RAZZ:The Occupation Begins!

 

While the rest of you slept, my revolutionary comrades and I occupied this post. The area, having recently been designated as the zone for autonomous zones by the Ricochet Zoning Board, is hereby declared to be the Ricochet Autonomous-Zone Zone, or RAZZ.

We, the communal leadership committee of RAZZ, issue here our demands and decrees. Henceforth and forthwith:

  • The preferred means of communication will be through Monty Python sketches
  • Drinking games shall be one shot each time:
    • Jonah says:
      • Best gas station sushi in Arkansas
      • Papal ninja army
    • Rob:
      • Says “Swanning”
      • Says “Squish”
      • Interrupts James’ ad segues
    • James:
      • Unleashes a lightning-fast killer zinger
    • Peter:
      • Lies when he says, “One last question”
    • A statue of Doc Jay shall be erected and immediately toppled
    • Our November campaign slogan is: Our guy is awful, but their guys are much worse

We will whine and stamp our feet until these just demands are met or until we get bored with the whole thing and go back to playing video games in our parents’ basements.

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  1. Misthiocracy got drunk and Member
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    Matt Balzer, Imperialist Claw (View Comment):

    Misthiocracy got drunk and (View Comment):

    Richard Fulmer: Our November campaign slogan is: Our guy is awful, but their guys are much worse

    a) Isn’t that both sides’ campaign slogans?

    b) Isn’t that the most honest campaign slogan for every election that has ever been in the entire history of representative government, and should therefore be mandatory for all political parties?

    I think if we were to accept this as a premise, it’d save us a lot of time and we could get down to talking about policies. On the other hand, when that happens it’s all some variation on baby-killing, so I’m not sure.

     

    I saw Variations On Baby-Killing open for Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark in 1982 at the Brixton Academy.

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  2. Misthiocracy got drunk and Member
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    Matt Balzer, Imperialist Claw (View Comment):

    Misthiocracy got drunk and (View Comment):
    Wait, does CHAZ promise to disband once their demands are met? That seems stupid. I thought the whole point was to prove that government is unnecessary.

    Does CHAZ have demands?

    tps://www.theblaze.com/news/chaz-list-of-demands

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  3. Arahant Member
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    Misthiocracy got drunk and (View Comment):
    b) I’ve had it up to here with your “rules”.

    Whatever you say, Bruce.

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  4. The Scarecrow Thatcher
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    You know, I came in here planning on taking over as the RAZZ warlord, but seeing your list of demands, I find that this is just a new PIT. Thus I offer:

    Hello! What, is your name not Bruce??

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  5. Judge Mental Member
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    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    Richard Fulmer: Rob:

    • Says “Swanning”

    Point of order. Rob doesn’t say “swanning”. Other people say “swanning” about Rob.

     

    He does sometimes use it.  But he stole it from Mark Steyn.

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  6. Arahant Member
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    The Scarecrow (View Comment):
    Hello! What, is your name not Bruce??

    Can we call him Bruce anyway, just to make things easier?

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  7. Richard Fulmer Inactive
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    We acknowledge the contributions of beer and pizza, but we do not express gratitude.  Beer and pizza are our due as benefactors of humanity.  Instead, you receive our snarls of contempt for the inadequacy of your meager offerings. 

    Since, however, you have signaled your willingness to meekly bend to our commands, we now present additional demands.  You must now celebrate and affirm our actions.  Every hour on the hour, every Ricochet member must stand and loudly sing our praises using the short raspberry salute.  Ricochetti silence is violence!

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  8. The Scarecrow Thatcher
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    The Scarecrow (View Comment):
    Hello! What, is your name not Bruce??

    Can we call him Bruce anyway, just to make things easier?

    Sure! Eeeee – manuel Kant was a real pissant who . . . .

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  9. Arahant Member
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    Is any of that pizza gluten-free?

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  10. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    Richard Fulmer (View Comment):

    We acknowledge the contributions of beer and pizza, but we do not express gratitude. Beer and pizza are our due as benefactors of humanity. Instead, you receive our snarls of contempt for the inadequacy of your meager offerings.

    Since, however, you have signaled your willingness to meekly bend to our commands, we now present additional demands. You must now celebrate and affirm our actions. Every hour on the hour, every Ricochet member must stand and loudly sing our praises using the short raspberry salute. Ricochetti silence is violence!

    I do not think any of these words mean what you think they mean. My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed the Parler gerbil, prepare to die!

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  11. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Is any of that pizza gluten-free?

    You are in luck! It is mass free!

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  12. Richard Fulmer Inactive
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    The Ricochetti have failed to adequately meet our demands for celebration and affirmation.  Clearly, there is an indelible streak of anti-Razz prejudice deeply imbedded in the Ricochet DNA.  We therefore demand public self-flagellation by recalcitrant Ricochetti.  Refusal will result in immediate termination from your places of employment. 

    This afternoon’s obligatory two-minute hate will be held at 2pm EDT next to the organic, hydroponic, pizza dough garden, just west of the Porta Potties that Seattle Mayor, Jenny Durkan, provided in solidarity.  The chant for this afternoon’s demonstration is: Get woke or go broke!

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  13. Misthiocracy got drunk and Member
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    Richard Fulmer (View Comment):

    We acknowledge the contributions of beer and pizza, but we do not express gratitude. Beer and pizza are our due as benefactors of humanity. Instead, you receive our snarls of contempt for the inadequacy of your meager offerings.

     

    So it’s a feline revolution, then.

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  14. Arahant Member
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    Misthiocracy got drunk and (View Comment):
    So it’s a feline revolution, then.

    Of course.

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  15. Misthiocracy got drunk and Member
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Misthiocracy got drunk and (View Comment):
    So it’s a feline revolution, then.

    Of course.

    So, will RAZZ reluctantly tolerate my unsolicited schnuggles and cutesy baby-talk?

    “Who’d the cutest revolutionary movement in the whole wide world?  You are!!!”

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  16. Richard Fulmer Inactive
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    RAZZ demands that every statue of Karl Marx be replaced by one of Groucho and that a new radical text be created by a dialectical synthesis of Das Kapital and the script of Duck Soup.

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  17. Hoyacon Member
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    Our November campaign slogan is: Our guy is awful, but their guys are much worse

    Awful?

    Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, malodorous, pervert!!!

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  18. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    Our November campaign slogan is: Our guy is awful, but their guys are much worse

    Awful?

    Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, malodorous, pervert!!!

    I understand “vacuous,” “malodorous,” and “pervert,” but “coffee-nosed” is beyond me.

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  19. Arahant Member
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    I understand “vacuous,” “malodorous,” and “pervert,” but “coffee-nosed” is beyond me.

    Coffee tends to be a brown color.

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  20. Richard Fulmer Inactive
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    I understand “vacuous,” “malodorous,” and “pervert,” but “coffee-nosed” is beyond me.

    Coffee tends to be a brown color.

    An accusation of “brown-nosing” (i.e., of sycophancy).  Derivation: Monty Python sketch that included the Department of Abuse:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKZ5bP1wsB0

    Go away or I shall taunt you again!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s

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  21. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    I understand “vacuous,” “malodorous,” and “pervert,” but “coffee-nosed” is beyond me.

    Coffee tends to be a brown color.

    The best burn is the burn they ask you to explain. Kudos.

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  22. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    Richard Fulmer (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    I understand “vacuous,” “malodorous,” and “pervert,” but “coffee-nosed” is beyond me.

    Department of Abuse
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKZ5bP1wsB0

    Go away or I shall taunt you again!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s

    You must be with the IRS. Perhaps I could interest you in a nice abattoir block of flats.

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  23. Richard Fulmer Inactive
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    RAZZ is proud to announce its 1987 Project.  Though Ricochet was officially launched in May of 2010, its real founding was on June 12, 1987, the day Ronald Reagan gave his Brandenburg Gate speech, using speechwriter Peter Robinson’s line: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”  With this statement, Reagan demanded an opening of borders and, metaphorically, an opening of minds – a demand diametrically opposed to the RAZZian right-think / groupthink nexus. 

    RAZZ demands uniformity of thought.  Diversity is welcomed, but in appearance only.  Members of the RAZZian collective must be of one mind and one spirit regardless of the outer shells they show to the world.  We reject the oppression that liberation brings, we reject the idea that walls be torn down.  We erect walls around our minds and shout down all attempts by muggles – those outside the collective – to reach inside our brains and fill them with anti-revolutionary propaganda.

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  24. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Richard Fulmer (View Comment):

    RAZZ is proud to announce its 1987 Project. Though Ricochet was officially launched in May of 2010, its real founding was on June 12, 1987, the day Ronald Reagan gave his Brandenburg Gate speech, using speechwriter Peter Robinson’s line: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” With this statement, Reagan demanded an opening of borders and, metaphorically, an opening of minds – a demand diametrically opposed to the RAZZian right-think / groupthink nexus.

    RAZZ demands uniformity of thought. Diversity is welcomed, but in appearance only. Members of the RAZZian collective must be of one mind and one spirit regardless of the outer shells they show to the world. We reject the oppression that liberation brings, we reject the idea that walls be torn down. We erect walls around our minds and shout down all attempts by muggles – those outside the collective – to reach inside our brains and fill them with anti-revolutionary propaganda.

    Are you sure it wasn’t 1619?

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  25. Arahant Member
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    Richard Fulmer (View Comment):
    RAZZ demands uniformity of thought. Diversity is welcomed, but in appearance only. Members of the RAZZian collective must be of one mind and one spirit regardless of the outer shells they show to the world. We reject the oppression that liberation brings, we reject the idea that walls be torn down. We erect walls around our minds and shout down all attempts by muggles – those outside the collective – to reach inside our brains and fill them with anti-revolutionary propaganda.

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  26. Richard Fulmer Inactive
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    Are you sure it wasn’t 1619?

    No, that was the data of America’s original sin – it’s embrace of slavery.  June 12, 1987 is the date of Ricochet’s original sin – it’s embrace of freedom and of freedom of thought.

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  27. Richard Fulmer Inactive
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    A RAZZ communard has been expelled from the autonomous zone for insufficient wokeness.  JohnnyK failed to use Spiritwind’s newly chosen pronoun of zee-zimmity-zum-zum-zee.  JohnnyK claimed that he missed this morning’s notification, but we accept no excuses.

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  28. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    Richard Fulmer (View Comment):

    A RAZZ communard has been expelled from the autonomous zone for insufficient wokeness. JohnnyK failed to use Spiritwind’s newly chosen pronoun of zee-zimmity-zum-zum-zee. JohnnyK claimed that he missed this morning’s notification, but we accept no excuses.

    But, but, it was a lame excuse and therefore deserves our compassion and accommodation. 

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  29. aardo vozz Member
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    Is that an African Swallow or a European Swallow?

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  30. kedavis Coolidge
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    Matt Balzer, Imperialist Claw (View Comment):

    Misthiocracy got drunk and (View Comment):

    Richard Fulmer: Our November campaign slogan is: Our guy is awful, but their guys are much worse

    a) Isn’t that both sides’ campaign slogans?

    b) Isn’t that the most honest campaign slogan for every election that has ever been in the entire history of representative government, and should therefore be mandatory for all political parties?

    I think if we were to accept this as a premise, it’d save us a lot of time and we could get down to talking about policies. On the other hand, when that happens it’s all some variation on baby-killing, so I’m not sure.

    Babies or grandmas.

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