We Are Legion (Beginning Of Sorrows, Two.)

But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. ~Mark 5:6-13

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Here's a pop quiz: name the seven deadly sins. Come on, you saw that Brad Pitt movie. Lust, yeah, well, everybody gets that one, huh? Gluttony, sure. Greed, yeah. Envy, sloth, anger- or to be a little more technical, wrath. What else? What else? Let me put it this way: if you think you know the answer, and because of that, you think you're better than everybody else, then you're guilty of it! ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1 E3 "God's Chillin.'"

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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.

I was over at my Mom's house for a couple days, where the internet is powered by a large Blaze ferret waddling on a treadmill, and because of the ice storm a couple weeks ago, her home Wi-Fi still isn't working. She got AT&T Wi-Fi back last week, power came back on over the weekend, but who knows when all the damage will get fixed.

I'll note, though, that she showed me a video put out by the Sheriff about the fact that workers of our local electric and gas cooperative have gotten death threats from people who don't have power back yet, and I'll note for the record we spent most of the last two days *Cleaning up* ice storm damage, which will still be evident well into the summer. My Mom is exhausted from picking up sticks and spending most of the last couple weeks without power.

And also, I'm pretty sure I saw one of our local Latino construction workers get deported in the small hours of Monday morning. It started out as a traffic stop out in front of my work and it ended with a Border Patrol truck pulling up, and then another construction guy and a lady from the company came and bought cigarettes. She was on her phone, apparently frantic both about the worker's safety and about finding a replacement for him.

Musk's crazy "We Are Legion" comment surfaced some time in the last few days. I'm not even going to ask if he's aware of the Demonic biblical connotations of that shit, I rather suspect he knows.

Same with his Neuralink wannabe Mark Of The Beast computer chips in people's heads shit.

One doesn't get raised in a place like heavily Calvinist Apartheid South Africa and not be made aware of such things...whether one wants to be or not.

These fucking people know what they're doing. They picked what side they were on a long goddamned time ago.

 And note I say that as a former Christian.

I'm not a Born-again anything, it's what I read.

If the Right, and all these Trump Supporters and shit, are not specifically of the Devil and deliberately trying to be the bad guys in their own alleged End Times narrative, they are deliberately and with malice aforethought aping that which is.

And I believe they're doing it deliberately. They know they have a cult and they want to see how far they can push. They know they're going to Hell, but they figure they can arrange for lots of company when they get there.

And they are doing all of this shit deliberately.

This isn't just fascism, it's Antichrist.

More, it's Antichrist in ways specifically laid out in the Bible as such and labeled as such in places like Revelations, and now we can add "Demonic" to the list of labels.

Now, as a current Agnostic I'm not sure if there's a God or a Devil, at least as such are defined in the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, etc. 

But I do know there are both good and bad spirits in the world. I've seen that shit, yo. And I figure there's enough cultures and religions around the world that accept the idea of a heaven and a hell that there must be something to it.

I've said many times that leading up to election day in 2020 I felt that the air was thick with bad spirits. I've likewise said that on election day, that feeling instantly went away...the air cleared like, that morning. It was noticeable, even my ferrets seemed to feel it.

Since then, I've come to believe that the bad spirits simply went into all these fucking dumb ass people who are under Trump's spell, and yeah, I think that's exactly what it is.

Trouble for him is it only works on one kind of person, basically on authoritarian racist assholes.

But, These Motherfuckers seem to think if they arrange a big enough feast of souls for Dis Pater, that they will be granted some kind of immortality or some shit. Or at least injunctive relief from the Big Fire Below.

Yeah, fuck that, none of this works that way.

I was taught that people are going to be judged according to their deeds and I still believe this.

Like, if you don't, what's even the damned point?? 

I mean, the entire "Conservative" Movement is largely slouching towards becoming Independent Fundamentalist Infernalism and doesn't even seem to be aware that it's doing so. 

I mean, nearly any careless, evil or stupid act seems justifiable because of bigotry, stupidity and Trump and many of the right-wing Christians are balls deep in trying to make it worse.

Would they bear tabernacles of Chiun and Moloch if they could do so and get power and worldly goods while still maintaining their "Conservative" aesthetic and pietistic religiosity??

The evidence suggests that, yes they would, so long as there was somebody at the top to whom none of their "rules" applied, who had Power, and they could seek favor with such a person and get things. That's basically what these fuckers believe in.

In fact, I think it's the only thing they believe in, political Power and the manipulation thereof.

Like, if you don't see a problem with all this shit that's going on...religious or otherwise...I can't help you, and I'm not sure I want to try.

There comes a point where after a decade of this...after in my case being loudly against all this kind of crap for decades even when I was a Republican...FAFO is the only thing people will even hear.

But, at least now, people are hearing it.

(How the fuck else would AOC and Bernie get a crowd in Idaho??)

More to the point, when this crap all blows up...and it will, of this I am certain...all these deluded idiots and their demonic manipulators will treat this shit as some kind of a religious war, and revel in all the savagery that goes with that.

The cruelty is the fucking point.

In fact, I'd argue, it's all they want or understand. MAGA is about being mean to people. They no longer care who.

But they'll cry like bitches when somebody even says something back to them.

Like, you can't tell me the people getting after Chuck Grassley at an Iowa Town Hall aren't basically the same kind of Republicans as he is.

They wouldn't get in the door otherwise.

But, as I've said many times there's nobody Republicans hate more than their own constituents. These assholes literally think they're too good to have to ask people to vote for them. They think they should just be given Power.

If you don't think these fucking people will abuse and kill people for believing in Jesus...or for rejecting all Gods including theirs...just look at how they treat Republicans who had a line that was somewhere north of "The Current Thing."

These motherfuckers don't want citizens, they don't even want subjects. They want wild-eyed fanatics with no life outside of Republicanism who'll raise their swords screaming "Banzai" and charge on demand.

Doesn't matter what for, only that the Party decrees it.

And again, I'll remind you that freedom isn't free. Sometimes, you have to go out and fight for it.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

It's really that simple.

I feel like we're about five minutes from the start of a particularly bloody civil war.

But here's the thing, a warning to all these assholes.

You can do all the dirty deeds and talk all the shit you want, Republicans.

But the rest of us?

We're legion too, if you wanna go that way, and there's more of us than there are of you, lest ye forget.

Nobody has to play this shit.

The rest of the world gets a vote.

And we intend to use it.

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When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so reads, let him understand)

Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

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 shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:15-27

One

My black face fades,
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