What is the PoD? In this timeline, Doggate still happens - which is extraordinary since I have
scant precedent on hand for real-life events impacting the flow/story of timelines
in real time - but neither Greene, Massie nor Gosar support removing Speaker Mike Johnson (which they all do in real life to the extent they've all signed onto a Motion to Vacate).
Source : Made by a Friend, Posted on Imgur
The embed should lead to
https://i.imgur.com/HiGzPoy.jpeg - Imgur has had known, years-long issues with nudging users towards the image context page instead of the raw image.
The representatives that retired would be [too many in number to quote verbatim here], bringing the GOP seat count from 212 to 131 House Seats by losing 82 Seats in one wave of resignations.
David Foster Wallace would be proud of this sentence. More to the point, how the heck did the House GOP makeup collapse this quickly? Were the Shooed Eighty-Two aligned on the issue of Emmer versus Hern, are they nondescript RSC types in general, were they upset at a particular bill, are they vulnerable or just sick of it all? Is there a reason why some of the people on their side of the argument left while a smaller number of allied Republicans are just sticking it out through 2026?
Following the voting down of the massive funding bill, Mark Green went on to craft five new bills with the help of House Leadership, with the first piece of legislation being the Immigration Control Act of 2025 that would give around $57.9B to financing Border Control and constructing a wall on the border with Mexico, tightening border restrictions and security, establish a immigration moratorium for fifteen years, and ramp up deportations to an extreme level to effectively deal with the crisis. It would be passed with 299 Aye, 136 Nay. However, when it reached the House, it faced serious Democratic and Establishment opposition including the Senate Majority Leader, who vowed to whip up votes against it. Despite this, Senator J. D. Vance became a leading voice for it and was able to get it passed in the Senate with 53 Votes for Aye and 47 Votes for Nay...
This pattern repeats for all five of the Green Bills. Reconciliation, or a whole load of filibusting graft?
After two months of the Debt Ceiling crisis continuing and polling showing that they backed Speaker Green’s Proposals over Biden 53-43-4, Biden made a move that would become infamous and pushed for the Treasury to print the long proposed Trillion Dollar Coin.
Coins are minted; they are not printed. Also, one trillion dollars would barely make a dent in the deficit, never mind debt.
...though a few countries, such as Javier Millei’s Argentina, Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Victor Orban’s Hungary, and Yoon Suk Yeol’s South Korea, avoided the brunt of the disaster and would soon recover in short order as the rest of the world economically, financially, and in some instances, quite literally, collapsed almost overnight...
Was Milei forced to abandon dollarisation and instead just let the peso do whatever it wants? That's the only way I can see Argentina getting out of a dollar-centric crisis.
