“I’ll tell you a secret, since media is not here. Thank you for not allowing the media in. Look, I’m a Southern Baptist, I don’t wanna get too spooky on you, But, you know, the Lord speaks to your heart.
“The Lord began to wake me up, through this three-week process, in the middle of night to speak to me. The Lord impressed upon my heart a few weeks before this happened that something was going to occur.
“And the Lord very specifically told me in my prayers to prepare, but to wait. At the time, I assumed the Lord was going to choose a new Moses and thank you, Lord, you’re going to allow me to be Aaron to Moses.
“I had this sense that we were going to come to a Red Sea moment in our Republican conference and in the county at large. God had been speaking to me about this, and the Lord told me very clearly to prepare and be ready.
“Ultimately 13 people ran for the post. And the Lord kept telling me to, ‘Wait, wait, wait.’ So I waited, I waited. And then at the end the Lord said, ‘Now step forward.’
“Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron. ‘No,’ the Lord said, ‘Step forward.’” – Mike Johnson, speaking last night to the far-right National Association of Christian Lawmakers.
This man is a true believer. True believers do not compromise anything that goes against what they believe their religion tells them. This man is far more dangerous than Donald Trump, who is simply a grifter and was in it for himself. This guy thinks the gods have ordained him. Anybody who stands against him is going against God, in his own mind.
LITERAL blasphemy. Like actual, textbook blasphemy. And his sycophants lap it up.
Take the religious pretext away from this statement and you have textbook mental illness. Dude is on stage in front of all of our elected representatives saying he’s listening to the voices inside his head and they are guiding his actions.
Even with the religious context it’s crazy talk.
Random question: How come God always agrees with these loons in whatever kooky-ass shit they pray to Him about? Why does he never respond, “Lol, no, that’s dumb.”?
Because their religion only serves to validate their shitty ideas that they already had.
Because the people who think God told them “naw fam” usually don’t follow through with their insane ideas.
The ol selection bias, good call
In a more rational time, he’d be diagnosed with delusional psychosis and locked in a mental asylum. Today, he speaker of the House of Representatives.
He’s definitely a delusional psycho, but it turns out that isn’t a dealbreaker for today’s Republican party.
Cool how about you and all your followers go wander around in the desert for 40 years.
Barry fucking Goldwater knew these kinds of people were trying to take over his party, and he for sure wasn’t a Democrat.
“Frankly these people frighten me. Politics demands compromise. These people believe they’re acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried dealing with them.”.
This is why my personal opinion about religion is the same as my opinion about paranoid schizophrenia, the only difference being that religion is a trained behaviour. Fuck all parents who willingly expose children to brainwashing.
Those who believe tend to fight harder for a lie.
What exactly does he mean by being Moses and America’s “red sea moment?” Are the liberals, FBI, and the people prosecuting Trump the Egyptians? So, Johnson has been chosen to lead Republicans to safety, and kill the liberals, FBI, and prosecutors?
Pretty much. Conservatives nowadays see themselves as perpetual victims. They are being oppressed by the liberals because society doesn’t bend to every conservative whim. They are being victimized because people other than straight, white, Christian men have a say in society’s functioning.
Johnson is stretching this imagined victimization into “we’re essentially slaves to the liberals who are just like the Egyptians in the Bible!”
It’s idiotic and 100% wrong, but it sounds good to some on the right who whine that they don’t run everything anymore.
“The Communists want a dictatorship and want to change your life, ruin your families, and turn all the kids gay! Forcing people is bad! That’s why we need to install Trump as God-Leader forever, lock up teachers, force kids to be straight, and
indoctrinateeducate our Christian Nation the Right way! They’re not the same they’re Fascistactic Ideas™!”MAGA morons: “hurdur Democrats dictators, we need a Republican dictator!”
Worse, the Egyptians paid the pyramid builders. They weren’t slaves, they were highly paid artisans.
Christians can’t even get basic history accurate.
Also, no, Noah wasn’t real and he didn’t put every animal on earth on a wooden boat.
Trump, Mike Johnson and their followers will walk down to the Rio Grande, separate the waters, cross, and establish their own Israel-like state in Mexico, thus fulfilling the prophecy that Irony is officially dead, and satirical publications around the world will collapse into a singularity under the weight of reality, engulfing the earth as a first plague to be released. The second plague will be a yogurt.
“Sometimes when I want to do something, I get really quiet, and in the stillness, I hear that voice inside of me that always says ‘Do whatever you want. It’s always justified.’”
jesus…
I’m so sorry americans
Any other western country he’d be laughed out of existence. I know for a fact no british politician would live this down.
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Dude, it’s their go to for anything.
And have you noticed how whatever God told them is almost always for their own personal benefit? It’s almost never to give away or sell everything they own and distribute it to the poor.
It’s almost like they are thinking these things up all on their own, lol.
Exactly
If it works, don’t change the playbook.
god didn’t choose you and republicans only did after everyone else bombed out you delusional monster
Fuck this imbecile.
This moron probably believes in Santa in addition to sky daddy. Complete waste of skin.
He’s going to part the red sea of republicans?
I want him to take his people and wander the desert for 40 years.
I want to get into his dreams all Inception-like and convince him that Greenland is the new Israel.
Maybe the voices will have him set fire to George W. Bush and then have a long walk into the Red Sea.
