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riversedge

(73,755 posts) Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:03 AM 22 hrs ago

🚨BREAKING: Speaker Johnson, in what appears to be a direction from Donald Trump, has decided to remove Rep. Mike Turner

Well, gee---Susy Collins is not concerned so Johnson can proceed!!



🚨BREAKING: Speaker Johnson, in what appears to be a direction from Donald Trump, has decided to remove Rep. Mike Turner as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, according to Punchbowl News

His “sin”? He’s too pro-NATO, too supportive of Ukraine, and “too close” to the intelligence agencies.

Turner confirmed the news and told CBS’s Margaret Brennan that Johnson cited “concerns from Mar-a-Lago” as justification for the removal.

This is extremely concerning!




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🚨BREAKING: Speaker Johnson, in what appears to be a direction from Donald Trump, has decided to remove Rep. Mike Turner (Original Post) riversedge 22 hrs ago OP
Sorry piece of shit. Callie1979 22 hrs ago #1
Which one Rebl2 21 hrs ago #11
There's a whole sack of 'em Callie1979 19 hrs ago #15
Yep Rebl2 19 hrs ago #18
Not to overuse this statement.....but we are so screwed. a kennedy 22 hrs ago #2
Putin's orders. sop 22 hrs ago #3
Johnson is the felon's best friend for whipping the republicans in line and dishing out consequences Deuxcents 22 hrs ago #4
This is what people voted for Prairie Gates 22 hrs ago #5
we don't have to like it rampartd 22 hrs ago #6
Certainly not Prairie Gates 22 hrs ago #7
Good. Because Turner is in the pocket of defense contractors and he has blocked efforts to help bring transparency Rafi 22 hrs ago #8
Maybe post a link regarding what you're referring to? Callie1979 19 hrs ago #16
Aliens Mountainguy 18 hrs ago #19
Oh. Well then. Thank you. Callie1979 17 hrs ago #21
Where did I say anything about aliens? Rafi 16 hrs ago #25
OK Mountainguy 10 hrs ago #32
Winner takes all. Sucks but it is what it is. Autumn 21 hrs ago #9
repubes are such puckered-up Brown Nosers in their betrayal of America BoRaGard 21 hrs ago #10
Why did Speaker Johnson oust his own party's Intelligence Committee chair? LetMyPeopleVote 21 hrs ago #12
This was a "don't fuck with us" message from the cult. Initech 21 hrs ago #13
Little Mikey's lord and master has spoken and is wasn't an answer to a pray. republianmushroom 20 hrs ago #14
He's my rep, so all I can say about Mike is... Xavier Breath 19 hrs ago #17
How big is Johnsons majority? Mountainguy 18 hrs ago #20
The oligarchy is emboldened and are going to whatever they damn well please. CentralMass 14 hrs ago #30
We will see Mountainguy 9 hrs ago #33
Jesus Christ... I fucking HATE, LOATHE, DESPISE that goddam "Thumbs-Up" pose. Oopsie Daisy 17 hrs ago #22
A boy can dream. SalamanderSleeps 16 hrs ago #23
It would take 3 Mountainguy 8 hrs ago #34
Of course Putin says NO first. Cha 16 hrs ago #24
Little Mikey is a muppet in real life. NoMoreRepugs 16 hrs ago #26
The Dems should recruit him. rzemanfl 16 hrs ago #27
Considering his conservative voting record and support of Trump that would be unusual. AkFemDem 16 hrs ago #28
Depends on his temper. We know none of them have deep seated scruples. rzemanfl 13 hrs ago #31
Putin told tRump to do it. CentralMass 14 hrs ago #29

Deuxcents

(20,421 posts)
4. Johnson is the felon's best friend for whipping the republicans in line and dishing out consequences
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:13 AM
22 hrs ago

Rafi

(228 posts)
8. Good. Because Turner is in the pocket of defense contractors and he has blocked efforts to help bring transparency
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:46 AM
22 hrs ago

regarding the secret work being done on recovered NHI craft. Ridicule if you wish, but why block the legislation if there is nothing to see?

Callie1979

(412 posts)
16. Maybe post a link regarding what you're referring to?
Reply to Rafi (Reply #8)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 01:09 PM
19 hrs ago

The whole "pocket of defense contractors" is as old as time.

Mountainguy

(1,087 posts)
32. OK
Reply to Rafi (Reply #25)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:30 PM
10 hrs ago
regarding the secret work being done on recovered NHI craft



NHI = Non-Human Intelligence.

Unless you are saying that animals are building flying crafts or that they have become self-aware then you are talking about aliens.

BoRaGard

(3,481 posts)
10. repubes are such puckered-up Brown Nosers in their betrayal of America
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:21 AM
21 hrs ago

bunch of snivling submissive grovelers who will not stand up for the people of the USA.

LetMyPeopleVote

(156,451 posts)
12. Why did Speaker Johnson oust his own party's Intelligence Committee chair?
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:25 AM
21 hrs ago

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Donald Trump wasn't involved in the decision to oust the chair. There's reason to believe otherwise.
https://bsky.app/profile/actiontogethernj.bsky.social/post/3lfunie2v2k2z

Why did Speaker Johnson oust his own party’s Intelligence Committee chair?
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Donald Trump wasn't involved in the decision to oust the chair. There's reason to believe otherwise.



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-oust-partys-intelligence-committee-chair-rcna187931

When the Louisiana Republican was pressed for an explanation, Johnson reportedly told his members that the appointments came at the behest of Donald Trump, who wanted unqualified MAGA loyalists on the powerful panel.

It’s against this backdrop that the beleaguered speaker made yet another highly provocative move on the panel formally known as the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. NBC News reported:

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has informed Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, that he will no longer be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, according to a GOP leadership source and a Republican lawmaker familiar with the matter. The lawmaker said Turner told him Wednesday that he would not be staying on as head of the critical panel that conducts oversight of the U.S. intelligence community.


Turner confirmed in a written statement that he’d been stripped of his intelligence committee gavel, though the Ohioan did not explain why, exactly, he’d been demoted....

If those reports are accurate, they lead to a rather obvious question: Why would the president-elect oppose Turner staying on as the chair of the intelligence panel? To understand Trump’s possible motivation, consider this paragraph from the Times’ report:

Mr. Turner, a mainstream conservative who has represented southwestern Ohio in the House for more than two decades, has at times been critical of Mr. Trump’s actions. He broke with the majority of his party on Jan. 6, 2021, and voted to certify Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 election. He has also been a leading proponent of supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia, breaking with the “America First” stance of the president-elect and many others in his party.


Indeed, it’s probably fair to say that among House Republicans, Turner is among the most enthusiastic supporters of backing Ukraine in its war against Russia, and the Ohioan has championed the NATO alliance.....

In 2014, I referred to John Boehner as the “Speaker in Name Only” because the then-GOP leader struggled to get his own members to follow his directives, leaving him effectively powerless when trying to legislate.

More than a decade later, as Johnson owes his tenure to the president-elect, there’s reason to believe the “SINO” title is poised to make a comeback

Initech

(102,838 posts)
13. This was a "don't fuck with us" message from the cult.
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:40 AM
21 hrs ago

Fuck Mar-A-Lago. I only want to hear concerns coming from the White House, not that shitty rat motel.

republianmushroom

(18,451 posts)
14. Little Mikey's lord and master has spoken and is wasn't an answer to a pray.
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:49 AM
20 hrs ago

Or maybe it was.

Mountainguy

(1,087 posts)
20. How big is Johnsons majority?
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 02:03 PM
18 hrs ago

Don't think I'd be looking to make enemies in the House right now considering he's going to need almost every R vote to even get anything through to the Senate.


Despite all the worry in here about R control, I think the next 2 years are going to be full of infighting and deadlock more than anything else.

SalamanderSleeps

(689 posts)
23. A boy can dream.
Reply to riversedge (Original post)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:48 PM
16 hrs ago

District
___________
1 Fitzpatrick, Brian R PA-1 Leans Dem
2 Lawler, Mike R NY-17 Leans Dem
3 Bacon, Don R NE-2 Leans Dem
4 Schweikert, Dave R AZ-1 Swing
5 Perry, Scott R PA-10 Swing
6 Kean Jr., Tom R NJ-7 Swing
7 Nunn, Zachary R IA-3 Swing
8 Wittman, Rob R VA-1 Swing
9 Steil, Bryan R WI-1 Swing
10 Kiggans, Jen R VA-2 Swing
11 Barrett, Tom R MI-7 Swing
12 Ciscomani, Juan R AZ-6 Swing
13 Evans, Gabe R CO-8 Swing
14 Mackenzie, Ryan R PA-7 Swing
15 Turner, Mike R OH-10 Leans Rep, but just got neutered by his own damned people.

If they were to switch parties the Orange Menace would burst into flames. It would be a broadside that the GOP would never recover from.

Like I said a boy can dream.

Still, what would happen if just enough of them defected to flip the House?

215/220 is not a particularly pronounced margin

Mountainguy

(1,087 posts)
34. It would take 3
Reply to SalamanderSleeps (Reply #23)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:50 PM
8 hrs ago

defections to hand the majority to D's.

Problem is our party isn't exactly big tent and welcoming right now. Folks here want to run sitting Senators out of the party if they get caught with Carrie Underwood on their spotify playlist.

AkFemDem

(2,217 posts)
28. Considering his conservative voting record and support of Trump that would be unusual.
Reply to rzemanfl (Reply #27)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:39 PM
16 hrs ago

rzemanfl

(30,316 posts)
31. Depends on his temper. We know none of them have deep seated scruples.
Reply to AkFemDem (Reply #28)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:48 PM
13 hrs ago

Inside of the tent pissing out and all that.

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