GOP Rages Over 'Rihanna's Satanic Performance,' Not Daily Mass-Shootings, or Xenophobic Hatred of Immigrants
It was a birth announcement, jackasses.
I am not one to readily comprehend the meaning or message behind artists’ works, which is a somewhat sad admission coming from a writer. But I certainly understand the meaning behind Rihanna’s halftime show. In short, it was one of the most beautiful, artistic, cool, and certainly most-watched pregnancy announcements in history.
But that’s not the view of the MAGA-Right (And I have a worthless example below), who were pre-set to object to the horrific and evil show. To them, the show was clearly Satanic. After all, Rihanna was dressed in solid red, and she descended from above, the fallen angel. Obviously. And what did she fall to? The earth, aka “stage.” Whereupon this fallen angel, Satan, set about dancing with God’s white angels. I’m not making this up. That is the argument, but please, you don’t even need to click on this jerk below. I just laid out his entire premise.
Perpetual Right-Wing Rage.
Please to be fcking off now. The entire point of her costume was to note the baby bump. And then it all falls into place.
The red costume with the baby bump symbolizes a woman’s nurturing womb, nutrients, protection, warmth, and love, the blood-placenta-baby bond. The faceless, bodyless, genderless dancers in white? Sperm, obviously, all surrounding the womb, I mean Rihanna. All dancing, mostly in unison, some on stage with her, some remaining above (Make of that what you will.) Additionally, her costume tastefully emphasized her breasts. Again, we see nurturing womanhood.
I am the guy that read “The Sun Also Rises” in college and completely missed the fact that he’s impotent. If even I can understand the symbolism of a halftime show, then it’s pretty ffffing straightforward. Not a lot of nuance.
But in America 2023, everyone has to be mad (Including me) and looking for a means to be aggrieved and especially the way that the MAGAs see the left and its “gays, trans, immigrant, woke” stuff as “satanic.” Rihanna’s halftime show is an odd choice. But far too typical for the Right.
But there most certainly are uniquely American issues that we should embrace as a perpetual grievance. Put another way. We should fight until it changes. I am talking about true evil, as Satanic as one gets on this earth.
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It was five years ago today that a killer shot through Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. It was on February 13th, 2023, Michigan State went through its campus shooting.
Only in America. There was a Michigan State student who was from Parkland (though not in the lockdown), and… this is awful, there was a student at Michigan State that was in grade school, specifically Sandy Hook Elementary grade school, and was in lockdown when unbridled evil walked in carrying an assault rifle, per MSNBC.
School shootings in grade school, high school, and college, the blood of kids flowing over backpacks. Is Jesus angrier at Rihanna or the people that protect guns over people? The people who actually shoot are often mentally ill. The people who ensure that the gun is available are not. Which situation does Satan prefer? Which would make Jesus cry? It is not Rihanna’s birth announcement.
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True evil and pain.
Just last Thursday, my television went into the emergency alert. It was sunny out. The emergency alert was not a severe thunderstorm or the tornado warning of the type that we often get. I looked over, “Active shooter…” My breath stopped as I thought about my 9th-grade daughter in class at her high school one mile down the road. Sickeningly, I was “relieved” that it was in Pensacola High… and then five minutes later, I learned it was a false alarm. This time.
Every. Single. American. parent lives with this nightmare daily, will Fairhope High become as “famous” as Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, “Uvalde,” or “Las Vegas.” Michigan State will not get a seat at the tragically evil table. Nowadays, double-digit fatalities are the entry-level requirement to be a truly “remembered” event.
If you believe, as I do, that there is an evil presence lurking on this earth, perhaps one should tie it to the truly Satanic slaughter of innocents. It was the MAGA that wanted to get into the Satanic. Okay. We’ll stay there.
Talk about Satanic? You cannot be a conservative politician in this country and not have video of you shooting an assault rifle, a tool of war. This is despite the fact that, as a politician, you will - eventually, be doing interviews about the inevitable evil. Below is a “joke,” a very dark one.
I have a lot of Canadian relatives (and readers), and many of my relatives are conservative. But I can guarantee their conservatism manifests itself in less government, lower taxes, fewer regulations, less spending, and more freedom. It is not tied directly to owning the most powerful war weapons on earth sold at a store just a kilometer down the road. That is purely American evil, measured in miles to go with inches of progress. Dead kids. Tomorrow, a class of six year olds will be scared to death by “intruder drills,” a kid locks the door, pulls a shade, and turns the lights out while the teacher gets kids into closets, behind tables, and upturned desks. The six-year-old is terrified. The 9-year-old is bored, “seen it.” This is school in 2023… in America. In other countries, I suspect they still have fire drills. This situation deserves your grievances.
Pick your grievance but be sane about it. Dare I say, be Christlike about it when you make your choice. Everyone has grievances. But they should be focused on what is evil.
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Sorry. I have one more grievance, for today, for your consideration, versus our Satanic halftime show. It is blessedly simple and straightforward.
I would ask you to consider the “Devil’s Dilemma” that our undocumented immigrants face. We invite undocumented immigrants into the country to work and keep prices down (So long as they risk their lives in crossing successfully), but then a significant portion of the nation spits with vitriol at these hard-working people, seeing them as “less human,” ripping children out of their arms, separating families.
Christ-like or Satanic? Pick your grievance.
Post-modern slavery.
Everyone in the U.S. and around the world - because inflation is worldwide - is frustrated when going to the grocery store. But the prices of some goods, vegetables, chicken, fruit, and pork. especially, would triple without the undocumented workers that we want here to be the people above, to work the farms and keep our prices lower.
Here is a perfectly evil plan for the governor of Florida, ironically, the state that likely has the most to lose if it rid itself of all undocumented workers. All those hotel rooms won’t clean themselves. Those fruit trees full of oranges don’t pick themselves: Avocados, more strawberries. And Americans don’t want to pay $280 for a regular Wednesday night at La Quinta Inn. Where do most nannies come from? (“The kids learn Spanish!” Brag the rich parents)
DeSantis - ironically named, will be allowed to pick up migrants wherever he happens to find them, Orlando to Spokane, any state, and transfer them wherever he wants, undoubtedly LaJolla or Beverley Hills. Literally using human beings as political props, the eviler he looks and acts, the more appealing he becomes to a certain set among the Right.
This cause is particularly near and dear to my heart because my mother spent a lifetime helping an orphanage in Tijuana, where many of the kids had family members, either direct or distant, working in the fields above.
This cannot be said enough. Deep in his evil heart, DeSantis and his constituents (perhaps unknowingly) desperately want these immigrants here. Perhaps the hatred (“satanic”?) is meant, in part, to scare immigrants into “being here” but not being seen. You can come work on the condition that if there is an ICE raid, you’re going home, And you can come work here, so long as we don’t see you after work. Do not go to church, do not go to the mall, do not go to a movie. In other words - get the work done invisibly. You are not a person here.
I suppose it comes naturally to a nation that was built upon free labor. We want to extend the practice as long as possible while hating the laborers serving us as “subhuman.” I don’t recall Jesus talking about “subhumans.”
It would be easy to fix through legislation. I have written about it before, work visas, databases, and all that. But the system itself is too perfect as is, except for the dehumanized undocumented worker. Is there anything more “satanic” than taking away another’s humanity? I can’t conceive of it. But I bet our friend complaining about Rihanna’s performance can excuse it.
Irony and irony. Sheer numbers mean that there were “Dreamers” locked down at Michigan State last night, the children of migrants, now in college in the United States. Still at risk, still disdained by too many. And there were at least two students who had undergone active shooter situations before, the type we are warned about on television.
Out of dozens of grievances over something “satanic” at heart, the above two will suffice. Should we talk to our Rihanna guy again? Yes, but he won’t show up. He cannot afford even to appear “woke.”
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That’s it. If this article seems a bit disjointed and without the usual flow, there’s a reason. In confronting evil, the truly satanic forces in America, it’s hard to think straight because it makes no sense, not to sensible “good people.” One doesn’t have to be Godly to be good. But because we’re fighting someone fixated on the Satanic, I battled it on his terms. And there is a certain political sect, narrower than “Republican,” the DeSantis constituent, a person that uses faux pious Christianity to air their grievances about a nation “gone to hell,” as we often hear from Trump, over things like halftime shows.
Look at satanic Rihanna! Dropping in red, Satan!
No. That is a purely political grievance. Pre-programmed, as practiced as the dance moves.
Look at the dead, bleeding victims, the inevitable and predictable result of a truly evil gun culture that puts “gun-identity” ahead of the wailing parents. Satan’s work.
Look at the bleeding hands of the undocumented migrants. I once stopped at a gas station in Idaho. I was behind a farmworker, his dark skin covered in protective scarves to keep from being burned by the sun. He bought a can of Campbell’s soup and a tall can of Coor’s Light. It was probably all he had to eat that day. I noticed scabs all over his hands. It is hard and painful work, and that is before one faces the hatred.
There is true evil in this country and in every country. But I am not sure that other countries have the faux piousness juxtaposed against such obvious evil of the type we have. This is the country where teaching the truth is “woke,” and something to be feared. Perhaps the fear is that one will see the true evil, the satanic, in the mirror and in our institutions. Best to sleep and pretend we’re Godly. Mix it all together in a DeSantis presidential platform, and it leaves an almost “satanic” dystopian situation.
Enough for today, halftime is over, and there’s real life to play. We play games, thank God, but this is no game. Our grievances are born out of love, like the love for a child awaiting birth.
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