Monday, March 9, 2026

Death Cult Bromance (Bropocalypse Now, Five.)

Lt. Daniel Kaffee: I WANT THE TRUTH!

Col. Nathan Jessup: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don't want the truth, because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like "honor", "code", "loyalty". We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline! I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then QUESTIONS the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you", and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a DAMN what you think you are entitled to!

Kaffee: Did you order the Code Red?

Jessup: I did the job that—

Kaffee: DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED?!

Jessup: YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!!!

~From the film A Few Good Men.

...

And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)

Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before.

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:1-27

As I've said recently, I'm a fairly agnostic sort of Christian. This is a fairly recent change from just "Agnostic."

A generation ago, though, I was a conservative Christian and a member of the End Times Prophecy Movement.

I've written about this and may one of these days provide a rolodex of said posts on this site.

Nothing that's going on right now, and none of this bullshit with these fake-ass "Christian Nationalists" openly trying to bring about the End Times, is Okay with me now or would have been anything I'd have been cool with 25 years ago.

These things are not for Man to decide.

But you have to read the Lord's Word to know that.
If God can be manipulated by Man, then He is NOT God and it's all a lie.

It specifically says in Matthew chapter 24:

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:34-37

The truth is that These Fucking People aren't trying to bring about the End Times, they're trying to feeble-minded Americans into accepting their endless increasing demands, and bully the rest of the world into looking the other way.

If These Fucking People really believed that the World was going to End seven years from now with themselves being replaced by the direct monarchial rule of Jesus Christ, they would not be acting the way they are acting. This would not be all about trying to secure "permanent" Billionaire-wealth or Republican political Power or White Men having Power over women, because in less time than it takes to pay off a lot of car loans these days such ideas would be totally meaningless.

As if their demands upon the rest of the country and this world have not already been so escalatory and extreme to the point where that's blatantly obvious..

But, of course like most of America the rest of the world has said "No."

And when it doesn't work? They will bow down before whatever Demon presents itself and offers them Power.

Because deep down this shit is a Death Cult, like the lady I quoted up above said and they don't really care where they get the Capability to cause Death.

And God, as written at least, isn't gonna help them with that enough.

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

Because none of this is really about Christ, it's all about Power and whatever they think they can grab for themselves. If it was about Jesus, they might disagree with guys like James Talarico, they might blast the ever-living fuck out of them for their politics, but they wouldn't be trying to literally demonize their faith.

Because it's not enough to disagree anymore, and these motherfuckers for the most part don't have the guts to own their own bullshit and just be able to say they don't like somebody.

It's all learned helplessness and passive voice and every damn thing gets blamed on God or the Devil.

It's like arguing with my ex-wife, everything has to come down to a religious context because these idiots are desperate to avoid taking accountability for anything that comes out of their mouths.

Deep down, these motherfuckers are a bunch of Self-worshiping Narcissists.

They know it. You know it.

We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley

They only said they believed in Christ because that sounded like the best way to hurt more people at the time.

They're constantly trying to play the "God Card" because they think if they do, people won't question them.

If they really Believed, or at least believed in the things they said they do, they would not have selected an Atheistic Bullshitter who cannot even properly name the Books of the Bible as their leader.

If they really believed in the Lord's Word, they would defer to that and not try to substitute 19th Century fan-fiction for it.

Political Power is These Fucking People's true "God."

And there's nothing conservative about it, but they figured hijacking that word would be easier.

That's why their so-called "Gurus" literally cannot apparently see the world in any other way besides some kind of arrogant-sounding, sneering anti-Liberalism by the kind of people who pick obscure references and use big words because they figure it'll impress the people they think listen to their crap.

Which is always a smaller number than they think it is.

We wouldn't know who these fucking people were if they hadn't caught the eye of malformed misfits like Elon Musk and Peter Theil.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

40 years ago somebody like Curtis Yarvin would've been simping for the Baader-Meinhof Gang and claiming the Soviet Union wasn't Communist enough anymore for no better reason than that's what all the other "Cool" fake-intellectual dilettante types who oscillate from "Left" to "Right" as the political seasons change were doing.

The endless ass-kissing corporatism is just a bit, same as everything else with these goddamned people.

Come on, there's a whole bunch of MAGA "Influencer" types that started out with shit like Occupy Wall Street. This is well known and it isn't that hard to figure out.

They're not trying to accomplish anything more than getting invited to better Cocaine Orgies and be more popular with their other sneering pseudo-intellectual friends.

I'm sorry, but I used to be a conservative, as in an actual political conservative who believed in this shit.

The first time I ever saw what Curtis Yarvin actually looked like?

I laughed my ass off and El Bimbo, the Blue Oyster gay bar music from the Police Academy movies briefly played in my head.

That dude is a conservative about like I'm a goddamned toaster oven.

And *Checks Notes* These Fucking People are about to all appoint themselves "Experts On Biblical Prophecy."

Excuse me while I go throw up.

Not going to lie, in a less "Politically Correct" era my first reaction probably would have been an affront to his masculinity and some assertions about his sexuality and that'd be without knowing who his main patron is. Knowing that?? Well...let's just say bare minimum I'd assume he's the sort of guy who's seen another man naked somewhere other than the gym.

Look, if that's what you are, that's what you are. I don't care. Be open about it, be yourself, and stop bothering everybody with your bullshit.

I'll note yet again that most of the people in politics and public life these days who scan as bog-standard straight or even well-adjusted LGBT folks are at least Democratic voters or some kind of Anti-Trump conservatives or at least not-fully-on-board-with-this-shit sort of Republicans.

And honestly I think it's less "Closeted LGBT types" and more simply the kind of perverts who'll stick it in a knothole in a fencepost if nothing else is around.

Best case it's a Death Cult Bromance, but I rather suspect there's other things going on with these guys. I know the kind of idiot fuck-fuck games Bro Culture dudes play when they think nobody's watching.

And idiots keep giving these people political power.

These are the people trying to bring about the Apocalypse.

Without knowing that, if you actually go by what the real definition of "Apocalypse" is...a time of revealing...we're already in one.

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.

And it's not looking too good, is it, what's being revealed?

Fuck this silly bullshit.

If we want to get these motherfuckers out of our lives, it's probably gonna come down to a fight.

People like this tend not to go away until they get punched in the face a few times.

Remember when somebody jacked Richard Spencer right upside the jaw?

Seems like nobody heard much of anything from that dude after that.

Just sayin.'

These people are revealing what they are because, like shitty little kids, they can't wait to tell on themselves.

Like the Colonel at the end of A Few Good Men, the MAGA's can't wait to tell us how shitty and violent they are and how their idea of "Freedom" isn't worth the seven letters it takes to spell the fucking word.

Like I said I'm a former End Times Christian and Republican myself. My formative years were the 1980's and 1990's. I'm a United States Air Force veteran. My partner is still kinda-conservative for sure, as am I just in some different ways (and you should hear us fight when we argue about this stuff, LOL. We agree on a lot, it's the other 10% we'll kill each other over.) Me, my partner, all my former Church people and friends from my old job...most of whom voted for Bush 43 in 2004? None of us are in the club anymore.

I've spent too much of my life around the people who became These Fucking People. I've listened to their music, I've listened to them talk, I've seen the shit they post on Facebook. I've watched as small-"C" conservatives like most of the people I know got pushed out.

Then you wake up one morning and you find out that Tea Party Joe Walsh is a Democrat?

The Christian Nationalist MAGA idea of "Freedom" is pretty much the Empire from Star Wars.

The Baal-Worshipers are even worse and basically wanna be the bad guys from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."

Note that number includes most of the richest men on the planet per the goddamned Epstein files.

And trust me, if they ever get it, there won't be no talk about no End Times because they will never want that shit to end. Why else do you think they want an AI Jesus?

They don't care if the world dies, so long as they make it to their bunkers first.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

That includes the freedom to not have your world ended by some chuckle-fuck's End Times delusions and thinking they're gonna have Jesus on some kind of a gilded leash doing their bidding like Princess Leia in Return Of The Jedi. Yes, this shit is impossible. That's still what they think.

And you're either willing to fight for that freedom or you're not.

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Valin Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?

Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?

Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.

Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.

Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.

Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?

Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?

Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?

Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.

[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"

Four

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Babylon Slipping (Bropocalypse Now, Four.)

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.

...

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10

So apparently Mark Wayne Mullin, US Senator, soon to be former Senator and Homeland Security secretary, cannot speak proper English.

And a fair number of "Christians" see war and think that Jesus is coming, or that He will somehow get here faster if there is a war.

Again, it's going to come down to "These Fucking People think if they fuck shit up bad enough and make things horrible enough for everybody, it'll somehow bring on the End Times.

As I keep trying to point out, you can dumb it down all you like, but the main point I keep trying to make here is that God is God, and you are Not.

If God can be manipulated or ordered about by Man, then He is clearly not God, and all this is a lie anyway, and what's even the damn point??

We keep dumbing things down more and more, appointing or electing even stupider people to office mainly in an endless quest for low taxes and higher shareholder profits, along with various shitty agendas that even a (just for example) semi-intelligent Christian who's actually read the Lord's Word has a good chance of knowing they're complete bullshit.

At this point it's less that Trump's America is Babylon and Babylon is falling than it is, well, the Great Whore Of Babylon slipped on a banana peel and fell off the roof, thus coming to a humorous if rather painful end.

These Trump administration guys aren't trying to win an actual war with the real country of Iran using 40 years of very real threat assessments, expertise and intelligence.

They're acting like Influencers engaged in some kind of Content War against some shit that only exists in their own heads.

We're trying to Pwn Something Something Gazpacho Own The Libs Unga Bunga! on social media and the Iranians are acting like it's a real war, a war we're likely gonna lose because we're not taking anything seriously.

Too many of us don't even know what the fuck "Taking It Seriously" even means anymore.

Mark Wayne Mullin about got himself into a fight with the President of the Teamsters a few years ago and likely would have got his ass kicked.

There's jobs out there, whole groups of people, among other things...where people can't afford to fuck around. There was a time when being in the government or the military came with standards.

There was a time when being able to speak eloquently and well and having an education was effectively the bargain-basement price of entry into a conclave such as the United States Congress...much less the office of the President.

Jesus Christ, what the fuck is wrong with people??

Like, back during the 2000 election I remember being horrified when the main question a lot of people were asking about Bush 43 vs. Gore was "Which one would you rather have a beer with?"

And again, I was a Republican at the time.

This glorification of Idiocy has got to stop.

Tom Ridge, the first head of the Department of Homeland Security, was an Army veteran and a lawyer who'd been the Governor of Pennsylvania. A history like that used to be pretty much required to be a freaking Cabinet secretary! Mark Wayne Mullin has an Associate's Degree in Construction and owns a plumbing company that he inherited.

My coworker that I'll be working with tonight is from Oklahoma and I'm gonna ask him what he thinks of this mess.

But the truth is that neither those MAGA's that are left nor the Billionaires and corporations who actually profit from all this horseshit want anybody who's competent or has an ounce of integrity or morality in any of these kind of positions.

Because that might prevent them from doing whatever bullshit they wanna do.

And Red States like Oklahoma and Texas have started to become examples of just what happens when we let that kind of shit fester for way too long.

Worse, nobody has the guts to change anything, they all just hope they can cash out before the shit hits the fan and things go pear-shaped.

I can tell you that just from having been at my old job for so long.

The thing is, sooner or later we're gonna have to do something other than bullshit. Sooner or later we're gonna have to make something other than money.

And when that reality catches up with us, almost certainly faster than changing out all these dopes for people who know what they're doing...the tolerance for this shit is gonna go right out the window.

When the shit hits the fan I think it's going to come down to "On One Side, you'll need to meet qualifications and have a history of demonstrated moral and physical courage to be the gun-captain on a Technical Truck" and "On The Other Side, there'll be people who have to ask ChatGPT for both a battle plan and an exit strategy, who can't go to the bathroom without a Security Forces troop watching their ass."

It's like these fucking people who can't even go to the goddamn grocery store without a Cowboy Hat and a Colt Revolver, or maybe a rifle slung on their shoulder.

Like what the fuck are you afraid of??

You think you're gonna find a terrorist in the meat department??

Heavily armed cowardice is still cowardice.

And it's been my experience that if you're no good in a fight without a weapon, you're gonna be worse than useless with one.

The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. By day the dead impaled on spikes along the road. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calendar for five years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived and all the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food. Within a year there was fire on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice - difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke. ~The Man, from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (Film.)

Ten bucks says you ain't afraid of...or even paying attention to...the people that are actually a threat.

If you can't...either due to bigotry, misinformation or what the fuck ever...properly identify a threat to yourself, there's probably a good chance you'll come to an embarrassing end and deserve it.

People like Mark Wayne Mullin and Trump aren't the problem, they're a symptom of a wider problem of willful stupidity.

They're a symptom of a basic loss of survival instincts.

And here we are, opening up a Pandora's Box with a whole new threat pyramid.

20 years ago there was a whole slew of Christian end times-themed novels with names like "Babylon Rising" that attempted to follow in the footsteps of shit like the Left Behind series and perpetuate the fading 1990's End Times mania for various levels of fun and profit.

They were wrong.

Babylon is slipping.

We can either fall off the ledge with it, or we can find a way to hang on.

Your choice, yo.

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Valin Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?

Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?

Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.

Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.

Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.

Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?

Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?

[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"

Three

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. ~Joel 3:9-14

Friday, March 6, 2026

The Believers (Bropocalypse Now, Three.)

[Yuri has convinced his uncle Dimitri, a major general on the former Soviet, now Ukrainian Army, to show him the armory of Dimitri's military base.]

Yuri: How many Kalashnikovs do you have?

Uncle Dimitri: Forty thousand.

Yuri: [glancing at the paper on Uncle Dimitri's clipboard] Is that a four? Doesn't look like a four to me. Looks more like a one.

Uncle Dimitri: No, it's a four.

Yuri: It's whatever we say it is, because no one else will know the difference. Ten thousand Kalashnikovs for a battalion... your stocks are badly depleted, Dimitri. You should order more from the factory.

Uncle Dimitri: Someone will work it out. What happens then?

Yuri Orlov: We'll cut them in. ~From the film Lord Of War.

...

Valin Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?

Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?

Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.

Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.

Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.

Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?

Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?

[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"

I'm gonna put this as simply as I can. From 1995 to 2000 I was a member of the End Times Prophecy Movement.

It started when I was in the Air Force.

The Evangelical "End Times Prophecy Narrative" says that if this is what THEY'RE trying to say it is: All human political power or wealth will be destroyed. It will, through the Judgments of the Almighty God, cease to exist or have any meaning over the next seven (7) chronological 365-day years from date [Something Something Gazpacho] which they claim to have already activated somehow and on a (thus set) date, Human Power be replaced by the TOTAL direct monarchial rule of Jesus Christ that will last for exactly 1,000 years before being directly physically and spiritually challenged by the Devil himself.

Do any of These Fucking People, these alleged Believers, sound like they REALLY believe that?

If ANY of these motherfuckers REALLY thought the World was about to End in seven years-minus a few days now, would all this Project 2025 bullshit about enslaving women even be necessary?? (Let me put it another way as a guy with a lady partner and a daughter here; "No." and "Over My Dead Body."

The truth is the only thing these assholes really believe in is some kind of a social meme of Slavery, and they want that shit back.

Whether it's Putin trying to enslave Ukrainians or Americans trying to enslave each other in petty little country fiefdoms.

You can take a lot of things away from a man. Cigarettes, the gym. You can take his freedom, his legs, but not his feelings. Not his feelings. A man loves a woman. Don't matter what kind of man he is, if he loves her, he wants her. He wants her body. He wants her to want his. So you say to him, "you can never make love again. You will never touch her in that way again. This is the last time. The last time. Forever." If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise."

You notice none of these fucking people are ramping up efforts to *Checks Notes* Evangelize anybody. And according to their "religion" that's supposedly the most important thing; In fact it's the ONLY thing. So either it's all a fucking lie, or there's some new "narrative" these fools are following that they clearly haven't released to the public for fear of actual consequences, or they actively believe they're gonna be the bad guys in Revelation.

And somehow, get away with it.

In fact I think that they think they're somehow gonna cut Jesus in on the deal and live happily ever after while the rest of us don't.

And "They'll be surprised when THEY get shoved into Hell (while still alive) by Jesus FIRST."

The truth is so far this year I've seen the worst people imaginable actively try to hit me over the head with their Christianity while trying to run the most horrible petty, shitty power plays imaginable on people that I love.

In fact, if anything, the total opposite of Evangelism or anything I was taught in the End Times narrative seems to be occurring.

They only want to preach Jesus if they think they're gonna hit the Bar after!

They ONLY want all the religious crap if they're also getting sex, For fuck's sake I'm not even sure they know, let alone understand, the difference.

All this base religious Unga Bunga shit, all this talk of "Male Loneliness Epidemics," all the racist and "Red Pill" shit going on is all pushing a narrative of Male Power that thinks it's gonna bend over the Whore Of Babylon.

Like they haven't even read Revelation chapter 18.

Because that's literally what it says the Kings Of The Earth even do.

And she still gets the better end of the deal. Like, Duh.

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

It's all Antichrist, and it's getting profoundly stupid.

Like I don't even identify as a Born-again anything, I'm a pretty agnostic Christian. But, I have basic reading comprehension skills and I know what I read.

Trump's America is Babylon, and it's already destroying itself.

More to the point, Trump's America is destroying itself with all the single-minded monomaniacal dedication and ferocity of something that has (Again, per how things work in the Evangelical End Times Prophecy Narrative) been scripturally ordained to do exactly that, and nothing else.

And These Fucking People can't even see it.

Because they do not want to.

These guys are, for the most part, not terribly bright. Things have gotten out of hand, and they still think they can bullshit their way through.

But they are mostly focused on what they think the fleshpot rewards of the Power they're seeking will be.

Never mind that, metaphorically, per Revelation 18 that is exactly what brings them down. In other words; I suspect the Epstein Files, or at least what we know so far, ain't the half of it. Not by a long shot.

And whatever that crap is...that endless fucked up perversion in the service of *Checks Notes* Baal is what these Monsters think that LIFE is gonna be once they figure out how they can bullshit God into giving them the total power they think they want.

Basically, yet again all they see is Power and they think God and Jesus and the Demons are all basically the same.

In fact, I'd bet money that these freakish morons are trying to figure out how they can bullshit their way into double-dipping and stealing from both.

Again, one of these things is not like the other one. None of this bullshit works that way.

You shouldn't need me to tell you this.

But apparently people got stupid or something.

Because if they don't know anything, they think they can believe whatever they want.

The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. ~Ronald Reagan

The perverse, total Truth here is that these motherfuckers have not just abandoned but inverted the conservative beliefs of the past and they would, indeed, rather be Animals than Spirits.

For no better reasons than they simply believe that will let them have their addictions and sexual perversions and practice them in peace while floating on an endless sea of dopamine and narcissistic fuel while never having to look at the rest of us.

Among other things it's a lot easier to enslave people if they believe they are animals, meant only to sate bestial wants, and not spirits meant for greater things than that.

True to form, the people doing exactly this shit want to believe that They are God.

Which, again, is what both Scripture and their own Evangelical End Times Prophecy Narrative specifically said that they would do.

Fighting against this shit in whatever way you can isn't even about stopping it anymore.

It's about being on the right side of both God's Judgment and History.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

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