Just to emphasize: Mike Johnson is an antivaxxer, an anti-abortion forced bither, he believes the job of poor women is to give birth to an infinite supply of low wage jobseekers, he is a climate change denier, he wants to cut Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid, and he’s a “Trump won!” Republican. And House Republicans just unanimously voted for him as Speaker of the House.
Please take note: there are no “moderates” in the Republican Party.
Ayana - hopelessly crushing on Bart
Mike - Hopelessly crushing on Carol
Carol - Wondering what sorts of feelings she should have about Cissie
Cissie - Wondering why Carol is lookin' at her like that
Bart and Preston - exchanging fucking rings for this dance and it's very gay looking
Wade - being the aroace rep out of all of this and just having a blast playing Zelda and ignoring all this damn teenage nonsense.
essentially a living corpse/immortal, fucked up skin, shitty childhood, has/had a revenge mission, extremely traumatized, mentally unstable, loves watching tv, not american but lives in america
i think they’d get along. wade would be SO sad when he finds out michael can’t eat food. michael could actually talk to wade about everything he’s seen without being called crazy, and wade would definitely offer to hunt down william for him. also they’d bond over being Bad Skin buddies (they would actually have a lot of deep conversations about how they view themselves as monsters and can’t get close to people tho)
Do you need more proof that Republicans are becoming even more homophobic by the week?
Whenever you hear somebody thinking of sitting out the election or ruminating about wasting a vote on some automatic loser third party, remind them of the insidious evil which the Republican Party has become.
MAGA Mike Johnson is now the highest ranking Republican in the US. He received every single vote of GOP House members, including the alleged moderates, to become House Speaker.
15 Not-Fun Facts About Speaker Mike Johnson
1. He masterminded Trump’s election coup.
2. He's the least-experienced House Speaker in 140 years.
3. He worked for the conservative legal group behind the case that ended Roe v. Wade.
4. He wants to ban abortion nationwide.
5. He blamed abortion for school shootings.
6. He also blamed abortion for Social Security and Medicare cuts.
7. He blamed mass shootings on the teaching of evolution.
8. He fought to make taxpayers fund a Noah’s Ark theme park.
9. He fought to ban same-sex marriage in Louisiana.
10. He led an anti-gay campus movement.
11. He wrote a lot of homophobic op-eds.
12. He introduced a national version of Florida's "Don’t Say Gay" bill.
13. He was an advocate for "covenant marriage," which makes it harder to divorce.
14. He blamed post-Katrina looting on America turning away from God.
15. He doesn't believe in the separation of church and state.
^^^ click the link to New York Magazine just above the list for details.
The 2024 election pits the 17th century against the 21st century. Republicans don't accept any of that newfangled thinking from The Enlightenment.
When the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion smugly declared that “nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Alito mocked the dissent’s concern that getting rid of abortion would ultimately imperil things like access to contraception, saying the dissent was “designed to stoke unfounded fear that our decision will imperil those other rights.”
But as anti-choice politicians and activists are now deploying Dobbs to try to roll back decades of law about bodily autonomy, it’s clear the dissent’s fears were quite well-founded.
Conservatives are not going to stop at unwinding the constitutional right to privacy, which underpins things like the right to obtain birth control and the right of same-sex couples to marry. After they destroy the agency of half the population by imposing so-called “fetal personhood” laws, they’re coming for the modern welfare state.
The blueprint
Over at the hard-right Washington Examiner, Conn Carroll, a former comms person for both the Heritage Foundation and Utah Sen. Mike Lee, has a lengthy list of laws he’d like to get rid of — everything from Medicaid, to Head Start, to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Those laws, he argues, “penalize marriage and encourage alternative family formation.” Carroll’s goals therefore dovetail not only with forced-birth conservatives but also with forced-marriage conservatives.