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
This was the first thing I saw when I logged on this morning, Newt Gingrich bitching about the Freedom Caucus (and presumably their impending government shutdown) on Fox News.
Bro, the concepts of government shutdowns and this trash-fire politics (not to mention the bottomless well of Republican hypocrisy as it now exists) wouldn't even have entered the American political thought process if it wasn't for your ugly old Jabba The Hutt-looking ass!
It still baffles me that Newt got somebody to marry him the first time (much less that she was an older woman who should've known better) then cheated on his first wife with his eventual second, and his second wife with his eventual third. I mean, maybe it's just me...but I've never seen Newt Gingrch as anything more than some slimy snidely-whiplash douchebag whose parents didn't give him enough ass-whuppins, and you'd think a consistent record of adultery would make women not want to associate with a dude.
Newt Gingrich disgusts me, as much as Donald Trump does, he always has, and for the same reason.
And I say that as a former Republican who
voted mostly-Republican in 1994. Everything these absolute motherfuckers said they were going to do was a lie...and it was blatantly obvious by the end of their first year that all
any of these sons of bitches wanted to do was screw with Bill Clinton and use political power to do so. Whether their bullshit antics hurt an Airman like me, or indeed,
any regular people was 100%
beneath them to notice and
they didn't give a shit.
I was an active-duty Airman during both of the Gingrich government shutdowns, and I didn't get paid. It was enough to make me vote for more Democrats than Republicans in 1996, even though I still preferred Bob Dole to Bill Clinton.
Note: I was never a fan of Bill Clinton, old Slick Willie always struck me as an insincere slime-ball...and I voted for him the first time, too.
But I absolutely hated Newt Gingrich. It disgusted me how too many House Republicans just fell in line with his bullshit, scorched-earth dictates. I mean, seriously, how the fuck do you ever expect people to do their jobs if you won't let them talk to the other party?? Governance by definition means you have to be able to compromise!
And if we're being honest, I'm damned glad that he got ran out of politics the minute that it came out that he was cheating on his wife at the exact same time as he was impeaching Bill Clinton for the same shit.
Go fuck yourself
all the way off, Newt.
But here's the thing.
This is the result of Newt's crap.
Trumpism is a hologram. Trump is a figurehead. If something happens to him, they'll get another one.
Let's review:
Endless bad faith and hypocrisy? Yep.
Republican politics as an all-consuming world that always eats its own...and yet Republicans cheerfully line up to march into the Oblivion? *Checks Notes* Yep.
Everything Trump touches dies, and yet Republicans cannot get enough of the man even though (or perhaps because) he's political tetraethyl lead and social fentanyl all at the same time!
*Check*
Modern Republicanism as literally an all-consuming totalitarian ideology that kicks anybody out who cannot be a Republican first and always, over and above anything else that they are, and god forbid one transgress against the hive-mind. Seriously, has anyone seen the political fortunes of Byron Donalds, John James, Ron DeSantis or Tim Scott lately? Shit, even Mitt Romney is retiring, and the Michigan Republican Party that his family once utterly dominated is not only broke, but destroying itself.
And this garbage started with guys like Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, Donald Trump just saw it and
took advantage...then
further took advantage of the fact that Republicans were a bunch of out-of-touch ninnies who disdained, feared and hated
their own voters.
The thing is, once you have a culture of corruption, narcissism and political warfare, sooner or later that shit is
going to start infecting
everything else.
Republicans are just mad as hell that Republicanism never has been all that accepted in the arts the way that Putin-Communism apparently has, hence the Submachinegun ballet, or whatever the fuck this crap is supposed to be.
And we wonder why Republicans love Russia??
This crap is apparently what Republicans think they want to be whenever they grow up.
When that time comes, I wonder if Newt Gingrich will abandon Traditionalist Catholicism for Russian Orthodoxy the same way he abandoned one wife for another??
Motherfucker, that's what these clowns think
Power is. And they're
all willing to submit themselves to Vladimir Putin, because
anything other than "All Men Are Created Equal..." or "We, The People.." or even "Love Thy Neighbor..." and these motherfuckers' life's work has been the accumulation of enough political power (and, failing that,
foreign patronage) that it doesn't matter if We, The People,
know it.
And if people like Newt and Trump fucking fail to reshape our world in their image, or don't get a big enough or comfortable-enough chunk of the United States for their banana republic and the wars don't go their way...guess what??
Newt still gets a bit golden palace among the glittering spires of Dubai where he can bro it up with Russian oligarchs and have his Catholic traditionalist hocus pocus attended to by a Filipino or Italian or Swiss priest from the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia whenever he doesn't want to associate with the migrant workers who make up the vast majority of the local Christian population there. And if you think strict local moral codes or sexual mores are enforced for guys like him???
LOL. They're just not.
And there it is.
I'm not necessarily saying that Newt Gingrich is the Great Whore that sits on many waters in Revelation...but he's certainly a trial run.
Consider how many Republicans (The Bushes and Gingrich among them) had serious ties to the Moonies back in the day. I'm serious, it's all crap.
If you want to know why these fucking people's ideal world is one of two power-blocs or two super-states, constantly at war be it Cold or Hot. The West as we know it...most of the Americas, the EU/NATO, Israel, Ukraine, most of Asia on a purely financial basis, much of North Africa and US-friendly Middle Eastern countries on one side...and Authoritarianism, Inc. Iran, North Korea, Russia, its various Central and West-African hangers-on, and Saudi Arabia...with places like the United Arab Emirates and whatever nominally American banana republic these fuckers get (and since Russian oligarchs will eventually demand a gateway/loophole to Western luxury, I see such as inevitable) as some kind of neutral space...that's why.
The true "Capitol" of Capital and Authoritarian wealth won't be London or Moscow or New York City, in the end it'll be somewhere like Dubai or Miami.
Because the ideal world of modern "Conservatism" is one of glittering wealth and vapid support for Power, with "Conservatism" demanded only of the masses (except anybody with a big enough following of dipshits can and will just declare themselves "god" until they get smacked down by somebody else, at least) while the real elites play out their fuck-fuck games and petty "Honor Culture" vengeances for fun and profit not only with no accountability, but shielded by media, power and wealth so we don't even have the right to know what they're up to.
It'll be Florida Man, but with a gilded mega-yacht.
Whatever Unga Bunga Imperial Cult rituals are needed to
access that shit, be they of Radical Islamic or Traditionalist Catholic nature...people like Newt Gingrich don't fucking
care. Nor are they required to appear to, any longer.
In any case, their true gods are Asmodeus, Dis Pater and Mammon...chthonic deities of death, pleasure and wealth...for them, not for everybody.
And don't think, if this is not stopped, that there won't be a day where such things are openly practiced and stated.
America, on the other hand, is based on an ideal of equality and informed citizenship, and aspires to live by ideals greater than the Self. We may not always live up to it...but that we try, is the goal.
No wonder these fucking people hate us.
If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen.
And this ain't it.
Слава Україна!
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.
~Hunter S. Thompson.
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