How Speaker Mike Johnson Quietly Finished Trump’s Coup
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Why the House of Representatives Is on Ice—and Democracy With It
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Let’s start with facts, not Fox News fantasies: Speaker Mike Johnson just helped Donald Trump grab more raw power than any recent president—not by storming the Capitol with a bunch of red-hatted seditionists, but by shutting Congress down and letting Trump act with basically zero oversight. Congratulations, MAGA: You did what a mob with zip-ties and bear spray couldn’t.
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A Shutdown by Design, Not By Accident
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Don’t be fooled. Johnson didn’t “accidentally” send the legislative branch into an endless recess a month ago. He did it because Trump wanted him to. Congress—the House in particular—is the only branch that can leash the presidency, make laws, and control spending (see: Constitution, Article I, for anyone over at Truth Social). But with the House in ‘permanent vacation mode’, Trump can run the country from his golden throne, with more power than Putin in a bad mood.
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Checks? Balances? LOL.
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Want to hear the punchline? There’s no law, no clause, no secret handshake that lets the House vanish for over three days without the Senate’s consent (Article I, Section 5, Clause 4). Didn’t even happen during the literal Civil War. But it’s happening now—while Trump’s gutting the White House to build, I kid you not, a replica of Putin’s Winter Palace’s Grand Throne Room to host billionaire shindigs on your dime. (Forget “draining the swamp”—it’s more “installing an indoor lagoon.”)
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Why Does Trump Care If Congress Works?
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Because Congress being “frozen” means zero oversight. Nobody left to ask why ICE is violating civil rights (documented, by the way). No one to hold hearings on the “Epstein Ballroom” fiasco. Nada on those dead in the Caribbean, thanks to Trump-authorized ops (yep, that’s documented too). Literally zero roadblocks, as long as Johnson keeps his Calendar of Democracy set to “TBD.”
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How They Pulled Off the Deep Freeze
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Johnson’s move isn’t just cowardly; it’s unconstitutional. Keeping the chamber on indefinite recess without Senate sign-off is flat-out illegal. This is government paralysis by calendar—a procedural coup. Here’s the hellish irony: If you shut down Congress long enough, nobody even remembers what oversight looks like. No hearings. No votes. No pressure on the Trump cronies (Noem, Miller, Patel, Bondi, the whole sorry cast of grifters). It’s like someone pressed pause on democracy so long it forgot how to breathe.
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The Not-So-Fine Print: Power Flows Up
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Don’t let anyone tell you the Senate can save us. Every spending bill—every check, every investigation—has to start in the House. If the House is out to lunch, the president isn’t just unchecked; he’s making the lunch menu and billing you for it.
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So, Who’s Cheering?
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The only real winners here are MAGA loyalists who want a king, not a president. Mike Johnson, a man so submissive he makes Ted Cruz look defiant, has erased oversight so thoroughly, Vladimir Putin himself must be cackling into his borscht. And if you’re thinking, “This can’t possibly last,” remember: Once despots get a taste for unchecked power, they don’t exactly cough it up easily.
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What’s Next?
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Unless Johnson suddenly remembers what century it is (or grows a moral spine), this is America’s new normal: Trump rules, Congress drools. If we let this stand, there’s no “next election miracle” coming to save us. Our checks and balances are one Fox News panic attack away from being permanently out of order.
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No, This Isn’t Part of the ‘Government Shutdown’—It’s Worse
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Just to be clear, this isn’t about the standard government shutdown. This is about the Speaker turning off Congress because Donald told him to—leaving the House, and the country, at the mercy of the worst would-be dictator in modern U.S. history. And, oh yeah: If you think pardoned January 6 criminals should ever have been let off the hook? I’ve got a White House Ballroom to sell you.
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Sources: Because Facts Still Matter
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- Milwaukee Independent
- Hartmann Report
- NPR
- Politico
- CNN Politics
- Brookings
- The Atlantic
- Cornell Law: Constitution Article I
- The Guardian
- Slate
- ProPublica
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