And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. ~Revelation 17:1-10
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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
I saw this when I got up this morning.
Indiana Republican House Rep. Victoria Spartz talking stupid about the January 6th insurrection, and comparing
modern America to the
Soviet Union.
And this bitch is Ukrainian and lived her early life under the Soviet system! She should goddamned well know better. But I guess that's what modern Republicanism makes of people. Reagan Wept.
Well, fuck you and the horse you rode in on, bitch.
(Also, how are things going where Victoria is from? Oh, right. Ukrainians fighting against a genocidal invader.)
I was a Cold War kid who grew up with the not-unreasonable fear that I'd either die in a nuclear war or be killed in a conventional WWIII before everybody else died in a nuclear war. The Soviet Union was, to this American, the absolute bad guys and that is not a joke.
In point of fact, we thought the Soviets were so bad that we gleefully allied with Radical Islam to take them down! (Oops.)
Then, as I've said before, I came home from school and an afternoon counseling appointment one evening a couple weeks before my 16th birthday to find out just how much the world had changed while I was busy that day...and watched live on CNN as ordinary Germans took sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall while East German border guards stood and watched with rifles slung.
A couple years later, and on Christmas Day, no less...they hauled down the Hammer and Sickle from the staff outside the Kremlin and raised the Russian tricolor in its place. Merry Christmas, World!
A couple more years, and I'd go on to serve in United States Air Force in the fading shadow of the Cold War, which we'd Won, by the way. I put in my time, mostly, but was medically discharged early due to injuries sustained in a car accident. The more I think about those days, especially in the context of now, I wonder why? What was even the point?
I was a Republican at the time, when that meant one could be more than a bigot or a traitor. Now? Republicans don't even appreciate America.
While I'm at it, let's take a look and see what flag the Russian army that these Ukrainian soldiers are fighting
against is flying, shall we?
Well...
that seems a little inconvenient for the Spartz Narrative, now
doesn't it??
So, modern America is like the Soviet Union...but the Russian Army that we're supporting the Ukrainians to fight against is the ones flying the actual Hammer and Sickle??
Meanwhile, America generally leans toward more freedom, and preserving the ones we already have (That Republicans want to take away) but Vladimir Putin is effectively re-Sovietizing Russian society and instituting Communism in all but name, and (last I checked) somewhere around a million Russians had left the country because of it.
Seems like one of these things is not like the other one.
Ah, well, I've been saying "Republicans are basically Communists now" since Trump started talking about building his wall in 2015 and turning America into East Germany.
So what the hell do I know??
At this point, being a Republican who hasn't lost the plot and basically converted to fascism or Putinist Neo-Communism basically makes one a Democrat, which pretty much leaves me wondering just what the fuck these idiots think (or thought) that Christianity or conservatism even meant.
They seem to think both are little more than angry tribal religions, which do not command "Love Thy Neighbor" or "Things As They Are" but demands "
Fight your enemy/neighbor/pretty much everybody" and "Kick over the table if you don't get
every damn thing you want." And this shit commands respect or reverence not of Jesus Christ or Ronald Reagan but...literal
worship of
Donald Trump??
Hey, wasn't it Communism that was big on personality cults?
And then they manage to get not just a former Soviet immigrant, but a Ukrainian lady to say this stupid bullshit?
I still maintain that modern Republicanism is an ideology that makes people be less than the sum of their parts...and honestly, at this point, for what??
It's not like Donald Trump is ever going to be loyal in return, for all the slavish, slobbering loyalty he demands.
He's thrown pretty much everybody who ever served him under the bus, no reputable lawyers want to work for him, even. Trump wrecked the Republican Party...pretty much destroyed their shit and stole their lunch money outside of "safe" states that are rapidly becoming less safe and he's sucked up the donors and the Party's money like a Singularity in a binary solar system spending eternity devouring the other star. Here in Michigan the Republican Party basically got mugged by the Democrats and in Response, Republicans are spending all their time fighting each other, the Party is broke, and the last couple cycles I've seen more and more signs for increasingly hokey "Independent Conservative" candidates around here.
And they're trying to throw out the basic middle-of-the-road Republican state Rep. we have because he *Checks Notes* voted with Democrats for basic shit that we all need, once or twice.
Dude that's running to unseat him scans as a Freedom Caucus type kook.
It's to the point where things have escalated into actual brawls between different factions.
Ya know, as far as I'm concerned if you motherfuckers don't want to live in America as it is, if you shitheads prefer Banana Republic bullshit...
you can leave.
Just remember, you fuckers have to give back all your "Evil" American money first.
And at best, Republicans like Victoria Spartz want to have their cake and eat it too, choose both the Cross of Christ and the Hammer and Sickle. To say that the Invasion of Ukraine is a crime perpetrated by a crazy man, but then criticize Ukraine and ultimately serve those who'd just love it if the Republican Party slimed its way back into power and threw the EU, NATO and Ukraine under the treads of T-72 tanks in the service of their Russian master.
You
can't really do all that, but you can't tell these fucking people
anything.
And again, the bitch is Ukrainian-American (and has family in the goddamn war zone) talk about forgetting where you came from.
It's shit like this that makes my Agnostic ass unable to completely dismiss stuff like Revelation 17. There isn't a whole hell of a lot of daylight between "It's OK If You're A Republican" and "By thy sorceries were all nations deceived."
At their worst, it's nothing but the craven cowardice of Donald Trump, literally seeking to turn the USA into nothing but a poodle to authoritarian dictators, or the fawning slobbery of a Ron DeSantis or Tucker Carlson...who rumors say, is going to work for RT, anyway.
Fucking Russians can
have his ass, as far as I'm concerned.
These motherfuckers don't want to live in any kind of society where they don't all get to be capricious absolute monarchs, never mind that basic logic says only one person gets to be the king or queen.
Just like these abominably out-of-touch motherfuckers all thought they was gonna be Biggie and Tupac after Trump had a mugshot...now they all think they're gonna get to be Donald Trump someday.
There's a catch, though. Let me clue you in on one miserable little important fact.
These jagoffs have built Donald Trump up in their heads to the point where even Donald Trump can't be Donald Trump! Trump the Man ain't Trump the Meme, and vice versa.
But here's the thing...there's somebody who's actively gone out of his way to be both the man and the meme, and he's already hacked the brains of a lot of people around the world because of it...and for better or worse, he did actually go out of his way to fulfill some of that crap.
Of course, I'm talking about Vladimir Putin.
And Republicans love his ass.
Mostly, I think, because he took a major power and turned it into a fake-Christian, fake-"Conservative" dictatorship and Republican love conspiracy theories, cruelty and Stalinism all masquerading as "Christianity."
They seem to have forgotten, or
not thought about in the first place, how all the enablers and "Useful Idiots" of Soviet Communist infiltration and/or Russian hegemony end up
dead, almost
always at the hands of the Russians themselves.
And again, Republicans call this bullshit both Christian and "Conservative."
So if you want to remain a
citizen, or a
free person,
don't vote Republican. It's as simple as that.
They'd rather believe in a Rapture that isn't even in the Bible and will never happen than believe in the Constitutionally secular America we have, and their fellow citizens.
Hating us is easier, I guess?
What disgusts me is how many Republicans seem perfectly willing to trade their American freedom in for being a Putinist neo-Commie apparatchik or a Zampolit somewhere.
And when they lose, they're going to try to overthrow America, with Russian support and weapons.
Either you believe in freedom, or you don't.
It's really that simple, and there will be a test on this later.
Reagan Wept.
Слава Україна!
When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnieper's plunging shore
My eyes could see, my ears could hear
The mighty river roar.
When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears
Into the deep blue sea
The blood of foes ... then will I leave
These hills and fertile fields --I'll leave them all and fly away
To the abode of God,
And then I'll pray ....
But until that day I know nothing of God
Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
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