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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1711 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
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      411 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]
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      011 months ago

      when Johnson is sucking on Trump’s dick

      idk, sounds a little too overtly gay for Republicans

      • @[email protected]
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        211 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]
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          211 months ago

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