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.
We really need to start charging elected representatives with perjury when they blatantly violate the oath of office like this.
Violating the oath of office is a seperate crime, carrying stiffer penalties than perjury.
The Dems would never have the guts to enforce it no matter what, though, and the SCOTUS has a Christofascist majority itself.
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 🤷
