Helpless? Prayers? That’s what pastors and civilians should be doing. We pay members of Congress to ask hard questions, start investigating,and find out if the government could have done more. Do it now before the next storm. We aren’t paying you to pray. We are paying you to help all of us.
Please save this clip when Louisiana gets hit by a hurricane this year.
F you Mike. Do your damn job you sniveling coward
Johnson is a pedo.
Moron Johnson is in over his head.
No, praying doesn't help, you asshole. This is on you, and the vermin around you. It was preventable. The flash flood warnings were there. The families should sue them..
Shhhhh You expect him to question NOAA cuts?
Mikey is a mouthpiece for the most destructive administration in a 100 years! He has his own dark side… Someday soon that will come out and the MAGAts will have their own ‘come to Jesus moment’.
All these lives could have been saved if Kerr County had installed a few USGS Streamgages in upstream tributaries. Washington State rivers are covered with these so authorities can rush people out of harm's way in floods. They said they were too expensive. About $25k each. The price of a human life?
Thoughts and prayers are a damning "do nothing" catch all for a bunch of racist, bigoted and misogynistic sociopaths who really couldn't care less who gets hurt by their fascist cuts to longstanding institutions like the NWS & NOAA.
Little Johnson prays to a false God
I’m tired of prayers not backed up by works. That’s in the Bible too.
Which childless parent are you aligning yourself with?
Response to violence and harms. Thoughts and prayers cause we’re all gonna die anyway. Ffs.
He can’t make his boss Donald look bad. Or his buddy Elon who slashed jobs throughout the government. No, they have to be upheld as symbols of virtue and decency, they can never ever do any wrong.
maga regime are all failures and they are there to fail
Phoney plastic christian.
Really?!? That's one of the most asinine statements he's ever made, and the list is long!! You could ask Presidents Biden or Obama. They know exactly what needs to done, and would have done it by now!!
TEXAS gave 6 million votes to Trump setting a record for the most votes received by a candidate in any election in the state so they got what they asked for. America is dying!
Also, to appropriate money to improve infrastructure, and forecasting to prevent or minimize risk in these types tragedies. It’s not up too, and has never been up to the executive to decide what to spend governments money on, for good reason.
Instead of praying (which has worked so well on gun violence), maybe rehire the meteorologists and hydrologists that Trump and DOGE felt compelled to RIF. Let scientists do their jobs describing and forecasting effects of climate change.
Yeah…that’s a “good look”…a “helpless” Speaker of the House…3rd in line to the Presidency. Our forefathers would be ashamed.
Yea Mike, the problem is you don't PRAY you folks PREY!!
He is as useless as his prayers
Mike Johnson won't know what to think until donald trump implants the thoughts in his head. Until then, Mike is just helplessly waiting . . . . .
And Trump is waiting on Stephen Miller so this might take awhile.
Lmao. Good point!
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Well, he could stand up to Trump & demand the NWS be properly staffed.
Douchebag extraordinaire Thoughts & prayers ? NOAA & FEMA is way more effective in AVOIDABLE disasters. These absolute monsters would have to vastly improve to qualify for a spot in Hell. Even Satan has standards
Yes!
Whatever happened to the ages old adage hammered into NY brain from a young age; 'God helps those who help themselves"? Thoughts and prayers are irrelevant at this point. You did nothing to help yourself. Now, you get no help according to this stupid euphemism. See why religion is stupid?
Sorry New York, I meant MY. WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE AN EDIT BUTTON , #BLUESKY
My thought exactly.
Prayers don't stop natural disasters. Prayers don't bring back the dead. Global warming is very real. Fuck the prayers.
The gaslighting of this one is a thick, odious fog.
If prayers work, that means there’s more people praying for more dictatorships, more war, disease, natural disasters, misogyny & children starving, than aren’t.
The EPSTEIN FILES would show the statement from Katie Johnson about the sex fantasy Trump paid Epstein for involving underage Latina maid who is forced to have sex with Trump or Trump would call ICE on her youtu.be/n0TSGsKxT-E
Stick your prayers up your ass, you hypocrite! There's a lot more you could do and you're just lying when you say there isn't. Blood is on your hands and will only get worse when bigger weather disasters hit. Keep praying you hypocrite, all the way to hell, with a stop in jail first! Fuck u liar!
"I approve this message" ~God
Truth…..being told! Exactly, pray on your own 👿evil 💩time! Your salary pays you to make ‘American lives better’ and we are living in Hell led by a hateful, bigoted, senile idiot in the WH!🤬
If God exists, he will tell MAGA Mike to resign from Congress, repent, drop the obsessive bigotry and try to redeem himself by doing good work for the vulnerable rather than enabling vicious neo-Nazis.
Why is god always referred to as he?
Mikey, if all you can do is pray, get out of that seat and GO HOME! We need a RESPONSIBLE ADULT as Speaker, little one.
I mean it's what we get for a Christian nationalist as Speaker of the House..
I think highlighting that part about us paying them to do a job is especially important in all of this. What happens when people don’t do the jobs they are paid to do? Keep paying them or fire them?
Spoiler: they don’t pray. They’re indifferent to suffering. Death by natural disaster is the new death by gun violence.
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Or, hire back all the NOAA personnel that DOGE fired in violation of the US Constitution. You are familiar with the US Constitution? It is more important in the US than the bible. If you disagree, resign and preach somewhere. Or you could just masturbate.
Well said Fred! Preacher Johnson has sure perfected the look of a pious man as he and his gang of greedy crooks in the House authorize cuts that will help cause the country to slash and burn.
Correction: ...allow the country to *crash* and burn.
He feels as helpless as everyone else? No one else is second in line to the presidency, so he can go fuck himself.
Growing up Southern Baptist, my brain had a mini-aneurism whenever a pastor urged “prayer” but neglected to share any meaningful call to action. Faith without works is dead, and spiritual sloth or willful inaction / negligence is a sin—though that assumes we’re dealing with actual Christians here.
Why choose public service if you have NO interest in serving the public? Too many people in public office that don't give a fuck about people, mostly Republicans!
Natural disasters are unfortunately "out of his lane"
Mike is a dumb robot that Trump installed into the speakership so he can rubber stamp anything he wants.
Uh...NOPE! They're Republicans! They don't give a darn about the citizens and never have!
And send aid for crying out loud. Not cosplay Barbie Noem for a photo op.
That’s the answer of The Stupids.
This pos and the entire GOP need to be imprisoned asap!
Mike is such a disappointing klutz.
It must be nice to be God. You get praised for everything good that happens and forgiven for all the bad. This is what Trump tapped into to control the Christian votes.
I’ve lived long enough to realize that when Republicans are in power, people die.
🤬🤬🤬Your prayers won't help! You can't pray away your culpability in these deaths, MAGA Mike Johnson!
Mike Johnson has an empty head and fills an empty suit. He is a mannequin.
Prayer = cop-out!
Do your job!
So when does praying start to work? Because it seems to me that God really hates the US right now.
and check your Covenant Eyes App."
The hermit in "Rasselas" didn't have a name. Until now.
I remember Cruz with similar weak-ass shit claim that as a Senator from TEXAS there was nothing he could do for a disaster in Texas. www.cnn.com/2021/02/19/p...
Thoughts and prayers are the euphemism for not planning on doing a damn thing about it. Offensive on so many different topics and levels.
Exactly
God helps those whom help themselves.
Here is a set of news articles that explains it was a combination of various factors that led to this point: 2018 grant denial, Republicans refusing to raise taxes to pay for sirens, NOAA/NWS cuts, FEMA cuts, communication issues. The camp banning mobile devices.
www.expressnews.com/news/local/a...
www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/t...
www.kxan.com/investigatio...
apnews.com/article/texa...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
www.wwnytv.com/2025/03/05/trump-pulls-back-federal-spending-work-stops-emergency-alert-upgrades/
basicpio.com/f/fema-eminf...
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.cbsnews.com/femagrantcuts/
The guy who led the charge to take healthcare and food away from Americans…is praying. 😡
And most importantly we pay Congress to be a check and balance on the other two coequal branches of govt. The President and the Courts. I suggest that Mike do a little work and read the constitution. He’s confused on his job. He’s not the Presidents head of marketing. Not helpless - complicit.
That weasel should be struck down by his god for being such an evil twerp.
Yep. Dude is such weasel. Makes my stomach turn.
Mike Johnson is one of those creatons who would run over a child while distracted on his cell phone & say it is gods will...
My question for Mikey: who sent the flood?
This is my thinking. I see so many comments when some kind of disaster hits a blue area that God is punishing them for their sins. They're being punished for supporting gays or trans or atheists or whatever. So..Texas wants to require the 10 Commandments to be displayed. Yet, this happens. Huh.
mel brooks finest (history of the world) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ih...
The timing of the "oy" never ceases to catch me. 😹
What an utterly useless person he is. How sad for him.
If all they can do is pray. Perhaps the GOP Healthcare plan for their members can be "pray it away" (lots of $ savings) and passing the collection plate among their constituents for their pay checks.
Worse yet, he’s praying to trump…
"at this moment" yeah just like every other moment, all they know how to do is pray
No Fred, TX has given us Trump, Abbott, Cornyn, Cruz and now they house Elon. Tots and Prayer and not a lick more.
He’s a disgrace
Look what can I do? I’m only the second most powerful person in government.
I bet this event gives him a boner. Yeah I said it.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. - Epicurus
Sadly they really do not care, especially Mine Johnson. And they are certainly not going to help people. They follow Convicted Felon 45/47 doctrine Project 2025 which is to not care and destroy.
Mike Johnson
Johnson should be fired for dereliction of duty
Thoughts and prayers haven’t ended gun violence in our country…not sure why Republicans think they will stop extreme weather events now
Pray to who which god ( trump) ?Ask Trump to have a word with him.
Mike Johnson is an idiot. People who pray can also help rescue people, bring supplies, man the phones, etc. etc. Some people can actually pray WHILE doing other important stuff. They’re not mutually exclusive.
I don't think any god cares to hear the mewlings of such a horrible piece of inhumane shit.
He doesn’t understand his religion or his job. Why is his religious responses never questioned by the media. We aren’t a theocracy! Matthew 5:16 states, "In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven".
This "all we do is pray" tells you the core valuelessness of the Republicans. As Democrats, all we do is gather the troops, the equipment, the food, provide money and go straight to the disaster and WORK. Praying for the lazy bastards who caused this.
How about they approve the siren request funding from 2018? “In 2018, Kerr County, along with the Upper Guadalupe River Authority, applied for a $1 million grant for a flood warning system” It was denied. www.kxan.com/investigatio...
$1M?? A $100 NOAA radio and some common sense could have prevented this outcome.
Fuck U you soulless coward. YOU ALOWED dodge to dismantle every vital organ that helps in these situations. I can’t wait for when all you get are “hopes and prayers” for your personal suffering caused by the pure evil (masking as a christian) that thrives in the blackness of your heart.
So Johnson's Christian FEMA is praying a deity will suddenly conjour up rescue boats, volunteers for reduce and cleanup as well as the money and supplies to do all this?
Mike Johnson is an abomination.
But praying is all they can do - and are willing to!
Can I copy your words and send to my rethug congressman in Texas? I am so angry and devastated about the floods i can barely contain myself. I live in a gerrymandered area next to Houston.
He’s a tool…😑
What an empty, lying man with a 🖤 !!! Just days ago he thanked god for giving billions of $$$$ in tax breaks to billionaires‼️‼️‼️‼️
Texans work their asses off get down there and help
Criminal incompetence? Personal greed? Both?
Well said.
Actually, I have no use for a pastor that only prays without also organizing or at least urging support for groups that are trying to help. And political leaders need to do a helluva lot more
Now I understand why God hates this small-dicked dweeb.
They’re NOT as helpless as everyone else!!! They hold the power to help this shit!
Do your fucking job. Not rocket science....just basic competence.
That’s exactly why you shouldn’t be in charge
Feckless scum…. Fyi his state faces hurrucanes (katrina). Lets all remember this maga when he comes running with his Tin cup !
Too right.
Piece of shit arrogant asshole
Prayers are their go to move instead of actually doing shit
Or giving a shit
Mike’s loved ones are good and that’s all he cares about. Prayers for everyone else they don’t give a shit about.
I’m agnostic, but to be fair, most pastors and churches would and are acting. They’re on the ground volunteering, organizing drives, etc. He’s doing far less than even the pastors and civilians.
The GOP is full of thoughts and prayers and lies, how many more people will die because of this disgusting administration that this congress has enabled to destroy our country and its citizens
Unfortunately the majority of them are helpless fools who have found a good wicket and are determined to hang on for as long as they can so they can continue sucking at the teat.
systematic failure was not an act of G_d
Truly one of the most evil people you will ever meet in your life.
Investigate? Hell, They’re already blaming President Biden. You know they can’t blame the cuts the convicted felon and Elmo’s doge did to NWS.
Amen
Had there been regulations about what can be built on a flood plain or taxes used to create an emergency warning system, this tragedy would not have happened. This should have been put in in 1987, when 10 kids died the same way.
Fuckin shit face!
I help weather route commercial drivers I have decades of experience as a driver, operations person, and an extensive background in meteorology This is simple negligence . . Any qualified weather monitoring service could have alerted the camp well in advance, if the camp had retained one . .
gee mikey - does prayer make you feel better? DOESN'T really help any one though- just you
their profession is the abdication of responsibility -- it takes a certain level of off the charts hypocrisy to be in a position where you can do something, and then do nothing.
Bingo. Any Congressional leader who confesses helplessness is INCOMPETENT and puts our lives and livelihoods at risk.
Isn't this Mike Johnson comment a "bit"...sanctimonious ?
Now THAT'S leadership! /s
No, he said “prey”.
A faith without works is dead. Well, Mike Johnson. What are you going to do?
Yeah praying helps how?
If there is a god, it needs to smote down (smite down? whatever) that feckless little shit.
That is correct-because you certainly do not know how to legislate. The Constitution is pretty clear about which branch does what but you decided to cede your responsibilities to the executive. That is not leadership. I am a Christian but I don’t pay taxes to watch performative prayer.
Bob Roberts portrayed these zealots perfectly. Thanks, Tim Robbins.
This is why I would never want to share a foxhole an evangelical Christian.
This 👏🏻💯
DEAR GOD! One alternative idea - restore weather forecasting and scientific research. Just spitballin'
We can’t do that- it makes far too much sense and is geared towards saving people, two concepts that are anathema to the Orange turd and his sycophants
This administration’s motto is “We’re all going to die someday,” so doing anything to help people is off the table.
Fuck you Mike Johnson, you sanctimonious, psalm-singing, spineless sycophantic son of a bitch your prayers do nothing!
Let the Pope pray He’s got the direct line upstairs Let the government govern AKA Do your effin job
Sanctimonious, odious, worthless dick.
Instead of in prayer, Mike Johnson needs to spend his time in therapy learning how to come out of the closet!
Mike Johnson should resign and get a job at a church. Maybe there, he’ll learn how to be a real Christian! 🙄
what an idiot.
Phony Christian. FEMA is eliminated, thanks to you and your worthless party!
Pray that gay away, Mike!
He's ridiculous. Christian? Straight out of Gilead maybe. He even looks and acts like a commander.
I’m praying for this guy to get voted out of office so we can have some leadership that will use the power of government to protect and better the lives of its citizens. You know what they’re elected to do?
This is right in line with congress giving a lot of its responsibilities to presidents over the past 25 years.
The quote by T.S. Eliot is: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." This quote emphasizes the importance of courage and self-discovery in pushing boundaries and achieving greatness. DEMS Must do BETTER!
Mike Johnson would be laughable if he weren’t so dangerous
Why aren't Trump and Johnson rushing to Texas to offer help and literally assist with cleanup?
The paper towels aren’t going to throw themselves
We sure can't count on the government for help.
Exactly. I can pray and not draw six figures. These fuckers are useless.
It will be interesting to see if FEMA helps at all with clean up and/or funding. They've totally bailed on other natural disasters earlier this year.
FEMA cuts have left nobody there to "bail" as you put it. Also they gutted Americorps which was another key government responder to disaster clean up and rebuilding.
I wasn't saying that FEMA had "bailed" - it's this administration that had bailed on providing relief to those that had been so hard hit earlier this year like SC and Arkansas. It appears they're going to help Texas but nothing has been confirmed. This admin has gutted so many important agencies.
There will be no investigations. There will be no accountability. There will be no consequences. There will only be cover ups and victims. Their only course of action will be to blame Biden and praise the lord.
Members of Congress are the biggest welfare recipients in the country. Why isn’t there a work requirement for them?
Yeathat defeats Smarmy's purpose of writing briefs in support of unconstitional attempts to mess with votes and to do and say literally anything to help install authoritarianism.
“He’s using the omnipotent ‘we.’ What a skeevy little prick. And bragging about praying is no better than praying in the public square. Where’s my damn crutch?”
Texas fails its children & families again. This event was predictable and deaths were preventable. A 2007 report - nearly 20 years old - described the science, predictions, and risk. Officials keep repeating the camp was in a high risk flood area. So why was there no prevention and response plan?
If only he was in a position of power instead of being a snivelling weakling carrying trump's nutsack.
Amen
The architect of this Christo-fascist regime will never admit that they have hard hearts and blood on their hands.
How sick and pathetic they all look...Coming from the guy whose home state is rated one of the top 3 that resembles a 3rd world country . The other 2 are West Virginia and Mississippi... Do you see a common thread?
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POS Hypocrite Fraud
Unfit to serve in, let alone lead Congress
“i worked tirelessly to enable trump, doge, idiot cabinet members, congress and project 2025 to create chaos, sow hatred and fear, undermine our fed infrastructure and defund all emergency aid programs for this very result.”
The next time the archaic man needs surgery, they should use surgical tools from the 1600’s
Well noted.
Bit late for that.
Prayers don’t stop flash floods.
Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent: with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent. - old testament bible If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. - Epicurus
He's such a weasel. 😠
They don’t care when hundreds of children are killed by guns. There is NO gun control. Why would they care about anything. They think they can pray EVERY THING AWAY! Fuck them! Every republican that does nothing to protect children once they are born. Hippocrates!
Sorry, but Hippocrates? lol
I don’t think Hippocrates would have approved of this either. 😂
Autocorrect is sometimes accidentally hilarious.
Amen. Thank you.
Praying won’t do shit. He needs to reinstate funding to NOAA and NWS.
Weather is the new school shootings... #thoughtsandprayers
naw that would cost money and admitting they suck at their job.
Lie guns and school shootings… no solutions, just thoughts and prayers.
Speaker of the house who sets Billions in budgets feels totally helpless??? After he helped gut the very agencies that could have actually done something?? Absolutely shameless
We need doctors, not faith healers.
Mealy-mouthed shite, poorly disguised as 'Christian concern'.......😒🙄
How's that working for you Mikey?
Mike Johnson and his ilk are about as useful as tits on a boar hog!
Pray that some cunt puts all the weather people back in their post's so that you're warned about floods and tornadoes possibly?!
Pray for what, exactly? No more floods? No more hurricanes? No more power outages? No more mass shootings? Didn't someone once say, "God helps those who help themselves"?
