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Mike Johnson: 'Depraved' America Deserves God's Wrath
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idk why Republicans are so upset at him, he seems to be their natural leader.
If I had to invent a strawman to epitomize everything wrong with Republicans, it would not be as abhorrent as Mike Johnson because he's fucked up in ways I haven't even thought about.
I have to admit “Republican without a bank account” and “shares lack of porn activity with son” were not on my GOP bingo card.
"lack of"
ikr? I keep wondering when we’ll find out they both have secret porn devices.
I wonder if we could get a FOIA request on his office computer's browsing activity.
Anybody volunteering to actually look at his porn searches? I'm a coward.
Yeah.
I figure there’s at least one person here who likes that weird stuff…. Also I assume it comes back denied pending an investigation
because... you're fairly normal. normal people don't think like he does. Even modestly fucked up people don't think like he does.
Maybe I missed something or maybe it’s just that I was raised evangelical but I haven’t been shocked by anything that’s come out about him. He’s pretty garden variety as far as beliefs they espouse, not that that makes them or him less horrible I’m just surprised others are surprised
It’s not that I’m surprised he has extreme views/beliefs. It’s just that most evangelicals know it’s time to tamp down the rhetoric when they get to that point.
In any case, I’m mostly just enjoying mocking the fuck out of him.
It's entirely possible the demographics here on Lemmy lack solid representation from the cluster he hails from (specific religious groups, say.. deep south out in the country babtists as an example, but I do not mean this to represent the majority of Christians there, because it most certainly does not). If you've spent time with these populations, little of his behavior is surprising (the bank account one is, though..).
Nah, even that doesn’t surprise me.
I was talking to a local preacher here the other day and I listened to him complain for a bit and I said, “Well, yeah. All we can do is obey the laws of the land bud.” as a kind of little jab.
His reply, “I obey just laws. I ain’t gonna go out and get gay married because it’s legal. I also ain’t handing over every dime they want from me so they can give all the local junkies free dope at the clinic. The lord don’t want me doing that. The lord wants me to obey and support just and holy laws.”
They take what they want from it and leave the rest haha.
Yet he probably completely ignores Trump’s repeated infidelity, abuse of contractors working for him, lying about everything under the sun, etc, and will still cast his vote for the “law and order president.” It’s all just willful ignorance bullshit, every bit of it.
He did the thing you can’t do anymore, negotiate with “the enemy”
But maybe God told him to do it. Checkmate.
Still not crazy enough. They want to burn it all down now
They should get serious then. There’s almost always a George Carlin quote ready:
"No not like that."
I can help, though. I have matches.