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I can no longer find the head of the human centipede that is maga.
Maybe Russia. They're close to the front, at least.
GOP Senators: Sorry, I won't get to represent you this term. Thanks for the votes though, and the 6-figure salary and sweet benefits package. Byeeee!
And lifetime pension regardless of time served.
The pension value can be up to 80% of the member's final salary, which is $174,000 per year. At an 80% rate, that's a pension benefit of $139,200. (The Speaker of the House has a salary of $223,500. The Senate President makes $193,400, as do the majority and minority leaders in the House and Senate.) All benefits are taxpayer-funded.
Gee I sure hope this piece of shit stays real healthy.
And this is why they will fall in line. Tuberville's threat is very, very real.
Trump has long shown his power to make or break political careers in the GOP. No prominent member of the GOP has so much as criticized Trump and had their political careers remain intact. Liz Cheney is a prime example. Mitch fucking McConnell, who spent decades shaping the far right of the GOP and spent the past 10 years leading Trump's rise to power in the first place, is now being ostracized by some in his own party for not being MAGA enough. Adam Kinzinger, a former harsh critic of Trump, is now apparently trying to revive his political career by following the Kevin McCarthy playbook of sucking up to Trump..
They have both trifectas. They've got the White House/Congress/Supreme Court trifecta, along with the White House/HOR/Senate. It's their game. They get to play the game by their rules. And Trump has said that they're basically going to play Calvinball with the rules to get what they want. They have 53 seats in the Senate. If 51 of them decide that a simple majority can remove a member because they fucking say so, then that's the rule and there's nothing you or I can do about it.
This is the 2nd Trump administration. Get on board or get run over. Trump has far, FAR more power and influence than he had during his first adminstration. Get in his way and you will be purged. It's that simple.
And remember, all you people all over the other threads bitching and saying you couldn't vote for Harris because Liz Cheney showed up with her that one time....remember that you fucking voted for this.
This is the 2nd Trump administration. Get on board or get run over. Trump has *far, FAR* more power and influence than he had during his first adminstration.
Hoping you’re wrong and his mandate fades quickly and he becomes an ineffective lame duck as early into this upcoming term as possible.
then that's the rule and there's nothing you or I can do about it.
That is NOT true!
There's nothing legal we can do about it, but that not the same thing.
Of course, you can always try to go the extralegal route, but you need a hell of a lot of heavily armed people willing to actually do that. Problem with that is that a good chunk of said people just got finished saying "Meh, nah."
Problem with that is that a good chunk of said people just got finished saying “Meh, nah.”
"BUT OnLy 3 PERCeNt oF The coUnTrY FOugHt aGainSt tHE BRiTisH!"
Go for it, Rambo. Let me know how it works out for you.
You realize I'm mocking the cosplay army who use that line, right? That that's why they call themselves "3 percenters".
My apologies, then. I have simply never heard that before.
What can he really do. Not play them in "the big game"? GTFO of here you sack of Florida shit
He's from Alabama, and Trump has a 52 seat Repilican held senate with a majority enough to expel anyone who's not in favor with the GröpenFührer.
Any guesses as to how soon it’ll be until Ol’ Tommy gets his face eaten by them leopards?
He's rotten and party loyal enough that he'll probably be around until the end of the regime.
Its about time someone ended Tommy's career. I can't believe his own actions haven't. Dude is just a grade A cunt
Sen. Tommy Tuberville must be aware that the next time anyone is going to vote on any US Senators is (hopefully) in 2026, right?
Tommy Tuberville is a very Alabama name.
Is potato
But is pronounced to rhyme with rubber.
I refuse to respect any Republican's preferred name. Its name is Tammy Tooberville.
Not in my head.
Just one of his long cons, no doubt
Gaetz, who recently resigned from Congress
What!? How did I miss that?
Are you telling me he was gone and now Trump has brought him back... what the fuck.
This must be how Marty McFly felt. This really is a Biff timeline
What!? How did I miss that?
They announced it at some off hour, specifically hoping it would fly under the radar.
But the dots are really simple to connect.
The swamp gets ever deeper and deeper.
He has to resign to be AG. But yes resigning on just the nom, with the ethics report set to be released Friday, does make the whole thing stink. Especially given that Trump is transactional.
I believe it happened right after Trump's AG news was announced. It also conveniently came right before an ethics report was about to be released on him after the investigations finished
Damn I would have been very happy about that.
Now there's only sadness.
child predator gaetz?
Child sex trafficker.
Child predator, paid children for sex over venmo gaetz. Yes.
Tuberville defended Trump’s right to choose his team, urging senators to “vote with President Trump.”
The same Tuberville that held up more than 300 of Biden's non-political military promotions now thinks nominations should just get a rubber stamp?
Being moral or consistent is viewed as a weakness for the qons.
Yes. They don't care. Stop wasting your time pointing out their overt hypocrisy. It's exactly what they want.
Yes. He would have zero issue with your comment. He would smile. He is not attempting to be logically consistent
The same Tuberville that held up more than 300 of Biden’s non-political military promotions now thinks nominations should just get a rubber stamp?
Of course. You don't expect them to play by the same rules they try to impose on everyone else, do you?
Mitch McConnell has openly acknowledged, admits to, and embraces the hypocrisy as a political tool to be wielded as necessary.
And America's voters have proven that tool to be extremely effective.
I mean if you were hoping for some gotcha on them being hypocrites you should know by now that they don't care and neither do their supporters.