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This mfer....Right-wing rocker Ted Nugent this week compared himself to civil rights icon Rosa Parks over his refusal to wear a mask to stop the spread of COVID-19.
While most mask mandates were lifted long ago, Nugent railed against them while he attempted to sell his autographed I will not comply merch during an appearance on Real Americas Voice.
What a beautiful statement, I will not comply. Im like Rosa Parks with a Glock, he said. You try to give me a stupid, immoral, nonsensical, arbitrary, capricious, punitive, mandate mask puke, and I will not comply. .............(more)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-nugent-rosa-parks_n_62d65348e4b0ed8ba4932992
twodogsbarking
(10,044 posts)Aristus
(66,588 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,441 posts)Read that insult in a book, great place to use it.
multigraincracker
(32,811 posts)if you read the lyrics he wrote to his recording of the song Jail Bait.
Lovie777
(12,504 posts)civil rights icons?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That's why they have to appropriate actual heroes of the nation's history from us.
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niyad
(114,201 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,291 posts)Pete Ross Junior
(404 posts)Why is what this guy says even news?
hibbing
(10,122 posts)Maine Abu El Banat
(3,479 posts)By being an asshole!
EnergizedLib
(1,912 posts)Pretend that they are the persecuted when they are really the persecutors. You talk about an inflated sense of self-worth, and out of touch, here it is.
MissMillie
(38,633 posts)I mean, I'm really impressed that he can recite so many multi-syllabic words.
But, it's obvious that he's not familiar with the definition of any of them.
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