Cometh Hell's Legions (American Revelation VII: Part Six.)

Jerry Landers: How can you permit all the suffering that goes on in the world?
God: Ah, how can I permit the suffering?
Jerry Landers: Yeah! 

God: I don't permit the suffering, you do. Free will. All the choices are yours.

~From the film Oh God.

I saw this yesterday. Some idiot conservative baseball (and politics) commentator literally joking about the fact that one of President Biden's two rescue dogs has died. As if the death of an innocent animal is funny. 

When the inevitable social media backlash happened, he doubled down. It's still ongoing. I had to block and report the fucking asshole, because my own dog passed away a month ago and I'm still dealing with that.

By the way, this chucklefuck writes for the National Review, in case you thought that shit was even worth using to line a ferret cage.

In any case, it's proof of the theory that the cruelty is the goddamned point, in miniature.

This dude thinks other creatures and people's suffering is funny. Of course, people like him anymore tend to think everything is funny, or some strange coincidence or weird conspiracy, because then they don't have to take responsibility for anything in life, not least of all their own shitty behavior. And when they get called out on it, they either blame everybody else but themselves, or double down infinitely in the hope that they can just shout louder than everybody else and their critics will go away. 

This is modern conservatism, yo. This is what they've become. It's genuinely hard to say whether the evil or the performative moronism is more of a driving force, as they seem so closely intertwined.

This weekend, Mike Pence got booed and called a traitor at the "Faith and Freedom coalition."

You know, just in case you ever thought that any of this crap was ever about faith or freedom. 

Well, I mean, in a very limited way it is, it's about their "freedom" to force their "faith" and their politics and their shitty social beliefs down your throat for no damned good reason other than their own power...

And Mike Fucking Pence doesn't qualify anymore.

Think about that for a second.

Mike Pence, the epitome of the Gingrich/Bush 43-era Ghoul, the clanking mechanical heart of the Party Of No, an Evangelical so old-fashioned he calls his wife "Mother." And this fucking guy isn't good enough for these assholes.

(But the thrice-married, adulterous, boorish incompetent-mass-murdering racist wannabe-dictator who thought the Pences were yokels for doing a normal thing like having pets is apparently superior to God Himself in these fucking people's debased imaginations, you just go right on ahead and think about that for a second.)

So far the "Faith and Freedom coalition" has featured such hits as Dr. Ronny "Candy Man" Jackson, former US Navy doctor and fucking drug dealer who should be in prison instead of Congress, opining that cheating in elections and rigging district maps is fine and the only valid politics is Republican politics, and Rick Scott still bitching about football players "Kneeling for the pledge of Allegiance." Because evidently conservative politics these days not only destroys people's morality, it also eats their brains right out of their damn heads.

You know, just in case you thought faith or freedom mattered worth a shit to these motherfuckers, who have also been quite busy all weekend opining that Juneteenth should not have been made a holiday, even as Rick Scott and Ronny Jackson (among others) were perfectly happy to take the day off themselves.

Of course, last week these same fucking people were all rooting for Vladimir Putin. As if we needed anymore proof that the conservative movement in general and the Republican Party in particular is morphing into an Anti-American and yes, anti-Christian terrorist group and it's not even doing it slowly anymore.

And when I say both Anti-American and Anti-Christian, yes, I mean exactly that.

Last week, before the Vatican told them no, US Catholic Bishops were threatening to deny Communion to Catholic Democrats over the issue of abortion.

How in the hell is that "Christian?"

These people stomp all over the Cross of Christ, deny His Word, selectively ignore the doctrines of their own Church and take God's name in vain every time they fucking say it. 

I mean, you can just tell that these Bishops resent having a Pope who doesn't dress like Liberace's stunt double or legitimize their petty hatreds/

No, it's not about Christ to them, It's about that people like them damn well remember when even the King might be not much more than an illiterate barbarian and they functionally ran European society while doing all type of fucked up shit supposedly in the Lord's name. 

And they got away with it until they got their ass handed to them over a couple centuries in the Crusades and people started gradually getting tired of their shit, and since then...basically since seconds after somebody finished wiping Marie Antionette's blood off that Guillotine blade, these cocksuckers and their anti-spiritual forebears have been trying to push back against the values of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the revolutions that ripped that ultimate power away from them. And ya know, it's funny how most of the countries where that rule was actually applied are mostly irreligious now. There's a fucking reason for that.

But of course this is America and we have no shortage of angry, willfully ignorant people who've been bamboozled by modern conservatism into thinking that the modern society that's all they've ever known is somehow the most evil thing in the world. Because, apparently, ignorance of this country's history and its purpose is so pervasive that these fucking fools would rather go back to the kind of governments our founding fathers rebelled against. 

Hell, not just kings, but even further, they want to go back to being Dark Ages peasants ruled from the shadows by effete Bishops dressed more ostentatiously than a goddamn Pride float because the King was an ignorant fucking moron who thought writing his own name was some high art form, but he had a big sword and the loyalty of a bunch of like-minded lesser ignorant buffoons and all any of them wanted was a chance to live high off the hog and an enemy to go and fight, and the Church was only too happy to legitimize this for the sake of its own power for around a thousand years before things even started to go sideways.

And nothing ever changes with certain kinds of people because just as there are always scheming assholes who seek to do no work and have unaccountable power and privilege for it, there will always be those who will hand power to such people because they themselves don't want to do the hard work of life, or simply don't want to think about anything.

Life is so much easier when somebody else tells you what to do, according to some people. Then they'll get drunk or do so much drugs that they pass out in the street because hey, their cause of "Owning the Libs" is so righteous or something, It's not like they're shit people who surround themselves with other shit people and want shit people to rule over them, or anything...and then they basically expect everybody else to be their goddamned therapist and how the fuck does that work, exactly?

But our Founders, rooted in Enlightenment values, knew that the only way for our country to remain free, long term, was to have an informed, thinking citizenry that was active and held government to account.

But for some people it's apparently easier to be some kind of illiterate goon spewing profanities at the world, who would not be out of place in Taliban-era Afghanistan (and who looks and acts like he'd be just fine with all the drugs and shit) to assault a police officer on camera and then have his lawyer try and say he didn't do what he had somebody record him doing.

And here's the thing, he thinks you're the stupid one, if you accept modern American society.

Even though he's never lived under anything else, either, even though in the world he wanted, he'd likely end up being the catamite tied to the back of the truck until the local warlord got horny, if he didn't just plain end up dead.

These people somehow end up with massively overinflated views of their own competence and toughness because they watch movies like Die Hard and think they're going to be John McClane.

And the bitter old manipulators who hang back in the shadows are only too happy to whisper in their ears and send them against the rest of us, knowing they'll likely lose, but not caring just the same.

Because the cruelty, the damage done to society, and the death is the fucking point.

And they'll hold up some bloated demented bozo who looks like death warmed over with a coat of orange paint to these illiterate barbarians as their "reward" if they succeed. Worse, the idiots will go for it because the idea of some fool like Donald Trump being in power entertains them or tickles their ears or they want the racism and the stupidity.

And when this horrific bullshit ultimately kills a few thousand US military personnel, tens of thousands of insurgents and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians regardless of their political persuasion, and inflicts endless horrors on our divided country, people like that Baseball Crank motherfucker and the Bishops will laugh about it if they think no one is listening, because the cruelty and destruction is all they really care about.

This is American Revelation, and cometh hell's legions.

Now what are you going to do about it?

That's not just the real question, it's the only question that even matters.

The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." ~Ronald Reagan

Part Five.