Originally posted by: BMW540I6speed
The teabaggings are basically just a right wing media publicity stunt. It was all totally conceived, hyped and sponsored by talk radio and Fox News. They're manipulating complete morons into showing up to protest the expiration of a 3% tax cut on rich people who would never let these yahoos into their living rooms.
As much as Fox News keeps trying to hardsell the line that it's a "grassroots" movement, or that it's "organic," it's really just a glorified, local radio, fan event. There is no populist movement sweeping the nation. These are just the same people as always. The same dittoheads, the same Palin fappers. If they had any brains at all, they'd be insulted that they can so easily played as such saps by their puppet masters to agitate against their own interests.
What's with that dipshit Governor in Texas, by the way? "We can secede any time we want?" WTF! Ed Whatshisface from the Ed Show on MSNBC posed a question to the Dipshit Gov. He asked him to define "secede" and how would he feel about that the next time a hurricane hits Texas, or the next time there's a crushing drought or the next time the illegals hop the wall. They all sound like a bunch of morons.
What was the goal today? What did the teabaggers think they were going to accomplish? They do know the stimulus package has already been signed into law, don't they? What end goal did they think that throwing a baby tantrum and dumping garbage on the ground (garbage that someone else has to clean up, by the way) was going to achieve? Did they think that Obama and the Democrats were all going to be so moved by the outpouring of emotion for the super rich that they'd all immediately change their economic philosophies? Did they think the rest of America was going to take them seriously?
I took time out from running my highest tax bracket business and I did a drive by at my local protest, like many, was all over the map -"Keep it a Christian Nation" posters, anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-tax, pro-revolution(!), anti-immigration, etc. There was no goal, no cohesive rallying cry, just a bunch of folks with vaguely GOP campaign promises on signs. I mean, I would be a lot more impressed with this whole thing if it actually seemed to have a purpose, but at least around here, it was just a Republican/Anarcho-Libertarian rally masking as a protest. Where were these people when Bush was spending A BILLION DOLLARS A WEEK! in Iraq. How did Bush's spending benefit the average citizen of the United States vs. Obama's spending? Laughable. They're so factually, politically and intellectually illiterate and backwards. I don't think that the majority of people who are so fired up to attend even know what it is they're actually protesting.
As I passed by a throng of suburbanites heading to the Capital to protest. I felt an incredible surge of frustration. Our men and women are fighting two wars right now, getting killed and torn up and post-traumatized all over the damn place. They are making huge sacrifices beause many of them believe they are doing their part to help the country. We should all be grateful.
And then I see these lard-ass fools fucking up traffic in their big-ass trucks coming into a city they never visit because it's "ghetto" and there aren't any deer to shoot up, marching down the street in their Crocs and camo pants, all so they can complain about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Most of them aren't seeing any increases in their taxes and in fact will be getting a small bump in their take-home pay. I don't buy the "we're leveraging our children's future" argument either. Because if that were the case, their freakin' heads would have been spinning during the last 8 years. They would have been protesting in the streets every day. No, this is called "We're whiny, self-entitled babies who talk a good game about patriotism and supporting the country but can't be called on for shit when it's time to finally walk the talk." Apparently fighting wars are suppossed to be FREE, NO SACRIFICE! from the population and is easier to do than being a willing tax-payer.
One of these jackasses was on NPR the other day, spewing forth about taxes and how it's so unfair to tax rich people. The reporter mentioned that the guy was solidly middle-class. "Well, I wanna be rich someday," he said. So basically that's the position, distilled to its rawest form. They aren't looking at what's best for themselves and their families today, nor what's good for most Americans. No, they think they're incipient rich people, just a few months away from making it big with the next Sham-Wow or Snuggie prototype they've been jiggering with in the basement for the last decade. Meanwhile their kids' teachers are being laid off and their local emergency rooms are shutting down and they're going to have to run the register at the Golden Corral well into their 80s because they don't have a retirement plan that's worth anything. Fuck the real reality. We're living in virtual reality, folks!
What gets me about these protestors is how fucking whiney they are. Whaah! The commie-lib MSM is ignoring us!!" Whaah! the American sheeple voted for a muslim who's gonna destroy the country. America died on November 4th." Did Free Republic marry the Democratic Underground and forget to put out a bridal registery, because I remember hearing this shit in '04 too with different names and adjectives. Same goddamn words and everything. The reactionaries, wave their little signs, scream their little protests, and then go home and shut up.
This has zip to do with the real Boston Tea Party, and for that we should be grateful. Boston Tea Party really isn't a good historical analogue. The organizers should have harkened back to the Whiskey Rebellion, when the Feds raised taxes due to high debts.
There are quite a few critical thinking fiscal (NOT SOCIAL)conservatives out there, and they do care about getting things right. They are just not in control right now. Unfortunately, it's the Freepers and the Ditto-heads who are running the show, and they might well be in the majority among conservatives. The country which Reagan presided over has changed dramatically right along with the rest of the world. The Democrats seemed to figure that out, and the Republicans didn't, and they paid for it with their self-respect and the election. I used to be proud to call my self a fiscal conservative Republican who has seen his own party hijacked and betrayed by the very elements they should have separated themselves from decades ago. Maybe this is the real reason tea parties piss me off. Not because of the protests themselves, but because every time I see the teabaggers on TV, it brings me face to face with what I've posted above.
Rant - off!