The positive is that 2024 provides a stark choice.
If Trump is President, Johnson is speaker of a decent majority and the Senate goes to Mitch it’s going to be one hell of a term!
Are we already betting on how many mooches he lasts?
> [Republicans] failed to vet him. If they had, they’d have discovered that he was Democrats’ dream speaker candidate. On practically every issue on which House Republicans will be vulnerable in 2024, Johnson takes an extreme, maximalist position.
Saved you a click.
Cant help it but the guy’s name reminds me of those stupid “Mike Hunt” crank calls. Eg: is Mi’ Johnson out in the parking lot”?
So how many sleeps we giving this one?
Because he’s a tool who believes in fables and anti LGBTQ?
Will be interesting to see what his response would be if Boebert/MTG/etc step out of line and do something “unchristian”. What’s his stance on Santos? Will he encourage him to be thrown out, just because he’s gay? And how the hell can he endorse Trump?
I’m sure somewhere in the next 452 attempts they’ll find a competent MAGA
What we are seeing is the implosion of the GOP, but unfortunately they are taking the country down with them.
This is a “why Mike Johnson will be bad for the Republican party” article, not a “why his days may be numbered” article unless the whole point is that the author expects the R’s to lose the House in 2024 which would effectively end his speakership.
What justifies the optimistic position that the Republican Party will suffer for being “pulled” down a path of facism? Half of America is primed to accept overturning elections, half of the power structure of bought and paid for media has primed Americans to accept this extremism as normal.
No idea presented today is so radical republicans are “guaranteed” to lose for repeating it, the damage is done with the exposure to these ideas being normalized.
Do Americans this generation think there somehow are immune to the pressures that allowed the government to be captured during the Jim Crow era? Do they think that they somehow superior to political manipulation?
These articles miss the forest for the trees. Republicans lose a few elections, but push this country so far towards undemocratic principles, such as elections oversite being partisan, that they risk democracy itself.
the countries days are numbered if half of the political power structure pulls the Republican Party towards extremism. We will all pay the price for this, a house divided against itself cannot stand, and this house speaker will prove that
He is basically a MTG packaged in a geek wearing glasses.
This is exactly why I haven’t fed into all the “the new speaker is so extreme, be terrified” headlines. It’s hard to be terrified when they can’t get anything done and half of the republicans have a collective IQ that adds up to less than the number of states in our country. They will burn themselves to the ground and I will enjoy it.
As long as this number is small and decreases daily I’m fine with that
It would interesting to find out how he got this far but even more interesting, how has this person stayed out of a clinical mental health care unit?
There’s definitely some standout weirdos in your politics but this guy isn’t odd, he’s in need of serious treatment.
Doubt it.
I saw on TikTok that a man from NOLA has come forward claiming that he has a homosexual relationship with his holiness Mike Johnson.
Cuz the Rapture is imminent, I’m guessing?
At least according to doofus whackjobs like Mike Johnson.
Also, according to Brian Tyler Cohen, Mike Johnson is also a pale shadow of McCarthy in fundraising. McCarthy raised something like 500 million. By contrast, Mike Johnson has about 83k in leadership fund. Now, these numbers could have been cherry picked to tell the story desired but I do think he probably doesn’t raise funds like a more sober and established politician would.
You mean the guy who funds religious brainwashing camps for prepubescent teenagers is in a position of power of the conservative values party?
People are icked about how creepy this guy has been his whole career. He is *obsessed* with children.
Because he is a Bible thumping bigot who is subservient to his hyper-wealthy benefactors? And that really isn’t in vogue right now?
Color me surprised.
Tax churches
This whole thing is like the Republicans looked at British politics and were like “Yes, please. We’ll have some of that.”
Dude believes the Noah’s Ark story was real.
He can fuck off.
Is it because he’s a psychopath that doesn’t believe dinosaurs existed because the Bible but also thinks compassion is for losers while telling us how much he loves a shepherd who preached love and forgiveness?
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The positive is that 2024 provides a stark choice.
If Trump is President, Johnson is speaker of a decent majority and the Senate goes to Mitch it’s going to be one hell of a term!
Are we already betting on how many mooches he lasts?
> [Republicans] failed to vet him. If they had, they’d have discovered that he was Democrats’ dream speaker candidate. On practically every issue on which House Republicans will be vulnerable in 2024, Johnson takes an extreme, maximalist position.
Saved you a click.
Cant help it but the guy’s name reminds me of those stupid “Mike Hunt” crank calls. Eg: is Mi’ Johnson out in the parking lot”?
So how many sleeps we giving this one?
Because he’s a tool who believes in fables and anti LGBTQ?
Will be interesting to see what his response would be if Boebert/MTG/etc step out of line and do something “unchristian”. What’s his stance on Santos? Will he encourage him to be thrown out, just because he’s gay? And how the hell can he endorse Trump?
I’m sure somewhere in the next 452 attempts they’ll find a competent MAGA
What we are seeing is the implosion of the GOP, but unfortunately they are taking the country down with them.
This is a “why Mike Johnson will be bad for the Republican party” article, not a “why his days may be numbered” article unless the whole point is that the author expects the R’s to lose the House in 2024 which would effectively end his speakership.
What justifies the optimistic position that the Republican Party will suffer for being “pulled” down a path of facism? Half of America is primed to accept overturning elections, half of the power structure of bought and paid for media has primed Americans to accept this extremism as normal.
No idea presented today is so radical republicans are “guaranteed” to lose for repeating it, the damage is done with the exposure to these ideas being normalized.
Do Americans this generation think there somehow are immune to the pressures that allowed the government to be captured during the Jim Crow era? Do they think that they somehow superior to political manipulation?
These articles miss the forest for the trees. Republicans lose a few elections, but push this country so far towards undemocratic principles, such as elections oversite being partisan, that they risk democracy itself.
the countries days are numbered if half of the political power structure pulls the Republican Party towards extremism. We will all pay the price for this, a house divided against itself cannot stand, and this house speaker will prove that
He is basically a MTG packaged in a geek wearing glasses.
This is exactly why I haven’t fed into all the “the new speaker is so extreme, be terrified” headlines. It’s hard to be terrified when they can’t get anything done and half of the republicans have a collective IQ that adds up to less than the number of states in our country. They will burn themselves to the ground and I will enjoy it.
As long as this number is small and decreases daily I’m fine with that
It would interesting to find out how he got this far but even more interesting, how has this person stayed out of a clinical mental health care unit?
There’s definitely some standout weirdos in your politics but this guy isn’t odd, he’s in need of serious treatment.
Doubt it.
I saw on TikTok that a man from NOLA has come forward claiming that he has a homosexual relationship with his holiness Mike Johnson.
Cuz the Rapture is imminent, I’m guessing?
At least according to doofus whackjobs like Mike Johnson.
Also, according to Brian Tyler Cohen, Mike Johnson is also a pale shadow of McCarthy in fundraising. McCarthy raised something like 500 million. By contrast, Mike Johnson has about 83k in leadership fund. Now, these numbers could have been cherry picked to tell the story desired but I do think he probably doesn’t raise funds like a more sober and established politician would.
You mean the guy who funds religious brainwashing camps for prepubescent teenagers is in a position of power of the conservative values party?
People are icked about how creepy this guy has been his whole career. He is *obsessed* with children.
Because he is a Bible thumping bigot who is subservient to his hyper-wealthy benefactors? And that really isn’t in vogue right now?
Color me surprised.
Tax churches
This whole thing is like the Republicans looked at British politics and were like “Yes, please. We’ll have some of that.”
Dude believes the Noah’s Ark story was real.
He can fuck off.
Is it because he’s a psychopath that doesn’t believe dinosaurs existed because the Bible but also thinks compassion is for losers while telling us how much he loves a shepherd who preached love and forgiveness?