website hosting Mike Johnson's podcast and church sermons suddenly vanished.

[Demovictory9]

MAGA Mike Johnson Once Warned About Dangers of Living Under Democracy
Republicans’ new House speaker tried to warn people about why democracy isn’t actually good

House Speaker Mike Johnson turned heads on Monday when a website hosting his podcast and church sermons suddenly vanished. Still, Johnson hasn’t been able to completely scrub his prior social media presence, with some evidence of his lectures still floating around online, including a three-hour sermon organized by his wife’s ministry that blasts the newly elected’s Christian fundamentalism.

The contents of his evangelical musings—which he apparently wants to hide—offer revealing details about the little-known congressman, including that he doesn’t really believe in democracy.

“By the way, the United States is not a democracy. Do you know what a democracy is? Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. You don’t want to be in a democracy. Majority rule: not always a good thing,” Johnson said at the First Baptist Church of Haughton, Louisiana, in 2019.

Johnson has also attacked the idea of social services, claiming that the only entity entitled to provide care is the church, not the government.

“I was in South America two weeks ago and they were talking about how … the Catholic Church used to provide soup kitchens and orphanages and do all this stuff and it doesn’t do it anymore and now they’re just willfully, everybody’s willfully, having the civil government take all these responsibilities over. And it’s just a sad development because that’s not how it’s supposed to work,” Johnson said.



https://newrepublic.com/post/176497/speaker-mike-johnson-warned-dangers-living-democracy

[uponit7771]

1. "By the way, the United States is not a democracy...." 😲😲😲

[Diamond_Dog]

2. This guy scares the heck out of me.

[Demovictory9]

27. He is a smiling fascist

[True Blue American]

3. His wife's site

Comparing beastiality to homosexuals is gone, too.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I'm betting those podcasts have been downloaded and dissected already

I think we’re gonna find out a lot more about Creeping Jeebus in days to come.

[cayugafalls]

18. They are all on iTunes Podcasts for download...my bet is Apple wont pull 'em.

Apple thinks different.

[Windicator]

5. "Move along suckers. Nothing to see here." - GOP Disinformation, Inc.

[jimfields33]

6. His job is to get bills passed in the house and hopefully not shutdown the government

I know minimum but that’s all I expect from him. He’s not going to be the great speaker of the house speaker pelosi was.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. Guys shits all over democracy

If it wasn’t for democracy, he wouldn’t have this prestigious job.

[Lucinda]

8. I suspect that someone grabbed it already

[Vinca]

9. The Internet lives forever. Hidden, but probably retrievable.

Johnson and his wife are noxious human beings who need to be exposed.

[DFW]

10. To Republicans, "Speaker," "Grand Inquisitor" and "Ayatollah" are interchangeable terms.

I think the only reason he hasn't proposed that Salem, Massachusetts be enshrined as a national holy monument is because there is no record that any so-called "witches" were ever burned alive there (hanging was the preferred method of execution).

[bucolic_frolic]

11. "not how it's supposed to work" - says who?

Some batshit crazy evangelical wing nut.

[Hugin]

15. That's the single most dangerous thing about this flake...

”Johnson has also attacked the idea of social services, claiming that the only entity entitled to provide care is the church, not the government.”

First of all, which church is to hand out all of the food? Secondly, does one have to convert to get a bite?

The only things concepts like this leads to is famine and misery.

[TeamProg]

12. They're all about "transparency".

[Paladin]

13. This is a genuinely dangerous man. (Just to re-state the obvious.) (nt)

[gab13by13]

14. The example he used

about 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat was mischaracterized, it's really 2 sheep and 1 wolf deciding what to eat.

[Diamond_Dog]

30. I thought the exact same thing.

[NowISeetheLight]

16. New Commercials

Some TV commercials about "Real Mike Johnson" would be nice. Let the average American see what the RepubQcan Christian fanatics think about the US

[leftstreet]

22. +1

lol same vibes!

[617Blue]

19. Another fucking kook.

[dalton99a]

20. The mild-mannered fascist has a lot of skeletons in his closet

[modrepub]

21. It's Important To Know What They Say

Knowing what Johnson has said is important. Certainly seems like he has said some things that are way out of the main stream for sure.

But what I'm just is afraid of is what he actually does. For some of these folks it seems like they are more interested in saying things that will put them in a place to enrich themselves and their close allies. Sometimes I wonder if these folks really believe in what they are saying or if they are more interested in grabbing people's interest (and pocket books).

[bronxiteforever]

26. I agree with your statement about watching what he does but

I also believe scientific literacy is so important for modern life. Just look at the insane abortion bans and how little of basic human biology is understood by those politicians in thrall of religious dogma.

[Initech]

23. Our government is not your church.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

24. Well, the idiot has obviously never read

Anything but his Big Book of Bad Ideas.

Because we tried that 'letting the churches' deal with poverty.

For centuries.

It didn't 'work,' because the churches *did not want it to work.* Because they profited off poverty, more than anyone.

That's why advanced nations turned to using the government to deal with the poor, and why all of those advanced nations are doing so much better than any of them did when the churches were profiting off massive poverty.

[ancianita]

25. Nope. It didn't vanish. The Internet has it, and it will get cherry picked for campaigning against him in 2024.

The WayBackMachine's got his stuff.

26 captures right here -- just click the links
https://web.archive.org/web/20231025232017/https://www.mikeandkellyjohnson.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.mikeandkellyjohnson.com/

Which also led to this article:

"Mike Johnson Once Agreed to Speak at ‘Kill the Gays’ Pastor’s Conference – Until an NCRM Report"

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/10/mike-johnson-once-agreed-to-speak-at-kill-the-gays-pastors-conference-until-an-ncrm-report/

[Demovictory9]

28. Thats good to know

[peggysue2]

29. Exactly!

They can scrub all they want but the internet's forever. All those speeches and musings will be repeated again and again. Maga Mikey can prevaricate but he cannot hide his past.

[sakabatou]

31. Idiot doesn't know a republic IS a democracy.