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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) You know me, I don't believe in polls, but . . . "Polls show" Trump is winning the gubment shutdown PR battle. With the SpewMore shutdown failing, SpewMore now wants DemoKKKrats to take "forceful" action against President Trump. Really, SpewMore? Two assassination attempts weren't "forceful" enough for ya? DemoKKKrats are fuming that Trump is using unspent money to pay troops, and Trump said one unnamed billionaire offered to pay the troops for the month ($6.6 billion !). Well, two weeks into the SpewMore Shutdown, and eight votes later, the DemoKKKrats still have the gubment shut down. Fine with me. Trump terminated 400 HUD employees from the division that tried to abolish suburbs.

2) You also know how I hate these kind of stories ("poised to," "looking to," "may") but I think this is the case that race based districting is going to be struck down by the Supes. Even without that NC has voted to redraw its map, adding one more GOP seat. That would, by my calculations, bring the GOP "safe" total for 2026 to 219 (TX 5, MO 1, IN 1, OH 2, FL 2, now NC 1 minus CA 5). Realize, FL could add 3, TX 6, OH 3, and DemoKKKrats may have trouble wining all 5 CA seats, so this margin can grow; and there are a half dozen "Tossup states" so that margin can grow further. And KS just announced it will redistrict, possibly adding another seat to 219 without a single tossup. I think the DemoKKKrats are screwed. Hence you are starting to see stories such as these: "the Collapse of the DemoKKKrat Party and its Deep State Keepers," or Red State which today says what I've told you since November, namely, the DemoKKKrats ain't gonna win back the House.

3) Edward Ring notes that the "Up/Down Coalition" in Kollyfornia (i.e., Silicon Valley tech billionaires and the poor urban inner city residents) are shifting to red, and Kollyfornia may soon be competitive.

4) "Rising Eagle" on X recreated a more appropriate TIme co