X.com, formerly know as Twitter, is a shit show. And sometimes, it splatters on MAGA conversatives. Former congressional canddiate Jay Chen savaged the Register’s horrible opinion desk with this hyserical edit of a Register Tweet.
Steel and Kim never hid their extremist ways but you endorsed them anyway. Their votes are a surprise to no one. Orange County deserves better.
The Register’s Opinion Desk wrote an editorial criticizing votes taken by Rep. Michelle Steel and Rep. Young Kim to support MAGA bomb thrower Jim Jordan and, eventually Rep. Mike Johnson for House speaker saying the two OC Congressional reps put MAGA before governing.
Duh.
Chen’s edit is spot on because there apparently aren’t any mirrors in the Register’s “opinion desk” side of the newsroom. One response was to suggest someone do a wellness check on the Opinion desk to make sure they are OK.
Here’s what the editorial said:
After a series of failed candidates, the GOP selected – and the House voted – to make Mike Johnson of Louisiana the new speaker. Johnson is little known, but was neck-deep in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He even sent an email to House Republicans urging them to sign onto an amicus brief in a Texas lawsuit to invalidate electoral-college votes from several states.
Before Johnson, the Republican caucus selected Jim Jordan of Ohio, a MAGA bomb-thrower. The House’s January 6 report called Jordan “a significant player” in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Apparently, election denialism was a GOP requisite to lead the House.
Nevertheless, Jordan and Johnson both secured the votes of two Orange County members who should have known better. U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel represents the 45th congressional district in the north-central county – a district where Democrats have a 6-percent voter-registration advantage.
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We endorsed Steel in 2022. We appreciated her practical, conservative record. She told us Biden legitimately won the election and pointed to court decisions that refused to overturn the results.
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We also endorsed Kim, noting she’s “distinguished herself as part of a rare breed of Republican moderates.” During our interviews, Kim wouldn’t talk about Donald Trump, saying she was too busy focusing on her election to discuss him. She was most interested in “uniting us.”
And yet with the speaker vote, they both gave in to the most extreme form of Trumpism. We look forward to hearing their justifications as the congressional races get underway.
It’s worth noting Kim last week refused to answer a question to a KFI reporter if Biden was the legitimately-elected President; and she has a fund-raising letter out suggesting her numbers are so low, she’s thinking about throwing in the towel on re-election. Kim has raised $2.9 million and has about $1.8 million cash on hand; she ranked #15 of all candidates running for Congress.
Yet Chen is right. The Register’s opinion desk is closer to MAGA than it ever will be to anything in the middle. Other than John Seiler, who else writing for these pages actually lives in Orange County.