If you think there’s nothing funny about politics, you obviously haven’t read or heard about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s stand-up routine in the U.S. Capitol yesterday. At least, it would be funny if he hadn’t been dead serious.

Urging Democrats to “tone down the rhetoric” when quoting verbatim the words spoken or sent out on Truth Social by Donald Trump, he advised them:

“Temperatures are running high, and the last thing we need are hotheaded Democrats spewing hateful, inflammatory statements sourced directly from the president’s speeches.”

Then — perhaps inadvertently conflating his thoughts with the actual attack by Trump’s own loyal MAGA supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 — he added:

“We’re sitting in the hallowed halls of the Capitol, a place with a requisite decorum, and who knows how many shooters might be inspired to commit heinous acts after hearing Rep. [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez read the president’s latest Truth Social post word for word? It’s shocking — and honestly quite shameful — that my colleagues in the Democratic Party would stoop to such lows.”

[Source: Theonion.com, June 23, 2026.]

Just hold it right there. He’s talking about Trump’s own “hateful, inflammatory” words, right? So it’s okay that Trump said or wrote them, but it’s problematic for Congresspersons to quote them verbatim?

Is that really supposed to make sense?

And just when you thought we’d already reached the lowest possible level of stupidity . . .

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
6/24/26