Daily Links: 10/27/17 – AR senator threatens blogger for asking about unconstitutional Christian monument

AR Sen. Jason Rapert (R)

• “Friendly Atheist” Hemant Mehta receives insults and a veiled threat from Arkansas State Sen. Jason Rapert (R) after asking about his fundraising for a blatantly unconstitutional Christian monument he wants to install outside the state capitol.

• Kentucky judge who refused to hear gay adoption cases resigns.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Neo-Nazi hub Daily Stormer now hosted on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, where the population is 85% “African/Black” and only 3% “White”.

• Supporters of Québec’s new, not-so-secretly Islamophobic anti-face-covering law include religious-Right loons like Gordon Klingenschmitt. Good company.

• Finally, the Australian government targets their newest, greatest threat: satirical videos that “impersonate a government agency”. The ovation-worthy response:

Transcript:

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Hello. I’m from the Australian government with an important announcement about a matter of national stupidity.

It has been brought to our attention that some shit-[bleeped] called The Juice Media have been impersonating us in a series called Honest Government Ads, which has been tricking millions of innocent, hard-working citizens into believing their government is honest.

For instance, you may have been fooled into thinking we made this truthful ad about the marriage equality plebbyshite, or this ad about our bullshit Centrelink debt recovery policies, or this hideous one about our inhumane treatment of refugees.

Oh, actually, never mind; that is one of our ads.

As they could be mistaken for actual government communications, we’ve identified these Honest Government Ads as a danger to you. That’s because our regard for your intelligence is extremely low that, and the fact that our policies on welfare, refugees, climate change and the gays are genuinely so fucked up it actually is getting harder to distinguish them from satire.

So in order to protect you from using your own brain, we’ve sent The Juice Media an email telling them not to use our logo. This logo right here, which you are seeing right now. Don’t use it.

For good measure, we’ve also introduced a new law to punish such behavior with a 5-year jail sentence. But don’t worry; we’ll exempt genuine satire from this law, “genuine” meaning “anything we find funny”. And we obviously have a great sense of humor.

We urge all of you not to watch the Honest Government Ads, and don’t support The Juice Media on Patreon, as it only encourages them to keep on exposing our unceasing attempts to turn you down, bend you over and fuck you sideways.

To anyone else thinking of impersonating the government to make us look like idiots: seriously, don’t do it. We already do a perfectly good job of it ourselves.

Authorized by the Department of Genuine Satire.

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