House Republicans spent the last three weeks debasing themselves to find a new Speaker. They've chosen an election-denying anti-abortion extremist.

In his remarks, not only does Johnson claim Roe “gave constitutional cover to the elective killing of unborn children,” but he rails against the imagined economic detriments of abortion, pushing his caucus’ outlandish claim that by depleting a hypothetical workforce, abortion has defunded social security: “Think about the implications of that on the economy. We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of social security and Medicare and Medicaid and all the rest,” Johnson says. “If we had all those able-bodied workers in the economy we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this… Roe was a terrible corruption.” Mind you, social security and health care have been gutted in the last several years by Republican lawmakers, not people who choose to end a pregnancy.

  • ares35@kbin.social
    72·
    1 year ago

    i kinda get the feeling that this nutjob is payback for booting mccarthy and nixing jordan.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Payback for who? The people who wanted this nutjob are the same folks who booted McCarthy.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah the shift on McCarthy was when he interrogated a soldier and an army lawyer called him the fuck out “at long last have you no sense of decency?”

        Nixon was a bipartisan boot as well.

        That said yeah this is revenge for them. Not from republicans but from their right flank. The contingent that wanted McCarthy to be able to torment anyone to stop communists and homosexuals. The contingent that swore to never let something like watergate result in a presidential resignation. The contingent that looked at Goldwater and thought that he wasn’t quite bigoted enough. They had a kid with the moral majority and are hell bent on making everyone’s life hell

        • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          While there’s no question that the far right wants to stick it to pretty much everyone else, in this case I’m not talking about Senator Joseph McCarthy, but rather Representative (and briefly Speaker) Kevin McCarthy.

          If you’re going to look to the past for the source for our troubles, or at least for a major moment when we lost the chance to actually get the US to live up to the ideals we claim to represent, I think you’d need to look at Andrew Johnson as the shitbag who enabled the traitorous pre-fascist scum to remain in power in the country.

          The trouble started long before the US existed, but there was a moment, bought with tremendous amounts of blood and suffering, that could have led to actual freedom if Andrew Johnson had not become president.