The judge has had enough of the Sovereign Citizen baloney.
Well, if I ever go into the deli business, I know what I’m calling one of my lunch meats!
You can put it next to the Patsy variety with pimentos
That story is rich with comedy.
Chattering excitedly among themselves, they marched down to the police station and readied themselves to arrest some cops. Upon walking up to the entrance, however, the group encountered a problem that not even their queen could solve for them: a locked door.
The group knocked on the door and yelled demands for police to come out and be arrested through a megaphone. When that didn’t work, they called 911, once again asking the officers to please come out and be arrested. But the police seemed happy to ignore the group. As Didulo’s followers sat in front of the police station to wait out the police officers, she handed out snacks: veggies and full packs of sardines.
After a few hours, members of the group, obviously getting bored, decided to wander the property looking for other ways to get their hands on some cops to arrest. When they moved to a restricted area of the police station where the vehicles were stored, they finally got their encounter with the police.
One member of her staff sat on the ground screaming after being grabbed by a police officer. Another one of Didulo’s followers then tackled the officers in a failed attempt to protect his friend. He was also arrested, much to the confusion of the group.
“Stand down, police! You’re under arrest,” yelled one man at the cops arresting his friend in front of him.
One last funny bit:
Didulo [their queen, the “Commander-in-Chief and Queen of the Kingdom of Canada”] has also advised her followers to stop paying their utility bills—because she decreed they were now free—and many of her followers are getting their power and water shut off.
RichVR
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Crazy knows no borders. It might as well have happened here.
Scuzz
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I am sure the Utah Dems agree with him.
KevinC
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I mean there is no way that a Republican won every Senate seat and all four House contests. Clearly fraud!
I like the picture of Aslan overshadowing Jesus.
Jesus famously zoomorphic as a powerful Lion, not like a Lamb or anything.
I mean, he’s both: Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
To quote from the pretty straightforward ESV translation study guide:
Rev. 5:5 The Lion of the tribe of Judah echoes Jacob’s blessing on Judah, conferring leadership over his brothers (Gen. 49:8–12). In the OT, the Messiah was the branch to spring from Jesse’s root to restore David’s dynasty (Isa. 11:1, 10). But now he is also called the Root of David , because Jesus is not only the royal descendant (Rev. 22:16) but also the source of David’s rule (Mark 12:35–37; cf. “root of Jesse,” Rom. 15:12). The Lion is worthy to open the scroll because he has conquered . The OT promise of a conquering Lion is fulfilled in the NT reality of one who is also the slain Lamb (Rev. 5:9).
This is not a particularly controversial interpretation as far as I’m aware.
I won’t defend the artistic merits of the painting or anything, but Jesus as a lion is not a weird connection.
Matt_W
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Among Christians.
The lion as a symbol of the tribe of Judah long predates Jesus and continues as a Jewish cultural and national symbol up to the present. The official flag of the city of Jerusalem has the lion on it.
Genesis 49:8-9
“As for you, Judah, your brothers shall praise you;
Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Judah is a lion’s cub;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He crouches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares to stir him up?”
“Among Christians” is the point though.
Disclaimer that obviously I’m only talking about appearances here, I don’t know if Lindell is truly a Christian by whatever standard we want to use (I personally have, uh, doubts), but the Right is all about “Christian-signaling”, so it is not even a little weird to use the imagery of Jesus as a lion, because as you acknowledged, that’s a common thing in Christianity.
That Jewish culture only connects it with the tribe of Judah of course makes sense because they don’t see Jesus as the eventual, ultimate significance of the “Lion of Judah”, but is also beside the point in answering “wait, why would a Christian represent Jesus as a lion instead of a lamb?”
I think we’re on the same page? Maybe I misunderstood what @sillhouette was saying in the first place, but I was just trying to explain why—among Christians—Jesus is called both the lion and the lamb.
I think the issue is that while a lion as iconography of Jesus isn’t without Biblical support, in Christian theology largely it is Jesus’ more, well, lamb-like qualities that are central. The more militant interpretation rooted in things like Revelation has never been truly mainstream, theologically. Indeed, I’d say the book itself is one of those people sort of gloss over and put in the “too weird” category, and then go back and focus on the Gospels. But I ain’t a Christian, so y’all do y’all.
Jewish use of the lion is very common. Synagogue murals have featured them forever.
Well…
If the lion as Jesus metaphor was something C.S. Lewis made up then yeah, “lol dude’s got a fairytale painting on his wall”. Aslan from The Chronicles of Narnia doesn’t itself lend validity to the lion metaphor, but as we covered there’s biblical ground for that. Narnia does suggest the metaphor is pretty mainstream.
