Newly elected House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claims he does not remember “some of” the many, many anti-LGBTQ+ comments he’s made over the course of his career.
Johnson’s history of opposing LGBTQ+ rights has been well documented and stretches back to the early 2000s, when he worked as a senior attorney and national media spokesman for anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (then called the Alliance Defense Fund). Between 2003 and 2005, Johnson also wrote several editorials for Shreveport, Louisiana, paper The Times, criticizing the Supreme Court for striking down anti-sodomy laws, opposing same-sex marriage, and arguing against non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people.
He is such a casual bigot he can’t possibly remember all the times he advocated for people to be locked up for daring to have consensual adult relationships. I mean, for me the day he lobbied the Supreme Court to take away my freedoms was a horrific affront to my welfare, but for him it was just Tuesday.
“Well yes he is a bigot, but he might lower my taxes! I need to vote in my best interest! Not my problem if your marriage is annulled, bodily autonomy revoked and your Healthcare made illegal.”
Literally how republican voters sleep at night.
Pretty sure it’s all the booze and sundry other drugs.
casual bigot
He’s a professional bigot now, so that’s no longer a valid excuse.
So he’s either a bigot, which should disqualify him, or he’s got serious memory deficits, which should disqualify him. And this is the best ® they have.
I dont think that him being a bigot is in contention either way to be perfectly honest with you.
When dealing with Republicans, never assume incompetence when malice is a sufficient explanation.
There were better options that would’ve been less harmful to everyone living here but they had to go for the closest analog to Adolf Hitler they could possibly find because fuck your freedoms
Do we really want a man who, by his own admission, is so clearly suffering from dementia as the House Speaker? I’m just asking questions here.
/s, obviously
I’m just curious if there’s been any verifiable accounts that he has stopped beating his wife.
Does this guy knows there’s no way to take that back? It’s all out in the open, and he can’t really run away from his history.
Embrace it, Johnson. We all know who you are. We’ll just vote accordingly.
I’ll be voting blue so hard when the time is correct. Great motivator he is.
Does this guy knows there’s no way to take that back?
Trump does it all the time, so now they all do.
Yes, but we are not talking about Trump voters. Swing voters. They see Johnson acting crazy, they’ll be galvanized to vote against Republicans. And his history is full of gold for opposition research.
He just needs to offer a thin layer of plausible deniability to the people who want to support him (or more importantly, his “team”).
These kind of folks never need to go beyond a single layer of questioning, so “oh he says he never said that” covers for those who don’t want to be considered bigot-by-association.
They could do that, but that does not work well if one’s history is full of gold for any one looking for attack ads. Swing voters would be looking at his history instead. Trump voters were never going to change their mind.
Wonder what he thinks of the parts of the Bible that decry usery as a base and perilous sin.
He’s probably going to take the fight to the bankers as soon as he finishes off the real infidels.
To say nothing of the child rape, wanton murder, xenophobia as cultural core, etc. Oh, what a book.
Reminds me of people in my life that have said a shitty thing, had it brought up to them at another time, and all they can do is deny it or ask why I’m bringing up “old stuff”. Where’s the line for bringing up old stuff? They just don’t want to own what they said.
Maybe he actually read all the Bible verses people say are about gay marriage and realized they’re about shit we still think is bad (rape or weird cultic sex) and that there’s a whole ass explanation of Sodom and Gomorrah where it’s about inequality and greed: “This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.“
