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Those eyes, so seductive to a certain subset of young male freedumb loving libertarians, whose understanding of, well, anything is usually limited.
He has opened up his piehole again to call out members of the congressional Black Caucus for the Impurity of their anti war stance. I mean if you haven’t yet come across the story, I’m betting the averasge SadlyNaut™ could guess the reason Paul was nonplussed. I mean really the only shred of credibility the dude retains is his anti-war stance. Anyhoo:
“I was always annoyed with it in Congress because we had an anti-war unofficial group, a few libertarian Republicans and generally the Black Caucus and others did not — they are really against war because they want all of that money to go to food stamps for people here,” former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) told Lew Rockwell earlier this month.
But your old man is a racist shitheel, but then again the acorn did not fall far…
Ok it is the Opening day at CPAC and while I thought that the horribly unfunny day by day image was an invention of Muir’s I found this while running an CPAC image search on google (for the eyes)
Now this Cruz cat is a dead ringer for TailgunnerJoe™McCarthey. If you ask me the whole “Blacklisted and Lovining it” is an indication that something else, once good and wholesome has died, has joined “Honor”,”Irony” and “Shame” to rot in a dumpster in an alley behind K-Street. I just can’t put my finger on what it is, though I suspect that Hyperbole, and Poe’s Law may soon become casualties…
[Update] Totes forgot about this example of RealMericanPatriots™
How fucking fearful and insecure do you have to be to put shit like that on, wear it with pride, or at least what passes for a straight face. I mean if you were trying to infiltrate my cell, I might be vary wary to have someone around trying that hard…
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Among activists on the left, it is axiomatic that the guy that advocates violence is the FBI informant. If any group arguing for causes on the left side of the political spectrum went to a protest armed in such a fashion, they’d have to bury them on the spot, because the police would fill them with so much lead, their carcass would be too heavy to move. How soon would there have been a bloodbath if the Ferguson protestors, or the occupy movement had showed up packing heat? The police would have turned the protestors into a smoking crater, and then claimed they were defending America from an attempted communist takeover.
How fucking fearful and insecure do you have to be to put shit like that on, wear it with pride, or at least what passes for a straight face.
They wear those the way rich people wear diamonds. The insecurity is about how other perceive them. I seriously doubt they’re worried about getting attacked. This is all theater.
This is all theater
i dunno…they look like they take their gun-totin’ pretty seriously…responsible gun owners…
they look like they take their gun-totin’ pretty seriously
They do. But the effort is to be SEEN totin’ and derping furiously.
How soon would there have been a bloodbath if the Ferguson protestors, or the occupy movement had showed up packing heat? The police would have turned the protestors into a smoking crater, and then claimed they were defending America from an attempted communist takeover.
A-men, Helmut!
I just don’t get it. I’ve owned guns for a very long time. I was around guns in the military.
The thought of wandering around in public with one has never crossed my mind, and I suspect I’m better trained to use one than the idiots in that picture.
I couldn’t help but notice that “security” was the number one concern in Stephenville, TX (which was recently the site of the Eddy Lee Rauth trial.). No doubt every man, woman, and child in that town is armed to the teeth, but Texans were “worried about security”.
Some fears just can’t be eased; no matter how heavily armed you are. Obviously guns are not the answer. Buck up, folks. jeebus.
I’m with the Major.
I own a gun. Two, in fact. And they stay locked up. My eleven year old son doesn’t even have a clue that there’s guns in the house. And the primary reason I own them is because I felt that if I have a right to bear arms, then I have the duty to learn how to use them responsibly. (And they’re there if I need them, but my definition of ‘need’ is pretty darn drastic and highly unlikely.)
tsam’s comparison with diamonds is spot on. People with class who have money don’t flaunt it, and neither do people with class who own weapons.
Also, has Ron Paul given up the dog whistle for the piccolo? His bigotry has entered the range of human hearing.
Oh, my.
/Takei
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Some fears just can’t be eased; no matter how heavily armed you are. Obviously guns are not the answer. Buck up, folks. jeebus.
True, some fears can’t be eased. In this case, however, there is an entire industry and political wing built around growing and feeding those fears. Even if those fears could be eased, you’re working against the NRA, all the gun enthusiast magazines, the 101st Chairborne Infantry, The entire Republican party, half your crazy relatives on facebook..
The thought of wandering around in public with one has never crossed my mind,
Well, if you had an auto all decked out with Hello Kitty and OLD GLORY maybe you’d feel different.
You just don’t understand fashion, bro.
Helmut,
I’ve often said that the fastest way to get sane control legislation going it for leftists of any stripe, be it African Americans, labor, LGBTQ, or more generalized coalitions a la the Occupy Movement, to show up to protests armed like Tea Partiers.
I quickly add, “Don’t try this at home though.” The cops who acted like dainty, Victorian-era guests at the Bundy Ranch will have no problem re-enacting the death of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark or MOVE (look it up, young ‘uns) on any left-wingers packing heat.
Why, in the name of all things sacred, secular, and grossly profane, would anyone decorate the automatic weapon to look like some toy for a 6 year old?
Isn’t the point of having them to be taken seriously or role-play some fantasy that you’re at Concord Bridge or the woods in front of Seminary Ridge or something? Threaten someone with that garish crap and they’ll be “WTF is that?”
I’m just going to shamelessly OT this;
1) Leonard Nimoy, oy gevalt. Probably the most iconic actor whose passing I’ve seen yet. Yes, I miss Robin Williams and Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman too, but as a sci-fi addict since childhood, man, this sucks. (Not looking forward to it happening to Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford, either).
2) On a related topic and on a more positive note, George Takei was on campus a couple days ago invited by some activist group or other and gave a whole speech on his life story and his involvement in politics… beginning with his memories of internment in World War Two (everyone knows the story, but hearing it told from the inside is something else) all the way to his coming out of the closet as a gay man in the 2000s. Along with all the changes he’d seen in America other the course of his lifetime. It’s strangely therapeutic to hear from a millennial POV, in terms of how much worse we used to be and how far we’ve come just in one man’s lifetime. Again, like the internment – it’s not anything I didn’t know before. But there’s still something different, and fairly uplifting, about hearing it from someone who lived through all of that, especially when “someone” happens to be a gay Japanese-American. “Things suck” could be the left’s motto – it’s good for the soul to hear something else every now and again.
Guns;
I neither wander around with one or even own one, because I don’t know how to use them, and even if I did and had spent hours on a practice range, I still wouldn’t feel confident that I’d use them properly in a real life-or-death situation no matter how much I “knew” how to handle them. Preparing for something and actually doing it are two very different things.
Think of it like this: remember the last time you got stage-fright talking to a room full of people, going to a job interview, or asking somebody out, and it caused you to mess up (actually, remember the FIRST time, that’s a better analogy). Now imagine doing a similar ad-lib… through your first gunfight.
I’m just going to be over here in the corner not having a gun, and taking my chances, thanks.
Nimoy?
Fuck!
I owe that guy.
🙁
I’m just going to be over here in the corner not having a gun, and taking my chances, thanks.
I’m gonna be all like HI-YA!! and take that shooter down!
When you said “HI-YA!!” I pictured the fruit-bat from “Anastasia.”
When you said “HI-YA!!” I pictured the fruit-bat from “Anastasia.”
I picture Hong Kong Fuey from my early childhood. Ah the good old racist days…
Well, if you had an auto all decked out with Hello Kitty and OLD GLORY maybe you’d feel different.
You just don’t understand fashion, bro.
Oh, tsam, I’ve missed you!
Also, I hope Leonard nimoy is neither disappointed with his longevity or his financial situation…
Nimoy isn’t concerned about anything. Nimoy (Bumpy?? fy autocorrect) is no more.
I wish Nimoy a happy repose in heaven, but I don’t know if St Peter will hold him to account for his singing Spock albums from the late 60s.
I picture Hong Kong Fuey from my early childhood. Ah the good old racist days…
IIRC didn’t the great Scatman Crothers do his voice?
The fact is, Net Neutrality is another lib dem power grab by freedomhaters in the guise of helping people get free stuff, that is always the downfall of the sonsitution. Nothing is free and you will fail when you try to censure right wing speach because we will work around you on our own internet
Well, I finally got to see what all the fuss was about in this American Sniper business.
… ugh. Just ugh.
Also, I hope Leonard nimoy is neither disappointed with his longevity or his financial situation…
Nice “Live Long And Prosper” reference bbkf.
New one….CPAC is a never ending fountain of derp.
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Yes he did, Major.
The fact is, the soulful allure of Fake Gary continues to escape me. Also, FYWP. (The last time I pre-emptively put that in a comment, the comment went through with no trouble.)
Hey, sorry to interrupt, but has anybody seen my wooden teeth? I was supposed to do George Washington at the convention. Never mind.
Waste of buckled clown shoes, though.
Are those Hello Kitty logos on the gun on the right?