Fellow Nihilist John Edwards Needs Our Help

Attention fellow Nihilists! Nihilist Brother and former presidential candidate John Edwards is being prosecuted for his debauchery with hottie Rielle Hunter.


This attack against one of the few things we stand for, debauchery, must not go unnoticed Brothers and Sisters (Provided there are Nihilist Sisters that aren't outraged by debauchery, then they wouldn't be Nihilists though, would they. Hah!)



There are certain unalienable rights all people enjoy. Life. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That Edwards pursued these with Ms. Hunter and got rich Nihilists to lend him a plane and pay for hotel rooms shows Edwards for the grand example of the American Dream and hall of fame Nihilist he is.


John Edwards should get a medal for his grand display of Nihilism with Rielle Hunter. In lieu of a medal though, I, as minister of vice for Nihilist Nation, think a box of Trojans would be more appropriate and useful.



John Edwards: A Nihilist in need is a Nihilist indeed.

British Neoclown

Thought I’d put up a post alerting our friend Don to an article on his favorite historian, Niall Ferguson. I originally saw it at Salon and figured Don may not be a regular reader there. It seems that the author, Michael Lind, does not share the same enthusiasm for Ferguson. That AmPow link has a video showing what a condescending prick Ferguson is, BTW. As well as callous and racist according to Lind:

Ferguson, described as a "dashing Brit" by gossip columnist Grove, praised Republican congressman Paul Ryan’s scheme for abolishing Social Security and Medicare, a plan so callous and unpopular that other Republicans have scrambled to distance themselves from it. The Dashing Brit then told the assembled plutocrats that unemployed Americans are lazy: "The curse of long term unemployment is that if you pay people to do nothing, they’ll find themselves doing nothing for long periods of time." On an earlier occasion he created a stir when he compared Barack Obama to the lascivious cartoon character Fritz the Cat, because, he said, both are "black and lucky."

This guy makes me wonder why Donald isn’t teaching at Harvard. Oh right, can’t do the British accent:

Ferguson is the most prominent of a number of British conservative intellectuals and journalists who have found more sympathetic audiences in the U.S. than in their own country, where their enthusiasm for Victorian imperialism and Victorian economics stigmatizes them as cranks. His Old World accent and reactionary politics might not have been sufficient to earn Niall Ferguson his cisatlantic celebrity, were it not for the demise of American intellectual conservatism, chronicled by Sam Tanenhaus and others. The mass extinction of America’s intellectual right at the hands of anti-intellectual Jacksonian populists like the Tea Partyers has created a lack of native conservative thinkers with impressive academic credentials who are willing to dash to a TV studio at a moment’s notice. And in an era when the conservative movement is symbolized by lightweights like Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and Jonah Goldberg, rather than William F. Buckley Jr., George Will and Irving Kristol, even Niall Ferguson can be mistaken for an intellectual.

Now I thought all the neocons were for America being the hegemon. Apparently Ferguson longs for the days of English hegemony and if it came at the price of Russia and France so be it:

Ferguson belongs to the fringe element of British conservatism that regrets the absence of a German-British deal in the first half of the 20th century that would have marginalized the United States and might have allowed the British Empire to survive to this day.

According to Ferguson, Britain should have stayed out of World War I and allowed Imperial Germany to smash France and Russia and create a continental empire from the Atlantic to the Middle East. The joke is on Ferguson’s American conservative admirers, inasmuch as he laments the defeat of the Kaiser’s Germany because it accelerated the replacement of the British Empire by the United States of America and the eclipse of the City of London by Wall Street.

Alas, the world got American primacy and decolonization rather than world domination by the City of London in league with the German General Staff. Fortunately, the U.S. can still redeem itself by re-creating the 19th-century British combination of imperialism and laissez-faire economics, a combination so unpopular in its homeland that it was repudiated by the British people themselves after 1945 without regrets, except on the part of a few far-right Tory crackpots like Niall Ferguson.

As is typical of neocons, Ferguson has no problem with torture:

Ferguson displays a Colonel Blimpish brutality so casual that it can disgust even American conservatives. Benjamin Wallace-Wells in the Washington Monthly describes what happened when the British professor compared the tortures at Abu Ghraib to the American army’s hazing of new recruits:

"In behaving the way they did," Ferguson said, "those soldiers and military policemen [at Abu Ghraib] were largely doing to their prisoners what routinely people in the American military do to new recruits."

This was too much for even the conservatives in the audience. The guffaws grew louder, the muttered protests reached the front of the room. In the row in front of me, a broad-shouldered, uniformed officer stood up. "Big disagree here, sir," he bellowed. "Big disagree with your characterization." (Fleetingly, I wondered if this was how colonels address one another in private). "The institution I have spent my life in abhors what went on in Iraq," he said. "It's not the way we treat anyone -- a fresh recruit or a plebe at West Point." The crowd clapped vigorously. In less than 10 minutes, Ferguson had pulled off that rarest of Washington double plays, alienating liberals and conservatives alike.

It’s lucky we have intellectuals such as Niall Ferguson and Donald Douglas to remind us what life would be like without the American hegemon:

Here is Niall Ferguson a few years earlier, bloviating in Foreign Policy in 2004 about the global anarchy that might result from a diminution of America’s relative power:

The worst effects of the new Dark Age would be felt on the edges of the waning great powers. The wealthiest ports of the global economy -- from New York to Rotterdam to Shanghai -- would become the targets of plunderers and pirates. With ease, terrorists could disrupt the freedom of the seas, targeting oil tankers, aircraft carriers, and cruise liners, while Western nations frantically concentrated on making their airports secure. Meanwhile, limited nuclear wars could devastate numerous regions, beginning in the Korean peninsula and Kashmir, perhaps ending catastrophically in the Middle East. In Latin America, wretchedly poor citizens would seek solace in Evangelical Christianity imported by U.S. religious orders.

This is typical of the inadvertently self-parodic rants to which Niall Ferguson owes his celebrity in the infotainment industry.

And from another post on Ferguson, I repeat, twaddle. Click the link for delicious synonyms.

And Don, I will never get a clue and STFU while there are anti-American neoclowns like you and Fergie on the loose!

BONUS CRAZY: Ferguson would have been happy to see a country take over France, Russia and all of continental Europe who during WWII would try to develop an army of talking dogs. Seriously. Go look!

SPAM FILTER ISREAL!!!*

I'd assume that most of the folks reading these words have at least a passing familiarity with Google/Blogspot, and/or spam filters. That being so, I post the following for your consideration:

The first blog post excerpt was originally posted here: Donald Douglas: Insert Hypocrisy Conspocrisy Noises Here. (UPDATED: 5/19). The others are comments that have been offered at different posts on this blog. For clarity, I've provided links back to those original comments:
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10) (5/19/11) And Donalde keeps digging: American Power: Update on [] For the Record Of note, is this secton, where he says:

"Anyway, my (other) longstanding nemesis (James Casper) has been getting off on all of this, so I decided to drop a non-profane comment in the thread pictured, but he deleted it --- four times. Racist Repsac3 is one of the most hardcore free speech blog administrators online, but he wouldn't let this one through, despite the specific omission of actor212's identity. Maybe he didn't want that link to actor212's comment at Sadly No!, although that's an ad hoc adjustment. Racist Repsac3 = Casper keeps moving the goalposts:

The problem that Donalde has is that he jumps to conclusions. The fact was, his comment (the one he attempted to post 4 times in the space of just over an hour) was caught in the spam filter. I saw it, I added the comment (the first attempt, for the record), and deleted the three repeats.

I didn't screencap my spam comment queue, but the comment itself is posted here, just where Dr Douglas left it.

Jumps to conclusions... If this little incident isn't a metaphor for this whole hypocritical, conspiratorial (conspocritorical?) incident involving the "outing" of one/some of his enemies "real life" lives in the name of vengeance--if not much of Donalde's blogging, itself--I don't know what is. Donalde fixates on one idea--the one that most fits his chosen meme of 'fuck that other guy,' generally--and refuses to admit there could be any other possible possibility aside the one he's chosen.
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Maybe Donalde will correct his post, and maybe he won't. But either way, he's already shown himself to be a little too quick on the trigger, and I've shown it's not an anomaly. It happens entirely too often, and when it does, it's done with the purpose of attacking some perceived enemy with his quickly drawn (if not actually concocted out of thin air) conclusions.
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Of course, Donalde did not correct his post. Instead, he's been doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on his conspiratorial assertion that I somehow "held" or "moderated" his comment for a few hours, and then posted it--the reason for my doing either, or what he believes it all proves, is known only to him. As so often happens with these kinda things, he seemingly cannot admit there could be any possibility for his comment not appearing instantly other than the one he's alleging...:

May 19, 2011 2:57 PM :

Donald Douglas said...

"And my comments are never held in spam. They always go through, except for last night when Reppy was takin' 'em down, or something? Who knows? He's a freakin' liar and asswipe hypocrite."

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May 19, 2011 3:01 PM:

Donald Douglas said...

"Well, what do you know? Comments coming right through. Repsac3's a liar and not to be trusted. The investigation continues ..."

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May 19, 2011 6:07 PM:

repsac3 said...

"And my comments are never held in spam. They always go through, except for last night when Reppy was takin' 'em down, or something?"

Donalde, I understand you dig the conspiracy, but the simplest answer is generally the correct one. You have been caught in the spam filter here at least once before. Here's a link to what happened the last time.

Yeah, that's right... I reposted your damned comment myself, before realizing it was in the spam filter and releasing it, too.

The fact that you could post a different comment today isn't proof that the one you posted four times last night wasn't filtered. Not to state the obvious (or, what SHOULD be obvious, anyway) but it's a different comment, with different content. (And now that I approved it, it's entirely likely that whatever it was that caused it to get caught last night won't trip the filter, next time. (Read the directions--The sentence that starts "You can help improve..." specifically. The more you use it, the more the filter "learns.")

Look, Donalde... I suppose there's no way that I can prove to your satisfaction that your comments were flagged as spam last night... Everyone who has ever used blogger can evaluate your story and mine, and come to their own conclusions, I guess...

But I will ask you this: If it wasn't caught by a spam filter (or moderation, the announcement of which you would've seen when you posted the comments), how did I make your initial comment appear, under your own name and with your picture, at the exact time you posted it?

Occam's razor. The simplest answer is the most plausible one, Donalde... That's all I can tell you...

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May 19, 2011 6:12 PM:

Donald Douglas said...

"'Look, Donalde... I suppose there's no way that I can prove to your satisfaction that your comments were flagged as spam last night...'

Not my problem, bitch! You're a liar and a racist sleazebag."

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May 19, 2011 6:30 PM:

repsac3 said...
"Re: May 19, 2011 6:12 PM
Everyone who has ever used blogger can evaluate your story and mine, and come to their own conclusions, I guess..."
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May 20, 2011 3:04 AM:

Donald Douglas said...

"And see, comments coming right through tonight ... YOU FREAKIN' LIAR!!!!!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!"

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May 21, 2011 2:19 PM:

Donald Douglas said...

"OMG!!!

My comment wasn't caught in the 'spam filter'?

REPSAC = RACIST = LIAR!!!!"

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For any unfamiliar, an explanation of the term "____ IsReal":

As the Watergate break-in gave birth to the suffix "___gate" to denote a scandal, "____ IsReal" has become shorthand for any/all of Dr Douglas' conspiracy theories/damned lies, concocted and put forth in furtherance of launching attacks on his many perceived sociopolitical enemies throughout the blogosphere. (It's unclear whether Donalde actually believes these things, or simply claims he does for the sake of the attack. Either way, "___ IsReal" is real, for lack of a better term.)

It was born of the SASQUATCH ISRAEL (or SASQUATCH ISREAL) story below:

"Then turning around, I saw this kid yacking it up for the crowd, obviously having a blast with this ugly Jew-hating sign. And what does that mean, "SASQUATCH ISRAEL"? This is a play on the "legitimacy myth" of Israel's existence. As there's of course a "Sasquatch myth," it's worth noting the implied comparison: that Israel is also an ape-like beast existing only in historical folklore. Absent legitimacy, Israel has "no right to exist." This kid's sign is but one more example of eliminationist anti-Semitism. And look at how overjoyed he is in boasting this hatred. Creepy." - Donald Douglas, American Power: Anti-American, Anti-Israel: Scenes From Ground Zero, September 11, 2010 — UPDATE: "Don Douglas Hearts Juses"

Of course, the content was disappeared from Donald's blog, as though it never, ever happened. Fortunately, it was documented and preserved throughout the blogosphere, including by AmNi friend James B. Webb, at his blog, Brain Rage, from whence the text above and the photo below were retrieved.

As I said at the time, "...to most of us, misreading the sign--seeing "Sasquatch Isreal," rather than "Sasquatch Is Real," isn't a big deal... A cringe-worthy mistake to be sure, especially when one goes out in public--say, on one's blog--misreading it for the whole world to see, but minor in the general scheme of things...

But making up some myth about anti-Semitism based on misreading the sign, and lying about a whole group of people just because you disagree with them politically, is pretty friggin' bad. - Dear Jan... (Repsac3's reply to an inquisitive American Power commenter)
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See what others had to say, here: Sasquatch Israel (and don't miss SI's descendant--or ancestor, if you believe the aliens might've been here first--Jewbacca)

Making Our Guests Comfortable

On a recent visit to our less than humble abode good friend of AmNi, Donald, left this comment:

Not sure if you'll delete this, but linked today to Sadly, and hadn't been over there in a while. Saw this comment from one of your buddies, and thought it reflective of exactly the kind of people you are. Yeah, I'll cuss and kid down to your level, and spam the shit out of your comments, but there really is a level of depravity to the lot of you that is simply incomprehensible. I hope you're proud of yourself, what you're doing, and who you're hanging with. Shocking, really.

He is upset about a photo linked to by one of those “disgusting perverts” at Sadly No. I, being at least mildly perverted, enjoyed the photo which showed someone dressed as Sasquatch having intercourse (they was fucking) doggy style (oddly enough) with a woman. BTW, Sasquatch is real and really hung.

Hey, different folks get off on different strokes. Some like furry sex. Some like voyeurism (cough, Erin Andrews, cough). But, in case things get too racy here or at the homes of some the bloggers we’re “hanging with” I went out, and at no small expense, purchased this genuine antique fainting couch just for you Don. Make yourself comfy.

 

  

Nothing is too good for our friends!

And just a reminder! Rapture Party is this Saturday on the river of blood. The rider on the black horse is bringing famine and on the white horse, death. Everyone else can just bring a casserole or some dogs, burgers, salads, whatever. Mix it up.

Words of Wisdom, from Donald Kent Douglas, Ph.D.

And students... He's an associate professor of Political Science at Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA...
(Classes forming soon. Don't miss out.)
((Sorry, ladies... Dr Douglas is taken.))

May 21, 2011 2:19 PM

"REPSAC = RACIST = LIAR!!!!

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Donalde Douglass Bingo (h/t Malaclypse, at LGM)

Malaclypse says:

I propose a new internet tradition: Donalde Douglass Bingo.

Whatever he says, I predict it will contain at least three of the following:

Fuckers
Bwaahaha!!
Depravity
Monster
Anti-semite
Che
Communist

To which I add, off the top of my head:

Gay (NTTAWWT!!)
Demonolo-gy,-ist,etc
Douche -

Add more common words and phrases in comments, and play along...
Winner yells BWAAAHAHA!!! (of course.)

Professor Douglas Wishes He Was As Fine A Blogger As Truth 101

Hey Professor Douglas: While you were searching for your next rule 5 poster chick, the wisest man on the web, (Me) was the first to reveal that porn was found on Bin Laden's computer.








http://truthshallrule.blogspot.com/2011/05/porn-found-on-9-of-bin-ladens-computers.html






Now let that be a lesson to you on how real bloggers do it. Or did Reppy do something that pissed you off again, like expose you for being a shithead for the 5,789th time so you didn't have time for real blogging like I do?


You're a piker compared to Truth 101 Don. Maybe you should delete your second rate blog and study how it's done by the Professors of Nihilism here at American Niiiihilist.

Donald Douglas: Insert Hypocrisy Conspocrisy Noises Here. (UPDATED: 5/26)

Guy who preemptively moderates comments for ideological content whines and cries like a stuck polecat when his off-topic trollery gets moderated away. (Cached version)

And, addressing the purpose of Donalde's drive-by trolltack, one has to be a real douchebag to intentionally spread offline (and seemingly, unverified) information about another blogger to get revenge for some online difference of opinion. (After all, isn't posting (or, in the following referenced case, reposting) offline information what this freakout was--and continues to be-- all about?) Given the sickos out there, it can be an invitation for trouble.

Bad enough, if the info's actually accurate.

Worse yet, if they're painting the bullseye on the wrong guy's back.
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Added:
1) Sadly, No! - Die Verwandlung

And apparently (with h/t to S,N! link @#1):
2) Who is Tintin at Sadly, No? Jonah Goldberg, of course! ~ Serr8d's Cutting Edge:

"This deleted comment from Dr. Donald Douglas found at Brendan's (bjkeefe) 'Free Speech! blog...

"I moderate comments primarily against your racist attacks, Reppy, but your stupid remark is beside the point."

I believe this is the second time Donalde has said that he moderates the comments to his blog for content, before to allowing them to appear, even, just because of me... I don't think I'm really all that scary a guy... Not even if I actually am "potentially even more dangerous than those hoisting banners on the street," who'd "kill you if [I got] the chance." (And I may be... I just may be...)

If that's really true (and Donalde has at least twice said that it is), I think that's kinda pathetically cowardly and sad... The record of most of what's gone on between us exists (Is anything ever really gone on the internet?) and I just don't believe that Donalde's self-confessed fear of me is warranted... They're just blog comments, and most of 'em were on topic and on point, and not at all about him... (Personally, I think the guy just doesn't like being shown up and beaten down right there on his own blog... but of course, that's just my opinion, and worth every cent you paid for it.)

3) The dreaded, diabolical, Donalde Douglass double-down. (Cached version) Despite "Carl's" denial, the ass prof is stickin' by his story, true or false. Also no recognition of the hypocrisy of shouting other folk's personal info far and wide--and whether he's factually correct or not, he thinks he is... In his mind, he is intentionally "outing" a pseudononymous blogger's given name, with the intent doing him some kinda reputational (if not actual) harm, all because of petty online disagreements--which is kinda weird, given all that whining he did when folk's posted his employer info online. (And lest we forget, that employer information was already online--and still is. It's even posted on Donalde's own blog, even.)

In any case, the truth is out there...

4) Why double down, when you can triple dig that "isreally" grave? (Cached version) "First rule of holes? That's only a suggestion, idnit? No, I'll just keep on keepin' on..."

There's no conspiracy that can't be made to sound even more conspiratorial and crazier with a whole lot more verbiage expressing even less possibility that one might, maybe, be mistaken. QED

5) American Power: Carl [Salamipants] Flushed Down the Memory Hole at Whiskey Fire!. (Cached version) The denials and off-topic trollery deletions (and calling him "Donalde," of course... I mean, who knows to do that, besides Tintin?) is the proof. Confession is good for the soul. It's obvious. Actor's T, and Carl is he, and we are all together. Koo-Koo Ka-Choo

(The possibility that folks are deleting his stupid fucking allegations and accusations for being in violation of online integritude, inane, or just plain off-friggin' topic never crosses Donalde's mind. He's got his meme, and he's stickin' to it, no matter what.)

6) At Carltintin's request--in a tweet to "himself," natch--all mentions of Carltintin's full name up to now will be disposed of. New mentions will be deleted. (Just further proof that we're all Tintin, I guess... TINTIN ISREAL!!!)

7) So, if other folks deleting his "Carl" comments was proof of a vast leftwing cover-up, what does it mean when Donaldee deletes his own posts on the subject? Is HE now part of the conspiracy, too?!?

"I'm on the verge of obtaining the mother of all tips on Tintin's identity. So until that information becomes available, and since Carl [] is threatening punitive retaliation against those looking into his shady his activities, I'm temporarily pulling my previous posts in the series." - Donald Kent Douglas - American Power: Outing Tintin at Sadly No!

8) American Power: Carl [] Threatens Libel Action Our little energizer bunny of malice is still going... Someone may or may not've brought a lawsuit against him. (He believes so, but I think the phrase "It's brought" is kinda vague, and could easily mean something other than what Dr Douglas thinks it does. On the other hand, he might be right. Either way, the posts pertaining to this subject that he took down are still down. Lawsuit or not, he's still talking tough, but acting kinda intimidated... YMMV...) And the intimidation tactics he's throwing in return (Countersuits, "Carl doesn't want this kind of publicity..." "The conservasphere will rise up like an army of Davids and investigate every aspect of his life if he sues..." don't seem to be having much effect. Still no big reveal, either...

9) (5/18/11) Added cached versions of the disappeared posts. Still no big reveal (or any mention of the topic at all, since 5/16/11) over at Donalde's blog.

10) (5/19/11) And Donalde keeps digging: American Power: Update on [] For the Record Of note, is this secton, where he says:

"Anyway, my (other) longstanding nemesis (James Casper) has been getting off on all of this, so I decided to drop a non-profane comment in the thread pictured, but he deleted it --- four times. Racist Repsac3 is one of the most hardcore free speech blog administrators online, but he wouldn't let this one through, despite the specific omission of actor212's identity. Maybe he didn't want that link to actor212's comment at Sadly No!, although that's an ad hoc adjustment. Racist Repsac3 = Casper keeps moving the goalposts:

The problem that Donalde has is that he jumps to conclusions. The fact was, his comment (the one he attempted to post 4 times in the space of just over an hour) was caught in the spam filter. I saw it, I added the comment (the first attempt, for the record), and deleted the three repeats.

I didn't screencap my spam comment queue, but the comment itself is posted here, just where Dr Douglas left it.

Jumps to conclusions... If this little incident isn't a metaphor for this whole hypocritical, conspiratorial (conspocritorical?) incident involving the "outing" of one/some of his enemies "real life" lives in the name of vengeance--if not much of Donalde's blogging, itself--I don't know what is. Donalde fixates on one idea--the one that most fits his chosen meme of 'fuck that other guy,' generally--and refuses to admit there could be any other possible possibility aside the one he's chosen.

A) [] IS Tintin. (Quite likely untrue, which is why it's at least a 50/50 shot that Donalde's disappeared posts will never again appear at his American Power blog.

B) I intentionally deleted his comment four times. (Check the bogus claim and the proof for yourself.)

C) Sasquatch Isreal represents the "'legitimacy myth' of Israel’s existence. As there’s of course a “Sasquatch myth,” it’s worth noting the implied comparison: that Israel is also an ape-like beast existing only in historical folklore. Absent legitimacy, Israel has 'no right to exist.'” [cite] (Need I say more?)

(For those interested or curious, there are more examples of Donalde seeing just what he wishes/chooses to see in this post.)

Maybe Donalde will correct his post, and maybe he won't. But either way, he's already shown himself to be a little too quick on the trigger, and I've shown it's not an anomaly. It happens entirely too often, and when it does, it's done with the purpose of attacking some perceived enemy with his quickly drawn (if not actually concocted out of thin air) conclusions.

Still waiting on the big reveal.

11) (5/26/11) - Just a quick non-update update. The closest our friend Donald Kent Douglas has come to this story since 5/19 is a few oddly-placed and forced mentions of [] or Sadly,No!, or links to the Alkon attack on same in posts about other topics on his blog. (An example: "And more at the "Amanda Marcotte" search. A really bad woman. Reminds me of []..." (The post was actually about John Edwards, so even the Amanda mention was kinda out of place...) No mention of "the investigation," or Tintin, no reposting of the disappeared posts, and needless to say, no big reveal... American Nihilist will keep you informed, should anything new develop. For now, though, it appears that Teh Donalde's bluster on this subject has been worth every cent you paid for it, and not a penny more...

The Politics of Fear... Red-baiting, McCarthyist, Guilt-by Association Fear...

UPDATE Tuesday, October 18, 2011 -- I'd respond to Dr. Douglas' meandering google link from today purporting to be about "REAL communists (or something)," but there's nothing here about real vs fake communists in the first place... (At this point I think he's just linking to this blog--and removing the comment sections on the posts where he does so--in some weird attempt to get a rise out of me or some such thing... (Some have suggested he's flirting with me.) It certainly isn't to illustrate a point, because whatever he thinks he's linking to, it isn't at this post, assuming his point even has something to do with "REAL communists" in the first place.) ((I think the "real communists" line he was looking for was said by someone else, as a comment on Dr. D's own blog, if memory serves... Of course, that wouldn't suit his purposes as far as I'm concerned, whatever they may be... With all these recent mentions and links from him, it's obvious he's up to some kinda odd and creepy thing))

Now back to our regularly scheduled 5/9/11 post:
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Spoketh the Donalde, in his recent post: Communists and SEIU March in Los Angeles on May Day 2011 - Donald Kent Douglas - American Power:

"RACIST REPSAC = CASPER dropped in for a drive-by comment at Lawyers, Guns and Murder on Saturday, and he again offered up a variant of his pathetic delusion that there are no communists allied with the Democratic Party in contemporary American politics."

Reality check: Here's what I actually said:

"Ideas that are not born in one’s own head (or that harmonize and synchronize with the ones that are, at least) scare some folks silly.

Pointing and yelling “Anti-Seeeeemite!!!” (or “Cooooomunist!!” or “niiiiihilist!!”) at the top of one’s internet lungs is no substitute for reasoned discourse." - repsac3, May 7, 2011 at 2:33 pm, at the post The CUNY Disgrace : Lawyers, Guns & Money.

So where exactly did I say "there are no communists allied with the Democratic Party in contemporary American politics?" Do you see it, or any variant of that thought, or anything that in any way even resembles that thought? If so, I'd like you to explain where you're getting that, in the comment section below. If not, I have to ask; Is there no lie our friend Dr. Douglas will tell in furtherance of his demonization of "the other"... or does he actually really and truly believe that the words I wrote mean what he's alleging they do? It's gotta make you wonder about him, either way...

(And what the hell is a "drive-by comment," anyway? Where does he come up with this bullshit, and what meme is he trying to sell by employing it? The fact is, I more'n'likely read and comment at Lawyers, Guns, and Money more often than he does... not that Donalde ever lets facts get in the way of whatever sinful crimes and breaches of his crackpot vision of the world he wishes to allege. But damn... He can't even get their name right, which ought to tell ya something...)

"I do not believe RACIST REPSAC = CASPER is a communist. He may be an anti-Semite, in addition to being a racist, and he's definitely a progressive. But that doesn't matter much to the foregoing analysis. The post shows conclusively the infiltration of the Democrat Party by the long-term ideological enemies of the United States. It's fact. That said, facts to not penetrate the world of blind hatred of RACIST REPSAC = CASPER, so this is just for the record, once again. But be warned: Pathetic RACIST REPSAC = CASPER, unfortunately, is potentially even more dangerous than those hoisting banners on the street, for he works in the Alinsky mold of destroying American greatness from within. You gotta watch out for these people. They'd kill you if they get the chance."

Donalde's post attempts to "prove" I'm wrong about something I never said, which is that no communists or socialists have ever aligned themselves with Democratic or mainstream liberal causes. The fact is, I never said it. Donalde is flat out, balls-to-the-wall lying. That, or really, really REALLY misunderstanding something I wrote, somewhere... (Look at what he does with the quote above, after all.) I believe it's the former... He does have a Doctorate, after all... But maybe he really just can't comprehend the written word. Anything is possible...

Either way, let's be clear...

Yes, large numbers of Democrats and communists were opposed to the invasion of Iraq, and support worker unions, health care reform, and other political actions and causes more liberal than that of conservatives. Yes, both groups, as well as those of other ideological, religious, racial, gender, and other cohorts, have protested together at the same events, opposing or supporting the same/similar political actions.

So far, so good. Clear enough, I hope.

However...

I dispute whether their appearance at the same protests make their political beliefs or goals identical, or even all that similar. Being in favor of some kind of health care reform (though generally speaking, not the same health care reforms) does not make Communists of Democrats or Democrats of Marxists. There were many reasons to oppose the invasion of Iraq, and I'm pretty sure the pacifist priests were not there for the same reason as the mothers and fathers who lost sons or daughters in the invasion, or those Democrats who believed that military action not authorized by Congress was a breach of the Constitution, or that Iraq was a distraction from finding and waging war on Osama bin Laden, al Queda, and the Taliban who harbored both... or the socialists and communists who believed that large imperialist countries shouldn't seek to overtake small defenseless ones, either. Same protest, lots of different reasons for attending. Donalde would have you believe that they're all Marxists... ...or soon will be.

Given the make-up of the crowds (there's generally like 100 mainstream liberals--Democrats and Greens, mostly--to 1 communist), I question who's infiltrating who. The way I see it, some of those communists are slowly but surely coming in from the ideological cold, and not the other way round. (Others, I'm sure, are true believers, and think they'll help mainstream liberals defeat conservatives, and then rise up against the mainstream liberals... or something like that. It's far more likely they'll just turn 25, get a job, and vote on the Democrat, Green, or Working Families line.) Donalde would have you believe that the presence of even one communist is evidence that Communism will one day overtake the Democratic party... and perhaps, America.

I even question whether the communists at these rallies and protests are "long-term ideological enemies of the US." They're generally high school or college age kids handing out leaflets or holding a banner. We're not talking Stalinist murderers, here. I'm of the opinion that our Constitution and the American ideals for which we stand can handle being questioned by a few ideological college kids, who'll likely grow out of it by their mid-20's... (...and perhaps go so far as to become neocons, like Donalde. Let us not forget who founded the neoconservative movement, and not all that long ago, even, historically-speaking... Talk about yer communist infiltration... And then there's David Horowitz, too... Once a self-confessed, full-blown communist, and now, a hero of our neoconservative friend Donald Kent Douglas. Coincidence? I think not. But it's the Democratic party that's being infiltrated by communism... Suuuure it is...) ((Golly, this bullshit conspiratorial, guilt-by-association fear-mongering is easier'n I thought...)) (((Yes, I'm leaving the sarc marks off on purpose.)))

In fact, if you follow that link back to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money comment that has professor Douglas in such a tizzy, you'll see that THAT was my point in posting it. Rather than running away with blinders on and fingers in our ears, closing us off to any and all ideas and ideals with which we do not agree--or tossing a bullshit label on them and denouncing/renouncing, and moderating them away, as Donalde does, and would have us all do--we can beat them fair and square in the marketplace of ideas, right out in the open, and without demonizing each other as people either, more'n'likely. Our American ideals are not some hothouse flower that will wilt at the first whiff of a communist or socialist belief. Our Democratic Republic is made of far stronger stuff than Donalde seems to believe it is, and a few ideologically confused undergrads questioning--or even vehemently disagreeing with--some aspect of our American political system or makeup isn't going to cause the slightest dent. YMMV, of course...

Hopefully, this post is clear enough for even Teh Donalde to understand... but knowing him as I do, I wouldn't bet on it.

(Oh, and "Booga!! Booga!! Booga!!" Scared of me yet?)
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Previously: DONALD KENT DOUGLAS: Deranged McCarthyist Red-Baiter

What're We Supposed To Call These Folks... bin Ladeners??

I'm sure I'll find others (and I'll update if/when I do), but it's somehow fitting that it's one of Donald Douglas' most prolific commenters and fans who is the first I've found giving voice to this "Osama's been dead for years" conspiracy. (And note Dave's continued birtherism, as well...)

Dave said...
So we are supposed to believe that the wealthiest murderer in history, who loved nothing more than making videos of himself threatening to blow up this or that, then pack it off to his friends at Al Jazeera, did not have access to a video camera since 2002, even though the Pakistanis reportedly built a compound for him sometime around 2005.

Osama wasn't exactly holed up in a cave with no electricity or running watter.

Osama was his own favorite video star, and those tapes stopped coming for one of two reasons:

1) He voluntarily stopped producing them,or-

2) He was no-longer able to produce them.


Last week, it was the release of yet another COLB, which most are taking as the gospel, and now this.

I don't know, but something about all this just doesn't feel right to me.

Maybe it's that I trust this White House about as far as I could push it.

-Dave

May 1, 2011 11:33 PM

There are some really scary individuals out there in hyper-partisanland, and Dave is one of 'em.
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Well that didn't take long:

(Freudian, perhaps--the hate is strong in this one, too--but a typo, nevertheless... He meant "Osama," not "Obama.")

@Dave Champion: Obama Osama died long ago. Most of the important players in the Middle East have known it. US media does Washington DC's bidding.

And where did I find this guy? Through another Donald Douglas link, of course:

9:30pm PST: Checking some progressives on Twitter, Karoli's not pleased with the response on the right.

(Two things: 1) In Donald's original post, the phrase "on the right" was a link as well, but I thought it'd make my point less clear if I included both in the quote. For those curious though, I include that second link here. 2) It seems pretty obvious to me that Karoli's concern about that first tweet was the typo saying "Obama's died long ago," and not the fact that Osama is dead. While she prolly ought to've realized it was just a rightwing-Freudian typo, that tweet doesn't show what The Donalde claims it does... ...and as far as the second tweet, I'm kinda with Karoli... I understand why folks are celebrating--folks left and right, BTW... Contrary to Dr Douglas' implication, it isn't only folks on the right dancing in the streets--but to my way of thinking, people killing other people isn't something to celebrate. It's often necessary, and in this case, I'm glad the guy is dead, but I won't be whooping it up. I'm just not built that way.) ((Now the exhortations involving the body and pork products or urine/feces--many of which are being offered by folks on the right--are just plain ghoulish and altogether disgusting. Celebrate if you must, but don't expose quite so much of the psyche, guys. Some things are better left thought about, but unspoken.))
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Another, although this fellow is apparently a Truther, as well:

Dean Jackson sez:
Can you believe the lies? It's unbelievable. For those who pay attention Osama was murdered years ago. Fast forward to 2:10 minutes in the following BBC interview with Benazir Bhutto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg

Found in the comments at: Osama Bin Laden dead: How Obama's focused pursuit paid off. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine (No comment permalinks, but scroll to Today (5/2/11) 7:17:29 AM EDT, to read this comment and more from this nutter.)

And if you watch his video, be sure to note the rebuttal video linked to it, as well: YouTube - Bhutto didn't mean to say "Osama bin Laden" (Can't post one without the other.)
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The American Spectator : Osama bin Elvis
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Inside Sources: Bin Laden’s Corpse Has Been On Ice For Nearly a Decade - Alex Jones - Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! and at memeorandum
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Of course, every coin has two sides... While some say he's been dead for years, others want proof he's dead now... And someone from Breitbart's unstable stable leads the pack:
ThinkProgress - Meet The Deathers: Andrew Brietbart Website Pushing Conspiracy Theory That Osama Might Not Be Dead. Should we really be surprised? Here's the link to the post: J. Michael Waller - BigPeace: "Display Bin Laden’s Body At Ground Zero. Then Destroy The Al Qaeda Legacy." Now comes with a memeorandum link, too.
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Others:
Mailbag: Goodbye 'birthers,' hello 'deathers' | Opinion L.A. | Los Angeles Times (While "deathers" seems to be the chosen term in the media, it was already taken in my mind for the folks insisting on those health care "death panels." But if it takes for these "Osama's been dead for years"/"prove Osama's dead now, long-form" idiots too, I'm willing to roll with it...)
memeorandum: Conspiracies conjure that Osama bin Laden still lives (The Politico)

IslamoNihilist of the Century: Osama Bin Laden

Guest Post by Doctor Biobrain

It is with great joy and femininity that I humbly announce the brilliant and proudful martyring of a supreme nihilist leader, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.  Born Lewis Herschwitz in Queens New York, he quickly rose the ranks of nihilism under the tutelage of The Very Reverend Jeremiah Wright before being assigned the greatest role of his life: Playing his Eminence Osama Bin Laden, Islamonihilist Extraordinaire.

It started out as a simple plan: The Soviet Union would pretend to invade Afghanistan, in order to create instability so our Islamonihilist agents The Taliban could instill terror and Sharia Law across the land; to punish the Christian God, who we hate.  Meanwhile, the stupid capitalist imperialist American pigs would naively funnel billions of dollars of weaponry and training to our Islamonihilist buddies led by Herschwitz, while we secretly manufactured heroin which we used to buy votes in American inner-cities, to keep them all docile, lazy, and stupid; just as FDR suggested we do.

Little did we know that Herschwitz's character would prove so popular that the Muslim sheep would anoint him the Grand Poohbah of All Muslims; repeating the success we had with our previous Islamonihilist jihadist, Tom Lawrence.  And with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood, Tupac Shakur, Hamas, and ACORN, Osama Bin Laden's nihilist reign of terror shook the world from coast to coast.  And now he has achieved his greatest reward, supreme martyrdom; and at the hands of the High Holy Highest Barack Hussein Ayatollah Ayers Bin Obama. After all, nothing is more nihilistic than sacrificing your life for nothing.

And so we salute you and your martyrdom, Comrade Herschwitz of Queens.  May all your like-minded allies soon join you in Nihilist Heaven.  Their rewards can't come soon enough.  As for the rest of us, we will celebrate by giving our weekly gruel rations to our pets while we flagellate ourselves with synthetic beef jerky.  It's what Bin Laden would have wanted us to do.