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Roger Clyne and the Wankmakers
Don't get me wrong, but I really do love Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. I just hate their fans. It's like Jesus, in a way.

Recently, I've been lurking the band's message board. I can give you a dozen examples of little wankers, but none of them are nearly as epic as this:

Mexican Acts of War.

Which doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary of general Mexico bashing, etc, until you account for the fact that the band has a huge show in Mexico 2 weekends a year, attended by thousands of fans. And about half their songs are about Mexico, and everything's sprinkled with Mexican culture and Spanish language.

Having been to their Mexico show, I can tell you it's basically a bunch of old fat yuppies tearing through the dunes in their hummers and ATVs, throwing their garbage all over the place, getting sloshed on every corner of every street, and bitching about the locals. Yet these people are the same people who want Mexico bombed back into the stone age, apparently.

Irony, much? I can barely squeak past the first page. But with help, I have managed to compile some highlights:

-As someone who lived in Fargo for 40 years I can tell you exactly where Fargo's immigration problems are...I saw it personally for a long long time

-This President is sending good ole' American children to the slaughterhouse like the children were Jews and this administration were the Nazi's

-I woudn't rule out airstrikes on Mexico City. The Mexican govt has to get the message.

-It would be nice to get control of the border and keep the goddam Mexicans from stealing all our cars.

-And you know what's funny?

To put it another way, George W Bush is a LIBERAL. As in both a big-government, "compassionate" modern liberal, and a "Freedom for all peoples," sounding like Democrats like John F Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson liberal.

To have the Democrats call HIM, of all people, "far right wing," well, that amounts to a confession of exactly how far LEFT wing they've become

Now, generously sprinkle with references to genocide, big business, and The War on Drugs/Terrorism/WMD/Canada and you get the picture

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	amyheartssiroc 2006-05-23 07:02 pm UTC (link)
	Don't get me wrong, but I really do love Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. I just hate their fans. It's like Jesus, in a way. Bwa! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	What gets even more hilarious, is Roger totally wants to be Bono now. -_- (Reply to this)(Parent)

	honorh 2006-05-23 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	Dude, that guy doesn't just violate Godwin's--he rapes it with a chainsaw and leaves it dying in a shallow grave! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	In a shallow grave in Mexico! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2006-05-23 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	To have the Democrats call HIM, of all people, "far right wing," well, that amounts to a confession of exactly how far LEFT wing they've become :O ... I got nothing. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	It hurt my brain. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-23 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	Mine too. criezOMG (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	Liberal as compared to who? Bill O'Reilly? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-23 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Srsly. Pat Buchanan? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	...Hitler? XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-23 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	laughs hysterically at your icon (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Man, I totally forgot I had all these awesome icons over here. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-23 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	You totally do. XD XD XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	You're no slouch yourself. :p (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-23 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	g What can I say, I'm a shameless icon h0r. Someone uses one that amuses me, and I'm like, "ZOMG!!! May I steal plz?!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eag 2006-05-23 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Also, since I'm out of the loop, is there a law for when someone cites The Real World or Real Life? Like, "THIS IS WAT REEL LIFE IS LIEK" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-23 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	They should definitely lose -100 life points for that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wolfshark 2006-05-23 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	speechless (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	I don't even know what to think, because do they think that they'll be magically exempt and allowed to go party in Mexico if the border's closed? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wolfshark 2006-05-23 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	Of course they will! Because they're white, god fearing AMERICANS who should be allowed to do what they want all times. It makes me sick of my own country sometimes (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

eag
2006-05-23 07:56 pm UTC (link)

I know. It's just disgusting. There's this little resort area that the band hangs out in for a "meet the band" brunch kind of thing the next morning after the show. We went there out of curiosity, bypassing lean-to shacks on dirt roads. When you get there, the entrance to that little town is guarded by armed police. After you go inside, there are no more Mexicans, just 5 star hotels, beautiful villas, fancy restaurants, and white people.

It made me sick. We swung a U-turn and headed home.

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	miharu 2006-05-23 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	Guh, what? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder if being so hypocritical hurts them. Because I hope it does. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladysorka 2006-05-23 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	Well. Bush is financially fairly liberal (let's throw money at it!), and there is the fact that he and the rest of the neo-cons have rather left behind the "leave it to the States" and "big government is bad" philosophy of old school conservatives. But he's socially extremely conservative, and that's where the big difference comes in. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-23 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	But he's socially extremely conservative, and that's where the big difference comes in. Oh, definitely. And it's just strange seeing Republicans pushing for federal power over states. That confuses me. It's like a Yakov Smirnoff joke. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mmanurere 2006-05-23 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	Well, even the financial liberalism is of the "neo-" variety -- it's the one where his solution to every problem is "throw money at corporations and rich people! Caviar for all!" I think he really transcends "liberal" and "conservative"...perhaps the better term is "batshit robber-baron". (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dragonfangirl 2006-05-23 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	Plutocrat? Not that they're necessarily mutually exclusive... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mmanurere 2006-05-23 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	That works too...I'm just looking for an expression of the bizarre fusion of astounding incompetence with depressing effectiveness of the Bush approach. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2006-05-24 12:51 am UTC (link)

Well, I think he's more than happy to throw money at military ventures, but at the same time he's equally as happy to cut funding to social ones. The Brilliant Neo-Con Plan (tm) to privatize social security, and the massive cuts to foreign aid packages.

So, while I agree that Bush sure does know how to spend, I'd argue that spending money primarily on sweet new armored toys is not being true to the principles of financial liberalism.

Back on topic now: I'm with EAG. I really, really like this band. I've met them before and they're the greatest guys. I don't know how they get saddled with fans like this. Whatever pays the bills, I guess... :P

greekhoop @ LJ

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	aerobot 2006-05-24 12:14 am UTC (link)
	So, the American solution to all problems : bomb it? facepalm (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-24 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	And yeah, seriously, what's there to bomb in Mexico City? @_@ A ton of Mexican civilians? Historic Mayan ruins? That'll make us look REAL good in the international community. If we ever did shit like that, I'd be calling for economic sanctions against ourselves. (Reply to this)(Parent)

also_not_a_pipe
2006-05-24 07:50 am UTC (link)

...sounding like Democrats like John F Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson liberal.

Mm-hm. So throwing all black people out of federal jobs just 'cos, throwing the US into the Great War after getting re-elected on a promise to keep the US out of the War, and starting up "The Hun is watching you! Good Americans rat on their neighbors!" programs that foreshadow both McCarthyism and the TAPS stunt that Bush tried to pull a few years ago is liberal is it? Just checking.

(Sorry, after writing my final paper for my HIST 430 writing and research class on advertisements in Good Housekeeping during the First World War, I just really, really hate Woodrow Wilson.)

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	eag 2006-05-24 04:17 pm UTC (link)
	Well, wanting to cooperate with foreigners is liberal, donchaknow. Also, talking to them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amxjm 2006-05-24 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	But hanging out in their land regardless of if they actually want you there is totally kosher if you're American, right? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-24 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, totally. Because, you know, their country would sink into the ocean without American dollars keeping them alive. We're just doing them a charity. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	also_not_a_pipe 2006-05-25 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, silly me. I keep forgetting how pinko it is to get along with people. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	zuzu 2006-05-24 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	Your icon is so wonderful. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eag 2006-05-24 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks. Yours rocks. XP (Reply to this)(Parent)