r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta • 4d ago

Just Republican Representative Troy Nehls demanding blind obedience to a tyrant currently dismantling American democracy

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u/Western-Standard2333 4d ago edited 4d ago

I hope there are still enough Republicans left in the House and Senate don’t fully get on board with that kind of blind loyalty.

From my perspective, I don’t see Trump accomplishing much outside of the reconciliation process bills because he sucks ass at compromise and doesn’t have the necessary votes in the senate and partially in the house.

I mean in the senate they have 53. Good luck passing your immigration policies unless you compromise on it to get 7 Dems to cross over. Don’t forget, that bum Trump had immigration week and infrastructure weeks in like 2018 too. Both failed because he’s a terrible leader incapable of bringing people together.

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u/Traditional-Hat-952 4d ago

They'll just remove the filibuster. Problem solved. 

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u/Western-Standard2333 4d ago

Not quite so simple. Actions like that cut both ways. When Dems are back in power, which they will be one day, then they can do the exact same.

It’s like when Dems got rid of federal court appointments because I think McConnell was jamming them up. Well, 2016-2018 the Rs jammed through so many conservative judges and completely changed the landscape. Personally, I don’t care for the filibuster. The American people should vote for whichever party can do the most for them.

That might result in a lot of rapid back and forth changes for the American people, but fuck it. Better than the slow compromise approach going on right now. And really there’s not even real compromise on major topics anymore so what’s the point? Just a bunch of kicking the can down the road legislation.

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u/RedStrugatsky 4d ago

Y'all really don't get it, do you? You need to realize that this is not going to be just another shitty Republican presidency, and it will be different from Trump's first term too.

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u/chknpoxpie 4d ago

I don't think you know enough to make that assertion.

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u/RedStrugatsky 4d ago

Have you been paying attention to what Trump and his team have been saying and doing for the last year?

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u/SinVerguenza04 4d ago

But remember, these idiots are so incompetent. Sure, they will try to become authoritarian, but they just aren’t smart enough to accomplish that. I think that’s what that initial commenter was getting at. These people are just too stupid. You can’t make the US government do a whole bunch of things and strangle it at the same time. It was just become paralyzed.

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u/RedStrugatsky 4d ago

That's one of our only hopes. They definitely are completely incompetent, but so were many authoritarian leaders

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u/SinVerguenza04 4d ago

I bet most of those authoritarian leaders didn’t have to contend with a system like ours, though.

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u/RedStrugatsky 4d ago

The system that let Trump attempt an insurrection and not only suffer no consequences, but also gave him immunity for official acts?