God Dammit!

Also Trump: "God wants me to put Tomahawk missiles in girl's schools. Oh, that God. What a little scamp."

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Trump's invocation of the name of imaginary friends is not new. Power-hungry jerks of all colors have been invoking the name of their local deities for their own benefit for millennia.

But they, and Trump, are not the problem. The real hazard to a rational, healthy civilization are all the nimrods who swallow the idea of "gods" whole without taking a moment to critically analyze the children's stories they're being fed by the resident charlatans.

Sadly, MAGA, or its ilk, will always be with us... at least until shortly after the polar ice caps disappear, which is when the food, water, and air supply all go FOOM! Unfortunately, the rest of us will be taking the same dirt nap, and for the same reasons. But at least we'll know why.

There's little doubt that the MAGA/ilk of this world are, in no small part, responsible for mankind's looming self-immolation as they refused to acknowledge the coming danger of climate change and so continued merrily on with their wasteful habits.

It's not surprising that mankind's innate curiosity and imagination inspired the creation of all-powerful beings who created us and, sometimes, control our lives. We needed such fictions to help explain the natural world around us. But we lost control of the message and went and invented Heaven, and now there are too many people who know the glorious afterlife awaits them so who the fuck cares about the mess they leave behind?

Hallelujah.

- Lefty