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This is from a fundraising letter from Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz, who looks and sounds like every fragged lieutenant in the Vietnam War (and who even George W. Bush dislikes). Cruz is fantasizing that President Barack Obama is a jackbooted soldier-cop who is beholden only to his own fanaticism (hence the "O" symbol instead of an American flag on the vest there) and who is going to take your guns, should you own some, and then, oh, what? Let's say skin your cat and burn your Bible.
Cruz goes from provocative to bugnuts pretty quickly. The email reads, "Friend, I own guns. I'm planning on keeping them. But there's a problem...Obama is coming for our guns." Then he promises that if Congress tries to stop the power mad leader from tekkin yer gunz, evil Obama will use executive orders to (and Cruz quotes Obama out of context here because full context is for pussies) "keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn't have access to them." Helpfully, Cruz interprets Obama: "Friend, by 'others who shouldn't have...them,' Obama means you and me." Which would be totally true if it wasn't totally untrue. Obama meant people who are mentally ill or have protective orders against them. But, still, really, at this point aren't most of the gun owners who support Ted Cruz mentally ill and/or violent idiots who probably shouldn't be anywhere near a metal fork, let alone firearms?
In another fundraising letter (because nothing fills the coffers more than causing pants-shitting fear in your crazy-ass followers), Cruz informs us that the Second Amendment isn't just about being able to buy whatever massive, unnecessary weapon your tiny penis compels you to buy. Oh, no: "It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny for the protection of liberty."
It ain't that big a leap to say that Cruz is telling everyone to prepare for armed revolution against "tyranny." And that the helmeted black Nazi up there is going to lead the forces of tyranny against the forces of gun-toting righteousness. And that he should be stopped before he gets a chance to tekk yer gunz away.
Ted Cruz's rhetoric is the kind of shitstream that gets people gunned down in a nation where people are gunned down for stupid reasons with depressing regularity. But now he's turning the President not just into the opposition, but the enemy, and then getting people to believe that they need their guns to stop an impending takeover by that enemy. It's a dangerous path Cruz is taking, but, you know, he doesn't give a damn.
He better hope that people don't mistake him for an intruder if he's going door-to-door to campaign. Those crazy fuckers are armed and stand their ground.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/10/ted-cruz-is-gonna-get-president-killed.html
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)StopTheNeoCons
(889 posts)Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Perfect!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)What a PERFECT description of Cruz.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)It's amazing how many right wing voters believe this.
One of my neighbors says this all the time and gets a reaction from people every time.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... that said, "You can't fix STUPID?" Very funny guy, and oh so right!
Bucky
(53,805 posts)I realize now I was wrong.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,647 posts)but education has to be accepted with an open mind and it's an uphill battle against propaganda. I'm not sure many of these people are stupid so much as too fucking lazy to step outside of their frames for a minute.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)MadCrow
(155 posts)As a teacher I used to ask kids if they would rather be called ignorant or stupid?They would say, "What's the difference? " My reply, "Ignorant means you don't know; stupid means you can't learn. Which would rather be?" These people are definitely STUPID.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)yet nobody can name one example where he's proposed anything that would take guns away from people because there are none. There's been talk about registering firearms and the like following the mass shootings we've seen in recent months, but nobody of credence has proposed confiscating anyone's guns.
The NRA plays these people like a fiddle by throwing out the chum to the sharks: "Obama's taking away your guns." And gun sales spike accordingly. That's most of the MO in this whole scenario. That, and directing hate to an opposing political party like Cruz is doing.
Gun supporters always play the "I need to protect myself and my family" card. I'd like to see stats that show how many deaths from guns were from defensive situations (protecting myself/family) and the type where someone in an act of aggression shot a person or a group of people.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They endure so well because some people are born hard wired to fear what is not understood and to attack what they fear, especially outsiders. Anybody who reads about the bircher-cons of last century will be struck by the great similarity, but that's because the vast majority are just plain old social/religious conservatives doing what they do -- but now under the master guidance of mass manipulation.
I really think the United States needs to pass laws against mass indoctrination of untruths the same way we do not allow shouting "fire" in a theater -- for the protection of society.
Also be extremely limited in how public money to religious enterprises may be used. Money is empowering. Let them pay for their own passing on of beliefs.
madokie
(51,076 posts)the same nuts who think that Obama is after their gunz know that Hillary damn sure is. Most of the reasons why people don't trust Hillary is because of the gunz
stonecutter357
(12,682 posts)Jeroen
(1,061 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Jeroen
(1,061 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)the Constitution and reign over the Seven Mountains of North America by first breaking up the American government, next Canada and finish off Mexico (Clinton helped privatize the Mexican Oil Industry in 2012 moving control away from the workers to the 1%).
tavernier
(12,322 posts)Time for all the ghoulies and zombies to seek the limelight.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)operate from shadows and taking quick shots from doorways, etc.
Obama and his family, including his children, get dozens of credible threats every day.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)has gone off the rails about the Scary Black Man Coming For Her Guns. I have known her for 59 years, just 3 years shorter than my life on this earth, but I am limiting my exposure to her. At one point I considered naming her guardian for my daughter should my husband and I die. Thank goodness I didn't.
Bucky
(53,805 posts)He' s grossly incompetent as far as the "jack booted thug" business is concerned.
Orrex
(63,086 posts)Paladin
(28,204 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)RW hate radio spews this and worse on a daily basis. Doesn't make it justified or right, just that we have had 6+years of this crap so far. I really am amazed at the job the Secret Service has done, overall.
mike dub
(541 posts)what are these rethugs going to do when Inauguration Day 2017 comes and goes and President Obama has *not taken their guns away? is there going to be an adrenaline-high let-down for them or something? not that I seriously give a shit, but just asking'. they been amp'ed up for 7 years now. wonder if they'll ever come down.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)If a Republican is inaugurated, they'll go back to their nebulous "liberals hiding in the background" just waiting to take your guns away if we're all not careful.
They always have to have a boogeyman, doncha know?
Orrex
(63,086 posts)if it weren't for the tireless efforts of right-minded defenders of freedom, and the NRA thanks them for their tireless spending on superfluous murder technology.
And of course the Democrat who takes the Whitehouse will be equally demonized as a gun-grabber, a ridiculous term much beloved even here on DU.
mountain grammy
(26,573 posts)In four words.. cruz is an asshole.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)happens to President Obama. Or any candidate from the Democratic Party.
Just sayin'.
gordianot
(15,226 posts)Look at the pass Palin got after Gabby Giffords was shot? It appears hate speech and threats are common Republican procedures.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)apparently they're OK with that. Psychopaths.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)making the argument that some people are trying to take other people's guns away?
You've done it, over and over again. So maybe Cruz has misplaced his ire and directed it at the President. From what I can see the President is not going to take anyone's guns away. But from what you've said in the past that makes Obama more your policy adversary than Cruz's.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Ted Nugent is for Cruz? Who knew?
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)and yes, it is dangerous