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By now you’ve likely heard that Representative Mike Johnson—the congressman Republicans finally elected as the new Speaker of the House after 22 days of chaos—played a significant role in the plot to overturn the 2020 election, a lowlight on his résumé that is obviously deeply concerning for the future of democracy. Also extremely worrisome? Johnson’s wildly bigoted remarks about homosexuality over the years, and the fact that he supported criminalizing gay sex between consenting adults.

CNN’s KFile reports that prior to his career in politics, Johnson wrote a series of deeply homophobic editorials in his role as an attorney for the socially conservative legal group now known as Alliance Defending Freedom.

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[–] burntbutterbiscuits 279 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Alright. That is too specific. This guy fucks his dog. There’s no other explanation. This GOP is a dog fucker.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do have a very long, documented history of projecting…

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yup like this guy former Idaho Senator Larry Craig - staunch opponent of LGBTQ+ rights caught cruising for dick in a public bathroom. To be clear, the problem isn't that he was doing gay stuff, but that he was a hypocrite about it and was clearly projecting his own insecurities into law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Same as Clinton, etc. America wasn't pissed he had an affair ... it was that he lied about it.

Stop. Fucking. Lying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not even pissed. The Lewinsky scandal mostly happened through 1998. Here's a chart of Clinton's approval ratings:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/116584/presidential-approval-ratings-bill-clinton.aspx

Barely any change throughout the year, and even spiked up towards the end of 1998. Americans in general didn't give a fuck. Only the GOP cared.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be mindful when he says “he’ll be in his Lab”, he’s not a mad scientist.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Aye. It's usually the ones that cry the loudest. How many times haven't outspoken anti-gay people been caught having affairs with a partner of the same sex?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every accusation is an admission.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to say the same thing, either he does or he is fantasizing about it. What a weird individual.

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opposite-sex marriage leads to incest and inbreeding. Maybe we should just outlaw marriage altogether.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly, I don't know why marriage is even codified into law.

I take that back, I do. But it's a stupid reason.

There really is no modern reason that marriage needs to be something you need to let the government know about.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

This is of course a non-US view, I’m not sure how different the laws are there. But marriage is a great one-stop shop that lets you get a lot of legal kerfuffles sorted in 20-30 minutes with nothing but a couple signatures. I don’t think it is a stupid reason, the stupidity comes from all the other bullshit people want to dump onto marriage.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Modern Marriage is a legal contract, it needs government more than ever because it’s pretty much tax benefits.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve always thought that the word “marriage” should be removed from all laws since that’s a religious term and constantly quibbled about. Replace it with “civil union” defined as a joining between two consenting adults and leave the definition of “marriage” to the churches.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. Its critical in the US because of how we ration healthcare. Which is just stupid.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"Rationing healthcare" is such a dystopian ideology. It sounds like we're unable to increase heathcare availability due to force(s) out of our control ... which is the exact opposite of what happens.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so tired of these fucking twats inflicting their neuroses, hang ups, mental illnesses, and kinks on the rest of us.

Get out of politics and get into therapy.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Election deniers should be sentenced to hard labor

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the hard labor was building roads or railways, it would be generous to everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So if I'm a male I can fuck my female dog no problem cos it's not same sex. Good to know.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mike Johnson approves this message!

just don't fucking say 'gay'

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IDK about anyone else here, but when I see anodyne-sounding-but-doublespeak org names like 'Alliance Defending Freedom', it's a red flag.

ADF has never defended freedom, unless by 'freedom' you mean the ability to discriminate against LGBT folk and women. They proclaim themselves to be for "the right of people to freely live out their faith" but really that only seems to cover folks whose faith is some flavor of political bigotry.

Yeah so when Johnson remarked that "God has ordained each of us" to congress, the flavor of God he's talking about is the one that wants laws to protect anti-LGBT bullies and vigilantes, not their victims. Meanwhile everyone else whose faith does not abet that shit now gets to hear him claim to speak hate on God's behalf

Also in case you forgot, the history of sentencing people to 'hard labor' derives from the post-civil-war practice of convicting black men in kangaroo courts (after all, the 13th Amendment allowed for slavery if it was punishment for a crime). When they were told they couldn't keep slaves but they could enslave people if they were convicts, the notion of 'convict leasing' was born.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only day two and I'm already sick of his face.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It has a "accountant that's probably embezzling funds" vibe.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So then let people marry their pets. Who gives a flying fuck.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone has been having romantic feelings for their pet.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Pregnancy doctor sentenced to labor.

I'm sorry. It's early.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Throw bibles at him. Hard covers only.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Original copy written in the stone of sinai itself please

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

GOP sending their best & brightest I see.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

So with the whole republican projection thing, I'm seriously worried for Mr. Johnson's pet(s).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd say religious extremists should be loaded on cruise ships and denied port entry until their god manifests them a new continent (it's close enough to their bible), but at the rate things are going with Antarctica that's far too lenient.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Seems like the perfect repesentant to the GOP lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

May his loss of power be swift and embarrassing to him and his ilk, and cause the RNC to sink further into self destruction.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What is it with "hard labor"? Do the speakers really thing that makes them sound badass? The loss of freedom is a huge punishment already. The labor part is just letting someone profit off of human misery.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

They want to bring back open slavery... Slavery with extra steps should be obvious: They want to get rid of the extra steps!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The profit is the whole point for them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That's the point for them. They want to make others miserable who don't agree with them, and beyond that they want to benefit and profit off of others misery.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

If this isn't motivation to stop voting delirious, brain-dead geriatrics into the presidency, I don't know what is. This dude is two accidents away from being a fascist dictator.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And religious extremist lead the GOP to children rape and to all the laws against women to keep the supply of young kid so if i have to choose ? Let a guy marry is turtle

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And is probably fucking them too

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s more likely to lead to polygamy again, which is kinda what the ultra religious want anyways, ratio weighted towards the alpha male of course.

Polygamy will be legal and they’ll complain about any relationship with more than one man. Cause the Bible says….

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sounds great, multiple women pissed at me giving me lists of chores. Oh how I can't wait

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking it could be worse than this guy, but it actually can't.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gay marriage never leads to that.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

"Alliance Defending Freedom" lol

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