As they departed the Capitol for the five-week recess, House Republicans nonetheless believed they had a credible case to make for why the opposition should stay in the minority for the final two years of Trump’s presidency.
We should stop working when they do
That sounds like you’re advocating for some sort of General Strike. You can’t be suggesting such a thing to US citizens. /s
It just infuriates me that our federal politicians only work like four months out of the year.
They also rarely ever work 5 days per week. They get paid a full salary though regardless. Not to mention all the lobbying bribe money.
Out system is a sham.
Also, don’t they get like free healthcare, paid sick leave and all that other stuff?
They do, even when the government is shut down and they’re doing nothing.
And get paid like they work 24/7
Indeed. If we count the bribes, I mean “lobbyist gifts”, they get paid about as well as teachers or cancer researchers or whatever SHOULD be paid.
Yet, they do more harm than bad teachers and cancer itself. Make it make sense.
You were probably being rhetorical, but it does make sense, in a way that should provoke revolution. Rich people are paying to make everything worse. The self-serving and shortsighted are happily helping them do it.
And get free healthcare they so vehemently deny all US citizens.
I don’t mind their actual base pay, since by becoming a public official you are automatically hated by at least 40% of the population even if you do a good job.
Those getting that healthcare they deny us, even after they leave their job… that is the real slap in the face.
I got a lot of other complaints as well, but the healthcare for life is something that should be a human right.
they don’t even do work when they are working too
And they spend most of the afternoon fundraising and with lobbyists. The clever ones start their reelection campaign immediately after getting elected.
And yet, Project 2025 continues unslowed.
Indeed.
If no one is willing to actually hold people accountable, laws become meaningless. Billionaires were on to something when they captured both ruling parties.
Feel Clean, Vote Green?
Or, rather, vote Green because whether you vote Democrat or Republican, you know from 40 years of empirical data that they have no intention of making things better for you in a material way.
oh yeah because the last two years are just like the 4 before. more trump. more maga. ugh.
They are, in far too many ways.
but its the ways they are different that upset me.
I understand that.
Joe was at least willing to try and put a kind face on all this, even though he too was corrupt and driving this country into the ground. People who tend to vote centrist place a lot of emphasis on presentation and less on what a politician actually accomplishes.
