Speaker Mike Johnson’s Christmas Tree

Congress Wants More Pork With Plenty of Bells and Whistles

Cartoon published 12/19/2024

Once again and as usual, the Democrats in Congress along with the traitorous Speaker Mike Johnson want to rush out and pass an outrageous spending bill—right before Christmas. The ‘Continuing Resolution Bill’ to fund the government until March 28th, 2025 provides a tree full of Christmas gifts for members of Congress and ‘coal’ for American citizens.

In fact, Congress seems to have utter contempt for taxpayers. They actually want to fund bioweapons labs to bring about ‘gain of function’ in order to bring about another health disaster. A lot of money was made from Covid and the criminals that brought it about want more—always more.

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Speaking of more money, Congressional Democrats claim they are underpaid and they want to make sure it’s possible for the poor, indigent politicians to perform duties without losing their shirts. Only this is all claptrap. Congress is chock full of rich people—the majority of them are millionaires.. The median minimum net worth of a politician in D.C. is $511,000. They aren’t exactly living paycheck-to-paycheck like too many Americans do. Some, such as Nancy Pelosi, got fabulously rich simply by ’serving’ the people. Yet they have the greedy gall to raise their yearly pay to $243,000 per year—a 40 percent increase at a time so many Americans are struggling to make ends meet.

Voters are fed up with the corruption, greed, and abuse of power by those in Washington D.C. They elected President Trump to clean up the mess and reduce the size of the government blob. The election was won decisively. Trump has a mandate. Still, Mike Johnson didn’t seem to get the message. He plays for the blue team. He now faces great pressure from the forces of MAGA and perhaps he will change his mind about the fat, bloated, pork-laden 1,500 plus-page omnibus bill rushed out by Johnson and the Democrats in order to prevent it from being thoroughly read ahead of a vote.

Here are some other ‘gifts’ in the bill:

• Democrats forced “Obamacare’ upon us all by law, but now they want to be exempted from it. How nice. Tells you everything about the Obamacare disaster doesn’t it? Everyone in Congress gets primo medicare while many citizens cannot afford Obamacare or any insurance at all. Congress makes sure they get perks, pensions, and exemptions. They consider themselves to be royalty of sorts—and we citizens are their subjects. They see us as rabble.

• Funding for a new NFL stadium in Washington DC which will cost $2 billion. Will taxpayers see a return on their money? Of course not. Profits will go to rich owners of NFL teams and kickbacks to the politicians. Trump needs to throw a challenge flag on this right away.

•Extension of the Global Engagement Center, criticized for its role in state censorship for another year.

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• A provision that hides the emails of Congress, so if a citizen journalists requests information from a Congressperson they won’t have access to their emails. More opacity from politicians will enable them to get away with more corruption.

Will Speaker Johnson deliver a ‘clean’ bill or will it remain loaded with Democrat giveaways? Whatever political credibility Johnson had built up, is gone now, and hopefully he will be gone too in January as the new Congress convenes.

Speaker Johnson wanted to sneak a Deep State Christmas tree past the voters, but people like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Rand Paul sounded the alarm.

Still, the chutzpah shown by Democrats in Congress show us they intend to remain unrepentant. They don’t care about what the American people want. They don’t care that Trump has a mandate. They will cling to their power and their old ways until they are no longer able to do so.

But this time, mean tweets have defeated Congress.

The people have spoken and the people say no.

Your elected representatives have heard you and now the terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024