House Speaker #MikeJohnson is in MASSIVE jeopardy as his own #GOP colleagues TURN ON HIM and threaten an EXODUS over their issues working with the Trump administration and Johnson doing nothing to support them. #JordanUhl and #BrettErlich break it down on #TheDamageReport
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Donald Trump is LASHING OUT after MAGA #MikeJohnson BETRAYED him at a CRUCIAL moment. #FrancisMaxwell reacts.
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In Episode 76, Bill and Jumelle review the delusional responses given by Republican leaders and right wing media over the massive Democratic victories from the Nov 4 election.
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#Election2025 #Democrats #DemocraticParty #DemocraticWins #Delusional #MikeJohnson #DonaldTrump #FoxNews #LauraIngraham
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/election-takeaways-new-york-new-jersey-virginia
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editorial cartoon from DH Ginski
A lake labeled "Epstein Files" with a huge dam in front that has sprung a leak
Above on a hill looking down at the dam and lake is a truck labeled "Federal Epstein Management Agency aka the DoJ" and the driver is saying "This is one agency that Trump does not want dismantled!"
#EpsteinsBFF #PamBondi #ToddBlanche #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #MikeJohnson
Speaker #MikeJohnson goes full panic to gain support by #fearmongering as polls, public backlash and GOP members speaking out prove the consequences of Trumps policies will be disastrous for Republicans in the upcoming elections. #JohnIadarola and #JayarJackson break it down
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Republican House Speaker TERRI...
In Episode 76, Bill and Jumelle review some of the crazier coping comments from right-wing media and Republican leaders after American voters clearly sent a message of rejection of their policies on Nov 4.
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#Election2025 #Democrats #DemocraticParty #DemocraticWins #Delusional #MikeJohnson #DonaldTrump #FoxNews
Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect
Credit: J. Scott Applewhite / AP PhotoRepublicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement
The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.
by Ryan Cooper, November 18, 2025
Republicans, for once, are sounding downright squeamish about onrushing massive cuts to Obamacare subsidies, with premiums on the exchanges expected to more than double on average starting next year. GOP House committee chairs are reportedly having some “brainstorming sessions” about what to do, and House Speaker Mike Johnson claims that they will “be rolling out some of those ideas” at some point.
So far, the genius idea in the lead is Trump’s pitch to reroute subsidies from health insurance companies to the American people, so they can buy health care. (House Republicans have already filed a bill that looks like this.) When asked whether people wouldn’t then just use that money to buy health insurance, Trump replied, “Ahh … some may. I mean, they’ll be negotiating prices.” Congratulations, folks, you now get to be your own private dealmaker with the health care system, and with your purchasing power and risk pool of one household, I’m sure you’ll get the best price!
The stupidity is the point. For decades now, the Republican Party has been dedicated to the proposition that rich people are too highly taxed and the working and middle classes get too many benefits from the government. With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, they have finally caught the car. Medicaid and Obamacare have been slashed to free up budget headroom for tax cuts heavily slanted to the wealthy. Republicans don’t have a “health care plan” per se because this is their plan: to take your health care funding and give it to Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the rest of the fascist billionaire class.
American conservatism is a strange political beast. Like all conservatisms across the world, it stands in defense of hierarchy and privilege, but it is welded clumsily to 19th-century orthodox capitalism. By this view, all income should come from working or owning property, and all goods and services should be obtained through the market. It would be unjust for anyone to receive a welfare benefit from the government, because they did not work to earn it. This is a philosophical problem for conservatism, as George Scialabba writes, because capitalism regularly and wildly disrupts the established social order as technologies and businesses evolve. (For the record, this view is also very stupid.)
But it’s a much more practical problem for a Republican trying to write a health care policy. Health insurance is straightforwardly impossible to square with capitalist morality for reasons a child can understand. Most obviously, people routinely get very sick or injured through no fault of their own, and require care that is far more expensive than they can afford out of pocket. Sometimes people have chronic conditions that cost many multiples of what they could ever possibly earn. Therefore, unlike the market for car or home insurance, where each person is charged exactly what they are statistically expected to claim (plus a margin of profit), any functioning health insurance scheme must have systematic transfers from the young and healthy to the elderly and sick.
With a pure market approach, only the very rich will be able to get all the health care they need. Even people making well into six figures will not be able to afford elaborate surgery or cutting-edge therapies out of pocket. The poor—or really anyone living paycheck to paycheck—will not get health care at all. Before Obamacare, that was the reality for many, with the only “insurance” available on the market being de facto worthless if you ever actually needed it.
This is what led early socialists and social democrats to advocate for national health insurance, run by the government. If the market is a fundamentally stupid way to pay for medical treatment, then throw everyone onto the same program, and fund it out of taxes. That way, the risk pool and the funding base will be as large as possible, people will be charged based on their ability to pay, and all citizens will be permanently insured. And historically, the fact that both the elderly and the poor were largely uninsured up through the early 1960s was a major motivation for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.
Republicans have hated Medicare and Medicaid since the moment they were proposed, because they’re welfare programs. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics with an unhinged mini-documentary claiming Medicare would lead to a totalitarian dictatorship. Historically, Medicare has been too politically secure to touch—at least for now—but Republicans finally took a trillion-dollar bite out of Medicaid in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Editor’s Note: Featured top image by WP AI.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement – The American Prospect
#aca #gop #healthCare #healthSubsidies #houseSpeaker #medicaid #medicare #mikeJohnson #noHealthCareReplacement #obamacare #republicans #ryanCooper #theAmericanProspect #welfarePrograms
November 23, 2025
Because of the success of the #DischargePetition regarding the #EpsteinFiles, #MikeJohnson wants to change the rules.
Belle explains why this shouldn't be allowed to happen.
#Republican House Speaker #MikeJohnson is left SCRAMBLING as his big scheme to PROTECT Donald Trump gets BLOWN APART by the #Senate. @johniadarola.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and @sharonreedlive.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy break it down on @thedamagereport.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Republican House Speaker PANIC...
Mike Johnson denies he’s considering changing threshold for discharge petitions
Source: WashingtonExaminer
Mike Johnson denies he’s considering changing threshold for discharge petitions
Source: WashingtonExaminer
#MikeJohnson
#RepublicansLie
https://share.newsbreak.com/g0yqsx7v
Michael Cohen says that "Trump yanked the rug from under [Mike] Johnson so fast the man is probably still spinning like a church carnival ride." And Cohen and many others could have told him that this is what Trump does to his "friends":
"We even joke that the club motto should be: 'We came for the power, we stayed for the betrayal.'”
#Trump #Epstein #coverup #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #jobs #MikeJohnson
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What about the good old tradition of tarring and feathering?
Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Forthcoming Resignation Following Fallout With Trump
#Politics #DonaldTrump #JeffreyEpstein #MAGA #MarjorieTaylorGreene #MikeJohnson
https://deadline.com/2025/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-fallout-trump-1236626378/
Speaker #MikeJohnson is reportedly plotting a change in the rules for the #HouseofRepresentatives after #Democrats joined by just a few rogue #Republicans forced his hand on a vote to release the government’s files on pedophile financier #JeffreyEpstein.
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House Speaker #MikeJohnson unveils retaliation plot to CHANGE HOUSE RULES on #dischargepetitions after his attempt to FURTHER block the discharge petition vote to release the #Epsteinfiles gets CRUSHED as his own party turns on him. #JohnIadarola and #BrettErlich react
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Republican House Speaker SNAPS...
House Republicans! Dafuq are you waiting for to replace Mike Johnson? You removed Kevin McCarthy for much less!
#HoR #MAGAmike #MikeJohnson #KevinMcCarthy #RepublicansAreTheProblem
@ponderingpolitics.bsky.social discusses #DonaldTrump, who ESCALATES death threats against #Democrats as MAGA cheers and the #Republican Speaker of the house #MikeJohnson runs away from duty.
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🚨 BREAKING: TRUMP WON'T STOP S...
Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional #Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry #MikeJohnson Is Stalling
Members of #Congress are getting #rich trading #stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations.
The House speaker has expressed support for a stock trading ban, but he also said that he has “sympathy” for the counterargument that members need to wheel and deal in stocks in order to support their families.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/19/stock-trade-ban-cogress-mike-johnson/
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