Mike Johnson's campaign contributions from company tied to Russia
newsweek.com
A group of Russian nationals were able to donate to newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson's campaign in 2018 by funneling the money through a U.S. company.
The Texas-based American Ethane company previously donated tens of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of Louisiana Republicans including Johnson, who was voted by the House to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker on Wednesday following three weeks of GOP chaos in the lower chamber.
While American Ethane was run in 2018 by American John Houghtaling, 88 percent of the firm was owned by three Russian nationals—Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev, and Andrey Kunatbaev.
So, turns out russia is trying to bring down the U.S. from the inside? Isn't this what the intelligence community has been saying for years now, and somehow we keep letting it happen.
Republicans are actively and knowingly working toward russia’s goal. The traitor swine.
It's ok now that Russia is run by oligarchs - oligarchs don't really have nationality in the sense of us peons. It was only that crazy, communist USSR they didn't like. Seriously: name me a significant Russian policy that doesn't 100% align with US conservatives.
Almost like the post-Soviet Russian government was heavily influenced by Ronald Reagan's administration. Of course conservatives love Russia now, it's fully realized Reagan's dream.
Gun control
The NRA was nearly shut down because it was funneling so much money from the Russian right to bear arms group that it didn'tknow what to spend it on - so the leadership spent it on luxury stuff.
Almost like they know how to destabilize a country
Part of me thinks, "Yeah, the American Fascist Party rushed Johnson into the Speaker's office so that the press wouldn't be able to assemble all this information in time for anyone to protest."
Another part of me thinks, "So much of this stuff being reported now happened a long time ago. Why didn't we already know?"
The frontrunner for the republican president is well known to have had ties and been compromised long before 2016 (remember the pee-pee- tape?). And plenty of republicans straight up flew to russia for july 4th a few years back.
Nobody cares. Their base will still vote for them and the rest of us are waiting for the end.
That's because Democrats don't know how to do rhetoric. Remember how we don't actually have a federal budget for the next fiscal year? If this were due to democratic infighting, republicans would be on air every day talking about how "they can't even manage their own party, they shouldn't be trusted with managing our government".
A competent democratic party should be talking about how we went over the cliff on the antarctic ice shelf melting because republicans don't believe in climate change, they should be talking about how republicans are prepared to abandon democracy, they should be talking about the incompetence of the republican party.
Nobody with a modicum of intelligence blames the Democrats for the impending shutdown.
It is just that people have largely made their mind up over that and there is the expectation of "a brief shutdown" because of how dysfunctional the government is.
In the likely event this continues? Then we will probably see that become a strong part of messaging. But even that only directly impacts a comparatively small part of the voting populace. Most people will instead blame "park rangers" for shutting down national parks and "lazy TSA" for the inevitable shitshow of airports. And continue to blame the USPS for everything else. Rather than realize there is one big connection between all those.
Well that's the thing, rhetoric isn't for the people that agree with you, it's for the people that don't. Conservatives aren't completely hopeless, but their fear and anger are being weaponized to ignore fascist movements in their party while actively having their class consciousness suppressed. Deprogramming them will require a constant reminder about the failures of their party to actually improve their life through policy.
Except Republicans and their voting base
Nobody with a modicum of intelligence
Touché
There are also the low-info that might not be exactly stupid, but are so tuned out/busy that they fall for the "both sides" bullshit and take the "a pox on both their houses" route.
I suspect, with zero evidence, that the press was more focused on covering the shit show that was the vacancy. To dive deep into all of the candidates was going to be a challenge, especially given that the candidates kept changing day to day.
So once the speaker was elected, the press could then coalesce around the one person.
The overarching shitshow (Shitshow Influenced Corrupt Organization, or SICO) serves to overwhelm the ability of the press to effectively cover everything. The effect of this is that while, yes, the press does cover some very important sub-shitshows, and those shitshows get blunted by public reaction, many more sub-shitshows go unnoticed and plow forward as shittily as intended.
We can thank the conservative/corporate media, oops, I mean the "liberal media".
Hell, they even published a book detailing their plans.
DOJ needs to step it up but Garland's a "centrist."
Because the people they report to are the people on the inside.
I'm thinking we start by torpedoing the oligarchs' yacts in international waters.
I could use a new boat. Where's me cutlass?
Yeah, but something something MUH FREEZED PEACH.
...or that's what the likes of Elmo and little d say.
So the problem is obviously American politics. But I think it's entirely possible for a politician to be influenced by Russians without being a Russian plant. I think there's a level of insulation between the politician and their "donors." If there's any kind of overt link, that's bad. But if he can say hey, I just cash the checks, he isn't technically doing anything wrong. Legally. Ethically? Piece of shit. But we're talking American politics.
FUCK THIS GUY AND FUCK THE GOP
Mike Johnson is...
(not mine, but worth sharing and adding to)
"defending religious freedom,[...]and biblicial values."
I am a Christian [agnostic]. Bruv that shit is not how anything work
Christian agnostic? That sounds like an oxymoron, how does that work? (actual question, not being an asshole)
Basically, the belief that there's a lot you can't be sure of, but you choose to believe in the core of Chrisitianity: God and Jesus as extant and important entities, to put it a bit clinically.
Christian agnosticism Wikipedia
Gnosis and Theism aren't mutually exclusive. Gnosis is knowing and theism is believing. Most people who claim to be atheist are "agnostic atheist".
Because they don't believe in any gods but they can't fully know for a fact there isn't one. Though Richard Dawkins flirted with declaring himself a "gnostic atheist" many years back (not sure if he settled on it).
An agnostic Christian would probs be someone who chooses to believe in God and Jesus but not to know for certain. Within that there's varying degrees of how much they choose to follow the teachings.
Of course.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Russia Russia Russia.
Every traito’R’ is funded by the same bunch of bad guys.
Maria Butina. Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
A long time.
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Catholic here, during my confirmation we had to stay a weekend at a monastery to learn about God. One day a priest is talking about a priest who saw Jesus appear before him telling him that he should kiss the feet he walked on and pray to him as he was the son of God, when the priest heard this, he responded with "Jesus never asked to be glorified as a God, and instead wanted to be our servant, you are not him", he threw holy water at Jesus who immediately caught on fire and revealed himself as Satan just before disappearing. The lesson is that is someone tells you that to follow the footsteps of God, you must cause pain to others and do evil deeds, then that person does not represent God but instead represents the Devil and you should cast him aside.
Exactly, we should cast the bible aside.
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You mentioned the Holocaust, which is the most egregious recent example. I’ve yet to get a satisfactory answer to where the good Christian Germans were during that?
Where were they during the Crusades? Where were they during the Inquisition?
Where are they now?
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God is Dead.
Appropriate.
Very based, but according to this the GOP represents the devil, and Christians sure aren't throwing them aside.
The atheists are unironically better Christians than the Christians are.
And the members of the satanic temple
Breathe bro, it's gonna be ok.
Someone fetch my fainting couch.
Oh Lindsey you're so dramatic.
This is what happens when you let money into politics, eventually whole countries can purchase politicians/political parties to do their bidding.
Then it doesn't even matter if the president is born overseas, if he can be bought with overseas funds.
He’s a fucking traitor, like nearly every single republican.
And they cheap to buy!
Every headline about him just gets worse and worse. Just when you think the last Republican Speaker was bad, they somehow manage to outdo themselves with another, even worse shitbag.
Who's shocked? Anyone? No?
Cool. Moving on then.
Of course they are. He's the same as the rest of the #TraitorGOP.
We must stomp them out.
Not even a little surprised.
The Russian MAGA coalition must have someone in charge that's accountable to Putin.
MAGA by starting to execute traitors again
I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you! Well, not that shocked...
Slightly off topic, but I've been wondering: Is the "a single member of the House can call a vote to remove the Speaker" rule still in effect, or did things go back to default after McCarthy's removal?
Since I haven't heard anything to the contrary, I assume the single-member requirement is still in place.
That single member requirement is actually the "default", historically. Pelosi had it changed when she became Speaker (with a similarly slim margin) so that you needed a majority from either party to make the motion. McCarthy simply changed it back.
Thanks, I didn't know about that!
What could we say about the massive unilateral view of our politics and media about Israel?
Here you come with that shy, fishy donation to a nobody politician while our government give blank checks, weapon and approval to that racist entity in the middle east.
What could we say about the impeding calamity that will be climate change in the next decade?
Here you come with a tiny little conflict that only effects millions of people when there are billions of lives under threat.
Talk about your priorities!
so people living now (rather dying now) is less important to you than this. Why not, We could totally just stop Israel to go wild, and move on the so called priorities. Or we could stop support Israel and even palestinians (they get nothing anyway), and focus on climate emergency.
By the way, this Israeli offensives has also incredible ecological cost, if you are just interested by this metric so if you don't care about "arabs" (should I dare call them human?), why not just show your outrage about this..
Spoken like someone who thinks Covid-19 is over. Millions of vulnerable and elderly people have had to totally adjust their lifestyle because people like you found wearing a mask and distancing too difficult.
you lost me after your covid couplet... have a nice day.
Take the L and go
It's why putin/trump installed him.
Here we go again
Huh.