Flotsam and Jetsam - It's Official, Trump Ends the 43 Day Schumer Schutdown

From Fox, Congress sends bill ending longest government shutdown in history to Trump's desk Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, BREAKING: House Passes Funding Bill, 222-209, largely on party lines. I guess most Democrats didn't want the government reopened. Anxious anxiously reports Trump signs bill to end longest-ever government shutdown. Misty Severi at JTN reports It’s over! Trump signs resolution ending record 43-day government shutdown, "The resolution will keep the entire government funded through Jan. 30." Sundance at CTH, House Passes Bill to Reopen Government – President Trump to Sign at 9:45pm. Matt Vespa at TownHall explores How This GOP Senator Reportedly Came Up Clutch During the Talks to End the Schumer Shutdown, Katie Britt. Drew Berquist sees Trump Mocks Schumer’s Collapse: ‘He Thought He Could Break Republicans.’ At PM, 'No Kings' activist group Indivisible will only support Dem Senate candidates that call to cancel Chuck Schumer. "For Senate Candidates: Firmly committed to opposing Schumer as Senate Majority Leader."

John Sexton at Hat Hair fears Republicans Have a Year to Make Progress on Affordability or Republicans Are (Probably) Toast. "Affordability" is getting better, wages are rising faster than inflation, again, finally and gas is coming down, but what people really see are 1) Housing, 2) Energy and 3) Heath Insurance each of which has it's own issues, and largely of government origins. At Am Great, Sen. Mike Lee On Obamacare’s Effect on Health Insurance Costs: It ‘Makes Everyone Else Poor.’ Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee, "Health insurance companies are making money hand over fist—not because they’ve discovered new & innovative ways of making Americans healthier, but because Obamacare insulates them from competition while giving them massive subsidies Downside? Obamacare makes everyone else poor."

Ben Whedon at JTN reports Trump claims Dems reviving Epstein issue to distract from shutdown 'failure' "Democrats produced additional documentation in which the late sex-trafficking kingpin mentioned Trump this week." Matt Margolis at PJM explains why The Democrats’ Latest Trump-Epstein 'Bombshell' Actually Vindicates Trump. Oversight Committee @GOPoversight, "Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn't redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee? It's because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump. Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump. Shame on them." Quote Oversight Dems @OversightDems, "BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "And the other emails are 1) Epstein admitting Trump booted them, and 2) Michael Wolff suggesting blackmail over flying on the plane. I know I criticize Trump sometimes (a lot the last day), but I do so out of honesty. And the honest answer is people are misleading with these. Quote Greg Price @greg_price1, "Democrats intentionally redacted the name of the "victim" in the Epstein emails they released. The unreacted version shows that it was Virginia Guiffre." Becca Lower at RedState thinks The Guests Dem AZ Rep Grijalva Invited to Her Swearing-in Ceremony Exposes Lefty Outrage As Cynical Stunt. "Two Jeffrey Epstein victim-survivors. Because, of course:" ABC, Johnson says House will vote on releasing Epstein files next week.

From Da Caller, Trump Achieves Most Bipartisan Move Yet: Putting An End To Pennies. Bipartisan you say? Althouse finds "President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to cancel penny production unilaterally, as he has done." ""The task should have begun with Congress, not only for constitutional reasons, but for practical ones. Congressional deliberation would have facilitated solutions for the problems inherent in eliminating a coin that’s existed since 1793. Retailers want a new law that would allow them to round prices to the nearest nickel for cash transactions, which probably would have been included in penny legislation...." Says the Editorial Board of The Washington Post, in "The penny is dead. Long live inflation. The U.S. has stopped making cents. Declining purchasing power will make us penniless."" Actually, the Sec of the Treasury (Scott Bessent) has authority over minting coins, and he takes his orders from Trump. FWIW, in anticipation of the minting of the final pennies, I dug out the old blue coin books from the collection my grandfather started for me way back when. I have Lincoln's from 1909, including the VDB (but not the highly prized S-VDB). I went and bought a couple new albums to cover the many years we weren't actively looking. Going though the penny jar (which is mostly nickels, dimes and quarters) I managed to get recent years mostly up to date. I haven't found any 2025s yet, but other than a few Ds (it takes them a while to get across the continent by Brownian motion), and figuring out the confusing mess in 1982, when they switched from copper to copper clad zinc, and changed the size of the dates all in one year they're pretty well filled in. I wonder if any of the grandkids will want it?

Althouse dreams of Trump, "I dreamed I was on a train, the subway kind of train where you face people sitting on the other side, and Trump was right across from me. He started reading The Gettysburg Address…." "That's what I texted Meade just now, so then I pasted the statement in Grok. Didn't ask Grok to do anything with it, certainly not to write it up into a short short story, but that's what it did:"

CNN whines UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break. Screw 'em, we supported their shitty little war in the Falkland Islands.

Stephen Kruiser worries Kamala Harris Is Now Sniffing the Paste Before She Eats It, she claims to have been playing 3d-chess while Trump was playing checkers. She actually lost 50 state Tic-tac-toe. 

Insty, at his NYPo gig says The WaPo’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late. At the Freep, Mamdani and the New Racism "Anti-Jewish libels are a social technology reshaping everything around us." Fox Bus, New York and New Jersey lose hundreds of billions in resident income as Americans flee to low-tax states "Florida and Texas emerge as biggest winners in decade-long migration shift that reshapes American economy."

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " BREAKING: Rep. Jasmine Crockett demands all 50 states ABOLISH Dominion voting machines because she fears Donald Trump and Republicans will rig the coming elections. https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1987977743020298573/video/1 "It's going to be really important for us to educate all states that we can to make sure that their secretary of states are like, 'We don't want the Dominion machines…’ I think that they're trying to solidify their cheat potentially with the voting machines!” Holy smokes. You gotta be kidding me I’m sure Republicans are in SHAMBLES that Ghetto Crockett wants to reject voting machines (something Trump literally wants). PAPER and SAME DAY!" Da Signal thinks she's In Hot Water: Jasmine Crockett Faces Probe Over Conflicting Financial Disclosures. From AOL, Left-Wing Radio Host Literally Kisses Feet Of Jasmine Crockett In Deranged Act Of ‘Worship.’

Capt. Ed sees the Irony: ‘No Kings’ Dems Try Desperately to Revive Kennedy Dynasty … Again "Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, announced he will run for Congress next year. In a social media post late Tuesday, Schlossberg said he would be seeking the Democratic nomination to replace longtime Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District. Nadler, a leading liberal figure for the Democratic Party in Congress, said in September that he would not seek reelection. ..." Jon Gabriel @exjon, "If he gets a Nazi tatt, this guy's a shoo-in." Quote Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC "Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy grandson running for Congress, tweeted about drinking "Jew Blood" and semen in offensive dig at his second-cousin RFK Jr. "

 

Guy Benson @guypbenson "Loathsome. He’s actually telling *parents* who want choices about their own kids’ education (his family can do whatever it wants because they’re loaded) to “f_ck all the way off.”" Quote Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey, "Governor J.B. Pritzker attacked school choice and said its supporters "can F*CK ALL THE WAY OFF." He went to private school. He sent his kids to private school." Dave Strom asserts Pritzker Is Worse Than Newsom. It's a high bar. He can't jump it but he can waddle under it. From OTP, Prosecutors Say Ex-Hochul Aide Spied For China, Bought Mansion, Ferrari With CCP Payments.

Althouse cites Fetterman, "The Right would say really rough things and names ... but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that 'We're cheering for your next stroke' ... they even have a gif where they have a stroke in your head."

At Twitchy, a Stand-Up Comedian Tells Dems How to Fix Their Messaging Problem With One Joke “And listen, I’ve had progressive friends who have pulled me aside and said, ‘Hey, you should reconsider that. It’s a hurtful phrase, it implies that someone’s existence is illegal. … And I listened to them. I’m not an asshole about this stuff. I went around the country, and Canada, and Australia, using the term ‘undocumented immigrant.’ And you know what happened? Stopped getting laughs. So I had to go back to my progressive friends and be like, ‘I’m sorry. Unlike you guys, I have to win the popular vote.’”

From the Chronic, Our Imperial Judiciary. Shipwreckedcrew says The Speed At Which Federal Judges Are Waging Lawfare To Stop The Trump Administration is Jaw-Dropping. "Worried that your federal lawsuit will drag on for years? No problem -- just add the Trump Administration as a defendant and the judges will drop everything else to rule in your favor." Stephen Kruiser has hopes, Will SCOTUS Bring a Modicum of Sanity to Mail-In Ballot Madness? CNN crows Judge orders release of hundreds arrested in Illinois immigration crackdown. News Wax, Leavitt: 'Unhinged' Judge Tried to Dictate SNAP Spending. Atop Da Hill, Utah judge rejects GOP-favored map, handing Dems another redistricting win and Trump asks Supreme Court to toss E. Jean Carroll sex abuse verdict.

Ace woke up and realized Trump Pardoned 77 American Citizens Unjustly Targeted by the Fully Weaponized Deep State "Good. The same people whining that prosecuting James Comey for his long, sustained career of perjuring himself before Congress is "politically vindictive" are the exact same people demanding that run of the mill protesters and their lawyers be jailed for dissent. These people were part of the "alternative electors" scheme -- a legal theory which may well be doubtful, but it has never been illegal, until now, to attempt a doubtful legal theory." Amanda Head at JTN thinks Trump's pardons could bolster defense in state Jan. 6 cases under Supremacy Clause "Trump repeatedly pledged during his 2024 campaign to review cases and address perceived injustices in the prosecutions of January 6 defendants, whom he referred to as “hostages.” As many as 100 defendants have waited for more than four years to have their day in court." From LifeZette, Deep State Panics as Prosecutors Quit Amid New Trump-Russia Origins Investigation. Da Wire, Shutdown Deal Packs A Surprise As Republicans Strike Back After Phone Snooping, "The provision was included in one of the shutdown spending packages passed Monday night." Sundance at CTH, Representative Austin Scott (GA) Blasts Senate Republicans for Paying Themselves Millions in Retroactive Penalties Within Hidden Clause in CR Bill "Buried on page 217 of the Senate Continuing Resolution Bill [TEXT HERE], Republican Senators have inserted legislation to “retroactively” pay themselves $500,000 each for every line of communication, telephone record, email or other electronic communication, subpoenaed by the Jack Smith Special Counsel during the Arctic Frost investigation."

John Solomon at JTN, ‘Clinton Corruption Files’: Bondi, Patel unleash new evidence about former first family foundation "Officials say evidence sent to Congress raises fresh concerns that government officials kept evidence from prosecutors."

John Sexton, Antifa Rally Outside a Berkeley TPUSA Event (Update).Matt Vespa, Absolute Mayhem Broke Out During TPUSA Event at UC Berkeley. Nick Arama at RedState, AAG Dhillon Lowers the Boom on UC Berkeley After TPUSA Violence. Amy Curtis at TownHall, AAG Harmeet Dhillon Puts UC Berkeley on Notice Following Violent Antifa Attack on TPUSA Event. AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon "We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case. The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA." Nick Sortor @nicksortor, "BREAKING: Antifa has turned Turning Point’s event at UC Berkeley in California into an absolute WARZONE Munitions are being lit on fire by Antifa while attendees are rushed into the venue ENOUGH! ANTIFA’S REIGN OF TERROR MUST END!" NewsWax reports RNC Responded to 28 Bomb Threats During '25 Election. 

NYPo, Cops called to Letitia James’ Virginia homes two dozen times since she bought them. 

At Da Caller, Spy Agencies Cozied Up To Wuhan Virologist Before Lying About Pandemic.

Bob Hoge at RedState, 'Red-Handed': Sean Duffy Yanking an Astonishing 17,000 Illegal Trucker's Licenses in Gavin Newsom's CA. Dave Strom, County Fighting to Keep Employing Illegal Aliens as Prison Guards, Seattle. From WokeSpy, Stephen Miller Drops a Massive Immigration Truth Bomb on Jesse Watters. “If you take Haiti and you move it to America, it’s not going to work here. Somalia doesn’t work as a country, has never worked as a country. You take Somalia out of Somalia, you put it here, it’s not going to work any better.” Hans India, Mexican president rejects new US border wall construction. That's too damn bad. Dave Strom again, AWFL Convinced That She Can Break the Law Because 'I'm Just a Mom'. Matt Vespa, FAFO: Lib Karen Got a Rude Wake-Up Call After Messing With ICE Agents.

At TNP, Trump Plans to Sue BBC for Defamation Over Doctored Jan 6 Speech. Grummz @Grummz,"They are really trying to run with the "editorial mistake" He goes on to say that the edit didn't change the message at all, and that this is all a political hit job on the BBC. You do NOT hate journalists enough." Quote Times Radio @TimesRadio, "“It’s a concerted, full frontal assault on the BBC for what was absolutely an editorial mistake.” The BBC’s “political and commercial enemies” are using the doctoring of Trump’s speech to undermine the institution, says @StevenJBarnett." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "Did they consider not lying for political gain?" Quote Brian Stelter @brianstelter, "The BBC is feeling the Trump squeeze. It's a move we have seen several times this year against vulnerable media companies" Erick Florack at PJM, NPR/PBS and Now the BBC: The Problem of Government-Funded Media. Richard Fernandez at PJM at the Belmont Club: When You Can't Take the High Hand. David Burge @iowahawkblog, "I grew up in a small rural community, and I distinctly remember back in '73 how shocked all the grownups were to turn on PBS and learn about World War II for the first time" Quote The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline, "Filmmaker @KenBurns discusses why the Trump administration killed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with @JohnAvlon: "It'll hurt mostly rural communities — maybe that's their intention. There'll be news deserts."" Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux, "No. The BBC was trying to change the outcome of the US election by consciously lying. If you don’t understand why that might piss Americans off, I don’t know what to tell you." Quote Ian L Richardson@ianrich15813274, "The BBC made a stupid mistake & should apologise. Beyond that, Trump is now trying to extort money from every BBC license fee payer in the UK. No way, should we give this utterly unworthy man a dime." Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "Have you noticed that whenever the press does anything bad, your “two cents” is always that it’s the fault of the “right wing” for noticing, that it doesn’t actually matter, and that, in fact, the real problem is that people are criticizing journalists?" Quote Brian Stelter @brianstelter, "Replying to @brianstelter, "As a source at the BBC remarked to me, Britain's right-wing press has been "feasting like vultures" over the bad edit for days on end. And the corporation's response was feeble at best, enabling conservative critics to advance their long-running campaign against the broadcaster."

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED “The Trump admin removed a memorial for black soldiers” Only when you scroll alllll the way down do they admit that it actually works on a rotation and a panel which happened to feature a black servicemember was simply rotated. You don’t hate the media enough." Ace, To Honor Veterans Day, the Repulsive Traitor Media Launches a Military-Cemetery Race Hoax "Wait, another race hoax? Didn't we just have a race hoax? The black student who was "lynched" by white supremacists at a black college? Except there was videotape showing him hanging himself? And his roommate immediately went out to the press and said, "no, he wasn't lynched, he's been suicidal for months"? Oh well, this is a brand-new race hoax. Hope you like it! It's MAGA Country in the graveyard!

At Pirate Wires, Inside The Sydney Sweeney GQ Interview From Hell "wherein sydney, who evidently has a voluptuous iq, stares into the depths of a gotcha reporter's soul instead of apologizing for being hot." Ace, The GQ Clips of the Sydney Sweeney Struggle Session Were Misleading. "The Full Interview is Worse." From Hollywood in Toto, Billy Bob Thornton Mocks Political Celebrities "'Landman' star cites Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes rant on Joe Rogan podcast." 

Wokal Distance @wokal_distance, "I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: My 11 year old son son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents orientation night which was held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious to me why young men rage against the larger social system. . . " Read it and weep.

Da Times, Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events "IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male." Dave Strom thinks it's Hilarious: Olympics To Ban 'Trans' Athletes After It 'Discovers' That Males Have Physical Advantages. At WJ, School Cannot Force Students to Use Trans Pronouns, Federal Court Rules.

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