House Speaker election/circus/all ages carnival - ongoing coverage

[Pens1566]

But Gaetz is right and each bill should be handled separately instead of bundling them all together.

Maybe, but that's an argument to have when you're not under the looming deadline of a govt shutdown.

 

[akugami]

Well, shit just got crazy fast with this new bible thumping speaker.

Apparently gun violence is due to teaching evolution in schools.

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/new-speaker-mike-johnson-blamed-school-shootings-on-the-teaching-of-evolution

I guess if we're going to go crazy, let's go full crazy. Not that half-hearted shit like with McCarthy.

 

[trenchfoot]

This new speaker, it seems the Republicans settled on a "middle of the road" kind of guy conservatively speaking. So if he's the proverbial not too much of something and not too much of the other compromise package deal the nutjobs and moderates finally settled on, it really does expose to the world how that party of theirs has gone off the rails and into a black hole where nothing can come back out. What comes out the other side though, well, we really should be prepared for something much more worse keeping in mind the self-destructive path the party has been on.

 

[Muse]

New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns​

Representative Mike Johnson comes from Louisiana oil country and has said he does not believe burning fossil fuels is changing the climate.

^ from the New York Times. He gets more donations from oil & gas than any other source.

From what I've been reading/hearing this guy is a total dick on every issue.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns​

Representative Mike Johnson comes from Louisiana oil country and has said he does not believe burning fossil fuels is changing the climate.

^ from the New York Times. He gets more donations from oil & gas than any other source.

Yup bring the crazy on. Gen Z sure does love burning oil and fuck da environment.
This needed to happen, we need a full on crazy to be at the helm simply so people finally realize going full crazy is a bad idea.

 

[fskimospy]

But Gaetz is right and each bill should be handled separately instead of bundling them all together.

Why should each bill be handled separately though? That would limit the ability to find compromises.

 

[fskimospy]

New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns​

Representative Mike Johnson comes from Louisiana oil country and has said he does not believe burning fossil fuels is changing the climate.

^ from the New York Times. He gets more donations from oil & gas than any other source.

From what I've been reading/hearing this guy is a total dick on every issue.

He's also a young earth creationist and thinks gun violence comes from a lack of prayer in schools or some shit like that.

 

[Muse]

He's also a young earth creationist and thinks gun violence comes from a lack of prayer in schools or some shit like that.

He's about the worst sort of person to have in positions of power. Completely backward agenda.

 

[fskimospy]

He's about the worst sort of person to have in positions of power. Completely backward agenda.

My gut tells me he's just a figurehead and will not have much power of his own. He has no fundraising apparatus, no strong connections to other powerful people, etc.

This is of course all very bad because he's going to be beholden to the far right, but I think that's the real problem - not that he's some god nut.

 

[hal2kilo]

Then why did Repubs vote McCarthy out?

Cause Gaetz said so, and he's wired directly to Trump's ass.

 

[eelw]

Why should each bill be handled separately though? That would limit the ability to find compromises.

Lol vs the massive 1,000 page bills this congress puts out

 

[Pens1566]

Lol vs the massive 1,000 page bills this congress puts out

So it'll be 12 bills each with 83.333 pages ... same result.

It's a red herring anyway.

 

[eelw]

So it'll be 12 bills each with 83.333 pages ... same result.

It's a red herring anyway.

Lol okay. Point taken

 

[Pens1566]

Lol okay. Point taken

I just think that the procedure of passing 1 bill (regardless of length) will take way less time than 12x the effort.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

My gut tells me he's just a figurehead and will not have much power of his own. He has no fundraising apparatus, no strong connections to other powerful people, etc.

This is of course all very bad because he's going to be beholden to the far right, but I think that's the real problem - not that he's some god nut.

Agreed probably some back room deal was fleshed out which is fine it’s the way our system is designed, where the new guy gets x, y and z done and done exactly how it was agreed upon. No way this dude literally came out of nowhere and had 100% of Republicans say “Yup this guy is perfect”.
I feel the moderate side got something and the looney side got something.

 

[eelw]

I just think that the procedure of passing 1 bill (regardless of length) will take way less time than 12x the effort.

But you get so much pork or poison pills in these massive bills

 

[Dave_5k]

But you get so much pork or poison pills in these massive bills

This way the republicans can add on 12x as many unrelated poison pills ~ every single appropriate bill will have attached anti-LGTBQ and anti-abortion riders as a minimum, plus whatever anti-woke issue of the day pops up for extra anti-everything legislation.

 

[Muse]

“People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.”

— Sam Harris

 

[cytg111]

100% this guy is a repressed sexual deviant. If he is not fucking goats its something else on that level of depraved.

 

[Pohemi]

Then why did Repubs vote McCarthy out?

But it was Democrats who voted him out! If they'd have just voted FOR him, he wouldn't have lost his seat! /s
Just ask Zor Prime without the /s lulz

My gut tells me he's just a figurehead and will not have much power of his own. He has no fundraising apparatus, no strong connections to other powerful people, etc.

This is of course all very bad because he's going to be beholden to the far right, but I think that's the real problem - not that he's some god nut.

He could find some measure of power pretty quickly by playing his cards extreme enough for TwoScoops and for the Freedumb Cockass imbeciles sharing the House with him.

And I'm not sure he'll need to be beholden to many/any...he IS the far right from the looks of it, or at least from one angle. A real Christofascist shithead, and wants to blame school shootings on science teachers. Yeeeeeah...

I sincerely hope he's just marked as the loon he is.

 

[Indus]

Yet MAGA is now speaker of the house.

Eventually more and more will get in.

Grass isn't always greener on the other side, re: booting Kevin McCarthy.

Isn't that good for you?

Or maybe it's not what you wanted..

Time to wake up!

 

[JEDI]

I don't think this will really encourage MAGA candidates. For one, this guy is probably going to be weaker than even McCarthy.
He's a throwaway speaker just to fill the seat, IMHO.

yup, throwaway.

 

[fskimospy]

But it was Democrats who voted him out! If they'd have just voted FOR him, he wouldn't have lost his seat! /s
Just ask Zor Prime without the /s lulz


He could find some measure of power pretty quickly by playing his cards extreme enough for TwoScoops and for the Freedumb Cockass imbeciles sharing the House with him.

And I'm not sure he'll need to be beholden to many/any...he IS the far right from the looks of it, or at least from one angle. A real Christofascist shithead, and wants to blame school shootings on science teachers. Yeeeeeah...

I sincerely hope he's just marked as the loon he is.

It never ceases to amaze me how the political media has infantilized Republicans. The basic idea seems to be that since we know Republicans are insane morons it’s the job of the Democrats to protect the country from these idiots.

 

[Ajay]

My gut tells me he's just a figurehead and will not have much power of his own. He has no fundraising apparatus, no strong connections to other powerful people, etc.

This is of course all very bad because he's going to be beholden to the far right, but I think that's the real problem - not that he's some god nut.

Same here. Still, he will blast out to the media about the Issues his beloved leader wants to hear. All hail }T{

 

[JEDI]

i Like Lincoln Project's latest tweet:
Johnson, speaker in name only

I dont see him being successful in controlling the wacko Repubs any more than McCarthy