Six Hundred, Threescore And Six (American Revelation XV, Ten.)

And now, ladies and gentlemen, that we've enjoyed some good times this evening, and enjoyed some laughter together, I feel it is my obligation to remind you of some of the negative, depressing, dangerous, life-threatening things that life is really all about; things you have not been thinking about tonight, but which will be waiting for you as soon as you leave the theater or as soon as you turn off your television sets. Anal rape, quicksand, body lice, evil spirits, gridlock, acid rain, continental drift, labor violence, flash floods, rabies, torture, bad luck, calcium deficiency, falling rocks, cattle stampedes, bank failure, evil neighbors, killer bees, organ rejection, lynching, toxic waste, unstable dynamite, religious fanatics, prickly heat, price fixing, moral decay, hotel fires, loss of face, stink bombs, bubonic plague, neo-Nazis, friction, cereal weevils, failure of will, chain reaction, soil erosion, mail fraud, dry rot, voodoo curse, broken glass, snake bite, parasites, white slavery, public ridicule, faithless friends, random violence, breach of contract, family scandals, charlatans, transverse myelitis, structural defects, race riots, sunspots, rogue elephants, wax buildup, killer frost, jealous coworkers, root canals, metal fatigue, corporal punishment, sneak attacks, peer pressure, vigilantes, birth defects, false advertising, ungrateful children, financial ruin, mildew, loss of privileges, bad drugs, ill-fitting shoes, widespread chaos, Lou Gehrig's disease, stray bullets, runaway trains, chemical spills, locusts, airline food, shipwrecks, prowlers, bathtub accidents, faulty merchandise, terrorism, discrimination, wrongful cremation, carbon deposits, beef tapeworm, taxation without representation, escaped maniacs, sunburn, abandonment, threatening letters, entropy, nine-mile fever, poor workmanship, absentee landlords, solitary confinement, depletion of the ozone layer, unworthiness, intestinal bleeding, defrocked priests, loss of equilibrium, disgruntled employees, global warming, card sharks, poisoned meat, nuclear accidents, broken promises, contamination of the water supply, obscene phone calls, nuclear winter, wayward girls, mutual assured destruction, rampaging moose, the greenhouse effect, cluster headaches, social isolation, Dutch elm disease, the contraction of the universe, paper cuts, eternal damnation, the wrath of God, and PARANOIAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

I started seeing this garbage last night.

Basically, "Conservatives" are accusing Taylor Swift of being everything from a CIA/military operative to a Witch (and this is America, where there's not a damn thing wrong with being either) and I'm sorry, but I think it needs to be said; This shit is ridiculous. 

Especially considering that if Swift was a Republican, the same people would be worshiping the ground she walks on.

Until Trump got jealous of somebody else getting the attention and blew a gasket about it, anyway. The surest path to MAGA treason is steal the show from Trump.

I mean, after all, all these fucking people got in terms of major pop-culture figures was Donald Trump and look how they treat him.

Seriously, Evangelicals and Republicans have been flat-out desperate for some pop-culture figure, any pop-culture figure, to join them and retain relevance since at least the 1960's. That and End Times/Mark Of The Beast paranoia have been two of the stupider things going on for 50 years. (But for some reason when you bring up Clint Eastwood or Gary Sinise their immediate response is "Not Like That.") Then they get Trump and he's allegedly everything they ever wanted this whole time. Yet, somehow, they're more miserable of miserable bastards than they ever were before.

I'm confused, and I say that as a former Conservative Christian Republican myself.

So far as I can tell, the secrets to Taylor Swift's success are some combination of actual talent and being a genuinely decent person...which I suppose is two reasons MAGA doesn't understand her.

Honestly, I'm getting really tired of these fucking people thinking every damn thing is some kind of all-powerful conspiracy against them. Like, don't any of y'all have, ya know...lives, or at least jobs or some shit??

Like if this garbage is getting this bad, somebody needs to make these motherfuckers shut off their computers or their phones, turn off FOX News, and go outside and touch grass, or some shit!

Like, seriously, what's wrong with you??

I couldn't go around being this angry and paranoid, much less hopped up on political partisanship all the time. I suffer from depression and I have PTSD, I'm really sure I wouldn't be alive if I did that kind of stuff to the degree that these people do! 

I can't be mad all the time without spiraling out. Hell, letting myself get overtired or stressed is bad enough. I don't know how these people manage it, but it's not hard for me to see why so many of them are straight-up insane.

I couldn't do it. Hell, I wouldn't do it.

But anyway, now they're trying to say young people should be focused on Jesus instead of pop culture or sports. 

Okay, couple things with that; Why was it somehow different when Tim Tebow became an internet meme for a few months? 

Also; What happens when these fucking people finally read the Bible for themselves and see what Jesus actually stood for??

(Never mind; Don't answer that.)

And seriously, where does this bullshit even stop, anyway??

Don't look away, don't wave your hands around. Answer. The. Question.

Where does this shit stop??

Because so far as I can tell, it looks like we're heading full-tilt, flat-out, ass-on-fire towards the sudden and rather violent cultural, political, social etc. suicide of the "Conservative" movement...and all of these fucking people are just fine with it because they think they're at least half the population and they'll somehow take the rest of us down with them.

It's literally going to shake out to the same "logic" they used for trying to pretend COVID-19 wasn't real...until all too many of them died from it. They will likewise figure their own madness can somehow be weaponized against the rest of us.

They've convinced themselves that it's the Apocalypse, but we're doing it wrong by not killing each other...and they're the ones putting computer chips in people's heads, Revelation 13, much? (Yet in their minds, we're still the ones going to hell.)

I've seen how that works out, except I saw it in Bosnia in 1995. Hell, if you've been paying attention to what's been going on in Ukraine since February 24th of 2022, you've seen it, too.

These motherfuckers want to cause mass death, because they're terrified of not being the majority (that they never were) and somehow they think if they cause some kind of mass die-off, it'll take out more of "Everybody Else" than it will of them. 

These sons of bitches want to live in the Killing Fields.

And they see that, or literally anything else as better than America, better than a world where nobody else has to listen to them, where Taylor Swift is just...Taylor Swift (or LGBT people, non-Christians, People of Color, or basically anybody else can just be themselves without no bullshit.) They want literally anything other than "All people are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..." and literally anything other than "For God So Loved The World..."

And it doesn't matter what that is, so long as they get some privilege from it.

Seriously, isn't that the very "False World System" that these fools rail against, any other time? Show me in the Bible where it even mentions White people...let alone White American Evangelicals.

Seriously, y'all, we need to make this shit stop, before it gets worse.

Otherwise, the day will come when they say "It's not the Mark Of The Beast when WE do it!"

And without Truth to push back against Power, what can we say?

The ironic thing is, that in real terms it's Conservatives who are constantly trying to use Power to cheat the Universe or trying to use spiritual forces to malevolent ends; 

That's the very definition of "Witchcraft" that I was taught.

It's like these fucking people think God is dumb, or something.

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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.

Nine

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13:16:18