the Kommisariat's Kontinuing Kronicles: more right-wingery in the USA, 2k11-12

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/paul-lepage-maine-governor-veto-dispute-legislature/399140/

What’s clear, then, is that outside of a few loyal allies in the House, LePage’s relationship with the legislature has reached a new low. And yet: How do you screw up a veto?

It’s not as if this was the first time the governor was breaking the pen out of its box. In fact, LePage has issued more vetoes than any governor in the 195-year history of Maine, and the legislature has, in turn, overridden a record number of those vetoes. For most of June, the governor had been carrying out his threat to reject any bill sponsored by a Democrat (and that expanded to some Republicans as well), so as the legislature’s session drew to a close, lawmakers had grown accustomed to accepting the hand delivery of veto messages by the bucketload from a member of the governor’s staff, often near the end of the 10-day window he has to issue them.

So when, earlier this month, the deadline passed for LePage to veto the first batch of 71 bills that the legislature had approved in the final days of the session ending June 30, lawmakers were confused. “We thought, ‘Wow, what a crazy mistake,’” Jeff McCabe, the Democratic House majority leader, told me in an interview. LePage had spent the July 4th weekend campaigning with Chris Christie, so Democrats thought he might simply have lost track of time. But then the veto deadline passed for the rest of the bills, and it became clear, McCabe said, that LePage “was really doubling down and he was pretending that his interpretation of the [ state ] constitution was way different than our interpretation.”

oh my god

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/23/whats-behind-the-cuckservative-slur-nsfw/

peak comments

oh i didn't even consider looking

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/624229746059149312

just look at these fascists

sorry if this has already been brought up itt (I don't follow it regularly) but this story is so 0_0 to me

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4cec23ddffc4445aac6aa9f968b02c89/after-tennessee-shootings-armed-citizens-guard-recruiters

the daily caller has questions:

@betsyscribeindc
DAY IN THE LIFE OF A REPORTER -- Current debate with editors: Are anal sex and doggy-style interchangeable? They can decide.

depends on the dog

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COFdnUEXAAA8bmU.jpg

somebody send that guy a history of early modern europe

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frenchrevolution/2015/09/18/what-its-like-to-be-a-white-conservative-on-twitter-when-you-have-a-black-child/

http://www.imperiumlex.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ASI.jpg

augustus sol invictus, florida libertarian candidate for the senate

https://thesaturnalian.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/augustus-sol-invictus-departure-memo-explanation

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2015/10/8578511/libertarian-party-drama-goat-sacrifice-eugenics-and-chairs-resignati

oh my god thank you

omg the motherfucker commented hang on a sec

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2015/10/8578511/libertarian-party-drama-goat-sacrifice-eugenics-and-chairs-resignati#comment-2285541634

The Libertarian • 2 hours ago

Witness ye the glory of my life at 29 years of age: I have four children, each of whom should be the envy of every parent in the world; I have attained a Baccalaureate Degree in Philosophy with honors; I have attained a Doctorate in Law, cum laude; I have acquired licenses in the profession of law in the States of New York, Illinois, and Florida; I am scheduled to acquire two more such licenses in North Carolina & Massachusetts; I am Editor-in-Chief of a poetry journal; I run an independent publishing company; I have opened my own law office in downtown Orlando; I am an MBA candidate; and I have accomplished a few other things that will remain off the record for now.

I am of genius intellect & cultured, well-educated & creative, well-mannered & refined. I am God’s gift to humankind where the English language is concerned, and I also happen to have a basic knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian. I am musical & artistic; I am athletic & possessed of militant self-discipline; and I am many other things. I have a Cadillac & a poodle, multiple computers & a personal library; I live in an apartment downtown, right across the street from the courthouse; I have been to Paris & Vancouver, to Cairo & Dubrovnik, to Mexico City & Siracusa. I dress better than all of you, pronounce my words perfectly, and have a winning, professional handshake. I am everything you ever wanted to be.

I challenge any of you, then, to accuse me of being a failure in this artificial civilization of yours. For it is beyond dispute that I have played your petty game, and I have won.

But your game no longer holds any interest for me. Your architecture is vapid & worthless, as is your decadent culture, the mindless drivel you call music, the filth you call democracy. You waste your lives watching pure excrement on television, shopping at the strip malls, planning your vacations to resorts & theme parks. The Internet, with its infinitude of information, is used for reading celebrity gossip & watching sitcoms. You have begun to reduce argument to memes & human communication to trite sound bites. Life has become trivial – and if you cannot feel the human spirit decaying, you are already dead.

The vague threats of violence continue at the end:

HEAR YE MY FINAL WORDS IN PEACETIME:

I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War I would begin it myself. Mark well: That day is fast coming upon you. On the New Moon of May, I shall disappear into the Wilderness. I will return bearing Revolution, or I will not return at all.

War Be unto the Ends of the Earth,

Augustus Sol Invictus
Orlando, Florida, USA
XX Aprilis MMXIII Satvrnvs

I have a Cadillac & a poodle, multiple computers & a personal library

“I have never dismembered a goat in my life. I have performed animal sacrifices as part of my religion,” Invictus said. “I was expelled from the order for political reasons. And animal sacrifice was part of it. But that is a deliberate misrepresentation by Wyllie.”

I have a Cadillac & a poodle, multiple computers & a personal library
I have been to Paris & Vancouver, to Cairo & Dubrovnik, to Mexico City & Siracusa
kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down
kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down

Why is this guy limiting himself to a Florida senate run? Surely there's room for him on CNN's debate stage...

"Cadillac & a Poodle" one of Zappa's lesser works imo

"I am God’s gift to humankind where the English language is concerned," For an aspirational apocalyptic he's a nothing prose stylist.

Yeah, I fucking hate when people use the "happen to have" construction to describe shit that required actual effort, like learning languages.

Sounds to me like he's entered the manic phase.

I challenge any of you, then, to accuse me of being a failure in this artificial civilization of yours. For it is beyond dispute that I have played your petty game, and I have won.

Contrats, you win at being a failure!

By the way I want my Rage Against the Machine CDs back.

a Cadillac, a poodle, Lake, and Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7dCTwlAI8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQd5WfmwYMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eyz4Tpo524

this is an extraordinarily long con, is it not

kind of lol but mostly ~shudder~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=j6To5NkZ9EM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6To5NkZ9EM

this story is amazing

http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-the-perfect-insane-anti-feminist-rumor.html

if "esr" sounds familiar, he turned up on our right-wingery thread like five years ago. search for "glaive" if you want to relive the memory

He sounds familiar because he's a keystone of UNIX and the open source movement - but I'd heard that he was a nut of one sort or another (libertarian, guns) for a long time now.

"SJW dezinformatsiya tactics"

a primer on esr

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

o my god the comments on that nymag piece

denies the existence of dark matter!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUBlsAmWcAA4ln1.png
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUBlsBqWsAAOmlh.png

Sir, if you are going to masturbate, we're going to have to ask you to leave the library.

i like how the strategy for defeating them is just giving the military more money. brilliant.

Trying to figure out if Wildman is more likely to be Trump or Carson ("Healing Hands II: Hurtin' Hands")

luckily when you bomb a town there are never any survivors that now hold lifelong grudges against you for destroying everything and everyone they know

hey, I'm sure not all Cuban-American families are that bad.

"as a Cuban-American son of immigrants, he understood tyranny and how to deal with it" - does this mean he's going to flee the country?

omg

xpost Yes, you flee your country, settle in an electorally important region of another country and make sure that country maintains a pointless embargo of your homeland for 50+ years

Should we update the thread title?

schlichter is amazing

this is amazing, everything is amazing

https://twitter.com/Real_Prof_Jeff/status/666672372959809537