A nasty, unclean gaggle of Americans read the nonstop reports of mass graves in Mexico, the mountains of dead bodies, the unending exhuming of slaughtered innocents and decapitated citizens and public officials at the hands of evil drug cartels, then nonchalantly purchase another load of the mind- and life-destroying dope that these subhuman heathens peddle.
And on default:
The brain-dead, zombielike nonsense blurting out of Democrats’ pie holes is mind-boggling as they feebly attempt to rationalize raising the debt ceiling, scrambling mindlessly to explain how increased runaway, criminal spending on gluttonous, wasteful, superfluous stuff is a good thing.
And there’s the dog that bit Ted. He indicates he might have bled to death. In Canada.
I end up in a state-of-the-art emergency room at a Canadian hospital with a serious blood-gushing dog bite and wait 6 1/2 hours to see a doctor.
Thirteen mostly conservative California counties would break away to create a 51st state known as South California under a proposal by a local elected official.
Republican Jeff Stone has asked fellow members of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to support a motion to bring together officials from the 13 counties to discuss the idea. A vote is scheduled for Tuesday.
Stone says California is too big to govern …
Stone’s version of South California would not include Los Angeles County. Instead, it would encompass coastal Orange and San Diego counties, and inland Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Riverside, San Bernardino and Tulare counties. It would have a part-time Legislature and no term limits.
And why would it not include Los Angeles County, boys and girls?
Because that’s where most of the people live — especially all those not-white people and others who vote Democratic and have made the GOP dogfood in California.
If you don’t like your state, start a secessionist movement.
In any case, the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy has been getting caught in the DD blog spam filter this week, first for its Internet radio show.
And now for a techno-thriller posted on-line, written by someone who cleaves to the “Ludwig Van Mises Institute,” an eye-rolling place dedicated to promoting goldbuggism and persuading assorted nuts plutocrats to hide their money in tax-dodge banking nations like Switzerland and Lichtenstein.
Here’s the spam synopsis:
“A short story showing how powerful elite Washington & London interests and central bankers could manipulate American foreign policy using a black flag event in order to guarantee the American dollar remains the world’s reserve currency. Follow what could be the next Middle East conflict in the Persian Gulf region involving the US, UK & Iran over the dollar and oil reserves and the resulting [electromagnetic pulse attack] attack and world financial crisis starting in the Middle East.”
Yeah, I know, I can’t follow the logic, either.
Be that as it may, there are threads connecting the Cult of EMP Crazy and the fiat money kooks. They mostly have to do with extreme right philosophies about imminent catastrophe linked to conspiracy from the Middle East and the collapse of American civilization. And, of course, the dollar.
DD spent a couple minutes reading the story, or what there is of it.
A poor man’s piece of Tom Clancy fan fiction, it’s a tale of a provoked war with Iran. Iran retaliates by launching an electromagnetic pulse attack on the oil fields, rather than the usual target — the United States.
The price of gold soars, the dollar “dies” and that’s the end of the installment.
There’s a stalwart old general, set up to be the hero, who doesn’t do anything in the first chapter but worry about US currency and sovereign debt.
A sample. so you get the drift (no link — Google it if you must):
Later following the 2008 financial crash [the general] delved even into finance and politics with Wood’s Meltdown book and then Ron Paul’s End the Fed. Although he didn’t vote for Ron Paul in 2008 because he thought it improper to mix politics with military service, he had begun to get a thorough education in what had happened to the Constitution and his country he had sworn an allegiance to defend.
He privately attended several Mises Institute events and when at home logged on to read The Mises Blog, LewRockwell.com and The Daily Bell almost every day. He read Hayek and Ludwig von Mises including even Human Action.
That’s draw-you-in stuff.
I also leaned William Forstchen’s One Second After is Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s favorite English-language book. Presumably because it’s about the end of American civilization after an electromagnetic pulse attack.
If you dig around enough in this type of material, eventually you find the Ludwig Van Mises fiat money kooks are, like the Cult of EMP Crazy, very fond of videos with high production values.
Mississippi, where 34.4 percent of the people are obese, has the highest obesity rate. Other states with obesity rates above 30 percent include: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia …
Correlate with percentages who hold disbelief in the President being an American, global warming as hoax, etc …
Yep, it’s a stereotype. And sometimes the stereotypes have some accuracy going for them.
Life expectancy decline in the southern red and backward part of the country. “I guess the geography of the decline speaks for itself,” says the blogger.
There’s the exception to the national fatness demography in New Jersey. Where a lot of people now have buyer’s remorse.
Nugent, a supporter of GOP candidates and critic of Obama, told The Arizona Republic recently that “politics are extremely personal” as he defended [Tom Petty’s] right to ask Bachmann to stop playing American Girl.
Nugent happens to think Bachmann is a “great American,” and told The Republic she can use one of his songs. But Nugent is waiting for Texas Gov. Rick Perry to jump into the race and says Stranglehold would be appropriate for Perry because it’s “the ultimate soundtrack of defiance.”
In the mind of Americans, “Born to be Wild” probably rates higher on the defiance song list.
Anyway, it’s selective news. Nugent is presented as reasonable.
And he never is, this just another example where some noxious tar baby is repackaged as a voice of experience and reason.
YOU REMEMBER THE NIGHT THAT YOU LEFT ME
YOU PUT ME IN MY PLACE
GOT YOU IN A STRANGLEHOLD NOW BABY
GONNA CRUSH YOUR FACE
The last two lines are a pretty accurate representation of what national GOP policy is. But since they’re blunt and frightening to old white people when they come blaring out of the loudspeakers at somewhere over 90 db, the song’s unusable.
But none of this is important in a national newspaper for a story that gets reprinted in lots of little and medium-sized ‘burg rags.
The title — Stranglehold — is a bit of a tip-off. But things have gotten so dense nationwide, the soft touch doesn’t work. Only spelling it out in detail does.
This is still a fine campaign song. Would look and sound great on television news or a comedy show.
When anyone asks how extremists get elected you don’t have to look at marquee national cases.
A man named Randy Toman of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a perfect subject for profile. As the man behind the Lehigh Valley Conservative blog, over the course of the last couple years he’s published his ravings and weird world view for all to see. DD blog has occasionally linked to these things.
Now Toman is running to be a member of the Bethlehem Area School District
school board.
Toman is a Tea Partier and if one believes what he sets to print on his blog, he despises public school education.
On a second blog devoted to advertising his candidacy, one can see — here — that he cannot proof-read his headlines.
Toman is an anti-union ex-union man and a fellow who supports right-to-work in Pennsylvania (a union-busting position). He has often bemoaned the lack of Biblical teaching in secular public education. Another of Toman’s favorite riffs: Eternal damnation awaits those who do not hold the same Biblical reverence and beliefs as he does.
“I have been up to my eye balls, in the primary and getting on the ballet [sic] for this November’s general election here in Bethlehem, Pa,” Toman writes in one post.
“We have come to a point in history were there is an increasing danger of there being a belief that there [sic] ‘No Hell’,” he raves in another.
Toman continues:
“How is it that I can be so sure; because if that axiom of “NO Hell??? is accepted by the masses of people the consequences will be such that God will have no choice but to lift His hand off of this society. Showing them there is a Hell and they will not only be living in one presently but they will be assured they will be going to one upon death.”
“It can not be deigned [sic] that prayer, God and any reference to the Christian Religion has been taken out of or should I say thrown out of all public school here in this country,” Toman writes in yet another recent post. “That statement can not be argued to the contrary, it is true and well established.”
“[The] so called ‘Christian’ of today has no clue as to what is taught in the Bible and what should be a fair Biblical taxation,” Toman states in another semi-coherent post, an argument against taxation.
This post, and others like it, in addition to the regular complaints that secular education abandons the teachings of the Bible, seem to be the basis for his animosity for public school education.
At the Lehigh Valley Conservative blog Toman also obsesses about gold and the Treasury’s printing of money. He regularly states beliefs, apparently gained from the reading of weird fringe extreme right newsletters, that hyperinflation will cause the dollar to become worthless. And — today — that the President should be impeached because his birth certificate is a forgery.
One could spend days wading through the insane mess that constitutes the thinking on display at the Lehigh Valley Conservative.
Ordinarily, no one would have to do this. That’s because Toman was formerly just another private citizen, entitled to his opinons, no matter how nuts.
But Toman is running for a position of political influence in the Bethlehem School District. And his views show him completely unfit to hold any public office in a reasonable society, let alone one in which his decisions might have some impact on the educational environment of children.
Yet Toman could gain such a seat in November.
How could it happen? Easy. No one in the local news media has even shown the slightest interest in covering the political race or the views of the candidates running for the school board. Bethlehem is served by two newspapers — the Allentown Morning Call (where I worked many years ago), and the Easton Express-Times.
You can search a long time and find only this brief piece, here, which doesn’t even begin to hint at what Randy Toman is all about.
And that’s how extremists win elections, even those very small. The local upholders of truth negligently decide it’s not worth their time to explain to the locals what the people behind the names on the ballot really believe in.
According to breaking news GOP Rep. from Michigan, Thaddeus McCotter, will enter the presidential race on Saturday.
DD blog touched upon the quizzical McCotter here. Principally, McCotter is — right now — best known for short guitar-strumming video made with the far right publication, Human Events. Entitled Rock Solid with Thad McCotter, they feature the man playing riffs from the Stones before briefly discussing topics of world interest — like the travails of Silvio Berlusconi.
McCotter still carries a strong whiff of extremist GOP weirdo who just happens to have to be more friendly to labor because he relies somewhat on the union vote in his district.
For instance, he has made a hobby of being in a number of the very bad political documentaries produced by GOP loyalists Ray Griggs and Stephen Bannon. (Bannon is responsible for the Sarah Palin film hagiography, “The Undefeated,” a movie apparently so awful it rates no reviews on Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes despite being regularly in the news.)
McCotter’s list of movies where he has a talking head role is here at IMDb.
The notices on these gobblers speak for themselves.
“This is pure fascist propaganda brought to you by the same people that have been pushing religion and any other mid evil [sic] practices they can come up with,” reads one citizen reviewer of “I Want Your Money.”
“Yay! A 42% Tax cut for the rich!” writes another of the video, on its way to a solid 4.4 on a scale of ten.
McCotter has also written a book entitled Seize Freedom — also his Presidential slogan — which few seem to have read. That is probably about to change.
Two of the biggest obstacles McCotter faces are overcoming Bachmann-mania or the phenomenon of holding one’s nose and supporting Mitt Romney because he’s the least among the extremists. However, McCotter does have his own set of unique quirks.
McCotter is often stilted and, well, weird. It’s difficult to tell if he’s just trying to bring humor to the world or if the Wayne County pol is actually like that all the time.
Q: Mitch Daniels called for a truce on social issues this election cycle. What do you think of that?
McCotter: A truce with whom? This constitutes an unprincipled unilateral surrender to the left that initiated and continues to wage its “culture war??? against Americans’ traditional and cherished way of life.
While I personally condemn violence of any kind, I am stunned that they are not participating more in the Tea Party, even rioting in the streets, clashing with the cops, conducting sit-ins at their colleges, interrupting political events and so on. Instead, the young people of this generation appear to be sound asleep, lethargic and seemingly unaware of how badly their generation is being royally abused by the deep-seated corruption and abuse of power in the government …
Except for the superior human beings who volunteer for U.S. military service, I am not impressed with this generation. They are being led to their own slaughter and are blindly following along instead of fighting for their own survival. Text or twitter that, Millennials.
Ted, obviously not up on LulzSec. Also wounded that more young whipper-snappers don’t come to see his casino and ag fair tour.
HANNITY: But meanwhile, our next guest thinks only one person has the goods to take on “The Anointed One” and insure that he is a one term president. Only problem? This 2012 favorite swears he has no plans of running in 2012.
I sat down with the author of The New York Times, bestseller “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America,” the one and only, Ann Coulter, as she continues to sing the praises of a certain Garden State governor …
HANNITY: You’re insane. I don’t know who is more insane, you or Breitbart. He goes to the “NetKooks,” you go to these liberal universities all the time to get heckled, and they throw pies, they miss but they throw pies at you and.
COULTER: Well I have a bodyguard and I’m hoping I will be able to use him one of these days.
HANNITY: That is coming.
All right. Look, after our last — this is going back about two to three months ago. We had a discussion about who you wanted to run for president. You are obsessed with Chris Christie. No matter what happens, Chris Christie — I’ve interviewed him twice since you’re obsessive remarks. I asked him and on certain terms, he says he’s not running …
HANNITY: — and I think you must have an alter [sic] of Chris Christie in your house.
COULTER: It’s a big alter [sic].
HANNITY: Do you like Pawlenty?
COULTER: He’s OK.
HANNITY: He doesn’t do a whole lot.
COULTER: He’s no Chris Christie.
[Demonstrably true. It would take at least two Tim Pawlenty’s to make one Chris Christie.]
HANNITY: You are obsessed. Have you ever met your hero?
In Schuylkill County I grew up with people are now the Michele Bachmann demographic. They became the Tea Party.
Matt Taibbi profiles Bachmann in Rolling Stone this week.
He astutely notes that in 2011 America, laughing at the dumbshits on television for being dumbshits only makes them stronger. And before you know it, the most camera-genic and determined among them is running for President.
When you laugh at Michele Bachmann for going on MSNBC and blurting out that the moon is made of red communist cheese, these people don’t learn that she is wrong. What they learn is that you’re a dick, that they hate you more than ever, and that they’re even more determined now to support anyone who promises not to laugh at their own visions and fantasies.
Given how Bachmann’s stature rises every time she does something we laugh at, it’s no wonder she’s set her strangely unfocused eyes on the White House. Since arriving in Congress, she has been a human tabloid-copy machine, spouting one copy-worthy lunacy after another. She launched a fierce campaign against compact fluorescent lights, claiming that the energy-saving bulbs contain mercury and pose a “very real threat to children, disabled people, pets, senior citizens.” She blasted the 2010 census as a government plot and told people not to comply because the U.S. Constitution doesn’t require citizens to participate, when in fact it does …
[And they listened to her. The census enumerators saw it, even in Pasadena.]
Even other Republicans, it seems, are making the mistake of laughing at Bachmann. But consider this possibility: She wins Iowa, then swallows the Tea Party and Christian vote whole for the next 30 or 40 primaries while Romney and Pawlenty battle fiercely over who is the more “viable” boring-white-guy candidate. Then Wall Street blows up again — and it’s Barack Obama and a soaring unemployment rate versus a white, God-fearing mother of 28 from the heartland.
It could happen. Michele Bachmann has found the flaw in the American Death Star. She is a television camera’s dream, a threat to do or say something insane at any time, the ultimate reality-show protagonist. She has brilliantly piloted a media system that is incapable of averting its eyes from a story, riding that attention to an easy conquest of an overeducated cultural elite from both parties that is far too full of itself to understand the price of its contemptuous laughter. All of those people out there aren’t voting for Michele Bachmann. They’re voting against us. And to them, it turns out, we suck enough to make anyone a contender.
MSNBC, for example, is just about the best thing that happened to Michele Bachmann.
From the Nation’s Chris Hayes to the the Post’s Gene Robinson, the “good boys” are always on the network, always on hand to laugh at the lunatics for the sake of some good sport while the country slowly burns.
The lunatics, who know this only makes them stronger, went and got elected in 2010 and continued sacking the country.
Good boy Chris Matthews is one of the people who regularly tries to pour all the all the contempt he can on Bachmann. It never seems to occur to him that, on TV, he appears as a creature just as easily despised.
And that’a made clear in the clips featuring him and Bachmann in my “Act Naturally” vid here.
Good news, lads. The Hitler Downfall segment is removed. No more YouTube ad monetization!
