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How can the Speaker of the House, refuse to swear in a duly elected representative, as Mike Johnson is now doing with Adelita Grijalva, especially since new representatives normally are sworn in within 24 hours?

The same way Mike Johnson can continue to refuse any work or negotiations to be conducted, by refusing to have ANY House business conducted unless Democrats kneel down, kiss Trumps ring and allow millions of Americans to get hit with high increases in their healthcare coverage premiums.

I supposed one could ask why Mike Johnson has punted Congressional powers to the POTUS. Powers of the “purse strings” which is supposed to be the Houses power. The power to set tariffs, making taxation policy and, most importantly, allowing the Executive Branch to police itself as opposed to having Congress act as a check on Presidential powers. But I supposed Johnson isn’t fully to blame for that. The cowards in the Senate have a lot of blame to share.

We currently DO NOT have a functional Congress. And not just because of the polarization between the two major parties. But mainly because GOP Congressional members are very content to act as a rubber stamp for anything Trump puts in front of them. They cry all the time “but Biden had an auto pen” while THEY are Trumps “auto pen”. Just passing through whatever Trump wants regardless of how much damage it will do to even the GOP voting base. And then having to spin things to try to say how it’s the Democrats fault that the GOP passed, with 100% support, policies Trump wants. And some of those voters are actually either stupid enough or brainwashed enough to believe them.

Meanwhile, Trump is abusing the powers of the DOJ by having them go after people he hates personally with either malicious or plain ole bullshit cases. Congress is sitting by while Trump has Can’t keep a secret Hegseth direct the Navy to hit ships in international waters with missiles and claiming they are ALL 100% drug dealers. Meanwhile, they only let 2 survive because they were on a drug smuggling semi submersible. Meanwhile, somehow, not a single person has survived in the regular boats they went after. Not saying anything illegal has happened to regular civilians just out on a boat, but I am pointing out that it’s just curious.

Congress has ignored the Emoluments Clause by allowing Trump to accept a $400 million bribe plane from Qatar while his son in law is in talks with the Saudi’s over billion dollar deals.

There’s a LOT people can ask why Mike Johnson is doing or not doing things over. But the answers all come down to one thing. He is a coward ONLY interested in maintaining his position as Speaker of the House and cares nothing about those who voted for him, the Constitution or his responsibilities as a member of the House.

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Mike Johnson appeared Friday on his favorite outlet, Faux-News, that the No Kings protests scheduled the following day across the U.S. was nothing more than a “hate America rally” that would attract the “pro-Hamas wing” and “antifa people.”

The House Speaker from Benton, Louisiana, went even further to incredulously call the movement “anti-American” and to snort that some House Democrats are selling T-shirts for the event.” To read the full story from Politico, go HERE.

The T-shirt b.s. is an unbelievable criticism, given that his puppet master sells “autographed” Bibles, Trump coins, and anything else to which he can attach his corrupt name and Johnson has managed to make not a peep about. Not. A. Peep. Nada. Nil. Zilch. Zero. Nuttin’. How’s that for being an even-handed Speaker of the House? For that matter, how’s that for being a Christian?

The only response I can make that adequately describes Mike Johnson is to call him what he is: a stupid, Bible-thumping, hypocritical s.o.b.

The sanctimonious little twit in effect is even calling millions of Americans, including my granddaughter (who attended a rally in Colorado) “Marxists.” This from a guy who is unable to speak unless Trump’s hand is up his ass, moving his lips for him.

My granddaughter’s rally sign.

Johnson, once the dean of a non-existent law school, is a man with no moral compass of his own, despite his claim to be guided by principles of the Bible. If he were guided by those principles, he would not turn his back on his own constituents, many of whom are facing draconian increases in health coverage premiums.

He would not be as callous to the effects of higher prices, thanks to Pedo-POTUS’s foolhardy tariffs. Were he truly guided by the Good Book, he would not be so protective of a child-molesting pedophile that he and most of the rest of Louisiana’s congressional delegation insist on shielding.

If he was the true Christian he claims to be (and the evidence strongly suggests that he is not), why would he refuse to seat a duly-elected member of the House? The answer, of course, is that Democrat Adelita Grijalva is the one voted needed to pass the discharge petition that would force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files, which Johnson, Clay Higgins, Julia Letlow, Steve Scalise, John N. Kennedy and Bill Cassidy want to keep from your view.

Instead, Johnson, in a bizarre abuse of Catch-22, absurdly told JAKE TAPPER: “Let me say this right now though, Jake. Rep. Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don’t know what she’s doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents.”

Well, Mikey, you very well know that until she is sworn in, she legally has no constituents but meanwhile, you refuse to allow her to be sworn in.

Here’s another thing you are keenly aware of but continue to lie about (doesn’t one of the Ten Commandments say something about bearing false witness?): You insist on claiming that illegal immigrants are receiving Medicaid and Medicare benefits when you know damned well it’s a profound lie. You know it and still you persist in repeating it. Mikey, you’re a damn liar.

Finally, we have this little jewel: It’s a VIDEO that Trump his own self posted Saturday in response to the No Kings rallies. It depicts, in case you don’t have the stomach to watch (it’s pretty disgusting, coming as it does from the presumed leader of the free world), it’s TACO Don as a crown-wearing jet pilot bombarding No Kings rally-goers (that’s right, fellow Americans) with tons of FECES. Nice.

It calls to mind a quote by Boston attorney Joseph Welch during the June 9, 1954 McCarthy hearings. Addressing the Wisconsin Repugnantcan Senator, Welch asked, “Have you no sense of decency?”

I believe we all know the answer to that question as it applies to Cadet Bone Spurs.

The really sad part is that it also appears to apply equally to Mike Johnson and the rest of the Trump sycophants.

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When they spring up in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho, Pedo-POTUS should be worried…

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ICE has an interesting assignment, thanks to the paranoia of one Pedo-POTUS Frump.

The agency is employing iris scanners, facial-recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data to track undocumented immigrants – and Antifa.

Wait. What?

First of all, what does and Antifa look like? Where are their headquarters? Do they have membership dues? If so, do they have a bank for deposits and withdrawals? What does their stationery letterhead look like? Does it carry a logo?

In other words, ICE, describe an Antifa for me. I’m curious to know what an anti-fascist looks like. From my history books that I’m pretty sure the Repugnantcan Party will re-write, an Antifa looks pretty much like weary GIs hunkered down as they combat the onslaught of Germany and Italy in World War II. I’m pretty certain they look like the guys who liberated the German killing camps where 6 million Jews were executed.

God help us. We’re apparently being overrun by zealots who oppose fascism. So if TACO Don and his modern-day Brownshirts are so hell-bent on ferreting out Antifa, then that must, by necessity, mean that El Presidente and his storm troopers are Fascists.

I mean, Antifa, broken down, is “anti-fa(scist),” so if you’re anti-antifa then you are, by definition Fascist.

I am overwhelmed at the very concept of such a mentality and I’m equally jaw-dropped at trying to understand how a non-existent entity can be labeled (by one man – Trump) as a terrorist organization.

I have an idea. Let’s declare MAGA a terrorist organization and let’s sic the authorities on that organization. Except it isn’t a real organization. Nor does Maga have a defined headquarters of operation, but that’s okay, we’ll still go after ‘em. Hmm, they also don’t seem to have a bank account, so no asset seizures. Membership dues? Not that I know of.

But that’s of no concern. We’ll just overlook those technicalities and make an arbitrary decision that they’re all a bunch of terrorists because they have the nerve to wear red baseball caps.

Makes every bit as much sense as chasing a ghost called Antifa.

Good God, what has this country become?

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