{"id":241273,"date":"2024-07-23T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=241273"},"modified":"2024-07-23T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T13:43:10","slug":"speaker-mike-johnson-is-not-only-a-bald-faced-liar-hes-certifiable-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=241273","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Mike Johnson is not only a bald-faced liar, he&#8217;s certifiable insane."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>READ HERE: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2024\/07\/21\/speaker-johnson-supporting-israel-is-one-of-americas-founding-principles\/\">Speaker Johnson: Supporting Israel Is One of America\u2019s \u2018Founding Principles\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) described US support for Israel as one of America\u2019s \u201cfounding principles\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?537161-1\/republican-jewish-coalition-discussion-pro-israel-elected-officials\">during a speech at an event hosted by the Republican Jewish Committee<\/a> on July 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an important principle that America and Israel stand together resolutely. That is part of who we are as a country. It\u2019s one of our founding principles. I believe that we maintain peace through strength, and I think that the relationship with Israel is essential to who we are as Americans,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the modern state of Israel was created in 1948, it\u2019s unclear what Johnson meant when he said the US-Israel relationship is a \u201cfounding principle.\u201d The most well-known Founding Fathers would also disagree with Johnson since they strongly warned against permanent alliances and \u201cattachments\u201d to other nations.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc21\/pdf\/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc21.pdf\">farewell address<\/a> in 1796, George Washington said, \u201cA passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/184052\/mike-johnson-threat-democrats-netanyahu-visit-congress\">threatened Democratic lawmakers with possible arrest<\/a> if they protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s address to Congress, which is scheduled for this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a number of Democrats in the House who have said they are going to boycott the event, and then some others are gonna protest,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna have extra sergeants at arms on the floor, and if anybody gets out of hand the Speaker of the House will bang the gavel. We\u2019re gonna arrest people if we have to do it. We\u2019re gonna get the message out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}