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The GOP’s Shutdown Theater: Lying Their Way to the Destruction of Government.
Republicans aren’t powerless to end the crisis: they’re addicted to lies, addicted to chaos, and determined to dismantle democracy itself. Surprisingly, on Wednesday morning GOP House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson decided to tell the truth for a change. During a softball interview with Fox News Senior Trump-Fluffer Maria Bartiromo, Johnson admitted what many of us already knew: shutting down the government wasn’t a failure or an accident, it was a long-desired goal of the Republican Party. The helplessness is an act, the theater is deliberate, and the damage is the point. And here’s the kicker: Republicans could stop this charade today. All it takes is 50 votes to change Senate rules and break the Democrats’ filibuster — the same nuclear option they’ve used repeatedly over the past few years to pack the courts with Trump’s judges and install his lackeys — and the government would reopen tomorrow without a single Democratic vote.
.-- The GOP’s Addiction to Lies: The Death of Truth and the Rise of Post-Fact Politics
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