Reflections From a Murky Pond

The daily, sometimes multiple, reports per day, by the media on the ongoing shutdown of large parts of the federal government, are largely immaterial. The Democrats will not allow the government shutdown to end until one of two things happens – Republicans completely cave in and allow the Dems to make policy through appropriations, thereby reversing legislation made through proper channels; or, October 20th passes. At the earliest, the vote to pass a CR to fund and reopen the government will happen quite late at night on the 20th, but could be postponed to as late as Oct. 24. So, everyone’s probably got 6 – 10 days of this bullshit left.

You see, there’s a big “No Kings” mostly peaceful protest scheduled at the Capitol on October 18th. There’s no way in Hell that the Dems will allow the government to reopen before that’s over. They are well aware of the proclivities of their constituents. The last thing they want to suffer is a new iteration of January 6th, this time by forces that actually embrace violence, especially political violence. In fact, I’m betting most Dem politicians won’t even be at work on that Friday, and could really blame them?

You have to remember that the whole reason for this government shutdown is that these Democrat politicians, especially Schumer of Jeffries, are scared shitless of their constituencies, fully half of which are far-far-far-left sorts. With a bunch of their more radical sorts going to be local on the 18th, the Dems won’t dare end their farce before that’s over.

So, the earliest the federal government will reopen is the 20th, thanks to the Party of Domestic Terrorism.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 7:15 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

I’d feel sorry for Sen Chuck Schumer (D-NY) if he hadn’t brought this whole thing down upon his own head. The crybaby tried to play hardball and “stand up to Trump” – even though his self-appointed enemies in this case are Republican Senators and Congressmen – by shutting down large swaths of the federal government unless Republican Senators and President Trump capitulated to the Dems’ irrational demands. And now, the poor fool is finding out just how unpopular his actions were and are… among those who actually even care about it at all.

But then, this is what happens when a politician is only concerned with keeping their job instead of properly doing their job. Crying Chuck is terrified of being primaried and ousted by the further-left elements in his party, a “risk” that is exacerbated by Schumer being from NY, one of the areas where that sort is concentrated. He’s terrified that AOC – who will neither confirm nor deny that she was his Senate seat – will win in a primary election against him unless he does what her wing of their party demands.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 at 8:28 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Boom? No Boom! The Senate Dems led by Schumer – may he drown in pigs’ blood – actually took that fateful step towards armageddon and tried to effectively, if not technically, end the filibuster. But they got “filibusted,” and it was friendly fire since their attempt to destroy the functionality of the Senate was blocked by two of their own, Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who chose not to cross that rubicon.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 8:17 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Recently, slightly over two dozen Senior Democrat lawmakers, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, knelt in the Capitol Visitor Center for eight minutes and 46 seconds as a supposed tribute to George Floyd before going off to a press conference. All of them were prominently sporting Kente cloth scarves around or over their shoulders.

Funny, I thought a bunch of politicians, most of whom are White, wearing very iconic and culturally significant African clothing would be considered to be the nadir of Cultural Appropriation. I would have also thought – no, not really – that the media would be all over this gross and insensitive display of mockery. But, while there were some complaints from some Blacks, there was no real backlash in the media or elsewhere.

Then again, given that the media is wholly owned by the DNC and that too many Blacks are too comfortable on the Dems’ plantation to really chide them, this hypocrisy and double-standard is not too surprising.

Fakakta Optics or Reverse Things

One last point – Am I the only one who sees this or is everyone deliberately ignoring it?

Supposedly these Dems did this to show solidarity with the Blacks inside our nation’s borders. OK, but if so, why did these allegedly “Woke” politicans spend exactly the same amount of time in essentially in the same position as Derek Chauvin was in while he murdered George Floyd?

Think about that and the silence surrounding it!

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This entry was posted on Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at 7:03 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

The Rage Of Children

Yes, it’s not really the high schoolers who are the children right now. It’s the infantile Democrats in Congress, e.g., Schumer, Pelosi, Sanders, and their screaming, ranting ilk who are behaving like unruly, undisciplined, and ill-behaved children who’ve been told that they can’t have the toy that they want. The high schoolers, inane, unthinking of the future, and easily manipulated as they are, are at least trying to take control of their fate and, to some extent, act to protect themselves from a perceived threat.

Of Course It’s Not Just Mindless Rage

Of course they’re quite apparent rage isn’t completely mindless. It’s more than little manufactured since they have to pander to what was once the Far Left of their Liberal and Progressive base. Hence, with the complicity of- and aid and comfort from their Lamestream Media, they will bitterly cling to any every firearm-related / firearm-involved tragedy that isn’t Black-on-Black crime…or the attempted mass assassination of Republicans.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, March 25th, 2018 at 11:40 am and is filed under 2018 Elections, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.