Rising Hegemon
Republicans are channeling their inner Riefenstahl and praising the idea of literally blowing up Congress and overthrowing the President (who is black, as emphasized in this little agitprop).
All that's missing is harassing Latinos by demanding their papers. I guess that's for Arizona only.
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Epic Fail Guy lives.
And dreams of Kristalnacht dance in their heads.
I suspect the central theme here is tyranny (which is what motivated Guy Fawkes), and the need to metaphorically blow up the government and remake it.
I guess it just shows, once again, that the GOPers are still trying to co-opt the Teabaggers, and are still worried that they might endanger the chances of mainstream Repug candidates.
The very last thing the Repugs want to do is undo this government--it's been far too good to them and their pals over the last few decades. They just want the Teabaggers to think that's the way they think, too.
forget hitler, i smell stalin.
Do Goopers understand the the English celebrate Guy Fawkes Day as the occassion that his plot FAILED? And that far from fighting tyranny that Guy was fighting to restore an absolutist Catholic monarchy under the ultimate control of the Papacy? That in effect they are rooting on a guy (or Guy) that fought AGAINST the Dutch Republic, who were not only themselves fighting for liberty but were Protestants to boot?
Republicans got their symbolism ass-backwards here. The again they claim arch-radical revolutionary Tom Paine as a hero too. Man there is no part of American or European history so famous that these guys can't screw it up sideways.
Do Goopers understand the the English celebrate Guy Fawkes Day as the occassion that his plot FAILED?
No. this has been another edition of .....
I definitely should have been clearer, as B. Webb points out--Fawkes considered the then-current government tyrannical because of what he perceived as repression directed against Catholics in England by a Protestant government. So, in that sense, the goopers might be sympathetic to Fawkes' general intentions, but are unclear about both his lack of success and the nature of the annual celebration in England.
What probably gets the goopers confused is the fireworks (which they probably think symbolizes the gunpowder in the so-called Gunpowder Plot), but which is actually celebratory in nature, that the government remained intact. Part of the annual celebration is the burning of an effigy of Fawkes on a big bonfire.
So, very definitely, the day is celebrated for Fawkes' capture before he could carry out the scheme, rather than for sympathy with his aims.
Would it be prudent to put the CIA onto this treasonous poisonous bunch?
Of course, knowing who to trust in the CIA might be a little dicey, since, in the gospel according to w, the CIA is where the bad intelligence began vox
I think you are giving these people too much credit. i thought that any of them know who Guy Fawkes is. Obviously somebody saw the V for Vendetta movie but got it wrong and the mask & cape are so cool
actual history is moot.
If the wingnuts can spin Guy Fawkes bass-ackwards, imagine what they'd be screaming if the Tea Party was reversed:
http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html
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