Well, well, well...it certainly has been quite an interesting few days, hasn't it? I know this sounds cliche but it really has ALL BEEN BUILDING TO THIS.My posts over the last week or so have been around the general theme of how entertaining the right has become since they got their asses handed to them in the last election. They started off as their usual peptic selves and have since boiled over into a hilarious combination of insanity and paranoia spewing forth heretofore unfathomable lies and deceit. What has caused them to get this way?
First up is tax day (April 15th)...always a day to rile up conservatives. I want my money, damnit! But I also want a strong defense, smooth roads, and someone to take care of me when I am shitting my pants at age 80. Ah, the hyperbole.....
This year, in a sad attempt to find some galvanizing event to coalesce into something resembling a party, they have glommed on, much to the chagrin of real Libertarians who despise Republicans spending as much as they do Democrats spending, to the various "Tea Parties" being thrown around the nation to protest against President Obama's tax policies and his....socialism?
(Mark leaves computer area and walks into family room. Finds pillow with which to muffle copious amounts of laughter)
First of all, this year they would actually be protesting the tax policies of President Bush, not President Obama, who passed 2009 laws in 2008. Second, President Obama is more than likely going to wait to raise taxes on the top percent of this country AFTER Bush's tax cuts expire in 2010...which means that won't actually happen until 2011. He is doing this because, contrary to the belief in psycho-ville, he does have conservative economists advising him. And, third, socialism? Ok...um...fucksticks? Please do a little research. The current tax rate in the upper bracket is 36 percent. Under President Obama's plan it would increase to 39 percent. JESUS H JOHNSON!! If that's not socialism, then I don't know what is!! Anyone want to take a guess what it was Reagan? Nixon? Eisenhower? 50, 70, and 91 percent!
Oh...no...that's going to leave a mark.
The fact is that the progressive tax was put into play by a Republican (Teddy Roosevelt) first because he called it the "fair and right thing to do...to spread the wealth." Imagine if ol' Teddy were around today...he would be taken out back and shot in the head by his own party.
And then we have the Department of Homeland Security Report which has right wing pundits blowing the biggest bowel since Hoover dropped his last deuce in office. The report (which should be titled "No Shit") says that "right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning," the assessment reads.
"The current economic and political climate has some similarities to the 1990s when right-wing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs and the perceived threat to U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers.," it continues.
The report also points to returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as potential targets for recruiting saying that their combat skills would be welcome in such groups. It urges more support and funding for veterans so as to avoid "the difficulty of veterans to reintegrate into their communities that could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks."
It goes on to say that "proposed imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans likely would attract new members into the ranks of right-wing extremist groups ... The high volume of purchases and stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by right-wing extremists in anticipation of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary concern to law enforcement."
This report has prompted cries of outrage from the right. All of you will have to excuse me for a moment....
(Mark leaves computer area and walks outside. His neighbors ask him if he needs any help as he is LAUGHING HIS FUCKING ASS OFF SO HARD THAT HE HAS PHYSICALLY LOST CONTROL OF HIMSELF.)
Setting aside the obvious and highly humorous fact at how many right wingers these days act and sound like Al Qaeda (remember English translation of Al Qaeda is "the base":)), what I find to be outrageously ironic about this is how many of these folks spent months screaming about Bill Ayers and now, when DHS gets a flood of new threats from right wing extremists every day...threats that we are not privy to...threats that make Ayers look like an eight year old with a green water pistol...and we have a sitting Congress person calling for people to be "armed and dangerous" THEY HAVE THE GALL TO CRY "FASCISM?!?
Perhaps they might want to stop listening to dolts like Michelle Malkin and ACTUALLY TAKE A LOOK AT REALITY. They will see, as I did last July, that the chief concern under the subject heading Domestic Terrorism comes from their side of the aisle not the left...and has for the last 15 years. Take a look at the fucking facts. Make sure you read the first comment directly after my post which entirely proves my point.
The last time I checked it was illegal to make a threat on the president's life. This happens all the time in koolaidville. The frenzy and anger that has been whipped up by the right is absolutely unparalleled at this particular point in time. They are out of their minds with the fact that President Obama might actually succeed at what he is doing. If he does, their entire belief system is going to shatter. And to them, their lives will be over. They simply can't deal with this.
If you don't believe me, here's a little story for you. I am friends with a doctor named Sam. Sam and I work out at the same gym. He is very conservative. Last summer, right before candidate Obama was to give his speech in Denver at Mile High Stadium, a group of right wing extremists were foiled in an attempt to kill him. My friend Sam, a well respected kidney specialist here in Minneapolis...a man who has dedicated his life to saving people...came up to me as I was on the treadmill and said, "Today is a sad day." He looked really down and, thinking that something horrible had happened, I asked him what exactly was wrong.
He pointed to the TV, which had images of the redneck fucks who were planning on killing Obama and said,
"Those guys failed at their mission to save this country."
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I think I'll bid you adieu M. You've descended below the Kos kids, maybe even past DU. I can't actually picture you laughing hysterically as your asides call out, but I do see you manically masturbating. That's an image I'd prefer to not have in my head, but it's about all your writing inspires. Good luck with that. And remember, the govt is always there to help.
That's fine by me juris. A part of me wishes you could've been there when Sam said what he said...ah well.
I'll be here when you are ready to admit...well...you know:)
Juris, let me see if I have this straight (if you are still reading which we all know you are). First, you goad Mark into writing about the DHS report (quite accurate btw) regarding right wing extremism. He does so. Then you storm off of here because he...what?...tells the truth?
I've always taken your comments to be pretty tride and true on most things but you are way off base on this one.
And chicken shit as well.
Sounds to me like juris is having a tough time with admitting there are dangerous people in this country. Too bad.
DHS report (quite accurate btw)That was the bullshit I was calling M on. You want to eat that up, well, if that floats yer boat.
I think it's all fair and fine to criticize the right-wing when it is deserving (and it often is). The DHS report (and the San Fran Chron - that bastion of extreme right-wingers has stated that this was a "sophomore" effort) is exactly the kind of mind-less rant that would be deserving of such criticism (and would get it here if but the roles were reversed). But M, and his fellow mini-minds of the left suddenly think it all fine and dandy.
Look, if you want to act like the mirror image of that which you profess to hate, that's okay. Just don't expect me to believe you are anything but very, very cheap hypocrites when you praise such folly coming from "your side". [And then have the audacity to wonder, as M did at TSM, why "the other side" doesn't want to "work together". Sheesh!]
The water here has gotten just a little too shallow for me to swim in. You all just go right ahead and wallow, if that's your thing.
There is quite a big flaw in your argument, though, juris. Mark put up an extensive list of right wing domestic terrorism that we all suffered through the last time we had a Democratic president. These are facts, dude, so I can't really see how this is "shallow water."
Add in the fact that Barack Obama is black and the already serious threat just got a whole lot worse.
M's list consisted of nothing but attacks on abortion. [And I fully support condemning such and bringing the perps to justice.] The DHS didn't do even that - just McVeigh and a whole lot of innuendo about returning vets and people who disagree with the notion that the federal govt is the source of all goodness. Did you actually read that piece of crap? The plain and simple fact is, this is EXACTLY the kind of stupid fear-mongering that M would be all over like a fly on shit if it had come from the last administration and named similarly vague left-wing 'threats'. THAT is the bullshit I call on him and the rest who think there is anything here. I really believe you know it's bullshit but you can't help but get some jollies from the shoe being on the other foot. If you actually think this is credible, well more's the pity.
Same with the tea protests. The Repubs have ZERO credibility there, but you keep hooting and hollering about them. Get it through your brick-like heads - there are a LOT of people like myself, who don't give a shit about the Repub party, and don't care much for the Dems either particularly when they act like a bunch of hyperactive half-wits. I might have given the Repubs the benefit of the doubt when they talked about limited govt before, but after the last 8 years? And even at that, I had to look past a lot I didn't like to vote for the bits that I did.
Finally, the two yay-hoos in Tennessee that Mark (and his supposed friend Sam) alluded to - anybody hear what happened to them? I haven't. You think if there was a real case against them we wouldn't be hearing about it? And M, I would never call someone who thinks killing a presidential candidate is a good idea a 'friend', but that's me. I take it you really hated the many who wanted to see Bush assassinated and advocated such publicly? Or will you excuse them and plainly prove your hypocrisy?
Hey I hear DHS is coming out with another report. It's identical to the one about right-wing extremism, but it talks about people of the Muslim faith instead. It's identical in every way. Advises the law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout...has no facts to back it up...offers no evidence, no anecdotes, no sense of profiling beyond Muslim. In short -- if you're a Muslim, we need to be taking a closer look at you.
Just kidding.
But seriously. Can you come up with a defense for the DHS report about right-wing extremism, that wouldn't also apply to my hypothetical follow-up report about Muslims? Or would you be cheering on the former while howling with rage at the latter?
Please, if you want to take on that challenge...explain to me how this works, exactly. Until then it looks to me like a case of "Profiling is wonderful as long as it helps liberals and hurts conservatives." Which, I suppose, is alright in its own way as well; I just think you should be honest about it.
I don't need any defense. The facts speak for themselves. Take a look at the violent actions by the right in the last 15 years and tell me again that they aren't a threat.
Funny that you bring up Muslims. The gripes from the right about the DHS report sounds an awful lot like the gripes from Muslims in this country regarding profiling. Yet another example of how little difference there is between the "base" and Al Qaeda.
You can also add in the little bit from you blog, mk, wishing that Muslims are waterboarded 189 times a day. How are you different from the extremists you purport to loathe again?
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