From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root....If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly....Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated. ~Ronald Reagan
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Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there
Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver
Reach out, touch faith
Reach out, touch faith.
~Personal Jesus, Depeche Mode.
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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
Last couple days, I've been seeing this kind of shit from Mercedes Schlapp...you know, the CPAC dick-grabbing guy's alleged wife. I'm sorry, but I'm tired as shit of these fucking people and their goddamned First World problems.
The Daily Beast is a lot of things, but I'd
hardly call it an instrument of Christian persecution...or call Matt or Mercedes Schlapp a
Christian, for that matter.
Meanwhile, the front page of a student newspaper in that hotbed of anti-gun liberalism in *Checks Notes* North Carolina, posted text messages from students on the front page, that were sent during the recent active shooter incident at UNC Chapel Hill, in which at least one person was killed.
Not that I'd expect such a thing to prick the consciences of North Carolina Republican legislators, much less narcissistic, self-involved faux-Christians like Mercedes Schlapp...who probably knows
exactly the shit her "husband" does, but ya know, meal ticket and she gets to be a little bit internet-famous so she has to at least
pretend to buy into all this garbage.
I couldn't do it.
Not when people are getting murdered for no damned reason because "Conservatives" hate education and People of Color.
I mean, shit, I got a lot of problems...don't even get me
started...but I ain't
Dead yet.
And while I'm still here, I'm going to do what I can.
And I'd imagine that "Conservatives" see that as a problem.
Considering I'm old enough to remember the last decade-plus of the Cold War, I'm a former Republican who remembers when...whatever they were at the time, Republicans at least weren't dirty Commie Russia-stans...and I'm a United States Air Force veteran.
But more than any of that, I'm an American.
I have a reasonable level of loyalty to my country simply because, well, I live here, not there...and wherever "there" may be, there might be nothing wrong with it but it's not home. Also, being that I'm a former conservative of a certain generation, such things were instilled in me on an unconditional basis by people who actually cared whether I learned a thing or two...or not.
And not learning it...came with consequences.
Thus, from that and having been a few places, I know a little about the world we live in...and I cannot imagine these fucking people who consciously choose Russia over America...
Or choose tolerating mass murder over responding to the cries of the bereaved, of the survivors, and of the wounded...and do it every time and don't even
bother with whatever-pious-sounding-mumbo-jumbo anymore.
And then they have the nerve to claim persecution when somebody calls out their hypocrisy, sexual immoralities and treason?
But when the time comes to trash-talk anybody who's fighting for their own freedom, who gives a shit, or who wants a better world...that's when modern "Conservatives" simply cannot wait to stand up and be counted.
You either believe in Right and Wrong, or you don't.
You believe in democracy, you believe in freedom, or you don't.
There simply are no half-measures here.
And these motherfuckers are standing up and choosing "Wrong" every time, with malice aforethought, even...especially...if that means not choosing America.
They're simply not rooting for their own side.
And not only do they
not care that we know it...
These clowns think they can do
whatever they want because they see themselves as gods.
In fact, They think it's
funny.
I saw one of these motherfuckers extolling the virtues of the Communism and the New Soviet Man today.
Yes, that's right...alleged "Conservatives" literally praising what Ronald Wilson Reagan called the "Evil Empire" in a speech to the *Checks Notes* National Association of Evangelicals, in *Checks Notes* 1983.
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness—pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the State, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world .... So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. ~Ronald Reagan
It's 40 years and a bit over four months later, and now Republicans can't wait to get themselves some of that...Communism...that they keep trying to accuse the "Left" of, and to be the boot-licking East German communist apparatchiks under the boot of a Red Army contingent, the "Western Group of Forces" stationed in-country that was literally far larger (and better armed) than their own military.
The Soviet Union was, by its own law, an atheistic state, based (again, by law) on Communism and "scientific socialism." The Party was the State. The State was the Party and by the time there was any daylight between the two the whole system was falling down.
Republicans don't want to ape that system because they think it'll be good for you.
I never in my lifetime thought I'd see even an alleged-"Conservative" saying that Communism was actually a good thing...so long as the New Soviet Man cosplayed at being a Social Conservative for five minutes before invading somebody under color of the Hammer And Sickle.
But here we are.
Reagan Wept.
And when it comes time for the War Dance, these same motherfuckers are going to get their asses kicked up between their shoulder blades and then cry for the Russians...and for Vladimir Putin, their own Soviet Jesus...to save them. But Russia cannot even defeat
Ukraine (and is
now facing drone-equipped
counterattacks against its strategic airlift assets) so I can imagine how
that's going to work out.
If Russia wants to support a revolution somewhere else, the IL-76 "Candid" will be one of the main tools for doing so...and the Ukrainian Air Force just took out a whole bunch of those jets.
The Far-Right is in for multiple rude awakenings.
Anywhere these fucking people
do take over here, it
won't be much and it'll
only be a thing because liberals and the rest of us
declined to
come in after them, and walked away with a shrug and an upraised middle finger saying "Bye, whore, you
have fun with that!"
And that's "Winning."
Losing just means they all end up dead and nobody cares.
But, then, if they "Win" they'll still claim "Persecution" because their own bad life choices left them stuck in a Banana Republic, the vast majority of them poor and totally dependent on people that anybody with the good sense God gave a common domestic Ferret would never trust with anything, all because they traded the Cross of Christ for the Hammer and Sickle and for literally worshiping a dude that looks like Jabba The Hutt with a murdered Snuffleupagus on his head.
And they'll claim persecution because the rest of the world treats them like a joke, instead of treating them like the "gods" they believe
themselves to
be.
Just like the rest of the world treated America like a joke when Trump was president, and for the same damn reason.
America is based on a Constitution, freedom, and inalienable rights...rather than being based on anyone's "god" for a damned reason.
Because every single fucking time, the "God" people align themselves with Power and whatever Bread And Circuses jackass Donkey Show, Survivor-type, weapon of Mass Distraction bullshit they can...just so they can practice more cruelty and steal more stuff while engaging in sexual debauchery that'd shame a troop of Ecstasy-addled horny Bonobos.
And more to the point, it happens that way
every time you run the experiment. The Founders knew it as sure as we do because the record of this religious theocratic
horseshit wasn't
any cleaner back in the day.
In fact, they were so disgusted with that mess, that they made their own alternative basically from scratch.
They had to, there effectively wasn't much else to even work with. and there's some deeply serious and specific reasons why Freedom of the Press was literally in the First Amendment to our Constitution.
Remember that.
Yeah, it's some goddamned fool like Mercedes Schlapp talking up a bunch of ignorant shit right now because somebody wrote about her husband grabbing dudes dicks...but how long will it be, before they simply brand other people's Constitutional Rights and freedom as "Persecution of Christians" and react violently??
It's going to end badly, but that's never stopped these assholes before. Oh yes, there will be blood.
Freedom isn't free, and the time's coming when we're going to have to pay that cost again.
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Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the House of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors...
You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.
With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.
They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming to gether as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God.
~Malcolm X, Letter following the Hajj.
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