Crocodile Tears (Reason For The Season, Eight.)

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

For as much therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

~Amos 5:8-15

I saw this earlier.

Some idiot Republican Congressman speechifying about "National Bible Week" which, by the way, I've never heard of. He talks about how the Word of God is a "Pillar of his life" and how our country is in the midst of a "Moral and Spiritual War."

Well, bro, if you really think that, why are you a Republican?? Republicans are almost always the first ones to abhor those who speak uprightly, take bribes, or tread upon the poor. 

(This isn't my opinion, this stuff is a matter of public record on a consistent basis.)

If there's a moral or spiritual war going on, according to the Word, it's Republicans who are on the wrong side.

And then these motherfuckers have the nerve to shed a bunch of crocodile tears on the House Floor because Congress is taking steps to make sure that Interracial marriage and Marriage equality cannot be repealed because of the rogue Supreme Court.

Only to get hella called out by their own relatives.

I would imagine the family Christmas dinner is going to be extremely awkward for Aunt Vicky and if we're being honest, she deserves that shit. There is no excuse for this crap. I don't give a goddamn what you think. It's the 21st century, we are a Constitutionally secular country. Why the fuck do these idiots think it's the job of government to "Protect" their fake-Christian "Values?"

How in the hell do these assholes continue to believe they have some kind of a "right" to shit all over other people??

Seriously, these fucking people ignore absolutely everything in the Bible about how to conduct yourself, how to have a more just society, or how to treat your fellow humans. And then they constantly talk up all the bloody, judgmental, pie-in-the-sky holiness stuff as if that somehow makes up for it.

And for the last decade or so, these fucking people have never met a goddamned nut or a vicious authoritarian dictator or a war they didn't like.

I mean, seriously, their boy Putin is losing in Ukraine and has decided, for whatever reason to start threatening Kazakhstan. Why do I get the feeling Republicans will try and claim this is a show of strength, rather than stupidity?

Okay, Republicans "There's a moral and spiritual war going on." That said, why the fuck do you stand up to be counted with the enemies of everything America or Jesus Christ ever stood for?? There's a war, you pick the wrong side, and call that "Righteousness."

And then these people have the balls to think the rest of the world should fall down in worship of every stupid idea they come up with?

No, fuck you, I'm tired of this shit. Grow the fuck up, the lot of you. 

I've had it with the authoritarianism, the bad faith, the bigotry, the constant conspiracy bullshit, the escalating extremism, the priggish fake religiosity, the firehose of lies and the wielding of politics, religion or any old damn thing as weapons against other people...simply for the "crime" of being other people. 

You fuckers are no better than the goddamned colonizers who spent 400 years murdering Native Americans, or the goddamned slavers who held Black people in bondage, or the Russians who are attempting to wipe out Ukraine, and the worst part is you don't even have enough common decency or human empathy to be ashamed of your damn selves.

(And yet I find it interesting that none of these sons of bitches wants to actually move to Russia or some other country where this shit is acceptable, they'd rather fuck up America.)

People are getting tired of this garbage. Go ahead, do what you want to do, crank the abusive-right-wing-ism up to 11, go full crazy-stupid and try and render the government nonfunctional by jamming up the House for months trying to find the "Perfect" Republican Speaker, and declare war on the rest of us.

Go ahead. I fucking dare you.

I'm here to tell you, it won't go how you think it will. People are tired of your shit.

Many years ago no less of a conservative Great Man than Ronald Reagan said, "We are spirits, not animals."

Why then, Republicans, do you feel the need to act like beasts?

Keep it up, and you'll find yourselves treated accordingly.

It's the fucking Christmas season, does any of that even matter to you??

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Seven

The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." ~Ronald Reagan