At Power Line, John Hinderaker writes, “We are beginning to see way too many echoes of the 1930s, as national socialist and Marxian socialist thugs try to drive competing political views off the streets”:
The worst offenders so far have been the Service Employees’ International Union, which has repeatedly sent its members out into the streets to beat up anyone who isn’t toeing the Obama line on issues like socialized medicine.
Most recently it’s International ANSWER, a hard-core Communist group supported by shadowy funding sources that have never been made public, but appear to consist of a handful of rich people. ANSWER, notwithstanding its unabashedly Communist ideology, now feels comfortable enough to assault non-communist demonstrators who show up in the streets. In this case, the non-communists were protesting illegal immigration, seeking to uphold the nation’s laws, when they were set upon by ANSWER’s thugs:
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Related thoughts on the above incident from Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit. And as for the other half of John’s equation, “Neo-Nazi’s Hitler Flag Triggers Scuffle at Arizona Tea Party Protest”:
Update: Welcome those stopping by from Instapundit — and however you’ve arrived here, don’t miss the incredible comment #6 below from “Carl Gordon”, which is that rarest of combinations: it’s both the Best. Comment. Ever. and Most-Hackneyed. Writing. Ever. all at the same time.
One has to wonder how soon self-defense teams will appear, trained just as well as ANSWER’s goons. I suspect there is a Nathan Bedford Forrest waiting in the wings, crying outrage over the excesses of of Reconstruction.
Look GOPeers, give us inspiration, give us guidance, hell, give me a fiver so I can order another drink. Accomplish something. Give us a tale that gives us grist for our perverse sense of existence. There…out there on the edges…on the rippled edge of a wave…at the tourniquet popped vein…where our aural limits nudge our sensate being…where the rim of the sky meets the ragged edge of the Sierra…where your limits of physical survival are measured by increments of canteen and pack.
The tale is in the telling and in the telling is the tale. Long after the tab is paid, the tale is told. Much of what you’ve said is long past, perhaps often longed for, or something the Imagineers at Disney threw out as implausible and bereft of logic.
The GOP “base” is a bit stupid, frequenters of primitive landscapes and ideas. They often find themselves lost in a wilderness off horseshit and belial. Yet, fate or stupidity, gives them ‘sucre’, safety, and ‘a way out.’ They manage each day in spite of the impediments to an awkward truth. There’s something to be learned there.
Our journey now is to make an effort to avoid the toxic contamination of “conservative” function and family. A cold Monday with ground fog scrapes the tulle landscape of marginal miasma and no direction. There the leaders of the GOP find a bog of misery. A fundamental Occam’s Razor that begs, hell, demands a terse and complete thesis in the face of a more erudite Aristotelian argument, keep it simple – keep it real. The truest perhaps truest idea is that which is most simply stated. Yet the goobers that are running the party understand none of this. And they fail to pay for the taxi that delivers them to this.
Tell you what. If you’re going to hoist Sarah on her own petard and run her in as your candidate in 2012, why don’t you play “Pinhead” by The Ramones as she accepts the nomination, even have the crowd join in, singing “Gabba, gabba, we accept you, we accept you, you’re one of us!”
I want some of whatever Carl’s smoking.
All finished, Carl? Good. Thanks for that bizarre rant. What it has to do with the subject at hand I’m not sure, but it probably made sense in your mind.
Now, my advice is either to cut back on the medication or up the dose.
Carl Gordon, you write like a failed novelist.
The most tragic part is that you clearly have no idea how bad you actually are, and have no doubt been stewing in frustration for years that no one seems able to recognise your genius.
Carl, love the alliteration, “marginal miasma” but for best effect it needs to be three words long. Remember “nattering nabobs of negativism’? That’s style.
I used to assume Carl Gordon was high, but now I’m thinking he’s in hot pursuit of the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Award.
His posts certainly compare with these past winners:
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/lyttony.htm
And yeah, the ANSWER thugs are a textbook example of left-fascists. The question is: who funds them? I’d be willing to bet money that Soros is providing the cash. The man has his fingers in a zillion filthy pies.
#6 Carl Gordon –
Most. Hilarious. Post. Ever.
You should work for the Onion. LOL. I’ll be giggling at that all day.
Carl,
Keep telling yourself that the GOP is filled with stupid people who are too dumb to comprehend your blather; sooner or later you’ll even come to believe it, if you don’t already. Continue to wax “eloquent” about how conservatives are neanderthals, too.
We’re long past caring what your ilk think of us…
How about you answer this question: how long do Obama’s failed policies have to litter the ground and bury our nation before our betters such as you recognize the garbage for what it is?
Gawd I hope to be assaulted by one of these jerks. My 15 seconds of fame will consist of the removal of a commie voicebox, and I’ll have 12 seconds left over.
Hello, people, this is why we have a 2nd Amendment. If anyone should be able to put the fear of God into would-be attackers on their right to assemble, it should be conservatives! Make sure you’re packing heat at the next rally!
Carl, baby, what a waste of time that I’ll never get back. After all of that there was only one thing where I could agree with you. When discussing the Republicans..”Yet the goobers that are running the party understand none of this. And they fail to pay for the taxi that delivers them to this.” That was really GOOD! I was thinking about showing up to meetings with clown shoes because when I go, I go in an honest costume. I think Republican politicians should, too. Transparency? why aren’t they spending their campaign funds to scan this crap and let us crawl all over it like ants on garbage? Uncaring for transparency. Government spending? Why can’t they propose an IRS Form 1099-GOV for all the recipients of our “redistrubuted” income. It’s fair, simple, and non-partisan.
It is folly to believe the thugs will not continue to do this. Be armed with appropriate tools to stave off this outrage. (No, Carl, you moron, not talking about guns… got it) But I can tell you if these folks did this to me or mine, there would be retribution. Lots of retribution. Kickin ass retribution.
It is the only things thugs can believe in.
As a matter of accuracy and to make the point more dramatically, I would not call ANSWER simply Communist. They are in fact strongly “anti-revistionist” which puts them in the Stalinist branch of Communism. We should call them Stalinist.
We’ve all been indoctrinated to chuckle at the label of “Communist” so such the word lacks punch even when completely accurate. People think of Communist as stupid but harmless college students. Accurately labeling someone a “Stalinist” strips away that veneer and reminds others just how viscous and dangerous these people are.
Carl, booby, less is more dude! Your whole rant can be boiled down to:
“conservatives are icky”.
Well I won’t waste bandwidth like you did, so I will answer your post with an equally child-like intelligence:
“I know you are but what am I”.
It was a dark and stormy post… Have another drink, Carl.
#6 Carl,
While others dismiss your lyric writing, I at least am willing to respond in kind:
Under a mantle of undergraduate homilies half remembered from a more heroic age, liberals seek the occult secrets that will allow the instantiation of the new Man. Unflagging in the certainty that somewhere in their desires, somewhere in the smoky haze of Mithras’ hidden sanctuary, there is an answer. How could nature not conform itself to the visions of the beautiful dreamers? Oh Pioneer! With undaunted courage you seek the truth you desire.
But when you finally conjure, what rough beast will be awakened? Will the serpent know its master?
I eagerly await your response.
Bulwer-Lytton in 2009!
Carl,
You are perfect justification for Instapundit NOT having comments turned on.
just saying..
Carl you are right about Sarah — mirror image of Obama, from a different angle maybe. And you are right about the Party too, sort of. But you are wrong, wrong, wrong about the “base” — which doesn’t exist the way you think it does and I don’t even think means what you think it means. But of all you have written, the Ramones at the NRC seems quite appropriate. I think Marky might even be quite eager.
Carl Gordon, you write like a failed novelist.
Or like a failed TV writer… which means that he must work for NBC.
Carl Gordon, you write like a failed novelist.
Or like a failed TV writer… which means that he must work for NBC.
tap tap.. is this thing on? apologies for double post if it is…
Moron? Not I, said little red hen. Nope, the source of all this originates within the dark hallways and featureless recesses of your malarial feverish repug mind, a virtual funhouse of mis-directed synapses and dead-end, old, or past recycling dated mind constructs. Yep, you never know what you’re going to hear whence your ear is violated listening to Uncle Rush’s/Glen’s/Savage’s/et al, whiz-bag, an sludge-like ontological breakdown of stupefying and dazzling proportions, or perhaps the discarded remnants of a chocolate fudge cake that got left on the front seat of a broken down Chevy 39 Coupe on the hottest day of the vernal equinox, or in the rain for allyou music aficionados. Tell me then: what the hell is your “solution” (other than some long-ago-outlawed psychotropic nostrum, which I’m sure the jack-booted thugs of lefty brain control will make you imbibe whence they break down your door and, oh yeah, take your guns away!) and can I make reasonable money selling it to your miscreants, er, base?
Certainly the parallels are there, but there’s quite a difference. No one will ever run the conservatives of this country off the streets with violence. Hell, not even King George could do that, and he had the best army in history, way better than the SEIU.
T. V. writer? Good guess! Well, based on the intellectual tone of my tome, I certainly don’t write for Leno!
Give him a blog! I’d visit it every day. But I’m just a dumb conservative so I wouldn’t appreciate it’s true genius.
26. Carl Gorden
Amazing. One marvels at the thickness of it all.
#30 – I hear that all the time from appreciative lefty loose women, which are all of them if you’re one of “those” that drink the kool-aid on a regular basis.
Okay, I’m sorry about the last one – #30 He set it up and walked right into it!
Dear Carl,
I’ll bet you’ve received a creative writing award.
On Neptune.
Gordon: when you’re in a hole, it’s no time to fire up a backhoe and really have at it. Just sayin’, is all.
Gazing glazed into my crystal balls, thick simulated pink satin Korla Pandit style turban ensconced upon my noggin, a smoldering stench-spewing Cheerbidi fuming betwixt nicotine stained fingers, a not unpleasant damp stirring welling up from my opiate ravaged moral fiber as I try to invoke the ancient spirits of moderation in all things political, like a salt filled pancake on the body politic. “Oh listen to me alcoholic spirits, I prostrate my self on the altar of holy nose paint, talk to me Ronnie, Duh-bayou, and Saint Dick! WTF!”
There’s a lot of saber rattlin’ going on so, see you at the witch trials. Which trial? Why the one where the angel of debt casts out the plaster casters, birthers, teabaggers, the all no-ing party of poot butts, and removes the large apricot pit from the third portal, thus freeing all born again virgins and letting loose the ignorant dogs of do-nothing, as he rams a caboose! Who put the ape in apricot? What they got that I aint got? A bottle of Van Winkle (aged 12 years), that missing nasty corndog, and all those cracker asses that watched O’reilly when they could a been cracking the ass of Dawn. Time to call ‘room service, ya Randian losers!
All Hail Carl Gordon. The erudition, the brilliance, and an edgy reference to the Ramones. Be still my heart!
And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.
We are not worthy.
Carl, my solution is to ignore your prententiously purple heckling due to the conspicuous lack of any useful content therein. Lol.
Protesting is to jogging as union thugs are to menacing dogs.
And mace (aka pepper spray) will pacify both of the later.
I think the answer to union thuggery is cane-fu classes(canes are legal clubs/batons) and when necessary application of high-smackery akimbo to those what seem to need it (if they won’t back off).
Take reasonable, legal, and easily observable steps to defend yourselves (and each other) at protests. Take pictures of assualts if they occur and then show them to the local police.
carl,
how long have you been channeling Kurt Russell’s lines from “Big Trouble in Little China”?
In Re: Carl – he states that the GOP base is a bit stupid. I recently saw P.J. O’Rourke on some TV show yakking away about stuff. Concerning politics, he noted that one can belong to the “silly” party or the “stupid” party and since he preferred stupid to silly, he’d become a Republican. I prefer low animal cunning but can’t register to vote like that in Virginia.
@38
That, and a good round kick to the head.
Callmegobsmacked,
The horror…the horror…
I think Gordon has been huffing too many unicorns, rainbows and essence of butterflies unfortunately resulting in his lithium-induced delerium.
How’s that Tonka™ toy parade in your sandbox coming along, Carl? [(~;}
YThe way you guys word your observations is “way” irritating – and betrays a definite lack of something that feels like it should be courage, but which is missing.
We are seeing “way” to many echoes of the ’30′s, etc.
Like, no shyte Sherlock. How about reporting that with some more seriousness and resolve. How about a little genuine Paul Revere Alarum, and “way”, “way”, “way” less metrosexual style.
How does this sound for one of you guys in the 30′s: We are seeing “way” to many rounding up of Jews like Pograms past! That Hitler is starting to irritate me!; or, We are seeing “way” to many forced marches and gulags. I’m verkelmpt!
You guys all sound gay.
Are you serious about what you say? Then act like it. If you aren’t seriois? Well you should be, but if you can’t manage then shut the blank up and get lost!
I don’t want to cause a big to-do, but I think Carl might be a bit silly.
46. Jim Treacher
Yes. A bit.
Carl’s a bit like Obama – everybody’s afraid to call him a blithering idiot, for fear of the group dynamic. Screw the group dynamic. There’s no there there. It’s pure gibberish, just like what you get out out of Obama without a teleprompter, only a bit purpler.
@6
“hell, give me a fiver so I can order another drink.”
Typical liberal. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
#6 Carl Gordon –
“fate or stupidity, gives them”…what? – old Ecuadorian money?? If you’re going to try to impress us with all the fancy words, Carl, you’re going to need to pick the right ones. It’s ‘succor’ not ‘sucre’.
48. Calvin Ball
Perhaps, amidst the ugly acts evidenced by the video, it might be worth laughing a bit when given a present.
I present as proof of existence: blamebush.typepad.com.
(A thing of true beauty)
Gordon hijacked the thread with his drivel. Oh, look… Shi-i-i-iny!
Welcome to the club! The “anti-fascists” have been disrupting peaceful demonstrations in Western Europe for a long time. And not just disrupting: they have cracked at least one skull in Denmark, and killed Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands. They are much more dangerous than the Islamists, if you ask me. And they wear black shirts.
“give me a fiver”
Every lefty’s battle cry.
That, and…
“Hot damn! This is the day they mail the welfare checks!!!”
“Oh, That Liberal Fascism”
Btw, isn’t the term “Liberal Fascism” kind of redundant?
I’m having trouble sharing the interest in Carl Gordon. He needs to learn about succinctness; in fact, it would be a good idea for him to keep a dictionary near the computer as he obviously doesn’t know the meaning of most of the words he’s throwing around.
Do they allow dictionaries in the asylum?
This is nothing! Do you know that Sarah Palin hasn’t returned yet the 1989 phone call from the Sears carpet service people?
Can you believe that? Thanks to AP crew who have unveiled this, otherwise the right-wing conspiracy would have managed to keep us in the dark!
Wake up, America!
Carl …
wow, just wow …
do you feel superior now …
I’m sure you are well educated, it takes alot of years of schooling to be that sure of yourself and yet be completely ignorant at the same time …
The funny thing is you know you are a conservative deep down … kind of like a conservaphobia … you attack conservatives with such zeel to prove your bonafides to your liberal tribe of the mind and yet you most likely go to work everyday, go to the stores of your choice for food, clothing, etc and probably hate writing out a check to the Feds on April 15th.
You are self sufficiet, participate in the free market and know you pay too much in taxes. You are a conservative and you can rail against your true self all you want but the next time you are alone in the voting booth you may decide to come out of the closet and vote for your own self interest instead of mindlessly following the dictates of people who do not have your best interests at heart, they are only interested in your vote …
Carl is right! Sarah Palin is not ready to be POTUS, she has only written 1 self-serving memoire. The current standard is 2.
I’m pretty sure Carl is none other than Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.
56. It is, but sometimes redundancy is needed to break through the thick heads created by historical revisionists.
Wow, Carl’s post may have been the most unintentionally (I presume) comment I’ve ever read. It was almost like he had an on-line thesaurus spitting out words at random. I read the first couple of lines thinking maybe I’m just not bright enough to understand him, and finished by wondering why they let mental patients have internet access.
64. Because crayons are slightly more dangerous than keyboards?
Jeff: this note is just to thank you, and to let you know that I am saving your comment. If I have an opportunity to use it in another thread, you will be given proper credit.
Carl, I don’t think you know what vernal equinox means.
Coming late to the party… #35 “Gazing glazed into my crystal balls”. Thank you for confirming my intial impression of someone WAY too self-satisfyingly smug for little reason (drugs don’t make one THAT delusional) and for verifying that indeed you’re sufferng from cranial-rectal inversion.
Carl, I wish I could write as well as you and believe me, I am not a modest person. That was a beautiful post(#6). Congratulations!
Martin
Wow. Poor Carl. All that energy spent, with nothing more to show for it than turgid, prolix drivel, made of non sequiturs and catchphrases. Written like Robin talks. How sad.
But there is one thing that dog’s lunch of words tells us: the left is scared to death of Sarah Palin.
“…just how viscous and dangerous these people are.”
A minor point…
I don’t know that “viscous” is the word I would use to describe lefties. Not that it’s a bad choice, but I think “slimy” is better.
My belief is that Carl Gordon lost his mind from reading Dr. Bronner soap bottles.
It explains where he picked up his prose style.
When it comes to Carl Gordon, I’m throwing my vote in on a Burroughs “Naked Lunch” rip off.
*ahem*
Purple monkey hammers; republitards sinking fetid cheesy teeth deep into Palin-esque hams of incurable canards. Soak in a tub of acetone while thought-police come to rip your bible-verse etched guns from your clingy fingers. Trousers soaking in bleach while obama cries over the gossamer wings he bestowed on you are torn and shredded from your shoulders. Impudent cro-magnon Beck groupies! My writing is like obama-care. Golden drops of verisimilitude dribbling from your blood-stained lips that your tiny limbaugh-infested craniums deny exist. God’s plan can’t be understood by mere bloated pestilents such as yourselves, but you accept that it’s righteous and good. Same too, with his angel Obama, specially bestowed on earth to govern us into euphoric gumdrop glass bowls filled with yummy candy. Remove yourselves from the path!
I think we have all let Carl’s BS lead us to stray from the point of the original post.
It would behoove SEIU and ANSWER to remember “The Deacons for Defense and Justice”.
35. Carl Gordon:
Computers for muzzis funny
RE #74/Garl Cordon:
Garl – you nailed me! Loved “[you] ‘mere bloated pestilents” – I’m afraid that’s me.
*ahem*
Golden drops of verisimilitude dribbling from your blood-stained lips
I don’t believe Carl knows what verisimilitude means.
But hey, it’s a nice big word and it sounds so good when he says it – over and over and over again while he’s sitting on the bench waiting for the library to open so he can use their computer.
“Verisimilitude,…,
verisimilitude,” Carl muttered to himself angrily, throughly frightening nearby schoolchildren and a small dog.
Carl you are indeed full of sh*t, and dude, it must be some reeeeeealy good shi*t!
From the video:
I agree about upholding the law..But it is worth asking that if the doo-doo hits the fan…and race, (Certainly the Panthers, the Razas, the Chinese, and all of their moderates are gonna fall right into lock and step if they don’t get their way..Like we’ve seen with the last election)..If race becomes the weapon and the issue between “Us” and “them”..I’m afraid those Neo-Nazis might be the only ones saving a lot of folks butts here…So be careful about throwing punches at yer own…Those not of your race, their radicals, will appreciate your support and then execute you for being the scum and coward who turned on their own. There is a very sort of self-evident strategy bein’ pushed here..old school divide and conquer.
Anyway, it’s a good thing that American commies fight like little girls, otherwise those two tea party guys could’ve gotten hurt.
Carl, I loved it! Can you do Philip Larkin?
As for the Liberal Fascists, the left has had it their way unopposed for so long that when they are challenged, they fall back on the tactics that are typical of any bully: name calling and physical attack.
I stink of fetid cheese, a libtard with a black heart, and no reparations. Frustrations, tears and anguish color me a fool. A Kos kiddy an Obama dummy! My ghetto swamp loosing its grip. Agonies of future lost; the sparkling patriots rule me. My writing is like Obama’s scared. Tanking in momentous polls, aggravated egocentric jealous troll, ready to explode. Marxist plague upon me, banal, callow, lashing out like defective purple monkey baby tumors that have had their last banana’s stolen. Oprah’s gone; hold me.