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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpeaker Johnson: Newsom should be 'tarred and feathered
House Speaker Mike Johnson would not weigh in on whether California Gov. Gavin Newsom should be arrested -- a suggestion made by President Donald Trump -- but said the governor should be "tarred and feathered."
"Look, that's not my lane. I'm not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered. Ill say that," Johnson said Tuesday at the weekly GOP news conference. "He's standing in the way of the administration and the carrying out of federal law, right? He is applauding the bad guys and standing in the way of the good guys."
(snip)
"President Trump has put his hand on the table and said, 'Not on my watch,' and we applaud that, so were standing with him," he said.
Newsom clapped back on social media, writing, "Good to know were skipping the arrest and going straight for the 1700s style forms of punishment. A fitting threat given the @GOP want to bring our country back to the 18th Century."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/la-immigration-protests-live-updates-trump-deploys-2000/?id=122621279
will this little weasel demand the rioters be pardoned like those of Jan 6th? He is beyond disgusing
sakabatou
(45,782 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,942 posts)It was a slow form of execution done with boiling tar usually causing slow painful death due to burns and then toxicity and infection. Tar is a form of crude oil not easily removed from skin so it literally partially cooked a person. It would be like falling into a natural boiling tar pit.
Even without the boiling, contact with crude oil or petroleum products in most forms is incredibly poisonous and toxins absorb quickly through the skin. The people who assisted in the Exxon Valdez oil spill were tracked over the years and many of them died early due to health complications - all who assisted in 1989 were dead by 2010.
There was also a case of a man in the Ukraine who willingly jumped into a reservoir of motor oil for a prank video and completely submerged. When he gets out his companions are trying to clean it off with a pressure washer and he's complaining he can't breathe and can't see and is burning. Followups are sketchy, but it's reported he died within 48 hours.
So I am sure our odious Speaker believes he's joking metaphorically, but the amount of apathy for the well-being of any perceived enemy is toxic and unconscionable - and for a person claiming to be as religious as he is, wishing specific harm on someone is complete blasphemy. Saying something like that out loud might give someone who is equally as ignorant the idea to actually try it. Politicians publicly wishing harm on individuals "should be tarred and feathered" is stochastic terrorism because it is de-facto permission at a high level for someone to actually carry it out.
EdmondDantes_
(1,393 posts)The initial order was for boiling tar, but that was during the Crusades. Tarring and feathering in the US sense was about humiliation not killing.
https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/12/5-myths-tarring-feathering/
The notion that hot tar caused severe, sometimes fatal burns is based on the assumption that tar meant the asphalt we use on roads, which is typically stored in liquid state at about 300°F (150°C). But in the eighteenth century tar meant pine tar, used for several purposes in building and maintaining ships. As any baseball fan knows, pine tar doesnt have to be very hot to be sticky. Shipyards did warm that tar to make it flow more easily, but pine tar starts to melt at about 140°F (60°C). Thats well above the ideal for bathwater, but far from the temperature of hot asphalt.
forgotmylogin
(7,942 posts)walkingman
(10,357 posts)chowder66
(11,861 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,506 posts)Hekate
(100,132 posts)God forbid California should assert its rights.
Grins
(9,246 posts)Basso8vb
(1,230 posts)We WILL take back control.
maxsolomon
(38,206 posts)Who got imprisoned for J6? Pawns.
Mike Johnson isn't going to prison for talking shit.
bdamomma
(69,176 posts)is not so "Christian like" with that comment. They are very in your face with comments aren't they? Such contempt for everyone who is not like them, who would want to be????
This time, no more being nice. All of them are going to prison. Including the officers who shot reporters at the LA protests.
hamsterjill
(17,059 posts)Judge not lest ye be judged...remember that prayer circle around Trump? Well God loves Gavin Newsom, too.
Midnight Writer
(25,150 posts)Maeve
(43,337 posts)Dulcinea
(9,683 posts)He's not backing down, & he has a good shot at being President one day & undoing all the damage they did.
BannonsLiver
(20,282 posts)Probably much to the dismay of the people who hate him on the left.
wolfie001
(7,109 posts)Do you hate trans people? Do you blame them? I think that message is seeping through just a tad. Maybe you don't. I hate Charlie Kirk, the nazi and racist. No reason to ever "sit down" with a repulsive sh7t flinger like that. I'd vote for Newson definitely if he were the candidate. We include ALL people that are progressives. That means moving forward. Raising all boats. I'd be more concerned with the idiots who sat out the election because of the conflict in the ME. tRUMP made that situation far worse. As usual.
* great username by the way
BannonsLiver
(20,282 posts)🙄
wolfie001
(7,109 posts)I mean
Anyways, it's in the past and I wish him well dealing with the bloated orange a-hole and his fascist regime.
angrychair
(11,709 posts)Makes him unpalatable in my opinion. I would never vote for him in the primaries in million years
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Everyone who is able needs to show up wherever they are.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)BeyondGeography
(40,818 posts)Fucking Republicans. What I wouldnt give to bring guys like Gil Scott-Heron and George Carlin back from the dead to hear their takes on this freak show.
milestogo
(22,602 posts)without a life preserver.
Or at least a stockade
Traildogbob
(12,561 posts)Locked in a Porta Jon on day three of a tractor pull, where spectators gorged and packed their colons with all you can eat chilly for free, in South Bama in July with 110 degree no climate change heat. Then roll the muther fucker down a hill end over end to get the goodies sores out evenly, then into a pig farm pond of sewage, with Lee Greenwood singing live, about God Blessin USA.
Pay per view of course.
milestogo
(22,602 posts)Traildogbob
(12,561 posts)His damn smirk as he lies like a wet rug, give me lots of thoughts. Self righteous fake prick that he is.
I would be banned if I said what I really feel.
C_U_L8R
(48,896 posts)I missed the 'rain down violence on your neighbor' part in Sunday school.
Ocelot II
(129,150 posts)by going out to the front lines of the LA protests right now and double-dog-daring them to arrest him.
ms liberty
(10,979 posts)haele
(15,092 posts)How dare Newsom imply self-proclaiming good, god-fearing Christians could be more criminal, more greedy, more hate filled than those libertine heathens in San Fransisco.
Praise Supply side Republican Jesus. Like Chtulu, his worshippers will be eaten last...
suegeo
(3,104 posts)Plus the governor is not applauding the bad guys (Cops) and standing in the way of the good guys (peaceful protesters).
Johnson is egging on MAGA to do harm to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Violent MAGAs, who are full of hate (see Jan. 6, where the not peaceful MAGA would have torn apart any law maker they could find. MAGA beat cops with sticks. Hand to hand combat.) Johnson is inciting domestic terrorists.
Present day I see:
Peaceful protesters getting beaten, flashed banged, reporters getting shot with rubber bullets, intentionally. etc. etc.
Good guys vs bad guys. The GOP speaker/holy roller does not know the difference.
kacekwl
(8,891 posts)no where near the spine to do anything to anyone because he is a giant slug.
Baitball Blogger
(51,744 posts)johnnyfins
(3,448 posts)Baitball Blogger
(51,744 posts)The truth is that their fates are tied together.
Easterncedar
(5,545 posts)walkingman
(10,357 posts)valleyrogue
(2,595 posts)hellbent on turning this country into a theocracy. He believes the swill peddled by the late Rousas J. Rushdoony and disciples like Doug Wilson who have turned Christianity inside out to promote fascism.
Johnson is just like them, and for that reason he is especially dangerous. He is the most powerful "reconstructionist" ever elected in this country. He needs to be sent packing back to Louisiana, or, rather, to the Idaho panhandle where he REALLY belongs.
Tarzanrock
(1,250 posts)to lick the Turd's ass.
Magoo48
(6,691 posts)Vinca
(53,368 posts)Saint Mike is one of the vilest members of the Idiot Caucus.
stillcool
(34,407 posts)Peacetrain
(24,279 posts)for inciting violence against someone..
just saying
SARose
(1,831 posts)Or as my Grandmama said dont judge other people because they sin differently from you.
Harker
(17,437 posts)not a gentle, humorous rebuke.
littlemissmartypants
(31,683 posts)Proclaim "law and order" while kissing up to a convicted felon.
Buddyzbuddy
(2,140 posts)You're an evil little twerp whose days are numbered.
wryter2000
(47,940 posts)Jesus was always calling for people to be tortured.
Butterflylady
(4,584 posts)3auld6phart
(1,670 posts)You freaky pedo low your brains out.
EnergizedLib
(2,928 posts)I'm happy to be an atheist.
Johonny
(25,506 posts)Looks like dad is watching men getting tarred and feathered in porn again. Time to call him and talk him down.
live love laugh
(16,204 posts)chouchou
(2,815 posts)Janbdwl72
(245 posts)Certainly his remarks mentioned in the OP will do nothing to change that,
Katinfl
(644 posts)WTF! If I was not living in the present, I would never believe what is going on. Unfortunately I will never live long enough to see how this is covered in the history books ..if it ever is. It may just be erased as history like so much else. It will all be white-washed.
Attilatheblond
(8,319 posts)If there is a just God, Johnson would be a smouldering chunk of carbon by now.
malthaussen
(18,412 posts)Playingmantis
(537 posts)Does it involve a red hot poker and his ass?
malthaussen
(18,412 posts)Mtnmama
(134 posts)"applauding the bad guys and standing in the way of the good guys" was EXACTLY what trump and his insurrectionist followers did with their Jan 6 attack. They ALWAYS want to project their illegal, heinous behavior on someone else, preferably Democrats. The only people they're fooling are diehard Magas
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(132,943 posts)The more that geeky mofo opens his mouth the more he shows his true colors.
spanone
(141,042 posts)Hey Mike, your fucking 'president' is breaking the law
Posse Comitatus Act
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law signed on June 18, 1878, by President Rutherford B. Hayes that limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.
still-prayin4rain
(525 posts)KentuckyWoman
(7,374 posts)What happened to Christopher Walken's character in "The Rundown".
IcyPeas
(24,878 posts)Disgusting!
Didn't trump just ask a court if he could legalize torture?
BattleRow
(2,090 posts)Kkk possibly gone,but definitely not forgotten .
zorbasd
(514 posts)his porn habits are according to his app
Hey Joe
(416 posts)Have any of these evangelical christian proclaimers ever even cracked open a bible?
I dont believe in religion but in my youth I read many parts of the bible and can tell you these MAGA degenerates have no concept of what the biblical Christ espoused to his followers.
What part of By their acts you will know them do they not comprehend?
patphil
(8,733 posts)Marthe48
(22,741 posts)He's like the rat in Harry Potter, but the rat had a lot more going for him.
Cha
(316,900 posts)struggle4progress
(125,389 posts)keep_left
(3,163 posts)...before we get the 21st-century version of the Charles Sumner caning incident. Anyone remember the Zell Miller outburst years ago on the Chris Matthews show? ( Miller lamented for the days "when you could challenge a man to a duel!" ).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Buchanan#.22Oh.2C_I.27m_sure_it_will_be_better_after_a_while.22
GoCubsGo
(34,675 posts)How very Christian of him. Fuck off, Mikey.
aocommunalpunch
(4,552 posts)Fuck him.
Mike Nelson
(10,918 posts)... he can't "arrest" Newsom, but saying he should be "tarred and featured" invites people to skip the arrest and render punishment. Johnson is said to be a very religious man... I wonder what he thinks of the phrase, "crucify him!"?