Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?

Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world – 415 points – Why Is Mike Johnson Flying a Christian Nationalist Flag Outside His Office?
newrepublic.com

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.

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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.

Now, now, let's not go jumping to conclusions just because they happen to be based on facts and logic.

and the evidence, let's not forget the evidence.

Hold up there, buddy. That sounds like some of that critical thinking stuff the filthy demonrats keep going on about. We will not stand for that in a God fearing nation!

Get outta here. Feelings don't care about your facts.

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?!!!

The answer is in the question.

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.

Why is it that the article is about this flag, but doesn't have a picture of the flag. This is more upsetting than it should be.

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-kvkPJW4AADuT9?format=jpg&name=large

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.

I like that the Republican answer to losing elections is to double down on the religious crazy and ramp up the purity testing. All of that just makes it even easier to win elections against them.

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.

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

This looks like it was done in Ms paint

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...

Hah! Same thing I thought. Probably has a stash from years ago that he refuses to throw out.

This is gonna have Mike Pence.level.of weirdness

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.” 

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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.