or mace?

Part of the deal could be that they would not be gerrymandered if they did not vote for certain people, also.

I don't know that they could find anyone that they could vote for if Johnson was out?

I agree it's all we've got at present, though, and i too consider it quite possible 2026 will simply evaporate. It could be 2038 before economic and living conditions collapse enough to oust these incompetents. Play the game doesn't mean you must play the long game. Go at it hard every day and every month and seek opportunity however you define it.

They have no scruples. They would be willing to make a deal if they could stay in power, in my opinion.

For example, Democrats could promise a couple of Republicans in California that they would not be gerrymandered if they would vote to dismiss MAGA Mike from the Speakership AND if they did not vote for a certain list of replacements, to stop the Republicans from having a majority when the votes were cast.

Trump will just declare a national emergency and do anything he wants by executive order and the Supreme Court will approve it. His backup also is that he controls the DC police now and has troops all over Washington, so how would we stop him?

No money. No bonuses. No ICE. No police. Defund it all.

and have to think that any Repub that collaborated in such a scheme - would almost certainly be targeted to LOSE that coveted seat in the next available election?

...and that would be their strongest weapon, in my opinion.

All the other points are pretty negative and democratically fatalistic, but probably close to reality.

But we will take whatever "victories" we can get at this time.

Trump has consolidated power and control much quicker than many people thought.

If we can divide and create turmoil in this present Congress, and cause as much delay and obstruction as possible, it will get us closer to November 2026.

That's all I have.

i guess it's hard for people to "math"...

Trump is 7 months into this..He has 41 months to go... Does anyone honestly believe that if Johnson were to be gerrymandered out, that we would end up with a better Speaker?

He would be voted out.

It only takes one vote to bring him up for continuing in his job and a simple majority to remove him, is my understanding.

Is it still the rule that one person can bring it to a vote?

Give a couple of Republican Congressmen an "offer they can't refuse" by promising them they will not be gerrymandered out of office.

It's hard to imagine anyone could be more subservient to Trump than MAGA Mike?.

I can assure you that in this environment, it will not get better...The days of people like Paul Ryan being chosen by the GOP as Speaker are over and have been for seven months+

..it would be an improvement, in my opinion.

I do not expect any instant fixes.

I’m not sure this tactic could get any republican to vote out Johnson, but I like the idea. The republicans haven’t looked great electing their last couple speakers. The sideshow antics might shine a bit of light on the clown car we’re riding in for some voters. Also, there is a chance a more unhinged speaker would be more distasteful to voters? Johnson comes off as relatively measure which may help disguise his extreme views, although he seems pretty darn creepy to me. I don’t know how a “worse” speaker could make things much worse without actually helping the Democratic Party in the midterms, but these are crazy times.

have been repeated here many times.

But usually the "Stop being a bad Democrat and saying there are things we can do!!1!" swarm of 6 or 7 posters shuts those conversations down.

Some of us may have missed it?

I shut object to people saying Democrats aren't trying because it isn't true and it hurts turnout and approval ratings. But I'd love to see valid suggestions. So far only vagueness and a few really bad ideas..

Decades. We're in this for decades.

He has not been in power that long and he is a strong autocrat, I have heard.

We will, however, be in a good position to stop things from getting much worse.

We won't fix anything until we gain the House, the Senate, and the White House. Then we might accomplish something if the Extreme Court doesn't negate any fixes.

MAGA Mike is annoying, but we could remove him and get Speaker Jim Jordan, or Speaker Marjorie Taylor Greene. So, no, I wouldn't arrange Gerrymandering to save one or two Rethugs in CA.

Perhaps some delay and obstruction, but it's the only idea I have at this time.

She has made a few enemies on her side.

Remember the Fascists have their Unitary Executive Theory where they believe they don't have to obey Congress or the courts. if they do that we'll take it to the next level.

Need something a lot more binding then that. The best thing to do is to do what California is doing. If Johnson is replaced it will be by someone just as bad.

the pseudo-sane Republicans in the House and Senate are operating on the assumption the mid-term election will fix what Trump and their bend-over compliance have broken...this is a decades long cycle...the Republicans shit the bed and the Democrats clean up the mess...

7 months down... 41 left to go.

And let's hope for a vigorous primary campaign in 2028 and hope the nominee can be a contender nationwide to broad groups of people.

will be an episode of massive voter repression on a scale we have never seen before. I believe the repression will not only be purging voter registrations but it will also include increased limits on early voting, closing massive numbers of polling locations, troops and police deployed at polling places in locations that target Democratic voters for intimidation etc. I also expect "preemptive arrests" of Democratic activists etc. across the country prior to or on Election Day. I believe those arrest will continue if we win.

I also believe that if we do, by some miracle, overcome this massive repression that Crumb The 1st and the fascists will start "declaring" phony claims about fraud etc. and perhaps use a combination of making phony legal claims and Executive Orders to forestall the opening of a new Congress. Yes eventually the SC might overturn any Executive Order but it has no enforcement mechanism as we all know.

I also believe that Crumb the 1st and the fascists are not above stationing troops on Capitol Hill to close off the building and issue threat of arrest for any newly elected members trying to enter or take part. I also believe that Crumb The 1st and the fascists are itching for troops/DOJ/FBI to arrest a big city mayor or Blue State governor on of course bogus claims.

I believe that if we somehow get past all of that then Crumb The 1st will be pushed by the likes of Nazi Miller, Nazi Noem, Nazi Bondi, Nazi Patel, Nazi Hegseth etc. to declare a national emergency/ martial law etc. While an attempt to unilaterally suspend the Constitution would be illegal by any normal understanding by all legal scholars it is only so if the SC ultimately were to uphold that it is illegal. Again they have no enforcement mechanism and so it would simply amount to the equivalent of a "finding" with no teeth. As always the question would be what would the military do? Given the purging of the leadership under these fascists it is by no means certain that they would back the Constitution with anything other than words.

from getting passed. And Clarence and Sam would be rocking on their hands since they couldn't retire in peace.

If you're looking for change, we'd have to have the WH, a majority in the House, and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate after 2028.