Meet Mike Johnson, Republicans’ new House speaker.

Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.

Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.

  • @thesprongler
    25•8 months ago

    I give him 26 Emmers before he drops out.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•8 months ago

      I’m pessimistic on this. Johnson isn’t going to be removed from the Speakership, when Johnson is sucking on Trump’s dick.

      I hope that the Democrats hit every swing district saying that their Republican member voted for this shit bag and they lacked “patriotism” to stand up to Trump.

      • chingadera
        4•8 months ago

        Are you saying this fella could very well open a multi-billion dollar conglomerate and operate under the name Johnson in Johnson?

      • @[email protected]English
        0•8 months ago

        when Johnson is sucking on Trump’s dick

        idk, sounds a little too overtly gay for Republicans

        • @[email protected]English
          2•8 months ago

          I’m pretty sure that they will find some way to hand wave it away. I mean Republicans are great at being hypocrites.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•8 months ago

            Constantly… paging Lauren Hoebert to the white courtesy phone, paging Hoebert to the white courtesy phone…

    • @Stovetop
      6•8 months ago

      There’s sadly no dropping out, the deal is sealed and this guy is the next speaker. He can resign the post, but I don’t think he intends to.