Conquering And To Conquer? (Their Meme-Lord And "Savior," One.)

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? ~Revelation 6:1-10

I keep seeing goofy-ass shit like this.

Basically Trump's head, Photoshopped onto Sly Stallone's body, all diesel, always carrying some improbable weapon. First, Trump has never looked like that. Second, you cannot actually jam an RPG-7 grenade (effectively a warhead on the end of a stick) down the barrel of an M-60 Machine Gun. None of this works that way, although the Mi-24 Hind helicopter (a Russian gunship) is a nice tell regarding these fucking people's actual political sympathies.

Meanwhile, the actual Donald Trump, the person...looks like he's falling apart. Pale, pasty, always falling asleep in court, rambling nonsense speeches, and so on. Lauren Blowbert thinks that somebody is "Keeping Trump from exercising."

Bitch, maybe it's just me but he looks a lot like he never exercised before. Trump looks like he's never been in the same room with exercise, ever.

"He went forth Conquering, and to conquer" it ain't.

Trump looks like a deflated balloon.

"He's coming after you" Seriously?? Before or after his latest nap? And something tells me that, cane, limp and all...I'd have absolutely no trouble at all outrunning anybody like that. Not that I'd have much to worry about if I couldn't. Among other things, I doubt Trump has ever fired a weapon.

Also, it's actually pretty physically demanding to fire an M-60 from a standing position, unsupported, especially if you plan on hitting anything. I was an M-60 gunner in Air Force security forces. Recoil can be kind of a bitch, especially if you've been humping that shit around and shooting that goddamn Pig all day and just got shots in both arms, vaccinations for that deployment you're training for (and refusal was not an option.) Nothing you can do but tough it out, either. Sure can't quit. There's a reason these things have bipods, pintle mounts, and so on. 

The Rambo shit is not accurate, those were just goddamn movies. The macho bullshit is just...bullshit.

Having once been a USAF Sergeant, and thus in an Enlisted leadership position (if not much of one, really) and knowing what that took? Being a leader is hard (or at least I thought so.) you have to be responsible for your people. Trump has openly, publicly, on national TV even, refused to do this most basic of things. And because he's dumb as fuck and nobody ever made him...he doesn't understand why he should be respectable or responsible.

Respect is earned, by every action, every day. Integrity above all, Service before self, Excellence in all that we do. This is what I was taught. Trump clearly was not taught this. The gulf between Trump the Meme...and Trump the Man...boggles my mind. This isn't respect, this is sycophancy. Endlessly feeding a goddamn narcissist for...fuck, I don't even know what, anymore.

Let Trump speak? Is he gonna actually say anything?

And the whole Trump Thing was a cult, right out the gate. Far from questioning it, far from seeing what the Lord's Word says about such people, the Evangelicals just jumped in with both feet and most of them never looked back.

And anybody that questioned it at all, basically got ran out.

Almost all the Christians I used to know and did that whole thing with aren't Christians anymore, because of these idiots who think "God and Trump" are gonna "Save America."

I'm sorry, but in Christian terms, Trump ain't "Saved." He said live on CNN that he didn't need God's forgiveness.

Even if he was all that, Man cannot Save Man, only God can do that, by one's acceptance of Jesus as their Lord and Savior. (Note: There are conduct and other requirements, here.) I'm not a born-again anything. I'm not even a  Christian anymore, but that's what I was taught.

Belief in your Meme-Lord ain't gonna Save you, lady.

And yes, that's exactly what this garbage is, it's a goddamn internet meme run amok. It's stupid people who care more about the social meme of a "Strongman" than whether or not the one they've claimed as "theirs" actually is a strongman, or even strong, or a man. But they saw Trump was all they were gonna get. Now? They all think they can Believe it into being.

And that, my friends, is exactly how you go to Hell.

But you don't have the right to take the rest of us there with you.

And we have something to say about determining our own fates.

That's the part these people don't get.

The thing about it is, especially if Trump keeps melting down what with his trial and all, I have a feeling this craziness is even going to eat Trump and the goddamn nuts will find another one that they like better. They don't even want Trump, the Man. They want some Orange King-Kong motherfucker they think will beat up their "Enemies." It's a list that's endless, but mostly exists only in their own heads, which will not preclude them from killing real people over that shit. The world these fucking people want to live in is the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, but with a mall. Cruelty's the point, etc.

The whole reason this came about was a lot of these "Christians" didn't even believe in their own God, so they found one they liked better. And he let them do what they wanted. They did it once, they can do it again. As they decide they want worse things, this is what will happen.

The actual point seems to be the authoritarian religious fanaticism, the having of enemies and somebody to hate.

And I've said it before, as Trump declines, the weirdo bullshit will find other outlets, it's already happening.

At City College in NYC, the NYPD, after arresting or kicking out all the student protesters, took down the Palestinian flag some kid ran up the flagpole and replaced it with the Stars And Stripes.

On the face of it, that seems Okay, but then these goons acted all fake-solemn and shit, like they was trying to reenact the Flag Raising on Mt. Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the closing months of WWII. That kind of burns my ass, and apparently this was filmed by the NYPD, not some credentialed journalist. Like, it was specifically done for the FOX News crowd. That doesn't seem American to me, it seems rather Soviet, except for the fact that I wonder if these assholes recited some Christian Nationalist bullshit.

It smacks of these dipshits LARPing some kind of cosplay "Victory" over "The Left" or some dumb shit.

They don't even seem to realize there's what seems to be at least a slight majority of Democrats that don't really care for the protesters. They don't seem to notice that if all this shit goes out to Fox News and crap, there's not very many people in New York City that are going to watch it.

It might be real big in Sand Point, Idaho. But that doesn't actually do any good for anything except for people who value Cheap Internet Fame. These fucking people are trying to win some kind of a "Meme War" against the "Left" and Young People without actually understanding what any of this shit even is.

And the worst part is, they don't even want to know what's true.

This smacks of some kind of big setup to try and reduce Joe Biden's poll numbers (which tells me the polling they keep touting is bullshit. If they were winning, Why??) But they don't understand most Democrats, Independents, non-"Conservatives" aren't some monolithic entity and that nobody but them associates these protests with Biden in the first place!

Somebody (not me) made a list, if you need it.

(They also seem not to understand that most actual Democrats aren't worried because most of us know damn well a lot of these Far-Left people don't vote.)

And they have no problem with being seen beating up on these kids. (Which actually does seem to bother a lot of people, whether they agree with the protesters or not.)

"Owning The Libs" and a bunch of other imaginary bullshit is more important to these fucking people than basic morality or even functional government.

Do you really want to be forced to live under these people's bullshit Meme-Gods?? I sure don't.

You're either a Citizen or you're not.

You either believe in freedom or you don't, so get after it.

Or prepare yourself for an eternity of Ridiculosity.

Your call.

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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