Revival (Don't Tread On Me, Four.)

And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)

Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before.

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:1-27

I was at work last night.

And I saw this.

Empty tent-revival tent, complete with a Baptismal Pool, supposed to be part of Trump's "Great American State Fair" which looks like pretty much a Fyre Festival-grade, Woodstock 99-level  flop. 

Yeah, you heard me.

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

I pretty much had one question bubbling up in my brain all night after I saw this mess;

Note: I ask this as a white former Conservative Baptist with a full-on Church background who's been to more than my share of Tent Meetings and Revivals and even a few Promise Keepers events back in the day.

What in the Christian middle-school graduate, Diet Coke drinking, Dry Humping, Fox News is liberal media, Gol Darn It, Gun rack in the truck cab, hated spicy food as a kid, John Birch Society-adjacent, Knowing who Psalty the Songbook is, Left Behind Series reading, margin notes in a Scofield reference Bible, Nat-Geo is too racy, once each at least has been to Branson, Eureka Springs, Gatlinburg and Knott's Berry Farm, Rapture-anxiety, seen a girl cousin naked, shotgun wedding, thought a barn dance was edgy, vaguely suspicious of Catholics, Veggie Tales-watching, went into the Air Force on a half cocked idea that it was the most "Christian" and Republican of the armed services, country fried Snickers FUCK is THIS. FUCKING. BULLSHIT.??

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. ~2 Timothy 4:3

Because Imma gonna be honest here; I don't expect much from These Fucking People anymore.

But I hadn't expected to see, functionally, a Tent Revival apparently dedicated to *Checks Notes* Donald Trump.

Although, again, if we're being honest, it fully tracks with *Everything* that nobody showed up.

Some "Revival" huh?

Bet, these CHUDs will try to make a conspiracy theory out of that, too.

And so tomorrow, as we take the campaign South and West, as we learn that the struggles of the textile workers in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas; that the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of L.A.; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people, we are one nation. And, together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story, with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea: Yes, we can. ~Barack Obama

Because these idiots have to try to turn everything into mythology on the theory that while one can argue facts, reality, science, theology etc. there's nothing logically or empirically provable about Athena springing forth fully armed and armored from the cleaved-open head of Zeus.

And these assholes figure if they can destroy Truth and turn everything into legends and myths they can manipulate their way into staying in power forever...as if Death itself is somehow not a thing.

But people are tired of this bullshit.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

Even Trump's "Great American State Fair" was apparently a grift that nobody bought into. $23 for a Turkey leg being the only food item I heard about? Come on.

And apparently the guy running the shit is a sexual predator.

At least, since Democratic leadership doesn't want to do much more about this garbage than sit there with their collective thumb up their collective ass, there seems to be a Democratic or Leftist equivalent to the Tea Party rising up.

Don't Tread On Me, motherfuckers.

Meanwhile Republicans be like, yeah, walk all over me with them clown shoes, Daddy, while sporting more wood than Redwood National Park.

Think about that for a second, will ya??

If Republicans would've pulled this kind of shit 40 years ago their own voters would have rioted in the streets, much less everybody else! Now? The average MAGA CHUD can't get enough of licking the dogshit off Trump's shoe.

When is enough, going to be enough with this garbage??

I'm tired of this bullshit, the next question is, why aren't you??

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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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

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“The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man’s soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.”
― Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October