Submitted 3 weeks ago by FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/26/house-republicans-democrats-recess-midterms
***As they departed the Capitol for the five-week recess, ***House Republicans nonetheless believed they had a credible case to make for why the opposition should stay in the minority for the final two years of Trump’s presidency.
And yet, Project 2025 continues unslowed.
Indeed.
If no one is willing to actually hold people accountable, laws become meaningless. Billionaires were on to something when they captured both ruling parties.
We should stop working when they do
That sounds like you’re advocating for some sort of General Strike. You can’t be suggesting such a thing to US citizens. /s
I really wonder if the “both sides bad” people online have ever had like real human conversations with some of the people materially affected by our national politics. Because when the program you rely on to feed your kids gets cut, or your neighbors start getting disappeared into unmarked vans, or you find yourself paying 30% more for food, gas, and rent than you did 18 months ago, people like that don’t tend to say “yeah but what have the dems ever done for me?”
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Respectfully, your reply makes no sense. Donald got a second term precisely because the Dems did nothing meaningful about any of this. Hell, the two ruling parties have failed so spectacularly it’s made socialists electable.
Well yes, if you blame dems for the bad things that happen when they win, and also the bad things that happen when they lose, then your logic is sound but circular.
I have to admit, I kinda expected them to stir up some conspiracy-theorys about someone secretly killing off Republican senators. The AFD would have done that for sure…
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It just infuriates me that our federal politicians only work like four months out of the year.
lemmyng@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And get paid like they work 24/7
digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And get free healthcare they so vehemently deny all US citizens.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Indeed. If we cound the bribes, I mean “lobbyist gifts”, they get about as well as teachers or cancer researchers or whatever SHOULD be paid.
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They also rarely ever work 5 days per week. They get paid a full salary though regardless. Not to mention all the lobbying bribe money.
Out system is a sham.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Also, don’t they get like free healthcare, paid sick leave and all that other stuff?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They do.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. They are required by law to buy their own health insurance from the ACA marketplace.
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And they spend most of the afternoon fundraising and with lobbyists. The clever ones start their reelection campaign immediately after getting elected.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And it doesn’t have to be this way! This behavior of spending most of their time in office campaigning or acquiring funding for reelection instead of, you know, governing only became the norm in the nineties.
(Add yet another “fuck Newt Gingrich” to the tally board.)
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how Congress works.
Time spent in DC is supposed to be the smallest part of their job. Recess isn’t vacation for them, if they’re doing it right. Recess is when they actually do the job of representation. They’re supposed to be spending time in their districts holding town halls, having open office hours, and working with local groups on issues that need to be brought up when they are in session.
They should be spending more time with their constituents than in DC. Spending time with constituents is the most fundamental job function of a representative.
A lot don’t do that though, and that’s on their idiot constituents for continually voting them in and not holding them accountable.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A whole lot of words there to say: “You’re wrong… but maybe also not wrong.”
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How much time have you personally spent with any of your representatives?
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
they don’t even do work when they are working too