Daniel Plainview: I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there. He found me to take it out of the ground. You know what the funny thing is? Listen, listen, listen! I paid him $10,000 cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now — prosperous little business — three wells producing $5000 a week. Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense! You're just the afterbirth, Eli —
Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland was fired for criticizing the Pope last week.
I freely admit, I could give a fuck, but the thought process of some Bishop from a tiny diocese in Texas thinking he knows more than the Pope...or could tell the Pope what to do...or whatever, just sort of boggles my mind in a "can't stop looking at it" sort of way.
And then there's...this motherfucker. During a Senate hearing, Oklahoma Senator MarkWayne Mullin almost got in a fight with the President of the Teamster's Union.
Let's look at this;
MarkWayne Mullin is allegedly a former MMA fighter. He has less than ten minutes of total ring time in three fights, all of which he won. His main claim to anything is, he owns a plumbing business...and he inherited that. You can have all the flags and shit in your office that you'd like...that's not what makes the man.
(I was in the military, I boxed and lifted weights recreationally before and even a little after that. I never 'clocked' myself in any official capacity...but I have more ring-time than MarkWayne Mullin does. I've been a fan of that kind of shit since I watched a rerun of Ali vs. Foreman in "The Rumble In The Jungle" with my dad as a little kid. I'd hardly have called myself MMA material even as an Airman and sure as hell would not now. I say that knowing people who legitimately can step into that ring. The son of a friend and former co-worker...who's also a friend and former co-worker of mine...placed quite decently in an MMA event at the Soaring Eagle Casino a few years back, and I know a few other people with similar experience.)
My money was on Sean O'Brien.
But...and this is another lesson from the military...respect is earned, by every action, every day. Bernie Sanders pretty much defused the situation. Bernie rather loudly reminded Mullin that he was a United States Senator and he should act like one.
So yeah, somebody take the shovel away from that motherfucker, now.
I've already written plenty about Elon Musk trashing Twitter, but it's gotten bad enough now that I've more or less quit the site. Honestly, when the Effinbirds guy left, I think that was the last straw for me and I was like "Fuck you, I'm out."
It's been about a year, but it feels more like several.
Fuck off, Bird.
It costs precisely $0 to not be a dick. Just like it would've cost Elon Musk not even one damn thing more than the money he'd already put into it to leave Twitter as it was, maybe make a few changes, and leave the rest be...and if anything his reputation would probably have kept improving. But, instead, he ran the place like a Meth-addled squirrel and let all type of bad actors, conspiracy theorists and Nazis have a free hand in the name of creating an unending Twitter-dopamine factory for himself.
I mean, if you have to be mean to somebody, being mean to Nazis is always a valid option. Talking to somebody other than a miserable bastard like Catturd was a choice he could've made.
And again, it would have cost Elon, or Bishop numb-nuts or MarkWayne Mullin precisely $0 to not be a dick, to not make massive jackasses of themselves publicly. But of course, to a lot of these Putin-Commies and Trump Supporters...being a dick is precisely the point.
It's the only thing they want to do.
And you give these fucking people billions of dollars, and it's off to the Idiot Races. It's got electrolytes, baby!
Conservatism has become a goddamned Idiocracy, an Idiocracy with an elite who thinks it's funny to be ostentatiously dickish, for absolutely no reason.
And it's getting real damn old. Note I say this as a former conservative.
And more to the point I'm going to guess that a lot of these sons of bitches have never been punched in the face their own damn selves. It's not like their personal conduct suggests they can take a punch...or that they'd want to fight anybody who could fight back.
Just sayin.' *Cracks Knuckles* (Also, writer remembers he has Arthritis, that'll hurt later.)
And theoretically, I suppose they can. The evidence suggests they won't be very good at it, but they might be theoretically capable.
They think they'll win if they get Trump elected again, get the system on their side...but the very first thing they want to do is bleed the system of all the people who have any loyalty to or reason for the system working! Half these Trump supporters and religious nuts can't be bothered to show up for work on a consistent basis! Also, again if you can't put a mask on, how you gonna clean your weapon every time you need to...especially in the field??
So...basically these idiots want to elect Trump because Elon isn't Constitutionally eligible, so that they can Muskrat our government?? (And then they want to go out and fight the rest of America and the world? Come on, now.)
How does the national equivalent of pissing away like 30 BILLION$ for your own ego even work?? What good...even to rich people...is "Rich people having all the money" if the money itself isn't worth anything??
But ya know, just like Elon should have asked himself at some point "I can buy Twitter, but should I?" Sooner or later even a halfway intelligent person is going to have to weigh out the difference between capability and purpose. Yes, I can slam my dick in this car-door, but should I?? Won't that hurt??
Sooner or later we're going to have to start reinstalling a sense of shame and a survival instinct into the entitled classes of humanity.
Sooner or later, it's not going to be enough for it to cost $0 to not be a dick. Sooner or later we're going to have to start imposing a cost for being one.
We're going to have to start punching Nazis and we're going to have to stop outsourcing having a spine to the Ukrainians.
Because if we don't...these fucking people are going to keep fucking around, until they find out...from somebody far worse than their own most inflated visions of their own toughness. And where do you think the rest of us rate in such a place??
It's really that simple.
You want a better country, you have to be a better citizen.
You. Now.
Because if we don't do what needs to be done now, ain't nobody going to mourn for us later. Might be, there ain't nobody left to mourn for us!
Turn your brain back on and think about that for a second.
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
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And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10
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