Playing With Fire (American Revelation XI, Five.)

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

I just saw this a little bit ago.

Mike Lee says "Russia has nukes, we're playing with fire."

No shit, Sherlock.

What the fuck did we do, every single goddamned day back in the days of the Cold War?

Why did I stand watch, day in and day out...mostly on swings and mids because I was always lower in seniority than a whole bunch of people...in the cold and the rain and the snow, for three years of my life. And that's not counting all those trips TDY to places like Saudi Arabia or goddamned Bosnia. 

You know how much miserable shit one has to deal with in the military??

Fuck, maybe I should've been some kind of Republican political type, just sit at my desk and beat off all the goddamn time between taking calls from people trying to bribe my ass. Ain't that what you do?

 "Russia has nukes" is not an excuse to "Let the Russians do whatever the fuck they want."

Seriously, with you pussy-ass bitch Republicans around, having that mentality, why do we even have a United States Armed Forces??

Seems like literally anything other than Culture War jihads against your fellow citizens and scamming for money and power is too goddamned hard for Republicans to want to do it.

What, afraid you'll miss the cocaine orgy if you actually have to do some work. Fuck you motherfuckers!

Reagan Wept.

And I mean that literally, Republicans would rather let their fellow citizens die than have to do any goddamn work.

In fact, some idiot in Idaho said if abuse victims commit suicide or otherwise die, it'll save the government money.

Fuck you, dude, and I say that as a veteran currently receiving mental health care services. Fuck you.

I suppose your goddamn ass thinks it'd have been cheaper if I'd put a bullet in my head a year ago instead of breaking down and going to the doctor and getting started on antidepressants and therapy?

Never mind the distress that would've caused a whole bunch of people. I mean, we're all just proletarians to you, right? Expendable? Human Capital Stock?

Fuck, bro, I used to be a Republican and I can remember being taught to value dignity and human life besides my own. Did I, or the people around me sometimes have bad attitudes about things, or even say some murderous bullshit ourselves now and again? Absolutely. I mean, fuck, I was an Air Force Security Policeman. If my goddamned LT would've heard some of the shit I said at the bar, my career would've been shorter than it was! 

Did we take pride in it, say that shit in public and on the record? Oh hell no.

Because guess what? We had fucking standards. Do people always abide by those standards? No.

And we sure as all hell didn't say fucked up shit with pride, or really believe it as a core value...at least not most of the time. I mean, goddamn bro, you're talking about abuse victims here!

I mean, how much more shitty could you fuckers possibly be??

I mean, goddamn I worked in food service for 25 years and on Third Shift we joked that an HR person wouldn't survive working through the night with us...and I sure as hell would never have said "We should just let people die because it would save the government money"

Let alone said it seriously, in an official capacity, or concerning abuse victims who've already got beat with the short end of the stick by life. What the fuck is wrong with you?!?!

I mean, fuck, some of these Republicans seem to have an absolutely unseemly fascination with child rape, and with enabling that kind of shit.

How did we get from being the nation that won WWII and put a man on the goddamn Moon to being a nation where half of our political system has rotted away to being noting but cowards, perverts and thieves??

This is what Republicans have become, bullies, cowards and perverts who, never the less, do not want to take action to defend even their own damn selves when there's any real risk involved...unless it's the risk that they might have to give a shit about another person or lose profits or political power.

Fuck all of y'all.

Seriously, America, you get what you tolerate. When do we say enough of this bullshit is enough?!?!

Why are Republicans just expected to shit all over everything, and this is accepted??

How many more people gotta have their lives completely jacked by these fucking people's bullshit before we say "No More?" 

This ain't really a fucking question. Fucking do something. Republicans are literally turning into anti-American, perverted commie-surrender-monkeys! This ain't a "Conservative" or "Liberal" issue, it's a question of right and wrong. We're playing with fire by tolerating this crap!

You either believe in civilization or you don't.

Now get after it.

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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ~Isaiah 5:20