No Sympathy For The Devil (Christmas 2022, One.)

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:1-14

Today, the January 6th Committee made criminal referrals to the Department Of Justice for Donald Trump and John Eastman.

Good.

Now get after it.

But be aware, not only is this not the end, it's not even the end of the beginning.

Guys like Donald Trump and John Eastman aren't the problem. They're a symptom, shitty little opportunists who want to make their fortunes off the backs of those who are willing to be lied to.

The fact that there's a hell of a lot of chucklefucks ready and willing to fork over money, political power and their own freedoms in exchange for the lies...that's the real damned problem.

Now what are we going to do about that? Why? Because fundamentally, that is the root of the goddamned problem. There's too many people who don't want to change so bad, that they don't want to live in a changing society or world.

And if somebody says "Civil War is bad, they'll think it's good, just to be "Contrarian" or some shit, just because they think it's funny to act like willfully ignorant morons.

I've observed that lately, Kyle Rittenhouse has been going around styling himself as a "Christ-Follower." (Which means Fundamentalist nut in English.)

Still wondering; Who would Jesus murder?

I'm sorry, but the Christianity...or the alleged pride in being American...that Kyle Rittenhouse espouses is not something I recognize as either. The religion of Kyle Rittenhouse is at best, Republican politics. At worst, it's outright fascism. He went somewhere that he didn't belong with a weapon he wasn't supposed to have and killed people who lived there, who were legitimately exercising their Constitutional rights. 

First Amendment advocate, my ass.

And whoever...or whatever...this "Patrick Devlin" is that's egging Rittenhouse on they ain't an American. Russians tend to learn British English, not the American kind, for whatever reason. Did you catch it?

Of course somebody like Kyle Rittenhouse would be somebody the Russians would want to promote. Who in the hell else would benefit from something like a civil war in the United States? 

And I'm here to tell you, these people will say any old cockamamie dumb shit they think they can get away with in order to justify their war against the rest of us.

And it's a safe bet that, especially if Trump gets indicted and arrested, the media will let the crazy shit slide. 

If you think they looked at the Trump years and thought "That's a lot of damn money" you can bet they're looking at the possibility of a right-wing insurgency right here in the USA and seeing even more. Safe bet though, that it won't be the TV talking heads and shit who get embedded with the Army National Guard Soldiers, the Cops and the local defense militias that'll be doing the majority of the fighting against it.

They look at the possibility of air battles above L.A. and NYC, Coast Guard boats shooting it out with insurgent boghammer boats in the Great Lakes waters off Chicago, and tanks shooting it out in Iowa cornfields, and they don't see a great tragedy...they see the money and the props they'd get from covering this great tragedy.

And if we've learned anything from the last seven years it should be that us regular people are expendable to the Republican politicians and the TV pundits.

And make no mistake about it, there's no way to be "Conservative" enough for these goddamned nuts. They'll go after those who are or were "their own" who have embraced any aspect of gender or racial equality, LGBT rights, modernity or social change first and the hardest. It's stuff like this that makes me worry about the potential political knife-fight over the speakership in the House.

Yes, if they get their war, they will go out of their way to make it a war of atrocity and religion just like the Russians have done in Ukraine.

Because to them, Christianity isn't about "Peace on Earth and goodwill toward men" it's an excuse to exclude people or go on a Crusade or hate The Other for no damn good reason, and to try to impose their beliefs, their politics, their selfish religion and shitty ideas, on people who already had their own.

And these fucking people will keep on trying to do this until somebody steps up and makes them stop.

It'd be nice, for once, to see somebody work as hard on bringing about "Peace on Earth and Goodwill toward men" as they do on making a buck off the fact that it's Christmas or trying to immanentize some kind of shitty right-wing eschaton.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm so damned tired of this bullshit.

We need to stop having sympathy for the damned devil, and just stop putting up with this bullshit. Lock these fuckers up.

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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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