I hope they all use the men’s room. All of them.
Right. Democrats putting up a fight. Sure.
Bullshit
There’s some things to be hopeful about. Trump cannot run again, so the republican party has no choice but to be thinking about what’s next. Additionally, aside from the slim majority in the house, mid-term elections are only two years away. That means the Republicans need to thread a needle here by sufficiently pacifying the MAGA diehards and Trump, but not so much that they have complete reign over the direction of the economy.
Many in the republican party have become full-on cultists. But many of them also just play-act because it’s where the power is right now. And many of them aren’t in the cult, but they simply ignore it because it benefits the party. If the Magats are given no leash, their policies will almost inevitably turn the electorate against them. So many of Trump’s proposals are good “tough guy” vengeance talking points that speak to aggrieved white people, but the election was closer than they are pretending.
If Trump goes on a full vengeance tour and his Project 2025 crew enacts their policies, the consequences of all that rhetoric will be devastating to poor white people. I know we like to think it happened during his first term and they didn’t care, but it’s not true. He was a fairly ineffective president. But now that he’s got people around him that want to actually act not talk, there’s a huge downside risk that they’ll start losing power during the mid-term elections. If that happens, the last two years for Trump will be miserable as everyone jumps ship from the senile guy in his mid-80s that can’t run again and is bleeding out the republican party of support.
Political pragmatics will force the republican party to turn on him. He’s simply unable to wield much influence after his last term. He will be too old and have no political future. And that will be recognized and cause some political realignment far before his presidency comes to an end.
Trump can’t legally run again based on our current legal framework. I think that’s somewhat important to clarify.
Yes, I know fretful democrats have created in Trump such a fearsome boogeyman that they seem confident he’s either going to upload his consciousness into a computer mainframe or assume his final lich-form and rule a totalitarian America for the next thousand years, but here in the real world that’s not actually a possibility. It does make for good fear-mongering among the mopey left however.
His mental decline over the last two years is sufficient to assure that even in the incredibly unlikely case we remove presidential term limits, which requires an amendment to the constitution requiring 2/3rds majorities in both the house and senate and ratification by 3/4ths of state legislatures, he will be in no physical or mental condition to do so. I’m doubtful he’ll even be able to actually complete his full term.
It can happen here. Thinking it can’t is how it does. Hitler’s rise to power wasn’t totally legal either, and people thought it was impossible… and yet it happened.
This isn’t to say it will happen, but it can happen. He doesn’t need an amendment. That’s only required if you pretend like rules and norms are the only way things get done. They’re only as useful as the people willing to stand against him when he breaks them are. If people aren’t ready to stop him then there’s no limits.
I have this person tagged as an apologist for Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
In case anyone wanted context.
“We really, really mean it this time.”
This reeks from industrial levels of Copeium completely untethered to the new reality which faces the 119th Congress, when The Supreme Court is still controlled by Republicans, both houses are controlled by Republicans and Donald Trump is once again the President. This is publishing for the sake of publishing, it should not be construed as anything you can hang your hat on.
To be fair, they controlled both the House and the Senate in 2016, too. They didn’t have the courts, yet, but they soon did. And they still barely agreed on anything.
Yeah, the GOP is weird because they are all on the same page in terms of talking points (disinformation) and voter suppression, but once they get in power none of them can agree, and none of them take it seriously.
Because you have two primary camps there right now - the corpocratic old guard and the nationalistic new guard. The nationalists were never actually supposed to have power, they were just meant to be an easily manipulable voter base. It’s not even the first time they’ve had an ‘inmates running the asylum’ situation because the exact same thing happened with racists when they tried the Southern Strategy.
It’s a much different GOP this time around. Before Trump was the new guy. The Outsider. This time he is the party. This time everyone has to kiss his ring and owes their entire power base to him.
Freddie The Lobster says: “Just Wait 'Til I Get These Fucking Rubber Bands Off"
Well they lost majority so fat chances.
They are going to TP his chair.
Someone’s going to sneak a fart bag on his chair right before he sits down, and everyone will laugh at him!
They won’t even fight to give their base basic requests like, please stop using our votes to kill innocent people.
Fuck off if you think Israel was a partisan issue in the recent election.
On any GOP-only legislation, there is “going to be enormous pressure” on Republican centrists to break away, said Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)
Dudes living in a dream world.
Oh bless their hearts, they think they hold power.
Doubt. The House isn’t the Senate, the minority can’t do shit.
Awesome, glad you decided to do your job after throwing the fight
Sure Jan
As they should
narrator: they should, but in no way will be able to
As with the last congress, the new one will have very slim margin and Johnson will need Democrats to get anything done.
I believe we will find, that with no firewalls, and no checks to Trump unmitigated threat of revenge, we will see any Republicans stand up to him again. You’re thinking in terms of present day back to 2016 when Trump’s win was a surprise, and he didn’t know where the buttons on the dash were yet. It’s 8 years later, and he’s got a team assembled for raw power, and vengeance. Let’s meet back here in 12 months and discuss the amount of times Republicans were thwarted in their majorities, I’m pretty sure it’s going we’re going to have zero examples of “Johnson needing Democrats” for anything at all
We shall see, but I’ve seen congressional Republicans described in two groups. Maga and hate maga. All it takes is three or so. Trump has already lost power in the Senate with the refusal to recess and Gaetz, and it’s more than a couple of months before he’s sworn in.
