New Speaker Mike "Boot Straps" Johnson
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Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.
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Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video
"I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate," Speaker of the House says of his "accountability partner"
BY DANIEL KREPS
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La. TOM WILLIAMS/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES
SPEAKER OF THE House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.
During a conversation on the “War on Technology” at Benton, Louisiana’s Cypress Baptist Church — unearthed by X user Receipt Maven last week — the Louisiana representative talked about how he installed “accountability software” called Covenant Eyes on his devices in order to abstain from internet porn and other unsavory websites.
“It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app.
“It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”
Outside of the creepy Big Brother-ness of it all, Receipt Maven also aired concerns about whether Covenant Eyes — which is still a working subscription-based service — might “compromise” Johnson’s devices, if he’s still actively seeking accountability.
“A US Congressman is allowing a 3rd Party tech company to scan ALL of his electronic devices daily and then uploading reports to his son about what he’s watching or not watching….,” Receipt Maven wrote. “I mean, who else is accessing that data?”
Since he was elected Speaker of the House in October, Johnson’s history as a faith-obsessed, election-denying, far-right Christian nationalist has come under the microscope, from his time with the anti-LBGTQ organization Alliance Defending Freedom to his claim that school shootings could be blamed on abortion and teaching evolution.
In an interview Sunday morning on Fox News, Johnson was asked about his history on abortion, including claims that he was opposed to contraception and IVF treatment. “I’m pro-life. I’ve said very clearly, I’m a Bible-believing Christian, I believe in the sanctity of every single human life,” Johnson said, but added, “I’ve not brought forward any measure to address any of those issues.” However, he didn’t deny whether he would vote against contraception when the time comes.
another republican deviantif democrats could just admit that there are only two genders, we could actually judge these people
What self reliance, cacs have been able to expand, take over themselves and establish themselves in the western hemisphere thanks directly to government subsidies that were directly denied to black Americans.
fukk this sack of shyt
fukk this sack of shyt
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Mike "Bussy Straps" Johnson
Dudes an obvious closet case
Dudes an obvious closet case
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His son on a vpn watching Ice Spice twerk compilations
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I’m more interested in where his money has been going.
My brother used to work in the government in MS. He told me about how these dudes would funnel money and projects to their friends while starving the rest of the state ie Brett Farve type stuff.
My brother used to work in the government in MS. He told me about how these dudes would funnel money and projects to their friends while starving the rest of the state ie Brett Farve type stuff.
Opinion | Mike Johnson thought the cameras were off. They weren’t.
The man second in line to the presidency shared the details in a speech at a Christian nationalist gala Tuesday.
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Mike Johnson thought the cameras were off. They weren’t.
The man second in line to the presidency shared the details in a speech at a Christian nationalist gala Tuesday.Dec. 7, 2023, 11:44 AM EST
By Sarah Posner, MSNBC Columnist
At the Museum of the Bible on Tuesday night, just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson evaded scrutiny by reporters. He was there to receive the American Patriot Award for Christian Honor and Courage at a gala hosted by the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, a small Christian nationalist nonprofit group based in Conway, Arkansas. While reporters were allowed to watch other portions of the gala, they were not permitted to watch Johnson’s keynote.
Or so Johnson thought. According to Rolling Stone magazine, the speaker was “perhaps unaware that the event was being recorded for the NACL Facebook page.” The video is no longer available, but Rolling Stone reports that Johnson thanked the organization for not letting journalists in. “I’ll tell you a secret,” he said, “since media is not here.” God had spoken to him throughout Republicans’ weekslong effort to find a new Speaker, Johnson said. Eventually, God revealed to Johnson that he would be a Moses-like figure leading the GOP and the country through a “Red Sea moment.”
Johnson is clearly telling Americans that he and his extremist friends want to carry out their assault on our constitution in secret and without accountability.
Not everything in Johnson’s speech was a divine revelation. “What we’re engaged in right now is a battle between worldviews,” he declared in a short clip an attendee posted on Facebook. “It’s a great struggle for the future of the Republic.” That’s standard Christian nationalist fare, and yet another sign that Johnson believes himself to be at war with the majority of Americans.
The attempt to hide these remarks from the public came the same week that Johnson announced that, in releasing security footage of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Republicans would blur out the faces of rioters “because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ.” He is clearly telling Americans that he and his extremist friends want to carry out their assault on our Constitution in secret and without accountability.
At the NACL, Johnson knew he had a receptive audience. The group’s founder and president, Jason Rapert, a former Arkansas state senator, recently fretted to a reporter that “with all the troubles facing our country, with Democrats and leftists that are advocating cutting penises off of little boys and breasts off of little girls, we have reached a level of debauchery and immorality that is at biblical proportions.” He has called LGBTQ people a “cult” that promotes “unholiness, unrighteousness and immorality in our nation.” He has expressed hope that in 2024, Americans “will re-elect Jesus to be on the throne here again in our country.” Rapert believes fetuses have constitutional rights, and that abortion is worse than slavery and the Holocaust. As a state senator, he sought to amend the U.S. Constitution to obliterate the rights of LGBTQ people through a statement that marriage “is between a man and a woman.”
To most Americans, these views are extreme. In Johnson’s world, they are unremarkable. They are at the core of the “biblical worldview” that he and Rapert share as the singular lodestar of American government.
A keynote speech by the speaker of the House is a huge get for the NACL. Relative to other Christian nationalist organizations, the NACL, founded in 2019, is new and small potatoes. One might think that the speaker, who is trying to keep the truculent GOP caucus together as they resist even basic functions of governing, might have more pressing matters on his plate. But Johnson’s top priority, above all else, is holding the sprawling army of Christian nationalist agitators — from his friends inside the Beltway to every corner of red America — in a tight embrace. And the NACL will exponentially increase its exposure through Johnson, who in his short time as speaker has done much to raise public awareness about the wide-ranging network of Christian nationalist organizations, radio programs, books and conferences that most people outside of his insular evangelical world have never heard of.
By elevating yet another relatively obscure Christian nationalist group, Johnson can also notch a victory for himself.
What’s good for the NACL is also good for Rapert. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently nominated him to the state library board, just as Arkansas is embroiled in litigation over a book-banning law passed earlier this year. In an interview with an Arkansas television station, Rapert, who supports the law, repeated far-right tropes that books contained “truly pornographic depictions” and that libraries should “not be a place for woke, ideological indoctrination." But even Republicans in the Arkansas state Senate, which must confirm the appointment, have expressed reservations. One Republican senator who opposes his confirmation called him an “attention grabber” and “divisive.”
By elevating yet another relatively obscure Christian nationalist group, Johnson can also notch a victory for himself. He’s taken another step in normalizing an extremist organization whose member pledge reads, in part, that “atheists and anti-Christian groups have recently been more strategic in pursing their godless worldview through the courts and legislation than Christians” and that these groups “are becoming more aggressive and are trampling on the Christian liberty we have enjoyed in this country for centuries.”
The Museum of the Bible was a fitting host for this event, as a building where powerful people complain that secularists have oppressed them and ruined the Christian America they say God intended. Founded by the billionaire Green family, which owns the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain, the museum bought the building located just steps from the National Mall in 2012 for $50 million. The location was strategically chosen to provide a gathering place for activists like Rapert and lawmakers like Johnson, to foster a seamless connection between the Bible (or, more accurately, Christian nationalists’ version of the Bible) and the centers of power a few blocks away.
GOP speaker says he's blurring Jan. 6 tapes so rioters don't get charged
DEC. 5, 202308:47Despite claims of persecution at the hands of nefarious secularists, these Christian nationalists have the ultimate access. They hosted a gala event, keynoted by the man second in line to the presidency, just blocks from the highest echelons of power. This is dominionism— the evangelical idea that Christians must take control of the institutions of government — in action.
Don’t mistake the ban on media at Johnson’s speech as a sign of weakness or fear of being seen. It was a power play that differs little from Trumpian attacks on a free press as liars and promoters of “fake news.” It’s Johnson’s way of keeping his own animating lie going: that Christians are under attack, and must seize power to save America.
Here’s the Story of How Mike Johnson Became Too Right-Wing for His Own Father
Janis Gabriel has gone to the press with details about the House speaker’s relationship with his own family.
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December 13, 2023/11:50 a.m. ET
Here’s the Story of How Mike Johnson Became Too Right-Wing for His Own Father
Janis Gabriel has gone to the press with details about the House speaker’s relationship with his own family.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Christian fundamentalism is even too much for his own family, who say that the leader of the House’s religiosity has stood between them and environmental aid, citing an instance nine years ago when Johnson outright rejected their cry for help regarding a toxic burn site just miles away from their family home.
In 2014, the future speaker’s father, Patrick Johnson, and his wife, Janis Gabriel, both turned staunch environmental activists after the elder Johnson survived a near-fatal industrial explosion, visited his son’s legal office with a plea: Stop a government-backed burn of 15 million pounds’ worth of toxic munitions at Camp Minden.
But Johnson wouldn’t hear them out, according to Gabriel. “His father and I went to him and said: ‘Mike you need to get involved in this, this is really important. Your family really lives at ground zero,’” Gabriel told The Guardian. “We basically begged him to say something, to someone, somewhere.”
Johnson, who was a prominent right-wing lawyer at the time, wouldn’t budge.
“It just blew my mind that he wouldn’t give five minutes of his time to the effort,” she said. “He basically shut us down.”
According to Gabriel, Johnson has never been interested in environmental causes—a political preference due to his creationist beliefs, which lead him to think that climate change is a function of the planet’s shifting cycles rather than a manmade crisis.
“The climate is changing, but the question is: Is the climate changing because of the natural cycles of the atmosphere over the span of history, or is it changing because we drive SUVs?” Johnson said to the sound of boos during a town hall in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2017. “I don’t believe in the latter. I don’t think that’s the primary driver.”
The elder Johnson, who passed away in 2016, “certainly didn’t agree” with Mike Johnson’s “extremist stance” on Christianity, Gabriel said. The father and son also disagreed on Donald Trump.
Gabriel explained that her impetus for speaking with the outlet was to elucidate “what and who he is and how that will affect the job he’s doing for us,” and noted that she believed it was Johnson’s extreme faith that led him to spurn his father’s cry for help over the air pollution crisis in the representative’s congressional district.
“It speaks to those religious beliefs,” Gabriel told The Guardian. “‘Don’t take care of the environment because we have a finite amount of time here and God will take care of you.’ It’s crazy.”