Ron Johnson: Republicans should never again pass a piece of legislation

[Landslide Lyndon]

You gotta give it to the MAGAs. They barely make any attempt to hide who they really are.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1767270013684117994

[President Johnson]

Legislating is what you've been hired for. If you refuse to work, each Average Joe rightfully gets fired from the job.

[Roll Roons]

This guy was incredibly beatable in 2022 but Democrats just had to have the brilliant idea of coalescing behind a far left activist.

[President Johnson]

This guy was incredibly vulnerable in 2022 but Democrats just had to have the brilliant idea of coalescing behind a far left activist.

Agreed, Barnes was definitely a weak candidate and given even he almost pulled it off, a better nominee would have won. Didn't even have to be a moderate type, I think a progressive like Mark Pochan could have beaten Johnson. It's unfortunate Barnes didn't even have viable challengers in the primary. Furthermore, it was a huge miss that narrows the Democrats' already tight path to keep the majority in 2024.

[Landslide Lyndon]

This guy was incredibly vulnerable in 2022 but Democrats just had to have the brilliant idea of coalescing behind a far left activist.

Agreed, Barnes was definitely a weak candidate and given even he almost pulled it off, a better nominee would have won. Didn't even have to be a moderate type, I think a progressive like Mark Pochan could have beaten Johnson. It's unfortunate Barnes didn't even have viable challengers in the primary. Furthermore, it was a huge miss that narrows the Democrats' already tight path to keep the majority in 2024.

Democrats wanted Ron Kind but he was too chicken to even defend his house seat.
Anyway, it's not Democrats fault that Republicans keep nominating and reelecting crazies like Johnson.

[GP270watch]

Ron Johnson is doing what his corporate overlords want which is no new legislation unless it's a "tax-break" or weakening the regulatory environment. People have to understand this. Increasingly the government is being made up by candidates who go to Washington D.C. to do nothing and stop progress and they raise a lo of money and get a lot of corporate backing to do just that.

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Meet The Wisconsin Billionaires Spending Big To Keep Ron Johnson In The Senate

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

It's a shame that Wisconsin re-elected this clown.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Distill the parties down to their current most basic beliefs: it's good faith vs. bad faith. I'll let you figure out which is which.

[Tekken_Guy]

This guy was incredibly vulnerable in 2022 but Democrats just had to have the brilliant idea of coalescing behind a far left activist.

Agreed, Barnes was definitely a weak candidate and given even he almost pulled it off, a better nominee would have won. Didn't even have to be a moderate type, I think a progressive like Mark Pochan could have beaten Johnson. It's unfortunate Barnes didn't even have viable challengers in the primary. Furthermore, it was a huge miss that narrows the Democrats' already tight path to keep the majority in 2024.

If Trump wins this year he’s DOA in 2028 (though he’s probably retiring by then anyways). Someone like Josh Kaul or Sarah Godlewski would easily win that seat.

[MasterJedi]

He’s a gold digger given a business by daddy in law. Can’t expect much form someone who never had to work for anything but acts like a superb businessman.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

WI is a swing state. Why do they keep re-electing this traitor?

[GeorgiaModerate]

Distill the parties down to their current most basic beliefs: it's good faith vs. bad faith. I'll let you figure out which is which.

From a Twitter post I saw during the SOTU: it's very evident that this country has one party that is interested in governing, and one that is not.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

If Trump wins everything is gonna get Filibuster

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

WI is a swing state. Why do they keep re-electing this traitor?

Across from him is Tammy Baldwin, one of the most progressive senators. Wisconsin is a swing state while simultaneously one of the most ideologically polarized. Ron Kind was the last member of Congress from there who could remotely be considered moderate.

Not to sound like I'm bothsidesing, but it's not as though Johnson is that more extreme than the median Senate GOPer. He just has a much bigger mouth.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Legislating is what you've been hired for. If you refuse to work, each Average Joe rightfully gets fired from the job.

The problem with Illegal Immigration is not one that requires a single new law, aside from laws that give strong disincentives to Sanctuary States and Sanctuary Cities.  There is money to build the wall.  With a stroke of a pen, Joe Biden could reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy for "asylum seekers", a policy that would weed out many of the folks who's "asylum" claims are really "I want a better life!" claims (something NO ONE is entitled to come to America for; it's a PRIVILEGE that we get to hand out based on criteria WE decide).  Joe Biden could resume construction of The Wall, and most people here that oppose The Wall oppose it because it works, and they don't want it to work for reasons they ought to articulate honestly.  Joe Biden could use his DOJ to defend the rights of citizens by pointing out that the elimination of cash bail and the refusal to cooperate with ICE in detaining illegal aliens charged with crimes are depriving law-abiding citizens of their life, liberty, and property without Due Process of Law. 

Biden doesn't do so because he is fine with what he's doing, and he's only noticing the problem now because the aggregate damage of those policies have begun to be felt by his own base, and because election time is here.  Now if the Border Legislation in this Bill included (A) more detention facilities, (B) more Judges, (C) more Courts, and (D) RAPID disposition of immigration cases, that would be something else.  But it involves none of that; it includes mechanisms to work and obtain ID and YEARS of waiting for disposition of their case.  None of that is fair to American citizens.  To be blunt, I don't care if Illegal Aliens think this is fair or not; their views and opinions should not count, period.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Legislating is what you've been hired for. If you refuse to work, each Average Joe rightfully gets fired from the job.

Louisiana's legislature has taken this concept to heart and is passing a large number of tough on crime bills that roll back parole and provide for all sorts of enhanced sentencing.  Were they hired to do that?  A majority of their constituents are fine with that.

No, I'm not for "tough on crime" legislation, any more than I'm for "eliminating cash bail".  We have enough laws in so many ways.  We need to honestly enforce the ones we have in most cases.

[pbrower2a]

Ron Johnson believes that legislation is to be in gridlock with a Democrat  is President or either House majority Congress is held by Democrats, and when Republicans hold the trifecta of the Fueh... excuse me, Trump as President and both houses, as Ron Johnson expects to be so in 2025, legislation is to be in lockstep on behalf of Project 2025 in which American returns in all political realities except perhaps Jim Crow practice in 1925. LGBT rights gone. Welfare, Medicare, and Social Security gone. People not owners of property will no longer vote. Environmentalism shattered. Unions exist only if employers want them, and those will be "company unions" that exhort workers to work longer and harder with fewer demands sotht they can deserve Pie-In-the-Sky-When-You-Die. Contraception? To be outlawed. Child labor permitted again. Safety regulations abolished. To the extent possible the public sector will be prvatized on the cheap to well-connected monopolists who then gouge. Government will promote fundamentalist Protestantism which well fits such.

Project 2025 is real, and the Right wants its dream of feudalism with high-tech means of enforcement.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Mitt Romney reportedly likes working with Johnson because he's an extremist idiot who genuinely believes this sh**t, meaning that there is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get quality to him.

[Vosem]

Mitt Romney reportedly likes working with Johnson because he's an extremist idiot who genuinely believes this sh**t, meaning that there is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get quality to him.

I don't think Johnson is an idiot by any means, but he is a very ideological man in a way which is not common to American legislators (who are often careerist politicians or, if they are wealthy men, looking for honors rather than to promote some hyper-ideological agenda), and he is a very sincere man in a way which is not common to politicians anywhere. I think the secret of his popularity (both among enough Wisconsin swing voters and among Republican leaders with very different personalities and outlooks) is in the latter fact -- Ron Johnson always says what he actually believes, not whatever is geared towards manipulating you. There are neither 'quiet parts' he avoids saying out loud, nor are there non-senatorial political ambitions.

[walleye26]

I absolutely hate the fact that Ron Johnson is our states’ senator. He is an incredibly big piece of s**t. He got lucky running in 2010, 16, and 22.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Barnes should of won in 22 but that's why Johnson will lose in 28 to Sara Rodriguez because Johnson overperform in a Midterm with IAN

[Vice President Christian Man]

I didn't think they'd resort to anarchy to own the libs.

[Sir Mohamed]

WI is a swing state. Why do they keep re-electing this traitor?

He was lucky to be running in favorable cycles every time so far. In 2022, he definitely was beatable of Dems didn't nominate a weak candidate.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Gallagher was the best hope Rs had to retain the seat now Johnson will lose if he runs against in a Prez yr 28

[Mr. Smith]

Most Palpatine-looking dude since Lieberman.