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Mike Johnson Completely Blindsided by Resignation in His Own Party
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Buck's reason for leaving seems stupid to me (paraphrasing) "I believe our election system is broken so I want to join a group to fix it".
Dude, you're in the legislature!! Introduce legislation changing it!
Man is also a member of the party responsible for the dysfunction, don't forget that.
Freedom Caucus member as well
lmao, the dude was the dysfunction!
The dysfunction was coming from inside the House the whole time!
In a week he will have freedom from congress!
Exactly. This may just open the door for yet another idiot, making things worse for all of us. They need to fix gerrymandering.
Good news, 4 states will have new, fairer maps this upcoming election cycle.
Or Hell, even just voting with the Democrats would help.
While I agree, the nutters out there would have started death threats daily. I don't blame him for not wanting that treatment.
But maybe congress could be in a position to change that.
Except he's part of the reason people feel safe to make death threats.
He is running from the consequences of his actions.
He was elected by that system! They're as dumb as a pocket full of lint.
less useful, though. Lint can be used as a firestarter.
Well, they are doing a pretty good job burning down their own house.
“Only you can prevent wildfires. Vote Democrat”
Considering climate-change-induced drought, that's not even metaphorical.
Are you insinuating that Ken Buck is inflammable?
Being inflammable would give him at least one use.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
not necessarily. it specifically means easily set on fire.
This guy is useless, which means he sucks as a fuel source (to difficult to set on fire, too little energy returns), but is flammable enough that he can't be used as a fire resistant material, either.
Or you can make it into paper.