House Speaker Ongoing Melodrama

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(11-06-2023, 04:36 PM)GMDino Wrote:

Speaker Mike Johnson admits his son monitors his porn viewing. ?

Speaker Mike Johnson “admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022,” Rolling Stone reports.

Johnson talked in a video about how he installed “accountability… pic.twitter.com/ka6dytsu3y

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that's the same software that Josh Duggar was easily able to bypass so he was able to continue his child porn habit...until the feds caught him and put his "Christian" ass in jail

[GMDino]

(11-06-2023, 06:36 PM)pally Wrote: that's the same software that Josh Duggar was easily able to bypass so he was able to continue his child porn habit...until the feds caught him and put his "Christian" ass in jail

That is interesting.  I wonder if Johnson has any ties with Bill Gothard and his cult?

The documentary about it mentioned how one goal was to get more of their members elected so they could create laws that reflected their "values".

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That porn accountability software probably didn't catch the Hunter Biden dick pics shown as official congressional business, though. They'll probably have to study some "trans stepsister got stuck in the dryer" porn next.

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The budget or a CR must be passed by Friday to avoid a shutdown. Speaker Johnson, after being unsuccessful. at passing most of the funding bills thus far, adjourned the House early this week. He was speaking in Paris at the "World Freedom Initiative" sponsored by the Republicans Overseas organization

In the meantime when they do actually try to vote on funding bills they are busy offering amendments to do things like cut most of the salaries of senior government officials to $1, defund the VP's office, defund the FBI, or whether it is ok to discriminate against women based on their choices of birth control or family planning.

They are not serious people trying to do the best thing for this country. They are wanna-be performance artists trying to have the most outrageous clip on the tv networks of choice. Who cares if they do their jobs as long as we know who they are?

[GMDino]

I'm going to put this in this thread because it is tied to dysfunction that is the republican party.

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It's hard to explain how dysfunctional the @HouseGOP is, and the degree to which their own internal divisions are superseding every normal function of government. But I'm going to try with a short story about this week in the house. 
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1. First: We operate on a 9/30 fiscal year but the (McCarthy) led house couldn't agree on how to fund prior to. They tried to just say "cut everything by 30%". That didn't pass. So they said "let's just fund at current levels for 45 days". That cost McCarthy his job. 


2. For context, when Dems had the majority we got all our appropriations done by August 1 so the Senate could finalize and POTUS could sign. @HouseGOP still hasn't done that. 


@HouseGOP 3. Also, you may recall this summer the @HouseGOP threatened to default on US debt unless we agreed to future spending rules. A deal was struck that passed the House and was signed into law to do so. The 30% cut was not consistent with that law. (AKA, it was illegal) 


@HouseGOP 4. By contrast, the straight 45 day continuing resolution that cost McCarthy his job was legal (in the sense that it did not violate the June agreement and bought us time to do so). OBEYING THE LAW WAS A RED-LINE FOR THE @HOUSEGOP. So they fired McCarthy. 

@HouseGOP 5. They then used the first 20 days of that 45 day period to fight over a new speaker. Should we pick someone who hates gay people, fought to overturn the election or creeps on his son's porn? It took a while, but the @HouseGOP finally said YES to all three. 


@HouseGOP 6. That leaves a lot of work to do by a party that doesn't like laws, is at war with itself and an inexperienced leadership team. But off we went. Last week, we were supposed to vote on transportation funding. Rs couldn't agree so Johnson never brought a bill to the floor. 


@HouseGOP 7. (This isn't just a Johnson problem. McCarthy previously chose not to bring an agriculture funding package to the floor because Rs couldn't agree. Still don't have a path on that one.) 


@HouseGOP 8. This week, we were supposed to vote on a funding package for our financial services & general government. Minutes before we were supposed to vote on that yesterday they pulled it on account of internal squabbles too. 


@HouseGOP 9. Note: ALL of these bills violate the law we passed last June. But having discovered that Ds won't vote to break the law, they are trying to pass these with all R votes. But they're big mad at each other so even that's not possible.


@HouseGOP 10. Now to the question on the mind of every libertarian troll who's read this far. "If government is going to run out of money and you aren't even voting on bills to fund it why are you wasting my tax dollars in DC?" Well, here's what they did bring up for votes this week: 


@HouseGOP 11. A bill to prevent the government from using the word "latin-x" - a bill to cut WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's salary to $1 - a bill to defund the office of gun violence prevention - a bill to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - 


@HouseGOP 12. A bill to cut SEC Chair Gary Gensler's salary to $1 - a bill to defund the office of gun violence prevention - a bill to prevent the government from developing greenhouse gas disclosure rules - a bill to eliminate 50% of the budget for the consumer product safety commission. 


@HouseGOP 13. These things aren't urgent. They aren't helpful. And they aren't going to become law (See: laws require Senate + POTUS approval). But they keep the idiot wing of the @HouseGOP from turning on their rookie manager. And waste 435 people's time on the House floor. 


@HouseGOP 14. And so now we are 7 days from a shutdown. Still no path to fund. Still no sign of anyone in the @HouseGOP willing to stand up to their extreme fringe. Still no discernible leadership talents from their new Speaker. Right now it's annoying. But in 8 days, its disastrous. 


@HouseGOP 15. Because if they can't get their s**t together, 8 days from now soldiers, air traffic controllers, food safety inspectors, IRS agents, border patrol... all go without pay. Some will be furloughed. Food, heating, housing assistance. Every government function. 


@HouseGOP 16. PLEASE @HouseGOP. Grow up. Stop fighting with your brother and sister in the backseat. Either act like the adults you claim to be or at least have the dignity to go to your room so the adults can babysit your sorry selves. Too much is at stake. /fin 

They cannot govern.  

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(11-11-2023, 11:45 AM)GMDino Wrote: I'm going to put this in this thread because it is tied to dysfunction that is the republican party.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1722971856712442027.html



They cannot govern.  

The party of financial responsibility calling for a break in their jobs on the eve of a government shut down has become so common place in my life, I'm genuinely surprised we have any sort of functioning government bodies.

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(11-11-2023, 11:45 AM)GMDino Wrote: I'm going to put this in this thread because it is tied to dysfunction that is the republican party.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1722971856712442027.html



They cannot govern.  

What is even worse is that they don't even want to govern.  They want to destroy this country so they can rebuild it in their Christian-nationalistic fascist authoritarian ideal. 

 They are not patriots.  They do not love this country

[GMDino]

Oh.

Who could have imagined.

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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) became Speaker of the House less than a month ago. Since then, a national audience has become aware of a slew of questionable remarks, associations, and policy positions: The congressman has been criticized for blaming school shootings on no-fault divorces; he has been critiqued for working hand-in-hand with legislators like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to gut gender-affirming care for teens; it has been mentioned that Johnson even claimed that if people gave birth to more “able-bodied workers,” then Republicans wouldn’t need to cut Social Security and Medicaid.

Where could he get such ideas? There has been extensive reporting on Johnson’s connections to Christian nationalist organizations, too. Now, another troubling fact about the House’s most powerful man has surfaced.


On Wednesday, NPR reported that the speaker has ties to the New Apostolic Reformation, an extreme far-right Christian movement seeking to dissolve the US’s separation between church and state by “any means necessary.” Johnson reportedly has fostered relationships with several NAR leaders, including Pastor Jim Garlow, who has hosted online prayer sessions for “U.S. election integrity”

“I’m so grateful for the ministry and your faithfulness,” said Johnson during an August interview on Garlow’s radio show. “It’s a great encouragement to me and others who are serving in these sometimes rocky corners of the Lord’s vineyard.” But, the NAR isn’t your average conservative Christian cohort. Unlike other believers, they have wholeheartedly embraced and led an effort to spread Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election results. As my former colleague, Emily Hofstaedter, wrote:

Quote:NAR adherents share goals with other conservative Christians—outlawing abortion, fighting marriage equality—and were especially instrumental in the movement to keep a defeated Trump in power. In his audio documentary Charismatic Revival Fury, Matthew Taylor, a scholar at Baltimore’s Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, explains how 15 charismatic leaders met with high-level Trump administration officials in the lead-up to January 6 to discuss “spiritual warfare strategies”; of the six protest permits issued that day, four went to NAR-affiliated charismatic church groups. “A lot of NAR people just embrace the Big Lie,” says [André] Gagné, propelled by the claims of their prophets: “‘It’s not true, and God showed us.’”

Johnson’s bonds with this movement shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s even faintly familiar with his rhetoric. The Louisiana legislator has spent nearly two decades trying to cram religion into secular spaces under the guise of “religious freedom,” with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerful conservative organization where he spent years as a spokesperson and an attorney.