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.
@KimPerales He may be a spineless sycophant, but he’s not forced to do anything. Johnson, unlike many American women thanks to Trump, has free choice. He could refuse to show up. He is choosing to do what Trump tells him to do, lest MTG and her sidekick Tatertot Reeves be set loose on him again.
All one need do is watch a few authentic mobster movies to understand how this all works. Everyone works for The Don(ald).
@KatM Yes, he was willing, but his heart wasn't in it. Johnson didn't perform well like Senators Rick Scott, Tuberville & Vance. They were much more obsequious.
#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."
@KimPerales
MAGAt Mike must be removed as speaker before the 2024 election. If a few insurrectionists in Congress were indicted, this would be easy. There are at least 10 of them who were deeply involved in treason, or insurrection if you prefer. I think it's treason.
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.
"Pres Biden tells Erin Burnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the US will stop supplying it with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets & other offensive weapons."
-Barak Ravid
Thankfully, Pres Biden disregarded Speaker Johnson & Min. Leader McConnell's letter today, expressing alarm about the decision to pause a weapons shipment to Israel and ask for clarification by the end of the week.
Nope. Not unless the ICC holds Iran's terrorist Hamas & their leader Sinwar equally , as well.
Sinwar's Hamas had duty to shelter the hostages they stole & the Gazan's he willfully kept in harms way, when IDF retaliated for the brutality of the long plotted invasion on Oct 7th.
Sinwar knew & wanted IDF to hit back & come for his "Human shields. Bargaining chips."
He had a duty to see to the safety of all innocents that he held in harms way.
That too is a war crime.
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
#MAGAMike LIES, introduces a bill to ban non-citizens from voting *illegal in fed elections.
"We now have so many non citizens in the country -if only one out of a hundred of those voted, they'd cast 100s of 1000s of votes -dangerously high number -a great concern-could obviously change the outcome of our elections."
Sen Lee: "The only reason to oppose this -would be if you're comfortable with or even somehow want non-citizens to vote &- in some cases to to influence the outcome of elections."
#MAGAMike, who has relied on the #TFG's support to hold off a bid to oust him from leadership by Rep Marjorie Greene, said measure was aimed at preventing noncitizens from voting in Nov.
"We all know -intuitively -that a lot of illegals are voting in fed elections. But it's not been something that is easily provable," Johnson told reporters w/o offering evidence to support the claim."
2016: Only 30 incidents of
possible noncitizen voting, or 0.0001% of votes cast.
"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
RU’s Foreign MIN: drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries & leverage the #Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance. Confirms: HYBRID WAR agst. the W. RU is seeking to subvert W support for UA & disrupt the dom. politics of the US/Eur. Cs, thru propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist & extremist policies +seeking to refashion geopol, drawing closer to CN/IR/NK -to shift the current bal. of power.
"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.