No Pride Among Traitors (Pride Month, Six.)

Behold, I have told you before.

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

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.

For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. ~Matthew 24:25-34

This afternoon, Trump was arraigned in Federal court in Miami on 37 charges of Espionage and arrested.

I cannot stress this enough, that I am tired of people...especially the media and a vast majority of Republicans...treating this adulterous, cheating, lying racist traitorous scumbag like he's some kind of Prophet, or Saint, if not somehow magically Christ Himself.

Like, the Bible predicted this kind of shit, I am completely not joking. The Bible also has some rather grim predictions concerning the fates of such people as choose to worship False Christs.

Motherfuckers was freaking out over the weekend because Joe Biden flew a Gay Pride flag at the White House...and now they gonna act like...this??

It's not about the US Flag Code, it never was. Don't fucking try and bullshit me.

This entire sordid business is about bigotry and hate, and various and assorted crackpot right-wing beliefs. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. And when all these genteel-looking old white dudes of the Old Men's Anti-Spicy-Food League bitch about ONE Rainbow Flag at the White House while quaking in fear of the Mob of people whose list of Flag Code violations racks up like Liberace made a guest appearance on Jackass, they're telling on themselves.

I can see why these idiots hate anything to do with Pride...they sure don't have any pride or self-respect their own damn selves. So of course they're going to get mad when somebody they don't like has it.

It's the same "logic" that led them to be so upset by "Black Lives Matter." Also, they can't not tell on themselves, like I said.

And it's sure not about the primacy of a certain set of chosen symbols. I mean...look at these fucking people. They're basically worshiping Donald Trump, of all fucking people!

It's about bigotry, hate, racism, and any other "-ism" they can stick in there and get away with it.

It's about how Trump legitimizes that crap in ways that perhaps no US President since before the Civil War ever did. And under the "Leadership" of this barely-sentient absolute garbage fire, Republicans scream about "Communism" with their mouths while their bodies and souls are kowtowing before the Hammer and Sickle.

They preach Christianity and the Lord's Word out of one side of their mouths while preaching Apartheid and Christian Nationalism out the other side. One of these things is not like the other one. You cannot have both the Cross of Christ and the mentality and symbolism of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, let alone Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.

Red, Brown, Yellow, Black and White, we are precious in His Sight...or we're not. 

There's no middle of the fucking road. We're either all God's creations or none of us are. 

For Man to say that one kind of person is better than another because of some inherent characteristic of appearance or culture or whatever is to put Man's Opinion above the Lord's Word. If you wonder why, even in terms of Christianity, these fucking people prefer the teachings of the Apostle Paul to the words of Christ, that's why. 

It's because Paul's pervasive legalism and use of master/slave symbolism gives them excuse for bigotry, domination, and judgmentalism and his subordination of women within the Church gave excuse for misogyny and sexism everywhere else, too.

Nobody knows this more than the "Believers" do. They just hope you don't.

And these same fucking people are all basically railing against the existence of common decency...as if a society based on Cruelty to the Other (and that Other is basically everybody) would last for more than a day or two before it imploded into a horrifying anarchy of fistfights and murders or into blood-soaked revolution against whatever the "Chosen" group happened to be.

And the thing is, the lust for control and power would never stop. 

By definition, it could not. It's human nature to resist, to find ways not to conform, to simply not give a shit about who's in power or who runs the government. You know...to try and deal with your own shit and live your own life. And, fascism-as-run-by-narcissistic-assholes simply cannot have that.

Because the power and control is really about providing an endless supply of narcissistic fuels for one dude. And all these other motherfuckers think they going to get something for it.

Rebellion against such is inevitable simply because sooner or later somebody's going to be like "Get this shit out of my face" in a manner or towards a thing not approved to say that about (or perhaps more accurately, not disapproved of) by Republicans.

For example...I cannot tell you how tired I got of seeing Trump's stupid face on TV every damn day and having to listen to his irritating voice when he was President. I cannot find words to say how disgusted by that shit I was.

In order to prevent that, you'd pretty much have to put everybody into something like the Imperial prison from the Star Wars Andor series, and Republicans are already basically holding auditions to see who gets to be the guy going around shouting "On Program!" at everybody else.

For some people it's literally anything other than "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

You either believe in Freedom or you don't. 

It's really that simple.

Either we all have it and no one has to secure some chucklefuck's "approval" to be themselves or do as they will or love who they're meant to...or it's not Freedom.

You either believe that Law and the rule of Law are about giving recourse to society for antisocial behavior, or you believe that Law is solely an expression of force and power by some group or other. 

And Evangelicals, Republicans, etc. hope it gets to be them.

It won't, not when they owe so much to the fucking Russians, but to them hope is a fucking strategy, because they're stupid.

These fucking idiots don't "Love Trump" for any reason they can articulate or in many cases even say openly. They love him because they know his way of blame, of empty promises and hand-waving and vague excuses forces fearful people who are only there for ideology or money to compromise themselves and that MAGA's own tendency towards mob rule enforces this.

Like, literally every Republican running for President and a good many that aren't hope Trump gets locked up or chokes on a cheeseburger or something.

But none of them has the guts to stand up to MAGA and Trump their own damned selves.

Thus, There is no compromise here that can be born of anything but fear and that doesn't lead to Power dominating everything else.

One of these things is simply not like the other one.

Yet for all their big talk of revolution on Trump's behalf, I'm not feeling or seeing anything going on but a lot of empty talk and hot air.

Probably a good thing, too, even for these fucking people.

You could pour the whole damn world down that hole where Donald Trump's soul was supposed to be, and it still wouldn't be enough.

And they know it, they just hope you don't.

Even this meth-addled stolen valor skeleton with a mullet knows it, deep down.

I sure don't see him starting no "Revolution."

And so far 90% of the people making "I STAND WITH TRUMP" trend...are mocking him.

If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen, and this Trump bullshit ain't the way.

Five

You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. ~Malcolm X. 

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Reporter: Mr. Said, how do you feel?

Kareem Said: How do I feel? I feel joyless. My brothers remain behind. Imprisoned, suppressed. I don't just mean my Muslim brothers, I mean every single man that will sleep in here tonight, that was cut off from everything that he loves. Cut off from his own self. You know, as the word went around that the Governor was gonna give somebody clemency, I saw a rift develop as each inmate wished himself to be the chosen one. The longing to be free became as palpable as the food that we eat. But it is a meal that I am being served right now. And I am Muslim. And Allah does not allow me to swallow certain things. Allah does not allow me to take scraps from the hands of a man such as this. A man who is corrupt and immoral. A man who denigrates the gift of clemency just as he violates the principles of justice. A man that gave the order that caused the death of eight people. And so, Governor Devlin, because even the cost of freedom can be too high, I refuse your pardon!

 ~Kareem Said, from the HBO series Oz, Season 2, Episode 8 "Escape From Oz."