Remember when Bill Maher first expressed his disappointment with President Obama? To deal with BP executives over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Maher wanted a “real black president” who would lift up his shirt “so you can see the gun in his pants” — that would speed along negotiations.
Today, on the first day of the government shutdown, The New Republic published a history lesson telling of the time Boris Yeltsin had the Russian army surround and shell the Russian White House to bring an intransigent parliament into line. Is The New Republic seriously suggesting that President Obama consider trading in that pretend gun in his pants for, say, a line of tanks around Capitol Hill?
Ace decided to look into the new militarization of a magazine that only two years ago published pieces like, “The Problem With the Militarization of Rhetoric” in the wake of the Gabby Giffords shooting.
guess your traffic's pretty low, eh, @tnr?
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
#BuzzFeedTNR 15 Dictators Who Really Knew How to Bust Skullz 4 the People!!! Lulz @tnr
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
scratch a leftist, find a… well, find exactly what you thought you'd find.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
WHOA! @TNR shows Obama how to take care of Republicans LIKE A BOSS!!! +1000 LULZ You mansplain it, @juliaioffe!
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
@AceofSpadesHQ Honestly, I’m trolled out with stuff like that. It doesn’t even really bug me anymore
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) October 1, 2013
it's distasteful like a crude reality tv show. Whether or not it "bugs" you, they should be forced to confront what they are @allahpundit
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
#BuzzFeedTNR LOL: 15 Traitors to the Party Who Got Totally PWND by Stalin
No. 1: Trotsky's all bulletty and butthurt, LOL @tnr
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
Is this the new, non-ideological magazine that strives for thoughtfulness and subtlety?
.@TNR, America's Premiere (???) Neocommunist Weekly
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
F*ck me blind and I thought @salon was trolling hard when they called Secretariat a Nazi
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
I mean what is left for the Left Wing TrollSquad at this point? How do you top @TNR and @juliaIoffe's Manpologetics for Authoritarianism?
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
The only place I can see them going is "Ha ha, Aborted Fetuses totally aren't as cute as you think" or something. @tnr
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
sorry but I think we must begin talking seriously about the psychological instability and social pathology of the Left.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
i can't wait until @daveweigel patiently explains this is all taken out of context and Total Overreaction You Guys
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
That’s probably coming. After all, Russian-American Julia Ioffe never explicitly says in her piece that Obama should shell the Capitol building to bring Congress into line. She merely asks, “What is a president in a presidential constitutional republic to do when faced with an intransigent, bull-headed faction among his people’s representatives?” Like, say, the Tea Party? And then she links to this:
When faced with an intransigent, bull-headed governing body, Yeltsin did this: http://t.co/cUYGt6XaxV pic.twitter.com/zrRxRaj09V
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) October 1, 2013
Remember this is the same leftwing media that collectively lost their shit over Palin using a Bullseye icon to indicate battleground races
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 1, 2013
Finally, the author of the piece addresses the “haters” and clarifies that the Tea Party is kind of asking for it, you guys.
Haters, I'll say this: Tea Party tactics are most like the Bolsheviks'. Destroy the system from within to impose purist ideological order.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) October 1, 2013
https://twitter.com/mtranquilnight/status/385151187265134592
https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/385159185303740417
https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/385159517136113664
https://twitter.com/Mr_Sterling/status/385158352126234625
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