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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:33 AM Feb 2018

Steven Seagal has written a novel about a Mexican-Arab-Obama conspiracy. Foreword by Joe Arpaio.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-read-steven-seagalE28099s-insane-novel-so-you-donE28099t-have-to/



The Deep State, as the preface explains through leading questions, is a shadowy cabal of bureaucrats, spies, politicians, bankers, journalists, professors, judges, doctors (?), and other powerful people who are responsible for everything from drug smuggling to fake news to "child exploitation (pedophilia)," all in the name of oppressing the masses.

...

Our hero is John Nan Tan Gode, a "Ghost Warrior known as a 'Shadow Wolf.'" We know that a Shadow Wolf is an elite Native American tracker so in tune with nature that they're essentially magic, because John is introduced to us while sitting alone in a movie theater watching a documentary about Shadow Wolves.

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John is a tribal police officer in Arizona (there's a real but unrelated non-magical ICE unit also called the Shadow Wolves) who is concerned about "billionaire drug lords" and "the 'Other Than Mexicans' ... assembling for what America had never known before -- a jihadi caliphate." Every other interchangeable Shadow Wolf we meet shares his views.

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John's always the smartest, toughest, coolest person in the room. When people punch John, it hurts them more than him. He knows every form of martial arts. John calls people assholes and then congratulates himself on how witty he is.

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At one point, John convinces a U.S. marshal to help him by insisting that he's a patriot who wants to keep the spirit of the American Revolution alive, because his Mohawk ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. (The Mohawk fought for the British to defend their land from "patriots.&quot

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John talks to some coyotes. Coyote chat allows John to discover a dead body and a Mexican-Arab-Obama conspiracy. That's right, President Obama. Gasp!

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John's investigation involves chases, shootouts, interrogations, and other theoretically dramatic moments that are written with all the passion of a bank statement, but every scenario plays out the same way. John gets a "gut feeling" about what's happening and what should be done. The other Shadow Wolves either agree with his plan or eventually fall in line after it's explained that John's gut is always right, so he never has to explain his logic. John has so many gut feelings that he should look into what is clearly the early stages of stomach cancer. At one point, his gut helps him resolve a hostage situation, and the chapter smugly ends with "All lives matter. Do they not?"

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John's elite investigative skills eventually lead him to randomly stumble across a key piece of evidence that was left for him in a coffeemaker. That's declared a brilliant hiding spot, because John has the rare personality trait of liking coffee. Then his mentor, who also happens to secretly be a high-ranking intelligence agent, gives a lecture on the entire plot that he knew about all along, rendering most of the book pointless.

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In Seagal's world, every random cop and soldier knows and accepts that the government uses "crisis actors" to fake mass shootings, but only the evil authorities know that some crisis actors are secretly terrorists.

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Luckily, the cartel-jihadist-doctors throw a raging party on the eve of the attack, during which they smoke hashish, listen to "Arabic music," and have women who, cover your eyes children, kiss multiple men. John and his team infiltrate the party, kill most of the baddies, then torture the head villain for information. That info is used to mostly stop the attacks. Then we're informed that the American people elected a new president who, in the part of the story that requires the greatest suspension of disbelief, is "stronger and smarter."

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Seagal and Morrissey invented a bunch of magical Indians who love to taunt, kill, and commit war crimes against the enemies of Real America using their ancient spirit powers. And the only thing the good races and the evil races can agree on is the ugly, nihilistic belief that America "brought upon themselves their own destruction by their naive concept of justice and fairness."
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Steven Seagal has written a novel about a Mexican-Arab-Obama conspiracy. Foreword by Joe Arpaio. (Original Post) DetlefK Feb 2018 OP
I'm sure it's a literary gem that will be lauded as the Great American Novel The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #1
Wait a Mexican, Arab and Obama ......walk in a bar.....WHAT? Kirk Lover Feb 2018 #2
Of course Mexicans and Arabs are in cahoots!!! They are both brown!!! DetlefK Feb 2018 #3
Well I am going to run right out and buy that one. (sarcasm) nt leftyladyfrommo Feb 2018 #4
*that's* the gaping hole in my life! i've been lacking a steven seagal novel! unblock Feb 2018 #5
Stupid Russian whore dalton99a Feb 2018 #6
Omigod. How far he's fallen from the anti-corporate hero he portrayed in his movies. Baitball Blogger Feb 2018 #11
That second photo makes him look like Sebastian Gorka swallowed Rush Limbaugh. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2018 #16
Watching a pile of blubber in a fight doesn't work any more. lpbk2713 Feb 2018 #7
Hey kids!! How many racist dog whistles can you circle in this book? Yavin4 Feb 2018 #8
I'm invoking Poe's Law here. nt Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2018 #9
Hilarious if it was not written as a serious piece. BSdetect Feb 2018 #10
No, he hasn't. Orsino Feb 2018 #12
can't wait to see it in the bin at the dollar store dembotoz Feb 2018 #13
I can't wait for the movie, and it is going to be a colossal fail! Initech Feb 2018 #30
I fell high right now RockaFowler Feb 2018 #14
Toilet paper! IluvPitties Feb 2018 #15
Amazon reviews-OMG! nolabear Feb 2018 #17
Mine's being reviewed. I get the feeling it won't be posted. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2018 #18
How many times do I have to tell you nolabear Feb 2018 #33
But my dinner wouldn't have worked without it. I put a Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2018 #36
Putin has made him an honorary Russian citizen DBoon Feb 2018 #19
Oh, good grief. I've missed virtually all of Seagal's Hortensis Feb 2018 #40
Sounds like another Turner Diaries Thomas Hurt Feb 2018 #20
So, who saves the world? world wide wally Feb 2018 #21
" Steven Seagal has written a novel" is not a sentence that one ever expected to read Tarc Feb 2018 #22
always was a loser...I see things have changed little over the decades, inclusing his hair color. BoneyardDem Feb 2018 #23
Actually, that's a great way to make money. Turbineguy Feb 2018 #24
I've always believed TlalocW Feb 2018 #29
what an idjit. spanone Feb 2018 #25
Calling him a loser is an insult to losers. Solly Mack Feb 2018 #26
That illiterate fuckwad didn't write anything. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2018 #27
The main character is a ghost warrior TlalocW Feb 2018 #28
So Sheriff Joe is all in on the Russia party? Initech Feb 2018 #31
The only thing worse than Mary-Sue fiction is... JHB Feb 2018 #32
Is Seagal Native American? nolabear Feb 2018 #34
He's just milking the Faux-obsessed nutjobs. Vinca Feb 2018 #35
Posted before reading replies. redwitch Feb 2018 #38
Wow! Ill bet its as good as his acting! NT redwitch Feb 2018 #37
Seagal can write? Or read? mnmoderatedem Feb 2018 #39
damn it, onethatcares Feb 2018 #41
Can't Think of This Clown SDJay Feb 2018 #42
Who? maxrandb Feb 2018 #43
There's definitely a 2 am TV movie in this one guys !!! OnDoutside Feb 2018 #44
Putin has dirt on him... Hassler Feb 2018 #45

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,705 posts)
1. I'm sure it's a literary gem that will be lauded as the Great American Novel
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:36 AM
Feb 2018

and will be taught in schools for the next hundred years.



Soon to be a minor, self-funded motion picture.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
2. Wait a Mexican, Arab and Obama ......walk in a bar.....WHAT?
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:36 AM
Feb 2018

Ah yes....the Mexican Arab connection, it's been right there this whole time.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
7. Watching a pile of blubber in a fight doesn't work any more.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:40 AM
Feb 2018



So he has to put his acting down on paper so the reader can let their imagination wander.

Yavin4

(35,439 posts)
8. Hey kids!! How many racist dog whistles can you circle in this book?
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:41 AM
Feb 2018

Remember those letter puzzles where you circle words? This book is chock full of racist dog whistles.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
12. No, he hasn't.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:49 AM
Feb 2018

What he has done is to license his name to a hack who wants to try to sell paper to the rubes who read.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
30. I can't wait for the movie, and it is going to be a colossal fail!
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 01:08 PM
Feb 2018

It will clean up big at the Razzies!

nolabear

(41,963 posts)
17. Amazon reviews-OMG!
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:57 AM
Feb 2018

They’re either madness on the hoof or some VERY entertaining satire. And there are 60 of them. So I don’t think this will start a revolution.

Btw you can be certain Tim Morrissey did the writing part.

DBoon

(22,366 posts)
19. Putin has made him an honorary Russian citizen
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:05 PM
Feb 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/steven-seagal-russian-passport-putin.html

President Vladimir V. Putin personally handed over the actor’s new Russian passport on Friday in a scene at the Kremlin that was considerably more muted than those in Mr. Seagal’s movies. The actor sat across a table from the Russian leader in Moscow, his arms folded or, at times, his hands clasped in a gesture of thanks.

After the Russian leader presented him with the document, Mr. Seagal signed it, according to the Russian news agency TASS and other news outlets.

Mr. Putin told Mr. Seagal, according to TASS, that the two would not “politicize” the event. But the Russian leader, who has said he hoped for better ties with the United States after the election of Donald J. Trump, was also quoted as telling Mr. Seagal: “I would like to congratulate you, and I also hope that this small step will mark the beginning of the gradual improvement in our interstate relations.”

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
40. Oh, good grief. I've missed virtually all of Seagal's
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 04:30 PM
Feb 2018

career, so no surprised I missed this too.

But line he spoke as he too the new Russian passport Putin was handing him, "I will never, ever falter"? Is that from one of his movies or acceptance of a mission, or both? (That nonsense for those who can be fooled all the time about improving relationships seems more than slightly unlikely.)

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
22. " Steven Seagal has written a novel" is not a sentence that one ever expected to read
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:25 PM
Feb 2018

Along the lines of

"Sarah Palin has opened a dictionary"
"Donald Trump's favorite movie is "Machete""
"Ben Carson said words that mean something"

and so on.

Turbineguy

(37,331 posts)
24. Actually, that's a great way to make money.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:32 PM
Feb 2018

Wing-nuts are the most gullible idiots on the planet. Even suicide bombers have a higher standard of believing nonsense.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)
29. I've always believed
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:57 PM
Feb 2018

That the further to the right someone is, there's a group to the left that's still conservative but just not as conservative to believe the crazy stuff the group to the right does. And being republicans, they see an opportunity to make some money by exploiting that group's irrationality (usually an irrational fear) either monetarily or by getting them riled up to do some kind of action.

That's how we got the tea party. Group A, fiscal conservatives, needed Group B, nutjobs, to support giving up their healthcare, wages, job security, etc. so they preyed on their fears on immigrants, etc.

TlalocW

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
27. That illiterate fuckwad didn't write anything.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:36 PM
Feb 2018

His ghostwriter, credited on the cover for some reason, did.

Oh, and putting a picture of yourself on the cover of your novel? Totes classy.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)
28. The main character is a ghost warrior
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:47 PM
Feb 2018

"Hmmm...," thinks Seagal, "Let's make him double-cool by also calling him a Shadow Wolf. Awwwwww, yeah."

TlalocW

nolabear

(41,963 posts)
34. Is Seagal Native American?
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 02:43 PM
Feb 2018

Because if not that’s some outstanding misuse of mythology right there. Heck if he IS it’s outstanding misuse of mythology.

Hassler

(3,377 posts)
45. Putin has dirt on him...
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:45 PM
Feb 2018

He'll do whatever his puppet master tells him or else the incriminating sex tapes will be released.

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