Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Swallowing Camels (October, Unsurprising, One.)

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. ~Matthew 23:24

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

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We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley

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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

Over the weekend, Elon Musk went onstage with Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, PA.

MAGA of course, treats this horseshit like it's the Second Coming.

I'm sorry, but I used to be a Christian and a Conservative and this garbage has ruined both things for me.

Like, if you haven't figured out by now that these fucking people are basically in it because they hate America, and for the bigotry and whatever they can steal, I'm not sure that I can help you or that I even want to try.

All I heard for months on end was that the Republicans were gonna have some dirty October Surprise lined up and I said, Nah, these fucking creeps are going to October Surprise themselves.

Turns out, they're pretty much going full Republican Babylon and the goddamned MAGA Republican voters can't get enough of that shit...except that there seems to be an increasing number of them that are defecting to vote for Kamala Harris.

Trump is going to lose. Let's just get that out of the way right now.

But I'm not sure how much that matters with a bunch of fucking people, alleged Christians in fact, who'd gladly turn to worshiping the Beast Of Revelations itself if the Beast said "I hate N****rs." 

Yes, Trump is a poor substitute, a test run, I think.

But if he is that, then whatever dark powers are behind all this shit know the test has succeeded beyond all imaginable expectations. These fucking people, Conservatives, Evangelicals, whatever...none of it matters. Having somebody and something to hate is far more important than any "Faith" they might claim. If Trump came up with some kind of prototype Mark Of The Beast, or even endorsed Musk's version...that Neuralink crap...you know a bunch of these MAGA idiots would get it just out of pure unshakable cultic partisan loyalty.

To these assholes, being LGBT or having an abortion or simply voting Democrat are the worst things in the world...yet they worship *Checks Notes* Donald Trump??

And they do it for no better reason than because he allows and encourages them to be the worst fucking people possible??

When Jesus accused the Pharisees of straining at gnats and swallowing camels, THIS is what He was fucking talking about! These idiots bang on endlessly about a whole bunch of things that aren't even in the Bible...but became Conservative political dogma when various things like racism and support of dictators that they'd engaged in before became unpopular...and now Trump has given them that shit back too!

And not just Trump, but his goddamned followers have turned Christianity, conservatism and the Republican Party into a motherfucking clown show...and it's getting worse as Republican candidate quality continues to decline.

And then they have the balls to act surprised when even a lot of Republicans are running away from this crap now? When Republicans, once the Party of Ronald Reagan and "Tear Down This Wall!" HAVE GIVEN UP ALL THAT for, again, Donald Fucking Trump?

Like are you fucking kidding me?

And I'm here to tell you, defeating these fuckers at the voting booth ain't the half of it. It's probably going to take a war to make this shit stop. Trump is pretty open about wanting to start a civil war in his name when he loses.

And a hell of a lot of Americans...most especially on the "Conservative" side have no idea what the fuck they're sleepwalking into, much less that they're doing it for a goddamn narcissist for whom no amount of bloodshed or human sacrifice would ever be enough.

But then, like I've been saying, for Republicans it's "Anything but America" and "Anything but Love Thy Neighbor."

That ain't what I was taught. I mean for fuck's sake when I was 18 years old there were still conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans and a lot of people were good friends with people on the other team.

It took an adulterous shit-bag like Newt Gingrich to get people to start regarding people as blood enemies simply for being members of the Other Party...which, I'm sorry, but in a system like ours there has to be an Other Party.

We did pretty well on divided government for a long time, with each side restraining the other's worse impulses.

Who wrecked that? Republicans.

And they kept going until they ended up with a braying jackass and sniveling dumbass who worships KGB Agent Vladimir Putin.

"Reagan Wept" does not even begin to cover it.

And fuck anything I was taught about individual liberty and rights, limited government, the State minding its own business, etc. Modern Republicans want a totalitarian State big enough to run every aspect of your life, yet also small enough to jam up your ass just for kicks. They'll strain at every possible gnat just to find more excuses to do it.

And they don't care how dishonest, immoral and nonsensical it all is...because they've accepted Trump as their God. That's swallowing the goddamn camel, right there.

That, my friends, is exactly how you go to Hell.

Only thing is, Republicans have embraced the idea of going to Hell, so long as they think they're going to take some of the rest of us there with them.

This ain't the Way.

Listen up, my fellow Democrats: If you can't stand up and fight against that, what the fuck are we even doing here?

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And freedom isn't free, sometimes you have to fight for it.

Слава Україна!

When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnieper's plunging shore
My eyes could see, my ears could hear
The mighty river roar.
When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears
Into the deep blue sea
The blood of foes ... then will I leave
These hills and fertile fields --I'll leave them all and fly away
To the abode of God,
And then I'll pray .... 
But until that day I know nothing of God
Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
Remember also me.

~Taras Shevchenko


For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27


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