New House Speaker Mike Johnson showcases the incel-ization of the modern GOP

The Louisiana congressman's career has been centered around his bitter obsession with other people's sex lives

I...uh...yeah. Sure.

Ahead of his sudden ascension to House speaker late last week, the media had little time to vet Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., thoroughly.

I'd say it's not their job, but it sort of is. That said, I wish it was applied equally. They don't see it as their job to "vet" Democrats...or Republicans for that matter. They see it as their job to smear and destroy specifically Republicans.

And because he sucks in so many ways...

Man, I can almost guarantee this person can write in ways that don't sound like a stupid highschooler, but this is what they're going for. It's intentional, as they're trying to appeal to the youth, or whatever. Pisses me off. Literally propaganda, heck, literally Soros-funded propaganda.

...it's been hard for his critics to settle on one of his many evil inclinations to focus on. He's a Christian nationalist. He's an election denier. He wants to destroy Medicare and Social Security. He's a fan of neo-Nazi conspiracy theories.

I hope this guy is as based as they think he is.

Oh, and the "neo-Nazi conspiracy theories?" He says Dems want to import illegals, and eventually let them vote. He doesn't even get into race at all, not that claiming they want to replace white people even makes you a Nazi, but he didn't even go there.

...has repeatedly flirted with what’s known as the “great replacement theory,” the idea that Democrats are scheming to supplant American voters with immigrants....“That’s why the border’s open.”

Yeah, that's not "the great replacement theory." That's a replacement theory. Is now just replacing any group with another a Nazi conspiracy?

The “open borders” trope is a lie, and while a few municipalities allow voting for noncitizens in local elections, in no sense do national Democrats have any such “plan” for “all the illegals.”

Hahaha. Yet. You wouldn't do it all at once. You import them, then let them vote.

Stefanik, like Johnson and other Republicans who make such claims, did not explicitly allege a plot to replace Whites with non-Whites. But those playing this game know exactly what they’re implying.

Yeah, fuck right off, dipshits.

As Brian Beutler of Off Message writes, "typecasting an opposition leader" may be tedious, but it's politically necessary.

Again...not your fucking job.

But so far, no single narrative about Johnson has emerged. Which of the many flavors of "right-wing radical" is best to focus on?

Because obviously he's a radical. Because if you're right of Mao, you're a radical.

Journalists and Democratic researchers have been carefully compiling a couple decades worth of quotes from Johnson...

If nothing else, I love how mask-off this piece is.

...who flat-out rejects the First Amendment prohibition against government-imposed religion. Instead, he falsely claims the Founders wished to impose his deeply fundamentalist faith on the public on the grounds that we "depend upon religious and moral virtue" to "prevent political corruption and the abuse of power."

Wrong, the Founders didn't wish to impose...they didn't see the need, and didn't see the future subversion coming. The second claim is absolutely correct, though, and something many Founders would agree with.

Johnson is lying, of course, as demonstrated by the fact that he helped lead the effort to steal an election for Donald Trump, which was a corrupt abuse of power on behalf of a man lacking all moral virtue. As usual with these right-wing freaks, the Jesus chatter is just a thin cover for the real fixation: Fury at other people for having all the sexy fun times.

Excellent argument. Johnson can't be a Christian, and is a liar because...Orange Man Bad!

Johnson warned that legalized same-sex marriage is "the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic." (If only it were that exciting! Most same-sex marriages, like most straight ones, are harbingers of binge-watching TV from a well-worn couch.) He's repeatedly described homosexuality with terms like "sinful," "destructive," "deviant," and "bizarre." He, like all these bigots, compared same-sex marriage to the right of "a person to marry his pet."

Yes, nothing has proceeded past gay marriage. I'm glad gays finally have the right to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own...what's this? It's everywhere, and you lose your job if you say anything about it? They're whating in public in front of children? They're showing what to kids? They're cutting what off?! What?!

Mike Johnson is a conspiracy theorist incel who just hates how much fun gays and women are having!

No, he has not backed off these positions. When asked on Fox News about it this week, he said, "Go pick up a Bible." In truth, the Bible is not nearly as interested in policing people's sex lives as Johnson is. (Not that it should matter, since this is not a theocracy.) This level of outrage about the acrobatic sex lives he imagines other people have draws more on the incel-style fantasy than anything in scripture.

This guy is awesome, if for no other reason than he gets people like this obnoxious writer absolutely seething.

In true incel fashion, Johnson is haunted by all the erotic adventures he imagines the straight ladies of America are having when he's not in the room. When New York's Irin Carmon interviewed him in 2015,** he blamed legal abortion for school shootings**, saying, "When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.” Nor was that a one-off. In 2016, he gave a speech in which he blamed feminism, liberal divorce laws, and the "sexual revolution" for mass shootings.

Yes, if you have a problem with the killing of babies, you're obviously just jealous that women won't sleep with you. He probably wants to date AOC too!

As I said, I hope this dude is as based as the retards act like he is.