Spoiler alert, it's Mike Johnson
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I feel like Mitch McConnell deserves a hefty dose of piss for his part in prepping the ground. He spent his whole career setting this up only for the silver spoon school bully to luck his way in.
…and generations of Republican politicians, and Fox News and other mainstream right wing media, and the churches, and the voters.
Gonna need a whole lot of pee.
And asparagus.
Refusing to adhere to the law and swear in Obama's SCOTUS pick, don't forget that.
Then it's not "thanks to one man", either. Remember what happened to Speaker McCarthy when only a small number of MAGA Republicans moved against him?
Everything that Mike Johnson is doing is the fault of all Republicans. If even a few grew a spine, and were willing to set aside party politics for the good of the country, Johnson would be out.
Not that the Democrats are blameless in all of this. The reason Trump has so much control is that he has all the money. A problem that even the Democrats had the ability to fix in the past by passing campaign finance reform laws.
It’s not trivial to implement campaign finance reform when the Supreme Court has decided it’s unconstitutional.
Even so, baby steps are possible, but nobody has done shit. There was some campaign finance reform in the For the People Act (also known as HR1), that, according to Nancy Pelosi, was within the guidelines set by the Supreme Court.
But of course all of that is moot, because I don't think Pelosi ever intended it to pass. It's easy to pretend you have ideals and push legislation when it has no chance of becoming law.
Why do you think she never intended to pass it?
I think campaign finance reform laws are unpopular among most politicians, including most Democratic politicians. Despite their rhetoric, they all got their positions by selling out to corporations and the rich. They can't just turn their backs on the people who they owe favors.
It's basically a case of how they got their positions in the current system, and so it's difficult to convince them to change the system. It's short-sighted, but I think most politicians are very short sighted.
This is the first time I've seen what they plan for it to look like. Cheap-ass kitchen chairs, tacky table settings, random AI human-blobs. The ceilings, windows, and chandeliers all inspired by the historical period when slavery was still legal
It looks like it's a room at Versailles. Kinda interesting that the ruler is building a ballroom while the masses are starving.
History sometimes rhymes
If they invested more money into the furniture, there would be less for them to grift
They'd just buy pure gold tableware and steal it on the way out.
I worked in the wedding industry for about 10 years, and almost every single wedding I ever worked looked better than whatever the Hell that picture is
I hate to say it, but it’s somehow still better than an open-ceiling, Edison-bulb, cement-floor, square-metal-stool, IPA-only, food-truck-in-the-parking-lot, trivia-night motherfucker of an establishment.
Fucking hell. I can't believe how regressive the US is becoming. And just how many fucking common sense laws were never passed and instead remained norms upheld by the court of public opinion mattering in the next election.
Literally no country has these laws of specificity that you describe in the way you're describing them.
Nobody honestly thought there was a group of humans of completely bereft of morals and ethics as we've seen here though, so that's everyone's fault.
It wasn't one man .... it was the whole nation that just stood there and watched him walk in. They might have complained about it but they did the bare minimum which wasn't enough to stop him.
I've lost so much respect for America due to this orange clown.
What would you have done different?
I'm in Canada and I've always supported the third candidate consistently. I always vote the New Democratic Party, the NDP in our province and national elections ... I'll even volunteer a bit of time and support the local campaigns and I donate to them annually. And it never matters to me, if polls show that they are definitely going to lose, I'm still voting for them. Even if people claim that my vote is 'splitting' the vote, I'll still hold onto my principles and vote for who I want, not play some game to try to choose the one I disagree with the least.
But that's not really relevant to your comment. I'm specifically asking about your assertion that everyone "just let him walk in", so what would you have done different about that?
What I don't understand is: if the government is shut down, how is the government still running?
Shouldn't Trump and everyone else in the executive branch be locked out of their offices? Cut the power. No more government.
They should freeze all the accounts of all the politicians and lock them in the same building until an agreement is found
Thanks to every American citizen who won’t buy a box of bullets.
The 2A people are a joke. Where y’all at? Exactly.
I have a firearm, but I'm an American living abroad. The country I'm in doesn't allow pistols for personal/home defense, so I have it in a safe back home.
A general wildcat strike is orders of magnitude more effective than armed rebellion against the U.S. government who has:
- police forces with military-grade hardware
- carrier battle groups
- predator drones with hellfire missiles
- 5th generation multirole fighter aircraft
- tens of thousands of thugs posing as agents of law enforcement willing to gun down their countrymen in cold blood to maintain christian nationalist supremacy in what should be a secular federal republic
If the militant leftists want to organize another January-6th-like insurrection, I'll show up. I think even that is a fool's errand.