Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
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 24:23-27Last night at work, I saw this.
I very much got a "Behold, he is in the desert!" vibe from it. "Behold, he is in the secret chambers!" and naturally, I didn't believe it. But then, I never did.
In fact, I got a vibe of a profound sense of satisfaction on the part of the people who posted the snipped Tweets. Trump might not be the President anymore, but that just means they don't have to share. As if any of the rest of us would want the motherfucker.
Trump still gets the adulation, although perhaps a little less of it. He still gets to golf, and he apparently has conservative influencers and Republican elected officials or those aspiring to run for office coming to see him all the time. He still gets to be the powerbroker, without any of the responsibility.
Pardon me for thinking he's not ever going to run for President again. He doesn't have to.
Why be President when you can be the Big Man, God-Emperor, Potentate Of All Republicans and any future Republican President while you're still alive is going to have to de facto answer to you, lest they face the wrath of the mob?
And any Republicans who stand up to this horse shit, and increasingly stand up to the purveyors of it within Congress, will find themselves on the wrong side of the personality cult.
And this is life in America now. We have our own national Anti-President, or perhaps more appropriately, Antichrist.
These fucking people were thirsting so badly for someone to bow down to that they selected... *Checks Notes* Donald Trump?
Sounds about right.
Except it's not, really.
Like the label of "Conservatism" itself, it's misleading. Such a label is completely outdated, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush were conservatives, but there's nothing there if you look in that particular spot.
Just like [modern] conservatism isn't about conserving anything anymore and hasn't been so for over a generation now, Trumpism itself is nothing but a hologram. It's basically Newt Gingrich wearing a bad wig and an orange face mask.
Trumpism is a hologram, it's the same old shitty bullshit that Newt Gingrich made seem like a new thing in 1994, or that Barry Goldwater first put into a cohesive national platform in 1964 only to back away from later, or that numerous far-right Republicans and segregationist Democrats said for basically forever before that.
"Fuck you, I've got mine, but I want yours too." and we'll call that "Freedom" and "Liberty." The freedom to do what I want, my liberty to have power over you, what you want doesn't actually matter. That's modern conservatism and Republicanism in a nutshell. Everything else is just noise, or made-up bullshit to distract the masses from that truth.
When somebody tells you who they are, believe them the first time.
What Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls freedom and rule of law sounds to me like classism, homophobia, misogyny, racism and transphobia. Republican politics is no longer about limited government and lower taxes, it's become about creating a fascist nanny-state to forcibly advance the interests of only one specific type of person.
If people like Josh Hawley and Sarah Huckabee Sanders had their way, the government would indeed make all of your decisions for you, but those decisions would look suspiciously like those of rural white Christian Fundamentalist nuts from Arkansas or Missouri. Doesn't matter one damn bit to them if that's not you, what you're like, who you are as a person is irrelevant to these fucking people because they have their own mythos they desire to uphold to paper over the holes in their own egos and satisfy their own endless hate and racism. They don't need a life, they have a narrative!
They want to have a transcendent State to worship, meaning a government that they control to try to force their dominance over our culture, and for no better reason than they do not really believe in God, except as a rationalization.
And it's not working, in no small part because all they can do is react. They could face reality, and the world as it is and be proactive, or think ahead but that would require that they adapt and change and have a little foresight and maybe accept some more people and more kinds of people. But to do that, in and of itself, is apostasy to them.
Now here's the kicker, if bearded men in desert robes who shouted "Allah Akbar" were doing the same exact thing, these same Republicans would be demanding war and claiming they wanted to defend oppressed peoples, and hoping you ignore the Lockheed Martin stock options and that the fighter jets don't actually work.
And the day will come when they will try to break off a piece of this country, to declare war against modern multicultural, pluralistic life and social change. I think they've recognized...I think they recognized a long time ago that they would not ever control the government or our culture enough to do that and they were hoping that the virus would even their odds a bit. I've written about this before, too.
But that's not working either, yet within their own ranks nearly half of them are doubling down on it, to their ultimate peril. I'll be damned if I understand the logic of it. Personally, I think it's a death cult and a lot of these fucking people simply have a death wish...and they hope to take as many of them down with us as they can.
Because that's what power is, to them.
Those who do not believe in eternal life always think that the taking of earthly life is the greatest expression of power.
And that's what the Mark Of The Beast truly represents, the acceptance of the false worldly system over He whose kingdom is not of this world.
Welcome to Revelation.
“‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen." ~Ezekiel 16:49-50
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