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Just a reminder that this guy came out of bumfuck nowhere, politically speaking, straight into the position of third in line for the presidency.
With that fact in mind, I don't think his malleability and cowardice are accidental; I think they were prerequisites of the job, and specifically why he was chosen.
Let's not forget that for several years, it took a lot more than a single majority vote to oust a Speaker of the House, and that those rules were changed in December 2022 specifically for the 118th Congress, and as a condition of Kevin McCarthy's speakership. Consider also the group that did the deed of getting McCarthy booted, and their inordinately tight Russian ties.
Which is to say that booting McCarthy and putting in a far weaker player like Mike "my teenage son has to monitor my porn intake because I can't be trusted to make adult decisions about my own sex life" Johnson was the plan all along.
Cowardice? It's why he was chosen. If your ultimate plan is to gain the presidency via non-official means -- including fake electors, a coup, an unforeseen fiery tragedy, what have you -- then you gotta have someone in line for the role who is amenable to taking orders and doing whatever the fuck they are told without the slightest hint of shame at their own apparent hypocrisy and dishonesty, and without being an unpredictably deranged howler monkey that the entire world hates and ridicules, like the gang that ousted McCarthy.
Think about it. In these terms, Mike Johnson is the PERFECT man for the job.