“Hey Mike, watched any good porn lately? Nevermind I’ll just ask your son.”
the first time a House speaker had taken live questions from voters on the network in 24 years.
And, presumably, the last. I guess someone told him a bunch of MAGAts love calling in and he thought he’d scoop up some easy press.
Samantha said her husband, a veteran with PTSD after two tours in Afghanistan, was struggling to keep their family afloat. “As a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party, and I’m very disappointed in you,” she continued. “You could stop this. You could be the one to say, ‘Military is getting paid.’
And still they don’t get it. Still they’re asking to be exempt from the horrors, not to end them.
A caller from Texas demanded to know the GOP’s plan to fix the Affordable Care Act. “Great question,” Johnson said, pausing before conceding that “Obamacare did not do what was promised” and that it’s “very, very complicated” to replace. He added that Trump “wants to fix the health care system,” saying they’d spoken “as recently as yesterday.”
Sounds like a whole lotta nothing.
And why isn’t it funny? Well. Seeing him cry would have been even funnier.
Love how it’s always the same line with healthcare. “Oh its soooo complicated but we’re working on it we pinky promise!” Repeated ad nauseum for 40 fucking years with absolutely no progress
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Too bad this wasn’t on Fox News. Most MAGA won’t be seeing him getting slammed or this lady’s sad story.
Plus, Mike Johnson doesn’t give two shits what happens to this lady and her family. He doesn’t answer to her, he only answers to Trump.
She’ll get by somehow. The real question is, who is she voting for next election? Probably another Republican…“but this one is different” lmao. We’ll see.
Leopards are not only eating the callers face, but her children, too. She voted for the obvious insanely corrupt fascist and now the checks stop coming. Welcome to your new authoritarian reality, lady, where the government really doesn’t give a fuck whether you or your children die.
What a slimey person. Giving half truths. Democrats are causing this, BS. Democrats are trying to keep the Affordable Care Act, which she is probably very interested in. Just outright lying to her. Democrats want 1 thing. 1, out of everything that has happened - 1 thing, and they refuse to give it to them. It’s a complete power move, they want to be completely in control and refuse to give anything.
Well technically, two.
- Extend the enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which are due to expire at the end of this year.
- Republicans restore the nearly $1 trillion in the Republican cuts to Medicaid that they put in the “Big Beautiful Deal.”
Fair. Not even all the other cuts they made, they just want healthcare for people. Democrats do a lot of wrong, but this is one thing absolutely worth standing up for. The woman is right, people will die, and in this case if these don’t happen people will in fact die.
From what I can tell, being that kind of person is a prerequisite for being House Speaker.
Power attracts those attracted to power.
It’s good to see these losers put on blast, keep on making it clear we know they are up to some bullshit and that they need to stop it!
Conservative bullies believe they’ll almost always win in the end if they just keep at it and force their way through to their end goal. For most business & personal goals where they have significant control over most variables, this unfortunately tends to work out well for them. So they believe they can apply it to everything.
Social & societal issues are areas where they have significantly less direct control (unless you have control over most everything that society is exposed to from practically the day they’re born), which is why they rely upon lies and manipulation so much. The complexity of managing things you have less direct control over makes being successful at it much more unpredictable, however.
Since bullying their way through is their instinctive modus operandi, they’ll still try to do it with these issues no matter what feedback they get. So while it may feel satisfying to put them on the spot, they’re unlikely to take the feedback seriously - even from their own base.
It’s blatant arrogance that has been the hallmark of the MAGA world, and which ultimately will be their undoing. Unfortunately, we still have to sit through the process even though it’s so easy to see where it’s going. Kinda like watching a show with your kids that’s predictable AF, but that they’re loving because they think they’ve never seen anything like it before even though the basic storyline has been done a million times in their other shows.
that works on regular people like you or me because we have morals, empathy, some form of consciousness… Johnson and the rest of the circus are just complete sociopaths… he couldn’t care about this lady or her kids, to him they are as important as a discarded toe nail
It’s about exerting political pressure, which has been shown to work with these clowns, as Trump and crew have backed down multiple times due to the people making their displeasure known. He likely doesn’t directly care about the lady or kids, however, he does care about how he is seen directly after this interview. As it would harm the fulfillment of his self-interest; public perception matters, and that is why the Alt-Right always desperately rehab their image after the times Republicans held Political offices and unilaterally failed the USA.
no my dude, they are way past that… they used to care because they needed to win further elections but they know they can’t anymore which is why they are militarizing every city with a demographic sizeable enough to threaten them
trumps own appro…al rating is is the toilet and he has not changed course internally one bit…he is still buckling internationally because he can’t strong arm every other country
you guys are not getting out of this by voting or debating
I agree with the sentiment but can we stop using words like “put on blast”, “slammed”, “claps back”? Thank you.
Maybe when the right-wing media stop.
Even if the bill is stuck in the senate and you can’t force passage, you start making calls to the local contacts to get this family some damn support so the mother doesn’t end up hospitalized from caregiver stress. Sadly, if she’s from a solid GOP district, those support programs are probably FUBAR and you’ll have to beg the religious orgs.
I’m sure they only do that when they think they can use it to market themselves later. Given the number of complaints he seems to have received, they may just avoid the whole thing for fear of drawing more attention to all the ways they’re failing their base.
That spineless little fucking wretch deserves a lot worse
Seems like a bad strat.
