Men Of Sin (Repent! Eight.)

[After Beecher moves into Schillinger's cell]

Vernon Schillinger: You're not a Jew, are you?

Tobias Beecher: Me? Jewish? I don't even like Barbara Streisand.

Vernon Schillinger: You like my tattoos?

Tobias Beecher: Yeah.

Vernon Schillinger: We're gonna have to get you one.

Tobias Beecher: [laughs] I don't think so.

Vernon Schillinger: Oh, yeah, I'm gonna brand you myself.

Tobias Beecher: Livestock gets branded.

Vernon Schillinger: [chuckles] Livestock. Yeah, that's exactly what you are, my livestock. Because now, Tobias. Your ass belongs to me.

~From the HBO series Oz S1.E1 "The Routine."

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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. ~George Orwell, 1984

I saw this yesterday.

Doug Wilson, in an interview with an LGBT publication, said that execution is an "appropriate" penalty for homosexuality.

Somebody check this guy's hard drive, not just because he looks just like every other pervert that ever said that and then got busted for some gross perverted shit...but because this is very clearly becoming a thing where guys like this actually are committing sex crimes and shit.

Also like I've said many times since 2014 or so, these guys think about gay stuff more than gay people do.

And I don't think it's necessarily because they're all closeted gay or because they're repressed or for psychological reasons, not that any of that would justify or rationalize anything. Some of it it is these fucking people are just debased monsters that'll stick it in about anything that moves...

But, I do think in some cases (Not least of all Doug Wilson's as I've said before) it's got something to do with Demon Worship and the commands these motherfuckers are given by their evil overlords. 

If we've learned anything from the Epstein files it's that These Fucking People were telling on themselves with all that Satanic Panic shit back in the 1980's and early 1990's. 

Sexual abuse was and remains a pandemic-grade problem in "Conservative" and a-certain-kind-of-US-White-Christian religious circles even without the intervention of Demons and Devils.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

I honestly think a lot of it is starting to come down to a weird (like, to the point of freakishness and obsession) fixation on White Male "Authority" with a huge ass helping of malignant Narcissism thrown in. "Authority" mind you, that absolutely no one gave these fucking people!

And, in some cases, the answer is "All Of The Above."

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.

On one end of that, you've got Trump, who pretty clearly doesn't believe in God unless somebody gives him that title.

On the other hand you've got all these religious-bros that don't want to go to the Gym with women. And apparently what they're really after is making sure women at some future point don't gain the capability, fitness, or physical strength to defend themselves.

There's also a dog-breeder, puppy-mill mentality towards childbirth and children, I think that's aimed at trying to create basically human puppy mills to generate bodies for slave labor and war.

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

As if such a thing could create people with the intelligence and physical skills for either the modern battlespace or the modern workplace where basically everybody functionally needs an IT degree as a side-hustle in case anything goes wrong with the equipment you're using.

Wait 'til they find out being an Internet-Pervert (and apparently increasingly a pervert in general) is the same way.

And the thing is, don't forget AI is just like any other computer. If you want it to do a certain thing you have to know the proper variables and input them correctly.

The same damn people who are always saying that porn should be illegal just quashed a bill to give the victims of AI deep-fakes a recourse against that kind of crap!

It's not Porn that they have a problem with, but consent and sexual free expression. Just like Schillinger in Oz they're fine with about anything if it's forced or somebody says it's under White Male "Authority."

Which tells me somebody like Mike Johnson has a lot of nerve considering the history of slave prostitution in Antebellum Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

But then, it's also like I've said, that these fucking guys view the Epstein-cult sex slave being abused in rites to Baal as more in line with their "ideal" of man-centered religiosity than any two free Christian people of any Color getting married and all that because they like each other and it's their choice.

[After Beecher tells Schillinger he's arranging a conjugal visit]
Vern Schillinger: Oh, a cunt-jugal. But you didn't ask my permission.
[pause]
Vern Schillinger: When are you gonna learn, Prag? You belong to me! I make all your decisions.

Vern Schillinger: Come over here and ask me if you can fuck your wife. Come on, ask me! Now!

Tobias Beecher: Can I be with my wife?

Vern Schillinger: Fuck my wife.

Tobias Beecher: Fuck my wife.

Vern Schillinger: Louder, and say "please" and "sir".

Tobias Beecher: Please, sir, may I fuck my wife?

Vern Schillinger: Louder.

Tobias Beecher: [Yelling] Please, sir, may I fuck my wife!!!

Vern Schillinger: When you ask me like that, I can't deny you anything.

~From the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise.

Why the fuck else do you think these monsters "like" somebody like Andrew Tate in the first place?? (I mean aside from massive amounts of free-floating Small Dick Energy, that is.)

And yes, they know exactly what he's being frog-marched into, because These Fucking People are the same ones who create and maintain such systems, Inside and Out.

The MAGA influencers and shit aren't trying to protect Andrew Tate from that because they really care about him as a person, but because it's politically inconvenient for them if somebody like him suffers the consequences of their own actions...especially in the context of some prison environments. Trump himself doesn't seem to give a shit, though. 

That said, it's probably good for him, long-term, that the majority of his time on the Inside will be in the United Kingdom where shit like that is actually policed to some degree vs. US prison systems where it pretty often is ignored or actually used as a tool of control by Corrections Officers.

And these freaks wanna make the whole world like that, for the sake of male ego and narcissism...theirs, at least.

They don't actually give a damn who it happens to, either.

Guys like Doug Wilson are only against consensual homosexuality.

Mike Johnson and a bunch of these other perverts are only against consensual pornography.

They're fine with people being forced to do whatever, though.

I don't want to live in that kind of world, and I'm a guy.

More to the point, I don't want anybody that I care about to have to live in that kind of shit, either.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, ~Mark 13:35

The Bible talks about there being one Man Of Sin and that guy pretty much destroying the World and the entire paradigm we all live under, to the point where God has to intervene directly, rain his Wrath down on the world and then reset things completely.

What the hell are we supposed to do with 100 Million of these Men Of Sin??

Because His wrath isn't coming, it's here.

You're either ready or you're not.

But first, you have to Repent.

They won't.

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When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”

“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”

He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”

He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”

He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”

Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”

He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.

~Genesis 18:16-33

Seven

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.)

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2

The Killing Fields (Repent! Sunshine! edition.)

The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields.

...

Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel f****ts. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuck-offs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage. ~Hunter S. Thompson

...

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 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 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

...

And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept...for there were no more worlds to conquer. Benefits of a classical education. ~Hans Gruber, from the film Die Hard.

I saw this last night.

Some idiotic dumb-blonde Fox News contributor talking shit about people who wear glasses.

I wear glasses. My Mom wears glasses. My Partner wears glasses. See where this is going?? 

(Also, it's called aging, you Fucking Nimrod.)

Every time These Fucking People start talking shit about people who wear glasses, my mind flashes back to the fact that the Khmer Rouge killed people who wore glasses. Worse, the dipshit they got to say this has the weirdly improbably surname of "Sunshine."

What in the 1984 is this fucking bullshit??

And I've been saying since 2020 and COVID-19 that These Fucking People's ideal world is basically the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, but with a Mall and an Applebee's.

Also last night, Hunter Biden of all people coined the term "Closetocracy" to describe all these closeted weirdos like Pete Keg-Breath in the current Republican Party and the Trump administration and how they have an omnicidal hatred of everything because they can't be who they wanna be.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

It fits, it sits. 

I'm a former Republican, I've known guys like that. Yes, it's literally always "Men" every single fucking time.

Sure, It's bullshit in reality, but obviously These Fucking People don't give a fuck about reality. They seem to want to be this way.

In fact the same people who were all about Q-Anon when COVID-19 was raging in 2020, when it came out via the Epstein files that it was Power in the personages of Trump and all his rich friends that were killing, raping and eating them...the majority of the Q-Bots just went mysteriously silent and decided to ignore the whole thing, apparently.

I couldn't do it. But then that's why I'm not a Republican anymore.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, ~Mark 13:35

Funny that Hunter Biden tells the truth a lot more than alleged media people do, ain't it??

I'm a former Republican, but I also was never one of those homophobic idiots and my whole thing is, it's 2026 and there's no legit reason to be that way anymore. 

Just be what you are and nobody but religious nuts and a few Republicans will care. If you're one of those people and you happen to be gay...well there's nothing saying you have to believe that crap except the people whose influence and wealth depends on pushing exactly that kind of crap. 

You can change, you can believe something else if you want. You can make a space for yourself where you can Believe and still be who you really are. 

God created you that way.

And you're NOT required to listen to them.

There's plenty of LGBT Christians out there, some of them are even conservative. My partner manages it, and she's not like this.

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.)

And we're tired of this shit, from different angles, but we're tired of this shit.

You notice two things here?

The Trump administration is stocked with a fuck-ton of loser Republican candidates whose only reason for being in government or having any relevance at all is *Checks Notes* Trump. And, who would be filing papers or flipping burgers without Trump.

These are the people the Kid calls "Trump Dick Riders."

There's a reason they are that way and it ain't 'cause they're smart.

And now these Chuckle-fucks are trying to defend Andrew Tate.

(Which probably means he goes down faster.)

In case you thought any of These Fucking People had any kind of plausible deniability when it comes to sex-trafficking, they're trying to defend a *Checks Notes Again* admitted and convicted and publicly known sex-trafficker from extradition, to a country that's famously ruthless about getting whatever it wants.

And I'm sure Sunshine! will defend that, too, even though there's no real benefit for anybody in protecting this CHUD.

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.

Like I keep saying, I can't even talk the way these people talk, and I used to be a Republican.

But then, again, I'll note that pretty much anybody who believes in anything other than that Power has an unqualified "Right" to eat you anytime it damn well feels like it or believes in anything other than Power and Submission has been run out of the Republican Party.

Seems like a hell of a way to live. Again, I couldn't do 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

Even (perhaps especially) as a conservative Republican I believed the Power of the State should be limited and that citizens should look after their own interests and government should be responsible to and for the People, all of them, not just the ones it "likes" at any given moment, and not only governments but individuals and societies should honor their debts.

I mean, come on, you can find all this stuff in the Bible too if you really want to get technical about it. But of course the "Christian Nationalists" and Religious Right types only want to fall back on that stuff when they can use it to harm others.

Because to them, that and enriching themselves are all that Power is even for.

And then they have the balls to wonder why an increasing majority of people don't want to have anything to do with this fucking garbage?!

I'm just sayin' it's funny how These Fucking People keep losing their shit about Zohran Mamdani pretty much doing more so far than the last three NYC Mayors have done (and now also losing their shit about the Democratic Socialists of America) when all they're really doing or advocating for is basic maintenance of a society for like 99% of its people.

It's funny how so much of American Media and "Pop Culture" is apparently wound up in right-wing bullshit. It's especially funny in light of the fact that I spent most of my life hearing "Conservatives" decry both of those things, day in and day out, apparently for not being right-wing enough.

Well now y'all gonna find out, ain't ya??

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2

Just sayin' I know a hell of a lot of Republicans that wear glasses, too, including (especially) a lot of those Republicans, since most of them were in fact, old. Gonna guess they won't be too eager to line up for the Killing Fields when Sunshine! starts lying about them, too.

(And she will, because that's what these kind of people do.)

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And at the rate the rhetoric is going, if I was ya'll, America, I'd start getting right with whatever Gods y'all believe in and I don't mean Republican Jesus.

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Well, I coulda' been an actor, but I wound up here

I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear

Come and whisper in my ear

Give us dirty laundry

Kick 'em when they're up

Kick 'em when they're down

Kick 'em when they're up

Kick 'em when they're down

Kick 'em when they're up

Kick 'em when they're down

Kick 'em when they're up

Kick 'em all around

We got the bubble-headed bleached-blonde, comes on at five

She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye

It's interesting when people die

Give us dirty laundry ~Don Henley, Dirty Laundry

Six

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."

I'd say "Repent" but I don't really wanna follow up this clip with anything involving the phrase "at hand." What the fuck is wrong with people?

Where do these people get off? (Repent! Six.)

(In a classroom. The Homeboys are getting high.)

Wangler: Bitches. All women is bitches.

Markstrom: Yeah, man, we don't know Mavis is cheating, man.

Keane: I know.

(Kareem Said comes in.)

Said: That boy is 16 years old, he's in for 20, which means he can be out in 6. He could be back on the street by the time he's 22. He can still have a life!

Keane: Get the fuck out of here, Kenny.

Wangler: What?

Keane: You heard me, kid. I said get the fuck goin'!

Markstrom: Come on, Kenny, let's give him some privacy. Later. (He and Wangler leave.)

Said: You wanna rage at the faith? You fear the fire, my brother. Fear the fire! I am done with you.

(Keane collapses, suffering a flashback)

Arabic Voiceover: Allah-U-Akbar!

Keane: Reverend. I do. I do feel the fire. Save me.

Said: No. You saved me. (Said places his Khufi on Keane's head.)

(Hill narrating.)

Hill: Some say finding God is a glorious thing. They're wrong. It's dangerous. You spend your whole life in a world of men, but when you finally see his power, his greatness, other men fall out of view. 'Cause you're so focused on Him, you can barely see them from the corners of your eyes. You lose sight of them. ~From the HBO Series Oz S1.E3 "God's Chillin.'"

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 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 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

I saw this last night.

Trump, again, trying to make the World Cup all about himself.

Just sort of worked out that way that in my feed it was right above where I'd asked, because of a post that I saw with some CHUD asking a woman a bunch of ridiculously personal questions as a prelude to a defense of James Dobson "Just where do these people get off, anyway?? So Imma ask again, where the fuck do these fucking people get off, anyway??

Not least because all this White Conservative Christian Male religiosity bullshit seems all about helping abusive, evil, irresponsible "Men" avoid accountability or even basic responsibility to other people, especially women or their own kids. I see this shit every day.

I see it in how other men in her life have treated my partner.

And it pisses me the fuck off.

(For the record, if we're being honest, some women--especially conservative and religious White women--aren't any damn better.)

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

But I'm a Man and I'm calling out the "Men" here.

I also saw this, just before I started writing.

One of the Spanish players, a refugee from Ghana, gave his mother his World Cup championship medal, making a point of sharing his moment on the world stage with his mama.

This Is The Way.

[The Mandalorian brings together the entire Mandalorian covert after Carson Teva makes a surprise visit and asks him to help Greef Karga's situation on Nevarro when the New Republic won't lift a finger]

Mando: Now, many of you don't know Greef Karga. And those that do fought against him when you rescued me from his ambush many cycles ago on the streets of Nevarro. Since then, he's had a change of heart and has risked his life to save mine as well as the Foundling in my charge. [Grogu coos] I stand before you to petition an intervention. To help rescue Nevarro before it's too late. I am in no position to ask any more of you. However... However, the enemy that decimated this very covert were Imperials, not Greef Karga's bounty hunters. Greef Karga is now a High Magistrate and has offered me a tract of land on his independent world. Perhaps it is time for us to live in the light once again on a planet where we are welcome. So our culture may flourish and our children can feel what it is to play in the sunlight.

Armorer: Does anyone else wish to speak?

Mando: It's up to them now.

Paz Vizsla: I do. I was there on Nevarro that night. I fought against Greef Karga and his hunters. I saw my brothers and sisters fall at the hands of the Imperial butchers that hunted us in the sewers. I saw many die to save the life of [gestures to Grogu] this one, tiny Foundling. And now we are asked to sacrifice yet again. The question we should be asking ourselves is, "Why? Why should we lay our lives down yet again?" Because we are Mandalorians! I have had my disagreements with this man, but he risked his life to save my son. And Bo-Katan Kryze did not give up on my child's life even when the rest of us did. These two are asking us to take up arms in the name of a brighter future, and I for one will take up arms to fight by their side. [Mandalorians agree] This is the Way!

Mandalorians: This is the Way.

Armorer: This is the Way.

~From The Mandalorian S3.E5 "The Pirate."

I don't know what more needs to be said here except this is how you Human properly. It says in the Book of Exodus "Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother."

Why is this shit so hard for so many of these fucking people??

And while we're at it, if an African Refugee kid, as the post says the son of parents who walked 2,000 miles across the Sahara Desert, can rise to be a fucking world champion, why do I see so many American men that can't even be bothered to go to work, that won't pay their child support, that won't treat the women in their lives correctly, who think they can ask massively inappropriate questions of any woman that presents herself in public life??

I don't know that I've ever even heard of a man being asked what their "Body count" is!

And somehow all of these people, most but not all of them men, are basically the same basic-ass type of White Conservative Evangelical??

I mean, I tend to think I'm a fairly average guy, and I can't wait for this goddamned Age Of Mediocrity and Narcissism to come to an end.

And the absolute truth is, one hell of a lot of these fucking people see Trump as their icon, their protector, if not their god.

We are all fortunate that the rest of the world...doesn't.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

In my view, a main part of the fucking problem here is that American conservative Christianity/Evangelicalism keeps enabling this fucking bullshit, and specifically trying to keep fueling White Male Narcissism besides that!

The world is changing, has changed, it changed 50 fucking years ago. Hell, you could argue it changed 100 years ago and honestly at the end of the day, the biggest driver for why that is so has been Capitalism, not Liberalism. 

The way things are, women need jobs just so families can survive. That anybody would think otherwise in today's world just doesn't compute. And if you need a job you need a voice in politics and society in order to be able to simply protect yourself.

Hell, a lot of dudes I know don't work.

And that's before the fact that a lot of dudes don't seem to understand concepts like faithfulness or fidelity or treating a girlfriend or wife properly in the first damn place! And that, too, is before you get to the idea that Other People in general should be treated correctly.

So there's simply put, a lot of single mothers and single women out there in general, and too many men don't care to acknowledge their part in why this is so.

Let alone the fact that a lot of people with no home training seem to expect Wealth Without Work these days.

In fact, a lot of these morons seem to spend the most time shitting all over those they claim to care about, which is specifically another behavior modeled by Trump. Nobody has to put up with this bullshit.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

And way the fuck too many people seem to regard even basic humanity or morality as Partisan or at least relative.

Actually, a lot of people apparently on both sides of the alleged line want to use their voice in politics and society primarily to defend an alleged "right" to be assholes.

So in the end it's not just "Where the fuck do these people get off?"

It's "What the fuck is wrong with people" in general!

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

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

The Truth is simple. Man tries to make it complicated so that he does not have to Obey it.

You gotta want to be Saved.

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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, ~Mark 13:35

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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

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2

Small Dick Energy (Repent! Five.)

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, ~Mark 13:35

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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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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thundering, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! ~Revelation 8 (KJV)

I saw this last night, Andrew Tate and his brother got arrested in Miami on a UK extradition warrant for human trafficking and rape.

Good.

And they managed to get busted while Andrew Tate was wearing the sort of girly shoes my freaking partner won't wear.

But, ya know, for the goddamned trillionth time, I guess that totally tracks with These Fucking People.

My first like, serious post about Tate was in December of 2022 when his dumb ass got worked over on Twitter by Greta Thunberg, and honestly it wasn't even entirely about him. It was titled (and about) These Fucking People's "Small Dick Energy" which I took directly from Greta Thunberg's insult to Andrew Tate.

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

None of these guys are ever beating the allegations. 

They're all massive bundles of male insecurity on a good day, and a hell of a lot of these guys come off as Closeted-As-Fuck now if they didn't before.

And then of course there's Peter Theil, who is gay and apparently keeps giving "Lectures" about the Antichrist without ever looking in a damn mirror.

As I said he's apparently unaware of what the End Times nuts say the Mark Of The Beast will be (A computer chip) or that the Beast of Revelation would get the technology from *Checks Notes* a big-time tech guy like him or that *Checks Notes Again* you'd need things like *Checks Notes Yet Again* Data centers all over the fucking place to run the shit, not to mention to bring about a bunch of the other effects of Revelations if you go through the latter half of the narrative and the Biblical Book itself where you have things like all the plants being burned up or all the water being poisoned.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

The sad part is, these guys are starting to come off as wanting to live in the "New Babylon" of the Left Behind books, which is never well described but always kind of insinuated as a Middle Eastern equivalent to, say, the fantasy Berlin of the future Hitler wanted, but with more of a Saddam Hussein affect, perhaps? 

I'll note that LaHaye and Jenkins both  insinuate at points (perhaps as a way of marking their timeline as different from the present realities of that time and even today) that there s a thriving gay subculture both in "New Babylon" and in other places in the Middle East.

Yeah, these guys think about gay stuff more than gay people do.

Eli Sunday: Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston!  

Daniel Plainview: I'd be happy to work with you.

Eli Sunday: You would? Yes, yes, of course. That’s wonderful.

Daniel Plainview: But there is one condition for this work.

Eli Sunday: All right.

Daniel Plainview: I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet. I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet, and that God is a superstition.

~From the film There Will Be Blood.

So when I see shit like this (knowing that Communism fell in 1989) and these fucking people's 1950's fetishization in general, I sort of wonder if, sure, they want The John Birch Society, McCarthyism, and all that tight-assed 1950's horseshit, but also with a place where they (and they alone, mind you) can blow off steam and unwind that could, charitably, be called Roy Cohn's House Of Dicks.

These Motherfuckers want the vastly evil, immoral yet high-control society that the 1990's End Times Prophecy narrative says that the Beast of Revelations will create, but they want it for themselves, with them in control and with some kind of capability to wrap all that bullshit in "Christian Nationalism" and hope that nobody will notice.

Remember that, as I've always said, a government that can tell a woman she can't have an Abortion can tell any person that they want that they have to put this computer chip in their right hand.

Let me put it another way. Not only will these people try to say that the Mark Of The Beast and One-World Government is fine when they do it, but when the inevitable happens (Actually, I think it happening already) there will be God's Wrath Deniers who look at all the judgments and plagues and try to find a way to try to blame the "Left." 

Especially if the Beast is Trump or somebody like that. Note that the reason Daniel and Revelation hit pretty close with stuff like this is cults of personality around rulers were normal in the Ancient World.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

Of course if the Rapture really happened and removed all the Truly Faithful and that included a bunch of people they didn't like, watch and see if they wouldn't change that entire doctrine to "They were wrong and God removed all the bad people" in mid-freaking-speech and trust that their Cult-Followers either wouldn't care or wouldn't notice.

And yes, many would at least pretend not to.

The funny yet really stupid part of this whole thing is a big chunk of that Democratic Party that a lot of these clowns hate so much and are obsessed with fucking over for basically no reason is, in effect, a more polite version of the same fucking bullshit.

A lot of Democratic voters know this and are tired of it.

But a lot of Republicans act like even slightly-different Other People existing somehow threatens their ego or their manhood and I can't imagine why, because when I see some of the mealy-mouthed bullshit some of these Anti-DSA Democrats are pushing?? Bro, just go join the Republicans, I never heard of you before you posted this.

A lot of it really is all the same bullshit and power structure and even in our present time it's clearly not working well for America or the world and you can certainly see where, exactly, Revelation (even if only as a condemnation of Empire) would be applicable to the present day. Also if you wonder how all these small-dick Republicans got so much power? Well, some of the "men" among their opposition apparently have Negative Penis.

A lot of this stuff is just male ego and stupid bullshit and that's the same kind of crap that, if you want to get really technical about it, oozes from a lot of Greek and Roman and other ancient mythology. 

A lot of it really is just narcissism but somebody managed to turn it into legend and myth instead of Idiocracy Babylon, which if I had to guess is why these dipshits keep trying to turn everything into mythology now.

And I wonder if that's also where these idiots are getting their constant repressed-gay vibe, too?

Like I said, don't tread on me with that crap.

It's 2026, none of this bullshit should even be necessary.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

It really is that simple.

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[As the four newly-revealed Cylons aboard Galactica struggle to deal with the information, the call to action stations sounds]

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta: [over the loudspeaker] ...Inbound Cylon fleet! I repeat: action stations, action stations. Set Condition One throughout the ship. This is not a drill.

Tory Foster: Oh gods... what're we going to do?

Saul Tigh: The ship is under attack. We do our jobs. Report to your stations!

Chief Galen Tyrol: Report to stations?

Saul Tigh: My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be. ~From Battlestar Galactica (2003) S3.E20 "Crossroads, Part 2."

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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

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2