Wyoming hemp vendors reel from Delta-8 court loss, new federal ban

Wyoming hemp vendors reel from Delta-8 court loss, new federal ban: On the heels of a failed lawsuit to stop a prohibition on some cannabis products in Wyoming, hemp vendors confront a sudden federal ban on most products.

Barrasso, Lummis Oppose Bypassing Dems With ‘Nuclear Option’ To End Shutdown

 Maybe the bloom is really off the apparently narcotic Trump Rose:

Barrasso, Lummis Oppose Bypassing Dems With ‘Nuclear Option’ To End Shutdown

Marjorie Taylor Greene sounding like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. . . something's going on.

Something is going on.

Recent comments by Marjorie Taylor Greene:

I've been in the Capitol, and there are two things I couldn't find this week: I couldn't find anywhere the Epstein files, and I also couldn't find the Republican plan to fix the health insurance industry.

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"Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance is going up. Home insurance goes up. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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“Health care crisis? Ignored.

Wages? Flat.

Bills? Sky high.

And you think this wins midterms?”

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“I’d never speak on behalf of the president, but I don’t think he’s always getting the best advice.”

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I'm talking to major manufacturing companies and they are saying we're having a problem with these tariffs... 

Has regular people's stress come off? No. That should be the focus. It shouldn't be helping your crypto donors. The focus should be the people that showed up at the rallies. I don't think those people are being served.

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I'm not going to... keep talking the talking points, when my own adult children can hardly afford health insurance premiums.

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I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be.

I serve in Congress. We’re a separate branch of the government, and I’m not elected by the president.

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Have regular people's bank accounts been helped? No, that has not happened, and that needs to be the focus — it shouldn't be about helping your crypto donors.

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I'm going to read you a little list... A Hollywood producer, a royal prince, a high-profile individual in the music industry, a very prominent banker, a high-profile government official, one former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician, half a dozen billionaires, including one from Canada.

(This one riffs of of Massie, whom she is quoting). 

Something is going on.  Greene, who has typically sounded like a bombastic idiot, suddenly doesn't.  It's not just what she's saying, which is shocking given her prior servitude to the far right, it's the way she's saying it.

She's actually not dumb.

This means something. She's saying things that if they came from a Democrat would cause Mike Johnson to put on his little smirk and discount it.  

And then there's this:

They’re not Hamas. They’re literally women and children. And you can’t unsee the amount of pictures and videos of children that have been blown to pieces and are they’re finding them dead in the rubble. That isn’t—those aren’t actors, that isn’t fake war propaganda. It’s very real.

Usually MAGA supports anything Israel does.

This is interesting.  If it starts repeating with other far right figures we'll know that the political winds are shifting.

On rising discontent:

You better start obeying the Constitution. It's going to get real ugly if you don't follow the laws and obey the Constitution like you swore an oath to do.

National Federation of Federal Employees President Randy Erwin puts Trump on notice

A small business owner on Twitter, whose small business depends on Chinese imports, reported "hating" Trump.

 

Froma Harrop: Democrats, stop being MAGA's mommy

Going Feral: National Parks to remain at least some what open during Trump government shutdown.

Going Feral: National Parks to remain at least some what open d...: 

National Parks to remain at least some what open during Trump government shutdown.

The National Park Service has released a plan to keep National Parks partially open during the Trump Buildings that are generally closed after business hours, such as visitor centers, will be locked.

How this works overall is unclear.  Ft. Laramie announced that it was completely shut down, to the disappointment of many in Wyoming (no doubt many who voted for the insurrectionist). School visits are accordingly in jeopardy.

2020s, 2025, 2025 Trump Government Shutdown, National Park Service, Sic transit Gloria Mundi, This is why we can't have nice things, Wyoming (Ft. Laramie), Wyoming (Yellowstone)

Government shut down horsesh**

So the decided GOP talking line is that the Democrats forced a shut down as they wanted additional spending for health care for illegal aliens.

That's a lie.

Moreover, there would be no need for a CR if the GOP had the votes for its own budget.  It could just pass it, but it can't.

So what the Republicans want is more time so that Trump can harass Republicans who won't vote for the budget.  Why would Democrats agree to that?

Shut Down.

As people wake up this morning on a Wednesday of a week that's proving to be a surreal tour de force, the Federal government is "shut down".

Well, kinda. . . the government never actually shuts down, but partially shuts down.

Anyhow:

Today In Wyoming's History: October 1:  2025.  The Federal government entered a shutdown due to an impasse between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party on a continuing budget resolution, although the root causes of the dispute were the overall Trump Administration's refusal to yield on any of its policies.

And, of course, this:

Wyoming Delegation Pins Likely Federal Shutdown On ‘Idiocy’ Of Democrats

"Idiocy" of the Democrats is a pretty bold claim for a group of politicians supporting a President who routinely acts illegally, and who yesterday was demonstrated to be quite senile.  It's also quite the insult coming from three politicians who have decided to completely blow off the concerns of their constituents over public lands and whom at least one basically stated that Wyomingites had the opposite view because they're stupid.  The government is shut down as the Republicans simply won't yield on anything.

Speaking of idiocy, Wyoming's dependency on the Federal Government is now a concern, something we routinely fail to acknowledge here:

Gov. Gordon ‘monitoring potential federal government shutdown,’ issues protocol for Wyoming federal workers

This contest may play out over a protracted period.  I don't expect it to resolve anytime soon.

Also, the Republicans have enough votes to pass an actual budget.  They don't need a CR. . . unless they can't get all of the Republicans to vote for a budget.

Thursday, October 13, 1910. TR in Indianapolis on tariffs.

President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a huge crowd from the balcony of the English Hotel in Indianapolis.  He was in the city to support a bill introduced by Senator Albert Beveridge for a tariff commission.

My, have we fallen.  TR, a New Yorker who was the advocate of the Strenuous Life was of course a Republican, and young.  Now we have a demented octogenarian supposed Republican who believes that exercise is bad for you destroying the country and imposing tariffs right and left.

Sic transit.

The Interstate Commerce Commission issued the first regulations requiring ladders, sill steps and hand brakes on all railroad cars in the United States.

Darned government bureaucrats and their outrageous regulations.

As an aside, you may have noted that the Administration's official talking point for those that their laying off is that they are bureaucrats, in the hopes that populsts Americans, no matter how utterly pointless their own jobs may be, will like bureaucrats getting laid off.

Divide et impera.

The Polo Grounds on this day in 1910:

Last edition:

Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.

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