I’m going to make a WAG, which like all WAGs may turn out to be quite wrong. But here goes.
pkbites, a man who is not exactly famous for his even-tempered nature, is upset about the results of the recent election—something most of us know as “an event that happens every four years, in which there is a winning party and a losing party,” but which **pkbites **knows as “an ontological battle for the very future of this nation, the last stand of good against evil, as we stood at the precipice looking down into a fiery pit of socialism from which we shall never return,” because that’s what Fox News and Rush and the rest of the Onepercentosphere have been telling him it is (using much smaller words) for a few dozen months now.
Reeling from the news that the American sheeple opted to submit their necks and wrists to the yoke of Obamacare and the Prophet Norris’s Thousand Years of Darkness, **pkbites **decided to vent his displeasure by displaying a cartoon of Yosemite Sam at his workplace with a caption reading “RACKIN’ FRACKIN’ LIBERALS!” or “I’M COMIN’ FER YOU, OBAMA!” or “TIME FER A 2ND AMENDMENT SOLUTION, YEE-HAW!” which— combined with his excited demeanor and constant ranting about the End of America and his plans to declare himself the Sovereign Emperor of pkbitesland, a small independent nation which spends 100% of its GDP on stockpiled arms— probably made someone at work nervous, and led to him being dressed down in some relatively minor way.
If I remember correctly, pkbites is a cop. And he appears to have become totally unglued, unhinged, driven over the edge, and lost his grip over a fucking election.
I’m offended because when I was very young lad reading comics, I thought his name was pronounced Yo-sah-mite. Not sure why I didn’t notice the correct pronunciation on the cartoons I know I watched.
Not offended by this, except as a tattoo. And that’s only because I find tattoos of any sort offensive. As a cartoon character, I like Sam. Real life gun-toters, not so much.
I happen to have that tattoo (exact except mine has the revolver in his left hand pointing downward). A woman in line at the Aldis shielded her [7-8 year old] sons eyes from it and proceeded to lecture me how my tattoo glorified gun violence.
My only response to her was to say “time for your meds, lady!”. And I took my 2 gallons of milk and loaves of bread and left. I was dressed in a short sleeved t-shirt with no printing on it and blue jeans. I was not openly carrying a weapon.
I’ve had this tat since 1981, and had it recolored in '96. I’ve never gotten anything but compliments on it.
I have a pick up truck that I use as a “beater” vehicle. I really only use it in the snow for the 4 wheel drive. I drove it that day so I could get the oil changed and stuff and get it ready for winter. It has mudflaps with a similar image of Sam on it.
In the lot she continued to babble about it, and at the corner when I was driving away she was in her car bantering about something while glaring at me. All this took place over a period of about 5 minutes.
Clearly she never watched Looney Tunes, else she’d know that rather than glorifying guns, Yosemite Sam was portrayed as an ineffectual schmuck who couldn’t frighten a sassy rabbit, guns and all.
Makes you wonder why someone would get the target of cartoon mockery tattooed on themselves…
