General Political Fúckery Thread - Subplot: Maga Mike Johnson's Future In Doubt

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The honorable Hakeem Jeffries will save the day. Jeffries will be the real power behind the throne.

 

[88m3]

The honorable Hakeem Jeffries will save the day. Jeffries will be the real power behind the throne.

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was on a constituent call with a republican congressmen earlier some of the calls were well intentioned and interesting but some of them you could tell were juiced to the brim on straight up fear mongering national news garbage and the congressmen was walking through their own punch list of grievances and falsehoods about Dems, DEI, and etc...

Anyone not actively fighting to limit the power of the Republican party at all levels might as well be one

 

[Alan Johnson]

Speaker Johnson's team briefed conservative influencers on his election bill before Trump meeting

Conservative influencers were briefed about House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest election integrity bill well before it was publicly announced.

www.nbcnews.com

High-profile right-wing influencers were briefed on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s voter registration bill well in advance of its announcement in what appears to be a coordinated social media campaign meant to drum up support for the legislation, which is dead on arrival on the Senate.

Conservative influencers posted dozens of times before Johnson, R-La., publicly announced the bill alongside former President Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, calling on Congress to pass the bill, which has not yet been filed, and offering policy details that are still not available to the public.

The legislation targets voting by noncitizens, which is already illegal and very rare. Johnson appeared at Mar-a-Lago at a time when his speakership is in a precarious position, with attacks from far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who has a significant social media following. Getting some public support and praise from Trump could give Johnson a bit of protection with the Republican base, as could drumming up support from conservative social media influencers.

At 3:50 p.m. ET Friday, Ryan Fournier, the chair of Students for Trump, who boasts a million followers on X, appears to have been the first to have posted the name and details of the bill.

Johnson’s news conference was scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. ET Friday, but it began just after 5 p.m. Neither Johnson nor his office would provide specifics about the legislation before Friday's event when they were asked by NBC News. His office confirmed Monday that background information about the bill had been sent in advance to conservative-leaning influencers. In the hours leading up to Johnson and Trump's news conference, social media posters, including Libs of TikTok, DC_Draino and EndWokeness, promoted the legislation online. They all called the bill “the SAVE Act,” though Johnson did not name it as such.

"PASS THE BILL,” DC_Draino wrote at 4:22 p.m., claiming the bill “would require blue states to obtain proof of citizenship for voter registration.”

On X, EndWokeness wrote that the bill would add penalties for election officials’ registering noncitizens to vote.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, reposted EndWokeness’ post at 4:40 p.m., saying he had authored the bill. A spokesman for Roy said the bill has not yet been filed yet, but Roy posted a screenshot of the first few lines of legislation before Johnson's speech.

They're enlisting and briefing open white supremacists and neo-nazis to astroturf their awful legislation.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

US Republican Kari Lake tells supporters: 'Strap on a Glock' as election nears — Reuters

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, an ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump, urged supporters in Arizona to "strap on a Glock" pistol as they prepare for what she called an intense six months leading up to the Nov. 5 elections.

apple.news

Ugh

 

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HOW IT HAPPENED

1. Rs say no foreign aid without border security

2. Ds say nope

3. Rs say then no aid

4. Ds cave, cut a deal for tougher border laws with Lankford and McConnell

5. Trump tells them to kill it

6. Rs kill it

7. Rs pass foreign aid without the border security

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Two facts about the Lankford-Murphy-Sinema border bill that Republicans voted down:

—It had none of the legalization or DACA provisions that Democrats had demanded until then.

—It was championed by the border patrol agents' union, which endorsed Trump in 2016 and 2020.


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