Who Will Be Eaten First? (MAGA Zombie Land, One.)

 Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you're just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state. ~George Carlin

...

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

I saw these last night.

America is falling apart, right down to the entire basis of our legal system and literal core-text and First Amendment Constitutional Rights, India and Pakistan are at war (and here we sit with our head up our own ass) and Trade-war talks are collapsing (again) and all MAGA idiots basically want to do is see who can be the most ignorant religious dumb-fuck.

It's like the Walking Dead out there, but with idiots instead of Zombies.

And too many motherfuckers are basically cheering and making bets on who will be eaten first.

More to the fucking point, these idiots are blatantly fucking around with shit they know would eat them, too. 

They just either think it's funny or they outright don't care.

Let me give you an example: Republicans are trying to ban porn. It won't pass, for obvious reasons. 

But that's not the point.

Shit shouldn't even have been proposed.

That the proposal was made should have been career-ending by means either official or otherwise for whoever did it.

Somebody should be asking "What the fuck is wrong with you??"

And I mean that not only from a legal or moral standpoint, but from a practical and experiential one.

Speaking from experience here, since I used to be a Republican, pretty much every Republican that I've known for over 30 years is a porn consumer (including myself here, and much more when I was a damn Republican.)

 Generally speaking, the more outspoken of an Evangelical or Republican somebody is, the bigger the chance that they're either an absolute porn-freak (especially if Male) or (if Female) they have a collection of sex toys that'd make Dr. Ruth blush (and note: I did see Dr. Ruth Westheimer speak. She was hilarious) and generally the more uh, freaky they tend to be. 

That's the damn point.

Yeah, there's a few weird sexually-repressed prudes out there, and more than a few people where they're outwardly that way or really squicky about something but they're freaks behind closed doors when it comes to everything else.

There actually aren't very many Fundie-baby-voiced meek little housewives in the world, and usually you gotta actually be somebody like Mike Johnson to get one.

Here's the thing; With the election of an American Pope, I somehow see both MAGA and right-wing religion in this country going all-in on exclusivism to the point of stupidity.

But, What these fucking idiots claim to aspire to is literally not how any of this actually works for 99% of them. I was a conservative Christian when I was married. My ex-wife was a manipulative bitch.

The hypocrisy is going to end up destroying these fucking people.

All of these fucking people know this.

So why do it??

I mean, I get it, fundamentally they want to censor speech they don't like and kick out all the people they don't like, and they think somebody like Trump should get to decide who goes to Heaven and shit.

They think privilege will protect their habits and their persons, and no way in hell is it going to work that way. I mean, among other things this is literally the stated reason why we have a First Amendment.

I'm 51 years old and things have been the way they are pretty much my whole life. I guess the former Republican in me is asking "Why change anything??"

Seems like these fucking people don't realize that the next time they lose, or if there's a revolution, or whenever Donald Trump goes to meet that great Cheeseburger in the sky or whatever, there's going to be an accounting and all these banhammers they think are so funny to try and use on other people could very, very easily be used on them...and, if they exist, they will be...because all this bullshit is pissing people off.

And that's...before we get to the possibility of unexpected events like the possibility of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan or unintended consequences of malarkey at home.

Like, ya know, economic collapse because of supply chain disruptions and a trade war?

Let alone the very real possibility that people in a country with half a billion guns might decide they've had enough.

But it's really simpler than that. I mean it's a simple race against the clock, if you think about it.

NO ONE stays in power forever.

Least of all when they keep doing stupid shit and thinking too highly of themselves.

Especially while also doing the exact kind of shit that sparked our own Revolutionary War.

I mean this seriously, like damn near every Republican out there thinks they name is George III and they all crazy.

I mean, I get it, they're stupid...mostly because a lot of them have never had to be smart.

But seriously, these assholes have already flown too close to the sun, and the hubris and narcissism is still off the damn charts.

It's MAGA Zombie-land but there ain't one damn brain among them. These are D&D Zombies where you have to keep hacking away until the hit points are gone.

[Mon Mothma addresses the Senate chambers again]

Mon Mothma: Fellow Senators, friends, colleagues, allies, adversaries, I stand before you this morning with a heavy heart. I've spent my life in this chamber. I came here as a child, and as I look around me now, I realize I have almost no memories that predate my arrival, and few bonds of affection that cleave so tightly. Through these many years, I believe I have served my constituents honorably and upheld our code of conduct. This chamber is a cauldron of opinions, and we've certainly all had our patience and tempers tested in pursuit of our ideals. Disagree as we might, I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come.

I stand this morning with a difficult message. I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil! When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest. This Chamber's hold on the truth was finally lost on the Ghorman Plaza! What took place yesterday, what happened yesterday on Ghorman, was unprovoked genocide! Yes, genocide! And that truth has been exiled from this Chamber! And the monster screaming the loudest, the monster we helped create, the monster who will come for us all soon enough, is Emperor Palpatine!

~From the Star Wars series Andor, S2.E9 "Welcome To The Rebellion."

Like, this is going to end badly, including for a lot of MAGA types if we don't stop it.

Repression always gets to you, eventually.

All one has to do is read a cursory history of humanity to know this.

Again, I don't know why this is so hard for people. I know Republicans like the idea of things being shitty, because they think other people will be hurt more...but I know where I live and I know that a lot of the most MAGA areas that I drive through, like when I go out to my Mom's house, are the poorest and most backwards places around here.

I know a lot of these fucking people think they wanna bring on American Revelation 'cause they think the plagues and shit will kill all the other people...but ya know, I've read the actual Book of Revelation many times and it doesn't work like that.

It's not a Just World out there, people.

Political loyalty to Donald Trump (or anything else) does not buy you protection from his stupidity.

And if these fucking people will arrest the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (major city, population 300,000+ and part of the NYC-extended-metro area) for a few hours and hold him until public pressure gets too bad...what do you think they might do to somebody in a place like the county my Mom lives in, three small towns, population less than 10,000 where there's a lot of woods to disappear people into.

You think striking fear into people is a good thing, do you?? What happens when you are the target of that??

Things like Habeas Corpus exist for a reason and were thought up in a world that had a lot more wild spaces like way more than even where my Mom lives, where somebody might never find you.

The cops are as aware of that as anybody else, just sayin.'

So are all sorts of other people who are actual literal self-described bad actors, criminals and militia groups for example. There's a reason when I lived in the Black River area of Cheboygan County that I kept my shotgun loaded.

Law is often a fragile thing, or not right there when you need it, and that's at the best of times.

Civilization is, by design, not something one has to think about a lot until one is somewhere that doesn't have it for an extended period of time.

But when you've had to dig the hole you have to poop in out in the desert once or twice, you do think about it.

So why are "Conservatives" of all people actively trying to undermine both??

In Latin, the words Habeas Corpus literally mean "Show Me The Body!" 

When our founders had that enshrined into our legal codes, it was in a world of Despotisms and Monarchies and Sultanates and could very often and very easily literally did mean exactly that. 

Its purpose, legally, is to prevent people from being Disappeared and unlawfully imprisoned or killed.

Like, at a minimum, the State would then be required to produce the body if a person was dead.

That was a pretty huge thing, back in the day. Shit like that happened a lot, including here. This was literally one of the grievances listed in the Declaration Of Independence.

I'm serious.

One of the main reasons I believe we're heading into a Second American Revolution is that way the fuck too many people forgot the purpose or missed the whole damn point of the first one...or they got too comfortable or too stupid.

Donald Trump isn't the cause of this, he's a symptom. You want an honest take? I think the Republican Party started to slide into goddamned fascism the minute they let the fucking Southern racists into the Party, which was, of course, because they were seeking political advantage. Fast forward a few decades, and there was hardly anybody else left!

Reagan letting the religious nuts in later didn't help one damned bit. You think the Republican Party is hella fucked up?? You should take a good hard look at American Christian churches, especially the Evangelical, Fundamentalist, and Pentecostal churches...all too many of which are tiny theocratic one-man-rule dictatorships.

It got worse when scumbags like Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay started treating to other political party as some kind of goddamned battlefield enemy.

And don't get me started on the conspiracy theories and the racism when Obama ran for President.

The toleration of the conspiracy theories and racism is how we got Trump.

If it seems like these motherfuckers want to smash America...I think that's why, that right there. 

A Black guy got to be President, so now the White racists want to wipe the board and start over, and they don't give a shit who they have to hurt or kill to do it.

And it looks like they're starting to lose, not to mention the rest of the world is telling them to go fuck themselves.

So of course they're going to want to fight about it.

Like I said, either you believe in freedom or you don't.

You're either willing to fight for it, or you're not.

Soon.

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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

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Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other.

That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. 

In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men. 

~Malcolm X, letter written following the Hajj.