On Monday he criticized the legislation, which would provide an additional $60 billion of military aid for Ukraine, claiming it is “silent on the most pressing issue facing our country” in reference to illegal immigration.
This cynical motherfucker. Says you can’t fund Ukraine until we work on the border. Dems agree. Dems drafts a bipartisan bill that puts hard caps on the border and shuts it down when capacity is reached.
Then this guy tanks the border bill because Trumps wants border chaos so he can run on fixing it. Then he says Congress needs to address the border, after he just tanked a border bill that Congress could’ve easily passed.
Corrupt and selfish people like him are why US government is broken.
And the idiots who vote for these people
Fox. News. Cultists.
Posting on X, in response to comments from Johnson, who he branded an “idiot,” Kinzinger said: “Time for a discharge petition, or for three republicans to vote against every rule until he agrees. You will not win unless you fight fire with fire.”
That second option is probably a better path. If you recall, the Freedom Caucus pulled that shit on Kevin for a week or so, grinding the House to a halt, until he gave in to whatever tantrum they had at the time.
The House can’t do anything until a majority agrees on the rule first. The minority party typically votes against that, just to keep things interesting. So all we would need to do is find three or four Republicans willing to hold their own tantrum about the bill, and then nothing can get done until they get a majority back again.
This usually doesn’t happen, but then again the majority party doesn’t usually have a margin this small.
Or just investigate where the fuck all of Mikeys money is and hold him accountable for not reporting it like he should for years? Fucking Christofascist piece of petrified dog shit.
Or add the entire border bill as an amendment to the current bill or something.
Jeffries: There are more than 300 bipartisan votes in the House to pass the National Security bill today. It’s not too much to ask that we get a vote and actually let the House work its will as opposed to allowing Trump to work his will and block our National Security priorities
I can’t tell if you’re summarizing here, but that’s exactly what he’s doing. The speaker and majority leader decide what bills are allowed to be brought to the floor for a vote. The only way around that is a discharge petition. Jefferies can’t bring the bill to a vote himself. From the article:
“The legislation could also be brought to the floor via a discharge petition, which would require the support of 218 members, including at least four Republicans.”
The question is, will 4 Republicans break with Trump to support it?
It’s a Jeffries quote from a recent press conference…,
Oh, gotcha. There are a lot of pie in the sky “they should just do it” users on here, I can never tell.
will 4 Republicans break with Trump to support it?
There’s enough on record shit-talking their colleagues for being obstructionists, at least a few are probably being genuine.
Let’s fucking go.
How this creepy worm got so much power is beyond me.
Mike Johnson discharge would be called johnsonrhea.
…a reference to both Mike Johnson and Mike’s Johnson.
Has he already assigned it to committee? A discharge petition is used to extract a bill from being stuck in committee. One of the Speaker’s duties, however, is to assign bills to committees in the first place. The easiest way for him to block the bill is to simply never do this. It enters the House, and then it just sits there, going nowhere, forever. Unable to move to step 1.
Mike Johnson would then be what needs to be discharged.
Since the bill originated in the senate, this doesn’t appear to be a limitation.
The only thing making this guy less scary than Trump is the fact he’s not running for president… For now.
He’s no where near as scary. He’s a spineless MAGA yes man, who afaik has only drawn the line at literally letting the US currency tank due to defaulting on the national debt. And presumably, only because he doesn’t have a reliable foreign golden parachute to replace his current amassed wealth.
He’s only dangerous because he followed orders from dangerous people. Trump is way worse.
Mike Johnson’s political stances:
A nationwide abortion ban.
A nationwide ban on gay marriage.
Heavy restrictions on medical marijuana prescriptions and a ban on recreational marijuana.
Ending military aid to Ukraine.
Gay conversion therapy.
Federal law against gender affirming care for those under 18.
Eliminating funding for immigration and refugee assistance.
A federal version of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Prayer in public schools.
Laws making divorce more difficult.
Johnson does not believe in climate change or that Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. He is a young earth creationist believing the Earth was created between 6-10k years ago. He basically checks every box of a christofascist.
This guy deserves a lot more hate than he is currently getting. Yes, Trump is evil but that doesn’t mean Mike Johnson gets a free pass. When the Trump bubble bursts, he will become the new furher so get ready.
For a party that says it’s all about liberty, that’s sure a long list of things a person can’t do.
Yeah, you could be right. But the guy was a distant afterthought for house speaker. His only draw was that he was obedient to the orange one, in order to get the MAGA caucus, and the other Republicans were just desperate for anyone.
This is more of a marginally useful idiot, not the next face of the republican party. As much as I don’t understand Trumps apparent charisma, it’s apparent he had some. I don’t see any reception at all to Johnson besides “he is doing what we want”
On the other hand, he could well lose his job.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Tuesday the bill passed the Senate in a 70-29 vote, but it must also be approved by the House before President Joe Biden can sign it into law.
On Monday he criticized the legislation, which would provide an additional $60 billion of military aid for Ukraine, claiming it is “silent on the most pressing issue facing our country” in reference to illegal immigration.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Democratic Rep. Ami Bera wrote: "If Speaker Johnson won’t bring this critical aid package to the floor, I stand ready to sign a discharge petition to get the job done.
Speaking to CNN on Monday former Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, said: “Our leader, Hakeem Jeffries, said he has not ruled out using a discharge petition, which is a parliamentary maneuver to try and bring a bill to the floor.”
A number of pro-Ukraine conservatives have also suggested a discharge petition could be introduced, including Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican House representative and fierce Trump critic.
Posting on X, in response to comments from Johnson, who he branded an “idiot,” Kinzinger said: "Time for a discharge petition, or for three republicans to vote against every rule until he agrees.
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Mushroom dicked people worldwide must be ecstatic knowing there are in fact people who will gleefully fellate their weirdly shaped johnson for nothing but headpats and cheeto dust.
Epstein didn’t thrill himself
Mikey needs a polonium injection
Democrats propose blah blah blah and House-Nazi-Mike will instantly kill it to suck off Tump.
Big whoop, I don’t care,
MOVING ON….
let me know if he ever drown on Trump cum or if/when the Dems ever get control of the House, because it will be genocid and gridlock until the elections in Nov, and nothing will happen until then with the Nais backing bills in the House.
