Mike Johnson Would Rather Not Discuss His Robust Attempts to Overturn the 2020 Election – In addition to trying to block Joe Biden from becoming president, Johnson is also antiabortion and anti-LGBTQ+
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Mike Johnson Would Rather Not Discuss His Robust Attempts to Overturn the 2020 Election – In addition to trying to block Joe Biden from becoming president, Johnson is also antiabortion and anti-LGBTQ+
by vulcan_on_earth
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In other words, he’s a moderate in today’s GOP because he isn’t (described as) a neo-Nazi too!
So, he’s the typical republican?
Then we should keep discussing it. And keep discussing it. And keep discussing it. Day after day. This piece of shit is quiet as a mouth but is somehow quite possibly an even more disgusting parasite than Richard Strauss’s best friend Gym.
And I’m sure he’s a huge fan of acknowledging *white privilege*:
“Oppong said the move speaks to a sense of “Us Vs. Them?” and comes across as a kind of flex. He felt the same way about the fire fighters’ week-long flaunting of official orders from their own chief and town officials to remove the flags. Firefighters even drove through the rally, with the thin blue line flags hanging from their fire truck, nearly a week after they were ordered to take them down.
“I think it goes back to a long history in this country of certain sections of people believing that they deserve to be heard. They deserve not to be bothered. They deserve to refuse orders from the people that pay them and they deserve, you know, to put their knee on somebody’s neck until they die,” Oppong said. And they expect to “get away with it,” he added.” – Emmanuel Oppong – https://www.wvtf.org/2020-07-31/thin-blue-line-flags-stir-controversy-in-mass-coastal-community
Mark Meadows might have something to say after Jack Smith is done with him.
Of course not. He’s also a climate change skeptic, he’s in tight with big oil, a covid denier, anti-vaxer and a Jan 6th denier!!
The GOP is no more. They are a christofascist terroristic organization. They WILL cause a government shutdown and use it to further their agenda. CRIMINAL TRUMP NOW CONTROLS THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND EVERY REPUBLICAN VOTED IN FAVOR OF IT!!
Vote dems like your life, rights and democracy depend on it, because they do!!
The Republican Party is extremist by nature. When you read the words “moderate Republican”, that should ring about the same as “The moderate wing of the Taliban.” At their best, they are merely corrupt. At their worst, downright psychotic. A party that let Trump happen is not a normal party. Nobody BUT an extremist could have satisfied the idiots on the far right of the party, and the others… well, they were just waiting for a name not well-known enough they could get away with it, because they just want to go home and cash in their bribe cheques.
Mike Johnson is a step toward Gilead.
Soooo…another astonishingly backwards and reprehensible Republican it seems, I’m not surprised at all they chose him. It’s pretty embarrassing on the world stage when we have representatives who doesn’t believe in friggin’ dinosaurs. Are we the new Alabama of the world?!?!
We’ll see how the next few weeks and months go for this guy but he scares me. When he was giving his acceptance speech today I was thinking that seems like such a calm, good-natured guy if you didn’t know about his role in the attempted coup and his backwards-ass beliefs. He just talked about balancing the budget and other fiscal conservative bullshit which I don’t agree with but sounds reasonable to a lot of so-called centrists or “independent voters.” So all the Trump stuff but he’s a true believer, and he’s young and charismatic and not a rude, gross pig. I feel like he could win elections.
“Let’s not talk about the way I vote politically”
– Politician who has unpopular views
Are MAGA supporters going to go for this? I thought MAGAs like performative trolls, not uptight straightlaced super-religious folks.
Anyone else’s gaydar getting strong pings?
Why should he, the GOP base has moved on and so have enough swing voters.
Outside of Blue harping on 2021 is a losing strategy because swing voters we have to woo to win care about their personal situation, not DC drama.
Big f***ing surprise.
Mike Johnson is a member of the Freedom Caucus. The same Freedom Caucus that was co-founded by Gym Jordan. The same Freedom Caucus that has worked assiduously, for years, to install trump as a dictator.
Mike Johnson may not have been a recognizable name, but his rise is essentially the same as Gym Jordan becoming Speaker.
Currently, the Freedom Caucus wants to split up any potential omnibus bill so they can pick and choose to defund specific parts such as funding Jack Smith’s investigation, the DoJ in general, and aid to Ukraine. This is why they voted McCarthy out. The fight over the budget over the next few weeks is going to hinge on this, and Freedom Caucus members such as Gaetz have been explicit about what they want.
This is trump’s gang in congress and they are there to serve one person, not the country.
He said “shut up” to a women reporter when asked about it…
‘robust’, lol, ineffective and embarrassing would be more accurate
*”Ham and his tax-deductible organization Answers in Genesis have earned a fortune peddling new earth creationism, a belief that the entire universe is only 6,000 years old and that all of science — evolution, geology, archeology, physics, astronomy, among others — is informed by a deceptive God, a God who tempted humankind by planting observable, verifiable evidence — things like fossils and distant stars — in order to test our loyalty”*
Loyalty? Gee… that sounds familiar.
TRumputin appointed. Nuff said.
Can’t wait to see his response to Lewiston
lets talk about it terrorist
He doesn’t believe in dinosaurs! How is this not mentioned in the article? Come on MSM, you need be all over that
It’s literally his job
Wouldn’t it actually be hard to find any Republican in Congress that isn’t a Jan 6 denier, Biden blocker, anti-abortion, and anti-LGBTQ? Those all seem like “get in line with the party” type of things.
Of course he is. Why do you think he got elected?
No worries, we will discuss it for him. His rise to the position is a gift to the left. He embodies everything we are mobilizing against.
If Dems play their hand well, this is their ticket to winning the House back in 2024: he’s an extremist, but a soft-spoken quiet and dangerous one- don’t underestimate him, but highlight his record nonstop as well as using it on him on legislation he tries to get passed from his far Right of far Right flank.
Dude, what happened to real journalism?
I just finished watching the Milli Vanilli documentary (Paramount+) and the press eviscerated those dudes for lip syncing/receiving a Grammy. I was embarrassed that our press allows the Mike Johnson’s, DJT, Bannon types to get away with saying whatever they want without meaningful consequences/follow-up questions. I mean these folks just go about their lives with no damn shame basically because we’ve downgraded our journalism standards…and now our democracy is hemorrhaging because of it.
Of course this is the guy Republicans rally behind. Of fucking course it is.
Last chance America. Leave these guys in charge at your own peril.
Typical GOP piece of shit.
He’s not just “anti-abortion,” he literally believes abortion includes a living, healthy baby being murdered by a mother & (Democrat) doctor. He’s fucking insane… or he *would* be if his beliefs weren’t shared by millions of brainwashed Americans.
Mike Johnson claimed Hugo Chavez was behind the US election fraud. (Chavez had been dead for 7 years already at the time Johnson made the claim.)
Get ready for a government shut down. This character looks like just the tool the orange one needs to influence that. It’s gonna be a poopshow until the next election. Vote blue. Your Democracy depends on it.
He looks like an evil John Hodgman.
Having an election denier this close via line of succession seems like asking for trouble.