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Post-election, Bay Area artists raise the distress flag
SFGATE.com ^ | 11/8 | Jesse Hamlin, Aidin Vaziri, Steven Winn, Joel Selvin, Neva Chonin, Heidi Benson, Jane Ganahl and Jo

Posted on 11/08/2004 5:45:35 PM PST by alydar

FAT MIKE, musician

Fat Mike is not a happy man. "When I see a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on a car, it's time to slash their tires," he says, calling from the offices of his Fat Wreck Chords label. "When I run into a tourist with a Southern accent, I tell them to get the f -- out of San Francisco. We're at a culture war. I'm angry at them."

Leading up to the election, the member of Bay Area punk bands NOFX and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes did more to mobilize progressive and young voters than certain red-state evangelists did for their delegations. He released two "Rock Against Bush" compilation CDs, launched the Web site punkvoter.com, and took several bands on tour through swing states.

"We succeeded," he says. "We got the word out. But obviously we're not as organized as the churches."

Even though his candidate of choice, John Kerry, urged reconciliation and unification the day after the election, Mike is not interested. "F -- that," he wrote in a statement posted on the Punk Voter site. "There's no f -- way I am going to come together with these homophobic, flag-waving, God-fearing, gun- toting, uneducated, isolationist, ethnocentric rednecks. We live in a country that's in a shroud of ignorance. We do not compromise or come together with them. We fight them and everything they stand for.".

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antichristian; chrisitanbashing; civilwar2; cluelessness; culturewar; democratinsanity; dramaqueens; dumbass; fatmike; liberalbigot; pukevoter; religiousintolerance; rockthevote; sanfrancisco; sf
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1 posted on 11/08/2004 5:45:35 PM PST by alydar
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To: alydar

Why would we want these people in charge of the country? He wants to fight people he doesn't even know.


2 posted on 11/08/2004 5:47:48 PM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: alydar

Hey Mikey... we own the guns.


3 posted on 11/08/2004 5:48:36 PM PST by bikepacker67 ("This is the best election night in history." -- DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe 11/2/04 8pm)
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To: alydar

That darned George W. Bush. he ended up taking all those votes away from John Kerry. If only Kerry was the only candidate, he'd be president today! Bush's candidacy is a conspiracy! A conspiracy to "take votes away" from Kerry. Bush is nothing but a spoiler.


4 posted on 11/08/2004 5:49:42 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Red Sox Win The World Series...And Bush Wins Re-election Too!)
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To: bikepacker67

The mindless scum in our society.


5 posted on 11/08/2004 5:49:43 PM PST by EagleUSA (W)
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To: alydar
"We got the word out. But obviously we're not as organized as the churches."

You can't have too many office supplies, that's for sure.

6 posted on 11/08/2004 5:49:46 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: bikepacker67

hehehehe that's good.

Wonder why the people who don't want to go to war are calling us isolationists? What a maroon.


7 posted on 11/08/2004 5:50:14 PM PST by visualops (Get your Viking Kitty patches at http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
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To: alydar

Get an address. I have a few Bush/Cheney stickers i need to mail out.


8 posted on 11/08/2004 5:50:24 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I got political capital and I intend to spend it!)
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To: alydar

Oh well,another band in the dumper. I used to like Me First & The Gimme Gimmes until I read this.


9 posted on 11/08/2004 5:50:32 PM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: bikepacker67

And we know how to use them.


10 posted on 11/08/2004 5:50:53 PM PST by lavrenti (Think of who is pithy, yet so attractive to women.)
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To: alydar

NOFX sucks as do most punk rock. If this loser "Fat" Mike wants to slash my tires, he will be on the recieving end of my fist.


11 posted on 11/08/2004 5:51:19 PM PST by American_4_Ever (America; Land Of Freedom and Oppurtunity. If you don't like it here, then get the hell out!)
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The mindless scum in our society.""

A product of the failed war on drugs. makes you wonder what his parents think of their spawn?


12 posted on 11/08/2004 5:52:13 PM PST by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: EagleUSA

The mindless scum in our society.""

A product of the failed war on drugs. makes you wonder what his parents think of their spawn?


13 posted on 11/08/2004 5:52:38 PM PST by ridesthemiles (ridesthemiles)
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To: alydar
The worst part is, NOFX is just a crappy, crappy band.

At least Green Day rocks.

14 posted on 11/08/2004 5:52:53 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: alydar

Yet more love and tolerance from the Left...


15 posted on 11/08/2004 5:53:09 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: alydar
The smell of a whining loser in the mourning air goes nicely with pancakes and sausage.
16 posted on 11/08/2004 5:53:14 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (We won. We don't need to be forgiving. Let the heads roll!!!!!!!!!)
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"There's no f -- way I am going to come together with these homophobic, flag-waving, God-fearing, gun- toting, uneducated, isolationist, ethnocentric rednecks. We live in a country that's in a shroud of ignorance.

Pot, meet kettle.

17 posted on 11/08/2004 5:53:53 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: alydar

San Francisco ... Fallujah ... San Francisco ... Fallujah ... San Francisco ... Fallujah...


18 posted on 11/08/2004 5:53:58 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: alydar
Fat Mike is not a happy man.

Awwwwwww. Have another cheeseburger Mikey, and shut up and sit down.

"When I see a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on a car, it's time to slash their tires," he says ..."

When I see a fat POS with a knife in his hand eyeing my tires, its time to insert said knife pommel first into his pooter.

19 posted on 11/08/2004 5:54:10 PM PST by asgardshill (Bad Liberal - No Kool Aid)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
My Gimme Gimmes CD's are going in the dumper after reading this
20 posted on 11/08/2004 5:54:16 PM PST by alydar
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