> 11/4/2025
Mamdani makes me SICK. He couldn’t run a popsicle stand but he conned enough New Yorkers to vote for him!
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Left Rising
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/elections-new-york-new-jersey-virginia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk8.P8DP.2Ytd3ayHOTR-&smid=url-share

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New York City Results
> https://www.cnn.com/election/2025/results/new-york-city-mayor

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Dick Cheney died.
> https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit

Dick Cheney was terrible as Vice President - definitely the one pulling the strings of George W. Bush…

the coping continues

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mike-johnson-says-americans-side-195746811.html

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) went on a tirade against the media and Democrats after being confronted with an uncomfortable poll Monday revealing which political party Americans blame for the long-running government shutdown.

Johnson appeared on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” to further blame Democrats for the shutdown, spurred by an impasse over Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

He accused blue states of abusing government programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which Cain described as a “political football.”

The host went on to show Johnson an NBC poll that revealed 52% of voters blame President Donald Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, while 42% blame Democrats. He asked Johnson, “Why would the polls look like that when you are clearly voting to continue to fund the government [and] Democrats are not voting to continue to fund the government?”

“Well, for one thing, the polls are all over the place,” Johnson said. “I mean, CNN was reporting just on Friday of last week that Republicans were winning this as if it was some sort of political game. The only people who lose here are the American people.”

Trump, who usurped Congress’ spending power and made a shutdown deal nearly impossible, told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday he “won’t be extorted” by Democrats demanding to negotiate extending ACA subsidies.

He further blamed Democrats for the shutdown Tuesday on Truth Social, stating that he won’t give out even partial SNAP benefits until the party agrees to reopen the government. (His press secretary later said the benefits would be sent out.)

The orange retard just turned the entire US economy into a fucking burrito
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/business/k-shaped-economy
This burrito is everything you need to know about America’s economy

Fact 1: America’s economy and stock market keep growing, buoyed by robust consumer spending and AI mega-growth.

Fact 2: Hiring is at a standstill, inflation is rising, loan defaults are abundant and Americans give this economy a near-record-low rating.

Confused? To understand how both of those things can be true, consider the burrito.

Chipotle on Wednesday reported miserable earnings and cut its sales-growth forecast for the third-straight quarter. The culprit: Young and lower-income consumers (Chipotle’s core customers) are cutting back on their spending, and they’re starting to skip the guac.

Chipotle CEO Scott Boatwright on the company’s earnings call: “We’re not losing them to the competition; we’re losing them to grocery and food at home. And so, that consumer is under pressure. It is one of our core consumer cohorts. And so, they feel the pinch and we feel the pullback from them as well.”

Boatwright said the company’s customer surveys showed many believed Chipotle was no longer affordable. People in households that bring in less than $100,000 a year drive about 40% of Chipotle’s sales.

Another problem: 25- to 34-year-olds, who make up 25% of Chipotle’s sales, “pulled back meaningfully.”

Donald Trump continues to showcase his literal history making incompetence and inability to lead by breaking his own record for longest government shutdown in US history

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdobstaff/2025/11/05/government-shutdown-makes-history-tracking-the-economic-impacts/

The government shutdown has officially entered its 36th day, becoming the longest federal funding lapse in U.S. history—surpassing the 35-day shutdown that took place during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.

Millions are feeling the impacts: SNAP benefits used by roughly 42 million Americans will only be partially funded for November. Beyond the recipients themselves, even a short lapse in benefits could slow consumer spending—the Department of Agriculture estimates that every $1 in SNAP benefits generates $1.50 in economic activity.

Meanwhile, the usual holiday travel anxiety looms even larger this year. Nearly half of all major air traffic control facilities are facing staffing shortages, according to the FAA, while a shortage of TSA agents has led to increased security wait times at major airports. On Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that U.S. air travel would see “mass chaos” if the government shutdown goes on another week.

The economic impacts of this record shutdown have only deepened the longer it has dragged on—especially for small businesses. For each business day the government is closed, small businesses nationwide are unable to access $170 million in SBA-backed commercial loans, according to Forbes Research. Meanwhile, applications for new loans aren’t being approved, putting applicants’ plans on hold.

Nonprofit organizations are also feeling the crunch. Housing programs, hunger-relief networks, medical research grants and other institutions that depend on federal partnerships face uncertain futures until the government reopens, writes contributor Alexander Puutio.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/judge-doj-boeing-00639589

A federal judge on Thursday granted a Justice Department request to dismiss a felony case against Boeing tied to two passenger jet crashes that killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas OK’d the DOJ’s motion to dismiss the case. The Trump administration sought the dismissal after it struck a non-prosecution agreement in May with the aerospace company — less than a year after the plane-maker had agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with the Biden administration. The charge was conspiracy to defraud the government.

Some victims’ families had opposed the move to drop the case, but O’Connor, a President George W. Bush appointee, in a 10-page order Thursday granted the motion because the government “has not acted with bad faith, has given more than mere conclusory reasons for its dismissal, and has satisfied its obligations” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

Grrnold gRumpf endorses Cuomo. As a contrarian dRumpf hating little shit, I can no longer vote for any Democrat.
Thanks, Cheeto Fuckface!!


Trump tells New York ‘you must vote’ for Cuomo
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/trump-cuomo-mamdani-new-york-mayor.html

President Donald Trump on Monday night explicitly called on New York City residents to vote for Andrew Cuomo over Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral election.

Trump’s endorsement of the independent candidacy of the former New York governor Cuomo came on the eve of the election, where Curtis Sliwa is the Republican nominee, and where the Assembly member Mamdani has consistently held a solid lead in polls.

“A vote for Curtis Sliwa (who looks much better without the beret!) is a vote for Mamdani,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

“Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice,” Trump wrote.

“You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/uk-spy-chief-warns-of-ai-danger-though-not-disaster-movie-doom/ar-AA1OB8UI?ocid=BingNewsVerp

AI like Grok will tell you when asked sneakily as a hypothetical like for a story, how to cook things like drug resistant bacteria at home to kill very many hundreds of millions! Will also give ideas for smaller scale chemical attacks and things you have not seen and people for some reason seemed to have avoided!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/11/02/bessent-says-some-sectors-of-economy-are-in-recession/
Topline

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday he believes some sectors of the economy are in a recession or at risk of one, blaming the Federal Reserve for not cutting interest rates fast, just one day after newly appointed Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran warned of high interest rates triggering a recession in an interview with The New York Times.

Key Facts

In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Bessent said he believed the economy was in a “transition period,” noting that the Trump administration has cut government spending, which he blamed for high inflation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bessent told CNN’s Jake Tapper he believes “we are in good shape,” despite some sectors of the economy being “in recession,” which he blamed on Federal Reserve policies.

The treasury secretary gave the housing market as an example, insisting “if the Fed brings down mortgage rates, they can end this housing recession.”

What We Don’t Know

The status of the economy remains largely unclear based on available data, since the Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped collecting and publishing data during the ongoing government shutdown.

Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month

Trump says he doesn’t know who crypto tycoon is despite having pardoned him

Billionaire Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering before president freed him last month
Oliver Milman
Mon 3 Nov 2025 15.15 CET

Donald Trump has said that he doesn’t know who Changpeng Zhao is despite pardoning the billionaire founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in October.

The US president was asked in a 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday why he pardoned Zhao, who is also known as “CZ”, for enabling money laundering despite him causing “significant harm to … national security” according to federal prosecutors.

“OK, are you ready? I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Norah O’Donnell, the host of CBS News’ 60 Minutes. Trump added that he did not remember meeting Zhao, had “no idea who he is” other than being told that the multibillionaire crypto boss was a victim of a “witch-hunt” by former president Joe Biden.

In 2023, Zhao pleaded guilty to charges that he broke rules designed to stop money laundering – after Binance allegedly failed to report suspicious transactions with organizations including Hamas and al-Qaida.
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Trump pardons founder of Binance, world’s largest crypto exchange
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Zhao apologized, paid a $50m fine and had served nearly four months in prison before being pardoned by Trump, with the White House saying he was prosecuted due to Biden’s “war on cryptocurrency”.

Trump has said he wants the US to be a leader in cryptocurrency and Zhao, in thanking the president for his pardon, promised on X to “do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/trump-changpeng-zhao-cz-pardon-crypto