The Fool on the Hill

Mike Johnson’s shameless toadying

Johnson professes, often, to being a deeply religious man without seeming to know what that religion teaches. But his real religion is Donald Trump and he most resembles the sad losers we knew as kids who admired bullies and tried to emulate them, the sidekicks.

You might say he is the embodiment of the House caucus he leads, a party dominated by fear of a man who is systematically destroying the government they represent. Somehow they all caved in on the Big Beautiful Bill (its actual name) that slashes Medicaid, strips funding from SNAP (food stamps), and eliminates any actions to mitigate climate change, while extending Trump’s massive tax cut to the very wealthy and corporations.

It also, by the way, raises our national debt by an estimated $4 trillion which means we will now owe more than we earn as a nation, which is beyond insane. But this is the House version and it is subject to the Senate changing a lot of that, assuming they don’t follow the Republican House by swallowing any independence or oversight responsibility and giving Trump his every request.

At this point, as Trump applies tariffs randomly than changes them, then changes them again, and his DOGE boys eviscerate the government, we should all be questioning his financial acumen and his supposed business skills. The Big Beautiful Bill is the perfect extension of all his insane and contradicting policies.