The Bloods And the Quips

Just some things that occur to me through the day.

* Sad to see Gene Hackman and his wife go the way they did. It does occur to me that at his age he could probably have run for Congress.

There is a full-throated panic going on amongst the Democrat hierarchy these days. They’re not going to be able to fix this in the short term… Even within the next few cycles, and they know it.

They now understand that

Some interesting news about a special election in Connecticut from Votehub:

With all votes in, Republican Jason Perillo has defeated Democrat Tony Afriyie in Connecticut SD 21

Jason Perillo (R) – 53.5% (6839)
Tony Afriyie (D) – 46.5% (5950)

Now,

An open letter to federal workers:

Federal workers are reported to be outraged that they have to provide a work summary… Essentially a list of what they did for the week. I find it very difficult to find any sympathy.

Matt Walsh:

Deeply saddened by the passing of Joy Reid’s MSNBC show. It was a great resource for right-wing podcasters looking for a clip to play and make fun of. I can’t tell you how many slow news days Joy

New poll: 83% of Americans want the government to cut spending instead of raising taxes—but D.C. just kept spending under Biden.

– 67% say the debt is unsustainable
– 83% want the budget balanced
– 77% demand a full review

Honestly, where do these people come from?

The “C-ndoms for Kiddies” Bill, which installs c-ndom vending machines in preschools – high schools, is set to be passed in Maryland.

Kind of begs the question who the condoms are for in

“Mr. Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who declined a 60 Minutes request for an interview.”

Why on Earth would she walk into that hot mess? CBS has a history of altering interviews, for the obvious purpose of pushing a leftist

From Mark Penn:

Voters are mostly liking what they see in the first month of the new presidency. By 57/43 voters say Trump doing a better job than Biden in advance look at poll coming out Monday.

Job approval

Fox News passes this one on;

CHOPPING BLOCK: The Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, an 18-story tower that was recently named after the former speaker, sits in an area of San Francisco that has been for years plagued by open-air drug

Sarah Hoyt has a long form of today that is definitely worth your time to read. Here:

And yes, I do get that almost all of us either have a job in the periphery of the government or have

* How oddly amusing to see the protests condemning ‘billionaires’ being involved in politics when they didn’t have any problem with billionaires like Soros, Zuckerberg, Oprah, Swift, Bill Gates, and all the rest piling their money and influence into leftist

* Imagine a group of people so corrupt that they try to use the power of government to convince you that accountability is illegal.

* I can remember a time in my life when we had so much in the

Found elsewhere:

Checkmate.
A lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump’s DOGE Executive Order and, expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out Trump and Musk didn’t create anything. Obama did.
Obama created United States Digital

You know maybe we ought to be paying attention to this