AmeriQa, A Prophecy (Fiery The Angels Fell, A Series, Part Two.)

Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner (A deliberate misquote of William Blake's America: A Prophecy.) 

You know, my read on Q-Anon a long time ago was that it was basically a mishmash of every other conspiracy theory to date, but strung together like a series of trailer park meth binges.

I've hit the point now where I feel like Q-Anon is basically that and worse; It's Christianity without Christ mixed with Nazism that's had the serial numbers poorly filed off, along with a bit of every other "ism" you could think of, as a hook. It's like the Medieval Catholic Church appropriating Pagan holidays and traditional festivals, but for conspiracy theories and far-right dipshittery

And these people really thought they were going places, they thought they were going to win and then...I don't know what. You can't actually prove bullshit that simply isn't there.

Then Trump lost the election and spent two months conspiracy-theorizing about it, and insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on his behalf, only to mostly wander around like dazed tourists and wreck shit like petty vandals, all the while looking not so much like a serious insurgent force but rather a bored petty Bourgeoisie whose idea of how to fight a war or how our government works fell somewhere between the Harry Potter movies, Jackass, and Tropic Thunder. and then these people were basically emotionally traumatized that anybody fought back or ran away, and apparently genuinely surprised when a shit ton of them got arrested and hit with serious charges.

The whole thing was, as I've been saying, less an effective operation and more some kind of attempt to immanentize some sort of right-wing eschaton. It's less Lucifer being thrown from Heaven by an angry God and more Old Scratch slipped on a banana peel, fell, and busted his face.

Then he got up and tried to claim he'd won a great victory.

Seriously, if these fucking people are The Revolution, I like my odds.

The Right has collectively been acting like it thinks it's Billy Badass more or less forever, and it's effectively been BTFO'd by an absolute minimum-level use of force. It'd be funny if...oh, who the hell am I kidding, it's hilarious. If these people ever actually do go for their guns and try to kill their neighbors, I have a feeling they're going to be really surprised when they figure out that the rest of us have guns too, but we know how to use ours. They'll get slaughtered in the streets and wonder why, and what's left of them will consider giving some people PTSD to have been "Owning the Libs" or something.

It's like I said yesterday when I found out that Kyle Rittenhouse had skipped out on his bail. Somebody really didn't give a fuck about that kid, or his future...or they'd have taught him not to do crimes. Somebody wanted to use him as a means to outsource their evil shit so they didn't get their own hands dirty, more like it.

Their entire mentality is childish and puerile and stupid, and it's become so obvious I think even a bunch of them are starting to realize it. It's not so funny to Congressional R's anymore when they can hear the mob baying for their blood, too.

It's absolutely no fucking wonder that Republicans desperately want everybody to forget about the whole thing and "move on" for the sake of "unity." I mean, if I went around acting like I was all that but then got beat up by Officer Sweetchuck I'd kind of feel that way too.

But still, these fucking people have their defenders, Marjorie Taylor Greene for one. In the space of just a couple weeks she's become the face...and likely, the future...of the Republican Party on a level that will likely eclipse Trump, but without his meteoric rise or winning the Presidency.

And yet, she too has her defenders, or at least her excusers like Meghan McCain, and people blaming everybody else but the conservative movement and the Republican Party for her...and their voters'...radicalization. In that respect, MTG absolutely doesn't have to go any further, win anything, or do anything other than keep getting elected in a district where she ran unopposed, and which is 85% White. 

It feels like the Q-Nuts are ascendant, but the truth is they're not, they don't have to be, and they don't need to go anywhere. Just hang on, and keep talking, and everybody else gets with the program or gets run out eventually. They have the time, and countless internet weirdos who will do the work for free.

That's how the nuts have always operated before. I've written about this. I just saw an excellent article written by somebody else. It's a false religion.

Yet in spite of that, these fucking people couldn't even close to get the votes to kick Liz Cheney out of her leadership position, but I'll note it was a secret vote. At this point, even Republicans are afraid of Republicans. Does any of this sound like a healthy, functional political party to you?

If it doesn't, just remember that it doesn't have to be. Hell, for that matter it doesn't want to be. Successful political parties are for the wine and cheese crowd, as Gym Jordan said yesterday. Republicans are the Beer and Blue Jeans party now. Beer, Blue Jeans and butt-rape by your wrestling coach while the Gentleman from Ohio looks the other way.

Some people really do want to be the fucking Taliban, complete with all the drugs, gun-happy illiterate fanaticism and pederasty. Allah Q Akbar, motherfuckers.

And worse, they want to wrap all that shit up in a uniquely American-sounding, yet also very anti-American blend of faux moral indignation and populism. Or, how dare you point out that not a one of us has the slightest fucking idea what we're doing. Along the way they've shredded every aspect of the reputations of Christianity and conservatism and lost control of the government, but maybe that Q Shaman guy can make a rap album when he gets out of jail.

And that's just it, no one fears consequences because even consequences can be monetized or turned into various forms of internet-fame. 

And the absolute last thing any one of these motherfuckers wants to do is have to think about it or have to have a functional plan. It's The Revolution, one fiscal quarter at a time. One Powerpoint presentation after another by some nutty lawyer who thinks if they master the right combination of magic words and phrases and screwy fonts and formats, the Keys to the Kingdom will become theirs and they will magically get what they want.

And if the rest of us don't stand up, or go back to sleep, or fall for bullshit Republican protestations of "Unity!" they just might.

So don't.

If you want a better country, be a better citizen, and stop believing in absolute bullshit.

I think, Sebastian, Therefore, I am. ~Pris, Blade Runner.

Part One.