Attention whores of this caliber, unfortunately, stick around.
Well, yeah. The smaller calibre slugs are harder to dig out.
Mr. Bundy’s mediation session was supposed to take place today.
I just did another check and I cannot confirm that the mediation happened as scheduled.
A good friend asked me this morning what I thought the GOP’s blocking of the 6 January commission would mean, where it would lead…
“several months of quiet followed by right-wing militia attacks, is my guess” was my reply.
A couple of hours later, this got posted on the AP:
They’re setting up for a fight. They want the fight. They’re saying they want the fight. And so far, every time a Bundy has done this, they’ve walked away, even when someone else gets killed.
Ammon Bundy has tens of thousands of followers all over the US right now. They have money and guns and the desire to use them. He’s also running for governor of Idaho.
Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy runs for Idaho governor
Zero irony here.
It’s even worse than the lack of irony. The field of candidates is…I am desperately trying to convince my parents to move to Bend Oregon, where my cousin lives. At least there they would have a chance to be surrounded by normal (to mean not tongue dragging dipshits and crazy people as populate out state government right now). I’m sort of fearful for their well being.
My cousin gets a newspaper from a major small town in northern Idaho (the less Mormon part). Even up there, the less red part of the state, there is a lot of serious stupid and no small quantity of cray-cray.
Mom lives in Idaho. We live in Arizona. Its hard to play the “your crazies are crazier than our crazies” game because we both agree that our crazies are the craziest ones. The Bundy’s are edging out the recount, though.
Chewbaca needs to step up to the plate, he’s been slacking since his lawyer said he should be released because he was in solitary confinement which was inhuman. He’s in solitary because he’s a shaman and can’t sully his aura with vaccines or some such shit.
Not Bundy, but Bundy-like and in the same state. Maybe we can rename thread this “idiots of Idaho”? Like Florida Man but with more guns, lifted pickups and wet dreams of civil war.
And today I found out that there is a community called “Good Grief” in Idaho.
Good Grief is an unincorporated community in Boundary County, Idaho. It was “saluted” in the early 1970s on the television show Hee Haw by saying:
Population: Three people, two dogs and one old grouch.
It’s not quite the picture painted by the 1970s variety show “Hee Haw,” but it’s pretty close.
Hee Haw forgot to mention the infestation of racists.
Why do you think that old grouch was so grouchy?
We took a road from Montana into Idaho that gets very little traffic, just to experiment with alternatives. Passing through the location that the map calls “Avery”, we saw a sign calling for the borders to be secured. Darn those darn illegal immigrants!
This was in the north-bumfuckiest part of the country, on a turn through the high Bitterroots, fifty miles from the nearest actual town. The person who put that sign on their fence might not even recognize a ferrner if they saw one. But, darn it, secure that thousand-mile-away border!
He probably meant the border around his place. And a ferrner is someone who eats avocados.
Avery is an odd place. It relies on affluent fly fisherman and redneck ATV/SXS riders. The only immigrant workers they might ever see are the tree planting crews Idaho Dept of Forestry hires and I’m guessing those folks avoid Avery. But, your assessment is pretty close to spot on except for the “north-bumfuckiest” part. You have to get up to Bonners Ferry and Good Grief (see above) for that apt title.
A recent article about Idaho governments veering off of the already far-right rails it is running on:
Soon, this state will be run entirely by Sov-Cit nutbags who will spend their days making sure all US flags in the state have the required gold fringe.
That means admiralty courts in a landlocked state. Horrors!
Won’t be landlocked once they invade Oregon.
Minor nitpick (nutpick?), but the gold fringe is actually what they would want to avoid.
That would indicate the supremacy of fake admiralty or commercial law, which the government imposed on us when we went off the gold standard in 1932, making all debts fake. The free state of Idaho would presumably be run under common law, as our founders intended, so no gold fringe.
Why yes, stewardess, I speak dumbfuck.
Dang it! I wasn’t sure which they liked. Thanks for setting me straight.
I’m cracking up over here from your Airplane! joke!