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"The purest form of love can be found in the relationship between Chris Murphy and a camera"

'Stunning and brave': Dem senator mocked after hyping all-nighter stunt in protest of Trump nominee

Sen Chris Murphy was attempting to block the nomination of Office of Management and Budget head Russ Vought, who was ultimately confirmed

Dem. Sen. Chris Murphy was ripped on social media on Thursday morning over a post where he explained how he stayed up most of the night drinking Red Bull because democracy is "on the line" if Democrats do not stop Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts.

"After taking the 2-5am shift on the Senate floor last night for our overnight protest, got 2 hours of crappy sleep on my office couch and right back at it today," Murphy posted on X. "We don’t rest. Keep going. Democracy on the line."

Murphy, whose post was accompanied by a photo of a Red Bull energy drink and video explaining his cause, was on the Senate floor late Wednesday night attempting to block the confirmation of Office of Management and Budget nominee Russ Vought until the "crisis" of Musk’s DOGE crackdown "passes."

Murphy’s post on social media was widely mocked by conservatives who questioned Murphy’s motives on the Senate floor. 

"So brave," Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe sarcastically posted on X.

"Area man has to work overnight one time," New York Post reporter Jon Levine posted on X.

"Stunning and brave," the Trump White House rapid response account posted on X.

"Imagine bragging about doing something that basically every college student has done at some point," conservative journalist John Hasson posted on X.

"Men used to go to war and now they cry about working overnight and post their little sugar free red bulls like they’re battle scars," conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair posted on X. 

"The purest form of love can be found in the relationship between Chris Murphy and a camera," former Trump campaign senior adviser Tim Murtaugh posted on X.

"Overwhelmed at your level of Heroism for ‘democracy’ while your constituents in CT have $1300 electric bills," radio host Tony Bruno posted on X. "You're a worthless clown!"

Despite efforts from Murphy and his fellow Democrats, Vought was confirmed as the new White House budget chief late Thursday night. 

Powerline also weighed in:

Democrats Pull All-Nighter But Fail Test [Updated]

Chuck Schumer, who puts cheese on a raw hamburger before grilling it and believes we import most of our beer from Mexico, is perhaps the unlikeliest street fighting man in America. Yet the Democrats are so desperate that they send Schumer into the streets to rouse rabble, inciting violence against Republicans. (Something for which, by the way, he is now coming under investigation.)

But more broadly, just as the Trump administration is in overdrive, doing too much for anyone to follow, the Democrats’ hysterical responses are too numerous to keep track of. Thus, the Democrats stayed up all night in the Senate chamber, doing an old-fashioned filibuster against a Trump nominee, and hardly anyone noticed. I certainly didn’t. But the New York Times was there:

There was no nursery rhyme reciting nor phone book reading. No cots wheeled out for senators to catch naps in between speechifying.

But one by one on Wednesday night and into Thursday, Senate Democrats flocked to the floor for an all-night talkathon to protest the confirmation of Russell T. Vought, President Trump’s nominee to lead the White House budget office and an architect of his ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda.

Amazingly, the Times is still peddling the idiotic Project 2025 narrative. This was a project of the Heritage Foundation, which has been putting out such policy documents since 1980, and was never Trump’s–“his”–policy agenda at all. That said, it contained a lot of great ideas.

… Several senators swigged caffeinated beverages. One arrived straight from a black-tie banquet. The eyes were bleary but the outrage was fierce as Democrats took turns railing against Mr. Vought, who has orchestrated many of Trump’s moves to go around Congress to dismantle and defund the federal government.

It’s a heartwarming image.

They had no hope of stopping Mr. Vought. Consigned to the minority, Democrats lacked the votes to block him or any other Trump nominee so long as Republicans continued to largely hold together in support.

The Times admits that the Democrats’ sleepover in the Senate chamber was futile:

[T]he all-nighter was a chance for members of a party that is under intense pressure from its base to push back more strongly against Mr. Trump to at least try to show they were trying.

It is always fun to see Democrats reduced to impotence. But I confess that I had no idea who Russell T. Vought was, so I looked him up. He is Trump’s nominee as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. It is a position for which he is obviously qualified, as he was Deputy Director of OMB from 2018 to early 2020, Acting Director of OMB in 2019, and Director of OMB–the position for which he is now nominated–from March 2020 until the end of the first Trump administration.

It is not clear why the Democrats have it in for Vought, as their opposition has nothing to do with his ability to run the Office of Management and Budget. He is an “out” Christian and a vocal opponent of Critical Race Theory, so I suppose that accounts for the Dems’ hatred, although those views are irrelevant to his service as Director of OMB. In any event, Vought is going to be confirmed. The Democrats can’t stop this or any other Trump nomination, because they are a minority party.

Which is why they are calling for violence in the streets.

UPDATE: Vought has been confirmed, 53-47.

Following up on the previous post

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I already knew this, but it was worth asking again: “How much of the plastic in the oceans comes from third world countries and China?” Google’s AI answer machine came up with this:

Search Labs | AI Overview

According to current research, a significant majority of ocean plastic waste, estimated at around 80%, originates from Asian countries, particularly "third world" nations like the Philippines, Indonesia, India, and China, with these countries contributing a combined large share due to inadequate waste management systems; China alone is often cited as one of the top contributors to ocean plastic pollution. 

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Trump: is there NOTHING he'll stop at? No detail too small if it will restore us to sanity? (Updated)

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UPDATE: While searching for the number of government employees working for our Chief Sustainability Officer — I couldn’t find an answer; I’m sure the Boyz will — I stumbled upon a fascinating fact: there is such a thing as a non-governmental Chief Sustainability Officer; in fact, there were 331,100 of them as of 2023, 90% of whom are paid more than $239,000 per year. What a waste of resources, time and money: $76,792,000,000 — that’s billion, with a B.

Over at Instapundit there's a veritable feast of X reposts, all good; here's a sampling

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What's a Rogues Hill building lot worth? We'll (eventually) find out

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gone and forgotten

The owners of 121 Round Hill Road paid $2.250 million for its 2.3 acres and a 1927 house in July 2021. They’ve razed the house and now offer the land at $4.5 million. No site work’s been done, but they have drawn up some pretty “could be built” pictures of an imaginary replacement structure; heck, anyone can do that — it takes no time, and costs nothing.

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The Last Supper? With the USAID cash spigot shut off, next year the White House Flunky Association’s group meal will be a BYOB luncheon: Bring your own bag.

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Ooh, so brave!

Comedian Amber Ruffin Reveals She Will Go Full Liberal Hack At WHCA Dinner, Doesn’t Want Trump To Attend

Miss Ruffin was “the top pick” of President of the White House Correspondents Association and Politico reporter Eugene Daniels.

“Amber’s unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate,” Daniels said. “Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.”

“This dinner is about centering the importance of a functioning democracy and Amber is the type of entertainer who understands both the significance of that mission as well as the mechanics of power in this country,” he continued.

Ruffin added in the interview that she plans to approach the night by “telling the truth” about how she feels.

“I think I’m going to do it the same way I always do it, by just telling the truth about how I feel,” Ruffin said. “I feel like we all feel a little sad. Well, some of us feel pretty happy. But a lot of us feel a little sad. And I think it’s OK to say exactly what it is that’s making us feel this way.”

“And I think when you do that, and people feel the same way as you, they think that it is fun and funny and it feels good to hear, and that’s kind of where I operate from,” Ruffin continued.

Enjoy your meal, children, especially you, Daniels: the Politico cash machine was just shut down:

Trump Administration Cancels All Media Contracts After Politico’s $34 Million Scandal

In the wake of the revelation that $34 million was transferred from taxpayer wallets into the coffers of far-left media outlet Politico, the Trump administration has ordered the General Services Administration (GSA) to terminate all media contracts for which the GSA currently pays. Included in the list of outlets affected are the aforementioned Politico—whose "Pro" product has gotten particular scrutiny—plus Bloomberg and the BBC.

Axios, another far-left media outlet, obtained a copy of a memo sent to the GSA by an unnamed Trump administration official directing the agency to do two things:

Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg

Pull all media contracts for just GSA - cancel every single media contract today for just GSA only.

RedState's Bonchie first wrote about this Wednesday morning after the Elon Musk-led DOGE, his scrappy band of government slashers and a group of websleuths sniffed out, among other things, the insane government contract that saw Politico receiving many millions of taxpayer dollars, via USAID, so that government workers could read its swill. Some great points from Bonchie:

Politico has never disclosed those payments even as they've written pieces covering USAID, posing as unbiased arbiters of truth. That represents one of the biggest scandals in the history of the press. The United States government was funneling money to a left-wing news outlet that has repeatedly done the bidding of the Democratic Party. As an example, you may remember Politico as the same news site that laundered the infamous letter from "51 intelligence officials" saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. 

NEW: Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There

White House Pulls the Plug on Federal Subsidies to Leftist Media

The story grew to such mammoth proportions on social media Wednesday that Politico could do nothing to get in front of it, and Politico apologists and other DC insiders, who have somehow failed to notice the Trump-sized paradigm shift that has taken place in the United States, were left sniffing about how everyone in DC subscribes to Politico Pro. This is no big deal, guys. You just don't understand how DC works.

That was then and this is now. It wasn't long before the White House weighed in, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stating:

"The more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to @politico... will no longer be happening. The @DOGEteam is working on canceling those payments now."

Axios added that a White House official put all lefty media companies on notice, saying, "The eye of Sauron is on more than just Politico. It's all the media."

And this may be completely unrelated, but Politico apparently had some issues paying its employees earlier in the week.

Once the murder of an insurance company CEO is condoned*, everyone's fair game

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jared may, boston university

Boston University staff member made social media post saying DOGE employees are wanted 'dead or alive'

An employee of Boston University said that staff working for the Department of Government Efficiency are "wanted for treason, dead or alive." 

Jared May, who was listed online as an assistant media technician at Boston University, posted to the social media site Bluesky, a graphic that included pictures of several young men who allegedly work for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The graphic includes the text, "WANTED FOR TREASON, DEAD OR ALIVE." 

Along with the graphic, May wrote a caption that listed several names of the young men pictured. 

In a statement to Boston.com, a university representative said, "We are aware of a post made by an employee on his personal social media account…. We do not comment on personnel matters. The views expressed do not reflect the values of Questrom School of Business." 

At least one of the DOGE Boyz is a student at Northeastern, right there in Boston for the convenience of Mr. May or any other assassin to locate and kill him.

*41% of young voters say UnitedHealthcare CEO killing "acceptable": Poll

Fine: arrest the employers instead.

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East Hampton officials reassure wealthy residents that officers won’t deport illegal migrant maids, landscapers and nannies

Village leaders held a special community meeting to assure residents of East Hampton — where the median property value is $2 million — that their hired help will not be deported by local cops.

East Hampton Village Police Chief Jeffrey Erickson stressed that local law enforcement do not have authority to enforce federal law — and won’t hold onto undocumented immigrants if given an ICE detainer.

The illegals are toiling to earn a living and support their families; the billionaires are just trying to save a few bucks on wages and payroll taxes. There are laws to punish both behaviors, so if the cops won’t enforce the one that punishes the workers, they’ll have more time to go after the bigger criminals, the ones enabling the crime wave to go on.

Besides, the spectacle of a poolside police raid and the arrest of a few of a golf club’s members would be hugely entertaining, and bound to have a salutary effect on Biff’s and Missy’s future hiring decisions.

fun at the maidstone

It's no wonder they're panicking

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“the school children’s collection for you is in the briefcase, madam secretary — enjoy”

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And of course, the Clintons were there: 'FOBs': How Hillary's State Dept. Gave Special Attention to 'Friends of Bill' After Haiti Quake

“Nothing was ever done for anybody because they were contributors to the foundation,” Bill Clinton told CBS News’ Charlie Rose in September. “Nothing.”

The correspondence offers a glimpse into the first stages of a $10 billion Haiti recovery effort. The emails appear to show a State Department process that at times prioritized — and, some argue, benefited — people with close ties to the Clintons.

“I think when you look at both the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, that line was pretty faint between the two,” said Jake Johnston, a Haiti analyst for the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research. “You had a lot of coordination and connection between the two, obviously. And I think that raises significant questions about how they were both operating.”

Hillary tried to bash DOGE yesterday: it didn’t go well.

Hillary wasn’t the only one to attack Musk for his lack of experience in aviation, and Sean Duffy wasn’t the only one to respond with a zinger:

And as always, the Grifter is lurking in the shadows:

DOGE gets more entertaining by the hour: