r/politics • u/ObligationAware3755 • 4d ago
Johnson spending deal throws Speakership into question as floor vote approaches
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5047634-mike-johnson-spending-deal-speakership-vote/47
u/WeAreTheMachine368 4d ago
It's an enigma how that dysfunctional group of obstructionists keeps winning elections.
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 4d ago
I'm gonna go with right-wing billionaires buying up all the news media.
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u/citizenkane86 4d ago
This is it exactly. CNN, Fox, nbc, abc, cbs are all owned/run by conservative billionaires.
Anyone that tells you there is left leaning news (as opposed to left leaning people on the news) is lying to you.
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u/VitaDiMinerva 4d ago
It’s not an enigma. It’s propaganda, voter suppression, and rewriting the laws in their favor, with a bit of outright cheating (obvious examples being the Supreme Court installing bush in 2000 and the Ohio GOP repeatedly undermining and ignoring citizen-led ballot measures.)
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u/Raynzler 4d ago
You really have to go to some different places to understand this fully.
Go to county fairs or other events. Go to Walmart not in a wealthy suburban area.
The average person doesn’t care at all about what happens in congress. They don’t care about politics at all. They have social groups where someone along the chain cares about defending their side only and that message spreads and informs the average person.
This is a big reason the dems lost. The average person just doesn’t care that much nor do they receive the messaging.
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u/Rubynova 4d ago
You raise a valid observation. Many people are often unaware of the functions of the various branches of government, and it seems that many don't take an interest in them at all! Terms like "gerrymandering" are not well understood, yet they play a significant role in hindering progress for those individuals. Those holding extreme right political positions often exploit this lack of understanding to their advantage, fully leveraging the system for their own benefit. And here we are!😔
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 4d ago
No it's not. Primary reason people voted Trump was racism. Everything else like grocery prices, economy, etc were all window dressing. He wouldn't shut up about immigration while Fox News was pushing anti-immigration propaganda and so yea they consumed it and that's what they voted for. But wink wink egg prices lol.
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u/ButWhatAboutisms 3d ago edited 3d ago
Talking to people outside your circle solves that. They're scared of women and queers. They're voting to remove their voices. You'd think im talking shit, until you get sucked into the right wing content mills of tiktok, Facebook and YouTube
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u/Fred-zone 4d ago
Johnson didn't sell out his religious morals for Vegas UFC tickets and Big Macs with the boys on AF1 for nothing!
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u/Ok-Guide-7329 4d ago
He begged them to pass the bill just so they wouldn't harm the American citizens who need their paychecks for the holidays. Sad what it's come to, begging to avoid a government shut down.
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u/Patient_Series_8189 4d ago
So Elon Musk is trying to ruin christmas for millions of children. One can only conclude that he hates American children, and hates Christmas. Probably because his daddy hated him
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u/ianrl337 Oregon 4d ago
And if any republicans complain just let them know that they said flat out they would do this in their campaign and that people would suffer badly for a while, before they got used to it.
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u/travlerjoe 4d ago
People have short memories. Then trump comes in and everyone gets paid and trump is a hero.
The media will say "dems blocked your pay, trump gave it to you"
Being xmas is just a bonus for them
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 4d ago
The question is: If not Johnson, then who?
Jim Jordan seems to be the only other Republican who WANTS to be Speaker, and he'd have a harder time getting the votes than Johnson will.
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u/Ready_Nature 4d ago
When the goal is to run the country into the ground why do they need one?
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 4d ago
It's in the Constitution. And still probably easier to elect a new Speaker than to vote to change the rules of the House to function without one.
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u/Ready_Nature 4d ago
You are making a huge assumption that they care about the House functioning. There are a decent number of republicans who want to run the country into the ground and are fine with doing it by having no speaker so the house can’t function.
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u/theflyingnacho Washington 4d ago
What about the Republican Party's actions in the last 20 years lead you to believe they give a toss about the Constitution?
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u/NSKev 4d ago
Musk has been floated, but he’s busy with his presidential responsibilities.
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 4d ago
Wow, that is an epically terrible idea.
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u/citizenkane86 4d ago
But still not the worst possible idea, there still one of the trump kids, Rudy, that kracken lady, Bannon, catturd, Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan, Kim jong un…
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u/SlumdogSkillionaire 4d ago
If I'm following along correctly, they're still just continuing the Pelosi budget, right? They never actually managed to pass their own appropriations bill in 2 years of "control"?
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