House Speaker Mike Johnson describes himself as a Christian before anything else. He has said his “faith informs everything I do.” He has told people curious about his views to “pick up a Bible.” His wife reportedly runs a counseling service whose operating agreement, which he himself notarized, states, “We believe and the Bible teaches that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery…is sinful and offensive to God.” He has said he and his son use a software program called Covenant Eyes to ensure neither is looking at porn.
Given all this, you may think that Johnson would not be comfortable showing up to a criminal trial to defend a guy who allegedly had an affair with an adult film star (according to the adult film star anyway, though Trump denies it), paid her to stay quiet about the alleged affair, and then was accused of covering up said payment. But you would think wrong!
On Tuesday, Johnson attended Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, where—prior to the proceedings getting underway—the congressional leader nodded approvingly at Trump from behind a metal barrier, like a groupie at his favorite band’s concert.
and is known to have shitloads of other affairs, and has been determined by a court to be a rapist.
Oh also he’s a liar, a thief, a cheat. He’s corrupt, he doesn’t pay taxes or other bills and is a fucking traitor and oathbreaker.
also according to Mike’s scriptures… Trump is a mass murderer. (the scriptures make it clear that murder is the only of the ten commandants that could be broken by inaction. for example, the parable of the good Samaritan, the reason that parable was offensive was that the two who did nothing both ‘pillars of the community’ types- a prominent and respected business man, and a priest- but they committed murder by not providing aid they could provide where the “dirty” Samaritan did.) (edit just to clarify, COVID trump could have saved millions of lives by countering the antivax narrative. or by encouraging masking. Or lockdowns. or just shutting the fuck up. he did not, and who knows how many people died as a result. biblically, Trump is a mass murderer.)
but details.
Trump is literally a Golden Calf, and Johnson is worshiping him.
Ugh now there’s an image I have to get out of my head…
pretty sure the golden calf had more intelligence. Could be wrong, though.
The only time I’m in favor of veal.
& it already happened:
https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/472066
I’m an atheist and still find this blasphemous mockery of Christianity disturbing.
I assumed that was a troll or performance art stunt at the time, but nothing ever came out, and now all evidence points to his supporters genuinely worshipping his gold shit.
Though wearing gold diapers is probably a lot more affordable than his sneakers.
Well, an orange calf at least.
Who was it that said Trump “lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House”? Cause Mike Johnson should listen to that guy.
The Evangelicals have addressed this.
David had Bathsheba’s husband killed; Noah was a drunk; Lot had sex with his daughters. All were holy men, chosen by the Almighty to perform great deeds for the faith.
Sometimes the Lord chooses broken vessels.
This isn’t satire, it’s how they explain it.
Apologetics is an amazing thing! You’ll never guess how that one thing doesn’t mean what you think it means, and I’m the sole authority to tell you why!
Yeah, self made man Obama who never looked at another woman after he married is a tool of Satan, and the guy who embodies all Seven Deadly Sins is the finest man alive.
Imagine the year is 2012. Many Christians are taking their views door to door, urging you to vote for the Christian candidate, Mr. Mormon Mitt Romney, and not the Muslim, professing Christian Barack Obama. One of them goes to church. The other got married in ceremonial underwear. But one is black and the other is white.
Someone said that they think the Mayans were right and the world did end in 2012. It’s just sputtering along on momentum.
Lot was raped by his daughters in his sleep. And he was devastated and enraged when he found out.
wasn’t he drunk as fuck ?! in his sleep is that even possible ?
is that even possible ?
Compared to everything else that happens in these stories?
Lot had a particular set of skills, being absolutely wasted in his sleep was one of them.
Oedipus blinded himself after he found out he’d slept with his mother.
That’s devasted.
I wish we didn’t have to make the same brain-dead decisions. I surely don’t respect it any.
Muslims take the approach of denying these stories and holding prophets to be infallible
Complete hypocrisy is the norm for Christianity.
I was gonna say this was on par for the modern Christianity as we know it. I don’t think death threats are very Christian either but it seems that’s been par for the course now.
The definitive property of it you might say.
See? How hard was it to make a title that was just the facts?
See how easy that was? CNN, NPR, AP, take notes.
Should have said “alleged Christian”.
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@Numenor: Except that the trial is not about if Trump had sex with a porn star
I mean. It is, actually. Do you just not know jack shit or are you just talking shit?
The trial literally isn’t about if Trump had sex with a porn star; in fact, it basically presupposes that he did.
The trial is about if he illegally covered up the hush money he paid her afterwards
Okay. Since you took the bait: Do you just not know jack shit or are you just talking shit?
Because you are talking like you actually don’t know jack shit.
Tell me, what are the arguments of Trumps defense?
Mostly specious, dissembling, goalpost-shifting, mendacious, and virulent, like their client.
(Sorry, you just walked into that with the baited question.)
I mean if all you have is a non-answer, you can probably just jerk yourself off, no need to involve me.
What is the answer you are looking for? Your rhetorical attack question was lazy so you got the answer it deserved.
I wonder if the porn monitoring app he shares with his son gave a little beep today?
Accused of cheating on his wife…? Seriously? This is the best they could come up with? How about:
“Devout Christian Mike Johnson Shows Up to Hush Money Trial to Defend the Poster Child for the Seven Deadly Sins”
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Lust: “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Trump said. “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
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Gluttony: Trump’s favorite McDonald’s order: two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fishes, and a large chocolate milkshake.
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Greed: Do we really need examples?
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Sloth: Trump ascribes to what has been described as the “battery” theory of, um, life force. Evan Osnos, in a profile of Trump in the New Yorker a few years back, described it thusly: “Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.”
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Wrath: “Lyin’ Cassidy said that I threw my lunch at the wall,” Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social. “I actually threw it at Rudy Giuliani, and he ducked.”
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Envy: We have a new ailment that has come onto the political scene and that is presidential jealousy. I don’t ever remember a current president taking constant and ongoing digs at a former president. Now, I can say that I have seen it. Almost since day one, Donald Trump has made disparaging and disrespectful remarks about Barack Obama.
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Pride: Do we need examples? The man puts his name in gold letters on everything he touches.
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The bible is not univocal. So saying “pick up a bible” to understand his views perhaps includes killing those who wear mixed fabrics and giving women instructions for abortions. Maybe it also includes killing his firstborn son whenever the voices say he should. Or maybe he doesn’t think those parts mean what they say, but other parts do?
Correct. If you actually read the bible you know that all these people are just making it up as they go along. You will find some quote that supports whatever you’re trying to say and you’ll find some quotes for the opposite too.
Don’t think I’ve seen “univocal” before. Interesting.
Yay, new word!
My reaction was that i wasn’t reading it right. Thanks to both of you!
Average modern Christian behavior at this point.
tHoSe aRe nOt rEaL cHrIsTiAnS!!
Well mainly normal for the us in Sweden the church is almost more progressiv than the Democrats
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did he ask his son if it was okay for him to suck donald off?
He brought his son with him so they could share.
If Trump weren’t such an existential threat to our country, I’d be enjoying all his republican friends debasing themselves publicly in very humiliating situations.
All Christians are hypocrites, it’s simply not possible to follow the letter of the Bible because it’s self contradictory, so the only way to be Christian is to be a hypocrite.
But even among religious/Christian hypocrites, Mike Johnson is a particularly bad one. So bad it’s borderline insanity.I can see you haven’t met many christians if you think this is hypocritical behavior.
Ghandi ? I like your Christ, you Christians are so unlike him.
Even if it is typical it is still hypocritical.
Yeha but you know Republicans will just look the other way when confronted with such arguments.
It’s still important to call out the hypocrisy, even if it is their normal modus operandi. Ad nauseatum.
Liars and conmen need to be exposed again and again until the most misinformed and thickest victim finally gets it.
Trump has proven that this will take until the end of time but it is still worth it. If you save one victim per bunch of Trumpists it’s worth it.
He is a grifter. He is not truly devout, he doesn’t follow the Bible despite claiming that he does.
My first thought when looking at the headline was, “Devout should be in quotation marks.”
He is a devout Christian. People should stop mistaking “devout” for “pious”, and “Cristian” for “humane”.
I believe he’s a devout Christo-fascist. I think only a special kind of devout Christian could come up with the porn accountability scheme with his son. He’s a “lying for the lord” kind of person.
There is a world of difference between “he didn’t do it” and “so what if he did it?” and opened the link aiming to figure out which of these two kinds of defenses Johnson was trying to make - but his approach was not even relevant enough to the actual issue for that distinction to be meaningful.
Reports of Johnson twerking for trump as he passed by could not be verified by press time.
