It’s Tuesday…
Big thanks to Halodoc for covering me while I took a few days off.
She’s the bestest ever.
President Shitshow’s public schedule for…
It’s Off-Year Election Day, which means a handful of states are voting and the rest of the country will remember around dinnertime when results start showing up on their feeds. Quiet day, real stakes.
President Shallow, however, has treated the past 48 hours like the nation is teetering on the brink of an energy-price apocalypse. He’s been on Truth Social telling voters in New Jersey and Virginia that if they don’t vote the way he wants, their gas, heat, and electricity bills will triple, quadruple, and then personally chase them up the stairs like a cartoon villain. He is campaigning like governors keep energy prices on a dimmer switch in the utility closet.
Still Melting. New Day. Same Puddle.
“Vote wrong and your energy bills will quadruple” is not a policy argument. It’s a forwarded chain email from 2009 wearing a suit.
We are now to believe that voting for the other party causes electricity to physically attack you at home. Incredible worldbuilding, zero sourcing.
And then there’s New York, where President Shallow has decided the mayor’s race is also about him. He is now threatening to withhold federal funds if the “wrong” person wins, calling one candidate a communist, and providing unsolicited fashion notes about berets. The federal government is apparently now being run like a personal Yelp review.
“If you elect a mayor I don’t like, maybe I won’t send your city money” is not governance. It’s mobster cosplay with worse tailoring.
The President telling Jewish voters they’re “stupid” if they don’t vote his way is not strategy. It’s open intimidation directed at a religious community.
And to finish the sermon: “Vote Republican and gas hits two bucks.” The President is now pitching national energy markets like he’s doing a mattress sale ad between infomercials.
A sitting president declaring your state’s election illegitimate in advance, because he’s losing the narrative.
And now we’ve moved on to California, where President Still Melting Same Puddle is calling the congressional redistricting vote rigged before the ballots are even counted. Not because of evidence. Because he doesn’t like how voting works when he’s not the one counting the votes.
“Mail-in ballots are illegal when my side loses” is not a legal argument. It’s a tantrum with punctuation.
I live here, and I voted. Nothing about the process was a secret, a conspiracy, or a mystery. Just normal humans marking ballots. The “scam” is that he continues to assume everyone who doesn’t vote for him is imaginary.
SNAP Benefits and the Shutdown Hostage Routine
And because there is always one more grease fire, President Potato is now implying that SNAP benefits may not be paid unless Democrats “reopen the government” on his terms.
Not because the funding isn’t there — but because threatening people’s groceries is apparently part of the negotiation strategy.
This is the President suggesting he can withhold food assistance to force a political outcome. That is not negotiation. That is a hostage note with branding.
And here he claims it would be his personal “honor” to restore benefits if others comply. That’s not how federal relief works. That’s how someone narrates a fantasy in which food depends on loyalty.
- SNAP does have contingency funding for shutdowns.
- Two federal courts ruled the government must use those funds and cannot pause benefits as leverage.
- USDA then confirmed it will partially fund November benefits using those contingency reserves.
- States will handle distribution — people will not be left without food.
So the threat wasn’t just cruel — it was legally false.
The court essentially said: pay people their grocery assistance, and stop pretending you get to decide whether they eat.
Filibuster Time
And while all that was happening, President Full of Bluster has decided the time has come to end the filibuster entirely.
This is happening while the federal government is literally shut down, because Congress can’t agree on anything.
The shutdown is supposed to be a reminder that we need negotiation to function; he has taken it as proof that we should eliminate negotiation from the process altogether.
The “nuclear option” — presented like a home improvement tip.
This is the political version of “break the emergency brake now so nobody else can use it later.”
He is spelling out the plan plainly: remove the filibuster → pass everything with 51 votes → never have to compromise again.
The Text:
The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don’t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!), because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes. FOR THREE YEARS, NOTHING WILL BE PASSED, AND REPUBLICANS WILL BE BLAMED. Elections, including the Midterms, will be rightfully brutal. If we do terminate the Filibuster, we will get EVERYTHING approved, like no Congress in History. We will have FAIR, FREE, and SAFE Elections, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everybody, Strong Borders, Major Tax and Energy Cuts, and will secure our Second Amendment, which the Democrats will also terminate, IMMEDIATELY. If we don’t do it, they are far more likely to do well in the upcoming Elections, which would mean a PACKED Supreme Court, 2 more States and 4 more Democrat Senators (D.C. and Puerto Rico), and 8 more Electoral Votes. Remember, Republicans, they are going to end the Filibuster as soon as they get the chance We know this because they already tried, and the only two people who didn’t go along are now out of office. But they have much less chance of WINNING if we have Great Policy Wins after Wins after Wins. IN FACT, THEY WILL LOSE BIG, AND FOR A VERY LONG TIME. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER NOW, END THE RIDICULOUS SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY, AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PASS EVERY WONDERFUL REPUBLICAN POLICY THAT WE HAVE DREAMT OF, FOR YEARS, BUT NEVER GOTTEN. WE WILL BE THE PARTY THAT CANNOT BE BEATEN – THE SMART PARTY!!!
Not gonna link it. 11/04/2025.
Not subtle: “We’ll pass everything we’ve ever wanted and never give power back.” He’s just saying it now.
When your constitutional reform strategy ends in three exclamation points, we are not in a policy discussion. We’re in all-caps emotional weather.
The filibuster isn’t sacred, but it is a brake. It forces the Senate to slow down long enough to negotiate, or at least write laws durable enough to survive the next shift in power. Destroying it means whichever party has 51 votes gets total power, no guardrails, no cooling period, no stability. Every right becomes temporary. Every protection becomes conditional. Every law becomes a coin toss.
And that is exactly why President Full of Bluster wants it gone.
You don’t try to remove the brakes unless you plan to drive like the brakes are the problem.
Fake Polls
President “Bad Numbers are Fake” says the polls are wrong again. He has “the best numbers” because he declared it so. That’s the math.
“I have the best numbers.”
Sir, the math is right there.
This is not golf. Lower doesn’t win here.
This is an open thread
In other news…
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has passed away at age 84.
BREAKING: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies at 84. https://t.co/GreQePPlTW
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 4, 2025
Former President Bush offered the following statement:
Statement by President George W. Bush on Vice President Dick Cheney:
— George W. Bush Presidential Center (@TheBushCenter) November 4, 2025
The death of Richard B. Cheney is a loss to the nation and a sorrow to his friends. Laura and I will remember Dick Cheney for the decent, honorable man that he was. History will remember him as among the finest… pic.twitter.com/fmx7hI4eFD
The death of Richard B. Cheney is a loss to the nation and a sorrow to his friends. Laura and I will remember Dick Cheney for the decent, honorable man that he was. History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation – a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position he held. As a young White House aide and chief of staff, a Congressman, a Secretary of Defense, and my Vice President, Dick earned the confidence and high opinion of five presidents. I asked him to join my ticket in 2000 after first enlisting him to help me find the best running mate. In our long discussions about the qualities a vice president should have – deep experience, mature judgment, character, loyalty – I realized that Dick Cheney was the one I needed. I’m still grateful that he was at my side for the eight years that followed. Dick was a calm and steady presence in the White House amid great national challenges. I counted on him for his honest, forthright counsel, and he never failed to give his best. He held to his convictions and prioritized the freedom and security of the American people. For those two terms in office, and throughout his remarkable career, Dick Cheney’s service always reflected credit on the country he loved. Dick’s love for America was second only to his family. Laura and I have shared our deepest sympathies with Vice President Cheney’s wife Lynne and their daughters and grandchildren of whom he was so deeply proud. We are praying for Lynne, Liz, Mary, and the Cheney family as they honor a great man.
The quote is from the embedded tweet. 11/04/2025.
