All-Purpose TEA Party Thread

Re: Sack Up, Tea Baggers: The Paranoid Style of American Politics

again with the tea bagging?

can't you keep your sexual fantasies to yourself?

 

Re: Sack Up, Tea Baggers: The Paranoid Style of American Politics

I've been reading the link you posted in the Senate subforum.

YIKES!

I can only hope they manage to splinter themselves up as badly as the New Left did.

some highlights:

He discovered Glenn Beck, and began to think of Washington as a conspiracy to fleece the little guy. “I had no clue that my country was being taken from me,” Mr. Stevens explained. He could not understand why his progressive friends did not see what he saw.

He felt compelled to do something, so he decided to start a chapter of Mr. Beck’s 9/12 Project. He reserved a room at a pizza parlor for a Glenn Beck viewing party and posted the event on Craigslist. “We had 110 people there,” Mr. Stevens said. He recalled looking around the room and thinking, “All these people — they agree with me.” ​

These guys sound wonderful, too:

One local group represented at Liberty Lake was Arm in Arm, which aims to organize neighborhoods for possible civil strife by stockpiling food and survival gear, and forming armed neighborhood groups.

Also represented was Oath Keepers, whose members call themselves “guardians of the Republic.” Oath Keepers recruits military and law enforcement officials who are asked to disobey orders the group deems unconstitutional. These include orders to conduct warrantless searches, arrest Americans as unlawful enemy combatants or force civilians into “any form of detention camps.”​

 

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Who needs death panels when you have that kind of dedication?

 

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"The likes of Mr. Obama." You mean the democratically elected President of the United States? These people are unbelievable.

 

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In light of the new thread I thought I'd dig up a decent summary of the movement and it's positions on the issues. But there isn't anything like that. It's a jumbled mess of poorly designed websites and incomprehensible rants.

The main organized groups claiming "Tea Party-ness" appear to be either GOP fronts or those looking to make a buck off the movement.


Does anyone have a substantive link to the generally agreed upon platform planks of the Tea Party movement?

 

Re: Sack Up, Tea Baggers: The Paranoid Style of American Politics

Vfish should be here anytime. That oughta help.

 

Re: Sack Up, Tea Baggers: The Paranoid Style of American Politics

And I posted a link to The Paranoid Style in American Politics in another thread.

This Tea Party stuff really is exactly all that we've already seen before. The only thing that's different is that these people are perhaps not as fringe as some of their paranoid predecessors. It may just be a technological difference - the internet, cable TV and so on. But I'm not sure.

That said, I think ASF should read that article and then tell us whether the Tea Baggers are as "middle of the road" as he was insisting elsewhere.

 

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Boo!

 

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I believe you can order a copy of their platform by sending a check for $1,000 to the POB. Teabagging ain't free my friend.

 

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The 2nd incarnation of the Klan, the one in the teens and 20s that was much more Nativist than anti-black, was initially boosted by guys who wanted to make $$$ selling the official uniform, the hood and the sheets. F'real.

 

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Honestly, I think the hundreds and hundreds of fractured tea partys will eventually sputter out and according to many they will and are splitting the GOP. I like that! Go tea baggers!

(sorry if this link has been posted elsewhere. It's certainly appropriate in this thread)

Poll finds most Americans are unhappy with government

The above result confuses me. How can people first say that they know little or nothing about what the tea party stands for and then turn around and say that they agree at least somewhat with the issues tea partiers have? Was there a statement about what the tea party stands for that prefaced the question or is this a result of answering along "party lines?"

The tea partys don't necessarily scare me (unless I happen to be at a town hall where an idiot brings a semi-automatic), but they sure do piss me off.

Just about half of the country voted in the last presidential election. Forget about mid-terms. The numbers that vote are hardly representative of a population. I wonder if there will be a corporat..., er person - who will spend millions to shine light on the bigots who run for office?

Education. This country needs education.

 

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I'm thinking that or sort of them = the British National Party/National Front. At the Palin speech I did see one woman of color there.

I'd be interested to hear Palin's comments if she were asked about people of a different shade of color in the U.S.A. than herself.

 

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Have you attended one of their functions? I bet you haven't. Still, you have the audacity to call the Tea Partiers the 2 incarnation of the Klan.

Oh, that is right. You are the same guy who said Social Security was not going to have any funding problems and the Iraq war was just like Vietnam. I guess your comments should be taken with a grain of salt.

Let's be clear, both parties have failed. People are fed up. The democrats are in power and they are bearing the brunt of angst the population. If the republicans win, they will be in the same position.

Finally, it is well and good people are speaking up. Whether you agree with them or not, it is important to have an engaged populace. Or are you just so arrogant to believe your way is the right way.

 

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This article about the Tea Partier's views on Obama and the various related conspiracy theories is pretty interesting for putting it in historical perspective.

http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parti...feature/2010/02/15/american_political_culture

It is very interesting to me, of the people I asked, who talked about all of the tax increases Obama has levied against the poor and middle class, and how he wants to take away their guns to make them subservient to the grand socialist conspiracy.

 

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No, he didn't. Read it again. All the way to the end this time.

They're not "speaking up" in any meaningful way. What is coming from Tea Party gatherings comes closer to barking than to oratory.

 

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Oh, now you are just being soooo rude!

 

Re: Sack Up, Tea Baggers: The Paranoid Style of American Politics

eh eh eh

 

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You can start here, I guess:

http://bostontea.us/program

Another difference is that once you get past the racist elements and the conspiracy kooks within the movement, most of the teabaggers' platform on actual issues simply echoes what has been spoonfed to far right extremists for years by the likes of Limbaugh, Coulter, Goldberg, Beck, Boortz, etc. Check the teabaggers' own websites and it's the same far right laundry list of guns, abortion, gaybashing, anti-environmentalism, whining about taxes, that has been circulating for years with the libertarian desire to smoke pot thrown in:

http://www.teapartynation.com/

Does anyone else find it odd that a freedom-loving website like teapartynation would force you to have to log in to get any information from it? Big Brother needs you to log in!

http://www2.teapartyrevolution.com/forums/

I like the spinning, ducking and dodging in the FAQ of the teapartyrevolution website in response to riffs on "where were you assclowns during the Reagan and both Bush administrations" question. Priceless.

http://theteapartyplatform.com/

The only real break from the usual far right list is in the radical isolationism and subsequent desire to get out of the middle east. One wonders what the yellow ribbon, kill-the-towelheads crowd thinks of that. Maybe we should ask Toby Keith.

 

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If these sad sacks had become demonstrative...say...right after that huge govt. pharmaceutical giveaway under Bush, then I'd say they were on to something. But since this is essentially an army of pasty, white, 60 yr. old Limbaugh listeners who came into being after Obama was elected, I say these whiny little tw@ts can all go fcuk themselves.

 

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One of the items mentioned by the teabaggers is allowing the free market principles to work. One of the grudges they hold against Obama and the Dems is over-regulation of business. Private business is good - government is bad.

If you want to see a meltdown of a teabagger, give them a little history lesson about the Boston Tea Party. The tea that was destroyed that day was owned by private business. You will quickly get the "does not compute" expression, followed by seemingly unrelated anger and an accusation concerning the socialist revisionist history.

 

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...and Lloyd Marcus. Don't forget Lloyd Marcus!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr-3cLeh8hc]Stop Obama Tour- Denver[/ame]

Or they can **** Lloyd Marcus...

Sorry... it just cracks me up that of all the Black-esque cons they could have used as their token, they chose a twofer like him