False Prophet$ (American Revelation XI, Prequel.)

Imam: Because you do not believe in God does not mean God does not believe in you.

Riddick: Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? You got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely do believe in God... And I absolutely hate the fucker. ~From the film Pitch Black.

I saw this a little bit ago.

Julie Green, some nutty MAGA-Christian "Prophet," is trying to say Canada, Iran and Iraq will somehow form an alliance and attack the United States, but "God" will "Set traps" for them.

Bitch, it's called the Montana and North Dakota Army National Guards, the 5th Bomb Wing and a whole shit-ton of USAF Security Forces troops guarding launch control centers and missile silos all across the Northern Tier. God ain't got nothing to do with it. 

And never mind that Canada and Iraq are our allies or that Canadian defence systems, like our own defenses, are still oriented outward, toward repulsing attack by Russian bombers or detecting a nuclear first strike in order to give Global Strike Command and the Navy time to launch a counterstrike and end the world.

Or that the historical enmity between Iran and Iraq runs far deeper and longer than their issues with...or indeed the existence of...the United States of America. Nor that given the logistics of it all...if we stayed out of the Middle East or even didn't and just left them alone, Iran would probably never screw with us again.

Nor that I, because of actual life experience, know more about this stuff than she does. (Although, to be fair, you could get a basic understanding of the same from reading a few Tom Clancy novels and not have to sweat nearly as much as I did.)

People like Julie Green wrecked Christianity for me.

Motherfuckers be so keen on grifting more money from the ignorant goobers in their congregations that they never stop to think about the dude in the worn Air Force T-shirt standing in the back of the hall waiting to pick up his ex-wife and watching all the nuts act out.

And, you want my honest opinion? The people who follow this bullshit are way worse. 

How many of them know better...but lack the emotional or mental fortitude to go storming out of the church when somebody says a bunch of easily-disproven dumb shit?

Or...as the Bible calls it...false prophecy.

(An act, mind you, for which the Word prescribes the penalty of death by stoning. But people act like fake-religious Prosperity Gospel grifters have a right to steal. Think about that for a second.)

Johns: Battlefield doctors decide who lives and dies. It's called 'triage'.

Riddick: They kept calling it 'murder' when I did it. ~From the film Pitch Black.

Same people have basically wrecked conservatism and Republicanism for me.

Because all the conservative talk and religious woo is basically just cover for...trying to repeal the $35 cap on Insulin for people on Medicare that the Democrats put into the big infrastructure package.

Like, seriously, what has the world come to that we need to make laws about "Do not overcharge diabetic senior citizens to the point of death, for their goddamned required medications?"

And somehow the "Christians" always end up flying cover for corporations and Republicans, running interference for eugenics, greed, hatred, patriarchy, petty judgementalism, racism and every sin you can imagine and a few you can't. 

Always, it never fails, you can set your watch by this shit.

My Dad died from complications of Diabetes, this shit is personal to me.

Fuck these motherfuckers. 

I'm sick of America just shrugging when Republicans try to shit all over everything in ways that will kill people, because they think it's funny.

And it nearly always boils down to endless greed, self-aggrandizement and selfishness by rich dudes who already have way too much, who've never had to work for a living in such a way that their next meal or whether or not they had a place to live next month depended on that shit.

Motherfuckers who can afford to waste $50 BILLION and then be mad that the President Of The United States got more "Likes" on Superbowl Night than they did.

It's always the same, and it's always the same goddamned people who do this bullshit.

Like, why the fuck do the rest of us put up with it? What's it going to take?

When do we say enough is enough?

Is it really going to take some of us having to live through these motherfuckers 'Killing Fields, but with a mall' dystopia in order to break the spell?

How many people have to get killed in Ukraine...or in East Lansing...before we step up and make it stop? 

How many people have to die before we tell the autocrats, the super-religious and the super-rich to go fuck themselves and get on with the business of life??

Half the goddamned problem is that at least a third of us don't want to do either one.

We need to deal with that.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those...moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner.

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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