Mike Johnson thinks that ending abortion will fix Social Security and Medicaid.
https://x.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1717228821395443932
Perhaps this clip going viral is why, at his press conference today, he refused to take any questions from the press. Pretty interesting first day on the job.
Blah, blahā¦white guyā¦blah, blahā¦AR-15ā¦blah, blahā¦20+ deadā¦blah, blahā¦50+ wounded.
This one was in Maine, where earlier this year state lawmakers voted down a 72-hour waiting period to buy an AR. Itās harder to buy Sudafed than an AR in Maine.
I gave up after Sandy Hook.
If that didnāt change Americansā views of our gun-crazed society, nothing will.
Mike Johnson has a lot of āsplaininā to do.
https://x.com/ashtonpittman/status/1717342823572259075
He may look like your city comptroller, but heās a full-on ChristoFacsist loon who believes the Earth is 6,000 years old and that the Founders based this Republic on biblical principles.
A gun is no better or worse than the person using it.
Why was this guy still allowed to own a gun?
Maine shooting live updates: At least 16 dead in Lewiston; gunman at large
After they trot out their āthoughts and prayersā platitudes, gun fetishists inevitably pivot to mental health as the cause. OK, letās unpack that. If someone is in mental health crisis, how do we know if that person has access to guns? How do we cut off that access until the person is deemed mentally fit?
What resources should be available to monitor the mental fitness of people with access to guns? How do we keep track of people who have access to guns so that we know whose mental health we need to be monitoring?
Donāt worry everyone, freshly-minted Speaker of the House and second in line to the Presidency, Mike Johnson, has got it solved:
āAnd people say, āHow can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?ā Because weāve taught a whole generation, a couple generations now of Americans, that thereās no right or wrong, that itās about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because thereās nobody sacred to whom itās owed. None of this should surprise us.ā
Maybe he shouldāve sent his kids to better schools. I never learned any of that and my two daughters certainly didnāt.
Trumpās lawyers opened the day today still arguing with Judge Engoron over the sanction he imposed on Trump yesterday. Engoron told them (politely) to shove it, and Team Trump says it will appeal. Good luck with that.
A licensed attorney in any jurisdiction would not actually make a motion to dismiss a case that has already been decided expecting to have it granted. Itās all theater and his toadies lap it up.
You are so right.
Why are Republicans working so hard to make gun ownership universal for one and all when the character and motivation of these people are so different?
The right to own guns is not more important than the right of gun violence victims to safety.
Chocking?
Itās what dogs do. Apparently.
I donāt think heās actually knows what dogs do.
Yes, because clearly if guns were outlawed for people who have mental issues, they wouldnāt have one. Itās unreal that people, like you, actually think that a deranged person wouldnāt find a gun if they were unable to own a gun legally.
Speaking of mental health, I found this to be an interesting discussion on how the lack of investment in young people - basically trickle-down economics - has created the fractured and dangerous country we live in today.
Donāt be put off by the title; itās not a lament about how hard it is to be a man today (it does get close to going off that cliff, but pulls itself back before it does).
Mike Johnson is an idiot. Here he analogizes the use of guns to kill people with the use of cars to kill people.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1717712066780213736
To buy a car we require someone to have passed a test, maintain a license, register it and carry insurance. Iām down if he is.
In a separate clip, he trots out the old ānow is not the timeā dismissal. There have been over 500 mass shootings in the US in 2023 so, by that logic, the time to discuss gun violence is [checks notes] never.
Which is, of course, what he wants. As a devout Christian, he fully understands that the death of innocents is something of which Jesus was notoriously tolerant.
Fun Fact: Mike Johnsonās mandate from āthe peopleā is that he won his first elected office running unopposed (and ran unopposed for re-election each time) before running for Congress in a district gerrymandered to be R +30.
I think youāre missing the obvious: Johnson & Co will insist that all of those things that we do for cars are infringements on peopleās liberties and should also be done away with.
