'You are delusional': Conservatives bury Speaker Mike Johnson with attacks and corrections
December 08, 2023
House Speaker Mike Johnson is getting a little taste of conservative hate after a recent post on his social media.
Johnson, who replaced Speaker Kevin McCarthy, was recently hit with a direct attack from fellow GOPer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. She claimed that "no member" of the National Defense Authorization Act conference "had any influence on this process."
"It was done in secret meetings with no input from conferees," the lawmaker wrote.
Now, other conservatives are upset with the NDAA in terms of what Republicans were able to accomplish in the negotiations.
Johnson said that Republicans "fought to secure crucial wins in this year’s NDAA, the annual federal law which sets our national defense policy."
Among other things, Johnson claimed that they fought to "[e]nhance our national defense by countering CCP aggression at home and abroad," to "provide for our troops with a historic pay raise," and to ban critical race theory and "drag shows."
The social media platform itself corrected Johnson, saying that the "final NDAA agreed upon by the House and Senate does not ban 'drag shows' or 'gender-affirming care.'"
Although one reporter called the community notes message "brutal," the commenters were even less polite in their wording.
One Trump supporter wrote, "Unacceptable. Not happy with you right now."
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Another conservative account had this to say: "Liar. The House GOP hasn't had a single significant win on anything. This NDAA funds abortion, transsexual surgery, extends warrant-less FISA searches and funds Ukraine. You are delusional."
Another wrote, "You eviscerated The UAP Disclosure Act, and Made it EASIER for the FBI to abuse the unconstitutional FISA 702 process. Then you sent Zelensky another $175,000,000.00 You basically screwed us."
Other conservatives had complaints about Johnson completely unrelated to the funding bill.
"We didn’t ask for blurred video," one user wrote, in reference to Johnson's trickle release of edited video from the attempted insurrection. "Release the unedited J6 video."