America, WTF?? (Left Behind Is A Lie VI, Four.)

The drafters of the Constitution had made one simple but far-reaching error. They'd assumed that the people selected by The People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they'd been. One could almost hear the "Oops!" emanating from all those old graves. The people who'd drafted the Constitution had sat in a room dominated by George Washington himself, and whatever honor they'd lacked he'd probably provided from his own abundant supply, just by sitting there and looking at them. The current Congress had no such mentor/living god to take George's place, and more was the pity, Ryan thought. ~Tom Clancy, from the novel The Bear And The Dragon.

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Hilary Faye: In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you, leave the body of this servant of God ...

Mary: You're performing an exorcism on me?!?!? Get off me! [she shoves Veronica aside and gets out of the van]

Tia: Where are you going? Get back here!

Hilary Faye: Mary, we've gotta get rid of the evil in you.

Tia: [holding up a picture of Jesus] It's God's will!

Mary: God's will?

Tia: Christ died for your sins!

Hilary Faye: OK, wait a second. [pushes Tia aside] So are you not gonna accept our intervention here?

Mary: You mean kidnapping? No!

Hilary Faye: You are backsliding into the flames of hell.

Veronica: You've become a magnet for sin! We've all witnessed it.

Mary: Sure, Veronica acting all pure--what about last spring break at the Promise Makers' rally, huh?

Hilary Faye: Oh my God ... you are making accusations as we're trying to save your soul? Mary, turn away from Satan. Jesus, he loves you.

Mary: You don't know the first thing about love.

Hilary Faye: I am filled with Christ's love! [throws her Bible at Mary] You are just jealous of my success in the Lord.

Mary: [Mary hands Bible back to Hilary Faye] This is not a weapon, you idiot.

~From the film Saved!

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"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 saw this shit last night and this morning.

FOX News, naturally, going full high-school CHUD against James Talarico, because apparently they have to do about anything to get their Pedophile-excusing corrupt freak-show of a Texas AG into the US Senate, apparently well aware that even that might not work, so there literally is no bottom.

I said what I said, if anybody's got Soy Milk coming out of their veins it's Jesse Watters and Stephen Miller, at least James Talarico looks and talks like a real damn person, although he's probably too much of a Minister for my tastes.

These guys don't need an apologetic as a response, or a stern pastoral talking-to, they need an offering plate broke on they ass like shitty little kids who got caught being shitty little kids in church.

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.

Don't worry, Susan Collins will stand there glaring Bumboclaatically in the opposite direction, ignoring this shit like she's ignored every second of her Party's descent into Barbarism, outright Baal-worshiping perversion and Trump-cultism...but god forbid some random Democrat "Use Profanity."

Let alone call out some freak like Stephen Miller with a well-placed "Shut up, you ugly fuck!"

No matter how much his ass deserves exactly that and more.

Yes, the next "Moral Panic" these idiots try and push will be about the fact that Democrats are talking like normal goddamn people.

Bitch, in this equation we are the normal goddamned people! The excessively-HR-speak types and the Consultant Class have either been sidelined...or right along with Chuck and Hakeem they're hanging out with Republicans and not listening to the rest of us anyway!

Like what the fuck causes this shit? Drugs??

Are the cocaine parties just that damn good??

Cassian Andor: What? To steal from the Empire, what do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands, and an Imperial toolkit. They’re so proud of themselves, they don’t even care. They’re so fat and satisfied, they can’t imagine it…

Luthen Rael: Can’t imagine what?

Andor: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear. 

~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E2 "That Would Be Me."

And then when these fucking people have to face the consequences of their own actions the whole rest of the world has to hear about it for 100 years until their goddamned narrative wins out just because everybody else either gave up out of exhaustion or simply had, ya know, a life to live.

If Republicans didn't have politics, they wouldn't have anything at all. Or want to.

I'm sorry but that is a sad goddamn existence, to make politics (let alone Trump) your freaking god? Especially since in most of these cases "Politics" is just an increasingly ill-fitting cover for Racism.

Like, these goddamn people's whole thing is they're basically fine with either living in bunkers eating survival taco meat while clutching their Bibles and guns and peering suspiciously at the world through the firing ports and a rifle sight...

Or with being the goddamned slaves their own selves.

Just so they can keep anybody else from getting any light.

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. ~Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)

Just so they can preserve the "ideal" of Slavery. And then, These Fucking People will plot for generations against anybody they think betrayed or questioned it...let alone the people who actually took it away.

Like, what the fuck is wrong with you??

Fuck these people.

When the hell is enough of this shit, in fact, going to be enough??

I'm tired of this garbage, and I say that as a former Republican. My red line was the conspiracy theories and racism against Obama.

Now consider that plenty of Bush 43 Republicans, Tea Party people and even Trump first-term folks are Democrats now, or basically might as well be, without ever having changed much.

Makes one wonder what the next "thing" is and where the line is, doesn't it??

Well, my guess is that considering their half-ass pogroms against Black folks and Latinos haven't done very much (and aren't really intended to do anything besides create fear, which they think will lead to favor for White men) their next target is Women.

To do that, they have to go after us guys who give a shit about the ladies in our lives first. Stuff like that is what all these weird comments against James Talarico are really about, and trust me, they cannot stand any ideal of Christianity that doesn't treat women (especially non-Right-Wing women) like pieces of meat.

And oh yes, Republicans, up to and including people like Susan Collins, will employ all their fake moralism to try to make that seem OK too.

And yeah, that'll go about the same way, badly. It already is. The whole anti-Transgender thing was seeing if they could get their foot in the door to go after women in general and their rights full-bore and if people would just shrug and yawn and ignore that shit. A lot of people did, but mostly just the same people who always do that.

Like, it's a good thing I have a partner because a hell of a lot of women in general just aren't interested anymore (and she wouldn't be either except it's me and we have a history in which I'm historically a safe space.)

Women are increasingly opting out and just doing their own thing. Good.

And that is a direct result not only of bad behavior, creepy bullshit, patriarchy and politics...it's simple survival instinct and desire for basic human freedom.

Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator had come to replace water, virtually everywhere. Water, the basic component of all life, had been deemed a threat to Brawndo's profit margin. The solution came during the budget crisis of 2330, when the Brawndo Corporation simply bought the F.D.A. and the F.C.C., enabling them to say, do, and sell, anything they wanted. ~Narrator, Idiocracy

A lot of this bullshit from "Men" a lot of the whole Trump thing, and a hell of a lot of These Fucking People's belief in slavery basically boils down to they want to have somebody to have sex with and to do their work, who can't say "No."

The only "Power" these idiots really want is the endless power to enjoy themselves.

What do you think the AI and Robots are really for?? Why do you think these idiots are all but demanding the Mark Of The Beast?? 

Worse, They don't care how fake their Patriarchy is. Actually, most of these guys don't want to run anything either, let alone their family or household. They just want everybody to think they do.

And when that doesn't work out the way they think, they'll do it to each other.

This is less "It'll get worse" than "I've already seen it getting worse."

The thing is, "Republicanism Is A Hell Of A Drug" is working on fewer and fewer people by the day (especially because of Trump and the fact that Everything Trump Touches Dies) but of those who are still Republicans...the level of addiction basically is approaching dystopian Science Fiction drugs levels.

These idiots would rather get high, especially off an endless narcissistic hummer, than do the work of life.

And they're basically making it so the Crash-Out and the Detox end up killing America and probably taking down much of Christianity with it, too. It's less "Left Behind was a Lie" than "The Truth is even dumber and more perverse than you could possibly imagine."

Because these same fucking people have effectively spent 60 years making themselves politically indispensable, mostly as some bizarre kind of fetish.

They thought the Whore Of Babylon was somebody they were gonna get to sleep with.

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

Reagan Wept.

Actually, that doesn't even begin to cover it. Pretty much anybody who actually did believe in anything during this time Wept. 

Techno-"Idiocracy" doesn't even begin to cover it.

America, WTF??

Like I said, fuck these people.

And if you have a problem with me saying that, fuck you too.

Enough is Enough.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

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

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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

And he exercise all the power of the first beast before him, and cause the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13:11-18

Three

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.