Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: ~Amos 5:7-8
...
I coulda swore I seen the motherfucker in my cell, goin' through my personal effects
He fingers, fingering my cigarettes
Came out like nothing was happening whistling he tune!
So I mushed his ass, like, "Move, motherfucker, make room!"
"Hey, ain't that my cigarette hanging off the tip of yo' lip?"
Didn't even give him a chance for he confession
Just leveled his ass with all that aggression!
Lefts, rights, to the dolex
Foots to the chest
Uppercuts to the grill
I'm like "Kill!"
He's like "Chill!"
Take that for me even bein' in this place
Take that for that fuckin' CO baton across my face
Feel that for that lawyer who don't give two fucks about me!
And feel this, feel this!
For me being enslaved by poverty!
Motherfucker
Gimme them damn cigarettes
Oh, wait, these is Marlboros
I don't smoke these.
~Arnold "Poet" Jackson, from the HBO Series "Oz" S1, E1 "The Routine."
Last night, I saw that Christian Ziegler, the Florida GOP Chairman, and his wife Bridget...herself a "Moms For Liberty" co-founder, are being investigated for sexual battery because of allegations made by another woman in a situation apparently involving a longtime menage-a-trois relationship.
Oh, and on a side note, George Santos got shit-canned from Congress today. Seriously, was he even gay? Was his name even George Santos? Nobody ever satisfactorily answered my question "Who is George Santos?"
Oh well, I guess I'll never know. Bye, Whore.
And the thing is, Santos' sexuality had nothing to do with it, for me. It's simply the fact that every word out of his mouth is a lie.
You can...or, in a sane conservative party, in a sane world, you should be able to...perfectly damned well be conservative and even religious and still be LGBT.
Jesus didn't say one damned word about LGBT people...and well He should not have, because modern concepts of sexuality (let alone the priggish Fundamentalist fear and hate of anything to do with sex) didn't quite exist yet at the time. One hell of a lot of people in the Ancient World were at least situationally bisexual...particularly in the Greco-Roman culture of the Roman Empire's Hellenized East.
That took a couple hundred more years of Christianity...and then on top of that, Christianity being suddenly backed by the Empire.
Funny how that works, isn't it? Apparently, you cannot both have Empire and actually be like Jesus. One of these things is not like the other one. The fucking people who think Revelation is their revenge fantasy are, ultimately, the ones who will find themselves subject to it in all the worst ways.
I have no sympathy when these fucking people who think their politics, their religion, their station in life or their wealth...or even just some bullshit idea that they have the "Right" beliefs...give them some kind of right to abuse, hurt, kill or lie to others...and then all their bullshit blows up in their faces.
Usually after they appoint themselves "Apostles" and proceed to ruin Christianity for millions of people for their own profits.
Seriously, fuck these motherfuckers. Almost nobody that I know who was a devout Christian ten years ago who wasn't also some kind of conspiracy theorist or right-wing political zealot is even Christian anymore...and even a fair number of those who are, who haven't gone full-MAGA, are not nearly what they once were. And it's These Fucking People who think dudes like Donald Trump or Mike Johnson are "Prophetic" are the reason why that is so.
Because for Those Fucking People it was never about Christianity. If open worship of demons and devils got them the same emotional charge or the same level of political power as loudly and publicly getting the Jesus, they'd do it. If throwing babies onto a burning altar of Moloch got them the same level of Power that the anti-abortion crap did, they'd do that, instead. If having open orgies with all genders and sexes in the Temple of Bacchus got them the same secret thrill inside as having a 3-way with their husband and another woman while they were publicly pushing virulent and violent anti-gay shit on everybody else did...they'd do that, too.
Because it's not about anything to these fucking people, except personal power and feeling "Special."
And they don't care if that leads to the effective atomization of entire societies into nothing more than large collections of individuals all trying to fuck each other over.
They could give a shit if this crap results in devastating wars, all for one man's ego.
Right-wing America in particular is a Sick society.
And these fucking people, at this point, believe far more in Black Magic and that they have some kind of ability to find the right words to say to unlock infinite magical powers for themselves than they do...or ever did...in Jesus Christ.
And in a way, they're almost right, because this crap gives them an almost magical power over at least 25% of the population...and maybe another five or ten percent will play along if they think they might get something out of it.
Stop trying to appeal to the better nature of, or reach the rationality of people who believe in Magic. They don't have any such thing, that's the whole reason they're trying to unlock some secret code to try and cheat the Universe. That's why all their movements are powered by evil and hypocrisy!
You can't engage with that shit, you have to beat its ass, lauch HIMARS rockets at it, outvote it, straight up overpower it the old fashioned way and then the only way you get rid of it, long-term, is to make these fucking people's kids go to school (and not their own kind, either) with that Other their parents hate. You have to center the culture on getting rid of this crap, and then expect it'll still try and pop up every once in awhile.
These fucking people's ultimate goal isn't fascism, it's feudalism...these motherfuckers want to live in the Dark Ages, per what those were like in Western Europe...and they all think they're going to get to be the debased nobles who get to have 3-ways in a soft bed and shit and live delicious lives of debauched wealth while some priest and a dude with a sword enforce dour religiosity and harsh work schedules on the peasants outside the castle walls, and then make sure those same peasants have shitty enough lives that they're grateful for a pile of straw to sleep on and potatoes to eat.
And people who want that crap don't care how they have to debase themselves or what kind of golden idols they have to worship to make it so.
America was founded on the rejection of Feudalism. We're citizens, not peasants or serfs. We don't have Nobles (Constitutionally, they're banned.) We elect our leaders, for good or ill.
You have to be a better citizen, and ultimately you have to stop tolerating those who desire to be serfs.
But Americans are not Slaves of the Caesars, remember that.
There's going to be a test, soon.
Слава Україна!
The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. ~Ronald Reagan
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. I came over from Threads, and enjoyed your writing.
ReplyDeleteOn George Santos, I don't think they would have bothered to expel him just for being gay. That would hand a talking point to the Democrats to use leading up to the 2024 election. They can't have expelled him for lying. Heck, DFPT* told over 30,000 lies, according to the Washington Post.
No, the reason is a big more second and third tier. There was, or is, (I didn't follow this closely, I don't know) an allegation that Santos was a drag performer. This was the bridge too far for the Republicans.
He could have blown Mitch McConnell on the floor of the Senate, while on national television. He could then lie about it every having occurred. BUT, being a drag performer would be too much. He might start reading to children.
My apologies - I forgot to leave an explanation of DFPT. This stands for Disgraced Former President Trump.
ReplyDelete