Death God Rising, One.

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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In Natal, apartheid is a deadly cancer in our midst, setting house against house, and eating away at the precious ties that bound us together. This strife among ourselves wastes our energy and destroys our unity. My message to those of you involved in this battle of brother against brother is this: take your guns, your knives, and your pangas, and throw them into the sea! Close down the death factories. End this war now! ~Nelson Mandela, speech at a peace rally, February 25th, 1990

Over the weekend, Dan Crenshaw and members of his staff were confronted and some of them physically assaulted by Proud Boys at the Texas GOP convention.

I warned you that when these fucking murderous sons of bitches got started, they'd start with Republicans.

And sadly, that's not even the most fucked up thing I've seen since Friday night.

Adam Kinzinger's family received a threatening letter in the mail, all wrapped up in Christian-speak if you don't consider that the motherfuckers started off by calling his wife a "Cunt" and then they threatened to kill him *And* his family, because Kinzinger, as a Congressman and US Air Force (IL Air National Guard, specifically) officer, is (as he damned well is supposed to be) loyal to the country and the Constitution rather than to Donald Fucking Trump or some bullshit political movement.

But in the end, it's not and it won't be Trump. Hell, he'll probably be swallowed up by the maelstrom he created just like the rest of us will. The core value here is Fascism. Governance by murder, social control by killing people. Do you fucking get it now?

It is not possible to be "Conservative" or "Christian" or "Republican" enough for these sons of bitches because none of those things were ever even the point, or the goal.

I've been warning people about this shit for years, most explicitly since the start of the Pandemic. Imagine an America divided into fascist and anti-fascist successor states...and imagine what life would be like for those non-fascists who end up on the wrong side of the line, wherever that is. Think about that for a second.

Today, disgraced former Missouri governor Eric Greitens dropped an ad promising "RINO Hunting" and showing what appears to be a SWAT forced entry and delivers his spiel while he's carrying a shotgun.

This is literally call for violence against Republicans, after a weekend full of both threats and real violence against Republicans by violent fascists.

Juneteenth and fucking Father's Day and these sons of bitches couldn't be bothered to take the weekend off, in fact they just ramped it up. I'm serious about this. I've been seriously trying to get people to listen since the Spring of 2020.

These motherfuckers don't want a "Christian nation." They do not want a more conservative country. 

They want the goddamned killing fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, with a mall.

And they will have no particular ideology or religion other than Death. They will lift up prayers to the Death God. They will worship him with orgies of murder. Given these people's obsession with purity, no one and nothing would ever be safe.

Understand this, and internalize it, and be prepared to defend yourself because that's where this is going.

And they are...exactly as I've been saying they would be...starting this shit by going after other Republicans, mainly those who are not fascists, so far. It will very quickly escalate to those who are not fascist or violently racist enough. These people want to hash out Republican Primary Season by...well, by making it a literal hunting season on their own, with no bag limit as Greitens himself helpfully points out.

Republicans, these fucking people have already taken your Party...now they want to kill you, unless you tow a very specific line...and no, you don't get a choice what the Party Line is, the Mob will decide that for you.

Yes, this movement is fronted by, led by and mostly composed of clowns. But that doesn't make it less dangerous, that makes it worse. 

For historical comparison, Radovan Karadzic, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was a quack peddler of medical woo woo bullshit before he went into the business of autocracy and mass murder. 

I saw what the fuck those people did as a peacekeeper in Bosnia, and when I found out that the Christchurch mosque shooter, Brenton Tarrant, a few years ago used a goddamned Bosnian Serb marching song in his initial livestream, for the first time in years my mind flashed back to that. 

When I heard...and later saw the evidence...that he'd chalked the names of Christian battles against Islamic forces and the names of leaders from those conflicts onto his weapons, I thought of the violent fanaticism...and frequently also hedonistic behavior...of my ex-wife and the members of her Pentecostal church. This whole movement is, to put it bluntly, filled with stupid people who think life is about either fighting or fucking.

And when you have shit like the Texas GOP explicitly saying that it doesn't recognize the United States Government...and how does that even work? Mind you, a Republican who should be a Republican's Republican, a combat-wounded US Navy veteran who lost an eye for this country...was assaulted at the convention that produced this garbage....that's what it's about. 

The political maneuvering is aimed to create the atavistic environment in which these fucking people can satisfy their most base urges and no one will care.

And it will get worse.

Why?

Because if you think above the level of that fight-or-fuck response...whether you're a Christian Right lawyer, Army veteran and Never-Trump Republican like David French or the uber-liberal transgender college student he's Retweeting, you're the enemy as far as these motherfuckers are concerned. 

They simply don't want to relate to life any other way, and no one told them they had to because it's more profitable to feed their darker urges. All too often, we don't teach people anything anymore.

And remember that there's a very cynical clique of political manipulators and wealthy individuals who've twisted conservatism and broken the Republican Party to get these fucking people to basically act worse than animals. More to the point, they did this shit because they think they'll get money. Like the damn money would be worth anything with America as a failed state?

The Republican donors and ideological hacks think they're going to end up like Putin and his oligarchs in Russia...well, how has that worked out? 

Russia is a soup sandwich, economically trashed, losing a war against Ukraine, and a whole bunch of the oligarchs are dead or fled because they didn't think any of this through and they thought they could control the Dragon right up until it turned its head their way and ate them.

And meanwhile, while an even smaller clique of Evil lives it up in Moscow or some bunker in the Urals, high off the hog more than you could ever imagine...most Russians go without, their military has destroyed itself, and a generation of Ukrainians has been forced into fighting for their country, their freedom, and their very lives and right to exist as a people.

And the whole way the modern world works...which largely came to be through the actions of Republicans like Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and centrist Democrats like Bill Clinton...is up for (rather violent) debate again. History is never a settled matter.

It'll go the same way here. 

Our cynical manipulators will lose control, too, and be put up against the wall themselves, by the mob they created. What that mob intends for the rest of us, you can only imagine, or maybe it's better if you don't...

Unless we all step up and stop this right now, before it gets out of control. 

If you want to live in peace, sometimes you have to fight to protect that peace. Freedom isn't free, and peace is far more than the mere absence of conflict. By the same token, conservatism is about more than the simple absence of liberalism. Both philosophies must exist, and coexist, in order for a society to function. If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen.

That's not the world the modern Right wants to live in. Again, they want the Killing Fields with...whatever thing they think is some kind of ideal of life added in. Does that quite spell it out for you?

And whether we like it or not, the time is fast approaching where the only way to even begin to deal with this crap is to keep smacking these fucking people right in the mouth until they stop doing this shit.

They need to be told no, those who are guilty of crimes need to be punished, and we have to say "Never Again" and fucking mean it.

Force is all these people want or understand. These fucking people, most of whom don't know the first thing about what war is, somehow came to believe that war is some kind of ideal state of existence.

And I am here to tell you that most of these fucking people would not survive the world they're trying to create. Do you think the white conservative racists following this Christ-less Christianity would for one second allow a brown-skinned Israeli-born woman with a name like Sigal Chattah to be in a position of power, much less interpreting the law, no matter how much anti-Black racism she spews?

Again, force is all these people understand.

So let us give them all they want. 

The only way we're going to stop this bullshit is to hound these people relentlessly, so they can't catch a break, until they reject the desire to burn down the world, stop trying to tear down civilization and stop wanting to shoot down their neighbors for no goddamned reason worth mentioning.

And so that those deceivers and hangers-on hoping to ride this tiger to power see no profit in feeding it.

Freedom and peace, don't just happen. Civilization and society are an ongoing work in progress. People have a right to be free from ideology, threats of death, and violence.

Sometimes, you have to make it work. And these people just don't want to. They'd rather call innocent people the sons of the devil and threaten to kill them.

Time's coming, and very soon, when there will be more than threats.

We're going to have to do something about this, NOW. Because if we don't, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the Earth. 

The Death God is rising, and people who literally use their guns as objects of worship can't wait to bow to him.

If you don't understand that, you'd best start trying.

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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