House Speaker Mike Johnson has three flags hanging outside his office: the American flag, the Louisiana state flag, and a flag representing a movement that wants to turn the United States into a religious Christian nation.
Well, it might have something to do with the fact that Mike Johnson is a christian nationalist that wants to turn the United States into a christofascist state.
Now, now, let’s not go jumping to conclusions just because they happen to be based on facts and logic.
The answer is in the question.
I like that the Republican answer to losing elections is to double down on the religious crazy and ramp up the purity testing. All of that just makes it even easier to win elections against them.
Don’t celebrate too soon. Thanks to gerrymandering, voter suppression and an unpopular Dem president, they still have a chance to retain the house and maybe even retake the Senate no matter how batshit crazy they get.
I’m not saying it’s likely, I’m just saying that the risk is never zero and celebrating too soon increases that risk 🤷
Unfortunately, republicans will quite likely take the senate in the next cycle. With Manchin retiring, WV is essentially a republican lock. More broadly, Democrats are defending 20 seats to 11 for republicans, and the lowest hanging fruit for democratic pickups would be Rick Scott (FL) or Ted Cruz (TX), and as much as they both suck, that’s still going to be tough.
So, just to retain their slim margin, they’d have to defend all of their other seats and knock off one of those two.
Off-topic, but whenever I see someone mention Ted Cruz it reminds me of his website advertising his presidential campaign: https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/
It’s funny, you gotta check it out!
Why is it that the article is about this flag, but doesn’t have a picture of the flag. This is more upsetting than it should be.
It took some effort, but I found it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-kvkPJW4AADuT9?format=jpg&name=large
Yeah, probably whatever version of MS paint was available in 1775. It must have been even worse than modern version of paint.
Because he can’t get away with flying a confederate or nazi flag?
