Eight Blue Team Senators struck a deal to advance the funding bill and reopen government. The over 40 day game of political chicken cost considerable political capital amongst independent voters. Independents considered the Blue Team the equivalent of herpes, but Trump's mouth gonorrhea repulsed the non-MAGA majority.
News reports indicate the government may reopen late this week. That is if our "Savage Whim" President doesn't demolish the deal like he did to the White House East Wing.
Trump II's pardon shitdown, sold as "Just Us", continues in full force with his pardoning at least seventy seven co-conspirators who tried to keep the Donald in the Oval Orifice come January 2021.
The White House Office of Pardon Attorney has not updated their webpage since October 22, 2025.
Disappointed supporters of the Blue Team may recall their cave to America's policy making billionaire class, comprised of private equity underwriters (PEU) and their new political influencer brethren, TechGods and CryptoBros.
Blue Team Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema took turns saving private equity's preferred "carried interest" taxation.
Back then I called the two teams, the Insane Reds and the Blue Lucys. I'm not sure much has changed.
Now Congress can get down to the people's business. That includes serving as a check on both the Presidency as well as the Supreme Court.
It also means turning their attention back to voters, not catering to PEU Legends, TechGods and CryptoBros. That bipartisan catering to policy making billionaires has gone on for far too long.
Update: Trump wants to short SNAP recipients in November. He offered two new ways for financiers to make bigger bank, 15 year car loans and 50 year mortgages. Rising up the pardon list is Epstein's pedo concierge Ghislaine Maxwell.
