Terrorists (American Revelation XV, Five.)

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GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: As we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: President Bush, we can't hear you!

BUSH: I can hear you!

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I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people...

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And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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CROWD: USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

BUSH: The nation -- the nation sends its love and compassion. And everybody that is here, thank you for your hard work. Thank you for making the nation proud, and may God bless America!

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."

~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
I saw this the other night. Donald Trump is "100% certain" that there's going to be a terrorist attack, soon.

Certain enough, to have arranged it, perhaps??

Would you...can we...really afford to put anything past these fucking people at this point??

Here's Mike Cernovich saying that Democrats 
"Will activate gangs from the border" for a "Rwanda style genocide." Hmm, maybe it's just me but my first thought was, who's going to employ those people, then??" Latino migrants aren't coming here because they wanna do crimes and kill people, they're coming here because they need jobs and shit like that...and they'll happily do the work the White people won't do anymore.

I get that these people are idiot racists, but come on.

 They're also the ones whose farmers employ a hell of a lot of migrant workers. 

In fact, ten years ago, what they really wanted was to bring them in by the cattle-truckload and pay them a dollar an hour to do all the manual labor that their own followers wouldn't. Bernie Sanders said as much in 2015. 

Of course, that's so Before Times Republican. 

Now, these same fucking people dream of forcing their own fat, lazy bearded dude-bro followers first to fight for them, and then to get off the couch, and do the work in the fields under the threat of the gun or the lash...for free. Oh, don't get me wrong, they'll pick the prettier ones, and whatever of the women they don't chain to a wall as simple breeders for the Tribe to work in the Big House. And all of them will have some kind of computer chip implanted in their brain to control what they do and keep track of them. 

What becomes of anyone else, like Black pilots, Latina soldiers, or the Asian transgender prostitutes Mike Cernovich used to have sex with (and brag openly about it on social media) or even what happens to the insufficiently fanatical or subservient White Dudes, who can say??

Or who would ever find out?? 

At least, who would find out without teams of archaeologists, the arrests of war criminals over the next decade, twenty of war crimes investigations, and a Special Court For The American Genocide that was guarded by United Nations peacekeepers with heavy backup from the Free American Army and support from whatever parts of  the Former United States of America didn't fall to this crap?? 

I mean, you have to figure, using the Yugoslav wars as a guide, that somewhere gets to be North Macedonia and Slovenia, right? Note that they had their own conflicts in the whole mess, too.

I'm going to go out on not much of a limb here and say that New Hampshire, smack in the middle of a Northeast that's loaded with cities and liberals and large reserve military formations is probably safe. 

Iowa, not so much. Iowa is going to be hell...hell it, already is...and ground zero for these fucking people's ideas of Right-Wing social engineering and experimentation. It's not as bad off as Florida, but it's pretty fucking bad. 

And understand while some parts of Florida (Think Cape Canaveral, the Everglades, Jacksonville, the Keys, Orlando, the parts of the Panhandle that have military bases, and Tampa) will very likely remain under Federal control (and the influence of corporations that'll have to throw in with the Feds, not bad in a "You're free but you might get bombed at work" sense, ask the Ukrainians how that works) others will not. If you think Trump wouldn't try and turn Mar-a-Lago into his Capitol or that Miami wouldn't get locked down by the Russians in a hurry because it's a favorite getaway for their Oligarchs, you have another thing coming.

And the point is, there is no point, other than the cruelty being the point. It's not about profits, at least not as you or I would understand terms of profit and loss. Burning down America would mean these fucking people lose money.

But, It's not about money, at least not in a conventional sense. It's not about power, they'd lose that, too, at least as the rest of the world understands it. It's about these fucking people want to be worshiped as gods and have all the money and power and everything else and not have to give anything back to the people that worship them.

Thing is, what the Right-wing rich elites are doing, is trying to terrify their own goddamn people into Slavery, so that they don't even need the rest of us anymore, and don't you ever forget it. 

It's about making sure, that in their Brave New World, at least, These fucking people are the only ones who have anything at all.

They don't want an election, they don't even want a coronation, they want an Apotheosis to Godhood, every day for the rest of their lives (and really, for eternity because you ain't seen nothing at all until you've seen these fucking people's total pants-shitting fear of death.)

But to get there, they have to burn down any expectation of a decent life, any sense of self-preservation or standards or whatever. And at least with their idiot voter base, they're  succeeding. 

Some people wanna live like this.

I'm sorry, but if you're dumb enough to think you're going to live in peace and blessedness with Trump you deserve whatever personal hell you're going to get.

Imagine having to watch Don Jr. high as a kite, wallowing in wealth and still whining about dumb shit, forever. It doesn't even rise to the gritty level of menace of Orwell's 1984.

It's just mass stupidity, and it somehow manages to be worse.

I'm not afraid of much, but I'm honestly afraid to ask what Marjorie Taylor Greene's idea of "GREATNESS" actually is.

I saw today, that in the unsanctioned NH Democratic primary, Joe Biden took over 51% of the vote despite not being on the ballot per DNC efforts to remove IA and NH from their (felt to be unjustified) places of prominence.

So now these fucking people are looking at Nikki Haley like she's some kind of a DNC plant or some shit, because she took votes away from Trump. Yep, Republicans, if you voted for Haley in the primary you're out of the club now.

I'd call that a relief, I would. Feeding these fucking people's narcissism, or being in a position where you have to, be it that of media person or Republican voter, is not sustainable. 

They're addicts, narcissists, their appetites will only get worse as this thing goes on, and when they lose (or if they win with anything less than 1000% of the vote) they're going to react violently. Marge brandishing guns all over the place and driving around in a HMMWV during her campaign was a goddamned tell. There was a reason that in 2015-2016 I was telling every Bernie Bro and Republican around me to stop fucking around with the goddamn narcissist, suck it up, and vote for Hillary Clinton.

And I did so explicitly as a former Republican who was rather open about not liking the Clintons very much for over 20 years. I said however bad you think she'll be, Trump will be worse, and stick you with the bill.

And I was not wrong.

When you start playing games with somebody that has a personality disorder, it always ends up like this shit, especially if you thought you were going to get something out of it.

It always leads to conflict, disgrace, and violence...and after that, to apocalyptic threats and dire religious pronouncements whenever they don't get what they want. 

And it always leads to them crying like little bitches and drunkenly pissing themselves when they're led away in handcuffs by the police.

(But they were real tough against unarmed Muslim women, or some shit, or so they said, anyway.)

 I'm here to tell you, if this shit goes down all the way, like I saw the wreckage of in Bosnia? These fucking people...these Far-Right fire-breathing shit-lords...will all want that bulldog Leftist lawyer with the British accent when the world puts them in the dock.

It's these fucking Republicans who are the goddamn Terrorists.

Stop fucking around with this bullshit, America. Trump belongs in Prison, not the White House, and the rest of these fucking people need to be forced to get real jobs so they don't have time to undermine our country. They can hate America and cope and seethe all they want on their days off.

But to win, you have to show up.

Like Democrats in New Hampshire did, and did anyway...even though they didn't have to.

Live Free, Or Die.

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My black face fades,
hiding inside the black granite.
I said I wouldn't
dammit: No tears.
I'm stone. I'm flesh.
My clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning. 

I turn this way—the stone lets me go.
I turn that way—I'm inside
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
I go down the 58,022 names,
half-expecting to find
my own in letters like smoke. 

I touch the name Andrew Johnson; 

I see the booby trap's white flash.
Names shimmer on a woman's blouse
but when she walks away
the names stay on the wall.
Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's
wings cutting across my stare.
The sky. A plane in the sky.
A white vet's image floats
closer to me, then his pale eyes
look through mine. I'm a window.
He's lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman’s trying to erase names:
No, she's brushing a boy's hair.

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