Dens are good at getting the good on the other side and blackmailing them with it
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All blackmail
Yeah, no. I mean, where's your actual evidence for this "blackmail," hmm?
To my mind, this whole "blackmail" angle is just pathetic cope trotted out by conservatives who don't want to acknowledge -- especially to themselves -- that they've been played for fools for years (decades?) now by a Republican Party that is led by elites who utterly despise the party's conservative base.
Mike Johnson is what he is. No "blackmail" was required. And, hey, if this is what his constituents in LA CD-4 want in their "representative," well, that's how our "constitutional system" works, right? And if that's who the Republican caucus in the House wants as its Leader, well, what does that tell us?