Warren Buffett’s Wonderful Thanksgiving Letter November 12, 2025November 12, 2025 But first . . . POLITICIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Fox News Weekend host with a drinking problem reshapes the U.S. Military (2 minutes) — Elissa Slotkin. BASTARDIZING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Watch the first three or four minutes of this one, on just whom Trump is pardoning. You know it; but seeing it this way! CAVING ON THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Andrew Yang’s take: Voting to open the government was not the colossal mistake many (terrific) Democrats believe it was. It was, in fact, the right thing to do. Susan Del Percio agrees: Republicans warned they’ve trapped themselves ‘in a box’ GOP political strategist Susan Del Percio [says] the Republican Party is now trapped by its promise to hold a vote on the ACA, also known as Obamacare, which has the potential to be a loser for them no matter how the vote turns out. “That’s what the Republicans have been afraid of all along, is this vote. Will they support those subsidies to the Affordable Healthcare Act? That’s going to put them in a box.” “So if they if they vote yes, then the Democrats can say ‘We won, we pushed it, we got it.’ And if they vote no, the Democrats have a great election issue come 2026. So I think that the Republicans are more or less scratching their heads, saying, ‘Why aren’t the Democrats, why are they not taking this as a big win?’ And it’s just more reflective of the intra-party fighting in the Democratic Party,” she concluded. (And as I suggested yesterday, if the Republicans DO vote to kill affordable health care, Democrats can withhold funding again in January . . . when, perhaps, the GOP will give in — or look horrible again.) David M. Perry on BlueSky: Maybe senate Dems should say: “The Republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren’t monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We’ll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters.” The comments he elicited suggest that, having slept on it, some Democrats think he may have a point. And now . . . “Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman.” — from Warren Buffett’s wonderful Thanksgiving Letter. > Join Indivisible! > Support “my” 26th annual DNC LGBT Leadership Council dinner Friday night even if you’re not L, G, B, or T and even though you can’t come. An adequately funded opposition party is absolutely necessary for democracy to prevail — and now is the time to lay the groundwork for success next year.