Of course not. You elbowed him into the upper back, not the Kidneys, while you were moving at a walking pace, not at a run.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:59 pm
"I guess our shoulders hit. I did not run and hit the guy. I did not kidney punch him."
SHREVEPORT, La. — Mike Johnson was an eager young lawyer, four years out of law school, when he stayed up until 5 a.m. one night poring over the details of a controversy roiling his hometown: the opening of a new strip club.
By the morning, he was so worked up about the issue, he said, that he appeared later that day at a Shreveport City Council meeting to implore city leaders to block the Deja Vu club from moving in downtown.
“I have done an exhaustive legal research on this matter, probably more than anyone,” he told municipal lawmakers in April 2002, according to minutes of the meeting. He argued that the arrival of another “sexually oriented business,” or “SOB” as he called it, would spread sexually transmitted diseases and other social ills.
Johnson’s pitch failed, and the club opened early the following year. But the dispute over Deja Vu proved to be a turning point for him. It marked the end of his short-lived career as a general practice lawyer and the beginning of his single-minded focus on the culture wars. The shift put him on the path to elected office, first in the Louisiana legislature and then in Congress, and ultimately last month to the House speakership.
The fight over the Deja Vu club also reveals deeper transformations in Johnson’s hometown that enhanced the power of religious conservatives and propelled his political career. Shreveport is Louisiana’s third-largest city and anchors the state’s 4th Congressional District, which covers the northwest quadrant of the state. Once solidly Democratic, the district began to change as industry contracted or left Shreveport in the 1980s. The downsizing of an AT&T plant left deep scars.
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Brian Allen @allenanalysis wrote: Roy: Just one thing – I'm asking my Republican peers for a single achievement. Just one item that I can use to campaign, something to show what we've accomplished.
If anyone in the complex is listening, feel free to join me here on the floor and enlighten me about one substantial, impactful act accomplished by the Republican majority.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) got heated on the House floor on Wednesday afternoon, tearing into his Republican colleagues and GOP leadership over their approach to funding and policy battles — and grilling them for not being willing to force a shutdown in order to try to coerce Democrats into giving them policy concessions.
In a fiery, nearly one-hour floor speech, Roy argued that Republicans were doing a disservice to those honored with monuments in Washington, D.C. and who died for U.S. freedoms.
“We’re pissing it all away. We’re giving it away. All that they fought for, all of those freedoms, we are giving it away. Why? Because we’re too cowardly to stand up and do our job,” Roy said, shouting on the House floor. “‘Oh, no, a shutdown.’ Are you freaking kidding me? ‘Oh, we can’t have a shutdown heading into Thanksgiving, what will they say or do?’ How about we stand up and fight?”
Roy’s speech came after he and more than a dozen of the hardline conservative colleagues tanked a procedural vote on a funding bill in part over objections about it not including conservative policies they wanted, and partly in retaliation for the House GOP leadership pushing through a “clean” funding extension on Wednesday with the help of Democrats.
Acyn @Acyn wrote: Casten: Next week, Americans will gather around their dinner tables and share what they're thankful for. I hope my Republican colleagues will reflect on how lucky you are to work with us House Democrats…
Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., weeks before becoming the new House speaker, during a prayer call hosted by a Christian-nationalist pastor called American culture "dark and depraved", according to new Rolling Stone reporting. Rep. Johnson said the country deserved God's wrath. The Morning Joe panel considers Rep. Johnson's remarks and what makes them so extreme.
Americans are learning a lot about Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., since his fellow Republicans named him speaker Oct. 25. But a viral rumor about Johnson and former adult film star Stormy Daniels is not credible.
"BREAKING FOX NEWS: Stormy Daniels admits to having a business relationship with Speaker Mike Johnson," said the Nov. 11 X post that got more than 1 million views and included side-by-side headshots of Johnson and Daniels.
Screenshots of the post quickly spread across Facebook, X, and TikTok with no sign they were posing as anything other than actual news.
But the post is not news — neither "breaking" nor "developing." It was created as satire. The X account that first posted the claim, @PatMaguire10, describes itself as an "unfiltered parody account." Other social media users saw the post and reshared it without that disclaimer.
Yeah, Johnson is too icky for her.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 1:47 pm Well! Am I a worse person for wishing it were true? I really like Stormy,though, and want it to be false for her sake.
I'm gobsmacked by how many times I've told my sister that - and she just continues to do it.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:34 am I'm gobsmacked by how many people share stuff without thought.
A young relative of mine started getting roped in on a lot of the surface Q stuff because as a former pre-teen and teenaged victim of grooming and sexual abuse first by friends of her stepbrother and then by a local neighborhood creep who was my age, she's very aggressive in fighting for child victims of violent or sexual abuse. It's gotten worse since she herself became a mom in her late 20s, a year and a half ago, after years of miscarriages. I had to explain to her that one can fight for children without being gullible and pulled on the one heartstring that registered past the Q-nonsense -- her adoration of my late mother, a professional child abuse investigator who had passed away after the pre-teen abuse but before the neighborhood creeper came along. She considered my Mom an extra grandmother and still invokes her name at family gatherings with a toast or a memory. I told her "Here's the links to all the agencies still out there that my mom worked with; try going to them first when you see a story or an allegation and poke around there to see what the professionals and the verified real community members working with them say." The only other supportive adult who has stayed with her through all her own troubles since her victimization -- the former ADA who put the neighborhood creeper in jail and has stayed in touch with my family since -- echoed my message. She took that as the way to find common ground rather than a shutting down of her valid fears, and has gotten a little more discerning.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:34 am I'm gobsmacked by how many people share stuff without thought.
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/mike-j ... nage-girlsMike Johnson Admits His High School Crew Would Have Lied About Their Gender to Perv on Teenage Girls
Johnson claimed his high school friend group would have faked trans status to presumably watch high school girls shower and undress
During a radio interview on KEEL News in 2016, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke against school accommodations for trans students, arguing that his high school "crew" would have used the accommodations to falsely claim to be trans in order to spy on high school girls in their locker rooms:
Johnson is revealing that his high school crew would have falsely claimed trans status to spy on teenage girls undressing and showering in their locker rooms. In other words, Johnson is arguing that because the high school friend group he belonged to were a bunch of perverts that he believes would have been willing to lie in order get access to teenage girls showering, trans students shouldn't be offered accommodations."Gender identity, no one knows what that means, and even an effort to define it is going, it can cause more problems. So, yeah, look Robert, I went to Captain Shreve High School. I graduated in 1990. My crew, my boys, I mean look. I can tell you, They would've said, 'Hey, next Thursday is gender identity day, man. You know, we're going to self-identify as girls, and we're going to be in be in the other locker room.' It opens it up to high jinks and all sorts of problems."
So because he's a perv asshole . . . everyone is a perv asshole?raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:56 pmhttps://www.meidastouch.com/news/mike-j ... nage-girlsMike Johnson Admits His High School Crew Would Have Lied About Their Gender to Perv on Teenage Girls
Johnson claimed his high school friend group would have faked trans status to presumably watch high school girls shower and undress
During a radio interview on KEEL News in 2016, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke against school accommodations for trans students, arguing that his high school "crew" would have used the accommodations to falsely claim to be trans in order to spy on high school girls in their locker rooms:
Johnson is revealing that his high school crew would have falsely claimed trans status to spy on teenage girls undressing and showering in their locker rooms. In other words, Johnson is arguing that because the high school friend group he belonged to were a bunch of perverts that he believes would have been willing to lie in order get access to teenage girls showering, trans students shouldn't be offered accommodations."Gender identity, no one knows what that means, and even an effort to define it is going, it can cause more problems. So, yeah, look Robert, I went to Captain Shreve High School. I graduated in 1990. My crew, my boys, I mean look. I can tell you, They would've said, 'Hey, next Thursday is gender identity day, man. You know, we're going to self-identify as girls, and we're going to be in be in the other locker room.' It opens it up to high jinks and all sorts of problems."
Its relating to the scenario as envisioned by the rules that people are insisting on to please 0.0000000002% of people - that people can chose to change their gender at will. So I could declare I am a woman for 15 minutes to go in and gawp at women in various states of undress.
