'Tarred and Feathered': Johnson Talks Consequences for Newsom Amid LA Riots

[groundloop]

Source: Daily Signal

House Speaker Mike Johnson responded Tuesday to a question of whether he thinks California Gov. Gavin Newsom should face legal consequences for his actions as Los Angeles is consumed by anti-deportation riots.

“That’s not my lane, I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, but he ought to be tarred and feathered, I’ll say that,” Johnson, R-La., said in response to The Daily Signal’s question.

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After saying he would not provide a legal analysis, Johnson proceeded to accuse Newsom of being an “accomplice” in attacks on law enforcement.

“I mean, look, he’s standing in the way of the administration and the carrying-out of federal law,” the speaker said. “He is applauding the bad guys, and standing in the way of the good guys.”

Read more: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/10/tarred-feathered-johnson-talks-consequences-newsom-la-riots/

[mdbl]

1. Johnson, the biggest asshole who backs the biggest crook doesn't have any room to judge

Hell has a special place for him next to Rush Limbaugh.

[pandr32]

2. Bought and paid for soul.

Johnson may as well be a robot.

[delisen]

3. Immigrant labor rebuilt New Orleans after Katrina destroyed it

The hyperactive is disgustingly,

[Vinca]

4. I've been wondering how red state voters in tornado alley feel when they see hundreds of millions

of dollars spent in a blue state that doesn't want it while their red states are begging for storm damage funding and they can't get it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. That's a better outcome for little Mikey

and he should also be ridden out of town on a rail!

[Bayard]

6. I'd like to see you,

Come off your proclamation pedestal and try to do that personally, you sanctimonious little twerp!

[Paladin]

7. Just another spine-free trump pimp.

History will be suitably unkind to Johnson.

[tonkatoy8888]

8. Well, wait just a second

Tarred and feathered? If my fading memory serves me correctly, it was just a week or so ago that every last member of the GOP had retired to their fainting couches clutching smelling salts after James Comey arranged seashells to say 8647.

8647 is an incitement and threat to assassinate Dear Leader, but a suggestion that Governor Newsom be tarred and feathered is just harmless political metaphor?

Got it.

I don't expect anything but Olympic level hypocrisy from the GOP but it would be nice if the national media would mention this little, uh, inconsistency.

[Quanto Magnus]

9. You first Mr. Speaker

though you'll have to remove your tongue from Trump's chocolate starfish....

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. So much for following the teachings of Jesus Christ!

Mikey Johnson is a FUCKING HYPOCRITE!

[Bettie]

11. Who would have thought

that tar and feathers would be little Johnson's kink?

[chowder66]

12. Mike Johnson threatened physical harm to a sitting Governor. That's against the law.

Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture where a victim is stripped naked, or stripped to the waist, while wood tar (sometimes hot) is either poured or painted onto the person. The victim then either has feathers thrown on them or is rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stick to the tar.

Used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge, it was used in medieval Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a form of vigilante justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering

[Marthe48]

13. My nephew lives in LA

has lived there in different neighborhoods over the last 40 years. He is posting on fb to remind us that the peaceful protests and the military response to them are happening in one area on the south east side. Other parts of LA are recognizing Gay Pride, tourist events and are basically normal. He posted a map with the area highlighted, not large compared to the whole city.

According to Google (-AI) East LA is not only the largest Hispanic/Chicano neighborhood in LA, but the largest Hispanic community in the U.S. No wonder the racist bigots landed there.

[electric_blue68]

14. Shut Up, Toady Mike! How'd you feel if someone said that about you?!

How dare they? Wiell yeah, asshat!

[electric_blue68]

15. I was involved in a Freak Accident where I was "tarred" about 60 yrs ago(!)....

This was a summer school recreation group. We'd gone down to the park where the NYC side of the George Washington Bridge's base is located. Also The Little Red Light House.

We're sitting at a picknick table, I'm leaning over elbows on knees.
Suddenly This warm "stuff" spatters all over my hair, and back!!! I jump up, and run screaming out of there.

It turns some workers were tarring something on the lower road of the GWB, and knocked over a can of tar, and it poured out, and down! Luckily it was such a long way down I wasn't burned bc it cooled to warm.

But wow, my mom had to clean it off with ? Mineral oil! They may have got compted for clothes. The rec group didn't sue. My folks didn't either.
It was scary!