This is great news since it officially establishes that Johnson has a dependency on Democrats now. Which gives Dems more leverage because if Johnson refuses to cooperate on something in the future than Dems could bring a motion to vacate the chair.
Yeah, I was frustrated with Greene saying “Democrats saved him,” because with the infinitesimal majority they have, it would be the Democrats who ousted him if they voted the other way. Republicans basically have no agency in their choice of Speaker anymore, thanks largely to the chaos and dysfunction caused by her faction.
Wake up, babe. New voting coalition just dropped.
It also shows how toothless the extreme MAGA side is. Democrats and moderate Republicans made bipartisan deals to get aid passed and this troglodyte can’t abide compromise. She genuinely thinks compromise is evil.
I think you’re giving her too much credit. She just wants chaos and attention.
Correct. She must be fuming because she thought she had that kind of power - and she doesn’t.
I have a small sliver of suspicion that many Democrats voted to help Johnson in order to put her in her place.
I know as a rule of thumb anything Marjorie is for I am most likely against.
Broken clocks, aside.
Oh, Margie! Not again! I want you to be a success! I want you to carry the biggest guns and drown your enemies in the swamp! Can you please be a little bit crazier but in ways that don’t get you snubbed by your party? OH MARGIE!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned colleagues Wednesday calling for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, but lawmakers quickly rejected it.
One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as speaker.
It was the second time in a matter of months that Republicans have tried to oust their own speaker, an unheard-of level of party turmoil with a move rarely seen in U.S. history.
Johnson of Louisiana marched on, saying he had been willing to take the risk, believing it was important for the U.S. to back Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and explaining he wanted to be on the “right side of history.”
In a highly unusual move, the speaker received a boost from Democrats led by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, whose leadership team had said it was time to “turn the page” on the GOP turmoil and vote to table Greene’s resolution — almost ensuring Johnson’s job is saved, for now.
Trump also weighed in after Johnson trekked to Mar-a-Lago for a visit, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee giving the speaker his nod of approval.
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Haha, what a fucking loser.
We didn’t need proof that they’re all the same but here we can see Democrats voting to keep a christofascist in power so Israel can continue a genocide. America, your vote really does not matter but maybe you feel good “participating” in this reality show? We all deserve a little something to make us feel good every few years.
ok
Your world sounds interesting.
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You are not making sense. In what bubble does what you said sound like English? [Edit: it was this bubble all along! Looks like I made a wrong turn on my way out of Reddit And landed on a State Department website. Is my karma still good or did they wipe it?]
What’s the matter, English not your first language? They miss that particular idiom in your training?
Jesus Christ… What an absolute godforsaken NSA cesspool Lemmy is. The frustration of not being able to talk to real people who don’t assume you yourself are not a genuine actor. This is the darkest forest.
You’re very transparent.
Down here, at the bottom of this thread, it’s just us. One of us farted and I know it wasn’t me. Who you going to convince? It’s just us here. You gonna call me a fake person when it’s just us? I get you can’t rationally disagree with my position and be consistent with you purported values. That’s a tough spot. But trying to convince me that I’m not real when it’s just between us? That’s a lost cause. As big a waste as sharing a dissenting opinion here. So let’s shake hands on the fact we both wasted our time.
I’ve been here the whole time, and you definitely farted.
Imagine making a statement like this while also calling us ”state department“ and “nsa”.
Take your lies and hypocrisy elsewhere.
Careful champ. You could cut yourself on all those edges.
Can they also just reject her?
No sooner than Greene triggered the vote on her motion to vacate the speaker from his office, the Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise countered by calling first for a vote to table it.
An overwhelming majority, 359-43, kept Johnson in his job, for now.
The House voted nearly immediately to resolve something. How often does that happen? That is a resounding rejection.
There are mechanisms for Congress to expell members, but that’s unlikely to come up Santos for her.
The House voted nearly immediately to resolve something. How often does that happen? That is a resounding rejection.
Everyone is just sick if her bullshit it seems. Except her constituents, they love that shit.
In another thread, someone referred to her as Perjury Traitor Greed, and I’m just here to make that more popular.
My favorite is Marjorie Trailer Queen
Mine was Margerine Trailer Grease.
She’s no queen. Jester maybe. Clown for sure.
Weren’t court jesters known for their wit? She’d definitely overstep and end in the dungeons, in that scenario.
I like better the video showing the moment she first introduced the motion, to instant booing
You have to be really careful with your eyebrows when you say “uniparty” in front of a camera
To her, bipartisan compromise is a dirty word. Uniparty is the new Antifa boogeyman.
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I like how she doubles down and pretends she’s not bothered, but she’s absolutely bothered
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“If it’s not perfect it’s garbage”
“Playing with broken toys is so cringey”
… talk about depressing, imagine hating reality and being obsessed with a utopia you will never see
Right? Can you imagine? Someone working towards something good for humanity and the world that they will never see themselves?
Losers right? Planting trees that they can’t even enjoy the shade of themselves.
Don’t they know about “I got mine fuck you”?
Way to stretch what the original commenter was saying… lmao.
They’re shitting on people for making do with what they have for the purposes of the present people that need help.
Seems to me that if we can focus on improving the present, the future would naturally be improved. That means taking the lemons life has given, and turning them into lemonade. Not bitching and moaning about how you don’t have any strawberry lemonade mojitos.
It is a safe bet that if MTG is for it, it’s bad for the country.
She is clearly looking to punish him for the Ukraine aid vote. Her losing that battle is a good thing. Winning the house in November so that we don’t have to deal with this as much going forward would be even better than that.
If it stops the legislature from being paralyzed and gives Democrats leverage, it’s certainly better than the alternative. But no…it’s not ideal.
Now do her.
Bring condemns if … oh not what you meant… carryon.
Dem Neanderthal hips tho LMAO
Cuntery Taitor Bullshit’s game is played out, and nobody will put up with her shit anymore.
Oh how I wish that were true.
Explain
Well, she’ll likely be re-elected by the right-wing troglodytes that make up that swath of her toasty red state. They’re probably super excited to do it. She’s on the tv box! Etc.
She looks like that troglodyte they just recreated from that skull more and more every day…
Her cranial lobe is noticeably smaller, her eyes are closer together and her skin is more leathery. She should just focus on being less nasty.
She is so disgusting to look at.
Is that gif supposed to be going mach 10, or is my client just freaking out?
So she finally has something in common with turnip? LOSER!
I guess on balance it’s more important to me that the Democrats reject Greene than reject Johnson. It’s clear to everyone that Johnson is “weak” (in MAGA support) and dependent completely on Democrats to get anything done.
Now that that’s out in the open and he’s slightly a MAGA pariah, he’ll probably get back to more old fashioned Republican projects like destroying the environment, fucking over workers, giving billions to billionaires, and a blank check to the military.
I mean … Freedom.
He feels like a paul ryan type. He marks all the check boxes that the far right extremists need to have checked but in reality he’s just some chump with shitty beliefs and won’t ever be anything more.
