Johnson then wrote that he worries that “our culture has fallen so far” since the United States’ founding in 1776. “I fear America may be beyond redemption,” he adds.Since 1776? The year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence? I would think America got quite a bit better since then. I can think of just a few things that have made it better like:
- 1787 Creation and signing of the US Constitution including that 1st Amendment including the words “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
- 1865 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States
- 1870 15th Amendment granting black men the right to vote.
- 1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote and was ratified by the states
If Mike Johnson sees these things as a decline of the United States since the Declaration of Independence, he is saying he is seeing other besides white men gaining the ability to vote as a bad thing.
Republicans, your chosen Speaker of the House sees the Constitution of the United States as a negative thing!
Back in the good ol’ days where you were committed to a mental institution if found masterbating.
If you were a man. Women were committed over far less
Pretty sure in the 1700’s if they though you were cuckoo, they just strung you up from a tree
Probably that, too.
The thing is about 20 years ago I toured a preserved colonial town in New England (I forget the name, it was in Virginia) and there was a book on display which was an inpatient log for a mental ward. And some of the entries’ reason for admission was “masterbation”.
Colonial Williamsburg?
Good question, not sure. I don’t even remember what was nearby.
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Could be, but then all English towns looked the same back then. I don’t remember any buildings quite that big though.
If it was Virginia, it was either Jamestown or Williamsburg most likely.
Depends. If you were crazy and they thought you were harmful, then probably yes. They also had sanitariums.
It was also not densely populated. It was pretty easy to simply banish someone and they would just fuck off to be on their own.
Now we get people doctorbating unpunished.
I mean tbf his ilk are really yearning for those articles of confederation days now that the tide on federation is beginning a grindingly slow turn against them
Something the sheer degree to which Millennials and Gen Z have embraced the cause of Palestine is probably putting into an extremely sharp focus as of late.
Seriously, who can possibly be so invested in the personal lives and relationships of others?
I genuinely don’t understand how you can waste your time with that amount of hate.
It’s extremism, plain and simple. Live the life you want and let others live theirs.
Be kind. Support one another despite any differences we may have. Seriously, WTF?
I honestly don’t understand who votes for this guy because they believes that he represents them. 
The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.
If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn’t think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.
The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.
I honestly see it the other way around: bigots find sanctuary in places where critical thought is absent from the conversation. Its easier to push any agenda you want if the dogma is to take your leadership’s word on faith alone. Being “religious” and invoking the name of god is being used here like a cheat code to get access to hearts and minds.
If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn’t think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.
Sorry that’s not really possible. There is an alternative: mild schizophrenia for the company and dissociative disorder for the pain are the best we can do around here.
It’s funny, because their imaginary friend explicitly tells them not to be hateful bigots. Many times
They don’t actually belive in God. They just need an excuse to be shitty people because they know damn well they’re shitty people.
Disagree. You can find plenty of scriptures that pushes for bigotry judgemental viewpoints
In the old testament or new testament? Because Jesus was all about love and acceptance of your fellow humans.
You can’t be a Christian and say that you hate people because you’re a Christian.
Because Jesus was all about love and acceptance of your fellow humans.
Except when he was rebuking a person for having leprosy, wouldn’t heal a child until her mother groveled at his feet and called herself a racial slur, specifically told people that he would be an instrument of strife and anger, and spoke in parables so that people would not understand and go to hell. Here is a fun fact, every single time Jesus is mentioned in Matthew with more than one other person in the scene someone has a sword. I get it, you cherry picked a bit of John and Luke but if you sit down and read the thing cover-to-cover he is totally different.
Oh should we also mention Paul? You know the other guy in the NT. The man who gets credit for about 60% of the text. Tell me what did he say about what happens to gay people again or people who don’t give enough charity or who enjoy sex.
The fuck
Hmm?
Detective Miller from the expanse…doors and corners…sorry been listening to the audio books.
Know what I haven’t done yet? Re-read those books. I should do something about that.
Listening to the audiobooks right now, they’re great
Personally I’d rather have Six from BSG than Scorpius if I’m given options for a guest in my head.
What? All she has is looks and paranoia. Mind Scorpio is freaken smart, can override pain signals, and wake you up from a concussion to save your life. Plus he wears a Hawaiian shirt over BDSM leather somehow making it work.
Didn’t imaginary Scorpy still keep trying to get John to turn himself in or get himself killed?
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the show.
The Hawaiian shirt gag is never not funny though, that’s just the truth.
He did for a while and then he sorta went rogue and betrayed Scropy prime. If I remember correctly.
The Scorpius in John’s head was caused by a neural chip that Real!Scorpius implanted. That’s the one that kept trying to betray John, because his goal was to get the wormhole technology and give it to Real!Scorpius. John eventually has the chip removed but an echo of Scorpius was left in his brain, who John learns he can summon at will. This echo learns than he likes living and that helping John is the best way to do that, so eventually they start cooperating.
Oh, and John named him “Harvey.”
Yeps. Sorry been years since I watched it. That’s what I want, can someone sell me that? I could offload some work to it.
It’s probably getting close to time for a re-watch, I’ve forgotten a lot of details.
Yes, Harvey, I forgot about that hilarious bit. Chriton was at his best when he was crazy 🤪
Okay, let’s see “God” come on down and do that. Until then I’m gonna continue being “depraved” fucking nut jobs.
He should go to Afghanistan. Our shit says “we the people.” That’s a formal acknowledgment that God is not coming to govern for us.
In fact, established religion at the time generally supported monarchs. A monarchy gets its legitimacy from God at the ordination / coronation. The monarch needs the support of the church because they are supposed to be at least “chosen by God”, if not divine themselves.
How can he be anti-gay when he has Trump’s cock in his mouth and ass 24/7?
To be fair, he can barely feel it.
If god was real, the sky would open up and he’d smush this stupid fuck for using his namesake to spread lies, fear, and bullshit
Actually god told me that he hates Mike Johnson because his last name means penis and that’s fucking gay.
My 13-year-old daughter like girls much more than boys.
I’m fucking terrified that he’s in power.
Maybe God is punishing us because we elect imbeciles.
This seems more likely to me
To be fair if this is true this is kinda on us.
And as always the innocent suffer for it.
But then they get double rewards points in heaven.
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Conservatives do not value the lives of humans and animals the way normal people do. They delight in the misery of the vulnerable. You can see this in their jokes and entertainment. Cruelty is a core trait of a conservative.
Violence is also part of the conservative ideology. If we are not actively training to resist them, they will oppress and kill millions of innocent normal people. A plague of conservatism has never been cured by pacifism. Do your part. Train and prepare now before that option disappears.
Get these fucking mentally ill cunts out of politics! These idiots believe in magic and mean to force their irrational shit upon us all!
Considering LGBTQ+ is a protected group in the USA, surely the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s comments are tantamount to criminal harassment if not hate motivated harassment.
Considering LGBTQ+ is a protected group in the USA
[citation needed]
As far as I understand, the US “Equality Act” fizzled out the last time it tried to make its way through the US parliament. That would codify LGBTQ+ protections into actual law in the US. The closest thing I can find is a Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ protections are covered under the Civil Rights Act in Bostock v. Clayton County, but the Supreme Court is a fickle beast, and I doubt they would rule the same way today if it were challenged again.
We don’t have hate crimes. That’s not a concept that exists legally. As for harrassment, I don’t think it’d stand in court, and good luck suing the Speaker of the House
Christians make God sound like such a nice guy who totally deserves worship!
Is this “god” in the room with us right now?
OOOooh punish me sky daddy
