The (Orange) wine of the wrath of God.

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name. ~Revelation 14:8-11

Have we reached peak stupid, yet?

I know I keep asking this. Yesterday, Trump attempted to order American companies to find alternatives to doing business in China, and then attempted to order...by Tweet...a number of shipping companies to search their packages for drugs. No, not Federal agents, not police, not "cooperate with X federal agency" he wanted the companies themselves to do it.

One: Trump has no authority, Constitutional or otherwise, to do this. This is America, God doesn't have the kind of authority Trump is trying to claim for himself.
Two: Private corporations generally don't have their own Narc units. That's what the feds, or the local cops, are for. How the fuck did you even get this job?

Oh, right; Idiots.

Listen, ya'll, it's not just that Trump appears to have no idea of how his government or the world actually works...he appears to be mostly incapable of learning, as well as in the grip of some form of cognitive and mental decline. In short, this motherfucker should never have been elected in the first place, and needs to be gotten out of power one way or another, soon. And, the Party that nominated and has enabled him needs to be banished to the Outer Darkness, the kind of electoral wilderness that you don't come back from.

The Amazon is on fire. China and Hong Kong appear to still be on a collision course. Russia is still a threat. North Korea is becoming a worse threat. There is a probably-global recession starting. We're in a trade war that we have no way to win, and this absolute jackass is blathering away on social media like he thinks he's some kind of reality show kingpin, still?

Fuck this guy.

Listen, ya'll. I'm sick of furrowed brows and "I'm very concerned" and strongly-worded letters and social media rage and this goddamned moron in general.

And I am damned sick of the fact that the only people more invisible than Congressional Democrats in condemning this latest round of idiocy...are Congressional Republicans.

It's your credibility and reputation that are getting trashed here, Republicans. As far as I'm concerned nobody with an "R" after their name should ever live this crap down.

This is not a time for people to sit back and hope they can wait it out. If you do that there's not only no "wait" there's no "out" either. This is not a time to sit back and hope you'll profit from this mess. You won't, it's just that damned simple.

We don't have time to fuck around. This is the kind of time when everybody from national leaders down to the most common of the common people need to screw their courage to the sticking place, stand up and tell Donald Goddamned Motherfucking Trump what he can go do with himself! Trump and every last Republican office-holder at every level in this country should be run out of Washington D.C. and every state capital or other large city in the USA on a fucking  rail.

Any questions!?

Lately I keep hearing how conservatives seem to view everything as some kind of zero sum game, or think that life is something that must be earned.

There's no thought of the idea, like I was taught, that if you were born you already done "earned" your life.

There seems to be no thought among these people that there even *Is* a higher power or something greater than themselves.

There's no thought that hey...God is the one who creates life. And this from the people who self-appointed themselves as "The God people" in American politics, sometime back.

I started out as a Christian and a conservative and I was taught that life...ALL life, not just human life...had intrinsic value. 

Of course, like me, almost none of the people who taught me that (the ones still living anyway) are Christians anymore, and none of them are still conservatives. Should be noted the one person who is still a Believer (my Grandma, who is 96) has always been a Democrat. 

The thing that bothers me about this lack of belief in the intrinsic value of life is...Okay then, who determines who or what has value? Banks? Rich people? The "Tribe?" None of the things these people put forward as values these days fits with anything I was ever taught about this stuff. It seems like the things these fuckers actually value are things they know they can't speak publicly about, hate, racism, sexism etc. 

Like, what is even the meaning of life...or death...or anything else without some kind of fixed values that one can actually relate to other humans with and speak about? 

Without life having intrinsic value what's even the damn point of getting out of bed in the morning?

Just sayin' if you think that Trump and the Republicans care about you, you're wrong, they don't.

But they sure as hell want to spit in your face, and still be worshiped just the same. More to the point, they want you to not have a choice.

At this point, I think these fucking people all know they're going to hell. All they've ever cared about is profit and power in this life.

Yet so many these people claim to be Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians. They've all at least heard what that religion says is on the Other Side. They know.

They just want to take the rest of us with them.

Don't let them have the satisfaction.

Fuck these motherfuckers.