Fake Story About DHS “Tanks” Still Spreading Through Right Wing Talk Radio

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I know it’s not a big surprise, but so far I have not found a single right wing blogger who has corrected the utterly false story about DHS “tanks” launched by Dim Jim Hoft and Drudge Report, even though we proved yesterday that it’s a complete fantasy concocted by a survivalist blog.

Jim Hoft’s semi-literate post hyping this paranoid fake story is still at his blog, with no changes, retractions, or corrections, of course: Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile | the Gateway Pundit.

And as you can see in this Twitter search, there are still thousands of right wing parrots eagerly promoting the phony story, too, after hate-ranter Michael Savage gave it another big push on his radio show.

It’s yet another gigantic fake outrage promoted by evil, dishonest people, that will now become a matter of blind faith among the right wing base, impervious to facts or reason.

Also see
Fox’s Dobbs Pushes Conspiracy That Government Is ‘Arming Up’

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119 comments
1 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:41:44am

It would be irresponsible not to jump to wildly inaccurate conclusions which are easily debunked by looking at the actual evidence at hand.

2 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:43:32am

Ever assuming there was a grain of truth to this, what do they expect to do about it? How many of these keyboard kommandos pooh-poohed fears expressed during the Bush years that creating DHS and putting so much power in the executive branch might lead to such a situation? How many of them cheered on the Patriot Act and other measures that would protect them from the terrorists under their beds?

I guess what I’m saying is you reap what you sow.

3 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:45:12am

re: #2 Targetpractice

Ever assuming there was a grain of truth to this, what do they expect to do about it? How many of these keyboard kommandos pooh-poohed fears expressed during the Bush years that creating DHS and putting so much power in the executive branch might lead to such a situation? How many of them cheered on the Patriot Act and other measures that would protect them from the terrorists under their beds?

I guess what I’m saying is you reap what you sow.

Everyone knows Bush would have used them to fight the flow of creeping Sharia and to prepare for the invasion of Mexico, Who knows what the Kenyan Socialist will do with them?
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4 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:45:19am




5 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:45:29am

It fits the narrative that the shortage of ammunition is not the result of NRA scaremongering but rather government stockpiling…and, even better, it will drive demand up even further.

6 engineer cat  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:46:05am

DHS “Tanks”

why use do you think the government would have any need for tanks when you already let them read your email and listen to your phonecalls without a warrant, wingnut?

if any 21st century fascist government wanted to get you, the first thing you’d know about it would be when your credit cards stopped working and you found yourself accused of a serious crime you had never heard of before

7 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:46:12am
8 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:46:15am

Also see: Factchecking: ‘Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks’

And a repost:

A little tidbit from the weirdos at Business Insider:

Update: An earlier version of this post included a figure of over 2,700 vehicles, as cited from the original RT link. This figure likely comes from a press release from Navistar Defense, mentioning delivery of 2,717 to the U.S. Marine Corps. A DHS Spokesman confirmed with Business Insider that they have only 16 nationwide.

Notice how useless, and Kremlin owned, Russia Today got dibs on the stupidity as well.

Yes, DHS has MRAPs which is used by ICE. According to this yet to be verified number from someone at BID they have 16 MRAPs. The 2,717 has been shown to be for the USMC time and time again. Yet the conspiracy crazy anti-government nuts refuse to acknowledge this. Of course, had it been a Republican president the RWNJs would be applauding the idea of 2,717 “tanks” for the DHS just as the applauded everything that GWB did.

9 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:46:22am

re: #4 Vicious Babushka

“Arms-races” are bad?

/

10 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:46:58am

re: #6 engineer cat

DHS “Tanks”

why use do you think the government would have for tanks when you already let them read your email and listen to your phonecalls without a warrant, wingnut?

if any 21st century fascist government wanted to get you, the first thing you’d know about it would be when your credit cards stopped working and you found yourself accused of a serious crime you had never heard of before

And yet these retards continue to use Twitter.

11 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:47:09am

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12 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:48:34am
13 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:49:07am

Tea Party preparing to purchase 20,000 septic tanks.

As soon as they learn to drive them, they’ll take back America.
/

14 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:49:42am
A DHS Spokesman confirmed with Business Insider that they have only 16 nationwide.

And you believed them? LIES!

15 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:50:09am

Freaking amazing. Looks like Michael Savage ranted about this yesterday.

17 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:50:34am

re: #10 Vicious Babushka

Yeah but with their TGDN hashtags the gubmit can’t see them. /

18 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:51:20am

re: #12 Vicious Babushka

Unelected King in nation 3,000 miles away = democratically elected President in Washington.

That, in a nutshell, is the key image and driving force between Tea Party ideology

19 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:52:59am

re: #2 Targetpractice

Ever assuming there was a grain of truth to this, what do they expect to do about it? How many of these keyboard kommandos pooh-poohed fears expressed during the Bush years that creating DHS and putting so much power in the executive branch might lead to such a situation? How many of them cheered on the Patriot Act and other measures that would protect them from the terrorists under their beds?

These are people who openly talk about how only their tribe deserves franchise and citizenship, and how everybody else is somehow a counterfeit American or undeserving. The same applies for application of force and due process: when they imagine that it’s their liberties being infringed, suddenly it’s tyranny.

It’s always been about the doublethink of them being authoritarian but also “freedom-loving.”

20 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:53:24am

The kernels of fact:

2,717 MRAPs were being contracted for upgrades (by the US Marine Corps via a Navy contract).
DHS operates MRAPs. 16 of them that are primarily for border control operations.

The wildly nutty Hoft goes Derpilicious over a conspiracy/survivalist posting claiming that DHS is buying 2,717 super secret tanks.

MRAPs aren’t tanks. They’re mine resistant armored personnel carriers, and they gained a reputation for being more survivable than the Humvees that the military was using in Iraq and Afghanistan for troop transport. The design of the MRAP deflects IED blasts away from the passenger compartment.

But that doesn’t stop the nutters from claiming that DHS is getting them, along with the billion bullets (which they also ignore have to purchase in bulk to keep the borders safe and to protect the friendly skies as part of both the ICE and TSA). Between training, maintaining qualifications, and daily operating requirements, the number isn’t exactly overwhelming.

And the bulk purchasers are a cost-savings measure to get discounted ammo, rather than buying individual requirements that would end up costing the government more over the long term.

The government can’t win for trying here - these supposed cost-cutting and fiscally prudent right wing nut jobs ignore the benefit of a bulk purchase on ammo and instead claim conspiracy, which overlays with the MRAP nonsense.

21 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:54:09am

re: #18 Sol Berdinowitz

Unelected King in nation 3,000 miles away = democratically elected President in Washington.

That, in a nutshell, is the key image and driving force between Tea Party ideology

Well, comparing POTUS to George III is way classier than comparing him to Hitler.

22 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:54:18am

re: #18 Sol Berdinowitz

Unelected King in nation 3,000 miles away = democratically elected President in Washington.

That, in a nutshell, is the key image and driving force between Tea Party ideology

“I didn’t vote for him, so he’s not my president” followed by a rant about traitors who don’t read the Constitution.

23 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:55:25am

From Raw Story…

As Media Matters noted on Tuesday, Dobbs seemed to be repeating allegations made on the conservative Gateway Pundit blog and Alex Jones’ Infowars website, that “Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile.” Jones has also pushed a similar conspiracy theory on his radio show.

A statement from the Defense Department has clarified that the light armored vehicles had been purchased for the U.S. Marine Corp. And an Associated Press report has explained that the Department of Homeland Security made a cost-saving bulk purchase of ammunition to share with “more than 90 federal agencies.”

Derp.

It should be noted that Media Matters (which posted their page at 11:44 PM EST) got this from Charles and me. I Tweeted the LGF pages and the DOD contract award to both MMFA and Eric Boehlert. MMFA does link to and mentions Charles/LGF.

24 Ghost of Tom Joad  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:56:27am

If you outlaw tanks, only outlaws government will have tanks.
re: #13 Kragar (Antichrist )

Tea Party preparing to purchase 20,000 septic tanks.

As soon as they learn to drive them, they’ll take back America.
/

A proper vehicle for them to haul around all of their bullshit.

25 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:56:39am

TEH DERP CHAMBER STILL TWEETING THIS FAIL

26 Charles Johnson  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:56:42am

Government Arms Race Kicks Into High Gear as DHS Buys 2,700 Armored Vehicles for Streets of America - General News - TrueBlueLiberty

But we’re suppose to believe that flip-flopper Charles Johnson?

27 kerFuFFler  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:56:56am

I swear these loons are hoping that the government means to engage them in a huge military confrontation. They have been fantasizing about their heroic role in the upcoming war against our “illegal”, “tyrannical” government for years. No wonder they can’t be bothered to find out whether any of this is true!

28 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:57:49am

re: #12 Vicious Babushka

29 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:58:17am

re: #18 Sol Berdinowitz

Unelected King in nation 3,000 miles away = democratically elected President in Washington.

That, in a nutshell, is the key image and driving force between Tea Party ideology

They aren’t against the idea of a King. They just want it to be their kind of King. Ya know, like GWB. He was an American, not a Kenyan socialist.

30 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:58:27am

Zimmerman Stuns Court, Waives Right to ‘Stand Your Ground’ Hearing in Trayvon Martin Case

George Zimmerman’s attorneys stunned court observers Tuesday when they waived their client’s right to a “Stand Your Ground” hearing slated for April that might have led to a dismissal of the charges in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin a year ago.

However, the defense lawyers didn’t say whether they would waive the immunity hearing outright. They left open the possibility for that hearing to be rolled into Zimmerman’s second degree murder trial. Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch captain in his Florida subdivision, shot and killed the teen, who was visiting a house in the area.

31 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:58:51am

Bad craziness.

32 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:59:29am

re: #28 lawhawk

Sheriff Joe has one?

WELL FUCK! LETS GET THESE FUCKERS BANNED!
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33 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 11:59:57am

re: #28 lawhawk

IMPEACH!

34 Ghost of Tom Joad  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:00:56pm

re: #27 kerFuFFler

I swear these loons are hoping that the government means to engage them in a huge military confrontation. They have been fantasizing about their heroic role in the upcoming war against our “illegal”, “tyrannical” government for years. No wonder they can’t be bothered to find out whether any of this is true!

These fools probably think of themselves as taking Omaha Beach when they put their garbage out to the curb every couple of days.

35 Tigger2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:01:22pm

Don’t these idiots know if Obama meant to use these on the street they would have TeaBag Buster painted on the side of them.

36 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:01:51pm

But why would these armchair generals worry about DHS buying such vehicles if the story were true? Don’t most of their fantasies about revolution and a Second Civil War involve part or all of the Armed Forces turning on the government and assisting them in “taking back” the country?

37 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:03:01pm

re: #7 Vicious Babushka

They need them to crew the tanks.
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38 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:04:51pm

re: #37 Feline Fearless Leader

They need them to crew the tanks.
//

Makes sense, they are used to being stuffed windowless metal boxes in the desert heat…

39 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:04:53pm

re: #37 Feline Fearless Leader

They need them to crew the tanks.
//

That’s not a bad idea. Most of the TPers wouldn’t understand any Spanish anyway.

40 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:05:55pm

re: #25 Vicious Babushka

I thought the media and media icons were teh enemy of all that is True and Conservative?

41 Professor Chaos  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:06:38pm

What’s the implication of this fabricated story? That DHS will need IED-proof vehicles to use against the true patriots.

When we start to see terrorists use IEDs in this country, I’m willing to bet they will be white guys without Muslim-sounding names. And they will call themselves patriots and freedom fighters.

42 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:07:12pm

If you’re up to it Tweet this page to the bozos at #tcot and #tgdn. I would but don’t want to suffer their madness. :D

43 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:07:17pm

re: #38 Sol Berdinowitz

Makes sense, they are used to being stuffed windowless metal boxes in the desert heat…

Now just need to find someone with mad video skillz to convert a MRAP into a low-rider with a nifty paint job to complete the freak-out effect.

44 Tigger2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:08:15pm

re: #7 Vicious Babushka

That’s your small Gov you’ll say you want, no money, no afford to keep people locked up.

45 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:08:48pm

re: #44 Tigger2

That’s your small Gov you’ll say you want, no money no afford to keep people locked up.

But everyone will be heavily armed so criminals won’t stand a chance!

//

46 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:09:01pm

re: #41 Professor Chaos

What’s the implication of this fabricated story? That DHS will need IED-proof vehicles to use against the true patriots.

When we start to see terrorists use IEDs in this country, I’m willing to bet they will be white guys without Muslim-sounding names. And they will call themselves patriots and freedom fighters.

They’re declaring this “proof” that the White House is preparing to spark off a new civil war, using the billions of bullets and thousands of MRAPs to round up all the “patriots” and impose socialist rule upon “We, The People.” It’s the sort of fantasies they engaged in during the 90s, but promptly forgot after 9/11.

47 Destro  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:11:04pm

It’s like the right wing bought into the “Turner Diaries” scenario for real.

48 dragonath  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:11:27pm

Freedom of speech, what a puny concept!

We came to this country, not for freedom of speech, but freedom of religion!

What we wanted in our independence was the freedom to worship God without interference from the government

We are very blessed to live in a country that still, even in the midst of all ungodliness, considers itself “ONE NATION UNDER GOD”

We have freedom today, not because of war, not because of a “Declaration of Independence”

But because we serve a God that has shed His grace on us as a nation

49 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:11:42pm

re: #34 Ghost of Tom Joad

These fools probably think of themselves as taking Omaha Beach when they put their garbage out to the curb every couple of days.

I read that as ‘Obama Beach’.

50 Destro  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:12:10pm

re: #46 Targetpractice

They’re declaring this “proof” that the White House is preparing to spark off a new civil war, using the billions of bullets and thousands of MRAPs to round up all the “patriots” and impose socialist rule upon “We, The People.” It’s the sort of fantasies they engaged in during the 90s, but promptly forgot after 9/11.

You mean it’s not? WTF!!! You know how much I invested in FEMA concentration camps and in body bag manufacturer’s stock options? What gyp!

51 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:12:36pm

Deep down, the paranoids just want to be Ewoks. Cheeto dust-covered Ewoks.

52 bubba zanetti  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:13:16pm

re: #43 Feline Fearless Leader

There’s probably a rap video out there with one in it.

53 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:13:25pm

The Army, which has real tanks, the M1A2, and all manner of ammo for deconstruction pretty much any structure or vehicle with them (choose your SABOT or HEAT round accordingly) has roughly 26,000 tanks in storage or operation around the world. Thousands of them are on prepositioned RORO ships in addition to those at facilities like Fort Benning.

54 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:13:44pm
55 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:14:21pm

re: #47 Destro

It’s like the right wing bought into the “Turner Diaries” scenario for real.

For those on the fringe, they never stopped buying into it. They’ve just exported their crazy to a wider selection of extremists on the right.

56 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:14:46pm

The election of Hillary will wipe that smile right off your face.

57 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:15:35pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

Wait, now the DHS has UN tanks?!

Scary!

Agenda 21 is here!

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58 engineer cat  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:15:51pm

shed His grace

not the most felicitous of phrases imho

59 Tigger2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:16:05pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

WOLVERINES

60 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:16:11pm

DERP!

61 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:17:13pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

UN tanks! It’s happening! Get ready! Get ready!

Derp.

62 Tigger2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:17:39pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

It’s funny the background looks blurred but the foreground doesn’t.

Or maybe it’s my eyes. lol

63 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:17:52pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

With about 2 minutes of googling I would say Bradley AFVs belonging to the Martinsburg Army National Guard just down the road.

64 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:18:16pm

re: #59 Tigger2

WOLVERINES

YUB NUB

65 Bulworth  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:18:22pm

re: #56 Vicious Babushka

I thought PBO was secretly plotting to block elections and stay on for a third term as Dictator! /

66 Professor Chaos  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:19:15pm

re: #60 Vicious Babushka

I like the double derp:

His college records are sealed, oh, and they’re probably fake, also, too.

67 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:19:56pm

re: #48 dragonath

Freedom of speech, what a puny concept!

The word “God” appears exactly once in the Declaration, nowhere in the Constitution, and “Under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 in response to perceptions of the Soviet Union as “godless.”

68 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:20:17pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

Those look like M2 Bradleys. And dollars to donuts, they’re part of the West Virginia National Guard that is stationed at Camp Dawson, WV (which is in relatively close proximity to Charleston WV) [or any other WV ANG unit.]

69 stabby  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:20:34pm

re: #27 kerFuFFler

I swear these loons are hoping that the government means to engage them in a huge military confrontation. They have been fantasizing about their heroic role in the upcoming war against our “illegal”, “tyrannical” government for years. No wonder they can’t be bothered to find out whether any of this is true!

I thought they were fantasizing about a race war.

One I saw popping up in PJMedia’s comment section a few times (and never to anything other than assents) goes like this:
1) the tea party wins massive and manages to end ALL social programs
2) some Democrat says some unspecified thing that starts the race apocalypse (that way it isn’t the right wingers fault). I suppose they may be thinking of Al Sharpton who they rant about endlessly. It will be HIS fault when he says “making old people and children starve and die without medicine is a bad thing”
3) they get to lock and load and shoot all the black people and immigrants. But of course in the middle of saying “lock and load” and “stock up on bullets” they are sure to say “don’t shoot first” a few times, just to make it clear that nothing is ever their fault.

I’m not sure where the government fits in here. Obama does because he’s BLACKITY BLACK BLACK

70 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:20:52pm

re: #66 Professor Chaos

I like the double derp:

His college records are sealed, oh, and they’re probably fake, also, too.

WE WILL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE THEY ARE SEALED. WHAT IS HE HIDING!!!!11111!!!!TY

71 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:20:53pm

re: #68 lawhawk

Those look like M2 Bradleys. And dollars to donuts, they’re part of the West Virginia National Guard that is stationed at Camp Dawson, WV (which is in relatively close proximity to Charleston WV).

Lies! Do you work for the government?

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72 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:21:03pm

Charles Town, WV national guard


[Link: maps.google.com…]

73 Tigger2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:21:29pm

re: #60 Vicious Babushka

DERP!

What about Bush, Cheney and Torture that was very Corrupt.

74 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:24:19pm


Christian fundamentalist Bryan Fischer calls liberal atheists the ‘American Taliban’

During his Monday Focal Point radio broadcast, Bryan Fischer insisted that liberals were modern “Pharisees,” a Jewish sect which was depicted as self-righteous and hypocritical in the New Testament of the Bible.

“You know who the American Taliban is?” he asked his listeners. “It’s secular fundamentalists because they are the one that want to remove all mention of Jesus from the public square… and they’re the Taliban. The Taliban wants to do the same thing. Taliban wants to drive Christ and any mention of Christ and drive Christians from the public square.”

“So, who is the Taliban today, who are the Pharisees today? Freedom From Religion Foundation, ACLU and secular fundamentalists all across the fruited plain.”

75 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:25:23pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

Also. Not tanks.

76 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:25:25pm

re: #74 Kragar (Antichrist )


Christian fundamentalist Bryan Fischer calls liberal atheists the ‘American Taliban’

Frow him to teh fwoow!

77 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:26:26pm

Arkansas senate overrides governor’s veto of 12-week abortion ban.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Senate voted Tuesday to override Gov. Mike Beebe’s veto of legislation that would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward and would give the state the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.

The Republican-led Senate voted 20-14 to override the veto. The state House hadn’t yet voted on it. Only a simple majority is needed in each chamber to override a veto in Arkansas.

78 dragonath  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:26:30pm

I’m sure if you dig deep into the militia movement, you’ll probably find people hating Roosevelt for signing the militia Act of 1903.

79 Professor Chaos  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:26:59pm

re: #76 Vicious Babushka

Frow him to teh fwoow!

Stwike him vewy woughwy, Centuwion!

80 Tigger2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:27:29pm

re: #74 Kragar (Antichrist )


Christian fundamentalist Bryan Fischer calls liberal atheists the ‘American Taliban’

I thought the Taliban were religious fanatics, how the hell can atheists be religious fanatics.

81 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:28:38pm

re: #25 Vicious Babushka

If a simple majority can override a veto, what the fuck is the point of a veto?

82 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:29:27pm

re: #54 Vicious Babushka

83 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:29:50pm

re: #82 lawhawk

Won’t work.

84 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:30:06pm

re: #80 Tigger2

I thought the Taliban were religious fanatics, how the hell can atheists be religious fanatics.

Because they both hate Baby Jesus obviously.

85 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:30:11pm

re: #80 Tigger2

I thought the Taliban were religious fanatics, how the hell can atheists be religious fanatics.

Just like all restaurants are Taco Bell in Fischer’s world.
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86 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:30:27pm

re: #83 Gus

Oh, I know, the derp is strong with him. But try I must. /

87 Ghost of Tom Joad  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:30:43pm

re: #80 Tigger2

I thought the Taliban were religious fanatics, how the hell can atheists be religious fanatics.

To them, atheists are apparently believers too. Religious folks believe there is a God, atheists believe there is no God. That’s how they see it, and it helps justify their hatred of them.

88 Professor Chaos  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:31:28pm

re: #74 Kragar (Antichrist )


Christian fundamentalist Bryan Fischer calls liberal atheists the ‘American Taliban’

I swear the overriding wingnut attribute is projection of one’s self onto one’s enemies. And it makes sense too, as it is born out of selfishness and a complete lack of empathy.

89 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:33:13pm

re: #86 lawhawk

Oh, I know, the derp is strong with him. But try I must. /

I tried yesterday with some anarchist. She or he freaked out and sent my 9 Tweets within 15 minutes. Didn’t work. His/her last Tweet to me was this:

I laughed.

90 dragonath  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:33:20pm

How does God “shed his grace”? Is he like, a dog or something?

91 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:34:29pm

re: #90 dragonath

How does God “shed his grace”? Is he like, a dog or something?

It’s actually ‘shred’. God is metal, yo.

92 Professor Chaos  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:34:49pm

re: #81 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

If a simple majority can override a veto, what the fuck is the point of a veto?

The strongly-worded letter of Arkansas politics?

They kinda sorta know what separation of powers is?

93 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:35:30pm

Donald Trump To Attend CPAC

Can they get more clown show?

94 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:36:12pm

re: #80 Tigger2

I thought the Taliban were religious fanatics, how the hell can atheists be religious fanatics.

It makes sense if your worldview assumes that being non-Christian isn’t the product of genuine belief or of social moulding, but solely the product of a hatred of Jesus.

Not sarcastic.

95 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:36:18pm

re: #93 Kragar (Antichrist )

Donald Trump To Attend CPAC

Can they get more clown show?

Just reading this morning that Christie isn’t alone, that Bob McDonnell also found his CPAC invitation wasn’t in the mail.

96 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:36:40pm

re: #90 dragonath

How does God “shed his grace”? Is he like, a dog or something?

Keep in mind these are the same people who speak lovingly about being “washed in the blood of Jesus” and eating his flesh, and other things that sound like death metal lyrics.

97 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:36:53pm

re: #89 Gus

Well, seems to recognize that the M2s aren’t anything nefarious after all:

98 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:37:03pm

re: #93 Kragar (Antichrist )

Donald Trump To Attend CPAC

Can they get more clown show?

99 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:37:18pm

re: #91 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

It’s actually ‘shred’. God is metal, yo.

Everyone know that. Dio is God.

Youtube Video
100 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:38:15pm

re: #96 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Keep in mind these are the same people who speak lovingly about being “washed in the blood of Jesus” and eating his flesh, and other things that sound like death metal lyrics.

Getting nailed to a plank, then coming back from the dead is pretty metal.

101 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:38:44pm

re: #97 lawhawk

I bet that’s sarcasm.

102 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:40:40pm

re: #101 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I bet that’s sarcasm.

“…their camouflaged with stamped Army units insignia…”

More like “they’re.” But “THEY”RE CAMOUFLAGED AS US ARMY TANKS WHEN IN FACT THEY’RE UN TANKS!”

Too early to start drinking.

103 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:41:12pm

re: #96 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Keep in mind these are the same people who speak lovingly about being “washed in the blood of Jesus” and eating his flesh, and other things that sound like death metal lyrics.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

104 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:43:12pm
105 Interesting Times  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:43:22pm

re: #76 Vicious Babushka

I left you a reply downstairs with some debunking of the wingnut spam you quoted. Not that they’d listen, but it might come in handy if you talk to any misled fence-sitters.

106 Destro  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:44:19pm

re: #55 lawhawk

For those on the fringe, they never stopped buying into it. They’ve just exported their crazy to a wider selection of extremists on the right.

The rightwing agreed with Tim McVeigh 100% but were too wussy to admit it in mixed company - but amongst themselves they either think:

A) Clinton framed the “Patriot” movement by enacting the Patriot movement’s own scenario on America to make America hate the Patriot movement (I know - even the Patriot militias know their ideology would make Americans hate them)

or


B) McVeigh was a hero who did what had to be done.

That is the base of the Republican party, today.

107 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:44:22pm

Good times.

108 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:45:00pm

re: #104 Gus

Youtube Video
109 sattv4u2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:47:27pm

re: #102 Gus

Too early to start drinking.

Nevah!! It’s 5 p.m. somewhere!!!
/

110 Jolo5309  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:48:40pm

re: #109 sattv4u2

Too early to start drinking.

Nevah!! It’s 5 p.m. somewhere!!!
/

It has to be 5 PM?

Amateurs.

111 dragonath  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:48:57pm

re: #104 Gus

Funny, she had no problem supporting the clown who invited him to his “victory” party.

112 sattv4u2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:50:40pm

re: #110 Jolo5309

It has to be 5 PM?

Amateurs.

Yeah, but I’m working my way to professional status !!

113 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:51:45pm

re: #111 dragonath

Funny, she had no problem supporting the clown who invited him to his “victory” party.

I’m reminded of Erick’s editorial the other day calling on the right to stop jumping onto every conspiracy theory that comes their way. Or Frum actually beginning to express doubt as to the GOP’s tactics. These folks have encouraged and cheered on this shit for years, but now are stunned when the very monster they created is not their means to greatness and is no longer listening to their commands.

114 Gus  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:52:54pm

re: #111 dragonath

Funny, she had no problem supporting the clown who invited him to his “victory” party.

Funny she had no problem with STAND WITH PAMELA GELLER!!11ty

115 Local Media Monitor  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 12:54:00pm

You would think that Fake DHS Tanks are the Amazon Deal of the Day

116 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 1:13:57pm

re: #115 Local Media Monitor

You would think that Fake DHS Tanks are the Amazon Deal of the Day

Speaking of actual tanks - I was *not* hallucinating the other day when I was driving on US-130 to visit friends in New Jersey.

An Army-Navy store along that highway has a static display British Chieftain tank out front. I found some internet pictures of it.

[Link: www.flickriver.com…]

117 lawhawk  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 1:19:19pm

re: #116 Feline Fearless Leader

I know the place.

118 sattv4u2  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 1:28:34pm

re: #116 Feline Fearless Leader

re: #117 lawhawk

Big deal!

Here in Georgia we have better weapon on display!!
Image: The-Big-Chicken-Marietta-GAuSA.jpg

119 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Mar 5, 2013 1:32:20pm

re: #84 Kragar (Antichrist )

Because they both hate Baby Jesus obviously.

Funny thing is Muslims DON’T hate baby Jesus. They speak very highly of him and his mother Mary.


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