Ghosts, Part III.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; 

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps.
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

~The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, by Julia Ward Howe.

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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 earlier.

The infamous statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville, Virginia, was secretly melted down recently.

Good. 

These fucking statues should have never gone up in the first damn place, and they've helped perpetuate Christian Nationalism and racism and a host of other evils that've done more damage to our country than long-dead Confederates ever did, simply because they existed for a hell of a lot longer.

And of course, all any of that shit was, in the end, was still yet another damn excuse for the punk-ass Nazis and the violent idiot-mob to kill somebody who had no damned good reason whatever to end up dead. Which was, of course, exactly the goddamn point as far as the motherfuckers who put the statues up in the first place were concerned. It wasn't a bug, it was a feature. All those shitty old Klan motherfuckers wanted their bullshit racist ideology to keep killing people basically forever.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal";
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

~The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, by Julia Ward Howe.

And they were all in bed with the Calvinist Christian Nationalists, the initial tranche of End Times nuts, and so on and so forth because all this bullshit, all this fuck fuck nonsense, each bit reinforced the next and they all shored up Southern US White Supremacy. 

There's a goddamn reason Afrikaners and American Southerners got along so damned well. There's a goddamn reason Congress had to override Reagan's veto of sanctions against Apartheid South Africa.

And it mostly comes down to "Not one damned bit of any of this shit has anything to do with Jesus Christ, unless these fucking people could be convinced that Jesus was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed White Dude" It's is a straight-up lie...but it's what these assholes want to believe.

And any talk about anything else, the economy, what have you...is nothing more than a whole bunch of bovine exhaust. These motherfuckers don't give a good goddamn about economics or money, except that they think rich people should have more of it. They don't give a shit about America, or Society, unless they get to be Superior (at a minimum) to People of Color.

And they'll weaponize every damn thing they can reach to do it. More to the point, Christianity historically tends to beg to be used for this shit...if only for the proximity to Power.

All "Christian Nationalism" is...is White Supremacy, dressed up as Christianity to fool the feeble-minded into going along with it, and it's all bad-faith, in the same way that more than one literal massacre of Native Americans back in the Wild West was led by a "Christian" preacher.

"Thou Shalt Not Kill" could not be reached for comment.

If you don't think these same fucking people won't find a way to use the Tankie Left's recent embrace of rabid Antisemitism and Red Army Faction style "Radical Chic" to their advantage, or more likely try to get all these little shits to vote Republican...you have another thing coming. The far-right lately calling all type of people "Warmongers" struck me as utterly dishonest from the moment I first started seeing it last year.

It's a lie and they'll shank the Tankies right in the back, too.

These motherfuckers don't want to defend or support Israel, they don't want to help Ukraine defend itself. They really don't care if Radical Islam eats the Middle East and the Soviet Union 2.0 swallows up the whole damn world. (Including them. The day will come when they pretend "Not America" but they'll still be taking Russian money and doing what Russia wants, and when the time comes to undermine our defenses against invasion and to submit themselves to Russification, they'll do it. These people want to be slaves, if only so they can be a "better" class of slaves than somebody else.) 

They also want a Race War with Mexico, because something something Gazpacho, but somehow that's not "Warmongering??"

How do even these fucking people not see the obvious bullshit, here?

Fuck these motherfuckers.

These fucking people long for a world where only the ghosts of the Dead know freedom.

There's a reason the "Alt-Right" effectively ceased to be a thing, at least openly, and it's not actually that it stopped doing anything. The Nazis simply ate the Republican Party and took that shit over.

And now they've got a toehold in the hard-Left, too, because of Antisemitism. Think about that for a second.

If you don't want to live in that world, it's going to come down to a fight.

Слава Україна!

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

While God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

~The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, by Julia Ward Howe.

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