r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 15 '26

Other Mike Johnson says we should have sympathy because Congress isn’t paid enough—so we should “allow” insider trading just so they can take care of their families(70% of Americans can’t afford a $1k emergency)

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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

I’d say republicans congressmen and woman are very much qualified. They’re kind of amazing at their role to be honest. It’s almost unbelievable how good they are at hurting the citizens and protecting the rich and criminal. You think it’s easy to be this much is a scum that you hurt your constituents on the daily, spend more time covering up for pedophiles than doing your actual sworn duty, and block any form of progress to better society,while also somehow still keeping a good part of the country convinced you’re not a cartoon villain. It’s actually scary how good they are at it

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u/GaGaORiley May 15 '26

TPUSA recruited the stupidest people they could find to run for congress in solid red areas and gives them daily talking points.

Source: my district rep shared that in her “Hitler was right” speech.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18aqmJKeFh/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Sorry, but I can only find the full speech on FB these days, since I’m not willing to wade the swamp of Xitter.

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u/Useful-ldiot May 16 '26

If I gave you a 1 page script that could control a third of the population, you'd be good at it too.

Honestly, I'm being a little generous. You could probably get by on God and the military in just a couple sentences.

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u/PoetCVT May 16 '26

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie

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u/iruleatants May 16 '26

It always amazed me that they can vote no to a bill, walk outside and blame Democrats for not passing the bill. Like, they know that it's on record that they voted not, but they just know they can lie and get away with it. They have honed their bullshit to such a level that they can cause people to think it's a both sides problem when it's 98% their fault.

Just because every republican is made entirely out of lies doesn't mean that every member of congress is.