From Crooks & Liars: "Chest-Thumping Obnoxiousness Is The Right's Ideology Now"--

[tblue37]

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/03/chest-thumping-obnoxiousness-rights

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Lashing out at these kids wasn't a poorly thought-out blunder. Chest-thumping obnoxiousness is precisely what the right-wing base wantsfrom the NRA (and the GOP). It's the reason Donald Trump beat seventeen other Republican candidates, and a major contributing factor to his general election turnout in 2016. It's what some right-wing pundits are honest enough to admit is the appeal of many of the things Republican politicians do:

https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter
The main reason for President Trump to pardon Sheriff Joe was fuck you, leftists.
The new rules, bitches.

After the Sandy Hook massacre, Wayne LaPierre delivered a defiant, inflammatory speech in which he denounced the media, videogame developers, and "monsters" running amok in our streets -- but his words about the victims and their families, however perfunctory, at least feigned sympathy:

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That's not the NRA's style anymore. The organization's core audience (which is also the GOP's core audience) wants aggression, hostility, and contempt. It wants these things as ends in themselves -- sure, they're seen as a means of getting what the base wants, but they're also satisfying on their own. This hostility, whether from Steve King or Colion Noir, Donald Trump or Dana Loesch, is a major reason that male identification with the Republican Party has been rising in recent years,according to Pew. We know the NRA is selling apocalyptic fear these days -- but it's also selling "fuck you, leftists" as an antidote to that fear -- and as the rhetorical equivalent of blowing the crap out of some targets with an AR-15 at the gun range.

The Colion Noir video (and his other recent rants against the Parkland kids) may seem obnoxious to us, but that's okay with the NRA -- to the intended audience, obnoxiousness is the point.

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[lame54]

1. The politics of spite

[Wounded Bear]

2. Just catching on to that, are they?

I mean, they've been doing that for years upon years.

[bullwinkle428]

3. "FUCK YOU, LIBTARDS!!1!", has been growing in the right-wing petri dish

going back to the Reagan era, if not earlier.

[NBachers]

4. They've been bloody assholes my entire life. This is what long-haired me had to put up with in 1968