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News & ArtsTuesday, June 19, 2012
2012 Joe the Plumber Is Still a Huge Idiot
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM
For those without video:
Wurzelbacher has a new advertisement in which he says that gun control laws are responsible for the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust of the Jews. What’s more, he explains the theory while loading his gun and shooting fruits and vegetables.
One day, we will all discover that "Joe" the "Plumber" was really just an elaborate piece of performance art, and on that day, we will laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.
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It's the notion that oppression can't happen if people are well armed. But it's funny to see that extended to genocide, given that white people (who will be the only ones committing any genocide in this country in the future) are more often armed than any racial minority.
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one day, his ilk will hold every office in the country, form death squads to hunt down liberals, gays, and atheists, and cause the rest of the planet to fight america to end the threat of our fascism. we won't laugh.
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yet another chunk of humanoid dumbfuckery who won't go away...
america's dalliance with john mccain was like poking a hooker with a tortured case of herpes. we get to suffer through the occasional flare-ups from here forward.
america's dalliance with john mccain was like poking a hooker with a tortured case of herpes. we get to suffer through the occasional flare-ups from here forward.
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An' then, an' then the Nazis would have been all, Go to the camps, and the Jews would be all, No way dude, an' they would have pulled out their guns and then they'd still be alive, dude. Totally.
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I knew this was going to make it on Slog. This is why it's important to teach our children history, because you can tell someone ignorant in history anything and he will believe it if it agrees with him.
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Not to mention that he's wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
So the Germans could own rifles without any problem.
Just like Joe the Plumber is firing in that ad.
Looks like he's quoting something that's been floating around the Internet since at least 2004.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultim…
What he is (unintentionally?) advocating is for a minority to arm itself in violation of the law in case the majority decides to attack the minority.
Now think about how the Republicans would react if lots of young black men applied for concealed carry permits throughout the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politic…
So the Germans could own rifles without any problem.
Just like Joe the Plumber is firing in that ad.
Looks like he's quoting something that's been floating around the Internet since at least 2004.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultim…
What he is (unintentionally?) advocating is for a minority to arm itself in violation of the law in case the majority decides to attack the minority.
Now think about how the Republicans would react if lots of young black men applied for concealed carry permits throughout the country.
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I gotta say he's got a certain something about him, a certain quality, something... dare I say Vice Presidential?
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@10 His speech-writer has, but his potential voters haven't. This strange foreign country will frighten them; expect NOT to hear it mentioned again.
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Armenia is just an anagram of "dat dere dem real bestest country in da whole wild world shuckee darn tell yuh what" with the C fallin' over from likkin' too many toads.
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@9, you don't have to imagine it. The Black Panthers heartily endorsed blacks arming themselves and would march down the street openly carrying shotguns. The result was assassination of their leaders, violent shoot outs with the cops, and long prison terms.
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They seem to fear light firearms and IEDs plenty in Iraq. Why would you think they wouldn't do the same here?
Tanks, jets and drones are the weapons of the Blitzkrieg. Rifles are the weapons of occupation and resistance to that occupation.
If everyone respected and understood the 2nd amendment, they'd realize that it was put there to avoid having the oppressive, offense standing army that we currently possess, and that our constitution was written exactly as it was to avoid ever having such a thing exist as a part of our federal government in the 1st place.
This is why quaint things such as Congress actually declaring war are important. The way it's supposed to work is that once Congress declares war, Congress can then appropriate funds to raise An army. From there, Congress is allowed to appropriate funds to THAT army (and only that army) every 2 years as necessary, based on the status of that war.
In theory, depending on how many wars we were fighting, we could have multiple armies to which funds needed to be appropriated individually.
Right now, the 2 largest branches of our military, The Army and The Marines, are in direct violation of the constitution and are therefore illegal.
"but...but...that's just not practical in today's modern society with all the complex geopolitical struggles and interactions that just didn't exist in 1789..."
Fine. Change the law. There is an easy to follow set of instructions in the constitution which outline how to do that.
Until then, go buy a gun. It's your duty as an American.
They seem to fear light firearms and IEDs plenty in Iraq. Why would you think they wouldn't do the same here?
Tanks, jets and drones are the weapons of the Blitzkrieg. Rifles are the weapons of occupation and resistance to that occupation.
If everyone respected and understood the 2nd amendment, they'd realize that it was put there to avoid having the oppressive, offense standing army that we currently possess, and that our constitution was written exactly as it was to avoid ever having such a thing exist as a part of our federal government in the 1st place.
This is why quaint things such as Congress actually declaring war are important. The way it's supposed to work is that once Congress declares war, Congress can then appropriate funds to raise An army. From there, Congress is allowed to appropriate funds to THAT army (and only that army) every 2 years as necessary, based on the status of that war.
In theory, depending on how many wars we were fighting, we could have multiple armies to which funds needed to be appropriated individually.
Right now, the 2 largest branches of our military, The Army and The Marines, are in direct violation of the constitution and are therefore illegal.
"but...but...that's just not practical in today's modern society with all the complex geopolitical struggles and interactions that just didn't exist in 1789..."
Fine. Change the law. There is an easy to follow set of instructions in the constitution which outline how to do that.
Until then, go buy a gun. It's your duty as an American.
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and then we will look at the devastation not joe the not plumber and his confederation of morans has caused and we will cry and cry and cry and cry
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So, the Jewish population of Germany was supposed to arm themselves with rifles and do by themselves what the entire combined armies of Europe were unable to do with guns, tanks, aircraft and ships? It would be interesting to see how that worked out for them. I suppose in the end it would have worked out about the same for them but it might have been a little faster and they wouldn't have spent so much time in the camps.
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