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Tuesday, December 5th, 2023

Speaker Johnson wrote foreword for book filled with conspiracy theories and homophobic insults

Author:     Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck,
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     Fri December 1, 2023 | 10:51 AM EST
 Link: Speaker Johnson wrote foreword for book filled with conspiracy theories and homophobic insults
Stephan:  

We now have a man, Mike Johnson, who is Speaker of the House, and the second in line to become president should something happen to Biden who is an open homophobic White supremacy christofascist. That is how far down the road to fascism America has gone. It also tells anyone who understands anything about how our government is supposed to work — which is to say about half of adult Americans — that the Republican Party is explicitly a White supremacy christofascist political entity that has no interest in preserving democracy in the United States. I look at the polls daily, and the Great Schism Trend, and I am beginning to feel I am becoming part of a minority. Maybe the reality is that America is not going to survive as a unified democracy. It may be that there just aren’t enough voters in the country who want that to continue. What do you think?

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to media during a press conference with House Republican Leadership, at the US Capitol, in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, November 14. Credit: Graeme Sloan /Sipa USA / Reuters

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote the foreword and publicly promoted a 2022 book that spread baseless and discredited conspiracy theories and used derogatory homophobic insults.

Written by Scott McKay, a local Louisiana politics blogger, the book, “The Revivalist Manifesto,” gives credence to unfounded conspiracy theories often embraced by the far-right – including the “Pizzagate” hoax, which falsely claimed top Democratic officials were involved in a pedophile ring, among other conspiracies.

The book also propagates baseless and inaccurate claims, implying that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was subjected to blackmail and connected to the disgraced underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Other sections of the book defend podcaster Joe Rogan from racism charges after it was revealed he used the N-word, which Rogan later apologized for. The book also disparages poor voters as “unsophisticated and susceptible to government dependency” and easy […]

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1 Comment

  1. Terri Quint on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 9:42 am

    Too bad this wasn’t publicized before he was chosen as Speaker. I normally dismiss people who believe in this stuff as nutcases because they are. So we have a nutcase for a Speaker which explains a lot about his opinions and comments that are made. Hopefully, we only have to deal with him until next presidential election and then, hopefully, we’ll be rid of this person! Or maybe one of the MAGA people in the House will call for his dismissal! Wouldn’t that be wonderful!!!! Terri quint