Zero Sum (Pillars Of Qreation, Part Two.)

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. ~Revelation 9:4-7

Martha McSally wants you to not have food to eat. She literally wants you to go without a meal...for the sake of her political campaign, and give her the money you'd spend on food. Keep in mind that she's by definition wealthy, or she wouldn't be a fucking Senator, or have the connections that were what got her appointed to the position in the first damn place.

But it's the way she puts it, that I find infuriating. She wants to use the idiom of religious practice and self-denial...your self-denial, not her own...to boost the chances of her sagging Senatorial campaign.

How about no?

All things considered, I once tried to expect more from Martha McSally, who was once upon a time one of the first female fighter pilots in the United States Air Force, the first to fly the A-10 Thunderbolt II, and who seemed, in those days, to be a fairly competent and decent person. I guess that assessment was wrong.

Makes you wonder if Captain (later Colonel) McSally's call sign was "Blue Falcon."

But ya know, it gets worse than that, a lot worse.

These people want you to be religious because it's easier to pick your pockets if your head is bowed and eyes closed in prayer and that also makes it harder for you to read the fact-check, so it's a win-win.

They want you whooping it up and baying for someone else's blood because then the hounds that might restrain their own actions or hold them accountable are off the trail.

They want you equating right-wing politics with Christianity, and in fact teach modern so-called "Conservatism" as Christianity simply because in the end, it's a great tool for fooling the feeble-minded and getting people to give them money or accord them power or special privileges. They want funny hats and secret handshakes and exclusive secret societies and most of all, unaccountable power so that they can force people to have to pretend to follow their religion and ultimately, to give them money and more power.

No, no amount of money or power will ever actually be enough. They will always want more. And it's always easier to get stupid people to give you stuff if you convince them that you know magic words and phrases. Do you notice how the Q-stuff is now pretty much just woven in without hashtag or pretext?

Conspiracy theories and religion offer them power and profit and the ability to denounce and kill others without accountability. Democracy, facts, and truth do not give them any of that. So yeah, you tell me which side these motherfuckers were going to end up on. Sure, they could have better beliefs, better policies, do the work of governance and outreach, but they don't want to. Besides, it's much easier and more fun to simply denounce your opponent as the Devil and hope like hell your mush-minded followers buy into it.

And then they wonder why everything's a goddamned soup sandwich right now, and two thirds of America hates them. More to the point, they wonder why they can't reach out and expand their coalition beyond conspiracy theorists, racists, religious nuts and scoundrels.

I have to wonder if, now that he's out of jail and supposedly converted to Evangelical Christianity, Roger Stone will go the route of Chuck Colson, who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries and try to help people because of his experiences?

Or will he just go back to being the same kind of self-aggrandizing little dick peddling some variation of the same bullshit line he's been peddling since the Nixon administration, with a nice little side-stop at the Swingers club?

I'm going to go with Option Two, here. And people like Pastor Greg Locke won't even care, because it never really was about any of that.

It never was about God, or Jesus, or Conservatism and it sure as hell wasn't about America.

It's about their shitty selfish beliefs and their zero sum economic and social policies and the fact that yes, they do want to kill you and take your stuff, or reduce you to abject misery, because they cannot feel like Men unless they see somebody else suffering and can convince themselves it's for their benefit.

God ain't got one damned thing to do with it.

And if God needs them to protect Him, then He is not God.

One of these things is not like the other one. No, Two plus Two does not equal Five and never will.

It's as simple as that.

I'm starting to wonder if we're seeing the birth of a new religion, or at least a new religious movement. It'll be like those Rama Rama Ding Ding nutty cultists one used to find at airports in the 1970's, but the first thing they try and do is take your wallet.

The difference is, as goofy and corrupt as they were, the Rajneesh followers and shit didn't control half the government.

Think about that for a second.

Part One.