The Bundys are at it again.

[Rick_Kitchen]

Their IT guy is a Hitler admirer who wants ISIS to destroy Israel.

And a gamer, apparently.

[davidm]

@Rick_Kitchen

Their IT guy is a Hitler admirer who wants ISIS to destroy Israel.

And a gamer, apparently.

And ISIS apparently supports them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/09/islamic-state-tries-to-use-oregon-takeover-to-turn-americans-against-their-government/

[OttoDaFe]

Looks like boredom — or perhaps frustration that the feds won’t play along — may be setting in: they’ve scheduled a community meeting “to explain their position and announce when they will be leaving.”

I’m notoriously bad at predictions, but I have a feeling they’ll declare that their mission (whatever the hell it was) is done, their message (whatever the hell it was) has been delivered, and that the reason we didn’t have another Waco is that the gummint was quaking in their boots over Blue Tarp [DEL]Campers[/DEL] Snipers*.

*When I read about this I couldn’t help thinking about Douglas Adams’ Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (“The stupidest creature in the entire universe — so profoundly unintelligent that, if you can’t see it, it assumes it can’t see you”).

[Peremensoe]

@TroutMan

The rancher whose land abuts the removed fence says he never asked Bundy to remove the fence and never gave him permission. He already had his ranch hands repair it.

Good for him.

[Dag_Otto]

@OttoDaFe

I’m notoriously bad at predictions, but I have a feeling they’ll declare that their mission (whatever the hell it was) is done, their message (whatever the hell it was) has been delivered, and that the reason we didn’t have another Waco is that the gummint was quaking in their boots over Blue Tarp [DEL]Campers[/DEL] Snipers*.

Betcha they take the bag of dicks with them.

[davidm]

Mother Jones has a somewhat sympathetic article saying that the ranchers do have legitimate problems but that they’re protesting the wrong thing and should instead be asking federal antitrust authorities to go after the big meat packers.

Those packers have made the profit margins so thin that ranchers need more land in order to achieve the necessary economies of scale needed to make a profit.

The Oregon militia Is picking the wrong beef with the feds

Rather than demanding unfettered access to public land, the Malheur rebels could be agitating for federal antitrust authorities to take on the beef giants. As the New America Foundation’s Barry C. Lynn has shown repeatedly, since the age of Reagan, US antitrust regulators have focused almost exclusively on whether large companies use their market power to harm consumers by unfairly raising retail prices. Those regulators have looked the other way when companies deploy their girth to harm their suppliers by squeezing them on price. So antitrust authorities okayed merger after merger, even when deals left just a few giant companies towering over particular markets. As a result, writes Lynn, “In sector after sector, control is now more tightly concentrated than at any time in a century.” The meat industry is a classic example.
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During the 2008 election, Barack Obama vowed to challenge the big meat packers and defend independent farmers and ranchers from their heft. As Lina Khan showed in a 2012 Washington Monthly piece, President Obama actually made a valiant effort to do just that—before surrendering to a harsh counterattack from the industry’s friends in Congress.

The current presidential election would be an ideal time for beleaguered ranchers to bring corporate domination of meat markets back into the public conversation. Armed occupations of bird refuge visitor centers won’t help with that struggle.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@TroutMan

The rancher whose land abuts the removed fence says he never asked Bundy to remove the fence and never gave him permission. He already had his ranch hands repair it.

I love this quote from the rancher:

“They’re not coming onto my place no more,” he said of the militants. “If they do, I’m gonna have to do something about it. I don’t want them going across my ground.”

These Bundy dingleberries seem to think that they own everything, and don’t even respect private property.

They’d better not trespass on this guys land anymore. He sounds serious.

[Punoqllads]

@Euphonious_Polemic

These Bundy dingleberries seem to think that they own everything, and don’t even respect private property.

In the dingleberries’ defense, the rancher admits that it was one of his folks who let them onto his property and showed them to the fence. That’s why he repaired the fence.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@Punoqllads

In the dingleberries’ defense, the rancher admits that it was one of his folks who let them onto his property and showed them to the fence. That’s why he repaired the fence.

I’m betting there is an employment opportunity at that ranch now…

[running_coach]

@Dag_Otto

Betcha they take the bag of dicks with them.

That shouldn’t be needed. Sign him up for Bag of Dicks Of-The-Month-Club.

[davidm]

These fools need to hire some PR people or something. They just keep antagonizing the locals.

Militant broadcaster brands 15-year-old girl a 'prostitute' for crying in...

Earlier this week, Judge Steven Grasty’s granddaughter, Ashlie Presley, choked up at a Burns town meeting while explaining that Ammon Bundy’s armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge had put the community in fear.
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“That judge was prostituting his granddaughter for political purposes,” he opined. “I’m going to call it for what it is. If it were my granddaughter, I would not treat her like a prostitute like he did.”

According to Santilli, opponents of Bundy’s militants were a “bunch of effing communists” because they had allowed the girl to express her fear in public.

“What he did with his granddaughter is disgusting,” he continued. “It’s called prostitution, okay? Except you gave it up for free… She’s a young girl, she did just a masterful dramatic performance.”

Santilli is some sort of conservative broadcaster who was broadcasting from the refuge. Ashlie is the 15 year old granddaughter of Judge Steven Grasty.

[Fubaya]

Classy. Reeeal classy.

[coremelt]

@madmonk28

I just ordered two bags of dicks from Amazon Prime (look like sour candy of some kind). I’m sending them on when they arrive. Their mailing address is General Mail, Jon Rizheimer, Burns, OR, 97720.

I salute your fine work and suggest that you also include a (used) dildo or vibrator if you have any means to access such an item …

[BrainGlutton]

@coremelt

Apparently the bags of dicks . . .

Hey, the Bundyites asked for something to eat, right?

[madmonk28]

@coremelt

I salute your fine work and suggest that you also include a (used) dildo or vibrator if you have any means to access such an item …

Eh, the two bags of dicks came to about $10 and postage will be another $2; that’s about as much as I’m willing to spend to troll terrorists.

[Dag_Otto]

Maybe the bag of dicks was their goal the entire time.

1. Occupy refuge.
2. ???
3. Dicks!

[Princhester]

@Fubaya

Classy. Reeeal classy.

I don’t think we are left in any doubt about the answer, should Santilli ever be asked Joseph Welch’s famous question.

[Ann_Hedonia]

@madmonk28

Eh, the two bags of dicks came to about $10 and postage will be another $2; that’s about as much as I’m willing to spend to troll terrorists.

I bet lots of people are following your example, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the militiamen end up with ( literally ) a truckload of dicks. This occupation is a boon to the bagged dick industry as bagged dick factories all over this great nation are pulling overtime to replace the rapidly dwindling supplies of bagged dicks.

I’m betting the small local post office will soon be overwhelmed by not only bags and bags of dicks but other silly and fun care packages -Gawker sent one that included lightly used batteries and (4) tampons.
http://gawker.com/we-sent-the-oregon-militia-idiots-a-care-package-1751223009

All the employees signed the attached note. One of them wrote " the tampons are clean!"

I’m also wondering what will become of all the dicks when the party breaks up and everyone goes home. Will the patriots divide them up among themselves? Will the freedom warriors surreptitiously eat them ? Or will they just straight up chow down on them ( " they may be shaped like dicks but their pretty tasty and food is food"). Will they give all the dicks to the womenfolk?

Or will they be summarily discarded in some sort of post revolution clean-up, or possibly donated to a food bank or some charity that specializes in …I dunno, …bachelorette parties for homeless women or something.

Only time will tell.

[eschereal]

@davidm

These fools need to hire some PR people or something. They just keep antagonizing the locals.
Militant broadcaster brands 15-year-old girl a 'prostitute' for crying in fear at Oregon town meeting
Santilli is some sort of conservative broadcaster who was broadcasting from the refuge. Ashlie is the 15 year old granddaughter of Judge Steven Grasty.

Can we please stop calling these people “conservatives”? The local ranchers are conservative, people like Santilli, Bundy, Ailes, etc, are Right-Wing Reactionary Nightmares.

[Rick_Kitchen]

I just hope nobody sends anything dangerous that can cause damage to the postal workers.