70 thoughts on “Cave or Bluff?”


  1. Jon Stewart dives into the emerging effects of the government shutdown, the battle over healthcare that has Republicans and Democrats pointing fingers, and Trump’s delight in using the shutdown to continue steamrolling Democrats and the Constitution.

  2. couldn’t find colbert last night, but here’s kimmel

    We are back after a fun week of shows in Brooklyn, according to a new poll from YouGov Jimmy is officially more popular than Donald Trump, the White House put out a statement in response, 77% of Americans want the Epstein files released, Kaitlan Collins from CNN asked Trump whether he planned to pardon Epstein’s right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump rallied troops over the weekend to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Navy, he took credit for saying that Osama bin Laden was a threat before 9/11, a federal judge last night blocked Trump from sending the California National Guard to Oregon, he is also threatening NBC over some things Al Sharpton had to say about him, the Treasury Department is talking about putting Trump on money, and we went out to a park in Jamaica, Queens and told folks that Trump was planning to rename the park in his honor.

  6. Dems need to go back to the basics of debate, because although this wasn’t supposed to be a debate, that is how Bondi treated it.

    Allowing her to pivot instead of shutting her down mid-lie, repeating the question, and forcing her to answer (or refuse to answer as she did once while I was watching), is such a rookie mistake.

    We need the fire of Bernie and AOC and Crockett. A lot of these old, white guys like Dick Durbin need media training and voice lessons.

    KKKaroline Leavitt channeling Regina George and Tracy Flick on the daily, and Bondi seems to be drinking the crazy juice, too. Deep down, I wonder if they realize they will end up like the N&zis who were in close proximity to H/tler.

  8. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2025/10/07/us-farmer-bailout-coming-soon/86556925007/

    The Trump administration is expected to soon announce a plan to bail out U.S. farmers stung by trade disputes and big harvests, with the initial outlay potentially totaling up to $15 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.

    The plan, however, which could be announced as early as Tuesday, Oct, 7, could be difficult to roll out as an ongoing government shutdown prevents the kind of congressional action needed to approve such a large payout,and existing government reserves fall short, the sources said.

    *Bailing farmers out with our own/their own tax dollars, because tRUMP killed exports with tariffs…and somehow Argentina (who sold their soybeans to China) will get their bailout despite Congress not authorizing it and the US government being shut down.

  12. I wonder if they realize they will end up like the N&zis

    BiD: Me recently wondering the same thing:
    Why do Republicans operate without envisioning themselves potentially as the defendants in some version of the Nuremberg Trials?

  13. Last night’s Colbert was a rerun that featured Gov. Gavin Newsom. In discussing his podcast, he mentioned that his first one was an interview with Charlie Kirk. It is over an hour long, but in light of the assassination well worth a listen.

  16. https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-chicago-restrooms/

    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.

    “And in fact, they don’t even let our ICE officers and our Border Patrol officers use restrooms,” she revealed. “Those men and women were telling us that they have to figure out even where they can go sit down for five minutes to have lunch or to use a restroom throughout their shift and their break. So they’ve made it a very difficult situation.”

    *No-fascist lunch counters and bathrooms. I wonder if she has the ability to put that into any historical context.

  17. Trump just hinted again about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell — pretending he barely knows her, then saying he’ll “speak to the DOJ.”
    He’s conditioning the crowd for it. And the motive? You decide.

    ▶️ Watch the full playlist: THE EPSTEIN FILES 🕵️

  19. Pogo
    When you can’t go in and can’t use a McDonalds bathroom that’s a big rejection. They must really not like ICE /Federal agents in Chicago. I’ve been to Chicago and I never found locating a place to potty a problem. But then I was a tourist with money.

    Jack

  20. honestly, almost nowhere lets you use their bathroom if you have no business in that building

    They can go to any federal building

    these Trumpers whine about everything, frickin’ snowflakes, geez

  21. I’ve never seen a McD’s with an entry lock on the bathroom. Your milage may vary.
    But that is not what this is about. I suspect it about the federal Government wanting the local government to pick up the expense for local support services for ICE. You know like those jobsite portapotties . Which is what the rest of us have to provide for any crew we have working on a remote site.

    Jack

  22. i’m sure they’re hitting up independent coffee shops, retail spaces and stuff like that

    I don’t know that a bank of portapotties serves a roving band of thugs well, a bit of a tip-off

    there are plenty of Twitter videos of enforcement actions and and it sure seems like they just drive around and harrass people

  25. https://www.distractify.com/p/plenary-authority-meaning

    During a recent interview about those deployments, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller suggested that the president has “plenary authority,” and many wanted to know more about what he meant.

    In the interview, Miller was asked whether he was planning to abide by a court order that would prevent the administration from deploying troops to Portland, Ore.

    “Well, the administration filed an appeal this morning with the Ninth Circuit,” he said. “I would note the administration won an identical case in the Ninth Circuit just a few months ago with respect to the federalizing of the California National Guard. Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the president has plenary authority.”

    According to Cornell University, plenary authority is “power that is wide-ranging, broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes.”

    Essentially, then, one of the president’s chief advisors appeared to be suggesting that the president has nearly limitless power, which is a theory that would certainly support the actions the administration has taken to expand the power of the presidency.

    *This is just to get folks used to seeing a paramilitary and military presence. Sturg is correct. They are itching to put on a really big shoe.

  27. Life is tough for an invading army. Maybe they should try to do what regular people do – buy a cup of coffee or whatever the store sells and use the bathroom while they wait – assuming the owner or staff doesn’t refuse their business. Of course that wouldn’t extend to the rest of the platoon or whatever group the roam in.

  28. General strike or rolling strikes/slowdowns and boycotts make a bigger noise than folks on streets who can be egged into acting out.

  30. They have to remove their Temu paramilitary gear and masks…you know, if it’s happening to anyone other than Gestapo Barbie. Could be lies, but funny and fitting if it’s not.

  31. Pogo
    I think your first sentence is right. Invaders shouldn’t expect the conquered to be either polite or accommodating or give a damn if shit is running down your pants leg. Unless you are dribbling on their floor.

    Jack

  32. months ago before a bathroom discussion was happening a squad of ice agents was captured on camera urinating in public on a school grounds that was in session with children on the playground

    I wonder if they received disciplinary action 🤔

    I’ll look for it later. If Trumpers are going to post dishonest photos from protests in other countries, we can certainly share completely accurate videos captured in this country from earlier this year

    in fact that something libs aren’t doing right, just because the new-cycles move so quickly doesn’t mean we can’t being up past issues, cons do it all the time to great success

  33. they are probably going to gas stations that are all immigrant owned and managed

    they just found out 😆

    A Midwest thing that did catch on out east is the truck-stop style gas station without the truck stop

  34. https://www.primetimer.com/news/wheres-charlie-kirks-parents-and-sister-conservative-activist-s-family-s-absence-from-memorial-service-sparks-concern

    Mary has not publicly addressed her brother’s assassination, and she was conspicuously missing from Turning Point USA’s memorials…

    [Charlie’s fatger] Robert Kirk made his name as an architect and through his firm worked on significant developments including New York City’s Trump Tower.

    ***
    https://www.distractify.com/p/charlie-kirk-death-predicted-nic-cage-movie-snake-eyes

    In Snake Eyes, a politician named Charles Kirkland is assassinated by being shot in the neck while attending a boxing match.

    What’s more, one of the fighters in the ring is named Tyler the Executioner, and the fight apparently took place on Sept. 10.

    Charlie Kirkland and Charlie Kirk are very similar names. Tyler Robinson was Kirk’s “executioner,” and the two assassinations appeared to have taken place on the same day.

    *Because I was tired of Pam Bondi’s lying ass.

  35. it’s funny: all of you fine people make an effort to make sure everything you say can be corroborated and will even source it if you feel it’s necessary, for a pseudonymous blog comment

    The highest officials in the land will lie about absolutely everything at every opportunity from their official capacity

  36. Anon
    Would that be because the average internet commenter has higher standards than the average politician?
    My favorite chart of the day

  37. For me facts are much more fun than lies. Lies get boring because they lead no where. Where as one fact always leads to another equally interesting fact. Like the electric truck production.

    Jack

  38. I can’t name one official Democrat that’s lying anywhere near as often and easy as any of the Trumpers

    maybe George Santos

    oh wait

  39. https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/07/citing-fear-democratic-vengeance-curtis-yarvin-says-may-flee-u-s/

    Software engineer and far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin says he’s considering leaving the U.S. because the Trump administration is failing to kill democracy to his liking and he fears political retribution from Democrats if they regain power.

    In a blog post (opens in new tab) published this weekend on his Substack Gray Mirror, San Francisco-based Yarvin wrote: “Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020 — because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first — I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well.”

    Yarvin later removed the line about fleeing the country, replacing it with “everyone involved with this revolution needs a plan B for 2029.”

    *What “vengeance after 2020”? J6? What “political retribution from Democrats”?
    This nematode was at tRUMP’s 2025 inauguration. I think he’s just telling Stephen Miller, JD, and the rest of the N&zi sh/t-weasels to push harder; he doesn’t fear any consequences.

    “The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat. Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020—because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first—I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well. And it is not even clear that it will wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.”

  41. @realDonald Trump

    JUST OUT: Good news for the Holiday Season. EARLY PRICES ARE DOWN, WHILE TARIFFS ARE MAKING OUR COUNTRY AN ECONOMIC POWER AGAIN. Also, virtually NO INFLATION, AS STOCK MARKETS CONTINUALLY HIT RECORD HIGHS. THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS FOR THE U.S.A.

    *Holiday season? Why didn’t he say Christmas? Beyond that, everyone knows it’s a lie. Prices aren’t down. FFS

  42. https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/where-s-the-missing-17-trillion-lawmaker-says-trump-must-reveal-what-he-s-done-with-new-investment-bonanza-he-keeps-boasting-about/ar-AA1NLzgU

    Democrats may investigate President Trump over his repeated claims that a $17 trillion flood of foreign and domestic investment has poured into the U.S. during his administration.

    “Donald Trump is living in a fantasy world,” Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said Thursday in an interview with MeidasTouch. “If there is $17 trillion somewhere, the government doesn’t know about it. None of our committees have access to it. Treasury has no idea what the hell he’s talking about. He’s either a liar, or he’s somehow stashed away money in some magical way, and there’s even more corruption happening.”

    “WHY are we in a shutdown?” he wrote on X. “Trump says the US has taken in $17 Trillion since he became president. Where is the money? Why haven’t you gotten a check?”

  43. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/americas/milei-concert-argentina-economy-intl-latam

    Argentine President Javier Milei took to the stage Monday night in Buenos Aires for a book launch-turned-rock concert, a move that delighted his fans but drew criticism from opposition members who accused him of being out of touch with the country’s economic problems.

    Surrounded by a crowd of 15,000 that included political allies and young supporters, Milei swapped his trademark chainsaw for a microphone as he sought to energize his base ahead of the October 26 legislative elections and put behind him a controversy surrounding the resignation of one of the ruling party’s big-name candidates.

    What was billed as the launch of Milei’s latest book, “The Construction of the Miracle,” morphed into a musical spectacle broadcast live on state TV that included members of Milei’s ruling coalition performing nine rock covers.

    The spectacle drew sharp criticism from opposition leaders, who accused the president of being out of touch with Argentina’s mounting economic hardships.

    The fragility of the country’s economy recently prompted the Trump administration to announce a new financial assistance package and Milei is set to meet US President Donald Trump, whom he has often praised, in Washington on October 14 to discuss the plan.

    *On Charlie Kirk Day? Dude has arrogant hair.

  44. I asked AI Sam how long the Speaker can keep this up. Not long, it seems.

    “Technically, the Speaker is bound by the Constitution’s three-day adjournment limit (without Senate consent). If he wants a longer break, he needs the Senate or a concurrent resolution.”

  50. The Founders wrote that to make sure no King can shut down Congress. It was, after all, the closing of the Massachusetts Legislature that essentially started the revolution.

  51. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-health-care-shutdown

    Republican leaders in Congress are very familiar with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene causing them problems.

    But in a rare instance, she’s doing it from their political left.

    The Georgia congresswoman on Monday night handed Democrats a significant arrow in their government shutdown quiver. She became the most prominent Republican to come out strongly in favor of the thing Democrats are demanding to reopen the government: an extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies.

    She emphasized that she disliked Obamacare and even the concept of insurance as a whole. But she warned that failing to extend the subsidies would make insurance unaffordable to many Americans — including her own adult children.

    “I’m carving my own lane. And I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year,” Greene said, adding: “Not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!”

    Greene has not said Republicans should relent and agree to extending the subsidies as part of the government shutdown debate, specifically. But it’s a remarkably off-message moment for Republicans.

    Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, meanwhile, tried to downplay Greene’s criticisms.

    He claimed she simply wasn’t aware of actual negotiations that were taking place on the issue.

    Using shutdowns for policy concessions almost never works, because Americans overwhelmingly say they shouldn’t be used as leverage.

    But Democrats’ demand here has proved an unusually popular one. A poll last week from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group, showed 78% of Americans and even 57% of MAGA-aligned Republicans supported extending the Obamacare subsidies. In that way, a MAGA Republican like Greene supporting them isn’t all that surprising.

    Where Greene’s comments become particularly unhelpful to the GOP, though, is in how they cast Republican leaders. The implication of her comments — however well-informed — are that leaders are paying lip service to this issue without taking it seriously.

  53. Something that popped up on twit was Dolly Parton sister asking for prayers for Dolly. She is having medical issues which have progressed and she is very ill.

  55. OH BB hope that’s no biggie, but must say i noticed recently on some TikToks of a Dollywood appearance she was needing much help walking. I also think her husband dying had to be more painful than she let on.

  60. This week’s serial from 1969, the 2nd Doctor’s (Patrick Troughton) swan-song and a B&W masterpiece, 8 episodes (4 hours):

  62. If 2025 takes Jane Goodall & Dolly Parton, while leaving behind Orange Adolf, so help me…

  63. Getting so you can’t swing a cat without hitting a Gestapo Barbie.

  66. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

    Is that not still the oath? If it isn’t, it should be.

  68. ^

    Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon “Mundo” Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

  69. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and everything but the truth?

    — Moe Howard, Noted Stooge.

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