Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?
3 years ago by Captain_Patchy to c/politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson has three flags hanging outside his office: the American flag, the Louisiana state flag, and a flag representing a movement that wants to turn the United States into a religious Christian nation.
and the evidence, let's not forget the evidence.
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?!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because he can't get away with flying a confederate or nazi flag?
Can't he?
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.
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."
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.
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...
"Why are these cockroaches under this rock?!"
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.”
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.
be me
live in suburban area of American major city
want to fight the government(?)
with a gun(?)
open front door
see woman walking her dog
take pot shots in the air
she runs away
freedom secured
mission successful go home everyone
you want to make this christofascist nutbag into a martyr for their cause? yuuuck
you do you, threatening murder just drags you down to the shitheel's level. never be afraid to defend yourself, but fuck assassinating politicians.
Mike Johnson is a future traitor
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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.
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