Forced Birth Mike on Maine mass shooting

[deminks]

Link to tweet

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Mike Johnson, the new speaker, makes statement on Maine shooting.

“This is a dark time in America. …Prayer is appropriate in a time like this, that the evil can end and this senseless violence can stop.“

Doesn’t take questions or say what actions Congress may take

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Empty suit being paid to not do anything. Prayers without action are just words.

[bif]

1. F*#k prayer!

[Delphinus]

8. Wish

I could rec your post 1 million plus times. Prayer hasn't done a dogdamn thing over these years.

[maxsolomon]

2. T&P!

I've recited the mantra, let's move on to pointless grandstanding bills with no chance of passing the Senate.

[TheBlackAdder]

35. When scam callers say "God Bless," I say God doesn't exist because if God existed, you wouldn't exist.

[OLDMDDEM]

3. His response was a croc of s**t!

Get rid of the fucking automatic weapons. Pass laws making the manufacturer and dealer fiscally and criminally responsible for the deaths.

[dchill]

10. A crock of shit STRAIGHT FROM GOD!

[OLDMDDEM]

16. Yes, thank you for that.

[dchill]

17. Perspective is everything!

[OLDMDDEM]

18. I agree with you.

[AllaN01Bear]

55. not my god . self proclaimed . hem.

[edisdead]

4. What he is saying

what he is saying is “We are going to do jack shit and you should buy more guns!

[Zilli]

53. Also, it is far more valuable and important to protect guns than it is to protect life

[AllaN01Bear]

60. ye$$$$$$$.

[Johonny]

5. GOP only have solutions for imaginary problems

The shit that effects your real life, they got nothing. More people will die because they did nothing.

[Ilsa]

6. I didn't known a thing about johnson 24 hours ago.

I already despise him and wish he'd disappear into a sinkhole.

[MiHale]

7. Ban guns...they takes "able bodied" people out of the job market... nt

[IcyPeas]

68. If only one of the journalists wouldve asked that! ... pro life my ass

[Stuart G]

9. This is what happens when Republicans control the House of Representatives.

Prayer and No Legislation to Prevent This From Happening Again.

[underpants]

11. Isn't EVERYTHING a part of the all powerful God's plan?

What, God didn’t have anything to do with this. Is GOD not all powerful?

[Xavier Breath]

65. That's my question.

This was all part of the plan before man even drew his first breath, right? So why is he even (pretending to be) sad about this? If you believe in that nonsense then this happened right on schedule.

[dchill]

12. Go, Mike! Expose your shortcomings.

[dalton99a]

13. Thus spake the MAGA Jesus freak from the bayou

[MOMFUDSKI]

14. The scariest thing about these fundies is they believe god

loves them OH SO MUCH MORE THAN OTHERS because they achieved whatever it is they achieved. Have a BIL that smugly believes he wound up with a few bucks because god. It is nauseating and frightening.

[riversedge]

15. 'Never forget. Goldwater wasn't perfect, but he saw the writing on the wall. Even then.'....

I do believe Johnson believes he is acting in the of God--he does frighten me.

Link to tweet

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[dalton99a]

20. +1

[Sogo]

19. More "Thoughts and Prayers."

Thanks, but, no thanks, Mike.

US citizens aren't looking for words of religious consolation from Congress.

Do your freaking job!!

[eShirl]

21. Republicans are keeping the evil going for as long as they possibly can.

[gratuitous]

22. Well now, THERE's a practical solution!

Thanks, Mike. Hope you didn't strain yourself coming up with that stale nostrum. Isn't it time for the House to go into another recess? Not like there's anything pressing going on.

[Aristus]

23. Yeah, prayer will work; just like it worked all of the other times...

Get up off your fucking knees and do something worthwhile for a change!

[Srkdqltr]

24. Take your hands out of your pockets Mike.

He needs grooming.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. According to him, school shootings are caused by teaching evolution

From EarlG's Pic of the Moment thread (hat-tip to Initech):

Link to tweet

New Speaker Mike Johnson Blamed School Shootings on the Teaching of Evolution

Johnson remarks were delivered in a sermon titled Preserving Liberty at Christian Center Shreveport in 2016 in which he promoted his “legal ministry.”

Johnson claimed the United States was founded as a Christian nation and then God was replaced over time for human reasoning. Johnson then said when the late 1960’s came it ushered in the “countercultural revolution, Woodstock, peace, and drugs” and further undermined religion and morality by introducing things like “no fault divorce laws” and “legalized abortion.”

Johnson then argued this “path” led to school shootings and blamed these shootings on students being taught evolution:

“And people say, ‘How can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?’ Because we’ve taught a whole generation, a couple generations now of Americans, that there’s no right or wrong, that it’s about survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because there’s nobody sacred to whom it’s owed. None of this should surprise us.”

Johnson was showing a slide presentation during his sermon. During this segment, Johnson displayed a slide showing an atheist banner, women’s rights protesters, and coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 staff members.

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/new-speaker-mike-johnson-blamed-school-shootings-on-the-teaching-of-evolution

Yep, he's that disgusting - he'll parade the Sandy Hook shooting to try and promote his Christian Nationalism. And throw in women's rights, because he's that much of a shit-head.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. Blasphemer Mike calls on his God to end the evil his God does.

[dalton99a]

27. +1

[Yavin4]

28. Two words: Light Weight

Reminds me of a young Mike Pence without the mommy issues.

[claudette]

29. Prayers haven't worked yet

to prevent these horrors. Gun control laws would

[LiberalFighter]

30. His god just sleeps and does nothing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. Now you didn't pay attention to the new Speaker -- there are no coincidences; his God does it all.

[raging moderate]

32. A rebuke to Mike Johnson from the Book of James in the Bible:

"My brothers, what good is it for someone to say that he has faith if his actions do not prove it?....Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes or don't have enough to eat. What good is there in your saying to them, "God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!" ....But you don't give them what they need?" ....Faith without good works is dead faith." James 2:14 - 17

[BootinUp]

33. Back to the dark ages. Nt

[czarjak]

34. Jodey "We still have Jesus" Arrington is his best bud in Congress.

Praise The Lord!!!!!!!

[GoCubsGo]

36. Yeah, because your damn prayers have been working well after all the other incidents.

Take them and shove them up your ass.

[Bev54]

37. Well he kind of did say what action congress will take ----- Prayers, that is it.

[Caliman73]

38. The violence is not "senseless". It is horrific and disgusting, but not senseless.

The people who BY FAR, commit these acts of violence are driven by the exact same ideology that Johnson shares. They have been told by people like Johnson, that the problems in society are caused by women having rights to their own bodies, by Black and Brown people demanding to be treated fairly and allowed the opportunity to fully participate in society, by LGBTQ people simply wanting to exist and not be persecuted.

The people who carry out the violence believe they are fighting to take the country back to a "simpler time" when the people above "knew their place" and stayed hidden. They think that if White, Protestant Christian Men are in charge and able to impose their ideas on everyone else, that the problems we have in society would be gone. It is complete bullshit that has NEVER been proven by any observable, repeatable, testable, valid, and reliable methods.

The people who carry out the violence know EXACTLY what they are doing. It is stupid, irrational, and disgusting, but it is not "senseless". It is VERY MUCH ON PURPOSE, and it is almost entirely driven by what idiots like Johnson keep pumping into the environment.

[sanatanadharma]

39. Jesus did not say pray the violence away, he said ...

Jesus did not say pray the violence away, he said 'Turn the other cheek' as a parable against striking back.
And don't point out Jesus as violent (as with the money changers), God can do as God will, we can not.

2000 years of prayer started by (people say) God his or her self, have failed to over-power evil. Clearly the Devil is the more powerful; or at least has more followers and defenders of one's God-given right to kill with a gun without being impeded.

[alfredo]

40. Thoughtless prayer for mass murderers?

He didn't specifiy who the prayers are for.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Senseless violence is the hallmark of the GOP brand.

He is praying it continues.

[Moostache]

42. I am praying...

Right now for someone to hit this motherfucker with a car and end him or a lightning bolt to strike him dead from clear skies...or a rouge meteorite to strike him in the temple and tear his head apart in homage to the AR-15 rounds that kill innocents constantly.

Take your 'tots and pears' and shove them straight up your ass, through your digestive tract, past your stomach and out that filthy sewer of a mouth in your punchable face you fucking turd.

[Blue Owl]

43. Obviously, the prayers from the last how many hundreds of mass shootings aren't working, Mikey...

[mvd]

44. Prayer won't end the violence

Sensible gun control laws will help.

Such a tiresome response from Repukes.

[peggysue2]

45. More thoughts and prayers. Perfect.

Maybe Johnson can toss the issue to his wife since she's been spending so much time on her knees.

[SamKnause]

46. Fuck you.

Fuck your useless prayers.

[Ferrets are Cool]

47. God had the ability to STOP these murders before they happened. He didn't.

Tells you one of two things.

1) He doesn't care.
2) He doesn't exist.

There are no other answers.

[Midnight Writer]

48. In other words, it is God's Will that shootings happen.

And if you, or a loved one, are a "victim" of a shooting, it is because you were not sufficiently pious and God is smiting you.

[Warpy]

49. James 2: 14-26

The punchline, for those without access or inclination to read the book, is "Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [c]dead? "

Sorry, Mikey, but pointing the bony finger of shame at women because you think everything good and righteous in the universe has a penis is not what they're talking about, especially while you're giving the GOP cash cow, the NRA, a free pass to keep selling death.

Mike's a true believer, all right---in hypocrisy.

[JoseBalow]

50. Pray harder!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

51. What's this?

Suddenly this anonymous vapid nobody gets rock star treatment for being Slobby's congressional puppet?

Do we have to be subjected to every idiotic utterance of bible thumping bullshit he ever spewed, and continues to spew?

Someone should have responded, "Praise Allah!" or "Hail, Satan!"

The weak wobbly gutter press who swallow MAGAt shit makes me sick.

[Ray Bruns]

52. "Prayer is appropriate in a time like this"

This is how you say “ I’m not going to do jack shit” without having actually saying”I’m not going to do jack shit.”

[live love laugh]

70. The 2023 version of "thoughts and prayers"

[AllaN01Bear]

54. dosent take questions eh? well, what if his voters have questions , wiill he ignore them too."?

[Emile]

58. I bet his district is gerrymandered, just a guess.

[BOSSHOG]

69. Not sure, but

Anywhere outside of New Orleans doesn’t need to be gerrymandered for republicans sake.

[Emile]

56. So that's gonna be his answer to anything that requires

a little personal responsibility. LOL 🤣

[patphil]

57. Prayer is appropriate in a time like this.

Those are code words for prayers are all you got folks.
We all know the Republican mantra that, "now is not the time to take action on gun control". It never is, and never will be.
The Republicans aren't going to do anything but reaffirm people's rights to have all the guns they want, with no restrictions whatsoever.
And the killings continue.

[Emile]

59. Taking personal responsibility is not a Republican trait.

So they blame God.

[ecstatic]

61. Got it. So we need to pray that maga-mike and the evil rethugs in congress go away somehow

It's the only way to get free of this "dark time" that they are forcing us to endure.

[Autumn]

62. The only thing prayer does is make the person who prays feel better. It keeps them

occupied till the next crisis. Singing Old McDonald will do the same thing.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

63. Sure Mike

[IronLionZion]

64. His actions will have nothing to do with preventing gun violence or mass shootings

since GOP always likes to use the mental health excuse instead of any gun law reforms, it's good to remember that when they got control of both houses of congress and Trump was president, they made it much easier for people with mental illness to buy guns. It was their very first legislative act.

Don't wonder what their priorities are. We know what they have already done.

Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns when he rolled back Obama regulation
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-made-it-easier-mentally-ill-get-guns-when-n1039301

[milestogo]

66. He reminds me of Commander Putnam in the Handmaid's Tale

Very Pious.
Half man/ half worm
Made his handmaid (Janine) give him blowjobs on the side.


"We let them forget their real purpose. We won't let that happen again."
— Putnam speaking about women's roles in society

[Xoan]

67. Prayer hasn't worked yet ...

genius.

[Captain Zero]

71. Maybe he should resign and pray more

If he is so fucking holy about it.

[Solly Mack]

72. I could while away the hour, praying in my shower, repeating this refrain

That if you only believed as I do, you would know what is true, and it wouldn't matter who took a bullet to the brain.

Oh, I could tell you why people die by guns.

Lack of prayer, those damn women, and Darwin are the ones.

Now let's kneel and pray some more.