Bottomless Pit (Fuck Republicans, II.)

[The 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first Black regiment in the US Army, has just been attached to Col. Montgomery's brigade in the hope of seeing combat. The troops are marching through a regimental camp]

Cpl. Thomas Searles: Who are these ragamuffins?
Sgt. Major John Rawlins: Contraband, straight out of the field.
Short contraband:[to Thomas] Hey old man, where from?

Cpl. Thomas Searles: Massachusetts. You?

Short contraband: Round about here, we slaves in the field when the Yankee man come. Say we soldiers!

Tall contraband: You walk like the Bukra Soldier, even talk like the Bukra Soldier!

Cpl. Thomas Searles: [to Rawlins] What'd he say?

Sgt Major John Rawlins: He says we march like white soldiers. How you like the Army, contraband?

Tall contraband: Oh, we love it! We thank the Lord every day for de good vittles and de beautiful clothes! This year every day like Kismis!

Cpl. Thomas Searles: [to Rawlins] What?

Sgt. Major John Rawlins: Like Christmas.

Cpl. Thomas Searles: Oh.

~From the film Glory.

I have to say, this year the Fourth Of July didn't seem like much of a holiday.

Maybe part of why that is, is because over the weekend I saw that a ten-year-old girl in Ohio who got pregnant from being raped was denied an abortion and had to travel to Indiana for the procedure. The state supreme court apparently referred to her pregnancy as an "opportunity."

An opportunity for what? Assuming she survived, to be struggling just to be able to survive? To struggle to get an education, or even to work when she got old enough, because of the cost of childcare? To live on welfare her entire life? To never be able to have any kind of normal life because of somebody else's heinous act, that she had no capability to even stop? 

That's the kind of "opportunity" that created a national argument for a couple days. And believe it or not there were dudes coming out of the woodwork defending the state's actions, saying she had consensual sex. Dudes, a ten year old isn't capable of consenting. There was big "Keep your legs closed, whores" energy with a decided undertone of these guys not so subtly wanting a piece of that action.

Why else would they define an obvious case of child molestation as "consensual?" Think about that for a second.

I mean, Jesus Christ, what the fuck is wrong with people??

 I'm sorry, but according to how I was taught, if a girl that age is doing anything like that it better be with a kid in the same age category and there should still be hell to pay...but more of a "being told by their grandmothers to each go pick a switch" variety. (I mean, seriously, the first time I got caught rather more-innocently fooling around with a neighbor girl we were both older than that and the same age and there was still hell to pay.) 

If it's an older boy, let alone a grown ass man (And at that age it's always either an older teenage dude or a grown ass man) you call the fucking cops and do everything possible to make sure the abuser ends up under the prison. 

And, In the moral universe that I was given to understand, you hope the hell cops get there before irate parents do because if they don't, even more people are going to jail.

This was the conservative ("small-C") default setting before 2015 or so. Why is this difficult?

Now the motherfuckers seem to not think anything at all is abuse, no matter how depraved it is, as long as they're the ones doing it.

And the worst part is; I'll bet you these sons of bitches, if they had their way, would force that kid to go get a job to support that kid that they wanted to force her to bear, and then likely to keep. Unless of course said kid was perfectly healthy and white...which is the vibe I've been getting from all the "We will adopt your baby" idiots. 

There's a lot of people out there I wouldn't trust to watch my ferret, much less a kid.

But don't worry, left to their own devices the White Nationalists would happily make the situation even worse. I don't know how the fuck a guy named Fuentes who (apparently) likes to beat off to transgender pornography and has a sexual relationship with a (seriously) transgender Nazi Cat-girl fits in to "White Nationalism" but here the fuck we are. And he apparently thinks there should be "Catholic Taliban Rule." One of these things is not like the other one. 

Hell, the majority of the world's Catholics aren't white. But it's true that these assholes would force a dour, utterly aspiritual, zero-sum cultural religion of some sort on as much of the rest of the world as they could, given the chance. And a whole bunch of these Red Hats would be just fine with that being "Celebrity Worship" of Donald Trump...among others...and I'm looking at you, dumbass Q Nuts.

Although, I think they'd be surprised when this religion more closely resembled Putinist Russian Orthodoxy than anything else. They're also setting themselves up for the kind of bullshit medieval society where a new ruler means everybody has to convert to a new religion...and where there's no such thing as objective truth, spiritual or otherwise.

And where force is the only thing that gives people power, or the government any legitimacy.

As if growing up in or having to live in any society where the people in power think of the Handmaid's Tale or the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as a guideline and vow to do worse wouldn't be hell for anybody and everybody who had to live in it? And then be a constant tumult of revolts and wars because it's human nature to resist and people want to be free. How would anybody deal with or treat PTSD when everybody has it?

But that's where this "Own the Libs" garbage and this unchecked belief among "Conservative" white people in fanaticism for its own sake and fascism because other people exist will eventually lead if it's not checked, and soon.

And somehow, I have a feeling these fucking people's own debased sexual attitudes and behaviors and pure stupidity would make that shit infinitely worse.

And people will die, not on the scale of the Fourth of July parade that some MAGA-hat shot up this weekend, but in numbers so vast we cannot comprehend them. If we don't stop this bullshit, there's going to be a war and people will still be counting the bones three generations from now. These fucking people don't want to live in a society, they want the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia and/or the wreckage of Eastern Europe post-WWII, but with a mall. 

And apparently, with some sort of rape camp, like the Serbs did in Bosnia. I saw what those fucking murderous fascists did. Now add in modern weapons, up to and including nuclear arms, on both sides of a possibly global war between fascists and non-fascists....and the fascists are clearly working themselves up to discard any form of logic or morality whatever. See Also; New Soviet Russia.

Right now, the average Republican would fit in on Russian State TV.

Do you fucking understand me? 

I remember reading, years ago, what Fredrick Douglass wrote about how slaves in the Antebellum South were debased by their masters, forced to drink liquor and engage in debauchery when they weren't working, such that they would be glad to go back to the fields.

What does it say about Republicans that they have debased themselves, in the service of whatever dark powers give them attention and money or promise power?

These fucking people want to burn down the world, for no better reason than they think it's funny and something something mumble mumble Black people, LGBT people, five Moderate Republicans and Ukrainians as a people even exist.

A hell of a lot of people feel that the Supreme Court has cost our government its moral legitimacy. Who the hell knew that the threads that bind us together were so thin? Who the hell even knew that Roe Vs. Wade was, in fact, one of those threads? 

America has come to have too much tolerance, socially and otherwise, for basic stupidity, for extremism and political and religious kookery. American Christianity
and the Republican Party have been balls deep in making that happen simply by tolerating bad behavior and weird shit, in the name of trying to "energize" their base.

Well now all that energy is finding places to go. And honestly it seems like that energy is against Constitutionalism, Checks and Balances, Democracy, Republicans, The State Itself, and even speaking in coherent sentences or not using foul language. 

When Liz Cheney is the reasonable, smart one in the room, we have a problem.

This is what eliminating the idea of consent, of governance, of truth from people's minds in the pursuit of power gets you. People have nothing to believe in because having that would give them a floor to stand on to push back against Power.

But these idiots think this Christ-less Christianity and societal belief in nothing will give them a better relative status than, I don't know, somebody that they don't like, to be determined later.

And Republicans created this shit. Now it's eating them, too.

And it's not even that they don't care.

Sadly it seems like all but a few of them are gleefully jumping in the monster's mouth because they think there's some kind of special prize just for them in its stomach.

There isn't.

Dead is dead. Death is all the same whether you're a conservative or a liberal, whether you're Black or White or anything else, whether you're gay or straight, Death is just Death.

And no one can say with any certainty what comes after that.

More to the point, no one is acting more like talk of any potential Eternal Life or Truth in this one is nothing but bullshit and faith is a sucker's game than the Christians are. These people are moral bottomless pits.

You all might want to consider the implications of that, before we continue this.

But it is, as I recall, a belief in the Christian faith that as long as you are alive, redemption is possible.

Just as African Americans and so many other peoples overcame and persevered despite constant attempts at destruction by White Supremacy, you too can reject and resist this bullshit. 

It doesn't have to be this way.

My fellow white working people...the elites pushing all this division and hate do not give a fuck about you either. When the Black people, the liberals, the LGBT folk, Women and all the others fight back and refuse to go back to these fucking people's...these rich Republicans...idea of Medieval neo-feudalism as Serfs, who the fuck do you think these assholes are going to use?

You.

But you don't have to take it.

Every day is a choice, you can choose, and start again.

But you've got to want to be Saved. 

Is all the hate really worth it? Is it worth it to you, to burn America or the world down rather than see Black folks or LGBT people or Muslims or Women get a slice? 

This is your home, too.

Remember that.

Part One 

Sgt. Major John Rawlins: [Speaking to a group of Black children in front of a mansion as the 54th Regiment marches by] That's right, Honeys. Ain't no dream. We run away slaves but we come back fighting men. Run home, tell your folks how kingdom come in the year of jubilee!

~From the film Glory.

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Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

~Bob Marley, Redemption Song.