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Let's talk about why the GOP isn’t ousting Speaker Johnson....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about why the GOP isn’t ousting Speaker Johnson....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

0:05.0

So today, we're going to talk about why the GOP isn't ousting Speaker Johnson.

0:13.0

Speaker of the House Johnson appears to be becoming more and more unpopular, with larger and larger segments of House Republicans.

0:22.7

Yet, they aren't tossing him out the way they did McCarthy. That seems a little

0:28.4

advance to people. I mean, odd to people. And we have the question, quote,

0:36.0

Bell, you and several others have commented on rumors that there's an effort

0:41.4

to oust Johnson via a motion to vacate the chair. Some people are saying that they have enough

0:47.9

people on board to trigger the vote, especially after the ACA disaster. My question is, why isn't it happening?

0:58.0

There is no way for me to say for sure, but I have an idea,

1:03.0

and I could sum it up in a single word.

1:06.0

I could talk about DC time being different than everywhere else in the world. Or I could answer a

1:13.4

question with a question. I think I'm going to do all three. Why haven't they ousted Johnson?

1:20.6

In a single word, hopelessness. A longer more thorough answer is that DC time works differently than anywhere else.

1:30.0

And the only days that really matter are election days or those that directly influence them.

1:36.7

They're halfway to election day, and they're so convinced that they're going to take an L,

1:42.9

that they've been running around the country

1:45.0

on a nationwide gerrymander spree. That's a sign of weakness and a sign that they believe

1:52.4

the people will turn against them. But they're afraid to push back too hard against Trump's

1:58.9

policies, because he could create a day that influences the

2:03.2

election by posting negatively about them on social media. As it stands, Johnson has to deal with

2:11.6

Trump. Johnson is the lightning rod for the negative press. He's the one that has to risk upsetting Trump for any pushback.

2:21.4

He's also the one leading them into the midterms that they seem pretty sure they're not

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