New House Speaker/boogeyman Mike Johnson most likely has Aspergers Syndrome

Does anyone for one minute think the Republicans would have elected a normal human being for speaker?... Oh, pleeze 🙄

I assumed they would have just chosen from their well-stocked supply of sociopaths.

An Aspie won’t get anything done. They cannot do legislature.

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People who actually have these disorders would never be able to attain a position like that.

And yet he did

For your consideration:

[quote]Make Me, Shub-Niggurath, Your House Speaker, Or Be Cast Into Death Beyond Death, Mortals.

[quote]ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE CAUCUS, I UNDERSTAND I’M A FRESHMAN, AND THAT I ONLY OCCUPY THIS SEAT BECAUSE I CAST ITS DULY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE INTO THE GAPING MAW OF MY OFFSPRING ITHAQUA THE WIND-WALKER TO SPEND AN ETERNITY DROWNING IN HIS BLACK ICHOR. SO YOU FEEL YOU DO NOT KNOW ME WELL ENOUGH TO ELECT ME TO SUCH AN IMPORTANT POSITION. AND ALSO YOU ARE COWERING IN TERROR.

He looks like Phil Hartman in a SNL skit in OP’s photo.

His third son is a 40 year-old black man

He's creepy looking, I'll give you that OP.

He doesn’t seem entirely insane based on his comments in the Politico article.

he seems virulently conservative though

his affect is sickeningly dramatic and smug. you can tell he's spent a LONG time fantasizing about his little speeches. creepy guy. many skeletons in a dark closet.

[quote] he seems virulently conservative though

I absolutely believe he is. An Aspie is more likely to be a “true believer.” Think about Napoleon, Vladimir Lenin or Osama bin Laden.

Look at Hannity.

He senses something is wrong. An Aspie in politics is exceedingly rare so Johnson’s vibe (somewhere in between placid cow and alien visitor) is throwing him off.

what did an aspie do to you, op?

The Dem strategy right now with him is to make him famous. They are saying he was stealth, a quiet guy, and the media was caught unawares and we need to shine a fucking spotlight on him. I agree. He is nuts. I don't know if it's Assburgers or WTF ever, but he is deeply crazy. We have to make him a national embarrassment and I believe there is sentiment within the GOP to allow that to happen. The placeholder, Patrick McHenry was off the chain talking about how angry he was and how unnecessary it was to dump McCarthy. He admitted to the messy GOP factions and what an uphill climb unity will be. So I suspect a few GOP House members may help nudge Mikey off the cliff.

You know, with this iteration of the Republican party, I really feel uncomfortable describing them as"Conservatives." They're extremists. This Mike Johnson person is a fucking extremist. Just because a lot of these fuckers talk nice or have good manners and they're "quiet" doesn't mean they're good people. They aren't. The media is responsible for perpetuating this myth because they are so Trump focused. They think an extremist politician has to be a Trump or a Boebert, or MTG or Gaetz with all the spectacle. But there are a lot of Mike Johnsons out here in state legislatures and in Congress and we need to make sure people know what rotten fuckers they are.

[quote] what did an aspie do to you, op?

I am one, silly. Frankly I could get in trouble for giving away trade secrets.

Our DL Armchair Psychiatrist who diagnoses Autism..... is really making my skin crawl. Physician - heal thyself!

He's like a Dumb Protestant version of Jon Ossoff

A periodic reminder to not get your opinions about people on the spectrum from the resident, woefully incorrect autism troll(s).

He's a lousy fundraiser and dealmaker, and will thus be a lousy Speaker of the House.

Expect next December's leadership election, whether for speaker or minority leader, to topple him.

Everyone knows Republicans can’t be unscripted. They’ll either have nothing intelligible to say, or they’ll contradict their own parties talking points. Watch how they field sarcasm, for example. They can’t script it so it falls flat.

Party’s*** oh dear

OP, people can be strident, uncompromising and prone to tantrums without being on the spectrum.

Also, for the person pointing to Bernie Sanders - Sanders is actually a very effective legislator and gets plenty of bills signed into law. They're just not big leftie bills. Sanders talks a big talk about being a socialist but he's much more practical as a legislator.

[quote]He doesn’t seem entirely insane based on his comments

Doing the same thing, over and over, is the definition of insanity, so I'll leave you with his answer to the gun violence problem we face, toots: thoughts and prayers.

[quote] Sanders is actually a very effective legislator and gets plenty of bills signed into law.

Name the bills Bernie has passed. I'll even take bills that he merely co-sponsored as equivalent to bills he actually wrote.

We'll wait...

[quote] OP, people can be strident, uncompromising and prone to tantrums without being on the spectrum.

Of course they can. And someone on the Spectrum can also be a nuanced, introspective legislator.

I’m just saying they are prone to acting that way.

Anyway my judgment on his condition has to do with his facial expressions and posture. I haven’t heard him speak.

[quote]Anyway my judgment on his condition has to do with his facial expressions and posture.

Which is about as valid as diagnosing hemorrhoids from a headshot.

I don’t care if you don’t believe me or not. I’m just saying, as you see more and more of him, he’s going to seem “different.” And you’ll wonder why and then think about this thread.

The Autism Sniffer posts

Why you so upset, R30? Damn, girl, untwist those panties.

OP is the autism troll.

Duh.

Will no one speak of his black son? He certainly doesn’t much want to—except when necessary.

“Oh that’s my black child”

We understand his hesitancy, R34

His wife is a gay conversion therapist. I'm sure she looks at him as "cured".

[quote]And you’ll wonder why and then think about this thread.

When we think about this thread, and we will, we won't be kind.

These people who have never accomplished anything for the American people - nothing - are such a joke criticising the Biden administration. They WISH they knew how to fuel an economy the way the Democrats always have.

From that pic in Politico, I'm thinking more Fetal Alcohol or slight Down syndrome rather than Aspie, but he definitely appears off in more than just political affiliation.

He made up the black son to counter the jeers he received during the 2019 reparations hearing?!?!?!

From Lipstick Alley:

“Maybe his “Black son” lives in Canada next door to Tim Scott’s girlfriend.”

He talks about Michael around 1:15 mark in this piece with Walter Isaacson.

Michael now in his mid-30s, lives in CA and has four kids.

Not FAS face, FAS faces always look they’ve just been crying.

Really OP? We can't just leave it as this dude has horrible extremist policies and is a MAGA insurrection supporter/election denier???

He is just intensely creepy-looking, in a serial molester, "is mommy home" kind of way, with a hint of sexual perversion addiction for highly taboo sex acts.

You know, a typical republic party member.

R43–such a mixed bag—he explains a solid understanding of how his black son faces a different world from his other children, with empathy…right after saying oh, The Blind Side is our story!

With brown eyed Aspies you’re going to get eyes which recall either a cow or a dog (if you’re lucky).

He has cow.

I don’t know if he has Asperger Syndrome, but that’s a rug on his head for sure.

Actually—he’s got a good head of hair. It’s all his.

^ Thank you Mrs. Johnson!

You can easily tell that it’s real by viewing pictures of the young and younger version of the dolt.

[QUOTE]His wife is a gay conversion therapist.

Are you kidding? That's the cherry on the sundae🍨!

[quote]He looks like Phil Hartman in a SNL skit in OP’s photo.

Yes! He has the same insincere smile Phil used when he portrayed sinister characters with a nice-guy facade. It makes Mike Johnson even scarier to me. Thanks, R6. I can’t unsee that now.

Remember the disastrous premiership of Gordon Brown?

Aspie. Same face.

No, I don't think so. He's well spoken and very comfortable in front of cameras.. Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Steve Miller, those are aspies. He's a closeted homo with dark secrets and an evil agenda. That's why he comes off as a such a little creep.

R6 That’s exactly what it is. He doesn’t necessarily look like Phil Hartman but that’s exactly who he reminds me of. He is the living embodiment of every middle aged everyman that Phil portrayed on SNL.

Thank you. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it for the longest.

[quote]Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Steve Miller

No, those are sociopaths, you mook. The primary defining feature of sociopathy is the penetrating glare. This is because sociopathy is a remnant of the hunting traits of hunting/gathering. Sociopaths always look like they are calculating the distance it takes to stalk and attack prey. This look is completely absent in most people on the ASD, whose primary feature is a glassy eyed, benign vacant look.

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If he is a Republican, he is mentally damaged. I do not need to parse the quality of his mental illness.

However, I want to know if the Southern Baptist Conference maintains numbered retirement accounts for elected officials in order to launder lobbyist bribes and cash for SB elected officials. Mikey Johnson has no bank accounts, no investments, no 402K. Is his church holding his bribe cash?

Jesus Christ we went over this. Gold bullion in the basement. Typical paranoid Aspie.

The uninformed autism trolls like R3 are embarrassing themselves again

Some people on the spectrum not only excel in their chosen fields but change the world.

He seems uncomfortable in his own skin like someone with something to hide or be ashamed of with a touch of shyness.

Meh, he just looks like a deeply repressed, self-loathing, cookie sniffing homo with pedo urges to me.

There's nothing shy in his effort to destroy America and our Democracy, R66.

What you're seeing is that he's a bottom.

"Sanders is actually a very effective legislator and gets plenty of bills signed into law."

This must be "Bearking News" because no one has ever seen any.

[quote] He seems uncomfortable in his own skin like someone with something to hide or be ashamed of with a touch of shyness.

“Alexa, what does Aspergers feel like?”