Sunday, August 11, 2024

It's Got Electrolytes (American Revelation XVII, Fifteen.)

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.

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Tim McManus: You are creating a lot of the tension that we're dealing with right here.

James Devlin: How am I doing that?
Tim McManus: Well, you ban smoking, you ban conjugals. Bit by bit you're stripping these men of their basic human needs.
James Devlin: This is a prison. These men are criminals. The whole point is to strip them of their basic human needs. If a kneejerk prissy liberal would see that we wouldn't be having the problems we're having today.
Tim McManus: The campaign is over, Governor, so get off your soapbox.
James Devlin: McManus, when you look at me, what do you see?
Tim McManus: A man.
James Devlin: You've heard of Olympus, right? Mount Olympus, ancient Greece, where the gods lived?
Tim McManus: Yeah.
James Devlin: Well, it was a hierarchy, even among the gods. Mercury was lesser than Apollo, Apollo lesser than Zeus. Now, you run your cellblock and you think you're a god. Glynn runs the whole prison, he thinks he's a greater god. Well, guys, I am Zeus. I am omnipotent. I must be obeyed...or my thunderbolts will strike. ~From the HBO Series "Oz" S1. E3 "God's Chillin'"

I wasn't even going to write anything today.

And then, last night, I saw this.

The racist attacks on Harris haven't really bit with anybody other than Republicans, so now they're going after...her name...how old are you motherfuckers, five??

Seriously, fuck these motherfuckers.

Listen up, Republicans, We The People are tired of your fascism, we're tired of your pig-ignorant racist crap, and we're tired of your regressive shitty social beliefs.

Please note for the record that I say this as a former Republican myself.

Honestly, I think it's gotten to the point where These Fucking People think they're some sort of gods, or they want to be, and they want it bad enough that they're willing to become the bad guys in their own pre-existing story...you know the one, about how they're so righteous and we're all living in the End Times...if they think it'll help.

It won't, but you can't tell these motherfuckers anything.

This shit is ridiculous and I've had it.

None of the rest of their bullshit has stuck, so now Republicans are going around trying to claim that Tim Walz is gay. Sorry, bro, but he just doesn't give off that sort of vibe. And on the other hand, the reason that the "Couch fucker" jokes have stuck to JD Vance is that yes, he really looks like he would do that.

And while I'm at it, yeah, you idiots;

Please, keep sending creepy beard-o dudes like Matt Walsh out to try and call Tim Walz "Gay" and insult his military service.

You know, Matt Walsh, whose military service (if you wanna call it that) consists of serially masturbating to Frank Miller's 300 when he's not yanking his crank to various young-looking fake trad-wife influencers on TikTok with one hand while logging into their OnlyFans with the other. 

I mean, come on, dude. This motherfucker literally said that 15-year-olds should be able to consent. There was a time when saying something like that would've got a dude arrested, and then run out of public life with pitchforks and torches...by Republicans. I'm really starting to think we, as a society, need to seriously start checking conservative browser histories.

And then acting appropriately when we find the shit we'll find. Lock some of these creeps up!

Normal people don't do...or think up...shit like this.

It's like I've been saying for over ten years now: Republicans think about gay stuff more than gay people do. I'll note also that when I first formulated that thought, I had two gay roommates.

But come on, now.

I mean, I get it. Republicans think basically everything but being rich, Church in your Sunday Best and control-freakishness cranked up to 11 is basically Evil. 

But the trouble is when you actually look at who's doing the freakish things, the lying, and the sexual deviancies, not to mention trying to destroy America for ideology and profit...or who both has the addictions and profits off of them...ten out of ten cases lately, you'll find it's a Republican

I'm sorry, but if you have people who cannot unbend, who cannot turn off the ideological crap and just be human, even for a bit...that kind of shit is what you get every time you run the experiment, because human nature demands we find ways to cope with whatever...whether they're healthy or right or not. 

I logged into Facebook today because a friend of mine got a new ferret and I saw...goddamn but the few Republicans left on my feed are losing their shit.

Yep, right now Republicans are trying to cope with finding out that they long ago lost whatever control over the rest of us that they thought they had...that they made no effort to keep, because I guess they always thought they'd have it, or some shit.

They've got nothing.

And they're not even trying to hide that destroying every aspect of America that they can reach is the goal. They want revenge for losing that power that they thought they had. Fuck, they were bragging about it until they caught a bunch of pushback from the public! Hell, there was a bit about Project 2025...straight reporting, even, with plenty of calling that shit out...on the front page of today's Detroit News/Free Press.

Here's the thing though.

Check the response by another former roommate (and ex-girlfriend) of mine to my Facebook repost from a couple days ago. K's fucking thrilled that where she lives now there's free school lunches plus assistance in the summer time.

And yeah, she was Never Trump back in 2016 but this lady at least used to be a Republican. It's not just she's glad to have this stuff for herself and her daughter...she'll fight to protect it, too. Hey, I didn't like voting Democratic the first few times either, but it was what I had to do to not get fucked over.

I mean, fuck, it's a presidential election year and I've seen damn few new Trump signs around...not just that, on closer inspection they aren't "Trump/Vance" signs, they're just "Trump" signs.

It's not even that Republicans are "Low Energy" or even "Weird" so much as simple reality of what these fucking people have become...not just because of Trump, but they were that way before, too...is starting to set in with the general public. Republicans are assholes.

And they thought they were gonna win, so they ran on being assholes.

The simple reality of things is that most Americans aren't bothered by gay people in the least. We don't think everything outside of a narrow range of activities is perversion and Sin...and frankly most of us think that kind of view of life is boring and weird.

Most Americans...even those of us who know what all the shit means...don't really care if Tim Walz retired as an E-8 or an E-9 (Because yes, you can be promoted into a rank and then lose it if you don't complete certain qualifications which generally come after said promotion...and yes, I did NCO school) or that he retired before his unit deployed to Iraq because the dude already had 24 years in. He had life plans (like running for Congress) and wanted to spend more time with his kids and shit. I don't have kids but for fuck's sake I can understand that!

Seriously, people are people. Let them be human, we all have shortcomings. Nobody can or wants to step up all the time, every time...not for long, anyway, and you certainly can lose the ability to do so. That's why you have to be able to unbend, you have to have some joy in your life, and so on. You have to be able to see the purpose of stuff like, ya know, dog parks.

I'm tired of Republicans disingenuously holding others to impossible standards while extending infinite forgiveness to their own. That's literally not what the purpose of any of this shit is, and it's something that Jesus himself called out and said not to do.

And the thing is, how many of themselves are they running straight into the ground just so they can elevate Trump to be some kind of a pretend god?? Bro, I've read Revelation...I know how that ends and I'm not a born-again anything.

It's simply what I read.

How many of these fucking people are just wrecking themselves for bigotry and hate...and what's even the goddamn point??

Like what exactly do you get out of being a miserable bastard and living in fear of everything??

I couldn't do it, I'd be dead.

People have to have the freedom to live their lives without the government or the Party or some religious busybody being up their ass all the time...and if they don't have that, one way or another either from a power-hungry religion or State or from the revolutions against it, you end up with a lot more dead people.

Like, come on, all this crap has been tried before and it didn't work then either.

Republicans put all their hopes and shit on Donald Trump and he took their money and ran them into the ground...because he thought it'd be a sure thing running against Biden. Well, it wasn't.

Now all Republicans have is calling people names and talking up a bunch of ignorant shit. Modern Republicanism is an Idiocracy, rather more malicious than the one in the movie, and they chose that on purpose.

Reagan Wept.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And here's the thing, freedom isn't free. Sometimes, you have to fight for it. You ask me, what these assholes need is to find themselves with a fight on their hands.

We as a people have suffered these fools too gladly for too long, and that appears to be over now.

I'm tired of the crap. The question is, why aren't you??

Слава Україна

Joe: For the last time, I'm pretty sure what's killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.

Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
Attorney General: "So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops.
Joe: Yes.
Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet?
Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that's the idea.
Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave.
Attorney General: It's got electrolytes.
Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren't growing, so I'm pretty sure that the Brawndo's not working. Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow.
Secretary of Energy: Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.
Secretary of State: Hey, that's good. You sure you ain't the smartest guy in the world?
Joe: Okay, look. You want to solve this problem. I want to get my pardon. So why don't we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave?
Attorney General: Brawndo's got what plants crave.
Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it's got electrolytes.
Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know?
Secretary of State: It's what they use to make Brawndo.
~From the film Idiocracy.

Fourteen

"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press






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