Summary

House Speaker Mike Johnson faces growing Republican dissent over his handling of government funding, potentially jeopardizing his reelection as speaker on January 3.

Allies are urging Donald Trump to reaffirm his support for Johnson to avoid a prolonged leadership fight, which could delay certification of Trump’s 2024 election victory on January 6.

Johnson’s bipartisan spending bill, criticized by Trump, narrowly averted a government shutdown but failed to include Trump’s core debt-limit demands.

Some Republicans warn that a speakerless House would disrupt critical legislative processes, including election certification.

  • @CharlesDarwin
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    16922 hours ago

    I just cannot believe that this country is going to be run by the worst / stupidest people and all because a lot of stupid people think Biden sets the prices of groceries…

    • @GraniteM
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      31 hour ago

      Here’s a big part of the problem right here:

    • @rational_lib
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      3 hours ago

      It does have precedent though. That’s how Reagan won in a landslide. Very similar circumstances - inflation, small military disaster, uninspiring president. Of course Reagan wasn’t as depraved and dumb as Trump so he won by a lot more.

      However inflation definitely has a history of short circuiting voters’ brains. Maybe it has something to do with how the media doesn’t really understand it and does a terrible job explaining it to people. I’d guess at most 5% of voters know that there are multiple inflation measures - some of which were already rising during Trump’s term - and that the typically-reported number is over the last 12 months, not right now (meaning the “record low inflation” at the end of Trump’s term included the whole start of the pandemic when there was deflation). Republicans are great at filling an information vacuum with their narrative, so they said it was Biden’s fault and people fell for that easy explanation.

      • @Randelung
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        2017 hours ago

        Thank you, President Camacho.

    • @[email protected]
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      4922 hours ago

      I keep telling people, it’s not the darkest timeline we ended up in, but the dumbest one. Reality is always much dumber than you’d expect.

      • Drusas
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        1521 hours ago

        There’s still plenty of time for it to be both.

      • @Frozengyro
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        621 hours ago

        Yea, darkest would probably be everyone surviving H bombs, but leaving us in nuclear winter.

        • @Pappabosley
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          920 hours ago

          I’ve already warned my family, if nukes start dropping in our area, I’m running towards the blast - I’m not hanging round to rebuild.

          • @Nightwingdragon
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            317 hours ago

            My whole family feels the same. There’s a military base about 20 minutes away. We’d probably be dead anyway because of how close we are, but we’re going to drive as close as possible just to make sure.

            • @[email protected]
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              What a waste. In this scenario your best act is to throw your bodies at the idiots started this mess, not to kill yourself.

          • TheLowestStone
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            419 hours ago

            Yeah, I’d rather die in the blast than slowly doom radiation poisoning and/or cancer.

            • @BigPotato
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              317 hours ago

              Chance of turning into a ghoul and meeting Danny Trejo in a hundred years or so though.