GOP Cowards
March 30th, 2003Last night, my lady went to dinner with some old friends. I was rocking it solo. I met a friend for dinner and we decided to go get coffee somewhere else upon finishing our dinner. He and I were in separate cars and I had parked around the corner. So I was walking down the main drag in Salt Lake City. I headed to my vehicle with a take-home styrofoam clamshell loaded with jumbalaya. I felt pretty good as I considered that I’ll have a nice little jumbalaya lunch one day soon at the new gig. I noticed a guy crossing the street carrying a home made sign bearing the words “Impeach Bush”. I yelled, “right on!”
He looked worried. I think he’s misinterpreted my intention.
As he gets to my corner, six or seven white male preppy ass college fuckers come laughingly running up and throw what appears to be water balloons at him at a high velocity. As the guy is hit, he says to his attackers, “I just want to talk to you about what I believe!”
I’m instantly enraged. Maybe it’s the years in San Francisco. Maybe it’s the utter self-righteousness with which the conservatives have waged this horrible war (on the propaganda front as well as the fronts in Iraq). Whatever it is, I’m so incensed, that I begin screaming “Fuck you, you fucking GOP Coward fucks” and “You are George Bush’s little bitches, you coward fuckers!”
Another pedestrian sees what is going on, steps away from his group of three friends as I tell them that the guy carrying the sign just got attacked by these fuckers. One of them instantly flips the bird and yells, “Fuck off!” while his friends decide that I’m obviously too volatile to be standing near and make overtures to the bird flipper that it’s time to bail from crazy boy.
At this moment, I realize that if the college fuckers want a piece of me, I’m alone. All my indignation isn’t going to pay for the ER bills. I walk to my car, needle firmly in the red, my resolve to counter fascist-born hatred googleplexed. I scream one last time, knowing that my meager voice can’t silence a nation hell-bent on blood.
Even in their most self-righteous, the left can’t muster hate like the right. Fight the Youth. The youth with poisoned minds.
God damned conservative fuckers. o
You’re my hero.
shame those conservative fucks are usually better armed than their liberal counterparts, be it with cruise missiles or water balloons.
shame those conservative fucks are usually better armed than their liberal counterparts, be it with cruise missiles or water balloons.
sorry for the double post blurb. airport range problems. biggest p.o.s. apple has ever made. sigh. i gotta get a lynxis. gonna use this fucking weeble to throw at conservative fucks.
Which is more disheartening, the ignorance or the blood-thirst? I nominate you for Prez in 2004.
That’s it. From now on, I”M gonna carry water balloons.
“We will teach our twisted speech
To the unbelievers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers.”
The satanic GOP (Gathering of Pigs) has done an extremely effective job of acclimating a whole generation of self-righteous Bush Youth in their service. The really sad thing is they believe they are serving the best interests of the nation in parroting the party line. Which means we gotta work twice as hard to rescue them from the darkness. Keep fighting the good fight. Regime change 2004. One way or another.
Shoulda doused them the jambalaya. It is a war; sacrifices need to be made.
Good call on the Fishbone lyric.
I did 7-10th grade in Salt Lake City in the mid 80s. Sounds like things haven’t changed a bit.
If you had been carrying a .45 you could’ve just pulled it out and shot those fuckers. Done and done. I mean, what’s the big deal?
you gots churchbell balls!
at least i’m not alone in expressing violent intentions towards the self righteous fuckheads that are in favor of war.
the only difference is i went in on them - and the little coward bastards scattered.
awww yeah. fishbone. i saw them play at my high school in ‘88. fuck i’m old.
death to preppy-ass republican coward fuckers.
It’s so awful here in Mormon/Conservative country, isn’t it? I’m enraged daily at these self-righteous fuckers. It’s as if we are having our rights taken away if our opinions aren’t exactly as theirs are. What the fuck kind of freedom is that??!!
“Ignite the truth–
Restore sight to these blind”
Fishbone rocked on about fifty levels.
Jenny, I take offense to the Mormon comment. Some of the most liberal people I know are dyed-in-the-wool Mormon. Your comments don’t help, rather they perpetuate a stereotype that may divide rather than unite. There was NOTHING in Blurb’s post about Mormons. This story could have happended anywhere. Think before you speak….please.
On another note, I heard a story about a group of Anti-War protesters smashing up a National Guardsman’s car. I don’t think that that is right either.
Bush is killing this country of ours.
I’m glad to see there’s plenty of hate to go around.
Patatomic,
Mormon Conservatives are the ones, in my experience around here, that have causing me the most stress. Thats why I was specific. I wasn’t just throwing stereotypes out there… just my personal experiences. Sure, not all Mormons are that way, but I was specifically talking about the ones that are.
You can’t tell me they aren’t the majority.
Two words: You rock.
Hey from Australia! You’re my new hero
**sigh**
I was waiting for the part of your story where you smothered your jumbalaya in the “little bitches” faces. I had to waste a great leftover on an ass hole one time - it’s just not worth it.
Patatomic:
You mentioned that “Some of the most liberal people I know are dyed-in-the-wool Mormon.” Are you serious? You should really get out more if those are the most liberal folks you know.
What exactly does liberal mean to you? Perhaps I misunderstand the way you are using the word.
“Jambalaya.” That’s an A.
Of course, if you got it in Utah, it wasn’t really jambalaya in the first place.
I had to get that out of my system… good on you for not standing idly by while dude got waterbombed. War supporters are scary folk.
Jenny:
Of course Mormons are the majority politically and socially in Utah. I just don’t see how this became a Mormon issue.
If you have proof that the water ballooners are Mormon, then I will shut up.
Ms. Haplopia:
I am speaking both socially and politically. For almost ten years I lived in San Francisco and was deep in the Mormon community there. I used to attend the UC Berkeley ward for two years and associated with hundreds of people (both Mormon and non-Mormon) from just about everywhere who believed just about everything.
I believe that in my life I get out plenty.
Maybe you should get out more.
Moreover, Ms. Haplopia:
There’s a difference between saying “Some of the most liberal people I know are dyed-in-the-wool Mormon” and “Dyed-in-the-wool Mormons are some of the most liberal people I know,” which how you apparently interpreted pat’s remark. Do you see the difference? It’s a biggie.
There are all kinds of Mormons. Many (most, in Utah) are conservative. But there are also liberal Mormons, socialist Mormons, polygamist Mormons, foot-fetishist Mormons, mass-murderer Mormons, Mormons who eat dog meat, water-ballooner Mormons, anti-water-ballooner Mormons, Mormons with cinnamon rolls for ears and Mormons who need Mormons, widely regarded as the luckiest Mormons in the world.
Get out, Ms. Haplopia, and meet you some Mormons. They’ll be glad you did.
Sorry, Ms. Haplopia. I meant that there’s a big difference between “Some of the most liberal people I know are Mormon” and “Mormons are the most liberal people I know,” which is what you actually said pat said.
Nothing worse than careless condescending guy, which is what I actually am.
Wait, we are still “self-righteous fuckers” right? Oh good.
Jon,
I know you wish you could roll back the clock to have said something more eloquent, but, well done! Do stand up for what’s right, but don’t resort to violence–it’ll immediately make headlines: Pacifist Promoted Pummeling: Dooce Not Happy. Your meager voice, my meager voice and several million others wil bring an end to this unholy U.S. regime.
I, too, am amazed at how effectively this administration has divided the world and drawn the battle lines between U.S. citizens. I made a harmless post here cheering Michael Moore for not being an apologist and I get the most rabid, ignorant, hate-filled, Unabomberish, right-wing email I’ve ever seen. Why they be hatin’ on me?
By the way, if you haven’t already, see the movie “Bob Roberts.” It brilliantly shows the evil brainwashing of the Right’s youth. Anybody remember Young Americans for Freedom on campus?
Fishbone!
peace
Everybody can hate. But nobody can hate like the fundamentalist right.
Bob Roberts is a great movie. Very funny, yet very scary.
Okay, maybe I should be a little more descriptive of what I was trying to say. I am not anti-mormon. In fact, many of my family and friends who I love are Mormon. What I WAS trying to say was, in MY experience here in UTAH, there are close-minded conservative right-wing people, and close-minded conservative Mormon right wing people. Not all Mormons fall into that group, but a lot do. And what I was saying was that IN MY EXPERIENCE the Mormons who are conservative and closeminded are much quicker to judge and be ignorant than those who aren’t Mormon. I don’t know if it’s because of the way Mormons are brought up, you know-being told everything is their way or wrong… no “in between”… and being so quick to judge people who don’t have their same beliefs. Again, not ALL Mormons do this… but alot do.
So, in comparison to non-Mormons and Mormons… the ones who seem to be doing most of the judging and finger-pointing and have the most ignorance seem to be the Mormon ones around here.
That being said, I should’nt have thrown it out there on a public forum, as it’s sure to offend some people, and it’s hard to get my point across correctly. I don’t really mind Mormons, I just don’t like the overall Mormon-Government influence on this city. (What, with the liquer laws, strip club laws, etc. …all showing huge signs of religious influence, which isn’t supposed to happen.) Sorry that it bled over into the conversation here… I know that Blurb didn’t bring anything up about that.
I hope that made sense.
Yikes! I pushed the Mormon hot button.
I wasn’t passing judgement on Mormons. I was laughing at the fact that Patatomic said that some of the most liberal people he knows are Mormon. His wording was funny. I wasn’t implying that there are no liberal Mormons.
And now I’ve participated in getting other posters way off subject. Sorry!
About getting out more? I REALLY need to get out more. Can you ever really get out too much?
“you can’t stop a war by
marching and fighting. You have to say ‘fuck it’ and walk away.”
Ken Kesey, Berkeley 1959
Great post! Two words, blurb & all y’all who, like me, are looking for regime change at home in 2004: Howard. Dean.
http://www.deanforamerica.com/
http://dean2004.blogspot.com/
You’re my hero too. I applaude your guts and conviction!
Appeaser.
dj blurb said: “Everybody can hate. But nobody can hate like the fundamentalist right.”
I believe it. When I was a grasshopper trying to figure left from right, I discovered that the clear majority of assassins were right-wingers. I’m talkin’ from John Wilks-Booth, to Pres. Garfield’s assassin acting on the “will of God”, to James Earl Ray, to Lee Harvey Oswald to Timothy McVeigh, and on÷ The collection would probably quadruple if we counted CIA-sponsored hitmen (but letÌs not degenerate into paranoid, conspiracy theories, o.k.? I was just thinking about where the CIA took out OTHER countriesÌ leaders.). At the outset I may only concede Sirhan Sirhan (it gets murky when you factor in international affairs and nationalism) and that there are some genuine nutcases like Squeaky Fromme & Hinkley. Otherwise, we’re talking about an undeniably-large hatinÌ capacity on the right.
Peace, out.
I’m not smart enough to figure out how to comment on Dooce’s site. I just wanted to say that those pictures of Chuck make me want to scratch his ears. Sorry for being out of place, here.
What have we been missing while we are away?
1. Glad you spoke up. Did you ever know that you were our hero? –Bullies suck!
2. We miss you guys. We miss our TIVO.
3. What a great tangent this particular posting took. What a great way to avoid going to bed for just three more minutes.
3. Reality Check (The WalMart Phenomenon): It seems that anywhere, say, Utah, Tennessee, Israel, WalMart…there is a specific group of people like Mormons, Muslims, Poor White Folk; you will see more prominence in the specific culture, ethnic group, whatever–Meaning: When there are a lot of one group in one place, statistically, you will get more wackos, more fundamentalists, more liberals, more right-wingers, more mullets, because your demographic is larger. Thus, those group characteristics are more pronounced–The Utah thing is getting so old. I say to all those people, get over yourself, make this world a better palce or move somewhere else.
love ya, blurb. those anuses needed somebody to stand up to them. despite the fact that they were “just” throwing water balloons, the psychic act of what they did is much scarier.
of course, they’re not really evil. that’s reserved for fuckwads like Saddam Hussein and his murderous sons.
Oh ya, and Ashcroft.
wow. i feel so misunderstood. noone hates like the right? not in my experience. oh well.
Hate only begets hate. Let’s all Poop for PeaceÙ on April 15th. Heather, if you can’t particpate, I’ll understand.
Good for you Blurb. At least you spoke up. Below is a pretty cool quote for your quiver, next time you get into it a verbal sparring match with one of these people:
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“While we hoped that popular revolt would topple Saddam, we did not wish to see the breakup of the Iraqi state. Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Unilaterally exceeding the U.N.’s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.”
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– From “Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam” by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998
Quotes are fun,
“Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America’s armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.”
–Bill Clinton
Blurb, I think you did the right thing, I just would hope you guys would do the same regardless if they had a (D) or an (R) after their name.
you are such a bleeding-heart-ignorant-fuck. you obviously don’t know dick about why this war is being waged. you and that non-sencical cunt-of-a-wife you have, should be exiled or lobotomized, at the very least.
move to fucking france, you sad excuse for an american. somebody should frag your sorry ass for wasting bandwidth with your asinine views and unintelligent takes on things you don’t have a clue about.
it appears you simply repeat the tired-old rhetoric that imbeciles like jesse jackson and al gore tout.
Changing a lot of hearts and minds there, JP.
I don’t know what’s worse: repeating tired-old rhetoric or repeating tired-old schoolyard cuss words.
What do you suppose you’re contributing, to the discussion? To the war effort? To America?
I think jimmypage’s comment illustrates the point made in the post almost better than the post itself. Bravo jimmypage. Way to speak up as the voice of intolerance and hate.
Because of my refusal to wear a yellow ribbon at work (like everyone else), I am now considered a traitor against our great nation by a right-wing, gung-ho, blindly-following-Bush-type-guy.
And if I have to listen to him whine about how he just can’t stop watching CNN and he can’t sleep at night, I’m going to get all up in his grill and scream, “YOU WANTED THIS FUCKING WAR SO SHUT UP YOU HYPOCRITICAL REPUBLICAN DRAMA QUEEN!”
I feel better now.
I think JP needs a nap!
We live in a fucked up world and unfortunately our government has to do a lot of shady things in order for us to live the life we all want to live, to enjoy the things we have (or covet) and to be as blissfully ignorant as we can manage.
It takes a lot of shady underworkings in the world for the biggest worry in your life to be about why this pixel isn’t lining up with that one.
You said: “I scream one last time, knowing that my meager voice canÌt silence a nation hell-bent on blood.”
Give me a break. I’m a Liberal. I didn’t vote for Bush and that makes me want hurl.
I fully expected this post to bring out the trolls.
JP–Ad hominem attacks will get you nowhere. Sort of. Dissenting views are always welcome in the comments area. Attacks on my wife are not. It goes without saying that you and your ilk are the very reason I felt necessary to share this story.
parsimony–My reference to a “nation hell-bent on blood” is all about the U.S. need to take out our collective 9/11 rage and make SOMEBODY pay. Would you not agree that part of this war’s popularity is due to our own battle scars and our need for vengeance and a kind of justice?
http://www.zen15631.zen.co.uk/bb.mpg
G.B.-Endless Love–I am sure you have seen this.