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God Told Joe The Plunger Not To Run For Office

by Sara K. Smith  12:24 pm July 1, 2009

Joe the Plumber hears voices.Hmm. So maybe there is one of those “God” things after all? When asked if he’d run for political office, unlicensed handyman and Constitutional originalist Joe Wurzelbacher said, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’” Joe will be in Austin on July 3 to celebrate the day our anti-Communist Founding Fathers signed the Book of Mormon, which explicitly forbids taxation. Everyone’s invited! [WND via Think Progress]

{ 86 comments }

Autochthon July 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm

“like”?

DiscoUkulele July 1, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Are you serious?? Joe the Plumber is going to by in MY town? On my day off?? Hmm……

Lionel Hutz Esq. July 1, 2009 at 12:29 pm

They say God takes care of children and fools….

Servo July 1, 2009 at 12:29 pm

A one-woman band today, SKS?

Come here a minute July 1, 2009 at 12:31 pm

Joe can’t run for office because he’s still trying to figure out why his TV shows nothing but snow.

user-of-owls July 1, 2009 at 12:32 pm

So God talks like Michael Steele? Or did Joe get confused about who he was talking to?

nappyduggs July 1, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Dear God:
Not to be critical, but please be more selective about who you include in your “Fave Fives.”

Amen and so forth.

RushLickBall July 1, 2009 at 12:33 pm

[re=352343]Autochthon[/re]: That’s the Valley God.

imissopus July 1, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Finally, God got one right. Suck it, Christopher Hitchens!

ShamWow July 1, 2009 at 12:34 pm

[re=352343]Autochthon[/re]: yes, god speaks to JTP in valley-girl because it is the closest he can come to talking in douchebaggery without going full douchebag.

CrunchyKnee July 1, 2009 at 12:35 pm

God’s all like, Joe, duuuuuude, like don’t like run for office. And Joe’s all like, I totally know dude, like, them socialist communist muslin’s are like everywhere in my country.

ShamWow July 1, 2009 at 12:36 pm

[re=352354]imissopus[/re]: god is trying to atone for telling W to run, and we all know how brilliant that turned out

rereridiculous July 1, 2009 at 12:36 pm

Does unlicensed only apply to handyman, or is he also an unlicensed Constitutional originalist?

hobospacejunkie July 1, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Austin’s got enough problems transforming itself into a mini Los Angeles. We don’t need this donkey-raping shit eater clogging our toilets with his daily brain dump.

Bruno July 1, 2009 at 12:41 pm

[re=352344]DiscoUkulele[/re]: Please go take photos. I beg of you. Not of Joe, but of the crowd.

I intend to bring them all up on treason charges once the Nazi Commie President has commenced marshall law

snideinplainsight July 1, 2009 at 12:42 pm

God’s actual quote was “One word, two letters. ‘No.’ Let’s go ahead and dispel that now.”

PrairiePossum July 1, 2009 at 12:42 pm

JTP campaigning for office would have been an endless fountain of comedy gold. Why does God hate comedy?

Bruno July 1, 2009 at 12:43 pm

And he gets publicity even with his website being down for weeks: http://www.secureourdream.com

Probably the Hax0rs, but don’t ask me.

Lionel Hutz Esq. July 1, 2009 at 12:43 pm

I just can’t wait until God tells him to put aluminum foil on his head, cover himself with feces, and go stand in the middle of the road.

[re=352365]rereridiculous[/re]: The Constitution does not talk about licenses for Constitutional originalist, and there for it would be no more legal to license one than it would be to take away his guns or make him get licensed to be a plumber or pay child support.

Autochthon July 1, 2009 at 12:44 pm

[re=352370]Bruno[/re]: “Marshall Law” would make a great screenname, if no one’s already taken it…

Kingbee July 1, 2009 at 12:44 pm

You see, God hates America!

Holy Cow!! July 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm

Someone put this moron on lithium before he hurts himself or somebody useful to society.

People who talk to invisible beings shouldn’t be permitted to run for office anyway.

Bruno July 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm

[re=352360]CrunchyKnee[/re]: Well, I guess god is on the side of socialist nazi communism afterall.

I thought all these religious types are supposed to change their ways when they get a message from God.

Serolf Divad July 1, 2009 at 12:47 pm

[re=352348]Come here a minute[/re]:

Win

queeraselvis v 2.0 July 1, 2009 at 12:48 pm

God must’ve been feeling mighty mellow, methinks. I was expecting a full-on smote-fest.

Gorillionaire July 1, 2009 at 12:49 pm

I just asked God, “God, give me one good reason why Joe the Plumber shouldn’t be punched in the face repeatedly by one of those boxing kangaroos”.
All I got was stoney silence.

Monsieur Grumpe July 1, 2009 at 12:52 pm

I see this as proof that God hates Wonkette.

NJB July 1, 2009 at 12:53 pm

I love Republicans who think they talk to god, and I love it even better when they think he talks back.

In Joe’s case? I’d guess childhood head trauma.

blinky_twinkie July 1, 2009 at 12:53 pm

[re=352370]Bruno[/re]: Marshall Law is going to be my gay-porn name.

hobospacejunkie July 1, 2009 at 12:53 pm

WND quotes known idiot & liar Judy Holloway saying there were 5000 at Austin’s tea party. If I’m being generous there were 500, yet that didn’t stop Holloway from making up 5000 out of whole cloth and posting it on her blog. She says it was surprising because Austin is such a liberal city. Actually it’s surprising because it’s a fucking lie, you inbred cunt.

norbizness July 1, 2009 at 12:54 pm

Thank God we’re getting third-degree-of-separation scoops from WORLD NUT DAILY. Now my day is complete.

x111e7thst July 1, 2009 at 12:55 pm

Is a Joe the Plunger anything like an Unlicenced Rectal Spindle?

wx insider July 1, 2009 at 12:55 pm

I never realized, but he looks alot like Brittany Spears!

Harvey Birdman July 1, 2009 at 12:55 pm

I guess I’ll have to avoid the bathhouse on Friday.

Bruno July 1, 2009 at 12:56 pm

I would like to think of Joe as one of those modern traveling salesmen who lug their foldable conference deplays with them, as large luggage in the airport, and have to take the shared airport shuttle from the Holiday Inn Express in flyover towns everywhere.

paintitblack July 1, 2009 at 12:56 pm

It’s not nice to lie to God about your alleged name, your alleged “profession,” and oh, I dunno, your alleged everything, including your alleged reason for wasting space on the planet. So what God really said was: NO! And get off my planet, pisswipe!

Gopherit July 1, 2009 at 12:56 pm

[re=352354]imissopus[/re]: Even a blind pig…… Chalk one up for Jeebus, I guess, but he still really fucked up with the Crusades and the Inquisition.

jodyleek July 1, 2009 at 12:57 pm

[re=352383]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Joe forgot to mention that God was laughing his ass off at the time He answered him.

Gopherit July 1, 2009 at 12:58 pm

So, who has their signs ready? I am going with the “Bring Back Crystal Pepsi” meme.

IceCreamEmpress July 1, 2009 at 12:59 pm

I just can’t wait until God tells him to put aluminum foil on his head, cover himself with feces, and go stand in the middle of the road.

That would be a move of almost Cary-Grant-like dignity and elegance compared to his usual public shenanigans.

Also, {not}our {not}Joe the {not}Plumber is NO MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD AMURRICAN!

twowheeljunkie July 1, 2009 at 1:01 pm

Why would god talk to Joe?

He has better things to do. Like making sure Brazil beats USA soccer.

The Station Manager July 1, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Allahu achbar?

RushLickBall July 1, 2009 at 1:04 pm

In related news, God just asked Mark Sanford to come in for a chat…

freakishlystrong July 1, 2009 at 1:06 pm

Oh please, please Wonkette operatives in Austin, please get a picture with Plunger at the teabagging thing, and then punch him in his fat, bald face, please?

InsidiousTuna July 1, 2009 at 1:07 pm

[re=352401]Gopherit[/re]: “I Shaved My Balls For This?!” will also be in attendance.

Snarkalicious July 1, 2009 at 1:10 pm

[re=352365]rereridiculous[/re]: Liscenced my ass. I’m more worried about the status of his shots. Ye gods! Just look at that picture!

Crank Tango July 1, 2009 at 1:12 pm

So does this mean he is a false prophet, in addition to being a false plumber?

And does anyone remember the old SNL skit with Bill Murray as a cesspool diver? That’s really what JTP did before he started shoveling shit for the GOP, right?

PS SKS I wanna have your babies!

proudgrampa July 1, 2009 at 1:15 pm

You know, the problem with God is He doesn’t smite anymore.

MOG July 1, 2009 at 1:15 pm

And to think I could be seeing The Plunger fer reelz. Face-to-Face with The Man Who Spoke with God. wah.

Lionel Hutz Esq. July 1, 2009 at 1:22 pm

[re=352377]Kingbee[/re]: Good point. And I didn’t know that Joe spoke Arabic.

Extemporanus July 1, 2009 at 1:23 pm

On NPR this morning, Terry Gross interviewed author Jeff Sharlet about his book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.

Well worth a read. (Or a listen if you’re feeling Plummer-y.)

The Family—or The Fellowship—is a religious order that sounds like an unholy threesome between Mormons, Reagan-ites, and the Illuminati. They practice (super secretly) a kind of trickle-down fundamentalism that believes that the Bible got it wrong regarding the whole “help the poor” thing. Instead, they believe we should only help the richest and most powerful, and that they in turn would take care of the socialist-loving losers. One example: They engineered a verrry lucrative oil deal with Sudharto when he was on the tail end of wiping out 1 million of his fellow countrymen; they justified it by saying he was doing God’s work killing Commies, and they were doing God’s work by getting rich and paying other people to kill Commies.

The super-secretive group is evil, insane, and thus totally wired into Republican politics and deal making. They own a tax exempt “church” on C Street were 6-8 senators live (it’s called a “prayer cell”) while paying about $500 bucks a month. Ensign lives there, and Sanford hangs out whenever he is in DC and mentioned it during his presser. This article in US News list a bunch more.

I think we should tell Joe the Plumber about the Family—it’s right up his alley, he’ll be singing its praises within a week, and the whole shady sect will be destroyed by the end of the year.

FormerDCite July 1, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Can we figure out a way to pull more California cities and drop them into Texas? I say we start with everything west of Altadena. BTW: Mrs. Holloway, this wouldn’t be the first time 5000 people who like teabagging got together in Austin.

hobospacejunkie July 1, 2009 at 1:26 pm

I’d volunteer to go & take pictures but I have a prior commitment to have sewing needles jammed in my eyes, nose, ears and rectum (prolapsed.) Joe sounds inviting, but not good enough to miss out on my aforementioned fun

FormerDCite July 1, 2009 at 1:27 pm

Damn drunk typing, I meant everything East of Altadena, and Orange County.

Extemporanus July 1, 2009 at 1:30 pm

Do do that voodoo that you do so well…

Extemporanus July 1, 2009 at 1:33 pm

[re=352435]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Poo-poo! This [re=352440]Extemporanus[/re]: was for you you, but I made a “yoo-hoo” boo-boo.

hobospacejunkie July 1, 2009 at 1:33 pm

[re=352432]Extemporanus[/re]: The Family also openly admit to their study of and admiration for Nazi propaganda methods. They seem like wonderful people.

SayItWithWookies July 1, 2009 at 1:36 pm

God is the last refuge of a crappy name-dropper. That this alleged deity said no may have been less attributable to divine will than to the fact that Joe knows he doesn’t have the attention span to handle a campaign, much less an entire legislative session. After a week, he’d be off hiking the Appalachian Trail — in whatever sense was necessary.

Autochthon July 1, 2009 at 1:38 pm

[re=352424]proudgrampa[/re]: “And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.”

~Judges 15:15, KJV

Humpback July 1, 2009 at 1:39 pm

[re=352418]Snarkalicious[/re]: I swear that is a picture of Britney, in her bald phase. It might be Joe, but to be sure we will have to await the paperazzi pix of him getting out of a car without undies. Oh, the suspense!

TGY July 1, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Even God can be right now and then.

AnAdmirerOfThatOne July 1, 2009 at 1:43 pm

I think you have to be legally registered to vote to run for federal office, or am I off-base here? JTP, according to the state of Ohio, was not only unlicensed as of summer last year, but unregistered as well. Maybe God told him not to vote. Also.

user-of-owls July 1, 2009 at 1:49 pm

[re=352447]Autochthon[/re]: Bad Ass Old Testament God turning a mule bone into a weapon of mass destruction: God=the original McGyver.

norbizness July 1, 2009 at 1:52 pm

[re=352411]freakishlystrong[/re]: I’m not going out in the 102-degree heat just to assault somebody who’s on minute #29548 of their 15 minutes of fame.

Harold_Ignoramis July 1, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Joe The Plumber (liar) – America’s real life Homer Simpson.

proudgrampa July 1, 2009 at 1:53 pm

[re=352447]Autochthon[/re]: Yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout!!

Give me an S
Give me an M
Give me an I – T – E

SMITE!!

Autochthon July 1, 2009 at 1:57 pm

[re=352458]user-of-owls[/re]: And the Conservatives continue Jahweh’s Holy Work today, seeing as Joe’s speechifying definitely qualifies as “the jawbone of an ass”…

Autochthon July 1, 2009 at 1:59 pm

[re=352468]Autochthon[/re]: REPENT, AUSTIN!

NYNYNY July 1, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Well, I’m glad our deadbeat drunken deistic God looks through his spam email every once in a while.

finallyhappy July 1, 2009 at 2:07 pm

uh, did someone already say it is “martial” law?
Actually God said “Fuck no!”

magic titty July 1, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Weird about Joe the Plumber. God told me he was a fucking dick.

Come here a minute July 1, 2009 at 2:14 pm

[re=352476]finallyhappy[/re]: I thought they were talking about Marshall McLuhan, as in 15 minutes of fame, expired.

El Pinche July 1, 2009 at 2:14 pm

[re=352411]freakishlystrong[/re]: I’d like to go down there and ask him to clean my shitter, but I wouldn’t waste a second on that limp dick.

Servo July 1, 2009 at 2:18 pm

As predicted, he omitted the part where God called him a “fuckin’ imbecile.”

bitchincamaro July 1, 2009 at 2:21 pm

But Wurzelbacher said he will keep that door open if God ever calls him to be that leader.

If He calls, that door had better be on an elevator shaft.

Tommmcatt July 1, 2009 at 2:26 pm

But why, God, why!?!?!?!? Think of the lulz, God! THINK OF THE LULZ!!!!!

Zorg July 1, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Weather forecast for tomorrow in Austin: 99 degrees and humid. Really. We may have to amend the “Mad dogs and Englishmen” saying to include Teabaggers.

hobospacejunkie July 1, 2009 at 2:27 pm

[re=352446]SayItWithWookies[/re]: You’re too kind. Joe doesn’t have the attention span. Bless you. Joe doesn’t have the brain capacity to absorb facts and integrate them into his worldview. If by worldview we mean his supposed ability to divide the world between ‘poop’ and ‘not poop.’

Gun-toting Progressive July 1, 2009 at 2:44 pm

[God]
Don’t ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to.
[/God]

sezme July 1, 2009 at 3:07 pm

[re=352371]snideinplainsight[/re]: Oh, I was totally going to say that!

user-of-owls July 1, 2009 at 3:16 pm

[re=352486]bitchincamaro[/re]: hoo hoo! bitchin’ comment!

Mr Blifil July 1, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Joe I talked to God about you and he was like, “No.”

Bruno July 1, 2009 at 4:17 pm

[re=352419]Crank Tango[/re]: “So does this mean he is a false prophet, in addition to being a false plumber?”

We need a prohet’s union to investigate ASAP.

MadFlava July 1, 2009 at 5:05 pm

JTP talks to god? Is that after he does meth and enjoys the gay butt secks

TeddyS July 1, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Joe thought he was going to be there to celebrate Juneteenth, the date when the Founding Mamas got their boogy on.

Zuluaskono July 1, 2009 at 11:02 pm

Holy crap! Joe the Plumber is giving a speech in my back yard?? I am so there. Will report back.

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