The House GOP’s election of Rep. Mike Johnson (La.) as Speaker is likely to give an opening to social conservatives, who plan to press him on bringing anti-abortion and anti-transgender polic…
“I am a Bible-believing Christian,” Johnson said in a Thursday interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. “Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it, that’s my worldview. That’s what I believe in.”
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if he actually read the text, he'd have a different 'worldview'.
No he wouldn't. He doesn't have the capacity to understand it beyond what his pastor's interpretation is, as evidenced by the statement "the Bible is my worldview." I read it when I was a fundie like him, and it didn't change my worldview, because I knew all the Correct™ ways to "reconcile" the problems.
I thankfully got out by other means, but not everyone escapes the "correct interpretation" indoctrination.
we really dont give fox news enough credit with the destruction of society. its slow, methodical spoiling of its viewers brains. the repeated drum beat of god.country.guns.god.country.guns
it is what leads to paths that allow terrible human beings like this one to gain power.
But no actual love for God and country.
No love for the sick, the poor, the hungry, the tired, the beaten, the abused, the isolated, the desperate, or the dying.
Just the illusion of concern so we don't have to do the work or better ourselves in any way.
Silly, you show your love of God and country through guns! And by marginalizing everyone not exactly like you.
Religion was and still is the danger for society and end of democracy. It has no place in a scientific and enlightend society. Even the founding fathers knew.
You think America is "scientific and enlightened"? The way we "handled" COVID perfectly demonstrates why we aren't.
Oh, really? You mean the pandemic that hit when the religious party was in charge? That pandemic? The one whose handling began with the christian nationalists? That one?
The "religious" party in charge that disbelieves science and did as much as it could to hide the evidence of COVID?
Yes, that party is what proves America isn't "scientific and enlightened." Because our response to COVID would have been much better had the GOP not tried to sabotage as much of Obama's legacy as possible.
You're using the literal witch hunting party as the standard. I would wager they don't represent the average scientific belief of Americans. Hence why their abortion push is so unpopular.
So what's the standard, in your opinion, that delineates a "scientific" nation from an unscientific one? Because I would posit a country where more than 30% of its citizens don't believe in evolution or climate change, and who regularly get to control the government, doesn't meet that standard.
There is no fucking standard, we're all shitting the bed the world over. Look at the Middle East, does that look like a bastion of scientific thought? Not in the last 1,000 years? What about the British Isles? Oh? The Tories are making a cumback? Nazis? In my Germany again? Its shit all over, dude. We left the Tau long ago.
Tens of millions of lives saved with science and technology. I'd say that's a pretty good result, considering what happened last time.
We could have saved tens of millions more had we listened to scientific experts, rather than letting right-wing conspiracies hamstring our pandemic response.
Also having 50 different approaches to the problem instead of one national one didn't help either. Allowing states like Florida be superspreaders because they refused to do literally the bare minimum was a mistake.
Of all the nominees I think this guy has the most punchable of faces.
Far out. This is not what we need right now.
Pointless article. None of that bullshit is passing the Senate.
And a few years ago, no one would have thought Roe would be overturned.
Because it was political suicide & the #GOP has paid for it at the voting booth in nearly every election that has been held since then.
Like the Tories, we are currently watching the GOP break as much as they can on their way out.
I really, really hope you are right.
Completely different thing. Conservatives have been biding their time for decades until the Supreme Court was favorable enough to overturn it. Whereas currently the Republicans do not have a filibuster-proof majority (or any majority) in the Senate.
Yes, at some point in the future conservatives will have a Senate majority again, but by that point the House of Representatives will have had a turnover and the discussions now are moot depending on who the next speaker is.
What we can say about overturning Roe is that it shows the dangers in relying on Supreme Court rulings in lieu of legislation. The Democrats have had multiple opportunities to pass legislation on abortion ever since Roe vs. Wade and never bothered to, and this is the result. And it will happen again with Obergefell v. Hodges unless they get off their asses and actually codify same sex marriage into law.
Pepperidge Farm remembers when these gaslighting assholes were all claiming that they had no plans to ban abortion nationwide even after Dobbs: they were just batting their eyes and talking about "states rights" and "judicial activism" and "there is no right to privacy" and "this needs to be decided at the local level" and other such horseshit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The fact that someone with such traditional Republican principles was elected to the top post in House leadership shows that those priorities are important to the party, even if some fear the electoral consequences.
Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, a super PAC that’s funded state-level anti-abortion and anti-transgender campaigns, agreed: “For the longest time social conservatives didn’t have a seat at the table.
But he’s earned an “A+” rating from the powerful anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony (SBA) Pro-Life America and has co-sponsored and advocated for legislation that would put federal limits on abortion.
A key part of the Speaker’s job is to protect and grow the number of seats held by the majority, so forcing Biden-district Republicans to vote on anti-abortion measures may be problematic.
For example, a bill to permanently codify and expand the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits certain federal funds from being used on abortion procedures, was included in a list of 12 pieces of legislation House Republicans planned to pass in the first weeks of their new majority.
Severino, who ran the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights during the Trump administration, said that bill is “low hanging fruit” for Johnson to support.
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HitlerMike Johnson. Fucking dipshit.
