First up, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Cupid Killer Kim Davis"
Here's C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"
Wednesday, November 12, 2025. Chuck Schumer should step down as Senate Minority Leader, none of Chump's security appointees have any experience and it shows, Senator Elizabeth Warren warns a bout the ticking time bomb on student loans, and much more.
Let's start with angry e-mails. I don't look at every video that goes up here. A number of you are upset. I looked at the video after I read some of the e-mails and you are right to be upset. I didn't stream it before I posted it here and I didn't watch that program last night. The host is a smart person so I had thought he wouldn't dig himself deeper. The majority of Democrats disagree with him. We discussed this yesterday. My plan was to note -- as I did yesterday -- that he was wrong. And then I posted him this morning. Because he's smart. Or usually is. I had moved on and thought he would too.
He didn't move on and he got insulting with people who disagree with him. That's just stupid. Grasp that he's going on about Chump calling Americans fools while this host is doing the same thing as Chump. Those of us who disagree with him, he says in the video I wrongly posted here, are focused on feelings and not facts.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Again, I thought he was smart enough to move on. Every host on his network knows Chuck Schumer betrayed the American people and they noted that on their programs.
I like the host. He's very smart. Again, I thought he would have moved on but instead he dug in deeper. In the future, he won't go up here automatically.
We don't have time to cover all of this. So let's deal with just one spect: We are focused on feelings and not facts!
That's his accusation. His false accusation.
He believes it's true.
Okay.
If it's true, how are you helping anyone?
Because, guess what, MS NOW host, people vote on feelings. They are more likely to vote on feelings than on facts. That's reality.
And when you sneer at voters -- and viewers -- that they are feelings based and not fact based -- how are you different from Chump calling Americans fools?
He's not going to win on this topic. He needs to leave it alone and stop returning to it.
Ezra Levin? More Democrats agree with him right now. He's also been on MS NOW this week and we've noted it. We haven't noted his Jim Acosta appearance so let note that this morning.
Ezra Levin speaks for more people than a host trying to sugar coat the betrayal. It is a betrayal and it feels like one because that's what it is. Defending Chuck for the betrayal? You're just running off viewers. We're not stupid.
And this nonsense argument the TV host is making goes like this: Schumer had no power or influence and couldn't -- in effect! -- herd cat and Schumer should remain Senate Minority Leader!
He has no power or influence? But he should remain the leader? That makes no sense at all. He's inept and he's had eight years, time to go.
At this late point,, you're either defending the people or you're defending the politician. I don't have time to waste defending inept politicians who betray the people and I'm betting that feeling is much more common among voters than the TV host's opinions -- which, though he tries to deny it, also stem from feelings.
My apology to community members for posting that. I hear you on this and, again, no more automatic posting for that host.
On Schumer, Alex Shephard (THE NEW REPUBLIC) writes:
What was this all for?
A few days ago, that question would not have been difficult to answer. The government shutdown was about cuts to Obamacare subsidies that were poised to cause the cost of health care to skyrocket for millions—and that would likely destroy the Affordable Care Act itself. It was about an increasingly lawless and authoritarian administration that had simply stopped participating in normal politics, preferring instead to deploy armed goons in communities across the country. It was about fighting back against a rogue regime to the enthusiastic hurrahs of a base that only last week came out to the polls to deal a hammer blow to the GOP.
What is there to say now that eight Democratic moderates—with the barely disguised backing of party leader Chuck Schumer and all-but-certain coordination from some of the Democratic senators pretending to have been against the decision—voted to reopen the government in exchange for practically nothing? A few days ago, the Democrats had all the leverage in the world. The Republicans had none. It didn’t matter. The Democrats bailed out Trump and his Capitol Hill supplicants. They threw millions of people under the bus. For what? They protected the filibuster so they wouldn’t be tempted to use it to make people’s lives better the next time they take power. Besides that? Nothing.
There are many villains here. Abigail Spanberger, the newly elected governor of Virginia, went on Meet the Press to give political cover to the renegades, undercutting her party, and demanding that they reopen the government—her interview was shared widely with her fellow Democrats. (Shivving her party after they’ve won an election is something of a Spanberger special.)
The New Hampshire delegation should be singled out for special excoriation—the retiring Jeanne Shaheen, along with Maggie Hassan, led the negotiations with Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and the independent (and probably retiring) Angus King. They were joined by another soon-to-depart colleague in Dick Durbin, two others whose terms run until 2030 (Jacky Rosen and Tim Kaine), and one who is John Fetterman (John Fetterman). Underlining every comment they have made to the press is a staggering admission of their own sense of helplessness.
You may have looked at the Democratic response over the last 40 days as a party that was finally standing up for itself. There is every indication that this caught Trump entirely by surprise, the fact that Senate Democrats were suddenly vertebrates. But since Republicans and the president were moving no closer to a deal, Senate Democrats decided it was time to give up. “Most of us here … have voted repeatedly with the Democratic strategy,” Kaine said. “But after 40 days, it wasn’t gonna work.” Angus King, meanwhile, put it even more bluntly: “Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work.” (“Standing up to Trump” was previously thought to be the single biggest reason to elect opposition senators. King offered little detail on how he and the Democratic caucus will redefine their duties in light of this new mission.)
The biggest villain of them all, however, is someone who cast a kayfabe vote against the deal on Monday. No one bears the weight of the failed shutdown as much as Chuck Schumer.
His “no” vote is particularly galling because it leaves only two options on the table. The first is that the eight Democrats who broke away from their party did so without his knowledge or consent, a conclusion that could only suggest that Schumer has lost control of his caucus. The second is that the moderates were negotiating with Schumer’s knowledge, approval, and encouragement and that the “no” vote was just to conceal that—and maybe as a kind of consolation prize to the other Democrats in his caucus. This suggests that Schumer has lost any ability to organize or think politically or strategically. Regardless of the reason, he needs to step down immediately.
Multiple Democratic House members have called for Schumer to step down from his leadership position, including Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Democrats in other positions across the country have criticized the capitulation, including the governors of California and New York, Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul, and the mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani.
Immediately after Democratic senators folded, the progressive movement Indivisible launched what it said was the largest primary campaign it has ever run since forming almost a decade ago. “We need you in the fight for a stronger, better Democratic Party willing to defend our communities, our rights, and our democracy from the fascist threat of the Trump regime,” the group said on its sign-up page. It called on everyone who is “fed up with being failed by our leaders again and again” and wants to “elect the fighters we need in this moment.”
MoveOn, Our Revolution, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee also have called on Schumer to resign.
Last week, President Donald Trump had what was arguably the worst week of his second term. And though the hits to him and his agenda came on several fronts, they had a unifying theme: affordability, as in the lack thereof.
A mini-blue wave swept the off-year elections on Nov. 4, and the dominant force behind the wave was Americans’ intense, lasting discomfort with how much things cost. On Wednesday, during oral arguments at the Supreme Court, conservative and liberal justices expressed skepticism of the administration’s arguments that the president’s tariffs, which the justices widely agreed raised costs, were legal. Trump made things even worse for himself by first treating affordability as a surprising new issue: The Democrats, he told Fox News on Wednesday, “have this new word called ‘affordability,’ and [Republicans] don’t talk about it enough.” Then, a day later, he didn’t even “want to hear about affordability.” As MSNBC’s Steve Benen cataloged, Trump’s dismissal of cost-of-living concerns was accompanied by an avalanche of wrong numbers, including gems like “Energy costs, as and [sic] example, are plummeting.”
I could point out that it takes one mouse click to prove that consumers’ electricity bills have gone up 5% over the past year while overall inflation is up 3%. But, in fact, no clicks are necessary. Trump, whose political instincts are rarely this far off, is making a big, basic mistake: telling people they’re better off than they know they are. As Axios summarized the situation: “You can’t convince Americans your economic policies are working if they’re paying 20% more for a cup of coffee.” Especially when that price is largely a function of the 50% tariff you levied on Brazil (with which, for the record, the U.S. runs a trade surplus).
Trump also keeps banging on about $2-per-gallon gas prices when no states are posting costs anywhere near that number. The national average Tuesday was $3.07, which is admittedly down from a year ago. By roughly 2 cents.
Grasp what all he knows and has covered up. He is 'the deep state' he used to decry. Who is his girlfriend, by the way? Marni Rose McFall (NEWSWEEK) reports:
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Borrowers who earn income-driven repayment cancellation after decades of payments could be hit with tax bills as high as $10,000
“The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service should move immediately to avoid this financial disaster for working-class Americans.”
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, led her colleagues in a letter urging Secretary of the Treasury & Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent to use the IRS’s existing legal authorities to stop the looming “tax bomb” facing borrowers who obtain income-driven repayment (IDR) discharges of their student loan debt. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee; Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.); Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.); Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.); Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii); Cory Booker (D-N.J.); and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) joined the letter as well.
In 2021, Congress passed into law a provision excluding student debt cancellation from taxable income. As a result, borrowers who received student debt relief after years of repayment were not faced with high and unexpected tax bills.
However, that provision is set to expire at the end of this year. Absent action from President Trump or Republicans in Congress, this expiration will mean that borrowers on IDR plans who have legally earned debt cancellation after 20 or 25 years of repayment will be hit with significant tax bills.
“If neither the Trump Administration nor the Republican-controlled Congress act soon, families who earn student debt cancellation after paying their loans for decades will be hit with surprise tax hikes—as high as $10,000 in many cases—starting next tax year,” wrote the senators. “The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service should move immediately to avoid this financial disaster for working-class Americans.”
New data from Protect Borrowers reveal that a typical family headed by a borrower receiving IDR cancellation (i.e., a married parent with two children earning $50,000 a year) could see their tax bill spike by $8,789. A similar family making $40,000 a year could shoulder a net tax increase of $10,295. Lower-income borrowers and borrowers with children would likely be forced to pay the most, as they stand to lose access to critical programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit and the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit.
In their letter, the senators laid out the legal case for the Trump administration’s options to defuse the IDR “tax bomb.” In particular, they argued that the insolvency exclusion, scholarship exclusion, and general welfare exclusion were all options to declare IDR discharge as non-taxable income. The senators also noted that, in 2020, the Trump Administration delivered similar relief to recipients of closed school discharge and borrower defense to repayment, excluding those discharges from taxable income using its administrative authorities.
“By punishing IDR beneficiaries with massive tax bills, the federal government undermines the very purpose of the IDR program and reneges on its promises to borrowers,” the senators concluded. “Instead of compounding this problem by denying legally owed IDR discharge to borrowers, the Administration can and should deliver certainty and relief to these families as soon as possible.”
“President Trump and his allies in Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to cut taxes for billionaires while hiking taxes for thousands of student loan borrowers who have earned debt relief after paying for decades,” said Persis Yu, Deputy Executive Director and Managing Counsel for Protect Borrowers. “This tax bomb will force working families to trade their crushing student loan debt for a crushing tax debt. We applaud Senator Warren for taking the lead and demanding the Trump Administration take immediate action to protect these borrowers from being needlessly pushed further into debt. Policymakers must address this tax bomb before it is too late.”
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