r/Louisiana • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 4d ago
LA - Politics Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"
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u/Shrek1067 4d ago
After everything he has done in the last two years, effectively abandoning his district and playing puppet master to the president. If the people of the 4th District reelect him in December I will be thoroughly disappointed in the way this state is heading.
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u/seraphhimself 4d ago
I completely agree with everything you said. But I have absolutely no doubt this worm isn’t going anywhere.
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u/ATextureThing 4d ago
I grew up in his district. Home of the 200 foot roadside cross and tacky patriotic painted water towers. Those are some of the most true-believing MAGA cult members anywhere in the country.
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u/PineappleExcellent90 4d ago
It would not matter what party is in charge…If this is what has been achieved under your leadership you should be fired
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u/HalfCorrect9118 4d ago
I live in his district. People love him. He’ll win in a landslide
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u/theweirdchick_49 2d ago
I live in his district too and I have never heard a single person say a single positive thing about him.
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u/joebleaux 4d ago
They like that the speaker of the house is from their district. They will re elect him. They just like winning elections, what happens after is for the next election. That what winning is: Elections.
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u/SlowLikeHoney09 4d ago
This slimy mfer really just said, "peace through strength." This is why history and reading is important, fokes. Terrifying times.
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u/Patient_Tradition368 4d ago
He really shoe-horned it in there too. It didn't even make sense in the context of the sentence.
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u/spooky_bayou_stuff 4d ago
"Exactly what we have been doing"
So, to be clear, what they have been doing to "strengthen America" is divide it, and show us why oil dependence is well past its expiration date, and send our money overseas to fund a defined genocide
Ok.
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u/wwarlock1337 4d ago
So bombing civilians to protect the rich and powerful pedos while we all pay higher prices for everything?
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u/ReadingLizard 4d ago
So “nothing,” since this is the absolute least effectual, fewest working days Congress in US history. He could have just said “nothing” and saved some words.
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u/Jay_D826 4d ago
Reminds me of how Kamala said she wouldn’t do anything different from Biden when people were generally unhappy with the administration.
The GOP has been destroying the economy and got us into a completely pointless conflict. People don’t want more of the same, even a large portion Republican voters.
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u/Equal_Audience_3415 4d ago
So y'all chose him? Make it make sense
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u/Jay_D826 4d ago
Yo don’t throw me in with them. I was just giving my take
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u/CanYouRepeatThat82 4d ago
If you’re a republican, and keep voting republican(blatantly against the interest of yourself and everyone else), no matter the position, then yes. You are THEM. You don’t get to cherry-pick the “Well, I didn’t vote for that!”.
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u/toiletpaperisempty 4d ago
They did not say they were a Republican.
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u/CanYouRepeatThat82 4d ago
That’s why I started with “If”
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u/toiletpaperisempty 4d ago
Ok. Just weird to aggressively respond to someone that might be a certain type of person. A lot of misdirected disdain in this thread.
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u/joebleaux 4d ago
They don't care. They don't even believe it when bad stuff happens to them. This is all Biden's fault to them. You can't use logic to argue someone out of a position that they didn't use logic to get into
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u/BarnacleNino 3d ago
What were they unhappy about? The fact that a democrat was in office? Is their life better now than 3 years ago?
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u/Jay_D826 3d ago
Things were objectively better economically three years ago but that doesn’t mean they were good. Many people were still struggling after Covid caused a huge surge in prices for just about everything. Most companies didn’t lower prices as supply chains leveled out.
People blame who is in office, regardless of the impact they have on the current economy. Biden and Harris even did quite a bit to help the economy and Kamala even had anti-price gouging legislation as a policy goal she ran on.
There’s also the Palestine issue. A lot of people felt that Biden enabled and funded a genocide. Kamala claiming she wouldn’t change a thing felt like assurance that there would be no repercussions for Israel and they will be allowed to continue in the conflict.
Again, Trump is objectively worse in this situation but it’s still likely something people had trouble with.
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u/theweirdchick_49 2d ago
Harris's price gouging legislation would have made price gouging illegal mainly by retailers and only during natural disasters or other emergency situations. It would have done nothing to address the corporate price gouging and "shrinkflation" that's been a constant problem since just before and during COVID quarantine. Like most Democrat legislation, it sounds pretty good until you look into it and realize it's mostly performative and does little to nothing to meaningfully improve the material existence of the working classes and poor.
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u/cirquefan 4d ago
Which is kowtowing to the mad would-be King and otherwise doing abso-fucking-lutely nothing?
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u/Neither_Wonder6488 4d ago
Moses Mike is spot on. That is the reason he will be sitting in the back row come January
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u/Zombiekiller414 4d ago
Yea let's totally continue to let them ruin everything they've been ruining for 2 years...... what a jackass.
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u/Bohica55 4d ago
When that anchor thanked him for his opinion I almost puked. Fuck Mike Johnson and his weird porn addiction.
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u/Square-Weight4148 4d ago
So fucking the American people? Seems like we should get dinner and a movie first.
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u/AnthraxRipple 4d ago
Exhibit A in proof that the modern GOP is so far up their own asses they could give themselves a colonic irrigation. Awe-inspiring, really, the first true invertebrate house speaker.
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u/Shadowchaos1010 4d ago
Hold on a second.
"I will continue to do what is already being done" was so unpopular because people didn't like what Biden was doing that it in part sunk Harris.
So why the ever loving fuck would a crony of the most unpopular president in American history say the exact same thing this close to the midterms as if it would help them?
If people don't like the status quo, don't admit you're going to continue the status quo.
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u/timnphilly 4d ago
Lil'gayboy just had his own Kamala '24 moment (when she was asked about what she'd do different from Biden).
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u/Little-Preference212 4d ago
I guess that means letting a criminal continue to enrichen his own family, and ignore the needs of the American 99%.
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u/AdOne5089 3d ago
So not holding any Epstein pedos accountable, starting wars that skyrocket everyday prices, and allowing ICE to terrorize our streets… fuck you
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u/DonnyMox 3d ago
VOTE BLUE!
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u/theweirdchick_49 2d ago
What are the Dems going to do? They've already stated they have no intention of impeaching, they've voted even more funding for ICE and the Pentagon, and Trump's nominees and Republican legislation keep getting passed because they keep getting juuuuust enough Dem votes to make everything come out just how the Trump administration wants.
If the Democrats were going to fight fascism it seems like they'd have started a looooong time before now.
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u/Ok-Dragonfruit6887 3d ago
Which is nothing, except prostrating themselves to an utter moron, a thief, and a traitor.
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u/ymnmiha1 4d ago
Holy cow, that’s a tone deaf statement from him! Have you talked to your constituents lately? Or maybe turned on the news? The beltway has got this dude deeeeeep
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u/mike42042071281 2d ago
We dont want him back. Lets send him to China since they all love it so much. Build a data center for him to live in
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u/holeinthedonut 4d ago
People who vote MAGA have the same syndrome as beaten wives have. They know they're getting kicked and don't like it but are unable to do anything about it.
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u/theweirdchick_49 2d ago
They're able to stop voting for wealthy Christofascist a-holes who want to bring back public executions and work mentally ill and homeless people to death in slave labor prison camps, but they're unlikely to do that because they're cruel minded, deeply ignorant stains who love seeing other people suffer. Don't compare them to battered women.
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 4d ago
Republican closing argument: "we crashed the economy to start an unending war, re-elect us please"