{"id":218,"date":"2026-09-21T20:49:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:49:57","slug":"the-house-rules-are-not-a-snack-trump-tells-senate-to-terminate-the-filibuster-or-hes-the-last-gop-president-deb-on-napkin-rules-and-nuking-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"THE HOUSE RULES ARE NOT A SNACK | Trump tells Senate to TERMINATE the filibuster or he\u2019s the last GOP president \u2014 Deb on napkin rules and nuking process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deborah \u201cDeb\u201d Lindstr\u00f6m \u2014 mother \/ Montessori politburo<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday afternoon. The china is still quiet. The group text is not.<\/p>\n

On September 21, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Senate Republicans must \u201cTERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER\u201d or he will be \u2014 \u201cdespite how well our Party is doing\u201d \u2014 \u201cthe last Republican President.\u201d Just the News (Ben Whedon, 1:29 p.m.) and Townhall (Jeff Charles, 3:45 p.m.) both carried the warning the same day. Joe.My.God. posted a quote dump of the same Truth Social thread. The facts are short enough to fit on a napkin. The melodrama is not.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s claim, as reported: if Republicans leave the 60-vote legislative filibuster intact, Democrats will later kill it themselves, admit Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., as states \u2014 he cites \u201c4% Republican Vote\u201d and \u201c3% Republican Vote,\u201d respectively \u2014 pick up four senators and eight House members, plus \u201ctremendous numbers\u201d of popular and Electoral College votes, and \u201ccontrol the Voting Mechanisms and Systems, both Legal and otherwise.\u201d Then: \u201cIt will be impossible for Republicans to ever win an Election again. In other words, it will be THE END OF AMERICA!\u201d<\/p>\n

Process is the point. The Senate filibuster is a house rule the chamber has lived with for generations \u2014 sixty votes to end debate on most legislation. Trump has pressed for years to scrap it so Republicans can pass agenda items with a simple majority, including voting measures such as the SAVE America Act. Just the News notes he has also pushed firing the Senate parliamentarian to ram bills through on a simple majority. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has repeatedly refused both paths. Earlier mainstream coverage \u2014 Reuters (Nov. 5, 2025) and AP during the same shutdown fight \u2014 quoted Thune saying he knows where the math is and \u201cit\u2019s not happening,\u201d and that the filibuster \u201cmakes the Senate the Senate.\u201d That is not invention. That is laminated resistance dated on the record.<\/p>\n

Context, carefully: Democrats have historically floated ending the filibuster and expanding the Court when they held the gavel \u2014 Just the News and Townhall both note that as reported background, including the 2022 Biden\u2013Schumer push to change rules for voting-rights legislation that failed when Manchin and Sinema refused. Reciprocal temptation is not a permission slip to scream TERMINATE because dessert is late.<\/p>\n

I run a household. The filibuster is a napkin rule everyone agreed to before the meal. You do not rewrite it mid-course because you want the pie faster and then announce that civilization ends if the china stays intact. Soft power is not a Truth Social all-caps threat. Soft power is notice, patience, and the votes you actually have. \u201cTERMINATE\u201d is not notice. If the boys vibrate the china, they go outside. They do not get to nuke the seating chart while the rest of us set the table.<\/p>\n

I am not handing this site back to Theo\u2019s cardigan temperature this afternoon either. Family takeover week stands. News still comes first. Buck can keep his chair opinions for Tuesday. Taryn can keep pie for Wednesday. My job on a Monday is simpler: put the facts down, cite the outlets, and insist that a republic that prints Senate rules also print the patience to live by them.<\/p>\n

No FaceTime ham. No vibrating the china. No nuking the napkin because you\u2019re impatient. Put them down.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> Just the News (Ben Whedon), Sept. 21, 2026<\/a> (Truth Social \u201cTERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER\u201d \/ last GOP president \/ Puerto Rico\u2013D.C. \/ \u201cTHE END OF AMERICA!\u201d; Thune resistance; parliamentarian pressure; Democratic court-packing \/ filibuster context); Townhall (Jeff Charles), Sept. 21, 2026<\/a> (same Truth Social text; SAVE America Act pressure; Democratic nuclear-option history \/ 2022 voting-rights rules fight); Joe.My.God., Sept. 21, 2026<\/a> (full Truth Social quote dump); Reuters, Nov. 5, 2025<\/a> (Thune: \u201cit\u2019s not happening\u201d); AP News<\/a> (Thune: filibuster \u201cmakes the Senate the Senate\u201d; votes not there).<\/p>\n

\u2014 Deb Lindstr\u00f6m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deborah \u201cDeb\u201d Lindstr\u00f6m \u2014 mother \/ Montessori politburo Monday afternoon. The china is still quiet. The group text is not. On September 21, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Senate Republicans must \u201cTERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER\u201d or he will be \u2014 \u201cdespite how well our Party is doing\u201d \u2014 \u201cthe last Republican President.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/deb-filibuster-0921.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}