We have known for years that many in the nominally “Republican” Party in Congress are emphatically NOT supporters of President Donald Trump. Since he was re-elected in 2024, he has faced near-constant opposition by fellow Republicans in both houses of Congress. Many in Congress have been there for 20 years and over, since long before the consummate Outsider appeared to claim to represent the more-conservative Citizens in America. In this 250th Anniversary, and Election year, opposition to Trump and his policies has become quite apparent, especially in the Senate.
Senate Majority “Leader” (scare-quotes intended) John Thune of South Dakota has been a constant opponent, though being stoically silent. He shows his opposition by strongly resisting allowing his Senate to EVER go into Recess, specifically to stop any “recess appointments” of Judicial and Executive officers. This has frustrated the People who thought they were electing Trump to be the Chief Executive Officer of the United States. Instead they have a hamstrung President whose appointments and actions have been thwarted at every turn. Every Executive Order has been immediately challenged in court, with some being overturned and many lawsuits ending up at the Supreme Court only to be overturned by the Justices, and finally being acted upon. The House passed the SAVE Act for election integrity twice, but it sits on Thune’s desk, never to be voted upon.
Aged Senator Mitch McConnell is wheeled into the Senate Chamber, looking like he has no sentience left, to vote on every last issue before formally leaving at the end of the year. Spurned Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis sponsor opposition legislation, as does Congressman Thomas Massie who lost his election and has filed Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, who is the last barrier against the third impeachment of President Trump (and perhaps the last bastion of America as Founded before the slash-and-burn Democrats take over).
All of those opponents are career politicians, ensconced in their near-eternal positions, with their high salaries, cushy benefits, and guaranteed pensions. They do very little real work, since most legislation is actually written by lobbyists and staffers. Then they work maybe 2-3 days a week before leaving for yet another vacation. We the people have come to see that few to none of the people we elect actually care at all about us, and are in the game for the position, insider-trading opportunities that leaves them very wealthy, and guaranteed taxpayer support for the rest of their lives (if they ever do leave Congress). The Career Political Class has disliked Donald Trump from the beginning, since THEY did not “make” him. They can’t stand the idea that President Trump is in no way beholden to them for anything in his political life-he started as a productive business-owner, knows how the real world operates, and can see through their posturing in a New York Minute. This drives them crazy.
Now that the Far-Left Democrats have “won” control of Congress, those career politicians have decided that they will be making the last two years of Trump’s term as much of a living hell as they can. As a homosexual congressman from Texas said this week, “Lawyer Up.” The suits are ready to file, and there will be a paper blizzard starting January 1.
Here’s what some Democrats have planned. First, from my own state of Washington:
Washington State
DEMOCRATS FIGHT TO PROTECT ILLEGAL ALIENS
Washington State senator begins probe into deportation system after GOP loses Congress
Nov. 10, 2026
Washington Senator Patty Murray
Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington State, has questions about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recent $1.5-billion deal to have a private prison contractor continue running the Northwest ICE Processing Center.Among her questions is whether ICE is still planning to buy a new facility in the Seattle area.
Democrats won significant majorities in Congress in the recent midterm elections, empowering the party and members of Washington state’s congressional delegation to compel testimony at hearings, as well as determine how federal agencies are funded in the future; Murray is set to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee.
A patch is shown on the uniform of a guard with the GEO Group, Inc., during a media tour of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, in Tacoma, Wash. The GEO Group is the private company that operates the center for the U.S. Government.
ImmigrationWill ICE take control of the privately run detention center in Tacoma?
“It is abundantly clear that many in the administration, like Stephen Miller, are intent on weaponizing our immigration system to inflict suffering and cruelty on good people and innocent families.” Murray wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “That is not remotely acceptable to me, nor should it be to you.”
Miller, the architect behind much of Trump’s mass deportation effort, was just elevated to White House chief of staff, following Republicans’ poor performance in the midterm elections. In her letter to Mullin, Murray requested more information about how ICE will move forward with immigrant detention in Washington state.
In late October, the private prison company GEO Group announced it had finalized a deal with ICE to continue running the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma after a previous contract expired last year.
For years, detainees at the facility have reported inconsistent medical care, poor water quality, and feces in their food – all part of GEO Group’s responsibility under the government contract. Researchers also have found mishandled allegations of sexual abuse, human right’s violations, and a lack of accountability from the federal government on violations of standards at the facility going back years.
“ICE’s effort to rapidly cement the detention center operator contract for another 10 years appears to be an attempt to avoid the necessary public scrutiny that would otherwise accompany the establishment of new detention facilities and operation of these facilities,” Murray alleged in her letter to Mullin.
Murray specifically asked for more information about whether ICE was planning to purchase any existing facilities, what funds the agency intends to use to fund its contracts, and the agency’s justification for granting another 10-year contract to GEO Group.
As part of the deal with GEO Group, the company will provide about 1,600 beds to house, guard, and feed immigrants who are facing deportation at a cost of about $90,000 per bed for the next ten years. A majority of the detainees are people with no criminal record, who have families, lives, and jobs in the U.S.
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Immigration Green CardsHoping to get a green card for a family member in the Seattle area?
It could take years.
“Yet, ICE is continuing to arrest and detain hundreds of immigrants in Washington, including those with no criminal conviction, exacerbating conditions in detention and creating additional burdens on the federal and immigration court system,” Murray argued in her letter.
Murray also raised concerns about state oversight in facilities operated by private contractors, like GEO Group.
That’s a bald-faced LIE! He has NO care for the “American People,” just himself and his position and perks.
Here’s an excellent response to Thune.
John Thune seems confused about why he isn’t liked in “online world.” He says being hated is a “daily experience” for him. He said, “I don’t know that they necessarily told me anything I got wrong.” Ok, I’ll start…..
1) Oct. 8, 2016: he said Trump “should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately.”
2) Dec. 2020: he said a challenge to the Electoral College would “go down like a shot dog.”
3) 2022: he said he hoped Republicans would have “other options” besides Trump.
4) 2023: he endorsed Tim Scott, and didn’t back Trump until Feb. 2024.
5) He voted for the $95 billion Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan aid package.
6) He requested $116 million in earmarks while voting to strip earmarks.
7) He used pro forma sessions to block recess appointments.
8) He refused Trump’s call to end blue slips.
9)The House passed the SAVE Act. It died in the Senate 48-50, and a narrower voter ID bill died too.
10) He refused to nuke the filibuster or force a talking filibuster.
11) He waved off the SAVE Act pressure as a “paid influencer ecosystem.”
12) When McConnell vanished for 3 months, Thune said it was “between Sen. McConnell and the people of Kentucky.”
13) About 161 Trump nominations are still waiting, including 25 judges, and Democrats take over in January.
14) And he still feels no sense of urgency, and no realization of his own failures.
To read the comments from the post, click on the link below in the post on X.
The first comment above was “Did not resign when Mike Johnson did.” Very good comment.
Congressional Republicans spent two fucking years proving they were too incompetent to exercise power, then immediately blamed Donald Trump when voters took that power away.
What a magnificent collection of spineless, self-important, excuse-making assholes.
They controlled the White House, the House, and the Senate. They had the mandate, the legislative machinery, and the opportunity to deliver the agenda they spent years promising voters. Instead, they turned passing the One Big Beautiful Bill into a prolonged family feud, left the SAVE America Act languishing, and treated their congressional majority like a taxpayer-funded country club for professional procrastinators.
And now these same political eunuchs have the breathtaking fucking audacity to lecture Trump about winning elections.
Are you SHITTING me?
These jackasses couldn’t organize a two-car funeral without forming six committees, demanding a recess, and blaming Trump when the hearse ran out of gas.
But suddenly they’re all brilliant political strategists.
Suddenly they know exactly what went wrong. Suddenly every coward who couldn’t muster the balls to pass legislation has developed a doctoral fucking thesis explaining why Trump cost them Congress.
How convenient.
The Republican establishment has perfected a remarkable political business model: Campaign on Trump’s agenda, ride his voters into office, obstruct or dilute the promises that got them elected, accomplish a fraction of what they advertised, and then blame the bastard whose popularity helped put them there.
And when the voters finally get sick of this pathetic shitshow, these useless parasites demand another chance to prove how indispensable they are.
Indispensable to WHAT? Another committee hearing? Another fundraising dinner? Another heroic six-week vacation while their campaign promises rot in a congressional filing cabinet?
Trump still occupies the Oval Office. The executive branch still answers to him. His final two years are far from finished.
The GOP, meanwhile, has finally achieved something extraordinary.
It lost its majority, exposed its own staggering incompetence, and forfeited the last fucking excuse it had for being utterly useless.
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And Mr. Flopping Aces lays it all out for you, in his inimitable manner. What the Dems have planned.
Congratulations, America! You voted for cheaper fucking groceries and got a congressional revenge squad of subpoena-humping, power-drunk assholes instead. Democrats spent an entire election screeching about affordability, promising relief to struggling families, and pretending to give a flying fuck about your bills. Then they won Congress and immediately developed a collective, throbbing hard-on for politically destroying everyone who ever worked for, supported, or so much as shook hands with Donald Trump.
Elizabeth Warren is promising investigations into “cheaters” she can’t even fucking identify. Jamie Raskin is sharpening his little congressional hatchet for corporations and law firms that committed the unforgivable sin of cooperating with a Republican president. And Robert Garcia, that pompous, subpoena-sniffing little jackass, is prancing around yelling “Lawyer up!” like some discount television prosecutor with a law degree from the University of Fucking Around and Finding Out. Ask him to identify an actual crime, however, and suddenly the mighty crusader is reduced to mumbling about things being “possibly illegal.”
Holy fucking shit. These clowns have already picked their targets, rehearsed their threats, and started measuring the gallows before figuring out what anybody supposedly did wrong.
Then there’s Elissa Slotkin, whose brilliant contribution to American democracy is wanting young people terrified of accepting jobs in a Republican administration. Imagine being such a vindictive, authoritarian-minded asshole that frightening Americans away from public service becomes a goddamn political objective.
Meanwhile, some exhausted father is standing in Walmart calculating whether he can afford hamburger, eggs, and enough gasoline to get to work tomorrow, while these self-important congressional parasites are practically jerking themselves raw over their shiny new subpoena powers.
What a breathtaking fucking disgrace.
The rent is due. Insurance premiums are crushing families. Grocery bills are eating paychecks alive. And the politicians who exploited that desperation to win power are now salivating over political enemies lists like a pack of rabid bureaucratic hyenas discovering the federal government comes with unlimited stationery and subpoena forms.
Here’s the truly dangerous part: Every corporation, attorney, government employee, and young American watching this vindictive circus is receiving the same filthy message. Cooperate with the wrong administration, support the wrong president, or exercise the wrong political judgment, and these power-drunk bastards will make your life a living legal and financial hell.
That’s the fucking nightmare they’re advertising as accountability.
Democrats promised to lower the cost of living. They’ve instead announced their intention to make political disagreement as expensive, frightening, and professionally ruinous as possible.
Congratulations, America. The only goddamn thing Democrats have made affordable is political persecution.
And those vindictive motherfuckers are apparently offering it wholesale.
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