The Cake Is A Lie (Vaccination Diaries, Page One.)

 (In accordance with standard procedure, if you can't handle hard shit, here's a cute picture of a Ferret. Have a nice day. Be warned, this post is going to offend some people.)

There's a man goin' 'round takin' names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same
There'll be a golden ladder reachin' down
When the man comes around

The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter's ground?
When the man comes around

Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin'
Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettledrum
Voices callin', voices cryin'
Some are born and some are dyin'
It's alpha and omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks ~Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around

I got the first shot of the vaccination for COVID-19 this morning.

Question: Does the first shot automatically enroll a person in the New World Order, or do you have to wait for the second one?

Seriously it's a valid question.

Also, I was told there would be sexual immorality, but the only people loudly and publicly committing sexual immorality or defending the same appear to all be Republicans, and what the hell fun is that?

I mean these fucking people have been yawping on and on for a year about how the COVID-19 vaccine (that did not exist for most of this time) was some kind of Trojan Horse Mark Of The Beast type of shit. Never mind what Revelation actually says, they be rollin.' Seriously, my arm doesn't even hurt. You'd think if I'd somehow secretly sold my soul to demons this morning because something something Gazpacho, that there would at least be pain.

Instead, the only pain that I feel is from being reminded yet again that every single thing I believed in for two thirds of my life, including shit that I put my own ass on the line for, appears to have been a lie.

Over the last several days the Republican Party has been furiously attacking corporations since a number of companies announced their opposition to voter suppression efforts by Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere, followed by a half ass effort by all the "Cancel Culture" haters to *Cancel Culture* all those companies...because of course in the mind of modern Republicans, capitalism and property rights (both those of corporations and of people) must be broken on the rack of racism and cut wide open and bled out upon the altars of fear and hate by the high priests of...whoever the Republican Jesus is today...and then forced to bow before the Shitty Republican Agenda before they die.

And the worst part is, half these motherfuckers don't know what it is, and the other half don't dare share that information with the public.

Because the truth is, Republicans would rather bend the knee to a king or bow down before a dictator than live with the rest of us in a free society. It's for this reason that I think all this social tension will eventually end up in a shooting war.

I find it interesting that as soon as corporations take a step in acting to protect the interests of their customers and to protect their own markets from further conflict and instability caused by Republican incompetence, the Republicans immediately turn on Capitalism...Charlie Kirk here takes a moment to compare capitalism to higher education because Booga Booga Booga something you have to have these days simply to have enough knowledge to make it in the world is somehow dangerous, a new thing, and scary. 

Fun fact, motherfuckers, as I've written rather extensively before, when I was in college I was a conservative. In point of fact, that, my interest in history and my strong beliefs on a number of subjects all worked in my favor and tended to make me a person people sought out, more often than not fora positive reasons. I mean for fuck's sake in those days I was not only tight with a group of Muslim international students, I had a hell of a lot of friends that were quite liberal...because I was an intelligent opposite viewpoint, because I would treat people with respect even as I engaged their ideas with extreme prejudice, and because I knew my shit on more subjects than I didn't...which is more than can be said for a lot of these fucking people today.

And I had the respect of people on both sides of the fence because I believed in peace, I was seriously against the Iraq War because of my convictions and because of actual life experience in that part of the world, not in spite of them. It was an unpopular view at the time, but I was used to holding views that were unpopular, in mixed company, and holding my own.

The thing is, modern Republicans think they're too good for all that.

When the truth is, if they don't manage to persuade new voters to join them, give it a few years and there won't be a Republican Party.

If you have a problem with higher education in a world where even a working stiff in a non-technical field has to be both computer-literate and internet-savvy to do basic shit like fill out a job application or file for unemployment and where simply keeping up with current events requires a basic knowledge of a lot of shit...the problem isn't higher education, the problem is you.

The truth is, Republicans want their followers to be simple-assed morons because simple-assed morons are a lot easier to take advantage of. 

That's all.

There's no common philosophical element to all this bullshit these days except utterly base manipulation on a level that'd do Big Brother...or Old Joe Stalin...proud. More to the point, Republicans know this and a lot of them are proud of it.

This crap makes me wonder what all those years of studying End Times Prophecy stuff was even for, ya know?

The days of people being able to do simple ass bullshit jobs and make a good living while not having to interact with anybody different from them done been over for awhile now.

In point of fact the easy ass bubble that a lot of white idiots liked to live in done got popped mostly because they decided to elect a moron and perpetuate conflict for its own sake...or for nothing more than their own debased entertainment...and then they're surprised when the apple-cart they decided to upset lands on their own damned foot.

And then people are surprised when the man the Right wanted to wield as a weapon against common decency in all respects...turns around and scams the shit out of the donors?

(And no, Trump was never the point. He's a figurehead, a symptom of all this shit. Trump was the ringmaster of bread and circuses while Republicans have been plotting to steal democracy, install themselves as dukes and barons and reduce the rest of us to serfdom for awhile.

Trump just made a handy diversion, and if it all turned bad on them, they could turn around and blame him.

Except that won't work either, because Trump is even now a lot more popular with their voter base than they are.

And what's all this crap even for, anyway?

Republican proclivities lean towards ancient ideas of altar and throne with big fat helpings of bread and circuses to keep the mob entertained, because a mob is far easier to control than an active, engaged citizenry while fostering division between people.

So now they're trying to take the goddamned vote away from people...and if you think that would ever stop with Black folks, well you have another thing coming.

And anything you thought you'd get out of this, you won't.

The cake is a lie, remember that.

And so is the Republican.