Bottomless Pit (American Revelation XVI, Five.)

Hospitaler: One may stare into the light, until one becomes the light. I've done it many times.

Balian of Ibelin: [throws a rock at a bush that catches fire by the spark] There's your religion. One spark, a creosote bush. There's your Moses. I did not hear it speak.

Hospitaler: That does not mean that there is no God. Do you love her?

Balian of Ibelin: Yes.

Hospitaler: The heart will mend. Your duty is to the people of the city. I go to pray.

Balian of Ibelin: For what?

Hospitaler: For the strength to endure what is to come.

Balian of Ibelin: And what is to come?

Hospitaler: The reckoning is to come for what was done one hundred years before. The Muslims will never forget. Nor should they.

[the Hospitaler slowly walks away as a second bush several yards from the burning one catches fire. The Hospitaler is nowhere to be seen in the clear and open desert]

~From the film Kingdom Of Heaven.

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

I saw this yesterday.

Trump is having to sit there and listen to mean social media posts and see mean memes about himself from like 75% of the potential jurors. I guess it's not "Fuck your feelings" now, eh??

Suck it, motherfucker.

I'm tired of these fucking people and their cruelty and ignorant racist bullshit and that's all there is to it.

I'm tired of the conspiracy theories and the racism and the religious fanaticism that now seems shorn of anything I can even recognize as belief in God. 

And I'm tired of these ass-clowns accusing other people of the shit they do, and then flat out doing it right in front of our faces. Like they think we're stupid, or some shit.

Like this idiot, says Trump isn't a racist, and then launches right into the old Birtherism bullshit.

And I'm assuming it just doesn't register, as these fucking people have all the self-awareness of an old dog licking its balls in the front yard on a Sunday morning.

Motherfuckers need to hear of some Mean Tweets, I think.

Meanwhile Trump continues to strip the GOP for parts, now he wants down-ballot candidates to give him money if they use his image, name, etc.

And the reason he can do it is, again, because of all this same fucking bullshit! Trump gives them some kind of "permission" to be racist and be their worst possible selves and to buy into any old woo woo bullshit that tickles their ears...and to paraphrase Lyndon Johnson's quote, they'll empty their pockets, pull their pants down and bend over for the son of a bitch!

They have achieved their goal of a Christ-less Christianity, only to find out that even that doesn't go far enough, and on top of that, now they find out they're in thrall to far darker powers than their most inflated visions of their own selves. I have no goddamn sympathy, None. Zero. Fuck You.

They're the ones who can't stop blowing the goddamn narcissist.

And not only is Trump robbing them blind, but Republicans fucked around with all these MAGA fanatics and now they're gonna find out. See, I knew a lot of these people back when they were Fundamentalist Christians and shit, and nothing is ever going to be good enough for these fucking fanatics.

These fucking people have appointed Donald Trump to be their fucking God.

Like, how fucked in the head do you have to be, and what kind of sad-sack goddamned life do you have to be living to even have this thought process enter your brain-pan??

I couldn't do it, and I used to be a Republican.

I. Couldn't. Fucking. Do. It.

Like, I've always known Trump was a liar and a piece of shit.

And like, maybe all the bankruptcies and divorces and failed casinos were a fucking hint, people. I worked in a casino for almost 20 years and I'm serious...it must be some kind of perfect storm of goddamned incompetence that Trump could make a casino lose money.

But Republicans won't stop blowing the goddamned narcissist.

And now he's going to do the exact same thing to the Trump Republican Party that he did to the Trump Taj Mahal and a bunch of other casinos in Atlantic City.

And as things spiral out of control and they start to lose their ass, these fucking people are only going to get meaner. Here's Tom Cotton, who thinks it's funny to demand that his supporters do war crimes against their fellow citizens.

Note: This will only last until one of these Beard-O dude-bro crybabies who drives around in a big truck covered in right-wing rage-stickers and skeletal motifs gets a bullet hole in their big truck. None of this shit is taking into account that it's human nature to fight back, to resist, so do it.

These stupid idiots couldn't even be bothered to do something simple like stay their ass home in the middle of a deadly global pandemic. I highly doubt all that many of them are going to be Tom Cotton's Civil-War shock-troopers or right-wing Death Squads...at least not with any degree of effectiveness.

Not that Tom Cotton actually cares.

And the thing that pisses me off, is he's an Army veteran, he should know better than this shit. I had to.

I wrote about that.

For one thing too many of these shitheads don't know the difference between their penis and their rifle, and it'll be kind of awkward when some of them get caught charging into battle with their pants around their ankles, each with their hands clenched firmly on the wrong "gun."

If I had to guess, we're not too far from Darwinian evolution simply thinning the fucking herd.

Like I said, I used to be a Republican.

I used to be a Christian, too.

I'm a veteran.

And all my life, I've been hearing about how Republicans were still mad about this thing that happened years and years ago, in some cases, before I was born.

Vietnam.

Jane Fonda.

Watergate.

The Iranian Revolution.

Well, just so ya know, I'm 50 years old. This year I'll be 51. Vietnam and the whole Jane Fonda thing were before my time. I was less than a year old when Nixon resigned.

And of course, that's not an exhaustive list of all the shit that Republicans be mad about, it goes on...

But ya know what, Republicans? It's 2024, not 1974.

People can't make it on what you want to pay us, and don't want to (nor are we required to have to) live under your Domination. That's why that whole "Great Resignation" thing happened after COVID-19.

I mean, what was even the damn point??

A hell of a lot of the rest of us are moving on, adapting, changing, organizing.

And while you're busy blowing Trump and shoving every last dollar you got down that bottomless pit where Trump's fuckin' soul was supposed to be...we've gotten sick of your bullshit.

I can't say "Anything but America" because I live here and I've already contributed to this country.

I can't say I won't Love My Neighbor because I used to be a Christian and I remember what the Lord's Word says about that.

Either you believe in freedom or you don't.

Either you're willing to fight for it, or you're not.

Either you believe in endlessly fellating Donald Trump or you believe in, well, pretty much anything else.

You idiots decided to make Trump your God.

Well, to dip back into my old school church background...

Time's coming where you better be right, 'cause if you're wrong there's literally going to be hell to pay when the bill comes due.

And it's coming.

And you fuckers emptied your pockets.

And gave everything to Trump.

You've poured everything you had down this Bottomless Pit of a small man.

And he still wants more.

Think about that for a second.

Come on, man, what the fuck are we even doing here.

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Ka mate, ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Ka mate! ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā Ā, upane! ka upane! Ā, upane, ka upane, whiti te ra! ~Ka Mate, Maori Haka (main body)

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'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
'Tis Death, 'Tis Death, 'Tis Life, 'Tis Life
This is the hairy man
Who caused the sun to shine again for me
Up the ladder, up the ladder!
Rise! The Sun shines.
~Ka Mate, English translation.

Note: The Maori Haka Ka Mate, is the story of a Maori chief named Te Rauparaha who hides in a well, fleeing from pursuing enemies of other tribes. He evades his enemies and is rescued by an unnamed man who puts a ladder down the well so he can get out. Made world-famous thanks to its use by the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, Ka Mate is a story of the triumph of life over death. You can get out of the Bottomless Pit.

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When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so reads, let him understand)

Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before.

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:15-27