Christian Hate Groups

Whatevs, Man
Last week a couple of questions came up on the Sierra Madre Tattler regarding hate groups identified as Christian by the Southern Poverty Law Center (click here) . I decided to look closer. Not because I am terribly interested- I'm not- but because someone took pot shots at me for bringing up SPLC in the first place (click here). 

While one of the commentators was obnoxious about it, the other was sincerely curious. Maybe.

Anonymous
Southern Poverty Law Center is a far left organization that labels many Christian groups as hate groups. The fact that you support them reveals your far left bias and your suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. I know you wish Hillary would have won and that the Clinton Foundation could have continued with their corruption but it's not to be. Trump will keep fulfilling the campaign promises he was elected for and I guess you will just have to keep whining about it. 

Anonymous Which Christian groups? Can you point out a few who have been identified as hate groups by the SPLC?

Paint by Numbers
First. I should start by stating I have no game here. I was influenced early in life by fundamentalist Southern Baptists, converted to Catholicism as an adult, and have been an atheist for a long, long time. I hold all religions under the same magnifying glass. 

You may decide whether that is to see better, or simply to burn them all alive. Like ants.

Second. If you hold Trump and his Oligarchy of Assholes in any serious consideration, FUCK OFF. I don't debate stupid,  we have nothing in common, and nothing to discuss. I am a closed-minded leftist, SJW, libtard, and any other fucking put-down you have. I am all of those things and more. Now that we have established what a jerk-off I am, please take this time to hang yourself out in the garage. For reals. I simply don't care to have to share breathing space with you (click here).  It isn't personal. It is business, like Don Corleone.

According to SPLC there were 19 (now 23) Christian identity groups. While their numbers are small, it would be a fallacy to suggest they are gone. 

Christian Identity describes a religion that he is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic. It asserts that whites, not Jews, are true Israelites favored by God in the Bible. In most of its forms, Identity theology depicts Jews as biologically descended from Satan while non-whites are seen as soulless "mud people" created with the other Biblical "beasts of the field." Some groups listed in other categories, such as the the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations and several Klan groups, also hold Christian Identity beliefs.

SPL identifies these groups as Christian based hate groups. Keep in mind, these are religious identity groups. The white power christian hate groups are filed elsewhere.

Here is the list of offenders. Let me know if you have something to dispute these claims- or simply be quiet. It's ok to be quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt, right?

America’s Promise Ministries Sandpoint, ID. 
Christian Revival Center Harrison, AR 
Church of the Sons of YHVH Converse, LA

Covenant People’s Ministry Brooks, GA

Divine International Church of the Web Morton, IL

Ecclesiastical Council for the Restoration of Covenant Israel (ECRCI) Chicago, IL

Faith Baptist Church and Ministry Houston, MO

Fellowship of God’s Covenant People Union, KY

Kingdom Identity Ministries Harrison, AR

Kinsman Redeemer Ministries Alexandria, KY

Mission to Israel Scottsbluff, NE

Non-Universal Teaching Ministries Fostoria, OH

Our Place Fellowship Colville, WA

Scriptures for America MinistriesLaporte, CO

Thomas Robb Ministries Bergman, AR

Virginia Publishing Company Lynchburg, VA

Watchmen Bible Study Group Wappapello, MO

Weisman Publications Apple Valley, MN

Yahweh’s Truth Linwood, MI

Until next time:
Is there any questions?- Paul Ryan

Como se Llama, Proud Boys?

War Boys
My favorite insane adventure/dystopian/action movie is Mad Max Fury Road. I really love it and saw it like a billion times. That is the truth, and there is nothing alternative about it. 

More than the other films in the franchise, Fury Road had a focus on the War Boys, an army of sacrificial bald guys in white face and quasi spooky mak-up. They drive fast and blow shit up. Muy mas macho. In fanboy land you can get your groove on (click here) and get lost in it all. 

Go ahead, spray some chrome paint in your mouth.

War Boys  

are hand picked at a young ....and are indoctrinated as zealots in the cult of V8 with Immortan Joe as their immortal leader. They were based on the Japanese Kamikaze pilots of World War II. They are completely loyal, blindly following their leader, never questioning the morality of his actions. They view death in service ..... as an honor.

The War Boy comes across- to me at least- as more like Hitler Youth than the Kamikaze they are supposedly based on. 

Is it Performance Art?
Two of the three most famous names in the Alt-Right movement have caught my interest. Mostly because I think they are funny. They are so over the top and out of line that I can't take their rhetoric very seriously. 

While Steve Bannon has made his move- and it was a bold one- both Gavin McGinnis and Milo Yiannopoulos have  come across as clowns trying to squeeze into a Jetta. Both of these guys have found love in the Neo-Conservative online magazine Takimag. That is where you can get some of the .... uh.... talent that they have to expend. 

Based on the fact that Jim Goad and Joe Bob Briggs are contributors to Takimag as well- not only opens up the very strong possibility that this is a put on at the expense of the gullible at the very least- or a biting satire at its absolute finest. 

Devil's advocate. 

I know it is hard to see this as performance art, but it is. Let us define performance art, shall we? 

Performance art (click here) is a performance

....presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work.

 I have seen some of the most insane performance art up close, and I hate to say it, this is performance art. Maybe I am Naive, but I think Gavin McGinnis and Milo Yiannopoulos are putting us on. I really do. No leader can be that misguided. 

Oh. Wait.

Gavin McGinnis
A quick neutral bio should kick this off. So. Here is about as mellow and milquetoasty as I can find (click here).

He was born in England, raised in Canada, and now resides in New York City. He married publicist and consultant Emily Jendrisak in 2005. They have three children. In 2013 he said that having children convinced him that he should be pro-life and that he went from being a lifelong atheist to a born-again Roman Catholic.

Roman Catholic? The religion born out of the Middle Eastern black prophet, Jesus, and the Southern European Vatican? 

Gavin McGinnis is a comedian.  That means he performs ART for a living. He may not be funny, but satire often isn't. 

Don't get the impression that I am excusing anything. I am not. What I am saying is it is very possible that this movement is based on trademarks, copyrights and infamy, i.e. fame at whatever cost.

No really. He is a comedian (click here), a writer, and a founder of Vice mag. He was bought out, probably for acting a fool. According to one of my frequent reads, Brooklyn Vegan (click here) Gavin McInnes was somebody who fit right in on a bill with future Run the Jewels collaborator Despot, comedians David Cross & Eugene Mirman, and Marnie Stern. 

FYI, I hear those are funny people. 

Plenty of comedians went the talk show route. Politics pays big money. In the era of Trump, what we are being shown by your president is to lie, cheat, and steal. Not too different from past presidents. 

Except for the white power/orange man part. That isn't so funny.

McGinnis is among the funniest guys I have seen on Faux News. I can't help it. He cracks me up. He is funnier than Baskets (click here). Clearly the guy is under  Pee-Wee's Bigtop, in the center arena, juggling Trump's balls. The ones Melania keeps on the mantle back at Trump Tower. 

McGinnis can best be defined in his own words, which are often an atrocity, but his jewel in the crown for the time being is a little fraternity called Proud Boys. That doesn't  come across as loopy as the rest of his art damaged spiel or rhetoric. It certainly doesn't imply that it is totally farcical, even if its members are clueless that they are being laughed at. It also doesn't imply that this fails as performance art.

Or maybe. Maybe. Maybe I am the comedian, and McGinnis is simply a troglodyte.

Me, the cultured one. That is pretty fucking funny.

Proud Boys Uno
The Proud Boys movement was started by Gavin McGinnis. They are pub crawlers with a mission from their pasty white god. It sounds vaguely familiar. From the same mold that brought all those other good ol' boy clubs like the Bohemian Club (click here) and its ilk. Not unlike the KKK, except these white power guys have the moxy to use their own names. Probably a bad idea for the followers, no doubt. They will be seen as racist, while the jokers who set this in motion will eventually be seen as artists. The artist gain infamy, the followers forced into a lifetime of quasi regret.

There are differences in the exclusivity of membership for this club.  Everyone can join, if you are white or can fool the panel that you are. And as long as you aren't a chick.  If you are, you get a high ranking subservient role, you princess, you. You don't have to be rich to join the club. You just need to be either in on the joke (leadership)- or gullible to a fault (the rest of the dudes buying in). 

Once this performance art falls into the hands of followers it loses all credibility as an art and becomes something far more ominous. It becomes just another stupid movement born out of a warped sense of humor, planting evil as its byproduct.

Performance art, or not, McGinnis is a gang leader. He lets others hit, and take the beatings- while .

At some point in time he's gotta give up the game and let us know he means it for reals..... or that he is just fucking with us gullible Americans. 

Penis de Milo

Milo Yiannopoulos is an alt-right performance artist. A journalist/speaker/senior editor at Breitbart mag. He also writes for Takimag, a neo-conservative online rag funded by some Greek millionaire dude. There is lots of money in free (hate) speech.

Milo's big thing is speaking at universities, outing immigrants that are in America bettering their lives, and outing gay and trans people. Milo is a real work of art (click here).

The 31-year-old, boastfully gay Breitbart writer—or “dangerous faggot”—has quickly become a hero to young conservatives and libertarians for smacking down the ridiculous out-of-control “social justice warriors” who troll college campuses.If Donald Trump defies political correctness, Yiannopoulos—an avid Trump supporter prone to calling The Donald “daddy”—obliterates it.

Milo also a Brit. And Greek. Why he wants to make America great again baffles me, mostly because he doesn't know what a great America is, was, or will be. In fact, I have as much right telling British students how to think, as he has telling my college-age kids. 

I love that we quibble over the free speech rights of a guest to our country. 

His right to speak out against anyone he wishes to- in my country? OK. But I have the right to shout his loudmouth down. He can play what ever card he wants.

This movement is young, they do defy taboos and unfortunately, the alt-right has become impossible to ignore. Because it’s racist. I don’t mean “racist” like the left does, where merely being white and male is a sin. I mean rationalizing that you’re intellectually or culturally superior because you’re white. I mean believing that black and brown people are less valuable to society and should be viewed with contempt. (ibid)

Does that sound ok to you? 

Where is the nationalism and isolationist viewpoints stand now, Moderate Whitey from the the Righty?  

Where is the indignation? 

Why are the anarchists the only Americans telling Milo to stfu? (Hey Milo, shut the fuck up.)

The same Trump rules on imports should be applied to Milo as to every other import. Hold him in secondary at the airport, check his asshole for explosives or whatever, and make him scale the same fucking wall everyone else now has to jump over in both directions.

Milo is, simply, an outsider. He is an import. We need to tax his ass, check that visa- it is a work visa- and show him the same disrespect he shows Americans. 

Just like those other imports with incendiary rules and mores that seem to piss everyone off when it comes from brown people. 

Never mind that Milo is Greek and bleaches his coif. 

Is he Rand Paul, or is he Ru Paul?

Is to enhance his whiteness? Is it to poke fun at whitey? Is it simply performance? Is this just to play the game as an outsider? To prove to the northern European descendants in America that they are stupid, racist, heterosexual hypocrites? Is this simply a game? 

Is this just the rantings of a flamboyantly gay performance artist?

The Complication of Race
Did I mention that Gavin McGinnis is another Brit with dual citizenship? Yep, Brit-Canadian. 

Married an American woman with an eastern European surname. Sounds like Czech or Slovakian to me (click here). 

She is part Native American. Like many of us, she is as American as Apple Piroshki. She is, like me, Heinz 57. McGinnis has three kids with his wife. Sounds like they are Heinz 58. 

Hitler considered the eastern Europeans to be mongrels, which leads me to the next question.

Does that sound like a card carrying member of Stormwatch? 

Are you catching my drift? Maybe he is just fucking with us.

Proud Boys Dos
Why are the alt right Brit imports so interested in America? I mean outside of making lots of money off the minions? Not sure, but the journalism is probably secondary to the speaking engagements and tv gigs.

But the Proud Boys are nothing to laugh about. They use clever trigger free words, sometimes, and actively promote "white pride" and male chauvinism. (click here)

There were about fifty men at this gathering and no women because women are not allowed. The basic tenet of the group is that they are “Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” Like Archie Bunker, they long for the days when “girls were girls and men were men.” This wasn’t controversial even twenty years ago, but being proud of Western culture today is like being a crippled, black, lesbian communist in 1953.

They would like you to believe they are not alt-right, not racist, and terribly misunderstood by outsiders. 

Like Milo Yiannopoulos, the Proud Boys confuse the media because the group is anti-SJW without being alt-right. “Western chauvinist” includes all races, religions, and sexual preferences.

Like most manifesto styled bowel movements, the Proud Boys have basic tenets. They are laid out by McGinnis as degrees. There are three of them.

First DegreeYou publicly declare you are a Proud Boy. This means you make your Western chauvinism public and you don’t care who knows it. If you support Trump (how can you not if you’re a Proud Boy?) and it comes up in the cafeteria, you proudly state your stance.....Our forefathers died in battle to protect our freedoms. The least we can do is be inconvenienced. There is no anonymity in pride.

Interesting. A Canadian telling Americans about our forefathers. Last I checked, the United States and Canada have different forefathers. He also lets his followers know up front that they need to discard any anonymity they wish to have. In other words, suckers, paint a target on your back.

Second Degree
You must get the crap beaten out of you by at least five guys until you can name five breakfast cereals..... The rationale here is we all need better “adrenaline control.” Both physical fighting and arguing require you to maintain your composure and not get petty with ad hominem attacks or “I just…can’t” forfeitures. Defending the West against the people who want to shut it down is like remembering cereals as you’re being bombarded with ten fists. The bonding and camaraderie this violence produces is inspiring.

 In other words, you are jumped in. I'm surprised they aren't calling their chicks mamas, and flying the stars and bars.

The other half of the second degree is #NoWanks as espoused by the “prophet” Dante (his name is often followed by “peace be upon him”). This program allows porn only once every 30 days and insists a man can only ejaculate if he is within one yard of a woman with her consent......It gets young men off the couch and talking to women and it gets married men away from their computers and back into bed with their significant other. (Gay Proud Boys are exempt from #NoWanks because they are doing just fine for intercourse.)

If this sounds to you like a bunch of jocks getting psyched for the big game, I have to say, 'Yes, it does.' Don't you love the perks for gay men? That is how you cross over. Tweak the rules at the last sentence whenever a new issue arises. Proud (Gay) Boys rejoice. You can jerk off to other Proud Boys as long as you have their permission.

This degree sounds like quite a sticky proposition.

Third Degree
While retaining the principles of the first and second degrees, the third degree involves getting a tattoo that says “Proud Boy.” 

 Because what is a tough guy gang without a mandatory tattoo?

Antifa
Frequently painted as the new bad guys by the people who brought you by your wanna be fascist government, Antifa are probably the single, semi-organized street team who actively stand up to people like McGinnis and the thugs that have collectively embraced him. 

Yeah, I know. They are anarchist and they get blamed for vandalism. BFD. I hate the banks too.

It doesn't make it true, it just means people blame it on them. Take my advice people of the left. Ridicule your opposition. You won't lose your mind that way, and it pisses them off way more.

Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer

The Trump Effect

Breitbart

Milo

Make America Cool Again

http://www.dailywire.com/news/11089/5-things-know-about-alt-right-leader-richard-aaron-bandler

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-what-is-the-alt-right-a-refresher-1479169663-htmlstory.html

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/11/19/american-milo-a-documentary-about-me-is-out-now/

http://www.dailywire.com/news/8967/7-things-you-need-know-about-southern-poverty-law-aaron-bandler

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/05/meet-milo-yiannopoulos-the-appealing-young-face-of-the-racist-alt-right.html

Holy Crap, DeVos got the Gig?

Onward

My Sordid Libertarian Past
I was a once a Libertarian. I was introduced to the ideals of the Libertarian Party (click here) back in 1980 by my friend Randy. His dad was a Libertarian. Randy also listened to Crass. Well, for a little while. He wouldn't loan me his Crass records because after listening to the lead off song Asylum (click here),  he reacted by scratching the record with a nail. It wouldn't be long before Randy became a full blown Born-Again-Christian. It is probably better that way. For him, anyway.

Anyway, in 1980. and later when I turned 18, the Libertarian Party was very attractive. They were opposed to forcing young men to register for Selective Service- a hangover from the party's founding at the end of the Vietnam Era. They were hands off when it came to guns. They were pro-women's rights. They advocated for legalized prostitution and for legalization of marijuana. For a young man, what wasn't there to like?

Like many of the follies of youth, the shine of the Libertarian Party started to wear off over time, and as their membership numbers increased- for the wrong reasons- my interest in their party waned. Eventually I reregistered as a Demoncrat, and then as an Independent. Then back. Ultimately it didn't matter back then, and it doesn't matter now. Maybe the Dems shoulda noticed there were more than a few people like me at the party table. I dunno. In any event. they missed the opportunity to nab the borderline folks had they used one iota of the talent that Trump bought.

I really don't buy into any of those parties anymore.

The message seems so simple.  Legalize pot. Shut down the business of prisons. Be cool to each other.  Leave the women alone to use their bodies as they see fit. Shoot your guns responsibly. Regardless of which bathroom you choose, don't piss on the seats.

Where There's a Void, There's a Butt Plug
Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, says that he is not a Neo-Nazi, and that both the KKK and Neo Nazis hate him. Liar liar, pants on fire; retribution was swift.

This is a video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face. Ouchie.

When I saw this footage on my favorite tv news station, RT, Spencer said that it looked worse than it was. I dunno. Looks like it hurt to me.

I have to admit that when I first saw the footage I felt bad for him. I couldn't hear anything. I was just puzzling on why he had one of those bad 1930s German haircuts, and why he had a froggie pin on his lapel. I didn't know who he was, but he just looked so defeated.

So I listened to him speak, and I read his writing. Fuck that guy.

Fun and Games
When Trump took these boneheads under his wing he sent a pretty strong message to us all. He doesn't care about any of us. Playing games matters is vacations, Fun, fun, fun. There is even a fun new Nazi punching game (click here).

In Punch a Nazi, gamers are encouraged to coldcock Spencer and Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos. They also get a chance to deck Adolf Hitler himself.....The game is designed in the style of NES classic Mike Tyson's Punch Out, although your opponents won't punch back. 

I have no doubt this will only serve to encourage more naughtiness. 

Enjoy.