He claimed 0 assets. No stocks, no interest earning bank accounts, no mutual funds, no CDs. That's awfully suspicious.
Yeah. Maybe the most important word here is "claimed".
"Actually, the Speaker’s office told Marketplace that he does have a personal bank account, but it’s exempt from House reporting rules because it doesn’t earn interest."
Lol
Oh the perfect cover for massive bribes got it.
None of our bank accounts really pay interest, 0.01% come on.
No claimed assets + religious nutjob suggests to me that he gives all his income to some cult leader.
The cult leader? Itself.
So you're telling me that either Mike Johnson has a wad under his mattress, or is somehow the most based cryptobro in politics? Someone should.... investigate.... this.
Or he’s lying
This is my vote, using Occam's Razor. Or a related option: he's being overly pedantic about terminology (e.g. maybe everything is in a trust or something).
Somebody call Coffeezilla
He's kinda busy.
Why would they investigate it? Either he has no money, and is telling the truth, or he "has no money" and will be happy to share his "nothing" to keep an investigation from happening.
Is he not 3rd in line? Also there is a currently a member of congress being investigated because they claimed on their campaign finance forms to have loaned their campaign $350,000 despite not having a savings account. Pretty weird if you ask me
Biden is the president
Harris is first in line should Biden leave office
Johnson is second in line, behind Harris
Yes, it’s a zero-indexed array.
As programmer, that should feel right, but it sure doesn't.
Idk why but the line of attack with weird isn’t really doing it for me.
But it doesn’t matter much because I’m far from the average voter and they already earnt my vote 5 times over.
It's being overused. However The Speaker of the House of Representatives not having any bank accounts is best described as weird.
I don't think that Democrats should get too hung up on the word "weird" specifically, because that can get overdone pretty quickly, but the general strategy of gently insulting Trump in a way that flusters him and embarrasses his supporters is golden imo.
I'm in a terminally red area. I usually try to avoid political discussions, but when I've been pressed for my opinion on Trump, I tend to avoid talking about policy, because really, that's a dead end for the type of person that would start this conversation. Instead I'll respond with something like "politics aside, he honestly comes across as kinda dumb" or "Naw, he creeps me out". Bam! There isn't a fox news talking point for that that doesn't involve trying to change the conversation to some dem, and really these statements are just a matter of opinion. Go straight to policy and you'll get memorized talking points back, go to really harsh direct insults, they'll dismiss you as having TDS. But when you keep it subtle and insulting in an everyday, almost dismissive sort of way, like by saying say "sorry no, your guy is just too plain weird", that gets to them. It forces introspection, and though it might not mean anything that day, those short moments of realizing that their politicians really are a bizarre group might start to add up. I know it did for me. Antagonizing Trump should be secondary to subtley and carefully making his supporters embarrassed to support him and dorks like him.
I’m in a terminally red area. I usually try to avoid political discussions, but when I’ve been pressed for my opinion on Trump, I tend to avoid talking about policy
Honestly policy is a surprisingly safe topic because most laypeople don't pay close attention to policy. Stay away from the current hot talking points and just speak in broad strokes and most trumphumpers will actually agree with very progressive policies
It seems to work on the people for whom Trump being a complete lunatic, obviously suffering from dementia, trying to overthrow US democracy and being in league with their country's biggest enemy doesn't work. So, I'll take it
When Walz delivered the line originally it landed really well. Ultimately, the point is to impact the conversation enough so the people who aren't very plugged in hear it, which I think has worked. I don't think many people here needed to be convinced not to vote Republican
It’s dismissive and invalidating, which really does work on T regardless.
I don't really get it either, but it's driving them crazy, so I go with it
I've said before that it seems silly to me, but I'm not the target audience, and it's apparently driving the MAGA crowd nuts, so what the heck.
Its driving the MAGAts nuts is because their identity is wrapped up in being part of the SiLeNt MaJoRiTy, so pointing out that they're just a bunch of weirdos with minority opinions just destroys their self worth.
After all, we all know what they think of minorities.....
