Summary
The House GOP’s new rules package aims to weaken minority party influence while advancing a pro-corporate agenda.
Key provisions include shielding the House speaker from bipartisan accountability and fast-tracking 12 GOP bills without allowing amendments, including measures to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect fracking.
Democrats, led by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), criticized the package for ignoring economic and social issues like inflation and housing while prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires.
Republicans plan to offset these costs by slashing social programs, sparking warnings of further congressional dysfunction.
Less than half of all eligible voters voted. Yes, non voters essentially voted for Trump but it’s not the same thing as literally voting for and endorsing the dumb demented fat fascist.
The majority of eligible voters are just morons that have been successfully distracted and confused (because they’re so dumb).
There is value in the distinction, even tho that value may be quite small in context
Non voters are even more dumb than Trump voters… at least Trump voters understand the very simple fact that there is power in voting.
In a two party political system it is. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
According to Ballotpedia it was 63.7% of eligible voters, which is a very good turnout by US standards.
https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election
Still means that only about a third of eligible voters voted for Trump, but, y’know, that’s really quite a lot.
Just like Hitler. He got 33%.
It’s like a magic number for people. You can often find at least 25-30% of people that’ll agree to something in politics/views no matter how terrible it would be for them, and the GOP has them locked down.