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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.
...
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
I saw this last night.
Arizona is ramping up election security, with bulletproof glass, fences, FBI agents and snipers, like something straight out of the Iraq War for fuck's sake.
And it's only happening because Donald Trump has been lying about elections and pushing fascism and racism since 2020.
I served in the United States Air Force as a Security Policeman. I didn't go to war, thank Jesus...but I did serve as a peacekeeper in Bosnia when they were just starting to pull bones out of the cold ground. I was deployed on operations like Southern Watch, trying to contain the evil that was Saddam Hussein. I saw the wreckage of war, then still prevalent, on the ground in Kuwait while briefly forward-based there. Several years later, a few of my bros went to Afghanistan and Iraq. I've seen enough.
Nobody with a goddamned brain in their head wants that shit here, except Republicans, who have not one brain among them.
This crap needs to stop before somebody does something really fucking stupid and starts shit that fucks everything up for everybody.
Like, seriously, despite the media's, pollsters' and Republicans efforts to magic a second Trump presidency into being for clicks, likes and personal agendas and power...not to mention the tax cuts, the
majority of the population doesn't appear to be even renting this shit, much less buying it. So, Republicans are already working on a grievance narrative and justifications for trying to start some kind of bullshit right-wing insurgency.
But here's the thing, these motherfuckers don't care.
They try it, it'll be J6 but bigger.
In other words, a clown-show, gun-nut hard-ons so hyped up in the heat of the moment that they grab the wrong, uh...gun...instead of their rifle and go charging into battle with their pants around their ankles because NRA propaganda (among other things) fails to make much of a distinction between the two.
Their strategy, if you can call it that...like with the Russian Army in Ukraine...is likely to be pretty much The Walking Dead, human-wave assaults and some kind of shock tactics of the murder-somebody-with-a-barbed-wire-wrapped-baseball-bat variety, most likely. Unless they have direct support from the Russians (and that means war with Russia, too) it's unlikely that they'll have drones or massed fire missions of their own to back that up...so all this crap is gonna do is get a bunch of their own fucking people killed and inflict real bad PTSD on the people doing the killing.
They're already plotting to try and breed replacements. You go ahead and think about that shit for a second.
Their strategy, as it was with COVID-19, is simply to try to bury civilization under a big-enough pile of the dead.
And yes, that's exactly what this shit is.
Because if they can't destroy the State in favor of some bullshit Trump monarchy, or kill millions of people for kicks on the basis of petty bigotry, or trash our social fabric and turn women and girls into breeding stock while stealing any hope that anybody who isn't a billionaire might have some kind of a decent life or a future, these fucking people HATE America.
And they're going about trying to wreck this country in ways that are far more insidious than any Radical Islamist fanatic ever thought up, 'cause I guess even Jihadists have morals, or at least a few limits imposed by their religion.
Republicans, not so much.
And they're being pretty damn open about it, and about their desire to destroy an America that they hate...not to mention all the other people who live here, as if they think we'd all just line up and let them kill us?
And basically, if they have to trade the lives of a few million of their supporters for nothing more than some shitty banana republic in South Florida, Republicans will be fine with that.
Just so they get to use Mar-a-Lago for a presidential palace, because it's a fucking cult.
Yeah, you go ahead and consider that.
And consider what "Own The Libs" not to mention placate the Internet Fanatics would look like as a governing ideal...not to mention handing religious life over to the fundamentalist medieval Catholics.
Yeah, their first order of business would be an Inquisistion.
And what was the big topic of conversation overnight??
I've suspected Trump wasn't exactly arrow-straight since long before he ever got into politics. While I'm at it, I first thought that as a Republican. There was a time, believe it or not, when if nothing else was the goddamned end of it, talking about another man's penis in the sort of way that Trump was doing would damned well have been the end of it. (I should note that more than one so-disgraced Republican...Mark Foley comes to mind...has aligned with Trump in an attempt to get themselves back into the game.)
I mean, whatever, if this crap helps peel off Republican voters who are tired of the donkey-show bullshit, great.
My point is, this garbage should have never gone this damned far.
We should not be bunkering off our polling places like we're trying to conduct an election in Iraq, and for damned sure not having to do that right here in America.
Radical Islamists in Afghanistan or Iraq or Syria who were shouting the Takbir and firing guns into the air and shit getting all hyped up for the Jihad...they're not the ones who did this bullshit to us.
Republicans have done waged their own Jihad against America from the inside, literally trying to undo the American Revolution and turn this country into the things it was founded to oppose. There's a lot of Republicans that are damned well desperate to be Slaves Of The Caesars because they somehow think they'll get something for it.
And while some people have been aware and done their best to do something about this shit for a long time, it's really only in the last few months that Democrats have collectively started to even call these motherfuckers weird or punch back at all.
You wanna know why I'm all in for Kamala Harris? That's why.
At least she's made some effort to call out this horseshit!
People should have done woke the fuck up by now.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
You're either willing to fight for it or you're not.
The time to be a better citizen is now.
So get after it.
Слава Україна!
"I didn't want to do it,'' he hears himself saying. "I didn't want to leave them behind.''
The void laughs at him. There are miles of empty air beneath his dangling feet. "You had no choice.''
"Yes I did! I didn't have to come here.'' He pauses. "I didn't have to do anything,'' he says quietly, and inhales another lungful of death. "It was all automatic. Maybe it was inevitable.''
"-- Evitable,'' echoes the distant horizon. Something dark and angular skims across the stars, like an echo of extinct pterosaurs. Turbofans whirring within its belly, the F-117A hunts on: patrolling to keep at bay the ancient evil, unaware that the battle is already lost. "Your family could still be alive, you know.''
He looks up. "They could?'' Andrea? Jason? "Alive?''
The void laughs again, unfriendly: "There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.''
~From A Colder War, a novella by Charles Stross.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. ~2nd Timothy 4:1-4
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