I saw this last night.
Fucking seriously?
Just shoot them...
I thought these people were the conservatives, the Evangelicals, the serious, holy, and righteous motherfuckers and all that? Just shoot them?
What part of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" don't these fucking people understand?
Just shoot them. Guatemalan Pentecostals (and other Protestants) Honduran and Salvadoran Catholics? Just shoot the people who might be a day or two of decent treatment, or one favorable bit of legislative action away from becoming hard-working Green Card holders and quite possibly eventually reliable Republican voters themselves?
All of the countries these people are coming from tend to fall, on a global scale, more on the conservative end of the spectrum. Guatemala in particular has the largest percentage of Fundamentalist Protestants in Latin America...and is a favored haunt of American missionaries (I know some who've done mission work there) and the military industrial complex alike.
Does any of this seem...short-sighted...to you?
More to the point, my analysis aside, Trump and the rally crowd just laughed it off, made it sound like a big joke that the dude could only get away with saying such a thing in that location.
Just shoot them.
If you think that statement just applies to "illegal" immigrants or Latinos or whatever, I'm here to tell you that you have another thing coming.
Eventually it'll be "Undesirables," those who refused to go along with Trump, those who didn't get on the bandwagon fast enough, those doctors or nurses or teachers or veterans that don't toe the hard-right line, you, me.
These people are never happy about anything, and they'll never just stop and say Okay, we've gone far enough.
No.
These fucking people believe in their guns more than they believe in civilization. I've been telling you for years that when they decide to start shooting people, they're not going to inquire as to your political leanings or your religion or anything like that first. No, they're just going to open fire.
They believe in their guns. They believe in that shit more than they believe in life itself.
Some dude in California got raided by the Feds and it turned out he had over 1,000 guns in his house, at least some of which he had manufactured and was trafficking in them illegally.
What in the hell use would any one person have for over a thousand guns, equipping their own infantry brigade? I think there was more going on here than just some dude trying to make a few extra bucks, because that is a lot of damn guns.
Speaking of guns...there was another school shooting yesterday, this one in Colorado.
Look, ya'll, I'm a gun owner, and I'm damned tired of there being some kind of mass shooting damned near every day, a school shooting damned near every week so far this year...and of this one right, the right to bear arms...supposedly being so inalienable and sacred that it appears to invalidate every other Constitutional, human and legal right that any of us may possess.
Something tells me that's not what the framers of the Constitution nor the founders of our country had in mind.
Supposedly the money isn't in the budget, blah blah blah.
But this isn't about debts, not at all. No, it's not even about the money.
See, a local restaurant owner offered to pay off everybody's lunch debt and per the article, the district turned her down.
It wasn't even the paying off of the debt that they were apparently opposed to, it was the paying off of everybody's debts without any kind of a "process" to determine who was worthy and who was not. The district told the lady to set up something and get back to them. She simply started reaching out directly to parents. But of course, not all of those parents will hear of this, or be able to get in touch.
See...I'm willing to bet whoever came up with this ridiculous policy is a Republican.
America isn't America if everybody gets to eat. Heaven isn't heaven if we all get to go. These absolute motherfuckers aren't happy unless somebody, somewhere, gets left behind and is hungry or miserable. The worst part is, a majority of the affected students are in the position where their parents are working, but they make too much money to qualify for free or reduced lunches.
So, kick people in the teeth for trying to better themselves and make it on their own instead of staying on welfare and not getting ahead. How conservative of you, assholes.
The conservative thing to do, in this case, would be to help those students so their parents don't have to worry about whether or not their kids get to eat and can get on with the business of contributing to society. Somebody offered to pay, people will perform better if they have less to worry about. Capitalism would just take the money, feed the kids, and...I don't know, try and hook more people into paying off lunch debts and charge interest or something.
But of course, that too is the last thing any of this shit is really about.
Several states, among them California, New Mexico and Virginia, have already passed laws outlawing "Lunch shaming." More states, including Rhode Island, are considering such legislation or have votes pending. Rhode Island is in the latter group. Chances are excellent that, by the time school starts back up again in the fall...this kind of crap will be illegal in the state.
So what this is, really, is a last chance to kick a poor kid while they're down.
It's funny how the last thing that Republicans ever seem to want to have happen in school is for a kid to learn anything.
Because of course, the party of Small Government(TM) isn't happy unless the government or whatever is demonstratively "punishing" anybody who's different from them, or too poor, or too rich, or who has the wrong political views or who knows too much, or whoever might be conservative but isn't following the crowd and the reactionary fads and vicissitudes thereof, or doing so with sufficient vigor.
Dogma and stability and tradition have given way to "We want whatever we want and we want it RIGHT NOW!!!" Conservatism used to be defined by religion, tradition, and the wisdom of our ancestors. Now, it's defined by whatever dumb shit Donald Trump Tweets at 3 A.M. when he's on the toilet on any given morning. I don't know how the hell Republicans keep up with this or even keep a straight face.
I couldn't do it, I wouldn't do it.
But then I stormed out and voted for the African American, liberal, Democrat, not too long past the minute that Sarah Palin started defining the Republican Party more than John McCain did.
Yes we can, motherfucker, and I don't regret one goddamned minute of it.
I didn't really see it as a choice. I was already on the way out thanks to a year or so of conspiracy theories and racism against Barack Obama, and that shit was a bridge too far. There was a time when being a conservative had a good chance of meaning that you were something other than a bigot.
But that conservatism...I'd say conservatism itself...is dead.
Fast forward nearly a decade and John McCain is posthumously Persona Non Grata, Sarah Palin seems all but forgotten unless she says something stupid...and I find myself sort of wishing all we had going on here was stodgy old conservative white guys and vapid flaming stupid religious nuts.
I can at least say I left before Republicans became fascists, or at least weak sauce enablers of the same.
Why did they set every value they ever claimed to have on fire and leave it in the middle of the road to burn?
Why exactly, do they want to shoot the people who are willing to walk across deserts, to traverse whole nations just to get here, all to do back-breaking labor that Americans won't do, and for less money?
For a guy who lost over a billion dollars in a decade. That's what. For a guy who cheated on his wives and ran many businesses into the ground, who apparently needed Russia to help him win an election in the first place. For a simple demented old motherfucker who can't even speak or write proper English, and who lied his way into power and who lies to them, as well as to the rest of us, every damned day. For people whose greed and stupidity are only overshadowed by their utter contempt for our country, for its laws, and for its people.
I think they know the gig is going to be up soon.
I think things are going to go sideways well before the next election and probably not in a way that actually favors the right-wingers. I think we're about one dumb Tweet away from some people doing something very stupid and Americans starting to shoot at each other. Though I figure we'll still have a next election, it might be off-schedule a little...though honestly I don't think it'll be by very much. I rather suspect this mess is going to upend most of our political system...to the point where I think this country may become two countries, or perhaps three...and the assholes will end up in power somewhere. Unless he chokes on his filet o' fish or has a heart attack from too much grease and cholesterol, Trump or whoever he designates *Will* still be in power in one of those places, and once all that goes down this shit will never be over and we'll have a Russian satellite state, Cold War style, where Alabama and Mississippi and Kentucky and West Virginia used to be, or something like that.
Also, no, Not everybody's going to end up where they want to, and there's a good chance that there will be blood...and some of it will come from conservatives fighting conservatives or liberals fighting liberals, because unless we can somehow manage to hold all this together, these things rarely go down in a linear or orderly fashion. There's a tiny Soviet Wannabe unrecognized state sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine, after all. If you don't think the Christian Republic of Western Michigan or a network of liberal technocratic city-states in Texas could be a thing, go look up the Kalningrad Oblast or South Ossetia or Transnistria and get back to me later.
Chaos and polarization tends to create such situations, throw in one extreme event and there you have it. The Soviet Union didn't really start flying apart in earnest until the Communist hardliners tried to depose Gorbachev.
But by then, it was too late. Certainly, some American equivalent is exactly the thoughts that give Vladimir Putin wood on a regular basis.
And that's also what the right-wingers want, but I rather suspect that in the end even Trump, coward that he is, won't be able to satiate their desire for bloodshed and hate and murder.
Being a dictator does take a degree of personal and physical courage, after all. But in the end, that doesn't really matter.
All it takes is enough people with intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, who think the effort to look up and reconsider is too great.
And we've got those people my the millions...on both sides of the political divide.
Just shoot them.
Don't feed the kids.
Don't take the money offered to pay the debts.
Because Capitalism doesn't always go their way.
Because the effort to simply treat people as people is too great.
...or Because they didn't get their fucking Unicorn.
Make war on the future in every conceivable way possible, just to shit on the world and leave a big mess for the next people in power to have to clean up.
Because planning for the future is too hard.
And I think they know, deep down, just how the whole Jesus thing would go if He came back.
Just shoot them.
Three words.
If anybody wonders why I'm not a conservative anymore, this is it, right the fuck here.
Whatever world we create out of this mess, I gotta live in it.
Exodus 20 King James Version (KJV)
20 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
I'm not a Christian, or even religious, anymore. But...ask yourself, how many of these are these conservatives, these Christians, making the slightest effort to follow?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
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