“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.
Also, nothing about Steve Bannon is righteous. He’s a piece of dog shit in the shape of a human.
And just barely that shape, if we’re being honest.
Bannon is starting to look like that cockroach wearing a dead guy as a skin suit from Men in Black.
Sugar water!
He’s got a brand new Eddie suit
Edgar
*Edgar
How did I get that wrong? I’ve only seen that movie like 30 times…
Maybe they used the flashy thing on you too many times.
That’s floating in bottom-shelf-of-the-basement gin.
Hakeem Jeffries-loving Democrats
Pretty sure he meant to say the N-word instead of Hakeem Jeffries
Also, nobody* loves Jeffries. It’s his turn according to the congresswoman whose allies still control all committee assignments and who’s still one of the most effective solicitors of the legal bribes they depend on, so the rest just have to go along with it.
*except maybe an owner donor or two.
Citation needed. All democrats are rallying behind him so he must at least be tolerated by the majority of the party.
That’s exactly his point, tolerated, not loved
That’s fine. I don’t love most of my coworkers and my bosses. I tolerate and respect them, though. I don’t see why that’s a positive or negative to want to share a hotel room when traveling with your speaker.
It’s interesting that it’s all about how he “feels”, nothing to do with facts, logic, context, or any consideration of the effects on the people who live in the U.S.
Sensitive motherfucker, isn’t he?
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.
I read the article. What the fuck was Bannon trying to spew? Doesn’t feel like a victory? It shouldn’t feel like shit we’re passing a fucken budget to keep our country running. You should be urging yourself not to check your phone so you avoid appearing disinterested. It shouldn’t be a WWE match in this bitch. Fuck. Don’t grow up kids, there are no adults.
That’s the only language they understand. Winning and losing, good and evil, with nothing in between. The common good is irrelevant, the general welfare is irrelevant, and dissenting voices are irrelevant. It’s “I get mine and fuck you”. Full stop.
The part that I sometimes find the most disturbing is that they seem to think that’s exactly how it is for everyone else.
And worse yet, in many ways the general welfare and common good are not irrelevant to them but something they are committed to actively opposing. General welfare and common good tend toward increasing the numbers of sane, secure, less-traumatized, reasonably-educated people who vote for more of the same in a positive feedback loop. And that is hell for anyone who’s committed to a race to the bottom in what they perceive as a fundamentally dog-eat-dog world where we are no more than semi-literate primates.
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.
Don’t you mean bought himself a year?
The first part of the budget will expire January 19, the second February 2. Not that far away.
That’s when the budget expires not Johnson’s speakership.
“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.
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.)
I’m curious to see how the the Klansmen in Congress will punish Mike Johnson. My money is on newly-discovered “evidence” that Johnson’s been cavorting with underage rent boys.
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.
I’m not missing anything here.
ok, that’s great!
So Republicans failed to listen to their base and worked with the other party to do things the base didn’t want?
Huh. That’s what that looks like from the outside.
with the small caveat that the thing their base doesn’t want is keeping the government functional.
And the other small caveat that this is the first time in ages their base has had to deal with a party that ignores them and wants support anyway. Which is just the way things are for the Democrats’ base.
