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Before Mike Johnson Was Speaker, He Was Blaming Abortion for School Shootings “Many women use abortion as a form of birth control, you know, in certain segments of society, and it’s just shocking and sad, but this is where we are. When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.” https://archive.ph/s6LDo#selection-1357.556-1357.885

What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas Before the War, Gaza’s Leaders Were Deeply Unpopular—but an Israeli Crackdown Could Change That The argument that the entire population of Gaza can be held responsible for Hamas’s actions is quickly discredited when one looks at the facts. Arab Barometer, a research network where we serve as co-principal investigators, conducted a survey in Gaza and the West Bank days before the Israel-Hamas war broke out... Unlike Hamas, whose goal is to destroy the Israeli state, the majority of survey respondents favored a two-state solution with an independent Palestine and Israel existing side by side. https://archive.ph/9OXlT#selection-1827.0-1831.308 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/what-palestinians-really-think-hamas

Please share with us what huge swathes of energy production have been shut down by the Biden administration: U.S. crude oil exports reached a record high in first half of 2023 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=60622 U.S. exports of natural gas set a record high in the first half of 2023 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=60582#:~:text=The United States exported more,to our Natural Gas Monthly. And the rest of what you wrote is utterly irrelevant. It should be obvious that the change won't happen overnight.

Actually, a coalition of the PA and Hamas took power after the elections. Then Hamas violenty expelled the PA.

How about if the government makes iextremely difficult for Arab Israelis to acquire land to expand their villages? https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/iopt0308/4.htm#:~:text=According to Adalah%2C a human,land controlled by the state.&text=Bedouins' lack of access to,Israel's Palestinian Arab population generally.

Not an extremist? What Mike Johnson Has Said About Cutting Social Security During his tenure as chair of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) from 2019 to 2021, Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, vigorously championed budget resolutions proposing trillions in cuts to these programs.According to Bobby Kogan, senior director of Federal Budget Policy at American Progress, the proposed cuts were staggering; roughly $2 trillion from Medicare, $3 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and $750 billion from Social Security. At an American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research event before he was elected speaker, Johnson did not mince his words, saying that entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security pose an "existential threat" to the American way of life and the "whole form of government." https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnson-social-security-cuts-house-speaker-1838350

Mike Johnson Suddenly Has Amnesia About His History of Anti-LGBTQ Comments https://news.yahoo.com/mike-johnson-suddenly-amnesia-history-025007155.html Apparently Mike Johnson thinks dishonesty is compatible with his Christian faith. For 8 years he worked for the Alliance for Defending Freedeom, a self proclaimed Christian outfit that, among other things, opposed the decriminalization of homosexual acts.

I googled it and couldn't find that quote anywhere. Just misleading headlines from The Times and The Independent.

And yet more damning evidence. Speaker Johnson raises conservatives’ hopes for Biden impeachment “The mounting evidence … shows that Joseph Biden has engaged in bribery schemes, pay-to-play schemes,” Johnson said, noting that the Constitution says a president “shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors.” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/26/speaker-johnson-raises-conservatives-hopes-for-biden-impeachment-00123829#:~:text=“The mounting evidence …,or high crimes and misdemeanors.” When Comer's committee called witnesses in their impeachment inquiry, even those witnesses said their wasn't evidence to prove it. Extremist much?

Congratulations on volunteering to be part of a long-term study for people who don't get vaccinated. It's well known that viral infections can often result in severe even life-threatening conditions that emerged years later. No such connection has ever been found for a vaccine. Thank you for your service.

At least one of them has gone so far as to use the term "antifa supporters". A weirdly specific and irrelevant label.

It's quite aspirational.

It doesn't surprise me. But it might come as a surprise to some of the gung-ho members who are posting in this forum.

Before that, you posted this rhetorical question: "Is Sunak just another rich man that has no idea of what normal people's lives are like, but think they are qualified to tell them how they should?" So up until his embrace of Netanyahu, you supported him? Before that he wasn't "just another rich man etc..?"

Johnson is either massively dishonest or delusional: “Do you support the right of a woman who is just seconds away from birthing a healthy child to have an abortion?” he asked at a Judiciary Committee hearing." https://archive.ph/PxL1t When the witness replied that it doesn't happen. here's what Johnson claimed: “Never happened in your practice, ma’am,” Mr. Johnson fired back. “But it happens. https://archive.ph/PxL1t

Israel’s Army Is Ready to Invade Gaza. Its Divided Government May Not Be. In the 20 days since Hamas attacked, Israel’s Air Force has pounded Gaza and its troops have gotten into position. But its leaders disagree about what to do next. https://archive.ph/targH As the article goes on to note, the Israeli govt doesn't seem to have a clear plan about what it's going to do in the event that it does triumph on the battlefield

Who has used 'terms like "far right extremist" for anyone who is even slightly right of centre (or sometimes insufficiently left of centre) it makes the accusation meaningless.' The conversation here isn't about "anyone it's about Mike Johnson. Once again, you fail to offer any specific evidence to support your case.

I've looked in vain in this thread for anyone who labelled Johnson a Jesus Freak. Making things up much? But he certainly invites criticism of the version of Christianity he subscribes given that the extreme right wing organization he worked for claims pursues it's political goals in the name of Christianity.

This is particularly comical coming from someone who regularly accuses those whose opinions he disagrees with of being antifa supporters. Without a shred of evidence to support that ridiculous claim. And you offer zero evidence to support your claim that he's merely a conservative. Yes. He's a conservative. An extreme conservative. As has already been cited he supported the lunatic belief that Dominion voting machines were suspect because they came from Hugo Chavez' Venezuela. "After the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law making gay sex a crime and erased sodomy laws in a dozen other states, Johnson called the landmark 2003 decision, in Lawrence v. Texas, a “devastating blow to fundamental American values and millennia of moral teaching.” "A year later, he described same-sex marriage as a threat to democracy. Weighing in on a proposed amendment to Louisiana’s constitution defining marriage as “the union of one man and one woman,” he argued that any other interpretation would “de-emphasize the importance of traditional marriage to society, weaken it, and place our entire democratic system in jeopardy by eroding its foundation.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/26/mike-johnson-house-speaker-lgbtq-religion/

That you don't cite any facts about his political positions but simply engage in empty accusations against people who call him an extremist undercuts any value there might be to your comments.

There goes the crucial New Zealand vote.

As part of that, he also bought into the lies about Dominion voting machines: "Johnson then ran through a litany of allegations of election law changes in key states that he said were unconstitutional — and then he lent credence to a discredited claim of election fraud: “The allegation about these voting machines, some of them being rigged with the software by Dominion — look, there’s a lot of merit to that.” In the same interview, Johnson — who as speaker will be privy to the nation’s most sensitive intelligence secrets — returned to the Dominion matter. He embraced the false description of Dominion machines as “a software system that is used all around the country that is suspect because it came from Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/mike-johnson-trump-election-gambit-00123611 He's also an extremist on abortion and gay rights.

One big problem with this study that you failed to mention. It's an observational study. Participants weren't randomly assigned to different groups. This was not a clinical trial. Clinical trials show that the vaccines were effective. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/06/scicheck-cleveland-clinic-study-did-not-show-vaccines-increase-covid-19-risk/

Really? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8848203/ And a third vaccinations greatly lowers the risk of hospitalization: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/19/1071809356/covid-booster-omicron-efficacy

The US economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years in the third quarter as higher wages from a tight labor market helped to power consumer spending, again defying dire warnings of a recession that have lingered since 2022. Gross domestic product increased at a 4.9% annualised rate last quarter, the fastest since the fourth quarter of 2021, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said in its advance estimate of third-quarter GDP growth. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast GDP rising at a 4.3% rate. https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/world/story/us-economic-growth-accelerates-in-third-quarter-to-49-403416-2023-10-26