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.
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.
But the democrats are the obstructionists?
I mean, NPR said so.
Didn’t they get defunded recently?
CPB did. NPR’s getting by with some billionaire donations.
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
He gets creepier every day. They’re gonna find bodies under his house.
there’s no way some freaky shit isn’t happening with someone who has a porn pact with his son.
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
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.
They’re definitely into that though.
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?
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.
Can’t wait to see his grinder account
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Democratic leadership in this moment is incredibly bad.
Oh yes, how dare they shutdown the house floors… Oh wait.
A shutdown is the best case scenario for dems right now.
Only if they don’t cave in the first week. They need to clearly articulate the demands to American people and draw a line in the sand.
If they cave without anything the optics would be terrible.
I wish I had any trust that we have any representation and this would happen.
I would argue it could be the best case scenario for Trump as well.
If we’re talking purely politics (and not the actual suffering Trump’s policies have and will cause), not shutting down the government in march was a huge win for Dems and a huge fail for Trump.
Where’s the /s?
The only people that were really happy with the budget approval in March were Republicans. Everyone else was either livid because Democrats gave up one of the few bargaining chips they had or resigned to the fact Democrats can’t do anything substantive and any day we’re not under martial law is a blessing.
Everyone on here was livid with Democrats.
What happened after? Trump’s approval rating went from net 0 to net -9. Would this have happened if Democrats shut the government down?
I don’t think so, but who knows. I think Trump and Republicans would play the victim (which they are great at) and anything bad that came after would be blamed on Dems, including any damage from the tariffs.
Right now we’re in a situation where conservative voters are not happy with the administration. There are pros and cons to shutting the government down, and people on here do not consider the cons at all.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
I’ve seen polls that put Democrats approval rating even lower than the GOP. My guess is because too many are treating this as another Republican presidency and not pushing the envelope or trying new angles to obstruct Trump or bring awareness to the issues. IMO even if the Democrats cave in a few days the waves of this standoff will be much bigger and more people will take notice.
There’s a reason Trump hasn’t just told every employee to just stay home and for every building to be locked down. He doesn’t have the political capital or big business backing to do something so massively damaging to the economy.
I think Im on the other side, a shutdown is better for democrats except now is the worst time for it. American memories are apparently nonexistent, if this were to happen a lot closer to an election you would have a lot of fresh memories of government employees looking to remove republicans from office because they stopped paychecks from coming in. But given 6 months everyone will forget about it
Unless the government is still shut down
It did.
- Spring wasn’t close to any elections so brinksmanship then would have been forgotten.
- Elections are like 6 weeks away. The may not be the biggest but they are elections and people won’t forget the shutdown.
- the big midterm elections are still a year away, but the federal budget is an annual thing. This years brinksmanship will be long forgotten by then but there’s a new “opportunity “ every year
My fear is Trump would use a government shutdown to further his authoritarian powers. And he would feel empowered to do so because of the “radical left that shut the government down”.
It could go either way, which means it is a risk to shut the government down. It’s easy for Lemmy to say we should take the risk, but the Democratic Party is much more diverse politically than republicans. Their people will rally around them no matter what.
So, you’re worried that he’s going to do exactly what he’s already going to do, either way? And your solution is to preemptively give Republicans everything they want, without any concessions?
You sir, are a political mastermind. /s
No, my fear is that he has restraints right now that will be removed when the government shuts down. Whether these restraints are from actual government functions, or the restraints are from his followers disapproving of his actions.
You sir, are a political mastermind. /s
It’s crazy how quick people become jerks on here.
Dems are letting us down in many ways, but we leftists also refuse to engage in electoral politics, so we shouldn’t be surprised.
Does my voting for Democrats mean I’m now a capitalist like Nancy Pelosi?
No, but more importantly not every election is going to have a progressive on the ballot. Voting for a progressive is what we should do. Voting blue is only when progressive isn’t an option and we need to minimize harm.
The lefter the better is my motto, but there ain’t always even a democrat running for some offices sometimes. We do the best we can in my house.
I think the goal of some of these lemmites (lemmings, lemmors?) is to push all the moderates out of the Democratic Party so we’re left with only the truest most liberal of politicians. And from there, we will win 20 senate seats and never see the presidency again.
If democrats aren’t alienating the majority of Americans, they aren’t the party for us!
Talking about alienating people…
I think we could all live without “”“moderates”“” like you.
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Is that your go to when you disagree either someone, but don’t have a real argument? Go find out which mods have overreacted to something and then that invalidates everything that user ever says?
I am not moderate, I’m anything but homophobic/transphobic, so that is 100% irrelevant.
Brother you keep saying you aren’t these things but we can read what you’re writing…
Yeah bud you’re such a victim lol
If you want to have a conversation about the comment that these mods banned me for, I’d be happy to do so in that thread. But pulling up some BS rather than actually engaging in a conversation on what I actually said in this thread is bullshit.
Nowhere am I acting like a victim. I’m just pointing out your BS.
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Ah the enlightened centrist take that has been leading to loss after loss in campaigns. It’s almost like no one actually likes people who fence sit and stand for nothing.
I’m in no way saying we need to take a moderate/centrist approach. I am saying this is a moment when Republicans are vulnerable, and all this community wants to do is bag on the Democratic Party. That is how we always lose.
Well the Republicans are currently doing whatever they want because the Democratic party has been so utterly worthless for so long.
They can’t fight against fascism in an election and barrel to the right. They can’t fight fascism when they’ve lost and the fascists are in power.
The Dems deserve every ounce of vitriol they are getting right now they are a fundamentally useless organization that only serves as the slightly less mean wing of conservative thought in the US.
Edit: Also yes you are absolutely advocating for the moderate/centrist liberal approach here.
push all the moderates out of the Democratic Party so we’re left with only the truest most liberal of politicians.
Why should we listen to you when you have no idea what words even mean? The moderates are the liberals!
On top of that, your argument is ass-backwards anyway, even after we interpret it as you meant (“the truest most leftist of politicians”) instead of as you said.
By your logic, since the MAGAs successfully pushed all the moderates out of the Republican Party so we’re left with only the truest most fascist of politicians, they went on to win only 20 Senate seats and never saw the presidency again.
…oh wait.
The difference between republicans and democrats is republicans stick with their party no matter what. The know they can say and do whatever bullshit they want, and they will maintain their voters.
Democrats don’t have this luxury. If they feel like the Democratic Party sucks, they won’t vote.
Democrats don’t have this luxury. If they feel like the Democratic Party sucks, they won’t vote.
All the more reason Democrats need to start fucking listening to their voting base (working-class Americans) by moving left instead of conspiring with corporate donors and moving right to screw us.
The key thing to understand is that there are no mythical “moderate voters” to court. Those are nothing but a fucking fantasy; a lie perpetrated by the Democratic Party as an excuse to chase money at the expense of votes.
There are hardly any left leaning congressmen left. The Overton window has been shoved so far to the right for decades that most Democrats are right of center, neo-liberal corporatists.
Even if you got rid of most of the Democratic Party, there’s only a handful that are not right of center. There is no such thing as a progressive part of the Democratic Party.
The stark reality is that the government has been so corrupted and under funded for so long there isn’t money for big public works projects or to overhaul the medical system or really innovate or build new things because it just going into corporate shareholders pockets.
The American people have been duped and the wealth of the nation has been transferred to Wall Street over the course of the last several decades. The corporations are flush with cash, and the country is falling apart. Since corporations and the wealthy elite don’t pay their fair share taxes, and keep taking all the cookies out of the jar, everybody’s fucked and fighting with each other instead of uniting to get these corrupt assholes out of politics.
The very fact that all these tech bro, billionaires have seized control of the government along with white nationalist crysto-fascist think tanks, like the heritage foundation, shows the weakness of the American style government.
So depressing.
I am just hopeful that the up and coming politicians that were inspired by Bernie Sanders (AOC, Mamdani, others?) will make themselves a large part of the Democratic Party. They won’t be able to do it while democrats can’t hold a majority of any office.
The problem with the Democratic Party, as it’s mentioned elsewhere in this thread is the Democrats run an issues based campaign. When those don’t line up with their voter base voters abandon them and don’t show up to vote.
As I see it, a lot of these progressive policies are unpopular with the corporate controlled portion of the government. Since corporation control a sizable portion of both parties via their “free speech” monetary donations to campaigns, They’re not interested in supporting any types of progressive initiatives because it eats into their bottom line, their shareholder profits, and they certainly don’t wanna pay more taxes or higher wages. Not when they can spend the money they have on massive stock buybacks, make more money, tax-free, and figure out how to pay even less taxes on those profits.
There is no significant government works projects that can be paid for or completed on time because the powers it be would rather have the money sitting in their pockets were going towards their third luxury yacht. And they’re willing to spend the money to get politicians and judiciary do what they want.
Add to that that the US government is $37 trillion in debt and any money that is collected from taxes and whatever other sources goes towards paying the interest payments. The central banks have tamed America and the corporate elites are sucking what’s left dry.
What good is a moderate when there’s no middle ground on anything anymore?
