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
It’s exactly the hardline refusal to compromise held by water-balloon throwing, (allegedly) mormon conservatives and the car-smashing, window-shattering, black-bandana-wearing anarchists I encountered recently at an anti-war rally in seattle that keep the War happening everywhere. And Donald Rumsfeld.
If people in the middle east could compromise to create an automous Palestinian state, most of this shit wouldn’t be going on. OK, and also if we weren’t hopelessly hooked on oil, desperate like only a junkie can be to get our next fix of light, sweet crude.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing…say it again
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing….say it again
Jon, you have heuvos the size of bowling balls. People on both sides of this issue need to vent.
Jimmypage: you and the rest of your GED class can blow me, you dumbfuck redneck.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing…say it again
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing….say it again
Jon, you have heuvos the size of bowling balls. People on both sides of this issue need to vent.
Jimmypage: you and the rest of your GED class can blow me, you dumbfuck redneck.
I can completely relate. I got into a heated argument over lunch with a few coworkers. At the apex of the argument, I was yelling, “This war is unnecessary! Bush is INCOMPETENT and a DISGRACE!” I created quite a scene, although I wasn’t the only one raising my voice. My buddies were arguing that a $400 billion deficit was small in comparison with the GDP and that it was wimpy for other nations to ask the U.S. to make a list of items where Iraq should was out of compliance. Stupid stuff like that. Blind acceptance of the Bush administration’s excuses for going to war.
Haven’t had lunch with them since, mainly because I don’t want to fight with them, but I refuse to listen to their stupid opinions without expressing my own.
I think the notion of this war being “popular” is incorrect. I think it’s more acceptance of the fact that we’re in it. Can’t turn around and go home. Success, in purely military terms, is inevitable so what most Americans are really concerned about, at least I hope so, are our troops. They are the ones who truly have something to lose.
What I am totally against is this notion that if you are conservative you are therefore some variation of an ignorant, racist, redneck, religious-fanatic, nazi homophobe and if you’re liberal you’re a chain smoking, apathetic, tree-hugging malcontent who spends their time cultivating their own indifference.
Did you ever even consider that those water balloon tossing miscreants weren’t politically motivated? That they were perhaps (shock!) just a bunch of dumbasses doing things dumbasses do?
I did consider that the miscreants weren’t politically motivated. In this climate, the one created by conservatives holding the power, it’s more difficult to determine what exactly are the motivations of someone attacking someone else.
I don’t think I characterized the attacks as politically motivated. I characterized my response as politically motivated. There is a distinction. As I stated above, it’s also a hard one to make in the current climate.
But you did make that characterization, although indirectly. It’s not so much their motivation as yours, which made me post in the first place. It’s not so much I care about what side of the fence you sit on, it’s more of an interest in the nature of your overreaction. You’ve made it clear to me that the same things you indict the conservatives for, you yourself are guilty of.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Indeed. That’s my point. I wouldn’t say that I overreacted. Rather, I reacted in a way due to the current political climate. As a way to say I can’t take it.
You are also making a characterization. Of yourself, the self-righteous centrist. You don’t take a side, but throw shots at those who do.
Did you not see that I clearly identified as a liberal, although we seem to be practicing two different brands? I just don’t believe that all things liberal are right and all things conservative are wrong. That’s bullshit. I think it’s a lazy and irresponsible pattern to fall into. If deciding not to do that makes me a self-righteous centrist, then so be it. I’d rather be that than an intolerant liberal.
What exactly is it that you can’t take? Am I missing something? You keep referring to the “current climate.” What exactly is so distressing? You sound as if you yourself are being persecuted or attacked. Geez, if that puts you into an emotional tizzy then I’d hate to see how you’d handle being black in this country or a woman or gay or an Arab or poor.
Rage against the machine, right? LOL.
Oh for fuck’s sake. Can’t a guy just have a moment of pure rage without having to analyse it to death?
you have much to learn.
frankly, your take shows an understanding that rivals a top-notch effort put forth by a community college student…. a community college student trying real hard to get that a- on his current events essay for history 101.
get your head out of your ass and realize that you *couldn’t* be more wrong. perhaps, you should give it a shot… just think for a minute, what if *they* were right? think about it, dj-blimpo…
maybe÷ just maybe÷ it’s a good idea to protect our homeland from nightmares far worse than 9/11. that very goal was passed by congress in an almost unanimous vote÷to support our president regarding the iraq endeavor.
you simply donÌt have a leg to stand on, accusing conservatives as being cowards.
nevertheless, if you open your mind, you just might find that its *possible* to be a non-christian/mormon/zealot/et al citizen to support the greater good that only the usa can provide to the socially-disintegrating civilizations of our planet. imperialism? no. protect what george washington fought for? yes.
iÌm not saying we can fix all the worlds problems, by regime-change÷ but those that could even *possibly* assist terrorists; need to be taken care of. the manner in which your political party backed the president, in our current war effort, doesnÌt gibe with your sophomoric liberal ideology.
ehh, fuck it÷ youÌll probably either end up planning a murder or starting a religion.
such the rebel.
go dj÷ go dj÷ go dj
go blurbo÷ go blurbo÷ go blurbo
go rebel÷ go rebel÷ go rebel
GO!
youÌd find much comfort living in france.
-yourwakeupcall
it’s everywhere and it must be stopped!
What I don’t understand is, why do people keep imagining that this war is going to MINIMIZE terrorism? Do they not REALIZE how many enemies we are making by going forward with this war? This war will (hopefully) get rid of Saddam, but it will NOT minimize terrorism. Anyone should be able to see that. The more enemies we have, the more terrorist attacks we will have. We are being a bully… and nobody likes a bully.
It’s just funny how Bush turned 9/11 into a war against Iraq when 9/11 had nothing to do with Saddam. Very clever, Bushie- but you didn’t fool me! Unfortunately, he DID fool so many of his sheep-people who don’t question, only trust. And it’s scary that people so easily trust such a slimy slimy man.
Just my opinion. Go ahead and slam me if you want.
all this over water balloons? geez, you’d think it was a lynching.
you’d loot too.
war works.
scum sucking fascist consumer whores. the revolutionaries and artists of the 60s and 70s such as peter tosh, john lennon and jim morrison were asking “WHAT KIND OF WORLD ARE WE LEAVING FOR OUR CHILDREN” well, a world where a retard puppet commits a coup d’etat then stages a massive act of terror to gain some credibility, then a obese, brainwashed bunch of satanic sheep people (such as our honky preppy shit eater friends) worship him, a la Kim Jong-Il, as our “Great Leader”. I am 18, and i think that it is a fucking disgrace that these cowardly ameriKKKan pig “leaders” have such a lack of vision for humanity that they have reinstituted a Reagan-era level of paranoia, hatred, uncertainty and braindead philosophy
Just like DJ, GW’s got balls. Nations will think twice before harboring or protecting terrorists. What the FUCK are we supposed to do, just sit back and take this shit? C’mon people, we have to do something to show these coward-assed motherfuckers they can’t get away with this shit. Fuck.
Sorry for the swearing.
What disturbs me is the hypocrisy of the left, which is just as judgmental with sweeping generalizations as the right.
I’m a Republican. I don’t belittle people who don’t support the war. I laugh at some of the wacky theories some of the professional protesters have come up with, but I respect their right to express their opinions. I do wish they would get out of the way so I could get to work on time, tho’…
What this entire thread has shown me is how deep-seated the anger and resentment is among the left to have a conservative president. But your protests here are positively dripping with the very same self-righteous moral indignation you claim to despise when it comes from the right.
I don’t blindly follow Bush, nor do I agree with him or his cabinet on every issue. I might agree with them half the time at best. I only voted for Bush because McCain lost the primary and Gore was a dud. And for the record, Rummy is a scary old crank who should be put out to pasture. Immediately.
Those guys with the water balloons were assholes. But whether Republican or Democrat, assholes are assholes. Hate the jerks, not everybody in the party. Or you’re no better than the right-wing wackos who hate all Jews or all blacks.
And for crissakes, drink a beer, smoke a joint, or do SOMETHING to unwind. Sheesh, I thought my side of the aisle was the uptight bunch…
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What we don’t like about the right is the violence they use to further their own interests and endorse their might, right? So how does it help if we use violence against them? Using violence means that although we do not agree with WHAT they’re doing, we do agree with HOW they’re doing it.
If we believe violence is wrong, it must be deemed wrong in all circumstances. Otherwise, everyone will have his/her own personal war and we’ll all end up killing each other.
Nice to see that you are all so pleased to hurl verbal waterballoons and stereotype conservatives and republicans (they are not the same) as all being red-neck war mongers or racists. Bush did not get elected (no Gore arguments here, please) because all the preps and hicks turned out to the poles! The balloon jerks do not represent MY beliefs and I am not about to take shit for their poor behavior or for the fact that Bush represents my political beliefs more often that Gore! This does not make me his bitch; it makes him my part-time representative in the Oval Office.
The way the left throws around the words “fascist,” “Nazi” and the like is despicable and horribly disrespectful of the ACTUAL atrocities committed by the Third Reich. The contemporary hyperbolic comparisons aren’t just intellectually bankrupt, they make you sound like a retard.
By the way, I don’t see anybody bitching about Arnold being egged. I guess it’s okay for the left to have the political discourse of a 12 year old, but God (woops, can I say “God” here?) forbid some idiots toss some water balloons at someone.
Ah, and my how the tolerant left has no problem painting the right as a bunch of rednecks… or preppies… whichever fits the current moronic insult being thrown their way. You say that Republicans are so full of hate but you never explain how or provide an actual example that isn’t easily countered or equally indicative of people on the left.
Religion=Extremists
Extremists=Terrorism
Iraq is full of Muslim Extremists…the worst kind
Don’t start spouting crap about Islam being a peaceful religion. Go read about it for Pete’s sake. I personally feel organized religion in any form is crap and the cause for most if not all war and terror in this world. I am not an aethiest but an agnostic. Islam says that you should convert people to it to be a good Muslim and that all people who aren’t Muslim are second rate citizens (Slaves, whatever). The long term goal of these bastards is to spread their religion through out the world or take it over depending on how you look at it. Usama Bin Laden has been quoted as saying in interviews that his immediate goal is to get the west out of the Middle East. Ok you say…maybe we should leave. Well, what in the hell do you think his goal will be when we leave? Is Bush doing the right thing? I don’t know for sure, but I do know that Clinton’s complacency probably had more to do with 9/11 than actually preventing it. People need to realize one thing. This is not a war against Terrorism. It is a war against Islam. I’ve heard quotes that we will be lucky if this war is over within the next 100 years.