State Of Confusion (Exorcism-SOTU Edition.)

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenberg's, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it. 

~Billy Joel, We Didn't Start The Fire.

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We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley

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From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root....If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly....Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated. ~Ronald Reagan

So, in last night's State Of The Union, Trump finally went full Fidel Castro.

"History Will Absolve Me." ~Fidel Castro.

Note: You Never go the full Fidel Castro.

And then the motherfucker had the nerve to call Zohran Mamdani a Communist.

First off, Communism hasn't been a thing since 1989.

I know, I was there. I watched the Berlin Wall fall live on CNN.

Second, I didn't watch the whole speech, hell I didn't even watch clips of it I just watched Rick Wilson's Lincoln Project analysis this morning and the whole fucking mess would be better titled "State Of Confusion."

Republicans forgot what the fuck they were supposed to be doing a long time ago.

Basically, they got addicted to blowing the narcissist. Now, having been married to a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder, I sort of get it. Crazy can be fun...for awhile.

But Republicans are officially at the "Already Left Once, then Went Back For More" stage and it's working out exactly like that shit does every time. 

The Republican Party is eventually gonna wake up flat-ass broke, with a sore ass, groggy in a dirty gas-station restroom with its wallet missing and a $256 overdraft on their checking accounts while Trump hits the bar with Kim Long Dong, Vladimir Putin and whatever ancient ass Soviet Politburo members he can dig up.

Although really, to look at the average Russian official or, in fact, about any Russian over 40...what's the damn difference? Every older Russian dude has a face like the mutant love-child of a Basset Hound and an old-ass leather shoe anyway and most older Russian women look like my ex-wife if she would've drunk a fifth of the cheapest available Vodka straight out of the bottle every day for the last 20 years with a side order of Kratom and too much fast food.

Slap a bad suit on a couple random Russians and Lord Dampnut wouldn't know the fucking difference as long as they pretend to kiss his ass.

(And these are literally the people who think if you aren't a Russian you should be their bitch...and they frame this in explicit racist terms even against other "White" people...Republicans who 20 or even 10 years ago *Checks Notes* called Ronald Reagan [Who famously referred to the Soviet Union as the Evil Empire] their Patron Saint if not God Himself--my late uncle, as I've said before was explicitly one of those guys, and he hated Trump-now can't wait to drop their pants and bend over for this goddamned bullshit.)

Now I realize that this whole mess is basically the product of bigotry and a sort of puerile Anti-Liberal perpetual "Opposite Day" line of bullshit like how my ex played on End Times Christianity.

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.

Technically, my ex actually did believe in that shit too, though. She just believed in scamming guys out of money in general and manipulating me in particular a lot more.

These Fucking People are lining themselves up to get destroyed about like I was when I let my ex move back in because she was having trouble keeping a job and couldn't make her rent. Do I even need to tell you how much of a fiasco that was??

Oh, and it was this time of year in 2001, also.

And just like I did, America, you're going to have to quit this bullshit and spend the next few years fighting to get your life back, rebuild something at least and if we're being honest, probably let these assholes who keep believing in this shit take some small part of the country for themselves as if Florida ain't already a goddamned Banana Republic under our own damn flag. And we're gonna have to let these idiots wander off and basically destroy themselves.

And learn to fucking say "No."

And mean it.

And potentially back up that word with literal force.

Because it will come to that.

All that comes before the fact that we basically need an Elijah to confront the Epstein mess and our modern day Prophets of Baal.

That's going to have to be dealt with too.

Again, and I've been saying this since my partner and I got back together in June and since I've been forcibly reintroduced to the concept of fatherhood and of constantly trying to be a decent, protective guy because I actually do like the women in my life, these fucking people's treatment of women absolutely repulses me and fills me with white-hot rage.

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."

I love my partner. I loved her when she was just a 20-year-old college dropout who'd become the loud brassy bitch in our work clique and gaming group and when she was my late best friend's ex-girlfriend who needed a place to stay. I loved her when we were long-distancing it when she lived in Tennessee and God Willing I'll still love her in another 20 years.

When my surviving now-former best friend turned all creepy sexual harasser almost the second he found out I was talking to her, I got a very bad vibe and to be honest it almost seems Demonic now. This dude wasn't like this 20 years ago.

And I know where he got this bullshit, listening to Manosphere chuds all day while he drives for work, pretty much. Yeah I was caught up in the same bro-culture bullshit he was but the difference is I grew up. Fuck him.

I said what I said in response and I still stand by that.

Guys, ya'll need Jesus, this Ain't the Way.

But, in the wake of all the Epstein revelations there's something Biblical-level evil about all this anti-woman bullshit.

Biblical-grade Evil demands Biblical-grade Justice. 

I don't make the rules.

I say we need a national exorcism for a goddamned reason.

The trouble is so many of these idiots are so fucked up on their own narcissism that they don't want to be human anymore.

They think they're entitled to be gods.

Against that??

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And this? This ain't it, yo.

You're not gonna defeat this shit with a vote or a strongly-worded memorandum.

You want this to stop?? You're going to have to fight for it.

Слава Україна!

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex.
JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it. ~Billy Joel, We Didn't Start The Fire.

Four

"I didn't want to do it,'' he hears himself saying. "I didn't want to leave them behind.''

The void laughs at him. There are miles of empty air beneath his dangling feet. "You had no choice.''

"Yes I did! I didn't have to come here.'' He pauses. "I didn't have to do anything,'' he says quietly, and inhales another lungful of death. "It was all automatic. Maybe it was inevitable.''

"-- Evitable,'' echoes the distant horizon. Something dark and angular skims across the stars, like an echo of extinct pterosaurs. Turbofans whirring within its belly, the F-117A hunts on: patrolling to keep at bay the ancient evil, unaware that the battle is already lost. "Your family could still be alive, you know.''

He looks up. "They could?'' Andrea? Jason? "Alive?''

The void laughs again, unfriendly: "There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.'' 

~From A Colder War, a novella by Charles Stross.

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way! ~Brother Cavil, "No Exit," Battlestar Galactica (Reboot) Season 4.5

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