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If U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson made a New Year's resolution to take a more measured approach when discussing public policy, it didn't take him long to break it.
Because the state's most polarizing politician is already back to offering his often wild and controversial take on things in 2022.
Johnson who last year advised using mouthwash to combat COVID-19 and labeled Social Security a Ponzi scheme has already roped God into his bizarre take on vaccines and again questioned the seriousness of last year's Capitol riot.
Now he's taking on a new topic: out-of-wedlock births.
And who's to blame for the rate of unmarried childbearing in the U.S.? Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the architect of the Great Society.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bice-u-sen-ron-johnson-171144240.html
Sniffing airplane glue again?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)... also the "sexual revolution" hit at about the same time. It had nothing to do with who was president. As a matter of fact it started when Nixon was in the White House.
jmbar2
(4,874 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,144 posts)So he can be fudgy on science but people should adhere to the 1950s?
Guy is nuts
Paladin
(28,254 posts)Really ugly stuff.
Norbert
(6,039 posts)LBJ, FDR, Jimmy... They can't get RonJohn out of the senate fast enoough.
TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)The easiest way to identify a Republican in WI if they are not wearing a red MAGA hat is if they bitch about someone on welfare, unemployment, or disability, especially if they are a POC. This happens all the time in the middle of a conversation when they are trying to sniff out whether you're a Democrat or not.
haele
(12,649 posts)My mom knew more than a few girls who dropped out and got married when she was in high school. Along with an equal number of girls who "took a break" for a month or so to go out of town to "help an aunt who was having a baby".
Out of wedlock births were common, especially among female domestic staff in private homes, hotels and clubs, because well off, powerful men and boys saw working women as just another object for their use.
Haele
rurallib
(62,411 posts)sometimes I feel like I am in some kind of time warp.
But RonAnon isn't doing this for the memories, he's looking to spread lies and misdirection.
RB TexLa
(17,003 posts)Why?
Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Deuxcents
(16,195 posts)He said hed only run for so long. Time to help him keep his word.