Comments on: How FreedomWorks Gave The Teabaggers A Dirty Sanchez

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.