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Interesting the things that would definitely be considered abuse if they weren’t done under the guise of religion

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For those who want to learn a lot more about how the worst of evangelicals operate, find Chrissy Stoops work, she's on Substack and I think Patreon as well.

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What Johnson supposedly did with his son was funny, creepy but at the same time amusing.

What Johnson did with his daughter however was simply creepy. It really mirrors the old-timey Israelite who considered their daughters their property and their marriages as, mostly if not partly, transactions.

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I had thought that purity balls were a fad among fundagelicals that had faded around the time L&O:SVU aired the episode where a 13 year old girl passed out during her purity ball because she was pregnant.

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"We don't talk to her about contraception. Sex before marriage is simply out of the question."

How did that work out for Brustle Palin?

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"Recently, it was revealed that Johnson and his son either are or recently were each other’s porn cops, i.e. each got APB alerts from Covenant Eyes Christian anti-cumwhacking software if the other started looking at porn. This was discovered through some good old fashioned journalism, namely the kind where a person willingly sits through hours of Mike Johnson babbling to his church about how he and his son and the Lord work together to help Mike and Junior keep their hands off their respective wangpeeners. (His son was 17 at the time.)"

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As soon as I read that, I immediately thought that he and his son have regular two-man circle jerks, and nothing I've seen, heard, or read since has convinced me otherwise in the slightest. You think I'm kidding? Look at his eyes. Look at that creepy smile. Think about the Duggars and Huckabee's dog killer son. This guy is EXACTLY that twisted.

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Is it wrong that my brain immediately went "Hmmm... I wonder if he bought her an Everlast."

Robin Hood: Men in Tights has ruined me.

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"Daddy, there's a boy outside . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qavJ91jRPfU

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John Waters would have a field day writing a film about this family!

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So the Mike Johnson stories have gone from funny-weird to vomit inducing insights into a truly sick man. I'm sure a lot of guys secretly installed the jack-off app on their buddies phone for a huge laugh. It does sound like fun. This story goes beyond anyone's ability to find humor in this man's cesspool of a belief system.

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And true love waits

In haunted attics

And true love lives

On lollipops and crisps

—Radiohead

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founding

Rat bastards.

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Ewwwww ewwwww ewwwww !!!!!

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Dec 21, 2023·edited Dec 21, 2023

“promising they’ll never give their virginity away to anyone except the young man daddy gives them away as chattel to.”

This is the grossest dangling participle I’ve ever seen

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"The news segment […] features interviews with Johnson's daughter, who is now in her 20s, and shows her at the purity ball pledging to her father "to make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future husband, and my future children ... to a lifetime of purity, including sexual purity," in between shots of Johnson nodding along in agreement."

Yet he is perfectly fine with "Grab 'em by the p**** man. That says it all.

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