Thirty Pieces Of Silver (Pride Month, Twelve.)

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. ~Matthew 25:1-13

I saw this earlier.

Matt Walsh trying to claim "The Left Has Lost Control Of The Narrative."

Wut?

I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean what he thinks it means, and I think he's got the two sides mixed up.

States banning gender-affirming care are now 0-6 in court.

Yet "We are totally winning the argument against gender ideology..."

Huh?

The court rulings seem to say otherwise.

Matt Walsh's narrative is bullshit.

But of course he has to stick with it because if he didn't people might not give him money.

All this far-right bullshit is a scam, and for all their big talk these fucking people melt like ice sculptures in the sun whenever they come up against a situation that they can't just appeal to prejudice or bullshit their way through.

And that last is why they occasionally do win somewhere.

Just so long as they have enough of a Conservative Asshole judge.

Today SCOTUS gutted the shit out of Affirmative Action, banning race as a consideration in admissions in most cases (except for US Military service academies) while preserving legacy admissions and a whole bunch of other stuff...which many see (rightly or wrongly) as favoring White people.

Not that I think it'll make that much of a difference, except to be seen as an excuse for jackass bullshit somewhere.

Very often, these days, the kids with the grades to get in, the determination, drive and smarts to survive, and then to succeed *Are* the People Of Color. Very often, it's the White kids...most especially the rich White kids...who go to college mostly to party it up, and that's that. I used to live and work in a college town, and I was a part-time University student there for several years also. 

Because I found it an absolute bitch to do School and work third shift.

But all that kept me there long enough to have a good idea of how things really worked, at least. 

In those years I overheard more than one rich white kid loudly demanding that Mommy send them X-ridiculously large amount of money after they'd obviously spent whatever they had at the bar and the local meat-market dance club...usually I'd hear this while I was waiting in line to get the money order for my rent, or, ya know, doing some other normal working-stiff stuff. 

Let's just say more than one of these fucking idiots got told "Get A Job!" loud enough that Mommy or Daddy or whoever was on the other end of the line could hear.

It's those people who need to be told shit like that, not the young woman ahead of you in the checkout line with the kids, the EBT card, and the cart full of groceries, still wearing her work uniform and you know from that what department she's in and how hard she has to work.

I rather suspect within a couple years we're going to see "Not Enough White Kids In College" ginned up as the next bullshit Right-Wing social problem, this despite the fact that there were a bunch of obvious White people in Walsh's own thread saying that going to college is a waste of money and shit.

So they know how it's going to go, and they're already moving the goalposts. They just want to be seen as being mean to People of Color in general...and Black people in particular. The comments I saw on Matt Walsh's post were not particularly subtle on that.

And the bigotry against LGBTQ people always goes hand-in-hand with the fake-Christian-Nationalism, with the racism, with the religiosity of the Cult...with this-that-and-the-other-thing and you can't just check one box anymore if you want to be "In The Club" you have to buy the whole package.

Because if you don't accept it all, you're going to get kicked out sooner or later. You can be So Republican as to have once been one of the Party's great standard-bearers and still get called a Communist, or a Democrat, or a RINO.

I'm not joking, I literally saw some Twitter Rando call Paul Ryan (of all people) a Communist last night, for the "crime" of not supporting Trump.

Nothing Matters, not even the Cause. Hell...I used to be a Republican and I couldn't even tell you what the Cause is anymore besides an unholy Trinity of Base Bigotry, Donald Trump and Whatever Vladimir Putin Wants.

Modern "Conservatism" is a Cult of Death and Wealth, its God not so much Yahweh but Dis Pater, chthonic Roman deity (and thus classical Christian demon) of the Underworld and of Wealth mined from the Earth.

And modern "Conservatism" is full of fucking people whose main objective isn't a more conservative country, a stricter moral code or a tighter fiscal policy...let alone America's place in the world...but instead, how much fame and money they can suck up for themselves.

Literally, often enough, to the exclusion of everything else, including good sense or self-preservation.

The Thirty Pieces Of Silver is more important to them.

Like, seriously do these fucking morons think that if the Russians conquer Ukraine, that they're going to stop there? Why would they?? At this point they have too much socked into their own narrative of Imperial Expansionism and irridentism. If Ukraine goes, the Baltic States and Poland are next, then at least half of Germany...and there's plenty of Tankies who'd see them go further...including here. 

Does Marge think the Russians would let her keep whatever special place she thinks she has? Hell no, they'd take it away and send her to Siberia just to show their Power. 

The whole damn world is fortunate enough that Russia can't even defeat Ukraine, and hell, came close enough to losing a war against itself last weekend. Likely, Putin has been weakened as a result.

But as long as Putin gives people like Marge money, they'll keep spewing his bullshit.

As long as it gets them money from the ignorant yahoos that donate to them, they'll keep talking up a bunch of unreality.

And that's why LGBT people, among others, are going to win this thing. I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but it will be so.

Because it's the 30 pieces of silver that's more important to these lying traitors.

Happy Pride Month, y'all.

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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. 

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

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Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,

And said unto them, What will Ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover?

And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples.

And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the Passover.

Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.

And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

~Matthew 26:14-21