The Divine Right Of Morons (Scenes From A Cold Civil War, Nine.)

Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the House of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors...

You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude. I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God. 

~Malcolm X, Letter following the Hajj.

Every once in awhile I see shit like this.

Some idiot Chud who wants to make America a "Whites Only" nation.

See, here's the thing with that. Our Founding Fathers didn't want to make the USA "Whites Only" because most of them were land-owning farmers who profited off of enslaved labor.

Granted, the way "Race" worked at the time, nobody would have even thought of this stupid shit. In 1775, the idea of an ethnic or racial monoculture was absurd simply because in most places, ethnic and/or racial hierarchy was the norm. Slavery of different kinds was largely still accepted, as was poverty on a scale most modern people wouldn't understand. 

I mean, fuck, most White people didn't have anything and weren't actually free either.

A "Whites Only" nation would have meant guys like George Washington would have had less money and less political power.

More to the point, the Founders...especially guys like Thomas Jefferson...didn't actually give a damn about "Racial Purity."

Go ahead, look up Sally Hemmings, I fuckin' dare you.

While I'm at it, most of the Founding Fathers are generally on record as despising Kings, the idea of Kingship in general, and the Divine Right Of Kings and puffed-up morons similar to Donald Trump in particular. Such were pretty damn common around the world when this country was founded.

More to the point, I'll never get what "Conservatives" think they're getting out of constantly blowing the goddamned narcissist.

I mean, among other things it's pretty obvious that Trump doesn't appreciate it or enjoy it, and no matter what you do he's going to expect more of it.

And not reward you for it.

They think they're gonna get the Divine Right Of Morons, but the truth is only Trump gets that.

I'm not sure which came first, the rabid desire among "Conservatives" for Idiocracy or their turgid devotion to ideas of Monarchy that most of the rest of the world abandoned a long time ago, and most of the rest of the United States Of America never held in the first damn place.

And it's long been my experience that conspiracy theories, mental illness and pants-shitting fear of basically everything go hand-in-hand with idiotic religiosity...especially the Prosperity Gospel and various flavors of "Kill 'em all and let God sort it out."

I'm a United States Air Force veteran. I know what a goddamn contrail is and I not only know one when I see it, I can usually ballpark what kind of aircraft it's from if I can stand there and give it a look for a bit.

But the thing is, anybody who's taken a middle-school science class should have absolutely no excuse for "Believing" in "Chemtrails."

Contrails are water vapor, not chemicals.

The thing is, your basic goddamned Roman Plebian was smarter than this, or at least less afraid of shit.

Cowardice was not considered a virtue in Ancient times, nor was idiocy.

And it's worth note that, their own protestations aside, it's not Rome that these fucking people want to emulate, it's Dark Ages Europe...or at least some idiotic idea of it. These fucking people don't realize Whiteness as a concept didn't exist at that time.

But the truth is These Fucking People's desire for some combination of medieval peasantry and incestuous nobility and the pre-Magna Carta power thereof has outstripped all common sense.

Somehow they all think they're gonna be the King is his castle, the Lord in his manor, or the Warlord with his Barbarians...and not the serfs laboring in the fields, not the slaves working in the mine, and sure as hell not the catamite strapped to the tailgate of the warlord's Toyota Hilux technical truck, stored right next to the ammunition for the DHSK Machine Gun until the warlord comes calling.

And this dream of Power is...honestly...pretty much the only thing most of these motherfuckers believe in.

It's ridiculous. The truth is only one guy gets that, and it ain't gonna be you.

And most of these fucking people are simple-assed stupid narcissists just like their Lord and Savior, Trump.

They will not work well with others, they don't give a shit about other people.

And when something goes wrong or when they lose, for every last one of these shitheads it's gonna be everybody else's fault but their own.

You want to win? You have to care about other people.

You either believe in freedom or you don't, and you're either willing to fight for it or you ain't.

Freedom isn't free, people.

And we have to be willing to pay the cost.

Because they won't.

But they don't really want to pay the costs of anything else, either.

And at the end of the day that's why these assholes are gonna lose.

Reject the American Dark Age.

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 [Cassian plays Nemik's audio diary]

Karis Nemik: There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try. ~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E12 "Rix Road."

Eight

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

Enough Is Enough (Scenes From A Cold Civil War, Eight.)

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.

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[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."

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

I saw this yesterday.

Some white racist idiot got kicked out of a Trader Joes for harassing Latino immigrants.

Pretty much everybody in earshot erupted in applause.

People are getting tired of this shit, getting tired of these shitty little haters, and Republicans just keep going and going with it, like nothing is happening.

Their sins are reaching unto Heaven and they're having so much fun and so full of themselves that they can't even be bothered to look up and see the signs in the sky, and even if they could they don't want to repent. Racism is a hell of a drug.

I've read the Bible and studied history, much less read enough other books to know exactly how this level of hubris tends to work out.

Much of America bakes under a heat wave as Climate Change becomes too great of a difficulty for most of us regular people to ignore.

It's hot out and "People are tired of yo bullshit" historically is a very bad combination.

Where I live, here in a small city in Northern Michigan, there ain't a Trump sign left in sight.

The Epstein Files coverup has apparently done its work, but not in the direction that these motherfuckers had hoped. I had a discussion on Facebook yesterday with a former co-worker that was a Trump Supporter and apparently he isn't anymore and said everybody involved with the whole Epstein mess should be locked up...or worse.

My gut feeling is this kind of shit involves a lot more of our political class than people suspect, and if even some of that shit comes out, there's going to be a Revolution.

It feels like things are gonna blow up, soon.

People have made the big divide in this country out to be Left vs. Right, Democrats vs. Republicans but the truth is, as the conduct of so many Democrats since January has shown, it's really about to be between Billionaires, Politicians and their Hangers-on vs. The Rest Of Us.

And yes, I believe the central issue that drives a stake through the heart of this country and causes the American Crackup (very likely a Soviet-style US collapse, but with plenty of small wars) will most likely be elite corruption and debauchery with a big side order of child sexual abuse. It's turning out to be a far bigger thing than the Republican monomania for creating a damn political and social monoculture.

It's already caused the MAGA crackup.

Trump himself is in a state of obvious decline.

Most of the people shouting for us common folk to "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" aren't True Believers in anything. 

They just don't want the grift to stop.

But if I had to guess?

Honestly, I think it's still going to come down to a fight to get rid of these assholes and reign in the motherfucking 1% so the rest of us can go about our lives without having to deal with this goddamn bullshit forever.

And if we don't stop this crap, it will never stop.

Because the truth is these fucking people are, one and all, narcissists who won't stop until every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to...not Jesus Christ being Lord...but them personally.

Think about that for a second.

When is enough going to be enough?

If we don't do something about it now, the moment will come when these assholes try to implement some version of the Mark Of The Beast in the name of worldly power and control.

And I don't know about you but I sure have no intention of putting up with that, nor of singing the literal praises of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos let alone any of the goddamned narcissists that I know in my own personal life. 

Fuck That.

And remember, hate and racism are exactly the weapons they've used to crowbar apart a society that even 20 years ago would not have tolerated this level of bullshit.

You either believe in freedom...for all people...or you don't.

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

There can be no half-measures.

It really is that simple.

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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

Seven

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

Reaching Unto Heaven (Scenes From A Cold Civil War, Seven.)

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10

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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Generation Of Swine.

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

I saw this the other night.

Apparently, Oklahoma state secretary of education Ryan Walters was caught watching porn in his office, at work, and ratted out by his own board members.

Isn't this guy supposed to be a big-time Christian Nationalist or some such horseshit??

I guess every sperm is sacred except for the ones big-time churchy porn-nuts blow off into a goddamned Kleenex while on the job, huh??

Meanwhile, in places like Tennessee, supposedly-Christian alleged-doctors are busy denying care to unmarried women? (Granted as I understand it the woman in that case is getting health care just fine in Virginia.) Like, wait a damned minute, don't doctors have to take an oath about this stuff and provide care for all??

And while I'm at it, all the talk about the Epstein List had provoked a conversation about Grooming in churches yesterday morning and I can tell you from personal experience that while I never went to a church that tolerated that kind of crap, on the whole it's a lot worse than most people know about because American "Conservative" Christianity is loaded with that kind of creepy shit.

I mean, I get it, the Word of the average Christian Nationalist, "Conservative," Evangelical or Fundamentalist is worth precisely dick these days, and I seem to remember that God has a problem with that, but what the fuck do I know?

I only actually believed this shit for most of my life.

I only was highly active in several churches, and considered ministry myself once or twice; ultimately I rejected the idea because guess what? I'm a sinful Man and I feared responsibility for the souls of others.

All these fucking narcissists don't have that problem. They don't care. They are their own gods.

Good luck with that in the afterlife, I guess?

So yeah, I'm all too familiar with the American Church in all its failings.

And fought against its dysfunctions pretty much as I became aware of them, until I became aware that there wasn't much else left and then I got the fuck out.

And what these motherfuckers have been doing for the last ten years and especially the last going on nine months now is not what I was taught nor anything I would have ever believed to be acceptable.

I'm warning you, folks, America's Sins are reaching unto Heaven.

God is going to get as tired of this shit as the rest of us are, if He isn't already remembering our iniquities.

The day of His Wrath is coming.

This ain't going to end well.

Least of all for These Fucking People.

Sucks for the rest of us that don't condone this crap and wouldn't have ever even thought about doing this kind of shit, though, huh??

This is why things like politics and voting matter, people.

You get what you tolerate, America.

Like, look here:

Some idiot Republican apparently got shit-canned for having an affair with a stripper, paying for abortions, and...apparently...jerking off into the cookie dough.

Like, Wut??

These people are fucking sick and wrong, and there's nothing better...in point of fact nothing else...that can even be said about this garbage.

And there's something deeply rotten about a political party that lets people like this be in it.

When the fuck is enough going to be enough with this bullshit??

Because RFK Jr. and all these AI Chuds want to pull some kind of "It's Not The Mark Of The Beast When WE Do It" sort of crap next.

Yes it is. Yes, yes it is, and don't you forget it.

Motherfuckers try that "Wearable technology" shit on me, and somebody's gonna be walking around with it getting a lot of readings from a very specific place. 

No, it's my body, motherfuckers.

Just the same as my partner's body is hers.

And her daughter has claim to the same bodily sovereignty.

Because if we don't, where does the shit stop??

What's to stop the State from just saying we don't exist and tossing us in a meat grinder??

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

If you don't believe in another person's humanity or right to exist, what's to stop somebody else from not believing in yours??

It really is that simple.

And at the end of the day there's more of the rest of us than there is of these motherfuckers.

People are getting tired of this shit, and I think it's all gonna blow up soon.

More to the point, for whatever stupid reason I think that's exactly what all these asshole Republicans want because they think they'll get some kind of Randroid Galt's Gulch fantasy world bullshit out of it, or some gilded survivalist bunker fantasy wherein they get to utterly dominate their various hangers-on while the world burns and they get to watch it on TV while doing a bunch of drugs or whatever the fuck.

And then upload themselves into some kind of computer and spend their "Eternal" life counting all their cryptocurrency or something.

Eternal...but only until the computer mechanically breaks or the power goes out and backup batteries run dry.

No, I don't get why anybody would want to live like that.

And so far as I know, only gods get to create eternal things.

Man does not.

Remember that, because it's absolutely going to be on the test.

Soon.

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John Constantine: You're handing Earth over to the son of the Devil? Help me, here;

Gabriel: [Gabriel sits on top of John Constantine, explaining her rebellion] You're handed this precious gift, right? Each one of you granted redemption from the Creator – murderers, rapists, molesters – all of you just have to repent, and God takes you into His bosom. In all the worlds and all the universe, no other creature can make such a boast, save man. It's not fair.

[Gabriel leans closer to Constantine's face]

Gabriel: If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I will make you worthy of His love. But it's only in the face of horror that you truly find your nobler selves – and you can be so noble. So … I will bring you pain. I will bring you horror.

[Gabriel lifts up Constantine from his collar]

Gabriel: So that you may rise above it. So that those of you who will survive this reign of hell on earth will be worthy of God's love.

John Constantine: Gabriel... you're insane.

Gabriel: [smiles] The road to salvation begins tonight. Right now.

~From the film Constantine.

Six

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

Breaking Point (Scenes From A Cold Civil War, Six.)

Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight? ~George Carlin

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And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10

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"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

I saw this the other day.

South Park did an episode dunking on Trump.

Good.

I'm sick and tired of all these fucking people kissing that motherfucker's ass.

Stop blowing the narcissist, America. He doesn't even appreciate it.

I suppose it's the failing Epstein Files coverup as much as anything else, but a majority of people are getting sick and tired of Donald Trump and...perhaps more importantly...tired of the same old Republican bullshit.

And you know, right or wrong, South Park calling this shit out will probably reach way more people than any politician or public figure talking about any of this stuff will.

I mean, shit, since the 1990's South Park has pretty much been the guiding star for a fucking shit-ton of vaguely contrarian edge-lord White young white dudes.

In the early aughts I had, like, four college roommates in a row that watched that bullshit every time it was on and watched DVD's of it when it wasn't.

That's gonna leave a mark, and it's about time, too.

Like, I'm just sayin' it seems to me that both Trump and the Republican Party as a whole plus a bunch of billionaire assholes have all decided they only want to punish America for not blowing them even harder or not giving them even more money and none of These Fucking People appear to care what happens after that.

They don't seem to give a shit if there's a bloody civil war, or guillotines or that they, too, might lose their ass from all this chaos and crazy shit that they've caused.

It's honestly all about these fucking Chud narcissists trying to see how much fun they can have right now and they don't seem to even notice that the enemy gets a vote and that the other shoe just might drop.

Like, apparently, freaking Cracker Barrel isn't "White Enough" for these goddamned idiots. 

Just stop and think about that for a second.

I mean, seriously? I've never eaten at a Cracker Barrel in my life and even I know it's the kind of place where you basically have to be an over-60 White person to even wanna fuckin' be there. It's pretty much a more-common roadside version of the goddamned Elks Club. 

Like what's even the goddamned point of this crap, at this point??

Oh, right.

Cruelty and racism.

Honestly, though, people are getting tired of that shit, too.

And it really, for all the press it gets, seems like a pretty half-ass effort. Like these fucking Trump people know that neither the manpower nor the political will exists to do what they really want to do so they're (as These Fucking People usually do) doing performative bullshit to try to convince their bigoted idiot voters that "Something Is Being Done."

No, you know what? I used to be a conservative. Some things simply do not need to be done.

But if you ask me, racism is about the only thing about America that Republicans even want to defend.

Well, that and their own political power.

Which is why they're trying so hard to distract from the Epstein List.

Which is why they're trying to blame all the Russia stuff on literally everybody but themselves.

Like I honestly think if Russia attacked us, these fucking people would half-ass defending America.

Republicans, led by Trump, are headed for a fall...and I mean soon.

All this Trump bullshit is coming to the Breaking Point.

But they've dragged America to the edge with them and their entire strategy appears to be "Take the rest of us down with them when they go."

And the Great Republican Hope is that there's some kind of small, shitty Banana Republic left over for them to rule once they get to the end of the rainbow, Call it Serbia but with fake gold leaf and spray tan.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

Yes, it really is that simple.

When is enough, enough??

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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"

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The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. ~Ronald Reagan

Wise And Foolish Virgins (Scenes From A Cold Civil War, Epstein List Edition.)

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. ~Matthew 25:1-13

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The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said that "the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits — not animals." And he said, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. ~Ronald Reagan

I saw this the other day.

Just Matt Gaetz, former Florida District 1 (Republican) Congressman trying to say that sexual deviancy like a preference for teenage girls is "Normal."

No, it's fucking not.

I haven't been attracted to teenagers since I freaking was one myself.

And I was never allowed to treat women and girls as just objects.

Cuz ya know, certain things are just wrong.

And I'm tired of people making excuses for this crap and every other damn thing, effectively trying to say well Trump did it why shouldn't they???

Sorry, but a lot of These Fucking People never grew up.

And because they're rich white Republicans, too much of America tolerates this fucking bullshit.

Yeah, okay, this is about the Epstein List, but at the same time it really isn't...or at least not just about that.

It's about "You get what you tolerate." That's a lesson I learned in the military.

Sorry, but either Truth exists or it doesn't.

Truth is the only thing that gives anybody a floor to stand on to push back against Power.

You either have internal morality of some kind of you don't.

This isn't really about legal codes, politics, religious beliefs or anything like that. It's not about "Conservative" vs. "Liberal" it's about Right vs. Wrong. It's about what's real and what's not.

It's about can you, as a person, make the kind of adult decisions that are necessary to live in a democracy and a civilization? I mean fundamentally it's about do you meet the threshold for being an individual, a person, in your own goddamned mind, or are you just a bundle of urges that happens to live here or maybe get elected to office or some bullshit??

It's about can you look yourself in the face in your bathroom mirror when you're brushing your teeth in the morning?

If not, why not, and why would you wanna live like that??

And it's simply about do you give enough of a damn about other people to function as a human being, or do you simply see others as things to exploit, to sate your own desires??

These are questions that people in general...and conservatives in particular, believe it or not, used to ask.

Like what's even the damned point, if there's no higher thought process??

We're either spirits, not animals, as Ronald Reagan once said...or the reverse is true and we are naught but brute beasts and I guess if you wanna live like that, good luck, I guess??

Part of what's going on here, in my opinion, is that America has become a victim of its own success and fried its own brains on boredom, cynicism and debasement. That's poison to public life.

Lots of people don't want to have an adult mentality, because among other things they've never had to before. For dudes like Matt Gaetz it's much simpler to think only about the next time they get to blow their load or get high.

And no, they don't give a fuck about you.

Trump doesn't either.

Do Not forget this.

Because trust me, These Fucking People won't ever forget that. In fact, reacting to life with nothing but an upraised middle finger is all they give a damn about.

What this is about, fundamentally, is did you as a freaking person have the oil to light your lamp??

Or were you counting on somebody else to do it for you??

Whatever else He was, Jesus knew about human nature, about our fallen state of Sin and about how to overcome it.

I mean, for fuck's sake I'm 51 years old and all the sudden I have to think about having a family now.

And the reason that happened is that 20 years ago, my current partner was my coworker and she needed a place to stay. I simply treated her properly and didn't take advantage, because that's what you do when you're a grown-ass man.

We know now that we loved each other even then, but when she was 21 and I was 31 it would have been weird so neither one of us acted on it...because we were both taught that old-school mentality.

I wasn't going to take advantage of somebody just 'cause they had less than I did and needed a place to live.

We did date later, after she moved out...but she was going through a Christian phase at the time and I sure wasn't, but I respected that...because it's what you do.

And now 20 years later, we're making life plans because we reconnected by chance.

Because she knows she can trust me. Hell, because her kid trusts me.

Might not have that now if I'd acted on my baser urges 19 years ago, or if she had.

Just sayin.'

You know, honestly, and this is a lesson that I've had reinforced many times throughout life, I think the goddamned problem is we're in this mess because too many people simply want what they want and they want it now and they don't want to take the time to do things the right way or treat people right

But if you do things the way they're supposed to be done, whatever you're trying to do usually works, the effects stay long after you leave, etc.

Like way back in about 2011 or so, I was driving into work with my buddy and as we were pulling into the parking lot at the casin he said to me that he'd noticed I didn't take the Lord's name in vain as much as I had before.

He didn't tell me not to do this, he simply did not do it himself, he showed the way by example and I followed without even realizing it.

All these years later, in day to day life, I still don't use those kind of words as much as I once did.

I've thought about that many times.

When Trump is gone, Trumpism will go with him.

Trump isn't trying to model any actual behavior or persuade anybody. Trump and his followers are simply trying to punish everybody else for not being them.

It's not morality, it's narcissism.

And when it all comes crashing down, no one will care. Hell, only fools care now.

The day will come when everyone will always have been against all of this crap. Personally, I think that day is coming soon. This crisis simply isn't the sort of thing that gets solved by an election.

And when matters come to a head, these fucking people will crumble.

And then, where will you stand??

Thinking it will never happen to you, that you will never fall, isn't a plan.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

And the test is coming, soon.

Decide.

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Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

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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"