There's a reason for this statement.
On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) said that he “would much rather be focused on lowering the cost of living, addressing those pocketbook issues”, but they’ll take up articles of impeachment against Secretary Pete Hegseth if he doesn’t resign or get fired....
The reason for that prioritization?
The Democrats have No Friggin' Idea HOW to "address pocketbook issues." None.
Discussing the firing of Suzie Wiles, the Treehouse reminds us of Politics 101:
...We said from the outset Wiles would likely be a problem because she’s donor-centric, a typical Republican. Democrats chase power, Republicans chase money. Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money....
Look at Wisconsin. Tiffany had $bazillions (as did Michels in the past) and had Republican majorities; Crowley had some money, but not much. In the end, Crowley got what the Democrats want: power. They will be collecting money for the next four + years.
...The Wiles Inc. focus on money, including direct benefits to her family, is now the weapon DSA congressional committees will use to target Trump. Every financial angle used to attack Trump tracks to the poor decision-making of Susie Wiles. However, at the end of the accountability path – the buck stops with President Trump....
Treehouse also reports that Bongino lost the battle with Wiles over the Epstein stuff, and Tulsi had to be very, very, very circumspect around that woman.
Apparently Trump's purge of Federal "workers" is not nearly enough.
People in Washington, D.C., consume pornography on OnlyFans at high rates during the workday, according to Max Anderson, CEO of OnlyFinder, whose company published a report on OnlyFans spending....
...“People who work in D.C. are heavily using OnlyFans inside the boundaries of the District of Columbia during the workday, and then their usage drops off a cliff when they go home to the suburbs at night,” Anderson told the DCNF.
“The data certainly supports that D.C. workers are heavily using OnlyFans during the workday,” Anderson told the DCNF....
Well, OK. Perhaps another group of users are the lawyers who infest that town like lice.
Would you be surprised??
Some twit claimed that PMI variances are significant from month to month, therefore Trumponomics was sketchy.
Here's a graf which is NOT monthly, but which demonstrates that m-t-m variances are not significant at all.
DeSantis says the H-1B imports are part of the reason for the Blue Bomb.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose state largely was impacted only nominally by Democrat and Democrat Socialist gains in the 2026 midterms, says the problem was that Republican senators wouldn't act.
He specifically cited their refusal to address concerns about the H-1B visa program. That was set up ostensibly to allow foreign workers into the U.S. if there was no one available domestically with a particular expertise.
In reality it is a pathway for huge corporations to hire tens of thousands of foreigners to work at lower wages and replace American workers....
Maybe DeSantis actually cares.
But, for those of you who are newbies (or just dense), it is commonplace for politicians to borrow a line from The Godfather: "Nice place you have here. It would be too bad if......"
So maybe DeSantis is looking for some of that sweet, sweet, Microsoft/Google/Oracle campaign money.
Keep your eyes open.
The State of Wisconsin's taxpayers are in for a real treat. /sarc The new Governor will find a way for the State to pay for this. Live in Bayfield County? Suck it up, buttercup.
Weight loss drugs and who is paying for them took center stage during Milwaukee County's budget battle.
So many employees are taking GLP-1s; it's costing the county millions....
Eleven million dollars is how much Milwaukee County spent this year on employees using GLP-1 medications with insurance....
GLP meds can cost as much as $1,300.00/month.
...The rising price tag is prompting leaders to search for ways to lower the cost.
"We cannot let Milwaukee County be financially responsible," Supervisor Shawn Rolland said.
Rolland authored an amendment to increase county employees' copays for GLP-1 medications from $40 to $150, and only offer it to people who have diabetes....
That is to say, if GLP is a medical necessity, the County will pay some of the cost. If you're a fatty hoping to look good in the bar scene? Nope.
... Following an hourslong debate on Thursday, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors voted against the amendment....
..."The amount that we're putting forward to GLP-1 could be paying for our transit system, our park system," Wasserman said.
Wasserman said he expects the county's cost for medication to increase up to $15 million next year...,
Priorities, Dr. Wasserman. Priorities.
The Democrat Socialist bunch has its own favorite money-receptacles. You just don't know who they are, yet. And the DSA's priorities are totally screwed up (surprised????)
A day after Wisconsin regulators approved a sixth rate hike in six years for We Energies customers, the Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously to pay for a study about taking over the utility....
... The Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously 15 to 0 on Friday, Nov. 6 to allow borrowing for up to $1.35 million for a feasibility study about taking over We Energies....
This is the result of typical hair-on-fire rhetoric totally devoid of reason and logic. IOW, it's a DSA thaaang.
A couple of rational points here:
1) Conway, of WE, knows the history of such ideas.
..."In every single situation is these cities, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this case, the City of Milwaukee is looking to spend about $1.3 million to study if they should take over their local utility," Conway said. "And in the end, they're going to find that it's going to probably cost billions and billions of dollars. And then when they go to voters, voters are likely going to reject it." ...
IOW, that $1.3 million of BORROWED money will land in someone's pocket, and they will tell the DSA exactly what the DSA wants to hear. But the people who have to pay that bill? They will not be enthused.
2) Further, and more important: WE has a lot of customers who do not live in the DSA hell-hole of Milwaukee. One way or another, they too will have a vote.
So we repeat: who are the DSA's favorite money-suckers? You'll know soon!
By the way: if the City is going to borrow $1.3 million, why not spend it on FIRE TRUCKS???
This will be interesting, since the Mayor of Port Washington basically jammed the monster Oracle data center project down the throats of his voters,.......hmmmmm.
Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle...
...Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle in recent months after declining to renew the contract, according to the report.
Over time, the computing capacity Microsoft was renting became less valuable as it no longer met the company's evolving needs, the report added....
Oracle's bond rating took a hit last summer over its commitments in data centers.
"Developing", as they say.
Democrats have all sorts of 'plans and objectives' for their new-found power.
The most frightening one?
...Democrats now control the governor's office and both legislative chambers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada. Already terrifying, right? If those five states sign on to a deal already on the books in 18 states and Washington, D.C., they would send their electoral votes to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote — even if their own voters chose someone else.
That deal, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, already covers 222 electoral votes. Axios notes that it “only kicks in when participating states collectively control at least 270 electoral votes,” and that these five new Democratic trifectas “could bring the total to 283.” ...
Practically speaking, that means that New York, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Illinois will elect Presidents. All the other States, including Wisconsin, can suck wind (or whatever.).
Wisconsin's Ass'y and Senate leadership are radical Leftists--DSA adjacent--and Crowley is a patsy.
Pay attention. Action will be required.
It's only $4.5 million, right?
...The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors reluctantly adopted a $1.5 billion budget for 2027 at its meeting Thursday.
A $4.6 million budget error hung over the meeting, and County Executive David Crowley's administration did not disclose that mistake until Wednesday -- one day after Crowley was voted in as Wisconsin's next governor....
Can't wait for Crowley to play games with a REALLY big budget ($111 BILLION), can you??
Funny how Al Gore's self-enrichment scheme was never a subject of a Congressional investigation, eh?
Profiting from fake "Environmental Disaster" warming cooling "change" is the name of his game.
And it will cost you. A lot.
...After more than 10 hours of discussion, the Public Service Commission passed We Energies' rate increase with modifications to the utility's request.
While final numbers are still being calculated, the rate increase will be less than what We Energies originally requested back in the spring.
That original rate hike could have cost the average household more than $260 more a year....
All for part-time, highly inefficient, sun-catchers and windmills.
By the way, that "$260/year" number is bogus. The "average customer" will cough up $300-$400 more.
Brenda Casellius is not a 21-year-old fresh-out-of-college gal. She's a highly experienced education veteran. One would expect that her general knowledge (the meaning of red/green traffic lights, how to do laundry, the effect of gravity) of how the world works is better than average, too.
But maybe it's not. Commenting on the huge disparity in bids for demolition of a burned-out school building, Casellius had this to say:
..."We worked with our insurance company, and so the insurance company was working to pay for that funding. So, that wouldn't have been a loss to the district, just so that the public knows that 4.7 was the negotiated rate with the insurance company to pay that," Cassellius said. ...
Umnnhhhh.....
Does Casellius think that insurance companies get their money when it falls from trees?
The District--and a lot of other entities--will pay more in premiums for a long, long, time, to make up that $4.7 million. Yes, it would be a cost to the District.
Further, there is NO excuse for looking at a FOUR MILLION DOLLAR difference in bids on a ~$5 million job and passing it off to "the insurance company."
But that stance--that total lack of curiosity--showed up in MPS a couple of days ago, when the CFO (!!!!) appears to have OK'd a fraudulent money transfer for around $500,000.
It's easy when it's Other People's Money, ain'a, Brenda??
Leaving aside Bibi's damned war, let's look at what Trump has done for the US. Note WELL: the "establishment" Republicans will NEVER admit these positives; worse, the DSA now in power will claim them as their own.
GDP grew 3.4% in Q3, beating forecasts and up from 2.2% in Q2
The Atlanta Fed expects 3.4% growth again in Q4
Business investment is up 9.4%, the biggest jump since 2020
Consumer spending is up 3.8%
Layoffs are near record lows, with weekly jobless claims at just 194,000
Consumer confidence jumped 7.5 points in October
Poverty has hit a record low
Median income is the highest on record
Citizens rather than non-citizens are getting more of the new jobs
Mass immigration has stopped
Violent crime posted its largest annual drop, and the murder rate is tying a multi-decade low
Tax fraud, waste and abuse are ending
MAHA is delivering real change, lower prices and fixing the system.
For the first time in 26 years, the U.S. outproduces Japan in steel
The first new U.S. iron ore mine in 50 years, feeding a planned $15 billion Iowa steel mill
The first new primary aluminum smelter in 50 years, in Oklahoma, which will double U.S. primary capacity once online
The first U.S.-assembled Volvo excavators are rolling out of Pennsylvania, and John Deere is moving excavator production home
Potash was named a critical mineral, with a $1.26 billion DOE loan commitment for a new Michigan mine and a USDA-backed Utah project
Rare earth magnets at scale for the first time in a generation, with a $1.2 billion South Carolina plant breaking ground
Critical minerals reshored, ending 100% import dependence on 15 strategic minerals
The first ever complete AI chip supply chain
Manufacturing construction starts are up 20.2%
Machine-tool orders are up about 37% year to date, the strongest first half since the series began in 1998
The manufacturing PMI is the strongest since 2022
$18 trillion pledged to restore America’s ability to produce at home
U.S. oil output tops Saudi Arabia and Russia
Power plant builds are up 68.5%
10 new LNG terminals will double export capacity by 2030
10 new AP1000 nuclear reactors
Nuclear goes from 100 to 400 GW, quadrupling nuclear power by 2050, with restarts underway in PA, MI and CA
Look at Brent crude & WTI after the midterms. Both are already down nearly 10%. Its obvious Trump was being intentionally sabotaged with Brent crude (City of London financial elites) and gas prices. (source)
Oh, well.
There's a copy of an X meme at the top of his entry.
Then this:
...I find my commitments to anarchy, Stoicism and outlawry are comforting. Anarchism as far as possible: if the government didn’t matter so much, control so much, these would be passing storms of no importance.Stoicism: Since the mechanisms are so far beyond our control, we should not worry over them.Outlaw: I’m going to do what I want anyway. They’re going to have to kill me to stop me. Then I won’t care. ...
We expect politicians to lie, but give a lot of slack to politicians who tell "little" lies, bragging about 'economic wonders' or promising Sparkles, Rainbows, and Free S**t.
But BIG lies? Trump knew his "30-days' war" was sinking his ship, so he issued a BIG Lie:
...President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour election appeal saying he would end this nation’s almost $4 billion annual commitment to Israel...
Except the money will still be flowing, and worse than that:
...As The New American reported during the summer, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the NDAA with the notorious Section 219 (formerly Section 224), which would all but merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. That would give the insignificant nation, which is of no importance to the average American, virtual control of the Pentagon and U.S. military policy....
...The two militaries would cooperate on “missile and air defense technologies,” as well as cyber-defense, electronic warfare, and artificial intelligence.
The measure gives Israel — notorious for hostile espionage against the United States, its main benefactor — unprecedented access to U.S. national-security secrets....
Yes, it gets even worse!
...As if that isn’t bad enough, Freeman explained, the measure gives Israel power over a significant political issue: jobs. “By expanding or starting new co-production facilities like it already has in Mississippi and Arkansas, the Israeli government could boast of providing jobs on U.S. soil, thereby securing allies among members of Congress who represent the districts where those jobs lie...
IOW, they could purchase 100% of Congress instead of only 70%.
Just call us "Israel West," and re-re-name it to the Gulf of Mexico America Israel.
This is not hard. We always knew DeSantis is enthusiastic over Bibi's War.
Here he is, telling Fox News why the Pubbies got nuked:
...DeSantis called it “probably the political worst-case scenario for a midterm election.” He said many Republican campaigns misread what voters cared about. Of some of the Republican ads he saw, he said, “they really were fighting yesterday’s battle.” He listed inflation, mortgage rates, and gas and grocery prices as the concerns that drove voters. ...
Notice what's missing from the "concerns" list he offered?
Yup.
Childers--who is a Trumpist of the First Water....
... You know what would’ve been a terrific sales pitch? Save Congress because it’s been so important and effective. But this lazy and unproductive GOP Congress gave the base nothing to show up for. If anything, they constantly aggravated us....
...the House stayed out for nearly eight weeks during last fall’s shutdown, took a five-week August vacation, then canceled two more weeks in September to go campaign.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can’t cry about how the republic is on the line and then take a recess. Voters noticed. They didn’t switch sides or rebuke anybody. They just stayed home. Why save this Congress?...
But Speaker Rep. Johnson had SUCH NICE HAIR!!
Last Refuge opines:
...In the aggregate the MAGA movement, like the Tea Party that preceded it, was neither Democrat nor Republican. A person only needed to look at the issue(s) of borders, immigration, illegal aliens, H1B’s etc., to notice the outcome was the same with the D or R. The same was true for American jobs and the insufferable march to a ‘service driven economy.’ The movement that supports Donald Trump was never Democrat or Republican; it was/is a coalition of historically unrepresented voters, essentially a third party.
Trump’s supporters represent a third party in a two-party system. This was always problematic. Professional Democrats, leftists writ large, hate Donald Trump. The Professionally Republican also dislike him immensely....
Allow me to highlight the real problem here:
A person only needed to look at the issue(s) of borders, immigration, illegal aliens, H1B’s etc., to notice the outcome was the same with the D or R.
Yup. Clinton and both Bush 1 & 2 sucked. Obama REALLY sucked.
And--in Term 2--Trump sucked, too. Why? Because he forgot who elected him.
And because he thought that he elected himself.
Here's a somewhat more vitriolic take.
Gee.
Milwaukee Public Schools loses $450K in a phone swindle.
Then Milwaukee Public Schools appoints an "interim CFO."
So..........the obvious...........what the Hell happened to Aycha Sawa?
N.B.: ONLY Channel 58's Ajay Bayatpour asked the question on-air. He didn't get an answer; other reports indicate that the question was asked and Non-Answered by the Superintendent in Milwaukee.
How could this be? Every heavy-hitter Democrat endorsed Sawa. She has degrees!! She has a credential!! She has Union backing!!!
We would suggest that every one of the above is the problem.....
