Mike Johnson to become new Speaker of the House

Homophobe, but has gayface

Well, he still believes Trump is President, for one.

Evil, but awaiting his inevitable humiliation and ruin that befalls other Trump allies.

RepMikeJohnson is poised to be the next Speaker of the House (I don’t think I’m jinxing it frankly). Many have noted my case against @PatrickMcHenry for his quiet homophobia. Johnson, however, isn’t quietly bigoted. He’s THE literal ringleader against #lgbt equality in the Congress. No other sitting Member has a record as king and histories as Johnson’s when it comes to these issues. Frankly, this is a major reason he’s garnering support across a wide spectrum of the @HouseGOP conference. He’s quiet yet lethal. Seemingly ineffective but plays the long game very well. His work over the years with radical rightwing “think” groups is well established. He desires the overturn of Obergefell and will stop at nothing to attain it. In short, his entire career has focused on destroying lgbt equality gains. This isn’t even disputable. His record is his record.

To suggest Johnson is a mainstream Republican is sadly correct. He’s well within the mainstream of House and Senate Republicans in that he’s radically rightwing and will stop at nothing to attain power in order to devolve every possible issue down to the state level as most political confederates want. Doing so will destroy a centralized federal Govt, the penultimate and public goal of the republicans since the Gingrich speakership.

That’s who Rep Mike Johnson is: a radical Louisiana confederate Republican.

Will he succeed? That’s for first his constituents to decide, then the American people to decide in next year’s elections. If he presides over a Congress for 13 months but then loses his title, it’ll be a slight setback for him bec again he only see the long game. [bold] His only goal is to destroy from within the US government and send as much power back to the states as he possibly can [/bold], consequences be damned.

That’s the man who’s about to become the 56th Speaker of the House.

How did you already move this rotting piece of garbage from nominee to Speaker, OP?

yes, he is extremely opposed to gay and lesbian rights. He's also for a total ban on abortion. The Republicans can kiss the House goodbye next year.

He will be elected. So far, no Republican has voted against him.

[quote] The Republicans can kiss the House goodbye next year.

Not if they are allowed to do shit like this

He's been described as the "quieter version" of Gym Jordan. If he wins we are in deep shit, because the government will definitely shut down. It's what Trump wants....the coup continues...

Johnson is:

• Current cosponsor of at least three bills that would ban abortion nationwide.

• Wants to nullify same-sex marriage.

• Voted against sending aid to Ukraine.

• Voted against health care for Veteran victims of Agent Orange and Burn Pits.

• Doesn't believe climate change is real.

• Wants to cut both Social Security and Medicaid.

• Voted to overturn the 2020 election results.

Democrats are salivating to feature him in next year's election ads.

Gerrymandering should be illegal, and there ought to be a non partisan commission set up in every state to handle redistricting every ten years if it is needed due to population shifts. I am sick and fucking tired of this crap. Newt Gingrich could have never got elected in the 90's without it.

Just vote these losers out. All we can do.

In.

It's astonishing that the Speaker of the House is someone who denied the legitimate Presidential election of 2020. What a crazy time we live in... the fall of the American Republic.

Just as extreme as Gym and the rest, but he's not as in-your-face obnoxious like Gym, Bobo, or Cavewoman Marge. He'll be more palatable to the media and the rubes.

R15 and that's where the danger is. He is more palatable to the Media.

Again, as R4 says, his goal is to dismantle Congress and the federal government.

Break everything down to component parts, dismantle federal protections for gays and abortion and anything else they don't like and punish anyone who's not a white, heterosexual x-tian

There's no point in following the news. Nothing I can do until it's time to vote. Turn off the spin. Shut down the lies. Live your life. It's all bullshit Don't stay in a heightened state of panic about this stuff, friends. If WWIII kills us all, nothing we can do about it from where we sit other than vote.

Gerrymandering IS illegal in many states.

In Ohio, the gerrymandered maps have been struck down numerous times but the cunt thugs keep trying.

Since there IS no PAINFUL deterrent (jail, massive fines) for contempt, they just keep doing it.

Frankly, if that prick LaRose had to cool his heels in jail for a couple of months, he’d either get his shit together or resign.

R19 Nah, I reject that. One can be vigilant, careful, focused... in tracking the rise of this New Fascism and its threat to our democracy... and still live a full life, not stay in an artificial panic.

It's time to walk and chew gum and do everything we can do (calmly, efficiently, thoughtfully) to beat back this fascist tide.

His family doesn’t look inbred, so I’ll give him that.

However, they’re evangelical christians, so same difference.

[quote]Homophobe, but has gayface

Gay Face for days.

He's a garbage human.

FUCK!!!!!!🤮🤮🤮🤮🤬🤬🤬🤬

I'm too busy watching the Biden / Australian Prime Minister press conference. CNN is focusing on that rather than the Speaker business, although they are running the live-time video of Congress. Biden sounds like a doddering old fool.

NOT gay face, pedo face—I mean look at him. He looks like quietly creeps around his house.

R26, if you want to see a doddering old fool, watch any footage of Donald Trump

R20 Gerrymandering may be illegal but Republicans in Ohio have gotten away with it despite a State Supreme Court ruling. The gerrymandered Republican supermajority just ignored the Court and the voters.

Same shit. Different package.

Staunch social conservative (bigot, misogynist, xenophobia) election denier, and acolyte of Jordan. The minority trolls in the House are in control. It’s completely berserk. Hopefully it will backfire on them in the voting booths.

R30 Actually the timing and his position in things... things can get worse now. He voted NOT to accept the Presidential election. He wants to have a theocracy. He is much, much more radical than McCarthy. He will do exactly what Trump wants...including shutting down the gov't and creating a huge crisis.

Except he’s not R26. Would you like me to list the reasons why? Also I suggest you listen to what he says, not how he says it.

Trump cunt. That is all we need to know about him.

Oh, how gauche.

Well, perhaps he has recovered from all Trump's brainwashing and will become an honest and fair man in support of the common people's interests.

There are days the only way I see us out of this mess is violence. I am advocating for it and do not desire it but am afraid it is going to be the outcome.

^ not advocating

R36 bahaha what are you smoking?

"Well, perhaps he has recovered from all Trump's brainwashing and will become an honest and fair man in support of the common people's interests."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA.

Motherfucker speaking now about God and how this is God’s plan.

R39, if R36 is smoking medical marijuana he won’t be for long. This motherfucker is against that too.

R36....

He looks like he’d swallow, not spit.

I knew those so-called “moderate” assholes would cave. At the end of the day, all they care about is party first, country … I’m sorry, what country is that again?

[bold] Biden says he wouldn’t be worried House Speaker Johnson would overturn the election in 2024 [/bold]

President Joe Biden told reporters “no” he’s not concerned that Speaker-elect Mike Johnson of Louisiana would overturn the presidential election results in 2024 if Biden wins reelection.

In 2020, Johnson sent an email from a personal email account in 2020 to every House Republican soliciting signatures for an amicus brief in the longshot Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate electoral college votes from multiple states.

After the election was called in favor of Biden on November 7, 2020, Johnson posted on X, then known as Twitter, “I have just called President Trump to say this: ‘Stay strong and keep fighting, sir! The nation is depending upon your resolve. We must exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans’ trust in the fairness of our election system.’”

Pressed Wednesday on why he wasn’t worried Johnson might attempt to overturn a free and fair election, as he did in 2020, Biden said, “Because he can't — look, just like I was not worried that the last guy would be able to overturn the election.”

“They had about 60 lawsuits, and it went all the way to the Supreme Court — every time they lost,” the president added. “I understand the Constitution.”

Earlier in the news conference where Biden was speaking with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a reporter informed the two leaders of the news Johnson had secured the votes to become speaker.

Biden responded, “I hope that's true because we have to get moving, we have to get moving.”

R44 is they thought about "party" in any traditional sense, that would be good. But the "party" is now controlled by a faction of authoritarian, white nationalist, populism. The "moderates" have surrendered to Trump and the anti-democracy thugs.

Supported overturning Roe v Wade so women can bring more "able-bodied workers" into the world

I'm astonished that they elected anyone. I thought the "moderates" were entrenched and wouldn't budge. Political hurricane warning.

Mike Johnson didn’t just oppose the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage he also advocated against the ruling that barred the criminalization of consensual gay sex.

Mike needs to get punched in the Johnson!

He's fucking scary. Or in other words, standard-issue repug

R49 Folks just don't understand the radical nature of these nuts. He wants same-sex activities to be criminal and have gay people imprisoned. Now read that again. That's NOT an overreaction, or a misunderstanding. It's simple fact.

That's how far we've fallen as a 21st century democracy.

Wow, he's a terrible homophobe who wants to bring back sodomy laws

Before his election to Congress, Johnson was a partner in the Kitchens Law Firm and a senior attorney and national media spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund, now known as Alliance Defending Freedom. ADF, in its own words, is "committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life."

In September 2016, Johnson characterized his legal career as "defending religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and biblical values, including the defense of traditional marriage, and other ideals like these when they’ve been under assault."

Elsie “the cow” Stefanik looks fatter than ever on TV. That bitch must have been double-fisting bags of Doritos and Twinkies the past few weeks.

But the Log Cabinettes insist it's "just trans" that Republicans don't like.....strange because this guy seems to hate gay people a lot!

He's Mr Bad News.

We're fucked.

He's bad. Very bad.

The winner in all of this? Matt Gaetz.

Weird how some Republicans refused to support Emmer because he is for marriage equality...but they're fine with a guy who loves sodomy laws.

No doubt now...

The Republican party is fascist. They will now move to dismantle democratic institutions. And they will be coming for us...LGBT persons.

They are purging any in the party (so-called RINOs) who do not give unswerving loyalty to that racist, sexist, irresponsible imbecile!

That seems perfectly on brand to me, R61.

He looks awfully smug for some random MAGA bootlicking asshat sheep. I hope Kamala gives him a vicious face slap at the next SOTU.

r26 is late for his log cabinette meeting!

I think he's marvelous!

[quote] I thought the "moderates" were entrenched and wouldn't budge.

There are no moderates among Congressional Republicans. There are only those who are open extremists, and those who want a little cover ("he's camera-friendly") before casting their vote for an extremist.

R67 The media should be constantly pointing this out but they’re too busy already normalizing Johnson.

Will be a Speaker for less than a year at best. All Congress is up for re-election next year and Republicans have done nothing but give democrats fuel to oust most of them.

All he's done so far is babble on about HIS religion. I know they think that's a good thing but most Americans really dont want to hear that day in and day out. People going to get tired of it and he's not going to change.

"Johnson called homosexuality a “inherently unnatural” and “dangerous lifestyle” that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy “the entire democratic system.”

“States have many legitimate grounds to proscribe same-sex deviate sexual intercourse,” Johnson wrote in a July 2003 op-ed, calling it a public health concern.

Wow, he wrote that in 2003 and not 1903...

LOL!!!

This is very low down on the list of his red flags, but is that an INHERENTLY UNNATURAL hairpiece/comb-over combo?

Zooming in on the guy's wikipedia portrait reveals he's really bad at shaving. It all goes downhill from there.

Make sure to vote out all the "moderate" Republicans who support this guy

All I know is Democrats better not cave when he agrees to fund Israel but no Ukraine. If they use the excuse of bipartisanship, they will lose half their voters come election time. Younger voters under 40 are not down with just supporting Israel at all costs.

If you want bipartisanship HE is the one who should cave and extend the olive branch. He's the one that needs to prove himself. He's the one that should take it for the team. Not the other way around.

Don't be pussies.

r73 is already deleted

Gym Jordan with a jacket and a smile.

I'm concerned. Oh well, guess I'll just work on my Witchiepoo Halloween costume.

[quote]Pressed Wednesday on why he wasn’t worried Johnson might attempt to overturn a free and fair election, as he did in 2020, Biden said, "meatballs, ham, carrots, Pennsylvania, twenty-five, America, Helen ”

Piggy bottom who likes poppers and blacking out during sex.

R81 thinks attacking Dems is the solution. The real solution is to vote out Republicans in swing districts:

Mike Lawler strikes me as a total asshole.

[quote]There's no point in following the news.

Americans increasingly agree with you.

Pew Research Center: "In 2016, 51% of U.S. adults said they followed the news all or most of the time. But that share fell to 38% in 2022, the most recent time we asked this question ... the recent decline in Americans’ attention to the news has occurred across demographic lines, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party affiliation."

"I look forward to seeing an America that appreciates nontheistic viewpoints, and an America where the influence of conservative religion is mainly limited to within the walls of churches, not the halls of Congress." - Herb Silverman

R21 Why bother? Walking and chewing gum isn't hard, it's just tacky.

I hope the Democrats are happy now. As bad as McCarthy was, this guy is worse. Much worse. Jim Jordan with at least some brains.

It's like they want to let things get so bad in the hope that voters will give them back the House.

Might happen.

Might not.

Marsha P Johnson cast the first vote

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) tells reporter to 'shut up'

The wife with the former First Whore.

R90 I bet that old bitch Virginia can really go down on a corn dog.

[quote]I hope the Democrats are happy now.

Actually it might be a good thing. Stop wringing your hands. He is extreme, but being so clearly and openly MAGA it will be easier than McCarthy to draw a clear distinction between them and the Democrats come election time. At the end of the day McCarthy would have been just as Trumpian as this guy. Different package, same agenda.

A 90 year old southern belle braying shut up. The south will rise again. Lovely manners. How elegant

Dems think they played the game intelligently. But when it comes time to count the votes on a close 2024 election, they're going to wish they'd thrown the votes to someone who would be more likely to do it fairly. As is, we are probably looking at an election where no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes (due to bullshit "problems" in swing states that Trump will lose by small margins) and then the house will select Trump as President.

r81 is a drive-by troll, r83.

Fuck you and worry about your own shithole kkkuntry, r96

How many Johnsons has Mike had in his mouth?

Leader Jeffries and House Democrats will continue to provide and protect for the American people,

Blame the Dems R97. As if they had anything to do with the almost 4 weeks of GOP chaos. This is all their doing not the Democrats.

Cunting bitches like r96 have datalounge locked down in permanent primetime status.

The Magats were NEVER going to let any moderate up for a floor vote. And None of the repubs had the cojones to make a deal with the Dems. It's that simple.

There *has* to be dirt...

WATCH: House Democratic Leader Jeffries delivers remarks after Republicans appoint new speaker

#MAGAMikeJohnson

Has some sad, lonely eldergay commented yet about Mike Johnson's hotness?

Libertarians and pot smokers are going to be crying in their coffee when they find out he wants to reverse the decriminalization of marijuana and ENFORCE it as the federal crime it's listed as a schedule I substance.

This is Gen X in power.

"And then we put out the word"

Looking pretty good to you now,eh bitches?

When the dust settles, you'll rue the day you didn't vote for my retention.

Diet Jim Jordan

I can't decide whether the posters blaming the Democrats for not engineering a win for a pseudo-moderate Republican (as if the party would allow any Speaker to count the vote fairly) are sincerely misguided or just straight-up concern trolls.

I live in Louisiana. New Orleans. With the election of our new Governor???? We are NAZI headquarters. So many are getting the hell out of here.💀💀💀💀💀

Johnson?

Anti gay, racist, anti Woman and Woman's rights, anti semitic, anti constitution, election denier, pro gun, fundie, wants only Christian public schools, anti marijuana, anti science, anti vax.

This KKK freak is a very very dangerous person. Evil. And is a proxy for trump. IQ45 will tell him what to do. Insanity

Magats, who don't do logic, are blaming Democrats for this

They are concern trolls. R113. No moderate was going to win that seat and McCarthy being booted out of his spot was his own doing.

Make sodomy laws great again!

R87 Your statement means absolutely nothing. By its syntax and word usage it is English. But it doesn't respond to any of the substance of what happened today. The internet/digital forms of communication are making humans dumb. We pay less attention to news. We strut a cynical performance online thinking we are clever.

We are fucked.

Minutes after his historic ouster as speaker, Representative Kevin McCarthy offered some blunt advice to his successor: "Change the rule."

Historically we now KNOW that if he is for sodomy laws and wants to criminalize gay sex, he IS GAY AF and sucks cocks daily. Period.

New Republican Speaker's HORRIFIC statements suddenly SURGE into spotlight

The press asked this fucking guy about being an election denier and an old ass skank booed in response. The skank is a puke congresswoman. Point blank, pukkjes don't do respect for others or democracy.

“Every American woman has a duty to birth one able-bodied worker.” - Mike Johnson

He actually said this and was the former media spokesperson for the Christian fundamentalist organization Alliance Defending Freedom.

“Every American woman has a duty to birth one able-bodied worker.” - Mike Johnson

He actually said this and was the former media spokesperson for the Christian fundamentalist legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom.

And how does this speaker of the house justify his own existence if this is his belief? Unless you qualify his efforts to undermine the American Democratic Republic as work.

Magat skkkum. Filth.

Such an arrogant little shit who thinks he’s on a mission from God. This is one who’s ready to round us all up and put us in the camps. They think America is solely for white, devout Christians (I guess that’s why they call it Christian Nationalism). They want to erase everyone else.

God told me to tell you magats to flush yourselves.

R127, they still need him for numbers though, don’t they? They shot down expelling him before they needed a Speaker.

Oh no! This is bad.

The second Mike Johnson becomes Speaker, the Republicans file expulsion papers on the single openly gay Republican representative (who voted for Mike Johnson). The party must be pure!

Santos is a piece of shit who should have been flushed a long time ago.

I am voluntarily resigning so that I can be appointed the Senior Justice of the New York Court of Appeals.

[quote]Has some sad, lonely eldergay commented yet about Mike Johnson's hotness?

[slowly raises hand and clears throat]

That mouth has had a dick in it.

These soulless monsters want their Republic of Gilead realized, no matter what. And they will do anything to get it.

"Congressmonster Virginia Foxx"

"You know, we don't live in a democracy" but a "biblical" republic.

Worked for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a far right Christian nationalist group

He’s a wop

They’re already treating him like a child and allowing him to put through another continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. It seems like it was a lot of family dysfunction for a bland result.

How long will he last?

6 months?

He will last to January. They will pass a temp funding bill to keep the Gov from shutting down before Christmas so they don't look bad. But the check will be due in Jan. That's when the infighting will start again, that's my prediction.

There’s going to be lots of pressure on him to do stunts next year to make Biden look bad during the election year. Bringing a vote for impeachment and perhaps a shutdown to tank the economy. He had to work with Democrats to do the job and they will turn on him if he compromises. Good luck childlike man.

So If Emperor Mike Johnson and comrades evict that old nasty queer Kitara out of the GQP conference, are we for that? I'm torn--bitch deserves it for swimming in the snake pit but it's just more homophobia.

Sorry, saving that silly queen would be likes saving Jews for Hitler.

Mike Cunt

In 2004 he wrote-

[quote]“If you were shocked by the moral lapses at the Super Bowl you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Experts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”

Apparently Homosexuals are public enemy #1. So in 2022 he introduced a Federal version of Florida's Don't Say Gay bill.

I'm scared of gay marriage.....but I'm fine with a guy who was found liable for rape!

He will be lucky if he lasts 6 months. He has what? A 4 vote margin?

So, he can’t pass anything. Just more fighting. You think people won’t notice if they don’t get their social security checks?

These are not serious people.

Look, I know. But I don’t want you all to worry. I want you to get busy instead. Organize, volunteer, donate. Pitch in and help out however you can. Canvass, phone or text bank. Hell, just talk to the person next to you on the bus or in line at the pharmacy.

We’ve worked hard to win back the Senate and keep the House to the absolute tiniest of margins despite all of the pearl clutching and “red wave” bullshit. Don’t forget that. We just need to keep going.

This is one battle. We’re still winning the war.

They're very serious about disrupting American democracy on a permanent basis

A relatively small number of people get to have their relationships recognized and live freely and the country is doomed? If the US is doomed it’s because of people like him.

This guy thinks God has literally crowned him. Is there a picture of him where he’s not smirking? He’s a creep. He’s a weirdo.

"But, what do we know about this guy?"

He swallows.

MagatMike it is

OP - What difference does it make? You already hate him.

Apparently, he hated us first

Christian Theocracy

This guy's a former wrestling coach, right?

He's too perfectly religious, bigoted, ignorant, and judgmental NOT to have a veritable treasure trove of hidden vices awaiting discovery.

🎶 Twinkle, Twinkle, little Mike,

Wonder what you're really like.

Do you have a cache of porn?

Or a baby never born?

Do you gamble? Do you drink?

Something's "off" with you, I think. 🎶

R26, You heard Donnie recently call (and praise) Orban the "President of Turkey," right? It's on video.

Oh, but Trump is sane.

[quote] So If Emperor Mike Johnson and comrades evict that old nasty queer Kitara out of the GQP conference, are we for that? I'm torn--bitch deserves it for swimming in the snake pit but it's just more homophobia

I wouldnt care if they lynched his fat, gay POC ass in front of the Capitol. And I'm a fat, gay POC. S/he is so loathsome I want them to cease to exist.

Your only post, r156?

[bold]Dems Turn Mike Johnson’s First Viral Moment Into Anti-GOP Ad[/bold]

When House Republicans held an impromptu press conference late Tuesday night to celebrate coalescing around their new speaker nominee, they were in no mood to answer tough questions—or even the obvious one.

So when ABC reporter Rachel Scott asked Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA)—the speaker nominee who has now been elevated to the speakership—about his leading efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Republicans were having none of it.

They drowned out the reporter with boos. Johnson said “next question.” And Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) told the reporter to “shut up!”

Now, a D.C.-based advocacy group, Courage For America, is seizing on the moment to attack Republicans and quickly define the new speaker.

The non-profit group is launching an ad series Wednesday night targeting New York Republicans with the viral moment. The ad will run against New Republican Reps. Nick LaLota, Andrew Garbarino, George Santos, Anthony D’Esposito, Nicole Malliotakis, Mike Lawler, Marc Molinaro, Elise Stefanik, Brandon Williams, Nick Langworthy, and Claudia Tenney.

While they’re only initially throwing $20,000 behind the ad, the viral moment will quickly become a testing ground for the line of attack—and more could be coming...

The thing is that Conservatives are too stupid to realize that having the House of Representatives doesn't mean they can dictate what the whole federal government does.

They will not get 100% of what they want and that will drive them insane. They will then turn on this guy like they've turned on literally everyone else.

I can understand why he'd want to bring back sodomy laws. He had a bad experience with a big dick.

Will the new sodomy laws apply to straight couples as well? Some straights have been know to butt fuck...

Arrest George Santos for sodomy!

I think that the goal is not to "get anything done" but to shut down the Government. They can pass meaningless resolutions. They can even pass legislation, that will never get approved in the Senate. But the House has enough power to shut down t he government and they will. we have, what? 21 days? Three more weeks until pure chaos. And they will blame the Dems for not cooperating. They will claim they are fiscally responsible and they want to end the "out of control spending" of the Democrats while conveniently ignoring their own actions under Trump. They don't give a fuck about spending or anything else.

And how exactly, R167, can buttfucking be expected to produce able-bodied workers for our economy?

All I know is that he seems to get his hair done by Susan Sontag's stylist.

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Why don't they redact the posts from the NY Post like they do the dailmail?

I truly believe this clown, if given enough rope and in tandem with others like Gaetz, will try 1/6/21 Version 2.0, sometime shortly after the government shuts down in mid-November. While the government is shut down, Trump and his Republican allies in Congress will attempt to oust Biden/Harris and reinstall Trump as a theocratic dictator. It will all be done under the guise of a Reichstag fire type situation, and it will be explained as a matter of grave national security. Idiotic Americans will acquiesce without a peep, because it's height of the holiday and football seasons and they can't be bothered to have their routines disturbed. And the military will roll over and play dead because 98% of them are MAGAts anyway.

Uh, r174....no.

When Gaytz says this moves the movement forward he means NAMBLA, yes?

I could see that happening in 2025, though by the time Jan 6th rolls around, the Dems will be running the House again.

[bold]Republican US House Speaker Johnson likely couldn't reprise Trump election fight-analysts[/bold]

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - New U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has joined his conservative Republican colleagues in voting against abortion and same-sex marriage, but has drawn the most attention for his efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election defeat.

His new role gives him huge clout steering the chamber, and a seat at the table with Democratic President Joe Biden and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer in negotiating bills of all kinds. But after action Congress took last year he'll have little ability to interfere with the 2024 presidential election, unless he refused to follow the law.

Since winning the speaker's gavel on Wednesday, the 51-year-old Louisiana lawmaker has declined to comment on his work with former President Trump following the 2020 election, or say whether he believes Biden legitimately won.

While he and 199 of his colleagues voted against the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, which was bundled in a year-end spending bill, that legislation will make it much harder for lawmakers to do anything but formally accept the results.

The bipartisan law, passed as a response to the chaos of Jan. 6, 2021, requires approval of one-fifth of the House and Senate to consider a challenge to a state's results -- a much higher bar than existed before, when any single lawmaker from each chamber had the ability to trigger a challenge...

Bossy bottom.

[quote]unless he refused to follow the law.

Done and done

He once tried to get public funds to support a creationist Ark Museum.

He and Patrick McHenry would make an ideal pair of downlow fuck buddies.

1994 called and Dylan and Brandon would like their sideburns back.

I suspect his stance on sodomy is similar to his stance on abortion: it’s all right when he does it.

Helped forced the government to pay for a Christian theme park

Check his financials.

R174, You are nuts. I say that with all due respect.

JoeMyGod:

[quote] As Right Wing Watch has exhaustively documented for years, Barton tours the country, telling avid Christian audiences that virtually every line of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were taken verbatim from the bible. Barton is such a notorious liar that even his own Christian publishing house retracted his book. Give the tweets below a minute to fully load and take a look at Barton’s incessant batshittery.

Just peeking 😉 in this thread wondering why it's so long and see there's virtually no mention of his black son ? Is this a Matt Gaetz / Nestor situation?😭

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Didn't take very long to learn person is unqualified for this role and belongs in GITMO, not in congress.

So they get their way and then what: are we all supposed to sit down, shut up, repent and learn the Bible to fit into our newly restored Christian Nation? What happens to those of us who refuse?

That is exactly what they are demanding. Screech monkey congresswoman screamed Shut up to reporters to mark the solemn occasion of electing a speaker.

He's talking like a woke in R189.

I volunteer to be the policeman for this sodomy ban!

I fully intend to watch these same sex couples as they engage in that nasty, nasty anal sex. I will also have to closely inspect each and every hole after penetration. And finally, I will offer my hole up for the offenders to make sure they are executing the proper technique.

Praising the fundamentalist Noah's Ark theme park:

What a bait-n-switch. This guy sounds worse than the other one.

Tries to pull the "I don't remember" card when asked about his statements supporting sodomy laws

And then lamely claims he loves all people in spite of their "lifestyle choices"

I wonder if his eyes tear up when he gags on dick

Oh, he has a wide stance, for sure.

r200, I may have sucked dick in an airport restroom but I simply don't remember

Where is his "adopted early in his married life" [when 14 years old] Black son?

Maybe his adopted black son is hanging out with Nestor Gaetz?

Do any of the 216 Congresspeople who voted to oust McCarthy now regret it?

A thread of clips of our new Speaker’s first major interview.

***Speaker Mike Johnson dismisses gun control: "The problem is the human heart. It's not guns ... this is not the time to talk about legislation."

***Speaker Mike Johnson to Hannity on guns: "In Europe, and in other places, they use vehicles to mow down crowds at parades ... it's not the weapon."

***Mike Johnson on his visit with Biden: "It was cordial and pleasant. I have no problem with President Biden as an individual."

***Moments after saying he has no personal issues with Biden, Mike Johnson claims Biden is in cognitive decline

***Asked about his past comments suggesting that homosexuality should be criminalized, Johnson claims "I don't even remember some of them."

***Johnson suggests his position is that abortion should be left to the states and then quickly changes the topic

***Mike Johnson says he wants to separate Ukraine aid from aid to Israel

***Speaker Mike Johnson indicates he is skeptical at best about humanitarian aid to Palestinians

***Speaker Mike Johnson indicates he does not support expelling George Santos: "We have to allow due process to play itself out"

***Johnson indicates it's likely House Republicans end up impeaching Biden

***Speaker Mike Johnson tonight: “Someone asked me today in the media, ‘People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.”

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, except thou shalt followeth thy Orange Jesus over any moral cliff.

[quote]Do any of the 216 Congresspeople who voted to oust McCarthy now regret it?

No they dont. Stop trying to play I told you so. It's not going to work here. You have not brought insight to the DL with your silly simplistic theory. No one regrets it. Prove me wrong.

I detest his smug expression, he has an extremely punchable face.

He has a third son —who’s 40 years old.

Is that an actual prostitute on the far right, she used to … OMG 😱

The internet never forgets

[quote] Johnson said at the hearing that he and his wife “took custody of Michael” around 1997. So the exact relationship with Michael is uncertain and it’s unclear whether the Johnsons ever adopted Michael. It sounds like the relationship may have been more of a fostering relationship and that the Johnsons consider him a son in an informal sense. But again it’s simply not clear.

[quote] When The Advocate asked Johnson’s spokeswoman Ainsley Holyfield to elaborate on the relationship between Michael and Johnson’s family back in 2019 she told the paper: “The congressman will not be commenting further than what was said today in committee out of respect for Michael, his privacy and their relationship.”

[quote]Johnson said at the hearing that he and his wife “took custody of Michael” around 1997. So the exact relationship with Michael is uncertain and it’s unclear whether the Johnsons ever adopted Michael.

Sounds reasonable!

It sounds like the black kid was more for the wife

What exactly are you insinuating, R217?

I wanna see his Johnson.

R219, did he offer "ex-gay" counseling?

"My Mike" just like the Blind Side, he says. He's a twisted fuck in so many ways. He's young(er) and smarter than most of his House colleagues but jacking off publicly via a hole in the Bible isn't a good look.

Mike Johnson is a total pussyhound, much like me. I go to town on Michelle's pussy several times a day and she loves it!

Not being funny but why do people think he looks gay in the white t-shirt photo?

So they’ve found the Maine shooter but they can’t find the black Johnson kid??

There are lots of questions about his black son. He claims to have adopted him "around 1997" but he and his wife weren't even married until 1999

Hustler is offering 1 million for a photo of the black kid 👦🏿

Sorry if it’s been posted but JD Vance has turned on Mike already for being sympathetic to Ukraine aid. Hope he can make it to Thanksgiving.

They found the Maine shooter?

J.D. Vance is a fat-faced cunt

What does his wife do for a living? Oh, this is what she does:

[quote]Mike Johnson's Wife Runs Counseling Service That Compares Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest

Do they offer "ex-gay" services like Marcus and Michele Bachmann?

Didn’t Mike and his wife befriend the black teenager on their honeymoon? Says a lot.

Sounds familiar...

2019 NYT:

[quote]Karen Pence, the second lady of the United States, returned to teaching art this week, accepting a part-time position at a private Christian school that does not allow gay students and requires employees to affirm that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.The website of the school, Immanuel Christian School, which enrolls kindergartners through eighth graders at its campus in Springfield, Va., details its religious beliefs and expectations of both students and their parents, as well as those who wish to work there. The school’s employment application requires candidates to describe their faith in Jesus Christ, affirm that they are a born-again Christian and vow to adhere to specific standards in their personal and professional lives.

^ It's so fitting that her name is "Karen"

[quote]Sorry if it’s been posted but JD Vance has turned on Mike already for being sympathetic to Ukraine aid. Hope he can make it to Thanksgiving.

When they elected him, did they say if the rule is still in place that one person could kick him out? Or was that just the deal dear desperate Kevin made?

I cannot believe Mike Johnson is defending George Santos.

R239, sodomites are fine if we need their votes to maintain the GOP majority in the House. Otherwise, they're evil!

Which kid at R22 looks the darkest?

Maybe Nestor could explain to the nation how a custodial adoption actually works using dolls

Vance is a poseur and a liar.

JD Vance - because Theil’s asshole won’t lick itself.

Mike seems like the little but dangerous wolf in sheep's clothing. Feels that God ordained him to be Speaker, etc. We'll find out soon enough if he can get anything of substance accomplished.

Queer!

Some sort of ethnic cleansing seems to have been performed to get the photo at R22

I have the feeling there are skeleton's in Mikey's closet. His Speakership has the stench of Elsie the cow on it. She's going to wait for the knives to come out for him so that she can be Speaker.

He honestly resembles a middle-aged lesbian.

I believe anyone who is wound as tight as Mikey definitely has something to h ide. We need to find it and shine a huge spotlight on him. He looks like he has child porn on his computer...I think that is something worth exploring. (If he doesn't we can certainly arrange for it.) He could also be a fondler of little boys. We need to get busy!

R248 thread closed

[quote]Homophobe, but has gayface

They almost always do R1

I wonder what will be this cunt's downfall? Will he be caught in an airport toilet or diddling kids. And if its diddling kids will it be his own or somebody else's?

Guys like Mikey are very repressed. VERY repressed. He needs rules and restrictions and he wants order in his world, and he is motivated primarily by fear and yeah, I believe he has t errible secrets. Urgings etc.

Which Supreme Court Justice is a close friend of Mike Johnson? (They went to summer camp together when they were just 16, and they've maintained a 35-year friendship.)

Mikey is in a covenant marriage, which is only legal in 3 states--Arkansas, Louisiana, and Arizona.

You KNOW Trump thinks this guy is a weirdo, but is using him to cater to the nutso Evangelicals/Christians. Also, he's an election denier which helps the Orange Turd.

Has his brother Howard commented?

Johnson's eyes show nothing behind them. No sentient thought.

And, of course, there is none. A man who states that the Bible is all we need to know of his "worldview" is a brainless fool.

Does he want us to smite the Canaanites? Or turn the other cheek?

Etc.

R256, he's Old Testament all the way, so I'm thinking it's smiting. he's going to be doing a lot of smiting.

👦🏿.

[quote] They believe and propagate extreme theologies that provide a mandate for Christians to take over society, and they have become increasingly influential in Republican politics in the past eight years. Several New Apostolic Reformation leaders—they usually call their leaders either apostles or prophets—were influential evangelical advisers to Donald Trump. (Presumably, some of them still are.)

[...]

[quote] Mike Johnson summarized his view of working in Congress: “This transcends politics . . . this is a spiritual battle that we’re in now for the survival of our country.” NAR leaders used the same rationalization to whip conservative American Christians into a frenzy leading into January 6th, and here it is on the lips of our newest speaker of the House.

[quote] There is no contradiction in observing that Mike Johnson is both a mild-mannered, courteous, conservative evangelical Christian and a politically extreme ideologue. He has surrounded himself with some of the most dangerous, anti-democratic Christian leaders in the country—the same people who theologized the January 6th insurrection—and offered them his public support and praise.

[quote] Because what Johnson means when he says that his worldview is that of the Bible is not that he’s going to make a good faith (as it were) effort to follow biblical prescriptions. Rather, it means he’s certain that his own particular white evangelical Christian nationalist tradition is sanctioned by God, and that, therefore, whatever smug and barmy thing comes out of his mouth is divinely inspired.

[quote] And much of what has come out of Johnson’s has been barmy indeed — not to mention smug, and often terrifyingly cruel. Based on his stated supposedly biblical positions, the Bible in Johnson’s head is a silly, vicious farrago of ignorance and bigotry, and a blueprint for Christofascist tyranny.

The day is soon coming where you will miss trump and wish that trump was your vision of the worst form of politics. Will be known as the good old days,

Yes the days of crazy uncle Don are going to be missed a lot. The professionals the competent smart ones the true believers are now on the hunt. And the prey will have deer in the headlights responses.

Didn't read the whole thread, but:

is this the furthest a young earth creationist has gotten in US politics? He thinks the T-Rex was on Noah's Ark.

and is this the furthest that a Christian nationalist has gotten in US politics? Arguably no, because Mike Pence is also one, right?

Jesus rode to church on dinosaurs!

R107, you don’t have to be lonely or an eldergay to recognize that he is an attractive man.

Which you obviously know, having made the indirect observation yourself.

He’s very effeminate, if that’s your thing

He's okay if you like girls.

Umm no R264. I was just mocking the fools on here that often go on and on about the hotness of these evil Republicans. GFY hon, I don't find evil a turn on.

He apparently "adopted" his black son through Young Life Ministries, which has been accused of sexual abuse and other misdeeds

He's bringing tons of Denny Hastert energy

And his counterpart in the SCOTUS is part of the People of Praise, were investigated for sexual abuse.

Nothing to see here, folks. Just another day in Gilead.

'Took control' - does that mean fostering?

How much regulation does the state have over fostering arrangements in the US: or are these powerful Christian organisations more or less left to run themselves?

Mikey has ˢᵉᶜʳᵉᵗˢ and they are going to come out. He will be gone between Dec.-Jan.

[quote] The temperament-based approach breaks people down into five types: Melancholy, Choleric, Sanguine, Supine, and Phlegmatic. Richard and Phyllis Arno, who established a test to identify people's temperament, founded the National Christian Counselors Association in the early 1980s. They and their advocates prefer the term temperament over personalities as the term personality is characterized as a "mask" while temperaments are "inborn" and thus inherent to each individual regardless of outside influences such as parenting.

[...]

[quote] LaHaye was vehemently opposed to LGBTQ people, writing an entire book on why he believed gay people were depressed because homosexuality was immoral and antithetical to the Bible. According to The New York Times, LaHaye's anti-Catholic and antisemitic writings led him to step down from an honorary position leading Congressman Jack Kemp's 1988 GOP primary campaign. LaHaye later pushed President George W. Bush's election in 2000 and worked with then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the 2008 presidential primaries. LeHaye became enormously popular and wealthy later in his life after he penned a series of apocalyptic novels.

^ These people are Nucking Futz, but I think the rest of us need to understand that we have an entire generation that was raised on these fundamentalist nutcase megachurch organizations, which is very, very scary. And they now have power.

And yet only 30% of Americans attend religious service weekly or almost weekly. 70% do not.

R248? Now that you mention it, I do kinda look like him, right down to the hair color/style and the glasses.

Of course, I don't have a 5 o'clock shadow.

R264 He int particularly attractive to me, except in those pic of him when he was younger in the white tee shirt

But the presenter in the video at R137 on the other hand (Seth Myers), my God he is HOT like fire! I want to be in him deeply

[quote]He’s very effeminate, if that’s your thing

R265 its very much my thing, but he doesnt come across effeminate to me, unlike that little bitch Josh Hawley

He just comes across as nuts and cunty

More scary crap from this guy at link.

Including:

"Majority rule - not always a good thing."

This is not going to go well for gays or America....He is going to hand Ukraine to Russia by defunding the Ukrainian defenses.

MAGA Mike is what one of his own colleges shouted with glee. I think since they started it, we should make it stick. It might be fine with it for now, but it will come back to bite him later.

Go read the comments....Breitbart Loony Toons are thrilled with Johnson...They want the Ukraine War funding ended yesterday. Johnson is their way to make it happen.

"Proud parents of four active children"......guess they aren't including the black son as one of their kids

Of course he’s scrubbing his talibangelical billshit from the web. He knows it’s going to fuck him up bigly.

Essentially no-one can scrub their history from the internet. It's not going anywhere so we'll be seeing all of that in dribs and drabs over the coming future.

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The scary thing is at first I thought the deplorable crew was learning to behave, it’s impossible! There are so many brainwashed people when one gets old another deplorable comes out of the woodwork. They are getting bolder about their views, despite the internet scrubbing. I also don’t believe for one second that they are religious for any other reason than becoming politically powerful. They are authoritarian to the core, that is what joins them together. The people at the top need to be humiliated and removed. Humiliation is the only thing that works

R286

Winning elections is the only thing that counts.

If you want humiliation call Rent-A-Dom

Unfortunately I don’t think these people can be humiliated. And this one’s a true believer. What a fucked up country that someone with such ignorant and backwards beliefs can rise to be so close to the top. I’m not sure we’ll survive this Republican Party malignant cancer.

R288

And again you can thank the greens and other lazy fuck morons that decided to stay home and not vote for H Clinton when she ran against trump . These are the miserable fucks that caused this problem. The republicans just took advantage of a giant unexpected gift.

The Handmaid's Tale is playing out. This guy's ideologies are dangerous.

And another one of his priorities is to not increase the funding to the IRS, which was signed into law in the Inflation Reduction Act. THIS is a priority of his billionaire donors--they don't want to be audited or pay a nickel more in taxes.

I am expecting a government shutdown in a few weeks. My advice is to be prepared and have some cash on hand.

[quote]And another one of his priorities is to not increase the funding to the IRS, which was signed into law in the Inflation Reduction Act. THIS is a priority of his billionaire donors--they don't want to be audited or pay a nickel more in taxes.

Indeed.

Says he has four (white) children. Does he not consider the black man to be his son anymore?

He looks like a teeny tiny midget.

[quote]Does he not consider the black man to be his son anymore?

He returned him?

The black "son" was less than a decade younger than Johnson and his wife. At best this was a kind of big brother mentoring situation. Assuming they ever lived together that must have ended a couple of decades ago. He was supposedly still in touch with the guy a few years ago, but does anyone believe that his kids really feel like that's their older brother?

R296

I can’t confirm this but I heard that the “adopted” black child is now playing defensive line in the NFL.

R297, if the son was 14 in 1997 he's 40 now.

What is MAGA Mike hoping to accomplish with cuts to the IRS coupled with money to Israel? A guaranteed government shutdown? Nasty little bitch.

Yep, they know it's not going to pass, it's all about throwing sand in the works to blame Democrats or Biden why nothing gets done.

The Biden team is just going to have to find a way to work around him instead of engaging in futile agreements that at the end of the process they fail to honor after wasting months of back and fourth negotiations.

We re-homed that black boy!

Who the hell adopts a black teenager on their honeymoon????

Nothin say's lovin, like the black man in the wife's oven.

[quote] In 1797, a few years after signing the Constitution, founding fathers of this country and President John Adams as well as the entire US Senate unanimously signed the Treaty of Tripoli. ART.11 that states explicitly that the US is not IN ANY SENSE founded on the Christian religion

[quote] "It’s strange to see Speaker Johnson disclose no assets,” Libowitz told The Daily Beast. “He made over $200,000 last year, and his wife took home salary from two employers as well, so why isn’t there a bank account or any form of savings listed?”

[quote] Johnson has also carried debts over for several years, which Libowitz said would sharpen the question.

[quote] “He owes hundreds of thousands of dollars between a mortgage, personal loan, and home equity line of credit, so where did that money go?” Libowitz said. “If he truly has no bank account and no assets, it raises questions about his personal financial wellbeing.”

[quote] “One of the reasons we have these financial disclosures is to know whether politicians are having financial difficulties—which could make them ripe for influence buying,” Libowitz said.

Dems have themselves to blame for this guy. They helped to get rid of McCarthy (the devil you know).

check 👦🏿 the 👦🏿 crawl 👦🏿space

Good morning "The Democrats are to blame for this" troll at R307!

"Conversion therapy": tell me you're gay without telling me you're gay.

I'm not gay, r310! God cured me.

Though he’s not my type, if I didn’t know him and he sidled up to me in a cozy corner of a gay club when I was still drinking, I likely would’ve fucked him real good.

NEW: Mike Johnson closely collaborated with a group called Exodus International that promoted “conversion therapy,” a discredited practice that asserted it could change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian individuals. Exodus shut down in 2013, with its founder posting a public apology for the “pain and hurt” his organization caused.

For years, Johnson worked on an event known as the “Day of Truth” — a counterprotest to the “Day of Silence,” a day in schools in which students stayed silent to bring awareness to bullying faced by LGBTQ youth. The Day of Truth sought to counter that silence by distributing information about what Johnson described as the “dangerous” gay lifestyle.

How many of Exodus International's leaders eventually did *not* come out of the closet and renounce the whole idea of conversion therapy?

Let’s hope some one out there has texts or voice mail or better yet pictures. Because It would be a real bitch for conversion therapy to have worked in his case.

Christians though understand demons and temptations. It’s those who rise above those demons and temptations that go to heaven, They don’t care if you are gay. They care if you fuck other men,

I've got a tongue

It increasingly looks like Republicans have made a huge mistake with this one. That story about his finances is really bizarre and points to him having something or various things to hide.

I hope the Secret Service realizes they need to ump the protection of Biden and Kamala.

R317, for the Republicans, any scandal is just an opportunity to dig in and normalize some form of corruption. Let's hope enough facts come out that this shady financial setup of his is an albatross around their necks.

R319 I dunno, George Santos is really not working out well for them, and he's just a two-bit crook and a very minor figure while this guy is now the most senior Republican in the country....

He must be in very significant debt. But from what?

This guy Johnson is shady AF.

This guy has never eaten a pussy.

His wife Kelly is still waiting to cum!

[quote]He must be in very significant debt. But from what?

Escorts? Kiddie porn? Bribes? All of the above?

[quote]His wife Kelly is still waiting to cum!

Shame, R322, I've had four godly orgasm-free pregnancies and carried them to term!

Not counting the black kid.

Can't help but wonder how the black 'son' plays into all this. It's really weird behaviour to make detailed reference on a couple of occasions as part of a political statement to a man you call part of your family, but who is nevertheless absolutely missing from your website and social media. It's almost like inviting the press to rake up the story of whatever happened.

That doesn't so much suggest 'something to hide' (since why mention him in the first place if something really bad happened?). But maybe Johnson thought that this guy had much warmer familial feelings for him than he actually did, but was told in no uncertain terms to leave him out of his political career after he started making these comments: suggesting social cluelessness, terrible communication skills and poor judgement on his part, or exactly the opposite of the skill set he needs to have.

Hmmm, would it have been smarter for them to go for Jim Jordan instead? OK he has his wrestling molestation scandal: but he can plausibly claim he had to follow the lead of his boss and the university authorities on that one.

The son they never adopted who is missing from the photos because he wants a private life?

Daddy Johnson has some explaining to do.

not just a skeleton in the closet, a graveyard busted wide open

He cashed in an IRA way before he was at retirement age. You pay a 10% penalty right off the top, which indicates that he is irresponsible with money/finances. AND THE GQP PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS, PASSES A BUDGET.

Keep telling the rubes how Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility, media.

R109 And yet these dumbasses think they're SOOOOO much better than us.

R330

The coming election will determine who is better not a lot of talking and yacking and name calling.. If they win they are better. If they lose they are not.

You are what your record says you are

Wasn't he at Jonestown?

Stern ripped on him pretty good on Tue or Wednesday's show.

What's a bank account?

The US Government, the GOP’s personal bank account

The guy is shady as fuck, and anybody who says he isn't is a bold faced liar. He kept a low profile lo these many years because he didn't want anybody nosing around his business. Now, what with the entire Republican party corrupt as shit, he's just another god damned thief among thousands of other scheming, corrupt thieves.

Is it any wonder this con artist/liar/grifter wants to get rid of the IRS? He doesn't want anyone prying into his byzantine finances, especially revealing how this Christo fascist mother fucker pays zero taxes at a state, federal or municipal level.

Churches in the USA are home to more sexual and financial crime than you can even dream of - he's deeply involved in stuff like that. No bank account give me a fucking break. Homeless people have bank accounts.

VP for Trump in 2024?

[quote] “I think that the country unfortunately will come to see the measure of his character,” she said.

[quote] She also said it was concerning to see Johnson elected speaker, considering “he was willing to set aside what he knew to be the rulings of the courts, the requirements of the Constitution, in order to placate Donald Trump.”

[quote] He’s “dangerous” because he did so even though he knew the truth, Cheney said.

Apparently now there's a video of him endorsing the ex-gay group Exodus

New antigay video where he blames homosexuality for the fall of the Roman Empire.

Will he claim he doesn't remember this?

I wonder if he gives all his money to his church

Didn't he and his wife have a podcast? I'm sure people are furiously going through every second of it for wacky sound bites.

And his wife seems like a total airhead. I watched that Diane Sawyer interview about their covenant marriage and the wife seems dumber than a box of hair.

R342, if by "his church" you mean "escorts"

Mike Johnson is Satan. I mean it.

Pete Buttigieg calls out Mike Johnson on Colbert

Buttigieg is a lazy attention whore who is unqualified for the job he has. He is exactly what is wrong with Bidens Identity Politics Cabinet.

r347 is fine with identity politics that revolve around white supremacy or being an "ex-gay"

But you were fine with Trump's unqualified cabinet full of clown, huh?

We need to wake up. Biden doesn't do well with Primaries. Get ready to whine when Rep Phillips starts mopping him up in Feb.....R349 Sorry but Trump hasn't been in office in YEARS. He will be in exile or a prison cell this time next year. Johnson is a far bigger threat to the United States and Democrats than Trump is.

"Get ready to whine when Rep Phillips starts mopping him up in Feb."

You mean the guy no one's ever heard of? Sure, Jan!

Umm, Biden is the INCUMBENT PRESIDENT R350. Everybody knows that name. Nobody has heard of back bencher Deena Phillips. Steve Schmidt can go DIAGF now.

R351 = They said the same thing about Mayor Pete in 2020. Dumbass.

And Pete ultimately dropped out and put ALL of his support to getting Biden elected. And all of Pete's supporters did the right thing and voted for Biden.

R354 wow. Do you rewrite ALL history or just Pete History? Pete opposed increasing the minimum wage for years as mayor of Hicksville. THEN had the nerve to show up at a Living Wage rally. He got booed and chased away. Or do you think this is AI?

Black Voters hate Pete because he has never lifted a finger to help them. Just like he has never lifted a finger to help gays.

The point is if Mike Johnson stays Speaker it is going to be a nightmare. Cutting Ukraine dollars. Slashing every Gay Right he can. This guy is scary bad. Better wake up. The polling shows Biden will only win with a weak GOP candidate.

What part of Pete's fans didnt vote for Biden R355. You have low comprehension or Pete derangement syndrome.

R358 = Pete Cult Member.

[quote]Black Voters hate Pete because he has never lifted a finger to help them.

That's a pretty self involved statement. What did Kamala Harris do specifically for black voters? What did Berni Sanders, or Warren or any of the others do that was so spectacular that Pete is the only one who is singled out? I said it before and I will say it again. [bold] The majority of black voters that hated Pete were just using his skin color as a cloak for their homophobia.

R354, R355, R356, R359 = Pete Hater Troll.

Oh please shut up. I can assure you, black people aren’t thinking about Pete Buttigieg. The dude won in Iowa, but had no impact ANYWHERE else, so he dropped out. He is a failed presidential candidate. That’s not black folks’ fault.

Stop putting homosexuality at the center of the universe. It’s probably more to do with the fact that he is five feet tall.

Pete who? So quiet so unassuming I did not realize he was still in office. And normally nothing says center of Washington power like——Dept of Transportation.

[quote] Biden doesn't do well with Primaries.

A very anxious low-information voter has entered the chat.

Lee Liberace was butcher even in hot pants

In that Fox interview way upthread, he gave excuses for saying those things about gay marriage but now, NOW, it’s settled law. Nothing to worry about! (Coy smirk)

Refer back to R17 and keep an eye on the biggest issue.

While it is interesting to giggle about his sexuality or wonder if this is some kind of mistake, I think it is important to remember that the goal writ large is to make sure the federal government cannot function such that individual states set their own policy (until a quorum of states have the same think tank-generated policy which then becomes, basically, a confederacy).

R356, if you want to see someone who struggles with black voters, look at ANY Republican

11% of registered black voters are Republican or lean that way. The GOP only has to steal away a few more or have a few more stay home and not vote.

This is going to be a very close election.

[quote] Sorry but Trump hasn't been in office in YEARS. He will be in exile or a prison cell this time next year.

Why do people post stupid nonsense like this? He is far and away the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. The entire party is still very much a Trump Cult, and Mike Johnson is a proud member of the cult. This stupid assurance that he has lost all influence and nobody should care about him anymore is ridiculous, but morons still feel compelled to post it. Why?

^ And then there's the morons who took over this thread to attack Pete Buttigieg, for committing the crime of being a gay man criticizing a "straight" man for his homophobia

Take this from a life long dem, trump has more chance to be the next potus than ever being sent to prison.

Dead Man Walking back into hell

Makes a tv appearance with his Stepford Wife, who thinks God chose him to be Speaker of the House (Did God also choose Denny Hastert?)

[quote] Really seems like something's off with the story of Speaker Mike Johnson's 'adopted son'. Johnson just discussed him again on Fox, and a new article subtly slams him ("drug[s]..theft since leaving [Johnson's] care") AND magically inserts wife Kelly 2 years before she met Mike.

[quote] The New York Post falsely says that Mike Johnson and wife Kelly met 'adopted' son Michael James in 1996 as "newlyweds" doing "charity work", and took him in. But Johnson was single in 1996. He didn't meet Kelly til 1998 and they didn't marry til 1999.

[quote] The Johnson's splashy wedding on May 1, 1999 made the papers. Mike Johnson had a best man, 7 attendants, 4 ushers and a ring-bearer. None were his 'son', who the NY Post says was living with him. Who doesn't include their 'son' in their wedding?

[quote] The Times-Picayune says Mike Johnson and Kelly Lary met in 1998 and fell in love instantly - "like a lightning bolt". Johnson's story: they bonded over planning to "name.. their first son Jack". No mention of the boy living with him - his first 'son'

[quote] The NY Post says Michael James lived with the Johnsons til 2002, when they moved from Baton Rouge to Shreveport, leaving their teenage son behind "as he was then legally an adult". A year later James is in Florida, busted for having cocaine. No sign of help from his 'parents'.

[quote] For people who claim to be "pro-family", the Johnsons are pretty stingy about who counts. When Mike Johnson's dad died in 2016, the obit listed his 14 grandchildren - none of them Michael James. Whatever their relationship was, James was not our Speaker's 'son'.

[quote] The more we hear about this relationship, the more questions arise. And the fact that Johnson is spinning on Fox News now, and feeding false stories to media, suggests the answers to those questions are going to be bad.

[quote] Kelly Lary looked happy on her wedding day in Bossier City, nearly 250 miles from Baton Rouge. The newlyweds then went on a "honeymoon cruise to Cabo San Luis". Reporters: ask the hard questions. Where was their 17-year-old 'son' Michael James? Did they leave him behind?

[quote] In 2001, Mike and Kelly Johnson went on GMA to talk about their "covenant wedding". No mention of "son" Michael James who supposedly was living with them. They showed wedding video - no "son" there. Pretty strange idea of family.

[quote] Mike and Kelly Johnson's wedding was lavish. No expense spared. Packed with friends and family - just not their ca. 15-year old 'son'. (Correction from Tweet #8 - their left-behind 'son' was even younger.)

seen on twitter

Johnson said after being elected that, “I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear: that God is the one who raises up those in authority,”

So how come he didn't think Biden was chosen and insisted that Trump was President

He really just wants to replace the constitution with his looney tunes religion

Will it be God's will when the MAGAts turn on him and boot him out as Speaker?

Individual Freedom? You want to force women and girls to give birth.

Limited Government? You tried to help install a dictator! (Also see: force women women and girls to give birth).

The Rule of Law? You support a 91-times charged, business fraud and sexual abuser.

Peace Through Strength You won’t provide our at war allies with the aid they need.

Fiscal Responsibility? You want to cut the IRS which the Congressional Budget office says will increase the deficit.

Y’all don’t believe in free markets when it comes to sustainability.

And as for human dignity — bro, you tried to install a proud sexual assaulter, you want to imprison and sentence to hard labor, doctors who provide abortion care and you compare homosexuality to bestiality.

The Supreme Court being already a trad Catholic institution aside, what would no lines between church and state be like? I mean I know they’d insert prayers and “scripture” junk into all realms of government, but would an authoritarian “Bible-based” government work to keep us in line or would it serve to drive even more people away from organized Christianity?

R380 It's unworkable. It would only create chaos and violence. Conservative Catholics, Evangelical protestants, Mormons: they each think the others are heretical. The "laws based on scripture" would be controversial and problematic. History tells us that that "consensus" among these opposing zealots would be unlikely.

I'm in favor of individual freedom. Which is why I want to arrest gays for having consensual sex!

Wants to repeal the cap on insulin prices. Such a Christian

Let's be very clear... this Christian Right is no more "Christian" than those of Inquisition who tortured and murdered "heretics".... these Falangists are about power, money, violence, not about the Beatitudes.

Mike says people can change from gay to straight!

R385, I guess we should assume he’s speaking from personal experience.

R386, are you saying this is the face of a guy who's struggled with same-sex attraction?

Magats are all about the grift

I used to be homosexual....but Jesus cured me of my lust for other men!

He looks like someone who would be repelled by a crucifix.

How do you think he and Kelly made those kids? Did they have actual sex?

okay, someone said that if you watch one of his interviews he is really creepy because he looks like he is making eye contact with you but he really isn't. I watched him talk the other day. It is almost like he is just about to look at you but you know he didn't quite do it. He truly believes he has been converted but doesn't make eye contact with other men because he is afraid he will see one he really likes and will know his conversion didn't work. This is why he is so against gays, because he doesn't want to be one. It must be really hard living in his head. But he has to go.

I bet he can’t go into the men’s showers because he blushes uncontrollably

His wee Willy gives some winkies at attention, r394

Mike Johnson promoted an app called "Covenant Eyes" that sends a report if you view porn or "sinful" material

Josh Duggar used the "covenant eyes" software. Shockingly, it didn't work

Mike and his son monitored each other's porn viewing

I just can't with this guy anymore....

Yeah, but does he swallow?

He watches PORN WITH HIS SON? Well that' needs to be mentioned a lot more on social media. I think a lot of swing voter middle class suburban housewives would not like that.

Long thread dealing with his corrupt financial dealers and ties to abusers in the Baptist church

Johnson is a weird, creepy, reich-wing nutjob . He revealed that he and his 17-year-old son regularly monitor each other’s online porn watching. 👀 Seriously?

This guy’s got issues. Lots and lots of issues.

Temptation Eyes

Okay, R392. You don’t have to shut up about homophobia in the black community.

It’s hilarious that your simple ass is fixated on this on a thread about how much of a homophobe the white Speaker of the House happens to be. It’s the white homophobes who control your fate, not the Black ones, you shrill old effete bigot.

But tell yourself whatever you need to tell yourself in order to maintain your simple-minded, backwoods racism.

What type of porn do you think 🤔 House Speaker “Johnson” Duggar is fascinated by/wears an iron chastity belt to avoid?

While the Dems and citizens of DL laugh and make charges and discount this bozo he is speaker of the house. He is one of the 4-5 most important and powerful people in the country.

But keep up the comments about him while he laughs at you and tells you to go fuck yourself.

Winners govern losers don’t.

Probably “Bound Bottle Blonde Housewives”

r407 Yeah, go watch your kid's porn, or something.

He’s primed to cause major chaos before 11/17

R410

Yes it’s always possible the gop will do something truly stupid, make things a lot worse, and help the Dems.

Oops 😬 I’m sorry, I was just about to post something brilliant but my “adopted son” arrived early for our hour meeting

R407, what are we supposed to do?

R413

The only things that can work, raise a boat load of money for the Dems , get lots of new people registered, get lots of voters out. Organize.

People need to approach 2024 like it’s the last and most important election of their life. This needs to be a massive effort especially to counter the current apathy.

Vote for Joe, as if your life depended on it…pretty basic choice here.

I wouldn't be surprised if something very dark and very disgusting is revealed about Mike Johnson soon.

It’s Joe Biden vs ABSOLUTE HELL 🔥 ON EARTH

Ladies and Gentlemen! Mike Johnson here! If you vote the Conservative Freedom patriots in in 2024, every single one of you will have a porn monitor hooked to your computer! And my family will be running it to make sure it works perfectly! The money we make from the setup will go to making covenant marriages the law of the land. Isn't that great!?!

[quote]The only things that can work, raise a boat load of money for the Dems , get lots of new people registered, get lots of voters out. Organize.

We can be doing all those things while ragging on him on DL and elsewhere online, too. His financial setup looks shadier and shadier, and that's worth getting the word out about. Organize AND post!

R414, all of that is very true. We have exactly one last chance to get this right. If they keep the House and retake the WH and the Senate, it’ll be game over. That sounds overly dramatic, but if the MAGAt Repukes have complete control of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government then the coming changes to our democracy will be swift and horrendous. They’ve already laid it out in their 2025 plan. tRump and his minions saw what mistakes they made the last time in trying to use the levers of government to advance their interests. They are not going to make that mistake again. And there will be no guardrails to constrain them, because if there any existing rules they will be changed and disposed of immediately.

We should get a hint of how 2024 may go tomorrow night when the results come in from Virginia, Kentucky, and a handful of local races. For example, Democrats in Virginia have relied heavily on their support of women’s reproductive rights and the opposition of their Rethug opponents. If they keep the Virginia Senate and retake the Virginia House, that may provide a roadmap for how vulnerable Dems should tailor their campaigns next year.

Whatever we are facing, we have to raise/donate a LOT of money for 2024 candidates, then register voters and get them to the polls.

But can we trust Covenant Eyes 👀 ???

See the lies behind Covenant Eyes

From Ron Brownstein:

[quote] It's difficult to overstate all the ways in which Trump is openly pledging to use federal power vs. blue places: Insurrection Act, deploying national guard to cities (over mayoral objections), massive door to door deportations, ICE at protests, prosecuting left-leaning local DAs

[quote] Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein • 18m "the group is developing a plan, to include draft executive orders, that would deploy the military domestically under the Insurrection Act, according to a person involved in those conversations and internal communications reviewed by The Washington Post" wapo.st/3tY1jah

The Rethuglican Party is a threat to the United States Constitution.

His church never paid bak $533k in PPP "loans"

Again, while we guffaw at the absurdity of "Covenant Eyes" tracking nasty porn, it is important to remember that it tracks EVERYTHING. So, the Speaker of The House reviewing materials related to, say Moms For Liberty or a Matt Gaetz investigation is going to get flagged left and right making him prime for blackmail/intimidation. It's not just silly, it's a national security issue.

Mike, get a Chime card so you can build up that credit score!

🗣️ follow the money 💰

Mike Johnson and the black child he adopted: The Johnsons plural didn’t take custody of a 14 yr old Black child in 1997 - because Mike met Kelly in 1998 & married her in 1999.

Mike Johnson was a single 25 yr old law student when he formed whatever relationship he had with 14 yr old ‘Michael’.

“Young Life” where Mike Johnson met 14 yr old adoptee Michael is an Evangelical organization targeting high school age kids. Anti LGBTQ. Not an adoption organization.

Something fishy's going on here.

At the very least, if news broke that Hunter Biden had "adopted" a 14-year-old Black boy without any paperwork 25 years ago, I doubt that he would have gotten a kid-gloves interview with Sean Hannity to discuss how the Bible shapes his entire worldview.

Why isn't the media reporting this????? Yet they report a worthless poll of 3600 people and the fall of Biden? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Based on last nights results , which sure looked good for the Dems, it is not a stretch to say that if it is done, it will be straight woman that overcome a not at all popular dem ticket, stop Johnson and Trump cold and save gay rights and democracy in the US.

What a country

R424 Get Big Old Bad Government off of our backs and into our bank accounts (if we had them)

Speaking of which, Democrats if they win, should really think about cutting off the tax exemption to the churches. People have been bitching about this for years but nothing ever done. Not even a proposal. Dems need to grow a pair. I know, they think the whole country is very religious, but thought be told, it's no. Religion has been on the decline in America for decades. I know a lot of Catholics, both work and friends, not a single one goes to church on Sundays. Not one! And most younger people don't want anything to do with organized religion. It's time. Change the laws and make churches pay their fair share. If they are going to get political, then they should consider that the price to play.

R431

After their win is gutless and sneaky. How about putting this tax the churches upfront in into the dem platform for 2024 and see who wins the election then?

Biden could make this along with Ukraine a major part of his campaign. Only a fool or a gop operative would suggest he do so.

Without Big Government propping up Right Wing Churches the entire South would implode!

[quote]Speaking of which, Democrats if they win, should really think about cutting off the tax exemption to the churches. People have been bitching about this for years but nothing ever done.

And it never will be. In fact, it becomes less likely as American churches lose adherents, as the religious will then lay claim to minority protections.

Was Mikey happy about Rashida?

Which one of you did this?

[quote] Democrats if they win, should really think about cutting off the tax exemption to the churches.

Not going to happen. There may be some interest among a few Congressional Dems to pursue that option, but most of them don’t want to face the backlash that would inevitably follow. I can’t see the Congressional Black Caucus endorsing the idea of taxing churches. And Joe Biden is probably not going to push for this.

[quote] As people wonder why Mike Johnson abruptly sent Congress home today, a week before a shutdown deadline - maybe he had to rush to his speaking gig in Paris tomorrow? His priority might be to hang with Kristie Noem (no covenant marriage for her!), Devin Nunes, Moms for Liberty

[quote] The conference is run by Republicans Overseas and it starts tomorrow "in the heart of Paris, France." If Mike Johnson is going, he'll be on a plane already to "stand, speak and act for your freedom".. but not to act for a continuing resolution.

[quote] Don't worry about headliner Kristie Noem being lonely in the City of Light - her lover Corey Lewandowski is going too. Mike Johnson talks righteously about sinful adultery but seems it doesn't count if it's his friends. He called Marjorie Taylor Greene a "close friend" too

[quote] Seems like Marine Le Pen of the National Front has dropped out, but Mike can still hang with Balazs Orban of Hungary and Nigel Farage, chief Brexiteer. Mike's not just a random invite - he was the keynote speaker at their kickoff event. This is his crowd.

Lying is a mortal sin

Bank accounts are for dorks! All the cool kids shove wads of hundreds under their mattress

can’t trace all the funny money

I learned last night that if you have accounts that receive NO interest, then they don't have to be reported. it was a segment by David Pakman

The Cayman Islands

Wouldn't it be funny if the new speaker has a religion-based principled opposition to the banking system, because it permitted the practice of usury?

Wouldn't that leave him aligned with..................

.................the MUSLIMS?

Those sideburns on that fembian face scream DRAG KING

Except, r444, he'd probably be following Old Testament "guidelines" on usury, and not the Quran's. Which are basically the same.

This, ultimately, begs the question: is there really all that much of a difference between the world-view accepted by xtian fundies like Johnson, who are OT literalists, and Muslim fundies?

"is there really all that much of a difference between the world-view accepted by xtian fundies like Johnson, who are OT literalists, and Muslim fundies?"

No, because they're both bat shit crazy.

Mike, you in danger, girl!

Check its scalp for markings