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Russian TV Fawns over New House Speaker Mike Johnson: 'This Suits Us'

Russian TV fawns over new House Speaker Mike Johnson: "This suits us"

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnson-speaker-us-house-representatives-russian-tv-ukraine-1838484

A Russian TV host has explained why she believes Johnson will be of assistance to Moscow in the war against Ukraine.

Russian TV fawns over new House Speaker Mike Johnson: "This suits us"

A Russian state TV host has celebrated Mike Johnson becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The Trump-supporting Republican was elected to the role this week after 22 days of deadlock after Kevin McCarthy's ousting earlier in October and failed bids from other candidates, including Jim Jordan.

In a clip from Russian TV channel RTR Planeta, translated by Russian Media Monitor, Olga Skabeeva said Johnson would "suit" Russia because of his stance on Ukraine.

19 comments

Feirdro

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That little man is creepy as fuuuuuuuuck

carbonprop

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Handmaids tale vibes.

Akasazh

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He's yearning back to those exact circumstances. Hence 'conservative'.

agent_flounder

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... in this case conservative means regressive.

DragonTypeWyvern

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👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

EmpathicVagrant

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Yeah, I’ve never known the term to mean anything else.

SlikPikker

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There are few real conservatives in the US. Generally when they exist, they're called liberals.

Diplomjodler

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It's not enough to be a delusional moron, you have to be a corrupt as fuck traitor too, to make it in the Republican party these days.

WorldieBoi

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Duuuh

BeigeAgenda

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Okay so if Russia supports the NatC, they probably have him in their payroll.

Jumi

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I'm not from the US and your country's politics don't seem to make a lot of sense most of the time. Why did I never read about a Democrat candidate?

TheLowestStone

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There wasn't one. The Speaker is chosen by the members of the House. The Republicans hold the majority there so there was really no chance of a Democrat being voted into the position.

blattrules

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Hakeem Jeffries was the democratic nominee for speaker, but you’re right that there was no chance for him because the republicans hold the majority.

vanontom

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And Republicans hold the majority of seats because of ~~cheating~~ gerrymandering. They do not deny this fact, and continue drawing unfair, literally illegal districts as we speak. (They also have the power to write laws ending it, but fair districts would end the GOP.)

SARGEx117

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badbytes

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They must have a pee pee tape of him.

ChickenLadyLovesLife

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Why do people have to imagine such sinister shit as this? Russia just pays him and he does what they say - nothing unusual about that at all.

Everythingispenguins

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No the just funded his campaign

https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501

Everythingispenguins

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So the Russian state controlled media Fawns over the guy they helped elect. Somehow not surprised

https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501

autotldr

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

A Russian state TV host has celebrated Mike Johnson becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

"Johnson is not only the ultra-right Trump supporter who always voted against aid to Ukraine and made corresponding statements that were considered to be anti-Ukrainian.

She added: "If the new speaker did not swear or make promises to his pro-Ukrainian fellow party members, the budget of aid to Ukraine is in question.

Johnson initially expressed support for Ukraine after the country was invaded by Russia in February 2022.

"American taxpayers have sent over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine in the last year," Johnson said in an X post in February.

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