Maga Mike, Part II. Skeletons are starting to rattle...

[jmbar2]

It gets curiouser and curiouser...

Mike has some deep ties to leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention, including Paul Pressler, who were preaching against being gay, while raping young men in the church.

From 2004-2012, Mike

"served on board of the policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, whose 13 million members comprise the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. During his tenure with the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, it rallied members to place strong emphasis on “values voting.” Such activism helped reinforce Republicans’ opposition to abortion and LGBTQ rights."

(https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/evangelical-conservatives-cheer-one-of-their-own-as-mike-johnson-assumes-congress-most-powerful-seat)

Macho Mike was Dean of an ill-fated law school named after Pressler until 2012.

From 2004-2012, he was also an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which

"championed a 2004 Louisiana ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage, writing in the Shreveport Times that “homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural” and that society should not approve “such a dangerous lifestyle.” In 2003, after the U.S. Supreme Court nullified state laws banning same-sex sexual relations — which the ADF had urged it to retain — Johnson lamented the decision, writing that by “closing these bedroom doors, they (the justices) have opened a Pandora’s box.”

(https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/evangelical-conservatives-cheer-one-of-their-own-as-mike-johnson-assumes-congress-most-powerful-seat)

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[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[keithbvadu2]

2. Does Mikey have any receipts for rent boys services? For the luggage, of course.

[brewens]

3. A couple things about sexual predators. The first time we know about probably wasn't the first time.

Include all the other types of perverts and creeps in that their peers know who they are. Be it a church, judiciary, legislative body, sports team, what have you. They know.

[jmbar2]

4. Wonder if this relates to his lack of financial records...

A lot of people knew this was going on.

[SheilaAnn]

6. I'm curious as to how he gets on in life without a bank, checking account, etc. In his position now and before it would

seem necessary to at least have a direct deposit acct.

[flashman13]

11. I'm sure Johnson has at least one bank account (you know he's

not a dollar a year man, so his paycheck has to go somewhere). But since he is obviously a graduate of the Clarence Thomas School of Laws That Don't Apply to Important People, Johnson just doesn't bother with those pesky reporting rules.

[3auld6phart]

9. Damn good

point. Well worth checking . Something sbout this phreak foes not sit well with th guy. Maggoty Mike is a phuckln’ nuttier and very twisred in his mind and getting his son involved in spilling his seed on the ground, committing spermicide. What a phreak ( freak )
…..dang. I”ove this site

[Ocelot II]

5. I think we'll find out that MAGA Mike has more skeletons than a cemetery.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I'm figuring there have been incidents of rape involving boys.

[Mr.Bill]

10. A rich republican tradition

sometimes rewarded with the title Speaker of the House.

Sorry, but much of the stuff listed in the OP are not necessarily considered negatives in a room populated by many doing the same things.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. This seems a non-stop recurring theme in GOP "Christians." May they burn in hell if it exists. And

maybe that's it. They know it's all BS and there is no hell, accountability, etc. and just by ACTING like the Bible is important to fit in, impress friends, family and especially VOTERS. It is worth the effort if you can ACT Christian and do whatever the hell you want to anyhow to screw people and lie constantly. Get Out of Jail Free card if you talk the talk?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. This is why I worry about the adopted / not adopted "son" Michael.

[Skittles]

13. there is something very creepy about Mikey

I find his demeanor very disturbing.

[panfluteman]

14. If You Want to Know What They're Doing Behind Closed Doors, Just Look at What They're Ranting Against!

This seems to be an inviolable law, whether we're talking about the preacher's pulpit on Sunday morning or the Speaker's gavel in congress.

[yardwork]

23. Every accusation is a confession.

[Ford_Prefect]

15. IMO Mikey's closets hold more than skeletons

If he's not an abuser himself he's a voyeur, an enabler, or both. He clearly fears public scrutiny in a way that demands examination.
Something to keep in mind is people bent like him tend be networked, which places him in strangely vulnerable, and yet powerful position.
I wonder and worry about who knows Mikey's secrets, as well as whose secrets Mikey knows.

My money is still on the head of lettuce lasting longer.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. Perhaps he doesn't like skeletons, just the male bone. 🤔

[dalton99a]

16. Kick

[Snarkoleptic]

17. There's a lot of talk of timeline discrepancies re: the timing of his bringing the 14-YO boy into his life...

here's one of several X/Twitter threads on the subject.
Central theme seems to be he took this child under his wing while married, although the timeline seems to show this took place when he was a single man.
Where there's smoke, there's fire...

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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&quot AND magically inserts wife Kelly 2 years before she met Mike.
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.

[jmbar2]

20. This sounds really bad.

His story is just full of holes. A lot of people know the truth and still want him 3rd in line to the Presidency. Xtian nationalists scare the bejeezus out of me.

[Windicator]

25. p.u.

[ShazamIam]

18. Is the reason MAGA Mike's first legislation included defunding the IRS because he has avoided paying taxes?

First we read he has no financial records or bank account, then he included defunding the IRS with the Israel aid legislation.
I also wondered if he has been supported by someone like Clarence Thomases' friend, Crow?
Only speculation from me, of course but it is a curious coincidence.

[Joinfortmill]

21. Why am I not surprised.

[NowISeetheLight]

22. Skeletons

I'm thinking MAGA Mike has an entire walk in closet full of skeletons. They literally plucked him from nowhere. I don't think even the regular Republicans know anything about him.

[LenaBaby61]

28. MAGA Mike has an entire walk in closet full of skeletons.

I'm hearing about 'alleged' escorts from Louisiana and Mississippi making a statement about their buddy MAGA Mike. Oh, and an alleged bar owner who used to facilitate MAGA Mike's "Hook ups." Not that it would matter to the GQP, because they'd keep him in as Speaker. Many GQP'ers love/protect pedophiles, sex traffickers and the like. IE: Dennis Hastart was Speaker of the House once upon a time, and a lot of GQP'ers knew all about him raping little boys and pretending that it was part of him teaching them how to "wrestle" is what I heard that Hastart used to tell these little boys. IF true

[brush]

35. Yep. A walk-closet full. At first T thought it might be like Jim Jordan's...

involvement snd knowledge of what was going on with the sexual assault on wrestling team members...you know, keeping quiet and not reporting it. Which is of course creepy as hell.

But now with all these revelations about the discrepancy in dates with taking under wing the Black son and when he met and married his wife (is she in on this?), red flags are waving like crazy.

And now all the Pressler homosexual assault allegations and no financial records/apparently paying in cash which can easily taken from church offering plates...you do that when you're hiding something.

This seems to be way more than red flags, it' blaring fire alarm sirens.

Is the Speaker Mike Johnson just managing and keeping quiet Pressler's activities (open secrets really to many also keeping it quiet), or is Speaker Johnson also a participant, hiding his own sexual activities?

It'll come out, and it's going further tear the republican party apart.

[orangecrush]

24. Great choice, GQP

[Irish_Dem]

26. Hiding his bank accounts and pals with sexual offenders.

As well as constantly expressing hatred for various sexual activities which
appears to be self hatred.

[Irish_Dem]

27. I wonder if the wife knows about her husband. Maybe they put all the money in her name.

[jmbar2]

30. Maybe she will comment in her "fundie wife baby voice"

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[Irish_Dem]

32. Maybe she was on her knees praying to God her husband doesn't get busted.

And praying no one finds out why they are hiding their bank accounts.

[czarjak]

29. Coon-Ass Southern Baptists are the worst.

[jmbar2]

33. My uncle came from a whole family of them

He used to joke that revivals were the best cruising grounds for male PKs - the girls would be easy pickins after getting riled up. Might have been a humble brag, but who knows...

[czarjak]

34. Nothing beat the preacher's daughter at summer camp.

[llmart]

31. My gut instincts tell me there is something this guy is hiding.

He creeps me out both in his personality and his looks. I'd never heard of him before he was put up for Speaker, but the first time I saw him on TV and he opened his mouth, I had an uneasy feeling about him. I agree with those that think he's hiding a past that involves young boys. I hope whatever it is or whoever knows something comes forward sooner rather than later.

[Irish_Dem]

37. We all know he is hiding something.

We are in fact making the list of possibilities.

[Wednesdays]

36. Pandora's box

Johnson lamented the decision, writing that by “closing these bedroom doors, they (the justices) have opened a Pandora’s box.”Johnson lamented the decision, writing that by “closing these bedroom doors, they (the justices) have opened a Pandora’s box.”

Stephen Colbert quipped, "Not to nitpick, Mike, but if there's one thing we know about gay men, they're not that interested in Pandora's box."

[bdamomma]

38. Listening

to Randi Rhodes podcasts this week, she came right out and said he's gay. I wouldn't doubt it. He's like fixated,
Methinks thou dost protest too much.