Well this isn't sketchy *at all*! Mike Johnson claims never to have had a bank account

[APU_Fusion]

I didn't realize the level of evidence we had to reach for thinking something shady was going on was equivalent to some gag from Looney Tunes
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Some people just really love to lie to themselves...

That is only true if you are right wing doing sus things. If you are left wing person then a FB post by “IAM MAGATLOVER” stating Obama ate babies in tan suit is all the evidence needed.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I’m sticking with it’s some sort of weird Mike Pence/Mommy thing going on as in his wife tracks all the money because of some dumb reason like he doesn’t want to be falsely accused of having an affair so all his spending goes thru his wife.
Childish and dumb. He probably is like Pence doesn’t really want a wife he wants a Mommy.

 

[manly]

We are talking someone with an income likely in excess of $300k in one of the cheapest areas of the country.

Let’s say it is true that he has no assets. Isn’t that level of financial mismanagement also alarming?

If you asked Clarence Thomas or Marco Rubio, this is perfectly normal. Mike Johnson is well qualified to be a SC justice or U.S. Senator.

 

[Tsinni Dave]

They keep all their money in Sen. Menendez's jackets.

 

[Perknose]

Who Paid for Mike Johnson’s Trip to Israel?​

PROPHET INCENTIVE
Officially, an obscure nonprofit paid for Johnson and his wife to go to Israel. But the trip never appeared in the group’s tax return.

^^^ In this DB piece about yet another sketchy incident in Johnson's finances lies this brilliant nugget:

“You hear in the U.S. about how the Palestinians or the Arab people are oppressed in these areas, and have these terrible lives. None of that is true,” Johnson said during the visit, his second to Israel. “We didn’t see any of it.”

 

[mikeymikec]

Who Paid for Mike Johnson’s Trip to Israel?​

PROPHET INCENTIVE
Officially, an obscure nonprofit paid for Johnson and his wife to go to Israel. But the trip never appeared in the group’s tax return.

^^^ In this DB piece about yet another sketchy incident in Johnson's finances lies this brilliant nugget:

“You hear in the U.S. about how the Palestinians or the Arab people are oppressed in these areas, and have these terrible lives. None of that is true,” Johnson said during the visit, his second to Israel. “We didn’t see any of it.”

IMO the price that the GQP should pay for radicalising their supporters is that when the penny finally drops and the supporters realise they've been played like a fiddle for a very long time, people like this should get strung up by their former supporters.

While they're getting strung up, they'll probably complain that they deserve the things they've been trying to avoid to date such as reasonable oversight, due process etc.

 

[hal2kilo]

Someone get a Boof Kavanaugh payday? Or is it more like a long term pay off like Uncle Thomas has I wonder...

I hope they keep prying. All of these corrupt mofos need the spotlight on them.

Americans who call themselves evangelicals worship money. Hoarding wealth for themselves is so much a focus for these dishonest hypocrites they ignore their own bible regarding it. You simply cannot engage in modern day politics and finance without bank accounts. You'd have to be an idiot and morally bankrupt evangelical to believe this guy and his christian baby voice thrall/wife have only ever used cash.

One thing I got out of a Christian up bringing that stays with me and always rings true. Money is the root of all evil.

 

[hal2kilo]

And then there's this really creeping evangelical culture strangeness. For whatever reason, this makes my skin crawl.

Newly unearthed video shows Mike Johnson and his daughter attending "purity ball" in 2015 | Salon.com

Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.

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[IronWing]

And then there's this really creeping evangelical culture strangeness. For whatever reason, this makes my skin crawl.

Newly unearthed video shows Mike Johnson and his daughter attending "purity ball" in 2015 | Salon.com

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It's the parental obsession with their children's sexuality that is creepy.

 

[Tsinni Dave]

Mike likes telling stories about how he wanted to be a firefigher like his father, but wouldn't support his parent's fight against the open burning of 15 million pounds of munitions at an illegal ammo dump near where his family lived, despite the known carcinogens which would be released.
“His father and I went to him and said: ‘Mike, you need to get involved in this, this is really important. Your family really lives at ground zero,’” Gabriel said in an interview with the Guardian. “We basically begged him to say something, to someone, somewhere.”
The couple left deeply disappointed. “It just blew my mind that he wouldn’t give five minutes of his time to the effort,” she said. “He basically shut us down.”

Mike Johnson's dad sought his help to stop a toxic burn pit close to home. Johnson refused.

“It just blew my mind that he wouldn’t give five minutes of his time to the effort."

www.motherjones.com

 

[Amol S.]

Mike Johnson 'clearly violating federal laws' with 'laughable' filings: ethics complaint

House speaker Mike Johnson and his wife's finances are the subject of a new ethics complaint filed by a government watchdog.The left-leaning nonprofit and advocacy group End Citizens United filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee, presenting multiple potential violations in his...

www.rawstory.com

"Johnson raised eyebrows, to say the least, when he claimed to have never had a bank account but offered no additional explanation, and Libowitz and other watchdogs say the gaps in his financial disclosures are highly unusual."

Sketchy as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck...

The only people who can be believed when they make such claims are those that are Amish. Unfortunately, Johnson is not Amish.

 

[Thump553]

I was the treasurer for a local political party here in CT for about a decade. The state rules (which imposed personal liability on the treasurer for breaking them) strongly discouraged cash contributions-as I recall the maximum cash contribution allowed was something like $100 lifetime per contributor and there was also a very low limit as to the total cash contributions the party could accept overall. Plus we had to get all sorts of documentation to verify the donor's identity.

I guess we should assume that the third most powerful politician in US government never made any contribution to his GOP cronies.

 

[JTsyo]

Money is the root of all evil.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

It's not money itself but the pursuit of it. Willing to bend you morals for gain is what's evil. Example, inheriting money doesn't make you evil, killing someone to gain their inheritance does.

 

[Lanyap]

And then there's this really creeping evangelical culture strangeness. For whatever reason, this makes my skin crawl.

Newly unearthed video shows Mike Johnson and his daughter attending "purity ball" in 2015 | Salon.com

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He’s probably boofing her.

 

[WelshBloke]

It's the parental obsession with their children's sexuality that is creepy.

It was awkward enough when I had "THE CHAT" with my son when he had his first girlfriend and I discreetly gave him some packets of condoms. Spending an entire evening with my child at an event centered around their sex lives would create a nexus of awkwardness that would swallow up small villages!

 

[mikeymikec]

And then there's this really creeping evangelical culture strangeness. For whatever reason, this makes my skin crawl.

Newly unearthed video shows Mike Johnson and his daughter attending "purity ball" in 2015 | Salon.com

Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.

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Wasn't this the guy who was comparing notes in some way with his son to do with porn?

- edit - found it:

Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.

www.rollingstone.com

and in related results:

I tried Mike Johnson’s favorite anti-porn app. It didn’t go well

The US House speaker is a longtime user of Covenant Eyes, in which an ‘accountability partner’ tracks the content on your phone

www.theguardian.com

 

[ch33zw1z]

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

It's not money itself but the pursuit of it. Willing to bend you morals for gain is what's evil. Example, inheriting money doesn't make you evil, killing someone to gain their inheritance does.

Yep, and in that equation, money can be exchanged for anything that that turns you into gollum

 

[uallas5]

Mike likes telling stories about how he wanted to be a firefigher like his father, but wouldn't support his parent's fight against the open burning of 15 million pounds of munitions at an illegal ammo dump near where his family lived, despite the known carcinogens which would be released.
“His father and I went to him and said: ‘Mike, you need to get involved in this, this is really important. Your family really lives at ground zero,’” Gabriel said in an interview with the Guardian. “We basically begged him to say something, to someone, somewhere.”
The couple left deeply disappointed. “It just blew my mind that he wouldn’t give five minutes of his time to the effort,” she said. “He basically shut us down.”

Mike Johnson's dad sought his help to stop a toxic burn pit close to home. Johnson refused.

“It just blew my mind that he wouldn’t give five minutes of his time to the effort."

www.motherjones.com

Here's the original article from the Guardian, it's longer with more details on the "creationist" movement, one of the many Christian fundie crazy beliefs he has.

Revealed: House speaker did little to fight toxic ‘burn pit’ his father campaigned against

Mike Johnson’s creationist beliefs clash with environmental realities in a district where many residents hold deep concerns about pollution

www.theguardian.com

tldr: Even though his father was almost killed in an industrial explosion when Johnson was young, he wouldn't help his father stopping a munitions burn because it was an environmental issue. Johnson is a creationist, believes the Earth is only about 4000 years old and any environmental concerns are either false or in god's hands.

 

[sdifox]

dude obviously is not familiar with the bible.

Deuteronomy 28:8

The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

 

[dank69]

dude obviously is not familiar with the bible.

Deuteronomy 28:8

The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

Just more proof the Bible is true. I can't count the number of times I've put my hand down there and now the Lord blesses me with supermodels by the handful.