Teabag: The Movie – LOL

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Glad to hear it!

What has Faux have to say for itself today? (We gave up cable TV and I missed Senior Coffee at McDonald’s this morning…)

Yeah, but the teabaggers drew a hell of a lot more than showed up for ‘a new way forward’; no ‘pleasure’ can be taken comparing an entertainment turnout versus an ‘activist’ turnout.

Did anyone compile numbers on Beck’s 9/12 “We Surround Them Ourselves with Idiots”?

Gonna have to disagree with you there. 260K is thin gruel in a country of 300M — no matter how you slice it.

Here in San Antonio the Park Police estimated the crowd at about 5000. Local news covered the event as the #1 story at 5pm. Gave a pretty good account, interviews with people at the “protest” pretty much showcased the ignorance of those protesting.
This am newspaper San Antonio Express-News had the story on the front page, above the fold. Story was not all rah rah for the crowd. Pointed out oce more some of the silliness. glen beck did his show here. City reaction. Bring on Fiesta! which starts Friday and runs for 11 days.
Comments by local news anchor-well known for sarcastic asides-was at his best.

The funny thing about the tea party people is that they are the very people who will be receiving tax cuts…but they always come out in favor of protecting the really rich corporations from getting taxed, because they’ve been media-cultivated so carefully by the very powers that they hate…what a bunch of boneheads…they don’t realize that they are on the wrong side of what is right and what they really want is what those that they are supporting don’t want for them.

So when do the tea baggers strike again? Next April 15th? It’s a MOVEMENT—like a slow bowel movement.

Tea Baggers protest high taxes the very month that they are given one of the largest middle class tax cuts in history….Timing Goopers- it’s all about TIMING.

Dumb shits!

Plus, it’s only been 3 months and Obama is hugely popular.

Premature teabagging.

New Way Forward is a fledgling organization. Attendance numbers at their events at this stage aren’t very good indicators. Tampa had 500 teabaggers turn out. That’s nothing compared to the number of wingnuts in the central FL area and this is redneck bigot Dixiecrat turf. There was a time when St Pete For Peace drew close to that many folks at BayWalk every Saturday night.

A mere 600 tea baggers protested in a short rally in downtown Monterey, CA yesterday despite the lovely weather.

no problem with disagreeing with me but 260K versus what for ‘a new way forward’ demonstrations? I doubt if even 50K showed up for that (which I felt was a VERY important demo).

You’re comparing oranges and apples.

One interesting feature of these “demonstrations” of stupidity is the tone of the uber gooper organizers. They are doing their best to use radical “violent revolution” rhetoric….What’s up with that? Is it a bid to bring out the real right wing crazies and their home arsenals or just a way of underscoring the righteous “anger” of their bowel movement? Worth watching.

OT: Spain’s attorney general has announced that he does not support an investigation of the Bush Six: http://www.reuters.com/article…..ES20090416

Back to the cesspool.

I heard that this morning and wasn’t surprised. Spain bought into the housing bubble and is suffering as a result. The govt is not going to do anything to rock the boat with the US.

On the other hand, the numbers are pretty good considering that it’s a fake grassroots movement manufactured by Fox News. However, ratings must have been way down for Fox since 262,025 of their audience were not watching for a perios of time.

I missed a Spice Girls’ tour…?

A teabagger estimated 3000 here. No police estimate. paper said “thousands.’ Eevn if the teabagger is right, it’s still less than the 4000 they got on March 22. Was section B in The Sentinel today. (The March 22 teabagging was page 1). At least here, they’re less popular than 3 weeks ago.

I never underestimate the gooper’s ability to appeal to the worst in human nature and the lowest common denominator of our society. Rascism, hatred, tribalism,–they all become political grist for the gooper mill- which turns billionaires into trillionaires overnight.

….. figger. they got fewer than they did 3 weeks ago and they’ve had FOX publicizing this thing during that time. Um… momentum? Not.

DUGG!

It’s obvious to the casual observor that the basis for the tea bagger anger is race. “Black president giving our money away to lazy black people” is the real source of the anger- and it’s being billowed into flames by mainstream gooper politician’s calls for violent revolution….

Fuckin insane.

So are you! The teabagging got 10 times the publicity the Spice Girls tour got.

;-)

Ya know, it just gets harder and harder not to compare the Rethugs to the Nazis in the 30s. One good difference is the lack of violence by the Rethugs.

Hey, we shouldn’t be playimng this numberts game, should we? malkin sez, it’s “not just the size, but the reach, a true sense of which is missing from the MSM coverage.” It’s the reach man. You ain’t appreciatin’ the reach.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009…..party-usa/

Whatever that means.

Did the Spice Girls do any teabaggin’ on their tour?

Did the Spice Girls do any teabaggin’ on their tour?

How do you think ‘Sporty Spice’ got her nickname?

One good difference is the lack of violence by the Rethugs.

One bad difference is that the Redoublechins don’t seem to be buying beer for anybody.

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again. – Carl Sagan, Cosmos

LOL!

which one is sporty again?

Bachmann is out of her frikkin’ mind…honestly…she needs some meds pronto:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/…..son-imams/

Bachman knows that the next election will be a midterm low turnout affair- so she is betting that it won’t take many crazies to re-elect her sorry ass. This is true for goopers in general this year. They figure that in an off year, those with the angriest supporters will win.

Bachmann is out of her frikkin’ mind…honestly…she needs some meds pronto:

I recommend some high-quality acid.

At least then she’d have a valid excuse….

Midterm election turnout averages less than 40%. Dems are likely to be satisfied and willing to stay home. Adding a few percentage of crazies to the gooper rolls can swing some congressional districts that would otherwise be dem…that seems to be the strategy.

Bachmann on acid. Jeez.

Oh jeez. I read that link. For a while she seemed entertaining. What a loon.

I’m thinking Bachmann and Beck locked up in a room together, both on acid. Get some cameras on that and you’ve got yourselves a big PPV gate.

Get some cameras on that and you’ve got yourselves a big PPV gate.

If you could convince the audience that it wasn’t just another “regular” interview….

I mean, how ya gonna tell the difference?

that guy who passed out on Beck looked pretty wasted. Nobody would know she was tripping.

Emptywheel’s new post is entitled “Significant Misconduct” When DOJ Claimed Sovereign Immunity?”

Good point.

SD, 1,500 showed up here yesterday. that’s just an amazing number.

You’re comparing oranges and apples.

so are you, by comparing yesterday to feb 15, 2003.

Got me there.

“Obama Spends, Jesus Saves”?

Cute.

3,000 here according to a teabagger. probably less. definitely less than 3 weeks ago when they had a tea party & 4,000 people showed up.

And 10% of the population continues to provide 70% of the tax revenue.

Makes. complete. sense.

MMM

Probably not- are you only considering federal income tax revenue and not sales tax revenue, tobacco and liquor, payroll taxes, etc?

Hey, Newsie! LTNS.

At least in Monterrey, the populace has a reason to protest “Higher taxes” – a lot of people who own there have incomes over 250k, I’ll bet.

But it makes absolutely NO sense to protest higher taxes when yours have just been cut…

In Albuquerque, the Albuquerque Urinal estimated the tea-party crowd to be “several thousand”. In Las Cruces, the Las Cruces Fun-News estimated “hundreds.”

Here in Cruces, the organizers were so surprised they’re planning another tea-party for Independence Day. I just hope they don’t confuse July 4 with the silly alien-invasion Will Smith special effects extravaganza.

Actually, it does.

Consider that a large majority of those in the bottom 90% of earners have NO income at all. That would include minor children (except for Mylie Cyrus and the like), institutionalized persons, etc.

Second, that statistic excludes payroll taxes (OASDI, Medicare, Unemployment, etc), sales and value-added taxes, etc. If you include those things, the top 10% doesn’t look to be inordinately taxed. Remember, FICA and Medicare cut off a bit over $90K, and that’s a combined 12-13% hit on all earned income.

Consider that a large majority of those in the bottom 90% of earners have NO income at all.

Huh? Support, please.

Consider that a large majority of those in the bottom 90% of earners have NO income at all. That would include minor children (except for Mylie Cyrus and the like), institutionalized persons, etc.

Sorry, I can’t wait for your response.

The idiocy of this statement is historic. They don’t count individuals, you ninny, but filed income tax returns. Households.

10% of the households in this country pay 70% of the taxes.

Children and institutionalized people? You forgot squirrels.

What’s your source? You don’t link to anything, so how am I supposed to check it?

You said,

And 10% of the population continues to provide 70% of the tax revenue.

So what is it? 10% of the population or 10% of the households, or 10% of something else you want to make up?

Oh. And you still haven’t cited a source.

tea party protests been unfair? I found this video today that shows how various news outlets are reporting the story. It’s interesting to see the difference in perspectives:


http://www.newsy.com/videos/media_tea_party_brew/

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We’ve got pictures to prove it:
TEABAG IS THE NEW DOUCHEBAG!
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300 teabaggers in Bangor, Maine. 250 teabaggers in Portland, Maine. Wow! What a turnout!

This person is quoting Glenn Beck from today. Beck never supplies links to his numbers either. One thing I always liked about Randi Rhodes is she does provide links on her website so we can verify.