Trinity's Child

 

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.  The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same.  And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan

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Capt. Ramsey: Think it was a mistake, Mr. Hunter?

Hunter: Sir?

Capt. Ramsey: Using the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hunter: Well, if I thought that, sir, I wouldn't be here.

Capt. Ramsey: Interesting way you put that.

Hunter: How'd I put it, sir?

Capt. Ramsey: Very carefully. [Chuckles]

~From the film Crimson Tide.

Today in Washington D.C. dozens of far-right nuts rallied against the mostly-imagined injustices inflicted upon the 1/6 insurrectionists in the so-called "Justice for J6" rally.

There were far more cops and reporters than there were wannabe insurrectionists this time.

That, to me, is considerably less important than some of the sentiments expressed during this stupid clown show.

One woman said she would celebrate if somebody dropped a nuclear bomb on the Capitol building.

Congressional Republicans presumably declined to comment.

Also, it seems to me that this idiot doesn't understand that she's clearly well inside the blast radius of even a small tactical nuclear weapon.

Nor that since only nation-states possess nuclear weapons, that such an act would cause millions of deaths and start a war. She seems not to understand that not only would millions of Americans be killed or wounded but so would people from that other country. 

I'm a United States Air Force Bomb Wing veteran, having served as a member of the 410th Security Police Squadron, part of the 410th Bomb Wing, once stationed at K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, near Marquette in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan...and after that, after the BUFFS were flown out to Minot and Sawyer closed, I finished out my time as a member of the 91st Security Police (later Security Forces) Group at Minot AFB in North Dakota. There was a slight detour by way of Italy and Bosnia.

When you've been a part of stuff like that, even in some small way, you have it impressed on you just how fucking dangerous this stuff is, how everything has to be done in the right order, the right way, the first time, and just how big and fucked up of a deal it all is. This shit could end all life on Earth if we're not careful. Nuclear weapons aren't something to fuck around with.

And this dumb narcissistic bitch wants somebody to drop a nuclear weapon on the seat of our own government?

Why?

Functionally, because to this dumb cunt who lives in the right-wing bubble, her stupid beliefs are literally more important to her than people's lives. If it doesn't drop black rain containing nuclear fallout on her parade and cause her hair to fall out and cause her to get radiation sickness and cancer and die and then pollute her bloodline for generations after, well, even nuclear war doesn't really exist.

And if it did do all that then it's Hell Hath No Fury and why didn't somebody warn us and who's damn fault is all this anyway?

And whatever happened to that nice young gentleman who represented her district, anyway?

I mean, seriously, I get that these people are fucking morons and that it only, ever and always gets worse and that these people are utter moral bottomless pits but Jesus Christ, could we have a little consistency, logic or at least self-preservation here?

Apparently these people are not only stupid, nihilistic fanatics but they are good and goddamned well willing to die in a nuclear blast not only to "Own the Libs" but to "Own" Congressional Republicans and all those agencies and units and people who would then have to go out and do terrible and unspeakable things as a result and then spend the rest of whatever lives they had dealing with it.

I already have depression and PTSD. Fuck you, bitch. I wouldn't wish that shit on my worst damn enemy, and certainly not on that kind of a scale.

What are we?

What have we become that the mental and physical health of other people, their lives, and even the life of our own country or any other, or our planet itself matters so little even to so few of us?

No real or even science-fiction nuclear hellscape ever produced monsters such as this. This lady didn't come shambling out of the Nevada Test Site or the wilds of Novaya Zemyla, I'm quite sure her origins are pretty mundane.

What have we become?

And what the hell are we going to do about it?

'Cause if you can't answer that, we've got one hell of a problem.

Capt. Ramsey: You do qualify your remarks. If someone asked me if we should bomb Japan, a simple "Yes. By all means sir, drop that fucker, twice!"

[Men laughing]

Capt. Ramsey: I don't mean to suggest that you're indecisive, Mr. Hunter. Not at all. Just, uh... complicated. 'course, that's the way the Navy wants you. Me, they wanted simple.

Hunter: Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.

Ramsey: [chuckles] Be careful there, Mr. Hunter. It's all I've got to rely on, being a simple-minded son of a bitch. Rickover gave me my command, a checklist, a target and a button to push. All I gotta know is how to push it, they tell me when. They seem to want you to know why.

Hunter: I would hope they'd want us all to know why, sir.

Ramsey: At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy. "War is a continuation of politics by other means." Von Clausewitz

Hunter: I think, sir, that what he was actually trying to say was a little more -

Ramsey: Complicated?

[Men laughing]

Hunter: Yes the purpose of war is to serve a political end but the true nature of war is to serve itself.

~From the film Crimson Tide.

Oh, and the title? Look it up, I dare you.