Category Archives: Eliminationist Rhetoric

Douchebags International, British Division

By Emilia 1956 There was a one-day general strike in the UK today. It only concerned public sector workers – teachers, nurses, firefighters, ambulance crew, some police, civil servants. Schools were closed, hospitals couldn’t admit or do routine surgical procedures. … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: Andrew Breitbart Is Not Kidding

“We outnumber them in this country and we’ve got the guns.” This moment of pure fantasy coup violence and idiotic characterization comes from a racist fabricator behind the high-tech lynching of ACORN. And he’s wrong: I’m pretty sure the number … Continue reading

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Morning Awful: William Gheen

This is not a joke. It’s not just eliminationism, but outright sedition: (B)asically at this point, if you’re looking for a peaceful, political recourse there really isn’t one that we can think of, and I’m really not sure what to … Continue reading

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The Outsiders

A video about right-wing extremists and the right-wing mouthpieces who apologize for them. Set to a mash-up of three different versions of “The Outsider” by A Perfect Circle.

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Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges makes a great point here linking our cultural war on empathy to the decline of American journalism and foreign policy. I’ve made much the same point myself, many times, but of course he makes it better:

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Morning Awful: Guns In Campaign Literature

From Minnesota, a disturbing flyer published almost a month after the mass shooting at Rep. Gifford’s event in Arizona.

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Bigotry And Lies In Alabama

Alabama Senator Scott Beason at Saturday’s Cullman County Republican Party breakfast: “Democrats do not want to solve the illegal immigration problem because they know, this is a fact, that when more illegal immigrants move into an area, when their children … Continue reading

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Kulturkampf: A Definition

Some knowledge of German is quite nearly mandatory for those who study military history. I borrow this particular German word because of its history and applicability to the study of politics as the continuation of warfare by other means. Which … Continue reading

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Individuality Under Assault

Via David Neiwert at C&L: CNN offers a disturbing look into the rhetoric of the Hutaree militia. Neiwert does a good job dissecting it all here, but there’s one aspect that I don’t think gets enough attention: the Fight Club-like … Continue reading

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Paranoia Is Not An American Value

Via Dave Neiwart at Crooks & Liars, here’s a video the Hutaree militia made in which they overthrow a United Nations command post (presumably after Teh Obamanon™ brings in the UN to keep civil order after Teh Global Socializms™ inspire … Continue reading

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You Don’t “Coordinate” Zombies

Dale Robertson, the self-proclaimed “founder” of the tea party movement, speaking of teabag terrorism in the Washington Times yesterday: “These people could be anybody. I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there,” Mr. Robertson said. “They’re trying … Continue reading

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