Exposing the Tea Party

[voluptuary_manque]

Now that it has been established that the Tea Party is 'same-old, same-old', can we start ignoring them, please? Any group that makes a issue of conspiracy theories is not to be taken seriously.

 

[cloudy]

I've been ignoring them from the very start. They haven't impressed me any more than amicus or boxlicker has. Willfully ignorant, all of them.

 

[Guest]

But their signs!

I am so enjoying their fucked up signs.

Poor grammar, amazingly inventive improperly spelled words, sheer idiocy . . .

What's not to love?

 

[Dragonlipz]

Bear - ignoring them might be the sane and logical course to pursue, but remember where you're at: The AH Forum....not really a repository for sane and logical....
I agree that ignoring the Tea-Baggers is probably the sanest and most intelligent strategy for dealing with these sad, racist tools of the corporate interests but in doing so we eliminate endless hours of amusement for ourselves when the tools of the tools: JBJ, Komrad Amicus (глупость), BOX101, the Zebmeister, TE, and the rest continue to spout the ignorant, racist talking points of The FOX NUTWORK..........
They are entertaining in a sick, sad, and entirely pathetic way. Other than that, I think that they're great!!!!
CIAO

 

[DeeZire]

On the subject of the TeaBaggers, I am truly conflicted. On the one hand they are entertaining, in a pathetic sort of way, on the other hand, is it polite to make fun of the mentally handicapped? Shouldn't we be encouraging them to get help?

Regardless of the moral dilemma, I do feel okay about acknowledging their ignorance with the misspelled word in my sig line - something I saw on one of their signs. I wonder if they're going to try to copyright it?

 

[Dragonlipz]

I wonder if they're going to try to copyright it?

One can only hope.....

 

[amicus]

You folks are amusing and the stench of fear exudes as you scurry into self denial, chuckles...

There are four major organizations, all grass-root, plus almost one for every State.

Curious observation, I learn more from MSNBC and CNN about the Tea Parties, than I do on Fox News....it seems they, like you, just can't leave them alone or ignore them...even more amusing....were it not a group with major indications of influence, you would have ignored them a year ago...

Small Government, Less Taxes...the central issues in all the organizations...

ami

 

[Guest]

These signs - oh my. Even our kids enjoyed the stupidity displayed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/

 

[Katyusha]

The Ten Points from the Contract from America...

...that the Tea Party wants Congress to adhere to:

1. Protect the Constitution
Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%)

2. Reject Cap & Trade
Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. (72.20%)

3. Demand a Balanced Budget
Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike. (69.69%)

4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words—the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%)

5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning. (63.37%)

6. End Runaway Government Spending
Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%)

7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care
Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t restricted by state boundaries. (56.39%)

8. Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy
Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. (55.51%)

9. Stop the Pork
Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%)

10. Stop the Tax Hikes
Permanently repeal all tax hikes, including those to the income, capital gains, and death taxes, currently scheduled to begin in 2011. (53.38%)

Full story here.

I do agree with some of these but I think others are unrealistic for today's society, and I think in general the tea partiers have unrealistic ideals. But that's me.

 

[Powertone]

You folks are amusing and the stench of fear exudes as you scurry into self denial, chuckles...

There are four major organizations, all grass-root, plus almost one for every State.

Curious observation, I learn more from MSNBC and CNN about the Tea Parties, than I do on Fox News....it seems they, like you, just can't leave them alone or ignore them...even more amusing....were it not a group with major indications of influence, you would have ignored them a year ago...

Small Government, Less Taxes...the central issues in all the organizations...

ami

SNL did a totally bizarre skit last night ...the punchline was Tea Partiers going off to protest in DC on April 15...the set-ups to the punchline were not related whatsoever ...
NBC & SNL hate / fear the Tea Party

 

[Jagged]

Thanks for the article....I never see these kinds of polls when illegals or anti-war protesters march. Interesting...Oh and there were no conspiracy theories about President Bush...right. Why do you even care though? Haven't they all been dismissed as racists yet?

Well people aren't happy and they're letting the government know that, and for eight years I heard how important it was for people to do that. Why has that stopped now? Keep ignoring them if you like, but I have a feeling November won't be a slam dunk for the ruling party.

Still though I'm for anyone exercising their rights while not violating the rights of anyone else. The people I've known to go to Tea party evens fit the demographic mentioned, but there was diversity as well. Seemed anyone was welcomed.

 

[amicus]

Thank you Katyusha...yes, an idealistic set of goals and perhaps your posting them will bring forth some honest discussion instead of the usual suspect trashing everything they don't understand...

Be well...

Ami

 

[amicus]

SNL did a totally bizarre skit last night ...the punchline was Tea Partiers going off to protest in DC on April 15...the set-ups to the punchline were not related whatsoever ...
NBC & SNL hate / fear the Tea Party

Hatred seems to be a common thread among the Left and none of them pay attention to the Stats that Tea Party members are upper middle class, better educated and make more money than the average Americans and that a full 40 percent of them are Democrats and Independents.

Interesting...

Amicus

 

[DeeZire]

....Well people aren't happy and they're letting the government know that, and for eight years I heard how important it was for people to do that. Why has that stopped now?....

Because GWB - the worst president in American history - is now gone. If the TeaBaggers want to go back in time and reinstate the same policies that turned our country into the laughingstock of the world, they have a right to make their wishes known, but that doesn't mean the rest of the country is required to honor those wishes.

November will be interesting. Considering that the American electorate was gullible enough to give GWB a second term, I wouldn't be surprised if another wave of stupidity ushers in the second Age Of Unenlightenment.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Hatred seems to be a common thread among the Left and none of them pay attention to the Stats that Tea Party members are upper middle class, better educated and make more money than the average Americans and that a full 40 percent of them are Democrats and Independents.

Interesting...

Amicus

Actually, the last poll I saw puts the Democrats and Independents at just about half.

 

[Guest]

Zeb, you used to make fun of amicus. He's been a laughingstock of the AH for years.

WTF has happened to you?

 

[Katyusha]

Actually, the last poll I saw puts the Democrats and Independents at just about half.

They're not happy with either party, they feel that it's the politicians that are out of touch, not one party or the other. So it actually doesn't surprise me all that much that we'd find people from all over joining the tea party movement.

They do tend to be white, upper middle class/wealthy, male, and over age 47 (not I said "tend to be" not "they are"). Something else I saw said that many of them draw Social Security and Medicare. Some don't see the contradiction, "I paid into the system to I'm entitled to reap its benefits," and others didn't realize that advocating what they're advocating may mean getting rid of services they need. And many don't draw any benefits from either.

So yeah, the stats on the tea partiers are interesting. They sound Republican, they act Libertarian, and because of that one would think that Democrats are what they can't stand. Not true.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Zeb, you used to make fun of amicus. He's been a laughingstock of the AH for years.

WTF has happened to you?

Nothing, except that I see the country flushing it's self down the toilet. The spending that is going on cannot be sustained. That's what most Americans are yelling about but the POS's in Washington are no longer listening. They don't care about us, they only care about keeping their cushy government jobs with all that power and money and fuck the rest of us. That's what the fuck happened to me.

 

[Guest]

Nothing, except that I see the country flushing it's self down the toilet. The spending that is going on cannot be sustained. That's what most Americans are yelling about but the POS's in Washington are no longer listening. They don't care about us, they only care about keeping their cushy government jobs with all that power and money and fuck the rest of us. That's what the fuck happened to me.

Where were you during the past administration?

 

[sr71plt]

Are the rumors true that the Tim McVeigh chapter of the Tea Bag Party meets right here on the AH?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Where were you during the past administration?

Oh I was here...they fucked up too. In some cases though I defended some of it's policies, not all, not most, just some. The last administration was democratic in it's philosophy and spending. The last administration is when I became a Libertarian. Not a Republican, a Libertarian. And there are still some of their philosophy that I don't like.

 

[Guest]

Oh I was here...they fucked up too. In some cases though I defended some of it's policies, not all, not most, just some. The last administration was democratic in it's philosophy and spending. The last administration is when I became a Libertarian. Not a Republican, a Libertarian. And there are still some of their philosophy that I don't like.

The last administration was NOT democratic in any fucking thing.

 

[TE999]

I find it amusing that the likes of the LA 'Times', CBS and the NY 'Times' use so much ink in dismissing what they portray as a bunch of 'angry white affluent Republican males' that are stupid, illiterate and beneath their oh so lofty contempt. If these 'Tea Partiers' are so inconsequential and represent a fraction of America's population, why are they and other mainstream news outlets so fixated on denigrating them?

I have watched several videos and interviews with these people and they seem to be ordinary citizens of both sexes, all ages and different races with legitimate concerns about where this country's headed. Maybe they're not voicing them in a manner that the media 'approves of', but there they are. and have a right to be heard.

Sure, some of them get fired up and get rambunctious, but I haven't heard of any riots occuring as a result of these rallies. The vast majority are angry and annoyed but well behaved.

Sure, there are some crude, misspelled signs. Not everyone's as literate as a LA 'Times' reporter. It's the thought that counts.

There may be a rich white Republican funding this magilla, but who cares? It's his money and he can do what he likes with it. I guess the fact that he is a rich, white Republican is the problem as far as the LA 'Times' and others are concerned.

The fact is there's a rising tide of resentment in this country against the profligate spending and increasing government control of our everyday lives by the current administration and congress. This will manifest itself in the interim and fall elections; to what extent no one can say, but several incumbent politicians poll numbers are hovering in the negative against their presumed opponents.

Being dismissive of and mocking ones fellow citizens for their views may make others feel better about themselves and what they think is right and proper, but it changes nothing and only makes them appear petty, narrow minded and predjudicial.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The last administration was NOT democratic in any fucking thing.

They sure were, almost as much as the one before them.

 

[sr71plt]

I have watched several videos and interviews with these people and they seem to be ordinary citizens of both sexes, all ages and different races with legitimate concerns about where this country's headed. Maybe they're not voicing them in a manner that the media 'approves of', but there they are. and have a right to be heard.

I must say in all sincerity that we must be watching completely different videos.

I find the dark side extreme to where you reactionaries are taking your poor loser griping absolutely disgusting. I know you don't care--and are just venting your impotence--and I have no intention of trying to argue with any of you crazy pinheads, but I'm registering my "get a life" vote on this disgusting behavior, which is laughable when you have to obsess in doing it on a porn discussion forum.

And now I plan to concentrate more on fun threads on sex and on some interesting threads on erotica writing.