Category: Fuck Mike Johnson

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The Crazy Is In Plain Sight

From Darwinfish:

This story came out several weeks ago and I apologize for not working it in sooner, but I can't let it pass without at least saying something…

I would believe this if it were a survey of Fortune 500 CEOs, but "most Americans?" Seriously? I'd love to know what it is they think TFG did to make their finances better. Maybe it's all the hype that Fox "News" puts on the TFG Tax Cuts so they think it applies to the general public. Nothing could be further from the truth. The big Tax Cut Lollapalooza of 2017 went almost exclusively to the richest 1% and was made permanent. The remaining scraps went to the rest of us and were designed to sunset after 7 years.

And while Republicans are losing their mind about the deficit, it was this tax cut package that made it explode. But rather than fix the deficit by repealing the Fat Cat Tax Cuts, they want to cut social services and our "entitlements," meaning Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. How is it that "most Americans don't understand these facts?

TFG also rolled out a giant tariff program, because he didn't understand that the manufacturing country doesn't pay these extra fees, they roll it down to the consumers, meaning US.

Maybe people are nostalgic for the days when gas was under $2.00 a gallon. They remember that but forget that the reason for the low price was that no one was driving, for fear of catching The Rona, the fight against which was criminally botched by TFG's administration. No demand equals low prices. Was it really worth over a million American lives just to get cheap gas for a couple months?

At every turn, Republicans demonstrate that they don't give a flying fig about the average citizen's finances. If they did, they would do something about it. Democrats would join them, hand in hand. But that's not what they care about.

And then, the part about how TFG and the Republicans would keep America out of wars? Just because they want to pretend the world ends at our border doesn't mean they don't want to keep the Defense Department and all the Defense Contractors flush with money. Just ask Tom Cotton, who wants to start deploying our personnel into Gaza.

No, there will always be a war, or some other "police action," to keep the Defense money flowing. And I don't mean to the enlisted personnel. We KNOW TFG doesn't give a shit about them… He said they were "suckers and losers" for joining the military. He doesn't care if they're underpaid. But they sure want the biggest and best bombs money can buy.

It's a testament to Right Wing messaging that TFG is even a factor in the next presidential race. Fox "News," and the rest of the Echo Chamber ignore any and all gaffes, mistakes, and complete fuckups, and alibi out any that make it through to their fan club's ears. Even with the glowing economic numbers being released over the last months, they have people thinking we're in a recession and blame it on Biden. It doesn't matter if it's complete bullshit, people want to believe it because it plays to their biases. Like the bias that TFG is a sane, rational, being, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This is right out of the GOP playbook, from Bush to Palin to TFG. Even when you're wrong, claim to be right. If there's proof, dismiss it as biased. Claim to be the victim of a media conspiracy. Do anything but admit you messed up. It would be funny if it wasn't so alarming. Oh, and be sure to seek retribution against anyone who tries to hold you accountable.

And this isn't a matter of letting all the pressure of this prosecution get the better of a public servant, it's the re-elected president directing the Justice Department to round up his enemies and put them in psych wards. Hang the charges, hang the trial, then hang the accused. Jail them first, justify it later. (You know, in "two weeks," when the long-awaited Republican health care program is going to roll out. No matter the date, it's always two weeks away.)

How is it that Americans aren't seeing these issues? Yes, I know, everyone is busy. But one should never be too busy to know what's going on in one's own country, even if it's just for selfish reasons. After living through the clown show that was 2017-2020, how can anyone think we need to do that again, only with even less competence and more vengeance?

I don't care if Biden's old; he's not evil. He's not a crook. He's not a psychopathic narcissist who will kill democracy to save his own ass.

And speaking of evil, thank goodness we have Mike Johnson to lead the charge against evil*.

*In the narrow way he defines it.

This is a guy whose public statements call for imprisoning doctors who perform abortions, eliminating hate crime laws, criminalizing gay sex, and giving up the right to privacy. (Except for political donors, of course. That's nobody's business.) Basically, the guy is a religious nightmare bent on making his own brand of fanaticism the law of the land. And the Republicans just put him second in line to the presidency.

And speaking of wingnuts, MT Greene is still out there fighting for relevance.

Now she wants to investigate the January 6th investigators. I presume that's because Fox "News" and the whole Right Wing propaganda apparatus can't hype Hunter Biden's Laptop into the crime of the century.

I watched most of the 1/6 hearings; I don't understand what it is she thinks she can allege. I mean, they have tons of witnesses and reams of evidence. And this is coming from one of the ringleaders of the other GOP "investigations," that have delivered one nothing-burger after another in.

I presume it's just more performance theater with an audience of one.

Can't we get Harlan Crowe, or one of the other Supreme Court "special friends" to ship her off on a cruise somewhere, just to get her out of town and minimize the embarrassment? The chipmunks driving the tiny wheels in her brain have to be due for a break.

 

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I Didn't Say It: Mike Johnson is the Devil

From I Should Be Laughing:
Mike Johnson, new Speaker of the House, in a 2004 op-ed.

"Homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural and, the studies clearly show, are ultimately harmful and costly for everyone. Society cannot give its stamp of approval to such a dangerous lifestyle. If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group. Polygamists, polyamorists, pedophiles, and others will be next in line to claim equal protection. They already are. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet. The state and its citizens have a compelling interest in preserving the integrity of the marital union by making opposite-sex marriage the exclusive form of family relationship endorsed by the government. Loss of this status will de-emphasize the importance of traditional marriage to society, weaken it, and place our entire democratic system in jeopardy by eroding its foundation. Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country, but we don't give special protections for every person's bizarre choices."

As with all homophobes, he uses fear to spin his so-called truth: let The Gays marry and the pedophiles will be able to marry children, or dogs, or toasters. In 2023 he still plays out that proven lie that being gay is a choice, when we know for ma fact it's not,. But being a homophobic faux "Christian" bigot is a choice.

This motherfucker—I'd say pardon my language, but the man is a motherfucker—equates being gay to pedophilia and cross-dressing though most everyone with brains that fire on all cylinders, unlike Mike Johnson, knows that most pedophiles are straight men like Mike Johnson and most cross-dressers are straight men like Mike Johnson.

This cannot be allowed to stand.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE in 2024.

Vote Blue because the GOP has come for women, is now coming for people of differing faiths, and will soon be coming for the LGBTQ+ Americans, and once they're done with that, they'll come for all of you.
Jenna Ellis, flipping on Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl:

"As an attorney who is also a Christian, I take my responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously. I endeavored to represent my client to the best of my abilities and relied on others, including lawyers with many more years of experience than I, to provide me with true information, especially because my role involved speaking to the media and state legislators. What I did not do, but should have done, was make sure the facts other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true. In the frenetic pace of attempting to raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia, I failed to do my due diligence. I believe in and value election integrity. If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse."

What Jenna Ellis said in November 2020:

"With all those states [Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia] combined we know that the election was stolen from [Thing 45], and we can prove that."

Huh, seems like Jenna Ellis knew exactly what she was doing: goose-stepping along with liars and cheats and criminals, but as the threat of prison looms closer, she has a change of heart and admits she is a liar, and a cheat and a criminal … and a moron.
Mike Johnson, newly elected House Speaker, in a 2016 interview:

"You know, we don't live in a democracy because a democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner. OK? It's not just majority rule. It's a constitutional republic. The founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition of what a civil society is supposed to look like. What's happened … over the last 60 or 70 years, is that our generation has been convinced that there is a separation of church and state. Most people think that that's part of the Constitution, but it's not. Remember, I'm a constitutional lawyer."

No, you're a Christian Nationalist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic bigot trying to hide your hate behind a cross.

Enjoy your time in office, asshat, 2024 is coming.
Franklin Graham, on sin being the biggest threat to America … not war, climate change, or guns:

"Last night CBS 60 Minutes had a fascinating segment about the Five Eyes, intelligence chiefs from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, who are warning this nation and the world about the dangers China poses. FBI Director Christopher Wray said, 'There is no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to our ideas, our innovation, our economic security, and ultimately our national security.' But we must also remember that the greatest threat to the human race is our complacency toward and the acceptance of sin. Sin is rebellion against God—and unless we repent and turn from those sins and believe on the Name of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting Him as Savior—there is no hope."

Funny that the man who virulently supports a thrice-married adulterer, and a man who cheats and lies about everything in his life, is talking about sin.

The sin of stupidity and lies lives in  Franklin Graham.
Mike Johnson, in his acceptance speech as House Speaker:

"I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night. I don't believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this. I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you. All of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment. This is my belief. I believe that each one of us has a huge responsibility today to use the gifts God has given us to serve the extraordinary people of this great nation, and they deserve it. There is a critical distinction that we used to have children memorize in school and they don't do that so often anymore. But they should. All men are created equal. Not 'born equal.' Created equal. "

Hey Mike? Ask your "God" why he raised up a thrice-married adulterous con-artist to the presidency. Ask your "God" why he raised up a pedophile enabler like Gym Jordan; a sexual predator like Matt Gaetz, and adultery like Marge, the queen of the public hand-job like Lauren Boebert; the adulterous Newt Gingrich and so many more.

Ask God why, if She wanted you in power it took her this long.

God didn't raise you to power; your use of God as a weapon of mass distraction and fear did that.
John Fetterman, Democrat Pennsylvania Senator, taking issue with a new school lunch resolution offered by the GOP that would allow people to deny lunch to a child because "God":

"I can't even believe that this resolution is even real. This makes it possible for some random lunch lady to deny lunch to a hungry child because she says her god tells her to. School lunch should be free, and certainly free of judgment. Don't we have better things to do in the upper chamber than picking on kids because of who they are?"

Sadly, apparently not.