Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18
I saw this yesterday.
You've got to be fucking kidding me.
Now, I'll be the first to admit I can't even imagine the thought process of the people who make all these Beefcake pictures of Trump...much less make him look like that surrounded by beefy *Checks Notes* Male cheerleaders or, to paraphrase Red's narration from the Shawshank Redemption, maybe I just don't want to.
But somehow that shit always ends up looking like about the gayest shit imaginable, and if that's how they want to mark the start of Pride Month, Okay, whatever, weird but whatever. For all his faults real and imagined, I'm pretty sure Trump isn't going to be attracted to *Checks Notes Again* guys like Gary Peterson.
I don't know if I'd necessarily have any faith that Trump, who's famously ruined The Village People for damn near everybody *Clears Throat* Has better taste than that...but I don't necessarily see Trump going all Schillinger from Oz on the average balding porcine middle-aged Republican dude, let alone Lindsey Graham...unless such is purely an expression of Power.
That said it weirdly seems pretty clear that most of the Republicans fitting the prior description much less a lot of the bearded, paunchy redneck-garden-gnome-looking motherfuckers I see buying cigarettes on a daily basis would cheerfully bottom for Trump for not the least bit obvious-to-me of reasons.
If rape is about power...and most people will generally agree that such is abhorrent...why do so many of These Fucking People literally seem to want to be Trump's bitch??
But then I'm just a basic old straight white guy who actually, ya know, believes in some things. None of those things are the things Trump or current Republicans stand for.
And I've rather notoriously ended up entangled with at least a couple of narcissists in this life. Trust me, if you want that to end as anything other than a disaster you do not keep trying to blow their narcissism, you do not continue to play with let alone indulge such people once you know what they are.
To their not-very-much credit, even most Republicans seem to be done with Trump at this point, but like me in February of 2001 there's not a whole hell of a lot left to do but start picking up the pieces. All their political power will end up coming to nothing and America is turning against them.
Why? Mostly, because These Fucking People thought they could get what they wanted by continually and obsessively squirreling away political power without trying to convince anybody of anything. No, none of this works like that.
Honestly, it was the religious nuts that ruined it for me, had been ruining it for me for about five years even at that time but I thought decent people should hang in there and fight and not let these assholes have everything.
Trump is ruining it for a lot more people, because he took all the bad shit that Evangelicalism and Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism were doing that wrecked it for people like me and completely secularized the whole mess.
They didn't need religion anymore, they had him.
Trump showed up and said "Worship Me!" And a lot of these faithless motherfuckers were so desperate for a "god" they could see that they simply said "Yes Sir!"
And honestly by 2021 that was literally happening, the gold Trump statue at CPAC, for example.
In Oz, the guards lock the cages and walk away, and the predators rise, take control and make the rules. But in Em City, the guards are with us 24 hours a day. There's no privacy. Everybody sees what everybody's doing. Eyes everywhere. McManus' eyes. See, in Em City, retribution gives way to redemption. Timmy boy believes he can save every one of us, from each other, from ourselves, from the system that dumped us in here. Only thing he don't get is, you gotta wanna be saved. ~Augustus Hill, From the HBO series Oz, S1.E1 "The Routine."
Left Behind isn't just a Lie, it's a lie founded in Sadism and the idea that Heaven somehow isn't Heaven if everybody gets to go.
Which made the whole thing basically a convenient cover for Devils and Idols of Gold, and for narcissistic, Sinful Man. And now out of *Checks Notes Yet Again* Devotion to or literal lust for (Ew) Donald Trump...these fucking people are going to pretty much become everything they've spent most of my life saying they hated?? When is enough...enough??
And the actual freaking Truth is that if Hell is Hierarchical and Heaven isn't...these CHUDs would rather go to Hell.
They've just decided they want to take more people down with them.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco
They cannot even imagine that some people really believe in anything else, or that God doesn't work like that.
Like what's even the damn point?? These idiots would rather be somebody's bitch than see a couple of normal LGBT people go on about their lives unbothered by this bullshit! Regardless of what's happening over there, in such a case you're still doing things nobody should have to do. Like, seriously I'm a former Republican myself and I wonder "Who the fuck does this shit?!?!"
But then I'm also on record specifically saying that I don't care for or understand these fucking people's valorization of misery.
I wouldn't still be here if I went though life thinking like that. Tying yourself up in trying to make other people miserable just makes you miserable too, in my experience. Heaven and Hell are both infinite and eternal, and having a greater status in Hell...means you're still in Hell.
And if you get there by worshiping Trump's Golden Image, you're just plain stupid.
This bullshit is Antichrist, and about 30% of America has chosen it.
How the fuck does choosing to live like that make any sense??
"Christian Nation" or even "Christian Nationalism" my ass.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
And either you're willing to fight for it or you're not.
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When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so 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 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.
hen 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 shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:15-27
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 shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:15-27
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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