Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Posted by somecisguy2020

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  1. It’s a whole new level for sure. And all Mick Johnson’s staff came up with in response is turn up the volume of the nearby TV to try to drown her out.

  2. Mike Johnson: I don’t know anything about it

  3. They wheeled out a tv and turned up the volume to try to drown her out. Such a bitch move from a small man Mike Johnson.

  4. Cue Crowder attempting to sue for IP theft in 3…2…1…

  5. “Speaker Johnson, Speaker Johnson! The table that you just walked past 7 times saying that you are… <checks notes> starving families and gutting healthcare to…<checks notes again> cover up the epstein files. It says that on the large sign hanging from the table that Representative Ansari has set up and asking for anyone to debate. What are your thoughts on that?”

    “Uh, I don’t know anything about th-”

    “IT’S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!!!!”

    “I haven’t seen what you’re talking abou-”

    “LOOK! LOOK! RIGHT THERE, IMMEDIATELY OVER YOUR LEFT SHOULDER!”

    “Sorry, haven’t had a chance to read it yet, very busy here.”

  6. Mike Johnson has been very busy lately not knowing anything about anything, not sure if you noticed or not.

  7. If the Epstein files passes through the house does the senate have to also?

  8. She should put the number of days he has kept the government closed.

  9. “Listen Folks, I haven’t heard a thing about it. We’re busy running the Country here in DC, not reading the Enquirer…”

  10. Interestingly, ChatGPT can’t say enough about it.

    Me: “What is your comment about the picture and the creativity shown?”

    chatGPT:

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    TL:DR: impressive.

  11. Now *this* is the work of an *actual* Very Stable Genius

  12. THey are gonna call her a domestic terrorist for this .

  13. I assume the Republican politicians are now wondering if there is a backdoor into that building and where Speaker Johnson’s 2nd office can soon to be set up. BTW weasels are known to have a system of tunnels with multiple entrances 😉

  14. I want to start taping Grindr bills to his door in his absence.

  15. I love this level of petty revenge.. and she does speak the truth.
    Slay them Yass!

  16. Republicans have the gall to claim that Democrats are “holding the country hostage” while they are abusing their trifecta of power to not only prolong a shutdown and lock in their cuts to healthcare and food assistance, but to also avoid a vote on releasing Epstein related materials. Mike Johnson has repeatedly used this shutdown as an excuse to delay or even kill their release.

    For weeks leading up to the shutdown, Republicans were cancelling votes, refusing to negotiate or participate, forcing recesses, and not even showing up to votes on funding bills earlier in September.

    Then at the last minute they tried to push a stopgap CR bill forward, pretending like this wasn’t part of a plan to control the narrative and blame Democrats for a shutdown that Republicans deliberately created the conditions for; a clearly disingenuous effort considering how GOP representatives were absent during key votes leading up to the shutdown.

    When Democrats offered a CR counterproposal of their own that included healthcare protections, Republicans rejected it outright. And Mike Johnson had the audacity to recently say that Republicans care more about healthcare than Democrats.

    The original CR measure failed because Trump and his GOP lackeys refused to negotiate on rolling back their massive cuts to healthcare for millions of Americans *citizens,* and all while dismissing the reality that healthcare costs for Americans will increase considerably if ACA subsidies are not renewed.

    It’s worth noting that Democrats could have made far more demands of Republicans when you consider the widespread ramifications of Trump’s other policies and his so-called “big beautiful bill,” but they chose to narrow their focus on healthcare; giving Republicans the opportunity to compromise on a single issue, which they’ve continuously refused to do in their cruel obstinacy.

    Then of course there’s all the hysteria and lies about Democrats wanting to give healthcare to “ill-gals.”

    At the same time, Instead of cooperating with Democrats to help avert a shutdown, Trump told them to “go fuck themselves” and chose to exploit the circumstances of a shutdown by prohibiting funding for Democrat run areas, by imposing mass layoffs, by threatening to permanently disrupt government services and operations, and by restricting access to aid and benefits, and all while he’s stated himself that this government shutdown is advantageous for him, regardless of who it impacts.

    And just like the CR counterproposal that Democrats tried to pass before the shutdown, Republicans also stubbornly rejected a recent proposal to provide funding for SNAP.

    Trump’s spitefulness and negligence was on full display when he needlessly halted funding for SNAP as a means of bullying the democratic party into surrendering their fight against unaffordable healthcare and Medicaid cuts.

    Think about that for a moment. While this whole shutdown fight is centered around preserving healthcare for Americans by pushing back against GOP cuts to these programs, Trump and Republicans decided it would be within their best political interest to put food assistance on the chopping block as well.

    They even refused to use contingency reserves to temporarily fund the program until two judges weighed in and ruled that the Trump administration was legally obligated to use the funds.

    I’m sorry, who’s “holding the country hostage” now?

    Trump is hanging these things over the heads of Americans while he continues to taunt and “troll” Democrats at the expense of the public.

    At the same time, the government is pursuing a kleptocratic agenda by concentrating economic power and resources into the hands of a small group of political and wealthy elites while the rest of Americans suffer from financial hardship brought on by some of Trump’s own policies.

    And while Americans suffer, Trump is showing them how disengaged he is and where his priorities lie as he throws tone deaf, elaborate parties and takes a wrecking ball to the White House so he can forge ahead with his invasive, hideously decorated and expensive ~~ballroom~~ vanity project while millions of Americans lose access to their benefits and while the government remains shut down

    Trump has poured more time, energy, and resources into his building his oversized, Mar-a-Lago styled “ballroom,” than he has invested in addressing the economic issues he campaigned on.

    His only concern is with whatever affects him personally or financially, everything else is just collateral damage, and the GOP is kowtowing along.

    Trump also insisted that a shutdown will benefit him politically, implying that he couldn’t care less about the harm his actions will inflict on Americans, their families and the federal workforce.

    But apparently Dems are the villains in this scenario. Go figure…

    This is “the democrat shutdown” according to Mike Johnson who is obviously toeing the line for Trump to prevent the release of what is very likely information that could implicate him in Epstein’s heinous crimes.

    Trump exploited the inevitability of a shutdown—without any regard for the consequences—to dominate the narrative and blame his political opponents for his own inaction, cruelty and his pettiness throughout this whole fiasco.

    According to recent polls however, most Americans are holding him and the GOP responsible for this outcome.

    The claim that Dems are to blame because they’re demanding that Republicans expand healthcare to “ill-gals” is an utter myth.

    The Dem proposal includes nothing about giving healthcare to immigrants and merely asks that some healthcare cuts affecting *millions of American citizens* be rolled back, and that subsidies be extended so American healthcare costs don’t skyrocket.

    Republicans have consolidated power throughout every branch of government. They are trying desperately to control the narrative and blame their political opponents; choosing to focus most of their energy on politicizing this outcome rather than resolving it. They’ve even made the laughable claim that, despite their trifecta of power, they’re not really “in charge” of the government.

    Sadly, their voters have taken the bait…

    Over and over again I hear, “Democrats want to spend your hard earned tax dollars on healthcare for undocumented immigrants.” This is right-wing propaganda that has been packaged in many different forms over the years.

    There is nothing in the proposal about offering healthcare to immigrants. In fact, undocumented immigrants are barred from most federally funded healthcare programs.

    What’s more, a lot of these immigrants pay taxes, and taxes that go towards funding for social programs. In other words, while immigrants help to pay for public benefits, they are also prohibited from receiving any coverage or aid of their own.

    Democrats are not “shutting down the government because they want to give healthcare to ‘ill-gals!'” They have only asked Republicans to come to the table to help protect healthcare costs from surging and to rein in their massive cuts to Medicaid that they unanimously decided to deprive millions of Americans of under the guise of some bullshit, xenophobic narrative about immigrants stealing tax dollars. A tired narrative that they’ve relied on so often in the past.

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