America WTF (Reason For The Season 2025, Thirteen)

Charlie White-knife: Do you know what "fiduciary responsibility" means?

Cooper Howard: "Fiduciary responsibility?" No. I have no fucking idea. I play a cowboy for a living.

Charlie White-knife: Okay. So, the US Government has outsourced the survival of the human race to Vault-Tec. Vault-Tec is a private corporation that has a fiduciary responsibility to make money for its investors. And how does it make money? By selling Vaults.

Cooper Howard: That's called "capitalism," Charlie.

Charlie White-knife: But they can't sell Vaults if these peace negotiations go through. So, Vault-Tec has a fiduciary responsibility to make sure that it don't work out.

Cooper Howard: [scoffs] Yeah? How are they gonna do that?

Charlie White-knife: I don't know. But...do you remember that movie we did with Johnny Morton? You were the Sheriff, and I was some generic Indian?

Cooper Howard: Hey come on, don't say that. Tall-hand Mudlake could talk to horses. You played him with grace and dignity. It was a great role for you!

Charlie White-knife: Morton played a rancher who owned half of Missouri. And what happens when the cattle ranchers have more power than the Sheriff?

Cooper Howard: The whole town burns down.

Charlie White-knife: The whole town burns down. Right. Vault-Tec is a trillion-dollar company that owns half of everything, and after ten years of war the US Government is broker than a joke. The cattle ranchers are in charge, Coop. Unless the People do something about it.

Cooper Howard: I guess everything's a conspiracy, right? Come on man, you sound like you're in a cult.

Charlie White-knife: And you're sitting here defending a system that's ready to set the world on fire, Cooper. Maybe you're the one in the cult. ~Fallout (TV Series) Episode 1.06 "The Trap."

I just saw this not too long ago.

Apparently the John Birch Society is commenting on video game bullshit now. Just in case you wondered, as I don't anymore, what has become of Twitter.

These are the people who'd think the Enclave in Fallout was the good guys.

Stop and think about that.

I'm starting to think the internet was a mistake, people weren't this dumb in 1994.

Or at least if they were (and you occasionally did find such people) they usually didn't admit it in any kind of public setting.

Now it's getting so corporations like Fox News and Twitter have a financial responsibility to produce more of this garbage!

Like, does this seem wrong to anybody else??

Or is it just me.

I'm tired of this shit, I'm tired of the shit like the John Birch Society having any goddamned voice at all in this fucking country and I say that as a former Republican. If people in 1965 knew those fuckers were nuts, what the fuck is our excuse here in 2025.

Other than we want to have an excuse because everybody and their goddamned Cousin It is trying to pull some bullshit or other?

People are acting stupid because they have the capability to act stupid.

And America is letting them get away with it.

As opposed to doing what needs to be done in terms of the purpose of doing things.

A lot of people have no inner voice and no internal morality, and left to their own devices, like little kids, they will do whatever they are permitted to do.

Actual leadership is not letting idiots like that do whatever they want.

I'm just warning you now, when God's Wrath hits this country it's gonna be bad enough that everybody's gonna know what it is.

And when that happens it'll be all these conspiracy theory mooks and skeevy far-rightists that are in denial like the unrepentant in the Book of Revelation when the judgments come.

Elon Musk will use "X" to try and declare that it's a natural phenomenon and there is no God.

There isn't a damn thing on the conventional Right/Left spectrum or in Christian belief as I or anybody over about 30 was taught that stuff, that These Fucking People believe in, it's all crazy-land shit now.

Watch and see.

In fact, they mock all that stuff, and rub our noses right in it.

It's Christmas, for fuck's sake, and people still be acting like this.

As for the rest of us, either you believe in freedom or you don't.

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

It really is that simple.

Again, I used to be a conservative and I can't even talk the way these people talk.

I highly suggest, again, that you stop and think about that one for a second.

What the fuck is wrong with people??

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I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? "No," says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor." "No," says the man in the Vatican, "it belongs to God." "No," says the man in Moscow, "it belongs to everyone." I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well. ~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

Twelve

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:1-14