Yet another benefit from the improving economy

[RobDownSouth]

Another benefit of the improving economy has been the precipitous decline of the Tea Party Media.

• The spiritual father of the Tea Party, rantmeister Rick Santelli? Publicly called out as a liar by his colleagues in July 2014
• Whatever happened to Glenn Beck? Oh yeah, actions have consequences....a successful boycott of his blather led to his firing after he jumped the shark in 2009.
• Last week, conservative Murica seemed to finally....FINALLY... realize that Sarah Palin was an empty-headed whackadoodle with nice tits

The Tea Party is still around, but they're not doing much lately are they? Seems this fiscal revolution they wanted to start has morphed instead into they usual....wait for it....anti-abortion social conservative Moral Majority leftovers.

 

[PoppingTom]

Another benefit of the improving economy has been the precipitous decline of the Tea Party Media.

• The spiritual father of the Tea Party, rantmeister Rick Santelli? Publicly called out as a liar by his colleagues in July 2014
• Whatever happened to Glenn Beck? Oh yeah, actions have consequences....a successful boycott of his blather led to his firing after he jumped the shark in 2009.
• Last week, conservative Murica seemed to finally....FINALLY... realize that Sarah Palin was an empty-headed whackadoodle with nice tits

The Tea Party is still around, but they're not doing much lately are they? Seems this fiscal revolution they wanted to start has morphed instead into they usual....wait for it....anti-abortion social conservative Moral Majority leftovers.

[vette mode]

It's the silence before the storm.

[/vette mode]

 

[NeverEndingMe]

fucking idiots

 

[FGB]

That's it KEEP worrying about the Tea Party!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Another benefit of the improving economy has been the precipitous decline of the Tea Party Media.

• The spiritual father of the Tea Party, rantmeister Rick Santelli? Publicly called out as a liar by his colleagues in July 2014
• Whatever happened to Glenn Beck? Oh yeah, actions have consequences....a successful boycott of his blather led to his firing after he jumped the shark in 2009.
• Last week, conservative Murica seemed to finally....FINALLY... realize that Sarah Palin was an empty-headed whackadoodle with nice tits

The Tea Party is still around, but they're not doing much lately are they? Seems this fiscal revolution they wanted to start has morphed instead into they usual....wait for it....anti-abortion social conservative Moral Majority leftovers.

They kicked Obamas ass in November.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

They kicked Obamas ass in November.

November 2008 or November 2012?

 

[RobDownSouth]

November 2008 or November 2012?

*crickets chirping*

 

[BotanyBoy]

That's it KEEP worrying about the Tea Party!

I don't think anyone is worried about the embarrassing pest fringe loony toons that are the Tea Party.

I'm pretty sure robs well supported argument is that they were proven to be a bunch of fringe loony toons when the sky in fact did not fall because Commie Kenyan POTUS is coming to violently butcher grandma and now we all laugh at them as the slink off into the shadows for being THAT fucking stupid.

But then there are the REAL morons who are still holding out hope that it will happen....these are often same idiots that think the south will still rise again and can't understand that's it's not 1955 anymore.

November 2008 or November 2012?

https://33.media.tumblr.com/ef52917fd3bd6ac63929311f4442d64c/tumblr_n8xlopaYWX1rkkb5mo1_250.gif

 

[The_Trouvere]

fucking idiots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4Gj7JsET4

 

[Magnetron]

The Tea Party is still around, but they're not doing much lately are they?

fucking idiots

My sentiments exactly.

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[RobDownSouth]

That's it KEEP worrying about the Tea Party!

Oh, I'm sure they'll always be around. I'm so old I remember when they were called "The Moral Majority" and before that the "John Birch Society" (but I'm a bit young to remember when they proudly called themselves the "Ku Klux Klan").

 

[Muscadine_Eyes]

Oh, I'm sure they'll always be around. I'm so old I remember when they were called "The Moral Majority" and before that the "John Birch Society" (but I'm a bit young to remember when they proudly called themselves the "Ku Klux Klan").

...or Scalise fans.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

chirp chirp chirp November 2014 in North Carolina and Arkansas and Kentucky and lotsa other places crickets like

 

[mark_j]

Oh, I'm sure they'll always be around. I'm so old I remember when they were called "The Moral Majority" and before that the "John Birch Society" (but I'm a bit young to remember when they proudly called themselves the "Ku Klux Klan").

Wow talk about ascription.

Are you seriously going to equate the Tea Party, Moral Majority and John Birch Society with the KKK? Even the John Birch Society, who could be somewhat simular were a far cry from the KKK.

I think your cheese done slipped of your cracker...

 

[KingOrfeo]

Wow talk about ascription.

Are you seriously going to equate the Tea Party, Moral Majority and John Birch Society with the KKK? Even the John Birch Society, who could be somewhat simular were a far cry from the KKK.

I think your cheese done slipped of your cracker...

Well, let's say they all drink from the same well.

 

[The_Trouvere]

The Golden Era of America's White Blue Collar Workers

Oh, I'm sure they'll always be around. I'm so old I remember when they were called "The Moral Majority" and before that the "John Birch Society" (but I'm a bit young to remember when they proudly called themselves the "Ku Klux Klan").

There was probably some overlapping between the religious right and the teabaggers, just as there were some people who belonged to both the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.

Nevertheless, they have been different movements with different concerns.

The Moral Majority was an organization formed and led by Jerry Falwell that had a membership list of people who paid dues and received a magazine, entitled The Fundamentalist. The religious right was a movement that included the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, and Christian conservatives who belonged to neither organization, but who considered themselves part of the movement.

Secular liberals overestimated the power of the religious right, and the danger it posed to American democracy. During the 1980's public opinion polls indicated that Jerry Falwell was an unpopular public figure, even when Ronald Reagan was riding high in the polls.

The religious right achieved none of its political goals. Abortion is still legal. Prayer and Bible reading is still illegal in pubic schools. Homosexuals continued during the 1980's to win public recognition. They have continued to do so since.

The leaders of the Republican Party, including Ronald Reagan, were never really committed to the goals of the religious right. They viewed it as somewhat of an embarrassment. During political campaigns they campaigned for the religious right vote, but they did nothing to advance its agenda.

In his book What is the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank said Republicans love to lose on social issues. Social issues are what cause lower middle class whites to vote Republican.

The real agenda of the Republican Party is to skew things in favor of the well to do, and to starve the public sector of the Republican Party in order to use its emancipation to argue that the private sector is better. The GOP has been very sucessful at that.

There may have been some religious right activists who wanted to create a totalitarian Christian theocracy. There were far more of these in the frightened imagination of secular liberals. They were specters equivalent to the Communists Joe McCarthy's supporters feared were about to create a Communist dictatorship in the United States during the McCarthy Era.

For the most part the religious right simply wanted to restore the ethos of the 1950's. I was a child back then. It was a nice time to be a child. The illegitimacy rate was about six percent. The national mood was expressed in the song, "Love and Marriage Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage." The crime rate was a lot lower.

The 1950's was the golden era of America's white working class. Most of the tax load fell on the rich. One third of the work force belonged to labor unions. Most people got pay raises every year that beat inflation. Those were the days.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The 1950's was the golden era of America's white working class. Most of the tax load fell on the rich. One third of the work force belonged to labor unions. Most people got pay raises every year that beat inflation. Those were the days.

Oh, the way Glen Miller played
Songs that made the Hit Parade
Guys like us we had it made . . .

 

[CandiCame]

I am so out of touch. I don't know who anybody mentioned in that was aside from Palin, who's tits I have never seen, and thus, cannot speak towards the quality of. I'm going to guess Beck is another fat white guy with, either a radio show like Limbah, or a FoxNews position like O'Reily.

 

[CandiCame]

Oh, the way Glen Miller played
Songs that made the Hit Parade
Guys like us we had it made . . .

You know, not even all white folk had that great of a time in the 50s. If you lived in Appalachia, even white privilege didn't save you from the mines, the worms, and the crippling poverty. That decade sucked for probably a good 80% of the population. I've never understood why republicans are so obsessed with it.

 

[CandiCame]

OK so I inadvertantly found out who Beck was, not because of this, but because I was checking out some books- and I love reading discontinued and banned books because it allows me to keep my badboy persona, while not having to actually do anything. One of which is by noted dumbass, David Barton. While pirating The Jefferson Lies, a book that has been discontinued due to it's claiming to be a historical work, yet being grossly inaccurate, I noted that in the blurb describing the text, Beck had written a review and shared it on his TV show (so he DOES have a TV show) as well as used his notoriety to help Barton get on the Texas advisory board that helps write history books for schoolchildren. So that's kind of disturbing. He helped the dude who was so bad at history that he couldn't put a book in stores, sell lies to children. This doesn't sound real, so I'm going to Google it to make sure that it isn't something the user uploading this epub file said just for shits and giggles, as people are known to do.

Google says it's real. Holy shit.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/20/glenn-beck-thomas-jefferson-book

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/08/157754542/the-most-influential-evangelist-youve-never-heard-of

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/david-barton-historian-right-christian-96443.html#ixzz34CgiiSBa

Edit: The forum I spoke of led me to this directdownload link if anyone wants to read this book, which has since been pulled by the publishers and therefore cannot be bought legally in stores, without being a member of the pirate forums. It seems like something you guys might be interested in.

https://kickass.so/the-jefferson-lies-david-barton-t6598698.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I remember seeing what Texas did to school books in the 1990s.
That led me to dig, and find out how they got control.
That was wretched, enough.

"In 2010, the Texas Board of Education voted to rewrite the history textbooks to make them more conservative and Christian-friendly. One of the advisers was David Barton."

-NPR

Maybe, part of me was avoiding what would be the cold, awful truth, that the situation would get worse, just as it has, with everything else.

But, still. It is better to know, than to be left in ignorance.

yikes

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There was probably some overlapping between the religious right and the teabaggers, just as there were some people who belonged to both the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.

Nevertheless, they have been different movements with different concerns.

The Moral Majority was an organization formed and led by Jerry Falwell that had a membership list of people who paid dues and received a magazine, entitled The Fundamentalist. The religious right was a movement that included the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, and Christian conservatives who belonged to neither organization, but who considered themselves part of the movement.

Secular liberals overestimated the power of the religious right, and the danger it posed to American democracy. During the 1980's public opinion polls indicated that Jerry Falwell was an unpopular public figure, even when Ronald Reagan was riding high in the polls.

The religious right achieved none of its political goals. Abortion is still legal. Prayer and Bible reading is still illegal in pubic schools. Homosexuals continued during the 1980's to win public recognition. They have continued to do so since.

The leaders of the Republican Party, including Ronald Reagan, were never really committed to the goals of the religious right. They viewed it as somewhat of an embarrassment. During political campaigns they campaigned for the religious right vote, but they did nothing to advance its agenda.

In his book What is the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank said Republicans love to lose on social issues. Social issues are what cause lower middle class whites to vote Republican.

The real agenda of the Republican Party is to skew things in favor of the well to do, and to starve the public sector of the Republican Party in order to use its emancipation to argue that the private sector is better. The GOP has been very sucessful at that.

There may have been some religious right activists who wanted to create a totalitarian Christian theocracy. There were far more of these in the frightened imagination of secular liberals. They were specters equivalent to the Communists Joe McCarthy's supporters feared were about to create a Communist dictatorship in the United States during the McCarthy Era.

For the most part the religious right simply wanted to restore the ethos of the 1950's. I was a child back then. It was a nice time to be a child. The illegitimacy rate was about six percent. The national mood was expressed in the song, "Love and Marriage Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage." The crime rate was a lot lower.

The 1950's was the golden era of America's white working class. Most of the tax load fell on the rich. One third of the work force belonged to labor unions. Most people got pay raises every year that beat inflation. Those were the days.

And Democrats got their pansy asses kicked last November.

 

[phrodeau]

Now that Republicans control the Senate, we had better see some real substantial improvement super quick.

 

[KingOrfeo]

While pirating The Jefferson Lies, a book that has been discontinued due to it's claiming to be a historical work, yet being grossly inaccurate, I noted that in the blurb describing the text, Beck had written a review and shared it on his TV show (so he DOES have a TV show) . . .

No, but he used to.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Now that Republicans control the Senate, we had better see some real substantial improvement super quick.

I thought all woes of the universe were fixed already.