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mike johnson is the epitome of bitch made.
And he forces his kid to imagine him whacking off
they were compromised long ago and are unable to do anything except for what they are told.
They are complicit. They don’t want to stop him because they are part of the criminal gang benefiting from the crimes.
Presenting this as if the rest of the Republicans are some poor blackmailed people who are only doing this unwillingly at Trump’s behest is disingenous at best. Trump is the product of the Republican party.
We need to stop saying Trump did this and that and start saying Republicans did this and that.
Even the title (sorry OP) blames Congress instead of Republicans
OP here. It is titled that way because Congressional Republicans have the power to stop him in real time. The Congressional Democrats don’t have the power. The voter can have an impact next year. The courts cannot enforce shit.
Is it because the Democratic Party is complicit? 🤔 Hm.
I bet there are a significant number who are happy to be in the minority and not have to back up their promises
Also remember that the Democrats in the Senate could have shut down this government and didn’t. Soon, they will have passed on two opportunities to shut down the government.
People keep pointing this out and, while I disagree with Schumer’s handling if some things, I think it was a fair concern that a government shutdown would put much more power into Trump’s hands and the hands of the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vaught, the architect of Project 2025.
As someone with a Trans partner, this is insanely dangerous, especially with the cravenness of the Project 2025 people.
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/03/19/schumer-was-unfortunately-right-but-either-way-the-infighting-must-stop lays out a lot of my concerns in more detail but I do think Schumer made the right call, here.
The article calls Chuck Schumer courageous. You’ve got to be kidding me with this partisan drivel.
At the end of the day, between making it convenient for Donald to do fascism or making it inconvenient for Donald to do fascism, the obvious choice is to make it inconvenient to do fascism. Schumer and the Democrats are making it very convenient for them.
And the point is that a government shutdown would have made it more convenient for him.
Yes; I fully expect that the political beliefs of the author don’t fully align with my own but that doesn’t alter his points about the powers that Trump would gain under a shutdown.
Ignoring the way that these systems work because a symbolic showdown is more cathartic isn’t a winning strategy and, in at least this specific instance, Schumer was correct that a shutdown would remove more restrictions on what Trump could do (with a member Trump appointed who has clearly demonstrated no issue with long term strategizing and willingness to bend what’s acceptable being given a greater expansion of responsibilities under it).
These are material facts, regardless who’s pointing them out.
Idk, I have a bad feeling the next time the government “shuts down” it won’t be opening back up.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
They also could have exposed pedophiles but chose not to
They also could have provided healthcare to America and kept hospitals across the country from shutting down, but they chose not to
We already spent more money normalizing military secret police than it would have cost to just house every person on the streets in D.C., but choices were made because we’re allegedly a Christian nation that preaches “empathy is toxic.”
Just like Jesus would have envisioned any government using his name for merchandising would.
Can they though? If Trump doesn’t obey the laws and Constitution, what’s to say he’ll obey Congress that derives its power from the same Constitution and laws?
I don’t want to absolve them of responsibility here. They absolutely started this mess and actively want to continue it as long as they benefit from it, but I’m not entirely sure they could stop it now if they wanted to.
The Constitution is just a literal piece of paper.
Toilet paper.
Let’s find out. Impeach and convict the motherfucker.
You may be right, but we will never know until the GOP stands up to him and we see who blinks first.
So we’ll never know.
Of course they could stop it. They aren’t adhering to laws or constitution in their crimes, they could stop him the same way. Noone is holding them accountable for anything they do.
But as you said, it is a moot point. They aren’t two groups of separate interests. The Republicans are one in this, they all want what Trump wants.
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When he was impeached all the Senate had to do was remove him. He’d have never returned.
Because then they’d be asked why they didn’t act sooner, they’d have to admit they knew things were wrong, they’d get (rightfully) blamed for their hand in it.
So they keep silent to avoid being held accountable.
All my homies hate Mike.
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Many assholes grifting America
vance isn’t crazy/demented enough (yet) to nuke all of humanity, so that’s a silver lining… i guess…
Every time I see Mike Johnson I think of Leland from Evil.
The congress.* Your team is there sucking dick too buddy. They just clean un with strongly worded letters.
