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.

  • orclev@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This next election is going to be an absolute shitshow. I guarantee they’ll refuse to certify the election, and they’ll try to hijack the electoral college (again).

    • Countess425@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I’m betting on this guy not lasting until November 2024 (not sure what the over/under is on November 17, 2023).

      • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        How do you think he’ll get removed? It took them this long to agree on someone to elect, it seems unlikely enough of them would agree to remove him. They could maybe get the Democrats along with a small subset of Republicans to vote him out like the last time, but I’m not sure the Democrats would be up for that. Maybe if they wait until right before the election, but I can’t imagine the GOP being dumb enough to oust the speaker right before elections happen (although that does raise the question of who certifies the election if there’s no speaker. I’m assuming the speaker pro tem?).

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          How do you think he’ll get removed?

          Via the same rule through which McCarthy was removed. After years of a Motion to Vacate the speakership requiring much more than a single vote, the GOP demanded that it be reverted to an older, single vote rule before McCarthy would be considered for speaker. This is before the first vote was ever cast, and that rule still stands. It was written into the 118th Congress rules and has not been rescinded.

          In other words, the GOP can do this over and over and over again, as many times as they get a call from Putin to do so. They can oust any and every speaker at will, keeping Congress at a standstill and the government in chaos as long as they can get a simple GOP majority vote.

          But they won’t have to, because this asshole is one of the Rs that voted against the continuing resolution that is the only thing keeping government open right now. When that 45-day clock runs out in November, the new Speaker is going to stonewall just like he did before, and will likely keep his seat throughout any government shutdown he succeeds in creating.

          • candybrie@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            They can oust any and every speaker at will, keeping Congress at a standstill and the government in chaos as long as they can get a simple GOP majority vote.

            They don’t need a GOP majority vote. They need a house majority vote. And unless dems have some compelling reason to keep the republican speaker (unlikely), it only takes a handful from the GOP to oust the speaker. I think McCarthy only lost 8 republican votes.

      • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Outrageously false.

        There is nothing that even comes close to settling that in any state at this point. Any speculation on the matter is as good as a handful of shit. Less, maybe.

        • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Colorado has already blocked him from the ballot under the 14th Amendment Section three. Only a 2/3 vote in Congress will change that.

          • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            First you said:

            Trump won’t even be on the ballot in most states.

            Then you said:

            Colorado has already blocked him from the ballot

            Colorado is but one state, and while I deeply appreciate Colorado’s efforts to right its wrongs (cough Boebert cough) Colorado cannot legislate the ballots of other states, even when they’re using the Constitution to do so in their own.

            EDITED for clarity, and also to commend @MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee’s excellent, multi-sourced correction in regard to what is actually happening with the 2024 presidential ballot in Colorado.