Cultservatism.

2 Timothy 4:3 King James Version 

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.

So the FBI and other law enforcement agencies caught the #MAGA-Bomber this week.

Wednesday morning, as I usually do, I ran some errands and then went to the pet store to see what they got in their critter delivery and I spent an hour or so playing with baby ferrets, only to come home and have this be the very first thing I saw. It would be far from the last like it, and as a result much of this week has been marked by irritability and lack of sleep.

It's to the point where I damned near flew off the handle at a co-worker for talking stupid as a result of said irritability, and a fucked up night didn't help. The angry and over-stressed overall climate of things in America right now is about the only part of conservative economics or fiscal or social policy that actually does trickle down. The personal nihilism that results is poisoning our civilization.

I think it says a lot about the state of this country that the conservatives are acting the way they've been acting and trying to blame problems that they cause on nearly everybody except for themselves, and the journalists started this thing off by simply adapting to the problem and keeping on keeping on. It's like every last one of these ridiculous Republican motherfuckers have decided that if Trump is gonna Trump, they're going to to try to be Trump too. The only problem with that, is that nobody else really gets to be Trump except for Trump...and even Trump is not what the Trump-worshipers are making him out to be. I'm not kidding, an odd turn of events led me to read a thread on Charlie Kirk's Twitter feed.

I found out this week that Charlie Kirk, despite presenting himself as some big political dude with some kind of high-dollar national operation...lives at home with his parents. I commented to that effect. Back in the day, if you were a 24-year-old dude who still lived with yo mama, you were considered a joke, at least among the conservatives that I knew or associated with or was aware of.

Kirk, and the people who post on his shit, speak about Trump as if the Orange One is Jesus. I'm not kidding, you can look this shit up for yourself.

It's not just them, though, it's the run-of-the-mill Trump Supporters saying that they don't care what he says, they'll support it. Trumpism has crossed the Rubicon from being a political movement to a cult, as far as I'm concerned. I feel confident that if Trump told these goddamned morons to bow down and worship him, they'd not only do it, but they'd attack anybody who was there that didn't go along. It will absolutely be the people who are closest to this dude, who follow him the most assiduously, who will be the first victims of his most debased whims. It'll come to that, trust me.

Do you really think if Trump told these fools to pick one of their own as a human sacrifice to prove loyalty, that these motherfuckers wouldn't be fighting among themselves to be the first to literally die for Trump? I'm not sure it'll get that far...but you can see it from here.

I'm serious.

I'm warning you now. This dude looks like he should be holding up a sign that says "I believe in Jesus" but no. He's holding up a sign that says he believes in Trump.

Where this ends is in people strapping bombs to themselves. #MAGA has not, as someone said, become the new INRI. It is instead becoming the "Allah Akbar" of what basically amounts to a perverse kind of anti-Islam (and anti-Christianity for that matter as well.)

And Trumpism is a jealous god, much like what Tom Clancy once said of Marxism-Leninism in the second chapter of the Hunt For Red October. Were Tom still with us, I doubt he'd recognize what has become of conservatism.

Hell, I doubt it would have him, considering that it has exiled most NeoConservatives and any traditional conservatives that are left to the Outer Darkness, and sealed this particular dread ritual with a posthumous excommunication of John McCain.

Trumpism has its own code of personal conduct.

Note that modesty, moral probity, sexual restraint or even keeping one's goddamned hands to themselves is simply not part of the program.

I'm a guy, so I can't say for sure, but I would imagine that a lot of women these days are basically being made to feel like they're on the menu, rather than being treated as human beings.

Trumpism has its own shrines, some of which are even mobile, being that they're vehicles.

This was the van owned by Caesar Sayoc, the guy who mailed all those pipe bombs to people, though evidently these pictures were taken before he became so infamously known.

So does that mean that Trumpism has its own priests, as well?

And if so, does that mean that its priests are terrorists?

Certainly, there will be people who will name this nut as a martyr.

Bet on it.

Bet on the fact that they don't care if you're a Republican.

I follow Rick Wilson, who is a lifelong Republican, on Twitter. Some of the crap that these fucking people fill his inbox with is just plain ridiculous. I gather that alt-right Nazis have harassed his family members and threatened him and them with murder. They've done the same to David French, and to a variety of other anti-Trump conservatives. Where that leaves a person like me, who left conservatism and Republicanism in 2008 over Birtherism and Sarah Palin, I'll leave to your imagination. What These Fucking People think of somebody like me, old and disabled and the kind of gun owner that doesn't buy into their fake-macho bullshit and the kind of guy who'd rather keep his job than punch some moron in the face, I'm a go ahead and let you fill in the blanks.

I strongly suggest that it ends up with me dying in a firefight, not for ideological reasons but because I have a good number small furry animals that starving goons and their wannabe-warlords will likely want to eat after they've wrecked the country and the financial and food-distribution systems that depend on having a functioning government and all the various compacts that result from civilization.

Oh, and the company that makes the foods that I feed my dog and ferrets is Canadian (this was a choice I made on purpose) but has their American factory located in Kentucky. If this crap screws up distribution systems more than it already has (and it has driven prices up in so doing) this greatly affects my animals, too.

The truth is that, unchecked, this story ends with these fucking idiots roasting each other over blazing bonfires of burning #MAGA hats because there's nothing to eat and anything else to burn to cook it has been used up.

The time to take a stand against the fall of night is now, and we have an election coming up. You do the math. If we can't work up the interest, or the self-preservation, to stop this Trump-cult nonsense and the destructive fanaticism that it entails, this cartoon evil shit, it's going to end us and we're going to deserve it. You can either stand up, or let the vast, yawning Abyss that's where Donald Trump's soul is supposed to be swallow America, if not the world.

Please, look at this snipped headline, read it, and consider what it means. Caesar Sayoc's family lawyer says that Caesar found a "Father" in Trump. Trump's own kids didn't even find a father in Trump.  These people's idealized version of Trump has no basis in reality. But that's OK with them, they get to shout "CNN Sucks" and "Lock Her Up" and get glory from other feeble-minded people for doing it.

I'm not sure what's so great about that, but it seems to cause some people to love Donald Trump more than they love their own families. In point of fact, the bomber had been kicked out by his parents and was actually living in his van.

If that doesn't tell you how, even according to its own [claimed] basis and the talk it's talked, how far gone American conservatism is...I don't know what will.

These people have gleefully set on fire every single thing they've ever said they believed, except for racism, for Donald Trump.

We can do something about this now, vote the bastards out, get rid of the enablers, and start restraining this garbage...or we can all expect that the Tree Of Life Congregation Synagogue and the shooting of the two African Americans in a Kentucky Kroger grocery store will become even more of a daily fact of life. Evidently, the Kentucky gunman tried to get into a church before he went and shot those two people.

Right-wing terrorism is now a daily fact of life in America, while our government sucks up to Saudi Arabia....you know, the country that Osama Bin Laden and most of the 9/11 hijackers were from.

And these Republicans are the people who spent 15 years telling anybody who would listen that Islam was the threat?

If what has become of American conservatism has a problem with Fundamentalist Islam, it's a matter of professional jealousy, rather than oil or theology or whatever.

Well, that and the fact that Islam on a scriptural level as the very basis of its theology does not permit personality cults, or the equating of a man with God.

Sooner or later they're going to hit that sticking point as well. Care to place any bets on who the Chinese and the Russians and so many of our traditional rivals will side with? They all have large Muslim populations to placate and economic and military interests that run counter to our own.

If you notice, from Gaddafi to Saddam to Erdogan (who thinks he's a reincarnation of Ataturk...Islam does not allow belief in reincarnation, either) Middle Eastern or North African dictators are mostly secular.

Because Islam does not allow the worship of men.

Christianity, or at least the American kind, has...or perhaps had would be a better term...no such issue.

The past tense is there for a reason.

When was the last time you seriously heard a conservative talk about Jesus?

Vote them out, and do it now, before the planet is stuck with this crap for a thousand years because they took down the Cross and put up a Trump hotel at the end of the Via Dolorosa.