In his remarks, not only does Johnson claim Roe “gave constitutional cover to the elective killing of unborn children,” but he rails against the imagined economic detriments of abortion, pushing his caucus’ outlandish claim that by depleting a hypothetical workforce, abortion has defunded social security: “Think about the implications of that on the economy. We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of social security and Medicare and Medicaid and all the rest,” Johnson says. “If we had all those able-bodied workers in the economy we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this… Roe was a terrible corruption.” Mind you, social security and health care have been gutted in the last several years by Republican lawmakers, not people who choose to end a pregnancy.

  • @djsoren19
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    11 year ago

    Russia approved is why they voted for him, unless you think all those mysterious “campaign contributions” from a law firm run by three Russian nationals the night before the vote are just a coincidence.

    • @orbitz@lemmy.ca
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      11 year ago

      Also pretty sure I saw a headline that Russia is pleased with the new speaker (think it was from a ‘news’ source there). Though Russia is the number one shit disturber so who knows, they’d say whatever causes more chaos in the nations they’re against. The new speaker seems like their kinda guy though.

    • TigrisMorte
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      11 year ago

      The Mouth of Pootie gave his blessing which showed that Pootie approved.