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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

Once again when you've got nothing you try to make it personal instead of offering a rebuttal of what was actually posted.

Really? Now you've outdone yourself in ridiculousness. Here's Chomper Higgots comment on your reply to Ruamrudy You going to claim he also believed that he was replying to you? Or Ruamrudy's comment on your reply to Tom H? You've got less than nothing.

And the thing is, Thomas knew it was improper since he told friends he had purchased the vehicle through is savings. “He told me he saved up all his money to buy it,” said Armstrong Williams, a longtime friend who worked closely with Justice Thomas in the Reagan administration. https://archive.ph/qBxHY

What's really ugly is Christian nationalism. The claim that the constitution is a basically a Judeo Christian document. and what it ordains should not contradict Christianity as understood by Evangelical fundamentalists and right wing Catholics. The kind of thing that Johnson supports. To be opposed to Christian nationalism and the disrepute it brings the church into, is not Christianophobia.

More empty insults.

I got some news for you, this is a public forum. If you don't want to have other comment on what you post, that's what the messaging function is for. But thanks for the irrelevant comment. And claiming that I haven't read the post properly and accusing me of schoolboy errors, without offering any reasoning to back that up, is the last resort of someone who refuses to acknowledge his error and instead posts insults. You've got nothing.

I think that the so-called moderate Republicans are going to be really sorry that they voted for Johnson. Their support of him should be a potent issue in the next election.

No, I don't agree. There may be a reason, as was pointed out in the article.

Whatever the merits of my comment may be, at least it wasn't a cliché.

Not only was he a leader of the Trump teams self-evidently ludicrous attempt to overturn the election, but he also is an anti-abortion extremist. He supports a nationwide abortion ban. Before entering politics he worked for the Alliance Defending Freedom. "One of ADF's goals is for Christianity to be incorporated into the US legal system, based on the organization leaders' interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. According to materials for its donors, ADF seeks to spread a belief in "the framers' original intent for the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights as it reflects God's natural law and God's higher law."[7].. In 2003, ADF unsuccessfully called for the recriminalization of homosexual acts in the U.S. (prior to 1962, sodomy had been a felony in every U.S. state), filing a Supreme Court brief supporting Texas' sodomy law in the landmark Lawrence v. Texas case which declared sodomy laws unconstitutional; it opposed laws that would protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; and it falsely linked homosexuality to pedophilia.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom

No contributor to this post except you suffered from the mistaken belief that this had anything to do with the fact that the priest was engaged in gay sex or any kind of sex.

It was a joke based on thaibeachlovers' double standards in the respective cases of Israel and Russia.

Utterly irrelevant to your first quote pointing out that gay sex is not a crime in Poland. It had nothing to do with the issue of due process. Only when your misunderstanding was pointed out, did you pivot to that issue.

What in your quote backs up that statement? You did not mention anything about due process. Rather you pointed out that the homosexual acts took place in Poland not Palestine. In other words, that gay sex is not a crime in Poland.

Cheer up. It looks like he supports Russia, too. What will new Speaker Johnson do about Ukraine-Israel aid? "In the weeks following Russia's invasion, Johnson supported “debilitating sanctions” on Moscow and posted on X that “America stands with Ukraine.” However, by May 2022, Johnson was one of only 57 members to vote against the first tranche of $40 billion in supplemental aid to Ukraine" https://responsiblestatecraft.org/mike-johnson-speaker-ukraine-israel/#:~:text=In the weeks following Russia's,in supplemental aid to Ukraine.

Please. You started out by asking this: "For gay sex? It's Poland, not Palestine." Then when your misunderstanding was exposed, you pivoted to the issue of due process.

From the article: "In 2020, Johnson emerged as a key player in Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election. Johnson, then the vice chair of the House GOP conference, led an amicus brief backing a Texas lawsuit that sought to reverse the outcomes of the vote in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin." Is the US Supreme court composed of "extremist Antifa types"? It summarily tossed out that ridiculous lawsuit. U.S. Supreme Court throws out Texas lawsuit contesting 2020 election results in four battleground states The lawsuit challenged election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. The high court said Texas did not have standing to bring the case. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/11/texas-lawsuit-supreme-court-election-results

First you claim that Labour's alleged anti-Semitism will cost it an election and now you're tying it to their popularity. Give it a rest.