Mike Johnson’s meteoric elevation from an under-the-radar congressman from Louisiana to second-in-line to the U.S. presidency sent journalists, Democrats and Republicans alike to uncover information about the personal and professional history of the most right-wing and least experienced House Speaker in history, who took the top job on Wednesday.
On the day Johnson was voted in, several major right-wing social media accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, began circulating clips of an interview Johnson gave to PBS in 2020, in which he told journalist Walter Isaacson that the police killing of George Floyd was “an act of murder” and called for “systemic change.” Notably, Johnson said in the interview that he had learned about racism in America through the experience of raising a Black son, Michael.
Lol the secret exposed news that he’s actually not racist is a controversy, but there’s zero issues against his intense anti gay stance.
He’s third in line to the US presidency! As much as the media has and continues to undermine and undersell Kamala Harris, she would become president if something were to happen to Biden. I’m just tired of all these fucking “journalists” acting like Harris doesn’t exist or has no value.
They’ve kept minimizing her, exactly like this, and have the audacity also to ask “Where’s Harris? What has she done lately?” I’m not a huge fan of her and I think her track-record as a prosecutor in California is questionable at best, but this kind of undermining is infuriating. The media should be much better at this!
I’m from San Francisco and have watched and voted for Kamala Harris since her first race.
Here are some unfortunate truths: Kamala Harris is an absolute dogshit politician who has zero constituency, zero political strategy skills, zero retail politics skills, and seemingly zero ability to break out of the box she’s mostly gotten herself into.
Perhaps, and I’m not necessarily arguing about her track record before becoming the Vice President. My main issue here is that 1, she’s second in line, thankfully, not this raging misogynistic Christofascist, and 2, despite the limited duties of a Vice President in general, undermining her because of that is absolutely a rotten strategy.
he’s second in line, kamala is first in line… joe biden isn’t in line because he’s already the president.
Thank you, you’re right! I misinterpreted it. Edited my comment.
So his ‘black son’ was born in 1985 and is now 38.
Wait, what? This isn’t something to be criticized for. Having a black adopted son and learning the realities of racism in America and learning from it is a good thing. He should be criticized for all the other shit, but not this.
They aren’t complaining that he had a black son, but that he’s an “undercover Democrat” because he’s stated that he learned about racism from the kid, saying things like, “Michael being a Black American, and Jack being white Caucasian. They have different challenges,” he said. “My son Jack has an easier path. He just does.”
Further, there was a question as to if the kid was real since there are no photos. That led to the new clarification:
Speculation about whether Michael was a real person prompted Johnson’s office to clarify. “When Speaker Johnson first ran for Congress in 2016, he and his wife, Kelly, spoke to their son Michael—who they took in as newlyweds when Michael was 14 years old,” said Corinne Day, Johnson’s communications director, in a statement first reported by Newsweek. “At the time of the Speaker’s election to Congress, Michael was an adult with a family of his own. He asked not to be involved in their new public life.” Day added that Johnson “maintains a close relationship with Michael to this day.”
So if we are to believe him, there are no photos because that is the way the now-adult kid wants it.
So if we are to believe him, there are no photos because that is the way the now-adult kid wants it.
Let’s start a new conspiracy theory that he doesn’t actually have a Black son. It’ll go viral in a day. Space lasers!
He hasn’t legally adopted this “son” and he’s not shown in any family photos.
It’s not at all something to criticize, it’s noble to adopt a child. It’s his party base that will pillory him.
