There's a reason Trump's deal with Mike Johnson involves KEEPING THE HOUSE OUT OF HIS WAY while he gets stuff done.
The House and Senate are deeply compromised.
Many of you apparently DO NOT UNDERSTAND what Congresses' real JOB is, what real job it has had for decades.
Let me explain it to you:
The job our COMPROMISED Congress has REALLY been doing is PROTECTING THE CORRUPT SYSTEM that Trump, Elon, DOGE and the Cabinet is currently in the process of DESTROYING.
Anons already KNOW why the Congress has to be kept out of the way where it can't muck anything up until Trump is ready for about 1/2 to 2/3rds of the Congress to be REMOVED FROM OFFICE and many of them...PROSECUTED.
You seriously think a House/Senate where a large number of the members are involved in the corruption would do ANYTHING to HELP Trump destroy the corrupt system they are a part of, enriching themselves in?
McConnell and the Senate GOP are doing everything they can to stop Trump, to hamper his efforts. They have 0% interest in passing any bills that helps him destroy their gravy trains.
Johnson's deal with Trump removes Congress from Trump's path so THEY CAN'T STOP HIM as he DESTROYS their corrupt system.
Rand Paul already showed you this. They don't have ANY INTEREST WHATSOEVER in codifying his agenda, and if they could they would STOP his dismantling of the globalist corrupt system.
Congress is doing EXACTLY what I want it to do. Stay out of Trump's way until the indictments are unsealed.
Nah. He's a libertarian. Easy to brand him as a sleeper. I don't know about that.
Personally, I think he is a completely off-track and tragically misguided libertarian.
Someone said, that libertarians eventually have to evolve into first-principles conservatism, otherwise, they just go bonkas. Rand may have missed his boat.
That is what happened to Larry Elder.
He had always been a die hard Libertarian but joined the GOP during Trump's first term.
He did run on the GOP ticket in the primary for governor of Calif, before that, but the slimey Ca GOP stabbed him in the back.
IMHO, he tried to shift tactics to work in principles without sacrificing practical legislative effectiveness by making no compromises like his dad did.
The strategy has never seemed to have succeeded, if that’s what he is indeed doing, but he’s still better than most of the others. I suspect most of us here would take 1 Rand Paul over enough Lindsey Graham’s to give the Republicans a 3/5 house majority (just threw up in my mouth at the thought of that).
He’s good enough for them to try and murder him, at any rate. Maybe he does other things behind the scenes and the public compromises are just a song and dance?
I do think its slightly insane to convict the man solely on his tariff position. It's not as if it's inconsistent with his principles.
Part of the problem is that group think and herd mentality can be hard to weed out from a populist movement like MAGA, so any sort of disagreement or such gets labelled as betrayal, traitor, etc.
I don't know enough about Rand or his father to comment much, except that I think if someone understands what DJT is doing, they are going to support him, even if on the surface, his actions seem 'not to agree with my values', because DJT is playing the long game, and business as usual is NOT what the doctor ordered. So, I conclude that Rand doesn't get it. (I mean, there are a lot of good people who don't get it like the Qtards.)
But the mentality that someone has to be exactly on board with everything unquestioningly otherwise they are an evil, deep state traitor - that's old-type programming rearing its decrepit old head.