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rzemanfl

(31,071 posts) Wed Oct 22, 2025, 04:34 PM Oct 22

I am not and never have been a fan of Facebook [View all]

but there is a person there named Tonnocus McClain who posted a multi-page argument that Mike Johnson has no intention of reconvening the House of Representatives. I've read his argument via a cobbled together cut and pasted then printed document. I understand Facebook has taken the post down more than once. It is pretty convincing. If someone here has a working link to the document, please post it. Here is a brief quote from it:

By weaponizing time, Johnson found that the soft underbelly of the republic isn't ideology or partisanship-it's process. Through the manipulation of something as ordinary as the congressional calendar, the United States has stumbled into the unacknowledged suspension of its own legislative branch.

Scary stuff.
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ON EDIT. SEE POST 5 BELOW FOR THE FULL TEXT. POST 11 BELOW IS NEARER TO THE TOP OF THE THREAD AND HAS THE FULL TEXT.

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I am not and never have been a fan of Facebook [View all] rzemanfl Oct 22 OP

Here's a link Nittersing Oct 22 #1

I don't have an account. rzemanfl Oct 22 #3

Click the x on top right of the sign-on pop up and read it. Gore1FL Oct 22 #8

Thanks. I was able to read the text, but not the comments. rzemanfl Oct 22 #13

here is the entire post (there is no copyright involved) Celerity Oct 22 #11

Thanks so much. What are your thoughts on this? rzemanfl Oct 22 #12

I was spooked. But a lawyer I follow named Anne Mitchell doesn't believe it. pnwmom Oct 22 #17

'the United States has stumbled into the unacknowledged suspension of its own legislative branch' elleng Oct 22 #2

They'll be back within a few weeks, good or bad. Silent Type Oct 22 #4

Here is what it says dweller Oct 22 #5

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!! rzemanfl Oct 22 #7

I believe the House has had pro forma sessions during shutdown misanthrope Oct 22 #20

Delaying the Epstein Event Horizon. usonian Oct 22 #6

He will fail because lawsuits will push him aside. Baitball Blogger Oct 22 #9

The Federal Courts ran out of money on the 17th of this month. rzemanfl Oct 22 #10

mark to return to tomorrow rurallib Oct 22 #14

I'm not a fan of the telephone companies but PCIntern Oct 22 #15

They say I can only open a Facebook account with my phone. rzemanfl Oct 22 #16

I've never done FB on my phone. nt pnwmom Oct 22 #18

That's what they say now. rzemanfl Oct 22 #23

The orange turd, johnson, the repuke and his corporate worshippers want to collapse our government and end it kimbutgar Oct 22 #19

Johnson didn't figure this out on his own relayerbob Oct 22 #21

I don't think I gave him any credit. rzemanfl Oct 22 #22

I understood you didn't write that article relayerbob Oct 22 #24

"Johnson didn't figure this out on his own"..Tnx for the heads up and I was wondering the same thing... mitch96 Oct 22 #25

yup. the right wing fascist benefit more from it being closed than open. and here we are. nt Javaman Oct 24 #26

Every day they don't swear in rzemanfl Oct 24 #27