Speaker nominee Mike Johnson's MAGA Logic: "Roe v. Wade toppled over the economy"

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: Speaker nominee Mike Johnson's MAGA Logic: "Roe v. Wade toppled over the economy" | Boing Boing

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[knoxblox]

Re: dead kids

Very few MAGA folks are making it a priority to eliminate guns are they?

[mmascari]

@Rep. Mike Johnson (M-LA)

If we had all those able-bodied workers in the economy, we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this.

So, he’s for immigration reform?

A near endless supply of people who create economic prosperity.

[euansmith]

Hmmm… Lebensborn, eh?

[theophrastus]

Of so many likely republican nadirs this guy is undoubtedly a real contender …for nadir. everything wrong with ‘gym’ jordan with a less sweaty contemplative demeanor; devil’s codpiece incorporated. -sigh-

[danimagoo]

If these people don’t lose hard next year, this guy will be considered a moderate Republican in 5 years. This is so fucking depressing.

[thomasta]

Not a surprising gop talking point…women are livestock whose primary purpose is breeding to create uneducated workers to be used, abused and crushed by capitalist overlords.
Do these fools not think through their arguments or send it to an editor before opening their mouths?

[MikeR]

I have to assume he is completely supportive of the right for women to have fully-funded childcare when they rejoin the workforce?

[generic_name]

@frauenfelder

We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of Social Security

Social Security isn’t “insolvent” the GOP raided it, they “borrowed” from it and never paid it back, and that’s our money – it came out of our paychecks, it wasn’t a tax it was a savings account they robbed.

[Brainspore]

It goes without saying that these are the same people who refuse to support paid parental leave and child welfare programs and early education and anything else that might help financially struggling families because “people shouldn’t have more children than they can afford.”

[gabe_oakes]

Given how many GOP policies go against their stated goals, to say nothing of what’s best for the country or even the wants and needs of their constituents, it’s safe to say that they often don’t think their words through. And when they actually do think things through, it’s because what they say they want isn’t actually what they want, and are fully aware of this disconnect.

[anon29537550]

It’s not about kids, workers, anything like that. It’s about controlling women, and most specifically, controlling their sexuality. Women are not human, they are a machine for creating more men, period. And fuck those assholes with a cactus.

[SloBlues]

“Well, when we finally overturn the socialist ObamaCare, and more people die who would have lived, we need to replace them somehow.” /s

[SloBlues]

The logical disconnect between “have more babies” and “people shouldn’t have more children than they can afford” is maddening. Until these “extra children” become “extra workers” they will be a burden on the dystopian society imagined by Republicans. Unless of course they successfully kill off public education and eliminate child labor laws. I’m fairly certain this is one of their wet dreams.

[gracchus]

@anon29537550

It’s about controlling women, and most specifically, controlling their sexuality.

Fascists do love their “three Ks” in all their forms.

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

[FuckThisTimeLine]

@frauenfelder

it was important to overturn Roe v. Wade because the United States is in desperate need for its womenfolk to bear children who will grow up to be “able-bodied workers” and make the economy healthy.

How about he start bearing children himself first because the “economy” is “sacred”? Also, he should paid for the kids expense until they reach 18 out of his own pocket. It only costs shy at about $240,000 for that 18 years before college. He needs to invest into the “future” to get that workforce that he is always yapping about. He can’t expect other people (the parents) to raise the kid then reaping the economic benefit. After all, it would be “socialism.” /S

The cost of raising a child is almost $240,000 — and that's before college

[douglas_stuart]

Pretty sure abortion had a positive effect on both the economy AND crime. But far be it for him to look at data.

We have plenty of currently unemployed already born people.

What they need is an education. Able brains, not able bodies.

But then again, if the goal is taking live babies to make dead soldiers (apologies to Geogre Carlin), able body, low brain is JUUUUUST the ticket.

[Otherbrother]

Ug. Voting is underway on the House floor right now, more than half over, and so far not a single Republican has voted for someone other than Johnson. So it looks likely that he’ll get it this time.

[danimagoo]

Yep. The majority of the party just decided to cede control of the House to MAGA.

[anon73430903]

@FuckThisTimeLine

Also, he should paid for the kids expense until they reach 18 out of his own pocket. It only costs shy at about $240,000 for that 18 years before college.

I remember seeing some ayn-cap nightmare somewhere which suggested that children should be presented with the debt that they owe their parents (or more likely the banks) when they reach the age of majority. I expect it to become mainstream Republican policy in the next few years.