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Mike Johnson suggests his election as House speaker ordained by God (msn.com)
Ordained by God but the result of a coup engineered by Matt Gaetz with the complicity of the House Dems.
“I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear: that God is the one who raises up those in authority,”
So how does he explain the likes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and Kim Jong Un?
I miss Kevin McCarthy!
More to the point, will he admit the same about Joe Biden and that even if the election were stolen, it was ordained by God?
Let us not forget, this nutcase believes dinosaurs were aboard Noahs' ark and the Grand Canyon is only 6,000 yrs. old.
He is a thoroughly dangerous man.
Only difference between him and Justice Scalia is that Scalia is thankfully dead.
“dinosaurs were aboard Noahs’ ark”
Of course, they were. How else could they have survived the flood and arrived on the set of the Flintstones?
How many "unborn babies" died when god flooded the world? If the Ark residents were the only people left, then the world was repopulated by incest.
"then the world was repopulated by incest"
And in many red states between West Virginia and Louisiana, that is a family tradition to which many of the locals still adhere.
I do have to tip my hat to Ron Reagan, Jr. and his public service announcements for Freedom from Religion Foundation.
Jr. is so much better than his father was.
God loved Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi too. Good to know.
What if we create "The doom spiral" just pretending it exist?
retailers are actually overstating the extent of theft – CNN
Also remember folks: Stealing from companies is your fault, but stealing from the government is the government's fault.
Well, we won't have Mike Pence to swat around anymore.
Question becomes … who's next?
Potted plants have lost their champion.
I had no great love for Mikey, another religious nut job and a probable closet case to boot.
But when the time came, he did do one thing right and that was the way he handled himself on 1/6/21. He did that and placed his family and himself in harm's way.
It's unfortunate that it took three years, eleven months and two weeks for it to occur, but he got passed his slavish devotion to Orange Jesus and his testicles finally dropped on 1/6.
Mike Johnson has a ( gasp!) black son, adopted as a teenager. ( I do have to say that was commendable).
The usual right wing white race boosters are criticizing Johnson for merely suggesting that his black son faces challenges that his white son does not.
It's nice to see that there is at least one thing I can respect and appreciate about this religious nut job.
And I'm not surprised that his racist base is screaming about racial minorities and their "special rights."
Has that been confirmed? There have been a lot of stories about how the "kid" has been hard to locate.
Newsweek reports that Johnston’s son Michael is real. There is a Youtube video with family photos that seem to confirm the story.
Mike Johnson's campaign "https://mikejohnsonforlouisiana.com/
introduces him as "a dedicated husband and father of four, " and then shows moving pictures of the family walking. And a still photo. And the children show up looking pretty white, very probably biologically related to Mike & spouse.
Vanity Fair explains:
The newlywed Johnsons could have fostered a teenager; there are financial incentives to do so.
It’s telling that they didn’t formally adopt the young man. Did he go back into the foster system? Go back to his birth family?
These questions probably won’t be answered, because foster and adoption records are sealed unless all parties consent to disclosure.
I’d like to hear the fosteree’s side of the story, but doubt that will happen.
i believe that the Johnsons did at least foster “Michael”, because of Rep. johnson’s statements regarding unequal opportnity for his black and white sons. I give him props for admitting that, especially since it goes against current “anti-woke” demagoguery.
From Reason Rules, a Substack blog: https://larryallenbrown.substack.com/p/who-is-mike-johnson?
Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson. via Mahablog.
“Johnson wants to raise the Social Security retirement age to 69 or 70”
Well, even a broken clock is right twice each day.
Both social security and Medicare eligibility should be indexed to life expectancies.
Republican's have always been against Social Security; Let them run political campaigns on defunding Gramma and Grandpa!
However since life expectancies in the US have been declining, then Medicare and Social Security should have lowered age.
Or you could do it demographically. Rich people live longer (because they can afford health care), while poor people die sooner.
Or Old Republicans who don't take the vaccine, are dying younger.
It also has a lot to do with how one earns one’s living. I call it “When do you shower?”. People who sweat for a living and come home filthy should be allowed to retire at 65. Those who shower in the morning and sit in a cozy office all day might be good ’til 70 or later.