This guy Johnson is a psychopath imo
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Citizens asked the Republicans about this and they said "shut up!” /s
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i kinda get the feeling that this nutjob is payback for booting mccarthy and nixing jordan.
Payback for who? The people who wanted this nutjob are the same folks who booted McCarthy.
Yeah the shift on McCarthy was when he interrogated a soldier and an army lawyer called him the fuck out “at long last have you no sense of decency?”
Nixon was a bipartisan boot as well.
That said yeah this is revenge for them. Not from republicans but from their right flank. The contingent that wanted McCarthy to be able to torment anyone to stop communists and homosexuals. The contingent that swore to never let something like watergate result in a presidential resignation. The contingent that looked at Goldwater and thought that he wasn’t quite bigoted enough. They had a kid with the moral majority and are hell bent on making everyone’s life hell
While there's no question that the far right wants to stick it to pretty much everyone else, in this case I'm not talking about Senator Joseph McCarthy, but rather Representative (and briefly Speaker) Kevin McCarthy.
If you're going to look to the past for the source for our troubles, or at least for a major moment when we lost the chance to actually get the US to live up to the ideals we claim to represent, I think you'd need to look at Andrew Johnson as the shitbag who enabled the traitorous pre-fascist scum to remain in power in the country.
The trouble started long before the US existed, but there was a moment, bought with tremendous amounts of blood and suffering, that could have led to actual freedom if Andrew Johnson had not become president.
Ah sorry seeing the name next to Nixon made me think Joe not Kevin.
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And I kinda wonder just how many backup christofascists the GOP has.
A lot. The past decade has been a “get in line or get out of the way” primarying purge. Add in the effects of project redmap and gerrymandering and yeah it’s bad
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It's creepy that he looks so similar to Steven Colbert.
Considering everything about the Colbert Report was making fun of conservatives, I'd think it means Colbert knocked it out of the park.
Scarier still when you realize that Colbert's impersonation was so good he actually kept getting invited to Republican Dinners and Events because they didn't know it was satire.
He claims to this day he still gets people asking him to bring back the Colbert show because of a "Lack of conservative figures on liberal media."