Ever meet the scum of the earth, General?

[Richter]

If you're watching, since this is in a place to be watchable.
How long has it been since you ran into scum?  I don't mean people on wellfare, or people who live in the wrong areas, or are the wrong color or belief.  None of that really affects much, far as I can figure.  People are still people everywhere.  They can get vicious and bad sometimes, but it takes a lot for people not to be folk. 

Scum are different.  Scum just don't care.  It's kind of like THE DUMB, a force that gets into people's lives and starts to bend things.  Like red shift around a soul too attracted to itself.

It always looks the same.  Things around them won't be cluttered, they'll be neglected.  (Even clutter, whether from hoarding or just general scatterbrainedness, is clean by comparison once you've got the scent of both.)  Forgotten, like a bag of groceries dropped on a table and never eaten.  No one puts them away.  No one cleans up the mess.  By natural law the contents will putrefy, smell, and start withering back into dirt.  Still nothing happens to them. 

Scum isn't letting this happen, scum is not caring it happens.  Scum is letting others or yourself be around that sort of thing.  It's being more than capable of getting or making nice things, but then failing UTTERLY at keeping them nice. 

This is not directed at you, or any one person I know.  It's a common failing I see in myself and everyone else now and then, and dodging things I can see coming seems worthwhile. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh, and the scum ARE out there...Oh, yes.  We think you know who we're talking about, MRS SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE, don't we, MR NIMBY, MS ENHANCED INTERROGATION KEEPS US SAFE...Oh, indeed.  We KNOW that the end of the republic isn't some bloody handed dictator, but instead the MORBIDLY OBESE WARTARD SCREECHING ABOUT "ISLAMOFASCISTS" FROM HIS ABUSED AND STRAINING RASCAL SCOOTER.

This is how democracy dies...not with a bang, but a wheeze.

[the last yatto]

 

[-Kel-]

Oh, and the scum ARE out there...Oh, yes.  We think you know who we're talking about, MRS SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE, don't we, MR NIMBY, MS ENHANCED INTERROGATION KEEPS US SAFE...Oh, indeed.  We KNOW that the end of the republic isn't some bloody handed dictator, but instead the MORBIDLY OBESE WARTARD SCREECHING ABOUT "ISLAMOFASCISTS" FROM HIS ABUSED AND STRAINING RASCAL SCOOTER.

This is how democracy dies...not with a bang, but a wheeze.

I love the Rain God.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh, and the scum ARE out there...Oh, yes.  We think you know who we're talking about, MRS SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE, don't we, MR NIMBY, MS ENHANCED INTERROGATION KEEPS US SAFE...Oh, indeed.  We KNOW that the end of the republic isn't some bloody handed dictator, but instead the MORBIDLY OBESE WARTARD SCREECHING ABOUT "ISLAMOFASCISTS" FROM HIS ABUSED AND STRAINING RASCAL SCOOTER.

This is how democracy dies...not with a bang, but a wheeze.

I love the Rain God.

One day, I will turn the rain on and break the valve handle off.

Oh, yes.

[President Television]

Oh, and the scum ARE out there...Oh, yes.  We think you know who we're talking about, MRS SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE, don't we, MR NIMBY, MS ENHANCED INTERROGATION KEEPS US SAFE...Oh, indeed.  We KNOW that the end of the republic isn't some bloody handed dictator, but instead the MORBIDLY OBESE WARTARD SCREECHING ABOUT "ISLAMOFASCISTS" FROM HIS ABUSED AND STRAINING RASCAL SCOOTER.

This is how democracy dies...not with a bang, but a wheeze.

I love the Rain God.

One day, I will turn the rain on and break the valve handle off.

Oh, yes.

You should do that little trick you normally reserve for urinals.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh, and the scum ARE out there...Oh, yes.  We think you know who we're talking about, MRS SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE, don't we, MR NIMBY, MS ENHANCED INTERROGATION KEEPS US SAFE...Oh, indeed.  We KNOW that the end of the republic isn't some bloody handed dictator, but instead the MORBIDLY OBESE WARTARD SCREECHING ABOUT "ISLAMOFASCISTS" FROM HIS ABUSED AND STRAINING RASCAL SCOOTER.

This is how democracy dies...not with a bang, but a wheeze.

I love the Rain God.

One day, I will turn the rain on and break the valve handle off.

Oh, yes.

You should do that little trick you normally reserve for urinals.

No, I want it to take a while.

[President Television]

You should do that little trick you normally reserve for urinals.

No, I want it to take a while.

However you please.