Death Cult Burn Pits

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

This week, Republicans blocked the PACT Act in the Senate after previously supporting it, and then they celebrated afterwards.

This would have provided funding to support veterans suffering from the effects of exposure to toxic burn pits.

People are pissed off, and of course, the fact that a famous, widely-respected comedian is one of the main supporters of the lobbying effort that led to the PACT Act in the first place can only help in the long run. Something will get done, this is personal to a lot of people, including me.

I'm a United States Air Force Security Forces veteran, I *Was* deployed and exposed to this kind of shit, but not nearly with as serious of effects as some of my bros who served longer, got sent to places like Afghanistan and Iraq and dealt with it for longer and had much more prolonged exposure.

Fuck these motherfuckers.

There's an awful lot of veterans that I know who are pretty pissed off about this mess, including plenty of Republican ones. It'll certainly be enough to flip quite a few votes. Add that to the expanding list of things people are legitimately pissed off about right now, and yes, Republicans could be looking at serious losses in November.

I mean, fuck.

The House just passed an assault weapons ban, effectively reinstating the one from the 1990's that expired in the early aughts...if it gets by the Senate and Biden signs it, that is.

It won't do much about the weapons already in circulation, but it might stop the bleeding for awhile, until the arms manufacturers figure out all the loopholes just like they did back then, and so on.

But it's a start...if it passes the Senate.

Here's the thing, though.

As to the core problem, none of this stuff matters worth a damn.

It's a cult. This has to be addressed.

I mean, seriously, what the fuck has Donald Trump or Matt Gaetz done for anybody other than themselves? And this is a problem that goes way back, a buddy of mine from my old job...an old Black Vietnam Veteran who served eight years in the Marine Corps said the same thing about Gerald Ford "What the fuck did Gerald Ford ever do for anybody but Gerald Ford?" 

And Ford...or Reagan...or, hell, old Tricky Dick Nixon was a hell of a lot less openly malevolent than current Republicans are.

There's a reason all these old shits could stand there on the Senate floor and fist-bump and laugh it up after they'd blocked a bipartisan bill that had massive popularity and support...purely as retaliation for the Democrats (and some Republicans) passing a measure to combat inflation and price-gouging.

(Which really amounts to "Democrats took away the stick Republicans had been beating them with." That's all, and they mad.)

Their voter base simply doesn't care. 

The massively non-veteran-majority, completely oblivious MAGA-Republican base could absolutely give a shit. And, egged on by foreign trolls and Russian bots, they've already bent and pounded and refashioned what is a massive defeat...for some of their loved ones too...into a victory for themselves. 

It's a fucking Death Cult.

They simply claimed that (nonexistent) unrelated spending had been added to the bill. In fact it had not. This lie has been addressed and countered by people and groups as diverse as Adam Kinzinger, Jon Stewart, the fucking VFW (Hardly a bastion of Democratic Wokeness) and VoteVets.

And here's the thing.

It will continue until we, as a people, stop tolerating this garbage. Stop fist-bumping and laughing it up with murderous assholes, cut them off, ostracize them, stop fucking them, etc.

And more to the point, you want to know what we can do to start stripping all this crap away?

Stop putting up with the people who want to paper everything from their ignorance to shitty legislative decisions over with some Jesus and Blah Blah Blah and then we'll make some real progress. Send people to therapists instead of a fucking church camp. Somebody starts talking about Jesus? 

Walk away.

I spent most of my life as a Christian, this MAGA-Patriot-Christian Crap ain't what I was taught. I'd love for someone to do a follow-up and see how many of these couples Mike Pence is talking about are divorced now because things got better for two weeks after that bullshit program...and then got worse. Yes, I've been to this rodeo.

And that's how it fucking ends up, every goddamned time.

How do these assholes justify supporting authoritarians like Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin...despite increasingly horrific murderous bullshit on the part of the latter?

They start talking about Jesus and generally jerking off with themselves, because apparently Communist Dictator Vladimir Putin pretends to love him some Jesus, or something.

And it very rapidly spirals out into rabid Creationism and conspiracy theories, because once you've believed one impossible thing, why not more? It's like fucking drugs for some people.

And ironically it was Commies like Putin who, themselves, called religion the Opiate of the Masses. Now they exploit it, same as Republicans do. And they'll keep at it until the masses that follow them are reduced to cannibalism and dancing around a fire shouting "Unga Bunga."

But the "Conservatives" ended up with all those people's money, so it worked out (for them.) On a certain level they don't really care if they have to live out the rest of their lives in a bunker somewhere and can't spend it. They "Won" and they don't really care what they won. 

See how this works, really?

We really need to stop putting up with this shit. Nothing is going to improve much until we do.

And it can ever and always get worse. These fucking people would happily burn down civilization and call it an offering to their shitty, selfish version of God.

Which they've really just made in their own image.

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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