I would chalk that up to people just not wanting to identify themselves as supporters. They would rather hide their support so when they pull up to stores/friends or families homes, they cannot easily be shown to be awful people.
Counter idea, its to actually keep Republicans from resigning.
Current make up of house is 219-213. With 3 open seats. Lets guess dems take 2 of those, which they had before vacated. So now its 220-215.
With Greene retiring it goes 219-215 meaning you can lose 2 votes on any legislation. Tie votes mean question is lost.
If a slate of reps may retire at 4 retirees you see a power sharing agreement, and 5 hands the gavel to the dems. No one wants to be the last one out to give over the gavel. And if you read reports that a bunch of people might retire you might put yours on hold so it doesnt mess anything up.
Effectively this is telling republicans, we know you think getting out is good but a lot of you are talking about it and if you do we lose the house.
It gets even uglier if dems take all 3 open seats.
Feels like its the DOJ stopping it due to on going investigations. Its the easiest way for them to show they made a "good faith" effort to get stuff out but showing nothing.
DOJ just started new investigations into Clinton, JP Morgan, and others at Trumps behest. Once vote happens to release files DOJ says "Oops no can do with an ongoing investigation." Repubs look like they care and nothong goes public.
Oh a court order? Glad this administration cares so much what courts think and order.
What is a court order going to actually do? Are they going to arrest people for defying the orders? Place them in jail for defying their orders? No? then those orders are a useful as the paper they are printed on.
Oh good a vote in the Senate. Fucking Mike Johnson will never bring it up in the house and you just traded away everything for nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Dems wonder why people have a shit opinion of them and its this.
Likely? I dont think so. Stripping a person of citizenship because they are of the opposing party feels like a line in the sand. How do you defend that? At that point its over for America. Like pack it up and every person who is not a straight white christian should be looking to get the fuck out
Honestly, I fully expected him to do something like pay out SNAP benefits to solid red states like Texas or Florida and deny them in places like New York or California. Then he would say "See we paid out what we could. If only Dems had opened the govefnment sooner you blue states could get your benefits."
He gives out to his base, and they can cheer how horrible he is to those nasty blue states.
I do not understamd his threat. They have already suspended funding for things in New York before he has been elected.
Also how anyone can be just ok with the president threatening funding in a major city because he doesnt like the candidate is fucking insane. I would say the press should ask every republican in congrsss about this, but they will all say they havent heard or seen what he said and then it will be forgotten in a day.
I would chalk that up to people just not wanting to identify themselves as supporters. They would rather hide their support so when they pull up to stores/friends or families homes, they cannot easily be shown to be awful people.