primitives go to Starbucks

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7910177

Oh my.

roseBudd (1000+ posts)      Sat Mar-13-10 04:02 PM
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I went to a Coffee Party today in Ohio

There were three total coffee houses selected for the meetings in my city. The one I went to is a block from the University.

The Coffee Party Facebook group for my city has over 600 fans. I would say we had about 15 people.

There was a good mixture of folks. Some came from the surrounding Republican suburbs/counties.

The format is to be as amorphous as possible. I expect that there will be great variability moving forward. They are encouraging breakouts among the group.

japple  (1000+ posts)      Sat Mar-13-10 04:16 PM
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1. I had never heard of Coffee Party until this story ran on NPR this a.m.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12...

~snip~

In just a few weeks, fans of the Coffee Party on Facebook mushroomed from a few hundred to more than 100,000 — making Park the accidental leader of an political movement.

"I've kind of had to put a lot of things on hold to focus on this," Park tells NPR's Jacki Lyden. "It's definitely been a surprise in my life."

On Saturday, newly-formed Coffee Party chapters are meeting all across the country — and what are they going to do, exactly?

"This is the National Coffee Day," Park says. "People are coming together as a community to engage in a conversation about what concerns them."

She says that the Coffee Party is a way for people to practice democracy. "During campaigns, there are clear ways to participate. But when you're not in the middle of a campaign, it's very hard to figure out how to engage in a political process in an ongoing way, that's effective and constructive. So we're trying to create opportunities for that kind of effective, ongoing engagement."

Despite the reactionist origins of her group, Park says the Coffee Party doesn't want to be seen as the anti-Tea Party. Like the grass-roots conservative movement, Park says people drawn to the Coffee Party feel the federal government doesn't represent them, either. The two groups might even have a lot to talk about.

"I think it's important for us to actually meet with people who identify themselves as Tea Party members and sit down and have coffee or tea with them," she says.

"In fact, after they dumped tea into the harbor, the Continental Congress declared coffee the national drink," Park adds. "That became the solution to the problem."

alfredo  (1000+ posts)        Sat Mar-13-10 04:52 PM
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3. I went to one in Lexington Ky. Six images below

there was about 14 in attendance. That's good because at the time of the get together, UofK was playing in the SEC semi finals, and there was a parade downtown that featured several Dem candidates.
 
after which six photographs of kaffeklatschim, who all look as one might imagine them, living off the public's largesse

[The Village Idiot]

A million TEA partiers converge on DC and the media hardly cared but they sure love to boost the pro-Obama "Coffee Party" before it was even off the ground.

[diesel driver]

Boy, talk about your "great unwashed"....

Old, crippled, dirty, smelly hippies, each and every one....

[BadCat]

I count 8 ugly moonbats at that one.

Even their coffee shops are boring.  That one looks like an old folks home.

[PatriotGame]

I attended a Kool-Aid party - buncha DUmmys stopped by. Some fag busted out a bong then we all forgot why we were there....

Sieg Heil et al.

[Chris]

A million TEA partiers converge on DC and the media hardly cared but they sure love to boost the pro-Obama "Coffee Party" before it was even off the ground.

Yep...

"Fed up with government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative: the Coffee Party. Growing through a Facebook page, the party pledges to “support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/us/politics/02coffee.html

Boo hoo... gridlock... *sob*

[GOBUCKS]

Boy, talk about your "great unwashed"....
Old, crippled, dirty, smelly hippies, each and every one....

It looks like a really amazing collection of nutbags, but what do you expect? If you put out a notice in Lexington, Kentucky, inviting people to come to some kind of rundown tenement kitchen, to have a pointless discussion of socialist politics while UK is playing in the SEC tournament, this is the kind of group you get. It's similar to the group you'd get to a socialist meeting in Columbus during the Ohio State-Michigan football game. Not just run of the mill wackos, but the absolute creme de la creme of the democrat lunatic universe.

I'd just like to know how they found a place in Lexington that looks like it's in the city of their dreams, Moscow.

[AprilRazz]

Wow they have tens of members.
If the primitives wanted people to actually show up they should have had a pot party.

[Specbid]

alfredo  (1000+ posts)        Sat Mar-13-10 04:52 PM
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3. I went to one in Lexington Ky. Six images below

there was about 14 in attendance. That's good because at the time of the get together, UofK was playing in the SEC semi finals, and there was a parade downtown that featured several Dem candidates.
 
after which six photographs of kaffeklatschim, who all look as one might imagine them, living off the public's largesse

Don't see any colored people in those pictures. Racists.

[franksolich]

Don't see any colored people in those pictures. Racists.

You know, I never thought of that.

And you are exactly right, sir.

No minorities at that gathering.

And Lexington, Kentucky, is a pretty diverse city, racially.

[NHSparky]

And funded by Soros, no less.  This could be renamed the "Chock Full O'Nuts Party".  Be more accurate, at least.

[longview]

This could be renamed the "Chock Full O'Nuts Party".  Be more accurate, at least.

  

[diesel driver]

And funded by Soros, no less.  This could be renamed the "Chock Full O'Nuts Party".  Be more accurate, at least.

Isn't/wasn't there a candy bar with that name?

[GOBUCKS]

You know, I never thought of that.

And you are exactly right, sir.

No minorities at that gathering.

And Lexington, Kentucky, is a pretty diverse city, racially.

Remember the DUmmy said this moonbat meeting occurred during a UK Wildcat game in the SEC basketball tournament. Black Kentuckians, even moonbat black Kentuckians, are way too normal to give up a UK basketball game for a communist gabfest. This meeting was for industrial strength loonies.

[jukin]

Is it called the Coffee Party because the man-child that is president is half white, 1/4 arab, and 1/4kenyan?

[BEG]

From Franks subject line, we should call them "The Starbucks Party".

[AprilRazz]

From Franks subject line, we should call them "The Starbucks Party".

In light of recent events in the second amendment arena I would not lump Starbucks in with this bunch. The Peets party would be more fitting.

[happy1ga]

http://bigjournalism.com/ldoren/2010/03/14/weak-brew-potemkin-coffee-party-no-match-for-real-tea-party-passion/

A nicely done video of one of yesterday's "big" get-togethers.

[Chris]

2,000 turn out at tea party convention in Dells

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/87590207.html

I bet this Coffee Party had them trembling in their shoes.

[Karin]

Good Lord!  Have you ever seen a more dingy and depressing room, occupied by a more dingy & depressing collection of losers?  The DUmmie's posting these pictures illustrates a point she didn't want to make.  Just observing the pictures sucks all the oxygen out of my room.  By contrast, the Tea Parties are high voltage energy. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Wow they have tens of members.

 

[dandi]

I'd just like to know how they found a place in Lexington that looks like it's in the city of their dreams, Moscow.

Oh, that's easy.  Go to any big city, find it's MLK, pick a building.

Lather, rinse, repeat.