Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson has moved to block Democrats from using resolutions of inquiry to investigate Trump-era scandals, including “Signalgate.”
On Monday, he advanced a measure in the House Rules Committee halting these privileged resolutions until September 30.
Democrats had been using the tool to seek answers about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of encrypted apps to discuss Yemen airstrikes.
Johnson embedded the pause in resolutions targeting Biden’s environmental policies, effectively shielding Trump and weakening Congressional oversight powers.
Reminder that Trump isn’t carrying out an autocratic coup d’etat in the US by himself.
He has the active support and assistance of the Republican party and their politicians at every step of the way.
Trump is Pol Pot. The Republican party is the Khmer Rouge.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h104
Looks like he’s got quite a bit of support.
Anybody really think they won’t just rig 2026 elections to prevent Democrats from ever regaining control of either branch of Congress?
they rigged the 2024 election, why not the 26 too.
In case anyone wants sources, here are the receipts.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
I think it’s definitely possible, but since elections are run by each individual state, it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Hard to take every seat in Congress, but if they just steal a couple dozen Democratic seats in red states that’s enough to secure control of the House and the only recourse for that is likely open insurrection.
There is continually-mounting evidence that 2024 was rigged. We’re already done, our last fair election was in 2022, and it being even that recent is debatable.
There’s not. I’m sorry, I’ve read every link put forth arguing exactly that, and all the “irregularities” are easily explained. There have been hand recounts that validated the results. He won; it’s awful, but he won.
Don’t need to enter conspiracy theory land. Elon musk bought votes out in the open. It was as public as it gets. 2024 US elections were not fair and democratic.
Two million mail-in ballots were trashed because of irregularities. If you’re black, your mail-in ballot was nine times more likely to be trashed than a white person’s. There’s other proof. Search bullet ballot discrepancy. A bullet ballot is when only the presidency is voted on and nothing else. They aren’t unheard of, but they’re relatively rare. There were twenty times more bullet ballots in swing states than in the last election or in non-swing states.
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
The author’s credentials are at the bottom of the page.
You combined a good link with a false rumor.
The good link talks about voter suppression techniques: voter roll purges, questionable disqualifications, etc. All states do this, and some amount of purging is necessary (far lower than occurs), but this has been in place for decades. This is awful, but it’s a systemic hurdle for Democrats just as the Electoral College is a systemic hurdle. It’s not unique to 2024, though it would’ve been nice if Democrats tried harder to make most of it illegal leading up to the election.
As for the false rumor: no, bullet ballots were not “twenty times more” in swing states.
Most of the rumors alluded to by the original comment I was replying to are just wild, unfounded speculation. People claim “bullet ballots are proof that Elon Musk tampered with voting machines.” No, bullet ballots are proof that there are a lot of
low-information votersmorons out there who don’t normally vote, couldn’t tell you who any of their representatives are, are apolitical, but who just came out of the woodwork to vote for Trump because they really like Trump (and only Trump). That’s, like, Trump’s whole brand, and these people absolutely exist.I for one never would trust mail-in ballots from USPS or any other delivery service. Could get lost (or will not get there in time) easily.
I know some counties had issues, but there should be other ways to get there to vote. Like sending buses at specific places.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
https://electiontruthalliance.org/eta
There absolutely is. The Russian Tail is right there.
You can only spam the same videos so many times before everyone just assumes they’re garbage.
I would love to see some irrefutable evidence produced to convince people of that. I am inclined to think so. We already know he lied about almost everything except becoming a dictator and ejecting immigrants. He also had the disinformation apparatus and full machinations of foreign influence behind him. Can’t embody everything here but that combined with the DNC being complicit to some degree leading to a laisse faire voter block spelled disaster for non-fascist ilk. I just haven’t seen anything about voter irregularities that were supportable yet. Maybe some are just barely irregular enough to align all of it into a win. I’m not an electionologist so what the hell do I know?
Two million mail-in ballots were trashed because of irregularities. If you’re black, your mail-in ballot was nine times more likely to be trashed than a white person’s. There’s other proof. Search bullet ballot discrepancy. A bullet ballot is when only the presidency is voted on and nothing else. They aren’t unheard of, but they’re relatively rare. There were twenty times more bullet ballots in swing states than in the last election or in non-swing states.
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
The author’s credentials are at the bottom of the page.
How DARE Democrats try to Find out How and WHY an Unapproved Outside Communication Server was Used to Discuss TOP SECRET NATIONAL SECURITY OPERATIONS!
-Her Emails Republicans!
