In order to really understand the tea-baggers you have to remember they are a generation of people brought up under the ire of communism, indoctrinated by years of anti-communist, pro-America propaganda and cultivated with an us verse them mentality. For nearly half a year America was the Hammer to Russia’s Dr. Horrible. These are the children of Vietnam, well, the ones who thought it was a good idea—some of whom can’t accept we got our asses kicked in a war we shouldn’t have been fighting—but more importantly they’ve been brought up to believe that communism is evil. That’s what they’ve been taught their entire lives to believe. That and without Jesus you are damned to hellfire.
Point is, their politics have always had an enemy. Terrorists are such an abstract threat and Islam isn’t much of a threat and is also a religion, which means they have to afford them some tolerance. They need a bogeyman and nothing works better than lumping everything you’ve ever been taught to fear, hate, loath, and despise on a man with a catchy name.
Look at the slogans on the teabaggers’ signs. They’re a history lesson in enemies and prejudices of Americans over the past fifty years: communists, fascists, Nazis, intellectuals, African Americans, immigrants, intellectuals (in the same vain as communists). Hell, if Obama expressed a liking for Whiskey and rice they’d probably thrown in some Chinese and Irish remarks as well. The only things they do favor is the ideology of the 1950′s. White middle-class suburbia with a white picket fence. They’re pro-war and pro-corporation. There’s no room in their dream for downward mobility and a shrinking middle class. It’s trickle down economics that works, white, and works. The rest of the world has gotten over being blown the hell up by American made bombers. Resting on our massive head start isn’t going to keep America number one. Instead we’re headed for a collapse due to ideological fantasies, much like the golden age of Islam—which brought us advances in the sciences (including forerunners to the theory of evolution by natural selection, nearly a thousand years ahead of Darwin) and for which without the renaissance would have never happened.
The protests are a centuries worth of right-wing politics bundled into a convenient free for all against a black guy. The teabaggers are slowly coming to realize that their ideology isn’t working, yet, like their guns, it’ll only be changed when their fingers are dead and cold. Worse yet, Obama is the repudiation of what they have held dear. Clinton was at least white and did enough bullshit lip service to religion—and in typical right-wing nutjob fashion, got a blowjob. They’ve turned Obama into everything they’ve been trained to hate.
Just like America’s enemies of old, they’re in the process of dehumanizing Obama and the left, othering him if you will. The othering process allows for the creation of ‘real’ and I suppose ‘unreal’ America. They have a vision of what America should be and because, as it so happens, it isn’t they’re left with trying to justify such a vision. Hence the idea that their country has been stolen from them.
The idea that the country has been stolen has certain disturbing implications. While the teabaggers are actively decrying that the liberals are destroying the country, ignoring the Constitution, and pissing on the foundations this nation was built upon, they’re actively ignoring the fact that a plurality, by democratic election, put Obama and the democrats in power. What does this say about their dedication to the country, the Constitution, and the founding principles of the country when the votes of a majority are deemed illegitimate because a minority group’s ideology is repudiated?
The sad thing is that the teabaggers actually believe they’re a majority. A group of middle-class white people that is generally older. They’re only holding a slim majority if you don’t consider political affiliation as it stands right now. The country is becoming more progressive and more diverse. Look at the electoral college by the youth of America. It’s rather blue and a clear indication that even among conservative youth they’re more likely to be progressive and more liberal than their parents. The last election, if not a show of a tendency towards liberal values is certainly a repudiation of the Bushite values the teabaggers hold. Even if conservatives make it back into office—they most likely will at some point—they’re unlikely to be the Reaganite conservatives sucking on the teat of Jesus.
More than anything else, people desired a leader who didn’t base their decisions off scripture. America, despite the high tendency towards whack jobbery, is not a nation that is majority nutjob. After eight years of allowing that element of the country to be in charge, people have woken up to the idea that letting the movement of Christian fascists be in charge of policy is not a good idea. Essential that is what Bushite policy is aimed towards, a fascist Christian theocracy with a touch of neo-cons making profit off the holy war. Every one of those signs declaring a need for God in the country, the schools, every asshole in America is aimed towards one goal, theocracy. Yet, this is the group claiming that liberals are destroying America, ignoring the evidence of good governance in the rest of the world, ignoring the evidence of just about everything, and well, ignoring reality in general. Their country wasn’t stolen from them, they never had a country to steal in the first place. We haven’t been a Reagan based fascist Christian theocracy—after all, returning to taxes lower than Reagan’s is socialist today.
I’ll make fun of the signs sometime later this week. Trust me, they’re a riot. Well, if a riot made you want to bash your head against a wall out of the sheer stupidity of the rioters.
In a town of 40,000 people only six people were concerned enough about what is happening to our country to show up?! The six of us stayed until almost 6 p.m. and then gave up and left!
Whether a person is Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, etc., does not matter – we better wake up and realize what is happening to us!
That a small minority refuses to accept that the majority of the nation doesn’t agree with them? I think we’re all quite aware of what is happening to us. Also, your efforts are not helping in promoting a better quality of tea in this nation. Do you have any idea just how bad Lipton tea is? Do you? It’s a disgrace. I’d appreciate it if you would actually import proper British teas in order to stimulate a better quality tea on American soils.
If we don’t it will not be long before this great country we were born into will not exist anymore!
Well Rome lasted about 1300 years. I think we’ve still got a few hundred more years before the Canadians go Visigoth on us and sack D.C. again.
The Democrats that control the House, led by Nancy Pelosi (D-People’s Republic of San Francisco), passed this 1,200-page bill without a single person having read it. Let’s talk about the consequences of this bill, so you can personally thank the Democrats you know, as you stand beside them in the unemployment line.
So, I’m going to assume that you’ve read the entire thing by now and are in fact, a leading expert on the bill? Surely it wouldn’t be proper of you to go on claiming what this bill does and does not do without actually having read it yourself? That just wouldn’t be very credible. But, go on.
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money; they will pass that cost onto consumers.” Those are not my words; that was then-Sen. Barack Obama, during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle last year.
Well that’s nice. Unfortunately this was Congress’s plan, not Obama’s. You see, there’s this separation of powers within the government. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. You see, the executive branch doesn’t actually introduce legislation, that actually takes a member of Congress. Still, a minor oversight on your part.
And then Democrats, because they’re just not all that bright, elected him president.
The Democrats, Republicans, independents, college students, Libertarians, old ladies, librarians, your mom (maybe), and about 53% of the people in this country. Blaming it on the Democrats with an ad hominem fallacy is a nice touch though.
It’s estimated the cost of gasoline, natural gas and electricity rates will jump $1,500 for the average family.
[citation needed]And no, I will not accept the Heritage Foundation or Fox News.
And just as a sidebar, we import most of our oil from Canada and Mexico, not the Middle East, as the uneducated liberals would have you believe.
Unless you go by the YTD in which Saudi Arabia is a close second to Canada and Mexico comes in third. It really is a toss up for second place. Mexico happens to have a small lead in 2009, but the year isn’t over yet. Plus, if we’re going to group the entire Middle East together, then guess what? Canada loses out 2208 to 1943– and that’s just combining Saudi Arabia and Iraq alone. I guess those uneducated conservatives just aren’t quite up on their maths and/or geography. Source
In short, having to pay a fictitious “carbon credit” will motivate companies to close their plants in the U.S., and move to countries that aren’t trying to kill themselves.
Wait, you mean third world countries prone to bloody civil wars and under the control of power hungry dictators? Or just countries that are just trying to kill everybody collectively by causing massive climate change?
The cap and trade bill rations energy. When we produce less of it, the price goes up.
Unless we produce more of it using solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectric, microwave, etc. Sheesh, it’s like you’ve never played Sim City in your life.
The reason Democrats are shoving this down our throat is polls are showing a shift in thinking on global warming.
I thought it was because the Republicans were too busy shoving their dicks down their mistresses’ and gay lovers’ throats to actually come up with an alternative or to even come up with a rational criticism? Maybe I’ve just been paying attention to the news too much?
For you liberals out there, “hypothesis” means “guess.”
Actually, you know what? We’ve tried explaining science to conservatives before, it didn’t work. Instead, I’ll just leave you with this.
We start tonight’s article with this lovely round of lunacy from some people who apparently have felt that your health should always be for sale.
Eighty days ago, on April 15th, tens of thousands of people across the country held protests over high taxes, extraordinary federal spending, and unprecedented expansions of government power.
And five minutes ago I killed more potential babies while looking at a computer screen. Oddly enough, between us, I accomplished more. In fact, I think I was actually endorsed:
The Lucidicus Project reported on one of the local events held in Boston, noting with optimism how the event attracted participants who were primarily secular and independent.
You know, just because your sign doesn’t say “Jesus” on it doesn’t make you secular or independent. It’s bad enough that you guys try to claim you’re non-partisan, but now you’re trying to claim you’re atheist. Let me point something out to you. Only about ten percent of the population claims to be atheist, and now you’re claiming that they’re conservatives on top of that. And to think, people thought you guys were delusional before.
Today, crowds returned to Boston Common for an even better, more exciting event.
Unfortunately NASCAR didn’t show up.
First, the protest signs. Similar to the Tea Party protest in April, the majority of signs expressed rational, intelligent, memorable messages of political dissent.
Until you read them and/or asked for facts to back up the argument.
Most stressed the need for fiscal conservatism, limited government, the defense of property rights, or other founding principles.
Which, seeing as fiscal conservatism, limited government, and even property rights weren’t exactly founding principles is another slight problem here. Now, had they said, we’re fucking elite white guys and we want to rule this land for our own commercial interests, that’s a founding principle. As to why they haven’t taken up this stand is beyond me.
For example, “Big government is the problem, not the solution!”,
Actually, at this point, I think the correct saying is “Reagan is the problem, not the solution.” Seriously, he’s dead. It’s time to come up with something new. Granted, you’re doing a great job of demonstrating why a government of the people, for the people, by the people, was an incredibly dumb idea.
“I want my country back… and my money!”,
I want to see your proof of purchase first. Besides, didn’t you see the “no refunds or exchanges” sign?
and “My Wallet, My Choice.”
My country, my vote, my choice. Why is democracy such an outdated idea in this country all of a sudden? Democrats win an election and suddenly the country can’t be a functional democracy. Even the Iranians who legitimately had their election stolen don’t bitch as much as you guys.
Creative and clever signs were a joy to see as well,
Unfortunately they were being held by Democrats. After all, we’re the assholes with the fine arts degrees.
such as “Read Atlas Shrugged: Now in the non-fiction section”
I thought you said creative, not shit you found on the Internet and thought was clever? Also, at what point to you plan on moving to a small island? I’d really like to throw a part to mark the day we finally get to be treated with more respect by the rest of the world. By the way, just a hint, when you move to the island with all the rich assholes, you’re going to be the one cleaning the toilets for pennies and otherwise exploited. Unfortunately we’ll have to change our immigration policies and we can’t let you back into the country. Sorry.
and “Taxation by Inflation.” Several Gadsden flags (“Don’t Tread on Me”) also dotted the sky.
I’m pretty sure you don’t even understand what that sign means.
The number of signs that were unuseful (e.g. “Impeach Obama!”), ineffective, or just plain inaccurate was miniscule—even fewer than we saw in April. We saw no counter-protestors or obvious saboteurs.
I think you have a very conservative definition of what ‘ineffective’ means. After all, you endorsed reading Ayn Rand. As for counter-protesters or saboteurs, you realize there were other, more important and useful things to do, right? Also, spellcheck?
Like other Tea Party protests, it was evident that this was not a Republican event.
Unless you happened to not be a Republican.
Judging from the signs, speakers, and conversations we overheard, most attendees understood that over the past 40 years the Republicans have been at least as big a threat to capitalism and individual rights as the Democrats—possibly bigger. One would probably have to go back to Barry Goldwater in order to think of a Republican that would be welcome at this rally.
Wow, now I’m fucking impressed for once. A. somebody who realizes that the Republicans are the bigger problem. B. Somebody actually knows about Barry Goldwater. C. It’s a pity he doesn’t extol Goldwater’s religious views on government as well.
Attendance was excellent. At 12:45pm, a police officer on horseback gave us an estimate of 450 people at the bandstand on Boston common. At least one hundred more people arrived in the hour that followed. A number of factors likely boosted attendance: beautiful weather, the holiday, and the fact that the holiday fell on a Saturday. I would also give credit to those who organized the event, including one Mr. Brad Marston who runs a local communications firm. I do not know Mr. Marston, but my understanding is that he did much of the logistics and social networking for the event, and assisted with finding sponsors and renting a sound system. The bandstand and sound system vastly improved everyone’s ability to see and hear the speakers. Audibility for such an event is crucial.
Wait, you’re talking 550 people for a giant fucking metropolis? I thought you said attendance was excellent?
The speaker lineup featured several familiar local activists and policy experts, including Carla Howell (Center for Small Government) and Kamal Jain (Mass-Truth.org). For my money, the most interesting and most relevant speakers on the schedule were: a) John Ridpath, a Policy Analyst from the Ayn Rand Institute, b) John Lewis, visiting associate professor from Duke University, and c) Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute. John Ridpath addressed the crowd at 12:15pm. John Lewis and Yaron Brook are scheduled for later in the day, with Yaron Brook giving the keynote at Columbus Park at 6pm.
You know, there’s something disturbing about the fact that there’s an Ayn Rand institute. Namely, they haven’t bought a small island and moved the fuck out of the country already. Jesus, don’t you assholes read Ayn Rand?
John Ridpath, a retired associate professor of intellectual history and economics at York University in Toronto, traced the moral and political message of the modern Tea Party movement back to its historical roots.
Fox News? And what the fuck is intellectual history, much less why are we talking about it at a Tea Party? Even more so, you retired as an associate professor? That’s kind of sad actually.
He gave an inspirational address, urging participants to demonstrate the same moral courage to defending individualism as did their colonial ancestors.
I assume he’s talking about Glen Beck. Then again, he was teaching at a Canadian University, so he was probably talking about that 1812 stunt in which the Canadians went Visigoth on D.C. I can’t believe they’d let this Tory speak.
Referring to the growing presence and power of the uber-state, he said “The question is not whether it is happening, but why is it happening?”
Globalization? The evolution of economic systems between the current and emerging system in a sort of dichotomy. You know, sort of how we went from Feudalism into Capitalism but still kept the inherent structure of a king down to the serfs. Things like that. Oh wait, that’d require some actual understanding of history and reality.
The answer, he said, is that the founders had a vision for a country based on rights but not the explicit knowledge necessary to implement and secure it.
Well he sure got that one wrong. I guess that’s why he never became a full professor.
For that, we need to discover a rational philosophy. (For anyone interested in other talks and courses given by Dr. Ridpath, go to the Ayn Rand Bookstore and enter “Ridpath” in the search box.)
You know, suggesting Ayn Rand after mentioning that you need to discover a rational philosophy is kind of counter productive. Then again, suggesting rationality to the tea party goers is a lot like suggesting not shitting to a man with dysentery.
Dr. Ridpath was vigorously applauded by the crowd, which by then had also grown to include many of the individuals attending the annual Objectivist Conference being held this week just down the road at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center. Several Objectivist activists from the conference brought signs, and handed out flyers and pamphlets. The philosophical presence of the Objectivist attendees and ARI speakers contributed a much-needed moral message from which the pro-individual political themes of the day could be defended.
Could be defended? Well, I suppose they could. They won’t, even if they tried, but that’s just the problem of getting your logic from Ayn Rand. Honestly, what kind of philosophy marries perceptions of the universe with economic systems?
The Lucidicus Project was represented with the same signs we brought for the April 15th event. Again, we got positive feedback and spoke with several individuals about why healthcare needs capitalism, not more regulation or social programs. I also handed out several dozen business cards.
Okay, here’s the thing. Getting positive feedback would be a little bit more of an accomplishment if, perhaps, the people giving the feedback didn’t already worship the cock you suck on. That’s like saying Obama has a great message because he got applauded by raging democrats.
As this report is being posted, the July 4th Tea Parties in Boston are still underway. If any of the philosophical influence from today’s Objectivist speakers and conference visitors takes hold, then the Tea Party phenomenon could have a positive effect on the political landscape.
Bad news, even if it does, it’ll still be a boat full of stupid that nobody cares about. Ayn Rand is not that fantastic. She’s got a seriously flawed message, especially in terms of her insistence on laissez-faire capitalism. Sorry, but nothing trumps individual rights like laissez-faire capitalism. I’m so glad that she loves being an oppressed worker, but many of us actually like having some protection and ability to actually live a life of our choosing. I honestly don’t understand how living in a slum, working for a capitalist king, and working nearly all day long with no security is a grand vision. I have this feeling that these people believe that they’d actually have the same standard of living or better under pure capitalism. There’s a reason why people think Ayn Rand was a pompous asshole. Ayn Rand, she’s not my Statue of Liberty.
If not, the movement could fade into obscurity and the fate of the nation may not be far behind.
I think the ‘fade into obscurity’ is pretty much guaranteed. As for the nation, I believe Europe speaks to the ‘not so much’ in that category.
And will then hopefully shut the fuck up.
As to other things. Remember my mentioning of erectness of the penis and length of time a hot conservative chick has her mouth moving. I think that this theory needs work. I’ll try to define some terms. A: The hotness quotient of the conservative chick. Bj: Amount of time mouth is moving on the penis. Bs: Amount of time the mouth is making noise. E: Erectness of the penis. Now for some data.
Seriously, radio? I think you’re probably in the wrong medium. You’d be a welcome change to the sausage fest of Fox News. Oh how cute, they’re moving from awareness to action. Now instead of bitching like a bunch of little kids they might shut up and do something productive like trying to win an election.
Honestly, you’re going to equip Missouri Conservatives with the knowledge they need to support conservative candidates? Have you ever read the News-Leader? Knowledge isn’t something they need to support conservative candidates, in fact, it seems to be the antithesis of what is needed to support conservative candidates in this state. You know, I’d just assume you’d have met more of them than I have, but the ones I’ve met have been pretty damn dumb. Seriously, Cynthia Davis ring any bells?
Though you’re right about that in Missouri. It really isn’t hard to have an affect on legislation when your party is by far the majority in the state house and senate.
Foot soldier for conservatives and restoring a prosperous America? What the fuck, are we going on a crusade across the third world to win precious booty and fertile lands? And fuck being a foot soldier, they get paid absolute crap and are in the most danger. I’d rather be a fucking knight. Seriously, even in 1204 the little guy was getting screwed.
The money was allotted in this way: one mounted sergeant received as much as two sergeants on foot, one knight as much as two mounted sergeants (94).
Joinville, Jean De, and Geoffroy De Villehardouin. Chronicles of the Crusades. Trans. Margaret Shaw. New York: Penguin Books, 1963.
Empowering the youth? Um. About that. You, um, might not want to do that. After all, well…
Yeah, it might not be such a great idea to empower the youth. At least for your party anyways.
Okay, get the fuck over the memo about right-wing extremists. Have you watched any of the fucking news. We’re up to six damn attacks by actual right-wing extremists. They weren’t talking about morons who went to congregate in a park and talk about how great Ayn Rand was. They were talking about people who are so whacked out that they think they have to actually commit acts of terror to take back the country from them damn liberals. Now, your constant bickering on about rebellion isn’t exactly helping the problem. Still. There’s a fucking reason that memo was released, and I think the point has been fucking proved.
If she’s St. Louis’s Sarah Palin, does that mean she just quit and will hopefully go the fuck away? Gateway Pundit? Seriously? You’re calling him one of the most fantastic bloggers? Do you have a scat fetish or something? I mean, I’m not into that, but I’m not going to criticize your life style. OH SHIT! A BAKER! RUN!
Sorry I didn’t show up. I had something more important to do. It involved alcohol.
The scary thing though, somebody with my last name is actually on that radio station.
There’s even a winner for best speech for tea-bagging.
Fastened upon our ancestors by the despots of faraway lands, the Chains of Tyranny were linked by hereditary bondage, undeserved tribute and indentured servitude. By exhibiting gallant resolve and courage – in some cases against the face of certain death – our Minutemen forefathers gloriously threw off these chains just 233 short years ago.
Much has changed since that time. Yet today, we hear again the rattling and clanking of the Chains of Tyranny. The chains we hear are held not by foreign powers. Dreadfully, it is those among us, many of whom are our elected leaders, who possess the chains and toil endlessly to cast them across our backs. Now heavier and longer, the Chains of Tyranny have been wrought with new links – apathy masked by complacency, socialism fueled by internationalism, cults of undeserved celebrity and a reckless belief in the equality of results.
Oh no, equality, how evil. I’m sure you’d be much happier with white privilege for few. Because this is what it’s really about. Your version of America is white. Rich white people. It’s not about freedom, or a fair chance. It’s not about taking care of your fellow citizens. It’s not about a duty to country or to the world, to your fellow human beings. It’s about yourself. You and you alone, that’s your America. An America of the white man, for the white man, by the white man. Stiring words don’t amend the reality of the America we actually live in.
Moreover, they are now deceptively plated in gold. We have been assured, time and time again, by those who hold the chains that they “know better” and that to embrace their shackles would be “for our own good.”
Except when faced with being ruled by the oppressiveness of a viewpoint put forth by a college dropout of a low brow state university, I can not help but choose somebody who “knows better,” for my OWN good. It’s not a matter of your pretend notion that they know better than you, but a real notion that they do know better than you do and that a majority of our nation realizes this. You come from a party that believes global warming to be a complete myth. A party that caters to the belief that evolution and science are frauds. No, for our own good we choose to elect people who know better than you. A great man once stated, “science, it works, bitches.” There’s a reason we choose science over superstition.
The threatened return of the Chains of Tyranny triggers that transcendent call for us to assemble here today.
Who are we?
We are the Defenders of Liberty!
Greedy white men. Men who believe that they, through their own hard work can excel. Men who don’t understand the oppression of race, sex, and creed that is still felt by many Americans today. Men who have no concept of the multiple voices present in the country today. Men who think that any views contrary to their own are a threat to liberty and freedom. Men who can’t be bothered to adjust their ideology to the empirical evidence brought before them. No, you are not defenders of liberty. You are a small minority who can’t accept that they lost an election.
Our hands reach across generations.
And yet the photos, the videos, the evidence clearly points that you do not.
We do not perceive the value of each other in abstract terms of race, gender, ethnicity or creed.
Yet we see little participation from minorities, differing creeds, or races. No, you do not perceive the value of each other in abstract terms because you do not realize that we are not a homogeneous group. You have no idea that people live in a reality that is much different from your own. You have a simple xenocentric view of America. You don’t perceive because you don’t know that other points of view exist.
We do not see ourselves as rich or poor.
Because, in your homogeneous mixture of middle-class white conservatives there is little need to do so. You are of one class.
We spurn “identity politics” as a lazy and inadequate substitute for a guarded vigilance balanced by independent thoughts.
Yet extol the value of conservative talk radio, Fox News, and let yourself be led into a tirade against Democrats and Obama. Independent thoughts are not what you have. What you have is the same regurgitated opinions in lie of evidence. Where have you proved tyranny? Where have you shown the claims of the multitude of signs? Where are the facts?
For we are all individual citizens of America – black and white, man and woman, Mayflower descendent and newly naturalized – and we must all stand united to protect freedom’s priceless but delicate charge!
And good sir, we are the majority. The ones who aren’t at your protest. All races, creeds, classes, and gender identifications. We are America.
We detest efforts by the holders of the Chains of Tyranny to corrupt the everyday meaning of things and turn us against one another.
Again you claim that you are a victim of tyranny. What tyranny? By who? Corrupt what meanings? Sir, I ask you, as a white privileged male, what do you know about oppression?
Hope is not faith! Change is not reform! Taxation is not charity! Equality is not opportunity! Servitude is not freedom!
And your words are not reality.
To this end, we reject the following confused ideas tinkered in minds that reason abandoned and faith no longer moderates: Inconvenient truths, audacities of hope, carbon footprints, unearned incomes and government-sponsored “recoveries.”
Yes, and now we see your true colors: ideology. It’s not a matter of scientific evidence, empiricism, or a reality of systematic oppression. No, what matters is your ideology. In doing such you must reject reality. You must pretend that there is not a problem, that a majority wishes a direction other than what your ideology provides. These are not the confused ideas you claim them to be. No, the only truth is your slavish devotion to an ideology. Your ignorance is your bond of tyranny.
We believe there is but one market – the free market – that, if allowed to run unfettered in a free society, can provide all men and women the opportunity to use the results of their work to better themselves, their families and their communities.
And reality begs to differ with your belief. The world has already seen the dangers of an unrestrained free market. We’ve seen the ghettos. We’ve seen the exploitation. No sir, your free market cannot and does not provide the opportunity that you seek. It does not allow hard work to better oneself. Your free market makes us slaves to the ruling class.
We know that public bailouts, no matter the intention, foster dependence, which in turn fornicates with servitude and begets slavery. For this reason alone, we would rather walk than drive a car made by any government! We would rather be paupers than be made rich by “public” money! We would rather drop dead than be cared for by Nurse Fed!
While poverty may seem grand to an ideological idealist like yourself who hasn’t suffered the conditions of such poverty, it is not desired by many Americans. We do not wish to simply allow collapse into another depression. Would you truly rather walk? I doubt so. I highly doubt your devotion. No, your ideology doesn’t allow for such posturing. You do not know what you claim. You cannot know what you claim. There simply isn’t the information available to support your claim at this time.
We further reject the guise of “universal health care” and recognize this abhorrent creature for what it is: a brazen attempt to seize illegally our wealth, control how we care for our mortal bodies, limit our access to the best medicines, stifle scientific progress and medical innovation, and transform our doctor’s offices and hospitals into DMV-style waiting rooms.
I further reject your notion of what “health care is.” It is not an abhorrent creature designed to seize wealth you don’t have. It is not designed to control how one cares for our bodies. No, this is simply not true, no matter how much Limbaugh, Beck, and Fox claim it to be so. This is not a method to limit access or to stifle scientific progress and innovation. No, this is simply not the case, nor need it be. Our doctor’s offices and hospitals will not be DMV-style waiting rooms. Independent thought would show you that this is simply not the case throughout the world. Such systems have actually placed those countries with health care available to all in a much greater position than the United States. Your myths are not facts. They are antiquated lies that continue to make our health as a nation much worse than the entire Western World.
The Defenders of Liberty will never stand by and ignore the attempts of others to cast off their own chains of servitude. We will not strike accords or offer bribes to dictators! We would rather cut off our hands before extending them to the harbingers of evil!
Nor will you read and cast off ignorance. Nay, your ideology is an ever unwavering doctrine to which all must subscribe or be cast as servants of an unnamed oppressor. Sir, we are not servants of a master. We are individuals like yourself. Individuals who have experienced the world around us, looked beyond the ideology of yester-year and seen a new world that can be achieved. A world that frees the citizen from the tyranny of oppressive capitalism. A world in which the average citizen gains liberty.
Speaking of evil, we know only those true rights: those that are unalienable and endowed by our Creator. We reject penumbral “rights” as false and dangerous ideas contrived in judicial cauldrons established only to massacre those who permeate the bookends of life.
I reject your notion of unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. While they make for great grandstanding, but never-the-less hundreds of years of discovery has taught us many things. The only rights we have are the rights we grant to ourselves. We can grant ourselves what rights we wish to grant ourselves. That is the right of any society bound by law. We can grant upon ourselves any right. There are no “false” rights. These ideas, they are not dangerous. They are truths. These “false” rights grant greater liberty to the masses. Your only problem is that the wealthy must pay a greater price to be allowed to use the collective resources of the society to increase the private property that society allows them to have. You have no unalienable right to private property. You only have the right granted to you by society to use the collective resources to generate your private property.
And finally, we know that our sovereignty shall forever reside in We the People. For this we reassert that any government that limits the God-given right of her citizens to defend themselves automatically ceases to be a government – for such action shall void the social contract from which it was forged.
Sir, the social contract is the very reason the citizens of this country can and do grant themselves such liberties and rights as the right to health care. If we as a society deem that health care be such a right then we can, will, and should declare it to be so. Ergo, the elected representatives of the people are within their rights of the social contract to expand this contract on the behalf and will of the people. That “we the people” you speak of voted for a direction other than your ideology allows. We the people didn’t vote for free, unrestrained health care. We the people did not vote for the capitalist health insurance system. No sir, we the people do not agree with your notion that the social contract is voided.
We are the True Patriots, left to guard perpetually that shining city upon a hill. We know of her, we dream of her, and yes, throughout history she has had a name: AMERICA! Let us rally around her, for we are the Defenders of Liberty! Let us hoist our flags, wave our banners and bear our arms! Let us be vigilant and fight any attempt to ravage her! For, as the envious eyes of the world are still cast upon us, we vow not to be the last to feel the sweet effervescence of her freedom!
You are not the “true patriots.” You have no right to claim yourself to be any more of a patriot than the man who disagrees with you. You sir, are no more patriot than I. Except in that you sir, actively consider your fellow citizens to be an oppressor. You consider us to be enemies of the state. You consider us dangerous. You consider us to be parasites feasting on your Randian state. Sir, we are no shining beacon. We are no city on a hill. No, we are simply one way of doing things. We are a culture. One culture. One culture that is not in line with your ideology. Sir, there is a whole world out there. America has no need of your defense, for America is not just you. America is the collective. America is all of us. America voted. America did not vote for your ideology.
God bless America!
May empiricism guide us to a more enlightened conclusion. And, what better way to celebrate this grass roots movement than buying some sweet swag from a mainstream conservative website. It’s the best way to celebrate true capitalism, supporting the rich elites who prey off your slavish devotion to their ideology. Though, you might be a bit disturbed at the partisian hackery that you find there.
“We’re just trying to teach people about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. A lot of what’s going on in Congress wouldn’t stand up to the Constitution,” said Bernard Hargenrader
You know, that might be easier if you were teaching something that was actually true.
In Huntsville, Ala., a young medical student wore a Barack Obama mask carrying a sign that said: “Do you really want me to make medical decisions on your behalf? Just say no to government-run health care.” The Huntsville rally was one of 11 scheduled in that state.
Actually, what I want you to do is actually read who will be in charge of the system and making the decision. You might be surprised to find out that you’d be closer to the truth if you took the mask off.
At the East Texas tea party in Lukin, organizers gave out the White House telephone number and urged attendees to call Obama and tell him: “We are not happy, and we are working to make Texas free from his legislation.”
Great, more secessionists.
Texas’ former Solicitor General Ted Cruz, told the crowd that America is “facing the single greatest threat to our liberty that we’ve ever seen. I believe that President Obama was elected because we failed to lead. But I also believe that his greatest legacy as president will be that he inspired a new generation of conservatives to rise up and defend our liberty.”
Right, because Obama ranks above the British, Hitler, Mexico, the Soviet Union, G.W. Bush, and Space Beings in the threat to liberty scale. Actually, I think he got elected because your party is fucking bat shit, fucked up the country, and generally made it necessary to elect somebody who could form a coherent sentence. I also highly doubt that that will be his greatest legacy, you know, with the whole being the first black president thing and all.
“I like to think of Texas as America on steroids,” Cruz said. “It is a spirit that says ‘give me a horse, a gun and an open plain and I can conquer the world.’”
Now that this has been said, can we please stop electing Texans into the White House, ever again? We’ve been given an eight year education into why this is a bad thing.
“What would Jefferson do?”
Probably disagree with you.
“It is a day when we celebrate the independence of our country and not that it is a democracy, it is a republic,” said Pat O’Malley, organizer of the Clearwater, Fla., tea party. “And the powers that be are trying to turn it into a democracy.”
Wait, what the fuck? Since? Wait, no. Can somebody please get this guy into the shade? Are we voting on everything now? Huh? I thought you were the guys who hated Congress so much? Oh, Clearwater, now I understand. HAIL XENU!
“He is selling us down the drain,” she said. “I decided to get up off my fanny and hold my sign here.”
And we’re glad you did. It’s nice to see that you’re being passionate about what you believe, even if it is completely misguided. I’d also make a joke about you needed the exercise, but there’s no picture of you.
Organizers around the country expressed their delight with turnouts.
Until you compare it to gay pride parades and peace rallies.
“I was in the middle of a conversation and I turned around and saw all these people – it filled me with joy that this many people care,” Landis said.
Low standards, it’s the key to happiness.
“Taxation without representation is no 4th of July picnic.”
Those election things we had in November where we elected representatives, am I the only one who remembers those?
“We just do not want to go to socialism.”
Look, if you’re lazy like that, I’m sure socialism is willing to come to you.
“We’re on our way to declaring independence from an oppressive government,” O’Connor said
You know where a great place for you to organize your rebellion is at? Gitmo.
“Socialism does not work. It never has worked. It never will.”
Except is has, does, and will continue to do so. Education, police, fire, health care, roads, and so on. Some of those are even in our own country no less.
“It’s young people that elected Obama. But they don’t realize how much they’re going to have to pay (in taxes) because of him.”
Well, I guess that’s better than ‘blacks,” who also had a major part. But you know something, youth doesn’t mean ignorance. I don’t go around saying it’s old people who hold on to traditionalist ideologies that aren’t in line with empirical evidence that gave us the Bush administration. Age isn’t the issue, it’s the ideology. Furthermore, you’re an arrogant, ageist, douchebag. You don’t realize how much conservatives have fucked over people either, so I’ll have you just shut your trap. You know, I just get rather pissed off at people who think that age automatically makes them smarter than everybody else.
In Wichita Falls, Texas, they brough both ideas together by reading the Declaration of Independence aloud.
“Many people have never read it before, or they read the first two paragraphs then stop,” one organizer explained.
Here’s an interesting lesson. The Declaration of Independence is not a governing legal document of this country. We aren’t beholden to anything it says. Sure, it’s useful in trying to interpret intent, but beyond that, it’s not a binding document.
I also have another theory on the matter of these social gatherings. The far right isn’t very good at counting. Take a look at these pictures and then the estimated number of people in attendance. Does the word “thousands” actually come to mind? These parties just aren’t all that big.
Take the first bit of this article. Even if you take a very liberal estimate of spacing between people you’re only barely scratching a thousand people. Then again, I was at the local Palin rally when she was in town, and there weren’t nearly the estimated number of people. So numbers inflation is something they’re pretty good at.
I did not stay for the entire program. My offhand guess is that they had about 600-700 people. Except for a few JROTC young people and one speaker the crowd was entirely white. Mostly middle-aged but some younger people who were clearly not with their parents,
A pretty telling and mixed portrait of America we have there.
I have wandered into a few leftist demonstrations in the last few years and seen others on tv or Youtube, and certainly the venom and viciousness that characterizes such events was entirely absent.
This, my friends, is what we call selection bias. I’ve wandered into a few right-wing demonstrations and seen others on tv and Youtube that were also very vicious and hateful.
Although the organizer who spoke said that the group was not endorsing any political party, she did make a brief plug for a local Republican congressman.
You know, no matter how many times you tell yourself that you’re not endorsing one particular party, it doesn’t make it true.
Really North Point Church? You know I have even bigger idiots following me to keep tabs on my godless commie ways, right?07:02:45 AM September 01, 2010from Echofon
