Priapus Collapsed Out Of Shame (Signs Of The Times, Four.)

 Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you're just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state. ~George Carlin

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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

Again, I keep seeing stuff like this.

Yo, seriously, I'm tired of all these White-bread borderline metrosexual fake Fundamentalist Christian preachers and Incels prancing around saying shit like "Abortion and birth control cause cancer" and "Women are property."

Jesus Christ, Priapus Wept.

I mean, fucking seriously, most of these dudes that act like this couldn't get a woman if they put $1,000,000 and a box of chocolates in a box trap and paid Fabio to keep an eye on that mess. I mean, Jesus Christ, what's wrong with these motherfuckers.

Dudes, when you've pretty much built your whole identity around hating women, they're not gonna want to fuck you. This should be obvious by now.

Maybe try not being an asshole?? Yes, yes, I know..."Conservatives" think being an asshole is all there is or should be to life.

And if you think all this Project 2025 shit is gonna grant you some kind of sexual release if it's ever enacted somewhere, you're wrong. You ain't got enough money for what being allowed to have a normal sex life under that shit would cost.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk, though, they do, and if you don't think the flesh merchants that would be the heirs to Jeffrey Epstein are gearing up to go big and get away with it if Project 2025 ever becomes a thing...you're also wrong.

You'll notice there's hardly any visible presence of non-White, non-Christian, normal people pushing all this anti-woman crap? It's all online CHUD's, religious nuts, rich White guys and various incels...plus their hangers-on. Trust me, they only want more White babies.

And they want to have the power to make the White boys do the agricultural slave labor, what they intend for non-white people, I'll leave to your imagination.

Don't ask what they intend for your daughters and granddaughters, you don't want to know.

I'm 50 years old, in my lifetime and so far as I know before it, none of that misogynistic or racist shit has ever been true and there's reasons it doesn't fly outside of places like Taliban Afghanistan, and since I've been a few other places I can tell you, situations like that really don't exist in the "West" or other places in the "Christian" world or other modern countries because if we're being honest, either the common people rose up and destroyed the monarchies and theocracies or those fucking people surrendered most of their power to elected parliaments and secular people in the face of pitchforks and torches...if they didn't hang on until the middle of the last century and get destroyed by the Nazis or destroy themselves cozying up to the Nazis...Western people got tired of it. 

Hell, so did most of the rest of the world in one form or another. You pretty much have to go to tribal places dominated by radical Islam if you want to live like that, and if you're the wrong kind of dude there's a non-zero chance you're gonna end up wearing a dress and dancing for old tribal elders like a slave girl in Jabba The Hutt's palace. 

Hmm, maybe there's a fucking reason Western countries aren't that way anymore??

Like...start with "Women not having agency doesn't work out well for the vast majority of men either?

But it's not just that...

Like among other things, this shit didn't work very well the first time??

Economically, socially, you name it.

Like think most of the USA 100 years ago; Economic default settings for much of the country being day labor and/or subsistence farming, having half of the population not in the labor force and pumping out more kids than they could take care of, no money (unless you were already rich) not much medical care (unless you were rich) no social welfare at all, no vaccines? On numbers alone, the population we have now wouldn't survive. Back in them days, You might have ten kids and only have one or two of them make it to adulthood, and that's if there wasn't a war or some other major calamity over the course of that 20 years or so. 

I mean, until the New Deal there effectively wasn't an economy or money supply unless you lived in the city or were already rich...and the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, massively improved industrialization, the mechanization of agriculture, WWII (and the widespread social leveling and trade training provided by millions of men doing military service) and widespread factory jobs and unionization during and for 35 years after the war pretty much meant that after the middle of the 20th century hardly anybody had to go back to doing that kind of work or living like that, or even wanted to. 

But I suppose that shit looks great to Elon Musk and all the other billionaire assholes who put people up to marching for this horseshit because up until 1929 or so, they pretty much had a chokehold on the money supply. 

I'm not sure it registers to them that, at that time, the USA was still a developing country and had an army smaller than that of Romania, having only gained something approaching equal status in diplomatic or naval (not military in general, trust me) terms to France and the UK (the "Superpowers" of the time) by bloodshed in WWI. 

It'd take WWII, the USA becoming the "Arsenal of Democracy" and most of Europe having either been destroyed, destroyed itself or spent itself into poverty fighting the war for us to gain the economic might to maintain the superpower status we've held for three generations, and that the vast majority of Americans are accustomed to, want to keep and really, wouldn't function all that well without.it. 

I mean, seriously, do you really think we're going to keep getting the kind of sweetheart deals from the Chinese that we get now if Republicans win and, at Putin's behest, give away the store in the name of some theoretical "Multipolar" world (which is code for "Let the Chinese and the Russians walk away with all our shit so that Republicans can rule the economic ashes and surrender the world to America's enemies.")

No, they'll call in their debts, jack up their prices and crush the average American working people that have to buy shit with their own money (you know, the people who are the actual basis of the economy) into oblivion, throwing the vast majority of the USA into the kind of economic flat spin you can't get out of, and people like Elon Musk won't care because they want us all slaving away for nothing, literally while they steal all the money. And the only bone they're even willing to throw us in return for the destruction of the modern world and reducing ourselves to penury is hatred of some "Other."

But all people like Elon care about is basically something something "Own The Libs" or some shit like that.

These fucking people hate America.

Hell, they're holding up signs that say so.

And people are getting tired of it.

Note, I say that as a former Republican.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

If we don't vote them out now, we're going to have to fight them later, just to stay alive.

Слава Україна!

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

Three

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

A word on the Title of this article

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