Hell Is Too Good For These People II (Babylon Or Sodom? Eight.)

County road 233 under my feet
Nothin' on this white rock but little ol' me
I've got two miles 'til he makes bail
And if I'm right, we're headed straight for hell
I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door, and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man?
I'm going to show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and lead
Well, it's half past ten, another six-pack in
And I can feel the rumble like the cold black wind
He pulls in the drive, the gravel flies
He don't know what's waiting here this time

Hey, I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door, and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man?
I'm going to show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and lead
His fist is big, but my gun's bigger
He'll find out when I pull the trigger.

~Miranda Lambert, Gunpowder And Lead.

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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.

Some FBI agent said the Epstein files could open a "Pandora's Box of National Security threats and geopolitical ramifications" unlike anything anybody has ever seen.

So the fuck what??

#1 At this point, there needs to be "Ramifications" especially if we don't want this shit to keep happening.

#2 I have an increasing feeling we have no idea just how far down the rot goes, almost especially in churches and "Red State" America. Pretty sure we can assume that Pedo-Con Theory is a thing at this point.

#3 And no matter how bad it is, look at Nick Fuentes and the bullshit he's saying and assume some people want worse.

Some of these fucking people don't care if they ain't got a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of nor a society to live in as long as they have Power over somebody else who cannot consent and who has no recourse.

And if they can't have it they still wanna spend all day jerking off to the idea.

Stop and think about that shit for a second.

THAT is what Trump represents to These Fucking People.

THAT is why they will bow down to Golden Idols of him.

I love my partner and my kid.

They deserve a decent life and freedom, too.

And all three of us can shoot, just sayin.'

I believe the operative turn of phrase is "Over my dead body, Puta."

You can take a lot of things away from a man. Cigarettes, the gym. You can take his freedom, his legs, but not his feelings. Not his feelings. A man loves a woman. Don't matter what kind of man he is, if he loves her, he wants her. He wants her body. He wants her to want his. So you say to him, "you can never make love again. You will never touch her in that way again. This is the last time. The last time. Forever." If that's not cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E2 "Visits, Conjugal and otherwise."

Also, Trump is yammering about trying to plug up Volcanoes with cement, like that's not an idea some little kid would think up.

All this shit going on and the people doing it? They ain't got no leadership.

Worse, they think said living, embodied lack of leadership is God.

In fact, Jesus Christ only wishes all these "Conservatives" and Evangelicals had 10% of the Faith in Him that they have in *Checks Notes* Donald Trump.

Don't ask me, I only work here, and I will never understand it.

Or maybe I just don't want to.

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.

I'm starting to like everybody else's odds against These Fucking People.

When it all blows up, we can just go ahead and call it The Pink Revolution.

And I'm pretty sure at this point, it's gonna blow up.

Nobody will be more surprised by that than the media and all these overconfident shitheads in our government.

And these assholes are gonna lose.

Don't worry, that will be everybody else's fault, too.

Maybe it's just me but if the goddamned system is that compromised and corrupted it's probably a safe bet we need a new one...and I absolutely don't mean "Fascism involving all the SAME fucking people."

I mean we need to go down the list, check all the moving parts and re-haul things to get every fucking shithead that shouldn't be there out of Government, media, professions of arms and public life or Power, period, with some level of investigation in the process.

If that means somebody you "Like" gets fired, forced early retirement, or goes to jail, so motherfucking be it. Anybody who's done much of anything ever has had this happen at least once.

Among other things, I've never known anybody who wants to play gatekeeper on who they think should be an American, a Citizen or whatever, that I'd trust with much of anything. People who think America or hell, Life, should be a goddamned HOA tend to spend so much time thinking about who "should" be in the club that they're not good for much of anything else.

And like JD Vance at the Winter Olympics, they're usually all about getting in the way, taking up space and wasting resources to try and prove that they're the most special snowflake ever to even start with.

Because they're fucking narcissists, that's why.

Other people don't really exist to them, except as an inconvenience.

And this kind of view of the world has pretty much become a right-wing "Conservative" default setting.

I say this as a former conservative Republican myself, but of course there isn't one damn thing about any of this that's conservative. Most of these fools just want to kill and steal, they don't care about anything else. Conservatism means "Things As They Are" and is all about Revealed Truth and the wisdom of the ancestors. That's stuff that these fucking people despise.

There is a reason so many of these nuts like or have ties to Russia, just sayin.' Look at the conduct of that nation.

Or for that matter, why these assholes hate Ukraine (or Minnesota, apparently) so much.

And if you can look at that shit and how these fucking people wanna be like Russia and not be horrified?? All I have to say to you is "Fuck you."

It's going to come down to a fight, against people that Hell itself and the Devil and all his Demons are too good for and against "Men" who ain't lonely enough and could never be lonely enough to make them understand where they went wrong.

Such is the male ego, unconstrained. This is why I love the women in my life, my Mom, my partner and the kiddo, who constrain mine.

Because I'm not like Nick Fuentes and wouldn't want to be.

Some people think "Babylon or Sodom?" is the only question work asking, much less answering.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

Слава Україна!

Valin 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"

Seven

The Holy Quran says it, "Pilgrimage to the House [of God built by the prophet Abraham] is a duty men owe to God; those who are able, make the journey." (3:97) Allah said: "And proclaim the pilgrimage among men; they will come to you on foot and upon each lean camel, they will come from every deep ravine" (22:27). 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 intermittently 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.