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All in a day’s work, friend!

Tl;dr - Trump ruining environment and economy for the whole world, not just the US.

Didn’t see any new stuff besides some stuff from Newsom and the Pope about how it’s probably wrong to let people die and poison the planet.

More of these guys want to keep the “official” post while dropping the “public” part…

Lol who knows? I mean, I’m sure he’s still better than we would have got with Oz, but that presidential run thing made me laugh too. You already lost half the people that voted for you, and as we’ve seen playing across the aisle isn’t getting anyone anywhere.

Yeah, I got Brian Fitzpatrick as my rep, the “#1 Most Bipartisan Member of Congress” for however many years now. Still votes with Trump 51% of the time, and it’s only on money things he’ll break with Republicans on, very rarely ever is it a moral thing.

Meanwhile Fetterman is polling better with Republicans (around 60% favorable) compared to with the Dems (around 50% favorable).

Want to come up with a compromise on farm aid or disaster recovery? Go right ahead. Compromising on genocide and using the military on US soil? You better not reach across the aisle on that if you want my support. Fetterman deserves to be judged by the company he keeps.

Oct 16 - Daily Beast

Top-ranking Democratic Party officials in Pennsylvania are gearing up to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary contest, according to a report.

Big names in the state who could well run against the increasingly embattled incumbent include House Representatives Brendan Boyle and Chris Deluzio, along with former Congressman Conor Lamb, Axios reports, citing multiple inside sources.

Axios added it was not clear whether Fetterman, who is understood to have ambitions of running for the White House, plans to run again for the Senate or the presidency in 2028.

Fetterman texted Axios saying, “enjoy your clickbait!” and requested “please do not contact” in response to follow-up questions. He also shared an article citing him as one of “the least Trump-aligned Democratic lawmakers in the state.”

Yeah, I know there’s been a lot of told-ya-sos, but he tricked enough of us. I’m still glad he’s there rather than Oz, but I hate all these shit people running such a good chunk of the state. PA is pretty cool, and even a lot of the MAGAs I know aren’t usually the worst people, I just hate when they get the power to back up their dumbass talk. I just think we deserve better as a state. But I guess pretty much every state is in a similar mess right now…

We should really get do-overs on our votes when people misrepresent how they are going to vote. The Fetterman I’m getting is quite the opposite of the one I was sold…

On the upside, the CR is dead for now, no thanks to Fetterman.

Guardian

The Republican-controlled Senate has failed to pass a short-term funding bill that would prevent a government shutdown at the end of the month.

Earlier, continuing resolution (CR) cleared the House, but ultimately stalled in the upper chamber – unable to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster.

Democrats remain resolute that they will continue to block any bill if it doesn’t include significant amendments to health care provisions. Today, senator John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, was the lone Democrat to vote for the GOP-drawn CR. While Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul of Kentucky, joined their colleagues across the aisle and voted no.

It’s a $6.2 billion merger between Nexstar and TEGNA that is at stake.

Nexstar already has an almost 40% reach across the US. They’ve been sucking up to Trump this year because they want to merge with TEGNA, which would give them access to 80% of the country. To do this though, regulations need to be dropped to allow them to exceed limits that have been in place for decades to prevent this level of media control. This is the quid-pro-quo for them, as Colbert was for the Paramount merger.

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As Deadline’s Dade Hayes reported, the merger “challenges decade-old limits on control of local media” as the new company would control 265 local TV stations across 44 states and the District of Columbia, representing about 80 percent of American households. This would far exceed the current limit of 39 percent, which has been in place for the past three decades through both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Making his intentions crystal clear shortly after Trump’s 2024 electoral victory that he sought an end to the broadcast station ownership cap, Sook declared in November that he hoped GOP control of government would help usher in an expansion of his company.

SSA is just part of the package. DOGE’s “services” are in exchange for special privileges for Elon’s companies. Removing regulations, worker protections, limits on what can go on in his company town, oversight for whatever nonsense Boring Company gets up to, and so on.

Exactly. They made it very clear that these were just things they felt were obstacles slowing them down from doing as they pleased.

For all the controversy DOGE has generated, its time at the Social Security Administration has not amounted to looming armageddon, as some Democrats warn. What it’s been, as much as anything, is a missed opportunity, according to interviews with more than 35 current or recently departed Social Security officials and staff, who spoke on the condition of anonymity mostly out of fear of retaliation by the Trump administration, and a review of hundreds of pages of internal documents, emails and court records.

The DOGE team, and Bisignano, have prioritized scoring quick wins that allow them to post triumphant tweets and press releases — especially, in the early months, about an essentially nonexistent form of fraud — while squandering the chance for systemic change at an agency that genuinely needs it.

They could have worked to modernize Social Security’s legacy software, the current and former staffers say. They could have tried to streamline the stupefying volume of documentation that many Social Security beneficiaries have to provide. They could have built search tools to help staff navigate the agency’s 60,000 pages of policies. (New hires often need at least three years to master the nuances of even one type of case.) They could have done something about wait times for disability claims and appeals, which often take over a year.

They did none of these things.

I have a real hard time believing there are any good people in DOGE.

The people they talk to in this article, and the people NPR have interviewed all like to talk like they were there to bring in sweeping good changes.

But when everything before these people signed up for these jobs was so public, about Musk and Trump and their highly visible opinions of these agencies and how they felt about them, how any reasonable person could think this is the type of change that would be implemented is beyond me.

They all come off as people with no capability to read the room or to understand they’re being used by evil people. They might be good IT people or programmers, but if accounting knowledge or any experience with an agency or what it does isn’t a requirement or even a consideration when you are coming in as a “reformer,” that should raise red flags.

I don’t trust any of these people, and I no longer have faith in any of the data they hold or share being secure. I think everyone should get a new SSN if/when sanity returns to the agency. There is no way this important information was held securely with people this sloppy and of poor judgement in charge of it.

Some basic Google sleuthing shows he’s a centrist and hasn’t made a public political donation since the 90s and that was $5000.

He has the second largest private personal charity, Dalio Philanthropies, which seems to dabble in a bit of everything.

Private charities don’t thrill me, because it can be a huge source of dark money and it still maintains the charity owner’s personal will and keeps their personal influence level high instead of just donating money to be used however the people receiving donations feels is best.

This link gives a little more specific insight to what he participates in, but it’s still fairly vague. He’s basically trying to do the Gates/Buffet give it all away by the time you die thing, so it’s probably as good as one can expect from a hedge fund guy.

I often see it described as a rolling billboard for businesses to plaster with their logos. I use it to tell me what places to never patronize, so it really does work. Maybe not as attended, but I certainly take notice.

The CT is certainly less phallic than most of the designer’s other car designs, so his talents definitely have range.

I feel that is a likely situation, probably once they saw what GVW was going to be. That bed being precisely 6ft is probably a good indicator.

I listened to some podcast a while back that explained why so many businesses were purchasing Cybertrucks, and it turns out there are stacked tax incentives, that due to the immense weight of the truck, it can end up getting 50 or 100% written off as a business expense.

Here is one of the less scummy links I could find.

I want those people who were hurt by Epstein to get justice, but with the current situation basically being the president is protected from anything, having it come out now seems the worst outcome. Having the unknown eat away at them is likely the best realistic thing right now, unfortunately.

If this comes out and just “goes away” after a couple days, I’m worried what that could do to the present handling of similar crimes. If society at large decides trafficking is no biggie, I think that could be really bad.

This is my concern once it officially comes out. Like every other silver bullet we’ve had, people will think this is what finally takes him down, but once he says “She told me she was 18!” they’ll be all “That happens to me all the time too! Damn lying women!” and that will be the last we hear about it unless they use it against Democrats. I can’t honestly believe anyone would be shocked his name was on the list.

Years from now at the VFW:

“I was there at Chili Night back in ‘25. Not a square of Uncle Sam’s one ply to be found. I was down to my last roll myself. Then Johnny from the 7th Battalion comes through the latrine doors, packs of Charmin’ under both arms that he’s taken off an ICE detainee. After my recon to make sure all the platoon was carrying a pair of grenades in their BDUs instead of a foxhole, we handed it out and the men were ready to unleash the fury only US military mess halls can provide. Hoorah!”