Pic Of The Moment: Meet New Republican Speaker Mike Johnson

[EarlG]

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What everyone should know about the new House Speaker, Mike Johnson

[niyad]

1. KNR

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R for exposure

Get the word out -- Mike Johnson is ANTI-CHOICE and wants to control women's bodies

[Proud Southern Belle]

7. Not everything is about women!

Republicans are destroying America! Yet some people seem to only care about women!

[Blue Owl]

20. True -- but that issue has been the Democrat's best vote-gainer and the GOP's vote-loser

I think just about every GOP candidate who holds a strong anti-choice position is getting their ass kicked come election time....

[Skittles]

28. HELLO

WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

[North Shore Chicago]

31. Say what?!

[dalton99a]

3. And ordained by GOD to be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

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[enough]

4. Fantastic post. Thank you EarlG.

[Initech]

5. A couple more:

There'd be more "able bodied workers if women were forced to give birth":

Link to tweet

We don't live in a democracy, we live in a "Biblical republic":

Link to tweet

Also blames school shootings on the teaching of evolution:

Link to tweet

So yeah fuck this guy to the hottest of hells and the people who vote for him. Also fuck Fox News for promoting and installing this MAGA Taliban asshole on us.

[Proud Southern Belle]

6. Why should we get rid of Social Security?

Social security actually helps people! Who have YOU ever helped? Nobody! We need to get rid of YOU and your kind, you unpatriotic traitor! What good thing have you ever done for America?

[underpants]

13. They've been trying to get rid of it from when it started

It’s a tax. They hate any and all taxes. To give you an idea of how long they’ve been trying and basically who is fueling their effort see this excerpt from a letter Eisenhower wrote to his brother in the 50’s.

[KS Toronado]

16. Ike was the last decent Republican President

Those wanting to get rid of SS today are not negligible but almost the entire R party. Maybe we should be hammering this point home going into the next election since there's a lot of older Rs who would be destitute without SS.

[SouthernDem4ever]

23. See if you can convince the morons that live at the Villages

If you can do that, you have a better approach than anyone else so far.

[KS Toronado]

25. The wealthy morons that live in the Villages could care less about SS benefits

Some might but the majority would not become destitute if they lost their SS. Now then the majority of retired seniors can not afford to live in the Villages and like most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, these are the seniors we need to target along with their older working children. With clever newspaper ads, snail mail, and billboards.

Love to see something along the lines of a talk bubble coming from an R's mouth saying "Please, please, please people ask your parents and grandparents to move in with you now so you can get used to supporting them before I vote to kill Social Security and steal all the money you paid into it"
"Help trickle down work"

Below that....Or you can vote Democratic and leave your parents and grandparents where they are.
Lots of different messages we could use depending the area of the Country. And I'd go after them heavy in red States, the outcome will surprise a lot of people.

Time we started using FEAR of something to help in the voting booth.

[SouthernDem4ever]

27. Good Ideas

[Hekate]

29. My mother remembers her RW father saying that Social Security was the only good thing FDR did

He also said that Congress would never be able to keep their hands out of the cookie jar, and would wreck it if not kept in check. As I have grown old, I have certainly seen the truth of his comment about Congress.

Historical timeline for context: Grandpa was born in the 1880s and Mom (his 5th child) was born in 1924, so FDR’s administration was in his adulthood and in her childhood. She had a lot to say about her father, not all of it complimentary. Mom said he was a right-winger, and I could see she learned to shun his core prejudices. On the other hand, he lost everything in the Great Depression, and went on the road with the CCC as an electrician with the crews building the CCC camps, and that was certainly an FDR program.

[aggiesal]

8. We know he's anti-democracy ...

Maybe some research would also identify him as:
- Paying for someone's abortion
- Receiving Social Security as some child benefit.
- And he's gay.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Thank you, that's where I'd put my money. These goody two-shoes are so repressed that

they often live parallel lives. I'd place my bet in the mistress category, but it's just a hunch like most betting. Everything's projection with these people so read the tea leaves!

[ancianita]

19. He's also a member of the The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly the Alliance Defense Fund.

That works to expand Christian practices within public schools and in government,[7][8] outlaw abortion,[9][10] and curtail the rights of LGBTQ people.[11] ADF is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with branch offices in Washington, D.C., and New York, among other locations.[12] Its international subsidiary, Alliance Defending Freedom International, which is headquartered in Vienna, Austria,[13] operates in over 100 countries.[14]

ADF is one of the most organized and influential Christian legal interest groups in the United States[15] based on its budget, caseload, network of allied attorneys, and connections to significant members of the political right.[16][17][18] Individuals associated with ADF have included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett,[16][19] former vice president Mike Pence,[20] former attorneys general William Barr[21] and Jeff Sessions,[17][22] and Senator Josh Hawley.[23][24]

ADF attorneys have argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court, taking positions such as support for religious activity in public school and Christian prayer at town meetings; narrowing coverage of contraceptives under the ACA; prohibiting same-sex marriage, and supporting businesses in the wedding industry who refuse to service gay marriages.[25] ADF lawyers also wrote the model for Mississippi's anti-abortion legislation involved in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the decision that overruled the 49 year-old precedent case Roe v. Wade establishing the right to abortion.[26]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designates ADF as an anti-LGBT hate group, saying in 2017 that, since the election of President Donald Trump, ADF had become "one of the most influential groups informing the [Trump] administration's attack on LGBTQ rights."[11] The ADF has taken many anti-LGBT positions: it opposes same-sex marriage, decriminalization of same-sex sexual activity, and anti-discrimination laws, as well as taking an active role in writing model anti-transgender bills for state legislators.[11][27][28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom

[Stuart G]

9. K and R -

Thanks for posting this ...Earl G.

Shows what a complete "ass ****" the person is

[TeamProg]

11. K&R Thanks for posting! nt

[underpants]

12. Handmaid's Tale

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218400055

[Bev54]

14. So now that the conversion of the republican majority house members to MAGA ultra religious

faction of government, it seems that the house will operate by biblical verses rather than the constitution. So if that is the case, and I know nothing about the bible, but does anywhere give the right to bear arms and kill others? Maybe use this time to point out that restrictions on guns should be passed because the bible does not say Americans have an all consuming right to own military style weapons.

[Warpy]

15. Meet the new sanctimonious jackass, same as the old sanctimonious jackass

only this guy seems to be a patriarchal false prophet who buys the whole pack of convenient and self serving lies.

May his tenure be acrimonious and short.

[ancianita]

17. Pharisaic Mike Johnson ordains himself and his followers the nullifiers of the 14th Amendment.

Matthew 22:35 -40

"one of [the Pharisees], which was a lawyer, asked [Jesus] a question, tempting him, saying, ...Which is the greate commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
...the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

You shall know them by their works. Good will prevail, and the Jesus Christians of Congress and the presidency will make sure of that.
Keep the faith.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. The American Taliban is gaining in power.

[Cyrano]

21. On the other hand, he doesn't have a swastika carved into his forehead.

[SouthernDem4ever]

22. Since this asshole is so close to the orange asshole

I wonder if Smith will call him to testify about HIS role trying to overthrow the election.

[chouchou]

24. If I actually told what I think of

...the new speaker-of-the-house, and what I'd like to do, 2 things would happen:

I'd be banned from this forum until the people of earth are traveling to Alpha Centauri
..as a usual holiday trip.
...and the Mods would rough me up..just for fun.

[keithbvadu2]

26. We have plenty of folks who want to be the Ayatollah of America. Mikey is getting closer.

Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian/theocratic gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.

Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.

One poster called it a 'new social feudalism age'.

[erpowers]

30. This Guy is F'ing Crazy

If this guy really believe the things he said, he is f'ing crazy, especially about banning sex outside of marriage. Does this guy know the actual history of sex and this country? Whether this guy know it or not his parents, grandparents, and their friends were getting busy, at times outside of marriage. The government cannot stop people from having sex whenever they want to have sex.

As far as his take on Social Security, Democrats should be running ads until the 2024 election point this out. Republicans want to give tax cuts to the wealthy while cutting social security.

[Bluepinky]

32. He fits right in with the Republican Party.

And he dresses well!

[FailureToCommunicate]

33. Wolf in sheep's clothing. The more you learn about this guy, the worse he seems. That's

why they settled on him.

God help us.

[leftyladyfrommo]

34. He certainly looks the part of religious extremist. nt