02-11-2025, 08:08 PM
gabester wrote:
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It's going to end when Republicans in Congress realize that their jobs are going to be on the line, because ain't no jobs if there ain't no Legislative Branch. It's a question of how long before they figure out that the risk of being primaried is moot if there's no seats to run for.
I don't think their jobs are on the line. They can be coopted by the usurper king's imperial administration and given a cut of the royal treasury. They've already demonstrated they'll sell us out for a few tens of thousands in campaign donations; an offer of something like a quarter billion each would make most of the ~270 Reps and Senators "wealthy" beyond their wildest dreams to be governors of their newly assigned feudal serfs the rest of their lives.
The idea that Trump and Musk will give them anything but a boot in the ass is amazing to me. Those guys in no way will pay Congress people to leave when they can just dissolve the entire legislature. Nobody seems to be willing to stop them.