What Happened Today - 6 August 2025
What Happened Today – 6 August 2025
Ft. Stewart Update
Vance’s Dinner Party
Texas Gerrymandering
More distractions…taking over DC
Tarriff Updates
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Ft. Stewart Update
Today at Fort Stewart in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area there was an active shooter by a fellow soldier, and it put the whole base—including schools—into lockdown around 11 in the morning. Five soldiers got shot, but medics got to them fast, and all are now in stable condition and expected to recover. Two needed a little extra care at a bigger hospital in Savannah, but thank God, nobody died. The shooter turned out to be a 28-year-old sergeant from the same brigade, and he used his own personal handgun—not an Army weapon. Some quick-thinking soldiers managed to take him down and hold him until he was arrested—didn’t even take 40 minutes from the first alert. The lockdown’s over now except for the area investigators are still combing through. Motive’s still up in the air, but officials confirmed it wasn’t any training gone wrong. The guy had a recent DUI too, which somehow wasn’t flagged to his command until after the fact. The FBI, state police, and Army investigators are all on it. There’s no more danger to the base at this point. Kemp and Trump have made their usual statements claiming they’re monitoring things. But let’s be honest—yet again, “thoughts and prayers” won’t fix this. We do, of course, wish full recovery for everyone involved, but this kind of thing keeps happening, way too often, in way too many places.
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Vance’s Dinner Party
Tonight’s dinner at JD Vance’s residence is getting a ton of attention—and for good reason. This isn’t just any political meal; it’s a high-stakes strategy session with some of the top Trump administration brass. The guest list features Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The burning topic on the menu? How to handle the surging Epstein fallout.
The speculation swirling around this dinner is intense. Insiders say the biggest agenda item is deciding whether the administration should release the audio recording and transcript of Deputy AG Blanche’s recent interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Rumor is they’re weighing if making those materials public could help tamp down criticism about transparency, or whether it risks exposing damaging new angles tied to Epstein, Maxwell, and potentially high-profile political figures.
Other hot issues expected to come up include: how to craft a unified administration response to the Maxwell/Epstein controversy, whether Blanche himself should go public with a press conference or high-profile interview (possibly with someone like Joe Rogan, who has pressured the administration for answers), and how to handle internal strains as Trump’s inner circle jostles for control of the narrative and damage control.
Why all the urgency? MAGA world and the media are both fixated on claims of deals being cut with Maxwell, secret moves regarding her prison status, and a growing perception that the White House is spinning or sitting on crucial evidence. With both party unity and public trust at stake, tonight’s Vance dinner is shaping up as the war room for one of the most explosive scandals yet—where every move will be dissected for what it says about law, loyalty, and who’s actually in control at the top.
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Texas Gerrymandering
Texas politics has officially hit circus levels with this gerrymandering mess—and it’s dragging in everyone from Trump to Abbott to Speaker Johnson. The GOP supermajority has taken map-rigging to new extremes: carving up districts so blatantly that even some lifelong Republicans are publicly admitting it’s an attack on democracy. People are furious because these maps don’t just “lean” the state red—they bulldoze entire communities, silence swaths of voters, and lock in power for years, all while pretending it’s “the will of the people.”
Now, as Dem lawmakers walk out to block the vote, Texas leadership is upping the ante by issuing arrest warrants to haul them back for a quorum. Yes, we’re literally at the stage where elected officials are being threatened with arrest *not* for breaking laws, but for demanding fair representation. It’s straight-up strongman stuff you’d expect from a bad movie. Abbott, smelling blood, is in full chest-thumping mode, vowing to “restore order.” Trump’s stoking the drama from afar, blasting out support for arresting the “lawless obstructionists” and claiming this is the only way to “protect the vote”—the irony clearly lost on him.
Meanwhile, California’s Governor Newsom is throwing jet fuel on the fire—promising legal action, floating threats of “consequences” against Texas, and calling for a national response to what he paints as open theft of democracy. And here’s where things get even wilder: several prominent Republicans, especially in swing districts and the suburbs, are starting to flip or go wobbly—saying out loud that this kind of unaccountable power grab isn’t just bad politics, it’s wrong. The old façade of party unity is cracking, and some in the GOP are signaling they’ll cross the aisle to oppose these schemes—or at least refuse to get behind mass arrests and hardline tactics.
What is happening in Texas is a stress test for the whole system. Trump wants law-and-order theater, Abbott wants a legacy of “taking on the left,” Johnson is under pressure to hold the line, and Newsom is out here making noise and prepping lawsuits. The scary part? If we don’t push back against this kind of naked partisan manipulation and intimidation now, the playbook gets copied—everywhere. We’re watching democracy get trampled, one power grab at a time, unless people of all parties finally say, “enough.”
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More distractions…taking over DC
Trump is loudly threatening to strip local control from D.C., claiming only federal authority can fix what he calls the city’s crime problem. He’s mostly using high-profile incidents to attack Democratic leadership and to posture as the ultimate “law and order” guy, especially on social media. By pushing this, he’s trying to paint D.C. as an example of failed Democratic policies and rile up his base ahead of the election—never mind that violent crime in D.C. has actually been dropping lately.
The calls for a federal takeover set off big concerns. Taking D.C.’s home rule would crush local democracy for hundreds of thousands of people, and critics say using crime as an excuse for a power grab is dangerous—both politically and for the precedent it sets. Plus, actually pulling it off would be nearly impossible legally without Congress and would stir up a massive fight.
This is mostly political theater. Trump gets headlines, fires up his supporters, and drags everyone into his preferred debate. But the real danger is the casual way he threatens democratic norms and local representation, all for the sake of scoring political points—especially when the facts don’t back up the need for drastic action.
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Tarriff updates
Let’s break down the new Trump tariffs chaos, because it’s about to hit where it hurts—right in our wallets. Trump’s hyping up this next round of sweeping tariffs like it’s some masterstroke for American jobs, but the truth is, regular people are the ones on the hook. We’re talking higher prices on everything from cars to your everyday household goods—stuff you need, not just luxury splurges. The White House is out here parading around so-called “historic trade deals,” but if you look past the photo ops and the tweets, markets and economic experts are basically saying, “Show me the receipts.” There’s no clear evidence any of these deals are actually finalized or will give American families a break.
Meanwhile, Trump’s online, chest-thumping about another round of “winning,” but no one in his administration is stepping up to answer how this affects folks at the grocery store, at the gas pump, or on the showroom floor looking for a car they can actually afford. Real victory means prosperity and stability for everybody—not headline-grabbing moves that just make cost of living even heavier for families already stretched thin. It’s smoke and mirrors for the base, but for everyone else just trying to get by, the price is literally going up.
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I’ve created an approval chart to track Trump’s approval ratings. Yesterday, Fox News called him out for spreading false polling data—he claimed that approximately 90% of voters support him. However, Fox quickly clarified that this figure only reflects support among Republicans, not the general population. Trump doubled down, insisting the number applies overall. Just more outlandish and misleading rhetoric from him.
Feel free to poke holes in this – seems pretty robust as well as bipartisan. MAGA Movement Approval Polls
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