God Thinks by Aurelio Voltaire
"God is a liberal, God is a democrat
God wants you to vote Republican
Never trust a man who puts his words in the mouth of God
And says it’s absolute truth
It’s lies and it smells like death
It’s all in a days work taking money from the poor
Why do you think that God
Would need your dirty money if you want to start a holy war?"
I worked gate security at a baseball stadium. Right next to where I stood there were two huge signs reading “No Smoking” and “No Re-entry”. Guess what questions I got asked all day.
When I was in college the biology department got donated half of a lion for dissection by veterinary students. We got the back half. I feel like that said something significant about the quality of my education.
All great stuff but herpes was notably not mentioned. I really wish we would see some progress in prevention and treatment on that front.
Those people didn’t vote because people like you convinced them there was no difference and therefore no point in voting.
If they are banned, then they won’t be in common use, so it would be constitutional.
If you think my logic is flawed then you understand exactly why the supreme Court’s ruling is flawed.
Shit like this is why Trump won.
Do you even remember 2020? Nobody fucking wanted Biden. He was never progressive. He was literally mocked for telling donors “Nothing will fundamentally change.” People turned out because of how much they hated Trump.
I think we definitely are in agreement here. My one quibble is I don’t know that religion is the antithesis of government so much as a more primitive form of government. The earliest religions were a form of law enforcement in world without police or judicial systems.
If it’s just you and someone else alone in the wilderness, why shouldn’t you just kill them and take their stuff? There are no consequences. Religion adds the consequences. “God will punish you. You’ll burn in Hell/Hades/Tartarus.” Why shouldn’t I steal? “It’s a sin.” Why shouldn’t I sleep with my neighbors wife? “It’s bad karma.” It’s all just laws enforced by a mythological father figure instead of a real guy with a gun.
Half of the reason government exists is to stop terrible people from being terrible. Religion is supposed to reign in the terrible people too, American Evangelicalism just creates terrible people.
I kinda think the 73 million who voted R might be the bigger problem here.
Here is what I see happening once Trump takes office. With the help of Congress and the supreme court, he is going to lock down voting so that Republicans will never lose power again. Then he is going to eliminate presidential term limits. He is going to be defacto president for life like Putin. That is what I mean by representative democracy being dead.
Whether it is Vance or Don Jr or someone else, he will pass off leadership to an heir. His pet supreme court is going to reinterpret the constitution to mean whatever is convenient.
It could take years for people to get desperate enough to take up arms, and years and millions of deaths to end the threat. By that time there is all likelihood that the United States are no longer still united.
Now maybe he just makes himself immune for his crimes, collects billions in foreign bribes, and retires to his new resort Vietnam. That is best case scenario, but I wouldn’t put money on it.
Any sane adult should have beat Trump. He won because 72 million Americans want fascism.
Myspace is still online.
Let’s hope they don’t decide it’s too hard to depart people and just start shooting them.
Convict him, lock him up, and tell Vance “If you leave him there you get to be the president.”
“But it’s against the law!” he exclaimed as the firing squad raised their rifles…
I think it can be said that from around 1953, with the inception of the Warren Court til now, the US has been progressing away from authoritarianism. That exception to the rule is over. We are diving head first back in.
We will never see progress again towards racial, economic, sexual or gender based rights. The fascist right has control of the presidency, house, senate, and judicial. They will gerrymander the whole government and demolish any legal tool meant to check their power. We lost for good. Representative democracy is dead. The Constitution is dead. It’s over.
That is where the fostering of the idea that the media is unreliable comes in. Even if they heard this, they didn’t believe it to be true.
In any other job, this would be a slam dunk sexual harassment suit, right?