Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.
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Dude really pulled the “divine right” card huh?
The French invented a wonderful device to cure sufferers of the divine right delusion:
Leaders claiming divinity leave the proletariat no choice but to demand proof
Fortunately it’s a testable hypothesis
If the head comes off, your claim is coiffe
It’s spelled covfefe
so thats what bile tastes like
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It’s a multinational crime syndicate masquerading as a political party.
You know, 80 years ago, we used to kill Nazis. Well, until we let the smart ones who built rockets and bombs come live here.
They were inspired by our fascists. Bringing them here change things so little that even the number of fascists overall in the United States and barely had a bump in their growth.
Sadly, true.
A lot of Nazis, the high ranking ones, fucked off to Venezuela and other places when they saw the end in sight and knew their necks were on the line (literally in some cases) if caught. I can imagine some used their stolen wealth to continue that brand of hate for the last 80+ years. “The smart ones” were intentionally sabotaging the Nazi war effort and defecting to the Allies with information on the Nazis’ attempts at nuclear weapons. A lot of those scientists were never allowed to leave or live past the end of the war in Nazi Germany.
I feel like even the smart ones who built rockets and bombs saw us killing nazis and were like “yeah that’s probably for the best”
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Well, at least we’re not killing it in the womb—the only unacceptable place to kill things. Let’s just deprive it of education and healthcare.
Let’s just deprive it of education
Already done.
Ok that gave me a chuckle, nicely written
I read that in John Stewart’s voice.
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That’s exactly what Jerry Falwell said to Reagan. And it’s worked out beautifully. Millions of people brainwashed since childhood to blindly obey a male authority figure.
You joke, but in the UK we are literally lorded over by a family that claims god chose them to rule over us, and we all just have to go along with it. And it isn’t just passive acceptance, I’ve seen people unironically support it (E: not just royalty, but the actual “chosen by god” part).
Indoctrination is a hell of a drug, and the US is heavy on it, there are entire populations made deliberately vulnerable to exactly this brand of bullshit.
For sure. They feed it to us here in the US pretty much every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Yeah, “god save the king” is peanuts compare to the whole ultra nationalist zombie like daily vow of allegiance, it’s so creepy.
(to be clear, fuck our thing too, it’s obviously enough to work, it’s survived hundreds of years so far)
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Yeah? He sure took his sweet fucking time as well, didn’t he? Oh, right. “Mysterious ways.”
…no
He did it. He said the magic words that turn on a neverending money tap from “christian” conservatives who aren’t smart enough to tell when they’re getting grifted.
Well, that’s because they’ve been indoctrinated since birth into a cult that exists to gift people.
Christofascist says what?
Deus vult.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Well, clearly burning bush, Jewish zombie, eternal damnation, Therefore I’m God wants me to be in power. Because reasons. QED.
Nutjob.
yeah? and so he’s a republican. what else ya got, none of this is surprising, and after the last 7 years, in any way any more frightening than it’s been to this point. we vote democrat, and we tell our friends and family to vote democrat, and we hope we can hold the line, and push it back a bit. i mean, we lost roe. what american women are doing going to work, raising families, going home to prepare meals, and just you know going on with their lives when the fundamental right to ownership over their own reproductive systems was legislated away, is beyond beyond understanding.
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There was it was in 2016 when people thought Hillary was crooked.
RBG’s legacy.
Suppose it was worth the delay to get a truley shitty choice. What the hell, guys?
Democrats should name all their laws after the Bible. Eye of the Needle bill: wealth tax and just demagogue that we need to pass this to save American souls. Mark 1:40 bill: universal healthcare
It wouldn’t work since none of the GOP has ever read the Bible.
It’s a great idea but unfortunately it has some significant flaws.
First, I imagine quite a lot of the Christianity in American politics is performative. The politicians could just hand wave away the passages and say “That’s not what Jesus meant, he personally told me so”.
The fundamentalists suckers would believe them and vote for them even harder and the ones that are drawn to religion for the excuse to abuse people won’t care as long as their abusive itches get scratched.
The other problem is that if it did work, it’s comes across as more than a little Christofascist.
The far-right and religious “in it for abuse” crowds would take to it like flies to dog shit and the bible has some horrific stuff in it that you’d definitely never want becoming law.
Better to just pry fundamentalists and neoliberals from power so all they can do is seethe while progressives pass these kinds of laws. With genuine end times just around the corner, time is a factor.
The biggest flaw is democrats have too much tact. They couldn’t possibly offend the people trying to oppress their constitutes.
Republicans will always find a way. Even if it contradicts what they just said a minute prior. You’re not gonna stop suckers from going along with ppl using them for power/money. We should just take the win.
a lot of the Christianity in American politics is performative
That’s the point. Break suspension of disbelief and see the stage crumble.
“The I Stand to be Counted as the Faithful of the Lord Spending and Appropriations Bill will now be voted on.”
Take my Lemmy Lemon 🍋
When lemmy gives you lemons, make lemmy-nades! 💣
I legitimately and unironically would support this initiative. It’s a good idea.
Vote YES on Joshua 6:25 and Ezekiel 23:20!
I’ve been saying this for a long time. I genuinely think this would yield better results.
It’s an incredibly good idea. Is this the way?
Pack it up lemmys, we’ve done it.
ETA: bois to lemmys for inclusion :)
:3
We did it lemmy!
I can’t describe how much I like this idea.
