Good Lord, This Place Is Going to the Dogs!
Remember how hypocritical King Street Patriots woman Cathy Engelbretch who strutted her stuff and challenged me on voter fraud and then I found out she lives in my little 10,000 person hometown?
Well, the neighborhood is going to the dogs again. There’s a genuine Fascist.
James Ives, a prominent Tea Party activist who has hosted statewide rallies and political debates and has been a regular contributor on conservative radio, was the AFP’s fourth in command, commenting about the party’s principles on a fascist message board. An image of Ives in what appears to be a black uniform with yellow shoulder patches can be seen in a 2006 promotional video for the party.
I did not even know there was a 4th in command of the Fascist Party. Does it require a uniform? Can we send a drone?
Now James, since he’s been corralled and tied to the fence, says he has a good explanation for his ties to the American Fascist Party. He was just experimenting and didn’t inhale.
Seriously. The reason he posted weird crap on a fascist message board?
He said he believed he’d uncovered an underground cabal — and decided to stick around to do research for a “political novel of intrigue.”
“I thought, ‘I can blow the lid off of this. … I can go inside and find out what’s going on,’” Ives said.
Ives never wrote a novel. He did write a range of posts on the party’s Yahoo message board, communicating with his fellow “blackshirts” and the party’s chief organizer, a man who identified himself as the “Glorious Leader.”
Dude, that ain’t “experimenting,” that’s full hog.
Now, I looked up this guy’s address and he lives in a local neighborhood called Tara, where the streets are named Jeb Stuart, Grant, Gettysburg, Stonewall, and Jeff Davis. But I didn’t have to tell you that, did I?
Local Republican Tea Party politicians are acting all shocked and awed about uncovering one of their own.
State Rep. Rick Miller, R-Sugar Land, who spoke at an event for the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party last week, said he first heard about Ives’ possible connections to fascism on Friday, in a meeting of concerned conservatives. “It does sound like something worth following up on,” he said.
Ya think, Big Rick, ya really think so? Yeah, if I was following around a fascist I’d might look into it, but since you were also following around a man who bragged about committing voter fraud by voting in two states at the same time, I didn’t think you really gave a crap about the people you pal around with.
Now what was Ted Cruz saying about the faculty at Harvard Law? Hellfire, Darlin’, we’ve got more admitted fascists in Richmond, Texas, than they have communists at Harvard Law.
Thanks to Michael for the heads up.
#4 fascist in America? I thought Paul Ryan lived in Wisconsin?
1I think I saw him on JDate…
2Sounds like my homophobic neighbor saying he was trying to infiltrate the “gay mafia” when he got photographed dancing with a hot muscular nineteen year old. They never learn.
3I saw “AFP” and thought you meant “Americans For Prosperity” that Koch Brothers Tea Party outfit that pretends to represent actual non-billionaire Americans. I wonder if you could tell the difference between the speakers and speeches at the American Fascist Party’s event from the other AFP’s. When the Koch’s AFP brought Sarah Palin and Breitbart up here to Wisconsin to screech at us about the eeeeevillll unions all they lacked were stiff arms and brown shirts.
4I dunno. Experimenting with fascism can be dangerous. Does Mr. Ives also enjoy hanging upside down? There is precedent.
5This was during the bush years.
6He didn’t even have an excuse, like say a Islamoblackfascistblackcommunisticblack non christianblack POTUS. With a wife(also black) who hates America, calories and makes her kids eat broccoli.
Holy Hitler! Hope the FBI and CIA are “following up” on this.
7Sigh.
8It’s like people saying they were experimenting with drugs. I want to see the lab notebook.
9Kinda loses all its Orewellian spookiness with the final screen: “Styled by the Minisrty of Information”
10Should have been previewed by “Minister of Spelling”.
I guess these bozos are a kinder, gentler version of the American Nazi Party.
11Wait a minute– “Tara” (that’s Irish, by the way) has streets named Grant and Gettysburg? You’d think they’d be Lee and, oh, First Manassas or something.
12Hey, don’t judge people by their intersections, JJ. I live near Manasssas and Shiloh, Appomattox and Seminary Ridge aren’t far (We don’t even get a Grant here), but it’s a pretty blue precinct in a bright blue county – and we keep all the fascist and other wingnuts out to the west.
13You’d think the sight of the guy goose-stepping to the podium would have caused some consternation.
14More fascist in Richmond than communist at Harvard Law.
I have always found it instructive that it is slander per se to call someone a communist in Texas–defined in the code as someone who wants to overthrow the government–but not actionable to call someone a fascist.
Going to the dogs. I always thought dogs were rather democratic. Chicken snakes strike me as being sort of fascists. Peacocks might be–strutting in colorful dress up uniforms. Perhaps mammals are more democratic, reptiles seem sort of fascists…will have to ponder this.
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