Bearing The Tabernacle Of Moloch...in the snow (Christmas 2025, Three.)

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.

And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. ~Amos 5:7-26

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We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

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I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck. ~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

Apparently, Mike "Little" Johnson lost control of the House today when four Republicans joined with Democrats to force a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies.

These fucking people can't even agree on what they supposedly all agree on.

Meanwhile, we've got some idiot Republican, supposedly Christian, judicial nominee saying he thinks disabled people shouldn't be able to get married. It's 2025, homey, nobody has to get married to have sex or have kids. And you don't have any right to tell grown ass consenting adults  Get with the program.

Fuck you, bro. Nobody gives a rat's ass what you think. I'm beyond tired of These Fucking People.

I'm disabled, my partner is disabled, neither of us started out that way. Well, she's autistic and I'm ADHD, but we've both got various injuries, arthritis and so on. Aging and doing physical labor is a shitty combination. Motherfuckers like this don't know the difference, or don't care.

We both work, we both contribute to society.

We both have Christian and conservative backgrounds,

And we both, like a lot of people, got thrown overboard by these motherfuckers because there's no such thing as "Right Wing Asshole" ENOUGH and we, and a lot of other people, couldn't keep going that way along with all these chuds.

Meanwhile there's a lot of perfectly well able-bodied rednecks out there that are on welfare and not doing shit. I don't see Republicans, for all of their talk, doing anything about that. These assholes don't care if their own people are Crab Bucket inhabiting failures. who live off of other people and/or the State.

That crap is tolerated, but I've seen a lot of hardworking disabled people get treated like shit by supposed "Christians" for no good reason, even though they are Believers. Hell, I've been that person, and I'm tired of that shit.

It's funny how all the people Republicans hate seem to want to do the work of life and Republicans themselves just want Religiosity and Wealth Without Work with a side of Cruelty to the undeserving.

Like I keep saying I'm an old white guy, former conservative, former Christian, I have a church background, I'm a veteran.

And I'm sick of hearing about White "Grievance." I don't give a shit, "Other People Exist" is not a legitimate complaint that a person should have.

You didn't create the Universe, YOU ain't God. You don't know what Purpose other people may be meant to serve, so sit down and shut the fuck up.

Republicans, right now, are basically trying to claim that other people are stealing from them, or are somehow "Terrorists" simply by existing. Whether it's foreigners simply peaceably living in their own countries or Americans wanting to have rights and live somewhere other than in the wealthy people's garbage cans there's a certain kind of "Republican" that's mad as hell about it.

No, real life does not work like that.

And they're about to turn their blind frenetic stupid hatred on each other.

Joe: For the last time, I'm pretty sure what's killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.

Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

Attorney General: "So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops.

Joe: Yes.

Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet?

Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that's the idea.

Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Attorney General: It's got electrolytes.

Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren't growing, so I'm pretty sure that the Brawndo's not working. Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow.

Secretary of Energy: Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.

Secretary of State: Hey, that's good. You sure you ain't the smartest guy in the world?

Joe: Okay, look. You want to solve this problem. I want to get my pardon. So why don't we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave?

Attorney General: Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it's got electrolytes.

Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know?

Secretary of State: It's what they use to make Brawndo.

~From the film Idiocracy.

Only their idea of Idiocracy is far more malevolent.

If Trump is their "God Emperor" he's a freaking vegetable like the Emperor of the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40K. They really wanna be the courtiers and the flunkies who make all the decisions.

And when Trump dies, there goes the one thing all These Fucking People think they can agree on.

I'm just sayin' to a great extent everybody else is holding the line, keeping their cool and thinking at least a bit strategically. 

If somebody gets angry or impatient and starts a Civil War, it'll probably be these motherfuckers. Yes, it'll at least start with "Conservatives" going after conservatives.

Yo, it's not Venezuela they really wanna attack, it's the rest of America.

It's not some random Latino in their own country that these guys really wanna murder. I mean, that person will do, for now.

But they're not the real objective, not long-term, anyway.

It's all their real and imagined political and social rivals here that they jerk off to the idea of killing off with some kind of elaborate court intrigues and shit.

But they can't, and they sure as hell ain't gonna get therapy so they gotta go start shit with other people because they're conflict-obsessed narcissists.

Stop and think about that for a second.

Like I said they can't agree on what they all supposedly agree on.

Republicans don't want to do anything, but they don't want anybody else to do anything either.

It's a Crab Bucket.

This bullshit is entirely meant to hold up progress for everybody else and keep people from lifting themselves up, to "protect" the wealth of those who already have too much and don't have to do anything.

It's the ultimate insane result of William F. Buckley's old canard about conservatives "Standing Athwart the flow of History, yelling STOP!!"

Only now, at least half of them can't even read the damn history.

And a good chunk of the rest just don't want to.

Do you think any of These Fucking People really care about the future?? They don't, that's why these bastards think in terms of 90-day fiscal quarters and the next quantifiable profit statement.

It's why America can't get a plan together anymore.

Meanwhile China, Europe, even Ukraine...are all thinking ahead and innovating and acting like there is a future while America spirals out from debased boredom.

China is thinking 50 years ahead, but also for the woo woo types still has a great tradition of "Traditional" medicine and shit like that.

We have people here who don't even want our own citizens to have health care that they can afford. If they even want them to have it at all!

They don't care, and if that literally requires Bearing the Tabernacle of Moloch, Republicans will do it.

Anything but "Love Thy Neighbor."

For fuck's sake, it's Christmas.

You either believe in freedom, the future, and your own right to have a life or you don't.

And either you're willing to fight for those things, or you ain't.

Pick a side. It's coming.

Soon.

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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:1-14

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Cassian Andor: Kino. Tell them what to do. It has to be you. Come on, Kino. You do this every day. Tell them what to do.

Kino Loy: [presses PA system] My name is Kino Loy. I'm the day shift manager on Level Five. I'm speaking to you from the command center on Level Eight. We are, at this moment, in control of the facility.

Andor: Is that the best you got?

Loy: How long we hang on, how far we get, how many of us make it out, all of that is now up to us. We have deactivated every floor in the facility. All floors are cold. Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don't have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this and [looks at Cassian, knowing he said it] "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want." We know they fried a hundred men on Level Two. We know that they are making up our sentences as we go along. We know that no one outside here knows what's happening. And now we know, that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison to go and die, and that ends today! There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out!

[repeats it multiple times as he leaves the command center]

Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!

~From the series "Andor" S1 E10 "One Way Out."

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 don't preach a social Gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu.