Thursday, January 26, 2017

Ace and Iron Mike say it all, for many of us


Ace of Spades has posted a truly magnificent rant about how the author feels concerning the fuss over Donald Trump.  Here's part of it.

"He's thin-skinned and petty!" shrieks the left. "He takes everything personally!"

Good, I say. I want him to take attacks personally and deal out payback. I know I won't be the target, you will be.

"He's unpresidential! He'll destroy the integrity of the office!"

No, that's already happened. Remember, you elected a s***-talking jackass who takes selfies at state funerals when he's not giving stealth middle fingers to his opponents during debates. There is no dignity of the office, not after Clinton and Obama.

"He's a narcissist! He's got totalitarian impulses!"

Yes, he's basically a mirror version of Obama. Except now, he'll be working for what I want. The end justifies the means. You taught me that.

"A sitting president going after the media. OMG!"

Oh, like Obama trashing Rush Limbaugh and Fox News? How about when he sent his lackeys to berate news reporters for failure to flatter him at all times. Oh, and NSA spying on the press. That was pretty great, too.

"He won't show his taxes!"

Don't care. Where are Obama's college transcripts, by the way?

"He's a bully! Is this what you want? Someone who uses his power to bully other people?!!!"

And this is where everything funnels down to the very nexus of my change in attitude from "Do unto others" to "I will do unto you what you do unto me."

It's two words: Memories Pizza.

It was that moment that everything changed for me--not only the harassment, fake Yelp reviews and the death threats that forced them to temporarily close up shop--oh, that was bad enough, but the most powerful man on Earth bullying a couple of small town pizza owners from Indiana simply for expressing an opinion on a hypothetical asked of them by a reporter with a malicious agenda? That was when I snapped.

Do you remember?

It's this that sent me to a place from which I'll never return. I literally don't care what Donald Trump does because nothing he can do is worse than what they've already done.

. . .

I have no personal investment in Donald Trump. He is a tool to punish the left and roll back their ill-gotten gains, no more and no less. If he succeeds even partially in those two things, then I'll consider his election a win.

Further, I no longer have any investment in any particular political values, save one: The rules created by the left will be applied to the left as equally and punitively as they have applied them to the right. And when they beg for mercy, I'll begin to reconsider. Or maybe not. Because f*** these people.

There's much more at the link.  Highly recommended reading.

All I can say is, as far as the excerpt above is concerned, the author speaks for me, too.  This is Newton's Third Law applied to politics.  "Every action begets an equal and opposite reaction."  The Left have been acting - very badly - for the past eight years.  Now it's time for some reacting.  I didn't vote for Mr. Trump, and I wasn't one of his pre-election supporters, but almost everything he's done in his official capacity, since taking office less than a week ago, has been fine with me.  Long may that continue!

Let me add to that (courtesy of an e-mail from reader Lolly M.) part of this magnificently profane rant from an American serviceman calling himself 'Iron Mike'.

If you really believe that your cause is just, that the majority supports you, and that the United States needs to be overthrown to make way for your Progressive social utopia of sunshine and free shit... pick up a gun and start your revolution like every other communist group in history. See, I come from an organization that spent the better part of the last century training to fight a bunch of little commie heathens, and I have a pretty healthy respect for any Ivan who was willing to pick up an AK47 and parachute onto the continent ready to overthrow the USA. That takes some guts. You’re not like him though. You’re quite different actually. Ivan was in shape. You’re a bunch of ‘fat acceptance’ advocates who complain airline seats are too small for your 9,000 calories per day diet. Ivan was a proud masculine man. You have drag queens and fat feminist women with green hair. Ivan grew up mining coal and hunting wolves in the Urals. You want socialism because you’re upset that you can’t get a 6-figure job at age 24 with the bullshit arts degree you spent all that loan money on and haven’t done a day of physical labor in your life. Ivan was a veteran of Stalingrad, Afghanistan, and a dozen bush wars. You think “Call of Duty” is too violent and sexist. Ivan packed an AK47 and knew how to use it. Those among you leftists now who even have weapons ditch them after you rob the liquor store or 7/11 and go hide out at your aunt’s Section 8 housing. You don’t have the discipline Ivan did, at least he used the sights. Ivan killed jihadists by the thousands. You make excuses for them and want to invite them into our country.

You all have your reasons for hating America and whether or not I agree isn’t even relevant. I took an oath as did all of my brothers and sisters in uniform to defend this country against all enemies foreign AND domestic. I will always protect your rights to free speech and expression through lawful and civil protest whether or not your cause is something I believe in. However, you seem to believe revolution and violence are the answer now, and that makes you a domestic enemy of the United States I protect and serve. Do it and I’ll teach you how we make the f*****’ green grass grow.

. . .

Well... We’re waiting. S*** or get off the pot.

Again, more at the link, and well worth reading.  It warms the cockles of my fuzzy veteran's heart, particularly because for not a few years I was involved in dealing with Ivan too.  (For that matter, Ivan came close to dealing with me on a number of occasions!)  When I came to this country, and began to work in the law enforcement field, I swore the same oath Iron Mike describes, word for word.  I guess that makes him, and all US veterans, my brothers in arms by adoption.  Works for me!

Peter

6 comments:

LastRedoubt said...

Speaking of magnificently profane - it's worth going through Razorfists youtube videos.

Yes, he's a metalhead, with the paraphernalia and imagery you'd expect.

His political rants, especially his recent one on the wall, and the one immediately after the election, are both well worth watching, among many others

Rick said...

I am not holding my breathe on the left being treated as they treated the Republicans.
I still no hint of a spine in Ryan andMcConnell.

urbane legend said...

Excellent.

eldiabloloco said...

Having watched the left self-purge their moderate elements from the KommieKrat party leadership in favor of radicals over the past 40 years, I found ACE's rant to be interesting. I have been there since the 1980's.

Glad to see everyone else finally catching up. My only question is "how it is not obvious to everyone?"

Judging by rhetoric from todays DemoRat party leadership, the KGB won the cold war, or at the very least managed to subvert enough of the electorate to their ideals to claim victory. The Obama party rhetoric is straight out of the 1970's CommIntern. The media have been lost to CommIntern all of my lifetime. I guess that explains it. When I ask, everyone underestimates the power of propaganda, but no one can explain to me why any company would buy hugely expensive advertising if propaganda is so ineffective as they believe. Cuz, they themselves would NEVER be swayed.....

I think Dilbert[Scott Adams] gets it. Probably the best at explaining it too.

DaddyBear said...

This reminds me of something Mike Williamson wrote in 2013:

First they came for the blacks, and I spoke up because it was wrong, even though I'm not black.

Then they came for the gays, and I spoke up, even though I'm not gay.

Then they came for the Muslims, and I spoke up, because it was wrong, even though I'm an atheist.

When they came for illegal aliens, I spoke up, even though I'm a legal immigrant.

Then they came for the pornographers, rebels and dissenters and their speech and flag burning, and I spoke up, because rights are not only for the establishment.

Then they came for the gun owners, and you liberal shitbags threw me under the bus, even though I'd done nothing wrong. So when they come to put you on the train, you can fucking choke and die.

http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/blog/index.php?itemid=234

Mark Matis said...

Surely you understand by now, Rick, that Lyin' Ryan and Post Turtle will only use their "spine" to impede President Trump. The majority of Republicans in Congress are Rove Republican swill. No morals. No scruples. No principles. No honor. They have the same goal of One World Government as the Democrats. They merely want to go there slightly slower. And they have a different set of cronies to slop at the government trough along the way.