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It’s the same stupid Obama/Hitler sign that smug racist* scumbags have been standing next to for years. These fucking idiots are like catnip to me. Having no self-control, I asked whether Obama had exterminated six million innocent people—update: a commenter to this post points out the number’s more like 12 million, and Wikipedia says “as many as 17 million”—and the one on the left said, “Uh, you’ve never heard of Anwar al-Aulaqi?”

I said I had just been reading about Anwar al-Aulaqi.

The guy on the left went on: “He was an American! He hadn’t done anything! OBAMA KILLED HIM FOR HIS THOUGHTS!”

I said, “No, I think he killed him because he was an al Qaeda operative.”

The one on the left said, “He hadn’t done anything!”

I said, “Except advise the Christmas Day bomber to wait until he was over Detroit to detonate his underwear, so he could kill as many innocent Americans as possible.”

“For his thoughts!” the one on the left went on, not listening. “YOU COULD BE NEXT!”

Considering I have no plans to join al Qaeda, I’m not that worried. The light changed and I crossed the street and bought a smoothie.

* It’s just my personal opinion that vilifying Obama by making shit up and conflating him with one of history’s most accomplished evil-doers is racist. But like I said, that’s just my opinion. Let’s poll it!

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...

79 replies on “Hey Look, the Racist* Scumbags Are Still at it with Their Stupid Signs!”

  1. Hey Look, the Racist* Scumbags Are Still at it with Their “Stupid” Signs!

    FTFY

    (because putting up signs like this is a clear indication of their stupidity.)

  4. Out of all the fucking douchebags I have to deal with walking the sidewalks of Seattle, these people are by far the worst.

  8. @6 Don’t they traditionally make posters of any sitting president as Hitler? Why I thought it was just kinda racist.

    Had the same kind of conversation about Awlaki with a friend, who had the same kind of argument, almost verbatim. Maybe he’s a closet LaRouchie?

  9. @4 – I’m an outsider who has only visited Seattle (and found everyone pretty charming/fucktastic – depending on how well I got to know them) but based on what I hear about it in reality from the good people of Slog, the douchebaggiest douchebag.seems like a really fucking impressive title to hold.

    As for the poll, I want to say that it’s racist as well, but I can’t figure out why. My only reason is “racism is about the stupidist kind of stupidity that’s still too common” and these guys seem like the ‘stupidist kind of stupid’ — but I still don’t think that really makes them racist. Just, as I’ve said, stupid.

  13. I remember their old posters of Bush with the same Hitler ‘stache. And now it’s Obama, and I’m pretty sure whoever comes after Obama (which won’t be LaRouche) will get their own Hitler poster too.

    So, racist? Not particularly. Idiotic and intellectually lazy to a degree that we are used to seeing from the LaRouchies? Definitely.

  16. Imagine. The Larouchies could get together with Fred Phelps, and Charles Mudede, and form the perfect Trolling Machine.

    Man, it would piss off everybody. We could power city grids off the hate.

  17. Wow, extrajudicial assassination and you have no problem with that. How about this, let’s have some non-verifiable information released by a secretive organization in regards to some Stranger staffers. Should these Stranger employees be sentenced to death based on the strength of these accusations? Or would you prefer they had a trial? An equally awesome thought experiment, imagine the guy signing these assassination orders is Rick Perry, is it still OK to murder American citizens, even if they are alleged criminals and/or terrorists?

  18. @ 11, and Stalin killed even more people. They ought to photoshop Stalin’s hair and mustache on Obama – at least that would be original.

  21. Here I was ready to have a nice substantive discussion about due process and bam Hitler/Obama poster.

    Seriously, how can you expect anything approaching a reasonable conversation when you post something like that? There’s provocative, and then there’s missing the point altogether.

    As Bill Maher said a year or two ago:

    “You know who deserves to be compared to Hitler? Hitler. Maybe Charlie Chaplin.”

  22. These guys are racist douchebags, no doubt about it.

    This latest assassination sets a worrying precedent though. Without trial or even evidence-made-public, the U.S. Government ordered the execution of an American citizen. I’m sure Obama is rational and reasonable enough to only use this power on enemies of the state in far-off countries who really do mean all Americans harm, but how long will it take until a future president orders the death of an American within U.S. borders for dangerous rhetoric?

    If this is what America at war with al Qaeda looks like, what would it look like if America declared war on Anonymous? Videos on YouTube of Seal Team 6 busting down an apartment door in Dallas and shooting greasy teenagers dead for plotting their next hack?

  24. You know what this thread needs? Sgt_doom, with a link to a video of Roseanne telling us what we need to know.

    Also, the word “AmeriKKKa”.

    Wait for it . . .

  25. I accidentally signed up for their newsletter once, before they had these stupid signs up. Then when I read their pamphlet I was all “FUCK no”. But then they wouldn’t leave me alone and kept calling me. Finally when one vitriolic women got up in my face about how I could NOT afford to not volunteer, I straight up told them my Religious Studies Professor mommy said that people in her field would consider them a cult. That took me off their list.

  26. @17 No, most of us do have a problem with that. However, it is not equivalent to the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and as @21 said, it is no way to start a reasonable conversation about due process.

  27. What if they made a poster like this for every president including Obama? Bush as Hitler, Reagan as Hitler (I’d like to see that one), etc. There is a genuine whiff of fascism in the way the state is controlled by the christian-corporate complex. Obama raises so many other issues, only a fool or someone really, really concerned about executive power would use Obama despite those other issues. Seems unlikely, though. I’m going with racist.Not being in Seattle, maybe someone can confirm this particular douche sect appeared only after Obama was elected.

  29. They were lurking outside my bank one afternoon and as I passed I commented that it must really boil their bacon that Obama had won the Peace Prize. They looked at me like they had just swallowed a penny. Made my day.

  30. @27, Lyndon LaRouche has been running for president or something for about a hundred years. I don’t even know if he’s still alive, but he is somewhat of a cult political leader and his peeps have been in Seattle at least the 10 years I’ve lived here.

  32. Hey, I saw these pukes on Mercer Island last year and invited them to bring their show to my neighborhood, 23rd & Jackson. I’m still waiting. Pussies.

  33. @29 Oh, come now, Lissa, not fair. It should annoy anyone that cares about truth in advertising to give the Peace Prize to a warmonger.

  34. LaRouchebag on the right has been sleeping in those jeans, and probably that parka too.

    “Invoke the 25th Amendment” is a strange one. It seems to be calling for Obama’s assassination, since it deals with the succession of the VP in case of the prez’s death, incapacitation, or resignation, and Obama certainly isn’t going to resign. These people are the worst assclowns going.

  38. @ 9 – Somebody should really make them a nice trophy, since it is, as you quite rightly say, really an achievement to be recognized as “the douchebaggiest douchebag” around. It’s worthy of commemorating!

    Maybe we can get some creative types going on this idea… Hhmmm…..

  40. The LaRouchers have put up Bush=Hitler signs prior to 2008. They just wait till a new president is elected and put up a hitlerstache du jour on their visage and bitch about their stupid land bridge to Russia. Fucking idiots…. god, even writing about them makes me angry. Not racist though.

  41. The LaRouche-ies are sort of like Westboro Baptist Church in a way. They have nothing to contribute, are small in number, and are trying to leverage power by calling attention to themselves. To this end, they’ll use any over-the-top tactic that gets people talking about them. There is no such thing as bad press for them.

    I’ll bet you that, in alternate universe where the Obama-with-a-stache posters had been ignored or ho-hummed, they would have quickly dropped those signs and moved on to some other tactic more likely to get attention. Do they really think Obama is like Hitler? Maybe maybe not, but who cares? What matters to them is how much saying that pisses everyone off.

    Just ignore the LaRouchies. Lyndon himself is fucking ancient, and not far from the grave. Since their whole organization is built up as a personality cult, it will collapse as soon as their leader passes away. In the meantime, they’re too small to pose a real threat, too crazy to recruit en masse. They can’t really hurt anyone, even though they’d like to.

  42. @22 All of which is why, oddly, we should be both deeply troubled about the implications and working towards putting better oversight and checks in place, while not blaming or punishing Obama for the horrible things hypothetical future presidents will do with the current precedent.

  43. LaRouche is 89 years old; I wonder what these idiots will do when he finally dies. Will they find a new figurehead, organize into a religion like Scientology, or shake themselves into a wakeful state and wonder where the hell they are and how they got there?

  48. Wow, go back to whining about state-run liquor stores. You just managed to look as stupid as these Larouchies.
    The State Dept even said that they had no legal authority to strip al-Awlaki of his US citizenship. He had committed no acts of treason. If he has, then there are no witnesses to attest to his treason. He was not in any kind of leadership position in Yemen, killing him has not changed anything regarding AQAP. He was a brown guy who spoke about jihad in English, WHICH IS PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT. The government reserved other, LEGAL means for dealing with al-Awlaki, means we we can’t use for NON-citizens, but because that’s too hard and we’re a country of blood-thirsty sickos, right AND left, we sent a drone to kill him.

    But his assassination was legal because…. the president said so. Bravo, way to be another sycophantic sheep. Maybe actually read about this next time. It isn’t legal just because the president says it is, that’s why Nixon quit. It’s called the Constitution, not a technicality.
    But this sets NO kind of precedent, right? We’re so willing to kill someone BORN in the US, but of course we won’t use this same rationale for killing… ANYONE WE WANT.
    And these drones are already flying over our border with Mexico. You think anyone will give a fuck if they start using them against illegal aliens? But that’s “necessary”, right?

  50. Downtown Seattle is awesome on a warm weekend day. We have LaRouchies, Scientologists, Christian Evangelists, Hari Krishnas, and various other groups of crazy people marketing the hell out of their craziness.

    Everyone gets their say. I get to tell everyone to go fuck themselves.

    Goddamn, I love the First Amendment.

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