The most surreal pictures I've seen

[mogster]

The government ... um .. aid coming to NOLA after the Katrina hurricane. No person can look at this picture without being seriously concerned about the government's attitude towards the US own citizens.



The two Americas. Shall the twain ever meet? ;-)



The incredible Husseinistic, almost Stalinist, sign praising 'Our Leader'. Dang! This freaked me out. At the same time, US troops was busy tearing down Hussein-signs in Iraq.



Imagine, a gay prostitute poses with a false name and gets access to the White House press room many, many times. When discovered, and with this photo around on the internet for all to see, the gay-phobic, militarist, puritanian Christian right swallows the whole thing like .. ok, that was tempting, but I wont.
But it makes you wonder.



The Christian right heats up in front of the cams during the Schaivo process. The pic was one of many juxtaposed against pics of real grief here at the DU some time back, I remember that thread well.



The Jesus-trailer. When turning car to left, Jesus raises left hand, when turning right he raises right. Currently, it's in parking mode and then both arms are outstreched, as if to stop people from passing.
I wonder what's in the camping box in the back? Wine and biscuits? And the construction looks a bit rickety? What happens if that SUV collides with another car?

Imagine the last thing you see in this life; a spinning Jesus projectile coming towards you at high speed, released by a fundie Christian clad like Captain America.

I'd have thought 'Now I'm seeing the real face of the war on terror'.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Pic #2: Worst case of flag desecration ever

(with the possible exception of G. Gordon Liddy in his flag Speedo). They want a Constitutional amendment to ban flag burning, yet it's just fine for some yahoo to deck himself out like he's just escaped from an explosion in a flag factory.

[KansDem]

8. Yeah, I noticed that too...

And he seems to have the flag draped over his...crotch.

How is that "respecting the flag?"

on edit: Perhaps it's there in case he gets the urge to "wave it?"

[YOY]

45. It's OK!

It's a real patriotic American crotch! Filled with red, white, and blue spunk!

Because draping yourself in a flag makes your arguements more valid!

Case in point:

:sarcasm:

[Straight Shooter]

12. The man's attire doesn't bother me nearly as much as his finger.

Why do tightie-righties get their thrills from jabbing their index finger at other people's faces? :shrug:

[Poiuyt]

36. But I love the expression on the girl's face!

[Aviation Pro]

59. Because if a rightie, such as our flag codpiece wearing hombre...

...was confronted by a leftie who is much bigger than him, he would be very respectful. They only jab fingers at someone they can bully. (I've never had a finger jabbed at me, must be my bearing and stature, yeah that's it).

[ComerPerro]

54. That guy looks like he imagines himself as a super-hero

[grace0418]

68. I'd hate to get a roundhouse kick to the head while he was wearing those

bad boys. Sorry, I had to say it...

[Critters2]

84. This always pisses me off

I learned in Campfire, years ago, that one DOES NOT wear the flag as clothing!! Yet the freeper set does it all the time.

Makes me :puke:

[Atman]

2. WOW!

Freakin' WOW!

Great post. Thank you so much!

[quiet.american]

3. My God, I thought pic #1 was Haiti before I saw the caption.

I was angry enough at that point, but when I saw it was actually New Orleans... there are no words. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[countingbluecars]

5. That really is a shocking photo.

What have we become?

[Bucky]

7. Why do you trouble your beautiful mind? They're just... you know, um, poor

It's not like the government response would have been any faster if a hurricane had hit K Street, right? Right?

[KansDem]

11. Yeah, I wondered "What's up with all the guns?"

Why all the fire power?

[democrank]

29. Quit messing with us, quiet.american.

That HAS to be a Haiti photo. America is the land of the free.

[MUSTANG_2004]

52. The militarization of the police

is one of the biggest problems for civil liberties that we face. When the state police (that's who is in the picture) have armored vehicles and train for raids like army commandos, they'll start treating citizens like the enemy.

If I were king for a day, I wouldn't let any police force have any weapon or transportation more formidable than what's available to the public.

[deaniac21]

4. Picture #1 is the Louisiana State Police S.W.A.T. unit.

[The Jacobin]

19. There was a photoshop version of that one

It was up here last year. Someone reversed the STATE POLICE to say POLICE STATE.

[ThomWV]

6. If You Think This Is Eisenhower's Republican Party See Photo No. 1

Dear sweet Jesus!

[deaniac21]

17. It's the STATE POLICE fer cryin' out loud. That means NOT FEDERAL.

[htuttle]

27. Where do you think state police get money for gear like that?

They get it from all those federal grants for the 'War On Drugs'. Most of those grants come with a lot of strings attached, too, like allowing the feds to assume command of state officers for multi-jurisdictional task forces, special federal training and indoctrination of officers, etc... so the state police become the 'state police, a subsidiary of the federal government'.

Look it up. Even happens in municipal police departments to some degree.

[deaniac21]

46. Sigh.....

[MUSTANG_2004]

70. What's the sigh for?

The previous post is correct. Much of the police paramilitary equipment is funded by the feds (especially Homeland Security).

[deaniac21]

80. Much of all state government funding comes from the federal

government like for schools, highways and the like. Apparently, in this situation you can pick whom you want to be the bad guy depending on the point you want to make. I don't believe the Louisiana State Police were taking orders from anyone but the governor of Louisiana. Sorry but rational thought is a disease.

[MUSTANG_2004]

81. But they are the bad guy in this case

Are you saying that because the feds pay for the interstate highway system, we can't say they're in the wrong when they also purchase armored personnel carriers for the police?

[deaniac21]

82. Sigh.....

:hi:

[magellan]

9. Only in George Bush**'s America

And that's no compliment.

What a retrospective. It's like a Dali tableau -- a bizarre nightmare. And nowhere near finished yet.

[Bucky]

10. The dude in the flag get up doesn't bother me. He's talking to us...

which is better than any of the normally dressed crooks in the Bush administration does. Okay, I might be a little bothered by the suspicion that he's wearing patriotic underoos to match his ensemble. And maybe that flag-draped codpeice is a little over the top. But he's at least engaging in democratic debate. He's talking to people he disagrees with and no one is packing heat. That's how we do business in America. Or did business, anyway. God help us if they steal another one successfully.

[RebelOne]

48. That's not a codpiece. It's a fanny pack.

[Bucky]

73. Yeh, but you have to admit a flag-draped codpeice is funnier.

Flag draped fanny packs are only ironic if they're worn in the back.

[YOY]

60. Looks more like a monologue to me than a conversation

n/t

[Bucky]

72. How can you tell that from a single photograph?

Projection! That's how!

[YOY]

75. Pointed finger...accusatory nasty look on the face

Maybe projection, maybe that's just exactly what it looks like.

[Bucky]

77. Well, me saying "projection" was probably a cheap shot. I take that back.

One can insult someone needlessly and then later just say "I take it back", right? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

[YOY]

78. No worries,

No damage done.

Hell maybe I'm wrong, but it really does look like the guy is being a steriotypical FReep trying to 'inform someone' of their false ways.

[WI_DEM]

13. I hate it when people dress themselves up in American flag attire

to show their "patriotism."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Not to mention that he looks really, really silly instead of "patriotic."

Wouldn't you figure his wife would say something like, "Are you really going out in public looking like *that*?" And wouldn't his kids say, "Oh, Daaaad, that's like *soooo* lame! People will think you're wearing pajamas. And like *nobody* wears fanny packs any more."

[gatorboy]

14. I've got to see video of Jesus trailer in action!

Could that be any tackier?

[leveymg]

15. The Illustrated Insane Times. Could have been scripted by this guy:

OR HIM



OR HIM

[Retrograde]

18. The last one did give us the expression

"Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch"!

[Lars39]

20. iirc, Gannon was in the WH more than 200 times.

[FormerOstrich]

39. Lars39....didn't someone start...

an investigation into exactly why Gannon was there more than 200 times? What became of that? I thought maybe Waxman.... but I don't remember for sure.

[DoYouEverWonder]

85. Gannon was always there

on the nights that the Bush's were entertaining heads of state. He always came in late and/or left late on those days. Way past the time of any daily briefings or press conferences.

I did a thread about it when the logs came out.

[lumpy]

71. Gannon. We all know why Bush loves

to polish bald heads.

[katinmn]

21. It's all surreal. Doesn't even feel like the same country anymore.

And everytime I hear the term "Homeland Security" I cringe.

That is so fascist-sounding. America isn't a Home-land. It's just America.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. I call it the Ministry of Fatherland Security.

Or, better yet, Abteilung der Vaterlandsicherheit. Sounds better in German.

[Harry Monroe]

51. I've always wondered who came up with that moniker

When I heard that the new department was "Homeland Security" I immediately thought of empire, Germany, USSR and "Fatherland"; all that went through my head. "Homeland" implicitly suggests empire.

Why not "Department of Domestic Security"??

[Joanne98]

58. Wasn't it Joementum's bill?

[Odin2005]

67. Who ever named that is an idiot.

. I would split it into a Department of Public Safety (FEMA, NTSB, etc.) a Department of Federal Law Enforcement (FBI, etc.) and the have the CIA and other intelligence agencies as a Department of Intelligence

[peacetalksforall]

23. Can you put one together that is all about 'less government'

and how there isn't less, there is MORE!

Use #1 - keep it number 1. This photo is a winner!

No! (to someone posting above). This photo was not taken in Haiti - either during Papa or Baby Docs' regimes or during the U.S. and French invasion of Haiti when they escorted Aristede to a U.S. aircraft and eventually shipped him off to Africa and dumped him, then put some true terrorists in charge. Was it because Aristede was a Creoleo-Fascist?

(In case you haven't heard, yet - PNAC is now at war with Islamo-Fascists and wants us to be.)

[DeSwiss]

24. Well, one things fer sure....

...if the cross don't get Jesus, them fumes he's breathing will!

[Gregorian]

25. Heeeeeeeere's JESUS!

Haha. Thanks for the laugh. I really needed that. A projectile Jesus as the last thing one sees.



And yes, I remember all of those photos. How sick that whole thing was.

[ariellyn]

38. I got a good laugh from that too. n/t

[Xenotime]

26. This is the america * wants. Makes you wonder what else is in store.

[freedomburn]

28. Great pics there.

Pic number 3:

It says, "our Leader."


Our leader. Period. End of discussion.

How telling.

I feel like I should gaze up at the pic in adoration, click my heels together and stick my arm up, hand outstreched with the palm down. My fearless leader. He will protect me. He tells me the Other is coming, but I trust him. He tells me he can protect me and he sounds convincing.

Also, I am reminded that Big Leader is watching me. I know that he will see me if I do anything wrong. I know I should not ask any questions. I will not delve into the memory hole or pay attention to any things which do not support Big Leader. He will see me.

[formercia]

30. The Big Hat Ladies know the truth...

The ladies on the right are not fooled by any of it. They are giving them a piece of their mind.....

[theanarch]

31. personally, i like the unmistakable...

"coal bucket" like helmets...it add such a baroque, Third Reichian touch...

[formercia]

44. I've always wondered about that

If it is such a good design, why doesn't the IDF use it?

[Phrogman]

33. That picture is straight out of the old South Africa

e0m

[Anakin Skywalker]

32. It's Captain America Himself!

That second pic. LOL! He even has a US flag waistbag! Too funny.

[TalkingDog]

34. Oops....there, fixed that for ya....

My favorite Future Famous Dead Artist: KarenParker

[mogster]

41. Lol, I remember that

I took a screen dump of the post.



Note the immediate, on-the-fly photoshop contest a bit down in the thread ;-)
That's the best thing about this place - the black humor. In combination with the truth seeking, self critical OP, of course.

[LTR]

35. Wonder if "Captain America" in Pic #2 got arrested for wearing that outfit

Like this guy:





Is Abbie Hoffman more obscene than THIS?:

[PresidentWar]

37. Notice the US has adopted Nazi style helmets

see the top picture. It's not an exact replica but close enough to warrant suspicion, or at least an "I knew it".

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. That's because they're the best design

See eg http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1984/5/1984_5_86.shtml

[formercia]

49. I thought it was of a Roman design

this variant I found interesting:

http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEquipment-Helmet-buggenum.html#Mannheim

[MUSTANG_2004]

53. That's innocent enough

The Nazi army helmet was well-designed to protect the maximum amount of the wearer. It would have been stupid to use an inferior design. That said, the police shouldn't be wearing army gear. They seem to have forgotten that they're not in enemy country, and it's their fellow citizens that they're threatening with those guns.

[formercia]

56. They were supposed to be there to protect and defend.

So, who are they protecting and defending? Those people don't seem to feel that warm and fuzzy blanket of protection.

[soup]

40. Well done, mogster.

Said it before, and I say it again, we're diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

The Comedian-in-Chief searches the WH for wmds - heh heh heh



Oh, yeah, he's a funny, funny guy.
chuckle chuckle chuckle. :banghead:

[kiki]

42. "George W Bush - Unsere Fuhrer" n/t

[Theres-a]

43. K and R

:argh:

[MorningGlow]

50. Pic #1: Black people = automatic expectation of violence

That's what drove me crazy about the whole Katrina disaster (besides the completely incompetent nonresponse, of course)--they imposed martial law (which was it, official or unofficial? or does it matter?) and refused to let people out of New Orleans because they truly expected the place to explode with violence. But that never happened to the extent they thought it would, even though it SHOULD have--against the government because of its negligence. And all that focus on the "looters", when all those people were doing was wading through chest-high toxic water to get a few things to survive. The newscasters were so excited--"Look at those black people stealing!!" Talk about stereotyping.

:mad:

[formercia]

57. Don't want no crowds of uppity black people

tearin' up all of that mostly white-owned downtown property.:sarcasm:

[BlueCentrist]

55. Oh My God.

Those poor people.It sickens me to see them at those armed mens mercy.It didn't have to get to that point.It didn't!!!!The Government knew those levees wouldn't hold and did nothing,nothing to secure them.It is just absolutely sickening.

[Ganja Ninja]

61. What a long strange trip it's been.

[Aviation Pro]

62. The guy in the front of the up armour APC looks...

...like he just wants to wing one, just one, of the victims. ("Please, Sarge, just one? C'mon I haven't killed anyone since Iraq.").

[Swamp Rat]

63. Hêia

:hi:

America is descending into madness.

[seemslikeadream]

64. First photo looks like Haiti to me!

[GETPLANING]

65. Pic #2 looks a lot like Sean Hannity's dad

Sure does

[Bucky]

74. Actual picture of Sean Hannity's dad

Maybe not. But there is a resemblance.

[grizmaster]

66. I never knew jesus was trailer trash

shows you how much they really value images of their messiah

[K8-EEE]

69. Well, Jesus Christ On A Trailer Hitch!

Great montage, K&R!

[Jazz2006]

76. K&R

[datasuspect]

79. was that a haiti license plate in the first pic?

oops, no, it's a louisiana plate.

i will never cease to be mystified at how easily the u.s. can turn into a third world country.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

83. I like the guy in the pajamas.

If I ever meet him, I'm going to give him a big old kiss one the lips.