October 25, 2023 – Two different tragic events, how they are intertwined – a Mass Shooting in Maine and a New Speaker of the House.

Our new House Speaker:

Opinion | I Read Mike Johnson’s Legal Filings. They Reveal a Distinctive Pattern.

“The new speaker’s view is “the First Amendment for me but not for thee.””

“His legal track record is revealing, showing that Johnson can take different positions on constitutional issues depending on who the parties are. For instance, Johnson has been a fervent advocate of First Amendment protections — for Christians. When nonreligious secularists brought a religion-based challenge, he took the other side, defending the government. (Johnson has called secularists “atheists” who pressure government officials to censure God-based viewpoints.)”

Another Mass Shooting:

“Card, a firearms instructor and a longtime Army reservist, began to hear voices that were saying “horrible” things about him about a couple of months ago when he was fitted for high-powered hearing aids, according to Katie Card, who is married to his brother.

She said his mental health had deteriorated quickly.

“He was picking up voices that he had never heard,” she told NBC News. “His mind was twisting them around. He was humiliated by the things that he thought were being said.”

Follow live coverage of the shootings.

Card is accused of killing at least 18 people and injuring many others at a bar and bowling alley, police said.

At a news conference Thursday morning, law enforcement officials said he had moved from a person of interest to a suspect in the shootings.”

Terrible timing for a terrible bill!

Robert Card’s X (Twitter) Account Shows ‘Likes’ on Politics

“In March, he liked a tweet by Trump that read, “Given the incredible rise of trans/non-binary mass shooters in the last few years… by far the largest group committing as a percentage of population… maybe, rather than talking about guns we should be talking about lunatics pushing their gender affirming bulls*** on our kids?””

“Card is a U.S. military veteran who had recent mental health issues, according to an internal law enforcement alert. He was still at large as of Thursday morning, October 26, 2023.”

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

“LEWISTON, ME—In the hours following a violent rampage in Maine in which a lone attacker killed at least 16 individuals and injured numerous others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Idaho resident Peter Carter, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.””

How two events intertwine you ask?

New GOP Speaker Mike Johnson says prayer is an appropriate House response to the Maine shootings

“In an early test, the mass shootings in Maine, Johnson said prayer was a proper response from the House.

“This is a dark time in America,” Johnson said at the Capitol on his first full day as speaker.

“We’re really, really hopeful and prayerful,” he said. “Prayer is appropriate at a time like this, that the evil can end and the senseless violence can stop.”

Johnson, a staunchly conservative evangelical Christian, declined to take any questions, including about the possibility of any gun violence legislation from Congress.”

We are NOT a Christian Nation. 18th Century? 1700s? Slavery. Women not voting….

Our new Speaker of the House is not only an Election Denier, he tried to engineer its destruction,

The new Speaker of the House – a Thread:

Another great thread – how did Mike Johnson get where he is at today?