None To Quench It (95 Theses For America, One.)

1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite, willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance.

2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests.

3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no inward repentance which does not outwardly work divers mortifications of the flesh.

4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

5. The pope does not intend to remit, and cannot remit any penalties other than those which he has imposed either by his own authority or by that of the Canons.

6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God’s remission; though, to be sure, he may grant remission in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven.

7. God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same time, humble in all things and bring into subjection to His vicar, the priest.

8. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying.

9. Therefore the Holy Spirit in the pope is kind to us, because in his decrees he always makes exception of the article of death and of necessity.

10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for purgatory.

11. This changing of the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown while the bishops slept.

12. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition.

13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are already dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be released from them.

14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the imperfect love, of the dying brings with it, of necessity, great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater is the fear.

15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say nothing of other things) to constitute the penalty of purgatory, since it is very near to the horror of despair.

16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ as do despair, almost-despair, and the assurance of safety.

17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror should grow less and love increase.

18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that they are outside the state of merit, that is to say, of increasing love.

19. Again, it seems unproved that they, or at least that all of them, are certain or assured of their own blessedness, though we may be quite certain of it.

20. Therefore by “full remission of all penalties” the pope means not actually “of all,” but only of those imposed by himself.

21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who say that by the pope’s indulgences a man is freed from every penalty, and saved;

22. Whereas he remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to the canons, they would have had to pay in this life.

23. If it is at all possible to grant to any one the remission of all penalties whatsoever, it is certain that this remission can be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to the very fewest.

24. It must needs be, therefore, that the greater part of the people are deceived by that indiscriminate and high-sounding promise of release from penalty.

25. The power which the pope has, in a general way, over purgatory, is just like the power which any bishop or curate has, in a special way, within his own diocese or parish.

26. The pope does well when he grants remission to souls [in purgatory], not by the power of the keys (which he does not possess), but by way of intercession.

27. They preach man who say that so soon as the penny jingles into the money-box, the soul flies out [of purgatory].

28. It is certain that when the penny jingles into the money-box, gain and avarice can be increased, but the result of the intercession of the Church is in the power of God alone.

29. Who knows whether all the souls in purgatory wish to be bought out of it, as in the legend of Sts. Severinus and Paschal.

30. No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much less that he has attained full remission.

31. Rare as is the man that is truly penitent, so rare is also the man who truly buys indulgences, i.e., such men are most rare.

32. They will be condemned eternally, together with their teachers, who believe themselves sure of their salvation because they have letters of pardon.

33. Men must be on their guard against those who say that the pope’s pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to Him;

34. For these “graces of pardon” concern only the penalties of sacramental satisfaction, and these are appointed by man.

35. They preach no Christian doctrine who teach that contrition is not necessary in those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessionalia.

~Martin Luther, The 95 Theses 1-35.

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Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)

ICE agents shot a legally-permitted, carrying gun-owner in Minneapolis yesterday. He was there as an observer and was in fact a qualified observer, and Department of Veterans Affairs hospital nurse, likely a veteran himself (because that's how somebody even gets a job like that.) And of course the Trump administration is telling all type of lies about the dude, because they're a bunch of degenerate scum-fucks and there's no other way to put it than that.

Worse, the shooting itself may have been the result of a negligent discharge by one of these idiot "Agents." Of course they did, because none of this shit is ever about what These Fucking People say it is. This isn't about "Illegal" Immigrants, it's a terror campaign directed at everybody. You'll note all the people they've actually killed so far are legal American citizens that they de jure have no actual right to arrest or anything of the sort. It's hard to have rights when you're dead.

More to the point, "Christian" Nationalists like Joel Webbon seem to think all this is funny.

Seek the Lord and ye shall live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. ~Amos 5:6

Makes one wonder what happened to "Thou Shalt Not Kill?"

Ya know, I'm old enough to remember when this sort of degenerate absolute horseshit started to be tolerated, and outright lies became acceptable because These Fucking People wanted to fashion a narrative of some kind of "Persecution."

So they did away with "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness" first, and let the parents of one of the victims of the Columbine school shooting use their daughter's death to get rich and famous by claiming she'd been killed for affirming her Christianity to one of the shooters. The truth is the incident did happen, but it was another kid, not her. The killers let that kid go. Of course the Truth never stopped a damned fake-religious church grifter. If you don't think you can draw a line right from that kind of shit straight to Donald Trump and the outright removal of Christ from Evangelical Christianity? You're wrong, I'm not sorry for pointing it out and it really is that damned simple.

And as a result, there are no beliefs, no Commandments and no rights that These Fucking People feel they are bound to respect.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

Why?? Because the people who held people to those kind of standards without there even needing to be any laws involved got comfortable, and started to prefer comforting lies and dopamine hits to the Truth.

Bigotry, Bullshit and Narcissism replaced Doctrine, Faith, and Theology. Secular political "Conservatism" began to be taught as Christianity. These Fucking People publicly railed against moral relativism and situational ethics, but they privately practiced them far more than any Liberal in Bill Clinton's America as it was at the time.

Fuck, I was one of the people trying to call this shit out, although without the vocabulary that I have now.

For all the good it did.

And hell, since yesterday these fuckers have now, finally, done something that's starting to cut into the base of those 18% to 20% of Americans that were still ride-or-die for George W. Bush in October of 2008. Fuck, even the NRA got off its ass! And they're trying to forge ahead anyway.

Welcome to the Rebellion, guys.

I guarantee you people like my partner's aunt and cousin and all these other "Trump Dick Riders" as my kid calls them, will still be all in, though.

I found out yesterday that one of the cousins stole a bunch of kiddo's stuff that I ordered off Amazon for her. Fuck it, I ordered that shit again right then. I'll go without before I let the Leeches have a win.

So yeah, what happened to "Thou Shalt Not Steal??"

That's the thing, These Fucking People ride Trump's dick because they see him as granting them an Indulgence to be their worst selves, at all times, in all cases, and still feel righteous about it.

And apparently you ain't even gotta be old enough to vote to cash in.

If anybody wonders why I'm very specific about the fact that we need an American Reformation, that's why.

The only thing These Fucking People believe in is Taking Advantage Of Others, and they're teaching that to their kids, too.

But to point out the case of Cassie Bernall from the late 1990's there, these motherfuckers will gladly fuck over each other or even their own children in pursuit of whatever sort of profit they think they'll get.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

And that shit can and will get much worse, because they'll keep going until they're openly worshiping the Void itself and they've consumed and stolen everything if the rest of us let them.

I'm honestly starting to wonder if Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" was a prophetic warning?

You either believe in freedom or you don't, America.

Truth is the only floor most of us have to stand on to push back against Power.

And it really is that simple.

These monsters really do wanna start a fire and for there to be none to quench it.

But it won't be the Lord.

Remember that.

The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. By day the dead impaled on spikes along the road. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calendar for five years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived and all the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food. Within a year there was fire on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice - difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke. ~The Man, from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (Film.)

Prequel

Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are! We are not among the living, and so we cannot die. But neither are we dead! For too long, I've been parched of a thirst with nothin' to quench it. Too long I've been starvin' to death and haven't died. I feel nothin'. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea, nor the warmth of a woman's flesh. [steps out into the moonlight, revealing his skeletal form] You best start believin' in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You're in one!

~Hector Barbossa, Pirates Of The Caribbean; Curse Of The Black Pearl.

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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. ~Martin Luther

Breaking Out Like Fire (95 Theses, for America, Prequel.)

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. ~Martin Luther

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Cassian Andor: Kino. Tell them what to do. It has to be you. Come on, Kino. You do this every day. Tell them what to do.

Kino Loy: [presses PA system] My name is Kino Loy. I'm the day shift manager on Level Five. I'm speaking to you from the command center on Level Eight. We are, at this moment, in control of the facility.

Andor: Is that the best you got?

Loy: How long we hang on, how far we get, how many of us make it out, all of that is now up to us. We have deactivated every floor in the facility. All floors are cold. Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don't have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this and [looks at Cassian, knowing he said it] "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want." We know they fried a hundred men on Level Two. We know that they are making up our sentences as we go along. We know that no one outside here knows what's happening. And now we know, that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison to go and die, and that ends today! There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out!

[repeats it multiple times as he leaves the command center]

Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!

~From the series "Andor" S1 E10 "One Way Out."

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan

There were massive Anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis the last couple days, in -20F weather.

It feels like we're approaching a critical mass against all this Trump bullshit.

Know that the arc of history can, in fact, turn on some very small things.

On All Hallows Eve in 1517, a bland-looking middle-aged (for the time) friar and University professor named Martin Luther nailed a document called The 95 Theses, more properly called A Disputation Of The Power And Efficacy of Indulgences to the door of a castle church in Wittenberg, Germany.

An "Indulgence" was basically a piece of paper that one could buy which was claimed by the late medieval Catholic Church to lessen one's time of punishment in Purgatory, and Indulgences were issued or Papal Bulls written for all type of skeevy shit done by nobles, priests, royalty and the wealthy upper class. Want to marry your cousin so you don't have to share Power or so you can keep the wealth in the family, or simply because you're a debased pervert? 

Buy an Indulgence!

This shit, like today's bullshit-ass Prosperity Gospel churches, was literally an industry that operated with the blessing of religious leaders, who naturally got a cut of the money.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

I'm sure you can see how regular people as well as anybody who actually Believed in anything would get annoyed by this, and the money-changers Jesus chased out of the Temple had nothing on these fucking Priests and shit.

The Church, and the European nobility at the time, and most of the political systems in the context of the Christian world were corrupt, incestuous, rotten to the core and shamelessly unapologetic about all of it, and this was enforced by Kings and Nobles and their Armies, not to mention the Inquisition. All of the above enforced basically Theocratic monarchies.

People had been tortured and killed for such things as trying to translate the Bible from Latin into their own languages, or even for daring to read the Lord's Word in their own vernacular. Numerous priests and others had been, in real terms, martyred for resisting the excesses of a Church that had been captured by the Borgia and De Medici noble houses of Iberia and Italy respectively.

Sound familiar??

It should, this is the kind of world that a lot of Republicans, especially fake-"Traditionalist" Catholics like Clarence Thomas, JD Vance and Sam Alito think they want.

(Except that, in America, today's rampant illiteracy is largely by choice, as is political-class tolerance for MAGA excesses.)

In spite of all that, Slowly, at first, but with increasing rapidity via the nascent printing press, rapidly expanding literacy and word of mouth, what Martin Luther had written got out, and very quickly started a movement, now referred to by history as the Protestant Reformation.

To paraphrase Amos chapter five, there really are times when the Lord Breaks Out Like Fire in the house of Joseph and there is none to quench it in Bethel.

The truth is that the Church was largely undone in this case by its own debasement and stupidity.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

The net result ended up being a couple hundred years of Wars Of Religion which the Catholics mostly lost.

Again, you either believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're willing to fight for it or you're not.

I was taught this history, in Christian schools. We were taught this stuff so we would know who we were.

You'd be amazed at how many of America's most fanatically supposedly-devout "Christians" simply weren't and don't know jack shit about any of it.

That's something I intend to engage with in this series.

We owe future generations nothing less than the Truth, but you have to teach it first.

And people have to be willing to learn something.

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Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)

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Whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally either in public or private life must have his eye fixed. ~From the Allegory Of The Cave, Plato's Republic.

Crab Bucket III (American Reformation I, Ten.)

The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. By day the dead impaled on spikes along the road. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calendar for five years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived and all the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food. Within a year there was fire on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice - difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke. ~The Man, from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (Film.)

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During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God. 

~Malcolm X, Letter following the Hajj.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan

I got woke up early yesterday morning.

A simple text from my partner, six words: "You better come get us immediately."

She's been having trouble with her idiot relatives, as I've been saying for awhile, and this has been a plan with varying degrees of preparedness for a couple months now.

As we knew it would the Crab Bucket shit became unsustainable.

So I threw some clothes on, brushed my teeth, grabbed a couple things and got in the car, gritting my teeth to lock in and drive across half the state in a fucking blizzard.

You can take a lot of things away from a man. Cigarettes, the gym. You can take his freedom, his legs, but not his feelings. Not his feelings. A man loves a woman. Don't matter what kind of man he is, if he loves her, he wants her. He wants her body. He wants her to want his. So you say to him, "you can never make love again. You will never touch her in that way again. This is the last time. The last time. Forever." If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise."

My partner is tough and fast on her feet and develops amazing levels of connections very quickly, by the time I'd gotten to the next big town and was getting gas before getting on the freeway, she had a couple offers of a place to stay and said I could turn around and go home if I wanted. I told her "Fuck that, I'm coming anyway" She'd need the help.

Three hours of driving in ridiculous conditions later, me and the coworker whose offer she had accepted packed her out of that shithole in one go, splitting her load of stuff between two cars. It turned out, she did need the help. At least she's staying with decent people now, and they won't be constantly robbing her blind, she'd be able to keep her decent job as a Vet Tech and keep the kiddo in school where she was already established instead of having to come back up here and start over again. 

More, the kiddo needed a familiar face and a familiar car and a guy she actually knew to pick her up from school with Mom. 

She screamed about it anyway and we didn't blame her. 

We let her rant.

Hell, we deserved it for not being more successful at things.

After that, we got our necessary shit done, went out to lunch, went to the store and got treats and I bought my lady flowers, in general we spent the afternoon reconnecting after four months apart.

Some of the stories they told me about that family?? 

"Chud" is too kind of an epithet for These Fucking People.

While we're eating lunch at the local pizza place, kiddo (Who is *Checks Notes* 14) described the relatives as "Trump Dick Riders."

At her age I'd have got grounded if not my ass busted by my grandma for using that kind of language but she wasn't wrong, we let it stand.

30 minutes after the screaming in the school parking lot had stopped, these ladies were gleefully plotting their revenge and now have 3 dudes and an old lady (coworker's Mom) willing to help. 

Basically, as I've said, the relatives are Welfare People who just live off the State and otherwise cheating other people and the system with a side-order of completely half-assed running a small farm that's more junk cars in the yard and a few acres of what looks to be barely-maintained fields than anything else. It's way worse than that, though.

Both partner and kiddo are Autistic, and had to suffer through these fucking functionally-illiterate assholes daily saying all type of mean shit about Autistic people.

These idiots they've been having to put up with believe in all type of horrible shit, like that illegal immigrants should literally have no rights, along with about every conspiracy theory you can imagine, too.

It gets unimaginably worse. 

What follows is just one example.

Kiddo, who is agnostic-atheist, LGBT and *Checks Notes* a KID, among other demographics These Fucking People claim to want to evangelize IF they believe what they SAY they do wanted to go to church with a friend because she's 14 and naturally curious about such things (and that's natural and OK) the relatives fucking vetoed that when her mother was out of earshot and made her split wood instead.

Now besides that, I get that I'm painfully old school but I don't think a 14-year-old girl needs to be splitting wood. I did it at that age, but I'm a guy. Her mother has done it but is a vaguely-feminist ADULT who revels in doing stuff that men "Traditionally" do, and she's always been like that.

We have our disagreements over politics and policy although never the basics of shit like civilization, but more often than they don't, those things knit us together more than they divide us from each other. We've always been like that, too.

That's not the world the asshole relatives wanna live in.

These Fucking People are loudly supposedly "Conservative" and Southern Baptist.

I made sure to clarify that particular point.

Then I blew a fucking gasket and went full fucking Fire And Brimstone in the fucking car for about five miles.

My partner, who was *Definitely* conservative Christian (Catholic upbringing) when all this started 20 years ago and has gone through several Christian phases since, simply sat back, lit a cigarette and smiled this strangely content little smile that she gets when she knows she's won an argument and really wants to rub it in, but acidly or quietly depending on her mood.

I let her have the point and enjoy 20 years of "She Won The Argument."

After all this, she deserved it.

Think about this for a second, though.

I guess having slave labor (as both partner and kid described how they were treated, and I didn't hear the half of it before yesterday) was more important than a CHILD learning about the Lord's Word.

Which is supposedly vastly important to the Evangelical religion.

But now abandoned like everything else, for Trump.

This is why we need an American Reformation, an undoing of the Indulgences of all this fake "Conservative" horseshit.

If my kid wants to go to church, I want a Church that will do right by my kid!

And that, my brothers and sisters, is exactly what MAGA doesn't want, for all the worst goddamned reasons.

In case you don't believe me that MAGA is Antichrist and will turn out to be viciously anti-religion, at least for any religion that doesn't bow before their Idols Of Gold.

I left out the first half on purpose, the Devils won't have them anymore.

The only thing MAGA is trying to "Conserve" is the social meme of Slavery and more generally, of Taking Advantage of Other People. 

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)

These are the same fucking people who are basically advocating male situational bisexuality like this is fucking 1990's Taliban Afghanistan because women don't wanna put up with their bullshit, and these dudes ain't lonely enough.

If they have to, they'll be the goddamned slaves and hate the rest of us all the more for it, as they hate us for our refusal to bow down and say "Yes Massa" to the nearest Skoal-can looking motherfucker in a MAGA hat now. 

Now throw in that both regular standard-issue MAGA as it was five or ten years ago is either marginalized like the rest of us or has given up altogether or switched sides, leaving pretty much the extremist weirdos and vicious White Trash, and think on this;

What the fuck do you think Trump really represents to these fucking people?

And they're fucking enraged we're not letting them have what they think they want, as if that would ever be enough.

There's a reason we busted ass to pack her out in one go and made sure to pick up the kid right from school. My partner was more than a little worried about violence and it took everything I had not to bring weapons.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

Now think about that shit, writ large.

It's a safe bet that pretty much the only thing These Fucking People that are actually still all in with this bullshit (Note I live in Northern Michigan and have seen like ONE MAGA hat in the last six or eight months) will fight to keep is their Orange God and the little bit of power that they think they have.

Yet again I've seen how these fucking people wanna use that power.

And that these people would rather burn the world than give that shit up.

These people hate America, they hate you, and they even hate themselves.

Anything but "Love Thy Neighbor" as Jesus commanded.

These Fucking People's religion is Donald Trump at this point.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're either willing to do the work and fight for it or you're not.

Yes, it really is that simple.

But the Crab Bucket Brigade lost one yesterday, in spite of extremely adverse conditions for the rest of us, and we won.

That's the kind of effort I'm talking about, that right there, but we're all gonna have to do something.

So get after it.

We owe our kids nothing less.

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Cassian Andor: Kino. Tell them what to do. It has to be you. Come on, Kino. You do this every day. Tell them what to do.

Kino Loy: [presses PA system] My name is Kino Loy. I'm the day shift manager on Level Five. I'm speaking to you from the command center on Level Eight. We are, at this moment, in control of the facility.

Andor: Is that the best you got?

Loy: How long we hang on, how far we get, how many of us make it out, all of that is now up to us. We have deactivated every floor in the facility. All floors are cold. Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don't have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this and [looks at Cassian, knowing he said it] "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want." We know they fried a hundred men on Level Two. We know that they are making up our sentences as we go along. We know that no one outside here knows what's happening. And now we know, that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison to go and die, and that ends today! There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out!

[repeats it multiple times as he leaves the command center]

Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!

~From the series "Andor" S1 E10 "One Way Out."

Nine

I don't preach a social Gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

American Sodom (American Reformation I, Nine.)

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them carnally.

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

~Genesis 19:1-29

I just saw this. I'd heard about it, but this is the first I've seen it.

Apparently, ICE officers ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested a bunch of the people who'd just prepared their food.

This is some Sodom and Gomorrah type of shit, right here.

This, arrogance, betrayal of hospitality and discourtesy to or abuse of guests (rather than the gay stuff in particular although that could be argued to be a factor, the Word doesn't emphasize that later) is why God rained fire from the sky and turned people into pillars of salt.

And there's a rock formation that's part of Mount Sodom in Israel that traditions say was those people, it wasn't just Lot's wife, allegedly, although one of the pillars of halite is named after her.

God is going to rain His judgment on America because of this type of shit. Inhospitality and betrayal of one who abides by the stern laws of hospitality in the Middle Eastern cultures that birthed the Holy Books like the Bible, the Koran and the Torah is, theologically in all of those faiths considered a great crime and a Sin before God.

And I'm just sayin' it's not like These Fucking People are even making it hard if God decided to retaliate with diseases and plagues and shit.

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)

Like, come on, when the fuck is enough, enough??

You wanna survive this?

Don't be These Fucking People.

Fight for your own freedom and that of others like the people in Minnesota are doing. Give a shit about other people.

Reject the cult of Donald Trump and the false system of the Beast. Whether dude is Antichrist or just a test run for the Beast of Revelations, too much of American Christianity failed the test.

Stop being a selfish asshole.

Love Thy Neighbor ain't a suggestion.

It's what we'll get judged on.

And I suppose there will be God's Judgment Deniers and people who think it's all some big conspiracy theory or the Deep State or some bullshit.

The Lord won't give a shit about that either.

Remember that.

All those people who screamed "GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED!" About this, that and the other damn thing from Barack Obama to LGBT rights to women telling them "No" Guess what?? In real terms they're the ones mocking the Lord and worshiping Trump.

His judgment comes, and that right soon.

I'm really starting to think the American Reformation I believe needs to happen may be a result of the Judgment rather than an attempt to prevent it.

But that means it's gonna be too late for some people.

I kept telling people to Repent for a long time, they refused.

What happens next? That's on them.

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We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

Eight

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan