Oct 12, 2025

Fight the Protest Propaganda, Part 2 - Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson and some other Republican are up to no good this week.  Many offering opinions say it's about inciting violence, deflecting blame for the shutdown, convincing the MAGA base that protesters hate America, and/or helping trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.  See previous post.

Johnson is calling the No Kings Day protest a "Hate America Rally".  It has been noted that none of them are calling it by the real name.  Senator Roger Marshall says it is a paid protest by George Soros.  He thinks the National Guard will be needed.  They are even saying that Dems have a plan to keep the government shut down until after the protests in order to keep their base happy (rather than the Healthcare stand Democrats have taken a stand on).   See also - Oregon general’s testimony: National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’


Watch this short video to see Mike Johnson's spin -



TRUMP declared a number of liberal groups terrorists...
"The Trump administration plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus - including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department - as well as the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department against certain left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, the officials said."

The list includes Soros' Open Society Foundations; ActBlue, the funding arm of the Democratic Party; Indivisible, a grassroots coalition opposed to Trump policies and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, a Los Angeles-based group.  It has been suggested that one goal was to bankrupt these groups by tying them up in litigation.




These videos are also well worth watching so you get a better idea of the propaganda being ramped up -



No Kings - Freedom - Timothy Snyder
"They've assembled for themselves some message discipline. They're not going to use the words no kings because using those words would make it clear that that these rallies are about what America has always supposed to be. It's always supposed to have been against kings, against tyranny, against unfreedom. And it is wrong to lie.  It's wrong for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to lie. It's wrong to come up with a coordinated campaign to lie. It's a violation of the Ninth Commandment, but it's also just simple indecency. "

This comment from that post stood out - "Thank you for pointing out that the self-described Christian Speaker of the House Mike Johnson routinely violates the 9th commandment against bearing false witness.  Rather than a faithful witness, he demonstrates a false witness every day.  He has silenced the House in the midst of a government shutdown, all the while lying about the reasons for that as well as the motives of those of us who oppose him.  He should be called the Deceiver of the House.  We must be more disciplined in our protest, speaking truth to power, in this case, to powerful people who seem unacquainted with truth."

Note: Timothy Snyder is a professor with expertise in authoritarianism.  His book, ON TYRANNY, is one of my favorites.  I highly recommend it.  It's an easy read with concrete suggestions.


TAKE ACTION

PLEASE - Write AND Call These Reps

Feel free to mention that their rhetoric is false and will lead to violence.  If you take the time to watch the videos in this post, you will no doubt come up with plenty you'd like to say!


Mike Johnson
House Speaker
521 Cannon House Office Building 
Washington, DC 20515 
Phone: 202-225-2777


Senator Roger Marshall
Russell Senate Office Building
Suite 479A  
2 Constitution Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-224-4774




NOTE - I have more posts in the works.  Check back often.  We need to work hard this week to push back against the misinformation being spread. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment since it truly could be a turning point - one way or the other!   Our PEACEFUL No Kings protest this weekend needs to be the best ever!   



More posts in this Series...

Fight the Protest Propaganda, Part 4 -  coming soon
Fight the Protest Propaganda, Part 5 -  coming soon