New GOP Speaker Monitors Son's Porn Viewing...

[Ben]

[Stavros]

Thanks for posting this, Ben. I have heard of the man, but didn't realize he was such a full on nutcase. I wonder what percentage of Americans are in sync with people like him? Also, I think the video makes the telling point about 'Conservatives' who are opposed to the Govt interfering in your life, who advocate the interference of Govt in your life, especially the Bedroom -as opposed to the Kitchen. Liberty, it seems, has its limits.

How long will he last as Speaker?

[Stavros]

Moira Donegan in The Guardian makes the case for Johnson's fundamentalist, Talibanesque misogyny, but she could have just said he loathes freedom. But a good read nonetheless, this is an extract as you may need to sign in to read all of the article.

"It would be easy to see Johnson’s wildly regressive gender politics as a personal quirk – his beliefs that gay people are sinful and inferior; that women should not be able to live freely from men or use their bodies in ways that are counter to wishes of the men close to them; that marriage should act, for men, as an entitlement to absolute control, and for women, as a prison. But these ideas are not quirks; they are part of a powerful constituency in the Republican party, one that has now found its way into the speakership, second in line for the presidency."
Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, is a gender extremist | Moira Donegan | The Guardian

[Stavros]

Mike Johnson has a new interpretation of the US Constitution: not what it says, but what the Founding Father's intended it to mean..

"During a recent interview, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) suggested that the founders' intent to separate church and state has been widely misunderstood and that government leaders should more openly express their faith in their work.NBC News reported Tuesday that Johnson called the separation of church and state — which Thomas Jefferson called for in a letter to church leaders — a "misnomer." He added that the phrase wasn't in the US Constitution, even though the First Amendment's establishment clause is widely interpreted as the founders' belief that the government should be seen as separate from any religious institution."
Mike Johnson says separation of church and state is a 'misnomer' - Alternet.org