U.S. democracy is clearly in crisis. It’s entirely possible that in less than two years dissenters will face the power of a government with an authoritarian bent; if that sounds to you like hyperbole, you aren’t paying attention.
And if you would prefer a society with more traditional social relationships, more people practicing traditional forms of religion and so on, that’s your right
Commander #MikeJohnson is so proud that his 17-year-old son never #masturbates! He knows because he installed incredibly #creepy#Christian monitoring #software on all his family's devices, and gets a notification if his boy is spanking the holy ghost. What a totally normal arrangement this family has! So #wholesome! So #Biblical!
Religious organizations and political regimes Dissenting voices are frequently silenced, strong religious ideas are imposed, and critical thinking is stifled. The most glaring offense in current right-wing, religiously biased government control has been the repeal of Roe v. Wade and stripping women of the right to control their own bodies.
If you don't think elements of the so-called Christian Right, encouraged by the GOP, have gone wild with hatred for LGBTQ+ people, like red-eyed, frothing, rabid dogs, you haven't heard about the town in New Hampshire that wants to ban ALL PUBLIC ART. This case deserves national attention. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-hampshire-town-art-debate-1.7014430
'100 percent wrong': How #Johnson stirs #House fight over 'country’s largest anti-#Hunger program'
Ahead of President Joe Biden's goal to "win back rural voters" in 2024, according to a Thursday Politico report, Johnson (R-LA), "is a proponent of more hardline GOP efforts to overhaul the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the country's largest anti-hunger program that serves 41 million low-income Americans," farmers and rural Americans.
Republicans' ‘Offsets’ For Israel Aid Would Actually Increase The Deficit
Republicans’ “plan to ‘offset’ Israel aid will cost $90 billion, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel tells me,” reports The Washington Post’s congressional economics correspondent Jacob Bogage.
“All of those funds go to increased scrutiny on tax evasion going on at the highest wealth levels,” Werfel also told him.
The Republican Party has long been pushing us toward an apocalyptic dystopian future. The differences between individual Republicans are far less important than their similarities.
Paul Krugman, in a column on Johnson’s selection, says the GOP has now gone “full-on extremist.” Krugman, as an economist, mostly focuses on Johnson’s economic policy ideas, which include essentially trying to end Medicare and Social Security”
Mike Johnson’s Wife Founded a Company That Equates Being Gay With Bestiality and Incest: Report
Onward Christian Counseling Services’ 2017 operating agreement states: “We believe and the Bible teaches that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one’s sex, or disagreement with one’s biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God.”
NEW: “In 2018, U.S. Rep. Johnson was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at a Bible conference hosted by infamous “___ the G*ys” Pastor Kevin Swanson.”
#ChristoFascist Mike Johnson had been slated to deliver a speech titled, “The Bible: Equipping the Man of God for Politics & the Culture War” at Swanson’s Bible Family Conference. Mike also has ties to at least two groups designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBTQ hate groups: the Alliance Defending Freedom and the family Research Council. HATE groups.
Radical Mike Johnson made a name for himself as an attorney fighting for far-right christian causes aka hate and fascism.
The roots of Christian fascism in the United States can be traced back to the early 20th century, with the rise of the Christian Identity movement and the Ku Klux Klan. These extremist groups espoused white supremacist beliefs, using Christianity as a justification for their actions. Over time, these ideologies have evolved and become more sophisticated, infiltrating various levels of government.
Johnson Said Same-Sex Marriage Would Lead to People Marrying Their Pets, Wanted to Sentence Abortion Doctors to “Hard Labor”
He also supported criminalizing gay sex between consenting adults
If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet”
Johnson says God made him House Speaker
The surprise winner of the race for speaker of the House had one important ally in his come-from-nowhere bid: Donald Trump.
A staunch social conservative with a long history of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, he’s also managed on Capitol Hill to forge a less fractious persona, an ideological partisan and a Donald Trump ally who founded the so-called “Honor and Civility Caucus”
AG Drummond blasted both the notion of the state endorsing a specific #religion and of #Oklahoma#taxpayers paying to advance the cause of a specific #church.
"Not only is this an irreparable violation of our individual #religiousLiberty, but it is an unthinkable waste of our tax dollars," Drummond stated.
It is a Handmaiden’s Tale level nightmare now in Texas, where Lubbock has become the largest county where it is illegal to travel through the county to receive abortion services in another state. This is what predictably happens when you throw a fundamental question of human rights “back to the states” to decide. We need Roe v. Wade and its legal protections codified.
your obscene health system dysfunction & gross inequality
your education system [again wrt #1 & #2]
your idiotic justice system whereby judges are beholden to politics, rather than independent of it like elsewhere
Just let us know when you're ready for the world to launch a military intervention to liberate your poor oppressed citizenry, & establish #democracy 😜 [also, introduce so many states to books & libraries 🤦♀️]
Trump is pledging to brazenly violate the #Constitution and impose #ChristianNationalism as an apparent requirement if he somehow returns to the #WhiteHouse. The man is telling us all that he has no respect for the Constitution, and plans to essentially end American #democracy. I believe him. #VoteBlue.
Speaker of the House, in line for the presidency, after he was identified by the January 6th committee as being the most involved of any House member in the plot to throw out legally cast votes and accept fake elector ballots.
He wouldn't even answer subpoenas from the very body he wants to "lead."
At far-right roadshow, Trump is God’s ‘anointed one,’ QAnon is king, and ‘everything you believe is right’
Helmed by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — a supporter of the former president and a key figure in efforts to overturn the 2020 election — and Clay Clark, an Oklahoma entrepreneur and podcaster, the whirlwind event melds the MAGA movement, election denial, QAnon conspiracy theories and doomsday prophecy.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders lowest approval rating for governor in last 20 years, Arkansas Poll says (www.thv11.com)