Comments on: How FreedomWorks Gave The Teabaggers A Dirty Sanchez

By: packeryman

packeryman — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:05:40 +0000

Most tea baggers are affluent disgruntled Republicans. In their warped minds they believe the party has moved to the center. As they move further right they lose the Independents(swing vote).Look at the results in CT, DE, WV, NV, CO, CA, AK. Tea baggers lost due to their far right political ideology. They will go nowhere staying in the Republican party. They need to run a third party candidate that takes on a populist approach, get rid of social wedge issues and take on real issues about our failed free trade policies that is destroying the greatest middle class the world has ever known.We must reverse the idea we produce nothing an are a service economy. Once we began to produce again the high unemployment will end, revenue will increase and the baggers of today can forget about their social wedge issues and cutting taxes on the wealthy. One of our greatest waste is foreign bases and wars/occupations. Bring home all troops and station some from Brownsville TX to the Pacific. We would experience an economic boom with troops spending money in USA. We would end the drug traffic and illegal immigrant problem. Lets get a real populist third party going instead of the insanity of the baggers.

By: Packeryman

Packeryman — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:19:21 +0000

I attended two teabaggers events last year to see what it was all about. The first had less than 300 people with all attending local right wing nuts. It had been organized by a right wing radio shock jock. The signs were anti Obama. Their main theme was hate for Obama. They got very little coverage and dissipated fast. The second was on July the fourth organized by the same right winger. They had less than 50 in attendance, same people as before, carrying Obama hate signs. It appears this teabag movement is the pipe dream of right wing AM radio shock jocks and Republican operatives(the likes of Dick Armey and Freedom Works). It was a complete flop. Sara Palin at her last tea party in Tennessee stated it was shoring up the right wing of the GOP, Yet the teabaggers claim to have no affiliation with the GOP. The Republican party with its antiquated reactionary political ideology has become obstructionists and the party of NO. They are controlled by corporate and have nothing for the working middle class American. If the teabaggers want to draw the Independents they must separate from the GOP and become a populists movement that will draw middle America and leave the big money corporate owned GOP. Run a candidate. What do you teabaggers say? You can’t stay with the sellouts in the GOP. The tea parties have become a disgrace to America. If you guys continues the bad publicity you are getting you will lose a creditability and force the government to shut down talk radio who has been whipping the sheep into a frenzy.You don’t think it can happen, the government can’t stand by and let DJ’s who overnight became all knowing political gurus whip the sheep into violent behavior.

By: Frank McG

Frank McG — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:10:38 +0000

Just got done reading It Can’t Happen Here, a novel about the rise of a dictatorship in America. I’m not going to say it was a GREAT book, but it’s fascinating to read if only because it was written in 1935 and it’s surprising how little the ring wing propaganda machine has changed. Nothing but big money magnates utilizing twisted forms of patriotic nostalgia to dupe the public into lining their pockets. Cries of not supporting the troops when any threat to the military industrial complex arises. The 3 cornered hat tea parties reminded me of the book’s American Gestapo calling themselves “Minute Men” and dressing like 19th century American frontiersman cavalry.

ANYWAYS, as much as I hate socially restrictive, rich man slave conservatives (and the Libertarians who are only fooling themselves), I’m not buying this New Way Forward surge. Hundreds of demonstrators in 60 cities? That’s…10 people per city? That’s even worse than the tea parties.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:02:58 +0000

Baltimoron wrote, “Keep licking, Rob. The toecap isn’t bright enough yet.”

I wish I could, but as an American I’m way too busy kissing Israeli ass to lick anything else. Maybe I should reduce my Israel devotion down to 99% leaving 1% for the toecaps?

Jusk kidding! I’d never do that! That would be thinly veiled anti-semitism! I kiss Israeli ass and only Israeli ass. I’m a proud American after all.

By: Snarky

Snarky — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:59:14 +0000

Ok, let me clarify the article, for those that do not get it. The article states that instead of blindly bashing the government, one should offer the government constructive criticism, and if the government refuses said criticism, then in comes mail writing, egg-nogging cars of politicians, etc.

What the “Tea Party” is doing is saying that “Obama = bad”. What Ames is stating is that saying “Obama = bad” is not enough, and that you actually need to explain why “Obama = bad”.

Once asked to explain why “Obama = bad” the “Tea Party” argument falls apart. The reason that “Obama = bad” is that Washington is controlled by lobbyists, but the “Tea Party” leaders don’t want you to protest against the lobbyists, so they’re pushing you to protest against Obama, Bush, Clinton – any figurehead, not the power behind the scenes.

Ames on the other hand wants you to protest the power behind the scenes, the banks. Where I disagree with Ames, is that I think that the “Tea Party” movenment started not to bash Obama, but rather to protect the banks, of which bashing Obama is merely a symptom. Does that make sense?

That is the diffrence between “A New Way Forward” and the “Tea Party” protests. Also, please ignore all of the Conservatives’ silly attacks, such as “Great Article – not true, IT’S A LIE, we won’t tell you why it’s a lie, but it’s a lie” which to me sounds a lot like “there are WMDs in Iraq, we won’t tell you how we know that, trust us!” – yeah right.

By: purpleOnion

purpleOnion — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:06:19 +0000

If there are any republicans who are not all about screwing average Americans it would shock me. Republicans perceive being elected as a license to steal, while feeling entitled to think of themselves as a self-appointed aristocracy that derives “pleasure” from disrespecting and abusing “fellow” Americans. They want nothing less than the absolute right, without consequence, to exploit whomever, wherever, and whenever they choose. It is their version of freedom. I had no idea that the concept of freedom was the permission to screw over whoever I choose as long as I am not caught. If caught, and it benefits the “right” people there are commutations of sentences and pardons, (a modern means of obstructing justice.)

By: Baltimoron

Baltimoron — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:31:51 +0000

Keep licking, Rob. The toecap isn’t bright enough yet.

By: Expat in BY

Expat in BY — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:31:11 +0000

Response to 16. k:

It was Boss Tweed, quoted from the Scorsese film “Gangs of New York”:

“You never enjoyed the enlightenment of poverty, did you, Governor? If you had, you’d know you can always hire half the poor to kill the other half.”

(No verification on the historic Boss Tweed actually saying this.)

By: Nicolai Ceske

Nicolai Ceske — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:56:57 +0000

Face it, the right wingers are worthless.

Whats really comical is that they have been voting into office the guys who completely ass screwed the citizens of the US (and the world) by allowing and supporting these bankers to loot American tax dollars.

Yet now they carry this stupid indignation about what has transpired and want to blame Obama for the problems that happened under the Republican watch.

But I guess as long as these politicians come out and talk tough about the “darkie pinko president” and take a stance against gay marriage and gun control laws, then they’ll continue to eat out of their hands.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:50:29 +0000

Good call Yasha! You busted these right wingers good! Caugh them red handed daring to organize! Even daring to protest! How dare they coordinate their protests!? These right wing scum are under some delusion that they have equal rights to organize, mobilize, coordinate and raise funding just like the left! It is absolutely outrageous!

By: Ben Landis

Ben Landis — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:32:40 +0000

fuck moderation.

By: Ben Landis

Ben Landis — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:28:47 +0000

“How did the right-wing get people behind its absurd and unpopular economic platform of tax cuts, deregulation, status-quo health care, slashed entitlements and leaving homeowners to the wolves?”

Could it be that minarchists still roam the earth? Should one be ostracized for such a belief? Could it be that people have no interest in being a slave to the tribe? I would rather not finance Joe Bob’s triple bypass; Thanks though. I’d rather not finance Jamals education either. Same goes for Havier and Hu. This pie in the sky one world shit is bizarre.

You suggest that the tea party spectacle arose around opposition to foreclosure assistance. That is far too simplistic. I think you have overestimated the influence of Rick Santelli and freedomworks.org. Theyre just another phantom demon, a vague and ill defined focal point, not at all extraordinary.

By: Baltimoron

Baltimoron — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:39:30 +0000

Why the surprise about white Amerika only getting behind these fauxtests when they found out that obscenely wealthy financial parasites were organizing them? This is the sort of behavior that should be expected from the swine that populate the United Snakes.

When the teabaggings looked like they might have been grassroots, associating with them put a person outside of the mainstream and–even worse–potentially at odds with power. But now that Freedomworks and the plutocrats are public about their role they’ve presented Amerikans with an opportunity to do what they do best: lick the boots that crush the world.

The Amerikan character is deeply flawed; perhaps irreparably so. Yellow ribbon carmagnets, stars and stripes lapel pins, and Freedomworks tea party shirts all reflect white Amerika’s will to grovel before monopoly capital and vicariously exalt in the violence it inflicts on the third world.

By: gazzaj

gazzaj — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:19:53 +0000

Obama's deficits are going to be much, much bigger than Bush's. Actually they'll be bigger than every single previous Administration's deficits put together. But hey, who cares, just don't raise taxes. Idiots.

By: Nolan

Nolan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:55:35 +0000

Libertarians are meant to be exploited, just remember, it’s the invisible hand pulling the strings!

By: az

az — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:39:54 +0000

LOL libertarians thinking that it’s their show. Man those guys are such tools thinking that the McCain Campaign Part 2 is Ron Paul’s campaign for liberty or some shit…

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:39:24 +0000

Would freedomworks and neocons try to exploit this? Of course. Did I meet a few nutcases and neocon shills? Some. The speakers were obviously chosen for their more conservative viewpoints, but for every time I heard the merits of Ronald Reagan touted by the men and women at the podium, I heard shouts of dissent from several in the crowd. I was there, and I don’t like what Reaganomics has done, just like I don’t like our current president and his policy. They both mean more restricting and byzantine government.

If you just look at Rick Santelli, then we look like plutocrat worshippers. If you like the cop’s and FBI’s take on us, then we’re a bunch of skinheads, terrorists and Klansmen (one of the undercover goons actually pulled me to the side and said he was going to take me down if anything went bad at the rally . . . these guys watch WAY too much TV.)

We’re libertarians. Some lean more to the right or left than others, but the crowd I met was most interested in changing the role of government, not its management team.

I know you guys at exiled have a holy war against republicans going on (and for good reason), but it’s a mistake to assume that the people trying to exploit the libertarian movement for personal gains represent what our movement is about.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:29:01 +0000

It’s so entertaining to see the right wing frothing at the mouth over an intellectual, middle-of-the-road, black president that I’m going to vote to give Obama a second term in 2012.

Are the teabaggers the new KKK?

By: Windriven

Windriven — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:10:06 +0000

We agree that corporate subsidies need to face the same hatchet as other superfluous government spending initiatives. But – strange bedfellows though they may be – who is talking about trimming government spending besides those on the right? Those on the libertarian right were among the first to oppose government bailouts of banks and insurers. It seems to me that most on the left are happy to bask in the glow of the president, holding hands and singing Kumbaya.

By: k

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:17:25 +0000

Was it Boss Tweed, Ronnie Raygun, Newt or one of the Dick Army who originally suggested that you can always pay half of the poor to kick the shit out of the other half??