• February 13, 2012

Goddammit.PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE: Ha ha, your editor told New York magazine how he would have a quiet vacation after the election, “far from any possible action” in Santa Barbara, and right now there’s a flag-waving fatigues-clad lunatic with a gun holding the entire 101 freeway hostage, in Santa Barbara. Jesus fucking christ. [KNX via Nurple]

{ 73 comments }

jagorev November 3, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Is this Joe the Gun-wielding Lunatic? Cause I think that’s a McCain campaign surrogate.

Cogito Ergo Bibo November 3, 2008 at 12:35 pm

Please, as a favor to your fellow citizens, please announce travel plans to only foreign nations in future. Preferably somewhere that is already screwed up enough that you can’t make it any worse. You know. Like France.

Deepthroat November 3, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Do we know the whereabouts of the good doctor-congressman?

whoneedslight November 3, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Does anyone know where Ashley Todd is?

dano November 3, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Congratulations Sarah Palin! Your paranoid scare tactics are making “the Base” go apeshit.

frumious_bandersnatch November 3, 2008 at 12:37 pm

…which is about three miles away from where I sit at present. I missed him by about five minutes coming in to work. …’liberal Southern California’ my oversized mixed-race queer ASS.

Giant Robot November 3, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Hey! No Early Birds for Christ’s sake!!

Cape Clod November 3, 2008 at 12:39 pm

OK, looks like some of the lunatics wanted to get an early start on the new civil war.

One Yield Regular November 3, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Ken, you should know better than to try to take a “vacation” in Santa Barbara. Palm Springs? Sure. Big Sur? Absolutely. Santa Barbara? Ick.

LittlePig November 3, 2008 at 12:41 pm

Hopefully a loaded semi that’s in the tank will be driving through presently.

FreshCliches November 3, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Santa Barbera? That’s not real Amurrikuh.

NoWireHangers November 3, 2008 at 12:44 pm

You didn’t think you’d get away from us that easily did you, Ken?

ky-jellydonuts November 3, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Good thing that repeating “Muslim” and “terrorist” over and over had no ill effects on some of the PTSD sufferers among us.

Hairy Reed November 3, 2008 at 12:44 pm

[re=160921]whoneedslight[/re]: Gunman. …oh wait

grendel November 3, 2008 at 12:45 pm

It’s ok, he won’t be prosecuted, just like the wackos with their hilarious assassination plot.

Monkey November 3, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Of course, California has that law where you have to stop for jaywalkers. So they’re all sitting helplessly in traffic while they could just be running this idiot over and getting on with their morning commute.

hrhkingfriday November 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm

[re=160922]dano[/re]: The Base- isn’t that englsih for “Al Qaeda”?

shortsshortsshorts November 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Hahaha I used to live down their. I hope the gunmen gets away.

wrenchdevil November 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm

[re=160923]frumious_bandersnatch[/re]:

Hey, gotta few minutes to spare? Maybe run over and talk some sense into this dumbfuck. Tell’em to please, just put the gun to his head and pull the trigger.

Sussemilch November 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm

[re=160908]jagorev[/re]: Brother Joe McCain maybe? He has the hots for 911.

Min November 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm

A flag? Check.
A gun? Check.
And if he has a King James Bible tucked into his belt, it will be a conservative base trifecta.

Kwame' November 3, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Ten Seconds, MacGruber!

TGY November 3, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Why is this different from the normal state of Santa Barbara?

Miller November 3, 2008 at 12:49 pm

We have been repeatedly told that only blacks will riot and then if only Obama loses. This is clearly a white man who doesn’t have a truck full of fertilizer. What gives, media? Were you wrong on the upcoming race war? Was the bunker I built unnecessary?

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

SayItWithWookies November 3, 2008 at 12:50 pm

We reap what Dubya sows. Sorry, nothing funny about this. But we’d better get used to it.

shortsshortsshorts November 3, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Race Wars are AWESOME.

Carrie_Okie November 3, 2008 at 12:52 pm

[re=160971]Min[/re]: What no Catcher in The Rye?

[re=160921]whoneedslight[/re]: Wait, Terry MacAwwwshitz won’t no Iraq vet. SHENANIGANS! If it aint him I am betting David Brooks has gone all Falling Down.

Rush November 3, 2008 at 12:52 pm

The Good Christians keep em’ comin’. Eternal Salvation RULES!!!

The Catholic bishop Kansas City, Robert Finn, urged Catholics not to vote for Barack Obama in a radio interview today — warning they put their souls at risk by supporting Obama’s “fanatical” stance on abortion rights.

“You make yourself a participant in the act of abortion and you mustn”t do it because your eternal salvation is tied up with that important choice,” Bishop Finn said

PoliticalGraffiti November 3, 2008 at 12:53 pm

awww, Ken Layne isnt getting any action

Outstando November 3, 2008 at 12:53 pm

You’re not running a real hate-based campaign unless a few popcorn kernels are popping.

Outstando November 3, 2008 at 12:54 pm

[re=160971]Min[/re]: If only we had stuck with Erasmus’s translation.

frumious_bandersnatch November 3, 2008 at 12:54 pm

[re=160969]wrenchdevil[/re]: I’m sticking *strictly* to my diet, and only drinking the blood of the evildoer, so… hokay!

Gopherit November 3, 2008 at 1:00 pm

This is reason number one I won’t be going to work on Wed. I don’t plan to run the gauntlet of angry conservatards….let them get it out of their system for a day or two. Then ship them to Australia.

Botswana Meat Commission FC November 3, 2008 at 1:02 pm

I think I already saw how this plays out in “Falling Down.”

Itsjustme November 3, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Alrighty then. Next Whacko enter and sign in plz.

V572625694 November 3, 2008 at 1:05 pm

[re=160996]Outstando[/re]: [re=160971]Min[/re]: Wouldn’t a real conservative have the Revised Standard Version? ‘Cause that King James Version is full of elitist thees and thous and poetical type talk that makes it all hard to unnerstand’n'shit.

Lionel Hutz Esq. November 3, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Wow. McCain is campaigning in California the day before the election?

What a maverick!

Kev-O-Tron November 3, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Wait wait wait. We have not heard any OFFICIAL proclamation or endorsement from the Gun Nut. How to we know he’s for Walnuts? My instincts say Paultard as any self-respecting McCaintard would show up with more fire power than a handgun, a Confederate flag and a raccoon swinging from a noose.

Giant Robot November 3, 2008 at 1:08 pm

New Drudge headline = awesome!!

nurple November 3, 2008 at 1:10 pm

OK, so that’s Santa Barbara….so what’s happening on PASSIONS?

the invisible woman November 3, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Ken, he’s comin’ for ya. He didn’t think your endorsement of McCain sounded very sincere and wants to teach you some manners. As a fellow Californian, all I can say is better you than me.

Also (said with Palinist accent) I keep writing that somebody is going to get killed on election day, and people think I’m being paranoid. I’m not. Although, somehow I thought (hoped?) this would be happening in Texas or Arkansas.

But this guy is not part of a race war. He’s part of the PTSD-War. Apparently, in honor of the possibility of a fellow-ptsd-sufferer becoming president, the other PTSD-ers are starting the PTSD War in which they all go batshit crazy on election day. This guy was always a little premature – in love and war.

RadioFreeBabylon November 3, 2008 at 1:19 pm

This shit will be ho-hum, mundane routine a week after the election, when the base has convinced itself that Sister Sarah must rise up and take the government by force. We have only seen the beginning. Red State shitheads will not accept this whole “democracy” bullshit lying down. They will convince themselves the election was “stolen” by ACORN, that many “ignorant” people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote don’t count (Thanks, Neil Boortz) and that Barack Obama is a terrorist sleeper cell in and of himself. (not to mention a foreign born, unconstitutionally elected fraud.) It will be their patriotic duty to wake all of us stupid libtards up and save America, “the greatest country on God’s Green Earth.” (Thank you Medved and Hannity.)

MARK MY WORDS!!!

Outstando November 3, 2008 at 1:19 pm

[re=161030]V572625694[/re]: If it’s not in Hebrew, it’s fake.

Viva la Cynthia November 3, 2008 at 1:22 pm

[re=161038]Giant Robot[/re]: lulz, srsly. Drudge is becoming THE place to go for YouTube oddities.

Doglessliberal November 3, 2008 at 1:25 pm

You know who we should REALLY worry about? Roberta McCain. SHE is scary. Who knows what she’ll do to those she believes stole the election from her boy (who never quite could live up to her dearly departed husband, the Admiral, but the boy still was ENTITLED to the office).

Alex Trebeks Girl November 3, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Obama flipped off John McCain according to drudge’s youtuber….
I say , what TOOK SO LONG?

Viva la Cynthia November 3, 2008 at 1:26 pm

[re=161038]Giant Robot[/re]: Also, I love his headline that “half of us will be disappointed” on the morning after. I guess they’re finally beginning to understand what the results of a FTPT executive election means…?

John McClain November 3, 2008 at 1:27 pm

From the youtube clip comments:

GayDad420 (12 seconds ago):

للعودة الى صفحة الكتاب العرب
allahu ackbar
death to america
death to israel
obama 08
المقالات المنشورة في هايد بارك تعبر فقط

I am whatever the opposite of surprised is.

sarahconnor November 3, 2008 at 1:29 pm

[re=160989]Carrie_Okie[/re]: I’m sorry, but Catcher in the Rye has nothing for poor misunderstood bigots trapped in the phoniness of Santa Barbara. eegads, I think I was more pissed at Mark David Chapman for using that book as a manifesto than for assassinating John Lennon.

phildeaux November 3, 2008 at 1:31 pm

I’m jealous.

Santa Barbara with a gun nut clogging the freeway is better than the shitplace I relocated to. What was I thinking? Now instead of a long morning walk from Butterfly Beach to Summerland during low tide with my dog,or hiking around the Ellwood Mesa, I have to walk through dumpy neighborhoods. And instead of a tour of vineyards, all they grow here is honey. And Mormons.

Make sure you go to La Superica and order the specials of the day. 622 N. Milpas St. Also, stay away from State St. as much as possible, especially on the weekends.

nyhfrog November 3, 2008 at 1:32 pm

Angryblakguy, and others,

When the shit starts really going down I need to know the secret words, hand gestures, whatever…

You know me. We’ve been together on this site for almost ten months. You know I take my First Ladies like I take my coffee…

Let’s put it this way: I’m a white West Texan ready to go Rogue.

cal November 3, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Ha ha, Ken mentioned cannibals in New York magazine.

WonderWomyn November 3, 2008 at 1:34 pm

And they are sending the SWAT teams to the black neighborhoods again … why?

WonderWomyn November 3, 2008 at 1:35 pm

[re=161064]Alex Trebeks Girl[/re]: Drudge just looks so sad right now–

Alex Trebeks Girl November 3, 2008 at 1:37 pm

[re=161089]WonderWomyn[/re]: I wish drudge had a camera so we could watch him work. I’d love to see his eyes get big at that stupid video. Yap! he flipped ‘im off!

tremendous November 3, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Joe the plumber’s gone rouge. for REAL this time…

Modok November 3, 2008 at 1:48 pm

ugh, Palin is screeching on the TeeVee about some shit, I think I need Joe the Bridge Taker to light off a few rounds near my head to drown out the imbicility. Wonder if he’s the same wacko who was shooting at cars on the freeway there a few months ago?

I’m gonna watch Children of Men to cheer myself up a bit…

V572625694 November 3, 2008 at 2:09 pm

[re=161052]Outstando[/re]: Well, doesn’t the New Testament have to be in Aramaic?

sk1win November 3, 2008 at 2:09 pm

This gun man is a forward looking guy. He knows Hopey will take his gun on November 5th so he is getting his gun on now while he can. If Obama loses, this guy will be McCain’s Sec. of Defense.

trh November 3, 2008 at 2:11 pm

[re=161079]phildeaux[/re]: I agree; I miss Santa Barbara, even more when I hear stories like this. I’m personally partial to Los Arroyos, the one on Fig. off State.

My first thought on seeing this was, oh, Isla Vista Halloween reveler on a dare.

Toomush Infermashun November 3, 2008 at 2:14 pm

Ken, try leaving the country if you want a little r&r – try Montreal, it’s in France….

the invisible woman November 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm

A[re=161081]nyhfrog[/re]: I’m black too so I guess I’m one of the “others.” There’s no secret handshake, just don’t be an asshole and don’t forget your manners with black people, which is a common problem. I’m in Southern California, and every Obama site I’ve been too has been packed with very sweet, cool white volunteers.

Remember, black people are more likely to be mean to each other than to white people. Besides, our expectations of white people being nice to us are pretty darn low. A polite smile – a normal one, not a phony, creepy, psycho, John McCain, one – should do it for most of us. You know, just like the smiles you give to other white people? Spare a few for us, and you’ll be fine. Basically, remember we’re black, but forget to be racist.

Tra November 3, 2008 at 2:22 pm

I hear Baghdad is nice this time of year.

102415 November 3, 2008 at 2:53 pm

I used to joke in a mean way with NRA members that when the government really wanted to take away guns they would have a niffty list all ready at the NRA. My dream of only allowing criminals (who need them for work goddamn it!)to have guns will soon be real. I’m hoping.

frumious_bandersnatch November 3, 2008 at 2:56 pm

The guy surrendered, after they let him hang his american flag and an Obama/Biden sign on the overpass.

No, I am not kidding.

P.S. LaSuperica ROCKS, like a big bucket of rocking things.

TGY November 3, 2008 at 3:21 pm

[re=161376]frumious_bandersnatch[/re]: Haha, those crazy-violent Obamatards.

Dawn Keipuntsh November 3, 2008 at 3:51 pm

[re=161075]sarahconnor[/re]: The book of choice in this case should be Atlas Shrugged, or at least A Choice, Not an Echo By Phyllis Schlafly…

nurple November 3, 2008 at 3:52 pm

This will bring more Mccainiacs to Obama.hah

phildeaux November 3, 2008 at 4:36 pm

[re=161212]trh[/re]: Los Arroyos is a great choice too. I had to move away from Santa Barbara for the wife. Now she is doing everything in her power to get us to move back. We just need housing prices to drop 95% and we should be able to afford a starter home.

Was our esteemed editor in Isla Vista for Halloween? Like a fish out of water.

nyhfrog November 3, 2008 at 7:09 pm

[re=161258]the invisible woman[/re]: Uhh…thanks. What I wrote was an attempt at self-parody, by the way, if it didn’t come off as such, my bad. But it seems you took offense where none was intended except as…well…self parody.

the invisible woman November 3, 2008 at 7:26 pm

[re=162095]nyhfrog[/re]: I got it. I just considered it a “teachable moment.”

the invisible woman November 3, 2008 at 7:26 pm

[re=162095]nyhfrog[/re]: I knew it was a joke, but why are you so annoyed by the suggestion that you be nice to black people?

1ofUS November 3, 2008 at 11:36 pm

Waving the flag in one hand and a gun in the other is an “anti-war sentiment?” – only in Santa Major Barbara.

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