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Remember when your High School History teacher said "The course of human events changes because of the deeds of great men"?. Well the bitch was lying. Fuck Caesar, fuck Lincoln, fuck Mahatma Gandhi. The world keeps moving because of you and me: the anonymous. Revolutions get started because people don't have enough bread. Wars start over a game of checkers. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO Series "Oz" S1, E8 "A Game Of Checkers."
...We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom Of Fear (2004)
Because Trump, fundamentally, needs their money (and perhaps more importantly their acceptance) more than he needs your cheers and the money he grifts off of you. If all else fails, Elon can just build him a VR head-rig and an AI virtual world where All Is Trump and it's all cocaine, narcissistic fuel and porn stars just for him. If you can't do that...you're gonna lose.
And people like Laura Loomer are just now finding out that no matter what they do, the Tech Oligarchs can always find another slave.
I rather suspect most of MAGA is gonna find itself like the Clone Troopers in the Star Wars movies...mostly replaced by new followers as those in Power find other people who are more useful and for longer periods of time. Pro tip: It was always the goal of people like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (not to mention Donald Trump) to enslave White People. I specifically warned y'all repeatedly. These motherfuckers see themselves as the Lord in the Castle...and the rest of you as the serfs in the fields, at best. If not just plain dead, because as these fucking people see it, fewer people means more money for them.
Because you idiots thought you'd be a better class of slaves than some random "Other" or some shit. I don't know. Somehow it took you fuckers being talked down to by Vivek Ramaswamy for it to sink in that being a better class of Slave don't make you free.
And there's nothing conservative about Slavery.
Well, as it turns out Slavery was the only thing these assholes really believe in.
"Conservatives" since at least Nixon have imagined themselves righteously standing athwart the flow of History yelling "Stop!" But the real reason was...well, simply to cover for this bullshit.
Nobody stops history or progress, they know this.
The wheel is going to turn, is turning, and anybody what tries to stop that just gets crushed.
Change is the only constant in the world. Conservatism as I was taught it was about trying to manage it, not stop it.
But I and people like me were clearly in the minority, as this last election showed there simply aren't enough Republicans like that anymore...if there ever were.
Nixon, Ford, Reagan, the Bushes...hell, even Trump, but although he's closer to the "ideal" he lacks the force of personality or will to do much...were just placeholders for an unelected shadow-leader like Elon Musk to get into Power on behalf of the Business Class, and even though Trump is likely gonna fail to deliver everything (or even much) of what they want, this is probably gonna be their best chance to do a smash-and-grab Oligarch raid, maybe even break up the USA before they imagine themselves fleeing into the arms of the advancing Russians (Never mind that if Russia can't conquer Ukraine, they will lose vs. the rest of Europe) who they think they can simply buy off, or jet off to glittering Gulf Sheikdoms where they can do whatever they want and the harsh religiosity really is for other people.
If the USA is going to become more socially liberal, they either want to break it up so the parts beholden to them stay that way, or deprive it of its (mostly economic) empire and leave us as the 21st Century equivalent of the UK, knowing we'll have made much less of a De Jure impact upon the world and will have fewer friends so we're not even a Networking-superpower. The closest we ever will get to having a Commonwealth is probably NATO.
International Billionaire-dom wants us to fight each other and as many other "enemies" real and imagined as possible so that we're not restraining their behavior.
And they think they can scuttle out of the way before they get rolled over.
Again, and I'll say it louder for those in the back: When Republicans start going after Republicans has always been my tell for when there's actually going to be a civil war.
And it's not that Elon or Trump or Vivek won't be able to get out in time, it's that they won't even want to because they're all narcissists deeply addicted to drama and bullshit and high on their own supply.
They equate money with strength, and Social Darwinism with actually being the Apex Predators that their flabby asses are most definitely not in real life.
And I'm telling you now, just like I've been telling you for awhile, they're going to lose control of this mess and end up fighting for survival just like everybody else.
The Christians and everybody else will find out the same. Haters only care about having somebody to hate...anything that's against that is "tyranny" to them.
Maybe if we wanna beat this thing, Americans are just gonna have to stop being assholes??
Nah, that's just crazy talk.
Again, you either believe in freedom or you don't.
And the Wheel turns whether we like it or not.
Happy New Year.
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
The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields
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
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