Gavin Newsom Doubles Down on Mocking ‘Thoughts and Prayers,’ Targets Mike Johnson

Democrats always figure out ways to make bad or horrific situations worse, and last week was no exception to the rule, where they used the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis to bash conservative Christians for offering up thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families.

Tragically, two children were killed, 15 more children were injured (some seriously), and three elderly parishioners were also hurt in the attack. Reportedly, the children were praying when the transgender gunman, 23-year-old Robert “Robin” Westman, opened fire through the windows.

Legal Insurrection extensively documented some of the “thoughts and prayers” talking points Democrats used that day to try and make their supposed point. One of them was a tweet from California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who used reports that the children were praying when they were killed to take desperate, cheap shots against Christians, including those in the Trump administration:

How Democrats can think that the line of attack that goes something like “let’s mock and pile on Christians and the importance of prayer in their daily lives on the same day a K-8 Catholic school was hit by a mass shooter” is a mystery to me, but then again, Democrats rarely make sense to people who live in the real world anymore, so go figure.

In the case of Newsom, apparently, he thought it was a good idea to double down on the faith-based attacks by zeroing in on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday over his defense of prayer and his criticisms of Democrats for being wildly out of touch.

Except this time around, Newsom quoted a Bible verse:

Setting aside the very real possibility that someone from Newsom’s moonbatty press team probably had to do a Google search for a verse they thought would work and give it to him, the insinuation that Newsom made there, that conservative Christians can’t be true Christians because they don’t cotton to leftist/woke dogma on hot button issues like gun control really was a new low for him.

It’s a place he really shouldn’t have gone, and X users let him have it:

Yeah. I mean, faithful Christians who pray regularly and who understand the power of prayer don’t say things like Newsom did. I’m not going to call anyone’s faith into question, but I will say that the math doesn’t add up here, if you catch my meaning.

Assuming Newsom does what we all know he wants to do and runs for president in 2028, this is an area he does not want to go into should he make it beyond the primaries. I mean, I’m hoping he does because he will absolutely get torched for it and drag vulnerable Democrats down with him, but if he’s smartened up by that point and knows what’s good for him, he won’t.

– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –

Tags: 2028 Democratic Primaries, 2028 Presidential Election, Christianity, Democrats, Gavin Newsom, Mike Johnson, Progressives, Religion

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