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Quit your worship charades.
I can’t stand your trivial religious games:
Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings—
meetings, meetings, meetings—I can’t stand one more!
Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them!
You’ve worn me out!
I’m sick of your religion, religion, religion,
while you go right on sinning.
When you put on your next prayer-performance,
I’ll be looking the other way.
No matter how long or loud or often you pray,
And do you know why? Because you’ve been tearing
people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.
Go home and wash up.
Clean up your act.
Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings
so I don’t have to look at them any longer.
Say no to wrong.
Learn to do good.
Work for justice.
Help the down-and-out.
Stand up for the homeless.
Go to bat for the defenseless. ~Isaiah 1:13-17
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We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.
I saw this last night.
Again, not legends, facts. We know what they wanted or did not want because they said so. This isn't mythology, you can read the history!
But they only want a "Christian" Nation if "Jesus" looks suspiciously like *Checks Notes* Richard fucking Millhouse Nixon. Call him the Jesus Of Yorba Linda. Fuck that noise. Nixon epitomizes the meme of the Republican miserable bastard that is what they all really worship. I'm a bit surprised Trump hasn't usurped that particular image, but here we are.
Republican Jesus stands revealed, I guess?? Funny, it's still the same guy.
The Resurrection is at hand!
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. ~Matthew 28:1-7
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. ~Matthew 28:1-7
It gets worse, apparently.
Trump doesn't like that the Conservative Christians oppose abortion. I could have told you that was gonna happen because Eugenicists are by definition NOT Pro-Life, not that they are in any modern sense of the term or in any way reliably Pro-Choice either.
I used to be a Republican, none of this shit is what I was taught.
Is there anything about Trump that suggests he's pro-Life (as in pro-anyone's life??) in any way?
Also Richard Nixon was not ganked by the Deep State somehow, he resigned because of Watergate and because public opinion turned against him to the point where even his own party decided they wanted him gone, and he was staring down the possibility of Impeachment. A whole bunch of his goons went to prison. This is how the Trump thing is probably going to end up, except These Fucking People won't quit, they'll be thrown out.
My money's on no equivalent to January 6th this time either because his own goddamned movement is falling apart already.
It's not even a question that nobody idolized Richard Nixon in 1973. I have seen actual comics and jokes and shit making fun of Nixon from the 1960's and 1970's that my Grandma saved. (And I happen to reasonably well be able to extrapolate since my Grandpa usually voted Democratic, that my Grandma often voted Republican.)
Day's gonna come, probably soon, where everybody was always against all this bullshit if you ask them.
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
No one will cry for Trump, either, and he seems to know it.
So he's trying to pretend it doesn't matter, he acted the same way about the idea of going to Heaven. His cult simply reframed that as Not Important as a result.
Trying to "Declare War" against Democratic Socialists and Progressives because a bunch of them won in the primaries this last week rather than the Trump Doormat Caucus winning.
Just sayin' people are tired of all this fucking garbage. I'll vote for anybody what says they'll do something about this mess: I want the bullshit, the eliminationist rhetoric against disabled people, the misogynistic and racist crap and the perversions to stop, I want I want Christian Nationalism treated as the terrorist movement that it is, I want the Epstein class held accountable and I want big money out of politics and term limits for everything down to Lindsey Graham's golf caddy. IDGAF.
And if you're just in Congress to do insider trading, suck up campaign donations and take up space you don't need to be there and you should be able to be subject to a vote of No Confidence, recalled and replaced right the fuck now.
Love him or hate him, Zohran Mamdani is getting a fuck ton of shit done in New York City.
Love him or hate him, Zohran Mamdani is getting a fuck ton of shit done in New York City.
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still. ~Ronald Reagan
And he seems to see that as what he's there for.
It was the "Centrists" who ran the hardest against him, and that's (among other things) why I'm really starting to think that a lot of these Blue State political monocultures are, in fact, generating Democrats for Federal office that are no damned better than Republicans.
This is why I've been identifying myself as a conservative Democrat for awhile now. But since I don't idolize Bipartisanship, I have a spine and I believe in supporting Humanity...I still very regularly land well to the Left of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on all type of issues. Think about that.
There are actual monsters among us, and a lot of these "Liberals" would rather play for second...against the monsters than stand up.
Think real hard about that, too. There's something wrong with these fucking people.
And I've seen some of these fucking people in action, I heard the stories my partner and the kiddo told me about their relatives, and so on. As the walls close in and public opinion continues to sink and the shit hits the fan, the one thing we can reliably count on is that the Trump Dick Riders (Again, crediting the kid for that one!) will get weirder and weirder and the cult-like devotion will somehow increase.
I'll never understand it, but then I've hated Trump since I was a kid and I've always known he was a bad man.
At this point, when all this is over, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries need to be in the dock too, right along with whatever's left of Trump's gang...but for incompetence.
And These Fucking People have the balls to wonder why "Don't Tread On Me" is fast becoming a Leftist thing?
While I'm at it, I'd like to take a moment and wonder how many EU and US politicians (among others, globally) are gonna run for the hills if something happens to Vladimir Putin who seems to be in genuine political trouble and facing the possibility of revolts over the recent Ukrainian bombing of Moscow and the likely loss of Crimea in the next few weeks. I've commented extensively on the assorted "What The FUCK!?!?" from people in Moscow over long lines at the gas pump and shit like that.
Did they not know that there was a war on and that, in war, the enemy gets to shoot back and gets a vote in what happens??
"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press.
I mean, Ukrainians have been asking "Oh my God what the fuck?!?!" for over four years now! It's just that they also controlled their fear and fought back, effectively.
But now Muscovites are lined up at the gas station and they're pissed.
Oh Well.
No Sympathy.
FAFO.
Vlad, meet Karen (or in Russian, I think that would be Katya?) you two have fun.
None of this bullshit is going to stop until people step up and make it stop.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
And either you're willing to fight for it or you're not.
Remember that, because it's going to be on the test.
Слава Україна!
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
- [The Mandalorian brings together the entire Mandalorian covert after Carson Teva makes a surprise visit and asks him to help Greef Karga's situation on Nevarro when the New Republic won't lift a finger]
- Mando: Now, many of you don't know Greef Karga. And those that do fought against him when you rescued me from his ambush many cycles ago on the streets of Nevarro. Since then, he's had a change of heart and has risked his life to save mine as well as the Foundling in my charge. [Grogu coos] I stand before you to petition an intervention. To help rescue Nevarro before it's too late. I am in no position to ask any more of you. However... However, the enemy that decimated this very covert were Imperials, not Greef Karga's bounty hunters. Greef Karga is now a High Magistrate and has offered me a tract of land on his independent world. Perhaps it is time for us to live in the light once again on a planet where we are welcome. So our culture may flourish and our children can feel what it is to play in the sunlight.
- Armorer: Does anyone else wish to speak?
- Mando: It's up to them now.
- Paz Vizsla: I do. I was there on Nevarro that night. I fought against Greef Karga and his hunters. I saw my brothers and sisters fall at the hands of the Imperial butchers that hunted us in the sewers. I saw many die to save the life of [gestures to Grogu] this one, tiny Foundling. And now we are asked to sacrifice yet again. The question we should be asking ourselves is, "Why? Why should we lay our lives down yet again?" Because we are Mandalorians! I have had my disagreements with this man, but he risked his life to save my son. And Bo-Katan Kryze did not give up on my child's life even when the rest of us did. These two are asking us to take up arms in the name of a brighter future, and I for one will take up arms to fight by their side. [Mandalorians agree] This is the Way!
- Mandalorians: This is the Way.
- Armorer: This is the Way.
- ~From The Mandalorian S3.E5 "The Pirate."
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Gautama Buddha
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