And aw yea, this shows why. There are lots of unhappy people. They’re not shy about making it known. And they *are* making it known, in no uncertain form or fashion. The GOP shouldn’t do town halls, and what follows is why. From AlterNet:
As Wisconsin Public Radio reports, U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) faced a “hostile” crowd that shouted him down Thursday evening during his first town hall gathering since the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Amid catcalls and complaints over the new budget, several attendees expressed disappointment with the congressman, including one person who asked why he was not stopping ICE raids by masked agents targeting Wisconsin residents. “Why are they wearing masks, and why are they unidentified?” the audience member asked.
Why, indeed. This has been bugging me for a while. I can kinda understand masks, because doxxing, but no ICE identification? Excuse me? There is no way to know who is an actual agent and who is taking advantage of the sweeps to bully people. And, the Big Ugly Bill came in for its share of questions, too. Ha.
“We’ll probably agree to disagree on some of my answer here but what I view is the moral hazard created by the Biden administration by allowing the U.S. border to remain unsecur—” Steil began. At that point the Elkhorn High School auditorium erupted in a wash of boos as roughly 200 people, some carrying signs with slogans like “Resist,” “God is King no Others” and “Hands off SSI and Medicare” buried Steil in disapproval. “It’s completely fine that we disagree,” Steil told the crowd, looking shaken.
Gee, ya think? He ought to be shaken! He’s getting it from all sides. Constituents want to know *why* their people are just blindly going along with everything Trump says or does. That’s not working for your community. That’s being a slavering lap dog, showing you don’t have a mind or a conscience like the people who chose you. Nicely done.
“These Republicans have been instructed not to hold these town halls for a reason, because they’re going to produce spectacles like that. The electorate, at least the electorate that is willing to get up and go to a physical town hall and express their opinions, is deeply angry with Republicans.” Trump’s numbers on many facets of immigration policy is underwater. “And if you combine that with the Big Beautiful bill, with Medicaid, with the possibility that there’s going to be premium increases because of the Obamacare subsidies going away along with the issue of the cost of goods — that is a bad brew for Republicans.
Oh, yes, it is. Seems that Republicans didn’t think about the long game when they chose to follow their “messiah” with everything he wanted to do. They are thinking about it now. with the midterms coming up, even though Trump is trying to find a way to cancel or just cheat on those elections.
I’m pretty sure it’s not going to do much good. The people of America, except most of MAGA, are rising up and showing Congress how angry they are. Republicans now know why they were told not to do town halls. But if they do, well, don’t be surprised. By anything. We can sit back and enjoy.
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Who could have thought that wildly unpopular policies would turn out to be so wildly unpopular?
Forgive me, but *falls over laughing* Yet … this is our new normal. How did this happen? And *why* aren’t we doing anything about it?
Hey asshole…you still made out better than the victims of almost 600 mass shootings last year from the guns YOUR party put on the streets.
Indeed, he did. No one pulled a gun on him. It was just words. He’s lucky.