Republicans Hate America (Shooting Their Way Out Of Social Change, Three.)

Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?

Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?

Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.

Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.

Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.

Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?

Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?

Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?

Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.

[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"

Over the weekend, and while he was standing right next to Donald Trump on a stage in Iowa, Matt Gaetz said Washington D.C. was "So corrupt" that the only way to make any changes was "By force."

I don't suppose anybody checked to see if Trump's had was up Gaetz's ass at the time, but it's a safe bet that Trump was using Gaetz to try to get around the restrictions placed on him by the judge.

In case you wonder, yes, these far-right punk-asses hate America and they hate you, too, American voter. 

Because what the fuck do you think happens when they figure out that yes, in point of fact the United States of America is a representative Democracy and that yes, We The People do get a say in who even goes to Washington D.C. or not?

That all those people in office in Congress, and by extension all the people who are there because of them...Democrat and Republican alike...were sent there by us, the People.

Right or wrong...whether we always like the results of it or not...that's simply what a representative democracy...and being a citizen...is.

Because if you don't think these motherfuckers would immediately extend their trying to overthrow America, and their attempts at violent purging, to Columbia, SC or Grand Rapids, MI or San Juan Capistrano, CA you have another thing coming.

Because really, it's the rest of us they don't like. And they want us all to have to live in their angry, grim, small world...for no better reason than because they say so.

And I'm here to tell you, the shit will fail.

In fact, it won't just fail, it'll faceplant, hard. 

I'm serious. Here in Northern Michigan we're in the middle of the yearly Northern Strike exercises, there's troops in and out of my workplace by the score day in and day out (or night in and night out in my particular case.)

The troops, so far as I can tell, are not in the majority composed of "These Fucking People." 

And These Fucking People's murderous plans...have to get past them, one way or another. Also, technologically, it ain't the same Air Force I served in, not anymore. Half these kids I see look like computer nerds. There's a reason for that, yo. And they can still fight, personally.

But when it fails these same motherfuckers will make up any conspiracy theories to explain why it failed the same way as they make up whatever they have to in order to justify whatever bullshit they want to do.

These fucking people think they want to live in The Empire, from Star Wars.

And they're currently competing to see which of them gets to be the guy going around shouting "On Program!" at the other prisoners. See Also: Presidential candidacies of Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis.

But they aren't the side that'll have the "Star Wars" hyper-war technology. Even a current-model regular car is basically driving a computer these days. Can't imagine a Humvee or Joint Light Tactical Vehicle or whatever isn't pretty much the same by now...with all that implies in terms of combat capability for the vehicle and those onboard the damned thing.

Not that it really matters to Republicans.

And there's a decent chance they'll attempt to throw a Civil War and hardly anybody under 50 will even show up. Most of the Pepe Meme Brigade won't even show for a real fight. It's easy and safe to be mean to people online.

Not so easy when the rest of us have rifles, too.

These shitheads don't give a damn if all they end up with is some shitty little Russian protectorate of a banana republic in the Florida Panhandle and South Alabama, either. Or that they'll get it, if they do, because of international support from the Authoritarianism, Inc. nations and that it'll probably be somewhere nobody else wants.

They sure don't want to live in America as it's currently constituted.

They don't want to obey the Lord's Word as it's currently or ever been written.

You may do the math concerning...anything else.

There's nothing in the Constitution, or Federal Law or any State's laws, or hell, in the Bible for that matter, that says you have to be a Republican, or some kind of "Social Conservative" or support these motherfucking people...let alone their goddamned fascism.

Nor is there any mechanism to break apart or restructure corporations based on their failure to obey nonexistent laws that exist as ideas only in the heads of angry pinch-faced, tight-assed Fox News nuts.

And for that matter, I'm pretty sure Apple or Disney can automatically afford/find better lawyers than any hypothetical government run by these fucking morons. Nor do those corporations exist or sell their products exclusively in the United States. 

It's a big goddamned world out there.

And as much as "Conservatives" would like it to, it's not going to get any smaller.

And as regards this century, I have a feeling who the major powers are is only beginning to shape up, but I sure wouldn't underestimate the Ukrainians and those countries backing them the hardest as a near-future power bloc, for example.

If the Republicans manage to break off a piece of America for themselves, though?

It'll be Guinea-Bissau, but for White People, and it will exist at the sufferance of and under the protection of the Chinese, or the Russians, or both.

Most likely, the only function it'll have and its only industry of note will be Russian Oligarch-tourism to give these fuckers a taste of the "West" and palatial vacation homes and shit. 

Fuck knows, it seems like none of them actually want to live in Russia.

Seems like somebody should wonder why that is?

And it sure won't be where I live, MeShawn, or haven't you noticed how Michigan is trending these days?? So, if you wanna start shit, you better bring your "A" game and pack a lunch, because this old veteran...and, by the way, former Michigan Republican...is sick of your bullshit, too.

And I've been sick of Trump's bullshit since about five minutes after it started on June 16th, 2015.

Lock the motherfucker up already.

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

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."

~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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