Like Water... (Red Banner Republicans, Two.)

“When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water (he cups his hands) and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again. ~Thomas More, as depicted by Robert Bolt in A Man For All Seasons.

Today, it came out that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent texts to Mark Meadows encouraging efforts to overturn the 2020 elections.

So far as I know, she's already a person of interest in the 1/6 insurrection.

Also, as I understand it, Clarence Thomas has allegedly been hospitalized since last Friday.

And now this comes out? I'm sorry, but something seems a bit suspicious here, especially given Republicans' shitty treatment of SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, and that Republicans are acting so aggrieved by her nomination.

I'm going to remind you again that everything is bad faith with modern Republicans...everything.

 I've mentioned this before, but I first started following politics to do an extra-credit project reporting on the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings for my government class when I was a Senior in high school. Now, between the Anita Hill sexual harassment allegations (Which I, though being a conservative, thought were a serious matter) and all these old Senators talking about some British porn star named "Long Dong Silver" it was the first time I remember thinking "My God, what the hell is wrong with these people?!?!" 

Now, on one of those school days during the hearing, I was so sick (As in just plain nauseous) that I couldn't go. In fact, I was throwing up so bad that I couldn't drive myself to town to go to the doctor, so my Grandpa took me to the clinic in town. Now, I was keeping up on my project, so my Grandpa and I were listening to the hearings on the way in. After we got done at the clinic, my Grandpa had to make a quick stop at the grocery store. So I'm sitting there in my Grandpa's truck, sick as a dog, still turning three shades of green and I'm listening to all these supposedly respectable political leaders talking about this shit. Seriously, I was like "Dude, what the hell?"

My report on the day's events, delivered to the class the next day, reiterated that exact thought. Now, the Government-class teacher was this churchy conservative type who didn't care for profanity. He wasn't going to give me full points for the day, but I wasn't the only person who felt that way. My class raised enough of a stink about it that he decided to give me the full extra credit for the day.

And you know, I'm going to be honest. All these years later, I think Clarence Thomas and his vile wife have made enough of a mockery of the Law and the Supreme Court that I don't feel so annoyed anymore about what a circus those confirmation hearings were. People should have gone at it harder, in fact.

In these days, the Word of basically the entire Conservative movement and the Republican Party has been shown to be no good, and their once-vaunted "Values" to be nothing more than an ecclesia of contempt for basically everybody. Republicanism has become a godless theocratic movement dedicated to nothing more than low taxes for the wealthy, selfishness and socially reactionary policies.

In fact, the gulf between the Republican Party of 1991 and the Republican Party of today is so wide, that these sons of bitches prostrate themselves before the Hammer And Sickle, and Vladimir Putin. Then Thomas Massie has the nerve to say (regarding NATO being "Outdated") that "Americans are done subsidizing socialism."

Excuse me, what?!

If you're done "Subsidizing socialism" why are you motherfuckers bowing down before the Hammer And Sickle and continuing to embrace Vladimir Putin as he turns Russia into the New Soviet Union? The Hammer And Sickle was the flag of Communism...and often associated with socialism as well...by conservatives. Vladimir Putin was a KGB Agent...the sword and shield of the Communist Party. One of these things is not like the other one, Tommy boy.

In Robert Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons" Thomas More is depicted as saying "When a man takes an oath, he takes his own hands, like water, and if he opens his fingers, he needn't hope to find himself again."

No wonder so many Republicans, Trump Supporters, whatever they are now...are lost souls.

And while Republicans gleefully betray their own oaths to God and Country to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the democracy enumerated therein, the people of Ukraine...and plenty of foreign volunteers fighting with them...fight to defend democracy, freedom and the Free World from Vladimir Putin's reborn Red Army. Think about that for a second.

Through me is the way to the suffering city;
Through me is the everlasting pain;
Through me is the way that runs among the Lost. Justice urged on my exalted Creator: Divine Power made me,
The Supreme Wisdom and Primal Love.
Nothing was made before me but eternal things
And I endure eternally.
Abandon all hope - Ye Who Enter Here.'

~Sign above the gates of hell, Dante's Inferno.

There is something very wrong with it, when the Republican Party values its ideology and power more than it values the country and the political system that even gives those things meaning.

American-style "Conservatism" didn't arise from the primordial muck fully formed, it arose within certain cultural, political and social contexts and of course, the central issue here is that in the context of our country, those things are changing. Republicans simply do not want to change with them.

And they're willing to break every oath, to burn the house down, to fight literal wars in the service of their stupid Culture War, and to have their Word not be worth a bucket of warm piss in order to not change, and presumably to break off a piece of America at some point, over which they can stand athwart history, yelling "Stop!"

And the only way that can be done in our modern world is with a farrago of bullshit, conspiracy theories, lies. and massive use of force. In other words, exactly what's going on in Putin's Russia right now.

The problem with these people's reactionary bullshit, is it creates the very kinds of change, social and otherwise, that These Fucking People fear and hate. They don't think any of this shit through. They want to go back to times that no longer exist for absolutely fucking valid reasons, but it mostly boils down to the fact that things like a limited franchise, persecution of LGBT people, slavery, segregation, women not being able to vote, and the conditions predating the many and varied Supreme Court decisions that Republicans want struck down as of a few days ago were intolerable to the majority of Americans.

And that those things could then be changed, without violence and in accordance with the will of the majority, is the entire fucking point of our system.

And that's exactly what people like Clarence and Ginni Thomas want to overthrow, ain't it?

Reagan Wept.

He wept to see the Red Banner Republicans holding aloft the flag of the Evil Empire, even as they plotted against the United States.

Again, think about that for a second.

But then, do something about it.

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

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