And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
And the smoke of their torment ascends for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, said the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. ~Revelation 14:1-15
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You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. ~Malcolm X.
So??
He's not running for President, and Joe hasn't flipped out over his conviction, either.
Meanwhile, MAGA continues slouching toward Jonestown and this shit is past the point of being fucking creepy.
Like, some idiot at The Federalist accused Dolly Parton of spreading a False Gospel yesterday, simply because she doesn't hate LGBT people, or something, and because "Conservatives" think decency or kindness is for suckers or some shit like that.
These assholes are incapable of imagining that anybody could, ya know, not be an asshole. And no, this isn't for any kind of philosophical or religious reason...it's just assholes trying to justify themselves by thinking everybody else is just like them. They're Republicans, their entire bit is "Everybody is evil and everything is bad, You're alone in the middle of a Lost And Dying World, Vote for us." Like, the fuck WHY?? What's even the goddamn point?? What do these fuckers even get up in the morning for?? I mean, seriously, it's depressing to even look at.
Like, If I was still one of these fucking people, I wouldn't still be here.
And yet, these motherfuckers demand to be treated as some great moral force...while shit-talking a lady who's used a hell of a lot of her own money to improve the lives of other people.
Martha-Ann Alito is madder than a wet hen because somebody a good ways off across the lagoon is flying a Rainbow Flag during Pride Month.
I mean, like what the fuck?? I get that Martha-Ann is just a bitter old church busybody, but hasn't she ever heard of just minding her own goddamn business??
I wonder, if Jesus showed up wearing a Pride flag for a cape, would this bitch drink the Wine of the Wrath of God slowly, or would she just chug that shit??
For people like her and her husband, the hate seems to literally be the fucking point.
Seems like, ya know, just accepting the modern world would be easier. Yes, if you don't agree with or like something, then you still can just shake your damn head and walk on by. I do it all the time. The Lord's Word basically says yes, you can just shake the dust off your sandals and move on if your beliefs aren't accepted.
Not everything has to be, or even should be, treated as some kind of existential fight.
I get that a lot of these motherfuckers are just...conflict-oriented motherfucking religious fanatics. To them, the fight's the point. It's all they want or understand.
But it seems to me like...considering that there's multiple houses between here and my work with Black Lives Matter Signs and/or Pride flags and even more with Ukrainian flags and I live in the epitome of rural small-city White America northern Michigan in a Republican House district...that the appropriate turn of phrase here is "You Lost, Get Over It."
The world has, for the most part, moved on from your bullshit stupid hang-ups, Republicans.
Fundamentally, Republicans are pissed that they can't just go out and hurt and oppress other people. Make no mistake about it, that's exactly what's going on here.
It's not enough to have a $5-MILLION house, more money than some small countries, and every possible comfort and gadget known to Man and the freedom to do whatever they damn well please...they have to make sure that somebody else doesn't...indeed, that they legally cannot, or these fucking people get soggy and hard to light.
This crap has become so endlessly dumb and tediously puerile that awhile back, it got to not be any fun to write about, and I started to wonder if any of these ass-clowns had grandmothers. Why?
Because if I'd have acted this way as a kid or teenager, one of mine would've just smacked me in the back of the head repeatedly until I stopped doing this kind of shit. Like, one of her favorite hyperbolic threats was "I'm gonna beat you all the way to Escanaba." My Grandma on the other side wasn't too big on ass whuppins but if you pissed her off, she'd grab you by the ear and you damn well did what she said or went where she told you to go at that point.
My grandparents on my Dad's side, different Service (My Grandpa was an Air Force enlisted man who spent his career working on B-29's, B-47's and-mostly-B-52's) but similar backgrounds. They were Democrats, but not especially political about it, and for most of my life hardly Liberals with a Capital "L"...except for my one uncle that I mentioned a few posts back...but, like me, he and my aunt get the urgency of our current situation. It's from them that I got an appreciation of some of my other favorite old-school artists, Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, and yes, Dolly Parton.
Some things are supposed to be more important than political partisanship, and among other things nobody ever taught me that religion was supposed to be all political.
(Of course, I say that knowing that modern Republicans try to make everything political to keep their voters amped up all the time. I can't be amped up all the time or my mental state goes to hell, so that doesn't work for me.)
But then, I come from the kind of environment where, when I was that age a kid I knew got caught drawing a Swastika in his school notebook...in a public school...and got paddled by the Principal, suspended, and the parents had to come have a meeting at the school before the little shit could come back. He never tried anything like that, ever again.
As a kid and teenager I lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, then on the edge of the Detroit area, then Orange County, California and then Northern (Lower) Michigan. In the 1970's and 1980's these were not exactly places overflowing with Liberals.
Today, the (conservative) beliefs I was taught put me well into the spectrum of people who vote Democratic. I'm not exactly the biggest fan or Joe Biden, but I'll vote Ain't Trump for as long as it takes and right now that means voting for Joe.
And there's a lot of people like me, and Republicans be mad about it.
Also, Now we live in a world where people like Elon Musk openly talk Nazi shit.
Think about that for a second.
The world those fucking people want to live in is basically the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, but with a mall.
I'm a veteran, I served in the United States Air Force security forces. More to the point, I have a
And it seems evident to me, that sooner or later the divisiveness and political disputes forced on this country mainly by the unreasonableness of Republicans are going to come down to a fight.
No, Liberals, you are not going to win over people who want to form ad hoc anti-Abortion militias and enforce some king of MAGA-Christianized Purdah on women in Texas with policy proposals.
In the face of shit like that, the absolute bovine apathy and obliviousness of some fucking people just baffles me. If we're being honest, I see those people as just as much or more of a threat as I do the actual fascists.
Sometimes, you have to punch a bully right in the mouth.
Sometimes, you have to have a basic survival instinct.
And it doesn't really matter to me if you want to kill people with apathy and confusion out of arrogance, selfishness or shirking your duty as a citizen or if you want to do it with an AR-15 because you're an actual fascist wannabe murderer hopped up on ideology and religion and an even worse brand of selfishness.
For the dead, the end result is the same.
So it basically comes down to "Do you want these fucking people, the Martha and Sam Alito's of the world, to have state backing in their revolt against modernity, or don't you??"
To those assholes, Trump is just a means, not the end. They'll do worse.
But most of the fucking people doing this shit are the same ones who couldn't or wouldn't do what it took to fight a virus that couldn't shoot back, four years ago.
Just sayin' diseases thrive off of things like societal breakdown and wars.
So my guess is, if it comes down to a fight...which is what MAGA thinks they want...they'll lose.
But people who should not have died will still have died.
And I don't think I'll ever understand why people don't care about that.
Why is ideology, and specifically the perpetuation of bigotry, more important than life is, to these fucking people??
The Killing Fields have a way of not caring who dies in them, I'd think about that before proceeding, Republicans. I really would.
And if any of y'all Democrats care about any of the things you say you do, it's getting to the point where it's either you fight for them, or you don't.
Republicans have become a Murder-cult and think they have a suicide pact with the American Experiment. They'd rather burn down America and destroy themselves than see everybody be free.
You either believe in freedom or you don't, you either believe your own life is worth fighting for...or you just end up dead and whatever squeaky-clean mental image you think you have of yourself just gets trampled in the mud.
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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan
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