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Basically a fucking traitor who should be removed from office. The perfect GOP candidate. The Republican party is fucked up and yet there's a good chance this guy our one like him will be in charge. We need goddamm revolution.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment needs teeth.
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
That's the one!
And specifically, "...or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
Johnson has done both in his continuing defense of Trump's insurrection and for voting to overturn the will of The People.
He is also the most viciously antigay congressman as former lead counsel and spokesman for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian extremist legal group.
Oh - then all we have to wait for is the leak where we find out that he’s gay and the leopards will eat his face for us.
I really kind of hate this line of thinking since it implies that gay people are persecuting themselves. Most homophobes are straight, this guy is just a garden-variety christian fascist.
Romney on House speaker nominee Mike Johnson:
“Apparently experience isn’t necessary for the speaker job”
“We’re down to folks who haven’t had leadership or chairmanship role which means their administration of the House will be a new experience for them.”
The mainstream GOP position is mass disenfranchisement, so it's not surprising. I am very proud my vote helped flip AZ blue in 2020. Hope they impotently rage about it forever.
Insurrectionist party. There’s no coming back from this.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Well before he secured the GOP nomination for House speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., played a key role in efforts by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the 2020 election.
Johnson, who currently serves as the GOP caucus vice chair and is an ally of Trump, led the amicus brief signed by more than 100 House Republicans in support of a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate the 2020 election results in four swing states won by Biden: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Johnson at the time sought support from his GOP colleagues for the lawsuit, sending them an email with the subject line “Time-sensitive request from President Trump.”
“President Trump called me this morning to express his great appreciation for our effort to file an amicus brief in the Texas case on behalf of concerned Members of Congress,” Johnson wrote in the December 2020 email, which was obtained by NBC News.
The lawsuit swiftly drew backlash from battleground state attorneys general, who decried it as a “publicity stunt” full of “false and irresponsible” allegations.
Legal experts also pointed to a series of hurdles the lawsuit had faced, saying that Texas lacked the authority to claim that officials in other states failed to follow the rules set by their legislatures.
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This is going to be like in Casino when the crooked state congressman's dopey nephew was put to work for Robert DeNiro by threat. With a heavy dose of insurrection, for good measure.
Hey Mike, God thinks you are a traitor too.
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