No Saints (Kingdom Of Heaven, Four)

They're pickin' up the prisoners
And puttin 'em in a pen
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
Rebels been rebels
Since I don't know when
And all she wants to do is dance

Molotov cocktail, the local drink
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
They mix 'em up right
In the kitchen sink
And all she wants to do is dance

Crazy people walkin' round with blood in their eyes
And all she wants to do is dance, dance, dance
Wild-eyed pistol wavers who ain't afraid to die
And all she wants to do is
And all she wants to do is dance
And make romance
She can't feel the heat
Comin' off the street
She wants to party
She wants to get down
All she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance.

~Don Henley, All She Wants To Do Is Dance

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

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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

I keep seeing this bullshit.

There's a lot of "Christians" out there who seem to think, all the sudden, that Charlie Kirk is Christ.

He wasn't.

Last time I checked, worshiping a Man is wrong. It's idolatry.

This kind of bullshit is, from a Biblical perspective, exactly how people go to Hell.

No, I didn't like the guy. I didn't hate him either. I still think he shouldn't have got shot. I'd much rather he faded into obscurity like many of his ilk have in the past, if you kill 'em they don't learn anything.

But then if you don't, sometimes they don't either, look at Jim Bakker. Either way, Charlie Kirk wasn't Jesus and this is well past the point of idolatrous and inappropriate.

Of course I've written about Kat Kerr and her loony false prophecies many times. I'm just sayin' if Christians would enforce the Biblical prohibition against false prophesying just once, maybe a couple times to get the point across, I think a lot of these grifters would think better of it and go sell shoes or something. This crap needs to stop.

A lot of people I've talked to, though, seem to think that this craziness is some sort of a test run for reactions when Trump dies.

Either way, when all these idiots who are trying to pick fights with the "Left" get blindsided and attacked by the accelerationists and Internet Nihilists who actually did it (and apparently for not much more than meme fodder) I'm going to say "I told you so."

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

I've been telling people for five years now, there are apparently people out there who'd gladly burn down America and murder their neighbors just for the fun of it. Didn't we learn this during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April and May of 2020??

And no they aren't all right-wing but at least a plurality of them are, and they're being threatened by the Internet Nihilists and various vile Groypers and shit. Too many are choosing not to notice.

These Fucking People's idea of the Future is the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia but with a mall or some shit.

We ignore this at our peril, naturally Republicans are ignoring this shit in favor of (disingenuously, I believe) weeping all over Charlie Kirk's remains.

I don't get it.

I mean, among other things I can't help but note that in a memorialization that's clearly designed to be flattering, they gave dude a face that only a mother or an old Basset Hound could love.

I mean, fuck. Really?? And this was in Pensacola, Florida.

I couldn't do it. It's one thing when I say "Stop Blowing the Narcissist" regarding Trump.

It's completely another matter when it's a dead guy, just sayin.'

For one thing, I don't think Charlie Kirk was nearly as universally well-loved even among the Right, or even MAGA, as These Fucking People are trying to say.

Why??

Because this happened, in Pensacola, Florida.

I've been there, a couple of social media friends and at least one former co-worker of mine live in the area. It's a hotbed of Southern Baptist hickerbilly shit.

Now, my personal feeling is that art is art and whoever defaced that monstrosity should have waited whatever prescribed interval local culture has and then done what they do. 

I still think the whole bit is ridiculous.

I was a Republican back when they actually believed in Freedom of Speech and yes, that means all parties get to have a say, even when it's inconvenient or not everyone present agrees with your ideology.

It's called living in a civilization.

But instead These Fucking People want to go out and fight everybody.

Over what??

Some punk who staged canned, fake debates against 18-year old college freshmen because that's the only way he could win...and sometimes he still lost?!?!

I'm tired of this shit, I been tired of this shit.

If you're dumb enough to think that Charlie Kirk is your Savior or even had some special spiritual insight that you should follow?? You deserve every bit of what's going to happen to you in an afterlife of fire and brimstone. Yes, it really is that simple.

Some things are just wrong, some things should not be done in the better places.

I knew this when I was like, five.

What the fuck is these fucking people's excuse??

Charlie Kirk was killed by a far-right Internet Nihilist.

MAGA desperately trying to pick fights with the "Left" tells me that when the Groypers and internet nihilists hit the rest of us they're going to be caught far more blindsided than most and I for one am willing to let them have their fun now.

Because when the shit really does hit the fan most of these fucking people ain't gonna make it.

They'll think they're safe until they get robbed and worse by masked men with Cat Boi outfits and AK-47's and half of them stroke out trying to figure out what the fuck just even happened.

This shit is ridiculous.

I know with all this crazy shit going on, "No Kings" has become a popular cause, meme and statement to make.

I'd like to propose a new one, though.

No Saints.

Because the people trying to make Charlie Kirk a Saint or at least the chosen deity of their Clickbait Future or a casus belli for a new Civil War are clearly abusing the privilege.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

This ain't the way.

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Osman Ali Atto: I see not catching Aidid is becoming routine.

General William Garrison: We're not leaving Somalia until we find him. And we will find him.

Atto: (scoffing) You've been here, what, six weeks? Six weeks, you tried to catch the General. You put up reward posters. $25,000. What's this, gunfight at K.O. Corral?

Garrison: It's O.K. Corral.

Atto: Don't make the mistake of thinking because I grew up without running water I am simple, General. I do know something about history. See all this? It's simply shaping tomorrow. A tomorrow without a lot of Arkansas white-boys' ideas in it.

Garrison: Well, I wouldn't know about that. I'm from Texas.

Atto: Mr. Garrison, I think you should not have come here. This is civil war. This is our war, not yours.

Garrison: Three hundred thousand dead and counting. That's not a war, Mr. Atto. That's genocide. ~From The Film Black Hawk Down.

Three

When I was sixteen I won a great victory. I felt in that moment that I should live to be a hundred, now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end really, or what hand will guide us there. A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that how so ever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thusly" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that. ~The Leper King, from the film Kingdom Of Heaven.