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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:08 PMOriginal message Poll question: For the next right wing gimmicky outing, should protestors be: Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 04:09 PM by Guy Whitey CorngoodPoll result (3 votes) Wearing pearl necklaces (1 votes, 33%) Vote Carrying rusty trombones (2 votes, 67%) Vote
they really don't get it.
HopeOverFear (281 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:10 PMOriginal message WH on lockdown after tea bags thrown over gate; protesters yell "death to president" about two hours ago on twitter: http://twitter.com/chrisgolden/statuses/1527207661
Extended story on tea at white house:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345339 of course.....we all knew this was coming.
There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site
KingOfLostSouls (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:14 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345362Teabaggers: Where Were You The Past 8 Years? oh thats right, you were cheering on the bush failure. sit the **** down and shut the **** up.
zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:20 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345167The Freeper Knuckledragging Theocratic Oddballs are out at the Teabag rally in Madison As others have indicated, this is the best "enemy" Obama can have. And it was all about bashing Obama. Yeah, he's a commie. Yeah, he's a socialist. Yeah, teabags (which were boycotted way back when as well as was a protest against no representation). Last I checked, we had an election and the people at this rally voted for THE LOSER.So, as I walked through the rally of a crowd of 1,500 people bussed in from the conservative belt of Wisconsin (Waukesha to Green Bay), I noticed a lot of the usual signage you might have seen at a McCain/Palin Hate Fest. One of my faves was where apparently some guy named Carl Marx was there with Hitler and Obama. Yeah, Obama bowed before the Saudi King. At least he didn't hold his hand or kiss him like Bush did. This is an issue with taxation? Oh, OK...(which misses the cultural aspects of the Arabic world....but this is a protest on taxes...)A fair amount of t-shirts and signs mentioned socialism (via taxation) as an evil. Surely, these people used roads paid for by taxes and had police protection paid for by taxes and even were at a venue, the State Capital, which is paid for by taxes. I'd say that at least three-quarters of the attendants at the rally receive SOCIAL Security checks. A number of vets there (including some guy in his 20s wearing a Vietnam Vet hat ) also get benefits from taxes. Maybe that's not "important". One sign where "no freeloaders" was an issue was seen by me as perhaps an anti-rally sign, but I digress.(good sized crowd. Thought this was a failure?)Of course, you could see "Obama Nation" signs and buttons. Yeah, it's supposed to be "negative", get it? What was interesting about the crowd is that I wondered how many people were unemployed at this rally. These people had voted for politicians who sold them down the river.snipI was going to interview people, but felt that they would just look at me and try to steal my camera. Plus 15 minutes there was making me nauseous. The guy looking at me in this photo gave an air of being a McVeigh-type who gave me a dead-eyed look as I took the photo. Yeah, there was a few Ron Paul types there too.Am I worried? I witnessed what can be called the Permanent 20% of idiots who will always vote Republican and who are racist homophobes. I can spot them a mile away.I hope the roads built by our socialist policies allow them to get their ugly asses back from where they drag their knuckles. Good riddance.
Jackeens (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:43 PMOriginal message PHOTOS Tea-bagging on a rainy Wednesday afternoon Edited on Wed Apr-15-09 03:56 PM by Jackeens
blueclown (726 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:45 PMResponse to Original message 3. What a bunch of mouthbreathing clowns. Do they really believe what they are saying?
dancingme (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:55 PMResponse to Original message 7. Stupid Angry WHITE People
pink-o (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 03:57 PMResponse to Original message 9. Mommy! All those white people are scaring me! Geez, who has the Jello and potato salad? Looks like the trailer park 4th of July barbeque!(Full disclosure, I am Ashkenazi Jewish by ethnicity--no one has whiter skin than my people! But "white" is my color, not my culture.)
I see that they hit all of the talking points
KingFlorez (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:28 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345431The Freeper protesters were out in my town too I'm in Thousand Oaks, CA and the protesters were here today too. Holding up a bunch of tacky looking signs made out of old cardboard boxes and saying the same old whiny crap, "Take back our country", etc. I have no problem with protest and I think it's good when anyone exercises their rights, but I was a bit annoyed that they completely blocked the sidewalk, leaving almost no room to walk. I had to cut around through a parking lot. If they are going to protest, they should at least be polite and be respectful of others using the sidewalk, but I realize that is far to much to expect from Freepers.
DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:18 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345389Seventy Teabaggers Showed Up At Daytona Beach Rally How many showed up in your town?
Taverner (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:31 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462886OK - the Teabag Protests are not in themselves White Power rallies But the folks protesting are white, have white power stickers on their cars, are carrying racist signs and love spouting the obviously racist "Obama isn't American" meme.So if the Klan is sitting around a table eating peaches, its not a Klan rally, but it sure looks like one...
i guess we can assume that all the 'teabaggers' make over $250,000 a year
The national debt was oh so bad during the Bush years.Your future DUmmies
blogslut (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:31 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462894Look who showed up to the teabagger party! Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, who made news during the presidential campaign when he asked Barack Obama about taxes, speaks during a tax day "tea party" protest Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.
Kajsa (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:37 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8345455'Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity' -LA Times Here's a good editorial explaining today's events,http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-co... The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monica to South Carolina. But no need to burn up your bandwidth reading complicated instructions. Here's a simpler recipe:Go to a hobby store. Buy a scale model of a U.N. One-World-Government Black Helicopter and a tube of glue. Toss the model kit. Sniff the entire tube of glue. You're all set for the party.I can recall only a few outbreaks of such collective insanity as these tea parties in recent years. There was that time in the mid-1990s when a $19.95 video proving Bill Clinton was some sort of serial killer went viral. And then, a few years back, there was that chilling, televised midnight seance from the floor of the U.S. Congress aimed at reviving the long-brain-dead Terri Schiavo.And now this. Whip out your Lipton and don your tinfoil hat and join the protest against ... against ... against what exactly?The original Boston Tea Party was caffeinated by a very simple injustice: American Colonists refused to be taxed by a government that lacked any popular representation. That was remedied a few years later in a heroic struggle that stretched from Concord to Yorktown.So, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor, what's the beef behind today's protests? The Obama administration is cutting taxes for all except the very richest of Americans. Reduced withholding is already showing up in millions of paychecks.Then again, this rash of tea parties is being organized not only by the pseudo-journalists at Fox News (with Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity actively stoking the flames) but also by FreedomWorks, a conservative lobbying outfit headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. I suppose it was Armey's constitutional if morally dubious privilege to have built an entire political career out of defending the wealthy.But are common folks actually going to dump Earl Grey into Santa Monica Bay because they are outraged, simply infuriated, by the marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires?Or maybe they'll do it for some other reason. The FreedomWorks site says the Tea Party movement began in reaction to President Obama's corporate bailouts and ensuing yawning budget deficits. These same conservatives, however, were mum when George W. Bush erased our budget surplus and put us deep in the red by drunken spending on a pointless war in Iraq and by, yes, granting massive tax rollbacks for the loaded country clubbers who fund the GOP (and Armey's FreedomWorks). Another bothersome detail: The bailouts were also initiated by Bush.Read more at link above.
Brazenly Liberal (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:38 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462980Big Tea Party goings on here! Had to go to town for something else and ran into the big county Teabag demo. A hardware store near the eastern edge of town put up a sign saying "Have you had a cup of tea today?" There was one sad looking mook standing under it. A couple walked by and she asked "What do you think that means?" "Beats me," answered her mate.The end.
brettdale (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:40 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5463014Will Faux keep doing these stunts for four years It seems they want to build up a hatred for Obama.This is a new low for them and a different direction also, I hate to see what they are going to be like in six minths time.
brettdale (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:37 PMOriginal message http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5462965Neil Cauvto seems to think this is the biggest thing ever He is actually like he is in a state of shock, he acting like this is the biggest event ever in history, how can he do this with a straight face?
global1 (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 04:45 PMOriginal message Who Employs Joe The Plumber And Who Provides Him With The Speaking Material In His Public ..... appearances? Surely he doesn't turn up all over the country on his own dime - somebody is footing the bill and is paying him. It would be interesting to do some investigative reporting and find out.
SacredCow (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:27 PMOriginal message Let the photoshop fun of Teabaggers begin.... I have no photoshop skillz (or even the actual program at work) so this is the best I can do:
Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-15-09 02:30 PMResponse to Original message 2. Surprisingly diverse group. I mean despite the fact that they're all over 50 and white. Some with blond hair, some brunettes, some grey.
