• monotremata@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Fundamentally he doesn’t mean that he doesn’t know what happened. He means that he hasn’t received his talking points about this yet.

    He knows that there will be some way that the right-wing media ecosystem is going to frame this, and it’s very important that his framing match theirs exactly. Somewhere a think-tank is working on the perfect wording that will turn an innocent victim into, somehow, an evil communist traitor who was a threat to an ICE officer and also somehow to the very concept of America. And if he tried to give his own spin on it before that, it would only make their job more complicated.

    So yeah, he may know that an innocent man was shot, again. But he doesn’t yet know the important stuff: how to make him the villain. He just hasn’t had the time to get caught up on that! Give him a break.

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    “You guys can mock me for not knowing that. I worked about 22 hours in the last few days and I did not get the briefing on that. I will this morning,” he added.

    Not 22 hours in one day, but 22 hours in a few days. Which means at least 3 days, which means less than 8 hours a day. Mike Johnson’s concept of extreme hard work is less than the least demanding full-time job.

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      3 days ago

      He can condescend because he knows he can blatantly lie to the world and face no consequences for it. It is the arrogance of power.

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    So you worked for 22 hours yesterday and no one brought it up?? What exactly were you doing for 22 hours?

    I think we need him to start keeping a log of what he actually does, sounds like he is milking the clock in a broom closet.

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    “Follow up question, Mr. Speaker! Regarding that last half-a-dozen or so ICE agents that shot and killed people in various states of the union who didn’t have body cams. Does there need to be accountability? Surely you’ve heard about at least one of those killings by now?”

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      Something along the lines of: “I’ll need to look into the specifics of each of those before I can provide an answer“

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    3 days ago

    Please be more understanding, Mike Johnson was very busy monitoring his son’s porn activity. 😔

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    I had heard Johnson was dead along with Mitch and Lindsey.

    Do his eyes look different than normal? Its suspicious that he doesnt know a damned thing thats going on in the US. Isnt representing people his whole effing job? I question his legitimacy. As the real Mike Johnson. The real Mike Johnson was also a slimey douche but he at least seemed to understand what was going on day by day.

    Thats just a guy wearing glasses and a cheap suit. Look at the lady next to him. She doesnt beleive thats Mike Johnson either.