Pronouns (Not Legends, Not Myths, Facts. One.)

You walked into the party like you were walking onto a Yacht

Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot

You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and...

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
When you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave

But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and...

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?

~Carly Simon, You're So Vain

I saw this last night, Nancy Mace (She/Her, Was/Were. Fuck/You) came in 5th place in the primary for South Carolina governor.

Get lost, bitch.

If I never have to see that stank ass bitch hamming it up in front of a camera again it'll be too soon.

Had this stuck in my head last night:

Hey, hey
Bye, bye, bye (bye, bye)
Bye, bye
(Oh, oh)
I, I'm doing this tonight
You're probably gonna start a fight
I know this can't be right
Hey, baby, come on
I loved you endlessly
When you weren't there for me
So now it's time to leave and make it alone
I know that I can't take no more
It ain't no lie
I want to see you out that door
Baby, bye, bye, bye (bye, bye)
Don't wanna be a fool for you
Just another player in your game for two
You may hate me, but it ain't no lie
Baby, bye, bye, bye (bye, bye)
Don't really want to make it tough
I just wanna tell you that I've had enough
It might sound crazy, but it ain't no lie
Baby, bye, bye, bye
You just hit me with the truth
Now, girl, you're more than welcome to
So, give me one good reason
Baby, come on
I've lived for you and me
And now I really come to see
That life would be much better
Once you're gone
I know that I can't take no more
It ain't no lie
I want to see you out that door
Baby, bye, bye, bye (bye, bye)
Don't wanna be a fool for you
Just another player in your game for two
You may hate me, but it ain't no lie
Baby, bye, bye, bye (bye, bye)
Don't really want to make it tough
I just wanna tell you that I've had enough
It might sound crazy, but it ain't no lie
Baby, bye, bye, bye. ~NSYNC, Bye Bye Bye.

I woke up early and something hit me while I was making something to eat this morning. You know what "Pronouns"(keeping in mind that the word is pretty much always said with a sneer by a certain kind of "Conservative" these days?

I/Me.

There's a reason everything else is a slur, or all but that, or said with a sneer out of sheer homophobia and transphobia.

Other people don't really exist to these motherfuckers, not even people they interact with and see every damn day. That's the only reason they can talk the kind of shit that they do about people like James Talarico. Sorry, but I've seen the guy and absolutely nothing about the dude says "Weird Shit" in any way at all. I saw the picture of him and his girlfriend, hell I used it as a header for a previous post. If a Golden Retriever could take a human form it'd be him.

But These Fucking People are Solipsistic Narcissists.

Insofar as they think about something like the Bible at all, they think it's about them or want to make it be so. Other people do not really exist, except (maybe) as their toys.

By definition, in terms of the conservative Christianity I was taught (not that they ever bother to follow even that) the Self is always going to be on the Throne with these fucking people.

And war broke out in heaven Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. ~Revelation 12:7-9

There is no God, unless its Them (Oops, I used a pronoun, my bad, but "Them" in this case being the singular use of the word, not "Them" as a group."

And they don't really care who else's dreams or lives they fuck with in the process of their seeking never-ending self-glorification and self-satisfaction, either...but they're terrified of being seen that way (really, of being seen in any way traditionally seen in a negative social light) so then they try to redefine every damn thing so it looks like them.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

But we live in a world today defined not by legends or myths, but by facts.

You can only bend reality so far before it snaps back hard and smacks you in the nuts. These fucking people want to turn everything into mythology because deep down they know how they'd feel if some unaccountable person was fucking with their career or dreams.

From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

~From Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Book.)

But they can't face that, won't name it, and sure as fuck won't empathize when it happens to somebody else.

Especially if they're the unaccountable petty bureaucrat stamping the form. 

There was a time when most conservatives hated State Power for exactly those kinds of reasons.

And by the way, These Fucking People have spread the "Meme" of being a bad guy in politics as being beneficial  for one's goals such that Democrats have adopted the idea too. 

I knew Platner was gonna win the Democratic primary in Maine for exactly that reason.

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.

But then they convinced themselves that, somehow, they would be the only ones ever wielding the power, and too many Democrats, high off watching too many episodes of The West Wing and shit, let them get away with it for too long so it all went downhill from there. Taking the high road didn't work.

And now these fucking people are too high on the smell of their own shit to see it's already gone sideways. 

People didn't take the bait of ICE and all that. So, It's a lot less likely to end up with this bullshit flaming out in a violent civil war at this point, I think, than it is for it to end in a Fyre Festival or Woodstock 99 type of collapse or for that matter, a Berlin Wall 1989 type scenario where all the CHUDs end up standing around confused with rifles slung while regular people take down their walls with sledgehammers and shit just because everybody got sick of it all and they bungled the fuck out of the response. Not just that, but most narcissists aren't great with responsibility, especially when their name ending up attached to something that went badly might have real consequences for them personally.

And these idiots are mostly being undone by public mockery and their own incompetence.

But at the same time they're hoping they can collapse things enough that (for example) they can just break off somewhere like, say, Florida as their own most Bananas of Banana Republics and nobody will care. They might even be right about that.

Truth is, most of these fucking people simply don't care if not caring will get them a 30-year career at the public trough for doing nothing but faking concern, insider trading and spewing disingenuous horseshit. 

It doesn't matter where they're the politician or the religious bullshitter spewing whatever crap, only that they get to be that person and have whatever wealth without work such a position gets them.

That's why they want to make everything into mythology. You can argue reality, actual religion or theology to a great extent, science, what's actually happening...all of those things involve shared reference points. You can only really lie about XYZ until it punches somebody in the nose. I mean, sure, some people will always be some kind of committed ideologue, partisan fanatic or shitty little hater...but most of us can't do that forever, it gets old, it becomes "not fun" anymore, the spell breaks, it wears out.

You cannot argue Athena springing forth fully armed and grown from the cleaved head of Zeus.

It's not even that kind of a story.

And that's what they're trying to turn "Conservative" ideology into now. Yes, they'll dispense with Christianity entirely on the way out the door and most of the Evangelicals will absolutely follow them. It's not the Mark Of The Beast when WE do it.

(Yes, Yes, It Is.)

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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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

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Cassian Andor: Kino. Tell them what to do. It has to be you. Come on, Kino. You do this every day. Tell them what to do.

Kino Loy: [presses PA system] My name is Kino Loy. I'm the day shift manager on Level Five. I'm speaking to you from the command center on Level Eight. We are, at this moment, in control of the facility.

Andor: Is that the best you got?

Loy: How long we hang on, how far we get, how many of us make it out, all of that is now up to us. We have deactivated every floor in the facility. All floors are cold. Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don't have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it'll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this and [looks at Cassian, knowing he said it] "I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want." We know they fried a hundred men on Level Two. We know that they are making up our sentences as we go along. We know that no one outside here knows what's happening. And now we know, that when they say we are being released, we are being transferred to some other prison to go and die, and that ends today! There is one way out. Right now, the building is ours. You need to run, climb, kill! You need to help each other. You see someone who's confused, someone who is lost, you get them moving and you keep them moving until we put this place behind us. There are 5,000 of us. If we can fight half as hard as we've been working, we will be home in no time. One way out!

[Repeats it multiple times as he leaves the command center]

Andor: Come on! Let's get out of here!

~From the series "Andor" S1 E10 "One Way Out."