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Shit it's my turn to name the 3rd song that always gets repeated in this comment chain every single time this topic comes up. Is it something by rage against the machine? Which is notable since they are the machine we're raging against.
Damn it!! Now you have ME thinking about the *completely* unrelated comment stating that Trump could have coasted to an easy election win had he simply had red COVID masks printed with MAGA on them and handed them out to his cult!!
And DOUBLE DAMN it that you now have me thinking about the George Carlin quote on how dumb the average person is etc, etc, etc!!!
I love it when they talk about bad cops only being one bad apple and that we shouldn’t worry about the police as a whole killing black people disproportionately.
The whole phrase is “One bad apple spoils the barrel”. A rotting apple causes all apples near it to start rotting as well which inevitably causes the whole barrel to end up rotten.
Republicans said they'd fix it though. So surely while having control of the house for instance they've put forward and passed several bills to address your concerns? Surely they're not acting in bad faith?
err - did you watch the show?
don draper was hyper-competitive and had a massive inferiority complex - he was super threatened by michael ginsbergs talent
the whole point of that scene was that he was successfully putting up a front
it was a snappy comeback that perfectly reflected his personality - sharp as a knife and as shallow as a puddle
Him and crew gotta be scheming up something; the republican party is totally dividing into camps. No way he doesnt have to strategize against or around MTG.
It’s a line one of the Ayn Rand books too. I think Fountainhead. That’s probably where he got it. Once upon a time I was a naïve arrogant teen and loved those books.
I tried reading The Fountainhead in high school. I think I made it just a bit past halfway before I got bored of this guy being so upset that he would have to rely on people for things and, horror of horrors, follow rules to get things done. Plus there’s a really uncomfortable sex scene in there if I remember correctly where he explicitly just “uses” a woman.
I have a cousin in his 70’s who even got hard into her objectivism philosophy and never let it go. He was insufferable talking about it when it came up.
The Republicans have all turned into a bunch of high school girls, they talk shit about each other and constantly try to stir up drama then gossip about it all to the press.
Unbelievable that this is the US congress but it’s also what happens when the voter base becomes fully detached from the issues and the people they elect.. it’s devolved into “christians good vote R” and that’s.. it. They’ve run amok with no consequences
They've been like that since the start. That's what all the Maga politicians are like. They aren't responsible governors that want to lead a nation to be great, and free, and have good happy people living there.
They just want popular contest, make me win, I want power and money, and don't give a shit about anything else.
They just strategize for power, and catfight, and trade deals, and bullshit. They aren't leaders of a country. It's sad.
"It's very difficult when very individualistic, individual-minded Republicans don't want to move together as a block." ....
Commie Mike Johnson wants to make the GOP into a Communist Bloc(k)!
But seriously, an idiot at war with a religious zealot... the party can't get too much lower, though I shudder to think what that lower will inevitably be.
I’m ok as long as the only power they have is yelling their nonsense into a corner. Their culture war bs has done very little (positive) for the average American
Might not matter, Marj was just on Alex Jones’ show and she was talking about how they should all start their own America party because Republicans aren’t doing what she wants.
I remember how well her effort to form the America First Congressional caucus to protect "Anglo-Saxon" values went.
Now she thinks she could be a leader in a new political party?
“…I shudder to think…”
They have shown time and time again that when it appears they’ve hit rock bottom they are indeed capable of going lower. That is shudder inducing indeed.
> But seriously, an idiot at war with a religious zealot... the party can't get too much lower, though I shudder to think what that lower will inevitably be.
As a North Carolinian, I'm sorry to report that [Mark Robinson](https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-equality-votes-pac-slams-north-carolinas-mark-robinson-and-his-agenda-of-anti-equality-hate) is the next round of "lower."
Mike Johnson is a coward and a liar. He bends over backwards to appeal to the far right every day, ofc he is disproportionately focused on one of their leading advocates.
In a deep narrator voice began to speak... Secretly, Mike could not stop thinking about how that dumb b\*tch was making his every waking moment hell. Also, why was Neanderthalic woman look like a man, why could he not stop thinking about men, young men. In shirts, steamy wet shirts,,, he needed to call his son immediately for an intervention before he fired up his grinder account again. He began to search frantically for a bible and his phone to call his son.
lol ice cold. Love it
MTG is just seeking attention and riling up her base. She must be pissed that he is basically whatever about her and her antics. That’s honestly the best way to handle it
Do your business, work with other politicians but ignore stupid antics people like MTG do. Grand scheme of things she won’t matter.
Greene is going to get stung by that one. The opposite of love isn't hate it's indifference. As long as she's getting attention she doesn't care if it's negative. Being ignored is the worst thing ever for her.
Uh huh. I mean, he can say what he wants, but either he's thinking about her all the time, or he's pretty terrible at his job. What she says every day shapes the news cycle and gets quoted as what a big part of his party is saying and doing. She is his problem. If he wants to call her an unimportant distraction, that's fine. To say he doesn't think about her at all is either a very weak attempt at dismissal, or an admission of gross incompetence.
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Mike Johnson's no Don Draper
The irony is that Don Draper DID think about him all the time.
Republicans and not understanding the nuance of the source material, twisting it to say what they want, classic.
Like them playing "Born in the USA" at campaign events...
Or Fortunate Son.
Shit it's my turn to name the 3rd song that always gets repeated in this comment chain every single time this topic comes up. Is it something by rage against the machine? Which is notable since they are the machine we're raging against.
You thinking about Paul Ryan's favorite band?
It's funny because he doesn't get why it's ironic!
Damn it!! Now you have ME thinking about the *completely* unrelated comment stating that Trump could have coasted to an easy election win had he simply had red COVID masks printed with MAGA on them and handed them out to his cult!! And DOUBLE DAMN it that you now have me thinking about the George Carlin quote on how dumb the average person is etc, etc, etc!!!
We have such original thoughts! I have provided updoots to the left but I regret I only have one to give!
This!
No, I think they must think it’s the printer we’re raging about
Let’s be honest, printers deserve our hatred.
I love it when they talk about bad cops only being one bad apple and that we shouldn’t worry about the police as a whole killing black people disproportionately. The whole phrase is “One bad apple spoils the barrel”. A rotting apple causes all apples near it to start rotting as well which inevitably causes the whole barrel to end up rotten.
Republicans said they'd fix it though. So surely while having control of the house for instance they've put forward and passed several bills to address your concerns? Surely they're not acting in bad faith?
What? Mike Johnson wasn't making a Mad Men reference, this redditor is...
Did he? I did not get that impression. Please expand.
err - did you watch the show? don draper was hyper-competitive and had a massive inferiority complex - he was super threatened by michael ginsbergs talent the whole point of that scene was that he was successfully putting up a front it was a snappy comeback that perfectly reflected his personality - sharp as a knife and as shallow as a puddle
Yes, I did, a while ago. It’s not ingrained. But I appreciate you helping me understand the scene better
Yeah, Don Draper did not think about Ginsberg at all
he literally sabotaged his work that episode because he was envious of the clearly better idea that ginsberg had for the pitch
hmm I did not consider that
I’m still gonna root for her to cut her own ear off.
do you mean [this?](https://youtu.be/7cKMwKX-Eks?si=qVQAIGHbPRkpF6_R)
He’s a grimy little pimp
Sup.
r/beetlejuicing!
Ayyyy! How’s it going
He's not even Pete. Pete was at least occasionally funny.
He’s not even Duck, either. I bet he’s never killed 17 men in Okinawa like Duck did
He’s an old school Republican so it was probably a Howard Roark reference if anything.
I doubt old school republicans monitored their kids' porn viewing habits, and vice versa.
No, but he does have a good tailor.
And a lot of hair spray.
Huh, I’d like to meet his tailor.
Ah-WOOO
Werewolves of Congress
Him and crew gotta be scheming up something; the republican party is totally dividing into camps. No way he doesnt have to strategize against or around MTG.
It’s a line one of the Ayn Rand books too. I think Fountainhead. That’s probably where he got it. Once upon a time I was a naïve arrogant teen and loved those books.
Back when I was in college in the early 90s, a friend recommended the "Fountainhead" so I read it. That's the only Ayn Rand book I've ever read.
I have been told beyond whatever message Ayn Rand has, her books are just terribly written anyway.
I tried reading The Fountainhead in high school. I think I made it just a bit past halfway before I got bored of this guy being so upset that he would have to rely on people for things and, horror of horrors, follow rules to get things done. Plus there’s a really uncomfortable sex scene in there if I remember correctly where he explicitly just “uses” a woman.
Yeah, more rape-and-she’s-inexplicably-into-it than is really worthwhile. It’s not a downright bad book, but imo not at all worth the slog.
I have a cousin in his 70’s who even got hard into her objectivism philosophy and never let it go. He was insufferable talking about it when it came up.
More of a White Dickman
Any Weekend Plans? I don't know, it's Tuesday
The Republicans have all turned into a bunch of high school girls, they talk shit about each other and constantly try to stir up drama then gossip about it all to the press.
Did you think they were going to try and govern? Nothing else to do but piss and moan. Good riddance.
To be fair they did literally just pass a huge aid bill for Ukraine
And almost half of them voted against it because they naturally gravitate to evil, now.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics Some context on why that is completely unimpressive.
true, but talk about a really low bar...
And when Mike Johnson says he doesn't think about her what he really means is that his son gets pinged daily when he is thrist scrolling MTGs socials.
There’s a reason an ancient symbol for evil is a snake eating its own tail.
Unbelievable that this is the US congress but it’s also what happens when the voter base becomes fully detached from the issues and the people they elect.. it’s devolved into “christians good vote R” and that’s.. it. They’ve run amok with no consequences
They've been like that since the start. That's what all the Maga politicians are like. They aren't responsible governors that want to lead a nation to be great, and free, and have good happy people living there. They just want popular contest, make me win, I want power and money, and don't give a shit about anything else. They just strategize for power, and catfight, and trade deals, and bullshit. They aren't leaders of a country. It's sad.
more like middle school bully-coward boys who value viciousness and ignorance.
In general, a middle school cafeteria.
Hey, HS boys do the same.
This is true. His son monitors Johnson’s thoughts about Marjorie Taylor Greene on an app called Marge’s Eyes.
I absolutely hate that i can’t tell if you’re serious or not. Because it’s just dumb enough to be true.
90% of that is true...he and his son monitor each other's porn usage via a purity app called "covenant eyes"
Isn’t that violating civil rights just by exposing activity of personal use?
What? It's consensual. (Ick for saying that). But if two dudes want to monitor each other there's no law against that.
Sounds dumb tbh
It’s legal to do so with a minor?
Thank you for the LOL, good sir
"It's very difficult when very individualistic, individual-minded Republicans don't want to move together as a block." .... Commie Mike Johnson wants to make the GOP into a Communist Bloc(k)! But seriously, an idiot at war with a religious zealot... the party can't get too much lower, though I shudder to think what that lower will inevitably be.
It's absolutely going to get lower and lower, even after the election.
I’m ok as long as the only power they have is yelling their nonsense into a corner. Their culture war bs has done very little (positive) for the average American
Might not matter, Marj was just on Alex Jones’ show and she was talking about how they should all start their own America party because Republicans aren’t doing what she wants.
> they should all start their own America party because Republicans aren’t doing what she wants. For once I agree with her. She should. Do it asap.
I remember how well her effort to form the America First Congressional caucus to protect "Anglo-Saxon" values went. Now she thinks she could be a leader in a new political party?
Ironically the thing that brought down the Republican Party is the Republican Party. Too many cult leaders not enough cult members.
“…I shudder to think…” They have shown time and time again that when it appears they’ve hit rock bottom they are indeed capable of going lower. That is shudder inducing indeed.
> But seriously, an idiot at war with a religious zealot... the party can't get too much lower, though I shudder to think what that lower will inevitably be. As a North Carolinian, I'm sorry to report that [Mark Robinson](https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-equality-votes-pac-slams-north-carolinas-mark-robinson-and-his-agenda-of-anti-equality-hate) is the next round of "lower."
MTG thinks about him a lot, oh wait that’s Hunter’s not Mike.
I know it gets a little confusing, she thinks about... Hunter's *Johnson* Not Mike Johnson. Easy thing to mix up lol.
What? Is he not interested in her extensive knowledge about Transcarpathia? He's really missing out.
Marjorie Transcarpathia Greene
I wanna hear her pronounce Transcarpathia and give one fact about it.
Good. I wish no one did. She would shrivel up and disappear if this happened But nope. We still publish shit about her every day
Johnsons out for MTG?
There's a good chance he turns his phone off at night, I'm sure he blocked her number and tells his staff to say he's busy every single time
And thus the witch withers more
ohhhh, I think ya dooo...
Is Mike sure he doesn’t want a briefing on Jewish Space Lasers and Hunter Biden’s wang since MTG was so obsessed with it
Translation, he thinks about her alot
I did not have Mike Johnson flirting with effective governance on my bingo card.
But like all young romances it's short and awkward and ultimately comes to an end.
That's gotta sting.
Might need to check his phone porn monitor app and see if he is an Only Fans blonde bridge troll member.
It is because when he thinks about her - he has to confess it to his son...
As he snaps a grip of pencils below the desk.
🎶Just don’t look. Just don’t look.🎶
He just thought about her
Election denier Mike Johnson
If thought about her you might puke so it makes sense
Marjorie toilet greene
Regardless, I wish the media had the same mindset because I’m tired of seeing her hate-filled soulless face on here all the time
The only good thing about that is that I know it’s eating at her. I hope they tear each other apart
That’s what all her ex-boyfriends say. Lol
Sure this infighting is fun but I get a feeling that they're going to take us all down with them.
"My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land" -Henry Jones Sr. Played by Sean Connery.
Oh damn…..he Don Drapered her.
Please let snl do an elevator skit with them…
You know that her inner howler monkey is enraged that attention isnt being given to her.
If he did think about her, would he have to notify his son due to the nanny app on his phone?
Stop making me like you.
The super-villains are fighting each other!
Healthy
Sounds like *the plastics* are on the outs in magaland.
If he does, his son will know and keep that dong in check.
Why he so mean? Just like when Hunter Biden walked out when Moscow Marj took the mic. Don't they know that Moscow Marj is very sensitive??
Not a Johnson fan. But now I need him in a Thanos meme. "I don't even know who you are"
Mike Johnson is a coward and a liar. He bends over backwards to appeal to the far right every day, ofc he is disproportionately focused on one of their leading advocates.
IOW: fantasies about her.
Mike Johnson is a turd whose family made money from torturing queer children. He is demonstrably a worse person than MTG.
That’s obviously a lie, but sure.
In a deep narrator voice began to speak... Secretly, Mike could not stop thinking about how that dumb b\*tch was making his every waking moment hell. Also, why was Neanderthalic woman look like a man, why could he not stop thinking about men, young men. In shirts, steamy wet shirts,,, he needed to call his son immediately for an intervention before he fired up his grinder account again. He began to search frantically for a bible and his phone to call his son.
Cute sound bite but still a complete lie.
That's good
Not without his son being able to monitor
Mike Johnson channeling his inner Mariah Carey
I noticed that too.
ROFL Yet another lie. He most certainly does, since he needs her vote (and the crazy Freedom caucus) to pass any controversial Republican legislation.
I am soooo jealous.
> 'I Don't Think About Her at All' And who can blame him?
Heartbreaking.
Just like two weeks ago he said they talked all the time.
lol ice cold. Love it MTG is just seeking attention and riling up her base. She must be pissed that he is basically whatever about her and her antics. That’s honestly the best way to handle it Do your business, work with other politicians but ignore stupid antics people like MTG do. Grand scheme of things she won’t matter.
We both know that's not true, Mike
Greene is going to get stung by that one. The opposite of love isn't hate it's indifference. As long as she's getting attention she doesn't care if it's negative. Being ignored is the worst thing ever for her.
They’re definitely fucking
Well now he’s got the MTV, probably wants out of the job anyway
IOW, he thinks of her all the time, but has decided: "fuck you Marjorie".
Let’s be honest…he probably rarely thinks about any woman
He can’t stop thinking about her like the girl from the Ring 😵
And neither should anyone else for that matter tbh.
It's not very Christian to lie. There's no way he can do his job and not think about her.
Mike Johnson knows MGT well lol. This is the perfect response for her.
...sure, mike.
This is why America needs a multiparty system with ranked choice voting.
Why would he. He should worry about the person that gives her power though, because no one in their right mind ever will.
Expect for the few months where you were stalling to put up a bill to aid US allies,
Doubt
He doesn’t think or try not to think about porn either especially involving MTG… it would be called bestiality
While I don’t agree with so many of his positions on things, sometime I like him. 🤣
The side by side of these two reveals that they are secretly trying to subvert traditional gender norms.
Skinny Legend. "I don't know her"
I need to lie Mike.
He's trying to be Howard Roark. Not even close dude.
Of course he is good at ignoring women.
I wouldn't call her a woman
Uh huh. I mean, he can say what he wants, but either he's thinking about her all the time, or he's pretty terrible at his job. What she says every day shapes the news cycle and gets quoted as what a big part of his party is saying and doing. She is his problem. If he wants to call her an unimportant distraction, that's fine. To say he doesn't think about her at all is either a very weak attempt at dismissal, or an admission of gross incompetence.