This guy is a one-trick pony.
Have to oath in a Democrat who will trigger a vote his master doesn't like? Send everyone home!
Files that incriminates his master are being released? Send everyone home!
This tactic is getting old already.
I see it as them showing their hand. They know they cant take the heat, so they run. Pussies.
Hey now, pussies can take a pounding and keep on coming.
They also have depth and warmth that most if not all republicans lack.
Republicans complain that government is ineffective and corrupt, then they get elected and prove it.
Members of your own party trying to force a vote to extend Obamacare subsidies? Send 'em home!
What does Mike Johnson know how to do besides not doing things?
Well the GOP loves to say that government doesn't work, and surprise surprise when they're in charge it's the one thing they're right about.
It's more than that even, they're usually the reason why the government doesn't work.
Social security would work great if funded properly, so what do they do? Screw with the funding. The ACA would work if properly funded, so what do they do? Let the subsidies expire. Medicare for all would work if properly funded. The education system would work if properly funded. The VA works when properly funded. And so on, and so on, and so on. In most cases, all it takes is the money and resources that they'd rather steal or give to their donors and like magic, we'd have a functioning government again.
They constantly sabotage programs that benefit tax payers while spinning the lie that government run programs can't and don't work. And after decades of dealing with underfunded programs run with minimal staffing and a maximum of red tape, of course people believe them.
That's my point though. If someone's stated position is that a thing doesn't work, putting them in charge of the thing is pretty much assured to make that thing not work.
The files probably incriminate him too.
He admitted he needs his teenage son to monitor his porn habits. Imagine what he doesn't admit to.
He has to be a pedo.
The guy that shares details around jerking off with his son. Totally normal.
I wish I got so many days off...
It’s easy when special interests are paying you for NOT working. Sweet gig.
No shit! Same… add to that the best healthcare, transportation, and a personal assistant.
Pension too if you can last long enough
Pension for them is like 5 years or something absurd like that.
A pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service at any age. A reduced pension is available depending upon which of several different age/service options is chosen. If Members leave Congress before reaching retirement age, they may leave their contributions behind and receive a deferred pension later.[1]
That's actually a pretty standard public service pension schedule.
Mine had me vesting in 5 years, but the contributions at that point aren't high enough to mean much. It just means that if if I didn't make it 5 years the city wouldn't contribute to my retirement ( I put in 7 and the coty double-matches, so I get 21%). When I hit 5 years, I retroactively got the 14% from the city for my previous 5 years added to my pension. If I had quit before the 5 years, I'd have been given my 7% back as a cash payment after 5 years away from public service.
But I can't collect until I reach retirement age or have 20 years of service.
Are we gonna see the naughty list soon?
He's making his list, redacting it twice, you'll never find out who's naughty or nice.
They're checking it twice.
I was promised all the epstein files today. Who do I call and complain to?
We got them, hundreds of pages blacked out completely redacted. It is absolutely ridiculous
Edit: for those who are curious.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%203/EFTA00005586.pdf
This has to be a joke, right? But the .gov domains are reserved in us for actual government agencies, right? So what the fuck
I am sure they have some good "rationale" for redacting what looks to be a significant portion of grand jury testimony. Of course the administration did say they would release them, but probably back tracked or they are "protecting" the victims.
I personally think it is bullshit. They are handling it like top secret stuff. The President clearly has the authority to release this considering his current MO. It is a giant middle finger to the public.
The epstein files are inevitable at this point and republicans are already getting marching orders for how to do damage control.
Mad props to AOC and I get why she wants to keep that in the cultural zeitgeist ahead of... tomorrow. But this is very much about house republicans breaking with johnson/doing token "See, I am one of the good ones" votes to override him on obamacare extensions and preventing trump from bombing Venezuela to distract from the epstein files.
Dems should release more pics right when they come back.
lol. I love it. Keep a reserve of photos and keep trickling them out when the new cycle dies down.
Wait, there's a person named Noam Chomsky?
I've heard the name said on the news before but was never listening.
Isn't that the name of the gnome in the carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2?
Yes, the person was named after the gnome.
Common misconception, the person was named after Nim Chimpsky, the famous chimpanzee from the Columbia a University ASL study.
Are there any conservatives out there that can tell us why you worship a pedophile?
Because he's a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch.
He sent everyone home because of the discharge petition for ACA. Epstein was coming anyway, this is about ripping healthcare away from millions. Which in Mike's own words....."It's only 7% of the country"
I guess it's the land of the free after all if you can fuck a bunch of children and still be president
It may also effectively kill the discharge petition for the 3-year extension of ACA subsidies vote.
at this point, we need to form an alternative socialist government of the united states as a micronation. seriously!
Wow, I don't know about you guys, but I've come to the end of my attention span. I guess there was never anything to see there after all, right?
This is illegal.
This is fascism. They'll always win.
Fascism wins until good men go to war. Then they fold
If by "fold" you mean "beaten into submission," then, yeah, I'd have to agree with you.
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