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Will we be banging or whimpering at the end of the American Empire?

T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” accurately portrays the end of most empires in his first lines:
“We are the hollow men/ 
We are the stuffed men/ 
Leaning together/ 
Headpiece filled with straw/ 
Alas! Our dried voices, when we whisper together/ 
Are quiet and meaningless/ 
As wind in dry grass or rat’s feet over broken glass in our dry cellar/ 
Shape without form, shade without cover/ 
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;/ 
Those who have crossed with direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom/ 
Remember us – if at all – not as lost violent souls, but only as the hollow men, the stuffed men.”

The United States of America became the Divided States of America about a half century ago when tax cuts, public debt, national debt and loss of unions created economic inequalities that continue to grow millionaires and billionaires who never know what is  enough, so they buy gross politicians by the gross and create propaganda  organizations like the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation to create “never-enough” attitudes. 

The battles of the biggest yachts and the number of mansions bought around the world began early and is becoming another contest of bank accounts. Consequently, they created thousands of young political entrepreneurs who are making millions peddling dreams and bullshit to the masses on the maelstrom of the Internet, TV and radio who cannot afford to educate themselves. 

That’s when free speech became frightfully expensive. The Internet and social media have turned “news” into lies in order to make millions for hollow people with stuffed heads. 

Greedy grifters and fraudsters from outhouses and penthouses turn the internet and corporate broadcast leviathans such as Fox and Sinclair into rat-infested cesspools of hate, disinformation and outright lying factories. Fox News, MSNBC and CNN are just three of the thousands of liars and truth-seekers trying to dominate the news cycle.

But the money asteroid hit and completely changed the economic and political climate in the U.S.  When the hollow men on the Republican Supreme Court approved the earthquake and tsunami of political cash when it approved Citizens United, and when it morphed corporations to humans and eliminated all guard rails in campaign contributions, it turned PACs into midnight dark money raiders and bribing machines. 

The Supreme Court also passed out hunting licenses to the superrich so they could prey upon tiny islands, Panama and states like South Dakota and Delaware with large post offices serving as tax havens for a price.

Who are the dried voices whispering dried meaningless words? 
I was shocked when politicians at every level said they were shocked by the killing of Charlie Kirk. 
What peaceful planet have they been on? 

Since 1991, When Wayne Lapierre in his $5,000 suits was selected as executive officer and CEO of the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby – including all manufacturers – have killed more than 1.1 million Americans, some in the womb and others in nursing homes from 1991 to 2024. 

Complete figures for 2024 are not available yet. Many of the victims were local, county, state and federal politicians and media personnel during those three decades. 

Firearms are the leading cause of death of children ages 1-17! 

In 2023, when we had a complete count of 46,728 deaths, an average of 138 people were killed and 270 were wounded per day. The gun lobby has loaded the pockets and arms of children and adults of every description with 435 million firearms that can fire one shot or 700 rounds a minute out of an assault rifle. 

Ammunition purchases are not approved or recorded. At the last count available, the gun lobby has sold more than 20 million AR-15 military style assault rifles to millions of civilians who should not possess a firearm that has a clip or magazine that hold more than six rounds. Currently, we have magazines and drums that can contain 100 rounds. 

We will not have a sane firearms policy until America’s “exceptional” gun controls match what other countries have legislated to protect their people from gun lobbies. By the way: Minneapolis, one of the safest cities in the country, had 12 people shot in four mass shootings within 12 hours last week.

(Breaking News! Several sources have just revealed that the Trump Justice Department — which has no idea what justice is — has removed a study from its website which reveals far-right extremists commit much more violence than far-left extremists. The study by the National Institute of Justice research titled “What Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism” was “disappeared” by the Bondi Justice Department on 13 September. Here are the numbers: 227 far-right violent events killed 520 people since 1990 while lefties had only 42 violent events that killed 78. More later.)_.

Will someone please define what makes a Jesus-loving christian?
Remember that famous question, “What would Jesus do?” 

Haven’t heard it much lately. Is it because we know Jesus wouldn’t do it – or is it because very few, including many pastors and millions of their constituents, don’t have a clue about what is morally right anymore? 

Or is it because they are so “tight” with the billionaires running the Divided States of America they can’t break economic bonds?

My favorite pastor is the Reverend William Barber, who leads the “Moral Monday” events established by a pro-social justice group called Repairing the Breach, which frightens many on the right because it follows the teachings of Jesus Christ. 

Barber is against White Christian Nationalism and any forms of religious nationalism as proposed by many evangelical and fundamentalist “Christian” churches that have worshipped prosperity gospels instead of gospels concentrating on the poor. 

Barber said this about the killing of Charlie Kirk: “This past week there was a brutal, ugly, on-camera assassination of brother Charlie Kirk, and we must all despise this. But religion or morality that claims love for God, or love for justice but says nothing about injustice, a kind of national religion that asks God to bless the nation without the nation facing her sins and her violent public policy – this is religious nationalism, and it’s not true faith, according to the scriptures.” 

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA followed the talking points of many far-right pastors and politicians of Trumpistan instead of following the teachings of the founder of Christianity. 

Charlie was a tall, handsome, charismatic high school graduate, who, in his programs, supported the same ugly racial and political policies of the Christian Identity Church that Timothy McVeigh belonged to when he blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 men and women workers, visitors, and many children in a daycare center. 

People who believe in what Turning Point USA teaches and preaches have two responsibilities: study history and the “commandments” of the Christian Identity Church. The central point and belief of the CI church? God created Blacks for only one purpose: to service Whites. Google it.

The following list is a very short one of direct quotes by Charlie
As you read Kirk’s proclamations, beliefs, lies and debate quotes, determine whether he was citing a belief of Jesus Christ or a commandment of his CI church. (These are all quotes of Charlie Kirk. I did not use quotation marks to save space.)_

• We need to create a citizen force on the border to protect white demographics from the invasion of the country. So, we don’t have a great replacement of rural white Americas. You believe in God, country, family, faith and freedom, and they won’t stop until you and your children and your children’s children are eliminated. There is an ever-increasing black crime. One in 22 black men will be a murderer in his lifetime. By age of 23, half of all black men have been arrested — and not enough of them have been arrested. Former Vice-President Kamala Harris was the jive-speaking spokesperson of equity and the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr was awful. He is an awful person. We made a big mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.George Floyd is a scumbag. Black people were much better off during Jim Crow.

• After women got the vote everything went downhill. Black women — Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—do not have the brain power to be taken seriously.

• There is no separation of church and state. It is a fabrication, it’s a fiction. It’s not in the Constitution.

• We have to dismantle and take out the radical left organizations in this country which are fomenting violence, and we are going to do that.

• If you do not have a religious basis, specifically a Christian one, for your society, something else is going to replace it. Our enemies are evil and are maggots, vermin, and swine. Transgenders give a middle finger to God.

• Turning Point USA runs a Professor Watchlist website that publicizes names, photographs, and social media posts of academics whom we deem to be discriminating against conservative students. They advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.

• Taylor (Swift), submit to your husband (Travis Kelce). You’re not in charge.

• I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.  That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

• Transgender identity is a mental delusion. I’m a happy digital warrior. We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.

• If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified. United Airlines has said about 50% of their pilot trainees were women and men of color. If you’re a WNBA (Women’s National Baskeball Association), pot smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States Marine? It’s happening all over urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target White people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more. If I’m dealing with someone in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence or is she there because of affirmative action? DEI (Diversion, Equity, Inclusive) invites unwholesome thinking.

• To quote Christ, I come not to bring peace, but a sword.

• During the Covid-19 pandemic, lead a peaceful rebellion against governors of states with stay-at-home orders. The drug hydroxychloroquine is 100% effective in treating the disease.

• (Before January 6, 2021) We are sending more than 80 buses full of patriots to DC to fight for Trump.

• (After debating 25 liberal college students) You’re evidence college is a scam.

• We record all of it so that we put it on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens because you start to think their side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.

How many of these policy positions meet the approval of Jesus Christ?