Right. MAGAS hate the IRS. So do some powerful republicans as well.
For the MAGAS it’s “Why they takin my money?”
For the powerful republicans it’s “If I can hide this crooked move, I might get away with it.”
You say that as if that entire spiel won’t be ecstatically popular with about half the voters.
They will love that shit. It totally aligns with the propaganda they’ve been happily gorging on for decades too.
Definitely cause for concern:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/opinions/mike-johnson-gop-extreme-right-agenda-avlon/index.html
Thomas Edsall in today’s NYT discusses Mike Johnson’s Christian Nationalism, and the rise of white Evangelicalism that it reflects. Gifted article.
Ryan Burge: “His views are far out of step with the average American and even with a significant number of Republicans. Yet, he was chosen as speaker.”
Republican Electorate:
1970s 2010s
Mainline
Protestants 46% 17%
Evangelical
Protestants 24% 38%
Catholics 19% 25%
Mainline
Protestants
plus
Catholics 65% 42%For more on Christian Nationalism, Edsall points us to the PPRI (Public Religion Research Institute) article, “A Christian Nation? Understanding the Threat of Christian Nationalism to American Democracy and Culture” PRRI
They ask 5 questions, then sort Americans according to their answers: it’s a Pew-style exercise. Questions follow:
- The U.S. government should declare America a Christian nation.
- U.S. laws should be based on Christian values.
- If the U.S. moves away from our Christian foundations, we will not have a country anymore.
- Being Christian is an important part of being truly American.
- God has called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of American society.
Ok, here’s the demographic breakdown of the US:
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Christian Nationalist Adherents: 10% of Americans: Agree with all 5
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Christian Nationalist Sympathizers: Agree, but less likely to say they completely agree. 19%. (10+19=29)
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Christian Nationalist Skeptics: Disagree, but less likely to completely disagree 39%
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Christian Nationalist Rejectors: Completely disagree: 29%. (39+29=68)
Studies show that 68 is greater than 29.
Among Republicans 54% were in the top 2 groups - adherents (21%) or sympathizers (33%). I round to 50-50. Among Democrats, 15% were in the top 2 groups.
Among Christian Nationalist Adherents, 81 percent agreed that, “Immigrants are invading our country and replacing our cultural and ethnic background". Hijack! Parable of the Good Samaritan - Wikipedia
Personally, I’m not exactly panicking, and I think Mike Johnson’s leadership will be shaped by his caucus more than visa-versa. Because that’s the way things have worked in the past. Probability? Meh, 75%? Too early to be certain.
I think your probably right, but unfortunately his election tells us a great deal about his caucus.
Fatigue. They finally figured they had to vote for somebody.
Or maybe they got what they wanted all along. This guy stinks almost as much as George Santos, so obviously, they love him.
Now that he’s Speaker, Johnson is predictably getting more scrutiny than he did as an unheralded Congressman from Louisianna. And one of the things raising questions is his personal finances. Namely, in his required financial reporting, he has never reported having a bank account under his or his wife’s name. In fact, on his latest filing he doesn’t report having any financial assets at all, even though his House salary alone puts him in the top 12% of American earners and he had years of practice as an attorney prior to assuming electoral office. Curious.
Maybe he gives all his money to “gay conversion” clinics and abortion bombers.
Here’s what he’s most wrong about the Bible along with the rest of the Freedumbs
It’s not the supreme law of the land, the Constitution is.
It says so right there in it!
Absolutely.
For now.
Looks like house Republicans passed the “Up Isreal/Down IRS” bill with the help of some Democrats. I’d like to know which Democrats.
Democrats voting for the bill were Reps. Angie Craig (Minn.), Donald G. Davis (N.C.), Lois Frankel (Fla.), Jared Golden (Maine), Josh Gottheimer (N.J.), Greg Landsman (Ohio), Jared Moskowitz (Fla.), Darren Soto (Fla.), Haley Stevens (Mich.), Juan Vargas (Calif.), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) and Frederica S. Wilson (Fla.).
Republican Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) voted against.
Thank you.
Democrats: I wish Republicans would stop their insane counterproductivity.
Republicans: Bro, stop helping us then.
The Florida Ds who voted for it are all in heavily Jewish districts. That topic gets pretty single-issue down here. Even if whatever bill they just voted up wasn’t everything Israel wanted or could use, it was something. They can vote for something bigger & better next time. But they must always say “yes.”
I explicitly make no comment on whether this is good or bad for US policy or US interests. I merely say that it’s so.
The politics in this country are so pathetic, and antithetical to that which is good and just, that I’d just like to give the whole thing up, and let the moronic fucking electorate have their way.
When Democrats are voting for this ridiculous bullshit, the whole thing is thoroughly and irredeemably fucked.
Bring on president trump 2.0. I don’t give a fuck. The Democratic spineless wonders had better be there at the inauguration fawning over him Pence-style.