No one guessed anyone besides Sarah Palin, right?
This thing is taking place next month in Tennessee and also features Michele Bachmann plus Others. And, uh, it is the “first ever Tea Party Convention,” which means nothing. Christian Science Monitor with the scoop:
On its face, the gig would seem a step down for Ms. Palin, one of conservative America’s most popular and polarizing figures (not to mention major thorn in the side of the Obama White House).
But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, and Palin herself rivaling the charming Mr. Obama in poll popularity, many experts see the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting, even transformational, force in US politics.
Okay so everyone just hope Sarah Palin continues to be aware of how much she prefers money to power!
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“charming”
An adjective that will never sit in front of “Ms. Palin”.
Wait, their slogan is “Quench your thirst for freedom”? They really went with something that sounds like a line of ad copy for Brawndo?
“Headling”? Is that like “giving head”? Look out, Sarah — Larry Craig will do anything to get this gig.
Isn’t there a Psalm that we could refer to in praying that St. Sarah can remember how much She prefers money to power or would it be enough to chant “Power/Responsibility/Work” 100 times?
Them damn tea baggers are dumber than shit. First they name themselves after a sex act & and now they don’t that “TP” stands for toilet paper.
“…many experts see the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting…”
Ba-dump PSSH!
Get ready to dip your bags, boys!!
When will the media stop giving these people credibility? For fucks sake. David Brooks did an op-ed the other day too. Stop making them feel important so they go away. Ugh.
They’ll all be together….AT THE SAME TIME. My kingdom for a spaceborne microwave gun. It’ll be like a big bag of jiffy pop.
[re=490445]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: TP for the bungholes?
At $560 for registration (not counting hotels and meals), freedom definitely isn’t free.
The quality of reporting at the Christian Science Monitor has definitely deteriorated since Dr. Thompson left.
[re=490438]EarBucket[/re]: You really though Idiocracy was fiction?
It’s like Woodstock for people who believe that 24 is real, and that only a steel-cage match should determine the WWE champion.
Homer: All that counts is that we’re alive and rubbing elbows
with the greats. [gasps] Ooh, there’s Ross Perot, Dr.
Laura, Spike Lee.
Bart: Wait a minute, they’re not so great.
Homer: Okay but there’s Dan Quayle, Courtney Love, [increasing
panic], Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Ah! Tom Arnold! What
the hell’s going on?
Bart: [looking out porthole] Wait! Only that ship’s going to
Mars. Ours is headed for the sun.
So what, if they can post 2000 Sarah Palin stories, I can post the same joke.
And don’t forget, when you want a classy-looking poster, you can never have too many quotation marks!
America in 2010–a comedy of terrors
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Juli, too hung over to spell “Headlining” on the first try? Who do you think you are, Jim Newell?
Let me just say, someone gave me a big bag of lapsang souchong for the holidays, and I couldn’t be happier. (Ok well maybe I could, but still.)
I just get the feeling that nobody is going to be talking about literal tea there.
[re=490456]mbprice[/re]: You goddamn better have your shirt over your head when you say that, mister.
First they want to be teabaggers now they want to quench their thirst…so they’re into watersports too…
Hm, I didn’t know that “major thorn in the side of” meant “major of source of laughter and derision for”. Or that being hated by everyone but ~30% of fervent worshipers “rivaled” a fairly consistent 55-60% approval rating.
[re=490461]Aflac Shrugged[/re]: But really….Tennessee? That was SO predictable. I guess it could have been SC.
And am I the only one who reads “Quench your thirst for FREEDOM!” and thinks there must be a million teabaggers wanking it to a Palin bukake fanfic?
The Know-Nothings are back! Sweet. I can’t wait for Ron Paul and his Free Soilers to align with Palin’s Know Nothings against the Biden Whig-phlugs.
>(not to mention major thorn in the side of the Obama White House)
lol no
“But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans…”
Huh?
When, exactly, did I wake up and find myself in the fevered dream of a paranoid schizophrenic?
Ohh man to own a street vendor cart that sells pitchforks rope and poorly-spelled signs.
[re=490465]ivenson[/re]: FreedomAde is thirst-aid, for that deep down teabag thirst.
Oh holy fucking shit. But since I’m in an epistolary mood:
Dear Nashville:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Good luck with that whole trying to promote yourself as a progressive oasis of intellectual fortitude in the midst of an otherwise backwoods, single-toothed, slackjawed, hillbilly-infested desert. And don’t you DARE send any of these morans down I-40 West, as we’ve already erected armed barricades at the Shelby County line.
No love,
Memphis
P.S. Tell Marsha Blackburn and Brian Kelsey they can just stay the hell up there. Maybe Sarah can use them for target practice.
[re=490474]4tehlulz[/re]: I hope somebody asks Gibbs what part of the Obama White House’s anatomy Palin is a thorn in, of, whatever.
If Palin is a major thorn in the side of the Obama White House, I’m a barn owl.
[re=490475]coolcatdaddy[/re]: Oh, back around November 2000.
O/T, speaking of incoherent douchebags, did anyone see Erick son of Erick get called out by Colbert last night for lying on Monday’s show?
Also too when I saw Monday’s show, I got the impression that Erick son of Erick does not understand that Colbert is not really a conservative. Anybody else get that impression?
well according to this Ms. Palin has more than just a thirst for freedom… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5yjLuC-pUU&feature=player_embedded Audio NSFW…
[re=490463]Doris Ziffel[/re]: Yeah & nice font choices. Obviously our founding fathers hated serifs.
Yeah guys, that worked so well in NY-23 when the full resources of the Teabaggers were mobilized.
As for the NBC/WSJ poll. Well, Murdoch owns the WSJ as well as “encouraged” the Teabaggers via Faux news, just saying…
As an aside, I think Major Thorn would be a great GI Joe Villain. Given Ms. Palin’s resemblance to The Baroness, the transformation of our national character into a cartoon is almost complete.
I guessed Ron Paul. Just goes to show how out of touch I am with Realmerica.
Oh this should be fun — someone who can’t speak talking to people who don’t listen about things they don’t understand and covered by a press that’s already written the story. I wonder if there’s any way to just spray the whole convention center down with some sort of aerosol birth control.
I think Trig is more on their level.
“the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting, even transformational, force in US politics.”
Oh noes! Beware the misspelled backwards faxes, the free tea bags taken from hotel lobbies and mailed to legislators, the “teabaging parties” filled with those complaining that their hoverounds can’t fit on the metro and damn those socialist government programs! They are definitely a strong force in politics, based on the crowds at their protests (at least in Faux News land)!
When someone on Fox News references Sarah Palin headlining the “Tea Bag Convention,” I REALLY hope it makes it to youtube…
I’m sick of these teabaggers. They can suck my balls…Wait. No. I didn’t mean that.
[re=490474]4tehlulz[/re]: That part made me chuckle too. Then I thought, this must be an editorial, or maybe even an ad, because I refuse to believe the CSM has fallen this far, this fast. But, of course, it has.
But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans,
and just slightly behind “A Bus Full of Angry Monkeys Armed With Pitchforks.”
Doesn’t anyone there know that true quenching means the thirst would be gone (ie self defeating to a political movement)? And why the heck are there qoutation marks on this crappy slogan?
Nashville in February! Let’s teabag, baby! Blecch.
[re=490488]rottenart[/re]: How dare you compare Palin to the Baroness! Both are evil and wear glasses, yes, but the Baroness is smart and sexy, two things Sarah can never hope to be. Oh, and Todd is no Destro.
[re=490438]EarBucket[/re]: Well it does have what plants crave, so you can’t really blame ‘em.
[re=490465]ivenson[/re]: FREEDOM ain’t free, and I’m proud to be its slave. (Crap, did I say that right?)
[re=490500]Berkeley Bear[/re]: You don’t think either Palin or Bachmann has uttered these exact words at some point?
[re=490507]davesnothere[/re]: I can just imagine the Craigslist M/M ads in Nashville in February…
[re=490494]FMA[/re]: Sometimes it’s the simplest things in life that bring the most joy.
[re=490511]JMP[/re]: “Oh, and Todd is no Destro.”
How can you say that for sure when you, unlike Sarah, have never seen him with a full-face chrome mask on?
Someone should let them know that buckets of cum are not exactly thirst-quenching.
Could everyone tone down the hatred a little bit? There are a lot of people who are working hard and struggling just to make ends meet. These are people who work fifty hours at their primary job and take a second or third job and whatever side work they can find. Many of them have health problems themselves or in their family. They are living in modest homes with the heat turned down and drive ten or fifteen year old car. Can you really not understand that hiking their energy costs a couple grand for cap and trade and doubling their insurance premiums is going to crush these people?
[re=490511]JMP[/re]: Fair enough. He’s a bit more Bazooka or Cross Country.
Now, Cheney on the other hand…
I wonder if you will be allowed to pack heat at the convention. If so, would some local Wonk operative please light a string of firecrackers in the hall right after the opening call to Zeus?
[re=490492]Buzz Feedback[/re]: Which is funny, because *my* guess was the Sarah Palin’s hypothetical love child with Glenn Beck, too!
And by “headlining”, you mean “pulling out, claiming she made no such agreement”, right?
Assuming Sarah shows up, and speaks, as she walks off the stage she’s going to say to Todd:
“Wow, they really, like, like me! Just listen to that applause, also.”
Todd: “That’s not clapping, that’s fapping.”
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Um, because leaving them in the street to die with only the food stamps on their back and a capital gains tax cut is going to be a breath of fresh air? Get educated, no?
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Crush these people? Yeah! And not a moment too soon! They have cars! And jobs!
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Also, I’m pretty sure people who are working 50 hour weeks and looking for a second or third job don’t have time to fap it to The Palinator all weekend in Tennessee…
I am guessing Palin will quit this gig, the same as any other gig. Then Joe the Plunger will step in to save the day.
Tea Party 2012 ticket: Palin/Bachmann “Double Batshit Crazy”
The bad news is that Palin couldn’t sabotage another Republican presidential candidate.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Hey, it’s another troll! Juli, can we keep him?
First, get a clue; mockery does not equal hatred. And you bring up poor people, who teabaggers hate and want to make miserable – yet your later comments show you to be conservatives. So your concern is obviously false, since you know, Obama’s policies are designed to help the poor, while Republicans push policies that actively make their lives worse.
“Can you really not understand that hiking their energy costs a couple grand for cap and trade and doubling their insurance premiums is going to crush these people”
What the fuck are you talking about? People are trying to lower insurance premiums, not raise them, moron. And you know, global warming will hurt the poor a hell of a lot more than the rich.
[re=490458]Ducksworthy[/re]: [re=490495]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: You’re both too kind–this is some of the worst writing anyone’s foisted on an unsuspecting public in years.
Who is this “Patrik Jonsson” (yeah, like a person would really have that name!)? I thought I’d find out by e-mailing him. First of all, at his e-mail page he’s listed as “Patrick Johnson,” so we need to get that part clear up pronto. In the Subject line I wrote “You can’t write. Do something else.” In the Message field i wrote “[See Subject]“.
So: Should I tell him about the name thing?
“Transformational” movement? As in “transforming Amurrica into a medeival theocratic kleptocracy of fucktards, shit-fer-brains, assholes, Randtards, Paultards, confederatards, and douchebag asshole motherfucking pig-ignorant trailer trash scumsucking inbred pigfuckers?” Is that the “transformation” they are referring to? If so, I have to agree.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: You mean there are people who have TWO jobs? Greedy bastards, why don’t they share with the rest of America, who is unemployed and living in boxes since their cars got repo’d! Don’t be rude and go bragging about your multiple jobs held by your fancy car-owning people when the rest of America is so broke! Damn elitists!
Does it have electrolytes?
Palin+Bachmann+Farah=Wingnut PROn….
Did anyone notice the juxtaposition of this Photo of the Day with the Cristian Science Monitor article? Coincidence? I think not.
Oh, and in case anyone’s interested, this sounds like an invitation to Warblog, n’est pas?
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: I hate you.
Also, +1 for “demongogue,” Juli.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: You really need to finish those lyrics, Lee Greenwood needs that song done by the convention.
[re=490544]chaste everywhere[/re]: Er, okay, at his e-mail page he’s listed as “Patrik Johnson,” so only his last name (is that all?) is different from the byline. Plus: “cleared up.”
Two of the shittiest sentences ever constructed in the English language:
“On its face, the gig would seem a step down [mix those metaphors, CSM!] for Ms. Palin, one of conservative America’s most popular and polarizing figures (not to mention major thorn in the side of the Obama White House).
“But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, and Palin herself rivaling the charming Mr. Obama in poll popularity, many experts see the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting, even transformational, force in US politics.”
Many experts! None in particular, apparently.
[re=490471]JMP[/re]: People tend to wince when they get a thorn in their side. I get the impression that every time Palin opens her mouth, everyone in the Obama White House goes running down the halls giving each other leaping high fives and thanking the stars for the quality of the political opposition they have been blessed with.
Quench your thirst for freedom? Geez I know from reading Wonkette that the GOP is broke, but so broke they couldn’t afford to hire a professional to write a slogan and had to steal one from a 1970s soft drink campaign?
I wouldn’t call it “major thorn in the side of the Obama White House.” It’s more like a huge steaming pile of dog shit right outside the WH lawn.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Can you say that again, only this time with my balls in your mouth?
[re=490478]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: I know. I love it. All these media dorks are making up news about how the “Tea Party” is gaining ground as a real grassroots movement instead of a prefabricated artificially manufactured bowel movement.
Freddie B, These teabagging sodomites you love so much are undermining our war effort. Speaking ill of the president during a time of war used to be treason, what’s changed? Oh yeah a BLACK MAN is living in the Whitehouse now. Why don’t you go to Tennessee and hang out with your terrorist loving terrorist friends. If we’re lucky, one of you will be carrying a bomb in his underpants and will take care of this problem…
[re=490560]rottenart[/re]: Wow. SO much cognitive dissonance that it’s head-’splody.
RottenArt: Do you understand that they are struggling because they are paying so much in taxes? Uncle Sam spends approximately $21000 per worker per year. Where do think that money comes from? If you think it all comes from rich people, I would remind you that every trillion is a million millions. So if you want to collect $3T you would have to get 3 million people to give a million dollars each. Go look at some numbers: http://www.bls.gov
Yes, jobs hinder fiscal conservatives attendance at protests but if a lost weekend costs them $500 versus stopping another tax hike that costs thousands of dollars in perpetuity…
Let the inbreedin’ begin!
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: You remind me of an old Republican friend of mine who is married to a very successful obstetrician. We were sitting on the lovely deck of her huge home drinking expensive wine, and I almost did a spit take when she told me the reason she didn’t like Democrats was because they wanted to raise taxes on single working mothers and she just didn’t think that was fair. She’s not my friend anymore. I can only take so much nonsense.
[re=490560]rottenart[/re]: Oh please, if you guys go, please get screen shots or save pages before they get deleted.
Tea Party Nation is pleased to announce the First National Tea Party Convention to be held February 4-6, 2010 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN. The convention is aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movements’ multiple organizations principle goals.
http://www.nationalteapartyconvention.com/
The Gaylord? Really?
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: See, now, on your TP websites you ban trolls (sometimes within 7 minutes!). Here on Wonkette, we just make fun of you.
And as far as “toning down the hatred”….don’t hate the player, hate the game. Or the racist, fake populist political movement. Whatever it is the kids say…..
[re=490555]betterDeadThanRed[/re]: “Coincidence? I think not”
Are you referring to the fact that the monkey second from left appears to have balls growing from his/her chin?
[re=490593]FreddyB[/re]: Yes, because nothing says “We believe in fiscal restraint” like spending a weekend at one of the most overpriced and ostentatious hotels in the South, listening to a bunch of bellicose, overpaid, and underinformed politicians (or, in SP’s case, quitter politicians) who demand exorbitant speaker fees (if they show up at all) spout off about how THEY could do a much better job handling the current economic crisis that — guess what — was started and grossly exacerbated by a President from THEIR OWN PARTY.
This isn’t a protest movement. It’s simply a giant, ignorant circle jerk.
[re=490555]betterDeadThanRed[/re]: Aw, they think they’re people!
[re=490593]FreddyB[/re]: Let me guess, you’re ready to go Galt if they pass anymore taxes? Do us a favor, go and take the rest of the TPN w/ you. We’ll see how it effects the economy.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: If you think the teabaggers give a flying fuck about your plight, feel free to turn down your thermostat and pony up your $560 and attend ‘tardapalooza.
I wouldn’t recommend protesting this shindig–theyz all a’ packin’ (i.e. enough guns to wipe out Australia)!
[re=490593]FreddyB[/re]: Do you understand that they are struggling because they are paying so much in taxes? …
Do you realize that people with billions and trillions is assets pay fewer taxes than these people? Do you realize that these people’s wages have grown infinitesimally percentage-wise to inflation and cost of living since Reagan and the GOP decided to start raping the average American citizen?? Do you realize that health insurance premiums would go down if all this bullshit rhetoric about socialized medicine would stop and we could eliminate huge insurance company operating expenses and huge CEO pay???
ARRRGH. The tea party FOOLS are protesting the wrong thing and against their self interests because they are being MANIPULATED by uber-rich conservatives who want to keep things that way.
Go FOAD. I am so fucking sick of these people.
[re=490593]FreddyB[/re]: “Do you understand that they are struggling because they are paying so much in taxes? ”
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHA no. They’re struggling, in large part, because our government, unlike those of the vast majority of developed countries, doesn’t do anywhere near enough to help its citizens, particularly the poor. Look how much of a struggle it is to get the health care reform bill through; and yet it’s nothing but a half-measure, instead of actual government provided health insurance or care, a basic right that every other civilized government in the world provides its people.
The reason? Because taxes are far too low in this country, particularly on the rich and corporations. And yet, assholes like you whine and whine about taxes, wanting to make the problems worse instead of better.
Why is it that you want to have 45,000 Americans a year continue to die?
Cheee-rist, Nashville.
(of course I’m going to have to wrangle myself a press pass and go see this travesty first-hand)
Will they have a blimp? Oooooo, I love teh blimps.
By the way, if you want to check out the results of inter-family procreation, this will be worth a look.
[re=490627]wvf2[/re]: Speaking of press passes….Will wonkette send a delegation? Pretend you’re from politico or something.
[re=490593]FreddyB[/re]: Next you’re going to be telling me about the “thousands” of family farms devastated by the Death Tax.
Also, where did you get the idea that I think tax revenue comes from the Richies? I tell you what, I’ll give complete income tax immunity to everyone under $100k a year if you’ll give me a return to ca. 1950 upper tax levels bracket. And no, you don’t get to keep your Cayman Islands LLC.
[re=490593]FreddyB[/re]: “So if you want to collect $3T you would have to get 3 million people to give a million dollars each.”
You know, you’re right! Balancing the budget is SO simple. Why does it take those politicians so long to balance it? They’re just lazy! Forget any type of sliding scale, with most of the US’s 300 million people paying SOME amount based on how much they make. That takes too long to figure out! Let’s just point out a fact that doesn’t really have anything at all to do with how taxes are collected – if you SOUND like you know what you’re talking about, then by god, you’re an expert!
Speaking of which, I hear Beck needs a co-host…
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: How can the Tea Bag Party people be working two or more jobs or 50+ hours a week and attend their gatherings which are all scheduled for the middle of the working day usually on a Thursday?
I can’t get a Thursday off and I’m a left wing hippie commie fag with a “computer job”.
Real patriots know that the Peoples Tea Party Liberation Front is the one true Tea Party organization! Do not patronize the Tea Party Liberation Movement, The Tea Party Liberation Front, The Tea Party Nation or The Patriotic Tea Party Nation Liberation Front Movement.
These are not true to the original cause.
“Charming” = “uppity” now?
Go, Sarah! Hitch your wagon to the 21st Century equivalent of Ross Perot’s We the People party, without the billionaire wallet to fund it!
Actually, I’d say 80 percent of teabaggers over age 40 (e.g., 80 percent of them) were Perotistas back in the day.
[re=490612]Gopherit[/re]: Oh, the Gaylord hotel is the perfect place for this dong-a-thon…
The Gaylord family has been balls deep in the royal douchebaggery that runs OK for years, happy to wield their monopoly of OKC’s media market to simultaneously keep Okies shockingly uninformed and plaster their gay ass name on every fucking building within a hundred mile radius. Please take note that their daughter is named “Christ-y” and Edith Kinney founded the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation because irony is dead.
Jeebus it’s hard to be proud of my state.
Yes, but what truly quenches the thirst for Freedom? Based on the average Teabagger, I’m guessing Mountain Dew. Not the diet kind.
[re=490634]rottenart[/re]: That, and get rid of the special rules and lower rates for the richies’ main sources of money. Tax capital gains and inheritances just like all other income. People who make money from stocks and someone who inherits money from a rich dead parent should pay just as much as if they actually earned that money.
[re=490635]Redhead[/re]: How about we just get 3 people to give $333 mil apiece? Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and Warren Buffet all seem like good places to start.
[re=490656]rottenart[/re]: Doesn’t Glenn Beckers have a few extra mil laying around? He’s so passionate about giving the poor, hardworking middle class real ‘murikans a break, let’s see him put his money where his mouth is!
(To be fair, your numbers would give about $1 billion, not $1 trillion. But yes, great place to start! Maybe you ask the other 300,000,000 or so Americans to chip in a little bit… oh, but no, sorry, that math is too complicated for our troll’s wittle head. If it we make it too complicated then he’ll go leave and pout, and it’s FAR too early to break this one!)
[re=490653]JMP[/re]: I’m sooo curious as to Mr. FreddyB’s take on the the “Death Tax” and the “Double Tax”, as they are affectionately known in wingnut circles.
I tell ya, were my heart only a bit blacker, I might consider a career in fleecing these stumps every which way from Sunday. Alas, I can only sit back and mock their attempts to understand and explain the confusing environs many of us call reality.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Could everyone tone down the hatred a little bit?
Kind of like standing around with signs referring to the president as a “niggar”? Oh wait, that is the teabagger squad. Maybe you should take up toning down the hatred with them.
Can you really not understand that hiking their energy costs a couple grand for cap and trade and doubling their insurance premiums is going to crush these people?
You lie.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Down the hall, on the right.
FreddyB: “So if you want to collect $3T you would have to get 3 million people to give a million dollars each.”
How did anyone not see that Freddy B does not know basic arithmetic?
1T as in Trillion, is 1,000 million. So to get 3T you need 3 million people to give $1,000 each. Hell I pay 6x that annually.
Need to go back to elementary school dude.
Crap my math is even worse. *Sheepish* – was thinking about 3 billion.
JMP: No the government doesn’t do enough to help the poor. It could start by not taking so much of their money. Why should a waitress have to subsidize someone else’s $250,000 mortgage?
You know our corporate tax rate is among the highest and that corporations and the jobs they provide are leaving the US, right? If your side is right and a free market is so bad why isn’t Chile diving head first into abject poverty? Why is Venezuela facing food shortages?
Horned_viper, at least you caught your mistake. (You could say you’re from across the pond. They use little trillions.)
This Tea Party Nation soiree immediately reminds me of The Discover Institute conventions. For those that don’t know, The Discovery Institute is the main organization that is trying to get Intelligent Design taught in schools. During these conventions a handful of the educated upper crust of this organization hob knob and plot strategy. However, it doesn’t matter how devious their strategy is because the overwhelming majority of their base are too stupid to carry it out. They end up fucking everything up by exposing themselves to everyone just how incompetent and idiotic they are.
In other words, they will try their damnedest to pound it into the head of the people to not make their protests a racial issue (meaning: hide your racism)
So when Sally Q. Patriot gets back home to use the skills she has learned at the convention to organize her own local Tea Party, she will make it clear to the Tea Party Base (the stupidest of the stupidest) to not make this protest a racial issue. However, this will all fall on stupid ears and they will inevitably show up with signs of Obama with a bone in his nose and climbing a tree.
The Tea Parties continually fail because no matter how sneaky the higher ups are in the organization that plan the strategy, they still have to rely on the retards that are their base to carry them out.
Fail!
[re=490690]FreddyB[/re]: Our corporate tax rate is within tenths of a percent of China’s, which is where the jobs are going. You don’t get out much, do you?
glamourdammerung: Too bad your racist Tea Partier got kicked out of the event and had already had a round with the real Tea Party. Plus, I find it really curious that the offensive word was added to the sign. Next smear, please.
http://washingtonindependent.com/73036/n-word-sign-dogs-would-be-tea-party-leader
http://houstontps.org/?p=318
What is your estimate of cap and trade’s financial impact on an average household? (If you’re going to say that energy efficiency is going to offset the cost, couldn’t people upgrade to more efficient goods without cap and trade?)
Wait … in TENNESSEE?! Oh My Fucking Hell!! Why, Lord? Why the glorious border state, always, every single fucking time, except every now and then stupid South Carolina and retarded Alabama?!! WHY!!!!!!!!????!!!!
[re=490690]FreddyB[/re]:
Dude, the lower income types don’t pay taxes as they get most of what they pay back in subsidies and credits.
The corps and jobs were already leaving because US American workers cost too much. Why pay a guy to make widgets for $20 an hour when you have someone in 3rd Worldistan able to do it for $4 or way less?
Besides, the folks who did the study that you are probably referencing also neglected to add the Value Added Tax that consumers have to fork out in most of those countries.
Virtually all US income growth in the past 20+ years has gone to the top 5%. The very people that loves the Teabaggers and are funding it (Dick Armey?)
As for Chile, even Pinochet went socialist and instituted land reforms that Allende wanted to do. It wasn’t Uncle Milty Friedman’s plan of low taxes, free markets and torture that saved them.
Troll is getting tedious.
[re=490457]bureaucrap[/re]: It never ceases to amaze me that people will spend $560 to register for and another, what $250 in meals and hotel rooms as well as who knows how much to get there in the first place to bitch about paying another $50/yr in taxes.
I’ve been banned for trying to insert a little Dadaism to the Tea Party Nation.
[re=490690]FreddyB[/re]: You know our corporate tax rate is among the highest and that corporations and the jobs they provide are leaving the US, right?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You know that our corporate tax dodges are some of the most sophisticated in the world and that those corporations get a huge tax break for shipping those jobs overseas, right?
I would go on to elaborate on Chile’s experiment with Friedman Free Markets under Pinochet and their current income inequality being one of the highest in the world or Hugo Chavez’s populism being a direct result of US and IMF intervention during and after Venezeula’s experiment with capitalissimo petro-dollars in the 70s and 80s, but you already know all that, right?
Here, I’ll make it real easy for you: Corporations and individuals who make more money than Jesus and Sarah Palin combined and who have an army of experts whose sole job it is to make sure that they don’t even have to pay that spend millions creating fake movements to convince retards that anything different is borne of Satan , Brown Peoples, and ACORN. Fun fact: the vast majority of these retards are receiving a tax cut this year!
But, by all means, keep carrying misspelled signs and ranting about tea-bags. Sarah and Jesus can smell that $560 burning a hole in your pocket RIGHT NOW! And they’re TAXED ENUFF ALREADY!!11!!1111111 (Well, not Jesus…)
[re=490438]EarBucket[/re]: It’s what tards crave.
rottenart: Redhead: How about we just get 3 people to give $333 mil apiece? Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and Warren Buffet all seem like good places to start.
Wow, you’re only off by a factor of a little over 3,000. Gosh, you must be REAL smart…
[re=490741]GeneralLerong[/re]: Agreed. Juli, I think Freaky FreddyB’s 7 minutes are up, and he is ready for the banhammer.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: You want the hate toned down? Look your compatriots before you work yourself into a tizzy over a political satire site. See, we use this site as a place to ventand make funnies. Nobody is trying to turn “suck a bag of dicks” into a plank on a political platform.
Or as a no doubt GOD FEARING REAL AMERICAN (TM) such as yourself might put it: Matthew 7:5.
[re=490756]Quatchi[/re]: It’s great though, everyone’s accusing everyone else of being a liberal troll. Next comes the purity tests.
I just hope nobody notices my teabagger’s from a movie that was on MST3k.
[re=490763]FreddyB[/re]: Yep. D’oh. Math fail.
Of course, I still get off cheap, as I’m not wasting $560 + expenses to hear wingnuts correct my math.
[re=490766]Cicada[/re]:
Speak for yourself. When I comment, I’ve usually hold a M-4 Carbine while typing because that’s what rationale people do. Right? Right?
I guess this makes Michelle Bachmann a RINO.
rottenart: So if I go to finance.yahoo.com and look up XOM’s income statement and it shows an annual income tax paid of $36,530,000,000 on a net income of $81,750,000,000 (45%), that’s just Yahoo covering up all their tax shelters, right? We don’t have an ATM tax or anything, right? And if Exxon says screw it and relocates, there are plenty of bigger companies we can sock to make up for the $37B loss of revenue, right?
As far as Chile, you understand that the whole income inequality argument means that you would oppose doubling everyone’s income because that would double inequality. ( a – b = i ; 2a – 2b = 2i )
[re=490784]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I thought when people referred to typing one-handed around here it was a different type of gun they were holding.
Fap fap fap BOOM!
[re=490772]thehelveticascenario[/re]: Sadly, the culling has begun. I was IP banned.
[re=490690]FreddyB[/re]: Why was Barry Diller taxed at 15% last year and his secretary at 25%? Even he doesn’t understand.
[re=490765]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: NOOO! It’s funny like watching the special-ed class play kickball.
I want him to tell us more why IBM is sending jobs to China and India. I know he’s completely wrong, but it’s so god damn retardingly cute.
[re=490803]El Pinche[/re]: Yea, you’re right. Besides that, I think FreddyB has a wittle crush on rottenart.
[re=490763]FreddyB[/re]: Yeah, we discussed that, actually. In the comment you’re replying to, so I’d assume you read the comment before replying. Then again, we all know what reading comprehension’s like for teabaggers. Must be a shortage of air to the brain, since the throat’s being blocked by the balls in the mouth…
[re=490784]ManchuCandidate[/re]: M-4 carbines are a little stubby. I like to hold a long rifle when I post.
[re=490790]FreddyB[/re]: I can’t believe I’m going to get into this with you, but… Here’s the reality of our corporate tax policies. There’s a huge difference between effective and statutory tax rates. That doesn’t even touch on the policies concerning individual taxes, especially concerning the bullshit system of capital gains and inheritance we’re currently trying hard to do nothing about.
As far as your fun equation in regards to Chile, did wealth re-distribution make the cut because that would be my choice. I’m a dirty Socialist!
Lastly, “finance.yahoo.com” and SAT math quizzes are objectively not as funny as crusty old tea-baggers screaming about a government takeover of Medicare. Bring with the funny/hatred, or GTFO.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Sounds alot like my situation. It’s my hate towards the teabaggers that keeps me warm at night.
[re=490810]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: In the inestimable words of one Bill the Cat: Ack.
[re=490732]FreddyB[/re]: What part of that was a smear? The dumb fuck was holding up a sign that had “niggar” on it. Pointing that out is not a smear, despite your feeble protest otherwise.
Also, since you made the false claim that the word was added to the sign, why was he kicked out according to you? You are contradicting yourself.
What is your estimate of cap and trade’s financial impact on an average household? (If you’re going to say that energy efficiency is going to offset the cost, couldn’t people upgrade to more efficient goods without cap and trade?)
Do you have any reputable information backing up your earlier ridiculous claim? If the answer is “no”, then you were either speaking from ignorance or you were outright being dishonest.
[re=490690]FreddyB[/re]: You know our corporate tax rate is among the highest and that corporations and the jobs they provide are leaving the US, right?
I do not suppose you have anything factual you can cite to back up your apparently uninformed opinion on this?
[re=490732]FreddyB[/re]: silly freddy.it’s not like the average american household can afford/get the credit to move to energy efficient appliances.
Cap and trade is actually a pretty reasonable way of controlling CO2 emissions. Methane emissions like yours, though….that’s another story.
Right, like she’s not going to cancel the day before the event, or at least leave 1/3 of the way through, complaining about how mean everyone is to her.
Just for the record, I hear that neither tea nor testicles are particularly quenching. Just ask Lindsey Graham.
Giant step down … thorn in the side … ? Methinks the Monitor people have been hitting the fantasy pills again.
[re=490526]FreddyB[/re]: Freddy, B real. This is not hatred; it’s contempt.
[re=490690]FreddyB[/re]: Not that there would be any point in trying to talk to people like you, who are already convinced that they know everything, BUT… statistics, my friend. The effective tax rate, that is, the tax rate the corporations ACTUALLY pay after tax breaks, credits, loopholes, etc. is lower in the US than in other developed nations:
“Corporations in 19 of the member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development paid 16.1 percent of their profits in taxes between 2000 and 2005, on average, while corporations in the United States paid 13.4 percent.”
Now, I know that this is tough for you, because you have teh dumb, but I would like to point out that taxing corporations and taxing individuals is a little different. Even if the US had extremely high corporate taxes, it could still charge individual tax payers significatnly less. Forcing Monsanto or Nike or whoever to pay more in taxes is not akin to ripping a piece of bread from the hands of a starving child.
Nevermind that other developed countries, like Sweden, have higher taxes for both businesses AND individuals, and yet see nothing like the poverty that we have here. Oh, and government-run health care. Put THAT in your teabag and dunk it.
Well obvisouly the tax code is tens of thousands of pages because people like me use the short form, its not filled with loophole after loophole so corporate america can get their effective tax rate as close to zero as possible. Thank god these altruistic companies always just pay their 35%, no deductions, no questions asked. Get a brain morans!!!!
[re=491165]EdFlinstone[/re]: obviously—-goddammit
[re=490826]Gopherit[/re]: Perhaps I can help; as I speak Canadian: M-4 is Canadian-Solcialist-Metric for “M-16.”
You’re welcome.
For me, the most adorable part of the great FreddyB polemic of 2010, is that he starts out with this fairly reasonable Norman Rockwell tearjerker about regular folks working harder and getting less for it, and feeling resentful about having to pay for all NoBama’s expensive foreign wars, bank bailouts, and cash handouts to the insurance companies, not to mention all the gunz and cheez that Raygun and Chimpy bought that the US is still paying for with interest. Ok, I’m feeling it. Earnest guy, heart’s in the right place. [plus a little of teh dumb for hysterical Cap’N’trade paranoia]
But then BAM, as soon he starts fleshing out his idea, he drops all pretense of caring about your troubles putting food on your kids, and gas on your dualie, and it’s all about, ‘You all need to suck Exxon’s dick harder or they’ll move to Cayman and never pay taxes again.’ Shit, now we’re all supposed to cry cause the most profitable company in the world paid taxes last year?
Moral of story: parents, please stop telling your children that they are ‘gifted and talented’.
All kidding aside, you all really need to think about the collateral damage in your war on wealth.
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