BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, NOVEMBER 9, 2026) — Blowout. Wipe Out. Slaughter. Landslide.

THE PLANET speaks of the Democrats’ rousing victories in the Mid-Terms. We congratulate them. Well deserved and much needed as a correction and as a marker for the beginning of the end of the Trump Era.

Readers will recall that we predicted as much, using history as our guide and knowing that Americans have a see-saw approach to party politics, meaning that we instinctively want to boot the party in charge and replace them with the party on the outs. We instinctively tend to prefer divided government between the two major parties, except here in the Matriarchy of Massachusetts (MOM). That’s a healthy tendency.

The funniest aspect of this serious joke is that, at the national level, both parties …

… ARE THE SAME.

Prices will continue to rise. The Defense Department’s budget will continue to grow. Taxes will keep ascending. The deficit will continue to grow. Public education will continue rot. And so on due to the bought, sold, and compromised nature of Congress, where the lobbyists, lawyers, and special interest rule. Congress exists for one primary reason: to expand the tax code. To say that We The People have any meaningful say indicates the kind of ingenuous sentiments of theory and textbooks. Easy to say, impossible to argue and win.

Democrats are loving the results, Republicans not so much, while Libertarians sit back and coast with the political punch lines and pundits. Nonetheless, the general truth about major-party politics can best be described as “distinctions without differences.” Yes, some will be quick to point out seeming conflict points, but these simply serve as sound-bite fodder for the woeful, and woefully tilted, electoral process. The media wants only to keep the status quo so as to grab their share of ad and marketing dollars.

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What shall Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski expect when the Dems take control of both houses of Congress and Trump enters a two year Phantom Zone known as lame duck? THE PLANET shares our thoughts:

• Trump will be impeached. Will the Senate convict him? No. Democrats do not want to hand the presidency to J.D. Vance, thereby giving him a head start for 2028.
• There will be countless investigation into the Trump Administration. Subpeonas will rain from the sky like a monsoon.
• Trump will ink his “VETO” stamp.
• Democrats will remain true to nature, and a power presence will turn to a squabbling as the radical socialists wish to move the party further left and folks like Jeffries, AOC, and Schumer start talking like centrists. If the infighting gets ugly, it will hurt the party in 2028.
• Here in MOM, Maura Healey will not finish out her term. She will instead head to a national slot. Healey will hand the  wheel to LG Kim Driscoll. Remember Weld to Cellucci and Cellucci to Swift?
• MOM will keep driving out the wealthy and the middle class as the parade of illegals and other undesirables flood here for a free-of-cost lifestyle courtesy of taxpayers.

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Now that the Dems control both houses (on Jan. 3, 2027), they must deal with a new kind of pressure, the kind that winning brings. What will they do with the opportunity? Don’t get your hopes up, folks, for their ability to do the country good sits in direct proportion to the extent that they can get over their obsession with Donald Trump. A revenge tour may satiate the party apparatchiks, but it will do little good for the Kapanskis … or the Democrats.

In the new Congress, Dems will have solid majorities in both houses. They will use it to push an agenda that includes reversing Trump’s Medicaid cuts, introducing war resolution votes on Iran, and other matters. They must tightrope the various political pressures that threaten to disrupt their dominance and hinder their chances in 2028. There will be three avenues of potential discord: those who want the move the party further left into socialism, those who want to stay put, and those who want to move toward the center. It’s going to be entertaining political theater.

The party’s biggest problem, however, will emerge in the Senate. Trump responded to the Democrat onslaught with the word “VETO.” To overcome any vetoes, the Senate will need 60 or more votes. The current standing for the new Congress: Dem 54,  GOP 44, with two races uncalled. Can Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (or his successor) rustle up the needed Republican votes? Maybe, given Trump’s lame duck status. If not, he or she won’t be able to bring bills to cloture. The only other option is to do away with the filibuster, and that won’t be happening.

One issue of common ground may be the U.S. stance on Israel. Trump recently suggested cutting off aid to Israel. VP J. D. Vance cited U.S.-Israel relations, including the war in Iran, as a major factor in the GOP electoral massacre. Republicans and Democrats also share a growing feeling that Israel’s genocide in Gaza has far exceeded a measured response to the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks. Abdul El-Sayed became the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. This fierce critic of Israel referred to Vance as “JD, habibi,” a term of affection. Supporters of Israel should be selling short.

THE PLANET invites your thoughts.

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“Veto” — President Donald Trump.

“OPEN THEWINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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