Today is Tuesday, October 28, 2025. I know I wrote that I might be absent from this page yesterday, but I’m here now. Our friend, “Patricia,” did take us out to dinner to celebrate our combined birthdays at Nick’s Bistro, on Metropolitan Avenue. The dinner was quite lovely; we shared some nice appetizers like a copious beet salad and crab cakes, while ordering individual entrees for each of us. I ordered the lemon ouzo chicken, while Patricia had lamb chops, while Elliot ordered the chicken kebab. For dessert, we asked for the chocolate mousse cake and shared it among the three of us. The dinner lasted only about 90 minutes, and then Elliot drove Patricia back to her apartment while also driving back to our block, with me parking the car just yards away from our apartment building. (Elliot gets a little wigged out with parking our not-so-new Subaru on a certain side, which is the left in this case.)

In the meantime, former President Joe Biden issued a dark warning against his successor in a speech delivered in Boston on Sunday in which he noted that the United States is facing “dark days” under this president, President Poop, but that the country is “more powerful than any dictator,” clearly painting Dump as a tinplated dictator. This announcement against his successor appears in an online article for Just News by Misty Severi entitled “Joe Biden claims US is facing ‘dark days’ under President Donald Trump.”

The former president made the comment while accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.

The former commander in chief urged Democratic voters to stay optimistic about the country’s future, but not to ignore the current administration’s alleged attacks on free speech and tests on the limits of executive power.

“Since its founding, America served as a beacon for the most powerful idea ever in government in the history of the world,” Biden said, according to the Associated Press. “The idea is stronger than any army. We’re more powerful than any dictator.”

Biden reminded the audience that the country’s history is “not a fairytale” and said the United States depends on a presidency with limited power, a functioning Congress, and an autonomous judiciary, which are all under massive attack by this cruel regime.

“Friends, I can’t sugarcoat any of this. These are dark days,” Biden said. Biden went on to indicate that the country will “find our true compass again” and that “we will emerge as we always have – stronger, wiser, and more resilient, more just, so long as we keep the faith.”

Along with the comments made by the former president, the government has now entered its 28th day of being shuttered, with repugnicans not to be found anywhere, as repulsive MAGA Johnson furloughed his representatives weeks ago in order to avoid releasing the Epstein files. The shutdown has resulted in the furlough of roughly 900,000 federal employees and left 2 million working without pay. And where is the president during all of this? you might ask. He’s in Japan fumbling his way through meetings with Asian leaders. I refused to watch any coverage of the asshole. I dare say running away to Asia while the government remains closed is fucking bad optics. And the American people are paying close attention to what the Orange Turd is doing. And are massing together to register their displeasure with this administration.

And so it went!