It's a shame that the creh that got him him at the baseball game, didn't put him in the ground
The next Republican Speaker of the House could be a guy who said he was "David Duke without the baggage" - Steve Scalise
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Won't be surprised if Trump becomes the temporary speaker. I can now see why Jim Jordan fumbled a bit when Hannity brought up the fact that Trump would entertain it and that he was already asked to put his name in the ring.
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Nah man keep that shyt specific, the republican party has become 100% shyt show more than it ever has been but that's the clowns they deserve.So far I have seen them talk about pedo Matt Gaetz, pedo enabler Gym Jordan, and klansman-lite Steve Scalise
We are not a serious country.
Troy Carter: Scalise ‘has never displayed any racial intolerance’
Cheyanne M. DanielsThu, October 12, 2023 at 3:09 PM EDT
Troy Carter: Scalise ‘has never displayed any racial intolerance’
As Republicans debate over who will be the next Speaker of the House, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (La.) has obtained an unlikely ally: Louisiana Democratic Rep. Troy Carter.
Carter, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, attempted to contradict statements that Scalise is racist.
“Earlier today I was asked if Congressman Scalise was racist,” Carter posted on X, formerly Twitter. “I’ve known the man for 25 years and we have stark ideological differences. We have often agreed to disagree. In that time, however, I have never seen him display racial intolerance. I count him amongst my friends and I wouldn’t if I felt otherwise.”
Carter’s comments come as the House is once again scrambling to elect a Speaker. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was removed from the position last week in a historic vote led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Scalise won the GOP’s secret ballot election Wednesday to replace McCarthy, but the congressman has come under fire in recent days for a 2002 speech at the European-American Unity and Rights Organization — a white supremacist group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. At the time, Scalise was a state lawmaker. Reporter Stephanie Grace also wrote in 2014 for The Advocate that upon first meeting Scalise some 20 years prior as she covered Jefferson Parish in Louisiana and he began his political career, Scalise had said he was “like David Duke without the baggage.” With a chance to be third in line for the presidency, Scalise has been working to reframe his past. He called his appearance at the conference “a mistake” that was meant to build support for a tax proposal.
“I emphatically oppose the divisive racial and religious views groups like these hold. I am very disappointed that anyone would try to infer otherwise for political gain,” Scalise said in a statement this week, as reported by Politico. “As a Catholic, these groups hold views that are vehemently opposed to my own personal faith, and I reject that kind of hateful bigotry. Those who know me best know I have always been passionate about helping, serving, and fighting for every family that I represent. And I will continue to do so.” Though many in his conference have defended Scalise, including former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and McCarthy, some have refused to support him in the battle for the Speaker. “I’ve been very vocal about this over the last couple of days: I personally cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said. “I would be doing an enormous disservice to the voters that I represent in South Carolina if I were to do that.”
Despite his defense of Scalise, Carter has rallied with Democrats to nominate House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who once again received unanimous support from his party to be Speaker. The Hill has reached out to Scalise’s offices for comment.
Where do you find these tragic negroes..who sired these hapless c00ns
America gets more and more anti-Black with each second, the last thing we need is a bootleg David Duke with power, I swear as a Black man things are getting real bad real fast, not that Black Americans ever had it good in this country, but my outlook on the future is very grim
Johnson's Crusade Against Democracy, Calls for 'Biblical' Governance
House Speaker Johnson argues against democracy, advocating for a republic based on Bible (video)
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House Speaker Johnson argues against democracy, advocating for a republic based on Bible (video)
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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), official photo
"You know we don't live in a democracy," House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson says about the United States in this 2016 video, "because democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner."
Johnson is correct that we don't live in a democracy, but he's wrong about the make up of the population. The United States is like two lambs and a wolf.
How is that wolf going to eat the lambs if it keeps getting outvoted?
Thank the Lord we have a "constitutional republic," Johnson says. "The founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition on what a civil society is supposed to look like."
Wolf rule is almost guaranteed with an unfair electoral system and a Senate where 39 million Californians get the same number of senators as 580,000 Wyomingites. But to make sure the wolf wins, though, you need people like MAGA Mike trying to overturn elections.
In December 2020, Johnson tweeted, "Proud to lead over 100 of my colleagues in filing an amicus brief to express our concern with the integrity of the 2020 election–and our election system in the future. We believe this suit filed by Texas, supported by 17 other states, merits full & careful consideration by SCOTUS."
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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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.”