The Idiocracy Cometh.

Joe: For the last time, I'm pretty sure what's killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.

Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

Attorney General: "So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops.

Joe: Yes.

Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet?

Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that's the idea.

Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Attorney General: It's got electrolytes.

Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren't growing, so I'm pretty sure that the Brawndo's not working. Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow.

Secretary of Energy: Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.

Secretary of State: Hey, that's good. You sure you ain't the smartest guy in the world?

Joe: Okay, look. You want to solve this problem. I want to get my pardon. So why don't we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave?

Attorney General: Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it's got electrolytes.

Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know?

Secretary of State: It's what they use to make Brawndo.

Joe: Yeah, but why do they use them to make Brawndo?

Secretary of Defense: 'Cause Brawndo's got electrolytes.

~From the film Idiocracy

I saw this earlier.

No, this shit is not a concert, pro-wrestling match or a tractor pull. It's a "Christian" conference. One at which Missouri (Republican) Senator Josh Hawley...he of believing that the concept of individuality is a Christian heresy, and who apparently has a rather chaste-seeming relationship with his wife...is a featured speaker.

Yo, guys, if you want to have a conference on manliness that should be your first clue that you're doing it wrong. Off the top of my head I can think of a lot of people who'd be better...or maybe even just understandable...speakers.

Like somebody else said "How many of these dudes have Grindr profiles?"

As it is, I'm surprised one of the speakers wasn't named "Beef Supreme."

Of course, none of this foolishness is really about Christianity or the Lord's Word. 

It's really about a bunch of silly dudes trying to act out and cosplay "Manliness" and desperately trying to convince each other how "Not Gay" they all are...while reinforcing shitty political choices that I suspect a lot of these people know deep down have not a damn thing to do with Jesus Christ.

At the heart of a lot of this crap, is a deep insecurity, and a burning desire to try and force other people (preferably at gunpoint) to have to listen to their bullshit, or at least to appear as if they do. It's not about Jesus. It's all about pinheads needing to feel important. It's about a vast, yawning abyss of male insecurity.

The Idiocracy Cometh, and Elon is its herald. Why do I say that, you ask?

Because at the end of the day, money, political power and (imagined) social dominance still mean empty lives for a lot of these motherfuckers. Elon Musk could and should have a lot of things to be proud of in life and has a lot of serious, no shit accomplishments he could be bragging about over beers with the guys, or something.

Instead, he's pestering AOC on Twitter? Come on, dude, really?

And of course, these fuckers are apparently still upset about Trump being banned from Twitter. This is what they all seem to think Elon will magically fix when (thus far) he's shown no inclination to do so.

Essentially, these fucking assholes want to be transgressive assholes in public and face no consequences for it...and then make all the rest of us have to put up with their crap. 

Well, the world doesn't work that way and never has. How the fuck can you be a grown ass adult and not understand this shit?

As a political movement, these people are basically the Asshole Liberation Front. Yes, beliefs and behavior really can make you stupid. It doesn't matter how smart you technically are if you're so high on the smell of your own farts that you can't understand reality.

Trump lost the election, and these fuckers are still screaming "Build The Wall." What the fuck?

These fucking people don't even really want an autocracy...unless they all get to be king. 

They fail to understand only one guy gets to be king. And no matter who you are, it's not going to be you. Just plan on that.

What they want is basically "Rule by spoiled overgrown children." And somehow these idiots got it into their head that Trump would be some kind of "Strict father figure" and protect them from everybody else.

Trump can't even control himself and has never thrown a punch against anybody who could or would punch back in his life, so I don't know how the hell they got that idea.

And since that whole thing didn't work out, now they're gravitating towards Vladimir Putin, who's having statues of Vladimir Lenin reinstalled in Russia and occupied areas of Ukraine.

The Soviet Union is back, but can't actually win a war, and somehow both far-right nuts and far-left nuts seem to be drawn towards it anyway. And the mass amounts of immaturity in today's world allow the Russians to grab the horseshoe by both ends.

The Russians are encouraging the spread of complete idiocracy, I guess in the hope that they can somehow make the rest of us even dumber than they are. Given the conduct of their war in Ukraine, I doubt that's possible. If they can't defeat Ukraine, war with NATO in general and the USA in particular would go very, very badly for them.

I'm going to be honest, at this point I'm far less worried about the Russians than I am about the Aspiring Idiocrats, Bi-Curious homophobes, Fascist wannabes, Leftover Commie-sympathizers, Overgrown spoiled children and Political theorist ninnies on our own side...in the EU and UK as well as here in the USA...who would just fucking let the Russians in. 

And as regards the political types, I'm for the most part not talking about Democrats or liberals. The Putin-simps are overwhelmingly far-Right Republicans.

Which just pisses me off.

And I'm very, very tired of societal leaders with the mentality of twelve-year-old boys and those subsisting on diets of endless reheated LGBT-hate and all the wannabe anarchists who'd be just fine with society collapsing...so long as they made a profit or got to have their boot on someone's neck before they die.

Funny thing about these Asshole Liberation Front types, though.

The country they're all looking to for liberation is so fucked up they can't even be bothered to check and make sure they're propagandizing the right country. Or maybe they just don't care.

For us, the threat of the Idiocracy cometh.

The Stupid also rises.

But apparently, the Russians are already there.

And not only is that the future Republicans want...modern Republicans are positively entranced by it.

Reagan Wept.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
~Ronald Reagan

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American Gods, Part Two

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. ~Matthew 24:24

I saw this earlier, when Pepe Le Pew was trending on Twitter. Some MAGA freak ranting about people "Canceling" Pepe Le Pew and there's pictures of and references to Pepe Le Pew all over the goddamned feed.

Dumb bitch really thought she had some sort of a "Gotcha." Didn't bother to look at anything before posting. This is why this "Own The Libs" shit is dumb. Dumb ass failed to get herself anything but laughed at.

Of course people even brought it up in reference to Ron DeSantis saying that there was some mythical time when people his age were younger that sexuality wasn't ever brought up in cartoons.

My personal response to this was to mention that in the Bugs Bunny Cartoon "The Rabbit Of Seville" it ends with Bugs Bunny marrying a cross-dressing Elmer Fudd and mind you this cartoon was released in *1950.* I grew up on all this stuff, so I really don't want to keep hearing this crap.

First of all "If you don't talk about it, it doesn't exist" or "It'll go away" is a bullshit strategy for dealing with anything. But since Trump, that's the Right's strategy for dealing with literally anything that contradicts their authoritarian politics or makes them feel uncomfortable.

And it's all horse shit.

In my life, I've known plenty of gay conservatives, quite a few of whom were "Out" and perfectly happy being what they are.

I can't say I've ever met a conservative Transgender person...but obviously some must exist.

Republicans could easily create a more welcoming, safe space for all their people, have moderate social values with an emphasis on caution in social matters and keep a focus on economic conservatism and religious values. 

They could legitimately make themselves a genuine political powerhouse that doesn't have to cheat and do all type of dishonest shit to get elected.

They just don't want to, because that would require getting rid of the hate, and the unending outrage.

And increasingly, their voters don't seem to want that either. They seem to want to constantly be mad about shit that doesn't even exist.

All this reactionary bullshit...which seems focused almost entirely on keeping a shrinking base of people ever more and more activated and constantly spinning with endless outrage. It's the "Two Minute Hate" that never ends.

And it seems like it's increasingly likely that this bullshit is going to end in violence...

Internecine violence, at that.

Oh, wait, that's just Blowbert and MTG about ready to throw down at the *Checks Notes* Freedom Caucus committee meeting...

Or pretty much the entire Ohio GOP at this point.

None of these people like each other very much...and they seem to think everybody else is the same way.

And meanwhile, these pure, sexless Evangelical Republican White Boys? 

In private, they're touching each other's dicks, but then they're posting it on YouTube or whatever which makes it pretty damn public. 

Well, I guess Madison Cawthorn and at least one of his staffers do sort of like each other...but obviously not in a way that Ron DeSantis and the rest of the Knott's Berry Farm-wannabe crowd would approve of. I'm not at all surprised, mind you. Disgusted, but not surprised. I don't care about the homosexuality...I care that they vote against LGBT rights and then do this crap in public.

Surprised that with CPAC being some kind of quarterly thing split between Budapest and Orlando these days, that DeSatan hasn't figured out CPAC is a mecca for gay prostitution.

Or is all that closeted bullshit somehow "Liberals" fault too?

Or maybe, just maybe, his Potemkin, pet state Republican caucus is just telling him what they think he wants to hear?

You fuckers need to pick a side. You can't have it both ways forever.

Maybe it's just me...but I don't think all this contradictory bullshit is sustainable, in the long term or otherwise.

And while Republicans may want to go the way of Putin's neo-Soviet Russian totalitarianism and install Zampoliti in every government agency, military unit and private business to push their political dogma, this is America and that's not going to happen. 

Constitutionally and with our current legal system, it simply can't work that way. Not to mention, who the hell would fund such a thing? 

Totalitarianism is expensive.

And I'm not at all convinced that any of these fucking people are operating from the standpoint of reality to start with.

I mean, I get it. Republicans want to make all the decisions and for whatever stupid reason, they feel entitled to do so. 

They're just informationally, mentally, morally and otherwise...and even in terms of their attention span...completely unfit to do so. And so, they're trying to find some kind of a shortcut. This has been made more difficult by the revelation from the Trump years that you cannot do this simply by endlessly stockpiling political power.

And so "Conservatives" look upon Putin, Russia and the Second Coming of the Soviet State not with fear and loathing, but with wide-eyed admiration. But for fuck's sake America doesn't even have the cultural, political or social context that would make something like Putin's rapid re-Sovietization of Russian society even possible.

For one thing, in Russia a lot of the old people and the current "Z" crowd have actually wanted that shit forever, because they...and not entirely wrongly, mind you...think life was better back in those days. Or at least it was if you didn't get shot. The coming of neoliberal Western economics and the crumbling of Soviet-era social safety nets actually did make life too hard for too many people.

And by the time they figure out that life is not going to improve...that between economic isolation and Western sanctions, they'll be pushed all the way back to the low points of the later Soviet era with none of the benefits...it'll be too late.

And when it all comes crashing down...what then? I'm not sure I even want to know, given how the Russians have conducted themselves in Ukraine.

I don't think nationalism will end up being much of an opiate for the Russian masses, same thing with religion. The cynicism and passivity that disinformation seems to breed will ultimately create its own host of political and social problems later.

But I'm not sure these fucking people even care about any of that. I'm not familiar with current rates of substance abuse in Russia...but I remember them being pretty extreme by American standards a few years ago.

I'm not even sure any of these stupid motherfuckers have even thought about most of this stuff. 

Or at least, they haven't thought past immediate emotional reactions and what feels good right now...or what's giving them a chance to steal more money.

And it's obvious that they either don't know, or don't care, about the doubts that all this lying and stealing will create in people's minds when it's discovered. Although it's not like most of these fucking people are doing even one damned thing to try to hide it, either.

And the Russians are very, very clearly in the same boat. Apparently, Russian units of different ethnic groups are getting into firefights over stolen Ukrainian property. It seems to me like bad military discipline, lack of social cohesion and rampant theft pervading a society make for a bad mix.

And oh, by the way, "Conservatives" this is your righteous Holy Army that a bunch of you were hoping to beat the idea of liberal democracy and the West to death with. How's that working out?

Buryats are mostly either Buddhist or Russian Orthodox, Chechens are overwhelmingly Muslim. All of these religions have very strong strictures against murder and theft. Unless of course it's all crap and been subsumed by the worship of the State...which seems to encourage that kind of crap, in the case of Russia it does, at least.

But of course, state-enforced political conformity, and state-sponsored murder and theft and wars of Imperialism combined with wars of Religion are the future that American "Conservatives" think they want. 

Even though we're constantly seeing the downside of that on the news these days.

And the reasons they think they want this are that they've utterly internalized all that "Power Of Positive Thinking" crap, they totally bought into the Prosperity Gospel and its "Ye Are Little Gods" heretical bullshit, and they painted it all over with a good coat of Ayn Rand's greedy, nihilistic Atheism which puts Man at the center of a godless world and gives him only self-satisfaction as a moral purpose for his life. 

Maybe all that made the current mess the Republican Party finds itself in inevitable, I don't know.

But I'll tell you one thing, Democrats and other Liberals. If you lose to this kind of bullshit, it's because you want to, because fighting back against the ravening barbarians that want to burn civilization down so they can squat in the ruins and shit on their own shoes is too hard, or something.

Until we do something about it, this kind of shit is only going to get worse, until it ends with Americans shooting at each other and our country falling apart...the same as Russia surely will if nobody stops the slide over there...and that all is the future that all these "Conservatives" and oligarchs want, too.

We need to fight back against the fall of night just like the Ukrainians are doing.

Republicans may want to be slaves, so long as they get to be the better class of slave...but that won't work for most of us. Most people don't want to live that way.

If nothing is true, and everything is possible...well, this mess is the kind of soup sandwich that you get.

If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen. You have to do the work. And this crap ain't it.

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Part One

American Gods, Part One.

Nation to nation, all the world must come together Face the problems that we see then maybe somehow we can work it out.
I asked my neighbor for a favor, she said later

What has come of all the people, have we lost love of what it's about?
I have to find my peace cause no one seems to let me be
False prophets cry of doom, what are the possibilities?
I told my brother there'll be problems, times and tears for fears
But we must live each day like it's the last
Go with it, go with it
Jam
It ain’t, It ain’t too much stuff
It ain’t too much
It ain’t too much for me to
Jam
It ain't
It ain’t too much stuff
It ain’t, don't you
It ain’t too much for me to
Jam. ~Michael Jackson, Jam

I happened to see this, this morning when I got up.

Some Evangelical weirdo evangelized Elon Musk on Twitter.

Welcome to hell, motherfucker. Welcome to hell.

But ya know, I got to thinking about it. And this person clearly isn't trying to actually reach Elon. They just want to be seen preaching the Word at him. Their religion...their religiosity...is really all about them. I actually kind of felt sorry for Elon here. Dude doesn't seem all that religious, but since he was born in Apartheid-era, Calvinist South Africa, his early life was probably soaked with that shit.

Harsh religiosity for breakfast, lunch and dinner because that's what the government allowed.

And that's assuming you were White.

You know, in 1992 when that song I used for my pull-quote was the hot new music video on MTV with Heavy D, Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan, Apartheid wasn't quite over with in South Africa, the former Yugoslavia was burning, and I was working as a dishwasher at the Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island. The world was on fire...but I was having a pretty good time.

Funny thing, I was still at least kind of aware of what was going on. I was still engaged with reality.

These people...aren't.

And some imaginary, idealized version of South Africa's past...but 1952 rather than 1992...is the future "Conservatives" think they want for America and themselves. I don't know why the hell they think it would end any different this time.

These same fucking people...the performative Christians and outspoken "Conservatives" have been absolutely livid, raging about the possibility that Biden may forgive student loan debts.

And so much of it is just...bullshit.

If Laura Ingraham's mother was still working to pay off Laura's student loan debt at 73 (And mind you, Laura is 58 now. I'm ten years younger and I know what conditions were when I had student loans. It wasn't as bad as it's become.) So either Laura's a lazy shit who didn't pay her own debts, she and/or her mother are very poor negotiators or this is just an out and out lie. Or maybe all of the above. 

Fuck, I don't know, but I suspect she and the anti-loan forgiveness people don't realize what they're really saying about themselves. And that's simply that they don't want to contribute to society and make the world better, especially if it involves making it better for other people, or for subsequent generations.

The Right talks about that kind of stuff...the exact same kinds of things Jesus commands His Believers to do...as if it were some kind of dangerous, revolutionary rhetoric. 

Not that any of this shit really matters to them. The Right has shown lately that they only even give a damn about "Property Rights" when it's their individual stuff.

So of course yesterday, in an interview with the far-right Catholic website "The Church Militant" MTG went out of her way to say that the Church was being "Controlled by Satan" because Catholic and other Christian churches are helping immigrants and refugees. You know, no big deal, just doing exactly as their Savior Commands. And Marge thinks that's evil...that conducting oneself as a Christian rather than a Republican-first...is a bad thing.

Marge doesn't believe in God. Marge believes in Marge. Look at Me, Look At ME, LOOK AT ME AND HOW HOLY I AM!!!

Same with Edip and Laura and all these other motherfuckers. They don't believe in God. They believe in their Selves.

The True God of too much of American Christianity...and thus movement-Conservatism...is the Self.

These people's "Christianity" is a Blood Religion, and it demands Human Sacrifice, on the scale of whole cultures and nations, to appease its violent Blood-gods.

It's no wonder they don't believe in democracy, independence, territorial integrity and strengthening the nation of Moldova...they don't believe in that stuff here either.

America...International Relations...Defending the less fortunate, all these things...our culture and our home, the necessities of modern life, and the Commandments of the God of Abraham...whatever interpretation of His Faiths one may follow...are nothing but dangerous heresies to the "Conservatives" as they are now.

Not so hard to figure out why Elon was apparently having a bad morning now, is it?

If I was surrounded by nothing but these assholes I'd spend my days plotting and scheming and working on the technology to go to Mars, too. Except unlike him, I wouldn't take them with me.

The "Conservative" Graven Image of a "god" is a gold-plated Idol to Death and Wealth.

Which makes it only mildly surprising, that their flag of choice seems to be the Red Banner of the Soviet Union.

Wealth for the Communist Elite...Death for everyone else, in case anybody forgot how that goes.

And now they're not even being subtle about it.

Seriously, these fucking people on Russian TV are telling their viewers that if there's a nuclear war, they'll all die and go to heaven. I mean, seriously, what the fuck?!?!

I've heard the term "Russian Orthodox Jihadism" but I didn't think it was going to become quite this literal.

The Russians seem to be having some kind of mass psychological breakdown because their new Red Army is getting its ass kicked by the Ukrainians.

Well, in the words of every other "Conservative" about every other losing side in history...well, you should have fought better, motherfuckers.

This is what we're up against, and "Conservatives" be like "Have you found Jesus yet" right before they insult Him, to His face.

I think some people got their priorities messed up.

There is something very wrong with These Fucking People.

The Republican Party is a self-obsessed anti-Democracy movement that wants to destroy society so it doesn't have to pay taxes...except it's neo-Soviet allies are apparently hell-bent on starting a nuclear war and destroying the world.

Not having to pay taxes doesn't do you any good when the money isn't worth anything anymore, Republicans.

So either you're going to have to start giving a shit about the rest of the world, Republicans, or you're going to have to hope that the rest of us can do it for you.

Maybe it's time for you to ante up and kick in, just in case?

Because if we can't hump our own rucks in this fight...and yours too...that's it. If we win, things continue probably much as they are, but with you having the stain on you of supporting Putinist neo-Communism. 

Trouble is, these fuckers are just fine with that. They've gleefully ceded the roles of "Defenders of the Free World" to liberals and Ukrainians.

Because they don't give a shit. Hell, they want to lose.

If we lose, the end result is nuclear fire and the Hammer And Sickle flying over the ruins and most of us...whether "Conservative" or liberal or neither...end up dead. 

The sick thing is, given the choice I'm pretty sure I know which of the two options These Fucking People would pick.

Their American gods are...themselves. So long as they don't die and/or make a little money, the whole rest of the fucking world could burn.

And that, my friends, is exactly how you go to hell.

Don't be Those Fucking People.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

Et Tu, Brute? (On Stupidity, Volume Two, Part Three.)

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 yesterday.

Apparently Tucker Carlson is in a death match with Elise Stefanik for the Gold in the Republican Backstabbing Olympics, except Tucker just stuck the whole cutlery set in Kevin McCarthy. Elise has good game with the continuing leaks, though.

The day will come, I think, where the position of GOP House leader is a job no one with a brain in their head even wants.

Which seems to be a feature, rather than a bug, concerning Republicans and their endless contempt for most Americans.

Shit like this is the Republican Party's idea of "Politics." Endless backstabbing fuckery and political games...for private profit...on the Public's damned dime.

And what does anybody else get?

An insultingly low sum paid as compensation to the spouses of soldiers killed in some stupid War Of Imperialism And Religion that nobody but a few political leaders and rabid nationalist fanatics really wanted...

In other words, how Russia is fighting it's "Z" War in Ukraine is how current Republicans...left to their own devices and without less-malicious leaders like George W. Bush and (yes) Dick Cheney or experienced military leaders like Colin Powell...would have wanted to fight Afghanistan or Iraq. 

And don't think this would not have been the case, there's a lot of people in office now...or who were until recently and supported Trump...who were in office in 2003. Or those who weren't in office but were and are Republican institutions...people like Newt Gingrich.

Imagine Newt making those kind of decisions.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

And don't think the current Republican base wouldn't have been all for a post-9/11 crackdown on freedoms of assembly and speech like what Putin has done in Russia. Hell, that's why a lot of them support Putin now. 

They want a Totalitarian, Soviet America. And they want it so they can make up stupid shit like this about the people they hate.

I mean, seriously, it's been awhile. But in whatever compendium of Military Occupational Specialties, Ratings and Specialty Codes that NATO maintains I rather seriously doubt that one will find "Combat Homosexualist" anywhere, even in these "Woke" days.

This is how much contempt for us These Fucking People have.

A lot of this Russian propaganda is so dumb you have to want to believe it.

And that's the problem, a lot of people actually do want to believe this garbage. 

Because again, any flag other than the Stars and Stripes, any belief system other than either center-right or center-left American politics, any religion other than actual Christianity (or for that matter any other sincere faith.)

Just so the elites get to play their Cruelty Olympics, Culture War theater bullshit and political backstabbing games and get rich off the goddamned American taxpayer.

I'll tell you one thing though; I'd bet you $130 that the $130 the Neo-Soviet government thinks its dead "Z" Conscripts are worth is more money than Republicans think the lives of young, strong, patriotic Americans are worth...much less jaded old disabled veterans like me.

Like I said, they know exactly what they're doing. They just don't care.

The cruelty is the point.

If we don't stop these fuckers, it's the end of the Republic. Get it now?

Et Tu, Brute?

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

Red Flag (On Stupidity, Volume Three, Part Two.)

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

I saw this when I got up this morning.

Apparently, Ukraine is some kind of a gay Satanist plot, LOL.

I think nobody would be more surprised by this than the Kievan Rus, who were Baptized into Orthodox Christianity in the 10th century and officially Christianized by Volodomyr The Great in 988.

Kyiv was a major city, the capital city of its own empire, when Moscow was a forest beside a river. Seriously, Russians are supposed to be history nuts, you'd think people would know better than this kind of garbage.

But of course, you'd be wrong. Hatred and ideology are a hell of a drug cocktail, I guess.

Perhaps more to the point, on a global level, everything that falls outside of an increasingly narrow range of ideas is a "Gay Satanist Plot" as far as These Fucking People are concerned.

Everything, that is, but whatever fucked up, wrong bullshit they want to do. Even, perhaps especially when that's the sort of thing the Devil Himself probably wouldn't actually do. I mean, after all, it was God that was the supposed author of most of the genocides in the Old Testament, right?

But again, even in light of that fact, I don't understand how the hell they square this with the known fucking fact that the Christianization of the Rus happened in what is now Ukraine. There simply were no "Russian" people yet. Russian culture as it is now has more to do with the writing of Aleksandr Pushkin than it does with the Kievan Rus.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm goddamned tired of these fucking people and their predatory ideologies, no matter where the fuck they come from.

And that, frankly, seems to be the root of a lot of the problems with "Conservatism" these days. Cranks, fanatics, losers and the mentally ill be demanding some kind of a right to bother you with their bullshit...because, in answer to my question yesterday; No, they really don't have anything more going for themselves than that. I mean, come on, don't these people ever get laid, go out for a bite to eat, smoke a blunt or otherwise put all this monomaniacal political bullshit down for a while?

The fact that they don't goes a damned long way towards explaining what's so broken about all this stuff. The thing I don't get is, why the fuck does the rest of humanity put up with this crap instead of telling these ass clowns to sit down and shut the fuck up?

And ya know, sometimes you've got to back that up with punching somebody right in the mouth if they keep talking.

Trouble is, it always seems to end up that there's a lot of other feeble-minded people who want to believe this bullshit.

People would rather live with endless, expanding, unwinnable wars than not have "Meaning" in their lives. What the fuck kind of bullshit is that?

You're broke, you're poor, your country is not only broke but has regressed to the poor standards of living endured by your parents and grandparents...and all too many of the people you know come back from the Front shattered, wounded...if they even come back at all...but you have "Meaning" now, and you didn't before?

What the hell kind of stupid bullshit is that?

I'll tell you one thing for sure, there's a flag I grew up hearing about how evil and Satanic it was and how the people who flew it killed and tortured Christians and suppressed the teaching of the Word...and it sure as hell wasn't no rainbow pride flag. It was the Hammer And Sickle.

You know, the Flag that Putin's new Red Army is flying now and raising above destroyed Ukrainian cities. Why isn't that raising red flags with these fucking people in a more metaphorical sense?

Think about that, the next time some "Conservative" starts bothering you with this stupid bullshit about gay Satanic plots.

If anybody's following the damn devil, it's them.

And worse, they know exactly what they're doing. They just don't care.

The cruelty is the point.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

Brain Damage (On Stupidity, Volume Three, Part One.)

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

I saw this earlier today. Finland apparently expects Russian aggression since they're planning on joining NATO. More importantly, they're acting accordingly.

Sisu, remember that word. It will come up.

Meanwhile, the big topic here in America today is that Elon Musk is apparently buying Twitter? So what? Meet the New Boss, Same As The Old Boss. What's the difference between one vaguely Libertarian tech-bro and another one? Seriously?

But of course, under the heading of "Business and Finance" this evening, I spotted the hashtag "Liberal Tears." Now, as I've said before I think the whole "Own The Libs" thing is puerile and childish. More to the point, if you act like that most people are just going to be momentarily annoyed, before they block your ass and move on with their day. Is all that really some kind of a great thing to live for?

Some of these idiots think...and out of deference to one of my regular "critics" I'll use that term very loosely...that Elon buying Twitter is some sort of "Own The Libs" gesture. 

I doubt it, love him or hate him, the dude seems to be pretty competent, less motivated by this bizarre desire to count some sort of political coup over imagined "enemies" and (aside from his apparent desire to be the ruler of Mars before he dies) he seems to be a lot less of a doctrinaire political anything than a lot of his fanbase is. 

Thing is, outside of money issues a lot of libertarians don't necessarily fit well on one "side" or the other (Although, because of the money thing I'll say that "Republicans who like to smoke weed, works pretty well as a descriptor.) And on a side note; I think Musk might be legitimately replacing Ayn Rand as the "Libertarian Jesus."

So anyway, I posted this as an actual question: "Who are these idiots that even think this stuff up?" and got over a dozen responses almost immediately, about half of them other people actually commenting on what I said. 

The others were all obvious bots and trolls, basically telling me to go fuck myself for simply having said it. Apparently I struck some sort of a nerve with some provincial Komsomol or some shit. 

Whatever, but the thing is, the reason the Russians or whatever figure they can do this is, well, when Newsmax or RSBN or one of these other whacko right-wing pseudo-networks goes to a Trump rally we see an endless parade of actual fucking people who are just like this.

I mean, where did we even get all these brain damaged motherfuckers?

And of course, wherever the Nazis or the neo-Confederates or the Q-Nuts think they're going to have an actual audience they show up. Apparently they're "Protesting" Disney now.

And I'm increasingly convinced that the acting out is the point. It would be comical except for the likelihood of mass violence.

And I hate to say this, but I think whatever happens in November (and I don't think Republicans will do all that well, personally) but I think we're not far from seeing the end of the last few old-school Republicans. Adam Kinzinger is already retiring, Liz Cheney may survive this election, but will probably follow to political independence or retirement soon enough. 

I honestly think guys like Elon Musk and even yes, Donald Trump, will eventually get tossed overboard. Certainly Ron DeSantis is working hard to replace Trump, he may well succeed...but I don't even think he's got a handle on the pulse of the Republican base right now. I have a creeping feeling it's more reactionary than even he thinks. But I'm more worried that this whole situation will cause somebody else to rise up who will be more competent and intelligent.

Honestly, before the war in Ukraine started, I thought it not unlikely that Putin might be the dude...and for many of these "Conservatives" he's just that.

And eventually we're going to end up having to defend ourselves against that motherfucker. The Russian Army might be garbage, but there's a lot of it, especially if Putin decrees a general mobilization.

But my goddamned point is that while the Ukrainians have exceeded everybody's expectations and become the defenders of the Free World, and the Finns are apparently preparing to step up as well...and the Russians seem clearly intent on widening their war at least to Moldova now...there's one hell of a lot of Americans who's gaze is not set on the future, nor watching the horizon for threats, but firmly fixed upon the soiled membranes of their own colons.

Yes, a lot of Americans just plain have their head up their own ass.

They'd rather act out and get glory for it from other blazingly stupid people, or just bicker online with people that they don't know but who appear to hold opposite political positions.

And modern American "Conservatism" (or for that matter, Christianity) is in any case less a coherent political philosophy than post-hoc justifications for reactionary emotionalism.

And I can't help but think that a lot of this ignorance is deliberate and the obtuseness regarding the state of the world...as well as the inconsistency and insularity of a lot of modern American "Conservatives" is quite deliberate.

A lot of These Fucking People have been told to hate their fellow Americans more than they love their own freedom, and when we've got somebody like Tucker Carlson blatantly stanning for Viktor Orban if not for Vladimir Putin himself, that's a fucking problem.

And it doesn't help that a large portion of our government refuses to actually hold these fuckers accountable.

If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen. If you want to be free, get your head out of your ass and in the game here.

I mean, come on. Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with people?

I cannot help but think this freakish desire to "Own The Libs" at any cost will get some of these motherfuckers actually owned as serfs by some Russian oligarch.

The trouble is, it legitimately seems like some of these fucking people would prefer it that way, and for all too many of these sons of bitches, literally any flag but the Stars And Stripes will do.

I don't know about you, but I think there's something wrong with that.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27

Banner Of Moloch (On Stupidity, Volume Two, Part Three.)

Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts. ~Amos 5:18-27

I saw this earlier today, a picture of a Ukrainian mother and her new baby who were killed by a Russian missile.

And I want to know something, how come the people who have a giant purple priapism erection for the idea of banning Abortion in the United States aren't all up in arms about that? 

You'd think these "Pro-Life" motherfuckers would be demanding war against Vladimir Putin (See Also; Communism!) for stuff like this, but no, among these fucking people, there seems to be far more zeal for, say, invading California than defending the EU, NATO and ultimately ourselves against Russian aggression.

And these goddamned fools aren't afraid to just completely make it up as they go along. "New Colorado law to allow abortion up to 28 days after birth?" In any jurisdiction I've ever even heard of, that would be called murder and there's already plenty of laws against that...even in Colorado.

They also seem to think something bad happened to Willie Nelson, which appears to be bullshit. This shit is like the Supermarket tabloids, but apparently some damn fools really believe it, or something.

It's nothing but bad faith, contempt for their own followers, and lies all around. 

You'd think people would notice, and maybe get tired of this garbage. I don't give a damn, this level of bullshit ass lies ought to not be allowed. If it cannot be made de jure illegal, it still should not be socially tolerated. Conspiracy theorists should be shunned by society, constantly told to fuck off, people should refuse to fuck them, and so on and so forth. 

I'm serious...if the conspiracy nuts are left only associating with each other and shunned by everybody else, the whole movement will fall apart faster than a "Conservative" social media website.

These people don't like each other much, and the only thing that unites them is a seething hatred of everybody else.

And nothing else even matters, not Christianity, not conservative policies, only hatred and tribal loyalty. And in the service of those two things any Sin is justified. From Adultery to a disregard for the lives of...and outright hatred of...the young that borders on worship of Moloch. All that is not forbidden (by "Conservative" politics) is permitted. Like this lady holding up a sign equating Barack Obama with COVID-19 because there's supposedly 19 letters in Obama's name. First off; I can count. There's 18. Secondly, I'm sorry, but I was taught that numerology was Occultism and thus a Sin. 

I'm tired of this bad-faith, smug hypocrisy by people who never have the slightest intention of practicing the "Values" that they preach. And more to the point, I'm goddamned tired of American, and to a lesser extent global, society putting up with it. And I'm even more tired of the performative stupidity of these screaming, flag-bedecked ninnies that can't even do basic math, who'd sooner bow down before the Hammer And Sickle or worship the damned devil if their country or their religion ceases to reflect their hatefulness.

And at this point, hate, murder and slavery are their only values worth mentioning. That needs to be said, and it needs to be said that the rest of us have to do something about this shit.

And then people who have no business supporting this bullshit...like the media...do it anyway because they think they'll get something for it, something other than dead.

I think the day will come when these dishonest fuckers openly bow down and worship demons. Certainly, I can remember when they thought the Red Banner was a symbol of such things.

Now? They regard the man ordering it to be flown as if he is some kind of paragon of "Conservatism."

Think on that.

I think the tide is turning against this shit, but we cannot afford to become complacent against the threat of fascism. That's all.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27