Speaker Mike Johnson is a Fatuous Bastard ™
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is the latest winner of the Fatuous Bastard™ award. Johnson says he believes ‘instinctively’ or ‘intuitively’ that election fraud conspiracy theories are true.
Instinct tells ducks and geese to fly south for the winter. It tells the sturdy crackpot Johnson nothing about the counting of votes in California’s primary, the subject of his latest screed, where he said this:
Asked the obvious question about conspiracy theorists’ lack of evidence, the House speaker added, “Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream that it’s impossible to prove, but I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here.”
Johnson is the Speaker in the first place because of the role he played in the also faith-based Stop the Steal in 2020.
Remarkably, Mike Johnson is a lawyer. He was even going to be the dean of a ‘Christian’ law school in Shreveport, La., which would have undoubtedly taken faith-based lawyering to even greater heights. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, was involved in this clunker; the school died an ignominious death before it enrolled a single student. The students at Trump University should have been so lucky.
Imagine graduates of Johnson’s law school standing up in court and saying, ‘Your Honor, we know instinctively that the defendant is guilty: he’s Black,’ or ‘he’s a Muslim.’
You know, this is really the sort of argument made by Trump’s army of unsuccessful lawyers in the sixty-odd cases they lost in the Stop the Steal movement. It ought not to be any more believable coming out of Johnson’s mouth in remarks to the press.
Statements like Johnson’s made without knowing or caring whether they are true are the source of defamation cases for ‘actual malice.’
Remember, the Fatuous Bastard™ award aims to recognize and celebrate all the incels and other assorted misfits who were stuffed in lockers in high school and never got over it, the overweening, overcompensating pseudo-intellectual fools who mistake a thesaurus for a thought, the basement dwellers whose fingers are as orange as their hero, the . . . well, you get the idea.
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