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.

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      He doesn’t want more of those type of people. He wants the sort of person that has a name like “Mike Johnson.”

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    I love how they don’t realize these unaborted kids are likely going to be unwanted, unloved, impoverished, lack education…and instead of turning into “able bodies workers” they will turn into the criminals Republicans think lurk around every corner ready to shoot them

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      Thats exactly what they want.

      They need poor uneducated voters to stay in power.

      They need poor uneducated criminals to hate lest they focus on themselves and tear themselves apart.

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      Oh they are fully aware. More criminals means more prisoners, which means more money for the prison industrial complex and super cheap (basically slave) labor.

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      I don’t think they’re unaware of that at all. Until those kids become criminals, most of them will have to survive somehow. Given their presumed lack of education and prospects, that means meat to throw in the “entry level” grinder.

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      More “leeches on society” that they also pretend are the single source of all Americas budget problems

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        And also because the Republicans can project their views on those groups.

        “If the ‘unborn baby’ or dead soldier could talk, they’d say that we should absolutely overturn this election result and name Trump President again. After all, he will protect the unborn (unless they happen to reside in his mistress) and what did those soldiers die for if not President For Life Trump?!!!”

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      Well, if you think about it, in order to take over in a democracy, you have to break the democracy first. This is simply a necessary first step towards accomplishing the given goal. There would be no other method that might work here, since military coups are particularly difficult when we make our whole army swear an oath to defend a specific piece of paper from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

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    We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of social security and Medicare and Medicaid

    Yeah and a bunch of extra kids surely won’t increase costs of Medicaid.

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      This guy isn’t planning past his own lifetime. Those kids will be someone eases problem. He just wants to make sure that he gets every penny he is due and that means they need more wage slaves.

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    Newsflash: people aren’t having kids because the cost of living is too expensive and the elite are strangling poor families, not because of abortion rights.

    Sometimes I look at US politics and question how a country can be terminally stupid enough to elect Republicans…

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        there are a lot of stupid fucking morons that live in this country.

        They are trained to be that way.

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    i kinda get the feeling that this nutjob is payback for booting mccarthy and nixing jordan.