Confederate Yankee: Xbox Revolutionary!
When last we saw Confederate Yankee, he was sneering derisively at people who didn't have jobs, saying that they should just get off their lazy butts and find some work. Now, however, Mr. Yankee has decided to stop attacking the unemployed and to go full-bore at the wicked elitists in the United States government.
(And yes, the fact that making fun of the jobless is about as elitist as you can get is lost on Mr. Yankee.)
At any rate rate, Mr. Yankee is now so a-miffed at them thar elitist in Warshinton that he's a-pushin' his followers to prepare for a full-blown armed insurrection:
We have moved "closer to midnight" not because of any singular act , but because of inertia of a political class that does not respect or enforce the laws, or this nation's sovereignty. We have diametrically opposed views of how our nation can and should be run, and it appears that there is very little room left for negotiation.
Propagandists for the elitists at Media Matters seem troubled by A Nation on the Edge of Revolt. They portray it as a threat when "Conservative media figures openly discuss armed revolution."
I hope they do feel threatened. Attempts at peaceable protests have been met at turns by feigned ignorance, then mockery, then attacks on the character and motives of those would not sit quietly by. Perhaps it will take a serious review of our capacity for violence to get them to realize we shall not surrender our individual liberties to their lust for power.
I love the calculus on display here: "We tried to do this peacefully, but you people laughed at us. Now we gots the right t' start the killin'!"
At the end of the post, ConfYank appears to cool his jets a bit, saying that armed revolution isn't per se his desired outcome:
I have not yet been swayed to the point of view that an armed conflict is inevitable, TN_NamVolunteer. But we are close enough that one would be wise to prepare for a possible conflict, just as one would prepare for any coming storm.
For Mr. Yankee, we imagine this preparation will consist of hording Mountain Dew and playing "Red Dead Redemption" over and over again. Heck, that thar game could teach Mr. Yankee not just t' shoot things but t' lasso the womenfolk too!
Bet them sissy public schools never taught ya t' lasso no fe-male like that 'un!
a political class that does not respect or enforce the laws, or this nation's sovereignty.
So TIDOS Wankee has turned on the Bush administration and the Republican Party? Or, as usual, is he just confused, clueless, and delusional? This is just one more example of the growing proto-fascist thuggery which is dominating conservative discourse these days. Faced with the reality that they are a small minority, far outside the mainstream of American political thought, they resort to violence and intimidation to get their way. Basically, it is a political temper tantrum that would embarrass a four year old.
Bush was a Real American. Not like Obama. despite all he's done in his life, there's - I don't know, SOMETHING about Obama that's DIFFERENT from all the other presidents.
I can't put my finger on what it is, but I'm sure it'll come to me.
you northern Yankee!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
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After eight years of W, how about awareness and intelligence?
"We have diametrically opposed views of how our nation can and should be run, and it appears that there is very little room left for negotiation."
And since there was an election, and we lost decisively, so our choices are negotiate or shut the fuck up, I'm gonna go shut the fuck up for a couple of years.
No, he didn't say that, did he? Of course not.
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Just askin'.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
working airports waiting for Republican Senators on fly-throughs.
Professional Gay Lee Harvey Oswald impersonator.
Beware of anyone promising a future full of yesterdays.
redneck version of "24"'s Kiefer Sutherland.
Hey, no wonder the rightys like him!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
He receives checks from the "non governmental support" fairies.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
along with anyone stupid enough to follow him, by the National Guard units in his area if he even has the balls to join in the insurrection he's advocating.
Of course, it won't come to that. He's too big a coward. And, when confronted with his words, this Cracker will crumble.
Cheeto's should look into making crackers for Crackers like him. They won't crumble as much, and will make it more difficult to identify reich-wing bloggers by their tell-tale orange fingers. Also orange nostrils.
And, of course, orange dicks.
Hey, maybe that's why they love John Boner - he's ORANGE!
Militiamen wear camouflage so no one can see the shit stains.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Shit stains for shit brains!
He seems to hold the opposite definition of propaganda that the dictionary defines.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Inigo Montoya
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
"I can't drive for shit"- NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
... put nuns on the railroad tracks.
It's not a blog I keep tabs on but I regularly look at Free Republic which isn't as much a blog as it is a bulletin board. But the threats to violence are commonplace and calls for secession or insurrection are increasing.
Last month, Wyoming had to suspend the collection of taxes at gun shows because agents from the Dept of Revenue were being threatened with violence. The response of Free Republic was to celebrate it. Not a single commenter deplored the violence and there were dozens of commenters.
Then there is Brian Nieves, the Majority Whip in the Missouri House of Representatives, who goes around taking about an upcoming Patriot Uprising. There's a YouTube video of Nieves on his radio show talking about assault weapons. The way he fondles the weapon as it talks about it was surreal. You almost got the feeling he was having sex with the weapon. These people are insane. And the right wing talk radio is going to lather up sentiment more and more until some nut case acts.
The Byron Williams incident in Northern California was a tragedy averted by pure luck but rest assured that there are other Byron Williams out there.
arrest them all, charge high bail, and then defang or dismiss the case once they are broke.
Local, state & fed police have been using that tactic for years, why isn't it applied to republicans?
and I mean that in the worst way.
btw who the fuck stole that kid's chin?
...from GTA 3. If you want free sex, all you have to do is pick up a hooker and when your done, just gun her down. If the cops come poking around, all you have to do is turn the corner for about 30 seconds until they stop looking for you.
Honestly, it's a lot like Gotham City. In the Batman vs Grendel graphic novel, Gordon goes into a museum with about half a dozen cops with him. Grendel slaughters all of them but (of course) Gordon. When more cops show up to case the crime scene, Gordon wanders out into an alleyway, lights up a cigarette, and says 'Im getting too old for this.' Fantastic, 6 of your colleagues just died, how incredibly inconvenient...for you.
Eh, whatever, I'll just go back to playing Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and Shadow of the Colossus.
Shadow of the Colossus is one of the all time best games! Not nearly enough people played that game because it came out on the PS2 at the very end of it's lifespan. I heard they may be revamping and re-releasing it!
As for the Myst games, I can't stand that formula anymore lol. All my game time is being sucked up by one game: Starcraft. And probably will be for some time.
"Attempts at peaceable protests have been met at turns by feigned ignorance, then mockery, then attacks on the character and motives of those would not sit quietly by. Perhaps it will take a serious review of our capacity for violence to get them to realize we shall not surrender our individual liberties to their lust for power."
I remember that was exactly what liberals said when they were accused of Bush Derangement Syndrome for protesting the invasion of Iraq. Right?
I swear, perhaps the worst thing about right-wingers is their insistence -- common to all bigots -- that there SHOULD be a double-standard, where their own actions are inevitably defended as justified while anything said by a liberal is just more evidence that they're all loony.
jesus christ I've never seen a bigger bunch of losers in my life. I give them credit though, they at least get the efffing attention of their politicians.
You wouldn't ever have seen Ari Fleischer saying the bible thumpers were nuts and on drugs.
Since they've been trained in the art of killin' other people in foreign entanglements, they retain that training after they come home and can take advantage of them thar' killin' skillz and use them agin' them lib'ruls that're takin' advantage of the blessings of liberty and ruinin' God's favorite nation with their dang gay marriage and all that other evil socialist crap.
Just don't touch their Social Security and their Medicare.
Red Dead Redemption has too much moral ambiguity for someone with such myopia.
I have the impression that if this dude was darker skinned he'd be dead by now.
Memo to the FBI and SS. If you go after this guy, you better be packin' some serious artillery.
Just sayin.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
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Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Heh. I was actually playing that game when I decided to look at C&L and saw this post.
..are those who forsake democracy for violence.
I find it hard to imagine that the FBI, DOJ, and ATF are not actively monitoring these milita/patriot movements or infilitrating them.
I am not afraid of cowards, that display their swords, knives and guns with brazen arrogance. Those are nothing more than their emblems of cowardice.
Do they offer some alternative? Do they have a solution for problems? Do they understand the interconnectedness of global trade and communications? Do they know how a light bulb works?
I forsook Democracy once...and my ex brought down the violence and beat the crap outta me.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
You flip the switch, and the light comes on.
Sheesh.
Guys like "Confederate Yankee" don't have any part of what it would take to have an "armed revolt". They don't have the courage, the will, or the means, not to mention they don't have the energy. If you've ever seen pictures of the guys that post over at Confederate Yankee, or Free Republic or Red State, you'd know that most of them are so out of shape, if not grossly overweight, that they could barely lift a television remote, much less a weapon. These are the folks that have to ride the little scooters in Wal-Mart because they're too fat to push a shopping cart.
If it ever came to revolution, these guys would show the same willingness to fight that they have showed during the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are cowards through and through.
"Attempts at peaceful protests have been met. . . by feigned ignorance. . " Apparently after disrupting some town hall meetings and packing some heat at Obama rallies, the Democrats were supposed to quake with fear and hand the government back to the Repubs (which they sort of did).
"we shall not surrender our individual liberties to their lust for power" So this guy and his ilk were asleep like Rip van Winkle from 2000-2008? Where was the outrage during the Bush presidency?
"elitists at Media Matters seem troubled by A Nation on the Edge of Revolt" Typical veiled threat of impending Armagedon. Like saying "We tried to be nice and it didn't work, now we're going to have to give you a good thrashing."
I have to wonder, do these people feel they have found their safe place in a corporate oligarchy that tolerates them only as long as they are useful to them? It's obvious that the concept of an elected government is meaningless to them. They see themselves as part of an elite that is entitled to power whether they win or lose an election. Four year old temper tantrum is right.
It is easy to be dismissive and hostile to the jobless when you have a job. When you lose your job, you know you are not lazy or stupid or trying to get over on the taxpayers. You simply join the unemployment line with the very same folks you were deriding just a few weeks ago.
Someone like Confederate Yankee would need a new target and he found one. Sad little man.
That's why I don't buy videogames.
Primitive.
Hey, plenty of us on the sane side of the fence enjoy them too, even the Wild West shenanigans of Red Dead Redemption. This is because of us who are sane recognize that the adventures of John Marston are strictly confined to the disc in the box set up by the T.V, and are not a reflection of the real world.
Also, that lasso-tying video's a mildly unfair view of the game. Yes, it gets you an achievement, but there's no moment where you're forced against your will to do so. It's all human choice, and you are equally encouraged to spend time being a good guy as well.
Oh, Confederate Yankee, shut up and put a chaw of tobacco in your mouth and mosey on down to the crick where you can fish with a rifle and shoot wild game with a fishing rod. Then maybe later the preacher's daughter will give you a little what-for and three minutes later you can both git down on your knees and tell God how good you've been.
a non-entity. He has no influence with anyone of consequence. Let the Sadlly No guys handle him. Tenth rate bloggers are their bread and butter.
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