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Fair. My point is ICE will continue as is whomever is charge of it, as long as Miller is there.
But a string of impeachments would prove Congress has some powers left.
Miller could be gone tomorrow and I guarantee there's a line out the door of like-minded fascists eager to take his place. The entire Trump admin is crawling with these guys. State governments in places like Texas and Missouri and Florida and Utah are crawling with these guys. City governments are crawling with them.
Miller isn't some kind of Svengali who has tricked the American bureaucracy into behaving this way. He's as much a product of our fascist socio-economic system as Liz Cheney and Jim Justice and Rudy Giuliani.
I think its fair to say that so long as Republicans control the majority, they'll be subservient to the Trump admin. But Dems throwing wrenches in the gears by holding up business with impeachment votes would have a two-fold effect of gumming up the horrible business of Congress and spotlighting particularly vile members of the Trump Admin.
Everything you say is true, but he seems to be closest to Trump atm.
What would be nice is an impeachment of Mike Johnson. That would send the Repubs in Congress into infighting disarray.
Honestly, I think we’re completely screwed already. That there’s no gold left in Fort Knox. That they’re compiling a list of everyone who’s voted liberal. And that once this data center crap tanks the country the stock market will toilet. But yes, some final gestures would be nice.
Mike Johnson holds the job precisely because he sucks at it. He's a threat to nobody. He does what he's told. He isn't even good at taking bribes - estimated to be the poorest House Speaker in the last century. Republicans aren't going to impeach him precisely because he'd be such a bitch to replace.
What's more disturbing is a future House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, a man who is far more in touch with the K-Street lobbyists and J-Street warmongers. Just like in 2019, we're going to see conservative Democrats rubber stamp the Trump neoconservative agenda. And that's going to set the stage for a frightening 2028 election, when fascists start coming out of the woodwork in both major parties.
Jeffries is a limp dishrag of a politician. I’d still like to see Johnson out right now, because they’d have such difficulty replacing him.
The real work of the legislature has been outsourced to the private sector
The private sector isn’t doing jack shit that’s at all useful. That’s like outsourcing your auto repair to, not even the wrong skilled labor, like a plumber, but to someone’s 12 year old little brother, who has no real responsibilities to anyone else. He just hangs out with friends, maybe builds computers, learns GIMP or Kdenlive, or draws all day. His present goal is to have fun and play during his free time.
Nothing has been outsourced so much as simply ignored or left for dead.
I'm riding in a car to a restaurant to have a delicious meal paid for with a salary I earned at a corporate employer. Private sector is doing plenty of useful shit. But it's boring, slow growth, antiquated shit. Not what you can speculate on to the tune of a trillion dollars