A series of events in the past few weeks has undercut what little power Johnson ever had among his fellow Republicans in the House. GOP representatives – the group that he theoretically leads – are so angry that they publicly call him names. Republicans are using parliamentary procedures to get votes on bills that Johnson doesn’t want to bring to the floor.
Incumbents panicking over the potential to lose their seats, in a Democratic landslide, are blaming Johnson for their problems. He has to make promises he must know he can’t keep to get bills passed. And Donald Trump is doing nothing to help Johnson in his time of need.
Trump’s a hypochondriac and has never been shy about taking preventative steps for his health. He was first in line for the COVID shot and first in line to get paxlovid when he became infected.
This has been the subject of endless, unverified speculation. Trump’s old, not particularly smart, and regularly in meetings that leave him bored out of his mind. Its trivial to get a picture of him half-awake and drooling, then claim you can diagnose medical conditions with a cell phone camera that doctors struggle to categorize with a CAT scan.
I’m not suggesting nobody is talking. I’m stating that Mike Johnson’s position as House Speaker has nothing to do with his perceived capability as successor to the successor to the President. Nevermind the fact that Speaker of the House is also a powerful bureaucratic position. Why would you give a shit about Trump dropping into a coma, JD Vance getting - what? - hit by a lightning bolt, I guess? And then this thing that has never happened in 250 years of US History happening in the next three years.
Every Lib has been talking about how Trump could croak any second, because they’re coked up on Copium and have zero faith in the next round of elections.
Conservatives think you could drop a bomb on Trump’s head and God would step in to stop it.