Today is Monday, October 27, 2025. The government is in its sixth week of a shutdown orchestrated by only Republicans, not Democrats, as MAGA Johnson would have you falsely believe. And now voters are finally incensed over the continued shutdown that will have negative repercussions in major areas. Today an online piece by Joe Scarborough for MSNBC entitled “The GOP’s government shutdown could cost it the Virginia race for governor,” Scarborough makes the case that these ugly repugnicans will finally be held accountable at the ballot box.

Thus because Republicans will not negotiate with Democrats over Affordable Care Act insurance premiums that will rise precipitously for millions of Americans, you have federal employees, people in the military, air traffic controllers now working every day without pay. On the other fucking hand, you have members of Congress, who haven’t set foot in Washington, D.C., in weeks, still collecting their goddamn paychecks. Is that fair, folks? I dare say it ain’t at all. This will have the accumulated effect of enraging voters for upcoming races.

Scarborough writes, “Any Republican who thinks that’s not a political problem has their head in the clouds,” or, as I would say, “their heads up their ass.”

The GOP’s problems don’t stop there even. The U.S. Department of Agriculture now says that come November 1 (this coming Saturday), the 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will not receive their benefits. This just doesn’t affect Democrats; just like cuts to Medicaid, this will severely impact people in both red and blue states alike.

Now while thousands of federal employees continue to work without pay and millions of Americans are on the verge of losing much-needed benefits, we have an Orange Turd of a president not focused on reopening the government or forcing repugnicans to come to the negotiating table, instead he’s focused on demolishing the East Wing of the White House to build a $300 million ballroom and giving Argentina a $20 (I think it’s now $40 billion) bailout.

Scarborough accurately forecasts that repugnicans will pay the price, and I say it will better come true. With just a week to go until Election Day in Virginia, the latest Washington Post-Schar School shows former Democratic Representative Abigail Spanberger with a 12-point lead over her opponent, Republican Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears.

The MSNBC host also writes that “Voters know which party has a monopoly on power in Washington, and they’re going to hold it accountable.”

Thus this long-term shutdown will have consequences for the damn party in control of all the levers of government: the fucking repugnicans.

In the meantime, the horrid government that voters voted in again just announced that another foe of this asswipe is being investigated by Attorney General “Lapdog” Bondi, and that is Nancy Pelosi.

In the meantime, the demented president today revealed that he underwent an MRI during his recent checkup and brazenly lied about the results. He sounds more in like an Alzheimer’s fog every fucking day. In CBS News, an online article by Kathryn Watson discloses the sad story behind the growing decline of this president in front of the world stage. The article is titled “Trump reveals he underwent an MRI during recent checkup, calls results “perfect.”

Thus the Orange Menace told reporters he underwent the test during his recent checkup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he called the results in Trumpspeak “perfect.”

Dump underwent a second examination in early October – six months after a physical in April – just leaving for the Middle East. The president was asked if he received an MRI as a part of his “advanced imaging” his physician said he received at Walter Reed.

Here is where Dump devolved in Trumpspeak: “I did. I got an MRI, it was perfect, yep,” telling reporters aboard Air Force One today, en route to Tokyo during his Asia tour, adding, “I gave you the full results (sure he did!). We had an MRI and the machine, you know, the whole thing, and it was perfect.” Doesn’t he sound as incoherent here as always?

Then he positively dived into full-on Trumpspeak, saying that his doctors told him he has “some of the best reports, for the age, some of the best reports they’ve ever seen.” Dump also had doctors lie for him, saying that his cardiac age “was found to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age.” They never said his mental age was that of a four-year-old, though. I dare you to believe this bullshit!

Tomorrow Elliot and I are having dinner with our friend “Patricia,” and I don’t know if I’ll be present here tomorrow evening. It depends; we’re meeting around 4:45 p.m. for a 5:15 reservation at Nick’s Bistro, on Metropolitan Avenue. I would dare guess that we won’t be out that long. How long could one linger over dinner?

Have a good Tuesday then.

And so it went!