If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. ~John 18-20
In case you're wondering, dear reader, I'm only kind-of being ironic with the pull-quote above. You know, that snippet of cherry-picked Bible verses that's basically been used to justify all manner of asshole behavior pretty much since somebody wrote it down...though I'm rather certain that Jesus, assuming He actually said it, probably didn't intend for it to be used that way.
If I was Ty Cobb right now, I'd be kicking back in my recliner drinking a '40' of Colt 45 Malt Liquor and thinking "Damn, I dodged that bullet."
I've been hearing a lot recently about how farmers in California, and also Sorghum and Soybean farmers in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas are worried about their livelihoods and worried about losing their farms because of Trump's trade protectionism and the entirely-predictable fact that the Chinese are fighting back in large part by simply buying what they need someplace else. Ya know, like one would expect people with a Capitalist mentality to do?
If the service sucks or they're charging too much for whatever you need, you simply go somewhere else. It's not rocket science, it's capitalism and customer service. Anybody who's ever worked at Wal-Mart should be able to tell you that.
That's what these people don't get. Nobody has to do business with us. Nobody has to put up with these fucking people's bullshit. When people don't like you, they're not "Persecuting" you it's just that you're being an asshole and they're not having it.
I swear, if these people ever faced persecution the way that Christians in so many other parts of the world have...every last one of them would renounce Jesus Christ faster than you can say "Make America Great Again."
Sorry, Jesus, the Evangelicals don't need you anymore. They've found a new one.
Here's the thing that gets me; How little of self-respect do you have to have to literally idolize somebody like Donald Trump? Trump being a man who, as I have said before, said live on CNN that he didn't need God's forgiveness.
I watched him say that on CNN, my [African-American Baptist] roommate and I were both extremely offended by the statement...and I'm the former Christian.
Yet Evangelicals voted for this motherfucker in droves, and they thought they were going to get some kind of glory for doing it, too.
I blocked one lady from the Facebook ferret group when she said she was going to vote for Trump and then gave all type of passive-aggressive excuses, lashing out at a number of other people who'd been drawn into the conversation-including a number of ferret people, some of whom were LGBT or non-Christian or both-and then when I unfriended her she adamantly (and increasingly creepily) continued to try to message me. So, I informed her that I was blocking her and that if any other communication was attempted I was going to call the police. Then I blocked her. Then she basically nuked more than half of her own online presence (including leaving all the ferret groups) and according to several other people, she whined on Facebook for three days because I called her a shitty person.
Who the hell even does stuff like that?
But then, who wears a stained tank-top with "Trump grab my pussy" on it, except they don't actually have the guts to write "pussy" on this homemade abomination of a T-shirt, so instead they just put an arrow pointing down.
What really cracks me up is when it's men who clearly want to, but they don't have the guts to actually swear. So they end up sounding like the Mall manager in Bad Santa, and wonder why people treat them like idiots.
Look, I'm gonna level with ya'll here. I'm sick to death of these fake-religious, racist strutting reactionary turd burglars and their collective man-crush on Donald Trump. These are clearly the kind of people who, many years ago, were the inspiration for why there was always some dumb-ass (Most often Captain Harris and Officer Proctor) who the cadets conned into going in the Blue Oyster gay bar in the Police Academy movies.
As I said earlier today, if Trump started picking random Evangelical men out for the purpose of butt-raping them they would think he was doing it to reinforce their masculinity or test them in some way, and hell they'd probably be lining up for a chance at being picked out in the first place.
Who the hell torches every single thing they believe and falls into this kind of cult-like bullshit?
People with no self-respect, that's who.
The funny part is that it was conservatives, or at least what passed for that 40 years ago, that taught me to have self-respect in the first place, and they ingrained it well enough that I was (rightfully, or so it seems) distrustful of the whole "Self-Esteem" thing in the 1990's. Current Republicans have no concept of self-respect, but a lot of them sure seem to have bought into the "Self-Esteem" craze back in the day.
Now, I'll be the first to tell you I cannot fucking stand Mitch McConnell, but the dude does not deserve racist attacks against his wife and family...and it's not Democrats doing this, it's a Republican.
I followed the Roy Moore scandal closely, and I have a feeling that the same kind of rabid droolers who put Roy Moore over the top in Alabama will prevail again. It's not so much that the Republican Party has turned into the Trump Cult, it's that there's a small but dedicated faction of Republicans who are determined to out-Trump the Trump.
I'll be quite surprised if this doesn't end with banjos and some dude...probably one of the other Republicans...getting sodomized and forced to squeal like a pig right before some cracker gets shot in the face with an arrow from a compound bow at damned near point-blank range, but whatever.
Things have been so nuts just today that I'm not sure it'd even make the news if exactly that happened.
That, quite frankly, scares me. While Trump has no idea what he's doing, these crazy people seem to on a certain level. I have a feeling they're exactly the ones who would be Okay with Nazis, and who if it doesn't come to that, will be the ones supporting armed right-wing anti-government insurgents, especially if Trump goes down, or simply keeps finding his presidency paralyzed by scandal. Some people just can't understand that Trump and current Republicans are incompetent and basically their own worst enemies...but some people, even if they can't articulate it...can imagine that and are angry and stupid enough to try to do something about it. These are the people ranting about "We have to destroy liberalism" who are also busy redefining "Liberal" as "Anybody with basic human decency" or "Person who criticized Donald Trump even one time" or "Anyone who does not have Vladimir Putin's dick either literally or figuratively in their mouths" and, increasingly, "Any person who is not a White conservative Evangelical or willing to explicitly bow down to those who are."
Like I said, fake religious, racist, strutting reactionary turd burglars, that's what we're dealing with here. Fox News fucking televised Vladimir Putin's fourth inauguration. If somebody would've tried that when the Soviets swore in Gorbachev, that person would've probably literally got their ass handed to them...especially by Republicans.
Why? Because among other things, I've argued with, blocked and reported on Twitter a number of apparently rabidly anti-John McCain people, a combination of Trump Supporters and (of course) Russian bots. Now, I don't like John McCain all that much these days, but I have enough respect for him not to talk shit about a dying man on social media. Nobody deserves this. That is all.
Ya'll got a problem, Republicans, and if you don't start trying to fix it, the rest of us are going to fix you in November, although I suspect these drooling morons are going to end up being a problem for everybody no matter what anyone does.
...And that's your fault, Republicans.
If there's any consolation it's that these zombies you've created and foisted upon the world look like they're going to be busy enough eating you first, that the rest of us might have time to do something about this mess.
I'm just really starting to wonder how right-wing is right-wing enough for these assholes. If John McCain and Mitch McConnell...let alone somebody like Robert Mueller...people who should be defining examples of what a Republican is, if not what they're supposed to be, have targets on their backs? ...And all this for Donald Fucking Trump?!?! (And apparently even HE doesn't go far enough for these people?)
Well then, as far as I'm concerned, every last person on the planet who isn't a member of this cult or somebody that they fetishize needs to be worried.
I'm not quite sure that Republicans are necessarily all monsters...but they've damned sure created monsters.
Be Best, huh? You know what this is? This is what happens when Republicans can't spell "Just say no" anymore. This is what happens when the party of "Mr. Gorbachev, OPEN THIS GATE, Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" gives in to fear and destroys itself.
We can't hope these people destroy themselves before they do something horrible. What we can do is vote the bastards out.
Remember that.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. ~Matthew 23:15
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