little, Sky-is-Falling, Trump-is-Destroying-America Democrats (and their Media-accomplices/fantasists), USING America and Americans as their hostages, playing “chicken” with the Republicans over the citizenry—and FUTURE—of America…

A game Trump decided he wasn’t gonna play…

(Kind of like Hamas playing “chicken” with the Israelis over the hostages, alive AND dead, though actually BOTH Israeli hostages AND Gazan hostages, the citizens of Gaza—no, not all, certainly—being held “hostage” (UN-, EU- et al.-approved hostages, to be sure) by their Hamas overlords/hostage-takers/abusers/murderers par excellence…)

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:59:02 +0000

@ whatever > “The lack of logical consistency doesn’t bother liberals in the least.”

Of course they are consistent!
The Republicans obviously caused the shutdown, because they didn’t give the Democrats everything they wanted!

By: DT

DT — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:01:52 +0000

Not that I’m fond of Republicans but I won’t have anything to do with self-proclaimed Democrats. Keep your mouth shut and I won’t care but how can anyone propose or support the positions the Democrats claim to favor? Mutilating children??? Etc.