Thursday, February 12, 2026

Crab Bucket IV (Babylon Or Sodom? Nine.)

[After Burke is revealed as the one who set the face-huggers loose on Ripley and Newt]

Hudson: [aiming his rifle at Burke] I say we grease this rat fuck-son-of-a-bitch right now!

Hicks: It just doesn't make any goddamn sense.

Ripley: He figured he could get the alien past the quarantine if one of us was... impregnated - whatever you call it - and frozen for the way home. Nobody would know about the embryos we're carrying. Me and Newt.

Hicks: Wait a minute. We would all know.

Ripley: Yes, the only way he could do it is if he sabotaged certain freezers on the way home. Namely, yours. Then he could jettison the bodies and make up any story he would like to.

Hudson: Fuck! He's dead! [aims his rifle at Burke again] You're dogmeat, pal!

Burke: This is so nuts. I mean listen... listen to what you're saying. It's all paranoid delusion. It's really sad. It's pathetic.

Ripley: You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over a goddamn percentage. ~From the film Aliens.

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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)

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[The Mandalorian and Cara Dune board an Imperial Shuttle carrying Dr Pershing]

Shuttle Pilot: Easy, pal. Okay? I’m not with him. We can work something out - [co-pilot kills him]

Cara Dune: Drop your weapon.

Shuttle Co-Pilot: [holds Dr Pershing hostage] No. No, you listen to me. This is a top-tier target of the New Republic. This is a clone engineer. And if they find out that he’s dead because of you, you’re gonna wish you never left Alderaan. [notices Dune's face] I saw the tear. You wanna know what else I saw? I saw your planet destroyed. I was on the Death Star.

Dune: Which one?

Shuttle Co-Pilot: You think you’re funny? Do you know how many millions were killed on those bases?

Dune: Drop your blaster.

Shuttle Co-Pilot: As the galaxy cheered?

Dune: [coldly] Last chance.

Shuttle Co-Pilot: Destroying your planet was a small price to pay to rid the galaxy of terrorism. [Dune shoots him in the face. Dr. Pershing reels from the close hit, clutching at his ear]

~The Mandalorian, Episode 2, Chapter Eight, "The Rescue."

I used to be a conservative Christian Republican.

Hell, I still very often identify as both a conservative Democrat and an Agnostic Christian.

All my life, until Trump anyway, and especially until the last year or so, Republicans were the people who identified most with the Constitution, with the Law, and with rules-based order and traditional ways of doing things. Now all the people who actually believe in any of that-rather than simply in weaponizing the language of it against Other People-have either been fired or they've quit in disgust.

I'm a veteran, I worked in IT and I worked in food-service and related jobs for over 25 years. There's a right way and a wrong way to do most things. Discipline, established ways, hard work, right and wrong, and yes, Tradition, mean things, for a damn reason.

That ain't the world current Republicans want to live in, not even for a second.

They don't even care anymore.

And honestly, they're getting so they aren't even bothering with the language or to hide that their only beliefs are an upraised middle finger aimed at the rest of the world and varying beliefs in some forms of Miserable Bastardy, Privilege and Slavery with a side of (corrupt and incompetent) rule through Force.

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.

They literally don't give a shit about anything else, used to be I'd say "Except making money" but the truth is they don't even care about that anymore.

Not when having a business or money means you can't afford to (or legally) pick and choose your own customers and you have to serve everybody. Often, you have to let new people in just to maintain your profit margin.

And like I said, that's not the world these assholes want to live in. They think of life and the World as like the Elks Club or an HOA, except things don't work like that anymore, and nobody can afford for them to.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! ~Ronald Reagan

Reagan Wept.

The world got bigger not least because that's what the Ancestors...including people like, yes, Ronald Reagan...intended.

And Republicans went from saying "Tear Down This Wall" to demanding that walls be put up.

A Black Man said "Yes We Can" and now all Republicans wanna say is "No We Can't."

I'm so tired of These Fucking People and their Eternal Anti-Liberal Opposite Day puerile bullshit.

These assholes don't even believe in or want Rights, they want Privileges, and only for themselves.

Like I said, Pam Bondi, at least in that picture, reminds me entirely too much of my ex-wife and for all the bad reasons.

I used to be a Republican and I was not taught that way.

And so tomorrow, as we take the campaign South and West, as we learn that the struggles of the textile workers in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas; that the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of L.A.; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people, we are one nation. And, together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story, with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea: Yes, we can. ~Barack Obama

I couldn't live the way these jerkoffs want to live.

Fuck, I can't even imagine wanting to live that way.

I can't even talk the way these people talk.

And I'm beyond tired of These Fucking People's endless escalating talk about abusing women.

These guys ain't lonely enough.

Nick Fuentes for example is exactly what I'm talking about when I say the only question these idiots care about is "Babylon, or Sodom?"

Look at who he keeps having sex scandals with, and there's your answer to that question.

I helped my partner get her car today, put her and her car on my insurance. She's paying that forward by helping out another friend with their cat this evening. Some of us have to care about and rely on other people whether we necessarily want to or if it's convenient or easy or not.

Like I said, according to the moral universe I was taught, the ancestors decided jobs like vet techs were feminine-coded and that women needed to have rights too, and honestly I'm not "Smart" enough to rationalize that away, no matter how much I might WANT whatever.

It's called living in a civilization.

It's called caring about other people.

Republicans want a world where "Everything is terrible shit, vote for us" and "It HAS to be THIS WAY" are pretty much the only creeds that matter or are even available. Ideology is a hell of a drug, I guess, but only when it's their own escalating spiral of evil selfish stupidity and suffering inflicted on the undeserving.

Republicans want lockstep for them, but a Crab Bucket for everyone else.

The day is going to come soon when These Fucking People will call a guy a terrorist simply for loving his girlfriend...or indeed for loving anything other than their shitty ideology...and then they'll call the girlfriend a terrorist for having a job.

You want to stop that?

It's going to come down to a fight.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And it really is that simple.

Imam: Just because you do not believe in God, Mr. Riddick, does not mean God does not believe in you–

Riddick: You think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? You think he could start out in some … liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe in God? You got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God, and I absolutely hate the fucker. ~From the film Pitch Black.

Eight

From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

~From Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Book.)

Hell Is Too Good For These People II (Babylon Or Sodom? Eight.)

County road 233 under my feet
Nothin' on this white rock but little ol' me
I've got two miles 'til he makes bail
And if I'm right, we're headed straight for hell
I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door, and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man?
I'm going to show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and lead
Well, it's half past ten, another six-pack in
And I can feel the rumble like the cold black wind
He pulls in the drive, the gravel flies
He don't know what's waiting here this time
Hey, I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door, and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man?
I'm going to show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and lead
His fist is big, but my gun's bigger
He'll find out when I pull the trigger.

~Miranda Lambert, Gunpowder And Lead.

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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

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press.

Some FBI agent said the Epstein files could open a "Pandora's Box of National Security threats and geopolitical ramifications" unlike anything anybody has ever seen.

So the fuck what??

#1 At this point, there needs to be "Ramifications" especially if we don't want this shit to keep happening.

#2 I have an increasing feeling we have no idea just how far down the rot goes, almost especially in churches and "Red State" America. Pretty sure we can assume that Pedo-Con Theory is a thing at this point.

#3 And no matter how bad it is, look at Nick Fuentes and the bullshit he's saying and assume some people want worse.

Some of these fucking people don't care if they ain't got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of nor a society to live in as long as they have Power over somebody else who cannot consent and who has no recourse.

And if they can't have it they still wanna spend all day jerking off to the idea.

Stop and think about that shit for a second.

THAT is what Trump represents to These Fucking People.

THAT is why they will bow down to Golden Idols of him.

I love my partner and my kid.

They deserve a decent life and freedom, too.

And all three of us can shoot, just sayin.'

I believe the operative turn of phrase is "Over my dead body, Puta."

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."

Also, Trump is yammering about trying to plug up Volcanoes with cement, like that's not an idea some little kid would think up.

All this shit going on and the people doing it? They ain't got no leadership.

Worse, they think said living, embodied lack of leadership is God.

In fact, Jesus Christ only wishes all these "Conservatives" and Evangelicals had 10% of the Faith in Him that they have in *Checks Notes* Donald Trump.

Don't ask me, I only work here, and I will never understand it.

Or maybe I just don't want to.

I'm starting to like everybody else's odds against These Fucking People.

When it all blows up, we can just go ahead and call it The Pink Revolution.

And I'm pretty sure at this point, it's gonna blow up.

Nobody will be more surprised by that than the media and all these overconfident shitheads in our government.

And these assholes are gonna lose.

Don't worry, that will be everybody else's fault, too.

Maybe it's just me but if the goddamned system is that compromised and corrupted it's probably a safe bet we need a new one...and I absolutely don't mean "Fascism involving all the SAME fucking people."

I mean we need to go down the list, check all the moving parts and re-haul things to get every fucking shithead that shouldn't be there out of Government, media, professions of arms and public life or Power, period, with some level of investigation in the process.

If that means somebody you "Like" gets fired, forced early retirement, or goes to jail, so motherfucking be it. Anybody who's done much of anything ever has had this happen at least once.

Among other things, I've never known anybody who wants to play gatekeeper on who they think should be an American, a Citizen or whatever, that I'd trust with much of anything. People who think America or hell, Life, should be a goddamned HOA tend to spend so much time thinking about who "should" be in the club that they're not good for much of anything else.

And like JD Vance at the Winter Olympics, they're usually all about getting in the way, taking up space and wasting resources to try and prove that they're the most special snowflake ever to even start with.

Because they're fucking narcissists, that's why.

Other people don't really exist to them, except as an inconvenience.

And this kind of view of the world has pretty much become a right-wing "Conservative" default setting.

I say this as a former conservative Republican myself, but of course there isn't one damn thing about any of this that's conservative. Most of these fools just want to kill and steal, they don't care about anything else. Conservatism means "Things As They Are" and is all about Revealed Truth and the wisdom of the ancestors. That's stuff that these fucking people despise.

There is a reason so many of these nuts like or have ties to Russia, just sayin.' Look at the conduct of that nation.

Or for that matter, why these assholes hate Ukraine (or Minnesota, apparently) so much.

And if you can look at that shit and how these fucking people wanna be like Russia and not be horrified?? All I have to say to you is "Fuck you."

It's going to come down to a fight, against people that Hell itself and the Devil and all his Demons are too good for and against "Men" who ain't lonely enough and could never be lonely enough to make them understand where they went wrong.

Such is the male ego, unconstrained. This is why I love the women in my life, my Mom, my partner and the kiddo, who constrain mine.

Because I'm not like Nick Fuentes and wouldn't want to be.

Some people think "Babylon or Sodom?" is the only question work asking, much less answering.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And either you're willing to fight for it 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"

Seven

The Holy Quran says it, "Pilgrimage to the House [of God built by the prophet Abraham] is a duty men owe to God; those who are able, make the journey." (3:97) Allah said: "And proclaim the pilgrimage among men; they will come to you on foot and upon each lean camel, they will come from every deep ravine" (22:27). Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun intermittently calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other. . . .That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men. ~Malcolm X.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Hell Is Too Good For These People I (Babylon Or Sodom? Seven.)

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

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.

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During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God.

~Malcolm X,
Letter following the Hajj.

I'm gonna be totally honest about something.

The more I see of all this Epstein files shit, the more I think that Hell is too good for these people who did all these crimes.

Like, dressing up as Jesus to murder and rape somebody?? Honestly, I think Hell is too good for anybody who'd even think of something like that.

Blasphemy, Demon-worship, murder, rape, very probable treason and all of that likely on an industrial scale? I'm assuming vast levels of financial and other criminalities, and this demonic madness touches pretty much all type of shit??

These fucking people are bringing God's wrath on America.

It's not Bad Bunny.

It's not the Gay people.

It's not the Atheists or the Jews or the Muslims.

It's not People of Color doing this.

It's not the young people making 6-7 jokes.

It's Rich. White. Men.

It's a society that thinks a fake AI Jesus is some kind of an acceptable damned thing that's the damned problem.

That someone's selling this as an actual product is worse, if you ask me.

Or, from a Biblical perspective, same as it ever was, especially if you trade out "White" for the more coded or then-relevant terms like "Babylonian" or "Roman."

Empire, and the debasement it creates in people, is the goddamned problem.

I guess some people just really like the taste of boot-leather.

It's not just that, though.

It's that some people love the idea of a Caesar, or of an Empire, or of some other bullshit social meme, more than they love their own freaking children.

Even if they will never benefit, even if they will never get to participate.

Babylon or Sodom??

They don't care, as long as they get to know somebody else is suffering and to claim relative status over those people.

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

Even if all they get to do is work for next to nothing and spend too much of the rest of their time falling-down drunk because their lives are miserable and they lack either the desire or the imagination to change anything about their lives or themselves.

Even if MISERY is their politics, their religion, and their theology because they haven't been given anything the fuck else.

In fact, it seems like it's especially then that you get the worst fucking cases.

Some dude shot his own daughter in Texas recently because she spoke up against Trump.

Evidently he was drunk, and claimed it was a negligent discharge. You know, in most countries and even a lot of states in this one, handling firearms while intoxicated or even having a negligent discharge can be a criminal act. In some countries just that will get you locked up.

In most countries, just for being drunk with a gun or having an actual, no-shit Negligent Discharge you'll automatically lose your weapon and your license to have it for anything of the sort even if nobody gets hurt. In Texas, you can do a MAGA Honor Killing and lie about it saying it was an "accident" and no one will care.

So that's what level of this bullshit we're on now? Instead of a Christ-less Christianity, we're cool with basically a Godless version of Radical Islam??

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

Fuck these people and this bullshit.

How long before "Conservative" social beliefs and the memes thereof are simply appended to the worship of Baal and whatever other ancient demon-gods these fucking people dig up? I mean, I've studied history quite a bit, it's not like the pre-Islamic Middle East was all that great for women, either. In fact, to a great extent Islam was an improvement. (As long as it's combined with a little common sense, empathy and humanity, anyway, that's true.)

I think the truth is worse, I think as long as these nuts got to keep their bigotry, greed, hate and uptight social beliefs, they'd gladly worship Baal and Mammon and various Idols of Gold...not even out of any religious inclination, but simply because they think it's funny.

I find this shit incomprehensible and utterly horrific but basically, a Godless and Inhumane version of any existing religion probably won't even do it for these motherfuckers no more.

And not only because of my own beliefs or morals but because I love my partner and my kid, I don't wanna live in that kind of world.

The more I see of this bullshit, though, the worse it gets.

And I'd already seen enough.

But the truth is worse.

These fucking people see being an amoral, unnatural pervert as a sacred mission.

Not just being an amoral unnatural pervert, but refusing to even enjoy it, let alone to be dirty in an understandable fashion or to be perverse in any but the worst ways imaginable.

These fucking people treat perversion the way their ancestors treated miserable Calvinist religiosity 50 years ago or how their parents treated Pentecostal narcissism and hungover altar calls 25 years ago, as some kind of joyless duty. They couldn't religiously bully everybody else into being miserable bastards so now they're trying to shock people into it.

And claiming "Shareholder Value" as rationalization is just a bit too much.

It's the worship of Baal and Mammon, but as performed by tight-assed Southern Baptists.

When is enough gonna be enough, America??

Because as bad as things are, these assholes will keep pushing for doing worse.

Because a third of the population will accept it no matter what, more often than not.

I had to explain to somebody earlier today, like, sure if you think about it the Right-wing mania for control and totalitarian belief will arrive at the Mark Of The Beast sooner or later, but who needs that when you've got FOX News, right-wing Cancel Culture and consumption of total junk from some washed-up star that should've quit 20 years ago as a sign of some kind of bullshit partisan loyalty??

And when the people locked up in all that shit will accept damn near anything so long as it's got the label of "their" side on it??

We were talking about the dueling Halftime shows for the Super Bowl and how some people make all this crap their fucking identity.

And the sick truth is a lot of White dudes aspire to be the kind of men that ended up in the Epstein files.

There's a difference between a secular society, which follows no particular god but gives space for those who wish to, and a Godless one where mocking the Lord while committing sexual abuse is something that the moneyed classes might get away with, even for a time.

There's a difference between being amoral and immoral. Anybody who's ever been to jail can tell you there's plenty of people with bad morals out there that'd never hurt a kid.

If we wanna fix this, it's probably going to come down to a fight.

'Cause I guarantee you these monsters have done worse than we know, and I'm willing to bet they'll do almost anything to hide that shit.

You have been warned.

Now what are you going to do about it??

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 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"

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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Generation Of Swine.

Monday, February 9, 2026

Joyless (Babylon Or Sodom? Six.)

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

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

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

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

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

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

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

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

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

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

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

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

I had to work last night. Naturally, I didn't bother watching the Super Bowl.

But all night I got to see "Conservatives" from Trump on down, ranting about it on social media.

Honestly there was only one person I talked to who watched the Kid Rock "alternative" halftime show (they said they were a fan) and they didn't seem very impressed with what they saw, although they sounded like they'd wished they had been.

The bits and pieces of both that I saw when I took my lunch break suggested that Bad Bunny was pretty good and Kid Rock was his usual should've-hung-it-up-20-years-ago self. On TBN (The Prosperity Gospel Liar channel) no less, 'cause that channel is fake shit.

I mean, just looking at their respective lyrics I think Bad Bunny should be the one who's more at home on a "Christian" channel if those people are who they say they are, and Kid Rock should not be there. Except of course, those fucking people aren't who they say they are.

As an aside, I'll note it appears somebody quietly shanked all that Q-Anon bullshit and dragged the body off into the woods somewhere, funny how that works, isn't it??

Of course the trouble is a lot of American "Evangelical" Christianity (even the Pentecostal crap) is rooted in both a deep joylessness and intense racism (with a big side order of narcissism) far more than it is in the Lord's Word...this despite the fact that the vast majority of the world's Charismatic and Pentecostal people are not White. Oh, and by the way, I'll worship with foreign (or non-White American) Pentecostals all day, among other things, because the vast majority of those people in my experience aren't narcissistic freaks looking to do me wrong, and if you want to see some rock-star passion for the Lord that'll fire you up almost no matter what you believe, go to a church with a bunch of Nigerians in it.

It's like my partner said once 20 years ago when one of our coworkers talked us into going to the Potter's House (the Pentecostal church across the field from our apartments) "Hanging with these people makes me want to go shopping!"

It's not for nothing that another friend of mine maintains a basic stereotype of Republicans as angry boring money-grubbing Calvinists who don't even like spicy food and who seem to have a pathological hatred for anyone having fun.

To paraphrase something Chuck Colson said once about Ayn Rand, these fucking people believe in a Godless and Joyless world where a [Rich] Man's self-satisfaction is the moral purpose of his life.

Which isn't that much of a shift from how Republicans used to be, but it's a noticeable one for those of us who used to be Republicans back in the day. One of these people giving me a bag of books when I was in the hospital (and so bored my brain was crawling out of my skull) after my accident is how I even read Atlas Shrugged.

I mean, I literally used to know old White Republicans exactly like that in real life. I equate those old men with shit like Elks Club roast-beef dinners where that shit was like leather under the goddamn heat lamps by the time I got to it for a fucking reason.

That said, I don't think most of those people would have been MAGA if they were still around, a lot of these guys did have some principles (even if today some of their principles would likely be considered bad.) These guys didn't do conspiracy theories or make shit up as they went along. They would not have let Donald Trump in the Party. A lot of those guys hated Trump (who was then the archetype of bankruptcy, divorce and NYC Fat Cat Liberals.)

I've written about these guys before.

Probably the closest there is to that today is people like MTG, Never-Trump Republicans and Thomas Massie. Like I said, I ain't saying those people were great. A lot of them really were joyless assholes, but there were lines they wouldn't cross.

The difference is a lot of them really did believe for themselves that this life wasn't especially meant to be enjoyed. MAGA on the other hand basically believes they can (and should) act like the Whores Of Babylon...but that you can't...even if you're just harmlessly minding your own business.

MAGA wants to live like Babylon, or like the Persian king's menagerie in 300 but they want everybody else to be dour uber-Christian peasant worker bees who just work for their profit while living in poverty because Jesus.

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

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.

Never mind that one of these things is not like the other one, and you can't really pull "Do as I say, not as I do" on a smart kid, no matter how much political power you think you have. The fucked up thing is adults try that on other adults all the time and some of them will pretend to go along with that shit.

And then go off and do worse in private.

I'm tired of this crap.

Among other things, people who are in the Epstein files or who think they need a bigger motorcade than the Pope have no business commenting on Latina dancers at the fucking Super Bowl.

It should go without saying that anybody who's still uncritically MAGA at this point doesn't believe in the Lord's Word. I'll say it again, I've seen the evidence that they don't.

Maybe we should stop trusting people whose main question in life is if they want to live in Babylon or Sodom?

You wanna stop this shit? Maybe we should crucify the White Jesus?

Don't worry, that one won't resurrect.

Again, you either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

Слава Україна!

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

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~Malcolm X, Letter following the Hajj.

"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press