Beyond Chunderdome (Not Legends, Not Myths, Facts. Four.)

Auntie Entity: And what did you do before all this?

Max: I was a cop, a driver.

Auntie Entity: Well, how the world turns. One day cock of the walk, next a feather-duster.

~From the film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

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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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We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. ~Ronald Reagan.

I saw this last night. 

Some ignorant racist motherfucker of a UFC fighter standing there first saying "Jesus is his Savior" and then in the next breath trying to say Michelle Obama is a "Man" or Transgender or some bullshit.

And Joe Rogan just stands there grinning like a goon. Fuck off, dude.

Yeah, couple things about that. These idiots were trying to say Obama was gay or paint him as some kind of sexual pervert for eight years and all I ever saw was the obviously-happy, normal-as-fuck wife and two happy, well-adjusted daughters that looked very much like their parents and I learned a long time ago to trust in what the Mark One Human Eyeball tells me over what comes out of the mouth of some idiot whose job is to get hit in the head for a living.

And compare and contrast that to the Trumps, father and son both obviously Coked Out Of Their Gourds, Wife very clearly trying not to look like a Wife or a Mom. 

I mean, Come the fuck on.

The fuck is wrong with you??

I mean, basically the first time I saw anything about that UFC dude, it was a video of him throwing up all over himself. So, perhaps we should have been calling this event Beyond Chunderdome?? I didn't even learn dude's name until last night!

And on top of that These Fucking People have turned the White House into nothing but the White Trash-A-Palooza complete with fights that the Capitol Police are having to break up and shit.

If these fucking people are so right, or so righteous, why are they all drunk or on drugs all the time and why are they ALL so fucking angry??

And if these people Believe? Why are they so desperate for something to believe in, for a "god" that they can see...that they'll tolerate this fucking garbage??

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.

Now, I don't know if you've noticed this, but the Anti-Black or Anti-Transgender rhetoric clearly isn't stopping in either place, not that it ever has before either.

That shit is getting used against any woman that doesn't fit some bullshit-ass patriarchal stereotype and since my Other Half clearly doesn't fit that and never has, I have a problem with that bullshit.

And, like my partner 20 years ago when ignorant motherfuckers we worked with used to call her a man, I'm just gonna go there and say that while Michelle Obama isn't a man, she's still more of a man than Joe Rogan or Josh Hokit is.

I mean, both are technically biologically Male. But neither has the conduct or mentality of a Man as I was taught that. I'll note that none of these fucking people works for a living or seems to care much for others or wants to protect anything but their own damn ass.

And about every word out of These Fucking People's mouths is a lie.

Again, this isn't how I was taught, and I started out as a Christian and a conservative.

Apparently those words meant different things back then.

If this is "Christian Nationalism" well then both of those words are lies.

None of this shit does anything in the service of either. This isn't conservatism, it's just bad behavior.

And I think it says some pretty bad things about modern American "Conservatism" that the whole edifice falls apart without all this garbage.

Imma say it again.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

I'm sick of this bullshit.

Y'all need Jesus, America.

Again, not legends, not myths, facts. Not bullshit-ass secularized Trump Tent-Revivalism, sound doctrine and theology and care for the poor and needy and other people in general. Love Thy Neighbor.

And this? This ain't it.

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 [Cassian plays Nemik's audio diary]

Karis Nemik: There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try. ~From the Star Wars series Andor, S1.E12 "Rix Road."

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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