For Johnson, the margins are always too slim, the bill is always teetering on the brink of death, there is always more trouble looming and mini-rebellions are always flaring up. But with Trump’s muscle it usually works out. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
You guys sound stoked? What has happened?
The New York Times, and @anniekarni.bsky.social personally, have gotten what they've always wanted: mass immiseration and access to rub shoulders with powerful people
Love the part where the members of Congress, sworn to protect and preserve the Constitution, are swayed like country rubes by signed sway and tsoskes from the Carnival Barket-In-Chief. Maybe because they actually are country rubes?
Johnson is a spineless, craven, evil runt. A closet case with a smarmy sense of superiority only superseded by faux faith.
Well put. But perhaps “closeted case”? Cheers.
Nancy Pelosi was an historically successful Speaker because she would never have let her most vulnerable members come within eyesight of a dumpster fire bill like this. She protected them - Johnson is making his members walk the plank.
Their strategy is so obviously good cop / bad cop. They do this everytime.
Johnson knows that Trump will bully enough Republicans into voting for whatever he wants them to vote for. Neither Trump nor the Republicans know everything that is in/out of the bill. This doesn't appear to matter to any of them.
Neither Trump nor the GOP Congress members appear to realize that they and their families are going to have to live in the country after the bill passes. There are negative healthcare, environment, and financial impacts. Trump just wants tax breaks for the ultra rich and the debt ceiling raised.
This bill will only help millionaires and billionaires. How often has a millionaire or billionaire helped you? Your family? Friends? Neighborhood? School district? Hospital? Police force? Fire department? Your place of worship? Your employer? Your transport agency? #VoteHellNo 🤬🤬🤬
Johnson is so naively thinking he owns trump🤡 and that God is using him to bring about some NAR christofascist end time agenda. That’s why Johnson proudly smirks every time trump🤡 pulls off his self serving dangerous nonsense.
Johnson has as much natural charisma as a dirty diaper. The party is literally run like the mob. Do the bosses bidding or else. He is just a boot licking capo.
Good article. But if Speaker Johnson and his Republican colleagues truly envision passing the federal budget via reconciliation and without Democrat's participation every fiscal year, Democrats must redouble their efforts to make sure that Democrats control the House after the midterms!
Trump is going to cancel the midterms. You watch. Some way. Some how.
Deploying Brown Shirts to every major city and declaring martial law seems to be the plan.
And the NYT will be cheering him on
At least @nytimes.com will be giving martial law a balanced view.
Do you understand that this is real peoples' lives and not just a fucking game for your powerful cloistered elitist buddies isolated from any real consequences, you actual worthless degenerate?
“Muscle”? Is that what we’re calling extortion and bribery now?