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And You Will Never Get Through To Them

Never. Thankfully we still outnumber them  by 2-to-1 at least, so all this talk of Civil War if Trump is convicted is just chest-beating bluster. There simply aren’t enough of them to maintain—much less win—a Civil War, even with their undoubtedly huge…armaments. Do they really think a collection of AK-47s are any match for an aerial drone? C’mon people…

Yes, if such an altercation starts there will be casualties on both sides, but the United States will not be brought to its knee; this “war” will come to a quick end and that end won’t be the one these Insurrectionists desire. Of that I am certain.

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Satisfying

Set in the mid 90s, Season 3 of For All Mankind wrapped up this week with a very satisfying ending.

Warning: Spoilers ahead.

I love how the writers of the series are creating a wholly believable alternate timeline, one that mirrors of events in our own—but always with a twist.

Case in point, the Oklahoma City bombing. In the timeline of FAM, it’s not Oklahoma City, but rather the Johnson Space Center in Houston that was the target of the bomber(s). The results were no less horrific, and at least one main character—and possibly more—did not survive.

The American/Russian team on the surface of Mars received an unexpected guest. This guest turned out to be the first human on Mars, beating all the other teams to the surface not by days or hours, but by months…and they were from North Korea.

Baby Momma Kelly safely made it back up to the orbiting Phoenix, where she successfully gave birth to her Russian-American love child.

The truth finally came out about who caused the drilling disaster that led to the events of the final two episodes. Granted, it was by his own admission, but it still resulted in his exile from the rest of the crew—spending his remaining days and nights on Mars in—of all places—the North Korean capsule.

As with any drama, there were more than a few WTF moments over the past ten episodes, but not so many or so egregious that they took you out of the story as it was unfolding.

It will be interesting to see how the First Lesbian President of the United States story plays out next year, not to mention the fate of the first crew on Mars, now forced to remain an additional fifteen months with limited supplies while they wait for a rescue ship from Earth.

Margo’s Russian love interest, who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Union for most of the season, was finally spirited to the West. And in the most prescient moment of the series thus far, Margo, now facing imminent FBI investigation for—you guessed it—espionage—ends up in Moscow in the final scene of the season, that was prefaced with “2003.”

 

 

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Sunday Sacrelige

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix.” ~ Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor

 As an theist, I see nothing wrong in believing in a god. I don’t think there is a god, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a god. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful, all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.” ~ Richy Gervais

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Trump’s True Promise

From Green Eagle:

Okay, he lied to them 30,000 times in four years. He goes on lying to them every time he opens his mouth. And absolutely nothing seems to phase them in the least. And here is why:

Despite all his lies, he has told the truth to them about one thing, and in the end it is all they care about: If he comes back to power, he is going to unleash them to crush all the black people, all the Hispanics, all the foreigners, all the Asians, all the Jews, and take every single penny of value that they have. And at this point in our history, that is the only hope that White people have. Like some Lovecraftian family hidden away in the woods, they have willingly degenerated into a pack of subhumans that cannot compete with normal civilizations, and can only win through savagery and destruction. Few liberals have been willing to admit that yet, but these people all know it perfectly well. They despoiled their chance to participate in a greater world with its other inhabitants, so now their only recourse is destruction. And let me repeat, because it bears repetition, liberals can’t yet admit that about their fellow Americans, but those people sitting on their front porches out in the hinterlands, swilling their beer and oxy, know it perfectly well.

Trump offers them their last chance to dominate what are now their betters. And despite all his lies, they know he absolutely means this one thing. That is why they don’t care that he cheats in elections, steals from children with cancer, allows a million of them to die of a largely preventable disease, sells the country out to Vladimir Putin. They can’t see any of that as a concrete threat to the dominance which they crave beyond all else, but they can see minorities and foreigners that way, particularly when one political party has spent a half a century teaching them to believe that.

And thus they will not turn their backs on him. They are right, and we are wrong, when we ascribe their behavior to a specimen of madness. It is a very rational decision on their part. Of course it is also a malignant decision, the sort of decision that results in tens of millions of dead people, but they don’t care. They assume those dead people will be somewhere else, while they sit on their porches, wallowing in their stupor.

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