Chapter 1: Why did MAGA Mike Johnson shut down the House of Representatives?
MAGA Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, has abandoned Washington DC yet again. He has thrown the House of Representatives into recess. He shut down all work this week, and now we could be heading towards another government shutdown. Also, since the cold blooded murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretty, MAGA Mike Johnson has not made any comment.
He's fled Washington, D.C., and it's critical that the House of Representatives be in session because in the Senate right now, there is no way, as of right now, the Department of Homeland Security is getting any additional funding for ICE or Border Patrol after the cold-blooded murder of Alex Preddy. The Democrats have made it clear forever.
Finally, and we've been talking about this over and over again at the Midas Touch Network, that we believe it is disqualifying if you are a Democrat and voting to in any way give more money to ICE. ICE and Border Patrol should be abolished and they should be prosecuted.
But finally, Democratic leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, as well as lots of the other Democrats who were on the fence, came out this weekend after the murder of Pretty.
And they said they will not agree to what's being called a minibus package, this $1.2 trillion appropriations package, which slips in this additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol, in addition to this broader package that includes defense funding and all this other funding. They try to package it together, these MAGA Republicans do, in order to kind of put pressure. Oh, what?
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Chapter 2: What implications does Trump's cover-up have for government funding?
You're not going to help defense spending? And then we're going to go and campaign against you for not doing defense spending. And Democrats are like, no way are we funding ICE and Border Patrol after what just went down. And here's the thing. If there is any edits or adjustments to the appropriations package which passed at the end of last week in the House— So the House voted in favor.
There were seven Democrats. I'm sure you know it's a complete betrayal by these seven Democrats in the House. But the House Republicans, with those seven Democrats, voted to push forward the appropriations package, this $1.2 trillion package, which also includes this additional funding for Border Patrol and ICE. Then it gets sent to the Senate. But Maga Mike just said, you know what?
We're not showing back up this week. The House is out. So as you may know from how a bill becomes a law, although I'm not sure they teach this in school anymore because our civic education has been utterly destroyed, the bill has to be identical in the House and the Senate. So if there's any edits or alterations in the Senate, this bill does not become a law. It gets sent back to the House.
and Maga Mike Johnson, he's disappeared. He's shut down the House of Representatives. So there's no way to even get a, figure out this reconciliation or figure out how to make the legislation look the same because Maga Mike decided to take another vacation and Maga Mike has decided to go absolutely silent and say nothing as a result to this cold-blooded murder.
His last post, Maga Mike, was this post from 48 hours ago. Kelly and I enjoyed hosting our dear friend, Mrs. Erica Kirk, yesterday at the Capitol. What an inspiration she has been. So many countless millions of people around the world because her faith and courage.
So you do that 48 hours ago, then leave Washington, D.C., shut down the house, send it into vacation, and make no comment about the murder of Alex Preddy? Take a look, a lot of Republicans are now even speaking up. You have Senator Lisa Murkowski. She posted the following, the tragedy and chaos the country is witnessing in Minneapolis is shocking.
The killing of Alex Preddy, a US citizen by ICE agents, should raise serious questions within the administration about the adequacy of immigration enforcement training. and the instruction officers are given on carrying out their mission, lawfully carrying a firearm does not justify federal agents killing an American, especially as video footage appears to show after the victim had been disarmed.
A comprehensive independent investigation of the shooting must be conducted in order to rebuild trust in congressional committees need to hold hearings and do their oversight work. ICE agents do not have carte blanche in carrying out their duties.
But MAGA Mike took a vacation the same way MAGA Mike took a vacation and shut down the house, which then shut down the government back in the summer when he wanted to avoid a vote to release the Epstein files. I mean, aren't these people just the worst, these MAGA Republicans?
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Chapter 3: What was the reaction of Senate Democrats to the proposed funding for ICE?
But MAGA Mike has put the house in recess and he's sent everybody home. You want to take a look at what's going on even on state regime media? I mean, you have Maria Bartiromapist. When you have Maria Bartiromapist, Pissed you've lost the plot when she state regime media. Watch her here with James Comer and Maria Bartiromo is saying, I watched that video. What the hell is even happening here?
Watch this.
another individual is dead at the hands of border patrol. Let's be clear, we do not know if there was any pushback from this individual who was armed. We do not have evidence that he was waving a gun, doing anything to threaten border patrol. He had his phone and he was shooting, he was viewing and recording the incident. That's what he was doing, recording the incident.
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Chapter 4: How does the recent murder of Alex Preddy impact immigration enforcement discussions?
I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard. Okay.
Secretary Besant, thank you. And then you had Kristi Noem when she was asked about all of this. Kristi Noem was asked, you know, did he brandish a gun? And here's what Kristi Noem had to say. Here, play this clip.
Thank you so much for doing this and would welcome also any other guidance from Chief Scott. Did the 37 year old who had a license to carry, did he brandish a gun? And at what point did law enforcement retrieve the gun and also the magazines from him? Can you offer clarity on this individual?
showed up to impede a law enforcement operation and assaulted our officers. They responded according to their training and took action to defend the officer's life and those of the public around him. And I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign.
This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons and are using them to assault law enforcement officers.
Really? She said, I don't know of any peaceful protesters that show up with the gun. It's just interesting to take a look at what Kristi Noem said back on April 25th, 2013, when she was a member of Congress. Play this clip.
Because I wanted to talk about how the Constitution guarantees us the individual's right to keep and bear arms. And that's why I strongly support the Second Amendment. This right isn't abstract to me. It's part of my family's heritage and it's my state's culture. I'm a gun owner.
A member of the Congressional Sportsman's Caucus, I'll continue to fight and defend this right for the people of South Dakota and for our way of life. You know, the Second Amendment has been described in many different ways over the years, but some of those are such as it is there to support our natural rights of self-defense. It's there for resistance of oppression.
It even was described as a civic duty to act in concert to defense in the defense of the state.
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of MAGA Mike's absence during critical legislative sessions?
So if you are legally carrying a firearm and they take that off of your person and then utilize that as a justification to put rounds in your fucking back while you were laying face down on the pavement, that it was never about following the law. The second amendment doesn't matter anymore. You're fucked. So where's all the don't tread on me two-way gun-toting, boot-licking fucktards?
Or is it just when it's not on your fucking side? So I'm done playing the middle ground. I'm done making first aid videos that just might help. That can be seen by both sides. So fuck it. Fuck Trump. Fuck ICE. We are not mad enough.
And now I got to give a shout out to Democratic Congress member Kassar. You've seen him many times here on the Midas Dutch Network. And here he talks about what needs to be the Democrats non-negotiables when it comes to providing any additional funding for the DHS appropriations minibus package.
Here, play this clip. What I think we've all seen is that folks watching at home's voices have been heard. Until just recently, it seemed like that ICE funding bill was gonna make it through the Senate. But thankfully, Senate Democrats are saying, no, we cannot leave ICE and Trump's mass deportation machine in place.
And so now we need to ask our senators before they send the bill back to the House, in my view, for at least five non-negotiables. First, pull ICE and CBP out of Minneapolis. No more of this in Minneapolis or other American cities. Two, the masks need to come off. Three, no more arresting and deporting US citizens. or a full and thorough investigation of the killing of Ms. Good and Mr. Pretty.
And number five, we've got to end these indiscriminate arrest quotas and warrantless arrests and searches. This is the kind of things that all Americans should be able to agree on and all senators should insist on in this bill.
So the status right now is Senate is in session, Maga Mike goes on vacation, shuts down the House. So we'll see what the Senate does this week. Pay attention there. But if the Senate makes any alterations to the minibus, as it's called, the appropriations package that was passed in the House, it has to go back to the House. The House is shut down right now. So
It seems like you're heading towards a shutdown. Now, even if the Senate tries to extract or remove from its bill the Department of Homeland Security funding to try to get all the other funding through, it still has to go back to the House. And MAGA Mike has shut it down. I mean, just how pathetic is, do your job, just show up to the house.
And now the American people are gonna have to deal with another shutdown. This whole mega Republican apparatus is just so utterly pathetic. Do you see why Donald Trump's businesses have gone bankrupt so frequently? I think you see it right here, anyway. Thanks for watching. Please hit subscribe. You may think you're subscribed to this YouTube channel, but you may not actually be subscribed.
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