As we approach the elections...

[thebitterguy]

Saw this posted to RPG.net:

The time has come to ask: What might happen to our country if we elect a black muslim terrorist president?
...Predictions: Within a few months of Obama's election, a couple of major U.S. cities will be the sites of a huge terrorist attack that kills thousands of Americans. The Obama administration will use this as an excuse for violating our civil liberties on an unprecedented scale, by setting up Gulag-style detention centers, where people will be held for years without any access to the legal system. Some of these people will be, I predict, actually tortured, as we all know the Left is completely dedicated to the idea that the ends justify the means, and that it has no respect for The Rule of Law.

But this will only be the beginning. Being a radical black militant, Obama will simply ignore any legal requirements that interfere with doing what he deems necessary to "protect" America. Indeed, I predict this power-drunk Negro will carry out secret and illegal spying operations against Americans on a scale Richard Nixon could only dream of. Then, in a veritable Maoist orgy of contempt for the very idea of law, he will demand that the legislature legalize his lawbreaking after the fact.

Then I saw THIS, posted by perennial north of the border wingnut favourite Adam Yoshida.

Do too much, rather than too little. Don’t shift these things around. Burn them down and salt the Earth. A future Liberal government won’t have the guts, the time, the wherewithal, or the money to recreate them all at once. Sell the land and the buildings. Shred the records. Disperse the staff. It’s easier to destroy than it is to create. A Tory government on a rampage could destroy in a couple of months what it took four decades to create – and what it would take another forty to recreate.

. . . Build big things. Canadians, for all that they claim to be a peace-loving people, want to love their country. That’s why, in the absence of a more compelling national identity, they hold onto the things that they do. Build a pair of Aircraft Carriers – giant, expensive, deadly, and useful symbols of Canadian pride that children can hang on their walls. Name them after Wolfe and Montcalm or something like that.

Quick! Which one's serious, and which one's joking?

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

james_nicoll covered the Yoshida ground a little earlier, and I suspect that Yoshida's dead-serious. As to the other...? *shrugs in puzzlement*

[thebitterguy]

Oh, the other's a humorous bit of satire.

I thought James might have posted that one already, but it's still awesome.

[mind-of-richard.livejournal.com]

Man am I happy I do not read RPG.net any more.

[thebitterguy]

Read the whole article. It's quite amusing.

[fossilapostle.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I can't tell. Any amount of insane rambling sounds authentic right about now.

[thebitterguy]

The LGM one is a brilliant piece of satire. The Yoshida piece is evidence of ongoing psychosis.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Ditto, here. :(

Who'd win?

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

You know you wanna...

Re: Who'd win?

[thebitterguy]

We'd need someone who's as legitimately crazy as AY. I shudder to imagine who would deserve that designation.

Re: Who'd win?

[autobotsrollout.livejournal.com]

I could do it! I would tell him he is a dirty double-dealer, then stab him with a letter-opener carved out of a block of cheese! FEAR MY CHEESE DAGGER, LACTOSE-INTOLERANT ADAM YOSHIDA! FEEEEEEAR MEEEEE!

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

#1 is the joke. The problem with satire, though, is that it's often lost on the compulsively humorless...

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I for one salute our new black militant terrorist President.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I so hope the first one is a joke, but I fear not.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, it is. Read it closely.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. This time I got to the end.

I kind of agree with the second guy on this line though

A Tory government on a rampage could destroy in a couple of months what it took four decades to create

If by Tory he means CRAP. And you think about social programmes.

[graveyardgreg.livejournal.com]

I figured the first one was satire. A crazy person would probably not be so clever!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

The second paragraph of the second one actually makes some sense. Housing market is stalled/deflating? No new housing starts? Build public transit instead - something that will soak up those construction jobs and improve things for the future.

Not liking the emphasis on deadly stuff, or razing stuff to the ground first, though.

[thebitterguy]

He doesn't seem to care so much about that. He seems more intent on A) razing public institutions, B) increasing military spending and C) brutalizing prisoners.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I didn't read enough. In that case, nutjob.