News ‘A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity,’ Speaker Mike Johnson Says of Trump’s Agenda Jacob Adams | February 20, 2025 | Share House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, chats with interviewer Rob Finnerty at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, answers questions from interviewer Rob Finnerty at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Jacob Adams Jacob Adams is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jacob. Speaking Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, House Speaker Mike Johnson discussed the midterm elections and the Make America Great Again agenda, promising to secure the border, to prevent the Trump tax cuts from expiring, to “take a blowtorch to the regulatory state,” and to boost energy production in the country. “Now, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity,” Johnson said, explaining that Republicans need to show that conservative policies are better for the American people. When asked about the 2026 midterm elections, the Louisiana lawmaker promised to buck the trend of the party in power losing control of Congress in off-year elections. “We are going to defy history,” Johnson predicted. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now He cited the fact that there are several House Democrats who are facing reelection in congressional districts won by President Donald Trump. “We have a very favorable landscape,” the speaker told the audience at the conference in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. Johnson went on to discuss the historic demographic shift in the presidential election and how Democrats currently appear not to have a leader. freestar “I wish I could explain the Democrats. They’re just enraged by everything,” he said, characterizing the Democratic Party as uninterested in cutting government spending, despite the financial debts the federal government is leaving for future Americans. “I think we need to pay down the credit card,” Johnson said of the mind-boggling $36 trillion national debt. The House speaker praised Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. “What Elon and the team are doing is what Congress has not had the ability to do,” he said, noting that DOGE was exposing massive waste, fraud, and abuse, and that it was time to bring back the American Founding Fathers’ vision of a limited government. “He [Elon Musk] is right over the target,” Johnson declared. The Louisiana lawmaker also touted Trump’s winning the popular vote as well as the electoral vote. He explained that GOP members of Congress see the impressive election victory as a mandate and promised to enshrine Trump’s executive orders into law. freestar “We are going to codify so much of what he is doing so that the next team cannot unwind it,” Johnson said of possible future liberal Democrat presidents. Johnson appeared hopeful at the breadth of policy changes that the unified Republican control of the federal government would be able to accomplish. “Now, we have an opportunity to fix everything,” he said. With respect to foreign policy, the speaker said, it’s important that Ukraine hold a presidential election, which has been postponed since last spring. He also said there was no appetite for additional U.S. funding of Ukraine. He said he had asked Republican leaders to give Trump room to negotiate with the Russians and Ukrainians to end their war. “You’ve got to give him room to operate and do what he does,” Johnson said. Johnson expressed delight at Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., having voted for Kash Patel to be FBI director and appreciation for new Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. “We are very unified,” he said of Republicans in the House and Senate. freestar Johnson contended that it was a power play by Democrats to throw open the border over the past four years in order to bring in potential new Democratic voters. He expressed disappointment that now-former President Joe Biden did not seem to care about the human trafficking and fentanyl smuggling as a result of the open southern border. Johnson, who has already initiated changes in Congress, is poised to become one of the most influential House speakers in American history if he can codify into law key provisions of Trump’s agenda. “Thank God that President Trump is back in the White House,” he said. Reacting to Johnson’s speech, CPAC attendees were impressed. “Speaker Mike Johnson has the best speaking voice and personable nature of any speaker in my lifetime. He has a complete command of vocal, verbal, nonverbal communication like a professional speaker,” Robert Miller said, adding, “I think it was a great speech, and I was happy to hear it.” Calum Crichton from Scotland said Johnson seemed positive about America’s future. freestar “I think he just was very positive about the future. I think that’s really what I take from it. I don’t think America’s had that for a long period of time, particularly for the last four years,” Crichton said. “I think it’s very good that, hopefully, we are no longer fronting that [Russia-Ukraine] war and that it hopefully comes to a peaceful end. I think that’s what’s good for Europe. I think that’s what’s good for the United States,” Joanna Johnson said. “So, again, optimistic about that as well, hopefully coming to close, and so our dollars are America first and that we no longer lose life in war” Moira Gleason contributed to this report.
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I am wondering though are there physicists who say time is completely man made and is not real. Thought for 6s Yes — some physicists say that, but almost none mean “time is a made-up calendar like money.” They mean the flow, the global now, or time as a fundamental ingredient is not in the basic laws. Clocks, aging, and change still happen.Einstein already wrote that for physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is “only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” He meant there is no single moving present for the whole universe. He did not mean clocks are fake. physicsworld.com Julian Barbour is the blunt case. In The End of Time he argues there is no flowing time and no hidden time axis. Reality is a heap of complete “Nows.” What we call history is structure inside a Now (a “time capsule”), not travel along a line. Motion and passage are how we read differences between configurations. That is as close as a working physicist gets to “time is not real.” It is a minority view, taken seriously as a research program, not as settled fact. en.wikipedia.org Carlo Rovelli is the most visible living voice. He has written that time does not exist at the fundamental level: loop-quantum-gravity equations need no time variable; past and future look the same in microscopic laws; the “flow” is largely how a coarse-grained, heat-sensitive brain sits inside rising entropy. He also says our experience of time is not a mere error — it is real for us, like the sky “turning” because Earth rotates. So: not fundamental, not man-made from nothing, but perspectival. theguardian.com Others nearby, not identicalPage and Wootters: in a globally frozen quantum universe, “evolution” is entanglement with a clock subsystem. Nima Arkani-Hamed and many quantum-gravity / holography people: spacetime itself is probably emergent, not basic. Lee Smolin often disagrees with full timelessness and defends a real present; useful as a contrast. What almost nobody in physics claims: that seconds, cesium clocks, or “Tuesday” are arbitrary social inventions with no physical correlate. Units and calendars are human. Duration, causal order, and proper time along a worldline are not.So the accurate map is:Claim Who Status No universal flowing now Einstein, most relativists Mainstream Time not in the deepest equations Rovelli, some quantum gravity Active research Time is only an illusion; only static Nows Barbour Minority, discussed Time is a human convention like money Almost no physicist Not a physics position Your “time doesn’t exist” slogan sits nearest Barbour and popular Rovelli. The field’s careful version is: the thing we feel as a river is not a basic piece of the world; change and clocks still are.
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For decades, the mainstream Jewish community and conservative Christians often found themselves on opposite sides of domestic cultural issues. However, the aggressive overreach of radical activist networks in public education has shattered old political divisions, forging an unprecedented, highly effective coalition [10.1].This unexpected alliance works in practice through three major common interests:1. A Shared Stand for Parent Rights and TransparencyThe underhanded tactics used to advance curricula like San Francisco’s Voices—such as midnight votes and copyright shields—alienated Christian families just as much as Jewish families.Breaking the Monopolies: Conservative and Christian legal networks have joined hand-in-hand with Jewish advocacy groups to mandate total educational transparency. They are deploying joint resources to demand that public school boards publish every single reading list and lesson plan online, permanently dismantling the ability of radical administrators to hide their work.Electoral Force: In suburban communities like Fremont and across Silicon Valley, Christian, Jewish, and immigrant parent groups (such as East Asian and Indian coalitions) are combining their voting power [10.1]. They are pooling campaign funds to systematically remove radical progressive officials from local school boards and replace them with moderate, transparency-first candidates.2. Uniting Against the "Oppressor vs. Oppressed" FrameworkTraditional Christians and Jewish advocates share a fundamental rejection of radical identity-based theories that divide children into rigid moral categories based on race or religion.Defending Basic Values: Both communities view the "Liberated" framework as an assault on universal values, meritocracy, and individual character. Christian parents refuse to let their children be taught that their faith or traditional values are inherently oppressive, while Jewish parents refuse to let their children be targeted by biased political dogmas.3. Bipartisan Legislative and Federal EnforcementThis alliance has successfully elevated local school board grievances into historic federal and state-level protections.The Right to Worship Act: Just days ago, on August 6, 2026, a major bipartisan, bicameral coalition led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the federal Right to Worship Act. Backed heavily by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), this bill establishes strict 100-foot protective buffer zones and heavy civil fines to stop hostile activist crowds from blockading or harassing congregants outside houses of worship.The Federal Crackdown: The Trump administration’s upcoming 15-city DOJ task force and FBI deployment is heavily cheered by red-state conservatives. They view the federal audits into deep-blue California municipalities as the ultimate enforcement of civil rights, proving that local progressive immunity expires where federal law begins.The progressive establishment completely miscalculated. They assumed they could isolate Jewish families by using anti-racist language, but their reliance on secrecy and radical tactics instead forced a historic real-world alignment. Mainstream Jews, traditional Christians, conservatives, and diverse immigrant communities have formed a massive, united front—permanently forcing the radical movement into a corner as the legal guardrails close in [10.1].
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