Six Hundred Threescore And Six (Left Behind Is A Lie VI, Two.)

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If any man have an ear, let him hear.

He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he speaks as a dragon.

And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceive them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13, King James Bible.

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

So I saw this early this morning.

Apparently there's going to be some mandated app that worships Trump on government-issue Smartphones now?

Like seriously what the hell kind of fragile-ass narcissistic man-baby needs that type of shit? Oh, right, Trump.

Meanwhile Republicans keep crapping all over the country and goddamn but I can't help noticing that the "Golden Dome" version of Israel's Iron Dome system has magically shrunk down from protecting the entire country to only protecting about a third of the original White House? 

My guess is it'll shrink down to just protecting Trump before it ever actually hits the design stage??

Like, I'm being kinda-serious here, Late Stage Trumpism is starting to make the various excesses of Saddam Hussein seem...tame...by comparison. And it's not just him, a lot of these idiot CHUDs think they're gonna get to be Saddam, too!

And elected Republicans plus about half their voters (and certainly anybody voting in a Republican primary) are fine with this??

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.

I'm not a huge fan of just mindlessly repeating other people's talking points but yes, "It's A Cult."

More than that, this is a cult of miserable people who basically worship their own self-inflicted misery in the hope that it'll make somebody else's life worse.

They don't seem to care that they're still miserable.

Or maybe they just like it that way?

Like I don't know who the fuck got the idea that Trump was "Fixated On Heaven?" 

You mean when he decided he probably wasn't gonna go there awhile back??

Or have we just forgotten about that, now??

Like, I'm sorry, I don't even understand what these fucking people are trying to accomplish at this point?? Do they think Trump will give them a cookie? Re-Tweet (or whatever) their bullshit enough that they can monetize it?? 

I don't even see the damn point.

Hell, maybe I just don't want to.

Clemency. That's a fancy word for mercy. You see, the governor can commute a death sentence. He has the power to just pick up the phone and say no. But to me, the only time the governor shows clemency, is when he don't make that call. Because life in prison without parole is a shitload worse than death. Death is parole. Death is the real mercy. ~Augustus Hill, From the HBO series Oz S1.E4 "Capital P."

The whole damn point of all this MAGA shit seems to be they think they'll get to have their boot on somebody else's throat before they, too, die a horrible death. Seems like a hell of an ideal to live with, if you ask me.

Death with a higher relative status, or under some gold Techno-dome of alleged protection, or with a quadrillion fake AI's singing your praises every second of every day is still DEATH.

I have a church background, I've read the Lord's Word, most of my remaining friends and my partner etc. are all the same way. GOD is not going to care about all that crap! God is not going to be impressed by all the same shit that fools American redneck idiots into worshiping this walking garbage bag full of rotten flabby assholes!

And Trump is not a god, he's just a man, and not even a very good one. He's an Antichrist, but apparently not very good at that either.

Remember that, and remember too that attempting to outsource your Sin to this creep is still, in fact, Sin. 

You are not going to fool the Almighty.

You know how I know Left Behind Is A Lie?? 

Trump is literally acting like the dumbest possible version of every Antichrist or Beast of Revelation in every dumbass Christian novel or low-budget movie I ever heard of much less partook of my damn self...and a majority of "Evangelicals" still support that bullshit!

In fact, dude has hit October of 2008 Bush 43-level polling nadirs on way more issues than he hasn't, overall approval rating is to the tune of around 30% (This is, in real terms, a political death spiral, it's just I think it's gotten so big that it's gonna take the Republican Party and half of America down with it!) and I live in Northern Michigan and pretty much have to go through the backwaters of the backwaters of the poorest area around here to see an actual Trump flag in the wild now and there's still a large slice of the White Evangelical population that literally thinks Trump can do no wrong.

And he can't get people to worship him so now he's having AI or apps or some bullshit installed that'll do it??

Yeah, there's something vaguely Biblical-sounding about that, alright.

But not in any sort of way that tells me anybody involved is going to Heaven, or even planning to or wants to.

More like they know they're going to Hell, and they wanna see who they can take with them when they go.

You wanna make this shit stop, it's going to come down to a fight.

Soon.

Because if it doesn't?

Well, I've read enough of the Bible to be able to tell you exactly how these fucking people think this is gonna end.

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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.

One

There's a man goin' 'round takin' names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same
There'll be a golden ladder reachin' down
When the man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter's ground?
When the man comes around

… Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin'
Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettledrum
Voices callin', voices cryin'
Some are born and some are dyin'
It's alpha and omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 

~Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around.

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."

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Hoes? (Left Behind Is A Lie VI, One.)

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.

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Daniel Plainview: I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there. He found me to take it out of the ground. You know what the funny thing is? Listen, listen, listen! I paid him $10,000 cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now — prosperous little business — three wells producing $5000 a week. Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense! You're just the afterbirth, Eli —

Eli Sunday: No...

Daniel Plainview: — that slithered out in your mother's filth. They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantelpiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at his mother's teat, eh? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli? One of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. There’s nothing you can do about it. It’s gone, had.

Eli Sunday: If you would just —

Daniel Plainview: You lose.

Eli Sunday: — take this lease, Daniel!

Daniel Plainview: [yelling] Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy! Drained dry. I’m so sorry. Here: if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw — There it is. That's a straw, see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room, and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! [slurping noise] I drink it up!

Eli Sunday: Don't bully me, Daniel!

Daniel Plainview: [throws Eli to the floor] Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation. I am whom the Lord has chosen. [throws bowling balls at Eli]

Eli Sunday: [dodging the bowling balls] Daniel!

Daniel Plainview: Because I'm smarter than you! I'm older!

Eli Sunday: I'm your old friend, Daniel! Help me! Help me, please!

Daniel Plainview: I'm not a false prophet, you sniveling boy! I am the Third Revelation! I am the Third Revelation! I told you I would eat you!

Eli Sunday: We're family!

Daniel Plainview: I told you I would eat you up!

~From the film There Will Be Blood.

I saw this earlier.

It never ceases to amaze me how much of an easily-bought-off dumbass Trump is, or how little the rest of the world has made this dude contribute to it, and a lot of his followers are worse.

Like this dumbass, making a point of saying girls shouldn't wear Cammies without covering up besides that. Who the fuck spends that much damn time worrying about what somebody else is wearing, unless they're a damned pervert.

When my partner first moved in with me, she was just my friend, coworker, and my best friend's girlfriend who'd become my roommate out of mutual necessity. She needed a place to stay and I needed the money.

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."

If she wasn't working, her usual outfit was a Cammie and jeans, or a Cammie and boxer shorts, shoes optional in either case, and she absolutely had the kind of voluptuous figure that I *Like* and not only that, but I liked her as a person and had feelings although I was hesitant to admit it even to myself. She also liked me, but she had 2 different boyfriends and a couple months went by before we even had that argument. We'd become close friends automatically, and workplace rivals in a sort of job where people, especially friends, were always screwing with each other.

I still never said shit about how she dressed, literally not my place to say anything about it. 

The only actual rules were "Clean up after yourself" and "Smoke Outside" both of which I naturally did already too. She resented having to go outside to smoke, but retaliated by making me go outside to smoke with her. Notoriously this almost immediately became "Wake me up at 3AM." Or, more accurately, wake up Snowman (the Schnauzer) and he'd handle waking me up because he absolutely loved her as much as I did, maybe even more. He basically was her dog for a year...and then whenever she was around after that. (Second time around, when we were long-distancing it when she was in Tennessee, he didn't let my other Schnauzer bond with her, but then Odie was indisputably my dog.)

The smoke breaks are still our tradition.

When we tell the kiddo stories of our first relationship, she laughs at us, although not maliciously, and the truth is it really does feel like we were pretty innocent at that time.

We were basically-conservative regular people with church backgrounds, we still are.

These fucking people don't care about that, these dumb jackasses just want to use and abuse and control women, and these kind of guys for the most part don't even like women and never have. That is the root of this whole "Trump" thing. He's just the current excuse.

Sorry, but if Charlie and Erika Kirk were really all that, and such a happy couple, he wouldn't have been giving scads of money to some OnlyFans chick. Maybe a little here and there, maybe.

Guys who like their partners don't have a lot of use for that stuff, I sure don't.

But then I don't think I've ever even looked at OnlyFans in my life. 

I had a subscription to a friend's spicy Patreon for a few months back in 2020 just before and during the early stages of the pandemic, but that was me helping her out because she was in a tough spot. Honestly I pretty much looked at the monthly Email-pictures once and forgot about them. I'm not even sure if they're still in my inbox. She wouldn't let me just give her money and the extra money they tacked on to Unemployment once that got going more than got her caught up so I let my subscription go.

Before that? The only such subscription I ever had was some pretty softcore artistic stuff, it bugged the shit out of my Work Bros for some reason, funny enough I got rid of that in 2009 (and deleted all the stuff I'd downloaded) when my partner and I started dating the second time, which was also something they laughed at me for.

These Fucking People, though?

Why stop with commodification and objectification of women??

Current Republicans wanna treat absolutely everybody like fuckin' dirt and objectify them, we're all just spectators serving as some kind of source of narcissistic fuel.

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)

Talking to us like we don't know what fuckin' Ice Cream is. Jesus, what's wrong with you??

These idiots wanna talk down to and objectify everybody else.

And it just keeps getting worse, like they have to rub our collective noses in this fucking bullshit;

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.

When is enough, enough??

Oh, right, these motherfuckers think they own God.

Remember this; At the end of the day the Republicans were so atheistic that they needed a "god" they could see and they almost all picked *Checks Notes* Donald Trump to be that "god."

And he ended up owning them, not the other way around. Think about that for a second.

Because apparently you can't just be a person and still be a Republican anymore only now it's worse. You pretty much have to turn yourself into a goon-content meme or some kind of bullshit stereotype to even fit in with these pricks.

They don't even want anything real, and honestly the dumber and more artificial it is and the more it reeks of conspicuous consumption, the more they do seem to want it.

Do Androids dream of Electric Hoes?

[trying to sell a new stereo system to a teenage couple] 

Ken: Check it out, my man! This is the Dominator X-10. Thirty inches of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping, nuclear brain damage!

Kid: Bitchin'! Hey, what's it fucking cost?

Ken: That's the bitchin' part about it! It don't matter! If you can't afford it, FUCKING FINANCE IT! [turns it on] 

Ken: So what if it's as big as a Subaru and costs as much? You'll never have to trade this in! This is gonna be with you for the rest of your life! And when you die, they can BURY you in it!

~From the film Ruthless People.

Think about that for a second.

These are the dumbasses that'll stop reproducing the second some goon invents a realistic-enough sex robot.

Because if we're being quite honest, Republicans hate people. They want partners (and workers, and everything else) that can't tell them "No." And then they think that's a flex.

Why else do they have such a weird fixation on totalitarian ideals and universes where everybody else (but not them) just obeys??

These fucking idiots see the Mark Of The Beast from Revelation, Cylons and Terminators and shit, as aspirational.

Seized by God, they cry for succor in the dark of the light. Mists of dreams dribble on the nascent echo and love no more. Jump! Counting down. All functions nominal. All functions optimal. Counting down. The center holds. The falcon hears the falconer. Infrastructure, check. Wetware, check. Everyone hang on to the life bar, please. Apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning. Devices on alert. Observe the procedures of a general alert. The base and the pinnacle. The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes. Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created free will. Twelve battles, three stars, and yet we are countless as the bodies in which we dwell, are both parent and infinite children in perfect copies. No degradation. The makers of the makers fall before the child. Accessing defense system. Handshake, handshake. Second level clear. Accepting scan. Love outlasts death. Their ships fail. Skittering like skipped stones. Meaningless in the absence of time. What never was is never again. Progress reports arriving. The farms of Aerolon are burning. The beaches of Canceron are burning. The plains of Leonis are burning. The jungles of Scorpia are burning. The pastures of Tauron are burning. The harbors of Picon are burning. The cities of Caprica are burning. The oceans of Aquaria are burning. The courthouses of Libran are burning. The forests of Virgon are burning. The Colonies of Man lie trampled at our feet. 

~The Hybrid, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, narration of the Cylon attack on the Colonies.

I grew up in the 1980's in basic conservative churches, trust me when I tell you the beginning of this was the idea propagated at the time was the Conservative/Evangelical Protestant idea that going to Heaven meant endlessly praising Narcissist God for all of Eternity.

And way too many people just sat there and took it.

When we moved and switched to a Catholic church because it was closer, the fact that they didn't talk about God like that was initially a shock to me.

But I learned something from all that.

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 24:27

Likewise I learned from finding out in 2000 over the whole Y2K Debacle that the End Times Prophecy Movement as These Fucking People practiced it was full of shit.

Yes, Left Behind absolutely Was A Lie.

It took going somewhere else and chillin' with people who had a whole different perspective on all that to keep me having faith in God or Christianity at all, much less even a reduced belief in the End Times.

By the next time there was a big frenzy over the Rapture, I'd long since come to understand and internalized that the Rapture was a False Doctrine and had studied the origins and history of it and me and my Pastor and a bunch of our House Church folk just laughed about Harold Camping and all the people who gave his dumb ass money.

It's events, not these idiots preaching, that has made me believe in that shit now. Events that they are doing.

It's nothing they said, it's everything they did. It's the Epstein files and Gold statues of Trump and Techno-Idiocracy and these idiots slouching towards the Mark Of The Beast like they think a bunch of us didn't read that story...just because they know a bunch of their own idiot followers absolutely would put 666 on themselves if it meant they could freely say racial and sexual slurs.

And then they'd have the balls to try and say it wasn't that.

Stop and think about that, too, cuz they sure won't.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're either willing to fight for it, or you're not.

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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.

Prequel

 [Luthen receives Dedra at his antiquities store, where she presents him with something familiar - the N-S9 Starpath he was looking for in Ferrix]

Dedra Meero: A vintage Imperial Starpath unit. What do you think? A little damaged, perhaps... But I'd say it's held its value. [Luthen breathes deeply] I have dreamt of this. Too many versions to remember. And here you were... all that time, hiding in the shelter of Imperial peace and quiet.

Luthen Rael: And I've known you all along. Hardly seems fair.

Dedra: You disgust me. Do you want to know why?

Luthen: Everything you stand for. Freedom scares you.

Dedra: "Freedom"? You don't want freedom. You want chaos, chaos for everyone but you. Ruin the galaxy and then run back to your ridiculous wig and little workshop.

Luthen: How confident you are.

Dedra: We're done here.

Luthen: Confident and terrified.

Dedra: The building is surrounded. You're finished.

Luthen: And you're too late. The rebellion isn't here anymore. It's flown away. It's everywhere now. There's a whole galaxy out there waiting to disgust you.

~From the Star Wars series Andor, S2.E10 "Make It Stop."

[A very pregnant Sarah begins recording a taped message while driving through the Mexican desert.]

Sarah Connor: Tape 7, November 10...Where was I? What's difficult is trying to decide what to tell you and what not to. But I guess I have a while before you're old enough to understand these tapes. They're more for me at this point just so that I can get it straight.

[pulls up at a gas station; a clerk comes out]

Sarah: ¿Gasolina, por favor?

Gas Station Clerk: ¿Cuánto?

Sarah: Llena el tanque.

Gas Station Clerk: Fill 'er up! ¡Sí!

Sarah: [recording] Should I tell you about your father? Boy, that's a tough one. Will it affect your decision to send him here, knowing that he is your father? If you don't send Kyle, you can never be. God, a person could go crazy thinking about this. I suppose I will tell you. I owe him that. Maybe it'll help if you know that, in the few hours we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth. [stops recording because a boy has just taken a Polaroid picture of her]

Boy: Usted es muy hermosa, señora, y tengo apena decirle que me dé cinco dólares americanos, pero si no, mi padre me va a pegar.

Sarah: [to clerk] What did he just say?

Gas Station Clerk: He says you're very beautiful, señora, and he's ashamed to ask you for five American dollars for his picture - but if he doesn't, his father will beat him.

Sarah: Pretty good hustle, kid. [raises four fingers] Cuatro.

Boy: ¡Sí, sí! [accepts two two-dollar bills] Gracias. [leaves, but calls back a warning] ¡Miren, miren! ¡Allá! ¡Viene una tormenta!

Sarah: [to clerk] What did he just say?

Gas Station Clerk: He said there's a storm coming in.

Sarah: [contemplatively] I know.

~From The Terminator.

Not Us, Just Them (Left Behind Is A Lie VI, Prequel.)

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
For I hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. ~Matthew 25:31-45

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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

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You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. ~Malcolm X.

I saw this a couple days ago, the actual rather than packed up and staged photos of that bullshit Christian Nationalist rally in Washington DC last weekend. Evidently, it wasn't anymore well-attended than such things usually are.

Like I said, these fucking people's entire totalistic worldview is bullshit. This is particularly so when it comes to American history. And, I say that as a former politically-conservative Christian. If they're lying to you about that, what else are they lying to you about??

These fucking people don't think about questions like that. They don't think, period.

Nor do they have the guts to have their own actual beliefs or convictions or want to own up to how they feel about shit and say that they don't like this or that, so they have to make up a bunch of bullshit about things. No, they don't care what that does to their Witness concerning the Gospel...because it's not about the Gospel.

All they want is Power, and the actual (rather than cosplaying pop-Evangelical or Pentecostal) violent Christian Nationalist thugs are being pretty open about how they see Trump and his utterly atheistic criminality with a side of actual Demon-worship as a battering ram they can use to get things closer to their agenda. Fuck all 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.

These Fucking People get their way, even 90% of MAGA will find itself in the crosshairs same as the rest of us. It's worth noting that the other 10% of MAGA are apparently Republican primary voters and amoral enough to primary Thomas Massie in Kentucky, replacing him on the ticket with Ed Gallrein, who's just another Trump stooge. Massie's crime? Standing on principle that the Epstein files need to be released.

Yes, if you are a real conservative, no matter how conservative you actually are, These Fucking People will throw you out because the only thing that matters to them is Trump.

Trump is literally God to these idiots. Baal-worship, Epstein files and all.

Think about that for a second.

Now, I'm not sure how Christian Nationalists like Joel Webbon think they're gonna get over that hill.

Worst part is, I'm not sure they care. 

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 I think if Baal "sanctified" their overwhelming desire to abuse women, their hatred of other religions and their racism, they'd go right along with it, deranged chanting and all.

I have a girlfriend and a daughter to think about, these are people I actually love and care about, I can't go along with this bullshit and they sure won't. You think the CSA in the Epstein files sickened me before?? 

It's way worse now.

But it's more than just that.

I have friends who are Muslim, my best friend when I was in the Air Force was a Muslim and worked as a security guard at an Islamic Center down in the Detroit area years ago just like the guy that got killed a couple days ago, by *Checks Notes* a couple of apparently completely secular racist shitheads.

Needless to say people like Laura Loomer did their damnedest to make excuses for outright murder.

But then Mar-A-Lago-Face Laura Loomer routinely makes excuses for both vicious Christian Nationalists and violent racists her damn self, despite being Jewish. In real terms, stuff like that should tell you exactly how Godless all These Fucking People are.

They didn't "Rededicate" America or all of Us to jack shit, just themselves.

And it's worth noting they have to keep doing that, "Rededicating" themselves or repeatedly "Giving" Themselves to Christ, like it's some kind of magic spell that expires every few months to a year if they don't. You only need to get Saved once. If it don't take the first time, odds are you weren't listening to the Truth before and you sure won't after that.

No one acts more like they know the Bible, Christianity, End Times narratives like Left Behind, all of it, is a LIE they can use to get secular Power and nothing more, than the Christian Nationalists do!!!

Love God and Love Thy Neighbor, what's so hard about that?? His Kingdom is NOT of This world. How is that so hard to understand??

Except that these people just don't want to??

It's going to come down to a fight. You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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God knows he's perfect and we're not and we can never be, but he expects us to be. And he punishes us if we're not, you know what I'm saying? God is the ultimate gangster. The supremo boss, you know what I mean? Forgiveness, live by his code. Deadness, if we don't. Yo, he never has to talk to us face to face and he never has to explain exactly why he does what he does. Know what I'm saying? Nigga sits up there in Heaven somewhere, drinking a cappuccino, chilling... [singing] "He Got the whole world in his hands." He got the whole world by the balls. In Excelsius Deo and all that shit. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series "Oz" S1, E3 "God's Chillin,'"

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

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

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