Blood Is All Of One Color (American Reformation I, Two.)

Ka mate, ka mate! ka ora! ka ora!
Ka mate! ka mate! ka ora! ka ora!
Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru
Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā
Ā, upane! ka upane!
Ā, upane, ka upane, whiti te ra!

~Ka Mate, Maori Haka (main body)

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'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
This is the hairy man
Who caused the sun to shine again for me
Up the ladder, up the ladder!
Rise! The Sun shines.
~Ka Mate, English translation, from a previous post "War Dance."

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[Mon Mothma addresses the Senate chambers again]

Mon Mothma: Fellow Senators, friends, colleagues, allies, adversaries, I stand before you this morning with a heavy heart. I've spent my life in this chamber. I came here as a child, and as I look around me now, I realize I have almost no memories that predate my arrival, and few bonds of affection that cleave so tightly. Through these many years, I believe I have served my constituents honorably and upheld our code of conduct. This chamber is a cauldron of opinions, and we've certainly all had our patience and tempers tested in pursuit of our ideals. Disagree as we might, I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come.

I stand this morning with a difficult message. I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil! When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest. This Chamber's hold on the truth was finally lost on the Ghorman Plaza! What took place yesterday, what happened yesterday on Ghorman, was unprovoked genocide! Yes, genocide! And that truth has been exiled from this Chamber! And the monster screaming the loudest, the monster we helped create, the monster who will come for us all soon enough, is Emperor Palpatine!

~From the Star Wars series Andor, S2.E9 "Welcome To The Rebellion."

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Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on a race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength of the world. That is the American way. ~Ronald Reagan

Earlier today in Minnesota, some idiot ICE agent apparently just plain shot some unarmed lady, unprovoked, who was supposedly just told to move her car.

It's bad enough that Governor Tim Walz has issued a Warning Order for the Minnesota Army National Guard to deploy.

Something tells me dude probably wants to avoid a repeat of the whole George Floyd thing and understandably so, but also that people in general (and not just in Minnesota) are sick of the Trump administration and their heavy-handed terror tactics and ridiculous international and domestic bullying.

Republicans need to be made aware that nobody is under any obligation to put up with their bullshit, and that's exactly what it is. All countries have different groups and political opposition and shit, it's a part of the human condition. But Republicans all like to act like being against them is a crime against God.

That's not politics, it's narcissism.

That's These Fucking People effectively trying to install their political worldview as God. The trouble is there's nothing divine, Godly or even good about (entirely secular) Republican politics as it currently is, which is These Fucking People's real "religion."

And I'm tired of these grinning suck-ass goons who apparently like to pretend that they can't wait to slobber all over the boots of the nearest specifically white, right-wing cop just 'cause they think that's what somebody wants to see.

The truth is the only reason Republicans give a fuck about cops is because in the last 20 years there's been a concerted effort to turn cops into a Party militia for racists and the wealthy.

When cops do anything but that (let alone their actual jobs) Republicans hate them, pretty much the same as everybody else does.

The thing with ICE is it doesn't even bother to try to claim to be anything but a racist militia for Donald Trump in particular.

And shit's out of control enough that when this is over, and when anybody else (Yes, even other Republicans) gets in, this bullshit is going to have to be reigned in and people fired and prosecuted if not the agency itself disbanded.

If we ever wanna have a government that's anything but Donald Trump ever again, at least.

No politician, at least not in a civilized country, needs a private army...let alone one that's unaccountable to anyone and doesn't even follow basic law or procedure.

But then if you ask me, we're getting to the point where the Republican Party itself is going to have to be forcibly disbanded and its members banned from politics and public life (under the threat of death if need be) for the rest of their lives if we want to keep having a civilization.

There is something wrong with these people!

These fucking people, their frat-boy mentality and unreasonableness are breaking America.

And for some reason, Republicans, most of whom are themselves cowardly chickenshits, have gotten it into their heads that everybody else is just like them and will see the brutality of their thugs and just give up.

Yeah, it's funny but if you actually look at history none of this shit actually works that way and there's wreckage of empires all around the world to prove it. Hell, ancient Rome was smarter than this and gave people a stake in it!

Weird "Conservative" beliefs about dominance and submission and obsessions with force end up being just that, creepy, cruel, deeply weird fetishes and beliefs that don't take into account how people are.

This shit is more creepy fetish than actual politics at this point.

It's human nature to resist.

Clearly, even if you look at places like Cuba, Eastern Europe, or Russia, previous authoritarian belief systems didn't take except for a small percentage of the population, and other than the particulars of ideology I don't see much difference between Republicans and Soviet Communists at this point.

Certainly, both belief systems are equally godless.

And for fuck's sake Republicanism now ain't what it was forty, twenty or even five years ago!

Clearly the actually stated beliefs did not take.

And if you can't figure out why the idea of having to basically ask for permission to drive down the street, or exist, in a country like the United States of America isn't exactly popular, that's a you problem at this point.

A nation cannot survive a Biblical-grade plague of disinterested, perverse, sociopathic narcissists.

You cannot deal with people whose core grievance is that Other People Exist or for whom the only acceptable answer to anything is cowering submission to Power.

Civilizations have crumbled to dust for far less than that.

And if we don't do something about this shit, "Babylon" won't even be the half of what happens.

It's not that I think if we don't stop it, God is gonna rain down fire.

It's I think He's already got it cooking but it'll be worse if the rest of us don't stand up.

And the reason I think we need an American Reformation is that churches were balls-deep in creating this fucking mess.

At this point I think God is still holding out hope that there's ten righteous men in Sodom.

That cannot last.

Remember, Blood is all of one color.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And either you're willing to stand up or you ain't.

Your AI Jesus ain't gonna Save you from the wrath of the real one.

Remember this.

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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ~2nd Corinthians 14:16

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But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. ~Isaiah 53:5

In Natal, apartheid is a deadly cancer in our midst, setting house against house, and eating away at the precious ties that bound us together. This strife among ourselves wastes our energy and destroys our unity. My message to those of you involved in this battle of brother against brother is this: take your guns, your knives, and your pangas, and throw them into the sea! Close down the death factories. End this war now! ~Nelson Mandela, speech at a peace rally, February 25th, 1990

Idiot Babylon (American Reformation I, One.)

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10

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[Mon Mothma addresses the Senate chambers again]

Mon Mothma: Fellow Senators, friends, colleagues, allies, adversaries, I stand before you this morning with a heavy heart. I've spent my life in this chamber. I came here as a child, and as I look around me now, I realize I have almost no memories that predate my arrival, and few bonds of affection that cleave so tightly. Through these many years, I believe I have served my constituents honorably and upheld our code of conduct. This chamber is a cauldron of opinions, and we've certainly all had our patience and tempers tested in pursuit of our ideals. Disagree as we might, I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come.

I stand this morning with a difficult message. I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil! When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest. This Chamber's hold on the truth was finally lost on the Ghorman Plaza! What took place yesterday, what happened yesterday on Ghorman, was unprovoked genocide! Yes, genocide! And that truth has been exiled from this Chamber! And the monster screaming the loudest, the monster we helped create, the monster who will come for us all soon enough, is Emperor Palpatine!

~From the Star Wars series Andor, S2.E9 "Welcome To The Rebellion."

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Captain Ramsey: You do qualify your remarks. If someone asked me if we should bomb Japan, a simple "Yes. By all means sir, drop that fucker, twice!"

[Men laughing]

Capt. Ramsey: I don't mean to suggest that you're indecisive, Mr. Hunter. Not at all. Just, uh... complicated. 'course, that's the way the Navy wants you. Me, they wanted simple.

Hunter: Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.

Ramsey: [chuckles] Be careful there, Mr. Hunter. It's all I've got to rely on, being a simple-minded son of a bitch. Rickover gave me my command, a checklist, a target and a button to push. All I gotta know is how to push it, they tell me when. They seem to want you to know why.

Hunter: I would hope they'd want us all to know why, sir.

Ramsey: At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy. "War is a continuation of politics by other means." Von Clausewitz

Hunter: I think, sir, that what he was actually trying to say was a little more -

Ramsey: Complicated?

[Men laughing]

Hunter: Yes the purpose of war is to serve a political end but the true nature of war is to serve itself.

~From the film Crimson Tide.

I saw this a few days ago.

Separate pictures of Donald Trump and Nicholas Maduro living it up while their peoples suffer.

Trump and company in their small town gaming convention fake-SCIF at Mar-A-Lard-Ass.

And Matt Walsh, a motherfucking nobody entirely known for saying dumb shit, is acting like God (who only exists when it's convenient) appointed him King of Canada.

Fuck these people.

Or perhaps, better yet, don't fuck any of them, ever.

We need to bring back societal standards, social ostracism and THE ASS WHUPPIN.

Cuz ya know, I've known more than a few Canadians and they're usually people that, if you want to summarily declare yourself the boss of them for no reason like some idiot kid on the playground it's best to do it via computer, from several hundred miles away, where they can't find you.

Seriously, we captured one guy in a military operation that looks a bit suspicious and staged at this point like the whole thing was bullshit, and these motherfuckers are acting like they conquered the world?

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. ~Revelation 6:1-2

What happens when the next person doesn't go along??

Why does  not just Trump but all of the MAGA influencer and media class expect the world is just gonna keep jobbing for Trump like it's WWE so he can strut around on some wrestling ring that exists only in his fading mind and the imagination of his most fervid idiot followers??

What happens when Trump actually isn't the magical Guy On The White Horse from Revelations and the rest of the world says "No?"

I'm gonna amend what I said earlier: It's not just that this is going to end badly or that we're gonna lose. We're gonna get tripped up by something really stupid.

Or by the fact that if something takes longer than an hour, these people lose interest.

Or by the problem that any adverse set of circumstances, inconvenience, threat, virus, war etc. that lasts longer than two weeks instantly becomes a Conspiracy Theory and some mass plot against "Conservatism."

Or maybe we'll be undone by the simple fact that a lot of Americans are simple-assed idiots and on FOX News you've got grown-ass (Old!) men (with gray hair, even!) who think you can get "educated" by watching cartoons, old sitcoms and Westerns.

And they ain't talking about anything like Schoolhouse Rock, either.

America is Babylon.

But only if Babylon is an Idiocracy.

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.

I'm so tired of purposeful stupidity and willful goddamned ignorance.

And sooner or later, we're going to pay for the fact that America has made being a dumbass and a selfish ignorant jackass popular and profitable.

As if we haven't already paid for it, like during the COVID-19 pandemic, for example.

I'm again reminded of how in the summer of 2000 my then-girlfriend (and eventual ex-wife) was so utterly entranced by watching Survivor, which I instantly thought was creepy and ungodly and once we had our own place the first (and one of the few) rules that I made was nobody was watching that shit in my house.

We were Christians, she'd already agreed to listen to me and respect my authority as the Man since we'd gotten engaged fairly quickly. Since I also, on the other hand, believed in equality I tried not to exercise such authority frivolously or without clear, explainable reason.

But in that case I put my foot down, and my stated reason literally was (Still IS!) the spiritual bad vibe that "Reality TV" was giving me.

She listened. but pouted about it (and I'm pretty sure, had her sister record it and watched that crap over at her sister's place) but then when Jackass came on, my ex was equally intrigued by that garbage and had got on watching it before I was even aware of it (damn work schedule!) since MTV was always on in our house (and if it wasn't it was on CMT, VH1 or occasionally FOX News) and she made plain that if she was going to (pretend) to abide by my rule of not watching Survivor, I best let her have this one.

So I did.

Anyway, Since that point in my life I've hated constant distraction and noise and shit.

And by the way, I still hate reality TV and I'm not that big on TV in general (I haven't owned a TV since 2015) and I still rarely randomly listen to music. Honestly other than occasional specific shows I've hardly watched TV since 2000-2001 at all, although I still had Cable because of shows like Oz or Deadwood or Rome, the History channel (when that still was anything) and occasional WWE pay-per-view or (later) The Walking Dead.

Honestly at this point my entire attitude could be summed up as Thank Jesus for WIFI and streaming services.

But if you wanna know how we got stuck on this AI Jesus crap, start with stuff like Survivor and the fact that we made dumb shit funny and the Truth optional.

Not giving a fuck about Other People was marketed and turned into a big adventure.

What they couldn't sell with Ayn Rand's shitty books, they marketed with Survivor, Jackass, Fear Factor and The Apprentice.

Throw in consumption being treated as culture, debased boredom and too easy of a life for too many of us, and there you have it, a Biblical-level plague of Narcissism that we'll be fighting until we get kicked in the teeth as a country enough times for it to sink in that this is a bad idea.

Thing is, as we should remember from our own history, surviving adversity takes care and solidarity. Getting ahead generationally can take sacrifice presently. Often it's the immigrants, LGBT folk and minorities and yes, women that still know this. Why do you think comfortable white men hate them??

It's the same thing, why one of my Air Force bros said so much of America doesn't like Islam, that religion scripturally mandates charity and sobriety, thus removing two control points for rich elites.

If everybody's drunk (or high) and selfish and constantly sozzled on Confirmation Bias and been convinced that they can Believe whatever they want and still go to Heaven, Truth has no meaning, you could say Atlas Shrugged IS the Bible and who can prove you wrong??

And when God tires of this and we get What's Coming, which will be bad enough that nobody who's ever paid attention can deny that's exactly what it is...the Wrath Of The Lamb...guess what? Within 48 hours you'll see a whole online Industry of Apocalyptic Situation Denialists pop up.

I guarantee you, when that happens and somebody speaks Prophetically, speaks the Truth, tells people what's really going on? These Fucking People will be the most violently anti-Christian (in particular) anti-Religion (in general) and either Atheistic or Idolatrous wankers imaginable.

If there actually is an American Reformation, these freaks will want to burn people.

Again, Truth...any Truth will do, ultimately...is the only floor most of us have to stand on to push back against Power.

And you either believe in Freedom or you don't.

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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ~2nd Corinthians 14:16

Prequel

Elisabet Sobeck: I remember yelling that I didn’t care. And that’s when my mother took my face in her hands and…spoke.

GAIA: Query: What did she say?

Elisabet Sobeck: She said I had to care. She said, “Elisabet, being smart will count for nothing if you don’t make the world a better place. You have to use your smarts to count for something, to serve life, not death.”

~From the video game Horizon Zero Dawn.

Forty Years In The Wilderness (American Reformation I, Prequel.)

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.

And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. ~Amos 5:7-26

I saw this last night.

Some idiot calling Trump a "Modern Day Moses" with an AI image of him parting the waters.

Some people really do wanna wander aimlessly in the Desert for 40 years, just to hold up progress, I guess.

And for the record it ain't that far from Egypt, even to the parts called such in the Ancient World, to pretty much any part of Israel, ancient or modern.

People only get that lost because they wanna be.

And so it is with people like Nick Adams, who pretty much is only known to...well, anybody...because he's made a career out of blowing Trump for the last ten years.

I'd rather be the piss boy in a brothel, it's more honest work.

This shit is well past regular cult-level as far as I'm concerned, it's Antichrist and Blasphemy.

These fucking people believe in Donald Trump more than they ever believed in Jesus Christ.

Which isn't surprising if you think about it, given that there's a wide strand of Fundamentalist Christianity that basically teaches people to be Angry, Violent Atheists, Minus One Belief System (That being whatever version of Independent Fundamentalist Bullshit their particular preacher screams at the congregation about every Sunday.)

And all of them describe God as an angry, violent narcissist.

Essentially the only difference between God and the Devil in their religion is which side you're on. And, yo, if that sounds completely backwards to you that's because it is.

This shit is a very Man-centered religion both regarding "Man" as a general construct and a certain type of Men in particular. Just in case you wonder WHY I think these fuckers would rather worship Devils and Idols Of Gold than the Truth.

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.

Like I keep saying,  I can't even talk the way these people talk anymore, and I was raised in this stuff!

If I'd have said "Donald Trump is God" or "Donald Trump is Moses" as a Catholic School kid in 1985, I wouldn't have remembered anything else that happened that week, I'd have got ass whuppins for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I wouldn't have been able to sit down for at least a month.

So, 40 years later, what the fuck is the difference??

If we've fallen that far it's because we wanted to.

When I worked third shift at the casino I used to poll co-workers on various things at least once a week, sometimes just to see if they knew basic shit.

You'd be surprised how many Independent Fundamentalist Conservatives, alleged Protestants all, have no idea who Martin Luther was, what the 95 Theses were or even where the city of Wittenberg is, let alone what all this stuff came together to make.

Pro tip, homie, it's the religious movement you pretend to be a part of when you're sitting in the breakroom staring at an open Bible looking all serious.

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

I propose that we need an American Reformation in order to fix this mess.

Because at this point the alternative is an Antichristianity that worships men like Donald Trump and if you don't see why that's a problem, from a Christian perspective, I cannot help you, and I'm not sure I want to waste time trying.

You're Biblical-grade Lost, taking 40 years to go what should be a journey of about 700 Klicks, at best.

And it's because you want to be that way.

Cuz you think you'll get something for it.

Because Anything but "Love Thy Neighbor" is the only Truth you hold in your heart.

Donald Trump ain't gonna Save you, not in this life or the next.

He's just a man, and not even a very good one.

And when somebody nails that list to the door and calls out the false doctrine of Indulgences that has infected the American church, you're gonna tell on yourself.

Because you'd rather reject God than face the Truth about what's been going on here for the last ten years, let alone the crap you've personally decided to go along with.

Repentance is not just for Other People, bro.

His judgment cometh, and that right soon.

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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ~2nd Corinthians 14:16

Last Post

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

Becoming Babylon (Day Of The Lord, Ten.)

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. ~Revelation 6:1-2

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Captain Ramsey: You do qualify your remarks. If someone asked me if we should bomb Japan, a simple "Yes. By all means sir, drop that fucker, twice!"

[Men laughing]

Capt. Ramsey: I don't mean to suggest that you're indecisive, Mr. Hunter. Not at all. Just, uh... complicated. 'course, that's the way the Navy wants you. Me, they wanted simple.

Hunter: Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.

Ramsey: [chuckles] Be careful there, Mr. Hunter. It's all I've got to rely on, being a simple-minded son of a bitch. Rickover gave me my command, a checklist, a target and a button to push. All I gotta know is how to push it, they tell me when. They seem to want you to know why.

Hunter: I would hope they'd want us all to know why, sir.

Ramsey: At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy. "War is a continuation of politics by other means." Von Clausewitz

Hunter: I think, sir, that what he was actually trying to say was a little more -

Ramsey: Complicated?

[Men laughing]

Hunter: Yes the purpose of war is to serve a political end but the true nature of war is to serve itself.

~From the film Crimson Tide.

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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

I saw this last night.

Some Norwegian asking why we can't remove a corrupt, treasonous pedophile from our political system?

He brought up that the Norwegians removed somebody from their government for stealing a pair of sunglasses.

(Good for them, at least somebody in the world cares about right and wrong.)

Well, homie, the short answer is that America's wealthy and the Republican Party have convinced a third of the country that they get to steal the sunglasses too.

And, more broadly, half of America (including a lot of alleged "Liberals") just likes the idea of stealing shit.

There's just a lot of people in our country that would rather kill and steal than live.

Worse, in America, even right under the nose of the global (and majority non-White!) Catholic Church, there is an entire religious apparatus basically dedicated to telling These Fucking People that's Okay. In fact, be more of an asshole, for Jesus.

In case anybody wonders why I'm a very agnostic sort of Christian.

The trouble is, you can't threaten these right-wing political Bishops and Cardinals with Hell, because if Heaven doesn't have a hierarchy and Hell does...they'd rather go to Hell to start with!

In Dungeons & Dragons terms, we'll call Bishop Barron here Lawful Evil, he's going to the Nine Hells of Baator anyway and he likes it that way. Like I said, I didn't know Mammon had Bishops.

This Homophobic motherfucker here? Straight up Chaotic Evil, bound for the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, with a Will.

With Malice Aforethought.

If there's anything I've learned from gaming, religion, studying religion and traveling the world a bit both in Uniform and out? It's that people are people and a hell of a lot of people suck. If it wasn't Christianity, with these fucking people it would be something else, some other excuse, some other justification for or attempted buy-off of their Sin.

Like literally if a charismatic enough person came to them, preached belief in Dis Pater and Mammon and looked like they were gonna win...That's who these assholes would worship.

You have to beat the assholes, make it generally unprofitable to be an asshole and then actively work to support good people being good people! And you have to actively deter and visibly punish bad behavior and shit like that.

Also, electing and promoting for competence might help.

Likewise actively working to remove incompetents from the system (and discourage them from seeking public office) might help.

We as a society have to start making value judgments, on something other than petty bigotry or on a profit/loss basis. 

Trust me, take it from me and my partner, if you make being a good person optional too many people simply won't do it!

And stuff like that is exactly why I think America is going to fall apart like the Soviet Union did.

In November of 2024 I wrote how the collective American attention span was about two weeks, a milestone I saw during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

I further in a subsequent post wrote that there were 771 days between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Fall of the Soviet Union.

Maybe it's just me but I think we're well past halfway there and on an accelerated timeline. 

You can have the best military in the world, the most money, etc. It doesn't matter worth a shit if your leadership is corrupt and weak and the People don't want to live together any more, and I am totally not kidding.

There's people out there who'd rather that the military had raided Idaho than Venezuela.

And they ain't Liberals.

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.

Think on that.

There's people out there for whom literally nobody can be "Conservative" or Right-Wing enough.

Because it's not really about that.

Nameless One: “Shadow of this life?”

Dhall, Dustman scribe: “Yes, a shadow. You see, Restless One, this life is not real. Your life, my life, they are shadows, flickerings of what life once was. This life is where we end up after we die, and here we remain. Trapped, caged, until we can achieve the True Death.”

Nameless One: “True Death?”

Dhall, Dustman scribe: “True death is non-existence. A state devoid of reason, of passion, of sensation.” [Dhall coughs] “A state of purity.”

Nameless One: Sounds like oblivion, why would anyone would want that? 

~from Planescape Torment

Not because of any political philosophy or anything of the sort, but because all These Fucking People actually desire is destruction and to satisfy the lusts of the Flesh.

And they don't even wanna do that with real people anymore.

The fascism is simply a distraction from that. The actual reality of what these fucking people are is worse.

This, not Zohran Mamdani's New York City, is what a godless America (practicing a Christ-less Christianity) looks like.

Basically We Be Becoming Babylon.

And the immigrant Muslim socialist or the Gay People are not why. It's the White "Conservative" folks and their total lack of care for anybody else or desire to govern themselves, it's their unwillingness to do the work of life and the Wealth Without Work they lust after.

That's what's killing us.

So read the Book of Revelation and figure out if that's how you wanna live, pretty much.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

You either believe in whatever higher power you worship, or you don't.

Donald Trump ain't that higher power.

Слава Україна!

"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

Nine

Elisabet Sobeck: I remember yelling that I didn’t care. And that’s when my mother took my face in her hands and…spoke.

GAIA: Query: What did she say?

Elisabet Sobeck: She said I had to care. She said, “Elisabet, being smart will count for nothing if you don’t make the world a better place. You have to use your smarts to count for something, to serve life, not death.”

~From the video game Horizon Zero Dawn.