Let the circular firing squad begin.
Good grief! Did the earth stop spinning for a minute there? I guess even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
He probably misses his super-cheap, super-hardworking south-of-the-border ranchhands.
I sincerely doubt this is from any kindness of the heart or compassion.
JFC, can we please be done with this cos-playing welfare queen?!?
It seems some of Ammon Bundy’s detractors haven’t read Jerome Corsi’s 1971 doctoral dissertation on the fragility of political dissent.
You’re not wrong. Ranchers and farmers have depended on the labor of seasonal immigrants for all of recorded American history. Some of the most used to the idea of open borders are ranchers I’ve known.
This a$$hole lives 30 minutes from my home. Stop giving him publicity. These are some of the things he says and the media gladly publishes it. He’s a whiny self-serving criminal.
“At an April stop in Modesto, California, Bundy called the state’s well-documented water issues
“a lie,” claimed ice from asteroids replenishes the Earth’s water and
said environmentalists are out to “entirely destroy the happiness of
human life,” the Modesto Bee reported.”
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article220054820.html
Can we have one freaking week without headlines from people like this guy and OrangeJulius? Can’t you quarantine this stupidity in another section so that we don’t have to see this drivel on the front page every day? There are intelligent people in this world who some of us would like to hear.
I can see why everyone thought he was in camp Trump.
Jesus, this guy again?
Truly, we are dead and this is Hell.
I’m glad to hear this kind of thing from anyone on the crazy hard right.
There are currently 31073 Prime members. How about just picking one at random and asking them what they think instead of giving this fuck more oxygen.
Behold - redemption.
Ben Dovah Bundy!
Even a stopped clock is correct twice per day.
I don’t know his motivations, but, for a change, he’s not wrong here. Hell must have frozen over. I hadn’t realized climate change extended that far.
Lie down with dogs and wake up being dry humped?
This is fun to watch. The self styled hero for justice and equality that he has envisioned himself has just had a hard bump up against reality where he can no longer sustain his own version of reality. This is the problem with Bundy, he is not actually evil, just nuts, and there is a big difference. He honestly believes what he did was for the good of mankind to bring about justice to evils he was sure were occuring. As such he was ready to die a martyr’s death in a fiery showdown with the oppressive dystopian government that existed in his imagination. It must have been quite a wake up to him when he was not gunned down but was treated quite humanely. In his own mind he had to turn it into his ordeal as an unjust political prisoner to make it mesh with his own warped world view. Somewhere in there though I suspect the idea that his perception of reality might not be correct might have crossed his mind. Then when he sees his fellow supporters, including the orange savior Trump, acting in ways that are utterly cruel and cannot be justified even by his fantasy interpretations, he is faced with the real choice of is he the good man ready to die as a martyr for a great cause, or is he one of these cruel people that is just motivated by hate. I don’t have any illusions that Bundy has suddenly gotten a new accurate grip on reality but this is a good sign that he is starting to realize that what he thought was the real world was just a dream. As an individual I am largely unconcerned about his state of mind, but what it provides sunlight on is the transformation of many hard right individuals just played out in extremes. Many are good people that have just been sucked into a fantasy world that are now bumping against the impossible to justify hatred and cruelty of where their philosophy leads. How many will now turn against it because the desire to be good will be stronger than the ability to reinforce a fantasy?
For those of you who are thinking of Bundy as a rancher. You can drive past his “compound” on your way to visit Nevada’s newest national monument (Gold Butte - and it wasn’t downsized). You’ll recognize it by all of the tattered american flags hanging off the fenceposts. I doubt that there’s a hundred acres there. I believe that a few of his scrawny cows are still running feral across the monument.
He may have cows, but he’s not a rancher in the “vast agricultural spread” sense. Without the nearby public lands to take advantage of, he’d just be another large lot property owner with a backyard full of junk.