“This don’t feel like a victory today, bro,” Bannon said, observing how Johnson’s office had directed all incoming calls to voicemail after voting took place. “When 209 Hakeem Jeffries-loving Democrats vote for something, it just doesn’t feel like a victory. I’m not feeling victorious right now. I kind of got this righteous indignation.”
And there it is. It’s not about governing, it about ensuring that your team is beating the other team. Doesn’t matter that the government is avoiding a shutdown and essential government functions will continue to keep people alive, safe, employed, etc, because the other team voted for it, it must be bad.
Hakeem Jeffries-loving Democrats
Pretty sure he meant to say the N-word instead of Hakeem Jeffries
You didn’t hear? Politics is football now.
Turns out, it’s not so easy to start a fascist theocracy with democracy still in place.
That’s what Project 2025 is for.
Never stop reminding people that this exists.
That’s why they’re dismantling democracy.
The MAGAts and people like Bannon want to destroy the government. They say “deep state” and “administrative state,” but they mean any semblance of government that isn’t the fascist dictatorship that they want. Government for them and not for anybody who isn’t them. Liberals, Democracts, college professors, feminists, LGBT, immigrants (excluding those who fit their very narrow ideological parameters), etc., all get labeled unpersons and you can guess what happens next. Steve Bannon has reportedly called himself a Leninist. Lenin is responsible the for the deaths of millions of Russians. (Estimates vary.)
He really didn’'t avert a shutdown, he just delayed it a bit. House Republicans failed to pass a rule to consider the Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill.
Vote was 198-223.
When thinking about next year and the prospects for a spending bill, keep in mind that House Republicans cannot pass party-line rules on GOP spending bills.
This means next year Democrats will again be needed since the numbers can’t change by rule.
Johnson painted himself into a corner.
It’s a win for the American people and for competent government. Small wonder it doesn’t feel like a win for the MAGA agents saboteurs. They’ve proudly declared themselves enemies of competent governance and stability. They are, after all, all domestic terrorists
Good, cry more. If they’re all sad and angry that someone took action for a bipartisan solution after months of their unmoving BS, they deserve it.
Agreed, but that might be missing the significance of the moment somewhat. It apparently only takes Bannon and a small handful of other unreasonably influential voices on the right to send Congress even further into chaos and dysfunction, making the passing of one current bill a comparatively tiny relief.
“Aren’t you in jail yet?”
It amazes me that this guy scammed MAGA donors out of millions with his fake build the wall scheme, received a presidential pardon for it, and still is seen as a source of authority by conservatives.
