“And that’s the way it is, October 29, 2025, the 28th day of captivity for the American government by Chuck Schumer.”
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
Schumer Shutdown, Day 28
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
100 responses to “Schumer Shutdown, Day 28”
Miyares climbing on polymarket
https://polymarket.com/event/virginia-attorney-general-election-winner-2025
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reading some of the comments on the betting market page, the people who put their money on the line are pretty ruthless. One even posted a fake poll, claiming to be Atlas Intel to sway buyers and sellers.
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The Democrat solution to gun crimes:
GET RID OF GUNS!
The Democrat solution to drug crimes:
GET RID OF TRUMP who is getting rid of drugs and their dealers!
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while you slept, Trump was busy wiping out four more narco-terrorist boats.
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Didn’t take long to blame climate change:
“Meteorologists said Hurricane Melissa intensified at a speed rarely seen, its rapid strengthening fuelled by abnormally warm Caribbean waters – part of a broader trend linked to climate change.”–BBC
And yet climate change was apparently not responsible for this:
“During a hurricane in 1749, the Chesapeake Bay rose 15 feet (4.6 m) above normal, and a sand spit was washed up at Sewell’s Point. With the help of the Great Coastal Hurricane of 1806, Willoughby Spit was formed.”
And now there are three story beach houses out there where it used to be Chesapeake Bay/James River.
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I was wrong
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Oh boy, a crown. The free passers/drats will be triggered.
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5.1 earthquake 300 miles off coast of Oregon
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Apparently a federal judge intervened on the earthquake, because now its been downgraded to just 3.4 intensity.
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and now Jones tanking on predictit
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Federal Judge has been overruled, and the earthquake was restored to 5.4 intensity.
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Thank you to Bitter and Jason for the kind words and its so clear how much they love their A-Holes.
Festivities aside, on to more important topics.
SPY crossed 6900 recently.
If we can get to 7200 by the end of the year, that will mean three consecutive years of 20% positive returns. What a ride. But also a cautionary tale. The last time we had three consecutive 20% positive years, it was in the 90s which then was followed by the most epic bubble burst of my lifetime (the dot com bust).
Big Joe, A-Hole
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Which bunch of foreigners won the world series game last night? The Canadians or the Japanese/LA?
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Canada beat Japan last night. Ohtani tagged with the loss after giving up a two run homer.
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Thank you to Bitter and Jason for the kind words”
No problem.
I just checked and actually you were inducted in March, so you can send in the retroactive dues at once.
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Festivities aside, on to more important topics.”
Huh, I know you are a new A-hole so you might not have fully read the Official A-hole Manual, but there is nothing more important than being an A-hole.
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Some life-long democrat strategists, like Julian Epstein, don’t think too highly of Schumer’s Government Shutdown:
”Imagine if you threw a party and no one came. Pretty humiliating, right?
Well, imagine if you represented the party of big government, lost the presidency and both houses of Congress, then demanded a federal shutdown to impose your welfare-state agenda on the nation — and no one seemed to care much.
In that scenario, you’ve become your own worst enemy: You’ve inadvertently made your adversaries’ case that there really isn’t a meaningful voter constituency for a big-government leviathan.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/how-democrats-threw-a-government-shutdown-and-no-one-cared/
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The fact that Spanberger took the name Jay Jones off her campaign bus might be giving us a peek into the Dems internal polling.
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A federal Judge has ruled that President Trump must stop the ball room project and instead send his money to help rebuild Jamaica, given his inaction on climate change was responsible for the hurricane devastation on the island nation.
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Biden: We are in dark days, and democracy is at stake.
Trump: Getting things done faster than you can type up the list:
Trump Secures $350 Billion Trade Deal With South Korea
Narco-Terrorists being destroyed with their drugs
Peace deal ends war in Gaza
Peace deal in Cambodia
Trade deal with Japan
Gas prices down
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CSPAN Democrat Caller Rips Her Party For Government Shutdown, Holding Americans Hostage
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for the moment, both polymarket and predict it have:
Miyares 64c
Jones 37c
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The fact that Spanberger took the name Jay Jones off her campaign bus might be giving us a peek into the Dems internal polling”
Rumor has it his name is still under the bus.
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not saying that the removal of the name from the bus means the internal polling says Spanberger is behind Sears, but they probably had a cut-off…like if it gets to only +5 then put Jones’ name under the bus instead of on the side.
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polymarket is now 66c/35c
Jones dropping like a rock.
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I belong to an Internet group that is supposed to be for recommending contractors, finding lost pets, announcing community events, etc. in the past 2 weeks it has been hijacked by Democrats announcing No Kings rallies, bitching about Trump, and supporting retaining the libs on the PA Supreme Court.
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There are three congressional districts in Virginia where the early vote totals have ALREADY surpassed the FINAL early vote total from 2021 when Youngkin won.
VA-01 (was Trump +4.9 in 2024) +12,000 votes over 2021
VA-05 (was Trump +12.3 in 2024) +3,100 votes over 2021
VA-09 (was Trump +44.1 in 2024) +9,000 votes over 2021
Meanwhile, these districts are way behind the final early vote totals from 2021:
VA-03 (was Harris +34.7 in 2024) -21,000 votes behind 2021
VA-07 (was Harris +2.9 in 2024) -40,000 votes behind 2021
VA-08 (was Harris +49.7 in 2024) -34,000 votes behind 2021
VA-10 (was Harris +8.4 in 2024) -43,000 votes behind 2021
VA-11 (was Harris +34.3 in 2024) -19,000 votes behind 2021
And again, the GOP WON in 2021.
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Bitter, ask them where they were on the No Kings stuff when Biden and Obama behaved like kings.
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5.4 earthquake in Iceland
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No, he didn’t circle back.
Nick Fuentes: “It was December 18…That’s Joseph Stalin’s birthday. I’m a fan.”
Tucker Carlson: “You’re a fan of Stalin?”
Nick Fuentes: “Always an admirer.” T
Tucker Carlson: “Well that’s uh…Okay. We’ll circle back to that.”
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Bitter, the Next Door app out here has been similarly hijacked.
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A complete list of districts in VA and the early vote SO FAR, compared to the FINAL 2021 early vote:
VA-01 – Trump +4.9: +12038 over 2021
VA-02 – Trump +0.2: -6885 below 2021
VA-03 – Harris +34.7: -21065 below 2021
VA-04 – Harris +32.7: -17848 below 2021
VA-05 – Trump +12.3: +3165 over 2021
VA-06 – Trump +23.9: -3250 below 2021
VA-07 – Harris +2.9 : -40631 below 2021
VA-08 – Harris +49.7: -33826 below 2021
VA-09 – Trump +44.1: +8964 over 2021
VA-10 – Harris +8.4: -42673 below 2021
VA-11 – Harris +34.3: -19015 below 2021
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I belong to an Internet group that is supposed to be for recommending contractors, finding lost pets, announcing community events, etc. in the past 2 weeks it has been hijacked by Democrats announcing No Kings rallies, bitching about Trump, and supporting retaining the libs on the PA Supreme Court.”
So are you fighting back or just sitting back on the couch like you do while the NFL schools you on race relations.
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Great job, DW. Thanks for the early voting analysis. Hopefully, the trend continues.
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Am I alone in thinking that having VA-02 below “quota” is a good thing? Seems exactly like the type of suburban district Trump barely won that would snap back against him and the party in an off year. Or would the military vote there offset that since they love POTUS as he is the only one paying them?
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The problem with these numbers in VA is that we don’t know which voters are causing the “deficits” and “surpluses”.
More votes in a pro-Trump district wouldn’t be good if more Dems are voting there, and conversely less votes in a Dem district wouldn’t be good if the shortfall means less Rs voting.
Intuitively these numbers look good IF you assume the Rs are gaining votes in R districts and Ds are losing votes in D districts.
But there is an IF there.
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Let’s face it 90% of the Dem elected officials and 90% of the leftwing media have bought into the theory that Dems lost the election not because they were TOO radical, but because they weren’t radical enough.
In VA everyone on the Dem side is certainly running like that is the case.
Let’s see if they are right.
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True jason, and I wouldn’t try to glean much from the competitive districts. But districts 3, 4, and 8 are so overwhelmingly Dem that the shortfall there speaks for itself.
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and 11
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Quinnipiac
Mamdani 43, Cuomo 33, Sliwa 14
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I am replying and pointing out their laws. Our dog better not go missing or they won’t help find her.
The NFL has not schooled me on race relations because I think for myself.
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Pointing out their flaws.
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Bitter is the Charlie Kirk of community lost pet blogs.
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Jason must have a weak mind. If soccer or golf started airing messages about being left-handed, he would probably switch his dominant hand (if he is not already left-handed).
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Dw/Bl, the 3:27 pm post is not mine,
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Thanks.
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The markets had an interesting response to the Fed’s actions today. The cut of 1/4 point was expected and appropriate (inflation is still above target but steady), so short term rates are maintained above the neutral level.
However, the announced ending of quantitative tightening caused an immediate upward movement in long rates (10s. 20s, and 30s). This suggests that the bloated balance sheet and continued Fed buying of government debt is not popular among bond buyers. Did the Fed screw up?
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How many times was Marshal Matt Dillon shot on Gunsmoke?
Sheila Givens
Lewisburg, Kentucky
Near as I can figure, Marshal Dillon was shot 56 times, but I’ve heard the count could be higher.
My figure includes: eight shots in the left arm, six in the left shoulder, four in the left side, one in the left leg, five in the right arm, five in the right shoulder, six in the right side, three in the right chest, four in the right leg, three forehead grazes, five in the back and several creases. The poor marshal was also knocked unconscious 29 times, stabbed three times and poisoned once.
That’s a lot of blood loss!
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Looks like demented/stoner targeted r officials; an r ag group; and turning point usa coo. There needs ro be arrests of demented, stoner, and the goblin. Rs cannot stand down. It’s 190 groups/individuals in total.
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Actually, per Grassley it’s at least 430 R individuals/entities.
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from RRH:
Kat “Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old social media influencer running to represent the 9th Congressional District in Illinois, has been charged with two counts: conspiracy to impede or injure an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, and assaulting or impeding that officer while engaged in his official duties.”
“The conspiracy count, according to an MSNBC report, carries the potential for a six-year prison sentence if convicted, while the assault charge could lead to an eight-year sentence.”
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/10/29/dem-candidate-for-congress-hit-with-indictment-for-blocking-ice-operations-etching-pig-on-agents-car-n2195621
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ProfMJCleveland
Senate Minority Leader AOC has told Schumer to create a fake problem to solve to end the shut down. He’s gonna have Senate Dems vote for the CR as the only way to restore SNAP. It’s all a fake sideshow.
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https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2025/10/gov-healeys-wmass-aide-arrested-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-at-little-statehouse-in-springfield.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawNvVbBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFzZ21iNTl1SXF6SnVvWUFnAR5AnV5fHxS2h9y4M1BWuUDg7w-_mP3EaqxdXEkHYvoC_X21Mdq9gGYpABVT9Q_aem_MNoiyWB_5VUhriltrmicLg&brid=ry7I3Q9j0sxtKJM43kKnuA
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DW – So she will elected in Illinois for attacking ICE.
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How many times was Marshal Matt Dillon shot on Gunsmoke?
Zzzzzz. I want to know how many times was Walt attacked by dinosaurs, spears, swords, cross-bows, blunderbusses, muskets, rifles, dueling pistols, etc. How did he live when dinosaurs were wiped out?
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Bitter,
legion.
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“Near as I can figure, Marshal Dillon was shot 56 times, but I’ve heard the count could be higher.”
Its much the same as the common problem with Little House on the Prairie, you know where the Ingalls family lives by themselves by plum creek, a couple miles out outside of Walnut Grove. But if you add up all the one-time “neighbors” who appeared in individual episodes but never again, people who live just over the hill on the way to Walnut Grove, the Ingalls had to have lived in a decent sized city for all those neighbors.
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How many times did Timmy fall in the well and Lassie had to go get help?
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Another one is the long running series, “Have Gun Will Travel” starring Richard Boone. Given the number of times his character “Paladin” was whacked on the head to knock him out, his brains would have been mutton by the last season.
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Marxist judge defeated.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1983639770979868778/photo/2
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Illinois border head won’t have to “report” to judge Marxist. Total error on her behalf. Basic division of powers.
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WHERE IS HUNTER?
“Staffer for the Democrat Governor of Massachusetts Arrested on Cocaine Trafficking Charges.”
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For so many years I have heard the notion that there are still many good and decent people who are elected officials but belong to the Democratic Party. Starting to look like Tulsi Gabbard turned out the lights when she left the party.
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Recent candidates for the “still good and decent” category might have included Mark Warner. But now he still supports for attorney general a man so unhinged that he wants to put two bullets into the head of Republicans he disagrees with, and in so doing save the lives of Pol Pot and Hitler if those were the choices.
Warner is scum as is Kaine.
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And of course anyone would have to be mentally ill to believe its okay to trick a healthy little boy into thinking doctors can make him into a girl, then rush him into surgery and lop off his privates, permanently sterilizing him and putting him on a path to suicide.
This sort of barbaric act is what ancient empires like the Assyrians did as horrific punishment to captured slaves.
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Looking at some of these Trump job approval numbers pushed by left-leaning pollsters who badly missed 2024 got me thinking. Lets say they are right and only 40% approve of the job Trump is doing.
Nearly 50% of the nation VOTED for Trump just one year ago.
What has he done and is doing that so many suddenly don’t approve of?
Ending the war in Gaza?
Ending the war on the Cambodian border?
Ending illegal immigration?
Lowering gas prices?
Working trade deals that so far are working?
I could go on and on, and Trump is even behaving himself more or less. Much more so than the first term. And the military is being fixed. Woke and DEI is on the run…all the things the 50% voted to get, and suddenly 1/5th of them don’t like it?
Or perhaps these pollsters are out to lunch, and RMG research is right on Trump’s approval.
But this also has me wondering if polls are going to be missing the mark this fall because of a possible “Bradley Effect.”
Its obvious the left has a violence problem given all their rhetoric resulting in multiple attempts on Trump’s life, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and in Virginia the chilling reality that ALL Dems in Virginia don’t believe its disqualifying for an Atty General candidate to be so unhinged he wants to put two bullets into the head of a Republican.
In this toxic environment who is going to answer the poll and tell a stranger, a pollster, yes, I am a Republican, and yes I want Democrats to lose, knowing that if they win, and find out I am Republican, that they will want two bullets in my head too.
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In this toxic environment who is going to answer the poll and tell a stranger, a pollster, yes, I am a Republican, and yes I want Democrats to lose
I would answer the poll and tell the Dems GFY.
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i guess I was thinking about the more fearful among us.
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Stealing BillW’s handle now, Bunu?
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Jason must have a weak mind.”
Bitter is hilarious.
He vociferously defends the woke NFL while stating their brainwashing doesn’t work on him.
😀
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Massie coming in hot for next cycle already”
Reminds me of “Iowa is Paul country”.
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Let’s go. Boso (Souter 2.0) is not above the law.
SENATOR TED CRUZ GOES BALLISTIC: “I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to IMPEACH Judge Boasberg! Judge Boasberg put his robe down, stood up and said, ‘sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta against 20% of the Republicans in the Senate!’” “That is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the judicial OATH!”
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soutera bff-*
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I don’t defend the NFL. I ignore anything that is not the games.
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DW,
Maybe pollsters — to the question of are you dissatisfied with Trump — ought to ask a follow up question as to why?
If you are dissatisfied with Trump is it because:
A–not deporting enough illegals fast enough
B–not sending in more more NGuard to arrest those idiots hindering ICE and attacking federal facilities
C. Not getting ride of federal judges who are whack jobs and give whack job rulings
D–DJT has not thrown all the Looney tune Dems out of Congress and into jail
E–because he beat Hillary and Kamala
F. Because he is ending programs where I make a lot of money from tax dollars
G. He has not stopped 3I/Atlas space thingie hurtling through space
H. because the leaders of the D party tell me I should be dissatisfied with DJT
I. I favor the chaos and turmoil the D party usually brings, like when Biden was in.
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I turned the game on and it was already 2-0 for the Blue Jays.
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This case for impeaching Boasberg is a lot stronger than the “let’s impeach him because we don’t agree with his ruling”.
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The announcers seem to be desperately rooting for the Blue Jays.
Why is that?
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Man can these guys get their heads any more up the Blue Jay’s asses?
Reminds me of MSNBC interviewing Democrats.
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I am at a Pat Benatar/Bryan Adams concert. GFYs
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I guess the Flower Show is not going on.
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Flower show in Philly is in thee spring.
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Jason, aside from the LA based broadcasters who have their wallets on the line to root for LA, you are still talking about journalists; whether sports or otherwise, they are heavily Dem, and roughly 90% of those people hate their country enough that having a nation that provides free healthcare winning our “national past time” makes them feel good, because there is nothing that the USA needs more than a good humbling now and then (and prererably more often than not).
Of course, housing is not only unaffordable in Canada, it’s damned near impossible to buy a home up there, but that’s ok; they can see their doctor without charge and get free needle exchanges in “cosmopolitan” cities like Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
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Yep, that is why I don’t watch any sports channels anymore, all woke and Marxist. The talking heads at ESPN might as well be on MSNBC.
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Flower show in Philly is in thee spring.”
Walt please don’t steal the bait I put out for Bitter.
Ma says thanks.
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Great concert. GFYs.
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The small, Bad River Indian Reservation is in Northern WI.
193 square mile area.
Population of under 7,000. (6,850 or something like that)
It is a poor, economically deprived area. Yes, they do have a casino there.
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71 years ago, a gas/oil pipeline was built which runs through the reservation–16 miles from W to E. The gas/oil comes from Canada and is piped East to the U.S. There is no gas/oil located beneath the Bad River Reservation.
The Reservation is paid money annually by the gas company due to 16 miles of their pipeline goes thru the reservation.
The Indians want this pipeline shut down, and the pipes dug up and removed. The Canadian NatGas company wanted to build a new pipeline on same trajectory through the reservation to replace the existing buried NatGas line. Indians refused to give permission.
Gas company then decides–at substantial greater cost, to build their new line by making a U around the 16 mile wide reservation.
State of WI and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers have given approval of the new pipeline. Indians have filed suit to stop that as well.
“the Bad River Reservation has received court-ordered payments from Enbridge for the operation of its Line 5 pipeline on tribal lands, though the tribe has refused other settlement offers and prioritized the pipeline’s removal.
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Here is a breakdown of the compensation and legal battle:
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Payments and legal battles
2013 Expired easements: The tribe refused to renew easements for the pipeline in 2013, as the easements had expired on several parcels of land within the reservation.
2019 Lawsuit settlement offer: In a 2019 settlement offer that was part of the ongoing legal battle, Enbridge proposed paying the tribe
$12 million to settle claims related to the expired easements and 
$2 million annually until the pipeline is no longer in use on the reservation. {This $2 MM per year would be about $1,000/family of four if actually paid out that way. ]
2023 Court-ordered payments: A federal judge ruled in June 2023 that Enbridge must pay the Bad River Band
$5.15 million in damages, which includes profits earned since the original pipeline easement expired. The company was also ordered to make ongoing quarterly payments to the tribe for as long as the pipeline is on its land.
Bad River Indians have sued to stop the proposed building of the U shaped pipeline AROUND their reservation because of “fears” the pipeline “may” impact the higher in elevation watershed that sits above the Bad River reservation.
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So the Indians
–do not want the existing pipeline (that provides them annual payments from the gas company) running through their reservation
–do not want the new pipeline (for which they would receive annual payments from the gas company) to run through their reservations
–do not wanted the new pipeline (for which they get NO annual payment from the gas company) to go AROUND the reservation.
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The Bad River reservation people vote big for the Dem party… Figures. They make poor decisions.
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Oh, and the state of WI is currently in the process of putting up all new bilingual road signs in that area of northern WI–English and the Chippewa language.
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I don’t want Toronto to win because it beat the Phillies in the 1993 World Series. I don’t want the Dodgers to win because they eliminated the Phillies this year. F both.
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The damm furners beat the American team again?
Will they be invited to the WH if they win the WS?
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Walt hasn’t been this involved in native land disputes since he objected to the new wall Sultan Suleiman wanted to build in Jerusalem in 1535.
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There is actually ONE Canadian on the Blue Jays team.
“Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is Canadian, making him the only Canadian citizen on the Toronto Blue Jays roster. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, while his father, Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero Sr., was playing for the Montreal Expos”
GFYs
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However, the Blue Jays are owned by a Canadian company, who also owns their stadium. The company also owns the TV network and the cable channel that broadcasts the games.
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Looks like Miyares blocked the Dem redistricting scam in VA?
Shows how important it is to have a R AG.
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AG is critically important position
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Can Miyares actually block the redistricting?
I saw he issued an “opinion”.
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new thread
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Yeah let me get right on that. 🙄
Big Joe, A-Hole
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