And There Was Given Unto Him A Great Sword... (Antichrist Superstar, Two.)

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. ~Revelation 6:3-4

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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

So, "Conservatives" are collectively losing their shit because some bullshit Chinese balloon is flying over Montana?

I'm a just come out and say it right now.

The vast majority of these fucking people, if they ever got in a real firefight against real enemies with blood in their eyes who don't give a shit about them...they'd drop their expensive collection of weapons, piss themselves and run away screaming.

They think of themselves as the guy on the red horse with the big sword.

The truth is, they'd surrender in a heartbeat to the guy on the white horse who had no intention of fighting, and who preached peace with deceitful intent...simply because he had a bow...and remember that Revelation 6 does not say there were also arrows.

The vast majority of these motherfuckers are fucking terrified of the existence of transgender people or that some black person or a senior citizen that they disapprove of might get government benefits. Any actual enemy is going to wipe the floor with these sons of bitches.

Putin is basically the guy on the white horse, at this point. Trump is his false prophet. And, to take it in the order I was taught, those two things come before all the rest of it. It makes so much more sense if you look at the old Christian "End Times Narrative" as projection.

But honestly, it's probably worse than that.

You cannot, repeat cannot spend years engaging in performative overreaction and pants-shitting cowardice every goddamned day...spending a generation shitting yourself on command from FOX News and then suddenly flip a switch and be brave when it's 'convenient' for the same fucking rich people who addicted your dumb ass to fear of everything.

See Also: The "Conservative" response to COVID-19. These fucking people are still trying to "Do you know who I am" a goddamned virus that is incapable of giving a shit about who they are.

They treat churches and guns and throwing money at rich people are some kind of modern equivalent to some Unga Bunga witch-doctor jumping up and down and shaking his "magic" rattle at some imaginary demon that only exists in the context of his Traditional faith...and at least the witch doctor most likely has the sense to not shit all over his environment or think "You can't tell me what to do!" when his tribe is confronted by some dangerous natural threat.

You tell me, what the fuck are these morons going to do when they're faced with a horde of atheistic Vatniks who not only don't give a shit about their stupid beliefs...but believe their own equally stupid barbarian imperialism to be infinitely superior because something something Gazpacho. 

I saw an article the other day, in which a Ukrainian soldier who was being interviewed described fighting the Wagner Group mercenaries as like fighting against a Zombie apocalypse.

So, when faced with a horde of poorly-armed, untrained gomers who are a hell of a lot more afraid of what's behind them than they are of what's in front of them...and yes, the Russian strategy is basically trying to bury the Ukrainian army under waves of rotting meat at this point...you tell me, are Bubba and Scooter gonna be in for the long haul, or are they just going to give up after shooting people stops being "fun?" How long will they hold out after they find out the trenches don't have Wi-Fi or that they're gonna have to shit in a bucket in the corner between human-wave assaults? 

What happens when they find out that the one Soldier that could be spared to train them as a local self-defense militia is a young woman with two mommies from California who voted for Bernie Sanders because she thought Biden was too conservative??

Seriously, what happens to the people who...don't like reality or who's in power...when reality kicks down the door with gun in hand and says "Here I am" and all the sudden it ain't fun and political games no more and listening to the experts, the professionals, and/or the other political "side" might just mean the difference between life and death, much less freedom or slavery??

We're going to hit a point, likely very soon, where "America is not at war, the Marines are at war. America is at the mall" no longer cuts it. 

There's going to be a point where we're all going to have to be "inconvenienced because it's that or we're dead. We're either all going to have to pull together as a society because if we don't we're dead or we're looking at lives of serfdom to the goddamned Russians. And best-case, facing the possibility of losing whole regions of the country where people can't or won't do what needs to be done to exactly that.

And I guarantee you, the atheistic Chinese are laughing at superstitious American "Conservative" Christians saying dumb shit. The Russians on the other hand simply believe their own equivalents to be far superior, and they're looking at how best to turn these fucking people's obsession with caste and racism and relative status to their own advantage. 

And if the Russians succeed in breaking off a piece of America for a Cold War style satellite state...when confronted with both a black person and a white person from Florida...all the Vatnik is going to say is "You're both Reds now" and he's going to motion them both in the same direction and towards the same Gulag, the same barracks, etc. with the barrel of his AK-74. As much as anything, because doing so will mentally break the goddamn white dude who won't be able to handle not being a better class of slave than some of the other slaves.

Seriously, if you think people yammering about "Ancient Gods attacking America because Gay people..." like it's the goddamn 2012 Mayan Calendar nonsense all over again, are going to have the mental fortitude to deal with a major crisis, let alone something like a WWIII scenario...you haven't been paying attention. 

These idiots won't last 30 minutes.

Reagan Wept.

And I'm here to tell you, if we're ever going to fight a war again, much less win one, we're going to have to tell the "Conservatives" to put a sock in it and shut the fuck up with all this fear shit.

Yes, even at this point it's already a goddamned national security issue.

We'd best start figuring out how to deal with this shit right the fuck now.

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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