And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? ~Revelation 6:12-17
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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
I saw this last night. Yesterday, there were massive protests in Budapest, Hungary, demanding the resignation of PM Victor Orban.There were also protests against Russia in Romania, and protests Stateside against DOGE, Elon, and Trump.
Some Chinese "Conservative" crowing about, I guess, DOGE attempting to defund the Voice of America, which, by the way, is an international network in which we are neither the only people doing the funding nor the only people doing the work.
My guess is, bro, that when there's that Silence in the Heavens, you probably ain't gonna like it as much as you think you will.
And what the fuck is it, with guys like this?? First off, Communism hasn't been a thing since 1989. In America, Communism hasn't really existed since 1939 when the Soviets dropped improving race-relations as a plank in their platform 'cause cozying up to the Nazis was more important.
And oh, hey, how'd that work out, anyway??
Like, what's even the damn point, if you're just constantly looking for a different color of boots to lick?
I find that extremely funny because the only person they seem to wanna go down on more fervently than they wanna suck off Donald Trump...is Vladimir Putin, KGB Agent. And yes, Putin is a Chekist, most of his Oligarchs were Chekists, and he explicitly has stated he wants to rebuild the East Bloc and the Soviet Union, preferably by force.
Like, Trump tried to make peace and as I understand it, the Russians basically told him to go fuck himself.
Need I remind you that the Russian Army has flown the Hammer and Sickle in the war zone in Ukraine? If Communism is still a thing it seems like these guys can't wait to suck up to it, too.
These sons of bitches spent 42 years (from when Hal Lindsey wrote The Late Great Planet Earth in 1973 until Donald Trump slithered down the Golden Escalator in 2015 fearmongering about "Liberalism" somehow being the Beast of Revelations.
But when somebody decided to volunteer to be an Antichrist, these fucking people fought about it for a few months and then basically decided they wanted that kind of totalitarian Power for themselves, and whatever God thought about it be damned. Somehow it's not the Beast Of Revelations when it's "theirs."
What These Fucking People basically want is to keep going until they create the Eye Of Terror from the Warhammer 40K franchise.
They want to wreck shit so badly that it fundamentally destroys the fabric of reality and leaves people with basically three options: Die, Fight, or Worship At Their Feet. These motherfuckers are conspiracy nuts, narcissists and religious fanatics...and very often literally all three rolled into one.
I've gotten myself involved with people like that, more than once. The only thing you can do is get away, kick them to the curb, or make sure they get locked the fuck up.
And then you see something about them 20 years later and it turns out they're still doing the same shit to somebody else and haven't learned a damn thing in all that time.
Or maybe they just didn't want to.
Like, these fucking Antivaxxer nuts especially will run the truck smack into the wall of Reality, back up and hit it again, and keep going until the truck is a pile of slag and shrapnel that can't move anymore and has to be dragged onto a goddamned flatbed...and then they'll just go get another truck. Conspiracy theories and quack medicine are either a hell of a drug...or more often, as it seems to be out there now...a really, really damned obvious fig-leaf cover story for Eugenics.
And the thing is, there's plenty of empty-headed notionally Right-wing "Populists" that'll keep cheering this crap on literally whatever the fuck actually happens because they're morons who think it's all some kind of Football match.
And they'll gladly sacrifice everybody from American kids to Ukrainian soldiers, cheering the whole damn time until the only freaking sound is them cheering, and the rest of the world is naught but the silence of a graveyard. And by the time they see what they've done and realize they're gonna go next because there's nobody to grow food anymore, it'll be too late.
We really need to stop platforming ideological loudmouths, obsessive sports fans, and village idiots, people. Hate is bad enough when it's not a political ideology or a team sport.
The Bible is as good for making up excuses to kill people as Mao's Little Red Book. Any belief, ideology or religion, stripped of compassion, empathy and humanity, can very easily become nothing more than another excuse for mass murder.
Americanism ain't no damn different.
These fucking people's entire ideology is basically the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, but with a mall.
They cannot be reasoned with, only fought against.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
And you're either willing to fight for it or you're not.
The time for half-measures is done.
Слава Україна!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. ~Deuteronomy 32:35
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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