{"id":8943,"date":"2024-01-22T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:48:12","slug":"gods-little-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8943","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Little Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mike Johnson has only been Speaker of the House for a short period of time and it already looks like he may not be long for the job. This bible-thumper actually reached across the aisle and came up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/01\/18\/house-republican-hardliners-revenge-mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"funding bill to avoid a government shutdown which left the raving lunatics of the GOP foaming at the mouth.  (opens in a new tab)\">funding bill to avoid a government shutdown which left the raving lunatics of the GOP foaming at the mouth. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have no sympathy for this person. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"He's an open christian nationalist who wants nothing more than to turn this country into a theocracy. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/177474\/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-seen-coming\" target=\"_blank\">He&#8217;s an open christian nationalist who wants nothing more than to turn this country into a theocracy.<\/a> Not only that, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"he's a creationist (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ncse.ngo\/how-mike-johnson-helped-open-door-creationism-louisiana-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s a creationist<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"believes in the rapture (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/sierra\/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-holds-extreme-views-climate-change-and-science\" target=\"_blank\">believes in the rapture<\/a>.  Like we&#8217;ve said before, if you believe that nonsense you should be permanently banned from the corridors of power. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"He has openly opined that he thinks God wanted him to be Speaker. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2023\/10\/27\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-evangelical\/\" target=\"_blank\">He has openly opined that he thinks God wanted him to be Speaker.<\/a> Sound familiar? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"George W. Bush said that God wanted him to be President (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2003\/nov\/02\/usa.religion\" target=\"_blank\">George W. Bush said that God wanted him to be President<\/a> and now <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"evangelical whack jobs have produced a propaganda video proclaiming that God created TFG to be President (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/trump-shares-bizarre-biblical-video-120428853.html\" target=\"_blank\">evangelical whack jobs have produced a propaganda video proclaiming that God created TFG to be America&#8217;s &#8216;Caretaker&#8217;<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We think that sanctimonious Mike Johnson bears a striking resemblance to another little bible thumper from the &#8217;60s: little Davey from the <em>Davey and Goliath<\/em> stop motion claymation puppet show that preached the bible to kids every Sunday morning. Little Davey, along with his dog Goliath and his holier-than-thou family shoved their religion down every child&#8217;s throat. Just watch some of these old shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/tv-shows\/467665\/s01-e11-lost-episode-the-polka-dot-tie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"especially the 'lost episode' about the Polka Dot Tie (opens in a new tab)\">especially the &#8216;lost episode&#8217; about the Polka Dot Tie<\/a>. The cringe is massive. And now America has a little Davey second in line for the Presidency. May Zeus help us all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikejohnsondaveyseparatedatbirth.jpg\" alt=\"Republican Speaker of the House and christian nationalist Mike Johnson bears a striking resemblance to animated clay bible thumper Davey from the Davey and Goliath show of the 1960s and even has vowed to shove his religion down everyone's throat just like Davey.\" class=\"wp-image-8946\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikejohnsondaveyseparatedatbirth.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mikejohnsondaveyseparatedatbirth-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Republican Speaker of the House and christian nationalist Mike Johnson bears a striking resemblance to animated clay bible thumper Davey from the <em>Davey and Goliat<\/em>h show of the 1960s and even has vowed to shove his religion down everyone&#8217;s throat just like Davey.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Johnson has only been Speaker of the House for a short period of time and it already looks like he may not be long for the job. This bible-thumper actually reached across the aisle and came up with a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown which left the raving lunatics of the GOP &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God&#8217;s Little Puppet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,2320,8,68,85,963,3,2307,1762,198],"tags":[1542,252,22,2485,2486,914,915,319,9,992,2484,1887,1834,98,596,296,1781,189,188,19,1180,2030,1638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}