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!

If Thompson doesn't win this one will Lady MacCheney throw in the towel? And Mike really didn't mean anything meant by this:

“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.

“In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell them what to do with the pole; that’s what we’d do.”

He feels that the Confederate flag is a private matter for SC and nobody should be shocked by what it stands for...Or something...

TomDispatch: Imperial overreach imperils the American republic and what's left of our democratic system as well as the American economy. Chalmers Johnson considers whether we can end our empire before it ends us. (h/t The Left Coaster)

The Existentialist Cowboy: In 1934, our government had said that the "airwaves" didn't belong to the big corporations or the government but to the people themselves. We want it back.

The Carpetbagger Report: Can anyone explain what's 'moral' about this behavior? The Nazarine didn't talk about homosexuality. He did, however, talk a lot about religious hypocrisy...Sadly, No! has more...

MAL Contends: An official Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) document contradicts the U.S. Attorney's narrative of alleged events that led to the conviction of a Wisconsin Vietnam-era veteran on federal wire fraud charges in 2006.

Pensito Review: The confederate flag still flys in the South...and the North

Connecting.the.Dots: Hillary and All That Jazz

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Total Information Awareness, The Irate Nation, The Hawke and Dove, Rethink, The FAA Follies

Mike asked the question to Allen. He denied it. Why not just say that you were young and said some pretty dumb things. Who hasn't? I grew up in NY, and racial slurs were associated with all sorts of juvenile behavior, but when you're a kid you tend to say stupid stuff. If he hadn't draped himself around the Confederate flag, lied about his Jewish heritage and embraced the " Macaca"...

I'd probably give him a pass. Not anymore...

Flags
Since there has been a lot of talk about George Allen's fondness for the confederate flag. I acquired this video that Ryan Lizza writes about.
"It's hard to make out, because the video is fuzzy. The copy I obtained was originally recorded off a television using VHS in 1993 and then transferred to a second tape, further degrading the quality. But, once you know what it is, it makes sense. It sits folded on a bookcase of trophies and bric-a-brac behind George Allen, who is seated at a desk in his home office.

Download | play -WMP Download | play -QT

"It's right there next to the fax machine. You can see the red field. You can make out the diagonal blue bar. And you can see what looks like a white star. It is the Confederate flag, and it appears in the very first ad that Allen broadcast in 1993, when he ran for governor..."

Can you guys make it out?

Update: Allen's ad-maker confirmed toTNR that the confederate flag is there, but denies it was done on purpose.