These videos are hard to watch. The first is the most soul-destroying collection of frightened, paranoid white bigots and heevahavas you’ve seen in your life.
The second is Mitt Romney, being taped surreptitiously, letting out his inner creep.
It’s his appeal to the wealthy and the pyschopaths in the first video, the Tea Party, the far right, one reliant on contempt for about half the country, explaining the only reason people vote for the president is because they are moochers with no personal responsibility, who pay no income tax and are on food stamps.
As if the negative political ads aren’t enough, now a county judge in Lubbock, Texas, predicts possible “civil war” if President Obama is re-elected.
Judge Tom Head was on a local TV news show making his case for a tax increase, when he said hiring extra sheriff’s deputies would especially be needed if Obama wins in November …
“He’s going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., and what is going to happen when that happens?,” Head asked.
Readers again notice the mania of the John Bircher/Tea Party conspiracy belief that the UN will stage a takeover of the United States. Those who are not in the heevahava demographic know the UN is much like the old League of Nations, powerless except everyone can be in it.
“And we’re not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we’re talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy,” says the man from Texas.
Later, after the expected furor, he insisted it had been all taken out of context.
The presidency of Barack Obama has meant boom years for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
An influx started, the Reuters piece explains, during the Iraq war and before economic failure, when there was no great enthusiasm for getting maimed or blown up by IEDs and the Army had to relax its standards so they would be more forgiving to miscellaneous dirtbags. The story emphasizes, historically, that this is not particularly new.
“White supremacists, neo-Nazis and skinhead groups encourage followers to enlist in the Army and Marine Corps to acquire the skills to overthrow what some call the ZOG – the Zionist Occupation Government,” it reads. “Get in, get trained and get out to brace for the coming race war.”
The recent healing balm that is Ted Nugent:
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.
When they [the UN] talk about reducing unnecessary violence by eliminating small arms in the hands of citizens around the world, they’re talking about the same thing that Hitler talked about: Disarm the populace so you can control them at your every whim.
Todd Akin may be a famous horrid man but that’s the manner of person a constituency of Americans admire. They cleave together, they have their media (the Internet, instead of making stone ignorance harder to defend has created self-isolating immune to outsider dilution social Balkanization, virtual barbwire next to barbwire) and they admire the detestable. When the detestables do or say something horrendous in public they draw strength from any subsequent condemnation. It is their validation.
It’s why Ted Nugent does all right.
Nugent’s audience appreciates that he’s terrible Ted. And it matters very little what others say and write about him, this blog included. I can make lists of the quotations from the psychopath and readers can laugh or cringe but the pyschopaths are affected not one whit. It has no more impact than American celebrities and social media getting publicly angry with the Russian government for jailing the women of Pussy Riot.
We live in a country that is permanently divided. And the cracks go deep into US history; this is not new.
I’ve often thought the current Republican Party has been trying to refight and win the Civil War for decades. I’m not alone in this.
At Esquire, Charles Pierce puts it this way, in two different posts, here and here:
[Akin’s] more than halfway to becoming a symbol that the opposition can use to raise money and anger. However, as far as his withdrawal is concerned, we’re at a point in which Missouri Republicans — the folks who never have had a problem putting this guy in Congress and obviously had no problem with him as a senator — have to choose between common decency and political tribalism. I’m not betting anything I value in either direction on that one.
I think we are looking at an 1850’s of the political mind. I think we are two countries, each with its own history, and laws, and language, and religion, and their own mass media to amplify all those things. But only one of these two countries of the mind is tightly organized and capable of moving as a single unit. I think things like the sovereign-citizens movement are merely a particularly vivid example of this …
In the 1850’s, two countries of the mind existed long before the United States actually was divided into two separate nations. They had no common history, not even a common language with which to discuss the differences between them. Resolution was impossible in a country in which even the word “freedom” didn’t mean the same thing. Each had their own history, and laws, and language, and religion, and even a rudimentary mass media through which to amplify all of these. Those circumstances exist again today, far deeper divisions than simple “polarization” or even “tribalism.” There are two countries of the mind. One of them, the conservative one, is the far better organized whole. It is round. It is complete. It has a wild frontier, which is also more round and whole and organized.
The second excerpt from Pierce’s blog is a brief discussion of the shooting of Louisiana police officers who wandered into a sovereign citizen trailer encampment last week.
The point he makes is that today our domestic terror groups aren’t from the extreme end of the Democratic Party, they share a border with the far right, one that stretches back into American history. And that demographic, one I call the Psychopath Vote, owns an entire party, finding itself fought by an often feckless and uninspired opposition.
So it can always win.
“It strikes me that this is a tempest in a teapot,” said one Missouri voter, a Republican to CNN for a story today. “I think he used a word that in reflection he wouldn’t use again, like the word ‘legitimate.’ Forcible. But this is just a matter of semantics … I think people are looking for something to accuse Todd or drag him down when he, I don’t think he said anything that’s really worth all the coverage that it’s getting.”
It is not like the Senate has never had much of a shortage of people like Akin — science deniers, home schoolers, American theocrats.
There’s James Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint … the guy Claire McCaskill defeated years ago, Jim Talent, often ridiculed here.
Here’s the current list of washed-up angry white guy musicians who really really hate the president:
Hank Williams, Jr. — He compared the president to Hitler on Fox and had his music canned on Monday night football. This inspired his new album of mostly hating on Obama tunes. He gave the record away on YouTube which didn’t make it any less the dud.
Onstage in Iowa, over the weekend, a quote: “We’ve got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!”
A few days earlier washed up white thrash metal guitarist Dave Mustaine of Megadeth tells an audience in Singapore the president was behind recent mass shootings. When this is publicized Mustaine continues the nutso and white-knuckle ex-drunk act on Alex Jones, roping this all into some UN conspiracy to deprive Americans of guns as well as anything else you can think of. Mustaine’s words, he insists, have been taken out of context by the mainstream media.
And — of course, there is Ted Nugent. Nugent spouts the same weird John Bircher/Tea Party conspiracy crap about UN plotting, too.
No one will pay for Ted Nugent to make records anymore so pretty much all he has left is touring county fairs and casinos during the summer, running celebrity hunts for his cable television show and appearing as an extremist pundit for the right. This year he’s been by the US Secret Service for popping off at the NRA convention. And he has racked up a reputation as a hunting scofflaw after two convictions, one for deer baiting, the other for illegally bagging a bear.
“Williams isn’t the only musician to speak out about politics in colorful ways this month.”
Comparing the President to Hitler, implying he was behind recent massacres, saying if the president is re-elected you’ll be dead, a statement that gets the Secret Service to your door — these are all examples of speaking out about politics in “colorful ways.”
“The president, for the record, is a Christian,” the Hollywood Reporter person adds helpfully.
We have more in common with Greece than most of us believe. In fact, our situation may be worse than Greece, which is the quintessential definition of modern economic doom …
Few of our politicians are willing to even discuss the drastic cuts in spending that would be required just to begin to put America back on the right path. Our politicians would rather ignore the problem and be re-elected by an ever-increasing population of America- hating bloodsuckers …
Voters, at least half and especially those without white skin, now deemed “bloodsuckers.”
Number of times Ted Nugent has called groups or individuals “bloodsuckers” — cited on blog — and universally.
Framing.
The result was anything but righteous and just — as employees tried to hide their ability and exhibit their need — as competition turned from one of achievements to one of sores — and the best men took the role of suckers, and the worst of bloodsuckers. — Essays on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
It didn’t take us long to see how it all worked out. Any man who tried to play straight, had to refuse himself everything. He lost his taste for any pleasure, he hated to smoke a nickel’s worth of tobacco or chew a stick of gum, worrying if someone had more need for that nickel. He felt ashamed of every mouthful of food he swallowed, wondering whose weary night of overtime had paid for it, knowing that his food was not his by right, miserably wishing to be cheated rather than to cheat, to be a sucker but not a bloodsucker. He wouldn’t marry, he wouldn’t help his folks back home, he wouldn’t put an extra burden on the family … But the shiftless and irresponsible had a field day of it. They bred babies, they got girls into trouble, and dragged in every worthless relative they had from all over the country, every unmarried pregnant sister, for an extra disability allowance, they got more sicknesses than any doctor could disprove, they ruined their clothing, their furniture, their homes — what the hell, ‘the family’ was paying for it. They found more ways of getting in need than any of us could imagine — they developed a special skill for it, which was the only ability they showed. — Atlas Shrugged
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War. — Ted Nugent, earlier this year
There is nothing for it now but than to say, flat-out, that Willard Romney has decided that the only way he can become president is to become a racist and to appeal to the racist base of his party. This is the second ad in as many weeks centered on the general theme of The Negro President Wants To Give Your Money To The Black People Like Him…
The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan’s in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to hover perilously close to double digits, small businesses cannot meet bankers’ terms to borrow money, and taxes on the middle class remain relatively high. A high-profile and vocal minority has directed the public’s fear and frustration at nonwhites and immigrants. After almost ten years of race-baiting and immigrant-bashing by right-wing demagogues, nearly one in five Americans reports being vehemently opposed to immigration, legal or illegal, and even U.S.-born nonwhites have become occasional targets for mobs of angry whites.
In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party??? movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest …
When the leaders of the group hold a press conference to announce their goals, they invoke the Declaration of Independence and argue that the current form of the federal government is not deriving its “just powers from the consent of the governed??? but is actually “destructive to these ends.??? Therefore, they say, the people can alter or abolish the existing government and replace it with another that, in the words of the Declaration, “shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.??? While mainstream politicians and citizens react with alarm, the “tea party??? insurrectionists in South Carolina enjoy a groundswell of support from other tea party groups, militias, racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, anti-immigrant associations such as the Minutemen, and other right-wing groups. At the press conference the masked militia members’ uniforms sport a unit seal with a man wearing a tricorn hat and carrying a musket over the motto “Today’s Minutemen.???
While the rest doesn’t quite live up to the intro, it’s worth a full read. Don’t skip the comments, where the rage of the Tea Party is on full display:
I gave it a rating of one star. This is because there is no way to rate zero stars.
I am asking Congressman Darrell Issa, Chairman of the US House Committe on Oversight and Government Operations to start a congressional investigation into Col. Kevin Benson and to the sort of unAmerican garbage being taught at the Command & Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. KS.
Dean Allen
www.RattlesnakeRevolution.com
Janet napolitano would be so proud. col Bensn is a traitor in waiting. Your oath is to the Constitution, Col. – not to your masters in the white house. it’s easy enough to see where your coauthor got her bile – Princeton is a well known home for all who hate our great nation – but to get such trash from the highest levels, of our military – even from one who is retired, is shocking indeed. You must be made of the same soft metal as those who serve under this traitorous regime without complaint. You watch as our sons are told not to defend themselves, not to kill those who seek their blood – the same regime that strips them of their right to vote, guts their pay, and sends them to battle without equipment or ammunition. The others who have posted here have covered your ill informed attack on today’s true patriots, the tea party. The one Thing we can all be thankful for is that traitors like yourself feel so free to expose yourselves, now that your fellow travelers have come to power.
According to the kind, caring and considerate left, you have every right to be a crazy druggie and roam the streets with no means of support …
Years ago the left clamored that mental institutions violated the rights of those with mental illnesses. The American Civil Liberties Union even sued on their behalf. The result was the doors of the cuckoo nests were flung open and the patients stumbled out.
Now they are everywhere. You can’t visit any city in America without encountering dirty people who are severely mentally impaired roaming the streets …
The real discussion that needs to occur in America is how we finally throw off the shackles of political correctness, quit worrying about “feelings??? and simply restrict the rights of psychotics by making it easier to lock them up
It’s no White-House-leaked top secret that the business community does not trust the president. His statements, policies and clear and present anti-business agenda have shown contempt for the free enterprise system ever since he took up residence in the White House and began his systematic Cloward-Piven-driven destruction of our economy.
The president and his Fedzilla anti-business cohorts want to reshape America into a socialist state …
Only chumps, punks, bloodsuckers and fools would choose the guy with no [business] experience and who despises the free market. The producers are solidly in the camp of Mitt Romney.
Ted mentions he plays Gibson guitars and that the company is under attack from the government. Which I’ve covered before.
The artist’s conception of Nugent, alongside a push mower and gardening tools, has him in silhouette with Fenders. Doh!
We can still be relaxed and comfortable, but mentally prepared and more tuned in to our surroundings. Be prepared to stop evil in its tracks and live.
On Twitter, this week, according to the Seattle newspaper:
“We pray for all victims & loved ones of demonshooter in CO & we SALUTE the brave warriors who saves lives IF only they would hav [sic] had a good gun,??? Nugent declared.
It is at best questionable whether a shootout in a darkened theater would have saved lives or upped the casualty count.
Nugent, on Glenn Beck’s radio show, yesterday:
NUGENT: But dear God in heaven, doing nothing is not an option. Training, having a firearm to neutralize an evil gun maniac is a way to go, and we train for that. And I wish I would have been in the theater that day.
“Heed these words, my disciples: When the crowd has not machine guns, it cannot protect itself from evil carrying a machine gun and a Glock.??? — Chapter 2, The Compleat Sayings of American Jesus.
Not everyone who owns a gun can possibly be so ill in the head. It’s a pity they lack the nerve to make changes at the NRA.
DENVER – Firearms sales are surging in the wake of the Colorado movie massacre as buyers express fears about both personal safety and anti-gun lawmakers who might use the shooting to seek new weapons restrictions.
In Colorado, the site of Friday’s shooting that killed 12 and injured dozens of others, gun sales jumped in the three days that followed. The state approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm — 25 percent more than the average Friday to Sunday period in 2012 and 43 percent more than the same interval the week prior.
Dick Rutan, owner of Gunners Den in suburban Arvada, Colo., said requests for concealed-weapon training certification “are off the hook …”
“It’s not uncommon for us to see spikes in requests for concealed pistol licenses when there’s a significant gun-related tragedy,” said Sgt. Cindi West of the King County sheriff’s office in Washington state.
“Heed these words, my disciples: When the crowd has not machine guns, it cannot protect itself from evil carrying a machine gun and a Glock.??? — Chapter 2, The Compleat Sayings of American Jesus.
Wayne Allyn Root, former Libertarian vice-presidential nominee, is author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution With God, Guns, Gold, Gambling & Tax Cuts??? (Wiley, 2009).
President Obama is presiding over a new civil war. This war pits rich against poor, taxpayers versus tax-takers and unions against the private sector. Voters across this country who get checks from the government will vote for Mr. Obama to keep the checks coming, regardless of race. They want to be taken care of by government, from cradle to grave …
I was Mr. Obama’s college classmate.
I experienced the views of my fellow Columbia radicals back in 1979-83. Virtually everyone I knew at Columbia called himself a Marxist or socialist. My classmates openly embraced the idea of “bringing down the system,??? meaning capitalism. They openly hated the wealthy (even though most of them came from wealthy families). They openly hated President Reagan and often called him “the devil.??? They cheered and actually gave a standing ovation when they heard he’d been shot in an assassination attempt. This is where Mr. Obama comes from …
“Heed these words, my disciples: When the crowd has not machine guns, it cannot protect itself from evil carrying a machine gun and a Glock.” — Chapter 2, The Compleat Sayings of American Jesus.
