The so called first MAGA drama is the visa question, but a bigger one is on the horizon

 

First of all, Merry fourth day of Christmas

And I am not original, I saw an article that talked about what happens if the Republicans cannot elect a Speaker of the House in time to certify the election.

My questions are, do they just postpone the certification or can they? And if they postpone how fast does Trump get involved so he will be certified?

Yet what happens if they duke it out significantly for Speaker and the certification drags out? Who does Trump back just to get certified?

So will Johnson prevail or has he hissed off the Republican/MAGA world and they don’t have anyone with general support to replace him.

This can be some popcorn generating entertainment if this drags out. I am sure some of the HIB visa question will play into this morass, but realistically what happens if Johnson falters.

I think, but am not predicting they re-elect Johnson for two reasons. One they don’t have a replacement they can coalesce around and two pushing off Trump’s certification will be on the back of their minds and no one has the spine to tell him to sit down and shut up until we figure this out, well no one beyond Chip Roy. Maybe he should be Speaker. If so definitely need to buy more popcorn before the tariffs hit because with him things will get real interesting, debt limit v. no debt limit, spending and I haven’t followed him enough to know how he feels about tax cuts. Hopefully he goes full financial responsible and doesn’t support any, would love some for us middle and working class bees, but not giving any cuts would sure be fun to watch play out. Those billionaires in the budget cutting department may not be too happy. And it almost seems an oxymoron to say billionaires in the budget cutting department, but we all know the real truth, cut other programs so I get more government contracts to expand my businesses.

It will be nice if we get someone who doesn’t kow tow to Trump, three branches of independent government and all, ya’ll.

From what I read the House has to be sworn in to certify the results and they cannot be seated without electing the Speaker first. Folks it is December 28, we have 6 days until the Speaker election.

We also have 8 days of Christmas left, let’s enjoy them all because 2025 is going to be an interesting year to be alive.

Also don’t forget to stock up on your tequila and Canadian Whiskey before January 20^th.

So cheers quickly now!

Quick blurb on shutdown

This was originally posted as a response or comment to an article on raising the debt limit for a current CR bill.

This is further proof the Democrats and Republicans have lost touch on running our government. We shouldn't keep raising the debt limit because it will keep adding to the interest payments we have to make each year and continually eat into whatever budget these two incompetent political parties manage to pass or keep going through these continuing resolutions. The budget can be managed, yet each year we you know what around it makes it tougher.  We could easily lower spending each year with a step down budget. It would take time, but the first few years should be easy since there is definitely some bloat and over spending going on each year. Real cuts can be looked at over a two or three year period and be prioritized so it doesn't impact the average American too dramatically all at one. Yet this takes real work, something the current two political parties are incapable of and please do not say it is the other parties fault if you support one of them because for years it been all finger pointing and no work. NEITHER PARTY has done anything substantive in decades.  We need new leadership and/or new parties. And Trump is not new leadership, just America's greatest snake oil salesman. And if you believe differently what flavor is the snake oil kool aid you drank so I can avoid it.

If you listened to my last podcast two days ago you heard me say I wasn't ready to talk politics yet, well that apparently ended since they just hissed me off with all their nonsense.

Why can't they just run the damn government? This country deserves better.

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They all do it, Republicans, Democrats, MAGA, and even Trump

 

They all bow to the rich.

And for MAGA I am not talking about the guy and gal on the street, rank and file person (who are about to be left out of the party), but the Trump political sycophants.

Don’t think the Democrats bow to the rich, then how the heck did Harris get up to One billion dollars to blow on the election? It sure wasn’t ten dollar donations from the Democrat rank and file.

Republicans have always been kow towing to the rich, especially large multi national corporations etc with targeted tax cuts and other policies they implement.

And yes even Trump, and it will become more obvious in this next administration, with much of it being directed to the people who have helped him, yet overall general policies will benefit the wealthy and hurt the working and middle class even though they are the ones responsible for him winning.

And it is getting tiring fast of all the Non Trump supporting conservatives now being Trump apologists because they didn’t like Biden’s policies so they think well Trump may not be so bad. It still ain’t going to be pretty no matter how much sugar you coat on Trump.

 

And in the end, we still need new parties, new leadership and new public policy that benefits that majority of this country, but no Cheers today.