I think it has been thoroughly and repeatedly established that this poor excuse of a withered Dollar Store twist-tie has no shame.
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!
Well it’s Mike Johnson. The only thing he goes hard for is Trump and little kids.
Didn’t he get caught sending scurrilous texts to dudes?
There’s nothing more dangerous than closeted dudes istg
Please think of the sexy sexy children.
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
I’m ambivalent about this. It’s really not as important as everything else, but I feel like it’s the only thing that will resonate with half the country
Anarchists continue to celebrate
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.
Always has been
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?
They will not furlough workers, they will fire en masse. USA lost 32000 private sector jobs last quarter, tariff economics is working!
The goal is to cull federal workers.
They’re betting on Democrats getting the blame. They might be right, though I hope not.
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.
I’m aware of this, it’s just that shutting the federal government down right now wouldn’t seem to help in that goal. They’re in the middle of a ramp-up of ICE & federal troop deployments across our cities. That’s going to get a lot harder it those soldiers aren’t getting a paycheck, no?
Sitting on it, I think the claims that they’ll fire workers, all the other vague claims they’ve made, is all just a bluff to get Democrats to cave-into their demands, weakening the opposition and legitimizing their deconstruction.
As best I can tell, ICE / DHS considers 93% of its employees to be essentially personnel and has said themselves almost all of them will still be paid.
Because they are ‘critical law enforcement.’
Beyond that, the Trump admin has already proven they have no problem illegally withholding and redirecting funds.
So… regardless of who is actually responsible for a shutdown, we are existing in a de facto dictatorship unless some other element of the government actually does something to stop this.
They literally do not care about laws.
Coincidentally, I’ll just here note that one of the monikers of the AntiChrist is ‘the lawless one’.
Not that I am religious anymore, nor do I think most Republicans actually read their Bibles, but it is kind of funny.
But uh yes, it is obviously a bluff, they will blame everything on Dems and illegal immigrants and the queer no matter what actually happens, because they are literally psychotically delusional.
That seems like the best analysis I’ve seen. In general, you can always assume behind every action is “The worst” as their goals and intentions.
Well thank you lol.
Yes, this, making internet comments, this is why I got an Econ degree and a Poli Sci degree, apparently.
Would have been neat if anyone listened to anything I was saying, in a professional or personal capacity, for the last 20ish years, but uh, nope, nope, so now we get fascism and economic collapse, and I get to be way, way too sullen to eek out an ‘I told you so’.
Holy shit this all sucks so much.
I would argue they also want the government to collect money from taxpayers and distribute it to the rich in the form of subsidies and contracts.
I mean, in practical terms, yes, but they will argue amongst themselves as to exactly the specifics, or if they go full libertarian and axe as much of that as possible.
See the current situation of US Farmers.
Basically all their direct subsidies have been decimated, SNAP got decimated and that was a huge indirect subsidy for farmers.
They will probably keep subsidizing the fuck out of oil and gas, but when you get to full fascism, it becomes much less formal and much more arbitrary, impulsive, less well defined, more ‘what have you done for me lately’ style corruption.
Police…but not corruption or fraud.
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.
This still serves their larger goal of portraying government (supposedly representing the will of the people) as a whole as inefficient and unreliable. This furthers simplistic “strongman” attitudes as well as a continued push towards privatisation.
It’s a reasonable question. I don’t know how many ICE agents are ok without getting the paycheck.
DHS considers over 90% of its workers essential. Don’t worry ICE will still be paid.
Ice turning on the administration was not on my bingo card but maybe I should pencil it in real fast
Should they bet on consequences?
Also this
Yup, this very much. Mike Johnson can go fuck himself.
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.
My guess is that app his son and he use to stop online wanking behavior is to keep his shady desires in check. It’s either for kids or dudes, cause no one in the GOP gives two fucks about lust and sexual misconduct with women.
MikeyJ gonna get on Grindr tonight to soothe his fee-fees and his pee-pee
That’s not how you spell kindr (God I hope that doesn’t actually exist)
there’s a decent BBQ sauce maker named kinder’s, but i sure as hell ain’t googling kindr. i feel like merely making that search would put me on a list.
They also have a good seasoning for burgers and steaks. Kind of like montreal steak seasoning.
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.
Isn’t shutting down the federal government better?
States rights, amirite?
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.
I’m a fan of javelinas myself
Personally I’m more of a Daneaxe with a claymore duckedtaped to the end kinda guy.
Then they’d get the GOPrions
A slow mob with spoons.
Great, now I have a new fetish.
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.
Given the recent government, a shutdown might be an improvement.
Try turning it off and on again
Before turning it back on, plug in your flash drive to install Arch Government
Then unplug it and plug it back in
Their point is that turning it off this time… will remove whatever safeguards were left. What comes back up will be a rooted POS fully under their control.
Oh no, if we don’t let the Republicans gut healthcare and restructure the distribution of power they will destroy healthcare and restructure the distribution of power!
Let it shut down, let every single American suffer for as long as it takes for us to get fed up and ____ our leaders.
He gets creepier every day. They’re gonna find bodies under his house.
bodies of young men, dudes about to have his Grindr profile and IP leaked by a tiktoker apparantly lol.
So that’s the reason they had to buy tiktok
there’s no way some freaky shit isn’t happening with someone who has a porn pact with his son.
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
