Freak-Corps (Part I.)

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

I just saw this.

Bunch of masked idiots in blue hoodies and khakis marching past the Lincoln Memorial chanting "Reclaim America" and carrying plastic Bucklers like they think they're some kind of Strip-mall Freikorps. And they can't even march in formation...

Crowd wasn't having it, apparently.

Good. You want to make this silly bullshit go away? Tell these people to go fuck themselves and make it stick. I'm not sure what the hell these Dollar Store fascists think they look like...but they sure don't look like Americans.

That would be if they looked like this, I suppose.

The thought is the same, but these fools fail in the execution. The Reclaim America idiots don't look scary, just ridiculous...and while the 1920's Klan also based itself off of the popular culture of the time (D.W. Griffith's 1915 film Birth Of A Nation in their case) the idiotic "traditions" of these Nationalists and "Proud" Boys just strike me as ridiculous. They're cosplayers who think they're going to recreate Greco-Roman culture, just without the sodomy...when all a bunch of them really want to go out and do is exactly that.

But far from Leonidas at Thermopylae...well, as we've found out in the last year or so, a whole bunch of these people cannot even handle going to jail, often for unusually short prison sentences for people who tried to overthrow a government.

And while I'm at it, I'd like to take a minute to remind you that the Second Ku Klux Klan collapsed in the mid-1920's over the exposure of its membership and the arrest, trial and convictions of some of its leaders in crimes...including the rape and murder of a white woman, a schoolteacher named Madge Oberholtzer.

These people don't give a fuck about America...just like their ancestors, spiritual and otherwise, did not.

And just like their forebears they are nothing but criminal gangs, albeit ones that are even more ridiculous looking.

I'm not sure if the "Reclaim America" marchers are deliberately  trying to look like Radical Islamists or Russian Nationalists, but they managed it. I think with the shields they're trying to make themselves look like Greek Hoplites, but the truth is, you can see in the picture and the video I snipped it from that the things are just chintzy plastic. Not so much "Come back with your shield or on it" as with the shattered plastic shards ground into your skin or stuffed in your pockets because you tried to fight and somebody whupped your ass.

But some of these people just plain want to be the fucking Taliban. They think they're "standing up" against abortion, but the fact is that "Conservatives" and Evangelical Christians have a hell of a lot more abortions and out-of-wedlock births than liberals and moderates do. Of course they have just as much sex as the rest of us, they're just a hell of a lot less responsible about it.

And, having seen this particular stupid post that I snipped here, I don't ever want to hear anybody else call Progressives sanctimonious ever again.

I'll note I say that as somebody who's not really a fan of a lot of the Bernie Bros and shit. 

But goddamn, I'll take dealing with those people and their policy arguments and tedious pedantry all day over these anti-abortion crusader religious fanatics who think it's "Entitled" if you want to have sex. There's something really fucked up about that, if you ask me. 

If you don't want to have sex, don't have any. Don't tell me or any other person what to do. This is America, we don't have to accept or believe in your religion and even if we did, there's lots of interpretations of Christianity and lots of other religions with a more positive view of sex. The idea that sex is for childbearing only...I mean, fuck, in real terms even radical Islam doesn't actually go that far.

We're people, not ferrets or some other animal, and that's all there is to it.

These people aren't a few righteous Christians or a few hundred valiant Spartans standing up for faith or life or western civilization. They're a bunch of criminals, fanatics and morons who think they have a right to tell you who you can have sex with while they go out and do whatever they want, no matter who gets hurt or killed in the process.

And it's starting. The radicals and the Trumpers have started on their purity purge of the Republican Party. In the last week we saw Marjorie Taylor Greene go after Nancy Mace, and we know she's had the knives out for Kevin McCarthy for a very long time already. 

And trust me, it's only going to get worse. It doesn't matter how Evangelical Christian or how Republican you are, because it's not about doctrine or policy anymore. It's about submission to the ravening mob...and their stupid ideas about a more combative or "Masculine" conservatism. 

Basically, they're fucking low-rent Nazis. 

Now, these fucking people are going after Dan Crenshaw, and I'm sorry but I'm a bit hard-pressed to think of anybody who's more of a simpering Republican sellout than that fucking guy is. So be warned, Republicans, you're not safe. The Freak-Corps is coming, and it looks like you're just a little bit more in their way than the rest of us are.

Today, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie posted this picture, which got him dragged all day on Twitter but I suppose if you have no self-respect like a typical Republican all you'll see is that you were the trending topic for the whole damn day.

Frankly, I'm a gun guy and I think it looks ridiculous. You spent the money go go out and buy yourself a semi-automatic M-60 and you're posing sitting on the couch with it in full suburban brunch getup with that Pig? Seriously??

That's worth negative masculinity points in terms of guy-code 

I think. I grew up in the 1980's with shirtless muscular Sly Stallone as Rambo carrying a -60 as one of the iconic images of my childhood. (And I'll bring that up today in spite of recently learning that Sly is apparently a Q-nut.) I carried and frequently shot one as a Security Police troop when I was in the Air Force...and don't get me wrong, they're fun as hell to shoot...but I can't even imagine shooting one semi-auto. If you want that? I've got a deer rifle that fires the same caliber of shell (.30 Caliber/7.62mm) and it's a hell of a lot lighter to carry around.

If you actually want to get off the couch, particularly while carrying a long gun, that matters.

And that picture is a perfect example of what we're dealing with here, self-important fascists and freaks and religious fanatics who think they scare somebody...but they just look ridiculous.

Most of them haven't the foggiest what "Scary" even looks like. Like that couple in St. Louis last year who all they did was show everybody that they didn't know the first thing about how to carry, much less use, their weapons properly.

If you can't stand up against that? Get out of the way, and the rest of us will do it for you. This shit is ridiculous. I keep saying, if you want a better country you have to be a better citizen.

But this? 

This ain't it. If you let these people take your freedom it's because you didn't fight back at all.

Don't go out like that. This is America, we don't have to put up with this shit.

So don't.

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