Well, We Have a Speaker. He’s an Election Denier and an Extreme Christian Fundamentalist.
Well, We Have a Speaker. He’s an Election Denier and an Extreme Christian Fundamentalist.
Meet Mike Johnson, Republicans’ new House speaker.
Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.
Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.
Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.
For those who are concerned, no, he's not going to be able to run a far-right agenda (but he might try! 🍿) Anything that he could get through the house is likely to die in the Senate, and even then Biden wouldn't sign it.
That said, there is some scary bi-partisan shit that might get passed. There are at least two keep internet porn from kids laws that are really about don't say "gay" on the internet But both parties really don't like the public being able to freely deliberate and opine about how our government officials conduct themselves.
What we can expect is more of the Greatest Show on Earth. Republican infighting and stupid shenanigans should continue unabated. Republican representatives will provide plenty of campaigning content for their Democratic rivals running against them in 2024.
He's a fundamentalist is he? I'm sure there are no tenets of Christianity, not a one, that he violates.
Not remotely surprising the Republicans compromised on the lowest common denominator.
It is a Republican majority, it was never NOT going to be that. This is the person that that they are, even marginally reasonable humans are VASTLY in the minority of the GOP.
The worst of the worst, exactly what the GOP were holding out for.
Republicans will always elect the worst possible candidate
To butcher Trump quote - "When Louisiana sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
He has just over 12 months to do anything with the demonstrably fractured house and he's not going to get anything big through the senate.
What were you expecting?
This is like finding out that the new pope is a Catholic.
Well, here's the problem: God is literally speaking to me, and he says this guy is evil as fuck and tepublicans are the problem with the U.S. There you go, I must be right. Prove me wrong. You can't, so I must be right.
Well then, that’s a very bad person. He has no business in congress at all
Less of a speaker and more of a parrot
Correction: he's a republican
F
Dude looks like Hitler
the United States needs firebrand atheism
What do we call
Thanks Democrats.
