Beast Of War (American Revelation XVI, Nine.)

Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the House of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors...

You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God. 

~Malcolm X, Letter following the Hajj.

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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 yesterday.

In her recent autobiography, Kristi Noem bragged about shooting her dog. Nothing wrong with the dog, and it was only 14 months old, she just didn't want it anymore.

People, across the board...even strident MAGA's...have reacted with nothing but well-deserved anger and disgust.

Meanwhile, because of the idiocy of the Columbia University administration and the NYPD, college campuses around the country have been wracked with protests against the continued attacks on Palestinians in Gaza by Israel.

And there's cops pointing sniper rifles at college students because of it. Speaking as a United States Air Force security police veteran here, how exactly do you enforce any laws from 200 meters away?? And that's the thing, these students aren't breaking any laws but rather exercising their Constitutional rights.

Shoot a dog, that's bad. Point weapons at college students, and that's good? It seems like some fucking people have their priorities all fucked up.

And they'll end up mad at Kristi Noem for telling on them.

Because if you think these motherfuckers wouldn't shoot people, you have another thing coming. And she gave away the game too early. Usually, psychopaths start with abusing animals.

And I find it interesting that the Columbia university administration has already said they won't call the NYPD again. Seems like somebody fucked up here, and it wasn't the college students. And they know it. Protesting is one of those things that college students do. If they'd left that shit alone, it would've flamed out in a week and there wouldn't be a national protest movement right now. Yeah, okay, there are a few violent Anti-Semitic assholes. You deal with those ones (which can generally be done without violence) and you don't use that shit as an excuse to brutalize the non-violent, law-abiding majority with excessive force.

I'm here to tell you, as it always does, the Right has overreached on this one...because they've had a hard-on for going after college students for a long time. And it's going to (further) shift US public opinion against Israel, in addition to creating another cycle of radicals (Islamic and otherwise) for the Right and its progeny to "fight" against, because these motherfuckers ideology can apparently survive just fine without a God...but goddamn, it can't even function without an Enemy.

And that's the thing.

These fucking people want to destroy themselves. They want to provoke an Apocalypse. They want to destroy every damn thing they "Support" too. And US support for Israel is no exception and no, I'm not kidding.

See, for "Conservatives" and Republicans, Israel is merely a Spell Component for "Summon Angry Blood-God Jesus." If they can turn the USA and the world against Israel that simply helps the 1970's vintage End Times Prophecy narrative these motherfuckers are still working off of. (Yes, the one I was taught in the 1990's, which is how I can say this.)

And the Go-condition for the Judgments of Revelation is basically a peace treaty between Israel and the global empire that they believe will exist at that time, which Israel is something something Gazpacho not a part of for some reason.

(Don't ask me, I only work here.)

Also, on the one hand, These Fucking People believe if they destroy themselves and America in some kind of Republican Revelation scenario...their small angry god will save them. Them...and not you or me.

Yes, they want to bring the Apocalypse on themselves because they think it'll hurt you.

(It's typical "Conservative" logic.)

On the other hand, this kind of shit is simply what happens when you marinate your brain in End Times conspiracy theories for your whole life. Most of these people didn't get out when Y2K or Harold Camping or the 2012 bullshit proved to be nothing more than so much Bovine Flatulence. Motherfuckers wanna believe.

Because they're Motherfuckers.

But then, for added confusion, Vladimir Putin basically has declared his intent to have a Far-Right "New World Order" (including declaring Russia to be Rome, the resurrection of Rome also being an implicit criteria for 1990's End Times Prophecy bullshit) which, gradually, seems to be accruing many of the characteristics of the very False World System of Revelation (including multiple prototype Marks Of The Beast) that these fucking people were violently against any hint of until recently. But...like some coalition of Iraqi tribes given a better offer by the government and those invaders they only recently castigated as Infidels than they'd gotten from the terrorists...they've switched sides in mid-conflict.

I'm sorry, Jesus.

And if you think I'm wrong, let me point out that it's funny how all this pops up literally immediately after the Republicans couldn't prevent the USA from helping Ukraine.

Seems obvious somebody's in cahoots with somebody, here.

I mean, sure, there's aid for Israel too, and Taiwan, and trust me...the second that Bibi loses power, let alone faces consequences, the Authoritarianism, Inc. goons will turn against Israel, too. If you consider that Putin (via Wagner) supported and trained Hamas, they already have, really.

And if these motherfuckers can use this ongoing conflict as well as Left-Right divisions in America to split the US into two or more countries...thus meaning whoever ends up helping places like Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine won't be able to do it as much...so much the better. It's Putin's stated goal to both avenge and reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he also wants to inflict that kind of collapse on America. And if things keep up as they are, he might even be able to do it in the middle of a war.

Because 75% America will be 25% less able to help other people, it's as simple as that.

Unless we get a fucking grip.

I mean, Putin won't get Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Baltic States, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova or the majority of Ukraine, much less former Imperial Russian possessions like Finland or Poland...back. His re-expanded Warsaw Pact "Sphere of Influence" is probably a no-go, too, at least as regards Eastern Europe. But Putin will certainly be able to gobble up Belarus, and possibly a few of the other, smaller countries that perversely seem less alert. And if he keeps wrenching away at our own divides with crowbars of hate and political extremism and racism...Russia might get chunks of Florida and the Deep South as some kind of American banana republic Satellite State. 

Call it an East Germany for the 21st Century, actively working towards Republican North Korea.

And you watch, if the Republicans can pull off some kind of Right-wing Insurgency or simply get the aspects of the US government that they've corrupted to go along with several states in a bloc seceding, and once shooting and wrangling over exact borders stops and the guard towers and walls of an Inner-American border go up, once the tech bros and the wealthy flock there and they design their bullshit system of religious laws, techno-Gnosticism and this and that...they're going to start putting computer chips in people's heads and otherwise daring their alleged God to smite them, and that'll be before they start actively working on creating conflict not only internally to feed their own desires for repression and profit, but against the rest of us (again) as well.

Because it's anything but America.

Because it's anything but "Love Thy Neighbor."

Anything that doesn't feed these fucking people's lawless narcissism must be Anathema.

Even if it's something as simple as your dog.

And it'll only get worse if they "get their own place" or are otherwise allowed to make their own rules.

And where the fuck does it stop, unless we stop it??

We are, as I have said before, going to have to vote these motherfuckers out.

And then, we're going to have to take up arms and fight them off.

These people are fucking psychos.

And the Beast Of War is the only thing they for sure figure they have.

I was married to a mentally ill religious nut, I already know how that shit works out. The whole Trump Thing has been like that, but it's the whole damn country. And from what I hear, this shit has even gotten too nuts for my ex-wife.

It's really that simple.

We have to make it stop.

Because if we don't...and this one is for all those cute little Blue Sky Leftists who just can't bring themselves to vote for Joe because something something Palestinians...you have no idea how much worse it can get. Trump wants to do exactly what the worst Israeli elements are doing to the Palestinians, here, and to other Americans.

Vote...and fight...like your life depends on it, because guess what??

It does.

And even a win (Likely, in my opinion) means people somewhere in this country are going to have to contend with their workday being interrupted by trips to the bomb shelter, just like the Ukrainians have to deal with...because the last thing that the far-right wants is anybody to be free from their bullshit, and if they can't hold political power over Other People's lives they will try and use armed force.

It will become that simple.

Freedom ain't free, and sometimes you have to fight for it.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And the reason these motherfuckers hate America is that we all get to decide, not just them.

Choose your next move wisely.

Because this shit can and will get worse.

And they're already working on new forms of division and fascism.

Let that sink in.

Слава Україна!

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

Eight

My black face fades,
hiding inside the black granite.
I said I wouldn't
dammit: No tears.
I'm stone. I'm flesh.
My clouded reflection eyes me
like a bird of prey, the profile of night slanted against morning.

I turn this way—the stone lets me go.
I turn that way—I'm inside
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
again, depending on the light
to make a difference.
I go down the 58,022 names,
half-expecting to find
my own in letters like smoke.

I touch the name Andrew Johnson; I see the booby trap's white flash.
Names shimmer on a woman's blouse
but when she walks away
the names stay on the wall.
Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's
wings cutting across my stare.
The sky. A plane in the sky.
A white vet's image floats
closer to me, then his pale eyes
look through mine. I'm a window.
He's lost his right arm
inside the stone. In the black mirror
a woman’s trying to erase names:
No, she's brushing a boy's hair.
~Facing It, by Yusef Komunyakaa, US Army Veteran

Seriously, when the fuck is enough going to be enough with this shit?!?!?

What is it going to take for We, The People...you know, what America is based on...to stop tolerating this fucking garbage?!?!

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Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning, ~Mark 13:35