Word

I’m seeing a zillion and one half TikTok vids on Twitter of Karens and Kens who feel emboldened to go full metal Entitled Dimwit Lecture King/Queen. Apparently no one’s ever cared enough about them to share Mark Twain’s wise words:

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

Words are potent. They can be dynamic and transforming.

More powerful than armies and police, stronger than guns and bombs, words are what change the world, and that is why they’re always a threat to those that rule with corrupt ways.
~ Brandt Legg, The Last Librarian

And yet so many shut their ears and minds (la la la I can’t hear you!), making themselves more deaf than me. These fact averse, unlistening fuckers are dead from the neck up. It’s hard to NOT respond to their nonsensical blathering but it’s better (and more entertaining) to listen/read their regurgitated Fox thoughts and just walk away.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
~ Sun Tzu – The Art of War

OR

The shiny beast of thought
If you got ears, you gotta listen
Captain Beefheart – Dirty Blue Gene

A friend on Shoutyface had a post up yesterday about 45’s Brown Shirts invading Portland. A couple of his “friends” proved their illiteracy OR serious reading comprehension issues OR that they believe every ratfucking lie the Orange Menace pukes up. Though tempted to jump into the fray, my blood pressure put its foot down. NO, DO NOT hit “reply.”

Sorry/not sorry, you’re not mature enough to get on this ride.

Author May Sarton has said “the more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”

In the case of Treasonweasel45, I gotta disagree. He’s a blurred incoherent mess but his bullying, weaponized fanbois are, nonetheless, inspired to haterific peaks. His venomous and confused language stew is their language though. He communicates emotion – rage – and that’s all they need.

The asshole preachers of the big box megachurches are far more coherent and lucid at the con and have a microscopically less dimwitted fanbase. Yes, on the stupidly scale Evangelicals are just one slim step above Trumplicans. Isn't that comforting? (no)

I get SO sick of these smug, over-confident fucks spewing platitudes and ever-so-“wise” words about their god. They utter sanctimonious sagacities with calm and absolute conviction. They just KNOW the words they’re speaking are perfect pink diamonds of wisdom. After all, they’re parroting their preacher and he/she’s rich which means smart in Rube World.

All I’ve got to say to these human shaped train wrecks is walk it, don’t talk it and, oh yeah, fuck you.

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.
~ Woody Allen