Priapus Rising (Bropocalypse Now, Eight.)

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."

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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

Before I got back with my partner on June 25th of last year (after six days of constant texting, LOL) I used to look at all these crazy stories a lot of women have about men and think "Goddamn, are we really this bad??"

No, we're not.

We're worse.

Way the fuck too many of us want to enjoy ourselves and have no responsibility, have the wife at home but be out catting around with some other woman, or for that matter with a dude...and then, while doing all this gay stuff behind closed doors, denounce the very same shit they're doing as "Ungodly."

Too many dudes want patriarchy without responsibility, power without principle or restraint and wealth without work.

And they expect their wives to be unpaid servants while putting up with their bullshit.

Like, seriously, this shit is why These Fucking People keep voting for Donald Trump.

Which just says to me, that a hell of a lot of us have lost not only all moral responsibility (so that even if we have all this power we think we're due, we don't deserve it) we don't have any survival instincts either.

I give you the example of Newt Motherfucking Gingrich thinking (Based on some bullshit satirical letter somewhere, apparently) that we could use nuclear weapons to dig a canal in Oman and the UAE to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

Uh...no.

Maybe it's just me and I'm a United States Air Force Bomb and Missile Wing veteran but that sounds like a galactically bad idea.

First of all we tried something like that once, it was called Project Plowshares and all it did was create a few nuclear waste sites in Colorado and New Mexico and dig more holes in the Nevada Test Site and waste an ass-ton of money before somebody realized that fallout and radiation would make any er, "Projects" done this way dangerously radioactive and unsafe for humans (and pretty much everything else.)

Let me put it another way, you try sweating through a training exercise in full MOPP 4 chemical warfare gear at a place like Prince Sultan Airbase in the Saudi desert, where it's hot enough to fry an egg on the goddamned tarmac and you get told...ordered in fact...that if you don't have to piss you're not drinking enough water, and then you go ahead and tell me how you like it. 

And something like this would subject all type of people to that kind of shit as a way of living, or to a particularly nasty death.

Second and maybe it's also just me but I remember when Newt Gingrich was portrayed as one of the "Smart" Republicans, and he can talk a good game but as far as I'm concerned if he's as faithful to God and Country as he's been to the women in his life, this asshole shouldn't be allowed any credibility whatever.

Of course Republicans think "Smart" means "Amoral, Smarmy Asshole." It has nothing to do with intelligence for them. It's all about fucking other people (and each other) over.

And well, then he says shit like that we should drop a line of NUDETs in the Sandbox and pollute likely the whole area with nuclear fallout and somehow hope this doesn't piss off every country in the neighborhood including Israel?? (And yes, it will, the second it falls on them too, remember Israel is a nuclear power.) I mean, WHAT?!?!?!?! Come on now.

Nobody should need me to point out that's a bad idea.

Yeah, so basically Newt Gingrich is dumb as fuck and primarily concerned with finding a new piece to cheat on his wife with, or something.

But that's about bog-standard for "Conservative" White Men these days.

Modern Republicanism worships the Phallus more than the Roman Empire ever did.

I'll note yet again that the Kid specifically referred to the MAGA relatives as "Trump Dick Riders."

Definitely think there's something to that.

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.

It's one of the many, many Idols they worship.

Worse this type of shit seems to pair nicely with the worship of Baal which strongly suggests there's a fucking reason the ancient Israelites worked so hard to wipe that shit out.

And these dudes who haven't been taught anything or weren't paying attention when somebody was supposed to be teaching them but yet somehow they found a way to worship ancient demons while abusing young girls *Checks Notes* are running America right now.

And running it straight into the ground while screaming "Leeeeeroy Jenkins!"

There comes a point where one starts to wonder if this country is worth saving, or is it better to just let it crash, then do the work to start over?

And worse, these dudes are acting like they are completely within their rights to do this, to wreck everything for everybody else because Something Something Unga Bunga.

Because they're bored, or because somebody let them do it before, or because people let them forget what life was like at that time.

Kareem Said: Homosexuality is a perversion against Gods will.

Vern Schillinger: I agree.

Kareem Said: And yet you practice sodomy yourself.

Vern Schillinger: I'm no f*ggot.

Kareem Said: You raped Beecher. And Cyril O'Reily and God knows how many others.

Vern Schillinger: I never touched anybody.

Tobias Beecher: You lying cock sucking fuck.

Sister Peter Marie: Tobias-

Tobias Beecher: How can you deny what you did? Get up!

Sister Peter Marie: Tobias!

Tobias Beecher: Get up!

Sister Peter Marie: Officer! Stop it!

Hack: Come on!

Tobias Beecher: Come on! Fuck! You fucking lying bitch! You lying fucking sack of shit. ~From the HBO series Oz, S5.E4 "Next Stop, Valhalla."

Men ain't lonely enough, and I say that as a Man.

And when women stop putting up with this bullshit, these motherfuckers will do it to each other.

And these dudes would rather inflict the Mark Of The Beast and all the horrors of Revelation on Humanity than go to therapy, treat women like people, or give up one iota of power or control while preaching an ideal of "Freedom" (Read: Narcissism) that isn't worth the fucking paper it's printed on.

Trouble is if somebody preaches the word of Baal or that the horrors of Revelation are a good thing but calls it worship of Priapus (the Roman god of dicks) there's a hell of a lot of dudes out there that'd go for that shit.

Without questioning a damn word.

Fuck this stupid bullshit.

I'm a fucking guy, and I choose the goddamned Bear.

Guys, there's an answer for this, but you ain't gonna like it.

And if we don't get our acts together it's likely gonna come to that because the ladies are getting sick of our bullshit.

Any system can be overthrown, including Patriarchy, especially when Patriarchy gets Stupid.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And if you don't believe everybody gets to have it, what you believe in ain't freedom.

When is enough, enough?

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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.

Seven

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."

Crab Bucket V (Bropocalypse Now, Seven.)

So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel. 

And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. 

Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 

Therefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it. 

Then you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”

So all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.”

Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.

And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord; and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two cords of seed. And he put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, “Fill four water-pots with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.” Then he said, “Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time; and he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time. So the water ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”

And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there. 

~2 Kings 18:20-40

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Franklin Winthrop: How the mighty have fallen.

Adam Guenzel: Fuck you, f****t.

Vern Schillinger: Guenzel.

Adam Guenzel: Hey, Vern. The boys in Em City send their regards.

Vern Schillinger: Shut up.

Adam Guenzel: Hey, I was just - [Vern slaps Guenzel] God, what the fuck was -

Vern Schillinger: You'll speak when you're spoken to.

[Aryans drag Guenzel into a broom closet to sexually assault him]

Adam Guenzel: Hey, get the fuck off me! Get off of me!

Franklin Winthrop: Sir, sir, may I watch?

Vern Schillinger: Well, if you don't, how are you ever gonna learn?

~From the HBO Series Oz, S5.E6 "Variety."

I saw this yesterday morning.

A picture of Trump with some little girl on Jeffrey Epstein's plane.

Goddamn, but these fucking people are so brazen in their perversions.

Evangelicals thinking they're gonna burn down the world to try to "Bring back" (or more properly create) their version of Jesus (since it doesn't exist.) Like seriously most of these assholes' various "Doctrines" are products of the 19th and 20th centuries, just made up bullshit in real terms.

And idiot CEO's thinking they're pretty much going to burn down the entire existing structure of Humanity by replacing intelligent people with AI.

Yeah, among other things I don't think that's going to work how they think it is.

If you don't think putting computer chips in people's foreheads or right hands is their next move towards securing infinite Power and Control for themselves while they say "It's not the Mark Of The Beast when WE do it!" You're wrong.

Don't worry though, the Calvinist Fundamentalist Theo-Bros are totally Okay with all that, so long as they get to ban Catholicism, Islam and Judaism (and presumably everything else but their small miserable religiosity) and engage in creepy, ritualistic abuse of girls and women.

These Fucking People are all narcissists and everybody wants their petty power trip. They don't give a shit about anything the fuck else.

The only "Value" These Fucking People have is Slavery, in particular sexual slavery. Although they also like forced labor that gets them wealth without work.

They see the Epstein Cult Victim, forced to participate in the worship of Baal and Hell only knows what else and who may or may not even have been taught anything, as more "Christian" (that word solely meaning "Befitting their worldview" in this case) than a strong independent woman who happens to be a Christian having a job and working with a partner who she loves and who loves her to support her kid and rebuild a life.

And I found out this week my partner's idiot MAGA relatives are still trying to make trouble for her and the kid. Fuck these fucking people.

They have been informed that if it keeps up there will be consequences.

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."

It's not about Jesus. It's not about anything as you or I would understand it. Meaning and words don't enter into it, let alone love.

They don't care if they lose their country, lose the war, or even lose their own lives so long as they get to enjoy themselves and/or make a little money (and they don't really see any difference between those two things) at the expense of somebody else (and preferably without having to obtain consent) for a while.

They don't care if it Ends the World.

In fact, if I had to guess I think Trump thinks the world ends when he does.

Like Ronald Reagan once said about government, These Fucking People are like babies; "An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." And naturally, they were handed the country and that's what they, these alleged Republicans, turned the government into as well.

And they neither know nor care how anything works and they don't want to, but they expect all the rest of us to pay for it. As long as they get theirs they don't care enough to bother.

Reagan Wept.

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.

It's not just that this bullshit is Antichrist, or even that it's too stupid to know that it is that, it's that nobody cares.

I'd say sooner or later that's going to show up in the results with the end product of their schemes, but the truth is I think we're already there. These idiots are destroying themselves, but they don't really care as long as they get to take somebody else down with them somehow.

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.)

In fact, that is the entire point.

The only people these assholes seem to want to allow to all pull in the same direction much less think of any kind of future beyond securing the petty tin-pot power to enjoy themselves is Billionaires.

It's a Crab Bucket for everybody else.

It should go without saying that people who think this way simply cannot comprehend Eternity or Infinity.

And that they do not believe in God.

These fools think they're exempt from their own bullshit but in the end they won't be.

And they're too stupid to realize their bunkers and their fucking flunkies can't protect them if the world blows up.

They don't care.

The question is, do you?

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

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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

Six

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

Bonus Content

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."

Fiery The Angels Fell (Bropocalypse Now, Six.)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner.

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So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel. 

And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. 

Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 

Therefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it. 

Then you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”

So all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.”

Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.

And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord; and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two cords of seed. And he put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, “Fill four water-pots with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.” Then he said, “Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time; and he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time. So the water ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”

And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there. 

~2 Kings 18:20-40

Evidently, the State of New Mexico has started digging up the ground at Jeffrey Epstein's former Zorro Ranch.

They're apparently finding a lot of stuff.

This was one of Epstein's home bases for his Baal-cult of sexual abuse.

Also for awhile now I've been seeing a bunch of crap about Nazi troll Jack Lang, but a few minutes ago I saw that he's texting back and forth with 15 year old girls.

Is there even ONE of these fucking people who's not a pedophile??

Just sayin' my partner's daughter, basically my step-daughter at this point, is 14 and if some 30 year old dude was texting her? Between me and my partner, nobody would ever find him. I spent a lot of time in the field as an Air Force security police troop, I know how to hide a body and I live in Northern Michigan. I know places nobody goes.

The thing I don't get is...why are conservatives, you know *Checks Notes* the people who taught me to fear and hate pedophiles and who spent most of my formative years panicking about pedophile Satanic cults now *Checks Notes* endorsing exactly that same shit and pretty much...especially the "Conservative" MAGA "Christians" swearing themselves to live under the rule of such people forever??

Is hatred of some mostly-imagined "Other" literally more important to These Fucking People than their own souls??

Like I'm sorry, but if you're a so-called "Christian" and you're willingly living under a demonic pedophile-cult 'cause you think it'll hurt other people, you ain't a Christian, you ain't conservative and you're probably at least somewhat sympathetic to the fucking demons and devils.

In D&D terms these would be the people who buy the propaganda put out by the Devils of Baator that they are the defenders of the multiverse against the Demons of the Abyss in their perpetual Blood War.

And like some Neutral Evil D&D character, they believe this crap.

Apparently, they want to.

I mean, that's bog standard Republicanism since at least 9/11 if you think about it.

Like I keep saying, if Heaven doesn't have a hierarchy and Hell does, these idiots would rather go to Hell.

The worst part is, it gets worse still.

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.)

Any ideals of freedom these fucking monsters claim to possess aren't worth the cost of the piece of scrap paper it'd take to write them down on.

Conceptually, these fuckin' people are obsessed not only with slavery in general but sexual slavery in particular.

Anything but having to obtain consent, I guess?

As somebody now responsible for a kid I don't think that's the kind of world any of us want to live in. I don't give a damn.

This shit disgusts me.

And if it doesn't disgust you, what the fuck is wrong with you??

When the fuck is enough, enough??

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."

These guys don't want to have sex out of love or even lust, let alone for any of those other "Traditional" reasons like having families with kids and shit. Not a bit, it's entirely about gratifying 100% pure male egotistical narcissism.

These people don't want virgins and young women for any kind of chastity or moral reasons, they want that because they're creepers and pedophiles.

People who were like this used to hide it, lest they get beat up or shot at by random parents and girl-dads in particular. This was the standard especially on the Right until Trump came along.

Patriarchy, if that's what one really wants, requires protection, provision and responsibility. Otherwise it's just a cover for abuse and a power trip.

Funny how that changed overnight in 2015, ain't it??

That's not the world these assholes want to live in, though.

Hell, I've been called "Gay" for treating my partner with respect. For treating her like a person, you know...how one is supposed to interact with other people in a society?

This shit isn't sustainable and it doesn't work. 

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 these CHUD's can't wait until somebody starts mass-producing sex robots so that they pretty much can get themselves off without ever having to treat another human being properly.

I mean, fuck, these people bitch about low birth-rates now. What happens when those who can afford it spend all their time banging sex robots??

I mean, while we're at it what happens when the robots get tired if this fucking bullshit??

These people don't want to live in a society, they want endless narcissistic gratification and that's all there is to it.

I'm assuming most of these motherfuckers have never done anything genuinely worthwhile in their lives and I say that as somebody belatedly helping to support a family. Lots of pretty simple things can get filed under "Worthwhile endeavors."

Again, that ain't the world these ass-clowns want to live in or participate in or even be a part of. They might as well be like Elon Musk, mailing off vials of their spunk to random women or some such bullshit. 

If that's what all this kind of crap is now, then it needs to die. In fact, the graveyard of History is too good of a fate for this fucking garbage!

Bropocalypse Now, yo.

Like, I'm sorry but I used to be a conservative and specifically a Politically conservative Christian back when those words apparently meant something other than this.

When somebody like me is looking at this mess and saying "Like tears in rain...time to die" that ought to be a sign we're in trouble.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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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"

Five

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

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.

Слава Україна!

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