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Republican Congresswoman Greene launches effort to oust Johnson following passage of Ukraine aid

kyivindependent.com Republican Congresswoman Greene launches effort to oust Johnson following passage of Ukraine aid

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has voiced a number of complaints against Speaker Mike Johnson but has particularly focused on his decision to allow a vote on aid for Ukraine.

Any allegations that Greene is transparently working as a Russian agent are entirely unsubstantiated.

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10mo ago

Republican Congresswoman Greene launches effort to oust Johnson following passage of Ukraine aid

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Please make her go away
- 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?
  
  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.
  
  Yeah: go back to the nineties and the man arguably most responsible for the hyper-partisanship in modern politics was also a rep in Georgia...Newt Filthypigfucker Gingrich
- 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.
  
  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.

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 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.
- 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.
- Who could they possibly replace him with who wouldn’t also be a dumpster fire?

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.
- They won't touch abortion. It is too useful for their elections at the moment. 😭
- Please let this happen.
- Abortion protections will get blocked in the Senate, so the Dems will still have the issue to run on either way.
- if the motion to vacate hits the floor several Republicans will immediately resign
  We're seeing significant attrition among both parties in 2024
  This would, at worst, expedite the process for a handful of them, with the expectation that the House would be in gridlock through the end of the Congressional cycle anyway.
  Even then, I wouldn't worry too much. Current Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has pledged to support Johnson in a bid to keep his Speakership. He'll probably get more Dem votes than Republican ones, but he'll keep his job.
  The Republicans intend to institute one party rule if they win the presidency and rule by fiat.
  2002 all over again. Yehaw.
  Can't wait for another Teri's Law and assorted Congressional bullshit and tomfoolery.

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.
- She tried to introduce an amendment about Hungarians in Ukraine not being allowed to speak their native language.
  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.
  
  It’s an extremely obscure conspiracy theory
  Conservatives love to elevate an obscure conspiracy theory to national policy. Check out the Tennessee state government's Chemtrails Bill, which
  bans the "intentional injection, release, or dispersion" of chemicals within Tennessee "with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited."

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.

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!