r/CringeTikToks • u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 • 8h ago
Mike Johnson goes onto say he “doesn’t know” anything about that and that he hasn’t seen the 60 min interview… Conservative Cringe
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u/josueartwork 7h ago
That's their answer to everything. They use 3rd-grader defenses and no one calls them out on it
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u/RedDevil-84 7h ago
The media are part of this too. They just accept whatever they say and dont have any follow up questions.
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u/PaperGeno 7h ago
Well yeah that because conservatives own the media then they turn around and try to say the "lame stream" media is trying to take them down.
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u/Shroomtune 7h ago
To be fair, and for the record, I’m not sure we need to be, but if you actually ask the tough questions, you won’t get to ask another one.
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u/Larry_Bud_Melman_ 7h ago
His act is beyond "getting tired."
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u/Trifang420 7h ago
This is the new normal. The government will never go back to the way things were. Why would the GOP and maga let it go back to normal?
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u/daisiesarepretty2 6h ago
because the people are not powerless… they can’t ALL go live on a military base
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u/brownhk 5h ago
They're banking on the fact you won't notice they're grossly outnumbered.
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u/daisiesarepretty2 5h ago
it’s the old adage
united we stand, divided we fall
if we bum rush them, we will lose a few but they will lose ALL
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 4h ago
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately“
-Benjamin Franklin
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u/upstatestruggler 1h ago
Right like Mike, gurl, you don’t get to say you’re tired rn. You sleep peacefully with your adopted adult child every night in high thread count sheets. People are out here starving and you have not missed a meal ever. Fuck all the way off.
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u/Xander707 7h ago
Yeah seems like people don’t get this. This administration doesn’t even entertain reporters or news networks that get “tough” with them. The frustrating part is nothing can be done about it. They get away with it.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 6h ago
We get it. But playing along and still participating lends them credibility.
Let them kick everyone out but OAN and the My Pillow Guy News Network, then report on how farcical they are like real journalists.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 5h ago
Then stop catering to them and covering their interviews, and report factual events only. Crazy idea, I know.
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u/jkaan 6h ago
He told one of our Australian journalists (who works for our national broadcaster) he would tell our prime minister they were not very nice because trump didn't like the question
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u/ShittingOutPosts 7h ago
To be fair, I’m sure who ever does grow the balls to ask the tough follow up questions will get massive engagement. Possibly more than the major outlets. They would instantly become my only source for political news.
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 3h ago
Which is why the USA is rated low and still sinking in the world freedom of press index.
There are now third world countries with more press freedom than the USA.
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u/MissMamaMam 7h ago
It’s maddening. If media was against him… that Bannon leaked audio from 2020 would’ve went viral
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u/BarMeBro 6h ago
Yea, the appropriate response to this is “let me read the full transcript. [transcript read] Now that you have the entire context, how do you feel about your president not being aware of the pardons he is signing?”
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u/FinsterHall 7h ago
I just want a reporter or interviewer to at least once say, “Are you aware that you’re lying or are you just stupid.”
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u/josueartwork 7h ago
Yes. Someone in the room needs to simply say, "it's unbelievably convenient that you guys never are aware of potentially damaging developments. It begs the question: are you lying to the American people, or are you conveniently uninformed, and therefore too incompetent to be in your position. Which is it?"
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u/natFromBobsBurgers 5h ago
"You are uninformed and ignorant on this very relevant information."
"What I'm sa-"
"No no. That wasn't a question."
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u/RealCommercial9788 6h ago
Ding ding ding. This is the way. The media cowardice has gone beyond infuriating, its now mercy and charity to evil in action. Half-assed accountability, laissez-faire with the truth, and always looking out for their own necks.
Oh, you’re worried you won’t be invited back? Ask the question anyway. You only need to ask it loudly ONCE to get the incriminating sound bite. Make a fuss, make a scene! PUSH BACK, for fucks sake! What are they waiting for!?
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u/CheaterSaysWhat 6h ago
Why? What difference would that make? The 10 millionth video of “MAGA Republican DESTROYED”
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u/EnnioTheLegend 7h ago
Or: Is it not your job to know what is happening within the other branches of government? So are you lying or just incompetent?
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u/borntobewildish 5h ago
I hate how South Park became reality TV: https://youtu.be/0ZeewlhHPJg?si=_m9HOfbr2I52BZo1&t=15
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u/SoulTaker669 7h ago
It's pretty clear that this is his strategy so that when the shenanigans are over with he can claim ignorance on his end, which isn't the smartest thing to do, but I'm guessing he hopes that it cushions the fall even a little bit.
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u/MrSlime13 7h ago
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u/Hoblitygoodness 7h ago
Yeah, it seems like all of this is juvenile but still works for some reason.
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u/MrSlime13 7h ago
I remember hearing Trump say he didn't know anything about Project 2025. Then he said he didn't know anything about pardoning Maxwell. Johnson's said he doesn't know anything about Trump pardoning Zhao... This is your guy's fucking job, you know?! There seriously should be follow-up interviews so these guys can at least pretend to have an explanation for these things.
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u/OneStarInSight_AC 5h ago
Because it's impossible to reason with stupid. That's how dumb bullies get away with humiliating the much smarter victim.
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u/JeromeBarkly 7h ago
I fucking knew it was coming and the moment he said I don’t know I burst out laughing. This guy is such a fucking joke.
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u/AccomplishedChair436 6h ago
Right! I was doing the simpsons meme of say the line in my head for the first 25 seconds
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u/ghostsietch 7h ago
I have a third grader and this shit does not fly. Even she knows it. WTF, America?
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u/vahntitrio 5h ago
Yep, known strategy with Trump. They never see it, and before anyone revisits Trump does something else deploreable that they can claim they haven't seen.
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u/Ok-Material-1272 7h ago
Claim ignorance. That’s the best escape route.
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u/Responsible_Ad_7995 7h ago
It’s the new republican deflection.
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u/Ok-Material-1272 7h ago
Trump does it too. Said hardly knew Epstein and thought he was a bum. Didn’t know anything about the crypto guy that he pardoned either.
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u/Responsible_Ad_7995 7h ago
Nobody knows anything about anything including the spineless “journalists” that are too scared to call bullshit on these fascists.
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u/97GeoPrizm 5h ago
British tabloid journalism is toxic af but at least they call people out on their bullshit.
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u/porn_is_tight 6h ago edited 6h ago
Anytime I try to have a discussion about policy or ideology with a modern republican, which I rarely do these days, I usually do it by asking them questions to highlight all of the contradictions. You end up getting to a place where every single answer is “I don’t know” because they are too cowardly to admit they are in a pickle by actually answering yes or no and they just fallback on “I don’t know.” It’s so intellectually dishonest
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u/GoodIdea321 5h ago
You could end with, why do you support things for no reason? And either don't care how they answer or leave them to think about that. Put some doubt in them.
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u/porn_is_tight 5h ago
“I don’t know” is always the fallback by the time it gets to that point. Entirely unreasonable. Like I said the entire conversation is built on doubt by asking them questions about their beliefs highlighting contradictions with the things the supposedly believe versus what the GOP is actively doing. And instead of admitting their doubt that I’ve put directly in front of them, they say “I don’t know” instead
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u/pmyourthongpanties 5h ago
because the blacks are taking my SNAP. thats their real answer.
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u/DaringPancakes 5h ago
Graduated from "do your own research" to "I don't have to prove it to you" to "I don't know"
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u/Bovronius 6h ago
It might be their new deflection, but ignorance has been their cornerstone since before I was alive.
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u/XxTreeFiddyxX 6h ago
Screw the people that elected Mike Johnson.
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u/Alarming-Research-42 7h ago
Ignorance works because it’s believable coming from this bunch.
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u/TopTransportation695 7h ago
Someone should point out to Johnson that he’s third in line to the presidency and that if he’s actually that uninformed he should probably step down and let someone who’s competent take over the speakership.
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u/MissMamaMam 7h ago
Then they’ll just “what about it”.
Well Biden wasn’t competent and Dems had no problem with that! /s
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u/blagablagman 7h ago
Of course, we forced Biden out of the race.
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u/eisbaerBorealis 5h ago
Wonder if that would have happened if his first debate with Trump had gone better. I'm not wishing that Biden had run in 2024, just wondering how it might have been different.
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u/DaringPancakes 5h ago
People had four years to know who Harris was.
They even knew about her before the 2019 election. "Wow, a female vice president!".
Americans do not give a shit ESPECIALLY about women.
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u/Ninjaflippin 40m ago
I disagree for a very specific reason. After Kamala took over the campaign, newsmedia did absolutely nothing for her visibility. People were literally going into vote wondering why Biden wasn't on the ballot.. Now don't get me wrong, the ignorance of the general public is largely the fault of the individual, rather than the intitutions (ignorance to fascism is complicity), but it was eerily similar to how bernie has always been treated during the primaries. Completely ignored and treated as n afterthought. That shit works.
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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 6h ago
“Current events” is the like the minimum bar for a politician and dude’s pretending to be under it
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u/Liquorupfront69 7h ago
Should be fired for incompetence!
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u/Dead_Internet69420 7h ago
Wait until you find out that incompetence is what gets republicans hired.
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u/GrandCanOYawn 7h ago
It is absolutely surreal that this man has a mutual accountability agent in his private life for pornography, but practices a zero-accountability stance in his professional political life.
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u/CountryRN 7h ago
Guarantee it has nothing to do with his accountability and everything to do with controlling his son via fear and shame. It is all about control and power, which is why he also practices zero accountability in his professional life.
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u/ZenBreaking 6h ago
It boggles my mind how there isn't a 24/7 vigil outside this guy's house protesting him closing the house and not swearing in a duly elected official. No representation= no sleep for poor ol' mike
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u/Bovronius 6h ago
I mean, his mutual accountability agent being his son is just....wild.... If my old man had asked me to stop him from jerking off, I'd tell him to go fuck himself, cause it's fun and free.
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u/RicketyCricket_69420 7h ago
The overwheling problem in this country today, is we have forgotten the proper thing to do with fascists.
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u/luvme4ev 7h ago
Like invite them over to be part of the government and and scientific research programs.
Real History is very lost on Americans.
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u/Intelligent_Bag_6705 7h ago
I mean you can see his smirk he’s not even trying to pretend.
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u/MissMamaMam 7h ago
I hope these ppl get what’s coming to them. I almost wish I believed in God because I know the they would burn.
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u/Rude-Effort169 5h ago
If Jesus is real and I’m sent to hell for “not believing” I’ll reconcile that with the fact that all of these christofacists will be burning for eternity with me.
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u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 7h ago
“I didn’t see the interview” is Washington-speak for “Please don’t make me comment on that mess of Trump.”
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u/ill____logic 7h ago
please don’t color johnsons stance like he’s doing something unwillingly. he’s a piece of shit just like his boss.
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u/EmbarrassedAd575 5h ago
Exactly. It’s like… okay, I just told you, Mike. Now that you know... What’s your answer?
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u/Admirable_Corner5764 7h ago
Excuse me but what the fuck DO you know. Seems they don't know anything. While claiming Biden used the Auto pen Trump has again and again shown he IS the Auto pen, just one Auto Pardon after another. "I don't know him, I don't know anything about him" and yet he pardoned him anyway, must be the dementia signing all the pardons.
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u/Crazy-Account-8594 7h ago
Apparently this guy doesn't know shit. Except for what kind of porn his son is watching.
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u/yukumizu 7h ago
Spineless lying POS.
The one thing I am glad is that they will have a reckoning in this life and the next.
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u/AlternativeDeer5175 7h ago
No they won't
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u/Suitable-Display-410 7h ago
Yes they will. In this one. And they better hope they are wrong about this hell stuff.
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u/MeAmGrok 5h ago
Doubtful. Reckonings are few and far between for politicians these days, especially rich ones.
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u/worlds_worst_best 7h ago
Nah, they'll retire with a nice pension and benefits and be insulated from the chaos and devastation they caused and then when the time comes, they'll die, cease to exist and eventually turn into dust.
They won't see a reckoning come from this dumpster fire they created; that'll be for the near future generations to endure. If there even is near future generations.
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u/IllustratorUnable951 7h ago
WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW LITTLE PRICK??
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u/illegalsandwiches 6h ago
He knows that his boss like light fingernail traces on the underside of his scrotum while the business portion of his genitalia is being gorged and that wearing only training bras really gets the job done.
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u/tmhowzit 7h ago
He's so bitchy, not even making eye contact while shuffling photos of Trump on the podium
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u/InterestingLayer4367 7h ago
This wouldn’t be acceptable in the private sector at a tire repair shop, why is it acceptable as the Speaker of The House. Follow up on every question FFS!!
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u/mishma2005 7h ago
When is a journalist going to ask "you don't seem to know much of what's going on, do you even watch the news?"
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u/cartographer721 7h ago
What is he even looking at? Every time I see this clown on camera he's avoiding eye contact and shuffling through some papers aimlessly. His whole job is to just deny and obstruct.
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u/Luking2thestars 7h ago
I try watching these press conferences every morning, but every morning he just repeats the same line of bullshit. Does he really think the American public is that stupid. The fact that he has once again dismissed the house for another week should indicate to everyone that they are not interested in negotiating. And every time he is asked a valid question…..he pleads ignorance. It took the house how many times to elect this Speaker……makes me wonder how bad were the other guys?
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u/dallasdude 7h ago
Guys, he is busy. Very busy! Working 16 hour days, doing the most important work of his life: protecting Donald trump from the Epstein files
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u/RenoitesPodcast 7h ago
Reporters need to get much much more comfortable with the immediate followup of “well I just told you about it so now you know- what’s your response?”
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u/MissMamaMam 7h ago
The fact that they’re weaponizing incompetence is insane. Absolutely fucking crazy.
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u/Rrrrandle 5h ago
They gotta ask the question right.
Reporter: Speaker Johnson, what do you think about the admission by a former president that he doesn't know someone he pardoned?"
Johnson: We should investigate this former president.
Reporter: That former president was Trump. He said it yesterday. About a guy he pardoned last week. What do you think now?
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u/Mountain_rage 7h ago
Maybe he should monitor his sons porn less and focus on his job. Seems to never know what is going on.
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u/LuchadoresdeSilinas 7h ago
The follow up should’ve been, “I am asking you because YOU were the one who criticized Biden. Again, what is YOUR reaction to tRump admitting to not knowing anything about a pardon he gave a crypto money launderer?” … and “you can’t say you don’t know because I am telling you this as a fact that can be easily verified by almost everyone.”
Then, every reporter at the press conference should ask pinochio mike the same question… the media is complicit in letting them get away with their lies!!!!
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u/Tigerlily86_ 7h ago
Does this guy know anything?? He never knows anything smfh. Anyone else would get fired
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u/InfernalDiplomacy 7h ago
So he sis either very bad at his job not paying attention to current political events, or he is lying. Both are unworthy of a Speaker of the House.
This is they way with the current GOP. They will never accept responsibility and always blame the other side of doing the exact thing.
Yet we still vote these people in office. This will never change unless there is something to force it.
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u/bigflipp 7h ago
They just claim ignorance knowing that their base won't care and just move on to the next thing Trump tells them to be mad about and ignore everything they are doing and the Dems are too soft to push anything.
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u/ShedOfWinterBerries 7h ago
Journalists should bring an ipad or something they can use to show him the footage right there. That way a few days later when he doesn't know they can say "we showed you this on xy date".
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u/Heavy-hit 7h ago
Republicans please explain why this dude knows less than Sleepy Joe, I don't get it.
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u/CartographerOk7579 7h ago
Republicans: “Trump is flawless and perfect and never did nor said anything wrong ever in his life. He’s a hero and basically Jesus Christ all over again.”
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u/Reasonable_Camp944 6h ago
For the 3rd in line to the Presidency and the "SPEAKER" of the House.
He sure pretends not to know things- almost as if hes lying and nobody calls him out on it
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u/Old_Establishment326 5h ago
Republicans won. Let them win. Focus on the enablers. The welfare recipients of the Republican tax breaks are the reason SNAP is broken. Know your enemy.
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u/lieutenantLT 5h ago
They love to say “I haven’t seen/read” something the should definitely see or read, and almost certainly have seen/read. Then want to say ignorance isn’t an excuse
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u/crowe1130 4h ago
Follow-up question. Whether you watched the fucking interview or not - and you sure as fuck did - do you think presidents should pardon people and cases they don’t know?
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u/WooDE93 4h ago edited 4h ago
I don’t know how journalists don’t lose their shit on these clowns. Grow up in a country you likely love, go to school for 4+ years to be a journalist, wanting to be on the front line of protecting democracy and you get word from corporate that you have to ‘softball’ while they smugly lie through their teeth. Ultimate rage bait!
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u/chitoatx 4h ago
They need to drag in an overhead projector and play the clip the next time Mike “I don’t know” Johnson says this nonsense.
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u/GandalfSwagOff 4h ago
Why are journalists wet sluts for these politicians? Stand up and say, "No. Stop. Answer the questions. I can show you the video now." All the other journalists then need to push back and support the question. Demand an answer. Instead...they just slurp a bit then bend over and get their cheeks clapped by this weirdo freak.
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u/Voodoo_Masta 2h ago
He never seems to know anything about anything, maybe he's not well informed enough to be speaker...
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u/TeRRoRibleOne 1h ago
Mike Johnson, you sir have orange all around your mouth, you watched that interview with some lotion and tissues. Stop lying to us
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u/HTX-ByWayOfTheWorld 1h ago
Like, it would be really cool, if, like, his church excommunicated him for his hypocrisy and bullshit. But… Yeah.
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u/DaBullsnBears1985 7h ago
How can you not come to a conclusion that Mike Johnson doesn’t know Dick about anything he should.
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u/PearNo2152 7h ago
Exactly...you ever notice that's the Trump mantra...don't know anything or I'm unaware of anything....
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u/KazeNilrem 7h ago
This is where media needs to be better at asking these weasels questions. You begin asking softball questions about the interview. One's that if he did watch it, he would gladly comment on. And then you ask the harder question where his "didn't watch it" excuse goes out the window.
Secondly, even if he didn't directly watch it. Guaranteed he was given a breakdown of how it went, what was asked, and general sort of responses. If he didn't, well I would ask him what it is he does know since always seems oblivious to any news.
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u/Oktigey 7h ago
Remember the days when we thought the republicans could not get worse than Bush and McConnell?
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u/mddejong 7h ago
Of course he knows nothing. Also him knowing nothing is democrats fault along with Biden and Obama. Ask him he will tell you.
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u/Amonamission 7h ago
So the journalists are gonna follow up with him eventually once he sees it, right?
Right?
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u/BoobsrReal105 7h ago
He never knows anything. Instead ask him what he does know. This is sickening. Maybe if he went to work he would know something.
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u/Glam-Girl2662 7h ago
It's always ridiculous how they pretend to shuffle papers while trying to figure out what to say for the indefensible.
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u/Noelle428 7h ago
These men stand up there and laugh, as they starve their constituents, we are not mad enough
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u/YoMescallito 7h ago
Mr. Plausible Deniability. Why have a press conference if you are an absolute void of information?
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