America With A Trump Win

[HipKat]

I keep warning everyone, now it looks like the Republicans will gain back the Senate, if they keep the House and Trump wins, here is a hint what we will be in for - Right Wing Sharia Law

Mike Johnson: ‘Depraved’ America Deserves God’s Wrath

Mike Johnson prays with other lawmakers as the House meets for the fourth day
to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2023

IN AN OCTOBER prayer call hosted by a Christian-nationalist MAGA pastor, Rep. Mike Johnson was troubled that America’s wickedness was inviting God’s wrath.

Talking to pastor Jim Garlow on a broadcast of the World Prayer Network, Johnson spoke ominously of America facing a “civilizational moment.” He said, “The only question is: Is God going to allow our nation to enter a time of judgment for our collective sins? … Or is he going to give us one more chance to restore the foundations and return to Him?”

The segment was filmed Oct. 3, just weeks before Johnson’s unexpected rise to become speaker of the House. Garlow pressed the clean-cut Louisiana congressman to say “more about this ‘time of judgment’ for America.” Johnson replied: “The culture is so dark and depraved that it almost seems irredeemable.” He cited, as supposed evidence, the decline of national church attendance and the rise of LGBTQ youth — the fact, Johnson lamented, that “one-in-four high school students identifies as something other than straight.” 

Discussing the risk of divine retribution, Johnson invoked Sodom, the Old Testament city destroyed by God for its wickedness with a rain of burning sulfur. Johnson is a polished orator, but in a closing prayer with Garlow he grew tearful. Johnson intoned, “We repent for our sins individually and collectively. And we ask that You not give us the judgment that we clearly deserve.”

Remarkably, this was not the first time Johnson brought up his fear of biblical retribution on a broadcast with Garlow. During a WPN appearance last December, Johnson likewise declared that he’d been “burdened” by the need for America to “recognize there’s so much to repent for.” The future speaker elaborated, “We’re violating His commands. We’re inventing new ways to do evil.” He added, “We have to ask ourselves: How long can His mercy and His grace be held back?”

The prayer calls underscore the new House speaker’s alarming alignment with Christian nationalism — the extremist movement that holds America is not a secular democracy but was founded as a Christian nation and should be governed to uphold a fundamentalist morality. They also provide fresh evidence of Johnson’s apocalyptic worldview, in which he sees America as existing in “disastrous, calamitous” times and “hanging by a thread.” It raises questions about whether the Republican, who’s now second in line for the presidency, is leveraging his power not just to avoid a government shutdown, but to appease an angry deity — and avoid a more permanent Heavenly Shutdown.

Pastor Jim Garlow is not a household name, but he’s a national figure. A Christian nationalist based out of the San Diego area, Garlow is viewed as an “apostle” within the New Apostolic Reformation, a strain of Charismatic Christianity that holds that gifts of the spirit — including prophecy — are not biblical bygones, but alive in our time. NAR differentiates itself from other strains of evangelical Christianity in its obsession with earthly power. NAR leaders embrace “dominionism,” the concept that Christians are supposed to rise and rule over “the nations,” in order to bring the globe into a biblical alignment, in preparation for the second coming of Jesus. 

To Garlow, this transformation is to be achieved through the “Seven Mountains Mandate” — with Christians ascending to the tops of seven cultural mountains (also referred to as “spheres of influence”): religion, family, education, media, entertainment, business, and government. “We’re the ones called the disciple the nation,” Garlow has said, teaching on the concept, “and we disciple the nations through those seven spheres of influence.” 

Johnson is a professed Baptist. But the 51-year-old has known Garlow for “two decades or more,” he revealed on a third WPN call from 2021. Johnson calls Garlow a “profound influence” on “my life and my walk with Christ.” Garlow, using similar language, calls Johnson “a special brother.” (Neither the speaker’s office nor Garlow have responded to questions from Rolling Stone.)

In the prayer call videos, Johnson appears unfazed — in fact delighted — by the shofar-bleating theatrics featured on Garlow’s broadcast. NAR Christians not only fetishize the practices of the Old Testament, they believe in spiritual warfare — an ongoing battle between demons and angels that influences current events. Johnson speaks fluently in this faith language on the call. He salutes the “prayer warriors” in the audience, and calls for “supernatural intervention” from God, to “withhold the wrath of our enemies here on the Earth” and also to “restrain The Enemy, the one that prowls around like a roaring lion.” Johnson even offers a special shout-out for “all those who are leading out in the field, in their spheres of influence.”

Matthew Taylor is a religion scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies, as well as an NAR expert who first highlighted Johnson’s links to Garlow. Taylor describes Garlow as “one of the frontline people for the NAR.” But he confesses it is challenging to know what to make of Johnson’s invocation of the movement’s argot. “Is he speaking the local vernacular when he’s hanging out with Jim Garlow? Does he really believe in spiritual warfare? I don’t know. Jim Garlow really believes this stuff.” 

Taylor leaves open the possibility that Johnson’s embrace of NAR rhetoric may be more like religious pandering. “He seems to be signaling that he sees himself in affiliation or an alliance with them,” Taylor says, emphasizing that such outreach has paid off in the embrace Johnson has received from NAR leaders since becoming Speaker. “They very much see Johnson as somebody who is with them and their agenda,” Taylor says.

Now in his mid-70s, Garlow describes himself as having received a “governmental annointing” when he was just a child, and has long preached politics from the pulpit. In 2008, he played a leading role in promoting the passage of Prop 8 — a California initiative, rooted in anti-gay bigotry that for a time outlawed same-sex marriages in the state. In 2010, he joined on as chairman of a Newt Gingrich project called Renewing American Leadership, dedicated to “preserving” America’s “Judeo-Christian heritage.” In 2018, Garlow departed his megachurch to focus on a new project, Well Versed, a group dedicated to ministering to members of Congress and the United Nations. The ministry carries an overtly Christian nationalist message, insisting that politics “need to conform to God’s Word, since He is the one who established government and establishes nations.” 

Johnson and Garlow are fellow travelers in many key respects — including in that they’re both unabashed Trump boosters and election deniers. Johnson first won office in the 2016 election, the same year Trump took the presidency, and infamously helped propagate the Big Lie about the 2020 election from inside Capitol Hill. Garlow was part of a small circle of pastors around Trump during his administration, even laying hands on the president during Oval Office prayer. In November 2020, Garlow penned an op-ed for Charisma News endorsing Trump, writing, “God has put him in this position at this time. We need to keep him there.” 

In the December aftermath of that election, Garlow was the lead author of an open letter to Trump declaring that “God’s ordained assignment remains unfinished,” because “God’s will is for you to serve for a second term.” The letter concluded with a prophetic call for vengeance: “Mr. President, the Lord is telling you to pursue the enemies of our Republic. Our enemies are God’s enemies. And with the power of God and the global praying church behind you, you shall recover all that the enemies have stolen.” (Separately, Garlow was dismissing the ideology of the incoming Biden-Harris ticket as “anti-Christ, anti-Biblical to its core.”)

During this post-election period, Garlow began a series of “Prayer Calls for Election Integrity” seeking divine intervention to keep Trump in power. These calls became a “hub of gathering, radicalisation, and planning,” recalls Taylor. The calls included borderline-seditious rhetoric in advance of the unrest at the Capitol, including a call by then-Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano for MAGA Republicans to “seize the power” on Jan 6.

Garlow’s calls never stopped when Biden took office. They morphed, instead, into a general-purpose Christian nationalist broadcast now labeled the World Prayer Network, centered on “the Transformation of Nations.” Despite regularly featuring GOP lawmakers, the online description of the broadcast insists it is not about Republicans vs. Democrats, insisting rather: “We ARE about God vs. Satan.” At the beginning of each call, Garlow says he’s seeking “biblical justice as opposed to social justice.”

Johnson’s link to Garlow goes well beyond appearing on these prayer calls. In February, Johnson, Garlow, and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins — whom Johnson says “is like my big brother” — organized a National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance at the National Museum of the Bible. The early-morning event was attended by leading Charismatic figures like the Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn and former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, as well as more than a dozen members of Congress — including then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. 

The doleful day began with a bleat of a ram’s horn and introductory words from Garlow, who welcomed “Americans repenting for the sins of our nation.” Garlow then presented a stark warning, invoking two biblical kingdoms of Israel that he said squandered heavenly favor only to have God “take them out.” America, he suggested, was on that same path: “Present-day Americans do not consider the possibility that God could…” He stopped dramatically asking the assembly to “finish the sentence.” 

Garlow insists that his biblical calling is way past partisanship. But he uses the Bible to blithely support stuff that Republicans want to do anyway. His website insists, for example, that fracking is holy because “energy independence is a biblical issue” and “we are to have dominion over the earth, to ‘subdue’ it, and to ‘steward’ it for the Creator.”

In his conversations with Garlow, Johnson likewise expresses pride that the House GOP’s governing principles — e.g., limited government, “peace through strength,” fiscal responsibility, and free markets — “are the principles of our Creator.” Johnson points to the supposed holiness of the Republican agenda to insist: “That’s why we can be so fervent about it.”

Yet even as he talks up divine support for the American GOP, Johnson makes clear he does not believe that many of his GOP colleagues are true Christians. On the December 2022 call, he relates to listeners how Garlow “asked me the other day, ‘How many do you think you would count as as truly committed Christ followers?’” Johnson reveals his count is less than a quarter of the GOP conference. “I think in the House, I could collect, maybe 45, close to 50 people who I believe [are true] Christ followers, and they live that every day,” Johnson says.

But Johnson is convinced that a small number can accomplish great and Godly things. He speaks at length about a devoted Christian “remnant” — or keepers of the true faith — who can help save America from retribution.

Even here, Johnson is not brimming with confidence. He invokes Sodom, which Abraham tried to salvage by bargaining with God, noting that it would be worth sparing if 10 righteous men could be found there. (Ultimately God only found one righteous family, whom he let flee, before unleashing collective destruction.) “How large is the remnant that He needs?” Johnson asked. “Is it 10 righteous men in Sodom? Is there a remnant that that God would say, OK, I’ll redeem the land?”

Ultimately Johnson voices some optimism that the “remnant” will be big enough — expressing hope that, “He’ll guide us through,” because, “I don’t think God is done with America.” Johnson insists that’s only because of the Godly founding of America. “We are a nation subservient to Him,” he says, adding that “collectively as a nation, we need to turn to Him. We need a revival.”

[HipKat]

Free Country?? Not any longer

Here's some scary stuff. The Heritage Foundation (the organization that puts together binders full of ultra conservative judicial nominees) has assembled this 20 million dollar Project 2025 where they are putting together lists so that in the event Trump wins, they will terminate every federal employee they can and replace them with prescreened MAGA candidates. They realized int heir failed coup that it's not enough to have the presidency and half the elected officials, they need lower level employees on board.

Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.

It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration.

This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.

The actions of liberal politicians in Washington have created a desperate need and unique opportunity for conservatives to start undoing the damage the Left has wrought and build a better country for all Americans in 2025.

It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration. 

This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook.

The project is the effort of a broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government.

The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan era. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.

Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, serves as the director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. Spencer Chretien, former special assistant to the president and associate director of Presidential Personnel, serves as associate director of the project.

[Very Wide Right]

I don't fear religious Americans, heck, they wrote our Constitution. What I do fear is "progressive" leftists and liberals that are cheering on the slaughter of the Jewish population and openly supporting Hamas terrorists. The left is on track to destroy all American norms and the very freedom we have enjoyed as Americans. Trump is a true American hero and by all polls he will be overwhelmingly elected to be President.

[HipKat]

57 minutes ago, Very Wide Right said:

I don't fear religious Americans, heck, they wrote our Constitution. What I do fear is "progressive" leftists and liberals that are cheering on the slaughter of the Jewish population and openly supporting Hamas terrorists. The left is on track to destroy all American norms and the very freedom we have enjoyed as Americans. Trump is a true American hero and by all polls he will be overwhelmingly elected to be President.

91 charges, 4 Indictments - not winning

[RichJ]

1 hour ago, Very Wide Right said:

I don't fear religious Americans, heck, they wrote our Constitution. What I do fear is "progressive" leftists and liberals that are cheering on the slaughter of the Jewish population and openly supporting Hamas terrorists. The left is on track to destroy all American norms and the very freedom we have enjoyed as Americans. Trump is a true American hero and by all polls he will be overwhelmingly elected to be President.

 

Progressives want what's on the left of the picture below.

[HipKat]

5 hours ago, RichJ said:

Progressives want what's on the left of the picture below.

That Dorothy costume! lmao

[Very Wide Right]

16 hours ago, HipKat said:

91 charges, 4 Indictments - not winning

And you don't think those charges are 100% politically motivated? You should be more than concerned that a sitting U.S. president is using a clearly corrupt justice dept. and a corrupt FBI to attack his political foes. Fortunately, the public has seen through this charade and the polls prove it.

[HipKat]

1 hour ago, Very Wide Right said:

And you don't think those charges are 100% politically motivated? You should be more than concerned that a sitting U.S. president is using a clearly corrupt justice dept. and a corrupt FBI to attack his political foes. Fortunately, the public has seen through this charade and the polls prove it.

Are you really this stupid??

Politically motivated??

If Trump didn't try to defraud the IRS by devaluing his properties while defrauding banks by inflating his financial worth, that indictment would not exist. And there is no defending it - it's been proven.

TRUMP did that, not politics.

If Trump did not steal classified documents, try to hide them, like about it, move them so they wouldn't be found then BRAG about having them, THAT indictment would not exist. And there is no defending it - it's been proven.

TRUMP did that, not politics.

If Trump did not call the Georgia AG and try to get him to steal the election in GA for him then have it recorded and released THAT indictment would not exist. And there is no defending it - it's been proven.

TRUMP did that, not politics

And if Trump did not lie about losing the election - something EVERYONE close to him has admitted - with proof - there would not have BEEN a Jan 6th. And there is no defending it - it's been proven.

TRUMP did that and it was TRUMP'S politics that caused it.

Fucking wake the fuck up.

I mean you are literally looking at a blue sky and calling it red.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[Very Wide Right]

Just now, HipKat said:

Are you really this stupid??

Politically motivated??

If Trump didn't try to defraud the IRS by devaluing his properties while defrauding banks by inflating his financial worth, that indictment would not exist. 

TRUMP did that, not politics.

If Trump did not steal classified documents, try to hide them, like about it, move them so they wouldn't be found then BRAG about having them, THAT indictment would not exist.

TRUMP did that, not politics.

If Trump did not call the Georgia AG and try to get him to steal the election in GA for him then have it recorded and released THAT indictment would not exist.

TRUMP did that, not politics

And if Trump did not lie about losing the election - something EVERYONE close to him has admitted - with proof - there would not have BEE Na Jan 6th.

TRUMP did that and it was TRUMP'S politics that caused it.

Fucking wake the fuck up.

I mean you are literally looking at a blue sky and calling it red.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Not 1 thing on this list stands up to 30 seconds of intelligent scrutiny. You are playing the role of a dullard to spread disinformation on behalf of leftist garbage. Wise up!

[HipKat]

12 minutes ago, Very Wide Right said:

Not 1 thing on this list stands up to 30 seconds of intelligent scrutiny. You are playing the role of a dullard to spread disinformation on behalf of leftist garbage. Wise up!

Great scrutinize it - with facts.

I'll wait.....

Meanwhile, all I hear is TrUmP dIdN't Do ThAt....

[Very Wide Right]

Just now, HipKat said:

Great scrutinize it - with facts.

I'll wait.....

Thats your job and I'd advise that you do some research to stop looking ignorant.

[HipKat]

3 minutes ago, Very Wide Right said:

Thats your job and I'd advise that you do some research to stop looking ignorant.

I already did and listed them. 

You're the one saying he's innocent - prove it.

Show us how he didn't do any of the things he's being charged with

 

[Very Wide Right]

9 minutes ago, HipKat said:

I already did and listed them. 

You're the one saying he's innocent - prove it.

Show us how he didn't do any of the things he's being charged with

 

I could EASILY destroy that list however I will not waste my time going back and forth with endless posts because I'm not changing your mind regardless. This is an obvious attempt to damage a political candidate with unprecedented attacks solely from democrat operatives. The players advised voters that "they will get Trump" as campaign promises and they are doing that very thing. You have a right to dislike Trump all you want, that's your right. Don't expect sophisticated people to read the partisan misinformation and not call you out for it.

[RichJ]

3 hours ago, Very Wide Right said:

And you don't think those charges are 100% politically motivated? 

He was loved even by Killary before he ran pub. 

[HipKat]

25 minutes ago, RichJ said:

He was loved even by Killary before he ran pub. 

You mean when Trump was a Democrat and donated millions to her campaign?

Guess that makes him a RINO

[HipKat]

2 hours ago, Very Wide Right said:

I could EASILY destroy that list......

....but you won't because you can't destroy anything that he a, admits to over and over and b, we have actual records and recordings of

[RichJ]

1 hour ago, HipKat said:

You mean when Trump was a Democrat and donated millions to her campaign?

Guess that makes him a RINO

Yup. But what his policies were even more conservative than some pubs. He out Americans FIRST.  Thousands of illegals are living in hotels in time Square while our vets get nothing . 

[HipKat]

1 hour ago, RichJ said:

Yup. But what his policies were even more conservative than some pubs. He out Americans FIRST.  Thousands of illegals are living in hotels in time Square while our vets get nothing . 

Wrong! He puts TRUMP first. This has been testimony by almost ALL his inner circle. Clueless dolt that ONLY cares about being famous and in the spotlight

[RichJ]

4 minutes ago, HipKat said:

Wrong! He puts TRUMP first. This has been testimony by almost ALL his inner circle. Clueless dolt that ONLY cares about being famous and in the spotlight

Unlike you, i can say ALL Politicians put themselves first. Bidens,  Clinton's, Obamas, Bush's.  You have tds which us why you think he's the only one. 

He put Americans first before illegals. You're blinded by your hatred which is why you can see that. 

 

[HipKat]

37 minutes ago, RichJ said:

Unlike you, i can say ALL Politicians put themselves first. Bidens,  Clinton's, Obamas, Bush's.  You have tds which us why you think he's the only one. 

He put Americans first before illegals. You're blinded by your hatred which is why you can see that. 

 

All Politicians aren't showing up at Sporting events, grabbing the spotlight by plopping themselves in the front row. All politicians don't keep themselves in front of a camera as often as possible, nor do they have a brand nor a means to use political influence to make money off that brand

[RichJ]

6 minutes ago, HipKat said:

All Politicians aren't showing up at Sporting events, grabbing the spotlight by plopping themselves in the front row. All politicians don't keep themselves in front of a camera as often as possible, nor do they have a brand nor a means to use political influence to make money off 

 

 

Sheez. Thats because people would scream "Let's go Brandon" if Biden went to a man's event. People will cheer for Biden if he attended an antifa or lgbtq  gathering. 

That's a stupid example of someone being all about himself. 

[HipKat]

1 hour ago, RichJ said:

 

 

Sheez. Thats because people would scream "Let's go Brandon" if Biden went to a man's event. People will cheer for Biden if he attended an antifa or lgbtq  gathering. 

That's a stupid example of someone being all about himself. 

So that UAW picket line he walked in? oh yeah, you're side hates Unions

[RichJ]

31 minutes ago, HipKat said:

So that UAW picket line he walked in? oh yeah, you're side hates Unions

What does that have to do with presidents warching sports on the front row? Look at Obama and Michael. 

 

[RichJ]

Oh look . Even Hunter is in the front row with Daddy 

 

[Woody]