Friday [14 till close of play]

(1636) Evening all.

 

17. It’s down to last minute in the States

I’ve written at OoL about what happened:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/12/just-give-me-one-page-summary.html


Listen up! Lemme give y’all the skinny on what is really happening: It’s all about the “debt ceiling.”

The debt ceiling was suspended in June 2023 (See https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-debt-ceiling-senate-vote-06-01-23/index.html). There is no debt ceiling right now, per that bill, until January 1, 2025. This, as you might imagine, is important.

The debt ceiling effective January 1st will be whatever it was back in June 2023 plus whatever spending since then. That opens a little room, but likely means that the debt ceiling will be hit no later than June 2025. This is also important.

The Continuing Resolution (which we’ve all been told to hate cuz it is festooned with pork) would have pushed the debt ceiling back for 2 years. This is something that President-Elect Trump most definitely wants.

Why? Cuz Pres. Trump intends to implement massive tax cuts (no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, 15% tax max for companies manufacturing here), and those cuts, in the topsy-turvy world of federal budgets, are counted as “spending.” Cutting taxes by $2 trillion? That is $2 trillion in spending. Or so they say.

But, as of now, President-Elect Trump is NOT going to get that extension to the debt ceiling return. This is a problem cuz then his administration will need to figure out how to fit trillions in tax cuts into a timeframe of less than 6 months. Not possible, tbh.

The tax cuts will spur the American economy like putting nitro into a monster truck. But receipts generated from all that wealth production will not arrive in time to prevent American default on debt come June.

If you want to know what the Uniparty/Democrats are holding hostage, it is deciding whether to delay or implement the debt ceiling’s return.

Yik-yak about A.I.-generated Cancer Kidz 

 all you want. Decry pork. Decry redefining criminals as “Justice Involved.” None of that is the real issue.

The issue is whether President Trump and his administration will be given the runway to Make America Great Again. It’s a real pickle.

And almost no one understands it.

https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/ARA-12.20.pdf

2241 GMT: The bill already has 11 Republican ‘NAY’ votes. 6 Democrats ‘YES’ already…

16. Unconscionable the way it’s still being pushed


15. Nancy gives herself away a bit

Posobiec clearly has it in for Mace but on the other hand, as he points out … the internet remembers things and they’re easily retrieved from archives. If she were sensible, she’d say right, that was so back then, is no one allowed to learn along the way?

But she didn’t do that … she doubled down and started counterattacking. Not a good look. She might be right on the current issues or not … point is … not a good look.


14. Steve has a few things up

… an item at 913:2 on dishonest pollies, another at 913:3 with war room:

a. Mike Davis: Fani Willis’ Case Of Arrogance, Corruption And Greed. Nathan Wade Billed Time With Biden Whitehouse Council 16 Hours At $250/hr.

b. Brian Glenn: The Base Couldn’t Care Less If This Tyrannical Government Stays Funded.

c. Natalie Winters: “We Are Fully In Support Of Shutting Down This Illegitimate Weaponized Regime”.

d. Mike Benz: Reuters Received Tens Of Millions Of Dollars From The Government To Lie.

Plus: “Elon spreads the word.”

Try these

 

  1. Who rides in a $190m Aurus Senat?
  2. What stopped in 1784 in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket?
  3. The out of control eyepatcher in US politics?
  4. What’s track tamping?
  5. Which party is offering £10 memberships to U25s?
  6. Nearly all domestic ducks are derived from which ancestors?

Friday [8 to 13]

(1311) Afternoon all. This is the new “fast asleep but occasionally waking for a minute” blogging. Hopes ya like it. (1412)

 

13. Moosh corner


12. They’re calling out Mace and Roy too


11. Integrity


10. Inevitable


9. An oldy but a goody


8. Kathy’s a cutie

HERE

Friday [5]

(0740) Still dark so late in the morn. Lighter now, bleah out there. (0811)

 

The Christmas programme from Unherdables HQ

These are the carols in the queue right now … just have to slot them into some order:


Thinking out loud here … Bleak Midwinter tomorrow, natch, there are two children’s carols, one British, one North American …. hmmmm, where?

We three kings is post Chrissy Day, Wenceslas (not pictured) is the 26th, the day itself has the Bulgarian children, 24th is Stille Nacht, 23rd is O Holy Night.

All right … let’s go by theme … While Shepherds Watched (Kings Bollege, Bambridge) is on or before the day … Sunday 22nd?

O Little Town or Dame Kiri today? Dame Kiri more serious after yesterday’s children but O Little Town somehow seems better pre-Christmas.

Dame Kiri on the 27th? IYE’s French music 28th?

The Baroque? Hmmmmm. 29th, as Sunday music? Thinking I might finish the Christmas season on the 29th, start the Slavic New Year 30, 31, 1, 2.

Friday [1 to 4]

(0546) Slower politics after last evening’s hell for leather rush. Just a reminder about the winter solstice in the UK: Sat, 21 Dec 2024, 9:21 a.m. (0609)

 

4. Well well well … an Aussie state doing right


3. Whatever could be the reason?


2. Daughter dear also getting political


1. DAD’s drop at 914

a) The curtain falls on the mass rape trial that shocked the world and saw Gisèle Pelicot emerge as a feminist hero. After two and a half months of hearings, the Criminal Court in Avignon……

b) Marine Le Pen, de facto leader of France’s ‘hard-right’ [sic] National Rally (RN) party has said she believed President Emmanuel Macron’s tenure was nearing its end.….

c) Socialists love spending money, providing that it not theirs.The searches are being carried out as part of an investigation into illegal taking of interests and misappropriation of public funds relating to Anne Hidalgo’s trip to Tahiti last autumn…..

d) According to Le Figaro, an American couple in a beautiful yellow Ferrari F8 had a nightmarish experience in the Moulins district of Nice.….

Thursday [15 till close of play]

(1610) Evening all.

 

23. Over at Jstack

https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/when-the-heavy-hitters

22. Steve drops at 913

Four: Meloni/Musk, Fani dumped, Milei/Bukele, much more…..

Three: Spending stall, Chip Roy, Johnson, much more…..

Two: Sit-rep in the Uke, NATO attacks Russia again, more…..

One: Vaxxes, terrorists, Reuters, Tamara Lych, the item in Thur 19 below, more…..

JH (2301): Regarding Lych, there’s Hungry Trucker on X who says she led nothing, zilch … that she and that partner betrayed the truckers every step of the way. Be careful with Tamara Lych and GoFundMe.

21. Torquaymada has an interesting piece up at 913

… exploring the deeper machinations of the state … the conclusions are not that pretty at all.

20. Andy has a Bonzo curiosity at UHC

… glad to see UHC making itself useful now and then. My chief criticism is that it warr better as audio … there was the original Vivian Stanshall audio you see, which was a hoot, about the English landed gentrified, always bearing in mind that Bonzo were leftist luvvies … sort of thing I’ve gone off now … however, it warr funny at t’time, us being in our salad days.

My criticism is the same as with Hitchhiker’s Guide … as a book, hilarious … but as a TV series, it fell a bit flat … the wicked byplay best left imagined imho. The wicked wit and vision of Vivian Stanshall, as with the wicked word byplay and vision of Douglas Adams, were best, again imho, in the original.

It was a bit like when we’d all quote Python at each other but it lost so much, no longer being in its proper setting, the deliverer hardly in the same class as the original wits. Not sure if this makes any sense. This is the curse of adaptations.

Of course, I might be completely wrong on this matter.

19. This is the one from Steve’s 913 which stood out

… in that it deals with the financial sticking point in Washington:

HERE

I have criticisms of the Liberty Beacon listed before, namely the lack of author name or timestamp … we’ve been through all this before. So we take it or leave it, with different parties wanting different things, each Party itself holding separate meetings. The pork’s gone but not the issues.

18. This 👇🏻

17. Hospital

Been looking at Grandad’s site on Scriblerus and the health thing is not good, though he puts a brave face on it. There, but for the Grace …

16. The pork


15. Steve at 913 and war room

a. Senator Tommy Tuberville: The Democrats Got $10 For Every 1 Republican Dollar In New CR

b. Steve Bannon: Mike Johnson Has Got To Go

c. Natalie Winters: Democrat Member Of Congress Said: “Vote However You Want But Don’t Come For My Pay”

d. Ben Harnwell: President Trump needs to end the “security guarantees for the Ukraine” hoax right now.