God Of War (Immanentizing the Eschaton, Part One)

Our nation is founded on the principle that we do not have kings. We have presidents. And the Constitution is our compass. When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Our children and their children will ask us, ‘What did you do? What did you say?' For some, he concluded, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history. ~John Lewis

This week, unknown and unmarked Federal agents driving unmarked, and apparently rented vans started snatching peaceful protesters and random people off the streets in Portland, Oregon. Far from some "Dirty War" disappearing people type of shit, they're apparently interrogating people and/or charging them with assorted misdemeanors and then letting them go, claiming vandalism and assorted other minor crimes as a justification. I know this because I read several articles about what's going on that quoted these people or referred to their stories. It's like the Argentine Dirty War, but run by Cartman from South Park.

As I've written previously, this is just another bullshit war dance attempt to intimidate people because conservatives and the Trump administration are freaked out by the George Floyd protests and seem to be positively terrified of Black Lives Matter.

But perhaps more to the point, they're freaked out that the protests have gone on for as long as they have. Normally, Americans get bored and move on to other things and shit, as we saw with COVID-19 when the protests started in the first place.

They can't count on people getting bored and going away, and using force not only doesn't seem to be working...but is, generally speaking, making things worse for Republicans in the counts of public opinion.

And as usual these fucking people have no goddamned idea what they're doing.

They have no idea what they're doing or where they're going, because they refuse to stop and think about how they got here in the first place. More to the point the absolute last thing that these fucking people want to do is address the root cause of how we got here in the first place.

Because that would mean confronting their own racism.

If you're afraid of Black Lives Matter, you're a racist. It doesn't get much simpler than that. The same people who bitch endlessly about "Cancel Culture" have been trying to cancel Black people for years. After all, what the hell do you think "All Lives Matter" was really about. 

This is especially interesting, considering that the actual main thrust of Republican policy at this point is that No Lives Matter, and when these fucking people can even convince their followers to not care about their own lives or have basic survival instinct to the point where we have to make laws telling people to do the most basic stuff (like wear a damn mask) to protect themselves from a deadly virus.

And in part, because lots of these people simply don't understand human nature or people other than themselves, they live in echo chambers, and their own followers are so easily manipulated...they can't or won't or outright refuse to understand why anybody would resist them in the first place.

And it's not a stretch at all, at this point, to say that the boot-lickers, cultists, dead-enders and next of kin who make up the Republican Party in general and Trumpism in particular at this point collectively have no conscience.

Thankfully, they've apparently lost the support of much of the government and the military, and they've outright demonized and othered a number of other Federal agencies such as the FBI and the wider Intelligence community. Hell, there's even a number of large, active groups of Republican former partisans and voters who are against Trump, not to mention the rest of us.

That's why they're using a bullshit ass collection of assorted Federal cops for this shit, because that's what they've got left.

But of course these fucking people can't or won't see that. Let them beat their plowshares into swords and their pruning hooks into spears and let the weak say I am a mighty man. That is exactly what's going on here.

If Trump gets voted out and tries to stay in power anyway, we're basically going to wake up the next morning and find that we live not in a United States of America, but rather in 50 little countries...and we'll have to work our way back up from there.

Note that the Chinese, the Russians, and a host of others would love nothing more than to see us shatter ourselves on the egos, insecurities, and venality of people like Donald Trump.

But of course these fucking people don't see it that way. They see themselves as Immanentizing the Eschaton, as I wrote the other day. They want to bring about [their version of] God's kingdom on the Earth, create heaven on Earth, yes, but only for themselves.

But see, you can't do that, because everybody's concept of God or heaven or whatever is different. Historically, such things always eventually fail and usually leave a hell of a lot of dead people in their path. Trumpism won't be any different, lunatic dreams create a nightmare for the sane, always.

And I can't stress it enough that these people don't have the slightest idea where they're going, because they don't know how they got here. Oh, they know where they think they're going, but when your beliefs have no basis in reality...well, you can believe whatever you want...but reality is under no obligation to play along. That's where we're at.

But even that's on purpose. Fools universally see "Ass backwards into the unknown" as some kind of a good thing. In my experience, they quite often think it's funny.

Do you think if Mike Pompeo knew anything more than how to be a suckass and yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir like a good junior line officer...that he'd even still be here?

But right here, in talking about the 1619 Project and calling it a "Dark View Of America" well that right there tells me that Mike Pompeo is just another fearful racist right-wing scumbag who probably was never worthy to wear the uniform in the first place.

People who are secure in their own beliefs are not threatened by the beliefs or the history of others. Unlike the Great White Men narrative of history, or for that matter the Lost Cause, nobody is trying to impose the 1619 Project on everybody else, least of all not the people who actually did it.

But these fucking people are so afraid, and so racist, and in possession of such a guilty conscience, that simply acknowledging slavery or the fact that Black people might have their own history here in America threatens not only these people's self-esteem but even their very concept of reality.

There was a time when you could be a conservative without being a fearful idiot or a racist or some kind of fanatic, but those days are long past, apparently. That's a damn shame and I say that as somebody who used to be a conservative.

But these fools don't understand that, because they don't care about the past, nor do they care about the future. It's always right now and whatever they have to do or say to make it through the day.

And because they're so overwhelmed with fear, having set everything they ever said they believed on fire for Donald Trump, then lost whatever mojo they'd cast over this country for so long, and ultimately given up their own soft power and even basic survival instincts, they're going to try to bring forth their own demon-haunted world so that they can immanentize their own shitty little eschaton and bow down in worship of the all powerful Transcendent State. Not a state of actual transcendence, but the government, as they imagine that it's totally under their control. This is what happens when the religious people don't really believe in their own gods. And they'd rather kill the rest of us than have us find out that most of them never actually believed in any of this stuff anyway, except for racism and shitty nihilism.

They'd rather start a war than lose an election, and they'd rather destroy themselves and kill everybody than actually face who and what they are.

Adjust your expectations accordingly.

Vote them out.

And then be prepared to fight them off.

That's really all there is to it.

Part Two.