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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

How Mike Johnson Succeeded Where the Insurrection Failed

Through procedural paralysis, the Speaker has done what violence could not: silence Congress and hand Donald Trump the powers of a king...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, presumably on the orders of Donald Trump, has unconstitutionally shut down the House of Representatives for over a month. The result is that Trump can now do pretty much whatever he wants without restraint.

He's effectively King of America, at least for the moment. No limits, no constraints, no oversight. It's the coup that finally worked.

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"This is against the law" the supreme law " of the land. There is no joint resolution with the Senate allowing for a recess longer than three days, nor has the Senate passed such a standalone resolution. Article I, 5, cl.4 of the Constitution reads:

"Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."

Congress didn't even suspend its functioning for weeks like this during the Civil War or WWII; it's literally never happened before."

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"No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
"James Madison, Federalist 47

"All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government.

An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one ... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." (emphasis Jefferson's)
" Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-29 07:41 PM | Reply

It's impossible to design an airplane so safe and secure that the pilot, the copilot, and the navigator couldn't conspire to fly it into the World Trade Center.

This is a post about Republican leadership.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 09:50 PM | Reply

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