U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride [protest] ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/us-house-speaker-calls-portland-naked-bike-ride-most-threatening-thing-ive-seen-yet.html

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radix@lemmy.world · 267 pts · 311d (1 reply)

He saw it on TV instead of through his porn accountability app. It was terrifying for him to not share his viewing with his son.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 92 pts · 311d

Oh yeah, he does that.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 211 pts · 311d (5 replies)

Dicks out for democracy.

Tits out against tyranny.

Triumph@fedia.io · 89 pts · 311d (4 replies)

Buttholes out against bastards.

TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 311d

The battle of the buttholes?

kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Sounds like a good time

chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d

Eh, I'm just gonna stay at home and fart around.

mEEGal@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 311d

Butthole royale

chellewalker@lemmy.ca · 181 pts · 311d (2 replies)

What an impressively sheltered life he's lived.

mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 110 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Well what do you expect when his son won't let him watch porn?

slaacaa@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 311d

How perfectly normal

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 134 pts · 311d (5 replies)

Did he not see Jan 6th 2021?

bytesonbike@discuss.online · 75 pts · 311d (1 reply)

You mean that fake Jan 6 Antifa woke FBI mob that were unarmed and just peaceful tourists?

Unlike that nothing burger, where five people died...

This VIOLENT bike ride had DICKS out.

oyo@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 311d

I again ask, why did Trump pardon all those Antifa woke FBI crisis actors paid by Soros?

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 34 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Right? I didn't see cyclists smear shit all over the place before leaving.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Their bike seats smell funny! I am not taking questions on why I'm sniffing strangers bike seats.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 311d

Johnson's definitely got the furtive look of a gusset-sniffer, and probably a bike-seat-sniffer too.

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 122 pts · 311d (8 replies)

The U.S. is such a strange place, where a sizable part of the population is more terrified of tits than guns.

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 30 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Can i post this into the microblog memes community with the title "we need more open carry boobs"?

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 311d

Go for it

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 311d

It's only a matter of time until boob registration will be mandatory.

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 27 pts · 311d (1 reply)

It would make much more sense if our MIC developed these...

...huh. I find the missile-to-bust ratio to be implausible.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 311d

You've never been to Las Vegas, then.

mEEGal@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Open carrying tits is way less common.

Would you open carry your tits in schools !!?

klu9@piefed.social · 3 pts · 310d (1 reply)

Arming teachers with boobs is the only way to stop all the school boobings.

mEEGal@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d

Seriously though : phrased like that it highlights how dumb the argument sounds for arming the teachers

Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 311d (4 replies)

Isn't that the most American statement ever. Belligerent assholes walking around with automatic rifles and tacticool pseudo military gear from Ebay? What a patriotic display! A bunch of people without clothes just biking around? The most threatening thing I've seen yet!

Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social · 53 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Lmao, Christians are too funny to me. Violence and murder, a-ok; little bit of nudity, "they're very threatening!"

Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 311d (1 reply)

I know, right? Like even as a kid the idea that Robocop (with some dude melting and getting smashed into a flesh smoothy) was just as bad as seeing a woman's boob was baffling. It still is as an adult.

XTL@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 311d

They weren't even without clothes, apparently. Just in a bit less.

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 101 pts · 311d

Next time someone says lefties are too soft, remember that Mike Johnson feels deeply threatened by naked people on bikes in a city on the other side of the country from him.

selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 99 pts · 311d (5 replies)

Portland does this sort of thing every year. Clutch your pearls harder, you mushroom-fluffing fascist.

The only thing it threatened was your fragile sense of heterosexuality upon seeing all those chilly willies.

MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 311d (1 reply)

all those chilly willies

Yeah, I heard the weather was pretty bad this year. Ngl, though, I feel feel like my fragile sense of masculinity would be much more threatened by a bunch of massive flopping songs on a hot day, than it would be by a bunch of tiny chilly willies on a cold day.

...Hold up. Poor/middle class guys with small schlongs drive huge trucks and loud cars. Does this mean that rich guys with tiny tallywhackers go into politics?

Drusas@fedia.io · 18 pts · 311d

Flopping songs. I can hear their sound now.

Flames5123@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 310d (2 replies)

Seattle does a naked bike ride every solstice festival!

Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 309d (1 reply)

Time to start up a winter solstice festival. I'm actually a little surprised we don't have one (or do we?).

Flames5123@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 308d

Apparently there’s something at Green Lake on two weekends, 5-8pm. But I’m always too seasonally depressed to go anywhere for the winter solstice.

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 77 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Uh, I'd have gone with those planes crashing into the WTC, but sure.

joker125@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 311d

Or the lunatics assaulting our capital to keep a wannabe dictator in power

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 311d (5 replies)

So, he considers unarmed, naked people "threatening"? What a weak, cowardly snowflake.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 311d (2 replies)

all those meatswords t he men are carrying could seriously harm him.

slampisko@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 311d

In his ego too, where it hurts the most.

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 311d

He's worried about being stabbed, repeatedly, and liking it.

ours@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d (1 reply)

He's afraid it will awaken something in him.

stinky@redlemmy.com · 4 pts · 311d

He's seen the dildo seat videos and he secretly hopes they'll appear in mainstream media from coverage of the protest. He's gleeful with the possibility, he can't stop talking about it

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 66 pts · 311d (3 replies)

Nothing threatens Conservatives than casual nudity. Got it.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Wait until they learn about guillotines!

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 311d

How much longer, though? We've been very patient.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 311d

Why not moon 'em as they get the chop?

logicbomb@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 311d (3 replies)

“Most recently,” Johnson went on, “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. I mean, it’s getting really ugly.”

Though the people behind him appeared to stifle a smile, it does not seem that he was joking, because he went on to say that protesters have attacked officers and people have been arrested.

The phrase "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," cannot logically be anything except a defense of Portland. There is no other logical interpretation. It logically means that Portland has nothing more threatening than peaceful naked bicyclers. They can't even carry a concealed weapon.

But since Johnson is apparently disconnected from reality and basic logic, he can say something that defends Portland and pretend like it is a criticism of Portland. Is it even possible that he's so delusional that he believes what he's saying? No, I think it's very unlikely.

Even though the article says "it does not seem that he was joking," I still have trouble believing it. I have to convince myself that Mike Johnson wouldn't publicly defend Portland as being safe in order to believe that he wasn't joking.

But then, what am I left with? No human being over, say, 15, with reasonable intelligence, could think about that statement that Johnson said and believe he was telling the truth.

So, the explanation is that Mike Johnson is so used to getting away with lying that he'll just say anything. And meanwhile, his audience are so used to not thinking that they don't even call him on it.

TheAristocrat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d (1 reply)

can't even carry a concealed weapon

Not with that attitude.

hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 310d

Zap carry ftw

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 310d

Fascists don't do logic or coherency. We know they're lying. They know that we know. But it's a show of power for them to lie anyway.

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 59 pts · 311d (9 replies)

I forgot nudity is like the ultimate taboo in the USA. Janet Jackson was sent to Guantanamo for her nip-nip popping out a little, while meanwhile over the pond there are nude Germans on every beach and children are raised by Eurotrash on late night TV.

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 311d (2 replies)

That Eurotrash nudity was always such a gamble. Always a toss-up between actually attractive women, and a 73 year-old Danish naturist with tits like windsocks. Or Lolo bloody Ferrari and her horrendous stretched beachballs.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 311d

73 year-old Danish naturist with tits like windsocks

So THAT'S where my ex-wife vanished off to...

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 311d

73 year-old Danish naturist with tits like windsocks

Long boobies are in style now. You'll see.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 311d (5 replies)

Janet Jackson was not a prisoner at Gitmo wtf

cazzmaniandevil@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Wooosh 😃

Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Cleared for takeoff.

Hupf@feddit.org · 3 pts · 311d

Roger, Roger.

(Username checks out)

Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 311d (1 reply)

I kind of like the lore that Janet Jackson has been in Guantanamo this entire time and the rest of us completely missed the memo.

tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 311d

I wouldn't have noticed either way to be fair

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 54 pts · 311d

IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 311d (5 replies)

He's really thinking "All those cocks and not enough time to suck them all."

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 22 pts · 311d (1 reply)

"Try not to suck any dick on your way through the parking lot."

/37

FoolishObserver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 311d

In a row??!?!!??!!

BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 311d

He needs to figure out the Mean Jerk Time.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 311d (1 reply)

some of them seemed to be too large or long for him.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 311d

Nothing a bit of determination can't fix

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 47 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Doesn't he have a secret Grindr account? Somehow, I think he's seen worse.

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 311d

His son gave him a pass on that one.

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d

No. Some no-name tik-toker claimed he had proof and threatened to reveal it, and then offered no evidence when the time came. But, the internet being what it is, people rolled with it because I guess the truth should never get in the way of a good story.

blarth@thelemmy.club · 45 pts · 310d

Seems like he is totally cool with the stuff Donald Trump did with underage girls, but he can’t handle seeing adults naked?

Weird.

TronBronson@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 311d

I saw a young girl with a knee on her neck the other day. Saw them arresting people at a Spanish speaking mass today. Idk I’ve seen some threatening things

charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 311d (1 reply)

What a fucking gimp lol... This is best laugh I've had in at least the month. The things these pussies are afraid of. Fucking lol

AniZaeger@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
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BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 41 pts · 311d

How DARE they KIDNAP CHILDREN AT GUNPOINT AND TAKE THEM TO UNDISCLOSED LOCATIONS AWAY FROM THEIR PARENTS OR LAWYERS! RIDE BIKES NAKED!

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 38 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Awww... Did those naked bikers make you feew insecuwe? Awww...

grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 17 pts · 311d

that’s so much more terrifying than a Portland resident in a frog costume dancing in front of a passel of cosplaying ICE thugs, isn’t it, Mike?

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Candy ass can't hack seeing nekkid bodies?? WTF does he use grndr for, the conversations? lol

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 12 pts · 311d

He just finds nekkid ladies to be icky. Also the men aren't necessarily twinks or bears that he enjoys.

CptOblivius@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 310d (2 replies)

That's just the penises awakening something in him again.

village604@adultswim.fan · 14 pts · 310d

He's probably also thinks labias are scary and gross.

DannyMac@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 310d

PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 311d

I’m guessing he doesn’t know that New Orleans does this as well? In his home state? Nobody tell him.

perishthethought@piefed.social · 23 pts · 311d

Pffft, snowflake.

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Perhaps what Speaker Johnson is saying is true (who am I kidding?). The political violence from "the Left" has been such a nothingburger that the most henious thing that he had seen thus far is a cycling group with a few naked people. Write that down as public testimony for the state attorneys' cases.

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 311d

Yeah I thought tuffs as well. It’s the most threatening thing he’s seen because there hasn’t been any other threatening things.

Pinching a ball on a bike seat is a clear and present danger on a naked bike ride though.

Hegar@fedia.io · 23 pts · 311d (1 reply)

To be serious for a moment, he doesn't believe that for a second.

He's just bullshiting to further the false narrative that his fascist regime is pushing as they continue deploying the military against the american public and other opponents of fascism.

grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 9 pts · 311d

“nekkid terrorists…on bi-cycles!!!”

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 311d (1 reply)

threatening to his anti masturbation pact with his son?

4grams@awful.systems · 4 pts · 311d

D’oh, came here to post this. You win :).

stinky@redlemmy.com · 19 pts · 311d

Damn that's all they had to do? Show up? THAT's the most threatening thing they've seen? Holy shit send more nudists on bikes

obinice@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 310d (1 reply)

Trust the sexuality repressed American to see a naked person and get scared.

They're not all like that of course but their culture is kind weird, like they don't even seem to teach proper sex education in all their schools? They teach abstinence and such even sometimes? Wild.

squincybones@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 310d

This reads to me like mockery. As in, "Naked bike riding is the most dangerous demonstration so far." Not dangerous at all.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 311d (1 reply)

This Mike Johnson is the slimiest piece of glue holding a lot of this bad shit together. Fuck Mike Johnson and his glorious worship (or fear) of his dear leader. He's the wormtongue for our times.

Overconfidentiality@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 310d

I wouldn't slander Grima in that way

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 311d

I bet he thought so. Had to report to his son about it.

Zink@programming.dev · 17 pts · 311d

I feel like pointing out the ignorance or cowardice in this statement is just playing their game.

The main purpose of the statement is to get a scary sound bite from a high ranking government official that the media can use to "credibly" scare millions of people who don't pay close attention to the world around them, and make the American dictatorship more palatable to them.

Then there's always the secondary benefit of rubbing their open hypocrisy in their enemies' faces.

Deathgl0be@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 311d

His protection of pedophiles is the most threatening thing I’ve ever seen.

notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 311d

“Flood the zone with shit.”

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 311d

US House Speaker A Giant Fucking Pussy

treadful@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 311d (4 replies)

Is that even an article? It doesn't even have a full quote.

SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 311d (2 replies)

It's paywalled.

treadful@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Weird, I didn't even see any kind of prompt. You'd think they'd want to ask at least.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 311d

You're probably blocking it

Pulptastic@midwest.social · 3 pts · 311d

I get a “please disable your adblocker” that cannot be closed and removes the ability to see any menus on my phone. So yeah that’s fun, their web design necessitates a force close.

popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 311d

He prolly recognized some of the penises and panicked.

jj4211@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 310d

I suppose that's probably tied for the most threatening thing against ICE he's seen, but that's because nothing particularly threatening has been done at all. So, technically the truth?

njm1314@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 311d

What a pussy. You live in a state with alligators and this is the most threatening thing you've ever seen? What a loser.

Randelung@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 311d

Must be a candy ass life, then.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 311d
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 311d

Has he seen the school board meetings about banning books?

foggy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 311d (1 reply)

Nothing more threatening than a limp flaccid cock amirite?

#incels

BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 1 pts · 310d

#puritans

saltesc@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 311d

checks

Okay, this isn't nottheonion

Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social · 8 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Lmao, Christians are too funny to me. Violence and murder, a-ok; little bit of nudity, "they're very threatening!"

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 311d (1 reply)

puritanical beliefs brought over from europe somehow, but some how europe never had those beliefs, except the recently conservative men.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d

Oliver Cromwell ruled England and was exactly this sort of person.

BigBenis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 310d

Just wait till No Kings II. We're going to turn out so peacefully it just might scare him into a coma.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 311d

Damn, he must never get out of his house then

Corelli_III@midwest.social · 7 pts · 311d

we should show him a pike and shot line so he can compare the two

MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 311d

I wonder what his thoughts are with Adam & Eve... or Adam & Steve, as rumors suggest.

Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d

That racist loser would hold the same opinion for a FKK (Freikörperkultur, Free Body Culture) beach in Germany.

shalafi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d

Motherfucker hasn't met me yet. Because I'm far more threatening to ICE than anything Portland has to offer.

Geekocracy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d (1 reply)

To be honest, I thought the furies dancing was way more disturbing

planish@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 311d

Furries at least have a decent chance of having claws and/or fangs.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 310d

Careful, men - those guys are packing!

Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 310d

Well we just found out who doesn't pay attention to their security briefings

Or those are all things he wants to happen....

madjo@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 310d

Poor wittle snowflake

beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 311d

What I'm hearing is that people should get naked in a reverse psychological leverage attitude?

sundray@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 311d

All those poor ICE babies saw nudity, which made them horny, which means that they're all going to hell now 😔 .

pyre@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 310d

sure thing, dude who has a porn pact with his son, I'm sure you've never seen naked people before

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 311d

Reminds me of the naked warrior unit from Rome: Total war

horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 310d

"They are the bad people, not us", got it.

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 311d (6 replies)
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 311d (1 reply)

mikey doesnt seem interested in the women.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 310d

I suspect his proclivities run more in the direction of livestock.

Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 311d (3 replies)

Naked events like this aren't about showing off your smokin hot body, they're about freeing oneself from the confines of clothing and the societal expectation that everyone cover up. It's about embracing the natural state of nudity and enjoying the feeling of nudity. There's also a shock factor that's similarly effective in protest like this, particularly in illiciting reactions from conservatives while ridiculing them

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 310d (2 replies)

Everyone here is a humourless robot

Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 310d (1 reply)

Women exist for more than your sexual gratification. Objectifying women isn't funny

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 310d

You’re gross, that came out of your brain not mine.