Every day is Halloween with TOM

 

Oct 31, 2025 (284/1461)

Every day is Halloween with TOM in office. Scary. People dressed up in unnatural orange costumes. I hope TOM is scared today that maybe the tide has shifted the tiniest bit against him. “Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.” Tide shift one.

Tide shift two: “The federal judge ruled that Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.

The ruling deals a blow to the administration and its allies who have argued that such a mandate is necessary to restore public confidence that only Americans are voting in U.S. elections.

“Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., wrote in her opinion.”

He can’t even get his own team on his side. TOM demanded an end to the filibuster in the Senate so that a vote could be taken to end the shutdown.  And they said talk to the hand. “The top two Republicans in Congress said Friday they do not agree with President Donald Trump’s call to end the Senate filibuster in order to adopt a budget resolution to reopen the federal government. Trump has pushed for the Senate to end the filibuster multiple times, dating back to 2017, but Republicans have consistently opposed the idea.

On his Truth Social account Thursday night, Trump wrote: “….BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Stone cold crazy.  Hahahahaha “But Friday, both the Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declined to back Trump’s demand, holding firm in their opposition to abolishing the filibuster. The Senate filibuster requires legislation to receive 60 votes to end debate and move to the final stage of approval.” They of course recognize that when the shoe is on the other foot, the D’s will wreak havoc on passing legislation to undo all the do-ing that TOM is about. Plus some other fun goodies that will make R’s heads spin just like Chucky. Happy Halloween all.

No more doubt TOM is racist

 

Oct 30, 2025 (283/1461)

If there had been any shred of doubt remaining as to TOMs racist tendencies and actions, it has been washed away. He. Is, A. Racist with Nazi leanings. How else to interpret his new policy on allowing only white South Africans to immigrate into the US?  No one else. Just whities. “The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the U.S. previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.

The administration published the news Thursday in a notice on the Federal Register.

No reason was given for the numbers, which are a dramatic decrease from last year’s ceiling set under the Biden administration of 125,000. The Associated Press previously reported that the administration was considering admitting as few as 7,500 refugees and mostly white South Africans.

The memo said only that the admission of the 7,500 refugees during 2026 fiscal year was “justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.” No one is safe from discrimination if you are not white. Even if you already reside in this country, your rights are going to be systematically undermined. Even if you voted for him, he will screw you.

The good guys win one. A federal judge has said “no, you may not” to TOMs attempt to extort votes out of the Dem’s by starving citizens in our country. “Day 30 of the shutdown: Food stamp benefits could halt for millions of Americans this weekend due to the government shutdown. A federal judge today indicated she will intervene in the fight over the Trump administration’s refusal to use emergency funds for the program. “Right now, Congress has put money in an emergency fund for an emergency, and it’s hard for me to understand how this isn’t an emergency when there’s no money and a lot of people are needing their SNAP benefits,” US District Judge Indira Talwani said near the end of a hearing, referring to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps.” The one single hope keeps showing up in what time and again looks to be the dismal end.

Graham on board with war in Venezuela?

 

Oct 29, 2025 (282/1461)

The rock of Dem resistance might have a crack forming. “Senate Majority Leader John Thune said talks with centrist Democrats have increased and he’s hopeful they could lead eventually to a breakthrough to end the government shutdown.

“It’s ticked up significantly and hopefully that’ll be a precursor of things to come,” he told reporters in the Capitol Wednesday when asked about the status of talks with rank-and-file Democrats. “But yeah, there’s a lot of higher level of conversation.”

Democratic leaders, Thune said, are not involved in the negotiating. Asked whether he thought there would be enough moderate Democrats in the mix to reach a deal that would reopen the government, he expressed optimism.” Thune may be projecting to get the outcome he’s being pressured to create.

Lindsey Graham is now touting the same line as TOM. “We’re” headed on land with the narco-terror war. "President Trump told me yesterday that he plans to brief members of Congress when he gets back from Asia about future potential military operations against Venezuela and Colombia," Graham said. "So, there will be a congressional briefing about a potential expanding from the sea to the land. I support that idea. But I think he has all the authority he needs."  

 “Not since the Cuban Missile Crisis has the United States deployed so many military assets to the Caribbean. President Donald Trump has now given the greenlight for the CIA to carry out covert operations in the region, intensifying tensions with Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, who accuses Washington of plotting a regime change.

Maduro condemned the growing military presence as “a fabrication of war,” claiming the U.S. is inventing a pretext to invade. “The Venezuelan government is not a legitimate military threat to the United States,” said Abigail Hall, an associate professor of economics at the University of Tampa who studies U.S. military interventions in Latin America.

Hall believes domestic politics play a large role in the campaign. 

“It’s a way for the administration to appear tough on drugs and illegal immigration without burning additional political capital,” she said. “There’s no friendly relationship between Washington and Caracas, so there’s little political cost to taking a hard stance.” When Venezuela brings war crimes charges from The ICC in The Hague, several US leaders should find a bunker (oh, the one they are expanding under the new ballroom!).