And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
And he said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answered and said unto him, Thou art the Christ.
And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
And he spoke that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. ~Mark 8:27-38
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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 a few days ago.This is mourners lining up for Alexei Navalny's funeral in Russia last week.
I fucking swear, even seeing that shit is enough to make me tired of privileged-ass Americans who think they're being "Persecuted" if their favorite political party isn't "in charge" at the moment, or if they can't think they're somehow the boss of everybody else and do it for basically no damn reason.
People like that have killed American conservatism and the Republican Party dead. Their Christianity and other "Beliefs" basically amount to thinking they're Jesus.
And they have nothing...I mean literally nothing...but disrespect for their own Country and hate in their hearts for the rest of us.
I mean, seriously, the fact that these fucking people have latched this hard onto Donald Trump should tell you that...concerning the things these fucking people claim to believe, anyway...there's something wrong, here.
And the only thing any of these people are getting out of it, is a "Permission slip" to act out being the worst possible version of themselves.
They don't want to win...not by any conventional or honest means, anyway. Politics is a game of addition, not subtraction.
But Trump isn't running for President, not really. No, I mean if he gets in, it'll be a nice bonus for him...and it does, after all, reveal the turn of Official Republicanism towards Fascism. But the truth is Trump isn't really running for President. (If he was then he'd have to remember, what country?) He's running to be these fucking people's God Of Grievance.
So, for him anyway, it's actually better, fame and money-wise and in terms of MAGA becoming a New Religious Movement if he loses. Trouble is he's trying to make sure whether he wins or loses, everybody else loses no matter what.
Like I've been saying, from a Christian perspective (or at least the one I was taught) if you wanna believe in this bullshit, you might as well just directly worship the Devil. Cut out the middleman and just let Old Scratch preach right from the pulpit of your church, it'll be cheaper.
The truth is, none of these fucking people give a goddamn about America. Trump isn't running on any normal calculus of events, forces or things. Trump is running for Trump, he wants to make a nation by, for and of himself and America ain't that.
So, at a minimum, he has to break off a piece of America and then start making it that. I believe Republicans are willing to let him...and I think he'll succeed at that, if nothing else. Why??
The idiot that was supposed to lead the Pledge of Allegiance at a Trump Rally literally couldn't remember the fucking words.
I can remember when...particularly in conservative circles...that would have ended the entire political movement, disgraced the candidate, and we would have never heard any of these fools names from the media ever again. That's the difference between 1984 and 2024. But since 2015 there's a million things that "Should have been the end of it." It's not only that Trump is shameless...he makes his followers feel shameless as well.
And the media has made bank off this.
Any day in the Trump Presidency would have ended any other American President's presidency in disgrace!
But Republicans aren't (collectively) that guy anymore.
To "Conservatives" courage is no longer the highest virtue...or a virtue at all. Worship of "Authority" is their highest virtue, with a side of slobbering sycophancy.
And they're gonna have to feel shameless because whatever small-ass chunk of America that they get is basically going to be something like the Central African Republic, complete with a Wagner mercenary on every streetcorner...but for White People.
The spiral downward is infinite, but following it has become a test of loyalty to Trump.
My Grandma told me straight up, I could feel shame or she'd whoop my ass until I did.
My Grandpa likewise taught me if I was gonna do a job, do it right the first time. Him, my Mom, and all the other people who raised me had standards of behavior, of conduct, of life, of simply how one did or didn't do a job...and that I was going to as well was never presented as a choice. Same with the job market at the time, or the military.
It was pretty much; Do it this way or suffer the consequences.
MAGA is not like that, except when it comes to abasing themselves before Trump. It's the only thing they want to do.
That's the difference between the point of view of a conservative person 30-40 years ago and the point of view of a conservative person now.
And apparently, you can either follow these fucking people's Grievance God, or you can have standards.
One of these things is not like the other one.
Remember that, there's going to be a test later.
We continue to tolerate this stupidity at our peril.
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We've come to a point where every four years this national fever rises up — this hunger for the Savior, the White Knight, the Man on Horseback — and whoever wins becomes so immensely powerful, like Nixon is now, that when you vote for President today you're talking about giving a man dictatorial power for four years. I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England — or the Queen — and have the real business of the presidency conducted by... a City Manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years. The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics. ~Hunter S. Thompson
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