The red flags on this guy have little red flags attached to them….He has not declared any assets at all on his financial disclosures since he’s been in the House. Not one checking or savings account. No investments, nothing. That is weird. He scrubbed mention of being dean of a law school from his bio after people pointed out the law school never actually existed. His black “adopted son” and the 2 years he took him in before he was married, while claiming he and his wife adopted him as a couple.
Does he think people and/or reporters won’t dig into this stuff?
some speculation here after a little bit of digging:
Pretty stunning that this guy is Speaker. If ever there was concrete evidence the Republican party has jumped the shark, this would be it.The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, knows how he will rule: according to his Bible. When asked on Fox News how he would make public policy, he replied: “Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview.”
But it’s taking time for the full significance of that statement to sink in. Johnson is in fact a believer in scriptural originalism, the view that the Bible is the truth and the sole legitimate source for public policy.
He was most candid about this in 2016, when he declared: “You know, we don’t live in a democracy” but a “biblical” republic. Chalk up his elevation to the speakership as the greatest victory so far within Congress for the religious right in its holy war to turn the US government into a theocracy.
Since his fellow Republicans made him their leader, numerous articles have reported Johnson’s religiously motivated, far-right views on abortion, same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ rights. But that barely scratches the surface. Johnson was a senior lawyer for the extremist Alliance Defending Fund (later the Alliance Defending Freedom) from 2002 to 2010.
This is the organization responsible for orchestrating the 303 Creative v Elenis legal arguments to obtain a ruling from the supreme court permitting a wedding website designer to refuse to do business with gay couples. It also played a significant role in annulling Roe v Wade.
The ADF has always been opposed to privacy rights, abortion and birth control. Now Roe is gone, the group is laying the groundwork to end protection for birth control. Those who thought Roe would never be overruled should understand that the reasoning in Dobbs v Jackson is not tailored to abortion.
Dobbs was explicitly written to be the legal fortress from which the right will launch their attacks against other fundamental rights their extremist Christian beliefs reject. They are passionate about rolling back the right to contraception, the right to same-sex marriage and the right to sexual privacy between consenting adults.
Johnson’s inerrant biblical truth leads him to reject science. Johnson was a “young earth creationist”, holding that a literal reading of Genesis means that the earth is only a few thousand years old and humans walked alongside dinosaurs.
He has been the attorney for and partner in Kentucky’s Creation Museum and Ark amusement park, which present these beliefs as scientific fact, a familiar sleight of hand where the end (garnering more believers) justifies the means (lying about science).
For them, the end always justifies the means. That’s why they don’t even blink when non-believers suffer for their dogma…….
Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America
Second-in-line to the presidency, the Republican makes claims about the constitution and Christianity, and his wish to impose his faith on others, that do not withstand serious scrutinywww.theguardian.com
Sure, at least some understood that 1/6 was what it was. Now, not so much anymore. They all voted for this idiot Speaker. There's nothing left in Congress who does what Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger did when they were still in office.
He gives me serious creepy vibes. Makes my skin crawl. Sets off alarm bells - like I told someone else, if I were alone in an elevator and he got on I would fake a phone call and walk off and take the next one.
Twitter tells me this is the same app that Josh Duggar had on his electronics and that he figured out how to get around it to look at the kiddie porn that he was eventually busted for.
I have a feeling they decided this is by design. They want the sheet show to try and show the country how forked up the Rs are. The problem is, everyone either already knows or don't care. I'm kinda done with this whole sheet show tbh.
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