I suppose we should all be grateful that the Richmond gun rally concluded in total cringe and zero carnage, but still I’m rather troubled. Some of it was halfway amusing, such as Alex Jones doing his jackass routine atop an APC. Other stuff was downright nauseating like the Homo-Gadsden flag, which I had no idea was a thing up until that point. I’m sure we’ll see the license plate later this year. Many horrors await us, that’s the only thing in life I understand to a certainty.
What really burned at me was the stuff we all knew was coming: Dems are the real racists, KKK governor, based Blacks with guns, etc. Always there is the “Hitler also banned guns” (no he didn’t) retort that completely encapsulates the pathetic stupidity of mainstream conservatism. But, here’s who truly pissed me off: The Fake Commandos.
Could anyone have larped as something more stupid? If they’d donned Power Rangers uniforms to brandish their AR-15s, I would’ve had more respect because at least then one could chuckle at their sense of humor. How do these people take themselves seriously when they dress like characters out of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon?
What really irks me is the camera mounts on their special forces helmets. WTF do you need that for?!! When you storm the compound of the next Osama Bin Laden? Nobody cares about your footage at the shooting range. YouTube automatically bans that stuff now anyways.
The impression that they want to give is that they just finished up a contract from Blackwater, when in reality, they simply went through the drive through at Burger King. It’s a pretentious nerd costume and everybody knows it. The one advantage it carries is that the media can’t paint them as potential domestic terrorists because nobody takes them seriously.
You know what scares shitlib people? A polo shirt, khakis, and a furtive smile, sported by a youthful white man with a healthy physique. A man who keeps his mouth closed when he’s photographed. Somebody who lurks undetected, his evil simmering underneath the surface. A masculine testosterone level maintained. The malice once vanquished that rises anew. He could be anywhere, the true villain of The Current Age. That’s who instills paranoia.
It makes sense that the fake commando force took center stage at a rally that accomplished absolutely nothing but reminding us that conservatism is about placating morons with muh freedom that doesn’t exist. Threaten to confiscate their 401(k)s and they’ll show up at a police station to handover their firearms in a heartbeat. Start hitting sheriffs with felony charges and the sanctuary counties evaporate. These aren’t rebels and there is no rebellion.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
The polo shirt and khaki circus led to the complete collapse of the alt-right. It didn’t bring anyone to our side, if anything it drove people away and we are pretty thin on people as it is.
I could have done without the guys in the tacticool gear but at least they showed up in real life to do something, even if it doesn’t ultimately make a difference. Crapping all over 25,000 mostly white guys because of a couple of flags you didn’t like and a few guys in goofy outfits is counter-productive and dumb. By all means work out and don’t do anything overtly dumb but at some point we have to move past the hiding behind anonymity and starting to do stuff in the real world. We won’t win this country back and save our people by being snarky.
“Polo shirt and khaki” does not mean for everyone to rush out to the TJ max and buy matching black polos and dickies. You just look like Geordie trash when you do that.
The sentiment is correct, that well-socialized undetectable right wingers exist in the midst of civil society is exactly what shitlibs fear. What we rarely say is that not many people actually fit the bill.
excellent, and well deserved, critique…
“Homo-Gadsden flag”
That’s not a snake!
The khakis and polos may have ended badly but at least it was honest. Richmond was embarrassing. It reminded me of a 2A Comicon. I dont hate the patriots and the threepers, but i defenitly dont want to be bundled in with them and their delusions of how things are and how they should be.
“You know what scares shitlib people? A polo shirt, khakis, and a furtive smile, sported by a youthful white man with a healthy physique. ”
I wear Cowboy Cut Wrangler jeans, a button up western shirt, and black Justin Ropers. I have for most of my life. I fit right in with the local population, and that includes political beliefs.
If I say I’m a traditionalist, or a conservative in the Southern sense, or even a Southern Nationalist, everybody else says; “me too.”
When a bunch of Yankee SJWs came down from up North and flooded the Capitol steps in Austin, demanding that the Texas Legislature enact harsh gun laws, the TNM counter protested. Thousands of Texans, dressed in normal clothes, some wearing TNM T-shirts and caps, turned up to defend Texas. They carried Texas flags, but otherwise didn’t look or act like costumed creeps. But you knew where they stood politically, and what they believed in.
The Yankee SJWs were dressed as Normies, incidentally, too. They represented the plain folk of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. Normal looking, but otherwise strange, totalitarian, collectivist, authoritarian, Puritanical and communistic. As one would naturally expect of Yankees.
What and who you are, politically, ideologically, temperamentally, comes from within. It’s not a uniform or a costume. It’s how you live your life on a daily basis. I’d stick out in Yankeedom, because of my clothes and beliefs, but not in Texas or in the rest of Dixie. Or in any interior Western states, either.
I’m a clean t-shirt and dark jeans kind of guy. Can’t harsh on these dudes too hard, they’re pretty much LARP-ing at this point. The more pernicious LARP-er is the SWAT “operator” who became a cop instead of SEAL or CAG door-kicker.
They’re trying to fight back against social, economic, and political threats they don’t know how to fight against. The last few times small arms were picked up in anger they turned out like Shay’s Rebellion, or the Whiskey Rebellion.
Christopher Gadsen and Patrick Henry were highly intelligent men. America is a country defined by Area 51 and multi-trillion dollar weapon development programs. It’s not romantic, but you fight tyranny with paperwork these days. You want to be dangerous? Send an army of suits carrying briefcases.