This is the best summary I could come up with:
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views — including on mass shootings.
The Louisiana Republican’s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, and in addition to opposing gun control legislation, the man who is now second in line for the presidency has blamed mass shootings on both teaching evolution and abortion.
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.”
He’s advocated for the return of prayer in public schools, derided the “so-called separation of church and state” on the House floor, and argued that the nation’s founders did not establish the separation to prevent religion from influencing government, but rather to impede the government from restricting the influence and free exercise of religion.
The new House Speaker is also a diehard Trump supporter who worked to overturn the 2020 election, and so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that he doesn’t view the United States as a democracy.
It’s not just majority rule, it’s a constitutional republic, and the founders set that up because they followed the biblical definition of what a civil society is supposed to look like.”
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American politicians blaming school shootings on anything other than easy access to guns (any%)
Can we just disolve as a nation already? Start an auction state by state to different countries?
Clearly we cannot manage the simple act of self governance. The experiment is over and we failed.
Honestly I’m here for a CA/OR/WA Western seaboard alliance. Hawaii can go back to being governed by natives but can ally with us.
3.6t + .3t + .73t = 4.63t using 2022 nom GDP
Which would make the Western Seaboard the #3 economy in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
I’m all for this too. The Western landlocked states would be screwed not having access to the Pacific ports as well.
I think some of the northeastern states could likely form a similarly powerful and cohesive country.
Alberta can join Montana and the Dakotas if they hate Canada so much.
Maybe BC could join the Western Seaboard, too.
It’ll probably never happen… but who knows? The relative stability of countries and international borders is a recent phenomenon.
Hell no. Give it back to the rightful owners. Most of the east coast goes back to Britain. The Netherlands can have New York and Pensylvania back. There probably something for Germany as well, I’m don’t know the exact histories of all states. The French and the spanish can divide the south. California can become a free nation, because it can support itself.
Your second and third sentences directly contradict each other so badly, I am shocked they do not destroy one another via touch akin to anti matter and matter touching one another
The experiment “self-government for the colonies” has been declared a failure. We’re coming back!
“Christian nationalist”…So no surprise.
Oh fun already huh.
