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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Bring it on, Schumer!

"Schumer Shutdown Imminent: Measures to Avert Government Showdown Fail in the Senate – OMB Dir. Russ Vought Prepares for Orderly Shutdown".

Mr. President, please make sure you allocate enough money to hand out pink slips to as many federal bureaucrats as possible - particularly to those living in Northern Virginia.

Give me twenty, maggot!

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth passed along a few, er, mild observations to an assemblage of brass hats today: "Pete Hegseth Torches 'Fat Generals, Low Standards, Gender Delusions' During Remarks to Military Leaders".

“This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to rip out the politics,” Hegseth said. “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions, no more debris, said before, and we'll say again, we are done with that sh*t.”

Extremely refreshing, I must say. I don't know if we'll ever enjoy this level of muscular conservatism again, but I'm sure going to enjoy it while it lasts.

Update Haw! A real soldier responds to one of Bill Kristol's typically snarky comments.

Retired Army colonel here. Three combat tours. 60% disabled per the VA. Spent most of my tactical career in the 82nd Airborne.

Please read what I am about to say with the sneering condescension with which I intend it:

Mr. Kristol, you are a grifter. Worse, you are a lying… https://t.co/FNE9cJsX9D
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 30, 2025

Good luck with that

Israel Agrees to Trump's Plan to End Gaza War, But You Can Guess Who's Going to Torpedo It

We’re back to this game again. Israel wants to end the war, but Hamas needs to sign off—and they won’t. It’s the same nonsense that’s scuttled innumerable ceasefire agreements. It’s almost as if you can’t trust terrorists, which is something the liberal media, Democrats, and college students don’t understand, albeit the latter party is so antisemitic that they don’t care. If Hamas is that entrenched in Gazan society, then it should be excised.

American presidents always get seduced by the siren song of peace in the Middle East, and usually the results are either ineffective or disastrous.

The first mistake is allowing the concerns of Palestinians and their supporters to take a position, front and center, among all the other international concerns in the world. Why, for example, is a resolution of the Palestinian issue more important than stopping the Muslim genocide against Christians in Nigeria, and Christians and Druze in Syria? Devoting as much time and effort (and blood and treasure) to solving the Palestinian problem simply tends to give credibility to their (mostly imagined) grievances.

In the second place, an agreement such as the one proposed depends largely on the acquiescence of Hamas and other intransigent groups. Palestine has always been used to get leverage over us by a variety of enemies (ours and Israel's); does anybody really think that our foes are eager to remove this thorn from our heel? Plus, as long as Hamas is permitted to continue its existence as a political unit, peace will ultimately prove to be impossible.

With all due respect, Mr. President, this is not equivalent to doing a big New York real estate deal. Fanatics exist in a world that has its own, unique logic, however twisted, and Hamas and its supporters are not speaking the same language that you are, and undoubtedly will keep acting in bad faith. I wish you well in your endeavors, and maybe this is another version of multidimensional chess that is beyond my comprehension (e.g., maybe you're setting Hamas up for the blame when this fails) but my estimation of the prospects for success? Low.