Mike Johnson Vows to Hold Aid to California Hostage After Deadly Fires

https://newrepublic.com/post/190179/mike-johnson-aid-california-fires-condition

35 comments

  2. Canada should sweep in and play-up the annexation of the west-coast of the US …. lol.

  3. How pissed off are the MAGA people who lost everything gonna be?

  4. Next election, I’m voting for any and all Democrats that run on a ‘fuck the red states and fuck republicans’ platform.

  5. So…what they literally accused dems of doing to Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia

    Lol…lmao even

  6. Meanwhile, Republicans refuse to uphold actual laws that their leader repeatedly breaks.

  7. Every single American that supports this is a traitor to their nation in the purest sense.

  9. There seem to be about nine or ten California reps with an (R) after their name. Considering that there is a single vote majority in the House, Johnson must be hoping that all of those (R)s will vote against relief funding for their own state.

  10. Their comments go un-challenged in this article, and I hate it.

    They want to attach conditions to the money because of the failure of the Liberal California Government, and how they made this situation worse… according to the article.

    Which the article just reported and moved on, meaning that we are to accept that they did fail. Did they?

    How? I haven’t heard what their Horrible Failure was. I’ve heard that they have a female fire chief or something. That’s about it. The article doesn’t explain, and expects us to simply accept that there was a failure.

  11. You show them Mike. Let’s see what the clay of the earth real Americans get for continuing to elect Republicans like you.

    >Louisiana ranks as worst state in another study, with poverty, poor health among factors.

    >Among the Louisiana individual rankings within the report: Housing costs, 40th; percentage of population in poverty, 49th; income growth, 47th; adults in fair or poor health, 46th; and average weekly work hours, 45th.

    https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2024/08/12/another-study-ranks-louisiana-as-americas-worst-state-to-live-in-with-poverty-poor-health-education/74765606007/

  13. This is a slippery slope that could lead to the end. There is a less of a reason for federal cohesion when federal aid dollars become conditional. At a certain point it becomes logical to separate into a more cooperative political union.

  16. I don’t hate much, but I hate him. Just looking at Mike, his face. He’s the guy that got bullied on, now he wants to be the bully.

  17. I mean… it’s Ron Johnson, so we know he’s a dipshit, but this is particularly bad:

    > “These are decisions Californian Democrats have made.… It’s their fault.”

    What an asshole.

  18. Once again Mike Johnson demonstrates what a soulless piece of shit he is.

  19. Bend the world’s 5th largest economy to the Conservative will for political points?

    I’d like to see California find a way to just pay for it themselves and tell them to fuck off. 

  21. So California will be getting more help, unconditionally, from Mexico and Canada than from our own government. 

  22. Not just California, the entire nation:

    “The Speaker also confirmed that conversations are underway about potentially pairing the California disaster aid with a debt limit increase, a prospect Republicans discussed with Trump during a meeting at his Mar-a-Lago estate over the weekend.”

    [https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5083022-mike-johnson-california-fires-conditions-aid/](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5083022-mike-johnson-california-fires-conditions-aid/)

  24. So what I’m hearing is that Biden should have refused aid to Texas in 2021 due to the problems caused by its shitty power grid.  

  25. Mike Johnson is an absolute piece of human shit. That is all

  26. I am just about done with this shit. I would like to start a movement for Californians to withhold federal tax payments until the federal government proves that it can represent its people. They cant throw the whole state in prison…

  27. If you’re able Republican on this sub, fuck you for supporting these absolutely pathetic politicians.

  28. Mike Johnson is a piece of shit and Vows to Hold Aid to California Hostage After Deadly Fires. His state has no problem taking Federal Aid without conditions.

    Fixed the headline for you

  29. We are witnessing pure evil about to run the government

  30. Republicans are traitorous scum.

    Maybe California should stop contributing to federal taxes and cede from the constitution. They are the 4th largest economy in the world and should stop funding the economies of the shit hole red states who are last in ever measurable metric. I’m sure if the gravy train ran out in bum fuck Kentucky and Louisiana people wouldn’t be so emboldened to “own the libs” over a the effects of natural disaster.

    Pathetic – dems have their flaws but man they don’t go this low

  31. I have nothing constructive to say other than this is the purest definition of evil. The people running our country are the most villainous, bigoted, racist, selfish fucks ever.

  32. California needs to withhold sending federal taxes, they can use that money to help with the fires 🤷🏻‍♀️

  33. Blue states need to stop subsidizing red states citing this move by Johnson.

  34. Southern Californian here. Thankfully not in the path of the current fires. This rhetoric is pure evil. These people have no idea how intense and fast fires like this happen and spread.

  35. Frankly, if they do hold aid to my state, I am more than happy to write to Gov Newsom to withhold funds to the government since we pay more to subsidize the red states. I’m tired of being the bigger person and running into fascism, fuck that- make it hurt for them.

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