Eeeeeek, there’s a mouse in the house! Oh wait—it’s just Little Mike Johnson. He’s harmless.

Mike is Speaker of the House of Representatives, which used to be a vital part of America’s national government. The Constitution empowers the House to oversee the federal budget, public policies, and the actions of presidents. But Johnson has meekly surrendered these core powers (and his own relevance) to Trump’s autocratic executive branch.

Mike even failed to be Squeaker of the House, for he issued no peep of protest as the authority of elected lawmakers was seized and pocketed by a corrupt chief executive claiming that he’s the law of the land. As Rep. Jamie Raskin put it, instead of standing against imperious one-man rule, Johnson applauded, reducing himself to Trump’s “little buddy.”

Even more pathetic is seeing Johnson and the GOP’s entire congressional caucus kowtow to Elon Musk, sheepishly obeying the right-wing dictates of an over-privileged, South African finagler who’s never been elected by anybody to anything. Having bought his way into Trump’s golden orbit of billionaires in the last election, Musk is now prancing around as America’s acting president, while Johnson cheers.

But Trump, Musk, and Little Buddy have a problem that they don’t seem to grasp: “We the People” simply don’t support what they’re doing to us. It’s now obvious that they’re waging a billionaires-know-best, chainsawing rampage against public programs that benefit us commoners—especially any program that protects us from the unbounded greed of billionaires like… them.

This is Jim Hightower saying… These corrupt, wannabe monarchs have been sipping their own bathwater, thinking it’s champagne. But the public is onto them… and on the move against them.

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