Witches, Jezebel Spirit & the 4th Estate
“The witch has come to symbolize misogyny’s long, grim history and the need for remembrance.” -- Francine Toon
Down the Rabbit Hole
Years ago, I attended a dinner event in a major US city. The event did not have assigned seating, so I ended up at a table with two seemingly affable women. Halfway through the meal, they started talking about how “Donald T***p was a great person/president/businessman.” As a Never Trumper, I cautioned myself and gently noted that he was not only a truly vulgar human but also a complete and total failure at business with 19 business failures and six bankruptcies, including one casino. “A Casino?” I said. “A place where they back up dump trucks full of cash and drop it on your doorstep? That guy?”
The women then immediately shifted the conversation to what a ‘horrible’ President Barack Obama was and that he was ‘gay’ and married to a ‘man.’ “A man?” I said. “Michelle Obama is a man?” “Oh yes!” they cried. “Michelle Obama is a ‘trans,’ she has a penis!”
At this juncture, the potatoes were getting cold, and my stomach did not feel hungry. I just kind of laughed softly and said, “I’m sorry, but I honestly don’t think Michelle Obama is a man.” The two women then dove into their respective purses, and each pulled out flyers for Billy Graham ‘Ministries’, telling me that if I wanted to “learn more about the truth” this was the pathway.
At this point I started hearing the Looney Tunes theme song playing in the background as these two “Godly” women sitting in front of me were using their Talibangelical propaganda to ‘prove’ to me Michelle Obama was a man and that Donald T***p was a ‘great’ man.
Being raised as a Catholic with the middle name Paul, I had to shake my head in disbelief, wondering if these women even knew who Paul was and story of his miraculous conversion?
17 I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. -- Romans 16:17-18
Christofascists and the Devil
The experience above was my first genuine foray into the bizzarro world of the Christofascists and their freakfuck take on “Christianity.” Since that time, I am fascinated and disturbed at how fucked up these cultists are. The New Apostolic Reformation Pentacostals, the far-right extreme Catholics, the 7 Mountains Mandate jackals, The Council for National Policy.
Not only are these cultists deeply into misogyny, but they also share a worldview that the white ‘man’ is superior to the rest of the planet.
These are the “Dominioinists” and you need to learn about them. In a previous post, I wrote: “The only way for the country to survive is to establish a nation based on Biblical values….e.g., Dominionism. The media assault has, and does, include: Salem Media Group, Bott Radio Network, American Family Radio, Focus on the Family, the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Trinity Broadcasting Network and now includes state-run media like Fox News, OANN and NewsMax. Aiding them for decades has been a parade of clown-car TV evangelists from Pat Robertson to Jerry Falwell to the absolutely bat-shit crazy Kenneth Copeland.”
The misogyny of the Christofascists is pouring out in a flood today as the TheoBros and the plethora of TAX-FREE ‘churches’ that are weekly spewing their hate speech, telling people that if they don’t vote for T***p they will burn in hell, and that Kamala Harris is a “Jezebel Spirit.”
jezebel /jĕz′ə-bĕl″, -bəl/
noun
A woman who is regarded as evil and scheming.
A bold, vicious woman; a termagant.
The TheoBros are also hell bent on repealing the 19th Amendment that allows women the right to vote.
A Bold, Vicious Woman
It took women in America almost a century to secure the right to vote (19th Amendment). Several bold, vicious women lost their lives fighting for the right to simply cast a vote in their own nation.
Here in 2024, if the United States is going avoid becoming Germany 1933 and raising a vulgar, amoral lunatic to power…it will be that the wimmins of the United States are what will save us. (?)
All of us, gender aside, need to hope and pray that the spirits of the women who were burned at Salem and the spirits of the women that fought and died for the right to cast a vote will rise up from the ground and carry the United States forward and stop it from plunging into autocracy.
Absolutely NO ONE should be surprised by General John Kelly’s revelations regarding Orange Jesus saying he thought “Hitler did some good things” No one. His version of populism is (based on his deep knowledge of the speeches of Adolph Hitler).
A termagant is a “False God.” Harris is a ‘false God,’ and the guy who grabs women by the pussy is the ‘Savior?’ The guy who kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside? And the Christofascists are the ones rallying for this piece of shit? Yes, and yes. Nazi Germany ran the same playbook. Modern Russia runs the same playbook. “Christianity” and fascism are married to each other. Sadly, Catholicism and fascism are intertwined.
The other truly sad reality is the culture of Lost Boys in America. The Lost Boys are being seduced by a host of Edgelords into what is called the “Manosphere.” Young men, “young,” are getting testosterone boosts? If you have ever spent time in a middle school in the USA, you know that testosterone is raging…wild and free. What these young men need are elders to teach them how to respect women and support women. Instead, many of these young men are reserved and introverted and INCELS. INCELS are driven to jagoffs like Andrew Tate, because Tate represents ‘real masculinity.’ Tate is a vulgar, emotionally crippled human preying on the Lost Boys. The misogyny of these Edgelords is off the fucking chart.
Edmund Burke is Vomiting in His Grave
This brings us to the Fourth Estate.
“The phrase has its origins in the French Revolution, where the church, nobility and commoners comprised the first, second, and third estates. The media was first called the fourth estate in 1821 by Edmund Burke who wanted to point out the power of the press.” –Political Dictionary
In 2016, we watched as the MSM (Main Stream Media) fawned unctuously over every freaking word that came out of Mango Mussolini’s mouth. Remember when CNN would have an entire hour of an empty podium while they waited for a lying sociopath to show up and spew lies and nonsense?
2024 has been worse. Dementia Donny rails about Hannibal Lecter and sharks and says he wants to use the military against American citizens, says Hitler did some good things and the MSM yawns. Shitler talks about the size of Arnold Palmer’s junk and the New York Times writes that he talked about “golf.” Golf? WTAF
The media has failed the United States by normalizing a vulgar Wannabe Dictator in their slutty effort to gain eyeballs and clicks.
Just like the Republican Party itself, the media has lost all sense of integrity, morality, dignity and self-respect. The MSM has followed MAGA deep down the Rabbit Hole of insanity and actually validates the lunacy.
There are a few independent media people who are keeping tabs on the shitty media environment. MeidasTouch and Dworkin are calling out the blatant hypocrisy and lies of the media as they fall head over heels for their clicks. There is a 22 year-old man (Adam Mockler) who, right now, is A) not a Lost boy and, B) runs circles around the cable media bullshit that is spewed 24/7. Adam is making Marshall McLuhan proud. Support these independent journalists.
“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.” --Marshall McLuhan