Midwestern Omelette
@midwesternomelette.bsky.social
Reformed Catholic, reformed journalist and reformed political consultant.
Typos courtesy of Google autocorrect ... mostly.
WARNING: Followers welcome, but expect a foul-mouthed and bumpy road.
Typos courtesy of Google autocorrect ... mostly.
WARNING: Followers welcome, but expect a foul-mouthed and bumpy road.
Why do German armoured vehicles need clothes?
Germany to spend €26.5 billion on clothes for soldiers, armoured vehicles reut.rs/4oYZtx3
Germany to spend €26.5 billion on clothes for soldiers, armoured vehicles
Germany plans to allocate nearly 19 billion euros ($22.16 billion) to kit out soldiers with new clothes and personal equipment in the coming years, in addition to 7.5 billion for new wheeled armoured vehicles, said a finance ministry document.
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Why do German armoured vehicles need clothes?
Funny, when I ran my own business, one of the biggest struggles we faced was finding and affording health insurance.
The key here is @they’re gonna feel like entrepreneurs.”
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Funny, when I ran my own business, one of the biggest struggles we faced was finding and affording health insurance.
Schumeer needs to go, both as leader and as senator. Even if he had ever been effective, he's past his prime.
I'd love to see Klobuchar or Booker. Neither would be perfect, but either would be a huge step up.
I'd love to see Klobuchar or Booker. Neither would be perfect, but either would be a huge step up.
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Schumeer needs to go, both as leader and as senator. Even if he had ever been effective, he's past his prime.
I'd love to see Klobuchar or Booker. Neither would be perfect, but either would be a huge step up.
I'd love to see Klobuchar or Booker. Neither would be perfect, but either would be a huge step up.
The only possible way this could benefit consumers is if insurance companies inexplicably point in first down to avoid playing hardball with 10,000 versions of your neighbor Glenn playing hardball.
Pretty sure they'll throw a touchdown on every down and just fuck us all.
Pretty sure they'll throw a touchdown on every down and just fuck us all.
I feel like you can say with some confidence that this is one area in their lives where Americans do not want to negotiate and feel like entrepreneurs.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The only possible way this could benefit consumers is if insurance companies inexplicably point in first down to avoid playing hardball with 10,000 versions of your neighbor Glenn playing hardball.
Pretty sure they'll throw a touchdown on every down and just fuck us all.
Pretty sure they'll throw a touchdown on every down and just fuck us all.
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Never forget: every time you turn out to protest, you have a chance to see a cool dog.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Never forget: every time you turn out to protest, you have a chance to see a cool dog.
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Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
What about Tai Chi?
Study: Practicing Kung Fu Naked In Mirror Best Indicator Of Being Domestic Terrorist https://theonion.com/study-practicing-kung-fu-naked-in-mirror-best-indicator-of-being-domestic-terrorist/
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What about Tai Chi?
Embarrassing.
CHUCK SCHUMER: "New data came out today from KFF - and that is not Kentucky Fried French Fries ... the Kaiser Family Foundation"
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Embarrassing.
Fuck Tim Kaine. Mediocre senator and attriciously lousy veep pick.
Tim Kaine on backlash he's getting: "I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct 1, b/c I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed fed worker would say to me at church, or what somebody would say about SNAP"
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Fuck Tim Kaine. Mediocre senator and attriciously lousy veep pick.
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The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.
Probably a programmed auto comment.
The funniest part of Elon spiraling out about this is that he isn’t responding with anything linked to others or relationships, just posting “great movie”
For reference. I might print this out and hang it in my house:
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Probably a programmed auto comment.
I rescind my long support for the dollar coin. I could support his face on the penny and then eliminate it before any get issued.
people.com/donald-trump... I just knew this was coming. And if you think this doesn’t end with a massive gold trump statue in DC you’re not paying attention
Donald Trump Is Putting His Face on Both Sides of a New Coin. U.S. Treasury Reveals 'First Drafts'
The U.S. Treasury revealed the draft of a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump on both sides.
people.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I rescind my long support for the dollar coin. I could support his face on the penny and then eliminate it before any get issued.
Look, I know all lawyers are crooks, but of you need a presidential pardon, should you still get to practice?
Having been pardoned by Trump, Rudy Giuliani wants his bar license “immediately reinstated,” per his rep Ted Goodman
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Look, I know all lawyers are crooks, but of you need a presidential pardon, should you still get to practice?
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Can we dump Schumer and replace him with Pelosi?
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Can we dump Schumer and replace him with Pelosi?
Senator, in addition to dumping Chuck Schumer, you ought to for Eugene is responsible for this video still. It's horrid.
The President is begging the courts to let him CAUSE hunger.
Who does that?
Who does that?
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Senator, in addition to dumping Chuck Schumer, you ought to for Eugene is responsible for this video still. It's horrid.
Always delighted to see the late Sal Mineo getting work on CNN.
Numbers so bad that maybe the DC press corpse will have to pay attention.
Numbers so bad that maybe the DC press corpse will have to pay attention.
Ooof. I missed that Consumer Sentiment is the lowest the University of Michigan has ever measured in more than 70 years.
‘Political nightmare fuel’: Enten on public’s view of economy under Trump
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Always delighted to see the late Sal Mineo getting work on CNN.
Numbers so bad that maybe the DC press corpse will have to pay attention.
Numbers so bad that maybe the DC press corpse will have to pay attention.
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The Vichy Caucus motto:
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Vichy Caucus motto:
Yo Gomer, if you made employee health care more accessible and your own state did more to force employers to do that, the numbers would probably go down.
Your state is a "taker," so maybe YOU and your state are the problem.
Your state is a "taker," so maybe YOU and your state are the problem.
Comer: "This is a fake economy. You can't have 1/3 of America receiving some type of free government healthcare and then have another 1/3 that's getting a subsidized rate. That falls on the final 1/3 that's having to pay increased premiums."
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yo Gomer, if you made employee health care more accessible and your own state did more to force employers to do that, the numbers would probably go down.
Your state is a "taker," so maybe YOU and your state are the problem.
Your state is a "taker," so maybe YOU and your state are the problem.
Your colleagues sold out your party and the people.
Who does that?
Who does that?
The President is begging the courts to let him CAUSE hunger.
Who does that?
Who does that?
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Your colleagues sold out your party and the people.
Who does that?
Who does that?
This will end well.
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This will end well.
The Vichy Caucus
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Vichy Caucus
Yup. That's their hope.
“We’ll see.”
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yup. That's their hope.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.