(Warning, this is not a funny one) Ashen-Faced Johnson Dressed Down on Live TV by Voters

I feel bad for her children

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

They had 4 years to fix it in the 10s, they failed to even offer a proposal. Now in 2025 their only solution is to stop paying for trans people's healthcare and once again cut government funding for everyone's healthcare.

Biden was all half measures but fucking hell it was something and he was looking in the right direction even if only to avoid actually taking the correct full measure.

Medicaid for all, with right to negotiate and restrictions on prices for medications that were developed through public funding. Also, increase the number of slots in med schools and actively work with the AMA and APA to deal with our medical professional shortage. Hell offer free retraining for any insurance workers who lose their jobs if they go into an underserved medical profession.

I figured out that the Republican Party was the party of assholes when I was 14 and haven’t been proven wrong once in the 30 years since.

Johnson doesn't even have concepts of a plan

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."

From what I can tell, being that kind of person is a prerequisite for being House Speaker.

Still, you would think he's be smarter. Republicans are getting their ass handed to them in town halls all year. They hardly ever take on the public.

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

I agree with the sentiment but can we stop using words like "put on blast", "slammed", "claps back"? Thank you.

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.

From Gnugit@aussie.zone

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