For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:24-27 I saw this stupid bullshit last night.
Apparently, there's people who think Bill Gates somehow swamped Texas with fake snow because something something Gazpacho let's mess with Texas. These fucking people apparently don't know basic science like freezing and warming, nor understand that water can exist not only as a liquid but as a gas or a solid as well.
I'm from Michigan, it'd take me like five seconds to prove to these people that they're full of shit. *Smack* Did that fuckin' snowball feel fake to you? There, now that's enough of that bullshit, I have to deal with this shit for anywhere from three to five months out the year, get over your damn self and be glad this is the first goddamned time you've had to put up with it in your life.
I remember my first really big, power-grid crashing blizzard when I was like five years old. My Dad and my Grandpa spent most of the day after it stopped, digging out so we could leave the house, then digging a path to the garage, then digging the garage out so they could get the truck out to plow, then plowing the driveway and digging out the cars so my parents could go to work and shit.
And we lived in my grandparents' mobile home at the time, which sat at a relative high point, unfortunately as I remember it the wind was blowing crossways so it piled up worse on the side where the front porch was, but at least we could get the door open and digging out was a downhill slog until we got to the level of the driveway and the road.
I remember the snow being piled up higher than my Dad was tall. Sitting on his shoulders when we went out to the car to go somewhere a few days later, the snow was just about eye level for me.
And that was just one fucking memorable year, when I was a kid. Truth is, more winters were like that than not back in the day.
Had Texas and all its little fly-by-night power companies and rich assholes who put profits over basic common sense taken the basic preparations any goddamn Michigan or northern tier county has to in any given winter as a matter of course, y'all wouldn't have had this damn problem. Trying to blame others and rationalize it just makes you look childish and really fucking dumb. Conspiracy-theorizing your own mistakes just makes you look fucking retarded and I ain't sorry for saying so.
Y'all like the idiot who thinks he's saving money by not changing the oil in his car and then when the engine seizes up and he needs to get a new one he acts surprised.
Get. Over. Yo. Damn. Self.
But that's the hard part with conspiracy theorists, and the conspiratorially-minded, isn't it?
It is ever and always, always going to be all about them. Because low-grade mental illness and narcissistic stupidity are apparently more fun than paying your bills and doing the shit you gotta do.
Climate Change doesn't care about your culture war, and it laughs at your "Libertarian" beliefs.
Old dame Nature doesn't give a fuck whether you "own the libs" or not. In point of fact, if that's what your focus is and you don't maintain your stuff or weatherize because you're used to it always being warm out, well eventually she gonna own your ass and it's not because of partisan affiliation.
It's basic laws of physics and the sciences. There's always a hard wall of reality you're going to run into sooner or later, that you can't figure or manipulate or politically spin your way out of. Certain things have to be done the right way, every damn time, or shit breaks. Karl Rove was wrong.
If you've ever owned a car, or a computer or a house, or in any way ever had to work on any of that shit yourself, you should damn well know this. You should damned well not need to be told. And if you're somebody who's done any of that stuff, you should damned well not listen to somebody who hasn't, or to some city-slicker who just pays to get somebody else to do it and then makes decisions based on ideology or profit rather than experience.
I mean, come on. I'm a computer guy, at least by training. Do you really think Microsoft Snow would even work without a half-dozen patches and a service pack?
But you know, I'm here to tell you that it's not just ignoring the hard sciences for financial and political profit that's a problem, it's ignoring the softer ones too, and in a way that's just as bad if not worse.
A DC Metro police officer got assaulted during the Capitol insurrection by an ex-NYPD officer who kept screaming that he was a "Fucking Commie Motherfucker."
Communism in the United States effectively disintegrated in 1939 when the Soviets switched from promoting improved race relations and workers rights to pushing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and peace with Nazi Germany. Communism hasn't been a thing on a global scale since 1989. The Soviet Union fell in 1991.
Even the Chinese and the Cubans and the Vietnamese aren't really Communists anymore.
It's 2021, please try to keep up.
But I've frankly heard more people bitching about Communism in the last year than I ever did in my entire life before that, including when Communism was actually a thing. I'm quite honestly sick of it and in this day and age when American corporations and almost especially profit-minded conservatives routinely outsource much of our manufacturing economy to the Chinese it's downright farcical anti-reality bullshit to even talk about it. Communism hasn't been a thing since 1989.
I know, I watched it fall live on CNN. I watched ordinary Germans take sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall while East German border guards...armed and trained the same way as Red Army soldiers...stood by slackly with rifles slung. I watched revolution after revolution claim the East Bloc and the people who lived under it be
the very ones to tear down the Iron Curtain.
I wrote about it.
I also
wrote about how there's people in America who'd rather live through the horror of a nuclear war and the end of the world than deal with social change. The same people who constantly bitch about "Cancel culture" i.e. the consequences of their actions would gladly "Cancel" Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and their greatest accomplishments in ending the first Cold War without it turning into a major, and potentially nuclear, world war.
Because honestly, these fucking people's greatest fear or most hated enemy was never Soviet Communists or even the Capitalism-funded Chinese kind and their vast armies against which we decided the best response was better equipment, weapons and training. No, their enemy was always their neighbors, the Black people down the road, the moderate conservatives who prevented their paranoid bullshit from taking over. The enemy was always The Rest Of Us.
And when they made that their actual platform and the focus of their politics they lost.
Oh, hey, maybe treating the majority of the people in this country like dirt and rubbing your dicks all over America wasn't the solid electoral strategy that you thought it was.
Just as science says there's empirically testable laws that define our existence that anyone can learn and use to find answers, even religion...even Christianity teaches that at the end, the truth will be visible to all. The purpose of conspiracy theories is not to seek after the truth in some unconventional, wonkish way, but rather to obscure it.
This is becoming painfully obvious.
And what's the Republicans' response? They're trying to do it even more.
The Virginia Republican Party is having a drive-in nominating convention for all its statewide offices at Liberty University of all places, at only one specific date and time. Republicans' response to recent events, to national electoral defeat, to getting walloped in the last several statewide elections in Virginia, is to double down infinitely and become even more esoteric and exclusionary and opaque and to do so in a way and at a place that suggests anyone outside of a very specific set of religious and social values is unwelcome.
It's not a political party anymore, it's a cult.
Adjust your expectations accordingly.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~George Orwell, 1984.
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