Survivor: Republican Politics 2026 (Not Legends, Not Myths, Facts. Five.)

Daniel Plainview: I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there. He found me to take it out of the ground. You know what the funny thing is? Listen, listen, listen! I paid him $10,000 cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now — prosperous little business — three wells producing $5000 a week. Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense! You're just the afterbirth, Eli —

Eli Sunday: No...

Daniel Plainview: — that slithered out in your mother's filth. They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantelpiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at his mother's teat, eh? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli? One of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. There’s nothing you can do about it. It’s gone, had.

Eli Sunday: If you would just —

Daniel Plainview: You lose.

Eli Sunday: — take this lease, Daniel!

Daniel Plainview: [yelling] Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy! Drained dry. I’m so sorry. Here: if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw — There it is. That's a straw, see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room, and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! [slurping noise] I drink it up!

Eli Sunday: Don't bully me, Daniel!

Daniel Plainview: [throws Eli to the floor] Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation. I am whom the Lord has chosen. [throws bowling balls at Eli]

Eli Sunday: [dodging the bowling balls] Daniel!

Daniel Plainview: Because I'm smarter than you! I'm older!

Eli Sunday: I'm your old friend, Daniel! Help me! Help me, please!

Daniel Plainview: I'm not a false prophet, you sniveling boy! I am the Third Revelation! I am the Third Revelation! I told you I would eat you!

Eli Sunday: We're family!

Daniel Plainview: I told you I would eat you up!

~From the film There Will Be Blood.

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Joe: For the last time, I'm pretty sure what's killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.

Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.

Attorney General: "So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops.

Joe: Yes.

Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet?

Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn't have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that's the idea.

Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Attorney General: It's got electrolytes.

Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren't growing, so I'm pretty sure that the Brawndo's not working. Now, I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow.

Secretary of Energy: Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.

Secretary of State: Hey, that's good. You sure you ain't the smartest guy in the world?

Joe: Okay, look. You want to solve this problem. I want to get my pardon. So why don't we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave?

Attorney General: Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it's got electrolytes.

Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know?

Secretary of State: It's what they use to make Brawndo.

~From the film Idiocracy.

I'm so tired of this crap.

RFK Jr. talking shit about Autistic people again, saying they won't work, go on dates, make art or even get to the bathroom on their own.

Excuse me? (Does this lady look like she can't take care of herself?)

My partner is Autistic, she works two jobs, she does art, she's never been a sports person but we played Pickleball a few times last summer if that counts. The Kiddo is Autistic, honor student, played sports last year, wants a job something fierce...and more than that, ferocity defines her. 

So what if she geeks out and hyper-focuses on Anime or video games once in awhile?! 

I'm sick of this garbage and I'm sick of these idiotic liars who are constantly talking shit about, for all intents and purposes, my family.

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.)

Note I say this as a former Republican. My partner is in the same boat. I mean, goddamn, how can you have any humanity and be a goddamned Republican at this point? These Fucking People have let Trump become their identity and take over their minds to the point where they're Okay with Trump (or anybody else) torturing kids??

It's all dishonest, it's all a lie. To call it a cult at this point is to understate the matter, unless you're calling it a Murder Cult like the cult of Moloch in ancient Carthage or the Thugees in India. These Fucking People want so very badly not only to discriminate against other people for no good reason, they want to pretty much create whole classes of people that they can do whatever they want to whenever they want. Like Orcs in some of the older D&D editions.

How "Christian" of them.

And if you haven't noticed there's a already a constant stream of sick shit coming out about *Checks Notes* These Fucking People. And there's a lot of these White, supposedly "Christian" freakish idiots who would let them torture even their own kids. Obviously, I have a problem with that.

And I'd have a big problem with that even if I didn't have a partner with a kid, come on.

It's called being human.

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.

I mean, the simple fact is a lot of these "Republicans" have forgotten what that word even means, and basically turned it into a cult of their own "Identity" which is itself largely founded in racism and simple ass being oppositional to Other People for no reason. I can't even talk the way these people talk.

And they're apparently expanding this cult shit. I mean, I could have told you years ago that Cory Booker was not a good guy, I just got that kind of vibe about him when I saw him on Roland Martin's show on CNN back in the day, but nobody wanted to listen at the time. He's butt-buddies with Peter Pan Theil. Stop and think about that for a second.

Cuz like it or not, you're probably looking at the list for the next Epstein Cult right here.

America needs an Elijah to call this Baal-worshiping bullshit out.

Sorry but I'm increasingly of the opinion that if you go to cocaine parties or get wrapped up in weird shit with creepy billionaires you not only shouldn't be in government or public life, you should probably be investigated like a common criminal. I want the bullshit stopped, the cliques and secret societies and weird shit broken up, term limits for everything, I don't give a shit if you're some bullshit-ass policy staffer or the Senate's fucking doorman.

And we have Representatives and Senators that have been in office until they died. Don Young represented Alaska for the entire first 45 years of my life. This should not be the case here. And Don Young isn't the worst one. Chuck Grassley has been in Iowa politics since 1958 and Federal politics since 1974. I was less than a year old when Chuck Grassley ran for office at the Federal level the first time and he was already middle-aged!

Nobody that's 92 years old and still has the values of 1958 or before needs to still be employed in 2026, much less be a Senator, dude should have retired 30 years ago...and easily could have.

America was not designed to have a noble or political class, let alone one full of demon-worshiping perverted murderers who keep trying to enslave everybody else!

And yes, that's exactly what all these attacks on women's rights are. I have a problem with this. Most of the people important to me at this point are women, because I'm a man and *I* pick the fucking Bear.

That's what all the eugenics crap and racism and rich people's secret "debate" society bullshit is.

If you're not there to do the job like it says on the side of the can, if you don't live where you represent, if you're just there to get rich or be buddy-buddy with rich weirdos...get the fuck out! Go work in the private sector. If you're older than the concept of the jet aircraft you should have to retire (and why you refused to quit should also be a subject of investigation. Call it ageist, I don't give a fuck, holding up progress is not a valid reason to do anything.) 

And if you're one of these freaks that, for all intents and purposes believes in Slavery? We had a war about this. You should be gone and so should everything your racist self-serving ass ever voted on. We'll start over without you and your creepy horseshit. Fuck You. And fuck these fucking people's voter-base that somehow thinks they're not on the list.

Because I'm here to tell you, White People, Republicans want to colonize and enslave you first, because you're the ones they haven't got to yet.

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

And however bad you think it is, it's worse.

Because while these people play their fuck-fuck games, steal money and try to enact their prejudices into law, they've let America go to shit. 

These fucking idiots have turned the reflecting pool in Washington DC into a rather green National Swamp that looks very little damned different from the lake in front of my Mom's house. 

More to the point it only took a couple weeks to go to shit and turn green. And too much of America thinks that crap is funny, somehow.

These assholes have turned a place at the supposed center of our national life into a fucking swamp.

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.

Too much of this shit ain't working and America is heading for, I believe, a Fyre Festival-like collapse if we don't turn things around, and quickly.

More to the point I think that's exactly what Republicans want to happen, so they can have a little banana republic somewhere and throw out all the people they don't like...which will in fact include a shit-ton of other Republicans.

There's a reason too many of these assholes saw shit like Survivor when "Reality TV" first appeared on scene in like 1999 and said "Ook! Ook!"

As I've said on here before I thought it was ungodly and wrong at the time.

My ex-wife watched that shit with an expression of absolute joy on her face. It was creepy, I still can't explain it.

Not legends, not myths, facts. I was there.

And they're already voting people off their own island. It'll be worse now.

You think the "Purity" Leftists were bad? You have no damned idea how much worse the Purity Republicans are gonna be.

Nameless One: “Shadow of this life?”

Dhall, Dustman scribe: “Yes, a shadow. You see, Restless One, this life is not real. Your life, my life, they are shadows, flickerings of what life once was. This life is where we end up after we die, and here we remain. Trapped, caged, until we can achieve the True Death.”

Nameless One: “True Death?”

Dhall, Dustman scribe: “True death is non-existence. A state devoid of reason, of passion, of sensation.” [Dhall coughs] “A state of purity.”

Nameless One: Sounds like oblivion, why would anyone would want that? 

~from the D&D video game Planescape Torment

America was not intended to be a Cult.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And either you're gonna fight for it or you're not.

Pick a fucking side.

Слава Україна!

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."

Four

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.