As we see 40 days and 40 nights of legislative shutdown where the Federal employees who actually work don’t get paid, President Donald Trump has proposed that we end the filibuster requiring 60 votes to move forward on legislation. Some of us used to scream “NO” like we were being threatened by terrorists at the very idea of ending that tool. Democrats will take advantage of it next time they are in power. Shock. Horror. All I can say is “Filibuster this, girl, baby girl.

In case you have forgotten, “Girl, baby girl” is what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shouted at Marjorie Taylor-Greene when they had a House Girl Fight once. It was an epic comment in the snottiest fashion.

I used to buy in to the call to retain the filibuster lest it be used against us when the Democrats retake the Senate. Now, I say “Filibuster this, girl, baby girl.” Even if the test vote tonight produces an end to the shutdown, get rid of the filibuster.

The Democrats won races they expected to win last Tuesday, but they won in bigger margins. With our wishy-washy, spineless Republicans, I have seen our future if we don’t keep the Legislative Chamber and it is grim. Grim. We won’t have any Republican Senators.

The New York Post doesn’t get the “Nuke the Filibuster” idea:

There are no saviors or happy endings in politics — just a grueling, soul-sucking, forever-war of attrition.

Everyone in power seems to forget this detail.

That includes President Donald Trump, who has again decided to exert pressure on Republicans to overturn the legislative filibuster and end the Democrat-generated government shutdown.

“Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“We have to get the country open. And the way we’re going to do it this afternoon is to terminate the filibuster,” the president reportedly told Republican senators at a breakfast this week.

Nuking the filibuster is unprincipled, but it also makes little political sense: Trump would be doing Democrats a huge favor by greasing the wheels for exploiting fleeting one-party national majorities in the future, which will allow them to shove through massive generational “reforms” without any national consensus.

And they would be able to do it without taking any political heat for nuking the filibuster.

Democrats never take any political heat for anything. In the meantime, we could “shove through massive generational” “reforms”… The Democrats tried to end the filibuster, but Sinema and Manchin:

The Democrats tried to eliminate the Filibuster in January 2022. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema blocked it from getting passed. So Democrats should be happy if we eliminate it. Oh wait, not when we have the simple majority. Nuke the Filibuster! Let's take care of… pic.twitter.com/rTFV621WvK

— PatriotGal480 (@PatriotGal480) November 6, 2025

The Democrats got rid of the ideologically impure Sinema and Manchin and next time they will get rid of Fetterman. Let’s dump the filibuster now. More:

The filibuster isn’t in the Constitution, but in many ways it is one of the last tools left in DC that can limit the power of the federal government and compel separation of powers.

Even as a political consideration, ending the filibuster is counterproductive.

Trump warns that Democrats will trash the 60% threshold the first chance they get.

Maybe.

But they had already tried to eliminate it during former President Joe Biden’s term and failed.

That whole Sinema and Manchin thing.

Go Nuclear, baby:

I agree with Trump now and if we pass things like “Voter ID” we might never lose another election. From The Hill:

President Trump declared to reporters Friday that Republicans would not lose a future election if the party’s leadership in the Senate moved to eliminate the parliamentary procedure known as the filibuster.

“The Democrats will do this [eliminate the filibuster], so if the Democrats are going to do it, I’m saying Republicans should do it before they get a chance,” Trump said. “If we do it, we will never lose the midterms, and we will never lose a general election, because we will have produced so many different things for our people, for the country, that it would be impossible to lose an election.”

He ticked off a list of GOP-backed legislation that could move through the chamber if the procedure was eliminated, including on matters of voter ID laws, mail-in voting and immigration.

This requires us to screw our courage to the sticking place and be bold. History favors the bold. We need to make the other half of our country realize it wasn’t worth fighting with us.

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