Meet Mike Johnson, Republicans’ new House speaker.

Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.

Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.

  • Nougat@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    His opening statement as Speaker explicitly denigrates atheists.

    Edit: So glad to see that the Speaker of the “People’s House” as he so much likes to call it decided it would be a good idea to use his first speech as that Speaker to shit on some of those People.

    Fucking fascists.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Well these things are tied together. Their god didn’t want me the way I was made to be. I tried living his way and it was misery to me. I tried atheism and while there were no major objections I felt something was missing and when I found my gods that went away. My gods respect how I am. They see beauty in the variety of humanity.

              This is America. Here my religion is just as good as anyone else’s or their lack of one. And if he doesn’t like it he can go to Iran and see how much he likes theocracy.

              • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Their god didn’t want me the way I was made to be. I tried living his way and it was misery to me.

                Just wanna say . . . FUCK that god with a rusty lawnmower blade. Sideways. In all your imperfection you are perfectly made, as we all are, and fuck anyone who can’t handle that.

                And since you mention it, why is it that all these authoritarians/slavery advocates/theocrats all so convinced that should their dream government arrive they will be on the right side of it? I guess they’re so busy hating others that they really do not see that the rights being stripped from others are also their own, and when it comes time to work for the company store or down the mines or as cannon fodder, they and theirs will have to go too, just like the rest of us.

                But if they’re doing this just waiting for sky daddy to make the second leg of his round trip, convinced he will come to save them from the world they are creating for the rest of us, I can only hope they live long enough to enjoy the double betrayal.