Speaker Mike Johnson falsely claimed that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is anti-Christian because Newsom is calling out Johnson's refusal to do anything about mass shootings.
Ok, Johnson that’s not what he’s saying. He’s saying you can’t just sit back and do nothing but pray. I’m a Christian and praying is essential to our beliefs but action is also needed. You’ve been sitting back and praying for literally years. At some point your prayers need to lead to action. Believing in God isn’t like having a genie who grants your wishes while you sit back and do literally nothing.
Johnson was one of the assholes on the House floor who had a "prayer circle" with hypocrites like pastor-turned-Congressman Mark Harris before deciding to vote for the Big Awful Bill.
And wants people to stump up $15 a pop to help him get imto heaven! Has he not heard that,a 'Rich man can no more enter heaven than a camel can get through the eye of a needle' Mathew19.24.
Sadly, far too many Evangelicals seem to miss that part. So many have bought into the "Rapture" and "End Times" and spend hours/years picking apart obscure parts of the Bible that they miss the rather glaring parts where Jesus talks about taking care of their neighbors, regardless of who that neighbor is or where he lives. Even the Old Testament said it was the responsibility of the kings to care for all of their people, and predicted/promised "woe" to those who didn't.
I have never actually known god to do anything in response to prayer (or anything else) outside of the stories in the bible, and I know that book well, being an evangelical Xtian for 25 years and a non-believer for 15… and an agnostic before all that… I’m 75.
I love it. Any time that a Democrat can get under the skin of these fake ass "Christian" MAGA politicians by calling them out on their BS is fine by me.
I find it telling that Speaker Johnson and the MAGA heads put more energy into responding to Gov. Newsom’s remarks than into offering any support for the families impacted by the shooting.
Mike, Newsom is telling you and every republican hypocrite to do SOMETHING Concrete. Praying would be wonderful if it actually accomplished something. To date, schoolchildren are dying. So do SOMETHING!
When the MAGAs vote for a MAGA/GOP Candidate, they are saying they are okay with all the things listed below. The percentage of the population (MAGAs) who approve of and support anything that the current lop-eared morons who run the U.S. government at the moment can plan on getting splattered with the following stains:
You are okay with all of your tax dollars going to the richest of the rich while you pay the bill.
You are okay with your tax dollars paying for fancy vacations for the rich who infest the government.
You are okay with the military taking over the cities, cities you do not live in.
You are okay with protecting pedophiles who are raping and molesting your children.
You are okay with not knowing who these pedophiles are so they can continue to rape and molest our daughters and sons.
You are okay with child sex trafficking not only in our country, but around the world.
You are okay with wars where the aggressor is the victim and the people who are dying from the bombings every day are to blame – they should just knuckle under and be okay with the rest of this list.
You are okay with watching people starve to death and children die without food and healthcare.
You are okay with children being killed by guns in mass shootings while they are in school, at a party, at a club, in a church, in a church school.
You are okay with your neighbors dying from preventable conditions, issues, and diseases because they have no health insurance and cannot afford health care.
You are okay that it may be you without health care dying of preventable conditions, issues, and diseases because you have no health insurance and cannot afford health care.
You are okay with your child dying of a preventable disease because there is no vaccine available to you any longer.
You are okay with prices going up due to tariffs and inflation.
You are okay with empty shelves on stores.
You are okay with your government breaking laws and grifting and extorting money from you and other countries to line their own pockets.
You are okay with poisoned water, polluted air, and polluted grounds under you and your children.
You are okay with 5-10 recalls per month for food, drugs, and consumer products that are no longer safe.
You are okay with the government taking ownership of private companies where you work.
You are okay with your parents and grandparents moving in with you because there is no longer any social safety net.
You are okay with driving a 100 miles or more to the nearest hospital or health care provider.
You are okay with losing your jobs.
You are okay that your mortgage and utilities are past due and you cannot pay them.
You are okay with losing your home, your car, your lifestyle.
You are okay with becoming homeless.
You are okay watching your wife, daughter, sister, mother, lose her life because she cannot get reproductive health care.
You are okay that the next member of your family on the way dies before or during childbirth because of restrictive or banned reproductive health care.
You are okay with being forced to relocate to agricultural states to become field workers.
You are okay with no good-paying union jobs and that unions are being eliminated.
You are okay with working low wages with no benefits, no breaks, no time off, and in poor and unsafe working conditions.
You are okay if your children do not have the opportunity for a good education.
You are okay that only the rich, wealthy kids get to go to college while your children become 2nd and 3rd generation farm and field workers.
You are okay with everyone in this country is an evangelical Christian and goes to your church, believes what you believe, and lives like you tell them.
You are okay if you lose everything in a natural disaster, of becoming homeless because there is no way to rebuild, no disaster relief, no help in finding your lost loved ones.
You are okay that there is no more medical research to help find cures for diseases, new medications for illnesses, or new medical innovations to help people live better lives.
You are okay if the CDC lies to you.
You are okay if the government tells you what to eat, and that you are required to wear a tracking device to ensure you are following health and nutrition requirements from the government.
You are okay with being told who you are and what you can wear and what you can say, who you can love, and how you can act by your government.
You are okay if you are put in jail because you are homeless, do not believe what you were told to believe, do not eat what you are told to eat, wear what you are told to wear, do what you are told to do.
You are okay if the national guard is federalized and begins to surround and patrol your city or community with armed military.
You are okay that you can no longer speak your mind or rely on the news every day to be the truth.
You are okay that when vaccines are taken away that your children die from diseases and viruses come back full force and kill you and your relatives.
You are okay if your neighbor is dragged out of their home or off the street and you never see them again.
You are okay if your husband, wife, family member is deported to some unknown country never to be seen again.
You are okay if only white men who own property and are able to vote.
You are okay with all women staying home to have babies and support their men.
You are okay with disabled, elderly, and anyone else who is not white and male being hidden away, sent away, left to die, or otherwise disappear so you do not have to look at them.
You are okay with being told what bathroom you can use.
You are okay with being told people who do not look like you are scary, eat cats and dogs, and teachers in your children’s schools perform sex change surgeries on your children.
You are okay with being detained by the government without being told why, access to a lawyer, your family knowing where you are, your day in court, some way to gain your freedom.
You are okay with your guns being taken from you.
You are okay with all these things and more because you do not think your government will do them to you so you turn a blind eye or holler “YES!” when these things are done to someone besides you. But, and there is always a “but,” when the current government runs out of people to stain these things with, they will come after you next.
Mike Johnson and the rest of those prayerful Republican Congressmen should do a little prayer circle around their covering up of the Epstein files and what that’s going to mean in the next midterm election.
Newsom can also use this from the New Testament, James 2:14-20
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
I really do want to know,if Mike Johnson is that much of a Christian,that this concept just eluded him after all this time?That faith without works is dead?
So maybe he needs to throw some of those works into his alleged faith,and think about actually saving the lives of these kids.
Evangelicals believe in one thing: taking Jesus as their personal savior. There is no encouragement to do good, because believing in Jesus is all they need. That is why so many of them are selfish and thoughtless.
Many seem to not know that the Letter of James exists. But they should know this: Jesus in Matthew 25 from verse 36 on is pretty clear who gets his reward and who gets punishment. And there's this: “Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’ (Mt 7:15–23)
I think the same thing when these fake Christianists go around loudly proclaiming their"faith",and I like how the King James version puts it,"Depart for me,you workers of iniquity,I never knew you..."They think they're beyond reproach,and have some "cosmic get out of jail free card"and they can do whatever they please to whomever they deem"unworthy".Maybe they should look deep in a mirror to find who's really unworthy.(I judge them based on Matthew 7,"A tree is known by the fruit it bears",in essence,being a"fruit inspector",if you will.)
In honesty,I'd rather hang out with atheists and agnostics,because most of them aren't trying to push their"religion"down one's throat,and figure it's okay to find your own way,in whatever way that fits you.I feel that we're all only human and shouldn't be so hard on people.
I have no issue with God,or Christ,or the Bible.It's these people trying to force it on everyone,and promote a false doctrine,that my problem lies with.I shudder to think some of these crazier ones might try to burn"heretics"at the stake,or worse,if we don't get this sorted out in time.Some of these people genuinely scare the hell out of me.
I freely admit that I'm a foul-mouthed sinner.I do my best to be kind and helpful tho,to"do what I can".It's the least we can do.
I love Newsom’s response of quoting scripture and highlighting the hypocrisy of Republicans to gun violence by always clutching their pearls in horror while simultaneously avoiding any action to prevent gun violence in our schools and public spaces‼️ Newsom is a PATRIOT‼️ Johnson is a PATHETIC human being with no conscience and no backbone posturing as a Christian while making mealy mouthed excuses for his inability to take a stand on the issue.
Ok, Johnson that’s not what he’s saying. He’s saying you can’t just sit back and do nothing but pray. I’m a Christian and praying is essential to our beliefs but action is also needed. You’ve been sitting back and praying for literally years. At some point your prayers need to lead to action. Believing in God isn’t like having a genie who grants your wishes while you sit back and do literally nothing.
Johnson was one of the assholes on the House floor who had a "prayer circle" with hypocrites like pastor-turned-Congressman Mark Harris before deciding to vote for the Big Awful Bill.
All these elected Rs can go F themselves.
I think they forgot about “they will know we are Christians by our love.”
Evangelicals' "love" is obedience to Trump first and foremost.
So ironic that they worship someone who could literally be the Antichrist
And who is now wondering if he will get into heaven.
And wants people to stump up $15 a pop to help him get imto heaven! Has he not heard that,a 'Rich man can no more enter heaven than a camel can get through the eye of a needle' Mathew19.24.
Sadly, far too many Evangelicals seem to miss that part. So many have bought into the "Rapture" and "End Times" and spend hours/years picking apart obscure parts of the Bible that they miss the rather glaring parts where Jesus talks about taking care of their neighbors, regardless of who that neighbor is or where he lives. Even the Old Testament said it was the responsibility of the kings to care for all of their people, and predicted/promised "woe" to those who didn't.
My grandmother was fond of saying “the Lord will provide, but you have to help him!”
My grandfather was fond of saying "Pray in one hand and shit in the other and watch which one fills up first."
He was not fond of fake Christians.
My dad said that to us too!
Your grandma was spot on!
So was Grandpa!
Right, part of the point of prayer is to guide action.
That was always my understanding.
That is an excellent way to put it!!I love it!👍
I have never actually known god to do anything in response to prayer (or anything else) outside of the stories in the bible, and I know that book well, being an evangelical Xtian for 25 years and a non-believer for 15… and an agnostic before all that… I’m 75.
johnson knows exactly what newsom is saying. he also knows he's wrong and he's also a pedophile.
Jesus has nothing to do with maga.
I love it. Any time that a Democrat can get under the skin of these fake ass "Christian" MAGA politicians by calling them out on their BS is fine by me.
Mike Johnson is a hypocrite. Praying only goes so far… it must be followed up with deeds. Newsom, keep pressing those buttons.
By the way, release the Epstein files, MAGA Mike. What is the White House hiding?
We need to see the Epstein files Mike.
yes, and/or we can listen to the women who were children when they were victimized.
We MUST listen to these women and take heed.
Keep asking Johnson "what would Jesus do?" and keep sending him citations from the Bible. Great work, Gavin.
We want SEPARATION of church snd state as the founders wrote.
Newsom and his social team are brilliant and relentless! Totally needed right now.
I find it telling that Speaker Johnson and the MAGA heads put more energy into responding to Gov. Newsom’s remarks than into offering any support for the families impacted by the shooting.
WE THE PEOPLE WANT TO SEE THE UNREDACTED AND ENTIRE CASHE OF EPSTEIN FILES TODAY!! STOP BULLSHITTING AMERICANS!!
As is typical Republican, Mike Johnson took Newsom’s comment out of context. What Newsom was conveying was prayer without action is an empty gesture.
Mike, Newsom is telling you and every republican hypocrite to do SOMETHING Concrete. Praying would be wonderful if it actually accomplished something. To date, schoolchildren are dying. So do SOMETHING!
Remember that MAGA Mike Johnson is "okay" with all these things: Don't give him the time of day as he tries to derail the "real" conversations.
Splatter Them With The Stains of Their Support – Paint All MAGAs With These Stains! Vote them out of office! - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/splatter-them-with-the-stains-of
When the MAGAs vote for a MAGA/GOP Candidate, they are saying they are okay with all the things listed below. The percentage of the population (MAGAs) who approve of and support anything that the current lop-eared morons who run the U.S. government at the moment can plan on getting splattered with the following stains:
You are okay with all of your tax dollars going to the richest of the rich while you pay the bill.
You are okay with your tax dollars paying for fancy vacations for the rich who infest the government.
You are okay with the military taking over the cities, cities you do not live in.
You are okay with protecting pedophiles who are raping and molesting your children.
You are okay with not knowing who these pedophiles are so they can continue to rape and molest our daughters and sons.
You are okay with child sex trafficking not only in our country, but around the world.
You are okay with wars where the aggressor is the victim and the people who are dying from the bombings every day are to blame – they should just knuckle under and be okay with the rest of this list.
You are okay with watching people starve to death and children die without food and healthcare.
You are okay with children being killed by guns in mass shootings while they are in school, at a party, at a club, in a church, in a church school.
You are okay with your neighbors dying from preventable conditions, issues, and diseases because they have no health insurance and cannot afford health care.
You are okay that it may be you without health care dying of preventable conditions, issues, and diseases because you have no health insurance and cannot afford health care.
You are okay with your child dying of a preventable disease because there is no vaccine available to you any longer.
You are okay with prices going up due to tariffs and inflation.
You are okay with empty shelves on stores.
You are okay with your government breaking laws and grifting and extorting money from you and other countries to line their own pockets.
You are okay with poisoned water, polluted air, and polluted grounds under you and your children.
You are okay with 5-10 recalls per month for food, drugs, and consumer products that are no longer safe.
You are okay with the government taking ownership of private companies where you work.
You are okay with your parents and grandparents moving in with you because there is no longer any social safety net.
You are okay with driving a 100 miles or more to the nearest hospital or health care provider.
You are okay with losing your jobs.
You are okay that your mortgage and utilities are past due and you cannot pay them.
You are okay with losing your home, your car, your lifestyle.
You are okay with becoming homeless.
You are okay watching your wife, daughter, sister, mother, lose her life because she cannot get reproductive health care.
You are okay that the next member of your family on the way dies before or during childbirth because of restrictive or banned reproductive health care.
You are okay with being forced to relocate to agricultural states to become field workers.
You are okay with no good-paying union jobs and that unions are being eliminated.
You are okay with working low wages with no benefits, no breaks, no time off, and in poor and unsafe working conditions.
You are okay if your children do not have the opportunity for a good education.
You are okay that only the rich, wealthy kids get to go to college while your children become 2nd and 3rd generation farm and field workers.
You are okay with everyone in this country is an evangelical Christian and goes to your church, believes what you believe, and lives like you tell them.
You are okay if you lose everything in a natural disaster, of becoming homeless because there is no way to rebuild, no disaster relief, no help in finding your lost loved ones.
You are okay that there is no more medical research to help find cures for diseases, new medications for illnesses, or new medical innovations to help people live better lives.
You are okay if the CDC lies to you.
You are okay if the government tells you what to eat, and that you are required to wear a tracking device to ensure you are following health and nutrition requirements from the government.
You are okay with being told who you are and what you can wear and what you can say, who you can love, and how you can act by your government.
You are okay if you are put in jail because you are homeless, do not believe what you were told to believe, do not eat what you are told to eat, wear what you are told to wear, do what you are told to do.
You are okay if the national guard is federalized and begins to surround and patrol your city or community with armed military.
You are okay that you can no longer speak your mind or rely on the news every day to be the truth.
You are okay that when vaccines are taken away that your children die from diseases and viruses come back full force and kill you and your relatives.
You are okay if your neighbor is dragged out of their home or off the street and you never see them again.
You are okay if your husband, wife, family member is deported to some unknown country never to be seen again.
You are okay if only white men who own property and are able to vote.
You are okay with all women staying home to have babies and support their men.
You are okay with disabled, elderly, and anyone else who is not white and male being hidden away, sent away, left to die, or otherwise disappear so you do not have to look at them.
You are okay with being told what bathroom you can use.
You are okay with being told people who do not look like you are scary, eat cats and dogs, and teachers in your children’s schools perform sex change surgeries on your children.
You are okay with being detained by the government without being told why, access to a lawyer, your family knowing where you are, your day in court, some way to gain your freedom.
You are okay with your guns being taken from you.
You are okay with all these things and more because you do not think your government will do them to you so you turn a blind eye or holler “YES!” when these things are done to someone besides you. But, and there is always a “but,” when the current government runs out of people to stain these things with, they will come after you next.
Excellent!
Mike Johnson and the rest of those prayerful Republican Congressmen should do a little prayer circle around their covering up of the Epstein files and what that’s going to mean in the next midterm election.
If there is a mid term election
GO-GAVIN-GO!!!!!!!
Newsom can also use this from the New Testament, James 2:14-20
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
I was just reading this very passage!
I really do want to know,if Mike Johnson is that much of a Christian,that this concept just eluded him after all this time?That faith without works is dead?
So maybe he needs to throw some of those works into his alleged faith,and think about actually saving the lives of these kids.
Evangelicals believe in one thing: taking Jesus as their personal savior. There is no encouragement to do good, because believing in Jesus is all they need. That is why so many of them are selfish and thoughtless.
Many seem to not know that the Letter of James exists. But they should know this: Jesus in Matthew 25 from verse 36 on is pretty clear who gets his reward and who gets punishment. And there's this: “Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.’ (Mt 7:15–23)
I think the same thing when these fake Christianists go around loudly proclaiming their"faith",and I like how the King James version puts it,"Depart for me,you workers of iniquity,I never knew you..."They think they're beyond reproach,and have some "cosmic get out of jail free card"and they can do whatever they please to whomever they deem"unworthy".Maybe they should look deep in a mirror to find who's really unworthy.(I judge them based on Matthew 7,"A tree is known by the fruit it bears",in essence,being a"fruit inspector",if you will.)
In honesty,I'd rather hang out with atheists and agnostics,because most of them aren't trying to push their"religion"down one's throat,and figure it's okay to find your own way,in whatever way that fits you.I feel that we're all only human and shouldn't be so hard on people.
I have no issue with God,or Christ,or the Bible.It's these people trying to force it on everyone,and promote a false doctrine,that my problem lies with.I shudder to think some of these crazier ones might try to burn"heretics"at the stake,or worse,if we don't get this sorted out in time.Some of these people genuinely scare the hell out of me.
I freely admit that I'm a foul-mouthed sinner.I do my best to be kind and helpful tho,to"do what I can".It's the least we can do.
I love Newsom’s response of quoting scripture and highlighting the hypocrisy of Republicans to gun violence by always clutching their pearls in horror while simultaneously avoiding any action to prevent gun violence in our schools and public spaces‼️ Newsom is a PATRIOT‼️ Johnson is a PATHETIC human being with no conscience and no backbone posturing as a Christian while making mealy mouthed excuses for his inability to take a stand on the issue.
Difficult to get under the skin of a reptile.