⛧ First Church of Hypocrisy, Blasphemy, and Self-Righteousness ⛧

One of my Tumblr followers reblogged the following:

An oxymoron:

patriotic liberal.

To which I responded:

If by "patriotic" you mean possessing a blind obsession with the supposed superiority of your country and your supposed freedoms, so strong that you ignore the blatant signs of this country being turned into a fascist oligarchy since at least the Bush era, frothing at the mouth at any criticism of your leaders when they are busy raping white children, bombing the shit out of brown children, systematically destroying this country's freedoms in the name of their bronze age religion, destroying the environment in the name of capitalism, and turning a blind eye to myriad forms of blatant corruption, thinking the sun shines out of Republicans' asses while simultaneously being a racist asshole to Obama and accusing him of all the shit that the Republicans have been doing for decades, then yes, I am not patriotic.

If, however, you define patriotism as caring more about the ideals that this country was founded on, and the constitution, than you do for the leaders who are corrupt assholes; if you define patriotism as recognizing that this nation is becoming fascist and you desperately want to stop that and return us to true freedom and not just the empty buzzword "freedom,"; if you define patriotism THAT way, then I am a bigger fucking patriot than you or your ilk will EVER be.

If right wing is gonna take DC earthquake as sign that YHVH/JHVH is angry with gay marriage, I'm gonna take the last earthquake in Japan as a sign that Pele is angry that nobody is sacrificing virgins to Her anymore. Hey, it makes just as much sense!

Seriously, gay marriage has been legal in New Hampshire for years, and legal in New York for months before the DC quake. If it were really God, don't you think he'd, I dunno, make an earthquake in the New York State legislature as they're passing the bill, swallowing the offending legislators into the bowels of the earth?

Dear right wing,

Fuck you. The DC earthquake was just a random shifting of tectonic plates. Either that, or Newt Gingrich decided to do some jumping jacks.

"9/11!!!!111!! Nevar forget!!!11!!'

Yeah, like we could possibly forget, with Bush using it as an excuse for every bullshit lie and war-mongering of his for 8 years, and the Republicans still unable to shut up about it, when they aren't foaming at the mouth or performing oral sex on minors.

It needs to be forced off the air. This video is Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher discussing that: