We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom Of Fear (2004)
I saw this when I got up this morning.And I just have one question;
If they had any rationality or self respect they wouldn't be saying that in the first place.
Trust me, trying to explain basic facts to the average MAGA is like trying to explain trigonometry to my ferrets, and the ferrets have a longer attention span and listen better.
But at least some of these fucking people already have to know (and trust me, they resent the fuck out of) that their chosen positions make them look like morons. They don't care about that. They're being stupid on purpose, with malice aforethought, because there's no rational argument for Old White Christian Male Supremacy.
And some of them, those at the top at least, know it.
Why do you think they've launched this jihad against libraries and schools?
Why do you think they think this transparent attempted pogrom against Drag Queens and Transgender people isn't recognized as an attempt (as such things always have been before) not only to drive LGBT people from public spaces (if not kill them outright) but to bring back the global nadir of race (and other) relations?
Shit, most of these bitter-ass pinch-faced motherfuckers don't like each other, either.
They don't really give a shit if nobody knows anything.
That goes double for proper Christian doctrine. You think these fuckers don't want some form of imagined "control" over who goes to heaven and who goes to hell?
What God thinks is unimportant to them.
Start with that, and it only gets worse from there.
Hell, some of these nuts want to bring back the Gold Standard so nobody else has anything, either.
They don't care if medicine, technology, the world etc. or at least America stops improving.
The main bad actors in all of this? They've already got theirs, and they still want more, so fuck you.
Even arguing with this shit gives it legitimacy.
You smack them and tell them "No." Period.
Some things simply fall under "Right And Wrong" and should not be up for debate much less up for sale.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
Learn the words "Fuck You" and "No" and not only vote accordingly, but be prepared to back your saying and voting NO up with resolute force. Trust me, the bitter old Boomer Assholes who are for the most part driving this bullshit don't want to get shot.
They frankly know that far too few people are stepping up to carry forward their ideology of White Christian Supremacy and rule by the wealthy. Yeah, that's right. By 2010 the Republican Party was more Fundamentalist Baptist Segregationist Democrat a la 1947 than it was even Republican Party in 2008.
Did you not think Trent Lott getting shitcanned in 2002 for excessive praise of Segregationist BS and Strom Thurmond was a harbinger of where these people were going?
It's worse.
From Generation X on down, hardly anybody benefitted from this shit or had any positive memories of even the early 1960's as children. Old people kept hoarding the political power and wealth. It's to the point where even Democrats are only now looking at political changeovers in leadership that should've happened 20 years ago. And I like her, but Nancy Pelosi's phobia of Working Class White People and leftover PTSD from the Reagan Revolution, not to mention her prim rule-following and quiet strategizing damn near fucked us.
Democrats should've got some fight in them when Al Gore got railroaded in Florida in 2000, and I say that as a Bush voter who literally did not personally like Al Gore.
Nobody did more, in the end, than Gore and Pelosi (and hell, Bush 43 in his first year if we're being honest) to give the "Both Parties Are The Same. Man" argument some teeth.
You have to stand up and tell these people "No" now and again.
And it's only as the circumstances became existential and the guard began to change at the top that Democrats got some fight in them.
I like where the Democrats under Hakeem Jeffries appear to be going, so far.
Trouble is, it's past time, in so many ways.
Millennials and Generation Z in particular got screwed...to the point where their cultural memes about finding happiness simply changed. Republicans hoarding all the money meant you had to find different things to make life worth living! That's what's going to fuck them, in the end.
Going forward almost nobody cares if they get to have a big honkey-ass SUV, a sweet set of Ping golf clubs, three houses and a boat so big it's one Bofors 40mm/L70 on the bow and a couple of .50 caliber M2 machine guns port and starboard away from being a small warship. Simply because this shit got placed so far out of reach by the Republican anti-labor wealth-concentration financial doom loop that no matter how hard we worked we'd never have it anyway. It was just easier to have a cat or some ferrets, play Magic The Gathering, play a bunch of video games, smoke weed or take up photography.
The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 by the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution. Republicans, who passed this in 1973, have decided now they don't like it. As if three years would make any damn difference in how most of these people vote, anyway? As if Republicans wouldn't burn through billions of dollars and much of their political capital so that even if they won...it'd only add maybe a small advantage for a couple years.
But that won't happen.
And with malice aforethought, Republicans themselves created this poisonous atmosphere of political partisanship and rancor that makes amending the US Constitution again goddamned near impossible.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
I'm a veteran myself, I know the 26th Amendment came about because of young men fighting and dying in the Vietnam War. I know enough of those now-old men and the mental and physical scars they suffered to be like "Fuck all that."
A couple of those elders advocating for me at this point is a big part of why I'm still alive.
Glorifying himself was more important to Trump.
Glorifying Trump was more important to the mob.
And this is not a doom loop I see anybody being able to break. I'm serious. The typical MAGA voter has all but declared Donald Trump to be Jesus Christ.
You can't reason with that. At this point, you can't "Save" the people who believe it.
In the end all these Old White Southern Republicans are either too chickenshit scared of all that or too prone to drug-addled fantasy to stand up for themselves, or they agree with it.
In some cases, it's all of the above.
And these zero-sum motherfuckers don't actually care if they go to hell, as long as they can bring you along for company.
More to the point, they're only going to get worse, especially if their alleged god goes down.
They don't even care if it's Vladimir Putin. They'd rather give up America than give up their gospel of Death and Wealth, nor the racism that gets the plebes to sign their souls over to Dis Pater and makes that shit a factor in any kind of democracy.
But now, people are saying "No."
If the vote in Wisconsin yesterday tells us anything, people are starting to understand that being a better citizen, having freedom, means drawing a line in the sand now and then.
You bought the tickets to this bad-faith game, Republicans.
And now you get to take the ride.
By yourselves.
Have fun.
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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
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Generation Of Swine.
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