If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan
I saw this earlier.
Some Q-Anon false prophet is going around trying to claim that Trump is the "President of the world."
Now, considering that no such office exists and I'm pretty sure that if America wouldn't vote for Trump again, the rest of the world won't either, I'm going to ask again, why do people tolerate this shit?
The Bible says the only men that will ever be given power over the whole world are the Beast and the False Prophet of Revelations, or in End Times Prophecy movement terms, the Antichrist and the author of the false one-world religion. They will, according to that interpretation, hold such power for only three and a half years.
Again, I find myself arguing that the basic Biblical standard for Prophecy should be upheld. If somebody says some shit, claiming to be a Prophet, and it turns out to be nothing but so much bovine exhaust and it's against the Word, they should be stoned. Yep, execute a few of these fucking people by stoning or in some other horrific old-school way and see if the market for false prophecies and made-up horse-shit doesn't dry up overnight.
I'm tired of this shit, and frankly I'm even more tired of organized Christianity putting up with it. But of course they will keep tolerating it and all the unbiblical stupid shit that results, because there's not enough money and power to be had in just compassion for one's neighbors and the Truth.
The simple fact is, there's a lot of people out there who simply
don't want the Truth, as described in the Bible or otherwise. They'd rather eat poisoned dirt than take a now-empirically proven to work vaccine. I'm serious, I don't understand this. We have people that basically believe in magic, for all intents and purposes. I'm a gamer, I've had a number of friends that were professed witches, etc. etc. Magic in the sort of way these people think of it...magic cure-alls and shortcuts around reality...doesn't work. I've seen a fair amount of shit that I can't explain. But I've never seen somebody eat or subject themselves to contact with poisoned earth or toxic heavy metals and be
cured of a virus. You might get a few more medical conditions from it though...or just plain die.
Seriously where do people come up with this shit?
Or is this just more of that dying to "Own the Libs" crap that I keep hearing about?
I was once a conservative and a devout Christian. I never once thought of killing myself for any ideology or political philosophy or because it might hurt somebody else's feelings.
Or of doing so by subjecting myself to toxic waste. I mean, what are you, fucking nuts?
The thing that gets me is, I have to wonder how much of this getting people to destroy themselves is base stupidity and how much of it is being done on purpose? At first glance, no matter other political machinations that Republicans are engaged in it seems stupid to basically kill off your own followers with dumb shit.
Long-term and increasingly otherwise such acts deprive one's own side of mass, of numbers, of voting power in real terms...and should conflict result, you have fewer bodies to use as meat shields to protect your damn self. But then I've always rejected Social Darwinism on moral grounds. That's not the case for a lot of ultra-conservatives and wealthy people. For that matter I've known lots of overly-bearded, overweight white dude-bros who spend and awful lot of time rambling about how "The gene pool needs to be chlorinated."
Well, intentionally or not, a lot of These Fucking People have taken it upon themselves to do that. Maybe we need to just bring back the Darwin Awards and start mocking these people's stupidity, and maybe then they'll get the point.
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
But you know, certain things...like all these fascists, outright Nazis and radical Catholics coming out of the woodwork, and likely further damage to Roe v. Wade, among other things...makes me wonder if it isn't all deliberate. Same with the ongoing effort to divide the country and spark off a civil war.
A lot of the people at the heart of this shit not only despise Democracy, but they genuinely seem to passionately hate their own supporters, their own voters, the Plebians who are the ones who one way or another gave them their power in the first place. So, why not use the virus to kill them off and then use an increased birthrate (that will be most acute among white conservatives of lesser means anyway) to get more?
And if you look at the whole picture here, it really does seem to me like American white conservative Protestants are being asked to take on a lot of risks that they don't need to as concerns both COVID-19 and the bellicose, divisive politics of the moment.
While at the same time, it seems like no matter how bellicose the radical Catholic nut...either they're vaccinated...think Clarence Thomas...or the church they go to is at least making an effort to be more safe, and the people at the top of that power structure...even if they get sick they're more likely to have the resources to be able to survive. Think people like Newt Gingrich. Think organizations like the Federalist Society.
And these people, the wealthy and like I said certain religious fanatics...seem perfectly fine with using more secular people like Donald Trump (non-religious) or Tucker Carlson (Episcopalian) or all the damn Anti-vax nuts on the internet and shit...to get people to off themselves by not taking the vaccine and/or doing stupid shit like rolling around in toxic dirt or taking improper medications.
For example: Despite his fame and wealth, Prosperity Gospel preacher Marcus Lamb wasn't. Lamb, the owner of Daystar ministries, recently died of COVID-19. Now I've always been naturally suspicious of ministries with names like that and of anybody who believes in or preaches the Prosperity Gospel. I'm not going to mourn the loss of that dude one bit, for a variety of reasons.
Among other things, it's people like him who've turned American protestant Christianity into a very unfunny joke. Don't think certain people...either secular demagogues like Trump, the radical Catholics of the Federalist society or various cults like what's become of Falun Gong...won't seek to take advantage of that, too.
I'm just saying, when you consider stuff like the current makeup of the Supreme Court and the decades upon decades of plotting that went into making it that way, I have to wonder if there isn't an actual conspiracy here. In this case, specifically, an effort by certain kinds of conservatives to alter conservatism as a whole to be more their way, and less other ways.
And more to the point, do you think any of these people's "Natural Law" beliefs and assorted other bullshit will ever be applied to elites or the wealthy? No, it won't. It's just the common people who will have to deny themselves and go without because the Church says food is only for nourishment and sex is only for procreation and so on.
I'm a person, not an animal. While I appreciate the environment and nature, don't try to make me have to conduct myself like I'm some kind of livestock for your stupid religion. This is America, we don't have to put up with this shit. That is the entire fucking point.
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson [of the Holocaust], for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief. ~Ronald Reagan.
But I'm here to tell you, Anti-Vax nuts, Conspiracy Theorists, Trump Supporters, and various people destroying yourselves over any or all of this stupid bullshit...be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.
But it sure won't be what you thought you wanted.
Remember like
I said a couple weeks ago, while out of one side of their mouth the Nazis professed "
Gott Mitt Uns" (God With Us) out the other side when they gained control of the churches, the first things the Nazis did were kick anybody out that they didn't like, start dictating doctrine, and force pagan
Volkisch customs on the Churches.
If you fuckers persist in dividing America and succeed in breaking off a piece of this country, or whatever, I strongly suspect you're going to find yourselves forced to bow down to something you don't recognize or want to be a part of.
If you're still alive to be granted the privilege...
America was founded upon the idea of the rejection of kings and hereditary rulers. Somehow, we've fallen far enough that there's people who want an American Caesar.
Somehow, they think they're not going to be one of the ones who gets crucified or thrown into the arena. Somehow they think the priest that's dressed like Liberace's stunt double isn't going to molest their kid.
Remember, that's the type of shit that Rome was known for. There's a reason our founders gravitated more towards Greece than Rome in their thought process when they wrote the Constitution.
And like the parents of the kid that shot up that school, when it goes bad they'll run and leave others to face the consequences of their actions. Like Dinesh D'Souza and all those other people trying to claim that the Patriot Front marchers in D.C. the other day were a "False Flag" when it doesn't work out the way they thought...they'll deny, wash their hands of it all and try and stick you with the bill...and the consequences of
their actions.
And ask yourself, while you're at it, why so many of the people egging this shit on ain't even Americans, much less American conservatives?
America, like conservatism (before it went crazy) depends on a responsible electorate in order to function.
This? This ain't it.
Like I said, don't be these fucking people.
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
And remember that without truth, there is no such thing as freedom.
That's all.
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