Today is the halfway point of December as we coast toward the end of another miserable year ... and there are still two Ass Clown awards to present! Today we give a tip of the tinfoil hat to an ass clown most of us had never heard of a few months ago, and now wish we'd never heard of at all.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, today we present the tinfoil and toilet paper crown of
The Left-Cheek Ass Clown for December, 2023
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to
Speaker of the House
Mike Johnson (R, LA-4)
How can I not present this award to an individual who claimed that God had spoken to him during the Republican effort to find a new Speaker, and that God told him he would be a Moses-like figure leading the GOP and the country through a “Red Sea moment?” To a man who, when asked his governing priorities, simply told the questioner to pick up a Bible, and who, upon taking up his new position, suggested that he had been raised up by God for that moment? To a man who - despite the fact that the Constitution clearly states that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States (Article VI, Section 3)" - insists that precisely the opposite is true ... that "they [the Founders] did not want the government to encroach upon the church — not that they didn’t want principles of faith to have influence on our public life". Listening to a Mike Johnson speech is like listening to grade school children playing Opposite Day ...
Each of us builds our own system of moral behavior on the basis of our personal ethical or religious beliefs (and there are a lot of different religions out there), our upbringing, and our lived experiences. When religious beliefs become harsh dogma, and lead to an insistence on their imposition on those who choose to worship a different way (or not worship at all), they become dangerous ... as we see in places like Texas, where they take precedence over human life.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, the Left-Cheek Ass Clown for December, 2023, is Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and a living argument for the separation of church and state.
If you liked The Handmaid's Tale, you'll love the America people like Mike Johnson and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton* want to bring to you.
Have a good day, and come back tomorrow for our second Christmas-themed Cartoon Saturday of December. More thoughts then.
Bilbo
I think this guy could win 'ass clown of the day' from now until forever.
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