Posts Tagged ‘fear porn
Alright! It was me! Okay?? I Almost Shrugged.
As Kevin pointed out, his “friend” was seriously considering going underground. Yes, it was me. LOL…I admit I’ve been in a fog of shock and horror for the last week. But after copious amounts of macaroni and cheese and study of our founders and what they wanted for us…I’m back. Dammit. Read more about it here.
DOOM ANTIDOTE: How to identify and control fear porn in the last two weeks of the election
In the last two weeks of the election, please be on the lookout for purveyors and fetishists of fear porn; this is any wild story designed to panic, terrify, and bedevil those in the population who, for whatever reason, seem inclined to actually enjoy being frightened by ridiculous fiction and scared out of their damn minds. “Fear porn” reminds me of the “shark porn” episode of Friends where Monica caught Chandler masturbating in a hotel room and, embarrassed, he switched the tee-vee to the next station up…which just happened to be Discovery’s Shark Week during a great white feeding frenzy. Monica then believed her husband was aroused by watching toothy monsters of the deep churn the ocean red with bits of bone and seal blubber…and, of course, hilarity ensued for Must See TV. I honestly believe that people who spread and revel in fear porn must get a similar carnal kick out of it…because why else is it so all-consuming to these people?
I don’t understand the appeal of either fear porn or shark porn, but hey, to each their own (so long as either doesn’t interfere with the ability of themselves or those around them to actually function as productive humans). It’s Halloween season and I like watching spooky horror stories, particularly about ghosts or haunted houses…but I know they are just movies and, while interesting, they don’t send me into states of panic or cripple me emotionally. I don’t think being scared is sexy and I actually can’t watch the really gory and bloody movies because it’s all too disturbing and real to me; I was the security manager of a hotel many years ago and we had a few suicides in bathtubs, lots of random stabbings, and a murder in the kitchen so I’ve seen enough blood, trauma, and death to last me forever. Let’s just say that sitting through a marathon of Friday the 13th or the Nightmare on Elm Street movies is not my idea of a good time after filling out incident reports in the security field. I admit I enjoy the show The Walking Dead on AMC, though…but that’s mainly because people surviving the zombie apocalypse makes me strangely nostalgic for growing up in Cleveland in the 80s in a crumbling, descending-into-abject-ruin part of town I affectionately still call “Thunderdome”. My boyfriend Justin thinks it’s equal parts sad and hilarious that movies which feature people fending off hordes of ghouls amidst the burned-out remnants of civilization make me think of “home”.
There are indeed people out there who love being terrified…hence the proliferation of haunted houses this time of year where many pay good money to have the stuffing scared out of them by teenagers hidden behind rubber fright masks. In the political world, there are friends and neighbors who deliberately watch MSNBC or read sites that consistently run stories that upset them immensely. None of these articles or “special reports” on the air are any more real than a Michael Meyers filmfest…but the fear porn addicts race around believing the sky is falling and we’re all doomed, doomed, DOOMED.
Let’s be clear that the fear-porn addicted aren’t “Eeyores” (those sad sacks that are forever depressed, worried, or convinced that all is lost and that Barack Obama will be president forever if he’d so choose) or “Tiggers” (those who bounce around from one wild theory to the next gasping for breath, though not really terrified of anything). There’s no cutesy animal nickname for those addicted to fear porn, but that’s probably appropriate since those of this persuasion honestly do treat being afraid like it’s a gratifying psycho-sexual high.Terror = excitement = addiction = allowing our corrupt national media to suggest crazy things to them that can easily be extrapolated into end-of-the-world fantasies.
Justin’s mother CarolAnne is heavily into fear porn and she’s spread this interest somewhat to her son (which is not a healthy pursuit to share with anyone, let alone her child). CarolAnne gets her fix of terror from some radio show she listens to late at night (but Justin won’t tell me which one so I’m inclined to believe it’s Alex Jones or something even more fringe than that); she also watches MSNBC nonstop and has a powerful imagination that conjures all manner of nightmare scenarios from the wisps of surreality that the Ministry of Truth spins on that cable channel. I guess if you accept everything Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow say as the actual truth then you’d be terrified all the time, too, because the 2008 election would have, indeed, been “transformational” as MSNBC keeps claiming and this would no longer be a nation that’s conservative at heart but one that loves Barack Obama more than ever and longs for another four years of this grief. This is just not the reality in our dimension no matter how much CarolAnne imagines it is.
Fear porn needs to be somewhat plausible in at least one regard, so that fetishists can claim to others that “this must be true”. Often it presumes that Barack Obama does indeed want to see America as we know it collapse and be replaced by something else that’s more or less at the level of an average Central American or African economy. I’ll grant that Obama does, indeed, want to see this country first plundered and then impoverished so that our wealth can be redistributed around the world in the name of “social justice” and “global fairness”. But, where CarolAnne and the other fear porn addicts lose me involves their bizarre belief that Barack Obama is some sort of Lex Luthor/George Soros style supervillain and evil genius who could really implement any sort of complicated scheme of this magnitude.
Folks, Obama was a C and D student in high school. He smoked dope and did drugs all through his time at Occidental in California. He was, however, smart enough to apply to Columbia using his Indonesian name and adopted identity of Soebarkah to game the admissions system at a time when the Ivy Leagues were DESPERATE to fill diversity quotas with English-speakers from Oceania (Indonesia really fit the bill with that, didn’t it?). I maintain that the real reason Obama’s been so mysterious about his past — and in particular about his college records — is because he received generous scholarships and financial aid packages by applying to school as an Indonesian citizen, not as an American. I bet he also benefited from funds provided by the Wahabi Saudi Royal family — which has been financing the studies of Muslims in the Ivy League for years. I’m convinced Obama never got a grade above a C or a D in his life unless it was in Islamic studies and that the weirdness surrounding John Roberts needing to readminister his oath of office a second time in 2009 relates to the fact that his legal name is still Soebarkah and not “Barack Obama” as he claims (because his mother changed his name legally to Soebarkah in the 1970s when his stepfather Lolo Soetoro adopted him, but Obama never changed his name back again to “Barack Obama” legally since no record of such a name change exists). For sake of clarity, we should all just call this man “Bathhouse Barry” from now on and end all confusion. Rub, a dub, dub!
If you’ve even casually observed the last four years with this man in the White House you’d know Bathhouse Barry (has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?) is an incompetent bumbler who does not much like people and is not inclined to work hard; the guy is a figurehead who enjoys the perks of office and is in the position he’s in because the Democrat Party wanted to run a black man for President because they assumed that with someone black in office the Left could just call all of his critics racists and they’d be able to pass anything they wanted. The Clintons had tried to set Harold Ford Jr. up to become the first black president one day (after Hillary), but he lost his Senate race in Tennessee and then married a blonde white woman so his national political career is done (since black women hate black men who marry white women…and no Democrat wins high office with baggage like that). Jesse Jackson tried for years to make his son Jesse Jr. presentable as a potential “first black president”, but his drug and mental problems doomed any chance of that years ago. Seeing an opportunity to elect just about anyone in 2008 after Bush (and with Republicans stupidly running “it’s his turn” candidate John McCain), the Left pushed Hillary Clinton aside because they knew the intellectually incurious and fame-seeking Obama would essentially let lefties do whatever they pleased if he was in office (and Hillary couldn’t be so easily controlled like that because, well, she’s Hillary Rodham Clinton). Obama wanted glory and lavish living free of charge and the Left wanted free rein over the country with zero oversight, checks, or balances.
Which is precisely what happened with the Trillion dollars wasted in the stimulus that accomplished nothing, Obamacare (which most Democrats never even read before passing just “to see what was in it”, according to Nancy Pelosi), the mess in Libya, Fast & Furious, Pigford, and the green energy boondoggles that still keep coming. Obama voted “present” on all of this, just as he did in the Illinois state senate because all Bathhouse Barry cares about is the perks of high office and forever touring the world as a mega-celebrity bigger then Beyonce and Jay-Z combined. For a confused, gay man with serious daddy issues and a disjointed and malignant sense of self, living the high life and not spending a second fretting over actual leadership and governance was a dream job. Of course he wanted it, but Democrats should have been careful what they wished for because it ended up destroying them.
I mention all this because those who revel in fear porn do so with complete disregard for the reality that Bathhouse Barry is not intelligent enough to be as dangerous as these people claim. If Obama was really smart, his regime wouldn’t keep making such stupid and obvious mistakes. Yes, he’s been immensely lucky that the national media beclowned itself for four years and still won’t report accurately on anything he does, especially his incompetence, because of his skin color. Just imagine the damage Democrats could have REALLY done if the first black Democrat president had been both a Marxist AND competent. He’d have tanked the country in a year or two. Tops.We’d have never been able to stop him if he achieved what he wanted from 2008-2010 when Democrats possessed all the levers of power for the first time in generations.
Thank our benevolent and ever-loving God that at the moment the Left absorbed nearly unlimited power they had but a mere figurehead and dilettante at the helm…or the country would be in true ruins right now.
If you notice something subtle that’s happening, the Left is already calling Bathhouse Barry the first “biracial president” and that verbiage will become the required terminology in the future because Democrats will try to run another black man again in the years ahead…and next time it will be someone more forceful, aggressively destructive, and disciplined. That will be in 30 years or so, when a few generations have passed on and people left alive foolishly start forgetting how bad life gets when Democrats with Leftist bents hold national office.
CarolAnne calls her son every day to tell him she heard on the radio that Bathhouse Barry is going to declare martial law and “suspend the elections!”.
That is not going to happen. He can’t do that. There is no “October Surprise!” coming to shutdown the elections. Don’t believe this nonsense for a second because it is just fear porn.
CarolAnne says that once Obama loses he’s going to use November, December, and January to free all prisoners, run the economy into the ground, and sign treaties out of spite to punish Americans for not reelecting him.
That’s just not possible (because…seriously…that sort of thing was never even allowed to play out on the old 24 tee-vee show with Keifer Sutherland since there are not only protocols and procedures to prevent that from happening but the Democrat Party will not allow him to do that, since it would mean Democrats’ certain destruction as a political entity if he even hinted that he’d try). This is just fear porn again.
CarolAnne thinks that the UN is going to send troops to all our polling palaces to rig the election for a Democrat win.
This is not reality because the UN is not competent enough to pull off basic peacekeeping missions, let alone the conquest of the United States. Fear porn!
CarolAnne is not at the point where she thinks Obama is a space lizard sent here to take Earth’s water, but sometimes I wonder if this is what’s next from her.
Classic fear porn!
I do believe another term in office for Obama would mean disaster for the country and that Democrats would loot the Treasury completely to reduce us to third world status while attempting to create their socialist paradise on Earth that many of these dangerous loons have been dreaming about for thirty years while cloistered in academia. But, I think Americans have seen Democrats for who they really are and 2010 was just a warm-up to what’s going to happen at the polls in two weeks. Romney’s going to win, and he will win BIG…and the Left will be banished to the political wilderness for another 30 or so odd years. There will not be another Democrat in the White House for a long, long time if Romney/Ryan deliver on their promises the way I know they will. I have complete confidence and faith in America’s comeback team.
If you have a fear porn aficionado in your life…please slap the person if you need to, like you see in movies, or dump some cold water on him or her until the fear porn buzz wears off. After Justin gets off the phone with his mother, he sometimes asks me if “Obama can really stop the election or just claim he won when he didn’t” and I need to spend an hour or two showing him exactly why whatever his mother told him is nuts. The 2010 elections wiped out most of the people George Soros pushed into Secretaries of State and Governors’ offices across the country…so there is no rigging this election. While it’s sadly true that Democrats use voter fraud as an election tactic, in 2012 it will be very hard for them to get away with anything primarily because Mitt Romney’s campaign has organized the greatest GOTV and fraud-prevention effort in history. If Democrats attempt anything, they will be caught. And we’ll all know about it instantly.
There is no need to succumb to bizarre fears right now. The Left is actually weaker than it has ever been, Americans currently see Democrats as the Leftists they truly are, and conservatives are motivated and organized than ever to boot as many lefties from office as possible. This is no time to be afraid…it is a time to be bold, work hard, and then rejoice in our triumph the night of November 6th.
If you’re someone who finds this fear porn stuff exciting…and you enjoy curling up on the floor in the fetal position and crying, moaning, and/or urinating all over yourself…then maybe it’s time to turn off Alex Jones and change the channel away from MSNBC. Pop onto Amazon.com and watch nonstop horror movies instead and go nuts with Halloween as your excuse. Just stop exhausting yourself and others around you with the fear porn. Give it a rest for two weeks…and after the election if you are still into this then I’m sure there will be plenty of things for you to be irrationally afraid of then.
Try shark porn for a while to see if it helps. Or, even better, put all that nervous energy to productive use and go volunteer for the Romney campaign doing something to help defeat Obama where you live.
Justin’s big on waking me up in the middle of the night telling me he’s scared and can’t sleep (so I guess I don’t get to sleep either) and he’s afraid that Democrats are going to do such and such. He asks me what happens then, and I just tell him I will stop them and it will all be okay. “What if you can’t stop them?”, he mumbles…and I tell him that I will use HB to ask for reinforcements…and that someone who reads this will have an idea that will work and we will stop them. “What if no one can think of anything?”, Justin adds…and I tell him that then I’ll badger every big thinker and political powerhouse I can contact until we raise a coast to coast electronic army to find a solution and stop the bad guys. Like always. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll conduct a seance with Andrew Breitbart or something and we’ll figure it out. But, I won’t cower in fear — ever — and will not give up until we’ve either beaten the Left or the Left’s finally killed me. Now, go back to sleep Justin because your mother will be calling at 5am on the dot as always and you need your rest to handle her.
Whatever terrible thing Democrats attempt from now on, we’ll all stop them together. We will remain unafraid because the Left is not really comprised of supervillains and master strategists with magical powers, no matter what those with the fear porn fetish CHOOSE to believe for their own kicks and enjoyment. We will resist, rebut, respond, to the Left as required…and rendezvous once again with the destiny of American greatness.
May the Democrat Party tremble before the awesome might of the awakened giant that is the American spirit…slumbering no more.
Never again. Not in our lifetimes. History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes and Democrats are in for a major reality adjustment on November 6th…since the rebuke the American people gave to Jimmy Carter in 1980 is going to look like a mild scolding after that awakened giant gets done with Bathhouse Barry in two weeks. 2010 was the warmup act. 2012 is the real show.
It’s going to be an absolute decimation for Democrats, even in places they always felt secure and invincible.
The only people who should be cowering in fear right now realizing the sky is falling (for them!) have (D)s at the ends of their names.
“D” for dunces…and for DOOMED!
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Is fear porn a problem for those around you?
What are some crazy things that people in your life are afraid of during this election?
Know any good coping mechanisms for them?
This is an open thread, so tell us what’s happening on the ground near YOU today!
Black People Will Not Riot When Obama Loses — don’t believe this crazy fantasy for a second
Today, Matt Drudge is pushing fear porn that black people are going to riot when Obama loses.
I want to address this head-on for any of you out there who enjoy jumping on things of this nature like you’re hopping on a hay ride through a haunted forest at Halloween; it’s called “fear porn” because the people who revel and trade in things like this get a masturbatory thrill from being afraid and scaring others with the ridiculous. My boyfriend Justin’s mother, CarolAnne, is a fear porn fetishist who reads articles she sees on Drudge about “race riots when Obama loses” and promptly calls Justin REPEATEDLY until she harangues him that he needs to move back to Arkansas and live in her basement because “Chicago will explode when Obama loses!”. To be frank, if CarolAnne could find a way for Justin to shrink down and move back into her WOMB she’d be the happiest woman in the world…but she’ll settle for him living in her basement in Eureka Springs instead of Chicago.
There will be no riots when Obama loses.
I grant that MSNBC, in particular, is attempting to gin these up by radicalizing this election. Last week, I got to talk to Ann Coulter about this while discussing her new book, Mugged. I asked her flat-out if she thought the Ministry of Truth was capable of sparking riots when Obama loses and Coulter said that there’s zero chance of this happening because black people are too smart to be manipulated like that.
Blacks don’t love Obama. This might be news to you, but there’s absolutely zero love for this man in the black community. Yes, they race-vote for him out of racial pride because blacks have a long history of comparing candidates’ skin color to their own and voting for whoever is closer to mocha, chocolate, or mahogany in a Sherwin Williams sample book. Blacks enjoy voting for someone who “looks like them”, but they don’t riot when that person loses an election. There would be riots every time a black candidate lost anything, and that just doesn’t happen.
Re-electing Obama is a lot different than electing him in the first place. Obama’s the first black president. He won in 2008. Nothing can take that away or make people forget it. While many blacks will be disappointed when Obama loses on November 6th, they are not going to burn Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, or Atlanta to the ground because of it. There may be some grumbling, but any anger that manifests will be directed at Obama himself for not doing a better job in office. Blacks are as disappointed in this president as the rest of the country…despite the fact that blacks by and large will, however, vote for him anyway just because they like how his skin color registers on those paint swatches.
There is as much chance of blacks rioting over Obama’s loss on November 6th as there is of zombies rising from graves and ending our society in an undead apocalypse that day. I know tee-vee shows about this are fun to watch and are exciting, but this is not reality. Black people are not unthinking monsters who riot over some perceived outrage. That would be Muslims.
Black people are smarter than that and don’t want to see violence rage after the election. There is absolutely no desire for rioting or violence in the black community.
Now…I will say that the Left wants white people to be forever terrified of blacks, because that’s how the Left holds power in this country. It indeed is part of the Obama campaign’s strategy to pump fear into the election in hopes that independents decide to either vote for him or stay home on election day to avoid “black people rioting!”. That’s a tactic out of the Alinsky playbook and is what’s known as psychological operations (or “psy-ops” for short). Don’t fall for it.
I got to speak to Stephen K. Bannon a few weeks ago on the radio and he insists that Occupy Wall Street is alive and well and just waiting for its chance to engage in anarchy…so he’d probably be inclined to believe that OWS would seize an Obama loss on election day as an excuse to riot. Frankly, Bannon peddles fear porn sometimes and I disagree with him. When the FBI busted OWS attempting to blowup bridges in Cleveland the entire game Occupy was playing changed, whether Bannon can see it or not. That Cleveland bust was a big deal that’s not talked about a lot. OWS should be divided into pre-Cleveland and post-Cleveland phases because after the FBI arrested the people responsible for planning the bombings there I believe Democrats realized in horror how close they came to being directly affiliated with domestic terrorism in this country. Democrats then distanced themselves from OWS and not a single Democrat political figure will even acknowledge the “movement” existed at all…they completely pretend it never happened and abandoned all plans to use these people as goon squads in the election.
That was a HUGE surprise to me, because I fully expected Obama to use an “Occupy and Persecute” class warfare goon squad campaign to attack Romney…but that’s not manifested and with three weeks left to go before the election it’s not going to happen, either. If the Cleveland bridge-bombings weren’t planned and prevented then I think OWS would have still been a Democrat favorite. The FBI busts in Cleveland changed everything and stopped OWS from being a major force in the election…which in turn prevents it from being in a position to encourage rioting on November 6th or 7th.
This is a lot like the Y2K fear porn that we all had to endure leading up to New Year’s Eve in 1999. I worked in a hotel back then as a security manager and I had to use up most of my budget buying emergency flashlights and bottled water for people who ended up not needing any of that. It was a complete waste of time and energy worrying about computers melting down because they wouldn’t be able to understand the year 2000. Thinking about all of this seems so absurd right now…as it will be on November 7th when Obama’s defeated and zero riots have broken out anywhere.
While the Left and Islam share a lot of similar tactics…and while Leftists probably would enjoy seeing riots in the streets when Obama loses…the simple fact is that unlike with Muslims the majority of people in the Democrat ranks do not enjoy using violence as a means of self-expression and they do not set fires or murder people when they are upset about something.
Obama will lose. Romney will win. Cities will not burn. The talking heads on MSNBC will all have heart attacks and flail about unable to explain what’s happening. But there will be NO RIOTS.
I want to say this in as clear a way as possible: there are times in life when it might be exciting to jump into an orgy of fear porn and upset everyone you know with something you think is scary and exciting…but going around claiming there will be riots when Obama loses is just plain DUMB. Please don’t be foolish and get sucked up into this. There are surely better things for you to worry about…like great white sharks somehow getting into your bathtub or toilet. Be afraid of THAT before you work yourself up over riots when Obama loses.
