Remember, Remember...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,

I know of no reason

Why the Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent

To blow up the King and Parli'ment.

Three-score barrels of powder below,

Poor old England to overthrow;

By God's providence he was catch'd

With a dark lantern and burning match.

Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

And what should we do with him? Burn him!

Election day this year fell on November 5th.

Speaking as a fan of V for Vendetta here, and a student of the actual history of the time, I thought it was interesting that things came together that way. Since the movie came out in 2006, its symbolism has been adopted extensively by those who are against established power structures,

Yet perversely, the actions of some of those people who were part of that trend in the later 2000's and early 2010's...Julian Assange and Wikileaks in particular...led directly to the election of Donald Trump, who sought to undermine established power structures only to push an increasingly mostly botched attempt to assert older, more repressive powers in their place.

And on Tuesday, in two out of the three states where major elections were taking place, and in dozens more local elections around the country, Republicans got shellacked yet again.

Good.

Remember, remember, indeed.

I have no time for the fake, phony "Conservatism" that these people are trying to push. I have not, and never have had, one single shred of use for Donald Trump.

And I have no use for a political party that shreds every value it ever claimed for that fucking guy either.

I don't necessarily always agree with or even like the Democrats, but at least they seem to be trying to make things better. Republicans these days? Well, they don't even seem to care about themselves, having abandoned even basic survival instinct in favor of blind worship of Trump. When even their religious support is nothing but bullshit ass Prosperity Gospel liars trying to claim the White House is "Holy ground" because they're in it? Not to mention the same people continuing to try to turn Christianity into nothing but a Tribal belief for "Conservative" White people, and the Cross of Christ into either a flaming lawn ornament or a scary Tiki at the edge of the camp? Well my feeling basically is; All this money and media attention and supposed political acumen, and this is the best they can do?

The thing to consistently remember here is that the shitheads currently running conservatism have always been with us, and they've always been this stupid, and yeah maybe relatively decent people like me should've stayed in there a while longer and we could have kept a lid on it...but you go ahead and try and deal with nothing but endless Jesus-flavored venom for a week at a time

.A penny loaf to feed the Pope

A farthing o' cheese to choke him.

A pint of beer to rinse it down.

A fagot of sticks to burn him.

Burn him in a tub of tar.

Burn him like a blazing star.

Burn his body from his head.

Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.

Hip hip hoorah!

Hip hip hoorah hoorah!

Eventually, it got easier just to get away, especially since most people at the time preferred to ignore the threat these idiots posed to everything. Only in the last decade or so is the kind of awareness I had in, say 2003 starting to become all that widespread.

A decade ago it was a rare person who didn't look at me and my description of my experiences with religious nuts like I was the crazy one.

For all of their fake religiosity, all of their money and political scheming, this kind of crap is the best they can do. These fucking people are going to fail.

I'm not impressed with their bullshit, and I used to be one of them. I'm going to continue to vote for the other team.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,

I know of no reason

Why the Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot.