@ForecasterEnten
To paraphrase Dennis Green, Trump is who voters thought he was. The majority (52%) say he has done what he promised to do. His favorable rating is basically the same as it was a year ago (just before he won re-election). The generic ballot has barely moved from last year.
10:49 AM · Oct 7, 2025
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https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1975574151076385094
=JENNY BETH MARTIN: Use The Shutdown Crisis To Reorder The Federal Government==
Jenny Beth Martin October 6, 20254:54 PM ET1/2
As Washington adapts to the realities of its latest government showdown,the memo circulated last week by OMB Director Russ Vought offers a rare glimpse of clarity in the chaos.Vought’s instruction to federal agency heads to prepare reduction-in-force (RIF) plansin the event of a shutdown signals a bold – and long overdue – move to realign the federal workforce with the priorities of the Trump administration, which, after all, was put in place as the choice of the people.Rather than passively treat a shutdown as an interruption, the President should seize it as an opportunityto recalibrate which parts of government deserve to endure, and which should be scaled back or eliminated entirely.
In previous lapses in appropriations, the standard playbook has been furloughs: agencies halt nonessential work, employees temporarily see pay suspended and resume once funding is restored.The Vought memo explicitly goes further. Itdirects agencies to target programs whosefunding will lapse==, have no alternative funding source, and are not consistent with the President’s priorities, and to prepare RIF notices in addition to standard furlough protocols.
This is not mere brinkmanship. It is a recognitionthat the federal behemoth has swelled for decades, often carrying on activity for political, not constitutional, reasons. A government shutdown offers arare forcing mechanism. Congress either acts or it concedes that not all programs are equally deserving of survival. By demanding that agencies draw up RIF plans, Vought is imposing discipline on Washington’s usual tendency toward incremental drift.
Some will denounce this as “cruel” and “reckless.” But in a government of limited powers,the truly cruel thingis to expect American taxpayers to underwrite every initiative favored by interest groups. The alternative iscreeping paralysis: rising debt and a federal workforce bloated with priority-less – and, in many cases, unconstitutional – missions.
Moreover, the memo wisely instructs that once appropriations are restored,agencies should revise their RIFs to retain “the minimal number of employees necessary to carry out statutory functions.” The clause guards against permanent overcutting while emphasizing that the baseline should be the statute, not bloated tradition or administrative inertia.
The logic is straightforward:
First, not all federal tasks areequally vital. The Constitution does not demand federal meddling in every niche domain; in fact, the Constitution protects against much of that meddling.A selective RIF process forces agencies to prioritize what the administration deems essential and shed peripheral or overlapping functions.
Second, shutdowns should not be cost-free for every program. If a program cannot show statutory backing or alignment with presidential objectives, it is fair to assume it would survive a budget fight only on political inertia.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/10/06/jenny-beth-martin-use-the-shutdown-crisis-to-reorder-the-federal-government/
(So ultimately the Trump’s Team and Republicans in Congress and Senate, were wishing for a shut down, andthe Democrats gave them what the Admin wantedto get rid of dead weight and waste in all Agencies. Plus they got an extra bonus, they can blame the Shut Down on the Democrats and they get blamed for trying to destroy Americans and the things they need.KEK)
2/2read the whole article, you will the Real Plan from the beginning, really well written.
Third, a one-time pruning can reset expectations. Once Congress sees that theadministration is serious about shedding unwanted responsibilities, the political calculus will shift – forcing interest groups who once enjoyed protection to justify their presence rather than taking it for granted.
Of course, the devil lies in execution.The RIF process is legally complex. Agencies must consider a variety of factors, including performance, seniority, veterans’ preference, appeal rights, and retention registers under civil-service law. Still, if only a subset of proposals survives legal or logistical barriers, the signal will matter.
Opponents will charge this is a political hostage tactic. But politics is the business of government.Congress has repeatedly refused to address the unsustainable growth of federal agencies. If a sustained shutdown becomes inevitable, the president should seize the opportunity and wield it with purpose.
Some softening from the memo may occur in practice, but that is acceptable.A disciplined reset does not require maximum carnage. Over time, the administration could refine and defend its choices rather than retreat entirely. Viewed correctly, the threatenedRIFsare not simply punishing agencies or employees, they area tool of realignment and accountability.
In the coming days, members of Congress should facethis stark question: do they wish a full-throated defense of Washington’s floor ofagencies, or do they accept what priorities – border enforcement, economic growth, defense –must come first?If Democrats refuse to fund the government without defending every interest,Republicans should be preparedto let lapse the funding of the nonessential. The Vought memo gives them a structure to do so responsibly.
In short, a government shutdown, when handled shrewdly, is not merely a crisis to avoid – it is a rare mechanism of choice. Vought’s directive opens the door for the Trump administration to choose which functions matter and which have outlived their justification (if they ever had one to begin with).
If implemented with discipline and legal care, this shutdown couldbe one of the Trump administration’s more consequential movesin shrinking the administrative state and reimposing executive coherence. Let the next few days or even weeks be the crucible in which Washington priorities are set, not shuffled.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/10/06/jenny-beth-martin-use-the-shutdown-crisis-to-reorder-the-federal-government/
Meme Anons, could you make this meme idea: Putin Russ's Vought a lantern hand, and him riding a horse, shouting the "Shut Down" has come, now we Must chop the waste radical waste and abuse and the left from the government. Or add whatever words you want.
Senate GOP Confirms Herschel Walker, 106 Others In Massive Single Vote After Backlog
Adam Pack October 7, 20255:51 PM ET
The Senate confirmed 108 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in a single voteon Tuesday evening, significantly clearing the backlog of the president’s picks awaiting floor consideration.
Senators voted along party lines to approve the large group of nominees, which included former football star and ex-Senate candidate Herschel Walker and former White House personnel director Sergio Gor. The mass confirmation of the president’s pickscomes after Senate Republicans changed chamber precedent to expedite the confirmation process, citing months of unprecedented obstruction from Senate Democrats.
Trump has nearly 300 civilian nominees confirmed following the massive group vote.
The 108 individuals confirmed Tuesday include ambassadors, U.S. attorneys and assistant secretaries, who will staff vacant positions across the executive branch.
Walker will serve as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, while Gor will be Trump’s ambassador to India. The bloc of nominees also includes former President of the National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd, who will serve as the U.S ambassador to Chile.
Trump’s undersecretary of the Navy nominee Hung Cao was originally supposed to be part of the bloc, but was confirmed individually on Oct. 1 due to opposition from Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. SenateGOP leadership has limited the nominees== who can be confirmed in a group vote to those who have the support of all Senate Republicans and pass out of committee with bipartisan support.
The Senate confirmed 48 of Trump’s nominees during an en bloc vote in September. The bloc included U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle and U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Callista Gingrich.
Guilfoyle is the former Fox News personality and ex-fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. Mrs. Gingrich is the wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Trump, in his second term, is the first president in roughly a century to not have a single nominee confirmed via voice vote or unanimous consent. Democrats justified their delay tactics in the confirmation process by arguing that “historically bad nominees deserved historic levels of scrutiny.”
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/10/07/senate-gop-confirms-herschel-walker-107-others-in-massive-single-vote-after-backlog/
Why did the Republicans fucking waited until the shutdown down, they waisted 9 months to apply this? The Republicans were as responsible for the delays, along with the Democrats.
BREAKING: Arrest made in connection with deadly Palisades fire(There cannot be just one arson. There is no way it can be one person, it had to be planned by a group)
Bill Essayli, acting U.S. attorney in California, and other officials provided information regarding the arrest of the alleged arsonist who officials believe started deadly Palisades fire in January.
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https://youtu.be/vrijhzi9XUo
John Kennedy Goes Nuclear Over Jack Smith Allegedly Monitoring GOP Senators’ Phones
Jason Cohen October 8, 20259:32 AM ET
Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy expressed outrage on Tuesday over former special counsel Jack Smith allegedly monitoring the communications of multiple Republican senators.
While Kennedy was not on the list of those reportedly affected, Smith allegedly monitored the phone calls and personal messages of Republican senators, including Josh Hawley of Missouri, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, during his probe of President Donald Trump’s efforts to contest the 2020 presidential election outcome, Fox News reported on Monday. Kennedy said on Fox Business’ “The Bottom Line” that he was horrified by the allegations and demanded answers.
WATCH: https://rumble.com/embed/v6xueku/?pub=4
“When I first heard about this story, I thought it was satire. I thought it was some nonsense on TikTok. I’m appalled. It’s unconscionable. It really is breathtaking,” Kennedy said. “This is a special counsel of the Department of Justice who sought and received the phone records of eight sitting United States senators. The telephone companies just turned them over.”
“We have no idea what the predicate was — why the FBI and the Justice Department and Mr. Smith were asking for the records,” he continued. “We only found out about it because of a whistleblower. I’m shocked that Smith — I thought he was smarter than this. I mean, I’ve got rocks in my driveway that are smarter than this.”
Kennedy called for “a separate hearing” featuring testimony from Smith, former Attorney General Merrick Garland and former FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“Mr. Smith may plead the Fifth Amendment. If I were he, I probably would, because this is serious as four heart attacks and stroke,” he said. “This is the sort of thing that happens in a country whose Powerball jackpot is 287 chickens and a goat. This doesn’t happen in America.”
Kennedy said the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to investigate the allegations. He added that if they choose to prosecute, the Senate Judiciary Committee — on which he sits — might need to “back off” rather than hold a hearing.
“We’re going to get to the bottom of this and I can promise you this — I’ve talked to all eight of the senators,” Kennedy said. “You’re going to see some civil lawsuits filed, particularly against these telephone companies who just willingly turned over the records without trying to quash any subpoena that they got.”
“I’m not telling them whether to prosecute someone or if … it ought to be this person or that person. I’m telling them to follow the law,” he added. “Follow the law. And I want to know why Jack Smith thought that he could go seek the phone records of eight sitting United States senators. I want to know.”
The monitoring occurred as part of the Arctic Frost probe and allegedly involved calls regarding plans to challenge the certification of 2020 electoral votes, Fox News reported.
“It is a disgrace that I have to stand on Capitol Hill and reveal this — that the FBI was once weaponized to track the private communications of U.S. lawmakers for political purposes,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told Fox News Digital. “That era is over.”
Moreover, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa posted a document from the FBI on X Monday including the list of senators who were allegedly targeted.
“BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE,” Grassley wrote.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/10/08/john-kennedy-goes-nuclear-over-jack-smith-allegedly-monitoring-gop-senators-phones/
John Kennedy Goes Nuclear Over Jack Smith Allegedly Monitoring GOP Senators' Phones
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https://rumble.com/embed/v6xueku/?pub=4
Sen. Kennedy: Schumer is as nervous as a pregnant nun
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the latest on the effort to reopen the government as the Senate remains in a shutdown stalemate and his new book, 'How to Test Negative for Stupid
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https://youtu.be/XVd-i-aIEY4
Sen. Kennedy: Schumer is as nervous as a pregnant nun
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the latest on the effort to reopen the government as the Senate remains in a shutdown stalemate. Kennedy saw this in Bidan's first year, so his dementia didn't come in the 2nd and 3rd year.
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https://rumble.com/embed/v6xud9i/?pub=4
El-Sayed calls Oct. 7 fundraising email a mistake
The Michigan Democrat was criticized for an email that did not mention Hamas’ attack on Israel. Democrats desperate are backing El-Sayed, he wants him in US Senate!
Nicholas Wu
10/08/2025, 10:02am ET
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed called a fundraising email that went out on the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel a mistake in a statement provided first to POLITICO.
“That email mistakenly went out yesterday. Abdul has been clear and consistent: he holds equally valuable the lives of all innocent people and condemns violence against them,” said spokesperson Roxie Richner.
The fundraising email from El-Sayed’s campaign started by marking that “Two years ago this month,Netanyahu’s military launched a ground invasion of Gaza. Since then, the world has watched tragedy unfold in real time.”
It drew condemnation from many on the right and some Democrats, who criticized it for omitting any mention of Hamas’ attack on Israel at the outset of the war. El-Sayed put out a separate statement on the two-year anniversary of the conflict Tuesday condemning Hamas’ “heinous attack on Oct. 7" and also condemning Israel’s “horrific genocide on Gaza.”
The Israel-Hamas war could becomea major flashpoint in the Michigan Senate race, with Democrats believing the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee could intervene in the contest. The group’s political arm has previously backed Rep. Haley Stevens, who’s also vying for the Senate nomination, during her time in Congress.
State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, the third major candidate in the race, recently staked out a new stance on the conflict and said she believed Israel’s war in Gaza was a genocide.
El-Sayed had been a backer of Michigan’s “uncommitted” movement during the 2024 election, though he’d said he would still support Democrats over Donald Trump. He ultimately endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential bid.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/08/congress/abdul-el-sayed-oct-7-fundraising-00597671
Senate fails for the sixth time to pass a government funding bill
Both parties are dug in as the shutdown barrels deeper into its second week.
By Jordain Carney and Jennifer Scholtes 10/08/2025, 1:33pm ET
The Senate rejected dueling government funding bills for the sixth time Wednesday amid growing frustration over the shutdown stalemate. The back-to-back votes come as there’s no sign of a quick offramp, with congressional leaders only becoming further entrenched the longer the funding lapse drags on.
Pouring new fuel into the standoff — and catching top Republicans off guard — was a recent suggestion from White House officials that furloughed federal workers might not get back pay. Yet more than a week since lawmakers blew past the deadline to fund government operations, party leaders continue to talk past each other in press conferences, television interviews and social media posts.
“We are in Day Eight of the government shutdown, which is unfortunate and unnecessary and totally at the behest of left-wing Democrats’ special interest groups who have pressured the Democrat leadership into a position that makes absolutely no sense to any thinking person,” Majority Leader John Thune said ahead of the vote.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reiterated that Democrats are ready to discuss both government funding and health care.“This is not an either-or-thing, which Republicans are making it,”Schumer said.
Democrats believe the first step to breaking the impasse involves Republicans at least talking to colleagues across the aisle. Top Republicans, however, are solidified in their stance that there is nothing to negotiate on soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies before reopening the government.
“The only way they’ve communicated is through these AI meme videos*, which is a ridiculous way to run a country,”Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) said in a brief interview. “You get to an outcome by actually talking to each other, not by press conferences, not by silly meme videos.” (*ok Meme makers, flood the Rep Sara Jacobs D-CA, with Memes that are unique to her. She suggested a good idea, "dualling meme videos"I've attached some pics of her)
The House has been out of session since last month, with Speaker Mike Johnson vowing he won’t bring the chamber back until the Senate passes the GOP-led stopgap bill, which funds the government through Nov. 21.
“When the House agrees on something that’s not offensive … you ought to take it with a bow, thank them for it and pass the damn thing,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who served in the House for six years, said in a brief interview. “If we send something more complicated back to the House, I just think we run the risk of it collapsing.”
Thune plans to make the chamber vote as soon as Thursday for the seventh time on both the Republican stopgap and the Democratic alternative, which would run through Oct. 31 and force Republicans’ hands with health care concessions and guardrails around spending. The same, failed outcome for each bill is all but guaranteed.
“You’ve got to ask our Democratic colleagues,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) when asked if he expected a different result.
A bipartisan group of senators are having conversations about what could happen once the government reopens as far as the fate of the ACA credits and the appropriations process, but so far those talks have not garnered enough Democratic support.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/08/congress/senate-government-funding-bill-fails-00598025
Since Ukrainians have never been trained and are too stupid, they are not the ones shooting the missiles, it's American Soldiers stationed there. It's quite obvious the US is fighting with the Ukes.
Eleanor Holmes Norton raises little money for reelection as retirement questions loom
A handful of prominent primary challengers are emerging after Norton represented D.C. in Congress for decades.
Jessica Piper
10/08/2025, 12:50pm ET
Longtime Washington congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton raised just $3,200 for her reelection campaign last quarter, according to a campaign finance report filed Wednesday,as she faces serious primary challengers and questions about her ability to serve in Congress.
Norton, 88, has repeatedly said she will seek reelection next year. But the capital city’s delegate in the House has faced questions about her age amid a broader Democraticreckoning with generational change and doubts from longtime allies as to whether she is fit to serve another term.
She also faces several primary challengers, including two D.C. Council members, Robert White and Brooke Pinto. White previously served as a staffer to Norton. Both campaigns launched recently and have not yet filed reports with the Federal Election Commission, although Pinto’s campaign said she raised more than $300,000 in her first day.
That stands in sharp contrast to Norton. The incumbent’s campaign reported just over $700 raised from individual donors in the third quarter, along with $2,500 from the American Trucking Association. The campaign spent just over $26,000 in the period, primarily on staff salary and fundraising consulting.It also reported $90,000 in debt, all owed to Norton, who previously loaned money to the campaign, and just shy of $6,500 cash on hand.
While Norton has never needed to be a prolific fundraiser, she raised $19,200 from donors over the same period in 2023.
A spokesperson for Norton’s office directed questions about her fundraising to the campaign. A campaign spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions Wednesday afternoon.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/08/congress/eleanor-holmes-norton-reelection-fundraising-00598060
KlausKnowsMe
@KlausKnowsMe
Watch how @katieporteroc:
Watch how @katieporteroc aka “Karen” becomes quickly overwrought during a neutral interview on CBS Sacramento. Reporter, Julie Watts sat down with each candidate for governor of California to ask direct questions on a variety of issues. No one should want THIS for California
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Deloitte caught filing $290k government report with AI errors
The accounting giant has agreed to partially refund Australia’s Labor Department for “hallucinations” in its product
The Australian arm of UK ‘big four’ accounting firm Deloitte has agreed to partially refund the cost of a report it produced for the government in Canberra after the document was found to contain multiple AI-generated factual errors, the Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday.
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)quietlyreplaced the original report, which was published in July, with a revised 237-page version last Friday, just ahead of a long weekend.Officials initially said the update added new information and corrected “some footnotes and references.”
Sydney University academic Chris Rudge had earlierflagged numerous apparent “hallucinations”typical of large language models, prompting Deloitte to launch an internal review in August.
The updated report includes a new disclosure confirming thatAI – specifically Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI GPT-4o model – had been used in its preparation. It also corrects over a dozen errors, including references to anon-existent court ruling and academic papers, as well as afabricated quoteattributed to Justice Jennifer Davies (misspelled “Davis” in the first version), the deputy president of the Australian Competition Tribunal.
Rudge told the Financial Review that Deloitte’s admission transformed whatwas previously “a strong hypothesis” into certainty, even if its confession was “buried in the methodology section.”
A DEWR spokesperson confirmed that Deloitte had “agreed to repay the final installment under its contract,” though the amount was not disclosed. The full study on the computerized application of automated penalties in Australia’s welfare system cost 440,000 Australian dollars (about $290,000).
Rudge, a welfare expert, reportedly firstnoticed something was amiss when the report cited a book supposedly written by his Sydney University colleague Lisa Burton Crawford. The title seemed outside her field of expertise and turned out to not exist at all.
Deloitte tried to get away with it
https://www.rt.com/news/626081-deloitte-ai-hallucinations-report/