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Sigh . . . . . .
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the armed crazy folks are still armed and crazy.
Just because Cliven Bundy lost media favor after playing his hand as a racial bigot, and just because the Second Amendment-loving paramilitary dudes surrounding him were denied their revolutionary confrontation with federal officials, that doesn't mean the wahoo business is out of business in Bunkerville, Nevada.
Bundy, the Mormon father of 14 who fought for the right to graze his cattle on taxpayer land without paying his fees, has become a straight-up George Washington for gun-toting liberty lovers and freepers nationwide, and now he's using his bully pulpit to offer them history lessons on America.
You won't find the recorded lessons on his YouTube page; you need a special link to access each one, which Bundy provides if you sign up for his corporate-style email list. Fortunately, the videos are still pretty easy to find online if you do some basic poking; I've embedded them, with transcribed highlights, below.
What's the basis of these history lessons? A lot of hilariously incorrect bullshit. To wit, Bundy explains the following:
- How America started with some pilgrims in a sailboat who thought the world—or "the ocean," in Bundy's parlance—was flat and had edges you could fall off.
- How the 13 colonies waged the American Revolution against "Europe," which had the largest army ever.
- How the Constitution is divinely inspired and useless without the Ten Commandments.
- How fans of vigorous federalism like Washington, Madison and Hamilton "didn't want a big central government, we didn't want a big state government, we was even leery about having even a local government."
"I'm not no prophet, I'm just a rancher farmer," Bundy says in the videos. But that doesn't mean he can't teach you a few things. Join him, will you? Class is just starting.
- How the founding fathers set up the three branches of U.S. government, including the "adjudical" or "judical."
This man and his wingnut followers are a hundred clowns of dumbassery trying to stuff themselves in to a Smart Car-sized clown car.
Go to the link and watch some of Mr. Bundy's YouTube classes on U.S. history - then tell The Gadfly that these are the people you want leading your nation in to your children's and grandchildren's future.
----TFG
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