And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. ~Revelation 6:1-8
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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
"Blood Bath at the RNC."
So, the Trump takeover of the RNC has gone exactly as anybody with two working brain cells said it was going to, contracts cut, over 60 staffers fired. If I had to guess we'll probably see the Republican Party get completely pillaged by the Trump wastrels, and any real property the Party owns likely sold.
My guess is, by November, there won't be anything left.
I'm serious.
(That's before we get to all of the Republican Party's...or Trump's ongoing issues, which one of the people I follow on Threads and Twitter neatly sums up here.)
When Trump showed up, Republicans really thought they were lining up behind the guy on the White Horse.
Except that's not how any of this works.
I believe it was Rick Wilson (former Republican political strategist, no less) who popularized the statement "Everything Trump Touches Dies" (#ETTD.) But if I had to guess, the Republican Party is gonna go kicking and screaming and gurgling like a two-bit hood with a badly-cut throat. Yes, I really do think Republicans intend to bleed, piss and shit all over as much of America as they can before they go. These are people who collectively believe the world sucks, so let's make it worse and profit from making it worse. (And then Republican voters have the balls to wonder why everything sucks?)
(*Cough* Reagan Wept *Cough* If these fucking people had dominated the Republican Party during the Cold War we'd be living in a mutated nuclear wasteland and speaking Russian by now.)
And they believe in that crap so much that if nobody else volunteers, they'll let themselves get pillaged by both like a Scottish monastery at the dawn of the Viking era.
My personal theory is that they're hoping to start a civil war, or at least a right-wing insurgency in the extremely likely case that they lose the election. But, that takes intelligence, money, organizational skills, etc. which just got walked out the door.
So if they try it, it's going to end badly.
And on top of that, with the RNC out of the way, I'd put money on the right-wing Consultant class not getting paid for shit this cycle, because Trump will stiff everybody. It's every Atlantic City Trump Casino, hooking up with Enron in a dirty gas-station restroom, with shades of the Fall Of Saigon.
Except before the end of it, the Trump clan will make Ken Lay and them guys look like pikers.
It gets worse.
By dint of previous life experience, I'm also familiar with the basics of insurgency (more so, with counter-insurgency and by direct experience its bastard half-sibling, Peacekeeping) and on the other hand it's really hard to fund or even organize an insurgent force or a rebel army when the movement's actual, professional political arm has been chop-shopped by its own leader for a couple of Crack rocks like a stolen Chrysler in one of the bad parts of Detroit.An insurgency can survive having fuck-all for an armed forces as long as it has a canny media and/or political operation that can actually reach outside of some bubble, that's basically the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat, right there. One can have all the guns and shit that one wants...but it's not going to do anything coherent or mean shit without somebody official, who's officially calling the shots, who actually knows what they're doing. A good political op can turn a defeat into a victory, seriously.
Trump, his MAGA Clown-car morons and media bitches ain't, collectively or otherwise, That Guy.
And honestly, the worst part of all this bullshit is that Republicans seem fine with it.
Oh, our entire Political Party is getting sold for chips and cheese by the drug-addled semi-literate hangers-on of a narcissistic madman who's already functionally destroyed everything we stood for and left nothing but gaudy self-worship in its place?
"These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For, Move Along."
And like a couple of dumbass Stormtroopers on a dusty Mos Eisley street, Republicans go for it.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
And I didn't say that, Trump Junior said it the other day.
If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen, and this ain't it.
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