The Pentagon should get no money, nada, till they actually complete an accounting for the military spending they've failed to do for years.

Put some fire under Bondi by charging her $10,000 a day for each day the files are not released on time. They've tried everything else, it's time to enforce the law to release the files, which Bondi failed to do.

It tells you that Turnip knows what he's been doing is not what the public has wanted, not what those that voted for him expected, and he's not been going for input from the Dem party. Instead he's treated them as an enemy and by choice has made it so. His singling out Dem cities for ICE treatment has gained him no favorability, not to mention closing down SNAP benefits during the shut in on purpose or how he's done the nation when it comes to trying to terminate federal dollars already agreed on for Dem cities. We've not even talked about health care nor the economy, which he really gets poor grades on.

All of those are of his own making.

Most likely, once the insurrection is claimed, martial law follows.

I don't think that will end well with Americans.

They were talking about reinstating Kelly to active duty so they could prosecute him. What Kelly stated along with the others was not resurrection material. It was right out of the UCMJ, which all military members are under. As a retiree, he's not subject to these illegal actions and it is doubtful it would hold up in court. This is Hegseth being an arse and trying to get revenge for what he didn't want out in public eye.

...if the files showed bad acting by Trump (like Bubba Clinton) the left would have shown it in 2017.

Actually according to the AI, Epstein was under investigation then. They don't normally publish data on someone under investigation.

A Cognitive Examination is not an IQ test. It's as Ocuser says, a measure of decline in dementia. That Turnip is getting it annually is not a good sign. It means they've discovered the dementia in it's early stages and the continual annual tests are to document it's progression.

JFK Jr. has been on a war against vaccines. You know there can only be one result of his 'wins' which is the nation as a whole gets sicker.

Measles has shown up in the US and was once considered eradiated. The New Year brings the loss of that elimination and once again measles is starting to be rampant in the US. It's as much the war on vaccines as it is people believing they have the right to deny their children getting those vaccines before their kids return to school. The herd immunity has dropped below the threshold needed to protect the population as a whole.

Because the economy is in such a mess when it comes to affording the basics of life, two working parents can not afford to miss a day on the needed wages just to survive so they will show up for work, healthy or not. This means your co-workers will spread to you what ever is going around you haven't had yet.

Thank you MAHA, your generosity knows no bounds in spreading the cheer. /s

Today, I don't care what side of the political line you stand at. It's New Year and I hope each and everyone of you have a great year.

It won't be about pricing. It will be about affordability in food, medical, and necessities of life as well as being emotionally weary of Turnips continual chaos.

Supposedly he can tell what a giraffe looks like but can't identify the national bird of his country? It begins to look like the dementia is worse than we knew.

It seems many don't remember his first term in office when you speak of whirlwind. Voters were emotionally weary of all the crap he pulled. A scarecrow could have won the voters. All Biden basically had to do is just not be Turnip. It was chaos and his second term will be no different. I suspect it will be worse given that he now knows how things work in the swamp and how to get around the laws or bend and stretch them to no end.

By the time the courts catch up to what he's done, he's already destroyed or altered near beyond recognition what ever he went after. SCOTUS giving him a free pass through the shadow docket has just embolden him. It will take decades to return the nation to some semblance of order. I say that not leaning towards either party, just achieving a workable arm of government.

In typical form, budgets are cut beyond the bone, resulting in branches not being able to function at their task. Right after that it is claimed to be broken and needs private enterprise to operate it. That never works out as the private enterprise always takes it's cut from the top, leaving it worse off than before the budget cutting started.

Medical expenses and affordability will kill Republicans efforts to maintain control. Some of them actually see the handwriting on the wall now. In part it's why so many are leaving the halls of power. Another part of the reason they are leaving in such numbers is Turnip's overuse of executive orders robbing congress of it's authority and near permanent gridlock. Nothing gets done anymore for the people. The rich have purchased their laws at the expense of everyone else.

I suspect in the end that revolution will come. The people are being taxed but are getting little in return for it. Corruption is at an all time high and it matters little which party is in power, just different variances on the same theme. Laws on the books are being ignored by the rich and powerful. None of this are signs of a stable government. It's a house of cards and you know the end result.

This sounds just like a page out of Putin's war plans. Just having drills at the border of Ukraine, nothing to worry about, until it was an invasion.

Personally, I will rejoice when he is replaced by a Democratic president. I expect that by the time his presidency has ended that the public will be totally exhausted at Turnip's continual chaos just like they were during the end of his first term. Biden didn't really have to get out and campaign much and did most of it from his basement. The strongest thing Biden had going for him was 'he wasn't Turnip'.

"release" all of the Democrats' names allegedly in the documents.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-27 12:44 PM
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I had mentioned I suspected this would be the result of the release of the Epstein files and Turnip's involvement in it. Every accusation by Turnip is a self confession. I had expected the Republicans that might have been involved with Epstein to be buried or not released at best, to be blacked out in all likelihood and any major donors to be hidden in some manner.

Turnip sees those not 100% on board with his ideas as traitors or the enemy, to be dealt with harshly. It's his way to cover his tracks and make accusers think twice. It's his defense because he can't take the heat of being accountable for his actions. Hence lawsuits against news centers with big money claims. It's not he expects to win, it's that the defense will cost big money. Again, nothing but a tactic to prevent being accountable.

Somewhere in all the Epstein data is a place Turnip fears to come out because it will reveal in black and white, who he is beyond dispute and that will be something not acceptable to the public at large. I'm amazed that just being a pedo defender doesn't already hit that standard with the public and that it doesn't shows just how far we've sank in terms of moral decency.

It's taken a generation for the young to figure out that the high cost of education is an albatross around their financial future. Once saddled with the loan there is no way for the majority to ever pay it off and then have the American dream. Many of the young have turned to trade schools that will pay off sooner with less financial burden. While the payoff is sooner for making a living, it is not so good in the later years of their lives in the last stages of labor before retirement. That's when the vigor of youth has left and the wisdom of how to do the job shows up but the body is tasked with an increasingly difficult physical performance due to age.

Only Turnip would think this is something great to tell the public. In the process it gives you an idea of just how off track his mental processes are. Most people have mental filters that tell them this or that tidbit is not appropriate for public consumption.

The US economy added 64,000 jobs in November, but the slide in tech jobs continued, with the telecom sector and computer systems design seeing declines.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-23 01:51 AM

This is probably the good news, sugarcoated. For one, no one can now believe the counts of government offices, since the DOGE treatment and the laying off of those who insisted on accurate data. Between the lack of manpower to put people on the data collection and analysts of said data, there are gobs of uncounted data reflecting the actual counts and trends. The second reason it is likely sugarcoated is that it is well known that the initial data has to be adjusted later for late reporting and analysts resulting in readjusted outcomes in the month following for the previous month. The readjusted outcomes never get the splash attention that the first inaccurate release gets, especially if the trend is negative.

Turnip is still trying to live in the 50s. Apparently no one has bothered to tell him that they now have killer battleship hypervelocity missiles. Even worse, China is producing weapons of war, including these missiles, at greater volumes than we can, given their ready access to rare earths and cheap labor, and have been doing so for some time.

I had read an article of the military running a hypothetical test of an invasion of Taiwan. One of the issues this test ran into as a negative, was that China had so many backups in quantity reserves that they could overwhelm ship defenses by saturation missile flights with plenty remaining to for redos should first attempt fail. The test also predicted we would win such a war but with massive losses.

The battleship has had a long run of being a fortress on the sea. Every time it's demise was predicted by obsolescence, new weapons or tactics helped continue it's reign as king of the sea. With the extended range of these hyper missiles, battleships stand a huge chance of being sunk, long before they are in effective fighting range; same with carriers.

The current polls are exactly that... the current polls. November 2026 is 11 months away.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-22 07:54 PM |

Precisely. Lots of things change over the space of time in politics and how voters feel about the current issues and how that affects their votes and opinions. Polls are more like an inflated balloon let go for free flight, you never know which way it will stay headed nor how long it will continue.

What worries me is that if the Dems should run on a ticket of 'we'll impeach trump', Turnip would likely try to seal his legacy as dictator before the election. He depends on fast response with the courts lagging far behind in catching up. By the time it arrives in the court's bailiwick, at least months have passed, if not years, and it will pretty much be appealed all the way to SCOTUS, which has shown extreme favoritism towards Turnip getting his way.

'I'm not Trump', worked for Joe Biden but is unlikely to work again. This time the magic words to re-election is 'It's the economy stupid'.

Merry Xmas to you all!

Jack will never have that chance as long as the Republicans have a say in it. This is why he didn't get a public hearing at the start. The Republicans wanted to know just how damaging Jack Smith's testimony would be without him being on a public stand. Now that they know, they will fight tooth and nail to prevent him from getting the public hearing.

You had to know this was coming. I mean you don't need a tea leaf reader to have figured out the Epstein files were going to be redacted mostly to protect the Republicans who might have been caught in these files as well as the Republican donors. The Dems were meant to take the fall first by leaving those in the clear with the hope it removed some of the politicians that don't agree with Turnip.

SCOTUS has determined that Turnip gets a get out of jail free card as long as he is in office. That doesn't protect him if he is impeached or once he leaves office. It also does not protect the rest of the administration. For the now, any movements towards impeachment or removal of Bondi and the rest of the administration will likely go no where as long as Republicans hold the majority.

Unless there is a serious blue wave come midterm elections, it will likely stay this way until there is a major turn over of who holds the supermajority.

One hallmark of Turnip is continual chaos. This is who he is. This is what sets the stage for other things to top out over the public's interest in an attempt to move troublesome topics out of the limelight.

Do you smell carrots?

...usually reserved for a time when the Country, not the President, is facing some manner of a crisis.

Of course it's a crisis for Turnip. Since he views everything with him being the center focus. The MEs overwhelmed anything else he had to say about the good of the country. Take away the lies and misrepresentation of facts and you are left with little or nothing except momma's boy is in trouble. He knows he has between now and Nov. to make plans on how to steal the election. The gerrymandering isn't going as well as he had planned. It is possible he could be up for impeachment yet again should there be a real blue wave. Panic is setting in.