Bodies In The Tomb (Easter 2026, Three.)

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The Jews. ~Luke 23:33-38

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[ISB director Col Wullf Yularen addresses Major Partagaz and all ISB officers in the wake of the Aldhani raid]

Col Wullf Yularen: The criminals responsible for last night's atrocity on Aldhani think they've taken the Empire by surprise. We know better. We know the real shock will be when they discover how ready and eager we are to respond, to be prepared, to be here this morning and know that the only question we need to answer is how tight to close our fist. This is why we plan. This is why we work so hard when we're at peace. This is why we recruit so carefully and demand so much. The following measures will be adopted Empire-wide as of today. A tribute tax equal to five times the amount stolen from Aldhani will be levied on any sector harboring partisan activity. We will make it clear that no one steals from the Empire. The use of any local custom, festival, or tradition as cover for rebel activity will trigger permanent revocation of Imperial tolerance. 

I spoke with Emperor Palpatine last night, and he's assured me that the ISB will be taking the lead going forward. No one in this room should have trouble accessing Army or Naval resources in future. The Emperor will be convening an emergency session of the Senate to propose a legislation package of bills and amendments that will free our hands in all matters of surveillance, search, and seizure. We will be invoking the Public Order Resentencing Directive later today. P-O-R-D. Any criminal act, with even indirect effect on the Empire, will henceforth be branded a Class One Offense. All prison sentences are immediately re-evaluated. All outstanding fines and levies are to be paid in full. ~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E7 "Announcement."

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Saladin: I will grant every soul safe passage to Christian lands. Every soul. The women, the children, the old. And all your knights and soldiers. And your Queen. Your King, such as he is, I leave to you, and what God will make of him. No one will be harmed. I swear it to God.

Balian of Ibelin: The Christians butchered every Muslim within the walls when they took this city.

Saladin: [Firmly] I am not those men. I am Saladin. Sala-hu-Din.

~From the film Kingdom Of Heaven.

I saw this last night when I got up for work.

Apparently, the Pentagon hosted a Good Friday service for Protestants that excluded Catholics.

Now, first off if you know how chaplaincy and religion works in the military this is flat-out against military law and regulations.

Second, it seems pretty damn stupid to start shit in your own forces when you're at war.

And, especially over some stupid religious bullshit that's fine out in the civilian world, but out of line when the literal cultural viewpoint of the military basically forever (especially as regards various Christian denominational bullshit) has been religiously neutral literally as a reflection of the fact that we serve a large, diverse, pluralistic nation.

America is that whether you want it to be or not.

Yes, I get it. Republicans don't wanna play well with others anymore, and Republicans and the wealthy think if they stop doing that they can just beat everybody else into compliance. Well, guess what? There's more of the rest of us than y'all and people are already tired of this fucking garbage.

There is simply no way...especially given the time constraints baked into the system...to bully 330 MILLION people into all becoming Republicans, it just ain't gonna happen. And yes, that's what it's about, the overwhelming majority of these sons of bitches don't care about the Lord's Word or any other damn thing except possibly as a marketing scheme.

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 get it, these motherfucking idiots don't care, rich white men are so high on the smell of their own shit right now that they don't even have the slightest idea what the hell is going on.

And Republicans are staring down the barrel of an irate public and utterly abysmal polling numbers right now and trying to figure out how to cheat instead of doing anything different.

Right now that's a problem for everybody else, but it won't take long for it to become a problem for them in particular.

They keep this shit up, it ends badly, especially for them.

There ain't no pension plan in the Dictator business.

That's one of the reasons the original American political class came up with modern Democracy and a lot of the rest of the world eventually followed along. It's simple survival instinct.

And now These Fucking People have started actively mistreating both the people with the guns and their families. Yeah, keep that shit up. I'm a veteran, but more to the point I've been to some other countries and I can tell you this kind of shit does not end well.

Worse, you might consider we're being out-memed By. The. Iranians.

I'm going to politely ask you to stop and think about that for a second.

These Fucking People cannot even compete in their claimed area of unassailable mastery without the deck being completely stacked by people like Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey.

And yes, that level of failure and incompetence is spreading out into the real world including into the kind of brutally Darwinian spaces where nobody can afford to fuck up, and where you might get killed even if you do everything right.

We're losing, and I suspect the level at which we're actually losing is probably embarrassing.

I rather suspect that the only thing that our elites and our government are even being truthful about right now is their mentality of "Fuck You!"

I'm pretty sure by the time I was old enough to use words like that on occasion, I'd read enough history to know how well that kind of shit usually ended.

Because the thing is, we're already at the point where you have to want to be distracted from this bullshit and only those who wanna be are still sozzled on prejudice and propaganda.

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.

Yeah, they might keep the narcissists, a certain kind of religious fanatic and those who are addicted to misery and would rather squat in the dark and shit on their own shoes than see anybody else get any light, but that's not even most people, much less everybody.

Everybody knows shit's not working, Everybody.

It's Easter.

And These Fucking People don't want a Resurrected, living Christ, A Savior who demands some sort of a relationship and participation in the Divine Conversation, but who will judge them for falling short without repentance. 

No, They want a Dead Prophet On A Stick that will justify their wrongs.

It's Easter.

If you're a Christian, you either believe in a Resurrected Christ or you don't.

I have no better way to put it.

If that's you, this day, when He was in the tomb, that's for you. That's where your story ends as well.

Have a good sleep.

A lot of people seem to want it that way.

Lots of bodies in that tomb.

Lots of people don't want to accept the Grace or do the work of repentance and making amends to get to the Resurrection. Lots of people like their Sin too much.

And that's just the Christians...

And as for the rest of you?

At this point either you believe in freedom or you don't.

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

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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

Bad Friday (Easter 2026, Two.)

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The Jews. ~Luke 23:33-38

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

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

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

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

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

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

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

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I saw this yesterday.

Some idiot Republican Congressman who's probably never worked an actual day in his life telling people to "Just Get Another Job."

Homie I'm looking for another job, season doesn't start starting around here for another couple of weeks and I have a family now so no, I really don't want to be working two jobs between my own energy level and wanting to spend time with them when we can get together. It's already hard enough as it is.

And then I saw that idiot Oklahoma State Senator Dusty Deevers said it's "Blasphemy" to not believe in Christ.

No, bro, for one thing this is America. Nobody has to be a Christian at all, let alone your kind.

Not that he really believes either, except in a joyless religiosity of Power, Self and Selfishness.

And something is clearly going wrong in Republican-land, apparently even in Oklahoma.

Or these motherfuckers wouldn't be talking like this. With These Fucking People, the religious talk always gets really weird just before things implode.

I happen to know this from personal experience.

In February of 2001 things got really bad between my now ex-wife and I, she lost her job (again) and we'd been just getting by with both of us working and going to school. It was the slow season at my job and I wasn't getting enough hours to make up the difference. We had asked the church we were going to for help.

They gave us a $100 gift card to Walmart, a gas gift card to the local chain gas station, a bunch of canned goods and $50, basically enough to pull us out of the hole if we'd been in. My Mom and I were going to meet for breakfast the next morning before I went to class. My Mom had said she was going to give me $100. That would have put us ahead a little. Hell, I had a grocery list written down.

So what'd my soon-to-be-ex-wife do? She stole the $50 out of my wallet while I was sleeping (after she, er,  made a point of wearing me out, LOL) sold the gift card for $50, went downstairs to the bar for Karaoke and managed to blow pretty much the entire $100 on alcohol and junk food. I knew she wanted to go out. I had told her to take the $20 out of my wallet and leave the $50.

When I called her on it the next morning she was completely unrepentant, the resulting argument got pretty ugly.

Her bullshit was literally pricing us out of being able to make it. I told her that.

She told me to ask my Mom for more money. I was like WTF? No!

So, I left, went out to breakfast with my Mom and told her what happened. It turned out my Mom did give me a little bit more and put gas in my truck and paid for some groceries but she told me not to tell my soon-to-be-ex-wife so I didn't.

We discussed contingency plans, which I really didn't want to do, but was starting to not see a choice.

Bitch flipped a bitch about it after I got home from class AND work too, she literally had expected everybody else to cover for her bullshit and give her money, too! And she pretty much baldly put it in those terms, because she's a fucking narcissist. I told her I'd walk if she didn't cut the shit.

Her bullshit line at the time was "God will provide."

No, bullshit!

Other people gave us money and stuff!

That argument got even uglier, and of course ended with her going downstairs to the bar to sing and get drunk.

Not particularly proud of it but while she was gone I accepted the neighbor lady's standing offer of companionship and we got hella stoned, but in the process I made up my mind what I was gonna do about this mess.

Bitch-face suspected, and as far as I know is still mad about it.

The next morning when my soon-to-be-ex caught a ride to Petoskey with the neighbor she had a class with, I called my boss, explained the situation, arranged to take my accumulated PTO (About five days) packed a bag, my guns, important documents and the dog and headed for my Mom's house.

Things weren't getting any better, so I said "Fuck It." 

It was a Friday, February 16th, 2001.

As soon as she figured out what happened, that was the start of an endless stream of E-mails and phone calls so bad that my Mom unplugged all the phones and insisted we turn off our cell phones.

Within 48 hours my ex got on a Pentecostal mania that took at least 20 years to even die down a little, but in the meantime there was everything from threats of brimstone, death (her own and that of others) and hellfire to utterly anguished pleading.

I guess she didn't think I was serious when I told her she was making it impossible for us to continue.

My Mom had left one phone plugged in, out in the garage, and when it was really quiet I could hear it ring every few minutes, this went on for days. I stopped looking at my Email and, after about three days of this just went and got a Yahoo email address to replace my Hotmail and reconnected with everybody else that way.

By the time I had to go back to work I had my head on sort of straight. My ex started being "nice" and trying to get me to stop by on the way to or from school and/or work or do stuff like take her to the laundromat or the small local grocery store (and I accepted more than once and that's when the really weird shit started.)

It had nothing to do with Jesus, it had everything to do with she wanted an easy life of wealth without work and to freely indulge her addictions and perversions. Religion was just a convenient excuse and way to shut down obvious argument.

But by the start of March I had gotten into the dorms at the college and was sort-of figuring stuff out. I've written extensively about what happened between us and with me after that, but I've never written about leaving itself.

The shit was too painful.

But I made a choice to never, ever, put up with that type of shit ever again.

And that's what it's going to come to, America. In fact it's probably a miracle my ex isn't a MAGA.

There's a very good chance our national unity isn't going to survive this mess, anymore than our marriage survived my ex's addictions, irresponsibility and religious fanaticism.

These Fucking People are all the same way. 

They've made all the obvious bad choices, and if anything it looks like now that the bill is coming due, they expect everybody else to do the work and pay for it. 

No, none of this shit works that way. Fuck You.

And apparently These Fucking People don't trust the troops or anybody else to implement their delusions, as well they should not. If anything, the voting patterns say they're not going to get anywhere near as much of America as they thought they were going to when that national split-up occurs.

Pretty much it'll work out the same way for them that it did for my ex. And I guarantee you in five or ten or twenty years when the rest of us have moved on they'll still be the same way, doing the same shit while shouting Praise The Lord and Pass The Designer Drugs as their Earthly fiefdoms collapse or shrink, and it'll still be everybody else's fault but theirs.

It's Good Friday. The Resurrection is coming.

So it is in life, but first we're gonna have to deal with a bunch of bloody mess and weird shit, America.

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

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"I didn't want to do it,'' he hears himself saying. "I didn't want to leave them behind.''

The void laughs at him. There are miles of empty air beneath his dangling feet. "You had no choice.''

"Yes I did! I didn't have to come here.'' He pauses. "I didn't have to do anything,'' he says quietly, and inhales another lungful of death. "It was all automatic. Maybe it was inevitable.''

"-- Evitable,'' echoes the distant horizon. Something dark and angular skims across the stars, like an echo of extinct pterosaurs. Turbofans whirring within its belly, the F-117A hunts on: patrolling to keep at bay the ancient evil, unaware that the battle is already lost. "Your family could still be alive, you know.''

He looks up. "They could?'' Andrea? Jason? "Alive?''

The void laughs again, unfriendly: "There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.'' 

~From A Colder War, a novella by Charles Stross.

Blaspheming Jesus in Holy Week (Easter 2026, One.)

 "I didn't want to do it,'' he hears himself saying. "I didn't want to leave them behind.''

The void laughs at him. There are miles of empty air beneath his dangling feet. "You had no choice.''

"Yes I did! I didn't have to come here.'' He pauses. "I didn't have to do anything,'' he says quietly, and inhales another lungful of death. "It was all automatic. Maybe it was inevitable.''

"-- Evitable,'' echoes the distant horizon. Something dark and angular skims across the stars, like an echo of extinct pterosaurs. Turbofans whirring within its belly, the F-117A hunts on: patrolling to keep at bay the ancient evil, unaware that the battle is already lost. "Your family could still be alive, you know.''

He looks up. "They could?'' Andrea? Jason? "Alive?''

The void laughs again, unfriendly: "There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.'' 

~From A Colder War, a novella by Charles Stross.

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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

It's Holy Week.

Tomorrow is Good Friday.

So naturally, the MAGA's are trying to declare that Trump is Jesus.But it's not just that.

They can't wait to hand over their citizenship, their rights, in fact about everything that makes them, them and America be America. Hand it to *Checks Notes* Donald Trump cuz these idiots have absolutely boundless faith in that dude for whatever stupid reason.

And it basically comes down to one of two things, the Stephen Miller school of MAGA Takfiris who think that Trump will, given infinite Power, hurt somebody else more than he will them, and that's all they want or understand, to take by force, like the Bull Queers in The Shawshank Redemption.

Red: The Sisters have taken quite a liking to you. Especially Bogs.

Andy: Don't suppose it would help any if I explained to them I'm not homosexual.

Red: Neither are they. You'd have to be human first. They don't qualify. Bull Queers take by force. That's all they want or understand. But if I were you, I'd grow eyes in the back of my head.

Andy: Thanks for the advice.

~From the film The Shawshank Redemption.

They don't care what they're actually taking. All they really want is to kill, manipulate and steal.

Stephen Miller isn't talking about any familial, financial or property-based inheritance. He's trying to tell These Fucking People that the children of immigrants can take their "Whiteness" away.

For the record I'm a White Guy but since I'm not That kind of White Guy I've never been looked at as "White" by people like Stephen Miller (and I'm just fine with that.) 

Also, I'm old enough to remember White-On-White Racism and that despite being Whiter Than A Fucking Ghost and of Nordic descent...as a non-WASP, those people thought I was one of "Those People." 

For the record, neither Stephen Miller nor Trump himself would actually be in the club their own damn selves and yes, I used to drink and golf with old WASP Republicans who thought exactly like that and bemoaned the fact that all their shitty little clubs had to let people like me and my Grandpa in the door (and Black people and women, although we took the brunt of it because as non-wealthy White guys in their space, who cut their grass and shit, we were "acceptable" in-public targets, they had to bitch about "The Blacks" when it was just them. These assholes paid too much for my Grandpa to not take their money and their bullshit.)

Which of course was the whole point, for them. I'm pretty sure they griped about having to pay for it, too.

I live in a town that has four different Catholic churches for these kind of reasons and where you can see that the Catholic cemeteries were once pretty ethnically split and the Jewish and Protestant cemeteries were pretty much the same but in a different way.

I remember when Sectarian Violence between Christians..."The Troubles" in Northern Ireland...was on the news most nights.

And that's the world that Stephen Miller thinks he wants because he thinks he's been adopted into grace somehow.

No, bro, I remember those days, and by the time I was dealing with that shit those days were very much on the wane and that crap was still stupid.

And you can tell the people that really know or at least have actually looked at what it was and want to bring it back because they're the ones bitching about Trump being surrounded by Jews and f****t's and thinking the Hard Right Catholics aren't Hard Right ENOUGH and not getting the womenfolk back into domestic slavery fast enough. Again, these are the people who appear to be willing to sign up for Trumpian slavery.

You know, like all these damn Calvinist and Pentecostal preachers and shit.

But then, these are just differing flavors of the Prosperity Gospel, so naturally they'd think a self-promoting rich man is God, and any one would do (regardless of competence, in fact the worse, the better) which is how we got Trump instead of, say, Ted Cruz.

Despite the fact that Ted Cruz actually is one of Those Fucking People and Trump only half-ass plays at being one, in the process having created a whole different class of These Fucking People.

You know, the people that buy into the con, that can't stop blowing the narcissist, that increasingly seem to think The Con will get them into Heaven by itself. These assholes think they're gonna lie to God.

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

These CHUDs fear the Void but not as much as they jerk off to the idea of feeding everybody else to it.

But of course they seem to want to abase themselves before Trump first.

I get it and I know some of you are thinking, and will tell me, that "Conservatives" love the idea of bowing and scraping for profit, but the truth is somebody like Paula White doesn't need to do that crap.

She could easily up her Prosperity Gospel lying game and have more money than Trump.

The Truth is a lot of these Calvinists, Fundamentalists and Prosperity Gospel Pentecostals basically think God is a cruel narcissist and thus that mirrors what Trump visibly is.

This is where the "Trump Is God" crap even comes from.

Of course these faithless assholes are desperate for a god they can see, who confirms and matches all their biases and in so doing makes them "god" as well.

Gives a whole new meaning to "Joint heirs with Jesus" doesn't it?

This shit is straight up Blasphemy and Self-worship.

These people know they're destroying themselves and going to Hell, they just hope they're gonna take you and me with them. That's the point.

You cannot fill someone's head with ideals of fucking people over for their whole life and expect they're gonna be righteous.

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

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And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself. And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The Jews. ~Luke 23:33-38

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

Mutants (Rationalizing Themselves Into Revelation, Five.)

Lucy: How do you live like this?! Why keep going?!

The Ghoul: Well, one good question deserves another. Why the fuck am I doing all the work? Now come on, Vaultie. Ass jerky don't make itself.

~The Ghoul, from Fallout S1.E4 "The Ghouls."

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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.)

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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.

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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

I keep seeing shit like this.

And I have to ask, just how is the "Master Race" so fucking pathetic??

Apparently there's "Elite" white couples "Breeding" to "Save Humanity" while already managing to look like the inbred mutants and vault-dwellers from the Fallout games, but with beliefs and politics that'd fit handily into the franchise on the end of the Enclave and Vault-Tech.

Seriously, fuck these motherfuckers.

We've got corporations basically shilling for slavery. I don't give a damn if they're acting like they're going to pretend to pay the slaves more, that's still exactly what they're advocating for.

And the White House is trying to run itself like some Meth'd out Pentecostal church on the outskirts of Howell, Michigan.

Yet every once in awhile, I find myself arguing with some jackass online who has the balls to wonder why we're losing a fucking war? 

Might be something like *Checks Notes* firing two missiles that work out to $25 MILLION dollars worth of munitions at a drone that costs less than my car isn't especially cost-effective or efficient?? Especially when we are not exactly mass-producing the weapons, because the entire complex is set up for basically peacetime low-rate production and given the costs involved, it's probably not possible to scale up.

Not with the amount of money we're willing to pay.

Not without taxing the fuck out of Billionaires.

Yes, as a veteran, I'm aware that the original idea was that equipment quality (and also the way that alliances and modern military shit are structured which theoretically would spread cost and risk) would make doing so unnecessary but the Iranians apparently had other plans.

None of these systems, international, procurement, our own proven standard operating procedures, etc. are designed for any one nation (including the United States) to go rogue and all this shit was done (much of it by previous generations of Republicans) with intent to prevent exactly that.

Again, none of those people ever really expected these goddamned mutants to get ahold of the system.

Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ~Barry Goldwater

And they did have their own versions of Those Fucking People to deal with.

Yes, this shit can and will get worse.

Motherfuckers can't even get the answers they want from their own people anymore.

Therefore they will likely try to redefine "People" like late-1990's Clintonistas trying to split hairs on the definition of "Is."

Think about that for a second.

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

I'm warning you right now, it's an utterly safe bet that none of These Fucking People are taking any of this shit even close to seriously.

It's all a game to people like Keg-Breath and Trump.

And it's not just that people will die because these idiots aren't doing anything properly or taking any of this shit seriously.

It's that's the Point. 

That's Exactly why they're doing it that way.

Because they're malicious narcissistic idiots.

And they think they have a Divine Right to act like this.

77 million of us voted for this bullshit basically because they were bored and thought it would be funny.

Well I don't see very many people laughing now.

Except for the very worst of us.

Most of whom wouldn't actually make it in the world they're trying to create.

But of course, that too is the point.

Collapse, Destruction for its own sake, Failure, Government by Personality Disorder...all symptoms of a bored narcissistic out-of-touch political class and an electorate that large sections of are themselves fucked up on their own brain chemicals...until the consequences of their own actions hit them.

Or until their broad but mostly imagined "Authority" evaporates because they themselves vandalized that shit out of existence.

I don't even recognize the Republican Party anymore. I can't even talk the way these people talk.

And I would not want to.

These idiots are going to bumble-fuck their way right into all the Torments of Revelation because they think it'll fuck over the rest of us.

Guess what, guys? There ain't no Rapture and if there was? God ain't on the same page as ya'll.

And there will be consequences in this life and the next.

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

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

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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