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Couldn't Mr. Johnson pray to his Lord God for some guidance?

What's that?.. all day long? Oh, I see. Nobody's listening.

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"Let’s just say that if God chose Mike Johnson for this role, God is a mean and hilarious dick who likes to watch people fail."

'God, isn't God a shit! "

- Randolph Churchill

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Maybe he’s back on the porn. Maybe his son hasn’t been available to support him when he calls and says, “son, I’m weakening. This job is making me yearn for the sweet, sinful delights of xhamster. I wanna watch some classic 70s gang bangs soooo bad, son. Don’t tell you mother.”

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He is Moses if Moses was wandering around in the desert for forty years for a trip that should have taken half a week, which is actually how long it should have taken Moses to walk from Egypt to Israel.

I think God told Mike Johnson "you're another fucking Moses, aren't you? You're going to dither around and take forever to get nowhere. I give up!"

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Johnson's a fucking moron. In fact, he's such an idiot, he makes morons look smart.

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Is the amount of passion a Republican congresscritter exhibits for Vlad directly proportional to the type of kompromat Vlad has on them?

The shit he must have on Matt Gaetz...

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I think he has taken Epstein's place, and is using his connections to use young girls for party favors to the skeevy old republicans who are fine with paying for it. Then the blackmail begins.

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> It would also require pretty much all Democrats to be on board, and Playbook says somewhere between 15 and 35 progressives might not be, because of the $14 billion in the Senate’s bill for Israel.

FWIW, I doubt very much that any Democrats will not sign / will remove their signature from a discharge petition. They may well vote against the bill on the floor, if there are enough Republican votes to make up for them and allow it to pass, but they'll let it reach the floor.

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A. no. B. God is a mean and hilarious dick who likes to watch people fail. It was ever thus, read the bibble.

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See: Job, and Lot's wife.

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On God's choosing Mike Johnson, it is important to remember the words of Rt. Rev. George Carlin:

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘. 𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑. 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒́𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒́ 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒.

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Does he still want to be Moses and lead republicans to the promised land of white Christian nationalism?

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Moses doesn't fare well in that part of the story.

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Shh, don't tell him, they never read that book, they just use it as a prop.

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Sort of OT, but not really because Evan cites to Greg Sargent.

As part of my continuing series entitled “Fuck Off, WaPo,” I really miss Sargent’s writing at WaPo. I don’t know the circumstances of his departure, but it appears to be part of WaPo’s continuing efforts to turn itself into the WSJ by limiting liberal voices and elevating RWNJs.

Which brings me to a point I didn’t cover in my Note on Monday about TFG’s application for stay with SCOTUS in the DC election interference case. TFG’s attorneys cited not one, but TWO op-eds written by Jason Willick, WaPo’s newest right-wing hack (along with others from the WSJ and other right-wing authors/publications). Why in the actual fuck are political op-eds being cited in a brief to SCOTUS?! Fuck if I know; I generally only cited to legal authorities when writing briefs.*

*Except for that one time I cited MacBeth, Act V, Scene V.

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well hell, what was it? was it the big one? it was probably the big one.

though i like:

Blow, wind! come, wrack!

At least we'll die with harness on our back.

also the simplicity of 'the queen, my lord, is dead'.

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Willick must have been there close to a year, now because he was one of the last straws for me when I bailed, because they were turning into Fox-news lite, what with praising forced-birthers and such shit. Every abortion rights article quotes the brain-damaged Kristan Hawkins head of 'students' (for forced breeding). How far they have fallen from the paper that published the "Pentagon Papers". Buzbee would never allow her 'team' to look bad.

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I know nothing about Willick, except the few times I accidentally clicked on a post because of the headline, and I was like “Who the fuck wrote this drivel?”

And on those few times I read a piece, he always got dragged in the comments, which are generally written by people who know what the fuck they’re talking about. I wish the editorial staff would read the comments so they know who their subscriber base actually is, but apparently that’s a pipe dream.

I cancelled last year, but then they offered me a re-subscription for peanuts, so I look it. I won’t get fooled again.

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He came from the Wall Street Journal, the editorial nutbar pages. In short, he's a Murdoch plant. And also impervious to reality and Bat-shit crazy. In a way he is almost the other half of Jane gault, the libertarian, known as Meagan McArdle, who I refer to as Argle-bargle.

From Wiki:

"Jason Willick writes a regular Washington Post column on legal issues, political ideas and foreign affairs. Before coming to The Post in 2022, he was an editorial writer and assistant editorial features editor for the Wall Street Journal, and before that a staff writer and associate editor at the American Interest.

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So, I did some more digging. He apparently doesn’t have a Wiki page, but the quote you cited above comes from his WaPo profile.

He opines on “legal issues,” but the motherfucker doesn’t even have a law degree. His only higher education is a BA In history from Stanford.

He was also listed in Forbes “30 under 30” list in 2018, which would make him in his 30s now, at best. Yep, totally qualified to have at least 2 opinion articles cited in a SCOTUS brief.

Frankly, I’m starting to wonder if Willick isn’t just an AI creation.

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You know that isn't as crazy as it might have sounded a few years ago.

Sorry I looked at several descriptions I thought I pulled it from wiki but must have got it from wapo.

Speaking of WaPo didn't they just hire a new publisher from the Natonal Review? I thought Fred Ryan the reagan library dude was right-wing nuts.

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I believe that Hakeem can get 15-35 progressives on board. Can he get 5-10 republicans on board? Maybe. But he'll have to give them cover from TFG somehow.

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"MAIN IDEA: If people want to get this shit done bad enough, they can."

There's the whole thing about the Human Race right there. LAZY gd'dn fukers.

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Johnson is not the issue. The issue is the at least 30 Republicans who ran and won on their military backgrounds who are not forming a coalition to back the bill.

So they get primaried as a result? They might still win and even if they don't they will have an assured spot on MSNBC.

Seriously - you'd at least expect Crenshaw to be doing this because it would be so self-fluffing.

The craveness is just too reflexive now and Johnson knows that he can bank on it.

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I call him Human-like, live action figure Dan Crenshaw, thanks Evan, or Dok.

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It's weird to me how terrified politicians are of being primaried considering how freaking hard it is to win anything against an incumbent.

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Closed primaries where only the MAGA faithful turn up to vote is very different than winning the general election.

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Yeah, I guess so, but is it really so awful to go back to your damn district and do a coupla townhalls?

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PAB has his flying monkeys all hot and bothered, phoning in death threats, cutting off their Dad's head...

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Democrats get death threats every day from the MAGAts.

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I mean, I obviously get the impulse not to want to give Israel money but here on planet earth it's going to happen.

I'm also wondering how that's helping anyone. making Ukraine aid contingent on Israel aid is just going to help Putin directly in Ukraine while not really changing the situation in Israel immediately, which is also something Putin likes to see.

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I know this is epically naive, but I keep hoping—dreaming?—that the few not-completely-insane* Republicans in the House would band together and shut this lunatic caucus crap down. I just don't get what's in it for them to keep this clown show going.

*LOL

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Reelection, and keeping the maga-hordes from sending them death-threats.

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