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The Teaparties

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  • 16-04-2009 12:37pm
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    bobbyjoe
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    What do ye think of these tea parties?
    Seems like they are attacking Obama despite him reducing their taxes. Some good vids on youtube of the nuts attending them. Tiny crowds as well.

    Love the name of it though teabagging, lead by Dick Army. lol


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    Nodin
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    Its amusing in places, primarily for its exposure of just how "Fair and Balanced" Fox news is.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503177.html?nav=hcmodule


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    Pocono Joe
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    What do I think? I think politicians are (or should be) shaking in their boots. More then 800 tea parties were staged across the country protesting higher taxes and out-of-control government spending.

    The events were organized by ordinary average everyday people... people who used the power of the Internet to coordinate their rallies. Something quite unique that should have both the democrats and republicans, who’s out of control governmental spending gives drunken sailors a bad name, reason for grave concern. And there will be political consequences in 2010 and 2012 because of it.

    This mass movement of ordinary people who don't believe their elected officials are listening should worry both the party of Hope and Change, and the party that supposedly champion’s Smaller Government and Fiscal Responsibility.

    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them. They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties. And what is happening in our government right now is not what these people signed up for. All they care about is questionable bailouts, runaway spending, the growing deficit, generation theft, and the loss of personal accountability.

    But they have something very powerful in their grasp… the power of their vote at election time. And they will use it.


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    bobbyjoe
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    What do I think? I think politicians are (or should be) shaking in their boots. More then 800 tea parties were staged across the country protesting higher taxes and out-of-control government spending.

    The events were organized by ordinary average everyday people... people who used the power of the Internet to coordinate their rallies. Something quite unique that should have both the democrats and republicans, who’s out of control governmental spending gives drunken sailors a bad name, reason for grave concern. And there will be political consequences in 2010 and 2012 because of it.

    This mass movement of ordinary people who don't believe their elected officials are listening should worry both the party of Hope and Change, and the party that supposedly champion’s Smaller Government and Fiscal Responsibility.

    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them. They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties. And what is happening in our government right now is not what these people signed up for. All they care about is questionable bailouts, runaway spending, the growing deficit, generation theft, and the loss of personal accountability.

    But they have something very powerful in their grasp… the power of their vote at election time. And they will use it.


    What are the numbers turning out like? Look pretty small from what I've seen.
    Seeing people call Obama a fascist can't be helping.


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    Pocono Joe
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    bobbyjoe wrote: »
    What are the numbers turning out like? Look pretty small from what I've seen.
    Seeing people call Obama a fascist can't be helping.

    They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/massive-tax-day-tea-party-usa/


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    bobbyjoe
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/massive-tax-day-tea-party-usa/

    Biggest one's look in the low thousands.


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    The Mad Hatter
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    Some day soon, someone is going to tell the republicans what 'teabagging' is, and then there'll be some red faces. I think the connotations of the word - and the fact that liberals are laughing our asses off - are the only reason this thing has any publicity at all.


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    thelordofcheese
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    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Some day soon, someone is going to tell the republicans what 'teabagging' is, and then there'll be some red faces. I think the connotations of the word - and the fact that liberals are laughing our asses off - are the only reason this thing has any publicity at all.

    It's also a beacon for every sore loser in america to come out and get some old fashioned hatin' on for the current president.

    Shots are starting to emerge of the less savoury and/or borderline retarded placards.

    teaparty08.jpg

    Wow....


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    Pocono Joe
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    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Some day soon, someone is going to tell the republicans what 'teabagging' is, and then there'll be some red faces. I think the connotations of the word - and the fact that liberals are laughing our asses off - are the only reason this thing has any publicity at all.


    No one is calling the tea parties "tea bagging" except for Olbermann and Maddow of MSLSD, the kooks at Air America, the left wing blogosphere, and obivously some here. Republicans call them "tea parties." Why is the left so engrossed with "tea bagging?"


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    Nodin
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    What do I think? I think politicians are (or should be) shaking in their boots. More then 800 tea parties were staged across the country protesting higher taxes.

    ...despite the fact that most will be left untouched.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    and out-of-control government spending.
    .

    ....having failed to get off their asses over Bushs expansion of Government spending, but now getting all hot and bothered about nessecary bailouts by the current Government.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    The events were organized by ordinary average everyday people.

    ....who will unaffected by the increase in taxation, but still feel motivated by the very real threat of a Communo-muslim coup......and the Ron Paul people, musn't exclude them.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    ... people who used the power of the Internet to coordinate their rallies. .

    Cranky right wingers on teh intarweb? Truly these are amazing times.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Something quite unique that should have both the democrats and republicans, who’s out of control governmental spending gives drunken sailors a bad name, reason for grave concern. And there will be political consequences in 2010 and 2012 because of it..

    Indeed. RP could be in with a shout....maybe....
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them.
    ..

    Or anyone else. Which is fortunate, in a way.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties. And what is happening in our government right now is not what these people signed up for.
    ..

    ...because their crowd lost.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    All they care about is questionable bailouts, runaway spending, the growing deficit, generation theft, and the loss of personal accountability.
    ..

    ...Texas' future as a state of the US, communism, muslims, Federal brain-rays that read your bank a/c numbers from your head and the rumour of nude photos of Ayn Rand on the net.
    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    But they have something very powerful in their grasp… the power of their vote at election time. And they will use it.

    All 8-10,000 of them.


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    Nodin
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/massive-tax-day-tea-party-usa/

    Brilliant, because I've got one of Cheney with horns, Rumsfeld eating children - and this is really good - one that shows how Bush was really a chimp.


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    Pocono Joe
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Brilliant, because I've got one of Cheney with horns, Rumsfeld eating children - and this is really good - one that shows how Bush was really a chimp.

    There is a difference between fact and fiction (well... to most anyway).


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    Nodin
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    There is a difference between fact and fiction (well... to most anyway).

    True. I just wouldn't got to Michelle Malkin to find out what it was.


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    HomesickAlien
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    The people at these rallies don’t much care what the mainstream media thinks of them. They don’t worry about being invited to high stakes cocktail parties.

    :confused:

    ...are some of the cocktails explosive?


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    Pocono Joe
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    Nodin wrote: »
    True. I just wouldn't got to Michelle Malkin to find out what it was.

    So you think the pictures of various tea parties at Michelle Malkin’s website are fiction? Hmmmmmm..........


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    Pocono Joe
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    HomesickAlien wrote: »
    :confused:

    ...are some of the cocktails explosive?

    Only the Kamikazes and Jager Bombs. ;)


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    HomesickAlien
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    So you think the pictures of various tea parties at Michelle Malkin’s website are fiction? Hmmmmmm..........

    I think his point was that someone like michelle malkin isn't always going to show pictures that portray the tea parties in a negative light.

    Like...

    slide_1391_20032_large.jpg

    ...or...

    slide_1391_20037_large.jpg


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    Pocono Joe
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    HomesickAlien wrote: »
    I think his point was that someone like michelle malkin isn't always going to show pictures that portray the tea parties in a negative light.

    Right back at you... And I doubt the HuffingtonCOMpost would show pictures of the tea parties in a positive light. That is where you got your extreme examples from, correct?


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    banquo
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    Lots of nuts at the tea parties. Lots of nuts at Obama rallies. Lots of nuts in every assemble, from the inauguration to the typical press conference to the St. Paddy's day parade.

    I'd go to a tea party if I was a US citizen. And I'd bring my homemade Ron Paul 2008 poster with me that's been supporting my bedroom wall for over a year.


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    Pocono Joe
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    banquo... a voice of reason has no place here. :D


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    thelordofcheese
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    banquo... a voice of reason has no place here. :D

    Nor at tea-bagging rallies, it would seem.


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    Lirange
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    thelordofcheese wrote: »
    Shots are starting to emerge of the less savoury and/or borderline retarded placards.
    Borderline?


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    Lirange
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    thelordofcheese wrote: »
    Nor at tea-bagging rallies, it would seem.
    Speaking of ... File this under "did he just say that?"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyhP1pFO_8A


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    banquo
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    thelordofcheese wrote: »
    Nor at tea-bagging rallies, it would seem.

    Stop calling them that! :P:D

    I remember getting my college grant money two Novembers ago, and I nearly went over to campaign for the wrinkly Dr. Hardly what the taxpayers intended though.


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    Pocono Joe
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    bobbyjoe wrote: »
    Biggest one's look in the low thousands.
    Some early estimates indicate about 750,000 people attended more than 800 protests in all 50 states.
    banquo wrote: »
    Stop calling them that!
    Funny. There’s an old saying that goes something like "You make fun of the things you're afraid of." And hey, if someone here has an obsession with teabagging... well to each his own. It’s just something some folks got to face up to.


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    bobbyjoe
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Some early estimates indicate about 750,000 people attended more than 800 protests in all 50 states.


    Funny. There’s an old saying that goes something like "You make fun of the things you're afraid of." And hey, if someone here has an obsession with teabagging... well to each his own. It’s just something some folks got to face up to.

    750,000 at 800 rallies is less than 1,000 per rally. Hardly a massive turnout.


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    Overheal
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    http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=224258&title=tempest-in-a-tea-party
    Nodin wrote: »
    Its amusing in places, primarily for its exposure of just how "Fair and Balanced" Fox news is.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041503177.html?nav=hcmodule
    Without the spectacle of a 1773-style tea-bag dump in the square, the handmade signs became the focus of the event.

    Stupid reporter. Its 1337. n00b.


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    bnt
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    Moonbattery has pictures from various cities. There are a few non-white faces there: effigies of Obama. :rolleyes:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    KerranJast
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    Conservatives need to unquestioningly support their Presidents decisions and not say anything that could be perceived as criticism. Anything else is unpatriotic and endangers American citizens security.


    :rolleyes:


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    Nodin
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    Pocono Joe wrote: »
    Right back at you... And I doubt the HuffingtonCOMpost would show pictures of the tea parties in a positive light. That is where you got your extreme examples from, correct?

    He's not a socialist. It's not communism. It's not a conspiracy. Yet theres a touch of the same hysterical hyperbole that ran through the election still there. When they start criticising in real world terms, they'll get a less contemptous reception.

    (And as a rule of thumb in political silly abuse, you can only start shouting Hitler if he starts a war. Otherwise its just stupid)


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    Nodin
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    KerranJast wrote: »
    Conservatives need to unquestioningly support their Presidents decisions and not say anything that could be perceived as criticism. Anything else is unpatriotic and endangers American citizens security.

    '...in this time of war'.?


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