lolz
I cannot stop laughing about this graphic:
RedState has officially passed over whatever glory years it ever had and has prematurely entered the “Smell the Glove” phase of its career. Brandon Friedman at VoteVets remarks:
Like many chickenhawks who struggle with what it means to be a man in the modern era, Erickson and the “soldiers” in his budding “Strike Force” have again tried to imitate serving in the military without actually having to don a uniform, pick up a weapon, or sacrifice much of anything at all. However, by creating this make-believe world in which RedState activists are members of a military-like “Strike Force,” they’re actually quite a lot like the
Dungeons and Dragons fansLARPers in the video below pretending to be wizards, basilisks, and gorgons.So not only has RedState designed a military unit crest, but they’ve now painted themselves as hopeless dorks, lunging clumsily for political relevance with a ham-handed attempt at jumpstarting a field organization.
I concur with this analysis, although I’d say it’s a bit unfair to the LARPers, who actually do get some form of real exercise running around in the woods and who do have some experience in weapons training, even if it’s only with foam swords and spell packets. Put it to you like this: you give me the choice of going into a fight with an average LARPer or Dan Riehl, you bet your ass I’m taking the LARPer.
[Thanks to whichever commenter pointed this out to me in the comments a while back.]
That graphic also reminds us how hard wingnuts suck at Photoshop.
How much more awesomer can that logo be? Teh answer is none. None more awesomer.
Uh oh. Looks like some pessimism in their ranks:
wow. just wow. i can’t stop laughing either. and brandon friedman is right on.
there are some knights in shining armor who do their thing near where i play bike polo, and they are kind of intimidating. especially the ones who are seven feet tall. whomever pointed out that larpers are tougher than (ha ha) RED STATE STRIKE FORCE team members (soldiers?) is definitely correct.
Bike polo? Do you use a severed head for the ball, because that would be REALLY tough.
They need to head off to the parlor and get platoon tats.
Show some damn initiative and motivation.
JS
oh shoot d.n.: at first i thought you were going to quote a RED STATE STRIKE FORCE team member who thought this was…um…a less-than-brilliant idea.
but no, just someone who points out our multi-billion dollar propaganda network and organization. right.
who do we talk to about getting crests and insignia for this organization? i’m starting to get a little envious of the RED STATE STRIKE FORCE. 🙁
“…broadcasts the daily propaganda message about that subject to the leftists nuts…”
One of the cool things about being a leftist is that ability to receive broadcasts with my testicles.
no, those don’t roll very well.
who do we talk to about getting crests and insignia for this organization?
Soros or Kos, not sure which.
YOU STEP TO ME
I BRING THE PAIN
WHITE BOY
LARPers also tend to get at least some exercise and enjoy the benefits of fresh air and sunshine. Wingers? Come on.
I’m sure Red Army nostalgia is pretty cheap on eBay these days.
Is this Strike Force related to Operation: Whateverthefuck? You know, that thing they came up with wherein they were gonna be all mean to conservatives who didn’t sufficiently love Palin?
Put it to you like this: you give me the choice of going into a fight with an average LARPer or Dan Riehl, you bet your ass I’m taking the LARPer.
Wouldn’t it be easier to take on Dan Riehl?
If I didn’t know Red State was populated by a platoon of Fail, this would be a little scary. Wake me up when they start kidnapping Union Activists.
Ok, alec’s version is slightly more awesomer.
Wouldn’t it be easier to take on Dan Riehl?
No, I mean going into a fight with one or the other at my side helping me.
“Lightning Bolt!”
“Lightning Bolt!”
“Lightning Bolt!”
“Lightning Bolt!”
“Lightning Bolt!”
“Lightning Bolt!”
“Lightning Bolt!”
And the saddest thing is that I would pick Craptain Lightning Bolt ove Ace o’ Snails any time.
At the Red State web page, there’s a box that invites the reader to “Get Local.” I tried, clicking on the “Florida” link, but got this:
Oh well. Maybe sometime this year, once the Swamp Strike Force is up and running.
Like Brad sed.
Do the girls get to participate too? Can’t they be imaginary camp whores or cooks or something?
I think the Left Behind books basically sum it up: there are ten Real True Christians in a world seeking to destroy them, so obviously the sole woman should be a secretary.
Red on white sans-serif font combined with black-with-green-dropshadow condensed serif font ow ow ow ow ow ow
That crest…did someone just decide the old shield of the American Dental Association was good enough?
HELLO, CLEVELAND!!
I believe that graphic could be improved by the kindly folks who also provided Ace’s upgraded banners.
flames and skulls, babeeez!!
From the OP at RedState: “If you want patches, t-shirts, other merch made, I’ve got a bunch of places to work with ….. let me know.”
I love how all efforts at conservative/libertarian “activism” are about cadging money from people and not advancing any sort of policy agenda (other than “piss of those commie-libs”).
1. What is LARP?
2. The “star device” in the RS shield is stolen from–of all organizations–NATO.
1. LARP=live-action role play
2. ha ha ha ha ha ha! it just got funnier!
Oh, and all I could think of while watching that “Lightning Bolt” fight scene was, God, real people are so clumsy and inept. Who can take part in this without immediately feeling gigantically depressed–about himself, about combat, and, yes, about Lightning Bolt?
Isn’t this why we have video games and movies?
I does rather resemble teh awesome “Stonehenge” song in the Tap movie.
I tried and tried to get a picture of the Keystone Kops to post as the official Strikeforce photo but WP would not accept links to the pictures.
I wonder if anybody expects teh Strikeforce…
That shield needs a sammich.
My high-school newspaper staff came up with something similar for the cover of our yearbook.
They need sound effects, so there’s a duh-duh-DUH! each time they use the logo. The Dramatic Prarie Dog would be a perfect mascot.
So I guess Erick’s mom is gonna sew those badges on t-shirts for Erick’s friends. And maybe she can make them some super-hero capes out of old towels.
The SCA is much more interesting than LARPing. Plus, as with any outdoor festival of weird people with common interests, there’s usually casual sex.
Two words: Shit Force.
Well, first of all, I think it was an inept attempt to steal the motif from John McCain (who can get into resistance to tyranny without an authority figure to invest absolute trust in?); second of all, NATO is still, pace the right’s continuing desire to see ethnic cleansing happen somehow in Georgia, the good guys.
Mind you, anti-NATO sentiment in western Europe tends to be far more right-wing, so that’s what one would call a self-correcting problem. (Although you’d think that of Mark Steyn, who is at a bit of a moral crossroads between mocking Americans for having famous blacks on principle and continuing to feign sympathy for us to steal more of our wingnut millions – but no, he’s been an institution on the right since 9/11, cheering at the deaths of Americans in every other terrorist attack to date notwithstanding.)
How much more awesomer can that logo be? Teh answer is none. None more awesomer.
I am confident that they will achieve even greater heights of Awesome for the service medals and Purple Hearts.
I just looked at the graphic again.
Gawd they sUxxOrs!!!!
I can’t wait until they roll out the uniforms. That logo will be totally awesome on the back of a bathrobe.
Who knew these guys could be so funny?
Stroke Force.
Two words: Shit Force.
Combine this with the shit moat and you save castle builders time! A shit force (presumably made of shit) can easily trudge THROUGH the moat.
Hell, build a shitcastle too, and you won’t need toilets and sewage systems.
Or, if you will,
Stroke Farce.
I hope the Strike Force leotards have a nice, large codpiece.
-G. Gordon Liddy
We’ve got Armadillos in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening.
We’ve got
Armadillossmall pickles in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening.That should about do it!
And I’m still waiting for someone to guess what exactly they plan to STRIKE?
A match? An airline? A pose?
(recycled from a previous thread, in case anyone was paying attention.)
I kan haz Underoos concesshun?
Only if “Piss off” = “Cause to laugh derisively.”
I for one can’t wait for the picture of the various platoons, resplendent in their StrikeFarce Gear and fake dog tags.
All this shit talk has me nostalgic for Jim Lahey of Sunnyvale Trailer Park.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Trailer_Park_Boys#Laheyisms
One of the cool things about being a leftist is that ability to receive broadcasts with my testicles.
Yes, but can yours play Bolero as background music for moments of passion?
I effin’ love the Trailer Park Boys.
Stonehenge!
where the banshee howls
And Erik and Moe dance
To the pipes of Pan
Stonehenge!
When do the RS Strikeforce action figures come out?
The sky’s the limit, here. They could have imaginary battles and imaginary funerals and imaginary Henry V speeches. They can email each other little cartoon medals for Punditry above and beyond. And one day they shall tell their grandchildren of the battles they fought and won, and the comrades lost on the way.
Myyyy country tiiiiiis of Theee!——-
BTW, Sadlies:
Time to vote for John Swift in the Best Humor Blog category (Why was S,N! omitted?)
And, we have to help John Cole hold off Instapundit!.
Isn’t Moe Lane (the Stalinesque Mini-Me of RS) big into pretending he’s a knight or warrior in one of those SCA cults?
toby: As much as I love Swift, I have sworn my eternal support and fealty to J-Fruh.
*whistles nonchalantly*
Hey, that’s pretty good!
pat said,
January 6, 2009 at 1:20
Stroke Force.
Or, if you will,
Stroke Farce.
More like, “Stroke Four”.
That beats the one I posted in the bolton thread.
WANK FORCE
what about other insignia and logos for
fredoniasorry, for redstatalvania? if one…falls on one’s friend’s keyboard, deleting various fetish porn before mom finds out that one’s friend is really into goatfucking, does that constitute a bronze star of some sort? a purple heart? and what, fair photoshoppers, might such awards look like?t4toby said,
January 6, 2009 at 1:36
BTW, Sadlies:
Time to vote for John Swift in the Best Humor Blog category (Why was S,N! omitted?)
This is up for Best Liberal blog, however.
I’m up for Best Up and Coming Blog.
And now that I’ve said it, I shall cringe at the inadvertent innuendo posted on S,N!
JadeGold: Let’s not confuse LARPers and SCAers. There’s crossover, sure, but the two are hilarious and dopey in critically distinct ways.
SCA types are more comically invested in the role, with more long-term organization and prolonged bouts of poking each other with swords and slapping wench buttocks. Some such events are multi-day, which means you have burly men acting out Oldenne Tymes of Chyvallrye all day and then bunking together in freezing tents. This is inherently funny.
On the other hand, the devotion to realism drains a bit of the comedy potential. Like Civil War reenactors, your average medieval reenactor is pretty dedicated to playing their part as closely to historical reality as possible. No magic, real fighting techniques, etc. And it’s difficult to chortle when an enormous muscular man dressed in armor and holding a big-ass sword is doing his thing.
LARPers, on the other hand, are far more likely to be dorky high-schoolers wearing capes and top hats, running around shouting “I cast magic missile into the darkness.” And while high fantasy LARPing is funny, it doesn’t even begin to touch on the comedy of Vampire LARPs. Fright-wigged makeup-clad gothlings standing around delivering soliloquies about the dark mystical ennui of the brooding night… is there anything else that warms the heart so well?
(By the way, I’ve noticed that Crow makeup has found its replacement in Heath-Ledger-as-The-Joker makeup. I am gladdened.)
Djur: Thanks for the precis on wankers. Given that Moe is about 4 feet tall, the thought of him with anything much larger than a seafood fork cracks me up.
I’ve alawys thought of libertarians as adult goths.
The SCA is a good time. There are some fantastic brewers and vintners in that group. They corrupted me right well for years.
Topic? Building their fort is going to take a LOT of couch cushions. I wonder whose mom will let them take over her living room? She’d better put down the plastic slipcovers to protect the fancy couches from…well, the creamy glory of the Force.
Hmmmm.
Only 27 votes for Casa Sadly?!? If we can get it together for Atlas Shrieks, then we’ve gotta get a move on for ourselves!
Au contraire: they’re the ones that don’t grow up. Rebelling against your parents by only giving a shit about yourself, living life completely on its surface, emitting squid-like clouds of ink, and smoking a whole hell of a lot is vaguely admirable until you turn 18, at which point you’re just another jackass who thinks running his El Camino’s tires half-empty makes him cool.
You miss a lot of fun stuff when you no longer have to outsource bespectacled oral. On the balance, though…
Gotta have some eagles.
the understated level of FAIL is a good start but wingnuts have NEVER been about understatement. To truly hit it’s full FAIL potential, it needs at least a skull, a sword, and perhaps some flames
Don’t do it! It can lead to uncomfortable penile chafing.
I loved the comment someone made above:
they need more couch pillows to build their fort
which I think would be perfect for some scroll work under the shied- so I did a quick web translation into latin:
need more couch pillows to build our fort
Postulo magis lectus diripio texo nostrum castr!
I’ll say this for the SCA — if it hadn’t existed, Richard Garriott probably would have never created Ultima, which means we’d have never been treated to a sociopathic Avatar of virtue systematically corrupting children, abusing old men, committing mass murder, and tormenting Warren Spector with Sigmund Freud on Mars.
Strike Four.
Not being familiar w/ all “Internet traditions,” while I knew that the “RP” in “LARP” stood for role playing (or “Rocket Propelled”) I figured the “LA” stood for “Lame Ass.”)
Whaddaya know?
Red State Strike Force: The Anagramming
Caked Feet Terrorists
A Erected Stroke First
Defecate Retro Skirts
A Escorted Ferrets Kit
Racketeered Fists Rot
A Dicker Tester Foster
An amendment to your thesis:
Sex w/ someone in a Renaissance costume is never casual. (Or causal.)
I really liked Camaros in the 60’s, so when I see RS, I think Rally Sport.
Yeah, but they take their historical accuracy seriously. You’re at risk of getting the O.G. 1494 syphilis where your face rots off.
Fuck you people.
I’m not voting in any of your silly on-line popularity contests until my web log gets nominated for something. (Anything.)
What is this, junior high?
Here you go, M…I’ve found a link to nominate you for A List status…
http://www.kineda.com/are-you-an-a-list-bloglebrity/
M Bouffant you have the thanks of a grateful nation!
Founder member of the Stripe Farce team: Brave Sir Robin
There’s a Godwin’s Law-breaking angle to the kitschy faux-military patch which someone needs to explore. Perhaps VoteVets will go there. But somebody really should.
From the link: There is a clear correlation between posting volume and Technorati authority ranking.
Sadly, no.
Sigh. Admittedly, the costuming in the video ain’t awesome, but it’s a really fun hobby, I swear. Mind you, the people I play with tend to be about a decade older… we don’t flail like that, but we’re slower.
One can imagine what their 20-sided dice tell them to do.
212, thanks for the
Ultimate Asian Hotties“How to Discover You’re a C-List Bugger™” link. Very useful.Not a direct correlation, no, but (& this may explain her inexplicable popularity) even The Mighty Megatron advises “post early, post often.” (Of course she’s skating now, but one must spew widely before something sticks to a wall somewhere.)
You won’t be linked or rolled (no puns or double meanings, please) w/o piles of “content” to attract those flies.
The 102nd chairborne division has their new logo! Keep fighting the good fight men! Keep fighting for torture, illegal detention, illegal rendition, illegal wiretapping, theft of huge amounts of money, filling the government with incompetants, and of course, making excuses for those who do. Good luck “men” and keep up the good fight… -destroying America! Americas enemies can’t do it without you!
Did someone freep the Best Liberal Blog poll for the PUMA blog? They are way, way ahead.
Will the “Stroke Force” be wearing Jackoff Boots? bwarhar.
New rule: if you deny evolution or global warming, you must also reject antibiotics.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
(Inadvertent innuendo?)
Well, if they are a “military” unit, then surely we can use federal powers to deputize them and send them to Iraq or Afghanistan. My brother’s unit just returned from a 15 month tour, and I’m sure they can use someone to take their place.
It seems I’m an E list blogger.
My plan is working.
When I get hit by a sleep spell, and then lightning, and then sleep spell again and then more lightning my balls float.
The best place for the “Shit Force” is… on shit-burning detail. Hey boys, that shit won’t burn itself – git busy!!!
Hasn’t happened to us all. Gaffer tape is the only answer, I’m afraid. Safety Tip: shave before taping!!
The SCA was the best cruising ground I ever had. And I’ll tellya, the sweaty men in the armour do not bunk up with other sweaty men in freezing tents, unless they’re really into sweaty men, and winter camping, which is perishin’ rare. And of course sex with people in Renaissance costumes is casual — do you think people wore underwear in those days?!
There’s simply no comparison. The SCA is what cool uncool people do on weekends. RedState is what uncool uncool people do every day, to disguise the fact they don’t have actual workweeks in which to have weekends.
In my experience, Vampire LARPers are less angsty and more incomprehensibly-machiavellian-ha-ha-I-meant-to-do-that-now-you-are-screwed-nevermind-exactly-how-my-minions-agree-so-there. But I am not bitter.
Also: *whistles nonchalantly* person: you need a double-thumbed fist there. Because there needs to be more of them, that is why.
I’m late to this, but wait, you mean that shield thingy isn’t some joke you made up? it’s a real non-jokey Republican thing?
awesome!!!!!
That pathetic attempt at a unit crest looks alot like the first Cavalry divisions unit crest;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_(United_States)
Makes me wonder how much work they really put into plagerising the Army.
Wow – I can’t decide which is funnier: that their Shield O’ Power ‘N’ Glory uses the NATO star … or that these dingdongs are so irony-blind that they put this faux-military kitsch out there totally deadpan, unwilling if not unable to see what a pack of schnooks they make themselves look like by doing so.
Lolz is right … in America’s darkest hour, when sanity threatens to break out across rhe land, it’s time for the RS Strike Force to don their Power Ranger outfits & leap on board the Full Metal Shortbus! Let’s roll!
That pathetic attempt at a unit crest
It’s not that bad. I can imagine it on a can of fly-spray.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Arky, go to my blog and click the l’il blue box in the upper right corner. That way I’ll get the
Spam Trapemail address you’d prefer.You’re aware that, to an Englishman (hi!) it says “Arse” and looks like a puckered sphincter, right? Or am I missing the obvious and the Strike Force is, in fact, a elite team of Analrapists?
When do the RS Strikeforce action figures come out?
That not a Kung-Fu grip.
Grid, here in America, the analrapists are the Catholic Clergy.
Or maybe the Anabaptists. I can never keep them straight.
You mean “mudfuckers,” I think.
Oh my god… I know those LARPers.
And I’d definitely bet on them in a fight against the 1st Chairborne.
My humble submission for a slight modification to the logo may be viewed here.
That’s really good.
I’m a regular at the Comics Curmudgeon, but I’ve been voting for Jon Swift, because CC is winning anyway, and JS is so damn good.
At this moment I am going away to do my breakfast, afterward having my
breakfast coming again to read further news.