You know, it’s funny that these fine upstanding patriotic Americans, these men with their AR-15’s and AK-47’s who’ve sworn to overthrow a tyrannical U.S. government if it ever comes for their guns despite the fact that the U.S. Government has an entire million-man military and 800,000 sworn police officers at its beck and call, not to mention tanks, jet bombers, and even the atomic bomb, these brave men standing between us and tyranny… are afraid of 10,000 unarmed Syrian refugees.
Let me get this straight: They’ll take on the mighty U.S. Army with their pop-guns, but they shit their pants like Ted Nugent at the thought that someone suspiciously dusky and Arab-lookin’ might move into a house down the street?
Just in case one of these mighty pants-shitters manages to wander by, here’s a few facts: 1) Refugees must be sponsored. 2) The sponsors are responsible for their sponsored refugees’ upkeep — the refugees will *not* be wards of the state, they will be the legal responsibility of their sponsor. 3) The sponsors are carefully screened both for financial ability to support their new wards, and to filter out anybody who might have anti-American tendencies. 4) The sponsors are specifically instructed in how to notify the FBI if their new wards start exhibiting jihadist type behaviors or disappear.
In short, each refugee family will have a Communist-like “minder” who makes sure that they don’t get up to no good. The FBI will know really quick if someone is up to no good, and will be on the case, and that’s if La Migra doesn’t just deport the miscreant back to the Middle East. And this is aside from the fact that of the 750,000 refugees resettled in the US since 9/11, not a single one of them has so much as burglarized a 7-11, nevermind gone jihadi…
Yet these brave pants shitters of the 101st Ted Nugent Brigade crap their pants at the very thought that 10,000 suspiciously dusky fellers might be settlin’ down in their neighborhood sometime soon…. brave, brave fellers, ain’t they? Hell, they make chickens look brave! And they seriously propose to take on the U.S. government with those pop-guns of theirs if a tyrant is elected? What. The. Fuck?
– Badtux the “Yea right” Penguin
To say nothing of the fact that the fuckwitz who think they’ll be able to defeat the Army of Authoritarianism with their semi-automatic AR-15s are incapable of cooperating with other people. They’re irritable, sarcastic, anti-social loners for the most part. The idea that they’d be able to act in a coordinated fashion with strangers to carry out tactics where they have no idea what they’re supposed to do in advance, because an insurgency is by nature impromptu — it is to laugh.
But that’s only if someone bothers to think the matter through. And the idiots with these delusions of bravery — “We can overthrow a tyrannical government!” — don’t bother with thinking. It’s all about emoting. They FEEL brave. That’s all that counts to them, their pathetic feelings. And they believe it’s the liberals who are emotional weaklings…
If I bothered to go on reich-wing comment sections to taunt them (which I haven’t given enough of a shit to do since about 2009, because what’s the point of wasting my time, eh?) I’d razz ’em for being pussified wimps, cowering in front of imaginary terrrrrrrrrrrrists. But who gives a fuck what they think? Aside from the cowardly governors, Congriftsmen and other people with political power, who are also pissing their pants in terror. Congratulations, dickheads — the terrorists have won! They made you terrified, all right. You are weaker than a terrorist.
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Bukko, not all of the chickenhawks are surly anti-social loners. Some of them can be quite charismatic and good at organizing things. The problem is that a few thousand dudes with light weapons can only survive if the majority of the population supports them. And the majority of the population will support them only if the majority of the population didn’t elect the government that the few thousand dudes want to overthrow — i.e., if it really *is* a tyranny. And even there, the chickenhawks are so cowardly that they’d run home to mommy rather than actually fire those weapons, otherwise they would have joined the military. There’s some ex-military who also are against refugees coming here, but that’s another issue.
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Bukko, they don’t even realize the drones we use ‘over there’ could just as easily be used over here – on them. Why endanger your military, when you can just send a little drone over to pop these weasels…
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Yeah, if “Dictator Obama” was really a dictator, he would have just sent a drone over to pop Cliven Bundy back during that whole circus.
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I believe they think the entirety of the U.S. armed forces will share a wink with them, should the balloon go up, and they’ll all turn their guns together on the darkies. And the darkie president.
I believe they are also terrified that the dusky ones will turn out to be good, productive citizens that work hard and don’t foment sedition. Nothing could be more terrifying to a bigot. Except the day their daughter brings home a nice, young ex-refugee from the Levant.
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Kind of like how they simultaneously whine about Mexicans taking their jobs, and Mexicans being lazy drags on the economy. They are quite capable of Orwellian doublethink and see no contradiction between those two contradictory notions.
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Badtux,
I’m still waiting for the overwhelming rush of conservatives enlisting in the military to fight “the war of our time”. Been waitin’ 14 years bet I’ll be waitin’ lots more. As to their taking on the US Military, conservative are convinced a vast majority or sizable portion will join them in insurrection once conservatives decide to overthrow the government.
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Well, they gripe that if they join, they wouldn’t be fighting ISIS because Obama isn’t sending in ground troops. But that’s okay, Havok has an alternative for them that will be on the ground in Syria REAL SOON NOW. Heh.
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Dear Lord Tuxxy! Conservatives are busily not serving the unavowed Socialist in the military here at home! Too expect them to serve an avowed French Socialist Overthere is a Bridge Too Far!
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I give credit to at least a few who signed up to “fight ’em over there” Gene. In many stories I’ve read about wounded, disaffected veterans from the recent Wars of the Empire, the shot-up guys said “I joined to get revenge for Sept. 11.” Yeah, that’s misguided thinking, unclear on the real culprits. (cough — Saudi Arabia — cough) But they had the balls to risk getting theirs blown off in defence of what they believed. The “poverty draft” factor played a part too. They know better now, of course.
I reckon that most of the young men who literally picked up a gun weren’t the ones blathering on the blogs. At least they weren’t before they wound up unemployed, PTSD’ed and in wheelchairs. Maybe now that they have too much time on their hands, assuming those paws still function… For every one topical comment in a current events area, there’s probably 100 mundane natterings on Faceblergh.
Face it, the people who sit at keyboards typing words that they dispatch into the ether — including me — are a loud-mouthed minority. I am cautious about calculating whether online comments indicate anything valid about the overall social mood. Paid shills, trolls with multiple sock puppets and the confirmation bias tendency to gravitate to sites that we mostly agree with already mean I’m getting a skewed view of what’s people are saying.
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