American Gods, Part Three.

They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it. ~George Carlin

I've been seeing this lately. Roger Stone going around claiming there's a "Satanic Portal" by the White House. As if known fraudster, scammer, scumbag and Swinger Roger Stone was some kind of paragon of Christian virtue?

I get that this crap is a cult.

But I'm no longer even sure what it's a cult OF. 

It seems to be based around hate, vapid pop culture, and Whiteness...and that's about it. For a long time this bullshit had appropriated the language of Christianity...but even that seems to be falling by the wayside as these people bow down to worship their "One True God" Ayn Rand, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Vladimir Putin.

Like, what's even the damned point, seriously?

What's even the damn difference between the "Conservative" version of God and the Devil?

No "What side you're on, ain't an answer."

It's like the ancient Roman cult of Dis Pater, as written by the people who do the bad Hollywood remakes and the stupid video game movies, with a whiny soundtrack by Kid Rock.

Essentially, there's no laws to this "religion" other than colonization, cruelty, and greed. There is simply nothing else to it. Even the Prosperity Gospel once claimed belief in a God...this shit doesn't even bother.

There's no spiritual element at all. It's "Grab what you can, when you can, before you die and there's no afterlife."

There's no "There" there, and yet people still try to look like they're Donald Trump or his mail-order wife?

They still call these fools "Christian."

And I find it funny how the people who are supposedly for Free Speech not only are deathly afraid to learn about or talk about anything that makes them uncomfortable...

But they're actively trying to ban the conversation.

And then they have the balls to try and deny it, right to your face.

And more to the point they're calling pretty much anything they disagree with "Communism" while all too many of them openly sympathize with a goddamned KGB man, because he's a dictator who is creating, in Russia, the kind of society that these fucking people want here.

You know, I've got people who were there...either in Germany or in Berlin itself...when the Wall came down. People celebrated that shit. It's only after a rocky transition to freedom and the gauzy, softening effect of hindsight that anybody missed Communist totalitarianism.

These motherfuckers accuse other people of being Communists while they want to build something like the Berlin Wall, but bigger.

And I get that people like Blowbert are fucking stupid racists and my ferret has a better awareness of history than they do but goddamn.

It's the East Bloc, founded by people like Mao and Stalin, that built walls and murdered millions, and American capitalism and liberal democracy that encouraged and supported the ordinary people who ultimately knocked them down.

Which is of course, exactly why people like Lauren Boebert detest it so.

A hell of a lot of these fucking brain-damaged overgrown children simply want to live in the kind of society where they get told what to do and don't have to think about anything. 

And perhaps the most important part, they want to be part of some kind of hierarchy where there are those below them that they can kick, mostly without consequence. 

They don't care about the underlying ideology. Neo-Soviet Communism works as well as any other damn thing, I guess.

These fucking people want to live in a society where people cower in fear at the sight of any old mook with a gun, and live in fear of the State because of course, they think that's ALWAYS going to be them.

Of course this is also why they want to break off a piece of America for themselves and immediately wall themselves off from demographic and social change while clutching their Bibles and guns and peering suspiciously out of the windows of their bunkers. Seriously, as much as these fucking people have trained themselves to live in fear, nothing will ever be enough to quench it. The cruelty, the fear, and the hatred...and the shitty politics that justifies it all...are the entire fucking point. 

I literally do not understand how they don't get that being "Anti-Anti-Fascist" is just a long way around to saying that they're fascists. And I likewise don't get how they don't understand that you can't go back and forth between fascist murders and happy domesticity just like that. Violence just doesn't work that way.

You'd think after all the wars this country has been through, after seeing the after-effects of everything from World War II on down to the end of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq you'd think these fucking people would understand the realities of things like addiction and mental issues and PTSD and that somebody always ends up having to support these damaged souls, in the end.

Unless you're a fucking sociopath.

And maybe it's just me, but I'll never get why These Fucking People not only want to have murderous fascism...but they want to have it for a bag of shit like Donald Trump, for vapid pop-culture bullshit and for the exact kind of white supremacist bullshit that almost always leads to more suffering and war later.

Trust me, in the history of the world, the American civil rights movement and the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa are standout exceptions. Either one could have ended in bloody, Communist -themed revolution. In fact, that's what the Soviets were hoping for and in the case of South Africa, had reached the point of specifically training people to lead a conventional military conflict.

Of course, these fucking people have willingly allied themselves with the people who are now openly beating off to the idea of nuclear war against the West, if not the end of the whole damn world...because they didn't get their idiotic fantasy of a servile Ukraine collapsing in 72 hours or some shit.

I'm really not sure if they care that it might someday all end in an orgy of blood and terror.

I'm not sure, either, what they meant by all these years of bellowing about the common man taking up arms and fighting against the invader or the oppressor when, now that so much of the population of Ukraine is doing exactly that (and succeeding admirably, against all odds!) These Fucking People (and not a few far-left "Tankies" as well) have stood up on the side of the Invader and the Oppressor and are mad because the Ukrainians are doing exactly what they say they would love to do themselves.

Or worse, people think "Peace" means preemptive capitulation in the face of evil.

Even a "Man Of Peace" like Noam Chomsky...or a gay far-leftist like Glenn Greenwald who fled America for Brazil back in the aughts because America (And Russia right now makes America in 2004 look like Pride Day in Amsterdam!) was too anti-gay...gets sucked into this bullshit.

I think a lot of these fucking people want America, the EU, NATO and the West in general to lose, because something something fascism, or some kind of flaky neo-Communist fantasy. Well, if all that is so great, why are so many people...not least many of the Oligarchs who caused this shit...fleeing Russia for the West or places like Dubai?? Why are there tens of thousands of Russians in Istanbul? 

And why the fuck can't you fuckers see that nobody wants your bigoted extremism, your cowering, fawning submission to dictators, or your racist, vapid whiteness except you?

And fuck, the only reason you want it is you ain't thought this through and you think you'll get something from it all.

Fuck that.

Freedom is hard, but as somebody who's seen some of the dark and dangerous places in the world, I'm here to tell you that the alternative is much worse.

And before this shit is over, I guarantee you these motherfuckers will be praying for nuclear fire. Better an instant sunrise in the cold night, and death by disintegration or concussive fiery blast wave than equality or freedom.

But if you die with your White Privilege intact or all them zeros behind that number in your bank account, Comrades, you're still dead.

Seems like that's OK with them, though. Pledging their souls to Dis Pater was apparently a hell of a drug.

It's a cult of death and wealth, and in a changing world, they'd rather die than change.

They'd rather their souls feed some Chthonic Underworld Demon than that they, while living, have to contribute so society.

Fuck, even the Romans knew better than that.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

Part Two