07.04.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 8:07 am by George Smith
Better now than three years ago. Celebrate freedom, capitalism and national security in patriotic song, eat hot dogs. I’m going to.
From the Irrefutable Logic desk:
Immeasurable blood and riches have been invested and sacrificed in the name of American independence, but as we become more spoiled and self-serving, with busy little bees implementing the Cloward and Piven dismantling of our economy and spirit, all that historical stuff must be getting boring and unhip to the recipients of the redistribution booty …
With the runaway fraud and deceit infesting the welfare scams, entitlement scams, unemployment benefit scams, food-stamp scams, fuel subsidy scams, transportation scams, child support scams, disability scams, the suicidal scams running amok here, there and everywhere, it actually appears a sure thing that a huge swath of Americans actually do celebrate “Dependence Day??? every day.
— Ted Nugent
And, this, worth a mordant laugh.
Feel free to augment the blog’s hot dog budget, or not.
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07.02.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 10:28 am by George Smith
Last year, it was bullet-proof tactical puffer vests for children:
With his new line, MC Kids, Caballero offers backpacks and jackets for kids, including some in girlie pink and stamped with fluttering fairies, that are also outfitted with bulletproof plating to stop the slugs from an Uzi. Caballero, 46, said that in his 20 years of business, there had never been a demand in Colombia for bulletproof children’s clothing.
But the United States is a different market: a country where there are about as many firearms as people, Caballero pointed out, and where mass shootings have simply prompted some to stock up on weapons and seek other forms of protection.
And you can see them as part of this video, even more relevant now.
And this week, a long report from deep inna heart of WhiteManistan, Texas, described by Rolling Stone as “falling into the hands of gun nuts, border-sealers and talk-radio charlatans [where] George W. Bush would practically be considered a communist.”
The article is more fair than the lead-in’s implication. Even it’s subjects, most woefully, one of the leaders of Open Carry Texas, might find parts of it a truthful portrayal.
This excerpt, perfectly describes the upside-down world of paralytic, dangerous and paranoid white America in 2014:
Open Carry Texas received even worse press after two dozen heavily armed members, some carrying AK-47s, crashed a meeting of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun-control group formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The Moms had gathered at a Mexican restaurant in suburban Dallas. Even though the Open Carry members never left the parking lot, the damage was done: As any PR novice would have warned, you simply don’t bring guns to a mom fight.
This week, Target issued a statement that bringing guns to shop for sundries was no longer allowed, looking specifically aimed at Open Carry Texas in Tarrant County.
“It’s also interesting to report that nearly everyone I met [for this story] turned out to be far quirkier, politically, than any caricatured preconceptions might lead you to guess,” writes the Rolling Stone journalist.
While journalistic comparisons between the rise of the Tea Party and the rise of Occupy Wall Street – as two ends of the spectrum responding to economic collapse and elite betrayal – feel like clichéd false [equivalence] by this point, there’s an unruly, anarchistic feel to this crowd that reminds me of the time I spent in Zuccotti Park.”
Readers know there’s no shortage of WhiteManistan blog video on the rise of Gun Bully America. They are invited to enjoy again, Gun Nut Folk Tune and Hey Joe and to sh-a-a-a-a-r-e in the great network of social media where the cream always rises to the top.
Made months to over a year ago, working documentary proof that things can always get worse. And do.
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06.19.14
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:21 pm by George Smith
Billboard magazine and other music outlets have started promoting Ted Nugent’s new album, ShutUp&Jam!
The features news includes embeds to two new Nugent songs, one of which is entitled “Never Stop Believing.” The articles do not mention a word about the most interesting part of Nugent’s new music.
In the second verse of “Never Stop Believing,” WhiteManistan’s most popular bigot, the man who called the president a “subhuman mongrel,” sings:
And I got a dream
Like Martin Luther King
In my heart, I hear that man sing
So I climb up his mountain
And I shout it out loud
Because I got a dream and I thank God
There’s really nothing more to say about with regards to Nugent’s crazy world. Last year, you’ll recall, Nugent called his summer series of shows the Black Power tour.
No link, it’s easy enough to find.
Ted Nugent, in his own words, at WND. A routine sample.
And, the web.
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06.12.14
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:12 pm by George Smith
Steel Knees is a happy man today. A relatively small number of really angry WhiteManistanis in Virginia booted famous House Republican Eric Cantor for, essentially, not hating on illegals, “bloodsuckers” and “the takers” enough.
Nugent:
Now Virginia has lighted the way. Eric Cantor is now the revolutionary verb, and it is time to go Eric Cantor on the whole bunch of them. No more compromise. No more BS freebees. No more getting anything you don’t earn. No more spending like maniacs flying over the cuckoo’s nest. No more criminal invaders and no more bloodsuckers.
Charles Blow at the NYT sums it up:
While the beltway chatter grows over the political death of Eric Cantor, the first House leader to be unseated in a primary, it would be easy to lose sight of just how unsettling his demise is for our politics in general.
On one level, it is a glaring example — and condemnation — of the staggering levels of voter apathy that exist the further an election race is from presidential politics. Only about 65,000 people voted in the Republican primary in Virginia’s Seventh District on Tuesday. This is in a district of nearly 760,000 people …
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06.04.14
Posted in WhiteManistan at 12:43 pm by George Smith
There are enclaves of WhiteManistan in California. They just no longer count for much since no Republican holds any major public office in the state.
But, if you go to the land of northern redwoods, WhiteManistanis have been trying to secede for years.
Yesterday was election day, only one in three counties given the opportunity voted for forming the new state of Jefferson.
Between the three, there are less people than live in Pasadena. In the one voting for new statehood, this translates to to the wishes of probably a little over 4,000 people as a majority.
The people in favor of the new state of Jefferson are, bluntly, stupid. It’s an angry ego thing for them.
These places have no tax base. That they have public services and schools at all is because of the tax money flowing from the rest of the state, you know, the kind of money a still civilized society feels is necessary to be a civil society, even if there are places within it where not too many people live.
Yet the rationalization for the creation of Jefferson is they are tired of having no representation.
Voters in one far Northern California county defeated a measure to call for the creation of a 51st state named Jefferson while those in a neighboring county responded more favorably to the test of whether a secessionist movement has sails in a region accustomed to feeling overlooked by the rest of California.
Del Norte County voters rejected the secessionist measure by 59 percent Tuesday, while Tehama County voters were supporting the proposal by 56 percent with ballots still being tallied.
A similar but unrelated question on the ballot in Siskiyou County, to rename it the Republic of Jefferson, failed with only 44 percent of voters in favor.
Follow the link for the amusing picture.
The ludicrously named Neel Kashkari did win the opportunity to be crushed by Jerry Brown in the upcoming gubernatorial election.
So happy were election workers to see me in the afternoon at my polling place, they insisted I take an “I Voted!” sticker. I had the place to myself, it was a warm afternoon and did not want to disappoint them. Voter turnout was estimated to be a meager 13 percent.
There’s another secessionist movement in California, bankrolled by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who wants to split the state into six different new ones. The most prosperous and bestest to be named, of course, Silicon Valley.
Check the guy pushing it, Tim Draper, singing to handfuls of nerds begging for his money. The guy’s fucking horrible.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 12:18 pm by George Smith
Postcard from Tarrant County, TX, where the freedom farms of WhiteManistan are the most fertile and lush of all. Sadly, this cannot be seen here in LA County because we’re shackled in the chains of government tyranny. You can’t satirize or publicly shame us. The roots of the tree of democrazy and gun-demental rights are refreshed, watered and strengthened by those things. Molon labe!
And if you’ve been along for the ride, you know the blog did a short rock opera on it.
Always under-appreciated but ahead of the curve.
And earlier.
They also have absolutely the worst taste in looks.
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06.01.14
Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 1:05 pm by George Smith
There’s little if any faith of in me but I know religion as spiritual poison when I see it.
And that’s WhiteManistan’s special brand of Christianity.
An excerpt from a letter submitted to the Roanoke Times of Virginia, spied at Pine View Farm:
Republicanized Christianity redefines the biblical view of humanity to include for-profit corporations; it demonizes the poor and ignores their exploitation despite the overwhelming amount of biblical data that teaches about God’s hatred for this practice. These injustices necessitated the prophets’ warnings about God’s intent to punish man.
How did we get from “blessed are the poor??? to the republicanized message of “the poor get what they deserve???? We have witnessed the hijacking of the Christian faith, one that is defined by politicians and devoid of Christian substance.
It’s true our Grand Old White Supremacy Party have honed their perverted vision to a fine point as they take the country down with them.
But, truth, it goes back awhile.
At the beginning of Jesus of America (watch it), I put a clip of the Reverend Billy Sunday. I dubbed him out for the sake of the intro.
But if you look for him on YouTube and listen, he goes on about the Bible and wealth, that the disciples of Jesus, if valued in his day’s money, were more affluent than Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.
Don’t believe me? Take a gander. His message appealed to millions at a time, the Gilded Age, that was much like now.
Read the comments. WhiteManistan still likes it.
Others, not so much:
Listen to what this devil is saying, twisting the words of the Bible. The Bible says clearly, “it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle!” And here this dick is saying that Holy Men were billionaires. America was not built of Christian values, dumbass pricks! You can’t twist the Bible into your own wicked fantasies, to have it justify the lunacy of modern times. America was built on capitalism and greed, not Biblical values. You can’t have it both ways.
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05.28.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 12:08 pm by George Smith
Because there’s no such thing as excess in the Free Republic of Douchebags. And they’ve been busy the last few days. (Yes, yes, click that link.)
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05.27.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 2:56 pm by George Smith
From Krugman, yesterday:
Our political discourse is dominated by reverse Robin-Hoodism — the belief that economic success depends on being nice to the rich, who won’t create jobs if they are heavily taxed, and nasty to ordinary workers, who won’t accept jobs unless they have no alternative. And according to this ideology, Europe — with its high taxes and generous welfare states — does everything wrong …
[But] Europe started doing much better, while America started doing much worse. France’s prime-age employment rate overtook America’s early in the Bush administration; at this point the gap in employment rates is bigger than it was in the late 1990s, this time in France’s favor. Other European nations with big welfare states, like Sweden and the Netherlands, do even better.
Krugman links to Portuguese economist Antonio Fatas, who in a blog post, shows how the labor market in the US is very poor for prime age works, in stark contrast to Europe and many other countries.
Fatas concludes: “In fact, with the exception of Portugal, Greece and Ireland, the US is the country with the worst labor market record for this age group if we compare the 2012 to the 2000 figures.”
Read it. Shown in charts, during the the past decade, the US has become the best at being almost the worst.
The ol’ American exceptionalism, again.
In honor of this, I whipped up the busking version of Rich Man’s Burden today.
Sing along for the sorrows of the Koch brothers, all the wealthy now feeling so persecuted. Drown the misery with some Colts.
And feel free (but not at all obligated) to toss a couple coins in the virtual guitar case, a half-six worth maybe.
Blessed are the job creators, they can always hire way more waiters.
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