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  He's watching too much Yellowstone...
context: its like a clown car of increasingly ridiculous dipshits piling out but instead of pies and seltzer water, its christian nationalism and conspiracy theories >
  
  They are just pulling terms from some sort of conservative word bank and assembling them into whatever nonsense they need.  At this point they don’t even need to issue new statements just copy and paste each other. >
  
  You ain't not gettin my AR-15 gas range oven cowboy >
  
  
  stii you our liberals don’t know the difference between a gas range and as assault gas range smdh my damn head >
  
  I know the bullets go in when oven dings 455 degrees.
  I bet you ain't have 4th of July in March. >
  
  A real cowboy needs a gun that can rip a real cow to shreds.
  Also, the American cowboy was replaced long ago with industrial farming, and there is really nothing special about cowboys anyways.  Anyone can be a rugged, out-doorsy type, ride a horse, and wear a silly looking hat.  It's not like cowboys were the badasses of the old west or anything.  They were pretty much ranch hands. >
  
  Romanticization of the Old West is largely responsible for their nostalgic nonsense. >
  
  You got that right. I don't think they would like to be actual, working cowboys. It's hard work. >
  
  What year does he actually think it is?
  Is he going to rant about chineese railroad workers being allowed in saloons next? >
  
  Same year every boomer thinks it is:1840.  They also can't go 20 minutes without going to Costco but imagine themselves rugged frontiersman from inside their half million dollar house. >
  
  Hey, my golf cart only has AM radio I'm living rustic. >
  
  These people are just insane now. >
  
  Same as they have always been. >
  
  Yeah but the walls came tumbling down...
  “Shaka, when the walls fell.” >
  
  Was Shaka a warrior laying segue to a fortress or were they a contractor? Context matters. >
  
  I'm starting to think being a Conservative means you literally think it's somehow still the 1700s and 1800s somehow mixed in with each other — Either it's still the time of the American Revolution in 1776, or it's the Wild West in the 1860-1890s...
  Seriously though...why do Conservatives appear to be so hopelessly mired in the past that they seem to reject any and all actual progress that would advance society? It's fuckin' weird! >
  
  Close, they want to take us back to the 1850s. Their favorite time. >
  
  "The Civil War was rigged. It was a huge victory for Conservatives. Yes, there's no evidence of that, but we don't care. Yes, we've taken it to court and the public over and over and they always reject that lie. But we'll take America back there anyway." -- Conservatives >
  
  Cowboys?  Sorry, the federal government shouldn't be subsidizing special interest groups.  They shouldn't be allowed to flaunt their lifestyle choices.  I mean, they can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes, but I don't want my children exposed to that kind of thing.
  Also, if "cowboys" can't pay the costs to graze their cattle, they don't have a legitimate business and shouldn't be subsidized. >
  
  
  Also, if "cowboys" can't pay the costs to graze their cattle, they don't have a legitimate business and shouldn't be subsidized.
  
  Yup, the hypocrites want to keep their "divine right" to freeload off of the taxpayers dime (subsidies), pay no taxes themselves and all while whining about their favorite bogey-man the so called "welfare queens" (minorities and the poor).
  I so detest Republicans and their MAGA base because  apparently the reichwing attracts the least decent, most dishonorable, and unscrupulous from amongst us. >
  
  Y’all better watch out - they’re coming for your peddlers and coopers next. >
  
  You can pry my barrels from my cold dead hands! >
  
  
  “There is no doubt the federal government deep state coordinates with liberal activists and uses politicians and willing media to carry their water,” he said. “... In many cases, they want to wipe out the American cowboy completely, remove public access to our lands and turn Montana into a national park.”
  
  I have very little idea what in the world he's talking about, but I do know that outside of Western films, cowboys disappeared well over a century ago >
  
  " turn Montana into a national park."
  ok, now this actually sounds nice, can we for once do what the yokels accuse us of? >
  
  Isn't most of Montana public land anyways? >
  
  Might as well round it out >
  
  I love these QAnon Mab Libs. 
  Wait, you mean this is real?? 🤦‍♂️ >
  
  ...Does anyone wanna tell him that The Good, The Bad and the Ugly isn't a contemporary documentary? >
  
  What's crazy about that talking chair clip is the close ups of Ryan and Flake who are both now too "sane" to get elected within the Republican party. >
  
  LMAO yeah right?   The party of nuts.. The silly party. >
  
  I thought barbed wire pretty much already took care of that >
  
  I'm a cowboy
  On a steel horse I ride
  I'm wanted dead or alive >
  
  I’m a cowboy
  Next to a fireman I dance
  I like to stay at the YMCA >
  
  He's watching too much Yellowstone... >
  
  Yep, there's a reason this mythical America cowboy porn is so popular.
  "It's my land!"
  "No, it's my land!"
  American Indian: ??? >
  
  So the song lyrics...This land is your land and this land is my land is an oxymoron... >
  
  Ryan Zinke isn’t a real cowboy >
  
  I wanna be a cowboy >
  
  "The Deep State".. My God this is like a bad movie. >
  
  Someone’s been watching Yellowstone … lol >
  
  Doesn't that "cowboy" live on a house boat in California? >
  
  He just likes wearing the hat and assless chaps >
  
  r/nottheonion >
  
  For a party that frowns on Entertainers expressing their political views, they sure do base a lot of decisions on entertainment and entertainers. 
  What a joke of a party. >
  
  How does this guy not realize that he IS the deep state?
  Cabinet secretary and now congressman are pretty solidly in the deep state camp. >
  
  Wait until he finds out the moon isn’t really made of cheese… >
  
  How many cowboys could there possibly be at this point? >
  
  ... counting feed lot workers? >
  
  The cosplayers of the prairie? >
  
  That thief, who was so corrupt & incompetent that even trump had to fire him, is back?? >
  
  Seriously. No matter how awful,corrupt or stupid these people are ,we can't get them out of our government? Wtaf America? >
  
  Is there any way these dip shits could tackle some governing?....  that would be great. >
  
  So many Republicans seem to think America ought to be this bullshit John Wayne cowboy world. But Democrats are keeping them from that fantasy with things like “healthcare” and “women’s rights” and “food safety requirements.” How are they supposed to know they’re BiG, sTrOnG mEn if people keep telling them not to bring their guns into movie theaters or form lynch mobs? >
  
  When does the stupid end? Cowboys are being attacked? Cowboys?! 
  Fucking cowboys. 
  Look, I watched Young Guns one and two. Hell, I watched Three Amigos. The best cowboy boy is Tombstone in my opinion. >
  
  Ryan Zinke needs to visit a C&W or Leather Gay Bar or would that be too much for his delicate senses? So, I came back to edit this post. Ya know, I’m tired of this innuendo and BS suggestion that somebody is “out to get” conservatives when they overtly and openly attack LGBTQ+ people, legislate against us while at the same time stripping women of rights. RESIST! >
  
  I thought we already wiped that out like 20 years ago with Brokeback Mountain and the music of Big and Rich? >
  
  So which is it, do they want to remove access to public lands, or make Montana a national park? >
  
  I also noticed that contradiction. >
  
  Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about? >
  
  Cool sermon, reverend boot-straps. >
  
  This asshat was the source of rampant corruption at the Department of the Interior when he was its Secretary under The Great Orange One, but, because Dear Leader was a master in blatantly breaking the law in broad daylight, Zinke flew under the radar. He was pretty much at the center of the largest corruption scandal in the DoI's history since Tea Pot Dome (you know, the one that likely would have ended the Harding administration had Harding not had to good fortune to die in office, which was also the largest political scandal in American history prior to Watergate?), and because he's a Republican that means he got a promotion and is now in the fucking House.
  Fuck Ryan Zinke, fuck the GOP, and fuck this corruption caucus. >
  
  Is this a good time to mention he handed out challenge coins to park staff? 
  I had the pleasure of telling him how we do not use “lead” by choice in the unit I worked in. >
  
  This guy should play Red Dead Redemption if he wants to fantasize about being a cowboy at the end of their era. >
  
  The “Wild West” only existed for about 30 years. Everything else is a John Wayne fetish. >
  
  Not the deep state. republicans. Tons of black cowboys/farmers denied public funds because the ones earmarked for them were declared racist by conservatives EVEN THOUGH black cowboys been historically denied loans and access to other capital to stay afloat. 
  As always, republicans out theyselves for the problems they cause. >
  
  Then how come nobody that raises cattle is talking about it? >
  
  He says that as we eat record amounts of beef each year.  Oh yes.  Just trying to get rid of steak.  You caught us. >
  
  Once again, thanks to butt head founding faters, shit Wyoming is a state with barely 250,000 people in it. (Official number is exaggerated) >
  
  They dont even ride horses any more >
  
  Someone's watched too much Yellowstone >
  
  Texas leadership seems to be doing a good enough job killing their constituents >
  
  Cowboys are Wild West LARPers >
  
  Someone has a cowboy fetish >
  
  Somebody has been watching too much Yellowstone… >
  
  "Oh, those Fox Boyz want to profit from demonizing people who love their neighbors as themselves so they can justify bigotry and sell paramilitary programming to encourage violence against Da Libz." >
  
  American conservatives have gone absolutely batshit insane. >
  
  As a former NPS employee fuck zinke >
  
  American cowboy tradition came from the Mexican vaqueros. Don't tell the white racists, though! They are very fragile snowflakes >
  
  I always laugh when I see a grown man wearing a cowboy hat. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, but I'm not wearing a space helmet when I get groceries now. >
  
  Shit, Canada has more cowboys. >
  
  Republican policies do that without any help from Dems or Deep State. >
  
  Are they talking about legitimate cowboys who raise cattle, operate ranches, etc?
  Or are we talking about dorks who cosplay as cowboys and masturbate to old John wayne flicks? >
  
  CattleMEN are in the buisness of raising cattle. CowBOYS are those larping a bygone lifestyle who practice their larp in bars, parking lots, and jacked up trucks. >
  
  Well said >
  
  He’s watched too much Yellowstone >
  
  “…and replace the horse and carriage with mechanical buggies, cars they call ‘em, the fargin’ bastiges!” >
  
  Nah, just him… >
  
  Well he said getting rid of the cowboy, but didn't back that up at all.  Just ranted about the deep state working with liberals. >
  
  It's that Deep State Tampa Bay Buccaneers that want to wipe out America's Team, the DALLAS Cowboys. >
  
  The GOP House Majority, 2023 (Colorized) >
  
  Don't cowboys primarily take care of... cows? Is he saying liberals are trying to kill the beef market? WTF kind of sense does this make? >
  
  Where do these people get this stuff? >
  
  From their rectum. >
  
  This guy's been watching too much Yellowstone. >
  
  When did old white men from the East become cowboys? >
  
  Whelp, they have six shooters, some boots and lots of bullshit. They think that’s qualifications right there >
  
  Republican voters wanted to elect leaders as smart as themselves, and this is the outcome >
  
  The deep state wiped out the cowboy over a century ago when they let ranchers start divvying up the west with barbed wire. >
  
  I don't think that's the case, but the surface-level state sure does. >
  
  It's so frustrating how gullible Republicans are. Still droning on about the 'DEEP STATE.' You were in power for 4 years. You have the House and Judiciary under your control right now. YOU are the Deep State! Life isn't some giant conspiracy theory puppet mastered by Hillary Clinton/George Soros/Pelosi/Whoever the next Boogieman is. They act as if they're not one of the two parties constantly in power. As if our current state has nothing to do with their decisions.
  I visit my SO's family in Texas and they froth about how The Liberals are ruining everything. Texas's problems are fully from the GOP, they haven't had a Democrat in power in nearly 30 years! I suspect the attitude is the same throughout the red states. >
  
  Nobody's going to stop you playing dress-up, Zinke. >
  
  They need to visit Yellowstone. There’re cowboys out there who say otherwise. >
  
  Here we go. More dog shit nonsense from the GQP shitweasels. FUCK THESE PEOPLE. >
  
  Shit, Canada has more cowboys. >
  
  John Dutton is a hard man to kill. >
  
  Based >
  
  LOL Cowboys? 
  DOUCHEBAGS >
  
  God I wish >
  
  He’s been scrolling the same websites as MGT. >
  
  The American Cowboy was wiped out in the 1800’s, and the “dEeP StAtE” had nothing to do with it.  Trains and automobiles made it so even the softest could visit the frontier.  We murdered enough native Americans to keep them locked up in poverty away from prying eyes.  Corporations took over food production and made it boutiquey for farmers and ranchers to sell their goods to anyone but them.  All the land has already been spoken for.  Today we have larpers who want the world to stay the same so they can keep playing their game, but the reality is the world moved on with the invention of indoor plumbing. >
  
  Ryan Zinke same guy who lied to investigators while running the interior >
  
  And probably the buggy whip braiders, the bundle board carvers, the vcr repairmen, the elevator operators, the typewriter oilers, the eight track salesmen, and don’t get me started about the plight of slave traders! >
  
  “We’re being targeted because of our funny hats and proclivity towards gun violence” >
  
  Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?
  The strong, silent type; that was an American. >
  
  the idea that the US government is a secret progressive institution is one of the dumber things the whackos have come up with. >
  
  When you hear someone talk about the deep state you can stop listening.  The rest of what they’re saying is probably lunacy. >
  
  Weren't cowboys yanno, Mexicans and the like? >
  
  Absolutely delusional >
  
  I’ll go run the country. You go have a beer. >
  
  “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.” >
  
  if a grown man walked around all day in an astronaut outfit we wouldn't listen to anything he has to say about anything important.
  Why the hell do we let people pretend to be cowboys with a straight face? >
  
  He will sell the cowboy’s last out from underneath him.  
  Pure corrupt scum at its finest. >
  
  Actually, I think their 'wipe out' target is dipshits like Ryan Zinke. Moron! >
  
  This is the guy who gave a $3M contract to two friends with a website. 
  This guy yammering about removing public access was trying to privatize national monument lands and grazing lands.  How can you remove public access by turning something into a national park?
  This guy is from Whitefish, at least local.  His pals are immigrants: Gov. Gianforte from Pennsylvania,  Rep Rosendale from Maryland, Sen Daines from L.A.  Sure, real cowboys. 
  Cowboys were/are the working class. These guys are wealthy land-grabbers pretending to be John Wayne. >
  
  Lonesome cowboy syndrome is already doing that. Heck, even my dog would agree but he done left me for some high adventure down the trail. >
  
  The American cowboy is fucking dead.  He was hung in a noose of barbed wire a long time ago. >
  
  American cowboys died when barbed wire was invented
  And In true American fashion the real cowboys were all seasonal mexicans >
  
  "Ain't no Lib gunna make mah quarterhorse 'Betsy Ross' use a litter box". >
  
  As an American cowboy don’t speak for sht for brains. >
  
  National Cowboy Poetry Day is February 3rd, so I don't know what this guy is talking about. >
  
  As Samantha Bee put it “Get a load of this asshole!” >
  
  Okay, hands up, who gives two fucks about cowboys? >
  
  Another fucking idiot! >
  
  Zinke is looking for the Trump endorsement in the 2024 Montana Senate race.  Always after the next job.  Rosendale is crazy, so Zinke (they hate each other) has to our crazy crazy. >
  
  Will this be the return of the giant cowboy hat signs outside Arby’s? >
  
  Yellowstone is super popular right now so he’s gonna capitalize that people love cowboys again. >
  
  Mexicans?  Those were the actual cowboys… I mean clearly the GOP thinks that they are bad.  Or does he mean the Hollywood dudes?  Because I thought the GOP hates those too?… Does he mean the Brokeback mountain Cowboys because last time I checked the Republicans weren’t fans of theirs either.  Seems to me that the Republicans want to wipe out the American cowboys. >
  
  Guys! HuffPost wants to wipe out the cowboy! >
  
  The real American cowboy was often black or Mexican.  What we're wiping out is the movie, John Wayne type of cowboy. >
  
  The American cowboy was wiped out by the invention of barbed wire over 150 years ago. >
  
  its like a clown car of increasingly ridiculous dipshits piling out but instead of pies and seltzer water, its christian nationalism and conspiracy theories >
  
  They are just pulling terms from some sort of conservative word bank and assembling them into whatever nonsense they need.  At this point they don’t even need to issue new statements just copy and paste each other. >
  
  You ain't not gettin my AR-15 gas range oven cowboy >
  
  
  stii you our liberals don’t know the difference between a gas range and as assault gas range smdh my damn head >
  
  I know the bullets go in when oven dings 455 degrees.
  I bet you ain't have 4th of July in March. >
  
  A real cowboy needs a gun that can rip a real cow to shreds.
  Also, the American cowboy was replaced long ago with industrial farming, and there is really nothing special about cowboys anyways.  Anyone can be a rugged, out-doorsy type, ride a horse, and wear a silly looking hat.  It's not like cowboys were the badasses of the old west or anything.  They were pretty much ranch hands. >
  
  Romanticization of the Old West is largely responsible for their nostalgic nonsense. >
  
  Yeah.  I enjoy some of those movies, and a few games made in that style, but realistically, ask most people who dress up like that to do any of that kind of actual work, and they wouldn't last long.  
  That strong rugged persona could have easily gone to sheep herders if that's what the movies were made about. >
  
  fantasizing about living that Brokeback Mountain life i guess >
  
  These people are just insane now. >
  
  Same as they have always been. >
  
  Yeah but the walls came tumbling down...
  “Shaka, when the walls fell.” >
  
  Was Shaka a warrior laying segue to a fortress or were they a contractor? Context matters. >
  
  What year does he actually think it is?
  Is he going to rant about chineese railroad workers being allowed in saloons next? >
  
  People really do have a misinformed view of what the old west was really like.  Even after the west became more like the rest of the country through industrialization and migration, it's not like cowboys were really all that bad ass or anything. >
  
  Literally just a farmer >
  
  Nowadays, it's more just a romanticization of a persona that never really existed in spades formed by decades of this being used in movies and TV as it's own genre.  I'm sure there are still some real cowboys out there, but what this guy is talking about won't make them come back, nor is it making them go away because he isn't getting what he wants. >
  
  I'm starting to think being a Conservative means you literally think it's somehow still the 1700s and 1800s somehow mixed in with each other — Either it's still the time of the American Revolution in 1776, or it's the Wild West in the 1860-1890s...
  Seriously though...why do Conservatives appear to be so hopelessly mired in the past that they seem to reject any and all actual progress that would advance society? It's fuckin' weird! >
  
  Close, they want to take us back to the 1850s. Their favorite time. >
  
  "The Civil War was rigged. It was a huge victory for Conservatives. Yes, there's no evidence of that, but we don't care. Yes, we've taken it to court and the public over and over and they always reject that lie. But we'll take America back there anyway." -- Conservatives >
  
  Cowboys?  Sorry, the federal government shouldn't be subsidizing special interest groups.  They shouldn't be allowed to flaunt their lifestyle choices.  I mean, they can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes, but I don't want my children exposed to that kind of thing.
  Also, if "cowboys" can't pay the costs to graze their cattle, they don't have a legitimate business and shouldn't be subsidized. >
  
  
  Also, if "cowboys" can't pay the costs to graze their cattle, they don't have a legitimate business and shouldn't be subsidized.
  
  Yup, the hypocrites want to keep their "divine right" to freeload off of the taxpayers dime (subsidies), pay no taxes themselves and all while whining about their favorite bogey-man the so called "welfare queens" (minorities and the poor).
  I so detest Republicans and their MAGA base because  apparently the reichwing attracts the least decent, most dishonorable, and unscrupulous from amongst us. >
  
  Y’all better watch out - they’re coming for your peddlers and coopers next. >
  
  You can pry my barrels from my cold dead hands! >
  
  
  “There is no doubt the federal government deep state coordinates with liberal activists and uses politicians and willing media to carry their water,” he said. “... In many cases, they want to wipe out the American cowboy completely, remove public access to our lands and turn Montana into a national park.”
  
  I have very little idea what in the world he's talking about, but I do know that outside of Western films, cowboys disappeared well over a century ago >
  
  " turn Montana into a national park."
  ok, now this actually sounds nice, can we for once do what the yokels accuse us of? >
  
  Isn't most of Montana public land anyways? >
  
  Might as well round it out >
  
  ...Does anyone wanna tell him that The Good, The Bad and the Ugly isn't a contemporary documentary? >
  
  What's crazy about that talking chair clip is the close ups of Ryan and Flake who are both now too "sane" to get elected within the Republican party. >
  
  LMAO yeah right?   The party of nuts.. The silly party. >
  
  I love these QAnon Mab Libs. 
  Wait, you mean this is real?? 🤦‍♂️ >
  
  I thought barbed wire pretty much already took care of that >
  
  I'm a cowboy
  On a steel horse I ride
  I'm wanted dead or alive >
  
  I’m a cowboy
  Next to a fireman I dance
  I like to stay at the YMCA