Mike Johnson refuses to open the House. Refuses to do oversight. Refuses to defend the Constitutional rights that only protect so long as they are enforced. Refuses to stand up to child predators. So we organized our own hearing in Chicago yesterday. https://youtu.be/2ihL3DpXj2A
And if you’re objecting to this on the grounds that I accused Trump of being a child predator… well, you can choose to follow Mike Johnsons example and protect child predators too. Or you could insist on the release of the Epstein files that might clear his name.
Maybe that release will explain why this isn’t as disgusting and criminal as it sounds. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/jane-doe-affidavit.pdf
Maybe the release of the Epstein files will explain why this corroboration of the prior which also alleges a the rape of a 12 year old girl by Trump is somehow not as bad as it looks. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/tiffany-doe-affidavit.pdf
Maybe the release of the Epstein files, which presumably include this picture will turn out to be a picture of a puppy on a beach that only looked like Trump with topless teenagers and a stain on his pants if you hold it upside down and squint your eyes just right. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dJ_4xk6HepQ
Maybe Mike Johnson, who was - I’m not making this up - the Dean of a law school named after a child rapist - has had a midlife crisis and now really wants to stand up for victims of child traffickers. https://apnews.com/article/paul-pressler-death-southern-baptist-convention-abuse-ac42aa8817b287fb6963edf3b0110273
Maybe when Mike Johnson says he’s nervous about releasing unredacted versions of the Epstein files because of the effect it might have on victims he isn’t saying that he believes Donald Trump to be said victim in need of protection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVaPSz8i9Nk
Or maybe not.
But here’s what I know: Mike Johnson isn’t doing a goddamned thing to protect children who are being abducted off the streets by a White House who knows this sanctimonious, cowardly man would rather shred the Constitution than stand up for the American people.
@SeanCasten maybe Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House, and his role in the Congress is larger than an obsession with this one guy.
Maybe he's just not as tunnel focused on your thing; maybe his job is larger than that.
It is.
If his focus was on protecting Trump then he would have pushed for legislation that would have done so. He didn't, he repeatedly refused to do what Trump wanted.
No that conspiracy theory is ridiculous. His actions confirm that he wants to stay Speaker and not get replaced by the House for violating the consensus that they should get government reopen.
The House will come back into session. It makes zero sense to say that he is protecting Trump here, because this will happen.
@volkris @deepthoughts10 @SeanCasten
"It will come back into session" after tens of millions of Americans go hungry, healthcare coverage premiums go up so high 20 million will end up uninsured, and the bastard in the WH has done even more damage to our country.
Enough is enough. The sniveling shitweasel is DELIBERATELY avoiding doing anything for the people who chose him to represent them.
@Oma_Trisha_F The ball is in the court of the other chamber right now.
The Senate is gridlocked, and there's nothing for the House to do about it.
Calling the House back into session would do nothing to change that situation. It would probably make it worse, it would encourage the gridlock.
This is a problem for the Senate to resolve, not one for the other chamber to interfere with and make even more complicated.
@volkris @SeanCasten Enlighten us as to his motivation for refusing to call the House back to work, to seat a new member or to release the Epstein files and then move on to regular business?
Why does the agenda have to pointedly be *not* the Epstein files? Can his caucus not multi-task even slightly?
The Speaker of the House acts on behalf of the entire membership and is subject to replacement at any time should he not reflect consensus in the chamber. His motivation is to reflect the wants of the membership or else he'll be unseated.
That is his motivation.
As for why the House in general doesn't want to come back into session, it is to pressure the Senate to stop blocking government funding and pass the bill that they sent over earlier.
Should the House come back into session it would signal that they aren't serious about their own legislation.
The Epstein file issue is pretty ridiculous, the files might not exist at all, and even if they do exist, it's an executive branch matter in the end. No, that is a stupid distraction if you know how the US government is set up.
It's a conspiracy theory, and not an especially interesting one.
@volkris @SeanCasten You're not arguing in good faith here. Johnson owes the *entire* House his labor.
Maybe the sniveling sonofabitch needs to DO his fucking job, then, instead of shutting down the House to avoid swearing in a new Representative from AZ who will provide the one signature necessary to bring RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES to a vote.
Maybe he should stop lying to cover for the felon's stupidity, ignorance, hate, racism, misogyny, ableism, greed, and apathy.
He is doing his job. The members of the House don't want to be in session right now because of what's happening in the Senate, so Johnson's job is to reflect what the representatives want to do.
This is literally him doing his job. I think a lot of people are confused about what his job is, it is to represent the will of the chamber, and that's exactly what he's doing here.
Regardless of your opinion or my opinion, his job is to do what our elected representatives want done. They don't want to be in session, they want the Senate to figure its stuff out, so Johnson is bound by his job to keep them out of session for the moment so the Senate will figure its stuff out.
@volkris If he has such a big and important job, then he should get back to fucking work. @SeanCasten
@Thad this IS his work.
This is literally his job. He is doing his work.
House membership wants to stay in recess to pressure the Senate to get its act together and reopen government.
Johnson is doing his fucking work by supporting that position.
I don't think you understand what his fucking work is. It's all to do what you think he should do, his fucking work is to reflect the position of the entire chamber, and that is to push the legislation that it passed through the Senate.
This is Johnson doing his fucking work. It just sounds like you don't know how the government works.
@Thad this IS his work.
This is literally his job. He is doing his work.
House membership wants to stay in recess to pressure the Senate to get its act together and reopen government.
Johnson is doing his fucking work by supporting that position.
I don't think you understand what his fucking work is. It's all to do what you think he should do, his fucking work is to reflect the position of the entire chamber, and that is to push the legislation that it passed through the Senate.
This is Johnson doing his fucking work. It just sounds like you don't know how the government works.
@volkris @SeanCasten yet his actions seem to confirm his focus on protecting Trump. Not swearing in the newly elected representative, not opening the House for regular business being just two examples.