The Holy Quran says it, "Pilgrimage to the House [of God built by the prophet Abraham] is a duty men owe to God; those who are able, make the journey." (3:97) Allah said: "And proclaim the pilgrimage among men; they will come to you on foot and upon each lean camel, they will come from every deep ravine" (22:27).Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun intermittently calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other. . . .That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men. ~Malcolm X, Letter following the Hajj.
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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
So, JD Vance is the dude, nominated yesterday as Trump's new VP pick.
A bearded, male Sarah Palin for a less-civilized age, I guess?
But, I just saw this a little bit ago.
JD Vance's wife (who is South Asian) has already been the subject of racist bullshit.
I'm like, are you fucking kidding me?
Not to be outdone, Jeanine Pirro (Of All The Fucking People) is accusing Kamala Harris of having a drinking problem.
Now, I've never seen that Kamala has been obviously drunk in public, but I've seen several videos of Jeanine Pirro being three sheets to the wind (including when she was on the air.)
Also, I remember some bit I saw on Twitter back in 2020 where Jeanine was obviously looking at a picture of another woman's breasts on her phone, and the other woman (I think it was Chrissy Teigan but I could be wrong) commented on this.
I wrote about it here's the post and yep, it was Chrissy Teigan.
I suspect there's some unresolved issues with "Judge" Jeanine.
Actually, I think it's that way with a lot of these fucking people.
My read on the whole Vance thing is, the Silicon Valley tech bros who foisted Vance on the GOP (and who think they're gonna use this bullshit to remake the world in their own perverted image) done fucked up.
The cosplay Get Famous right-wingers like Jeanine Pirro, they done fucked up a long time ago, and have lost the plot so badly they're not even in the same Solar System as the Plot is, anymore.
And the rich tax-cut chasers??
The corporations??
LOL.
Don't get me started, not least because it's racist-ass Steve Scalise of all fuckin' people up there pitching endless tax cuts.
(Here's the thing, bro, if Lockheed Martin...just for example...is gonna keep making money, tax cuts are probably not the Way.)
I mean, I get that the "Jesus and Tax Cuts" ideology was all about camouflaging the racism under layers of vaguely economic-and-religious-sounding bullshit.
I really do.
But believe it or not, that isn't the worst of what's going on here.
(This is, of course, the actual unspoken goal.)
From what I've seen of it, it's simply not based on reality.
There's a number of key assumptions I've seen in chapter and verse that simply aren't even on the same page as American life as it ever has been, much less modern American life, let alone the economics thereof.
A key point here is that US Republicanism is, well, Republicanism. Note: I say this as a former Republican who's lived long enough to not be able to recognize this shit anymore.
We're talking 30 years of the accrued shittiness of a modern Republican ideology started by Newt Gingrich. Trumpism is itself nothing but a hologram. It wouldn't exist independent of 30 years of Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, Tom DeLay and the "Freedom" Caucus.
It's become an ideology so progressively shitty that these fucking people can't even tell you what it is, much less their endgame or even their plan on how to get there, lest they be tarred and feathered or shot in the streets by an irate public, or thrown into prison by any serious government that catches them.
And the only thing all these motherfuckers seem to agree on is Donald Trump.
But somebody shot at Trump last weekend, So, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say all is probably not well in Galt's Gulch.
No predicted wave of right-wing political violence has materialized, there's no post-Assassination-attempt bump except in Trump-land where there's always a raging hard-on for Trump with a gilded rubber already on it.
But the thing is, no matter how bigoted and shitty they are, no matter how much they all hate each other and all the rest of us, it's not going to be enough. It's never going to be enough.
Nothing short of mass murder will satisfy certain people...and as last weekend's events demonstrate, Republicans are as likely to be targets as everybody else is.
And they ain't ready. Trust me on this, they are not prepared.
Among other things, there's an entire tranche of white dude-bros out there who basically hate everything, either for no reason or because of some massively stupid reason like they couldn't get laid in high school or some shit. That was basically the PA rally shooter's entire issue, he was angry, bored and lonely and so he decided he wanted to shoot somebody. It didn't matter who.
No, none of that will matter. The arguments are wrong. Your real threat here populates any Buffalo Wild Wings on a game night, and it's about 90% average mediocre White Dudes.
The people who are the under-the-radar threat here, the fire that MAGA and Republicans, think they're playing with...doesn't read and only pays attention to right-wing media so far as it scratches their hate-itch. The mob will gladly barbecue all those old white people that watch Fox News while dancing around the fire shouting "Unga Bunga." Fundamentally, at the end of the day when the mob of those people who simply spank the monkey to the idea of killing other humans rises up and comes after us...they'll have to either join one side or the other or get killed in the crossfire.
I suspect a lot of these neo-whatever-the-fuck's who think they're all hip and transgressive will be as scared and shocked as anybody when an actual American Taliban rises up.
And I think people will be surprised at how philosophically, politically, and religiously incoherent that shit's gonna be. These fucking people don't wanna be Holy Christian Prophets (TM.) They claim they want to be violent heroes of the Faith, but it's funny how "Faith" remains undefined.
The truth is, these assholes think they wanna be Kratos from the God Of War video games.
They see Biblical imagery like the smoke arising from the Bottomless Pit blocking out the sky, and they get an erection.
Yes, there are Monsters among us.
And no, these CHUD's who want some bloody revolution against the New World Order or Something Something Gazpacho or who just wanna shoot motherfuckers (and, at the moment, a lot of the idiots playing fuck-fuck games with them online or feeding them crap at the RNC in Milwaukee) don't care if they burn down America or the modern world or if it costs Peter Theil money. They don't care if all this craziness ends with Americans shooting at each other or if this horseshit hands part of America over to Vladimir Putin.
It's literally Anything but America with these fools, Anything but "Love Thy Neighbor" and so on...
It's not just that I'm voting for Biden or against Trump.
It's that I remember when the Tea Party was the big scourge 15 years ago, and I know now a bunch of those people are on "Our" side and routinely advocate for Democrats and Democratic politicians...or at least against MAGA ones...and I know if this slide remains unchecked, give it another 10-15 years and there's a reasonable chance that a lot of MAGA types will be in the same boat when they get supplanted by an even worse ideology.
These fucking people want to abolish Freedom because they think it'd be funny.
Either you believe in freedom or you don't.
Either you're willing to fight against this garbage, or you're not.
Now is the time to Be A Better Citizen.
Before it gets worse.
You can stand up and do that, be a better citizen, vote, fight if need be, or you can give up and fall to the Monsters in the darkness.
It's really coming down to exactly that.
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And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. ~Revelation 9 (King James Version)
There they battled up Iwo Jima hill
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived
To walk back down again
And when the fight was over
And Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war.
Ira Hayes returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and speeched and honored
Everybody shook his hand
But he was just a Pima Indian
No water, no home, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done
And when did the Indians dance?
~The Ballad of Ira Hayes, by Johnny Cash.
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