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'Shame on you!' Dems erupt on House floor as Mike Johnson orders recess despite shutdown
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Yup, this very much. Mike Johnson can go fuck himself.
MikeyJ gonna get on Grindr tonight to soothe his fee-fees and his pee-pee
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Based on the actions he's taken to cover up for pedophiles, he's more likely to go fuck a child.
He definitely gives off child fucker vibes. He joined the right friend group.
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Oh, so its actually, factually, Johnson who shut down the government.
Good to know as trivia I guess, not like right wingers are on speaking terms with reality.
I'm curious why the GOP seems to be actively pursuing a shutdown right now, that they have full trilateral control over the Federal Government. Trump already isn't bothering to staff or govern the administrations they don't like, it seems like this would only hamper their goals with ICE & DHS, right?
Is there even an actual goal here? Or are they betting on Schumer et al caving at the last possible nanosecond?
Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333
They are ideologically opposed to the government doing basically anything other than police and military duties, and having the bare minimum legal system required to facilitate criminal convictions for the poor, and the contract emforcement of private business.
Basically, they want the level of government that exists in Night City from Cyberpunk 2077, but probably without mass transit or even public roads.
This is what Rush Limbaugh's ditto hesds have been told they want for about 40 years, and now they are just doing it.
You can prosecute people for thought crimes snd not being the right sexuality or religion or skin color with this, so, that's all good with them.
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They're betting on Democrats getting the blame. They might be right, though I hope not.
It's a reasonable question. I don't know how many ICE agents are ok without getting the paycheck.
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This still serves their larger goal of portraying all of government (potentially representing the will of the people to some degree) as inefficient and unreliable. This furthers simplistic "strongman" attitudes, as well as the continued push for deregulation and privatisation.
Along with what others have said, a user in another thread pointed out that with a new financial year, they can repeat their performance with their July bill, basically doing whatever they want, so they probably consider it a win all around.
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Did you want them to rush the podium and eat Mike Johnson alive like a pack of hyenas, then reclaim congress?
Actually I could get behind that.
I'd actually respect them a bit if they did.
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Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas):
There are more mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein Files than there are House Republicans here in Washington D.C. today.
I loved that yesterday Vance claimed that he wanted to work with Dems on not cutting health care, and they should fund the government, then work with the GOP on healthcare.
This guy is such a liar. The GOP absolutely refused to work with the Dems during the creation of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” despite very loud calls to not cut healthcare to fund billionaire tax cuts.
Turns out that having the legislature operate via a Gentleman's Agreement that assumes good faith behavior and concentrates power in the hands of a small number of people was really bad for Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy.
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Given the recent government, a shutdown might be an improvement.
Anything but the Epstein files… There must be some really juicy stuff in there.
Yes. Evidence of Dump "allegedly" juicing all over some under aged girls with his BFF Epstien
Well it’s Mike Johnson. The only thing he goes hard for is Trump and little kids.
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He gets creepier every day. They’re gonna find bodies under his house.
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They have no shame.
Except for being on grindr. I'm sure they feel deep shame about being on grindr.
Doesn’t he share his masturbatory habits with his son, in a sort of watchfulness pact or something? It’s so very weird.
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Good! As someone who shows up ARMED AND LOADED to Drag Shows and Children's Hospitals to Protect The Children TM I'm GLAD he's shutting Down the Government BEFORE they can Release a List of RICH PEOPLE WHO RAPED CHILDREN ON EPSTEIN ISLAND!
Democrats must demand the files be released as one of their requirements. Make it so that Republicans are at fault because they were so scared of the Epstein files
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Like much of the administration, incompetence and yesmenship is what you get when you hamfistedly shove a junior statesmen into leadership.
Shit like this is why I spend time volunteering with potential candidates nationwide.
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I think it has been thoroughly and repeatedly established that this poor excuse of a withered Dollar Store twist-tie has no shame.
Isn't shutting down the federal government better?
States rights, amirite?
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