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Republican Congresswoman Greene launches effort to oust Johnson following passage of Ukraine aid
(kyivindependent.com)
Please make her go away
this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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In all seriousness, it seems like a disproportionate chunk of the time that I see a House member doing something wacky, its from Georgia.
Some years back, I remember discussions about the US reinforcing the Guam garrison, and Hank Johnson in Congressional hearings saying that he was worried that Guam was going to tip over and capsize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
He's still in office up there, but he's at least pretty laid back. He replaced Cynthia McKinney, who was definitely not laid back and infamous for her own brand of conspiracy craziness (other end of the political spectrum from Marjorie Taylor Greene, but wacky as well).
There has got to be something in the water in northern Georgia, because the "House Representative going bonkers" quota is pretty disproportionately represented in the news that I've seen out of there.
And it's not because I'm in Georgia or thereabouts and just seeing local political spatting -- this is stuff that makes national news.
Have we checked all the voters for hookworm?
What are you, some kind of socialist? If we start giving people free tests, they'll be asking for free treatment next!
Next thing you know, they’ll insist we check all the hookers for voteworm too!
Florida gets a lot of shit but our neighbors to the north are fuckin weird man. Atlanta and Savannah are cool but the rest of Georgia can get fucked
Hank was a good guy overall, but the tipping over thing remains possibly the absolute stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say. Its just so damn stupid.
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She barely won her seat during a year that Republicans were going to "win big". No way she holds on in 2024.
We've been through our share of "no way"s.
I think you are thinking of Boebert in Colorado. I think Greene is in a very safe seat.
Boebert ... Greene
Wait, aren't those the same person who occasionally dons glasses and changes her wig/nametag?
I have not checked, is there a viable candidate running against her? Any candidate running against her? Isn't her district insanely red?
There’s no Republican challenger, so it’s between her and a Democrat in a sparsely populated Republican district. Don’t hold your breath.
Was it Green or another psycho that won because their supporters harassed the opponent so badly that it ruined his marriage and he dropped out?
I’ll be curious if the democrats step in. Johnson did the right thing getting the bill passed, but he’s still a garbage human being and a terrible leader.
I thought I saw a headline last night that the democrats in the house said they would vote to table any effort to remove Johnson.
They will because Johnson has enough of a "business as usual" facade to convince them that he isn't just as insane as the rest of the GOP.
Establishment corporate dems simply don't understand the situation the country is in, they still believe they can go back to one-hand-washes-the-other style corporate politics despite what they've seen since 2016.
They don't get that they're up against idealogues, not people simply looking to exploit the office for the lobbying paychecks and insider trading.
Apparently Johnson has not yet broken a deal with the Dems like past speakers, so he is about a trustworthy as a GOP member can be.
Tabling a motion is keeping the status quo. If that somehow fails then there is zero chance the Dems will vote for Johnson to keep his spot as he can't keep a deal if he can't keep his position as speaker.
Strictly because he's more honorable than Kevin McCarthy & hasn't lied to the Democrats yet.
McCarthy was even told that Dems would help him keep the Speaker role if he just asked for their help. He didn't want to, and didn't, and he got voted out. Pride comes before a fall.
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They have already said that they would: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-house-speaker-mike-johnson-motion-to-vacate-b2537337.html
She's just spewing shit, as always.
He is terrible, but he's better than any replacement, he's shown a willingness to work with Dems, and most importantly, if he ever breaks any promises, the Dems can sick him to the wolves.
They’d save him. He’s the least awful among a menagerie of traitors.
Who could they possibly replace him with who wouldn’t also be a dumpster fire?
Article I read a couple of days ago said they will. But who knows? There's no love lost between the parties.
It is pragmatic to keep the House from being without a speaker, and he hasn't broken a deal yet. They are trying to keep the House functioning somewhat by tabling a vote, but if it came to a vote for a new speaker all the Dems will most likely vote Jeffries again.
Apparently Anna Paulina Luna says if the motion to vacate hits the floor several Republicans will immediately resign, giving the house to the dems. Honestly, that's probably the best thing the Republicans could do. The dems would have to pass legislation immediately enshrining reproductive rights into law or they'd look like chumps. That would energize the conservative base and depress the liberal vote. The Republicans intend to institute one party rule if they win the presidency and rule by fiat. If they have to accept six months of abortion being legal in order to go full Handmaid's Tale, I think they would take that bargain.
It's basically political fanfiction but imagine if what you say happens but the Democrats also expand the Supreme Court and pass new voting rights laws. They could guarantee Republicans lose and it wouldn't even be unfair.
There's no way they'd expand the court. They don't have the votes in the senate. Voting rights laws maybe but I wouldn't count on it.
This.
As soon as Dems gain control of the house, Joe Manchin and “independent” Sinema will peak their head to block anything and everything in senate. Those two assholes single handedly squandered every opportunity during 2021-22 when Dems had the trifecta.
Manchin is also retiring so you might be able to bribe him into voting for good stuff. Sinema will fuck us over just because though. It's her kink.
Manchin has his post-Senate career ahead of him and he’s not going to throw that away just to help people.
If only people like them were subject to "official presidential duties"
Please let this happen.
They won't touch abortion. It is too useful for their elections at the moment. 😭
Abortion protections will get blocked in the Senate, so the Dems will still have the issue to run on either way.
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She still works there!?
Works is a pretty loose term. She exists there and leaches off our tax dollars. I'm not sure I would call her constant stream of putrid speech "working."
Are you kidding? She's one of Putin's top performers.
She got re-elected in 2022. Her constituents see her antics and think it accurately represents them.
Election in November.
If by work you mean stoking the culture wars. Yes.
Any allegations that Greene is transparently working as a Russian agent are entirely unsubstantiated.
You're right. She's been entirely opaque about it for quite some time.
It's an extremely obscure conspiracy theory that happens to be one of Putin's big talking points. He brought it up in the Tucker Carlson interview. How the fuck does MTG know anything about ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia and what language they speak? She can barely string a sentence together herself.
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I really fucking wish that people in the government would actually do things that positively impact the lives of their constituents. All these political pissing contests are tiring. What feels worse is that I, nor anyone not residing in the states of these nutbags, have the power to vote them out. We have to sit back and hope that people in other states come to their senses and stop their vitriol from spreading and infecting more and more sane people. It’s like the MAGA-ots are actually the Goa’uld from Stargate. Fucking parasites, the lot of them!
Margie, you’re playing with fire! Don’t let yourself get burned. We all love your boorish behavior. /s
Thoughts and prayers
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