Shades of L. Ron Hubbard. The following clips are bad sci fi, non human characters, prophecy and paranoia, all mixed together and baked into a conspiracy theory pie. If you’re not familiar with how Hubbard came on the scene, there is an apocryphal story from the early 1950’s, where Hubbard was working as a pulp science fiction writer for a penny a word. The story is that he was with a group of other pulp writers in New York and one day he got up and said, “You can all go fuck yourselves. I’m going to go out and start my own religion and make a million dollars.” And indeed he did.

Here is QAnon with their own religion.

Both clips, as you will see, proselytize how Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are in service to almighty God in Ukraine.

I’m getting ripped off by somebody. I’ve had all three COVID shots, plus a flu shot mind you, and I haven’t turned into a robot yet. And I want to. Then I can just blog 24/7, I won’t have to eat, I shouldn’t have to pay rent anywhere, just find myself someplace dry to stand so that I won’t rust. Should I get myself an oil can or is that too retro, too Wizard Of Oz?

How about you? Anybody here a robot yet? See what I mean? We’re all getting ripped off.

Then there’s this fruit fly and of course, you knew it had to happen: the discovery of the obligatory child trafficking den, in this case, sans pizza parlor.

And it’s not just the QAnon crazies. The so called “legitimate” religionists are in on this as well. Did you catch this Pat Robertson clip the other day? It’s the same nuttiness, the only question is degree. Whereas the QAnons are talking child trafficking, Robertson is thumping the Bible. But the ridiculous core of the matter is that all this is prophecy and God thinks it’s terrific. Tell that to the men, women and children who are under siege and/or dying.

Interesting how the bottom line that all these people reach is that Trump and Putin are men of God. I’m beginning to have respect for L. Ron Hubbard. Compared to what’s going on today, he doesn’t seem all that nuts anymore.

 

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  1. The version I heard about the story was it was between Hubbard and Robert Heinlein as to who could write the best book. Heinlein wrote ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ and Hubbard produced ‘Dianetics’

    In Heinlein’s later books he makes reference now and again to ‘Elronners’

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      • I’ve been trawling google and found that the actual ‘bet’ was between John W. Campbell Jr and Hubbard but it wasn’t about actually writing a book. Apparently El Ron was moaning about the IRS hitting him hard over his profits from Dianetics and Campbell, more or less said “I’ll bet that if you identify ‘Dianetics’ as a religion, the Feds will back off in a hurry.”

        And the Elronners are still running what has to be the biggest scam going

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  2. L. Ron Hubbard was so right. You can get away with anything if you cover it with the cloak of religion.

    And I thought Scientology was crazy enough.

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    • I saw fat pat robertson came out to offer his take on this–it’s always all about bringing the human jeezus back from the grave. The man, like so many cons, is not bright.

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  3. You may recall my observation of several days ago that this crew has to steal their most memorable ideas from actual fiction (V, The Matrix, Star Trek The Next Generation). This is just more of the same.

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  4. Funny how, according to that one *itch (don’t want to offend any practicing Wiccans or any female dogs who may be reading), Putin’s soldiers are “freeing hundreds of children from sex trafficking dens” when there are so many barely-legal young Russian women advertising their “availability” for marriage to Western (mostly American) men.

    And, um, she might want to remember that Trump was pretty buddy-buddy with Jeffrey Epstein who had a private Caribbean island where numerous barely-legal (and some not even that) young women were “invited” to, um, “entertain” Epstein’s friends.

    Oh, and there were those stories of how Donnie himself would roam backstage at “his” beauty pageants and just “accidentally” enter the contestants’ dressing rooms (contestants who, by the way, were just barely legal as well). And Trump was also connected with some of the TEEN beauty pageants (filled with definitely NOT legal girls) but, so far, there haven’t been any claims of any bad behavior there. Maybe Trump was kept under better control there (or the chaperones took their responsibilities far more seriously and kept ALL adult men, not actually related to the contestants, away from the dressing rooms). I mean, I don’t have any actual proof that Trump even ventured into any of the teen pageants but why should facts get in the way of idle speculation and base rumors? Such attitudes don’t stop these right-wing Q-influenced nuts but, for some reason, they expect others to abide by rules they don’t follow.

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  5. It’s all a game to them. Like vonnegut stated in his book by the same name, the game of cat’s cradle has ” no fucking cat. No fucking cradle.”

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  6. The late L. Sprague definitely Camp once told me, “I knew Ron when he was still.A small time crook.” Pretty much sums it up.

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  7. Now quit trashing bat guano. That’s good fertilizer. Now back to it. Where do these people come from. That’s what is scary. Now putting Putin in as some sort of crusader has possibilities. Now there is a section where they say beware the one with gold and silver decorations and a purple robe. Been to long since I read it. I see it might be a good time to correct that. And the world knows trump has a gold throne. Throne being another name for a shitter.

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