Next Speaker of the House? (1 Viewer)

[MT15]

There’s a lot of doubt that Kevin McCarthy will be able to get enough votes to become Speaker. It certainly won’t happen on the first ballot. Already Boboert and MTG are publicly at odds over it.

Maybe this is worth it’s own thread to watch. One person mentioned is Scalise.

 

[superchuck500]

McCarthy is leaving by the end of the month.

 

[Optimus Prime]

McCarthy is leaving by the end of the month.

Is there a chance a dem fills his slot in a special election or is he from a ruby red district?

 

[superchuck500]

Is there a chance a dem fills his slot in a special election or is he from a ruby red district?

McCarthy outperformed Trump by five points but it’s pretty solid red.

 

[DaveXA]

McCarthy is leaving by the end of the month.

Well, that's a shame...anyway in other news...Kim Kardashian is making noise again...

 

[bird]

Well, that's a shame...anyway in other news...Kim Kardashian is making noise again...

Ah, the Kardashians…famous for being famous.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

McCarthy is leaving by the end of the month.

After saying multiple times that he wasn't... oh well. What else is new?

 

[MT15]

I would love it if they could do this. I don’t think it’s realistic, is it?

 

[Taurus]

I would love it if they could do this. I don’t think it’s realistic, is it?

If anyone can be relied on to fumble away an opportunity like that, it's the Dems

 

[DaveXA]

If anyone can be relied on to fumble away an opportunity like that, it's the Dems

No doubt.

 

[MT15]

This guy is dangerously deluded. He has delusions of grandeur. It’s alarming.

 

[bird]

This guy is dangerously deluded. He has delusions of grandeur. It’s alarming.

How odd. God told him he would be Moses. God didn’t tell him to act like The Christ.

it appears there religionists are focused on the scripture of a people they hate.

 

[MT15]

Well said…

 

[MT15]

He can lie and be a hypocrite about nearly anything.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Mike Johnson was a few months away from assuming elected office in late 2014 when he was confronted with an impassioned appeal by the man he would later pay tribute to in his first speech as House speaker: his father Patrick.

The elder Johnson, a former firefighter in the Louisiana city of Shreveport, had survived a near fatal industrial explosion when Mike was 12 years old, a defining event in both men’s lives.

He had just joined a local community environmental group, working to fight against US government plans to burn – in the open air – over 15m pounds of toxic munitions. It had thrust Patrick and his future wife Janis Gabriel onto the frontlines of Louisiana environmental advocacy.

As authorities were on the brink of approving the “open burn”, which would have sent vast quantities of known carcinogens into the air, Patrick and Janis turned to the most influential person they knew.

Then an ambitious, rightwing constitutional lawyer, Mike Johnson would in a matter of weeks fill the vacancy for Louisiana’s eighth state legislative district – whose borders are just 20 miles from Camp Minden, a military base where the illegal munitions dump – the largest in US history - was located. A small amount of the munitions had spontaneously exploded two years before, causing a 4-mile blast radius.

The pair drove to Mike Johnson’s legal offices in the late morning, Gabriel recalled, and Patrick Johnson explained to his son the immediate environmental and health dangers the toxic dump posed, not only to residents in the immediate vicinity but to members of the Johnson family living in the region.

“His father and I went to him and said: ‘Mike you need to get involved in this, this is really important. Your family really lives at ground zero,’” Gabriel said in an interview with the Guardian. “We basically begged him to say something, to someone, somewhere.”

A terse back and forth followed, she said.

“He just wasn’t interested,” Gabriel said. “He had other things to do. He was never interested in environmental things.”

The couple left deeply disappointed.

“It just blew my mind that he wouldn’t give five minutes of his time to the effort,” she said. “He basically shut us down.”

A spokeswoman for Johnson said he “disputes this characterization as described” but did not respond to an invitation to elaborate further.…..

“Creationists can just wave away all of the geologic evidence of climate change because they are convinced that all rock layers were laid down in a global flood about 4,400 years ago,” said David MacMillan, a former Christian fundamentalist who has left the movement.

MacMillan grew up attending creationist conferences, had posts published on AiG’s website, and helped raise money for the establishment of AiG’s first creationist museum near Cincinnati, earning him a spot on a donor wall and a lifetime pass to attend.

Now – having left his fundamentalist views behind – he is speaking out about the dangers of science denial.

“They will tell you that hundreds of thousands of annual ice core layers are just a bunch of snow that formed while the Earth was cooling off after Noah’s flood. They believe climate scientists are sifting through meaningless noise to try and find patterns that will get them noticed and promote narratives that please the global elite who want to control us.”

What’s more, MacMillan added, most fundamentalists argue that even if the climate is changing, it should make no difference because they also expect the imminent, apocalyptic, final judgment of the world.……

Revealed: House speaker did little to fight toxic ‘burn pit’ his father campaigned against

Mike Johnson’s creationist beliefs clash with environmental realities in a district where many residents hold deep concerns about pollution

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

Awkward, if true. No wonder he doesn’t want to help Ukraine survive against Russian aggression:

 

[MT15]

 

[bird]

Yeah, my idiot governor got him that job. The guy has exactly zero higher education administrative experience.

 

[MT15]

Little gossipy tidbit