RW politicians like #MAGAMike, side with Netanyahu, disregard his war crimes & insufficient aid going into Gaza:
Johnson threatens ICC sanctions vote over Netanyahu arrest warrant application.
Rep Roy has introduced a bill that would sanction ICC officials who investigate U.S. citizens or allies. It's supported by nearly two dozen other Republicans, including Rep Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference.
#MagaMike Johnson was the chief whip for Donald Trump. #Maga Mike Johnson led the efforts to overturn our election. He is anti-choice. He blocks our border security. He lies for criminal Donald Trump. He supports conversion therapy. Mike Johnson is a deranged white christian nationalist aka American nazi.
Johnson’s insane dominionist Christian nationalism, aka fascism dictates that the bible should drive decisions in government and white supremacists will rule over you and our treasury.
"Speaker Johnson just made statements to reporters here in NY & then rushed away taking no questions. I asked him if he would still back Trump if the former president is convicted & he said nothing.
Odd scene. Came to park. Read from notes. Rushed off."
-R Costa
He knows that #TFG is guilty, but as the House Speaker, he's forced to toe the line by supporting the amoral traitor, no matter what he says or crime he's committed.
#MAGAMike parrots his mentor's xenophobic rhetoric & says he'll help #TFG round up undocumented immigrants & deport ppl who've paid taxes & contributed to their communities & the workforce for years, sometimes, decades:
"Less than 24 hours after Democrats saved his job, Speaker Johnson vows to ‘round Up’ 11 million undocumented people, & likely deport them."
I'm livid, I understand #MAGAMike's motive, but Min. Ldr McConnell shouldn't question Pres Biden as he finally limits arms to IL bc of the famine in Gaza & #domicide, meaning, that the Palestinians have nowhere safe to go: their homes, bus'... destroyed💔. It should be bc of credible #warcrimes, #IHL... The #ICC is considering issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu & other top IL officials for alleged war crimes, incl. genocide, incitement to genocide, & the crime of apartheid123.
GOP leaders do #TFG's bidding. The #RuleOfLaw will disappear if Biden isn't reelected:
#MAGAMike announced that Congress, on behalf of TFG, is going to use every power available to him/colleagues to nullify America’s court system.
“Trump has done nothing wrong here & he continues to be the target of endless lawfare -has to stop. & you’re gonna see Congress address this in every possible way that we can, bc we need accountability -all these cases need to be dropped..." https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-america-needs-to-know-about-trump
"Yet another loyalty performance for an audience of One, who's addressed as though he is still the head of state. We're also dwelling in the "upside-down world" of #authoritarianism, as I call it. "Accountability" means stopping investigations into abuse of power & "a threat to our entire system"=a threat to Republican plans to convert America to an autocracy under TFG's lead. That's the most telling phrase."
-R Ben-Ghiat
A Dem counteroffensive to pushback agst #MAGAMike’s agenda: “A 65-yr-old professor manhandled by cops -Dems could call such ppl as witnesses at upcoming hearings GOP’s staging, to return the debate to core principles about protests: use hearings to voice core principles: it’s possible to call out antisemitism while also insisting it's not antisemitic to criticize IL’s war conduct. How Soros/GRT tropes map onto a spectrum… #TFG re protests -use of the lang. of dictators-.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181295/mike-johnson-lie-campus-protests-dems-weapon
#MAGAMike is traitorous -launched an investig. into univ. protests to take advantage of Dem divisions.
Even as Dems coalesced around saving Johnson, Rep McGovern argued they shouldn't be "cheap dates" going forward. "There's growing pressure to use the leverage we obviously have ... ppl want to make sure that we're not going to be a cheap date -It remains to be seen whether he recognizes the reality -has to govern in a bipartisan fashion -next move is his," -Rep Raskin. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/03/mike-johnson-democrats-mtg-motion-vacate
Rs are always defending THEIR #1A rights, but that privilege is reserved for THEM.
#MAGAMike is zeroing in on the wave of pro-PA protests that've rocked college campuses *looks to unify his fractured HSE R conf. -bitterly splintered for months by exposing divisions within the HSE Dem caucus.
Don’t give #MAGAMike credit, the delay meant: Ukrainians lost their lives, were injured, & lost territory & INFRA. He may keep his speakership, but still supports #TFG & over half of his caucus voted against the bill: “Speaker’s historic road-to-Kyiv conversion.” “This was messier & more time-consuming than necessary. But given the current dynamics among House Republicans, & where things stood a few short weeks ago, it’s a wonder it happened at all.” https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am/
Has #MAGAMike broken his pledge to #TFG? If so, #Ukraine will likely receive the aid package that they desperately need:
"I was struck by this quote from Speaker Johnson yesterday. Until yesterday, he had yet to make a case for Ukraine aid. And then he unfurled this."
-J Sherman
"Southern Baptist leaders have written to House Speaker Mike Johnson, a member and former official of their denomination, urging him to support Ukraine."
#MAGAMike is a Southern Baptist & has blocked aid to #Ukraine for 6 months.
500 Ukrainian Churches & Religious Sites Damaged by Russian MIL. One out of three destroyed or looted bldgs. tallied by Inst. for Religious Freedom belong to evangelicals, accused of being “American spies.
#MAGAMike is whitewashing #J6, & propping up #TFG's pres. campaign:
"Getting ppl to conflate innocent ppl who just walked around the Nat. Mall with violent mob members is the key to TFG's #J6 retcon. Only the criminals: imprisoned-."
-M Sheffield
"Trump has suggested he'd pardon the 1/6 inmates, but virtually all of them are charged with violently assaulting LE —ppl he’s described as martyrs, victims, & “hostages.” Many of the inmates violently attacked LE officers."
"Speaker Johnson hasn’t even made a move on Ukraine aid yet & is already being put on blast by conservatives.
*Sen Bennet is still hinting he may hold up final passage of the funding package in the Senate tonight without knowing what the plan is for Ukraine aid in the House...
& McConnell once again just called on Johnson to take up the Senate-passed foreign aid bill..." -A Desiderio
#MAGAMike says: GOP wins with this bill. Problematic for Dems: >beds: more migrants will be locked up, less$ for needed NGOs, cuts to DEI/climate programs, no funding for UNRWA...
ICE beds: 34k➡️42k
22k BP agents
25% increase on border technology
20% cut to NGOs
troop pay increase that he said was the largest in 40 years.
At midnight Fri, funding runs out for 6 big annual spending bills -due to a dispute over funding for the DHS. Issue: is a continuing resolution to fund DHS at the FY2023 funding level thru Sept. 30. This is in lieu of a normal appropriations bill for FY2024.2 sides can’t even reach a deal on that CR. The same issues remain — how much to spend: on BP officers, for shelter & detention beds for undoc. migrants...
Faux Christion, #MAGAMike, is blocking aid for Ukraine:
"In the occupied territory, there's not one Catholic priest -all expelled or imprisoned. ~50 religious ministers, Protestant pastors, Orthodox priests, Catholic priests have been imprisoned or killed. Russia is returning "to the time of the Soviet Union where all of those religion were prohibited or overcontrolled, or simply destroyed." "Almost 600 churches, places of worship, synagogues were destroyed."
Good, some weapons for Ukraine, but the actual package is being blocked by #MAGAMike & his fellow GOP Congressman who're loyalists to #TFG, & thus Putin.
"The Pentagon was able to use savings from a previous Army contract for Ukraine weapons.
While Ukrainians will welcome the new weapons, the latest package is only a temporary solution.
“This isn't an alternative path for a supplemental,” said a 3rd DOD official on Fri of the plan to use Army savings for UA."
Ukraine has the weapons, but #MAGAMike & his Republican cronies in the HSE are withholding the funds because they're obeying #TFG:
"The Pentagon has sent $10B worth of weapons to Ukraine that it still doesn't have the money to replace due to congressional gridlock, acc to a top DOD official.
DOD officials expect funding to replenish the EQP the US has already sent to UA to be incl. in Pres Biden’s supplemental request, which provides billions of additional$-."
#MAGAMike appeased Republican MOC by touting cuts to govt agencies. TFG/Rs' diabolical goal is to eventually destroy the fed govt. He defended "defunding" the Justice Dept for #TFG.
Johnson felt the need to convince as many of his fellow Rs as possible to support the deal he helped negotiate: "We believe are really overreaching & have been turned, in some ways, against the American ppl -Cuts: 3%: DOJ, 7%: ATF, 6%: FBI, & 10%: EPA. & that’s just a start.”
#MAGAMike Johnson AKA Speaker #MoscowMike is proud of the House GOP plan for draconian cuts to the budget. We must amplify how it'll hurt Americans by cutting funds for: LE agencies like: DOJ & FBI -weaken their ability to investigate the crimes of #TFG, threats, gun violence... & ENVIR protect...
"We also advanced cuts to some of the agencies that have been turned against the American people. We are going to cut 3% from DOJ, 7% from the ATF, 6% from the FBI, and 10% from the EPA."