Newsom exposing Speaker Johnson's mealymouth.

[Swede]

[Sneederbunk]

1. Johnson has dirty deeds.

[Martin Eden]

9. Done dirt cheap

Considering he had to trade his soul for whatever he may have gained.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Yes...Newsom knows: don't shrink from their fake righteousness

Punch them in the fucking face.

Bravo!

[johnnyfins]

3. They dont know or give a flying shit about

the book that anchors their belief.

FUCK THEM. Devils.

[paleotn]

4. That will leave a mark!

Turning their own scriptures against them makes them lose their shit. It's funny to watch.

[calimary]

5. Speaker Mike - NOBODY is mocking the power of prayer.

I bet you can't even find that Scriptural passage for yourself.

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. The "good book" is only as good as the person reading it. Think about it.

[soldierant]

10. G K Chesterton wrote a Father Brown story about exactly that.

"The Sign of the Broken Sword."

[Buddyzbuddy]

15. That's interesting, I've neither read nor heard about it prior to your mention, thank you.

It just occurred to me after I read the original post.

[soldierant]

29. I have all the Father Brown in one volume, but Ithink

the last time I looked it up to be accurate about the quote that sims it up, it was on Gutenberg.-

[Buddyzbuddy]

30. Thank you.

[Paladin]

7. Oh, fuckin' BULLSEYE, Gavin Newsom! Amen! (nt)

[pfitz59]

8. Newsom said nothing about 'prayer'

He talks of 'deeds'. Johnson tries to divert.

[soldierant]

11. I don't think that is

Newsom's statement and Johnson's reply. I think it is Johnson's statement and Newsom's reply.

[BidenRocks]

20. Time stamps would fix that.

I get mixed on which was first at times.

It isn't always obvious.

[patphil]

12. People who're in a position to make change, but don't, and use "thoughts and prayers" as a cover are dispicable.

We've had a gun problem in the US for a long time now, and it isn't getting any better through "thoughts and prayers".
Action to remove guns from the equation is long over due.
There are nearly 1.5 guns for every person in the country. It's easier to get a gun than to get a license to drive a car.
Maybe guns don't kill people, but people with guns do.
Although we are only 10th in rate of murder, only Mexico exceeds the United States in the total number of deliberate murders.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/murder-rate-by-country

The closest European nation is France at 21st.

[BComplex]

28. I've really wondered how all of those guns haven't been brought out by the insanity

that has taken over the white house. I mean, I'm glad we aren't having a civil war, but in a nation of so many guns, how is this government getting away with all this bullshit without a shot fired?

[soldierant]

13. Faith and Works. One of thebiggest, if not the biggest,

theological disagreements among Christians. James often gets quoted (and the quote is somewhat longer and more detailed than Newsom's quote). So does Matthew 25 and parallel passages. I ran across a non-Scriptural quotation somewhere - I think it was from Thomas Merton (emphasis mine only for clarification):

It it not faith OR works.
It is not faith AND works.
It is faith THAT works.
If you see a meditation going by, shoot it.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Maybe when (if) this all settles down, Newsom's coms shop can . . . . .

. . . . . take over the writer's room ar SNL

[70sEraVet]

16. If you see a child drowning and you know how swim,

But you stay on the shore praying -- what do you say to that child's parents?
I don't think they want to hear your BS about the power of prayer!

[Cirsium]

18. Blasphemy!

You are mocking the power of prayer!

Johnson knows that he is lying. Lying for Jesus! Democrats are not mocking the power of prayer. He certainly knows that they aren't.

[SocialDemocrat61]

23. This reminds me of the story of

The priest on the roof. When his town was flooding, a priest climbed on to the roof of his church. Soon some people in a boat, “Get in Father. We’ll save you”. “No need. Save someone else. God will protect me.” A few hours later another boat comes by but again the priest refuses to get in saying, “God will protect me”. Finally a helicopter comes and offers to save the priest but again he refuses saying, “God will protect me”. Well the priest drowns and goes to heaven. There he says to God, “Why? I counted on you to protect me”. God says, “You idiot! Why do you think I sent you two boats and a helicopter?”

[Upthevibe]

17. Kick. N/T

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. John Kerry pissed off the right when he quoted that chapter

Though I believe he said "Faith without works is dead".

James 2:14-26

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by [my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made [d]perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

[Blue Owl]

21. Advantage Newsom

[GoCubsGo]

22. Oh, come on now!

He has an app on his phone that monitors his porn viewing, and snitches on him to his son. Isn't that enough of a "deed"?

[PatSeg]

24. Hey Mike! I believe in the power of prayer,

but damn, you're still in congress!

[Oppaloopa]

25. That used to be one of my favorite scriptures. Lets continue

Faith without works is dead

[SheltieLover]

26. Kick

[Faux pas]

27. GO GAVIN!