The Louisiana Republican announced on Wednesday morning on an all-staff call that he will not run for House minority leader for the new Congress next year, following Tuesday’s historical Democratic landslide takeover of the House of Representatives.
It’s not clear yet if Johnson has anointed a successor to lead the Republican caucus. Representative Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has already thrown his hat into the ring and announced he’s running for House minority leader. According to Punchbowl News, Jordan’s pitch will be that new blood is needed and that he specializes in investigations.
The current number two Republican in the House, Representative Steve Scalise, also announced that he is running for caucus leader.
This guy?
The guy who’s parents probably dressed him like an old man with a briefcase from the age of 5?
The guy who looks like he went to boarding school as a kid, soil himself regularly and noone liked him there because he would tell on everyone?
The same guy who was most likely never invited, even out of sympathy, to any parties in University because he still dressed like an old man with a briefcase, never got laid because of his Oedipal complex, and would rat his entire alumni out for a pat on the head from the professors?
That guy?
Colour me absolutely fucking unsurprised. He made less effort to hide his wretched being than Grima Wormtongue.
The guy who pays money to a third party company to log all of his internet browsing habits and share them with his son as proof he isn’t looking at porn?
I’m sure that a company that caters to highly conservative people who feel the need to be “kept honest” with their browsing history does a bangup job keeping their servers up to date, and no foreign intelligence teams focus on it at all after the Speaker of the House bragged about using it.
That’s not just weird. That’s weeeeird.
These guys are just so absolutely non human.
The way I tend to think about it these days is that this guy is part of a community where that kind of thing is normal; otherwise, why would he share it?
If anything sexual is so big of a deal to him (and I infer it is from the statements he made), then how does that align with shielding his boss from the allegations made against him?
He would not be out of place in his own 8mm movie. That’s possibly why he’s done so well in the Republican party.