These republicans twice literally just had to say one word, "yes," when the impeachment votes happened in the Senate, and Trump would never have had power over them (and us) again, like magic.

Dems actually did introduce a bill to do essentially that in the Senate for tarrifs on Canada. It passed 51-48 with only 4 republicans breaking rank. Notably in this case, Ted Cruz voted against that bill

I should note it's unlikely Mike Johnson will ever put it up for a vote in the house. If he did and it passed, it will likely get vetoed. Without more republicans breaking rank it's not going to be able to get to the 2/3 of congress needed to veto override

Need to see more republicans with spines for this bill to get through

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00160.htm

Republicans, and authoritarians more generally, value group solidarity more than anything else. They are in a very real and very important sense stupid, bad, people.

There's a bipartisan bill in the Senate right now to force the tariffs to expire after 60 days if not approved by Congress. So they're at least putting on a show of doing something. It mentioned it on the blurb up top

Reclaim the powers and nullify all tariffs that have been imposed by Trump since his inauguration.

Why stop with trump's tariffs?

If their masters tell them to vote against tariffs, they’ll do so. These politicians hold no actual power. They are the mouthpieces standing in front of the monsters who hold actual power. And they don’t give a shit about anyone or anything.

In a properly designed and functioning system, reelection and caring about the people should go hand in hand. Stop caring, treat them like crap, someone gets to replace you.

We are not in a well designed, well functioning system.

And the people are still cheering him on, swinging their fat fists, because they don't want to lose to the blue team.

and then the many trumpers that are dependant medicaid/care which Dr, snakesoilman will cutoff soon.

Although you are correct, this is no different than most Democrats, as well. I mean the Dems spent $10 million paying influencers on TikTok to vote for them. https://www.youtube.com/embed/JytdxpsJdLQ

Also, to be fair, a large chunk of minorities, larger than last election's, also voted for Trump. So take it easy there on the race blaming, unless you want to blame minorities, as well.

Edit: Wow, lots of people in denial, I see.

Imagine being the poor asshole that has to listen to his podcast and then make a headline out of it

The people of Uvalde reelected the sheriff that let all those elementary students be murdered and tortured.

I'm imagining Trump's tariffs as them taking the lid off the ark of the covenant, let's hope it does to all the other Republican Nazis today what it did to the Nazis then.

Donvict Dementia is concerned with pleasing Daddy Vladdy and golfing. He cares not for Texas or Americans, Raphael.

Yup. I phoned my friend just to say I called it too

Musk spent 10s of millions on a state supreme Court election, like 10x the campaign spending of the other side, and lost

If musk and Trump can't influence elections, their threats of primarying anyone who steps out of line is empty. Their support won't save their seats either

People are so angry they can't even appear in public without being screamed at... And what happens the next day? Trump destroyed the global economy single handedly and went golfing

There's some true believers... But mostly, Republicans are going to do what keeps them in power. And the Trump-Elon power couple isn't it... Even the media has started to back away from propogandizing their actions

Even if you're right this movement is far from critical mass yet. I'm thinking at least one month will have to pass before there is enough pressure for Congress to even vote on taking back the tariff power .

The feds have less control over blue state elections (although just ignoring the results is always an option), but red state governments will probably fall in line and throw out any results they don't like.

he will probably emigrate to cancun before the bloodbath happens.

Do you really want to leave Republicans in charge of the legislature until Cruz is up for reelection?

All that is balanced around a certain amount of voter apathy. My district is one of the most unbalanced in a state that has had its district map declared unconstitutional multiple times. The last election had less than 25% of registered voters participate.

Those maps can backfire badly, but it will take a lot of motivation.

and florida!

yes, the two congressional races went republican, but the spread was narrowing. and not by a small margin.

they want someone else to do it, so they can claim credit for it, thier supporters are very simple minded people.