Death By Hypocrisy (On Stupidity, Volume Two, Part Two.)

Here's my problem with the Ten Commandments: why are there ten? Why are there ten? You don't need ten. I believe the list of ten commandments was artificially and deliberately inflated to get it up to ten. Here's what happened:

About 5,000 years ago a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to try to figure out how to control people, how to keep them in line. They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so they announced that God had given them some commandments, up on a mountain, when no one was around... God had given them the Ten Commandments.
Well let me ask you this- when they were making this shit up, why did they pick ten? Why not nine, or eleven? I'll tell you why- because ten sounds official. Ten sounds important! Ten is the basis for the decimal system, it's a decade, it's a psychologically satisfying number, the top ten, the ten most wanted, the ten best dressed. So having ten commandments was really a marketing decision. And it's clearly a bullshit list. It's a political document, artificially inflated to sell better. ~George Carlin

I saw this earlier today.

Evidently at some point, Madison Cawthorn...tight-assed Evangelical harasser of the Gender-nonconforming and of LGBT people, had some pictures get out of him wearing women's lingerie.

It's not the lingerie, it's the hypocrisy, stupid.

And of course, the evidence continues to pile up that Florida Republicans have really stepped in it over this whole Disney thing, but again, to me it's more that they've completely abandoned both free speech and property rights...and mind you the entire "Property Rights" conservative argument arose in the first place out of opposition to Abolitionists and then was refined in 100 years of resentment over the abolition of slavery.

So it seems like that's kind of a big deal here, to abandon that particular "value." Only thing I can figure is that Republicans have decided they don't need that argument anymore. 

Except what they're trying to say here is "We Are The State." Somebody might want to clue them in on how that worked out for that last French King.

It's the entitlement and the hypocrisy.

Homophobia, Racism, all that shit was just a means to an end for the fucking fascists like Ron DeSantis anyway, that said, I can't help but feel like the Mouse was not a good target here. And judging from their product for the past six or seven years, it doesn't seem like Disney is on board with this type of shit. 

And the longer all this "Nationalist Populism" bullshit goes on, the more it smacks of Stalinist totalitarianism born of a desire to hang on to power by any means necessary, even if it divides the country, results in Civil War, and gets a whole bunch of people killed for no good reason while ending with these fuckers up against a wall posing for the firing squad.

They don't care what they burn down, they don't care if they lose. The cruelty and the chance to hurt people is the fucking point. That's all. Otherwise they'd have picked a better front-person than MTG to be one of the leaders of the 1/6 insurrection.

Everything about these fucking people, up to and including that they pick moronic bullies for leaders or suck up to foreign despots like Vladimir Putin is calculated to show contempt for the rest of us. The "Conservatives" at this point want to do nothing but give the world the finger...and be seen and praised for doing so.

And they're mad that their plan has been upended by the cause of freedom and the Ukrainians and the whole "Russian Warship, Go Fuck Yourself" thing. They're mad that, to a great extent, all the sudden they're losing the "Meme War."

And I'm starting to sense a seething, genocidal level of hatred underpinning what's left of "Conservatism. Outright fascism itself doesn't seem to go far enough as a term here.

At least not without marinating it in a 50/50 mix of hypocrisy and perversion first.

If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen. If you want America to remain whole, and have  our future not be something like Ukraine's present, you have to stand up to these bullying motherfuckers now.

Before their hypocrisy gets more people killed.

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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

Part One