"Tactical" is the new go-to word for "gear" (everything from flashlights to utility knives) that is supposedly "military" but is in actuality intended for Suppression Of The Dusky Hordes. As always.
I was going to comment on the link between gunfappers like these and the proliferation of Tactical Glasses, Tactical Flaslights, Battle Condoms and the like. For some reason, they're heavy advertisers on MeTV and thus I am quick to deploy my Tactical Mute Button when commercials come on.
Just finished reading Ian Kershaw's The End, Germany 1944-1945 which is chock full of Nazis shootin' themselves in the head because WAAAAH WE LOST. Really the only kind of book about Nazis I'm interested in any more.
I'm thinking of buying up a bunch of camo condoms(pretty sure they exist- not going to check) labeling them "Tactical " If I buy small-sized and label them XL I won't be able to keep them in stock.
We need to come up with a liberal version of Southern Baptists . Think of how satisfying it would be to believe that rotten fucks like the people promoting this poison are going to burn in hell for eternity.
Better business opportunity thru Tactical Shit: Viagra and Cialis Strategic Six-Packs in case that campaign to find a woman willing to sleep with you ever comes to fruition.
I know the stats say there are actually more guns in America than people (something like 350 million) but I also remember seeing that gun ownership is pretty tightly clustered: A few years ago WaPo commissioned a study that determined 25% of Americans own a gun. And I forget the actual statistic, but I think it’s something like less than 10% of the population owns 75 to 90% of the guns. So basically you’ve got a few hundred thousand self-styled Rambos who could arm several platoons, then you’ve got the rural guys who own one or two rifles or shotguns, then everyone else.
And although that less than 10% may resemble a “militia” when armed, I highly doubt they are well-regulated. The whole situation is beyond fucked up.
Still... seems like I'm seeing more news stories about mass shootings where it's just a bunch of people at a party, two guys get into a fight (armed, naturally) and the party-goers are surprised to learn how many people in the room are carrying and eager to get some shots off when the opportunity presents itself.
Since part of the gun lobby's effort is to prevent data being compiled, there is likely huge discrepancy between official records and how many weapons on any given day are in people's hands. Even peace-loving persons are subject to fear of violent crime. Perversely, many people believe it is better to have a weapon and not need it than not to have one and need it. The psychology of "needing a weapon" is a step towards using one. I am working on never needing a weapon.
We went to our youngest’s high school graduation last night and looking down on that sea of mortar boards we had to say, “We did it; made it through three kids and 18 years of public education without a mass homicide.” To celebrate we’re going to New York and maybe ride a subway.
My standing offer to gun-loving Second Amendment Patriots everywhere:
You can have any weapon you like--up to and including a grenade launcher--along with as much ammunition as you want. Now, just try to hold off a single platoon of regular Army.
Because when the Big Liebral Government decides to take your weapons, they're not sending a bunch of elderly liberals or soft emo college kids. It's going to be the US Army knocking down your front door, and likely knocking down the rest of your house, too.
When the government has actually tried to go up against these morons (Waco, Ruby Ridge, Bundy Ranch, etc.) suddenly it's all thumbs, can't imagine why.
I guess it's too much to expect the Greatest Army in the World to have the tactical efficiency of the Chicago P.D. going after Chairman Fred Hampton.
The gab about having the right to overthrow the government is just cover. The smarter ones know they don't stand a chance, the rest think the military will see them as allies, equals. What they're really hoping for is social collapse, the "urban food riots", the dusky hoards coming for their MREs. Open season, no limit. That's their version of Paradise, a sort of Night Of The Living Dead, but with enough guns. They never seem to think about how that movie ended, though.
I recently saw a clip of a comedian saying something like, "If you own guns because you think you're going to have to use them against the government some day...you don't know how a tank works."
I do believe that describes a shit ton of GOP candidates’ commercials.
“These people are mad and must be stopped.”
Well, since they’re the only people outside the “special interests” who dictate what our leaders do and are an essential part of the GOP electorate (needed to complete the party’s lock on power), that isn’t happening. So, you know, instead of worrying about stopping those people, maybe no little energy should be going into planning for the world that’s coming in the next couple of years. I mean, continuing to mock them and their leaders, god knows, is fine, but of instead of focusing on the not-happening, maybe their should be focus on the necessary.
Not saying it's a cure-all, but some of this could possibly be scaled back if more people could look carefully at their ballot and fill in the little circle next to the candidate who's not a fucking lunatic.
"the candidate who's not a fucking lunatic" I think I see the problem there--apparently a significant segment of the population either does not possess that level of discernment, or they're fucking lunatics themselves.
Ha, been a while. I think we underestimate how bought off the U.S. military was by our huge Cold War cash outlays. Maybe they still are! Funny, the allegedly "woke" mil thing (basically, the Forces doing normal HR stuff) made me worry about it less -- because how rogue could they get if they had diversity training? Guess we'll find out!
I always assumed the sequel is General James Mattoon Scott running for President two years later and kicking President Jordan Lyman's ass from one coast to the other. Because 'Merica.
Somewhere in the archives I have a PDF of that NRA mailer, which must indeed be seen in its entirety to be believed (I note that it’s available at the link Roy has provided). If I recall aright, the thing was actually withdrawn after its initial publication. That wouldn’t happen today, of course, and I’m surprised it hasn’t been updated and re-released (dig the stubbly gams of the “animal rights terrorist” on page eighteen!—the classics never go out of style).
Variations of this have been said many times, but maybe, just maybe, a bunch of guys who were admittedly intelligent men in their time but who also owned other human beings, thought leeches were good medicine, and would have been puzzled by a vacuum cleaner and terrified by an airplane should not actually have the final word on every aspect of how we order our lives.
I am having a very hard time with the news about 40 minutes before law enforcement got to the shooter. There is a lot of outrage and confusion, partly because we're still gathering information so there's stuff we don't know. I think I have to not think about it until someone I trust, like one of y'all, can help me understand. No pressure or anything. Gah.
As reported by the estimable Mr. Pierce, Uvalde spent 40% of its municipal budget last year on that police department, buttressed by another $500K from Brave Brave Greg Abbott in January. Apparently their prime concern was holding off the dusky hordes trying to stream across the border. Priorities...
They spent a bundle on special hardened doors for the classrooms, which works great when the shooter is outside the classroom and not so great when the shooter is inside the classroom and it's the cops trying to breach the hardened door. Also, he was able to shoot at the cops in the hallway *through the cinderblock walls* because that's why an 18 year old needs an assault rifle.
"I’m gonna keep on saying it: These people are mad and must be stopped."
You could sum up the last 50 years of our political history by observing that this truth was ignored by so many for so long that all the means of stopping them short of 2nd Amendment options no longer seem viable.
Well, there's one of these chuckleheads in Wisconsin who could be stopped cold if enough people turned out to vote, there's a couple in Pa. who could be stopped in the same way, etc.
"If you’re not sure why Tactical Shit celebrates the Day of Remembrance for fallen soldiers with heavily-armed hot chicks, maybe you haven’t been watching enough action movies."
The push-up bras are always a lovely touch. As I learn by watching movies, we've had them since cave times and will continue to wear them even after the Apocalypse.
You are one of the few who keep hammering the nail i see sticking up: Fear. All the anger, paranoia, resentment, victimhood, irrational assertions offered as argument, it's all Fear. Fear of losing their position, their security, their culture, their "quiet" dominance of everything not like them. They are all turning into the Jimmy Cagney character in White Heat, "top of the world, Ma!" and they'll burn it all down if that's their only way to stay on "top".
I don't know. I see resentment as being just as strong a motivator. What they (think they) see is the dusky hordes getting special treatment. And that rankles. To them, America is (as Spiro Agnew once said) "the greatest nation in the country" because it's where YOU DESERVE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. That they're not getting it is proof of somebody cheating, and it burns their butt. Yes, they're then encouraged to fear the blax, the libs, the "communists" and "socialists." But I think it starts with the self-pitying perception that they're being ripped off. (Which they are. But not by whom them think.)
"Tactical" is the new go-to word for "gear" (everything from flashlights to utility knives) that is supposedly "military" but is in actuality intended for Suppression Of The Dusky Hordes. As always.
Don't you have a tactical shaver? For shaving your tactical parts?
I was going to comment on the link between gunfappers like these and the proliferation of Tactical Glasses, Tactical Flaslights, Battle Condoms and the like. For some reason, they're heavy advertisers on MeTV and thus I am quick to deploy my Tactical Mute Button when commercials come on.
Why do I feel a strong need to go back and read more books about Weimar Germany?
Better yet, William Shirer’s “The Nightmare Years” about the rise of Nazis.
Just finished reading Ian Kershaw's The End, Germany 1944-1945 which is chock full of Nazis shootin' themselves in the head because WAAAAH WE LOST. Really the only kind of book about Nazis I'm interested in any more.
I'm thinking of buying up a bunch of camo condoms(pretty sure they exist- not going to check) labeling them "Tactical " If I buy small-sized and label them XL I won't be able to keep them in stock.
We need to come up with a liberal version of Southern Baptists . Think of how satisfying it would be to believe that rotten fucks like the people promoting this poison are going to burn in hell for eternity.
Better business opportunity thru Tactical Shit: Viagra and Cialis Strategic Six-Packs in case that campaign to find a woman willing to sleep with you ever comes to fruition.
Unfortunately for anyone hoping to make a buck off these mooks, Alex Jones has already cornered the market on Tactical Taint Wipes.
I know the stats say there are actually more guns in America than people (something like 350 million) but I also remember seeing that gun ownership is pretty tightly clustered: A few years ago WaPo commissioned a study that determined 25% of Americans own a gun. And I forget the actual statistic, but I think it’s something like less than 10% of the population owns 75 to 90% of the guns. So basically you’ve got a few hundred thousand self-styled Rambos who could arm several platoons, then you’ve got the rural guys who own one or two rifles or shotguns, then everyone else.
And although that less than 10% may resemble a “militia” when armed, I highly doubt they are well-regulated. The whole situation is beyond fucked up.
According to the WaPo, 50% of America's guns are owned by 3% of the population. The remaining 50% are owned by 19% of the population. This is insane.
Thanks for the clarification. It truly is insane.
Still... seems like I'm seeing more news stories about mass shootings where it's just a bunch of people at a party, two guys get into a fight (armed, naturally) and the party-goers are surprised to learn how many people in the room are carrying and eager to get some shots off when the opportunity presents itself.
Since part of the gun lobby's effort is to prevent data being compiled, there is likely huge discrepancy between official records and how many weapons on any given day are in people's hands. Even peace-loving persons are subject to fear of violent crime. Perversely, many people believe it is better to have a weapon and not need it than not to have one and need it. The psychology of "needing a weapon" is a step towards using one. I am working on never needing a weapon.
Exactly, more guns --> fear --> more guns.
Great if you're a gun manufacturer, not so great for the rest of us.
We went to our youngest’s high school graduation last night and looking down on that sea of mortar boards we had to say, “We did it; made it through three kids and 18 years of public education without a mass homicide.” To celebrate we’re going to New York and maybe ride a subway.
Step lightly: we hear people poop there...
My standing offer to gun-loving Second Amendment Patriots everywhere:
You can have any weapon you like--up to and including a grenade launcher--along with as much ammunition as you want. Now, just try to hold off a single platoon of regular Army.
Because when the Big Liebral Government decides to take your weapons, they're not sending a bunch of elderly liberals or soft emo college kids. It's going to be the US Army knocking down your front door, and likely knocking down the rest of your house, too.
When the government has actually tried to go up against these morons (Waco, Ruby Ridge, Bundy Ranch, etc.) suddenly it's all thumbs, can't imagine why.
I guess it's too much to expect the Greatest Army in the World to have the tactical efficiency of the Chicago P.D. going after Chairman Fred Hampton.
The gab about having the right to overthrow the government is just cover. The smarter ones know they don't stand a chance, the rest think the military will see them as allies, equals. What they're really hoping for is social collapse, the "urban food riots", the dusky hoards coming for their MREs. Open season, no limit. That's their version of Paradise, a sort of Night Of The Living Dead, but with enough guns. They never seem to think about how that movie ended, though.
Um... that movie ended with the heavily-armed white posse shooting Duane Jones to death & then burning his body...
I recently saw a clip of a comedian saying something like, "If you own guns because you think you're going to have to use them against the government some day...you don't know how a tank works."
“…with lurid militaristic imagery…”
I do believe that describes a shit ton of GOP candidates’ commercials.
“These people are mad and must be stopped.”
Well, since they’re the only people outside the “special interests” who dictate what our leaders do and are an essential part of the GOP electorate (needed to complete the party’s lock on power), that isn’t happening. So, you know, instead of worrying about stopping those people, maybe no little energy should be going into planning for the world that’s coming in the next couple of years. I mean, continuing to mock them and their leaders, god knows, is fine, but of instead of focusing on the not-happening, maybe their should be focus on the necessary.
Not saying it's a cure-all, but some of this could possibly be scaled back if more people could look carefully at their ballot and fill in the little circle next to the candidate who's not a fucking lunatic.
"the candidate who's not a fucking lunatic" I think I see the problem there--apparently a significant segment of the population either does not possess that level of discernment, or they're fucking lunatics themselves.
"But... but... the fucking lunatic has an (R) next to his name! I AM POWERLESS TO RESIST."
"Rage Traitor"
2 marks!
"the Tree of Liberty Watering walk"
Bloody Hell! 2 MORE marks!
You know, I could churn up these bons mots more regularly, but I swore an oath to Clio I would just let them emerge organically from the Great Work.
Googled "pundenal", was not disappointed.
Ha! Clio loves a good lyre.
I thought that was a typo, but it works either way.
A little off topic, but I watched "Seven Days in May" last night. Haven't seen that one in years, but it's disturbingly on target 50 years later.
Ha, been a while. I think we underestimate how bought off the U.S. military was by our huge Cold War cash outlays. Maybe they still are! Funny, the allegedly "woke" mil thing (basically, the Forces doing normal HR stuff) made me worry about it less -- because how rogue could they get if they had diversity training? Guess we'll find out!
I always assumed the sequel is General James Mattoon Scott running for President two years later and kicking President Jordan Lyman's ass from one coast to the other. Because 'Merica.
I know, right? I really need to dig out .y copy of the novel for a re-read.
Somewhere in the archives I have a PDF of that NRA mailer, which must indeed be seen in its entirety to be believed (I note that it’s available at the link Roy has provided). If I recall aright, the thing was actually withdrawn after its initial publication. That wouldn’t happen today, of course, and I’m surprised it hasn’t been updated and re-released (dig the stubbly gams of the “animal rights terrorist” on page eighteen!—the classics never go out of style).
Variations of this have been said many times, but maybe, just maybe, a bunch of guys who were admittedly intelligent men in their time but who also owned other human beings, thought leeches were good medicine, and would have been puzzled by a vacuum cleaner and terrified by an airplane should not actually have the final word on every aspect of how we order our lives.
Ha, I wish we were being ruled by the post-enlightenment 18th century. Alito's now reaching back to the 12th century for his overturn-Roe opinion.
Too late, as the Dobbs draft made clear.
I am having a very hard time with the news about 40 minutes before law enforcement got to the shooter. There is a lot of outrage and confusion, partly because we're still gathering information so there's stuff we don't know. I think I have to not think about it until someone I trust, like one of y'all, can help me understand. No pressure or anything. Gah.
As reported by the estimable Mr. Pierce, Uvalde spent 40% of its municipal budget last year on that police department, buttressed by another $500K from Brave Brave Greg Abbott in January. Apparently their prime concern was holding off the dusky hordes trying to stream across the border. Priorities...
They spent a bundle on special hardened doors for the classrooms, which works great when the shooter is outside the classroom and not so great when the shooter is inside the classroom and it's the cops trying to breach the hardened door. Also, he was able to shoot at the cops in the hallway *through the cinderblock walls* because that's why an 18 year old needs an assault rifle.
"I’m gonna keep on saying it: These people are mad and must be stopped."
You could sum up the last 50 years of our political history by observing that this truth was ignored by so many for so long that all the means of stopping them short of 2nd Amendment options no longer seem viable.
Well, there's one of these chuckleheads in Wisconsin who could be stopped cold if enough people turned out to vote, there's a couple in Pa. who could be stopped in the same way, etc.
I'm no expert on 1776, but I don't think shopping figured so heavily in it.
"If you’re not sure why Tactical Shit celebrates the Day of Remembrance for fallen soldiers with heavily-armed hot chicks, maybe you haven’t been watching enough action movies."
The push-up bras are always a lovely touch. As I learn by watching movies, we've had them since cave times and will continue to wear them even after the Apocalypse.
You are one of the few who keep hammering the nail i see sticking up: Fear. All the anger, paranoia, resentment, victimhood, irrational assertions offered as argument, it's all Fear. Fear of losing their position, their security, their culture, their "quiet" dominance of everything not like them. They are all turning into the Jimmy Cagney character in White Heat, "top of the world, Ma!" and they'll burn it all down if that's their only way to stay on "top".
Of all the analogies that have been analogized, this one may be the best.
I don't know. I see resentment as being just as strong a motivator. What they (think they) see is the dusky hordes getting special treatment. And that rankles. To them, America is (as Spiro Agnew once said) "the greatest nation in the country" because it's where YOU DESERVE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. That they're not getting it is proof of somebody cheating, and it burns their butt. Yes, they're then encouraged to fear the blax, the libs, the "communists" and "socialists." But I think it starts with the self-pitying perception that they're being ripped off. (Which they are. But not by whom them think.)