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Today's News, October 2-3, 2026
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IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) What if they gave a Gubment Shutdown and nobody cared? That's the message today. Trump is trolling leftists by saying he will shut down "Democrat agencies." The New York Slimes is screaming, "Trump will use the shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes," but then admits in a subsequent story it's the DemoKKKrats' fault. My reaction is, first, gooooooood. Second, didn't Slick Willie use the shutdown to "punish political foes" in 1995? Why, yes, I believe he did. So, Trump canceled $2.1 billion in "infrastructure" money for Porky Pritzker's Benghazi-by-the-Lake (Chicago). Meanwhile, numerous DemoKKKrats are being caught in the lies of funding illegal healthcare, the most recent being James Brown (Maxine Waters).

2) And when even Yertle says you're wrong, well the shutdown was a sombrero-level act of stupidity.
3) Hung Cao, a great candidate in Virginia politics, was confirmed as undersecretary of the Navy.
4) The Amazing Zohran pledges $100 million of NYC taxpayers' money to fight deportations.
5) AG Pam Bondi says the indictment against Scrotumtoter Comey is just the beginning. Cue Leonid and Friends covering "Beginnings" by Chicago.
6) People get upset with "The Punisher" Pete Hegseth who demands fitness from members of the military, then you see this: an SS agent fell asleep at the UN, leaving his rifle unguarded.
7) FL just gets redder and redder. Now Jacksonville, one of the few D areas left (D+.08) is about to flip, as is Palm Beach Co. (D+1.96). Right now, Ds only lead in 6 of 67 counties after Hillsborough (now R+2.3) and Miami-Dade (R+3) have flipped. Meanwhile, there were very small changes in DE and RI, but Rs gained in each (net 789 in RI and 811 in DE). See Seth Keshel's review.
8) The way the Hoax News Media is covering the s