Nazi Crap at Gun Shows

Not literally Nazi crap, but close. Dave Weigel reports from a gun show:

This is a place where vendors can sell T-shirts that read “The Fourth Reich: Obama-Biden 2012,” and “Hitler Gave Great Speeches Too..” and, most succinctly, “Fuck Obama.” It’s somewhere for people with hard-to-explain interests in World War II memorabilia can pick up items from Wehrmacht uniforms (”I’m putting the stuff together to make me a German officer,” says a man buying a Wehrmacht officer’s cap), Adolf Hitler mousepads (”Next time… no more Mr. Nice Guy”), and coffee mugs with Nazi commanders’ faces etched on them.

In other words, you can find “Obama is a Nazi” gear and “Nazis are cool” gear under the same roof. Who says wingnuts are narrow-minded?

Speaking of which, I wonder where this guy sits on the Nazis: Good or Bad? spectrum:

One man asks a vendor if she has any “Impeach Obama” bumper stickers. Initially, he’s open to talking about his problems with the president. “There’s a black man in the White House,” he said. “What else do you need to know?”

Here’s the thing. If President Obama were like Hitler, President Obama would hate President Obama. But how does one explain that to a wingnut who compares Obama to Hitler while compiling his own Nazi reenactor drag?

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  • gypsy

    i can’t decide if living inside a wingnut brain would be fun, like “whee, i heart america. oh look, a beer drinking hat!” or scary, like “i heart america. white power. oh look, a beer drinking hat!”….

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    Gyps – LOL!!!The cognitive dissonace is pretty amazing with these Nazi-loving/Nazi-hating wingnuts. They ae irony immune.

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    I dont understand this Nazi fetish that the wingnuts seem to have.

  • don’tlookbackinanger

    You cannot dress your kids up like littleNazi youth, profess love for Hitler at thesegun show/picnic shoot ‘em ups, then compareObama to Hitler….oh, I guess they love the newpresident then. I see.

  • vintagegoddess

    Nazi’s had the coolest uniforms and stuff, too bad they were, well, fucking NAZIS.

  • Mike from Boston

    Wow, just..wow. We might have to bookmark this one because I cannot think of how they could top something this schism-y. Just, wow..that’s scary.

  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein™

    I’ve always wondered if the swastika would look so fucking obviously evil — because as a symbol, as something you sew on a lapel or put on a flag, that thing looks evil — if it hadn’t been the Nazi icon but, say, the symbol of the Girl Scouts of America. Would we be shaking our head at our boxes of Thin Mints and thinking, “I do love me the Thin Mints, but Jesus the Christ™ those girls have one evil-looking symbol!”The swastika is described as a “twisted cross.” As a Party, shouldn’t the Nazis have had a little more promotional common sense than to make their iconography so pointedly dickish? I’d have thought Goebbels smarter than that, maybe started them off with a Baby Kitten Holding A Flower Motif, or at least a Baby Kitten Scratching The Face of a Young Jew. You know, something lighthearted!

  • AC

    Unfortunately, Elvis, the Hitler co-opted an ancient symbol for his own evil ends. Powerful symbol? Yes. But not evil in it’s own right.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwastikaHow evil does it look on the basket ball team’s uniforms?There’s a movement to bring it back, but I’m afraid the damage is irreversible.

  • gypsy

    elvis, dude, you have to walk away from the girl scout cookies! is there any post from you on the world wide web where you don’t somehow work them in? keke…that’s funny yo… =)

  • 24hourjack

    he must be hitler.dick cheney even said how terrible obama will be for israel.and he’s a muslim.whatever…what do you expect from a “foreigner”.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    @ ElvisThe swastika, mirrored, is an ancient Buddhist symbol.That said, having been in a few scraps in elementary school for being the only Jew, this made my first experience seeing a temple here in Taiwan a little freaky. Pulled my motorcycle over to the side of a road…the wall next to me had a swastika engraved on every single brick.Truly an, “Oops…this may not be a good spot for a smoke” moment.@ThreadThe obvious incongruity between “Obama is a Nazi” and “Nazi’s are Cool” is, I think, only understood by assuming that these people are, in fact, crazy – my layman’s guess is some form of paranoid schizophrenia reinforced by group dynamics.I think I’m going to work up a post on the wide variety of things this rather elegantly explains, but the main point of the argument is that there’s no possible way to explain it to the schizophrenics. The primary quality of madness is the inability to comprehend that you’re fuckin’ loony.I went to law school with a brilliant man who was diagnosed in his teens and suffered a relapse shortly after graduation…and I can say this:When you find someone sitting naked in a basement in -20 degree weather, with all the windows open, listening to the needle scratch against the label of a Neil Young album while hammering on a piece of wood without any nails; fingers stained orange from chain smoking, off his meds and can only respond with various intonations of the word, “Yeah,” there’s really not much point in asking for a rational explanation.This man is no position to give you one, or to listen to one. Some sort of professional, chemical intervention is required…and you may be happy that the whole thing wasn’t much worse in any of the ways it could easily have gone far more radically sideways.There is apparently something in the water supply…or something needs to be./sorry for the long post. as you were.

  • MrBrink

    “If President Obama were like Hitler, President Obama would hate President Obama.”Aside from skin color, why?

  • Eric

    Sean Hannity’s neo-Nazi pal, Hal Turner,”on whose program he(Turner) was a frequent presence” made this statement about Hannity after the former denied knowing him “In fact, Sean does know me and we were quite friendly a few years ago.”"Turner promotes antisemitism (including the rounding up and killing of Jews)[1] and opposes the existence of the state of Israel.[2] He also denies the Holocaust.[3]“”Turner has made numerous threats against political figures on his website and in other forums.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Turner

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    “If President Obama were like Hitler, President Obama would hate President Obama.”Aside from skin color, why?Posted by:MrBrink at April 8, 2009 5:49 PMYou can call me myopic, obtuse and willfully blind…but I ain’t no racist.

  • D. C.

    Aside from skin color, why?Hitler wouldn’t need any other reason.