"O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts/ And men have lost their reason." -- Bill Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 3
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Driftglass: "THESE are the people you can fool ALL of the time"
Boy does THAT hit the nail on the head!
Our founders have it correct. Preaching religion to give your political ideology sainthood for attracting the vulnerable minds to vote for you is when it becomes a Cult and not a practice of faith in the Biblical spiritual sense.
God is not republican and Jesus has never said anything to promote the GOP as his favorite political direction.
We all can se the FOP religious breaking commandment after commandment. From bearing false witness, coveting another's wife to placing a GOP leader as an idol above the God. And they call themselves seriously religious?
All the morals and commandments are for us to obey they way they tell us to and they have the hall pass to disobey any of it.
Politics and religion shuld not be whipped in the blender.
...AAAnnd, teachers have been fired for quoting what Charlie the fuck Kirk said on his goddamn podcast while Brian Kilmeade's job remains secure after he suggested on live teevee that homeless people should be executed. "Just kill them" he intoned. That's hate speech.
So I have been less than subdued about my opinions on Mr. Kirk's death. Mainly, and the shit I have taken for this has been voluminous, that the shooter used a simple and effective weapon (a Mauser 30.06) and was a good shot, and had the moron who shot at Fergus used such a weapon instead of a goddamn AR-15, Fergus would be dead and the poor SOB behind him would be alive.
See, I'm a flaming liberal, but I grew up in a home where the gun cabinet was in the dining room and the 100 yard shooting range was just outside of the sliding glass doors, so although I was never anyone's idea of a marksman (that would be my father, who was perhaps the best shot of anyone I have ever known, probably because after his father was killed in an oil well accident, he and my uncle supplemented the family's food supply with their rifles until my grandmother could remarry) I do understand and recognize good shooting (or poor shooting) when I see it.
These days my idea of good shooting is less shooting, and I haven't used my own guns for more than forty years. In one of my rare instances of good judgement, I left all of my guns at my dad's house in Eureka when I moved to Oakland, where they would have been stolen in the very first burglary and been in the hands of the burglars.
I have friends, though, who do have guns, and use and store them responsibly, which seems like a great big pain in the ass to me, but then again they never had the opportunity to use them as often or easily as I did growing up.
Anyhow, that's my non-standard take on Mr. Kirk's untimely end, well that and this: Charlie Kirk was a nobody, and the media is losing it's shit over him. What would they do if someone consequential was killed?
Thank you again for the podcast. Marcy Wheeler wrote about why Ezra was a little off, also, and has been essential reading for a while now in this here mess that we used to call a country.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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