In a scathing op-ed, LGBTQ Nation Heroes nominee Melissa Gira Grant urges us to ask ourselves how we didn't see someone like Johnson coming...

In a scathing op-ed, LGBTQ Nation Heroes nominee Melissa Gira Grant urges us to ask ourselves how we didn’t see someone like Johnson coming…

  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    66·
    11 months ago

    And some of us were pretty upset that the Dems helped out dickheads like Gaetz in ousting a turd like Mccarthy thinking that they wouldn’t manage to choose someone worse than him.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      131·
      11 months ago

      First, the Dems are under no obligation to keep the GOP from looking like the fascist shitheads they are. Republicans moved to remove McCarthy, and Republicans voted to remove him. It’s not the Democrats’ fault if the GOP use their majority to put someone worse as Speaker.

      Second, it doesn’t matter whether Johnson is more or less evil than McCarthy as long as he isn’t more effective. He has the same problem McCarthy had- a slim-margin majority that is split between vice-signalling performative fascists, and vice-signalling performative fascists in districts that Biden won. They’re already coming off the least productive Congressional year in history, and that plus this being an election year combined with still simmering anger over the removal of Roe will just drive that wedge deeper.

      Johnson can be as whiny a Christofascist as he wants. He ain’t getting shit done before the next election.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        13·
        11 months ago

        I generally agree and he’ll probably just be the whiny christofascist he’s been so far, but he’s 2nd in line for the fucking presidency. And it was mostly democrats who actually voted out the speaker. Which helped Gaetz off all people.

        Now that the rule is in place to only take one member to call for his ouster, I wonder how little Johnson has to do to lose 5 or whatever R’s and be out like McCarthy.

    • seth@lemmy.world
      29·
      11 months ago

      This, and also after they ousted him, instead of trying to win over some of the more “moderate” Republicans by agreeing to vote for one of the least of the evils and hopefully get some actual work done in the House, they just grinned smugly at every photo op and toed the party line until they got Johnson and then all made shocked Pikachu faces. They’ve made little effort to improve the situation. It’s insane that they get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to slowly tear apart the flawed system instead of trying to fix it.