Contractions (American Revelation, Explained, One.)

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

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And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. ~Matthew 24:2-14

I saw this yesterday.

Some Claremont Institute idiot wants Trump to subject federal workers to "Reeducation."

Sorry, bro, but this is America and we don't do that shit here.

Also, Republicans or Khmer Rouge? You be the judge.

I mean seriously what's the difference between this motherfucker and Pol Pot, except for a few jots and tittles of ideology? I mean, these fucking people made it quite clear during the COVID-19 pandemic that their dream world is basically the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, but with a mall or some shit.

I mean, why not?? These fucking people have already given up America's standing in the world and thrown in with KGB Agent Vladimir Putin, who had to seriously be a Communist's Communist just to get in the door so he could be considered for that kind of a job in the Soviet Union. And yes, Vlad wants to bring back the Soviet Union. He ain't your friend.

And half of America is fine with that, thinks they'll somehow get something for it, in fact. These fucking idiots seriously do not understand Russia is our (and their) enemy and wants to fuck all of us over.

I mean, I get that a lot of these idiots hate America and want it to fall...to replace it with what, I'm not so sure. If they want to be the Beast of Revelation, they're sure going about it in a very haphazard way...since they've given up much of the worldly power they'd actually need to be that, on a global scale.

But there's a reason I write about this in terms of American Revelation. Most of these narcissistic little jerkoffs don't seem to think the rest of the world really exists. They think, they do whatever fucked up bullshit here and somehow the rest of the world just magically falls in line.

They don't even seem to understand that other countries are, well, other countries perfectly well capable of making their own decisions. Somewhere in there, narcissism became a very American affliction.

And no, they really don't know what they're doing, except that they want to hurt other Americans for no good goddamn reason other than we refused to keep blowing some goddamned narcissist.

There is no magical algorithm in the sky that determines who gets what based on some kind of partisan political loyalty to Republicans. America is a secular country, and the conflation of Christianity with Republicanism has always been stupid and wrong and a cover for much worse things.

A lot of fucking people thought that somehow wrecking America meant wrecking it for other people and not them in the last couple of months they've found out differently. The American electorate basically decided they wanted to believe in Santa Claus and somehow thought Trump would have them on some kind of a "good" list and all those other people on a "bad" list...and they would get to have whatever they thought they had...and maybe get to take other people's stuff, too. Well, none of this works that way.

And we're all very likely to end up choking on the sins of the super-wealthy in the meantime, because a lot of Americans are basically morons who chose to believe that shit and had no trouble with the idea of trading  their freedom, lives, and livelihoods for bullshit and magic beans.

Like, if you'd have told me ten, or even five years ago that Elon Musk has basically an "IVF harem" of women he's impregnated by in-vitro fertilization with trait-selected spunk and then he just ignores both mother and child after that...I'd probably have punched you in the face. I'm sorry, but if somebody were to mail me or some woman that I care about, their sperm, I still have just enough of that Church background and 1980's-1990's conservative in me that it'd be hard for me not to show up at that dude's door with blessed weapons, exorcism materials and holy texts. Like, who does this shit?!?!?!

But also, Like, I'm a man. If you're not actually getting laid what's even the damned point??

The longer this shit goes on, the more demonic it seems, and I'm not a born-again anything anymore.

It's not just that this shit is all dystopian and weird but it's legit not even interesting. It's pretty much the Great Whore of Babylon, reduced to a fucking spreadsheet.

All these things are the beginning of sorrows.

The End Times narrative as I was taught it likens the beginning of the Apocalypse to the birth pains, the Contractions, of a woman in labor.

The difference is that there's two worlds struggling to be born here, one is a world of dystopian hyper-Capitalism run amok and led by idiots, and the other is a world of equality, freedom and justice where hey, guess what? Rich people still get to be rich people, but maybe have to do with just a little less and don't get to hog everything. These two worlds are incompatible.

And, likely, America will try to continue to have it both ways, which means the country splits up and then these fucking nimrods just try to invade the rest of the former USA too.

They simply aren't going to let anybody else have any peace if it's up to them.

Like I said when your starting belief is that you're alone in a lost and dying world, but you also have some kind of overwhelming itch to get money and political power so you can force other people to believe as you do because THE WORLD IS ENDING...and then you couple that with a bottomless well of forgiveness for those who believe the "correct" things?? Well, that sounds like an invitation to do lots of antisocial and nihilistic behaviors and hurt people and I don't care if you don't like me saying so.

And that's your "End Times Narrative" right there.

I'm just sayin' either you believe in freedom or you don't.

Either you're willing to fight for your own life or you're not.

There is no middle ground.

One of these Brave New Worlds is going to be born whether you make a choice or not.

So choose, but choose wisely.

Because some of us want to live in The Empire from Star Wars, and some of us don't.

One of these things is not like the other one.

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Behold, I have told you before.

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

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.

For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

~Matthew 24:25-34

Prequel

Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?

Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?

Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.

Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.

Hess: Burnin Konn?

Mayfield: Mmm.

Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.

Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.

Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.

Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.

Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.

Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?

Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?

Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?

Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.

[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"