There is no such thing as coincidental timing in the Trump administration. This final day of September, 2025, the laser focus is on the government shutdown which is coming in less than one hour as I write this post in Pacific Time. It is the story of the day, no question. And lo and behold, what other blockbuster news story(s) just happened to sail across the news wires a short while ago? Why, that of Donald Trump withdrawing the nomination of his highly controversial Labor Statistics Chief, and the nominee in charge of crypto-currency as well:
The president chose Antoni to replace the former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, a Biden appointee, who was fired by Trump hours after the release of weak jobs data. Trump claimed, without evidence, that data produced under her watch was “rigged.”
Separately, a White House official confirmed late Tuesday that the administration had also withdrawn its nomination of Brian Quintenz to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a small but powerful financial regulator poised to play a bigger role in overseeing the cryptocurrency industry.
These are both major news stories and they were deliberately set into the churn of cable news in one of its busiest and most frenetic times, yet another government shutdown on Trump’s watch. And what will that do to our world credit rating? So glad you asked. Because the constant threat of a looming government shutdown which we lived with in the first four years of Trump, and which we face yet again tonight, caused the lowering of our world credit rating from AAA to AA+, by Fitch. That took place in August of 2023, but it was not a reaction to Joe Biden’s presidency so much as it was a reflection of “institutional dysfunction” which is one of the factors that is considered in these matters when lowering credit ratings.
Couple that downgrade in August of 2023, along with another downgrade in May of 2025, by Moody’s, along with more institutional dysfunction, another government shutdown and now Trump can’t even staff key departments in the financial sector of his own administration, and you don’t have an inspiring picture for the immediate future.
I’m going to guess that Scott Bessent probably nudged Trump to wake up and take these two nominees out of consideration, because Bessent is one of the few people that it seems that Trump listens to. He does the same sycophantic stroking on Fox News as the rest of them but Bessent seems to have some clue where the lines are drawn.
And another jobs report would be coming out this Friday but if the government does shut down in an hour or so, then the jobs report won’t be coming out. We live like fruit flies under Trump, from sunup to sundown. We never know what’s coming next, who will be where. Today’s hero (and you may remember that Antoni was going to revolutionize how his job was done, bla bla) is tomorrow’s former nominee and current coffee boy.
With so much of government already shut down, from USAID to FEMA, how much difference will this really make?
We’re about to find out.
A banana republic by banana republicans.
They ought to change the name of the party to “Republican’ts.” If there was any self honesty, that’s what they would do. As a matter of fact, I think the Democrats should start that. Rush Limbaugh started out with the dig, “the Democrat party.” Swell. Let’s talk about the Republican’ts.
I’d always heard that it was Newt Gingrich that started using “Democrat” as a slur.
As far as tagging “Republicons” with any kind of slur, it won’t happen as long as the mainstream media keeps giving those scum bags free airtime to spew their BS.
The problem for Democrats is that both “Democrat” and “Democratic” are valid words with the former properly used as a proper noun (“The top Democrat in Congress . . . ” or “Nancy Pelosi is a Democrat”) while the latter is properly an adjective (“The Democratic primary will be held . . .” or “Democratic members of Congress protested by flipping the bird”). But the reason “Democrat” became a slur was to emphasize the “rat” part of the word. And, unfortunately, far too many people in the “real” world have heard the word used incorrectly for too long (a full generation of Americans has been exposed to the incorrect usage now) that it’s seeped into usage, even among Democrats and progressives.
Hey you poor, half educated WHITE people…I’m a white boy from the hollers of Appalachia. I’m just wondering when you’ll get tired of being reamed up the ass without lube by a guy WHO HAS NEVER HAD TO WORK FOR A LIVING IN HIS 79 years? Stoopid phucks. Just curious.