Day 789

How Mike Johnson Got to ‘Yes’ on Aid to Ukraine. Intelligence, politics and personal considerations converted the Republican speaker, who had largely opposed aid to Ukraine as a rank-and-file member, into the key figure pushing it through Congress (The New York Times, April 21, 2024)

Oh, dear.

The huddling-with-Bill part sounds icky, reminding me about unit 21955 and Team USA’s AHI denial syndrome.

If someone, anyone, anywhere, can figure out how Speaker Mike negotiated Ukraine’s survival past his unwelcome evangelicalism, the required praying, the pretending-to-be-on-the-phone failures, the scattershot markup, the overpowering segregation of information, months of needless border invasion bullshit, the seven ways of arriving at the same conclusion, the one-way interactivity, the hostile unfamiliarity, the ketchup slowness, the endless options, the unavailable information, the myriad possibilities, and just fucking tell me what happened to competency that would be tops, thanks.