Well, it might have something to do with the fact that Mike Johnson is a christian nationalist that wants to turn the United States into a christofascist state.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
420 points (98.2% liked)
politics
19072 readers
3814 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Now, now, let's not go jumping to conclusions just because they happen to be based on facts and logic.
and the evidence, let's not forget the evidence.
Hold up there, buddy. That sounds like some of that critical thinking stuff the filthy demonrats keep going on about. We will not stand for that in a God fearing nation!
Get outta here. Feelings don't care about your facts.
Also, if the conclusion is correct, it's because the mean old "liberal media" and the "Democrat Party(sic)" called them Republicans like Mike names like fascist and racist and xenophobic and so on, and that is why they had to turn to this! See what you made them do?!!!
The answer is in the question.
This headline and article are begging to be in c/NotTheOnion, yeah.
Screams:
My Christian nationalist flag has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my flag.
I like that the Republican answer to losing elections is to double down on the religious crazy and ramp up the purity testing. All of that just makes it even easier to win elections against them.
Don't celebrate too soon. Thanks to gerrymandering, voter suppression and an unpopular Dem president, they still have a chance to retain the house and maybe even retake the Senate no matter how batshit crazy they get.
I'm not saying it's likely, I'm just saying that the risk is never zero and celebrating too soon increases that risk 🤷
Unfortunately, republicans will quite likely take the senate in the next cycle. With Manchin retiring, WV is essentially a republican lock. More broadly, Democrats are defending 20 seats to 11 for republicans, and the lowest hanging fruit for democratic pickups would be Rick Scott (FL) or Ted Cruz (TX), and as much as they both suck, that's still going to be tough.
So, just to retain their slim margin, they'd have to defend all of their other seats and knock off one of those two.
The US is fucked.
Off-topic, but whenever I see someone mention Ted Cruz it reminds me of his website advertising his presidential campaign: https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/
It's funny, you gotta check it out!
Why is it that the article is about this flag, but doesn't have a picture of the flag. This is more upsetting than it should be.
Exactly my thought. Entire point of the article is a flag outside his office. The article does not contain a picture of said flag, none of the links in the article that I have followed contain pictures of said flag.
It took some effort, but I found it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-kvkPJW4AADuT9?format=jpg&name=large
Lol was it made in MS paint 😂
Yeah, probably whatever version of MS paint was available in 1775. It must have been even worse than modern version of paint.
The Tree Flag (or the Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution.
Huh
Probably because the flag looks like a toddler made it and it's not intimidating at all even though the implications behind it are very serious.
Seriously, this is journalistic malpractice. If it’s right outside the guys office then it should be easy enough to take a photo. I don’t need a flag to know this guy is bad news but I’m not gonna jump on the outrage wagon over an article with no photo.
Because he can't get away with flying a confederate or nazi flag?
Can't he?
For anyone looking for the picture:
Thank you.
We really need to start charging elected representatives with perjury when they blatantly violate the oath of office like this.
Violating the oath of office is a seperate crime, carrying stiffer penalties than perjury.
The Dems would never have the guts to enforce it no matter what, though, and the SCOTUS has a Christofascist majority itself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Tree_Flag
I'd never heard of it.
Very funny for the religious right to be appropriating Locke quotes and Iroquois symbolism.
The Locke quotes reminds me of the Chinese concept of the "mandate of heaven", but more populist
That tree looks like it would make a nice cozy fire.
This looks like it was done in Ms paint
He's flying a Christian nationalist flag because he's a Christian nationalist. Maya Angelou - "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
I bet anything this guy has some very weird skeletons in his closet. Like, he runs that weird xtian software on most of his devices, but there is some computer in his house that has weird/illegal content on it, and doesn't have the Jesusy spyware on that computer...
Hah! Same thing I thought. Probably has a stash from years ago that he refuses to throw out.
I must admit I did not-c that one coming.
"Why are these cockroaches under this rock?!"
Even Jesus thinks this guy is weird as fuck.
This is gonna have Mike Pence.level.of weirdness
Why do bears shit in the woods?
As much as I'd like to say that religious nuttery should bar people from office:
Constitution, Article VI:
“no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Fine, but let's look at all of that section of Article VI:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Bound by oath to support the Constitution, but no religious test required to assume that duty. Ok cool. Your duty as a government official is to the Constitution, not to your religion, and your religion is immaterial -- and this is key -- provided you uphold the Constitution.
Now let's look at the "establishments clause" of the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
If you will not uphold the First Amendment's establishments clause, if you are scheming to establish a Christian theocracy, you are not supporting the Constitution. If you are not supporting the Constitution, Article VI in fact disqualifies you from public office.
For that matter, you don't even need the First Amendment to make the point. A theocracy would immediately run afoul of Article VI itself, as it would require officials to adhere to the state's church doctrine.
Because he's Panzerfaust Pinocchio. Next question.
Does the flag have KKK printed on it somewhere?
No, it's just implied.
Next, he may want the Confederate flag, the Russian flag, and the Neo-Nazi flag hanging outside his office to indicate he wants everyone to vote for his opponent in the next election, and wants Hakeem Jeffries to end up becoming House Speaker instead.
Wtf is a neo Nazi flag?
I was referring to a flag with the Nazi symbol on it like they heil Adolf Hitler.
view more: next ›