Let the weak say "I am strong." (Immanentizing The Eschaton, Part Three)

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. ~Joel 3:10

A friend of mine posted this earlier today. Evidently, Arizona Senator Krysten Sinema has been wearing colorful wigs to work, and "Conservatives" are losing their shit over it.

My reaction? "So? Why does this matter?"

It shouldn't, but as somebody pointed out, apparently conservatives are terrified of non-standard hair colors.

I'd just like to point out that these fucking people tend to be the all go no quit big nuts capitalist in-your-face gun nuts...and they're losing it over...a Senator wearing a wig?

I mean, the fuck?!

These are the very same fucking people who are basically one stupid incident or a couple more outrageous statements away from potentially plunging the United States into a civil war because they're trying to suppress protests against police brutality and racism with...more police brutality and racism and it's not working and they keep getting angrier and angrier about it...

And they can't handle a woman wearing a wig because she can't get her hair done thanks to a pandemic they're also doing their hell-bent level best to do nothing about.

I'm going to be honest, the longer this farce goes on, the more I keep thinking that this is not going to turn out the way they think it's going to turn out.

They don't have the support of most of the people they need to have the support of to make this play, nor the support of the public nor the courage of their convictions and if they can't even manage to control peace-loving hippie Portland, what makes them think they won't get their ass kicked up between their shoulder blades in rough-and-tumble Chicago or nasty-as-fuck-when-it-wants-to-be New York City?

I'm telling you, what of these assholes survive will cry like little girls as they are led to the gallows, or they'll have to be carried to be put up against the wall for the firing squad.

And none of it will fucking matter in the end, at least not for long.

Because while that's happening those rich fat cat motherfuckers who bankrolled these assholes and all this garbage will be sipping margaritas and getting blowjobs from teenage hookers on the beach in some tropical non-extradition-treaty country.

And, unless we can learn very quickly to all pull in the same direction and drown out this madness before it gets out of control and show up in sufficient numbers that we vote the Republicans out down to the local County Road Commissioner and shit...if we insist on fighting out an internal conflict in the middle of a global pandemic...millions of people are going to die.

Mostly for no good reason, because if you think the mere fact of the conflict itself would be devastating enough...there's a million second- and third- and downward-order effects to consider because there will be disruptions in the supply chains for every imaginable thing and we're already having that because of Coronavirus. You do the math.


And here's the bloody truth, as best I can tell it to you.

The Republican voter base, the people who will actually do the fighting and the dying are just fine with that.

They don't care if Grandma can't get her medication or if Papa dies because he can't get his insulin or if Swiper the Ferret dies for lack of proper food, so long as they get to kill some Black people or some liberals or have their boot on someone else's throat or assert their white conservative manhood with rape and war crimes before they die. They'd rather burn down America than see Black people get a share.

And as the political situation starts to spiral out of control and the George Floyd protesters refuse to back down and the Trump administration has to turn to low-rent contractors and rent-a-thugs to try to suppress it and the virus comes roaring back, that is exactly what's going on here. Lots of These Fucking People seem to think they're losing, don't take my word for it, look at the shit they post.

Unsaid, but strongly implied, is that apparently lots of these people don't seem to think Trump is going to save them anymore.

And they don't care about that, either. They just want to have their boot on somebody else's throat before they die. All they really needed Trump for was to wind them up and give them permission.

Like I said, Immanentizing their shitty right-wing Eschaton requires sacrifices...and their political and thought leaders and radio talkers and smarmy Fox News talking heads and various ideologues and wealthy backers are ready and willing to sacrifice as many of them and their families as it takes to get the job done.

If they can't have some kind of unchallenged hegemony that (mostly) exists only in their own heads and their own idealized reminiscences of the 1950's they want to burn America and civilization down around their ears, and break off a piece and try to found some shitty little banana republic or something. And then, in their minds anyway, they'll basically declare war on the rest of the world, starting with their fellow Americans. Fortunately (for us anyway) most of us don't conform to their stupid stereotypes.

But ya know, even if we did...they've literally decided to pick a fight in probably the city that is the closest one in America to meeting the right-wing stereotype of "liberals" as a bunch of peace-loving pot-smoking dirty unwashed weirdo  hippies...and the weirdo hippies and assorted other Portland residents aren't backing down.

And of course, these fucking people can't understand why. Seems like the wannabe fascists and shitty fucking racists never do.

And then there's people like this idiot, Randy Hoff, who seems to think that Democrats should "take a stand" against their local elected officials (that they voted for) and who thinks Democratic-run cities are somehow "more dangerous than Iraq." Ya know, that was after my time but I know several people including some of my own bros that went to Iraq and none of them are saying that those cities are "More dangerous than Iraq.

But on the other hand, what Acting Deputy Ken and Chad "The Tennis Pro" Wolf are saying is that Americans shouldn't have a right to defend themselves, or to protect themselves from chemical weapons or from getting shot in the face, that we should, for the greater glory of Donald Trump, just lie down and take it.

Like hell.

Protesting is a human right, and to resist is human nature. I can't put it any more simply than that.

Listen, assholes, if you fail at America that hard, that's not on me, and I'm not going to lay down and take it, and I think such an idea is Un-American to tell you the truth.


This operation in Portland, and whatever other efforts like it actually materialize, though I find the prospect doubtful, are not legit law enforcement or even recognizable counterinsurgency operations even under our own laws. It's in fact, an effort to get around those very laws in the search to find a Cassus Belli so these fucking people can start a civil war.

And if it helps with Trump's reelection, great. Thing is, if anything it seems to be hurting him.

But here's the kicker. Nobody's going for it, and it's getting them worried or pissing them off, if not both.

Not one damned bit of any of this is necessary. Trump's base that he ginned up into a mob right out the gate has been talking this kind of shit a lot longer than Trump has been in politics.

They don't care about laws or legality or needing a reason.

The only way we defeat this crap is to show up in such overwhelming numbers that they're afraid to try and pull some bullshit. Otherwise, they probably won't get all of America, but they're going to get somewhere...and they will use that as a base from which to attack the rest of us and turn their Culture War into a shooting war.

We can stop this, but only if we all pull together and stand up against this bullshit.

Part Two.

Part Four.