The Bottomless Pit (October Unsurprising, Seven.)

Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly

He got Ju-Ju eyeball, he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker, he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola
He say, "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now
Over me

He bag production, he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
Come together, right now
Over me

~Come Together, The Beatles (Also ably covered by Aerosmith.)

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

So I think I've figured it out. 

The Republican closing argument (For Fascism, at that) is nothing but middle fingers all the way down, a giant repetitive Fuck You to We, The People...with a side of absolute nonsense.

After Trump's campaign stunt in a closed McDonalds yesterday (with a canned audience of supporters, no money, and all they made was French Fries, on top of that) I think I'm even more disgusted than I have been before now...if that's even possible.

See, trust me on this one, I worked in food service (as at least one of pretty often multiple jobs) for 25 years...and I still deal with food as part of my current job. For 18 years out of that time I worked in a casino, having been a Custodian, a Line Cook and a Steward. I worked maintenance for a chain here in northern Michigan for six months. Hell, I was in the military (Where I also got Voluntold to do kitchen stuff, on occasion) before all  that. 

Trust me, I'm a world-class expert at fucking off but looking like I'm doing something...and in particular at doing it in a Chef's coat, gloves, hair net and various kinds of hats, with proper non-slip shoes, etc. I'm also Serve-safe certified, and I've had (or still have) certifications in food safety from a few government agencies and health departments (I was cafeteria management once, and I've helped out with food banks.) It's a hard job, sometimes, but all it really requires to be successful (and very often the rock-star member of the team) is a little motivation.

I mean come on. The motherfucker ain't even wearing a pair of nitrile gloves (which is like, basic for doing anything in a commercial kitchen or at any level of commercial or institutional food service.) You're telling me nobody from the Trump campaign even thought to Google the absolute basics of food safety and, ya know, what an actual food service worker does or even looks like??

And then, on top of that, they picked a McDonald's franchise that'd been repeatedly cited for health code violations. I guess I can see why that is.

And if they'd hired some Kitchen Chud who'd at least made a career out of pretending to give a shit as an adviser for like $15 an hour, this whole goddamned mess could have been avoided and/or turned into a plus rather than being mocked by basically the entire internet.

I'm here to tell you I worked with a lot of motivated, smart people over the years. I worked with a lot of fuck-offs too, I worked with people that were absolutely amazing, some of 'em were goddamned geniuses, and I worked with people who make rocks look intelligent. I worked with people that were convicted felons, and I worked with people whose next career move was enlisting in the military and doing jobs that required a Security Clearance. 

Trust me, food service is a job where you work with an incredible diversity of people. Fuck, finding a food service worker that's a MAGA (or for that matter finding one that's a far-Left supporter of the Palestinian case) and in either case willing to help you mail it in (but at least look right while you're doing it) is about as easy as finding French Fries in a fast food joint.

These motherfuckers didn't do that. They didn't want to.  

So what this boils down to, basically, is this shit was such a soup sandwich as to amount to a calculated insult to pretty much anybody like me.

But then, at this point about all Trump and his campaign are actually good at is talking racist nonsense, and apparently also waxing homoerotic about the genitals of deceased golf pros.

It's a Bottomless Pit of evil, immorality and stupidity, with a major side of illegality at this point if you factor in Elon Musk's vote-buying scam.

Like, are you fucking kidding me??

This whole mess this last couple weeks is, basically, the entire goddamned Trump thing in microcosm.

Everybody in it hates everybody else in it with the searing fire of a thousand splendid suns, and they're all screwing for advantage and trying to fuck each other over, but none of them knows how to fuck properly, and at the end of the day anybody who knows anything just hopes they can be the one to cash out and get away before it all comes crashing down as it becomes known to the World that Trump's brain is basically flaccid green hospital-food Jell-O.

Meanwhile all the idiots just think they're somehow gonna be the first one that Trump does right by, instead of doing them dirty like he does everybody else.

And neither These Fucking People nor the Billionaires who are funding this shit-show give even the least bit of a damn who they have to fuck over (or just plain fuck) to get their tax cut or whatever the fuck they think they're going to get out of this goddamned mess!

And that's all this crap is, too, a bunch of people with crappy, contradictory agendas all trying to use Trump to get whatever they think they want. JD Vance isn't there because he likes or is loyal to Trump. He's there because if they get elected, when Trump's brain comes squishing out through his ears in one cataclysmic meltdown, he gets to be President without having done even one damn thing, ever.

And if they'll lie about something as simple as doing food service or how urban minorities conduct themselves, or about something as vast and complex as the Catholic church...what else will these motherfuckers lie to you about??

I mean, I get it.

When it comes to these motherfuckers the bullshit and lies are about as thick as the smoke from the Bottomless Pit as written in Revelation chapter 9, willfully so, on purpose, with malice aforethought and these fucking people all hope they get to cash out and go live deliciously somewhere while inflicting all the torments of Revelation on other people.

The level of evil with these assholes is, in point of fact, Biblical.

My question to you is: Why should the rest of us put up with this crap?? We don't have to.

And at that, only a relatively small percentage of idiots actually wants to live like this.

And at this point, all the rest of us have to do to put this crap down and force these fucking people to use other means more dangerous to themselves is vote "No."

We can say "No."

Remember that, because it's going to be on the test later.

In fact, it's pretty much the only fucking question at this point.

Do you like to be fucked over and lied to and mocked by people who don't give a fuck about you, or do you not??

Do you want to live in a free country or be a slave to a fascist malicious Idiocracy??

It really is that simple.

So, answer the fucking question.

And be prepared to defend that answer, and the literal right to give it as you see fit.

The entire thing with these fucking people is that they want to be the worse fucking people they can be, and they think Trump gives them that.

If you think you're gonna be the one person to actually profit from this, you're wrong.

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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

Six

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)