Devils and Idols of Gold (American Revelation XIV, Nine.)

"Life is sacred"? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death! Has been for thousands of years! Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians; all taking turns killing each other because God told 'em it was a good idea. The sword of god, the blood of the lamb, 'vengeance is mine'; millions of dead motherfuckers. Millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to The God Question: "Do you believe in God?" "No." BAM! Dead. "Do you believe in God?" "Yes." "...Do you believe in my God?" "No." BAM! Dead. "My God has a bigger dick than your God!" ~George Carlin

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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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The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields

I saw this over the weekend.

Emerald Robinson calling David French a heretic because he expressed sympathy RE: the death of Dianne Feinstein.

So basically MAGA is trying to reenact the Inquisition, but do it Florida Panhandle Trailer Park style??

Is that it?

I simply cannot think of any other way to describe these fucking people trying to enact some kind of bullshit "Magisterium" of their Sedevacantist-in-all-but-name "Traditionalist" Catholicism that in effect defies the Pope because he's Latino and refuses to act as a bedazzled figurehead for their petty hatreds, so it basically substitutes people like Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, claims hatred of various peoples, sexual perversions and thefts as its sacraments and then calls the resulting political Donkey Show "Righteousness."

And all these billionaires and shit, people like Harlan Crowe and the Koch Brothers, are just fine with this, provided they don't have to be seen with it in public. They'll hang out with it at the Bohemian Grove all the time, though.

They think us mere Proles wouldn't understand. The fact that we know it's wrong doesn't enter into their minds, what with all their sophisticated rationalizations for degeneracy, much less the rather-less-sophisticated ones for worse bullshit they enable and tolerate downstream.

And don't think, in a word where news of Christian preachers and conservative political acolytes being busted for child sexual abuse drops damned near multiple times hourly, that the reality of that bullshit probably wouldn't be even worse.

These fuckers don't give a damn if the Commoners are abusing children, dancing around fires shouting "Unga Bunga" or murdering each other in the streets, provided they get a bigger share of the wealth and don't have to pretend they care about civilization.

And if that's not the world you want to live in, they'll call you a "Communist" or something.

Never mind it's them who keep getting caught hopping into bed with KGB Agent Vladimir Putin, who had to be a Communist's Communist just to be let in the goddamn door of his first job, and that is not a joke. In their minds, Arch-Communist Vladimir Putin has been recast as the ultimate defender of "Conservatism" because he throws the US-style far-right a cheap bone now and again. Never mind that he does the same goddamn thing for all those tankies in the global far-left. 

It's like Beavis And Butthead Do Republicanism, or some shit. Hell, they're still happy that in the summer of 2015 Donald Trump stumbled through talking about the Bible on CNN, even though he didn't know the most basic of basic things and professed complete opposition to literal core tenets of Christianity all in the same conversation.

I saw it happen live, but when I bring it up these fucking people don't care.

Because none of this shit actually matters to them.

In today's world they can't (openly) make a political philosophy about any of the things that do matter to them. 

Truth is, most of the people who they bamboozle into voting for this shit, if told what it was really for, would just stare blankly because they don't know what the words mean and if these fuckers actually said what it meant in plain language i.e. "It's because we rich people want to keep all the money, fuck you, go eat dirt" they'd be the next ones to get murdered.

So they have to channel the ghost of Lee Atwater and whip up racism, then conflate Ukraine (a Christian, traditionally-conservative country, but one that has chosen Democracy) with all the same lies they tell about liberals in San Francisco and shit.

And the worst part is, in the end none of that even really mattered either, because when they had to choose between that mountain of horseshit and a literal golden idol of Donald Trump...the Republican voter base chose Trump and that was all there was to it. So now, in addition to being wedded to all this other crap that they can't come out and say was a lie, Republicans are stuck with the Sisyphean labor of pushing around that gigantic ball of bullshit, too.

And for what??

It seems like it almost would've been easier not to lie and prey on people's worst desires in the first place?

But what the fuck do I know?

And these same fucking people would rather invade Mexico than fight Russia, even though the United States Armed Forces entire tactical doctrine was built around fighting the same Soviet Union that Russia is trying to morph back into, even though using US tactical doctrine and weapons, the Ukrainians are kicking Ivan's ass.

No, these motherfuckers want another Afghanistan-like quagmire, because they think war is something to be fought on a for-profit basis against Brown people, and they "Like" Russia or something.

Never mind that the Russians don't return their affection, and would, upon victory over them, demand that "Conservative" Americans submit to Russification and, quite likely, would both forcibly relocate them and put people in charge of them that they don't like simply as a gesture of Power.

And maybe it's just me but I think the Mexicans would just suck these fucking people in and slowly destroy them, but would do so quite thoroughly, so that they wouldn't be anybody else's problem.

Not out of the same kind of spirit that the Ukrainians have demonstrated in fighting the Russians but simply because if you think about it, Mexico and the rest of Latin America has a lot of axes to grind when it comes to a Yankee Capitalism that has habitually said "Capitalism and Freedom for us, fascism and servitude for you!" And then these motherfuckers get mad when Latinos come here because they want a better life.

Frankly I fail to see how invading Mexico and making it part of America if they do manage to win is the way to solve this issue, even from These Fucking People's perspective.

But the truth is these fucking people don't care, wouldn't think to ask the question--much less answer it, and are so besotted with this current faddish reactionary-ism that by the time you've even framed the issue...their minds have moved on to Hunter Biden's Laptop for the 997th time this week!

We need to stop arguing with foolishness, and we simply need to stop tolerating this horseshit. Maybe if these idiots got smacked in the mouth every time they behaved like reactionary goons, brought up conspiracy theories or said racist shit, they'd stop doing it?!

If you want a better nation, you have to be a better citizen. These fucking people's reactionary desire to be slaves to Bishops and foreign dictators and kings ain't going to cut it.

But the trouble is, these fucking idiots want to believe in absolutely anything and everything other than "All Men Are Created Equal..." or "We, The People..."

And they're so desperate to do it that conspiracy theories and lies become a magical world for them to hide in...and worship like devils and idols of gold. Lies thus become a thing which men like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin wield over them like sorcery for no greater ideal than satiating their own narcissistic lust for power.

We really need to stop putting up with this horseshit.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

Слава Україна!

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

~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press...
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. ~Revelation 9:20-21

(Like I fucking said, literally everything these motherfuckers accuse others of, they do. If you're cool with this shit at this point, either you're stupid or you like enabling this shit! Goddamn, cut it the fuck out!)