• The Dopes Live 6-22-19 at Sonic Solstice Indie Music Fest, Irish Whiskey Bar, Astoria, NYC
  • Who is the Real McTeag????

The Real McTeag

~ 'Real Views from the Real World'

The Real McTeag

Category Archives: Ronald Reagan

Proven- There is NO SUCH THING AS THE TEA PARTY

08 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by therealmcteag in #toc, 21st Century Political Movements, Crossroads GPS, Dystopia, Fox News Lies, Glenn Beck, GOP sucks, grover norquist, karl rove, modern conservatism, on drugs, political extremism, Politics, President Barack Obama, Rachel Maddow, Religion, Republican Cargo Cult, Republican Fails, Republican insanity, revisionist reality, Right Wing Conservatism, Right wing extremism, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Tea Party, tea party fail, Tea Party Fanatics, Tea Party Liars, The Tea party, the3re is notea party, there is no tea party, US Mexico Border, Willard "Mitt" Romney, willard romney

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

astroturfing, Chris Matthews, Crossroads GPS, Florida, Groiver Norquist, Grover Norquist, karl rove, Republican, Rick Scott, Tea, tea party fake, tea party is a joke, Tea party is a sham, tea party koch brothers, There is no tea party, United States

Reading the Tea Leaves as the Tea Party Leaves

UPDATED 2-12-2013

In 2012's imaginary Tea Party needs a more aggressive fake mascot. Out with Mad Hatters, in with Mad HATERS!

In 2012’s imaginary Tea Party needs a more aggressive fake mascot. Out with Mad Hatters, in with Mad HATERS!

Was there EVER a Tea Party? Is it just a figment of the media’s collective imagination? The only time hear about the Tea Party seems to be when it gets sued for overbooking hotel rooms to the tune of ¾ million dollars. Add to that the fact that puppetmasters/ con men like Grover Norquist with his laughable No tax Raises ever pledge and Karl Rove wasted well over ¼ BILLION dollars to push Tea Party “darlings” who failed miserably. Republicans all over America, especially our friends in the Republican Cargo Cult just can’t turn off Fox News long enough to figure out how they blew (another) election when they had this ‘massive grass roots movement’ looking to vote out their hated Anti-Reagan, President Barack Obama. Well the answer is as simple as it is disheartening to the Right- the Tea party doesn’t, hasn’t and never will exist. More and more republicans seem to be coming around to my  way of thinking as they flee Grover Norquist and crucify Karl Rove. Don’t worry though, theres not enough rational Republicans left to win an election of any consequence. Most have become absolutely apoplectic trying to figure out how the Democrats ‘stole’ the election. Most are in the grips of a deep and abiding self hating denial that Republicans are a dying breed only capable of making enemies and creating Democrats all day long in spite of their intentions to the contrary.

Their out of touch comments on race, gender and of course Todd Akin’s ‘”legitimate rape” followed by utter failure at the polls has exposed the Tea Party for what it is, or more appropriately ISN’T. It isn’t a real political party, it nominates no one, loses elections for Republicans and creates Democrats.I have found credible supporters on the right who completely back up my assertion. On the November 20th installment of the nearly unwatchable Hardball with Chris Matthews Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks and sporter of the worst sideburns this side of the Civil War emphatically insisted that there is no Tea party, merely “Tea Party Ideas” and a “set of issues” that define Tea party thought. He quickly dismissed Christine O’Donnell and Todd Akin as whack job non tea party candidates from the “social conservative” wing of the party, therefore not true tea baggers. This in spite of repeatedly agreeing with and endorsing their ideas. Even a big time righty pundit can’t pretend theres a Tea Party without self contradicting and appearing completely but yet somehow militantly rudderless

kibbe

mad tea bagger Matt Kibbe whose political mantra seems to be-‘have terrible indefensible ideas? Grow some disturbing facial hair to distract people!’

Interestingly the only example of “Tea Party Ideas” Kibbe could come up with was insisting the non existent Tea Party Tea Party was “colorblind” (easy for something that doesn’t even exist) and hated Ear Marks. About the only thing he could back up his ideas with was that they have destroyed candidates who would have won and replaced them with sub-par lunatics with baggage like being a self professed Witch. He seemed quite proud of this.

Poke-Mon fanatic, pizza mogul and part of the small but self hating cadre of token black tea baggers

Poke-Mon fanatic, pizza mogul and part of the small but self hating cadre of token black tea baggers

Kibbe then went on to extoll the virtues of Climate Change Denial and the likelihood of Intelligent Design to prove he was a scientific believer and not a whacko from the “social conservative’ faction of the non existent Tea Party who just happens to be willfully ignorant. His proof of his assertions was the Federal Government just can’t seem to pass a budget. He seems oblivious to the fact he had just boasted that his non existant Tea Party wielded huge influence by primarying out likely winners with whack jobs who are forced to explain how they weren’t a witch. I love Matt Kibbe he’s so out of it and self contradicting he proves my point for me. His ‘I know you are but what am I?’ rejoinders were guy bustingly inept. The Red Bull addicted Chris Matthews didn’t even need to shout him down. Matthews was probably still pissed though considering he gets paid to do primal scream therapy and laud his ridiculously idealized idea of JFK (at every possible excuse). Matthews is a walking mess of Liberal stereotypes and a self hating guilt ridden white apologist who mimes being bummed about his success.
Kibbe must have been on crack to fail so terribly destroying Matthews misinformed point of view and mock worthy assertions and simply eating the guy for lunch. This unexploited huge opening comparable only to the New York Jets Offensive Line really reinforces the fact that the tea party is more a mantra for unspecified knee jerk lefty hating. The non existant tea party is a GIFT to progressives.
At least 5 Senate seats have been all but given away with psycho candidates. None gained a national office, managing to merely flood the idiot convention that is the US House of Representatives with one and done ideologues like hate spewing Wild Wild Allen West. Fortunately West is among the many tea bagger maniacs NOT returning to Congress. Florida also boasts Governor Rick “Skeletor” Scott, as man who said whatever people wanted to hear and then went about destroying a multi billion dollar infrastructure project to kick off his masterful suppression of jobs and votes in Florida. Scott knew going in his job was to serve his masters well, not to govern. The beauty of this is that another crazed bagger can run unopposed to outflank Scott to the right and perpetuate more fraud on the oppressed citizens of the part of Teabagistan know as Florida.

Florida is a great example of a real mess created by the fake tea party. The constant ballot tweaking to make them impossible to fill out and take as much as 45 minutes to read and certify, the fixing of local races and general incompetence have destroyed any accurate voter based demographics to allow the Republicans to Gerrymander. Over a decade of blatant voter suppression and dishonest county electors means that the best empirical evidence, an accurate count of who voted how and where, is at best a crap shoot.This is part of a negative feedback loop thats turning Florida Bluer and Bluer even faster than minority population votes. living through 2011 in Central Florida (thank GOD i am back  in Queens!) i met MANY a gun loving Good Ol’ Boy who was just so disillusioned they were either throwing their votes away on dementia sufferer Ron Paul or just so pissed that they were willing to stand in line for up to 9 hours to vote for Obama. Having no job thanks to Rick Scott freed up enough time for the oppressed citizens to navigate his intentionally frustrating voting laws. To many outside of Florida who haven’t seen this disturbing prequel of what a Romney

people say Rick Scott looks like third rate cartoon villain Skeletor. I say more like Bat-Boy

people say Rick Scott looks like third rate cartoon villain Skeletor. I say more like Bat-Boy

tea bagger America would have been like the stupidity of Skeletor’s methods just seem like “tough love”. Easy for people who love fetuses but hate children, especially educating them. Uneducated children almost invariably grow up to be Republicans. Fortunately most are so turned off to politics they don’t even bother to vote.

foxnewsnevadafail1

Why bother with facts when your network exists to merely sell commercials and spew hateful nonsense to lemmings?

We have just seen how the Right Wing Echo Chamber has trapped most on the right in a Fox News created fantasy land where Romney was barely edged out by Obama gifting poor people and how far off their vaunted ‘Internal Polls’ were. In fact the Polls on the Right were so far into “Dewey Wins” ineptitude that its hard to say whether it was merely misguided, intentional propaganda or a combination of both.
Part of my case is the fact that even though there seems to be almost NO EVIDENCE of people showing up en masse to support the Tea Party; C-PAC and other weird ultra-right organizations have perpetuated the myth of a Tea Party just by using the word at their hate cabal’s. Is there even a movement of any appreciable size that REALLY believes in the Tea Party, which is subject to some debate in and of itself.
The Tea Party Supporters seem to break down along the whacky rights “Three G’s”, or if you’re not into the whole brevity thing; God, Guns and Gays.
Depending on who you talk to all, some or none of these things are important. Talk to a Tea Bagger and its really a roulette wheel of ignorance as to what their delusion is.
Guns- Ok, so we all know Americans just LOVE guns. The NRA is a pretty damn big lobbyist and has really spent millions over decades to deeply affect the attitudes towards guns, especially handguns. When I spent my year living in Central Florida I was shocked how many shootings there were. After awhile shock changed to disgust. It was a 30 second story pretty much every time. Sometimes a couple of people or a cop would be shot. The Trayvon Martin murder happened while I was there. What shocked me most was not that there is an American city with a violent crime problem, but how the people who live there have been conditioned to think. To quote Clint Eastwood, “He shoulda armed himself”. That’s right, you are the idiot for not owning a weapon. You can get duly licensed pistol and carry permit by the non background checking and seemingly unrelated to guns, The Florida Department

These are what Rick Scott Overpaid Government Workers. Soon Fire Departments will be subscription only services if tea Baggers get their way. Watch for specials on high capacity garden hoses or the Baggers will only blame you when your place burns!

These are what Rick Scott Overpaid Government Workers. Soon Fire Departments will be subscription only services if tea Baggers get their way. Watch for specials on high capacity garden hoses or the Baggers will only blame you when your place burns!

of Agriculture. Go figure. This is a stupid as blaming someone whose house was firebombed for not having a bigger hose.
Guns are here to stay. Even if massive resources were brought to bear, we are decades away from a from a societal shift away from Gun porn obsession. The problem- some people are simply impossible to convince the government is somehow going to take their guns away. Where this comes from is anyone’s guess. The best theory I have- this was the seed from which Fox News sprang.
The NRA is an early experiment in non reality in a world where baseball players were endorsing cigarettes and selling Oldsmobile’s in the off season. It worked. As time marched on for a long time media drove at the same, now seemingly leisurely pace. Simply perpetuating the increasingly untrue idea that a gun was a very necessary and important tool so indispensible only a Commie wouldn’t want you to have one. Almost in spite of itself though, the pro gun movement evolved. “Guns Don’t Kill People, People Do.” Was a catchphrase as effective as “Jackpot Justice”, a term used to describe the motivations of a septuagenarian who needed internal vaginal skin grafts after a cup of McDonalds coffee collapsed in her lap due to faulty design and insanely hot coffee. The idea is, throw people a fish and watch them slap their flappers together.
Ask JFK if guns don’t kill people, ask Malcolm X, ask Bobby Kennedy or MLK. Oh wait, they were killed with GUNS! So I guess “guns Don’t Kill People. People Do” is a great slogan because anyone who can say otherwise is as dead as disco.
God- this one’s a bitch to understand because traditional Christian values are

Fox News Polling- all 3 answers negative, making a scientific result impossible. Republicans HATE science. Thisis why they make up crazed theories to keep their gold buying Sheople scared and increases commercial viewing (their only real goal at Fox)

Fox News Polling- all 3 answers negative, making a scientific result impossible. Republicans HATE science. Thisis why they make up crazed theories to keep their gold buying Sheople scared and increases commercial viewing (their only real goal at Fox)

talking_snake11

All the worlds problems caused by one talking snake. leave it to the Baggers to find this an uplifting image

supposed to be the biggest cornerstones of the compassionate side of the Tea party. This is the side that would force a raped woman to produce a ‘gift’ from a man who is not a criminal, but a Messenger from God. Well how do you put the messengers of God in jail? The people;e in Sodom and Gomoherra only wanted to have sex with Gods messengers and they were basically nuked according to the Bible. In fact in all the billions years 4000 years of Republican history this may well be the most important biblical thing to have actually OCCURRED already. The most important stuff in the Republican Bible is stuff that hasn’t happened yet, namely, the fucking Apocalypse and making sure all the nice people will all get ready to all get “raptured away” while the rest of us suffer through unimaginable pain and are finally cast into the flames of Gehena. Thanks a lot Tim Tebow!
Gays– You would think that God would be happy his children were loving and not hurting each other. Thankfully the republicans disabuse of of our ignorance concerning a loving, caring God. That’s the Commie’s God.
Republican God is an angry guy who just detested all the fun those crazy Sodomites were having. Seems simple enough, but by extension, God, who in the space of 4000 years has interceded on an almost annual basis directly into our lives, is a pissy neighbor who needs to be kept happy. God is the opposite of Government. He is Big, REALLY BIG. He’s entitled to tell you how to live and in exchange you give him money, plenty of sweet, sweet money. So take heart that the Bible says not only “An eye for an eye,” but also- ‘Love thy Brother as Thyself’ Like the famous “Jefferson Bible” , which removed all mention of the supernatural, the Republican Bible stresses the Supernatural, basically a 236 year backward intellectual jump. That itself is impressive. Furthermore the Republican interpretation of the Bible contains a heavily redacted, narrowly read ball of total ignorance only the complete truth. The part about Jesus NOT riding a dinosaur to work, well that was such ridiculous and nonsensical no one even thought to put it in because a talking snake is hard enough to believe cut out by heretical, pre reformation monks.
So when 2 men kiss, anywhere, God gets on Priceline and gets his Messengers ready to go turn peoples wives into pillars of salt. All fun of any kind NEEDS to be suppressed. This works GREAT for the Tea party. They are old, they are angry, they are few in number. Like all Cults they are driven to reproduce in the largest possible numbers, but they are old and their sick ideas will die with them.
Guns seem safe, so the tea baggers supporting that concept seem to be spinning their wheels like an overloaded El Camino in the snow. Somehow the myth of the absolute need to have a gun to avoid being a gay atheist just won’t loosen up.Go figure.
God? Well for a while he wasn’t quite as big as the Beatles, and his earthly ambassadors were busy doing the worst things imaginable, but he’s not going

Tea Party Jehovah- baggers fantasize he's using his badass assault rifle to kill a Gay Scientist. GOP Tri-Fecta!

Tea Party Jehovah- baggers truly believe the Man upstairs uses his badass assault rifle to kill a Gay Scientist. GOP Tri-Fecta!

anywhere, if he actually IS anywhere, but that’s a WHOLE ‘nother blog post! So God- safe. Not gonna lose any influence. If anything he should intercede to get himself some less hateful messengers here on Earth.
Gays?- Well gay people are in some trouble. Its always been hard for a gay kid growing up amongst the gay people in violent denial in the Hell hole that IS Texas, but I think the danger level has gone up, sadly. The end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, emergence of Gay Rights and even gay Adoption is motivator for people who just hate fun. You would think so longs as they either invite you to their party you don’t have a whole lot to complain about (because they party like no one else).
So where are these people? They can’t fill a hotel with people. They are only seen in very tight shots and almost only on FOX News. Its likely these people number in the dozens, even in a population center like Manhattan their aren’t enough people to produce a decent tinfoil hat brigade for the Tea Party.
The Tea Party is a catchphrase, just like “Jackpot Justice”. There are no ‘members’ per se. Sure a chapter exisats here and there, but theres no cross coordination. Its an imaginary space monster from a poorly written third season episode of Original Star Trek. Fear them not.

40.728224 -73.794852

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Share on Tumblr
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Manning, Hasan, Bales, Highlight Perceived Lack Military Professionalism

06 Thursday Dec 2012

Posted by therealmcteag in #toc, 21st Century Political Movements, Afghan Massacre, Afghanistan, Benghazi Attacks., Bradley Manning is innocent, bradly Manning hero, Coalition of the Willing, David Petraeus Resignation Scandal, dley manning traitor, Drone Warfare, Dystopia, Fort Hood Shooter, Glenn Beck, Hamid karzai, Hamid Karzai thief, International Politics, Iran, justice for bradley manning, Kandahar Massacre, Kelley sisters, Libya, Major Hasan, military atrocities, modern conservatism, NATO, Petraeus Scandal, political extremism, Politics, President Barack Obama, Private Bradley Manning, Rachel Maddow, Republican Cargo Cult, Republican Fails, Republican insanity, Reuters news crew massascre, revisionist reality, Right Wing Conservatism, Right wing extremism, Robert Bales, Ronald Reagan, SSgt Robert Bales, Tea Party, tea party fail, The Tea party, US Withdrawal from Afghjanistan, War in Afghanistan

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

#TOC, afghan massascre, Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Asia, Bradley Manning, General David Petraeus, George W Bush, NATO, Private Bradley Manning, Rachel Maddow, robert bales, Taliban, Tea PArty Sucks, United States, US Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Westboro Baptist Church

Where Empires Go To Die
In the decade plus since United States Forces effectively invaded and toppled the outlaw Taliban Regime in Afghanistan nothing has been accomplished and the toll continues to rise. With NATO scheduled to leave in 2014 pretty much one way or another the elephant in the room is-“Why Wait?”
—A decade wasted
Now into a second decade of strife the roots of the conflict; namely the degeneration of Afghanistan into a veritable perpetual state of civil war, are still pushing fruit from the rocky soil. The Taliban seem to be everywhere and

America is currently slated to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

America is currently slated to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

th

Hamid Karzai’s whole life has been one long audition to be a Star Trek Villain.

nowhere. They remain a threat and hard numbers on their membership are simply unavailable. These vicious goons will do anything for money, place no value on lives of themselves or any others and live off and outdated and widely disavowed interpretation of Islam. Only in a dystopia like Afghanistan could such a movement thrive.
Where do these fanatics come from? Doubtless the lack of education, in particular for girls, plays a role. In 2002 it was estimated that less than half of all males and more than 3/4ths of all female Afghani’s had any education at all. It sports the ignominious distinction of having the highest illiteracy rate in Asia. Illiteracy makes it impossible for anyone to research anything first hand. Analytical skills are never formally developed by professional educators. The end result would inevitably a person whose world view was dependent on those who can read having an enormously disproportionate amount of influence. In Afghanistan an Islamic version of the Westboro Baptist Church would be considered relatively moderate, at least in its actions. Imagine a nation where outside the capital almost no one can read looking to a few mullahs, who roughly equate to radical Apocalypse Preachers, for all their information, especially religious matters. A nonstop highly localized but unified anti American philosophy is constantly being espoused. Unlike Apocalypse Preachers elsewhere, they have some ‘proof’ of their visions. This proof is what the United States Military has termed “Collateral Damage” mixed regularly breaking atrocity stories and a stark cultural difference which leaves both sides in perpetual shock. Mutual understanding and acceptance still appear to be out of reach and qualify as mere wishful thinking. The Occupation in and of itself engenders a hateful attitude towards NATO. The populace at large, whatever their education level or analytical abilities, will not risk defying the Taliban. The Taliban have burnished their reputation as murderous thugs who can terrorize effectively even if their numbers are small.
–Green on Blue and the overt failure of Nation Building
The Kabul Government installed by George W Bush in 2002 has a reputation for ineffective corrupt actions second to none in the world. Good billions are thrown after bad into a roaring furnace of pointlessness.
The entire approach of Nation Building for Afghanistan proceeds from a false assumption- That anyone in Afghanistan WANTS a nation. Afghanistan is a nation that can be viewed as a collection of fiefdoms run by an overlord of sorts. This the core weakness of the Nation Building approach and the greatest ally of the insurgency.
The gains of the NATO Coalition have been limited and may be of no benefit to NATO’s mission. Literacy rates have surely risen, but the kind of dent this has made in the Afghani world view is not quantifiable. It is a fair assertion to imagine a slowly dwindling but still unbelievably high rate of illiteracy may take a generation or more to have any impact. While admirable, educating the Afghani’s has apparently yielded very little fruit. A generation that was of kindergarten age to the age where a American would be graduating High School has apparently not resulted in the hoped for sudden and acute emergence of Common Sense and aversion to violence. Attacks on Afghan girls by Taliban aligned extremists are a sustained and heartbreaking thread of tragedy running through the entire American War.
The biggest failure of the Occupation is undoubtedly the Afghan Army and Security Forces. These entities simply can NOT be trusted. They are easily corruptible and their porous ranks seem easily penetrated by operatives of the Taliban and al Qaeda. The insurgency has grown and mutated to take advantage of this.
Green on Blue Attacks, where Afghani security forces turn their weapons on their

The illustrious Afghan Army. With friends like theses...?

The illustrious Afghan Army. Seriously, with friends like these guys…?

American counterparts became an almost daily reality before NATO Forces ended joint patrol and training operations with the Afghan Army this past summer.
Green on Blue is such a potent weapon, and so impossible to guard against that they have changed the way the Occupation is implemented and perceived. The Afghan Army and Security Forces are the very definition of failure. They are a dangerous and random element. One can only imagine illiteracy amongst it ranks is prevalent. This is a key aspect why the Iraqi Occupation was a comparative success. Iraq had a high level of education and an abundance of college educated members of their society. Despite regional differences which may one day result in a fragmenting of the current Iraq, there was a sense, spread by state run media, that Iraq had a National Identity. A degree of cohesiveness made it one country, at least to the point where perception and reality overlapped. Brutal oppression was embodied in one man, a hated and reviled dictator. Sadaam Hussein’s execution was a unifying moment of the sort the Afghani’s never had.
In Afghanistan fiefdom was and is the norm. No one evil dictator was available to embody the nation’s frustration. While surely oppressed, Afghan’s never had a modern frame of reference to show them a better life. TV, electricity, air

conditioning and other modern conveniences taken for granted just don’t exist.
Enter NATO. Killing off one warlord after another seemed to be producing results. One valley at a time was occupied and a concerted attempt to bring the 21st century to that fiefdom would be undertaken. This did little more than create targets. Power Stations can be blown up faster than they are built. A few brutal acts of terrorism can intimidate an entire village if not the nation at large into shunning education for reasons that are readily apparent. Being an illiterate live person still beats being a well-read corpse or being doused in kerosene and set afire. No amount of Baywatch re-runs, if they are even available, will change this simple fact of life- In Afghanistan seeking an education is an impediment, especially for girls, to staying alive.
–Two minutes and 22 months to Midnight-
NATO’s mission is set to wrap up by the end of 2014. For America, our military and the Afghani’s this can’t come soon enough.

The looming question- what will these next 2 years produce to legitimize America’s longest war? Education has been a failure and has played into the hands of the terrorists we were originally there to fight. The Nation Building experiment is a failure of monumental proportions. The Kabul Government is a front for corruption led by an unqualified bi-polar madman. The mullah’s still hold sway over the majority of public opinion. The Afghan Army is a dangerous and uncontrollable rogue element that can NOT be trusted in any way. Cultural change never materialized, one Koran burned by mistake or a culturally insensitive act or remark regularly result in mass civil unrest that gets NATO troops killed and injured.
Staying will not change any of this. Osama bin Laden is dead. Killed by roughly 60 highly trained commandos in a raid that could have taken place in 2002 and spared the United States all the Blood and Treasure that is still being wasted trying to force the 21st Century onto a rural and agrarian society still dependent on Opium as its biggest

The Taliban's cash generating renewable resource. Opium

The Taliban’s cash generating renewable resource. Opium

cash crop. Opium is a renewable resource. Stability and legitimacy are not.
Kabul is doomed. Afghanistan should be effectively quarantined. It has little to offer the outside world. Westerners, even armed, trained masses of soldiers, simply aren’t safe and clearly not accepted. It’s a medieval society barely past the Dark Age that they could fall back into at any time. Anger is a renewable resource easily harvested by the influential radicals who hold sway outside the capital.
The obvious comparisons are the American War for Independence and Vietnam. A far off Imperial power fights an unpopular, endless low intensity war where casualties mount despite success in the few real battles fought. Lone wolf operations are infinitely possible, sniping and IED’s are not preventable. So far it seems by simply refusing to give up the insurgents have taken control of the conflict.
There’s no reason to stay. Comparative figures for how much tax money per capita is spent by the United States per Afghani versus US Citizen are unavailable but would surely be eye opening and may well show that average American has benefitted less from the taxes they pay than the Afghani’s we pay to protect and force democracy on. It’s a safe bet the Afghani’s have seen more. America’s economy is tanking, the entire world is spinning plates to avoid Financial Apocalypse. Afghanistan has been a blood soaked money pit. The solution- we should leave tomorrow. No transition, no draw down. Leave.
No case can be made for staying. Everything that needed to be done, killing and capturing the Murderer’s behind 9-11, is complete. Osama bin Laden swims with the fishes. Every single motive to stay beyond that has failed. This is textbook Mission Creep.
There is no dishonor in immediate withdrawal. The wasted years must come to an end. The Dystopia cannot be fixed. In Afghanistan things will be upside down until

The last chopper out of Saigon. Will the Afghan War end as badly?

The last chopper out of Saigon. Will the Afghan War end as badly?

they themselves decide otherwise. This is the time to leave, lest the final images from our longest war be like those of the Vietnam fiasco. That war was summed up in one picture. The images of a heavily overburdened Huey helicopter struggling into the air from the roof of the United States Embassy. It’s an image of failure. Staying any longer serves no purpose beyond stoking the furnaces of the War Pig Corporations with more blood money.
We should run like Hell.
–The Brutalization of our soldiers and loss of our Military Professionalism
Fighting a 15 year war has not been easy on the military. This is the sort of thing that can turn even the most even keeled person into a homicidal maniac. The obvious cases, like the attack on Afghan civilians by SSgt Robert Bales are so horrible they numb the mind. How a man who grew up in the midlands of Ohio

Ssgt Robert Bales looking very detail oriented

Ssgt Robert Bales looking very detail oriented

could one day find himself building a funeral pyre of woman and children he had murdered shows how far the military has been stretched.
Consider as well murdering coward Major Nidal Hasan. Hasan showed open contempt for the country whose uniform he was somehow allowed to wear. Apparently too incompetent to be a surgeon he was apparently re-tasked as a shrink. Rather than showing compassion and using his medical training to help

Dress however you want; but this look at the base PX could be considered something of a red flag. being a bad soldier was the real problem but this guy wasn't hiding anything

Dress however you want; but this look at the base PX could be considered something of a red flag. being a bad soldier was the real problem but this guy wasn’t hiding anything

them with PTSD and other pitfalls of return to a nation that only realized we were at war when CIA Director and ex-General David Petraeus’ affair went viral. Despite this, and other bizarre incidents where Hasan seemed like a malevolent version of Klinger, desperately trying to avoid doing his military duty by dressing in drag, or in this case hardcore Muslim religious garb; not much was done in the way of checking this guy out. While within his rights to dress however he wants, this is not exactly the kind of thing your average soldier wears to pick up groceries at the base PX. Add to that the breakdown in screening and the massive labor gap the military deals with every day bridging the gap between the do-able and the necessary. There were no shortage of complaints regarding Hassan’s dishonorable and outright weird behavior, the fact he was a self-radicalized Muslim extremist was just barely popping onto the radar when Hasan went operational and betrayed his medical oath, military oath and the Pledge of Allegiance in a trifecta of treacherous

Bradley manning as a civilian

Bradley manning as a civilian

Consider lastly Private Bradley Manning. Manning is perhaps the most intriguing and polarizing figure in all of America’s 21st century wars. History will likely judge him more kindly than he can expect at his imminent court martial. Was manning ever a good candidate for high security work where he would see things that would shock the mind and perhaps even poison the soul? Now that we know the results the answer screams back “NO!” The idea that a 20 years old private, the lowest rank in the military, could have access to top secret databases and be allowed to bring CD’s capable of re-recording video and downloading a great deal of damaging information is mind blowing. Where’s Psy-Ops when you need them? Manning was not prepared for his job and those who assigned him to it share some of the blame.

Replicants=Drones? just a thought

Replicants=Drones? just a thought

It doesn’t seem like it would have taken a Blade Runner level personality scan to know this kid could have done a better job in another MOS or maybe even wasn’t the best fit for the military in the first place.
It is an open question whether Manning can make a credible assertion that he simply refused to comply with what amounted to an Unconstitutional Order. It seems a long shot. Manning will likely do considerable jail time. The information he provided, perhaps naively, to Julian Assaange and the Wikileaks people (who no longer seem all that crazy about Assange), was devastating and is akin to the Pentagon papers and the Uncounted Enemy Scandal of these wars.
It is a military filled with competent soldiers who are dedicated professionals, this goes without saying. However the sheer weight of numbers needed to prosecute war a half a world away has resulted in a rift between the ideal or even acceptable soldier what passes for acceptable in the face of the need to accomplish vital tasks, even support tasks, in a situation that has been apparently being done on an ad hoc basis for a decade and change.
Afghanistan may not be able to solve its own problems, but 13 years of American help hasn’t changed much. The Karzai regime is a disgraceful corrupt sham and the continual shameful waste of our blood and treasure there needs to end before the scheduled withdrawal in 2014.

40.728224 -73.794852

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Share on Tumblr
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

The Republican Cargo Cult Explained

29 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by therealmcteag in #toc, 21st Century Political Movements, A Piece of the Action, Burning man, Burning man 2013, burning man 2013 cargo cult theme, Cargo Cult, Cargo Cult Republican's, Dystopia, famous mormons, Glenn Beck, International Politics, John Frumm, Libya, modern conservatism, political extremism, President Barack Obama, Prince Phillip Society, Religion, Republican Cargo Cult, Republican Fails, Republican insanity, revisionist reality, Right Wing Conservatism, Right wing extremism, Ritualized Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Star Trek, The Tea party, Willard "Mitt" Romney, willard romney

≈ 12 Comments

Tags

#burning man, #TOC, 2012 election, 2012 presidential campaign, 21st century conservative fails, A Piece of the Action, Ambassador Chris Stevens, British Imperialism, burning man cargo cult theme, Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Captain Kirk, Cargo Cult, Cargo Cult Republicans, Congressional gridlock 2012, Crazed Tea Baggers, crazy tea party ideas, Cult of Domesticity, dick cheney, election 2012, Empire of Japan, failed political movements, First contact, Fox News, Fox News Lies, Gangsters of Chicago, George H.W. Bush, George W Bush, GOP Fail, Grover Norquist, Jim Kirk, john frumm, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney is a loser, Msnbc, NCC-1701, Obama Benghazi apology allegations, ORCA fail, President Barack Obama, Prime Directive, Prince Philip, Rachel Maddow, Reagan, Reaganomics, Republican, Republican Cargo Cult, republican fucktards, republican obstruction, Republican Obstructionism, republican stupidity, Republocan senators, Right wing extremism, Romney, Romney 47%, Romney sucks, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Scientology, Second World War, Sigma Iota IV, Star Trek, star trek TOS, Tea Baggers, TEA PARTY FAIL, Teabaggery, the last word with lawrence o'donnell, the Royals are useless, The Royals suck, the tea party, United States, USS Enterprise, USS Horizon, Vodoo Economics, William Shatner

What are Cargo Cult Republicans? Cargo Cult Republicans are those whose behavior and beliefs have devolved into a quasi-religious mindset towards Modern American

How the Cargo Cult Republicans view Ronald Reagan

Conservatism revolving around the 1980’s and Ronald Reagan in an idealized, ritualized and unrealistic way. The influence of this aspect of modern American Conservatism is palpable yet there has been very little discussion of it.

The classic historical Cargo Cult refers to a religious phenomenonthat arose on the isolated pacific islands used as bases by various militaries during the Second World War. The native islanders in places like Papua, New Guinea had not had much contact with the outside world. Their ways of viewing the day to day world included a good dose of the

paranormal. If someone got sick, perhaps a curse had been put upon them. Flood? Famine? Perhaps the villagers aren’t living up to the standards of their pantheon of deities. A thumbnail description would be that they fed the Volcano to pacify the gods,who were surely a bit crazy.
After the Second World War began in the Pacific the lives of the native islanders were subject to massive culture shock. Literally overnight and literally out of the sky in the form of shiny silver airplanes as well as great iron beasts from the sea came the mid-20th century. None of the previous limited contacts with outsiders provided a frame of reference for what transpired on their islands, their very world, as emerged over the weeks following arrival of troops from both sides of the conflict.

To these isolated natives the idea that an internal combustion engine would spin gears and operate pistons to spin a propeller to power a vehicle capable of carrying goods or people was inconceivable. Imagine bringing a flashlight, cigarette lighter and .9mm pistol via time traveling helicopter to Dark Ages Europe to get any sort of grip on this.
To the natives of islands such as those of New Guinea the planes were not

–Members of the John Frum cult in New Guinea imitating American Soldiers in their “ritual”

machines but great beasts akin to hollow metal dragons. They were summoned from the sky by rituals at a holy temple, or as we would call it, a Military Airfield. The “rituals” were the day to day operations of the base. Waiving in incoming planes with flags and lighting runways. Group s of identically clad men marching in formation, chanting magic words (read: military cadences) and sometimes even firing their bang sticks!!

In the wake of the Second World War these isolated bases were mostly abandoned and life, for the natives, returned to ‘normal’. But it was a ‘New Normal’. They had become accustomed to the gleaming aluminum dragons regularly summoned by the clergy (read: US Navy Sea Bees) with the sacred relics (read: radios, landing lights and parades). No longer were the great beasts from the air and sea disgorging the material goods they now so desired. Gone was the supply of

A replica Second World War plane used in John Frum Movements rituals. Is the GOP Elephant now an equivalent Trojan Horse of Willful Blindness?canned goods, textiles and the giant crates that had seemed like enormous wooden eggs that birthed

a smug Mitt Romney exulting in the opportunity to make hay off  Ambassador Chris Stevens and others even as they were dying for their country. Only the 47% comment hurt him more

the coveted “cargo”.
In a turn of events still being studied by sociologists and historians, the Cargo Cults emerged. The natives formed into cults of sorts and imitated in ritualistic fashion the actions of the men who had summoned the great beats and cargo from the sky. Coconuts were fashioned into radio headsets, bamboo control towers were created. Uniformly dressed men marched in ritual manners similar to the military drills they had seen under the mistaken belief that by simply doing so they themselves would please the gods of the sky and bring down the shiny metal beasts filled with goodies. These beliefs were personified in the form of an image of an American World War 2 Sailor, frequently portrayed as African American, known as “John Frum”. Think of him as a sort of Santa-Jesus type. British occupied areas developed similar cults based on an idealized perception of Prince Phillip.
The John Frum Movement and Prince Phillip Societies still exist today in New Guinea. Despite the fact that these places slowly became less isolated and were slowly but steadily overtaken by rational explanations of the outside world some still cling to the Cargo Cult beliefs. In the case of the Prince Phillip society egotistical detachment from reality is shared by the object of their affection. Prince Phillip perhaps unwittingly, endorses the cult’s beliefs by sending gifts and autographs. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that what is really needed, by the prince and his worshipers, is some help handling a brutal but needed dose of reality. This need also applies to early 21st Century Tea party Republicans. Ritualized Reaganistic Worldview has become a meme accepted by most Republicans, albeit for the most part unknowingly.

READ- CARGO CULTS AND  JOHN FRUM THEME OF 2013 BURNING MAN FESTIVAL??

The most familiar Cargo Cult known to Americans in popular culture would be the “Gangster Planet” in the famous episode of the Original Star Trek “A Piece of the Action”,

The Gangster Planet featured in the Original Star Trek Episode “A Piece of the Action” is an illustration of a classic “Cargo Cult”. One of the shows most popular episodes and most Americans only glimpse at Cargo Cults

where an isolated planet had been exposed to 23rd century technology by earlier space travelers. When the Enterprise arrives a generation later they find an entire culture influenced by a book the first explorers from Earth left behind about 1920’s gangster culture in places like Chicago and New York. By looking, dressing and acting like the gangsters they read about the natives of Sigma Iota IV were attempting to make a great leap forward by throwing themselves feet first into imitating a society that had been outlined in book that to them seemed a blue print to the “cargo” they had seen accompanying the first earthmen they met, technology and abilities that would provide for worry free prosperity.
How does this apply to early 21st century American Conservatism? The Republican Party is now packed with under qualified ideologues who espouse an unrealistic image of a worry free past, in this case, the Go Go 1980’s. The images of John Frumm (a bastardization of “John From America”) and Prince Phillip have been replaced by an idealized, unrealistic image of Ronald Reagan. Like John Frumm, Ritual Reagan is a demi god who summoned “Cargo” (read: Worry free prosperity) through rituals that included sparring with the Russians, a somewhat narrow social view and an overemphasis on an extreme interpretation of “Christian” thought.
To one degree or another every single modern conservative is a member of a Reagan oriented Cargo Cult. The Cargo Cult mentality has threaded its way into every aspect of current Republican narrative.
The Cargo Cult Volcano God demands certain sacrifices be made lest it grow angry and erupt. Among other things, it demands ritual.
Repeated mawkish Ritualistic displays by Romney have so far done nothing to dispel the validity of the Cargo Cult Assertion.

Citizen Romney did everything he could to work the Cargo Cult crowd. As a result failure analysis has given way to willful ignorance on the right

Citizen Romney did everything he could to work the Cargo Cult crowd. As a result failure analysis has given way to willful ignorance on the right

During his chaotic and doomed 2012 campaign Romney seized upon every perceived advantage and this was no exception. It’s not a difficult role in its Ritualistic Form. There’s some passing physical resemblance, both coincidental and contrived between Romney and Reagan. Among these are their hair, approximate build and hypomanic personalities. Romney seemed to be smugly emitting what he seemingly thought was a subliminal puppet show where he played Ritualized Reagan. Pushing on the physical he layered on a veneer of the cold warrior aspect of Reagan by strapping on the coconut headphones of some sort of bamboo transmitter and sending pugilistic messages to the Russians, who were clearly NOT a threat to the United States in 2012. Another Ritual Reagan rain dance was over emphasizing the level of danger posed by Iran. While an outlaw nation and a sponsor of terrorism, the current sanctions and global shunning seem to be worth sticking worth for a while to most Americans who are leery of another American Ground War in an unstable part of the world.

I think in the last few weeks of the 2012 election Mitt Romney  became a true believer in his own Reagan-ness; operating with the Ritualized Reagan approach as a default position on everything. It was a Franken-Ronnie with none of the warmth and conviction of the original. The “Cargo” aka the Go Go 80’s, can only be delivered by putting the Ritualized Reagan, that is Mitt Romney, in the White House. He can then summon the great gleaming beasts from the sky that birth the great wooden eggs filled with the canned goods (aka-worry free prosperity).
This Shackle of Defeat for Romney was exploited. The Ritualized Reagan that he pantomimes doesn’t square with the real Reagan. Reagan was confronting a real threat from Soviet Russians. Reagan was a culture warrior, but only after being a patriotic American type who believed in some practicality, compromise and some tolerance. When Reagan spoke of Libya that country was run by an evil dictator since deceased in fantastic fashion due directly to initiatives taken by the Cargo Cults hated “Anti-Reagan”, President Obama, who realistically could be argued is a truer heir to Reagan’s positions on Libya by doing so. Ritual Reagan is at his weakest on Libya.
Despite a display of  unpresidential weakness best left behind in his bumbling and inept reactions to the 9-11 attacks in Libya, Romney revisited the issue at almost every opportunity. Was he doing this because his “Inner Reagan” simply knee jerks him into having to include comments about Libya into his rhetoric? It only hurt him. If someone has a better explanation for this obviously misguided attempt to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat on what any other candidate would have rightly moved on from please leave me a comment.
The “rank and file core base republicans’, (read: formerly disavowed extremists from the Wild Wild Allen West Wing of the party) show strong and prevalent evidence of Cargo Cult behavior in social media. They promoted Romney as a Pseudo Reagan “Mitt-siah” capable of summoning the all-important cargo planes. Romney’s one unquestioned credential, ruthless and unaccountable vulture capitalism, is a direct result of the unregulated excesses of the 1980’s and increases Romney’s credibilty as a worthy successor to  Reagan.  This is manifested best in his regulation hating approach to managing the economy. De-personalization and detachment from reality are evident in the Hoover era bootstrap “Rugged Individualism” that has become part of a negative feedback loop that convinces many Republicans they live in Bill Clinton’s proverbial “log cabin they built themselves”.

24 days after a huge election fail the Republicans STILL can’t figure out how they lost. The Romney Campaign, reduced to a one man show, continued for a couple of days after the defeat just so he could find a way to offend and denigrate people he had overlooked insulting earlier while he still had a modicum of relevance. Campaign staff also issued repeated out of touch statements that certainly seemed delusional to the point of strapping on coconut headphones. Take this as a sign that absolutely nothing has been learned through failure analysis. All indications are that many if not most Republican truly and strongly believe that if they just rain dance longer, faster and harder in preparation for the next election they can somehow avoid losing again in 2016. Their unrealistic Hypothesis-If they had just been more extreme, suppressed the vote more and passed more insane homophobic laws they are SURE they would have won instead of getting walloped by a 3 million votes margin in an Obama cakewalk.

Though some of the cult has sheered away out of fear of losing their seats these are mostly from Blue States and there is no sign of a massive shift to more pragmatic methods of winning elections on the part of rest of the Republican.

Now that Romney has gone from Mitts-siah to whipping boy Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham from Teabagistan jumped feet first into the Ritual Reagan role. Senator Kelly Ayote also tried to get in on this, but apparently if you’re a woman Ritual Reagan

The inept and polarizing self destructive Fox News pundit, Glenn Rice seducing  and MILF, Sarah Palin

The inept and polarizing self destructive Fox News pundit, Glenn Rice seducer and MILF, Sarah Palin

just doesn’t work. Possibly because of another Republican Cult behavior,the Cult of Domesticity, which dictates that women should be ‘kept in their place.” This means that the self hating women of the Republican party are merely tuned out as having ‘too many opinions’ and/or ‘speak a little too much of their minds.” Only Sarah Palin has had any success pretending to be Ronald Reagan. This has routinely blown up on her. When this happens she hides behind her children like they’re Human Shields, basically defaulting to the Cult of Domesticity to deflect criticism by appearing in her ridiculous gun toting Reindeer maiming “Mama Grizzly” mode where she’s beyond reproach.

The Cargo Cult will likely thrive for years to come. In fact it may outlast the GOP itself as the party has lost four of the last 5 elections.

40.728224 -73.794852

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Share on Tumblr
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Drone Wars- The Iranians Strike Back?

11 Sunday Nov 2012

Posted by therealmcteag in 1980's, Drone Warfare, International Politics, Iran, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Uncategorized

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

a taste of Armageddon, Attack of the Drones, bunker mentality, Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Captain Kirk, CNN, Domestic Surveillance, Drone use, Drone Wars, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Green Revolution, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincennes_incident, Iran, Iran attacks US Drone, Iran Oppression, MacDill Air Force Base, Predator drone, Star Trek, Star Trek 1967, Tehran, United States, United States Navy, US Drone, US Drone attacked, USS Enterprise, USS Vincennes Incident, War on Terror

DRONE WARS: THE IRANIANS STRIKE BACK?

Iran has engaged a U.S. Drone Reuters said on Friday. CNN Anchor Don Lemon (who hates Jonah Hill, BTW) described the attacks as occurring ‘earlier this month.” General James “Spider “Marks, (US Army, ret.) told Lemon that the attack was a huge fail and the Iranians were unable to hit the drone with anything. This prompts the question- is there a cooler nickname for a general (or a convict, or a Mafioso like Michael Imperioli in “Goodfella’s”) than ‘Spider’?

This should be no surprise when you consider the fact that, as far as we know at this point, most, if not all drones are subsonic and small. You would need to really be well armed, probably with ‘dumb’ weapons, to hit that sucker. It’s possible that Heat Seeker missiles aren’t all that effective against the somewhat stealthy drones, so we’re talking about executing a pretty damn perfect “gun run” and blowing the thing out of the sky with good old fashioned machine guns. Meanwhile I am not able to tell you if it’s possible to tell if the drone is unarmed before you attack. So you’re risking human to kill a robot. Seems a bad trade off. The Iranians clearly couldn’t care less about their pilots. One of them killed by our robot is probably the thing that will happen next, even if they have to dupe a guy into colliding with one. Let’s face the current Iranian Regime isn’t exactly known for its placement of high value on the lives of their people. In fact if the United States Navy’s interpretation of events is to be believed, they set up their own people to be killed.

the USS Vincennes

In July 1988 a telling incident occurred that, although now well into the rearview, show how ongoing and abiding the hate the Iranian Government has always had for the United States runs as well as the blatant disregard they have for their own citizens. Apparently they baited the United States into what would on the surface seem to be a blatant atrocity. The USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser, shot down what radar and the emitter on the target identified as an Iranian fighter jet coming right at a US Naval Task Force in International waters.

What the target really was turned out to be French made Airbus that had a full complement of innocent passengers, including women and kids. This, if true, would mean the USS Vincennes Incident was manufactured by Tehran just to perpetuate hatred against the United States. This is a wise strategy if you are cynical and have no conscience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincennes_incident

During World War 2 citizens of all targeted cities became pretty patriotic because they felt threatened by and outright hated the enemies who were bombing them. It was something so odd sociologists are still trying to figure out exactly why it happened. Those who launched the attacks were looking to terrorize and break the will of the populace’s they attacked. Unleashing thousands of dumb bombs indiscriminately on a city had a counter-intuitive but universal effect, uniting the people being bombed and redoubling their resolve and nationalism. Even people with oppressive, unpopular governments in places like Germany and Russia fell in line behind these unlovable regimes. Think of it as a sort of reverse “Stockholm Syndrome”. This is ALSO a good strategy for Tehran, there’s nothing like an outside threat to unite a populace through “Bunker Mentality”

The Iranian people SO want their current regime gone that there is no avoiding the conclusion that Tehran knows some hating on the Great Satan, which is possibly the coolest nickname for us ANY of our opponents ever have come up with, would buy them some time. Good luck. Only brutal repression keeps these psychos’s in control of their oppressed populace, who almost threw off the yoke in the so called “Green Revolution”, several years ago.

The Iranian action was described as the allegedly unarmed drone having been “targeted” with some sort of weapon by ‘war planes’. Probably a Russian made MiG Flogger, a French Mirage Fighter or even just an old US made F-4 Phantom, or, possibly, a small combat patrol made up of 2 or more of the preceding.

Games without frontiers, War without tears….

So as details keep emerging from the resinous soup that is the Iran-US relationship I am going to engage in some rank speculation.

Why NOT attack a drone if you’re Iran? Your never gonna kill an American. Worst case scenario, some guy at MacDill Air Force Base spits his Sprite all over the screen while he’s trying to eat his Jimmy-John’s Sub on the sly. What is a drone anyway? Well it’s an iPad connected to a model airplane and sometimes armed with missiles. The Iranians have shot at least one of these things down already if they are to be believed (not the safest bet). At any rate we have seen them show off some wreckage that was pretty convincing. I am not so sure they shot it down as much as the piece of crap probably crashed in a sandstorm or something.

A Taste of Armageddon

What we are really seeing is a move towards remote control warfare on a level only displayed by Skynet from Hollywood’s Terminator franchise. When will the first drone on drone engagement occur? Or; has that ALREADY happened? I would guess not but there’s no knowing for sure. Certainly we have completely sanitize war, at least as it is perceived by most Americans from the limited pictures coming back from places like Afghanistan. The footage is invariably damn near black and white if not infra-red green, so blood is not really visible when theses ‘targets’ get ‘droned’. In the most ideal cases selected for release seem to simply show the guys Toyota blowing up from a point of view that seems at least a quarter mile away at best. Poof! Bye-Bye Bad Man.

Reality has no frame of reference to where this is going, so I am forced to go with a 1967 episode of Star Trek called “A Taste of Armageddon”. The Enterprise forces contact on a planet where they have been at war with a solar neighbor for 500 years. The Enterprise crew marvel at the fact there is no sign of war whatsoever. This intensifies when the planet they are on is ‘attacked’. This is when Captain Kirk realizes the war was in fact a computer simulation and that the ‘casualties” were alive and well and eager as hell to jump into suicide booths so that the war would not turn “real”.

The fear was that war was a problem in itself, but the collateral aspects of war, beyond combat deaths, are even worse. Famine, plague, pestilence; all outside the equation. War was so surgical and precise and its cost so minimized that there was no need to end it. It became a fact of life. No one questioned it. NRA comparisons aside, is it possible we are so sanitizing war that there will be no point in seeking a lasting peace? Why negotiate when you can drone your problems out of existence with the ease of changing the channel.

Electric Eyes?

Oh yeah, you can bet this technology is being used domestically for a variety of reasons.

40.728224 -73.794852

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Share on Tumblr
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

David Petraeus Resignation Scandal- Did General Dave Date his Whacky Stalker???

10 Saturday Nov 2012

Posted by therealmcteag in 21st Century Political Movements, Benghazi Attacks., David Petraeus Resignation Scandal, Dystopia, Ronald Reagan, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

David Petraeus Resignation, David Petraeus Resignation Scandal, Director David Petraeus, espionage, FBI investigates CIA, General David Petraeus, Ian Fleming, Ian Flemming, James Bond, Pat Buchannan, Pat Buchannon, Paula Broadwell, Ronald Reagan, Skyfall

CIA WTF
The David Petraeus Resignation Scandal is perplexing for a lot of reasons. Right now the affair rumors are centered on Paula Broadwell, a pretty cougar-y brunette based on limited early pictures. The idea a career in espionage could be destroyed by having too much sex with too many women leaves one to ponder how Ian Flemming could have gotten it all so horribly wrong.
The General’s reputation is about to be kicked around quite a bit. Character issues will make him long for the privacy and respect he will get at the closed door Q&A’s with Congress about the disasterous 9-11 Benghazi Attack and its aftermath. By the time this is done you can count on David Petraeus getting it from both sides despite todays apparent gallantry, where he fell on his sword, for lack of a better term, and resigned because he was a bit too much of a philanderer for a guy who might just be susceptible to blackmail.

General Dave and his (soon to be ex?) wife

At the very least it evokes the most disturbing aspects of the excellent Clint Eastwood directed film “J. EDGAR” with Leonardo DiCaprio. Basically it shows the potential for a government agency potentially run by a delusional egomaniac to cause massive damage to the nation. The FBI had decades of misguided craziness under J. Edgar Hoover, who seems to have simply been a mental wreck and somewhat self-hating. This is actually a fact and the nation suffered greatly through side effects like McCarthyism and constantly connecting troublesome people with Communism to the point of the Red Scare.
It gets better. Here’s what the next few days will reveal-
Paula Broadwell is apparently some kind ex-military, self-styled journalist (Ok, I’m just as guilty) and delusional hero worshiper who wrote an EXTREMELY POORLY REGARDED book about the DP called “All In” (seriously, that’s the actual title), described by one reviewer as “fan fiction”. The excerpts I read really were extensive and I can attest to the fact that whatever it is I was reading was more a collection of words than a story.

the very do-able talentless writer Paula Broadwell.

Basically it was a depiction of David Petraeus as the only guy in the entire American Military who could ever do anything right. He was also a walking human anabolic steroid, making everyone else around him smarter! If anyone around him had a good idea, Dave had a super educated Vulcan idea that improved it.

Basically most reviews seem to regard the book as wasted opportunity to observe and report what was going on around a guy who was running two wars. It’s a great opportunity to date your stalker though. Dating your stalker is something I am also guilty of, but I was like 20, she was hot and I wasn’t in charge of two wars. Needless to say it was a messy break up. I am not sure if Broadwell was hacking into his e-mail because she was a jealous bitch off the rails or just a plain old spy, but apparently that’s the action that started things moving quickly. The CIA apparently bought in the FBI to run the investigation, which is stunning because it makes perfect sense. David Petraeus probably didn’t have all that much time to come clean on this and may have had a flip out ready stalker out there ready to lose it in the national press.
The elephant in the room is of course “What did the president know and when did he know it?” It’s a safe bet that Obama had a chance to have an inkling this may have been coming, if not knowing pretty much everything, or not. I would speculate that the most likely scenario is that this was going down but David Petraeus chose to wait a couple of days to save his bosses ass as well as the tattered shreds of his own tarnished legacy before he went to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with his letter of Resignation.
I think by Monday the view of David Petraeus could radically change. He may well be regarded as an ego maniac who cheated on his wife under the guise of having his life documented by his stalker. So basically the only person who loves David Petraeus as much as David Petraeus is this Paula Broadwell chick, who writes nongraphic novels about some guy she may or may not be doing.
The CIA seemed deeply concerned about what Petraeus seems to have been up to.

The biggest WTF of the whole thing – well, to me it’s fucking your stalker, which is somewhere between awesome and self-obsessed depending how hot she is and if you are dating her because you think she looks like you because you’re so damn taken with yourself.
The David Petraeus Resignation Scandal dropped late Friday in what the media mostly refers to as the News Dump Approach. Most people credit it to Pat Buchannan. Basically means you wait til everyone is off to enjoy their weekend to release bad news. The world was less hooked in back then when Pat was tooling for Ronald Reagan and there was barely cable TV. Now we have every newspaper ever available through our smart phones all the time. The best example would be most of America finding out the awesome news of the death of Osama bin Laden while watching the Mets play the Phillies on Sunday Night Baseball because someone in the park was looking at his phone at the right moment and started a chant.
Dumping bad news is no longer a mop up operation of killing off the truth by banking on the likelihood someone would miss that night’s half hour of nightly news and not see a paper til Monday. This is 2012 and the world stays at our fingertips…at least for as long as our cell phones hold a charge.

40.728224 -73.794852

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Share on Tumblr
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

2012 Presidential Debate- Will the Republican Cargo Cult play role in tonights second preisdential debate at Hofstra University?

16 Tuesday Oct 2012

Posted by therealmcteag in 1980's, 2012 presidential Debate, 21st Century Political Movements, A Piece of the Action, Benghazi Attacks., Cargo Cult, Dystopia, famous mormons, hofstra university, Libya, Mitt Romney, modern conservatism, new Guinea, Politics, President Barack Obama, Presidential debate, Republican Cargo Cult, revisionist reality, Right wing extremism, Ritualized Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Star Trek, The Tea party, Third Presidential debate, Uncategorized, willard romney

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

2012 Presidential Debate, 2012 third presidential debate, abandoned military bases, Barack Obama, Cargo Cult Republicans, Cargo Cults, john frumm, Mitt Romney, modern conservatism, New Guinea, Papua, price philip society, prince phillip society, Republican Cargo Cult, Republican nominee, Second 2012 Presidential Debate, third 2012 presidential debate, World War 2, World War Two, WWII

Image

Mitt Romney will do his best to portray a Ritualized version of Ronald Reagan tonight at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

Mitt Romney and the GOP Cargo Cult – By John McTeag, 10-16-12

Hempstead, NY- With hours to go before the second presidential debate for the 2012 General Election many in the media talk of the possible paths to victory open to President Obama and Republican Nominee Mitt Romney. Winning over women, projecting an ability to be in command of the current Great Recession, and just seeming presidential are major focuses of the “Paths” approach. Instead of “Paths to Victory” I am viewing tonight’s contest with an eye on a different facet of today’s debate analysis, I call it “The Shackles of Defeat.”
Known Shackles include the candidates individual records. These have been analyzed to death and back by traditional media, so we’ll leavethose alone.
A Shackle of Defeat is anything that reduces the individual candidate’s ability to nuance their approach or engage in espousing creative and possibly innovative policy overtures. The biggest and least discussed Shackle for either candidate stands against Romney, Cargo Cult Republicanism.
What are Cargo Cult Republicans? Cargo Cult Republicans are those whose behavior and beliefs have devolved into a quasi-religious mindset towards Modern American Conservatism revolving around the 1980’s and Ronald Reagan in an idealized, ritualized and unrealistic way. The influence of this aspect of modern American Conservatism is palpable yet there has been very little discussion of it.
The classic historical Cargo Cult refers to a quasi-religious phenomenon that arose on the isolated pacific islands used as bases by various militaries during the Second World War. The native islanders in places like Papua, New Guinea had not had much contact with the outside world. Their ways of viewing the day to day world included a good dose of the paranormal. If someone got sick, perhaps a curse had been put upon them. Flood? Famine? Perhaps the villagers aren’t living up to the standards of their pantheon of deities. A thumbnail description would be that they fed the Volcano to pacify the gods,

–Members of the John Frum cult in New Guinea imitating American Soldiers in their “ritual”

who were surely a bit crazy.
After the Second

World War began in the Pacific the lives of the native islanders were subject to massive culture shock. Literally overnight and literally out of the sky in the form of shiny silver airplanes as well as great iron beasts from the sea came the mid-20th century. None of the previous limited contacts with outsiders provided a frame of reference for what transpired on their islands, their very world, as emerged over the weeks following arrival of troops from both sides of the conflict. To these isolated natives the idea that an internal combustion engine would spin gears and operate pistons to spin a propeller to power a vehicle capable of carrying goods or people was inconceivable. Imagine and bringing a flashlight, cigarette lighter and .9mm pistol via time traveling helicopter to Dark Ages Europe to get any sort of grip on this.
To the natives of islands such as those of New Guinea the planes were not machines but great beasts akin to hollow metal dragons. They were summoned from the sky by rituals at a holy temple, or as we would call it, a Military Airfield. The “rituals” were the day to day operations of the base. Waiving in incoming planes with flags and lighting runways. Groups of identically clad men marching in formation, sometimes firing their bang sticks!!

The Gangster Planet featured in the Original Star Trek Episode “A Piece of the Action” is an illustration of a classic “Cargo Cult”. One of the shows most popular episodes and most Americans only glimpse at Cargo Cults

In the wake of the Second World War these isolated bases were mostly abandoned and life, for the natives, returned to ‘normal’. But it was a ‘New Normal’. They had become accustomed to the gleaming aluminum dragons regularly summoned by the clergy (read: US Navy Sea Bees) with the sacred relics (read: radios, landing lights and parades). No longer were the great beasts from the air and sea disgorging the cargo they desired. Gone was the supply of canned goods, textiles and the giant crates that had seemed like enormous wooden eggs that birthed the coveted “cargo”.
In a turn of events still being studied by sociologists and historians, the Cargo Cults emerged. The natives formed into cults of sorts and imitated in ritualistic fashion the actions of the men who had summoned the great beats and cargo from the sky. Coconuts were fashioned into radio headsets, bamboo control towers were created. Uniformly dressed men marched in ritual manners similar to the military drills they had seen under the mistaken belief that by simply doing so they themselves would please the gods of the sky and bring down the shiny metal beasts filled with goodies. These beliefs were personified in the form of an image of an American World War 2 Sailor, frequently portrayed as African American, known as “John Frumm”. Think of him as a sort of Santa-Jesus type. British occupied areas developed similar cults based on an idealized perception of Prince Phillip.
The John Frumm Movement and Prince Phillip Societies still exist today in New Guinea. Despite the fact that these places slowly became less isolated and were slowly but steadily overtaken by rational explanations of the outside world some still cling to the Cargo Cult beliefs. In the case of the Prince Phillip society egotistical detachment from reality is shared by the object of their affection. Prince Phillip perhaps unwittingly endorses the cult’s beliefs by sending gifts and autographs. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that what is really needed, by the prince and his worshipers, is some help handling a brutal but needed dose of reality. This need also applies to early 21st Century Tea party Republicans. Ritualized Reaganistic Worldview has become a meme accepted by most Republicans, albeit for the most part unknowingly.
The most familiar Cargo Cult known to Americans in popular culture would be the “Gangster Planet” in the famous episode of Star Trek “A Piece of the Action”, where an isolated planet had been exposed to 23rd century technology by earlier space travelers. When the Enterprise arrives a generation later they find an entire culture influenced by a book the first contactor’s left behind about 1920’s gangster culture in places like Chicago and New York. By looking, dressing and acting like the gangsters they read about the natives of Sigma Iota IV were attempting to make a great leap forward by throwing themselves feet first into imitating a society that had been outlined in book that to them seemed a blue print to the “cargo” they had seen accompanying the first earthmen they met, technology and abilities that would provide for worry free prosperity.
How does this apply to early 21st century American Conservatism? The Republican Party is now packed with under qualified ideologues, who espouse an unrealistic image of a worry free past, in this case, the Go Go 1980’s. The images of John Frumm (a bastardization of “John From America”) and Prince Phillip have been replaced by an idealized, unrealistic image of Ronald Reagan. Like John Frumm, Ritual Reagan is a demi god who summoned “Cargo” (read: Worry free prosperity) through rituals that included sparring with the Russians, a somewhat narrow social view and an overemphasis on an extreme interpretation of “Christian” thought.
To one degree or another every single modern conservative is a member of a Reagan oriented Cargo Cult. The Cargo Cult mentality has threaded its way into every aspect of current Republican narrative.
The Cargo Cult Volcano God demands certain sacrifices be made lest it grow angry and erupt. Among other things, it demands ritual.
Repeated mawkish Ritualistic displays by Romney have so far done nothing to dispel the validity of the Caro Cult Assertion.
Romney seizes upon every perceived advantage and this is no exception. It’s not a difficult role in its Ritualistic Form. There’s some passing physical resemblance, both coincidental and contrived between Romney and Reagan. Among these are their hair, approximate build and hypomanic personalities. Romney seems to be smugly emitting what he seemingly thinks is a subliminal puppet show where he plays Ritualized Reagan. Pushing on the physical he layers on a veneer of the cold warrior aspect of Reagan by strapping on the coconut headphones of some sort of bamboo transmitter and sending pugilistic messages to the Russians, who are clearly not a threat to the United States in 2012. Another Ritual Reagan rain dance is over emphasizing the level of danger posed by Iran. While an outlaw nation and a sponsor of terrorism, the current sanctions and global shunning seem to be worth sticking worth for a while to most Americans who are leery of another American Ground War in an unstable part of the world.

bamboo and straw plane built as an idol by the John Frum Movement

A replica Second World War plane used in John Frum Movements rituals. Is the GOP Elephant now an equivalent Trojan Horse of Willful Blindness?

I think in the last few weeks Mitt Romney has become a true believer in his own Reagan-ness.He may well be operating with the Ritualized Reagan approach as a default position on everything. It’s a Franken-Ronnie with none of the warmth and conviction of the original. The “Cargo” aka the Go Go 80’s, can only be delivered by making the Ritualized Reagan, that is Mitt Romney, in the White House. He can then summon the great gleaming beasts from the sky that birth the great wooden eggs filled with the canned goods (aka-worry free prosperity).
This Shackle of Defeat for Romney is one that can be exploited. The Ritualized Reagan that he pantomimes doesn’t square with the real Reagan. Reagan was confronting a real threat from Soviet Russians. Reagan was a culture warrior, but only after being a patriotic America type who believed in some practicality and some tolerance. When Reagan spoke of Libya that country was run by an evil dictator since deceased in fantastic fashion due directly to initiatives taken by the Cargo Cults hated “Anti-Reagan”, President Obama, who realistically could be argued is a truer heir to Reagan’s positions on Libya by doing so. Ritual Reagan is at his weakest on Libya.
Despite a display of unpresidential weakness best left behind in his bumbling and inept reactions to the 9-11 attacks in Libya, Romney revisits the issue at every opportunity. Is he doing this because his “Inner Reagan” simply knee jerks him into having to include comments about Libya into his rhetoric? It can only hurt him. If someone has a better explanation for this obviously misguided attempt to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat on what any other candidate would have rightly moved on from please leave me a comment.
The “rank and file core base republicans’, (read: formerly disavowed extremists from the Wild Wild Allen West Wing of the party) show strong and prevalent evidence of Cargo Cult behavior in social media. They promote Romney as a Pseudo Reagan “Mitt-siah” who is waving in the all-important cargo planes. His one unquestioned credential, ruthless and unaccountable vulture capitalism is a direct result of the unregulated excesses of the 1980’s. This is manifested best in his regulation hating approach to managing the economy. De-personalization and detachment from reality are evident in the Hoover era bootstrap “Rugged Individualism” that has become part of a negative feedback loop that convinces many Republicans they live in Bill Clinton’s proverbial “log cabin they built themselves”.
On the economy Ritual Reagan Romney may have a perceived edge, but this can be unmasked. Obama can paint Romney as a Non Reagan who merely benefitted from then effective but now outdated policies and a lack of regulation that was appalling. For supporters of the president the “Path to Victory” may well be-How well can Obama exploit and secure this Shackle of Defeat to Romney? The dead corpse of Ritual Reagan will be a great impediment should Obama show it for the farcical joke that it is. This will be a tough task for Obama but it is do-able. This is, of course, providing that the Obama Campaign has become aware of the existence of the Cargo Cult Shackle of Defeat and opts to exploit it.

Third Debate Update- The Cargo Cults most likely Guises–

In the wake of the strong performance of Barack Obama in the second debate look for Mitt Romney to do some serious Cargo Cult Ritual. The third and final debate features Foreign Policy, an area where Romney is justifiably considered to be weak. His best bet and most likely tactic is bellicose saber rattling. In Particular he will try to focus on Egypt, the Israeli-Palestinian situation, China, Iran and of course, Libya. He will likely go with a straight Reagan foreign policy approach. Libya is a key aspect of Reagan’s presidency and a situation that still remains volatile. There are obvious ways Romney can and most likely WILL connect these situations to the 1980’s and Ronald Reagan.

No respect will be paid by Romney to the slain ambassador, he will be portrayed as a victim of Obama’s foreign policy and not as a Patriot who was murdered by al Qaeda type terrorists.

Romney need not show an overall mastery of the world situation, just a tough talking schematic of his ideas. He will bring the argument home as often as possible.

Providing anyone skips Monday Night Football to watch the debate- Advantage Obama.

40.728224 -73.794852

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Email
  • Print
  • Share on Tumblr
  • WhatsApp

Like this:

Like Loading...

Recent Posts

  • Trump’s Many 9-11 Lies
  • Star Trek – The Motion Picture -Why Is It So Bad ?
  • The Dopes Live 6-22-19 at Sonic Solstice Indie Music Fest
  • Secretive “Doctor” Fredric Cogan – UNPROFESSIONAL, ARROGANT AND HAS COVERED HIS TRACKS ONLINE
  • Trump Probably Doesn’t Actually ‘Sleep’
  • How Trump Avoids Doing Any Work
  • Trump UK Visit – Was George Washington Simply Wrong?
  • Here’s What Robert Mueller Said
  • Mueller Speaks Out
  • Cap’n Kirk Douglas Reacts to Black Sabbath Comparison and Review of Hundred Watt Heart Record Release Show
  • Trump’s Sick Joke – Early Release for ‘American Taliban’ John Walker-Lindh
  • I Survived The Attack of the Bed Bugs and You Can Too! NYC Edition

Archives

Categories

  • "Forest Management"
  • #AOC
  • #AOC Townhall
  • #MeToo Movement
  • #nfl
  • #toc
  • 12-12-12 Concert
  • 1980's
  • 1st hand accounts of spree killers
  • 2012 Election Violence
  • 2012 presidential Debate
  • 2013 AFC Championship Game
  • 2014
  • 2016 Presidential Hopefuls
  • 2016 US Presidential Election
  • 2018 Midterm Election hack
  • 2018 midterm election predictions
  • 2020 Democrats
  • 2020 election
  • 21st century humor
  • 21st Century Political Movements
  • 21st century religious movements
  • 21st century right wing political fails
  • 21st Century spree killers
  • 25th Amendment
  • 2nd Amendment
  • 3 Real Reasons To Believe NRA Activist Maria Butina IS a Kremlin Spy
  • 4:20
  • 7 Shot in DC Navy Yard
  • 9-11 Attacks
  • A Piece of the Action
  • aaron alexis
  • Aaron Alexis gun
  • aaron Alexis Weapon
  • Adam Lanza
  • Addiction
  • ADOPTION
  • Adoption Fails
  • adoption search
  • advice for adopted people
  • Advice for the Adopted
  • Afghan Massacre
  • Afghanistan
  • Al Qaeda
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Alexander Alexis
  • Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
  • All the Presidents Henchmen
  • America vs Rome
  • America's Fastest Growing Ethnicity – Native American
  • America's first spree killer
  • America's First Spree Killing
  • America's Top 3 Most Useless Wars
  • American Dad
  • American military history
  • American Taliban
  • Ancestors
  • Ancestry,
  • Ancient History
  • Ancient Rome
  • Annoying Road signs
  • Anti Drug Public Service Announcements
  • ar-15
  • Art of the Deal Cowriter's Theory on Trump's Breakdown Holds Up
  • Assault Weapons Ban
  • Asshgoles From Long Island
  • Assholes From Long Island
  • Atheism
  • Atheist Easter
  • atheist passion of the christ
  • AWB
  • Bales Massacre Case
  • Baltimore Ravens
  • Beatles Song Parody
  • Bed Bug Survival Tips
  • Bed Bugs
  • Behind the Curve
  • benefits of adoption
  • Benghazi Attacks.
  • Bill O'Riley booed
  • Bizarre SOTU CLaims
  • black lives matter
  • Black Sabbath
  • ble Mass Murderers
  • Boston Bombing
  • Boston Bombings
  • boston manhunt
  • boston marathon bombing
  • Boston Marathon Bombings and Manhunt
  • Boston Terror
  • Brad;ey Manning
  • Bradley Manning is innocent
  • bradly Manning hero
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Bullying
  • Burning man
  • Burning man 2013
  • burning man 2013 cargo cult theme
  • burning man cargo cult theme
  • BUT IVANKA'S EMAILS!!!!
  • Can Donald Trump Read?
  • Can Trump Read?
  • Cargo Cult
  • Cargo Cult Republican's
  • Cargo Cults
  • Carjacking
  • Caveman Kavanaugh will Fail to make SCOTUS AND Lose His Job
  • Caveman Kavanaugh will Fail to make SCOTUS AND Lose His Job (Part 2)
  • Chechen rebels
  • chechnia
  • Chris Christie
  • Christian Slater Ballot
  • Christopher Dorner Psych profile
  • chuck todd
  • City Living
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change Evidence
  • Coalition of the Willing
  • Cobra Kai No Spoiler Review
  • Cold War 2
  • Colin Ferguson
  • Conspiracy theory
  • cop killers
  • Corrupt Law Schools
  • Crime
  • Crime and Justice
  • Criminal Justice
  • Crooked Ivanka
  • Crossroads GPS
  • Cursed sports teams
  • Cyber Espionage
  • David Petraeus Resignation Scandal
  • Dayton Mass Shooting
  • Dead pool candidates
  • dealey plaza
  • death penalty for drug dealers
  • Dedicated Servants of Darkness
  • Desert Storm
  • Development Hell
  • Did Wayne LaPierre go to Vietnam
  • Did Wayne LaPierre Serve in Military?
  • dirty cops
  • disgraced Marines
  • Django Dorner
  • Django Dorner psych profile
  • dley manning traitor
  • DNA Test
  • DNA Test Testimonial
  • DNA Tests
  • Domestic spying
  • Domestic Terror
  • Domestic Terrorism
  • Domestic Terrorists
  • Domestic violence
  • Don't See Star Wars Episode 8
  • Don't Trust Sketchy Tulsi Gabbard
  • donald trump
  • Dorner 'single shot'
  • Dorner 1-13-13
  • Double Homicide
  • DR Fredric Cogan
  • Drone Warfare
  • Drug Enforcement Agency
  • drug laws
  • Dystopia
  • Ed Reed
  • Edward Snowden
  • Effects of Rome on America
  • El Paso Massacre
  • Elizabeth Warren DNA
  • Elizabeth Warren Official Rollout Review
  • Embarrassing Long Islanders
  • everyday hero's
  • facebook user trends
  • failed presidents
  • failed war on drugs
  • Family Guy
  • family guy social impact
  • famous cargo cults
  • Famous Dead Long Islanders
  • famous mormons
  • Famous Murderers
  • Famous Satanists
  • Famous Spree Killings
  • FBI
  • FBI Raid
  • Fema trailers in New York
  • first hand account of adoption
  • Florida ballots
  • For Profit Law Schools
  • Fort Hood Shooter
  • Fox News Lies
  • Gabby Giffords shooting
  • General George S Patton
  • General Mike Flynn
  • General Mike Flynn Seeks Immunity
  • Geological Effects of Hurricane Sandy
  • George HW Bush Dead
  • George HW Bush Remembered
  • George Washington Bridge Scandal
  • George Zimmerman
  • George Zimmerman Murder Trail
  • GeorgeHW Bush Improving
  • Gianaris mobiel office
  • Gianaris Townhall
  • Gladiator Movie
  • Glenn Beck
  • Global Politics
  • Global Warming
  • Gods favorite team
  • GOP CONVENTION 2016
  • GOP CONVENTION LIVE BLOG
  • GOP Cult
  • GOP FAILS
  • GOP sucks
  • Governor Rick Scott
  • Governor Skeletor
  • Great Live Acts
  • grover norquist
  • Gun Control
  • gun crime
  • guns in america
  • Guns In Schools
  • habits of right wing facebook users
  • Hamid karzai
  • Hamid Karzai thief
  • Han Solo Blaster
  • handgun crime
  • handgun debate
  • Handgun laws
  • Hardball with Chris Matthews
  • Hate Crimes
  • hilary
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Hilllary Clinton
  • hire more cops
  • Historical Commentary
  • historical distortions
  • History of the Purple Heart
  • hofstra university
  • Houston Texans lose to Patriots
  • Houston we have a problem
  • How the Replacements "Don't Tell a Soul" Changed Me Forever
  • How Trump Avoids Work
  • Humor
  • Hundred Watt Heart
  • Hurricane Florence
  • Hurricane Maria
  • Hurricane Maria Response,
  • Hurricane Sandy
  • Hurricane Sandy Recovery
  • i met a spree killer
  • ibragim todashev
  • ibrahim todashev
  • Id YouTube Red worth it?
  • Illegal Immigration
  • Incriprions on Aaron Alexis Gun
  • Inexplicable murders
  • Infamous New York City Criminals
  • Inhumane Treatment of Bradley Manning
  • Insane Star Trek Captains
  • International Politics
  • Internet
  • Iran
  • Iran Contra Scandal
  • Irish American History
  • Is Donald Trump Illiterate
  • Is Scott Pruitt Maybe Just Mentally Ill?
  • is YouTube Red worth it?
  • Islamaphhobia
  • Jamal Kashoggi Murder
  • Jets QB
  • Jill Stein
  • jj abrams
  • Joe Biden
  • john bolton
  • John Bolton Could be Fired Before He Officially Starts
  • John Frumm
  • John Walker Lindh
  • John Walker Lindh Release
  • Jonathon Martin Detained by LAPD
  • JRR TOLKIEN
  • just say no
  • justice for bradley manning
  • Kandahar Massacre
  • karl rove
  • Katy Perry Convent
  • Katy Perry Kills a Nun
  • Kavanaugh Approval Hearing
  • kavanaugh hearing
  • Kavanaugh Predictions
  • Kelley sisters
  • Kony
  • Legal Education
  • legal pot
  • legal weed
  • Legalize it
  • Libertarian drug policy
  • Libya
  • Lindsay Lohan Jailbird
  • LIRR Gunman
  • live blog of nemo from New YOrk City
  • Live Music
  • Long Island celebrities
  • Long Island Criminals
  • Long Island Post Sandy
  • Long Island Power Authority
  • Long Island Rail Road Massacre
  • Long Island Railroad Massacre
  • Long Island Trivia
  • mad captains of star trek
  • Mafia Cops
  • MAGABomber
  • magnum pi 2018
  • magnum PI fan review 2018
  • Major Hasan
  • Marathon Bombiongs 2013
  • maria butina
  • Maria Butina American Boyfriend
  • Maria Butina NRA
  • Maria Butina's "Boyfriend" Paul Allen Erickson AKA US Person 1
  • marijuana legilization
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Mass Culture phenomena
  • Mass Murderers
  • mass murders
  • Mayor Bloomberg gun policy
  • Mayor Michael Bloomburg
  • medical marijuana
  • Mediocre presidents
  • Meeting a mass murderer
  • meeting a spree killer
  • Mental Health
  • messages on navy yard shooters gun.
  • Methamphetamine
  • mexican drug violence
  • mexican drug war death toll
  • michael Bloomberg
  • Mike Flynn
  • military atrocities
  • Military History
  • Mitt Romney
  • modern conservatism
  • Modern Conservatives
  • Money Saving Ways to Survive Bed Bugs
  • Mormon politiciasns
  • Mr Putin Goes to Washington
  • Mueller Probe
  • mueller report
  • multiple victim homicides
  • Murderer George Zimmerman
  • Music
  • My ELF Weapon
  • My Trip to AOC Mobile Office
  • My Wordpress Monetization Experience
  • nancy reagan just say no
  • National Security
  • Native American DNA
  • NATO
  • Navy Yard Shooter
  • Nazism
  • Need for More Well trained Cops
  • New Assault Weapons Ban
  • New England Patriots
  • new Guinea
  • New Jersey Politics
  • New NRA President Oliver North, disgraced Marine and Illegal weapns salesman
  • New World Order
  • New Years Resolution 2018
  • New York Congressional District 14
  • New York Jets
  • New York State Senator Michael Gianaris
  • Newtown Shootings
  • NFL Owners
  • NFL Playoffs 2013
  • nikki haley
  • NORMAL
  • Not My President
  • notable cargo cults
  • Notable Crimnals
  • Notable Draft Dodgers
  • Notable draft Dogers
  • notable liberals
  • Notable Satanists
  • Notable serial killers
  • Notable Spree Killers
  • Notable Traitors
  • NRA
  • NRA Dana Loesch
  • NRA Dana Loesch Hate-Monger
  • NRA RESPONDS TO OBAMA
  • NRA Treason
  • NSA scandal
  • Nuns vs Katy Perry
  • NYPD
  • Obama at Newton Ct
  • Obama Cries
  • Obama Speaks to survivors of Sandy Hook Massacre
  • OJ simpson FOX interview
  • OJ Simpson Guilty AND Framed
  • on Bomber Linked to Triple Homicide
  • on drugs
  • One Bigly Head Scratcher from Trump's Bizarre, Dark and Rambling State of the Union
  • Organized Crime
  • Outspoken Trump & Putin Critic Anthony Bourdain dies Mysteriously in France
  • ozzy osbourne
  • Paul Whelan Biography
  • Paul Whelan court-martial
  • Paul Whelan Marine career
  • Petraeus Scandal
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman Death
  • Pictures of Tamerlan Tsarnaev Dead
  • pittsburgh synagogue shooting
  • plus 40 years
  • Police Cover Up
  • police kill gunman (video)
  • police use of force debate
  • Political Cargo Cults
  • political extremism
  • Political Opinion
  • Political Satire
  • Politics
  • Politivians bound for Hell
  • pot legal
  • pot legal in Colorado
  • Pot legal in Denver
  • pot legal in seattle
  • pot legal in washington
  • pot legal in Washington State
  • Pot legalization
  • Predicting Putin
  • President Barack Obama
  • President Elect Trump Sucks
  • Presidential Approval Numbers
  • Presidential debate
  • presidents who sold souls
  • pressure cooker bomb
  • Prince Phillip Society
  • PRISM
  • Private Bradley Manning
  • Professional Police
  • Psychic Predictions
  • Psychological Espionage
  • Psychological Warfare Operations
  • Punk Rock band names
  • PUNK'D – The Misleading Barr Letter
  • Putin
  • Putin is a dick
  • Quack Doctors of New York
  • Race and Justice in America
  • Race in America Today 2017
  • Race relations
  • Rachel Maddow
  • Rachel Maddow Show
  • Racially motivated violence
  • Ravens v Pats
  • Ravens verse Patriots
  • Ray Lewis
  • Real Life Horror Stories
  • recreational marijuana
  • Recreational pot use
  • Reefer madness
  • Religion
  • Remembering George HW Bush
  • Rep Joe Crowley
  • Republican Cargo Cult
  • Republican Dirty tricks
  • Republican Distortions
  • Republican Fails
  • Republican history
  • Republican History lesson
  • Republican insanity
  • Republican Lies
  • republicans view of rome
  • Resist
  • Reuters news crew massascre
  • Rev Al Sharpton
  • Reverse Racism
  • revisionist reality
  • Rex Ryan is an idiot
  • Rick Scott is a dick
  • Right Wing Conservatism
  • Right wing extremism
  • Ritualized Reagan
  • Robert Bales
  • Robert Kraft
  • Robert Mueller Speaks
  • Romasn Empire vs GOP
  • Rome Legal System
  • Ron Paul
  • Ronald Reagan
  • roy moore
  • Rush Limbaugh is a fat asshole
  • Russell Crowe
  • Russia NRA Connection
  • Russian Adoption ban
  • Russian Election Hack 2016
  • Russian Human Rights Violations
  • Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bad Day of Lying About the #MAGABomber and Synagogue Massacre
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders Lies
  • science fiction
  • Scot Peterson – The Good Guy With a Gun Who Wouldn't Help at Stoneman-Douglas High School
  • SCOTUS Approval Hearing
  • searching out adoption
  • Second Amendment
  • second presidential debate
  • secular holidays
  • Senator Bob Corker
  • Serial Killers
  • Seth MacFarlane
  • Sgt Robert Bales
  • sham law schools
  • Sham Schools
  • So What's the Deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American Heritage?
  • Social Media
  • Sociology
  • Solo Movie No Spoiler Fan Review
  • Southern Border Wall
  • sports
  • Spree Killers
  • spree killings
  • Spree Shooters
  • SSgt Robert Bales
  • stand your ground
  • Stand your Ground law fail
  • Star Trek
  • Star trek a piece of the action
  • Star Trek Discovery
  • Star Trek Discovery Fan Review
  • Star Trek Discovery Fan Revview
  • Star Trek Discovery Season 1
  • Star Trek Discovery Season 2
  • Star Trek Movies
  • Star Trek the doomsday machine
  • Star Trek The Motion Picture- Why its So Bad
  • Star Trek the Original Series
  • Star Trek the Original Series Episode Analysis
  • Star trek TOS
  • Star Wars Episode 8
  • Star Wars Solo Movie Predictions
  • Star Wars Weapons
  • star wars,
  • Star Wars: Episode 7, The Force Awakens Reviews and analysis
  • State of the Union
  • State of the Union Reactions 2019
  • Stephen Baldwin
  • Stephen Miller
  • steve bannon
  • Steven baldwin douchebag
  • Student Loan forgiveness
  • Super Bowl XLVII
  • Super Bowl XLVIII
  • Super Storm Nemo
  • Super Storm Nemo Hits New York City
  • Superstorm Nemo
  • Supreme Court Nomimtions
  • Suspected Russian Assets
  • Sympathy for the Donald
  • t legal in Denver
  • Tea baggers
  • Tea Party
  • tea party fail
  • Tea Party Fanatics
  • Tea Party Hate Group
  • Tea Party Liars
  • Tea Party Schism
  • Ted Nugent State of the Union
  • Terrorism
  • th to citizenship
  • The 1990's
  • The Atomic Bomb
  • The Beatles
  • The Big Problem with the Magnum PI Re-Boot
  • The Continuing Horror of Sarah Huckabee Sanders – Liar for Trump
  • the devil
  • the devils favorite team
  • The Flat Earthers
  • The Hate-Watcher's Guide to Disney's Star Wars Fails; Episode 1- Uncool Weapons
  • The Last Jedi
  • the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell
  • The Mob
  • The New York City Mafia
  • The NRA Den of Treason – Traitors for Hire
  • The President Show
  • The Real Problem with a Border Wall
  • The Rise of the Alt-Right
  • The Single Biggest Flaw Killing Star Trek Discovery
  • The Space Force Farce
  • The Tea party
  • The Tea party sucks
  • The Treason of the Green Party
  • The Trump Adhocracy
  • The Year in Trump
  • the3re is notea party
  • there is no tea party
  • Third Presidential debate
  • This Year in Trump
  • Those crazy romans
  • Through the past darkly
  • Tier 4 law schools
  • Tier IV Law Schools
  • Tim Tebow
  • timothy mcveigh
  • Todashev
  • TOLKIEN MOVIE NON SPOILER REVIEW
  • Tolkien Movie Reaction
  • Tom Brady
  • Tom Brady Passing stats
  • Tom Brady Sets Records
  • TOm Brady Sucks
  • Trayvon Martin
  • Trayvon Martin murder
  • triple murder
  • True Crime
  • trump
  • Trump 2018 year in review
  • Trump 2020
  • Trump 9-11 2018
  • Trump Ad-hoc Governing
  • Trump Administration Firings
  • Trump and 'Patton'; How the Misunderstanding of a Movie is shaping our Future
  • Trump and Patton
  • Trump Approval Rating Explained
  • Trump Corruption
  • Trump crime family
  • Trump Downfall
  • Trump Fake Weather Map
  • Trump GIVES soldiers MAGA hats
  • Trump Godfather Analogy
  • Trump Hurricane Florence
  • Trump Hurricane Maria
  • Trump in 2019
  • Trump Is Sonny, Fredo and Connie Corleone Rolled into One
  • Trump Mental Health
  • Trump Military Policy
  • Trump Polls
  • Trump Probably Doesn't 'Sleep'
  • Trump Probably Really IS Snorting Adderall
  • Trump Putin
  • Trump Releases Violent Jihadist Early
  • Trump Russia
  • Trump Russia Break
  • trump russia collusion
  • Trump Shutdown
  • Trump sleep deprived
  • Trump the Typecast Tyrant
  • Trump Theme band names
  • Trump Treason
  • Trump Treason Summit Fallout
  • Trump UK Visit
  • Trump Unadvised
  • Trump vs Ihan Omar
  • Trump White House Chaos
  • Trump White House Short Handed
  • Trump White House Staff
  • Trump Will Nullify the Midterm Elections if They Don't Go his Way
  • Trump's 2018 in Review
  • Trump's 9-11 Lies
  • Trump's Bizarre, Not Good, Self Contradicting State of the Union
  • Trump's Clueless, Inappropriate 9-11 Keeps Getting Worse
  • Trump's Failure to Fulfill Oath of Office
  • trump's horrific 2018
  • Trump's Kremlin Mission
  • Trump's Moon, PA Death Rant
  • Trump's Toxic Personality
  • Trump's Very Bad, Chaotic, Hurricane Florence Address About Hurricane Maria
  • Trump-Reagan Republican Cargo Cult
  • Trumps Mobster-Like Leadership Style
  • Truthers
  • Truthing
  • Tsarnaev
  • Tsarnaev Autopsy Images
  • tsarnaev brothers
  • Tsarnaev Dead Image
  • ug laws
  • Uncategorized
  • United Nations
  • unsealing adoption records
  • Urban Survival on a Budget
  • US Atrocities in Afghanistan
  • US Mexico Border
  • US Military Atrocities
  • us military blunders
  • US Military Justice
  • US Politics
  • US Withdrawal from Afghjanistan
  • Violent Cartoons
  • Violent Jihad
  • Vladimir Putin
  • vOTER SUPRESSION FLORIDA
  • War in Afghanistan
  • War on Christmas
  • War on Drugs
  • Washington Navy Yard Shooting
  • Wayne LaPierre Draft
  • Wayne LaPierre Draft Dodger
  • Wayne LaPierre taken to task
  • Wayne LaPierre testifies before Congress
  • Wayne LaPierre Vietnam
  • Weather Porn
  • Welcome to (maybe) America's LAST EVER ELECTION
  • Welcome to the Lowest, Most Disgraceful Day in American History
  • Well Known Spree Killers
  • what does my ELF weapon mean?
  • What the Fuck is Palantir?
  • White House Daily Press Briefing
  • White House Lies
  • White House shorthanded
  • White Privilege in Justice System
  • Who is the REAL Paul Whelan?
  • who the fuck is colion noir?
  • Whow Was America's Least Popular President Ever?
  • Why I Hate Sarah Huckabee Sanders (and hope she goes to jail)
  • Why I'm Seeing The Solo Movie and you should too
  • Why Star Wars Movies Keep Getting Worse
  • Willard "Mitt" Romney
  • willard romney
  • WIlliam Barr Senate Hearing
  • William Shatner
  • Winter Storm 2014 New York City
  • Winter storm Pax
  • Women of Star Trek
  • Wordpress Monetization Fiasco
  • workplace violence
  • World Politics
  • World War Pacific
  • World War Two
  • worst people in the world
  • Wounded Warriors
  • WW II
  • xican drug violence
  • YouTube Hoaxes
  • YouTube Red Cobra Kai Review
  • YouTube Red Review

https://therealmcteag.com/

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Blog at WordPress.com.

Cancel
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
%d bloggers like this: