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Probably the best thing that has thus far happened to the Tea Bag Party Movement would be the Tiger Woods fucking a lot mega-scandal, for the simple reason that without Tiger, the Tea Bag Party Movement would be the most tedious, trainwrecky, make-pretend important thing to have made normal people want to kill themselves over ever since the OJ trial or, I don’t know, that Peaches Browning shit. I mean, Christ, what is there to say about a “movement” that spends pretty much all of its energy screaming about how it really and for true isn’t jam-packed with crazies?
Well, you can say that it’s boring, is what you can say about it, because most of what they do is snivel about how oppressed they are, and that is a very wearying class of behavior to be annoying us with.
As far as Tea-Bag whining goes it’s hard to top their contention that some guy with a website is oppressing them horribly by, uh, setting up a website about them. But this takes the solitary, unique, and, if I may so call it, recherche biscuit, namely, Brent “Damned Dirty Ape” Bozell’s Exhaustive Research Study proving that The Elite Media Hates the Tea-Baggers.
When was the last time you saw such a spontaneous eruption of conservative grassroots anger, coast to coast?
When haven’t wingnuts been screeching loonily?
But the real fun is this:
Compare those 19 stories in all of 2009 with 41 stories the networks gave the “Million Mom March” against gun rights in 2000 — and all before the math-challenged protest even happened. Consider racist and anti-Semitic Rev. Louis Farrakhan’s “Million Man March.” On Oct. 16, 1995, ABC, CBS and NBC together aired 21 stories just on one night.
Whatever you want to say about the Million Mom & Man Marches, they both managed to attract far closer to a million marchers than the Tea Baggers ever got. And the antiwar protests in DC dwarf anything the teabaggers have managed there so far.
To keep it simple, there’s Fox News America, there’s Village America, and then there’s Fucked-Over America. As a citizen of that latter region, I’m getting pretty damn Fed Up.
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Thersday!
The teabaggers a just a bunch of whiny racists pissed off that they don’t get everything their own way any more.
I haven’t seen a “spontaneous eruption” yet, just an astroturfing.
They really are so bloody tedious…
In fairness, that is as “spontaneous” as conservatives ever get. They have no idea what they are supposed to hate or what they are supposed to do about it unless someone tells them.
From your ‘Dirty Ape’ link:
They either don’t know how lucky they are that no one, not even this anemic media thinks they are air-worthy, or they were counting on it.
If a train-wreck could see, it would not be able to take it’s eyes off of them.
They’d be a lot more exciting if their pinup girl, Sarah “Yukon Locust” Palin, weren’t the most mind-numbingly one-dimensional character to take the political stage since Steve Forbes.
And frankly a bit scary. C & L has a piece up about how they are empowering and reinvigorating a bunch of formerly moribund white power groups. They also seem to be stirring up the “Patriot” movement folks again. Last time they got excited people died and a lot of military ordinance went missing from National Guard armories.
I love that song (and video)…a little surprised to see it posted at FDL, quite frankly.
Awesome!
That is what passes for a “conservative intellectual” these days.
The Teabaggers have forced me to refer to Rule One for a tranquil existence:
Don’t Fuck With Crazy People.
Evening, all.
When left wing groups get infiltrated by sabateurs, people get beat up, tazered, pepper sprayed and arrested by the police. (see 2008 Political Convention in Denver).
When (if) tea baggers get infiltrated by sabateurs, there is another misspelled sign aloft with another stupid racist message.
Hey, RonD. Words to live by.
Ah, domestic terrorism: just what we need to spice things up a little.
I think it is the Republican Party platform going forward. They have run out of ways to bamboozle the people into believing that their policies are actually beneficial and are left with scaring the shit out of them.
What, Jesse James doesn’t get a dishonorable mention?
I’ve posted bunches of Superchunk vids over the years… you like their latest? I’m digging it myself.
The “rampaging sons of the widow James” are the true inspiration and role models for our modern far right “patriots.”
Democrats are exactly the same except they don’t have a rationalization for their crapulence that is as visceral as the GOP’s scare tactics.
I was referring to Sandy Bullock’s misbehaved and hopefully soon to be former hubby.
Okay, now I get it. Definitely helps to get some context on that…
While I am not a fan of the corporatist dominated Democratic Party, I have to disagree. The Republicans have gone places we haven’t been in a very long time in this country. They are openly hinting at sedition and armed revolt if they don’t get their way. This is not fringe whackaloons like Erickson, but Boener, McConnell, and other supposedly “responsible” leaders of the Republican Party.
Ahhh. Yet another rightwing celebutante whom I blithely ignore.
I’ve been able to fend off knowing the details of that one, actually. The Tiger Woods stuff, though, I’ve actively tried to avoid knowing anything about, but to no avail.
When the Media gets wound up about something, there’s really very little you can do.
These people are all trying to goad each other into doing something terrible.
I have less than no interest in the personal lives of celebrities. The only real news would be if one of them behaved and had a normal loving relationship which actually lasted.
Only too true and as a native Okie, I know exactly what kind of futile gesture they have in mind.
Heh.
Colbert is shredding Tapper BTW…
The forms vary, but it’s likely to have something to do with revenge on the liberals who have stabbed Real America in the back…
…
I am sick of ‘victims’ too. The Teabagger express rolled their buses into my town this past Sunday. Thought about going but didnt want to get shot (nod to Ron D)or surveiled be the nsa, secret service, fbi or whatever. Attendance was pegged around 3-400. Since there were 4 buses, it seems local whiners didn’t show up either.
And blowing shit up and killing a lot of innocent people. They really are evil.
The celebrity gossip industry appears to be a bonafide perpetual motion machine (“Dammit Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”).
Must be something wrong with me, I don’t even care about the minutiae of my own life and I certainly don’t care about Jon or Kate.
It happens but doesn’t make the news. It should, fidelity seemingly being the rarest of commodities.
ps just finished my taxes. nothing like a little last minute pressure!
At some point, babies grow out of crying to get their way. At some point, little boys grow out of hitting people to get their way. In both cases, they only change if it quits working for them. Some boys grow into men with the firm conviction that might makes right.
If they lose the argument, they beat the shit out of you and consider it a victory.
Now, they have come together, their sails full of the hatred breath of Rush and Beck and Hannity, and cannot fathom that America hears them, but merely disagrees, so they arm and stockpile, waiting for the signal.
We can mock, but these people are dangerous and their are millions of them. I do not care to mock or debate them–I want them totally and completely defeated. These people are un-American. By allowing Yoo and Bybee and Cheney and Blankenship to breath free air gives credence to seditious activity.
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frederick von Anhalt-21 years. This is her ninth marriage.
6. Charlton (you goddamned dirty apes) and Lydia Heston-over 60 years.
7. Larry and Maj Hagman.
13. Dick and Kari Clark-married 30 years. She’s his third wife. His other two marriages both ended in divorce.
14. Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel-30 years.
16. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philliip-married 60 years.
17. George W. and Laura Bush-30 years.
18. Bill and Hillary Clinton-32 years-despite his cheating and philandering.
19. Frank and Barbara Sinatra-22 years until his death in 1998. His marriages to his first wife and mother of his three children, Nancy; Ava Gardner, and Mia Farrow all ended in divorce. His first marriage to Nancy was also annulled. Barbara was previously married to one of the Marx Brothers.
20. Ronald and Nancy Reagan-52 years until his death in 2004. His first marriage to Jane Wyman, the mother of his two children, Michael and Maureen, ended in divorce. The petulant star Ronnie enjoyed Nancy’s backstage blowjob so much he dumped Wyman like a hot potato(e).
What’s your email address, I’ll send you mine.
I gots a big day tomarra. Niters all.
Jimmy Stewart and Paul Newman. Not to each other silly, to their wives.
Nite, Thers.
Agreed and very well put (though I still intend to mock them).
The only time I have any interest in someone else’s panty drawer is when it’s a public official declaring utmost moral chasteness. The crystal Methodist comes to mind.
Niters.
Most of those patriots probably couldn’t say which came first, the Boston Tea Party or the James boys. Funny with just 6,000 years of world history it seems like the sequential details would be easier to remember.
G’nite Thers Thanks for your great diaries and posts
Hardly surprising for folks that can get Adam and Eve riding a brontosaurus. You are bound to get in trouble when everything you know comes from 1960s cartoons.
?why? and is it really safe?
Hey, I resemble that last part.
Guess that makes me an imbessile, an ingnoranimus, and an ULTRA-maroon.
I got a visual of captain caveman mounting a brontosaurus. My how BIG you are!
also. Velociraptor biting the head off a teabagger
I should toddle off now. No classes tomorrow, but I have two masters’ theses, two Ph.D. dissertation proposals, and a Ph.D. dissertation (only 300 pages!) to read in the next couple of week and want to get a head strt on it. I am going to need my rest. Take care all.
I posed that theory to my ex-marine (as if there was such a thing) brother. The philosophy of him never having to mature to the point of making a coherent argument. If he lost an argument, he simply broke out the “slobberknockers” and educated the other party. He meekly agreed with my point. I am his little brother, but I am one of the few people he cannot whip–not because I’m extraordinarily tough or anything, I’m just a lot faster than him and after 20 years of fisticuffs I learned to outmaneuver him.
Niters.
despite his lack of human ability and lack of acknowledgement of other human beings.
My sisters best friend is going to a tea party tomorrow and my unemployed cousin is seriously considering going to one in Denver.
1.5 hours of conversation without my head exploding. May I have my Noble peace prize please for anger management?
At 53 my older brother has never outgrown it. He’ll use a charm offensive first but if that doesn’t get the result he wants threats and violence are his fallback position.
Puts “living in the moment into a new light.”
The tea parties are a new manifestation of the “politics of victimization,” which was adroitly used by Newt Gingrich enabling white males to construe themselves as victims, and has continued to be the favored political ploy by feminists. It is a uniquely powerful strategy, and they, the tea party folk must not be underestimated. Anyone interested in knowing more about my take on this, goggle IPT/politics of victimization. The issue is understanding the dynamics of this approach to politics, not the particulars of how I applied this to feminist politics.
Why? Because I haven’t done mine like you early birds. Is it safe? I don’t know if you mean the innertubes might feltch my info or I’m sort of shady. Yes and no. I pay my taxes and do not seek exotic devices. It was a joke, though, my tax man is down the road and I will take him my stuff tomorrow.
He was always respectful of his wife, at least in public. The only ostensibly honorable thing about the man. Stands in stark contrast to the mavericky one.
You are right. But they were sort of creepy in the same kind of detached way. Laura always seemed to be leading a blind man around.
For the past 30 years (at least) they’ve also instilled a persecuted minority complex in many Christians. No small feat that.
An old friend of my mom who had gone born again insane told her, “You know, the ACLU wants to outlaw Christianity in America!” My mom had better self-control than me, I don’t think she even rolled her eyes.
*burp*
Do you know anything about T-Bone Perkins and his windmill plans?
((((mary)))
Oh, mine too. It just doesn’t work with me. I am a very strange person. I actually enjoy pugilism because I am good at it. But I never use violence to make any point other than to stun violent people.
I disliked her less before she started publicly defending hubby’s aberrant policies in the last few years of his admin. That old adage about better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Looks like Mr. B got saddled with the wrong nickname. :-)
Yep.
Why are so many Christians so paranoid? Do they think someone is constantly judging them?
ah, uhm I e-filed. was referring to swapping emails in this forum.
kenergenx!
And it’s Pickens.
I was just channeling him. He’s downstairs watching “Lady Sings the Blues” and I am catching up on multiple threads.
Lake is kinda choppy tonight.
My brother was five years older so I could never have bested him in a physical confrontation. Spent my childhood hiding from him. Don’t imagine it affected me much or contributed to my being a hermit…
“politics of victimization,”
In essence, that is what Gandhi utilized successfully in obtaining India’s independence…!
oh, I must have fried one my last remaining brain cells. I think I get it now
But you seem so normal here.
No. Don’t post an email here, as such. Damn spido-bots. If you do, and I’n really not asking for yours, you post it like, “Jon Doe AT Yahoo dot com. I DO NOT want your email, but if anyone ever asks you in a thread, spell it out that way.
Must have levity now!
What do Fox News and pâté have in common?
They’re both popular with crackers.
*b’dum KSHH*
ti’s
I can relate to that, was a crash test dummy for my older brothers (6 and 4 years older)
Ya think?
I had an aunt who began life smart and sweet and ended up being driven mad by conservative Christianity. My mom responded to one of her diatribes about the hellbound evildoers of modern life by reminding her that in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said “Judge not, lest ye be also judged.” My aunt replied, “Yes, but you really can’t help it…”
Funny how she could so easily ignore any inconvenient advice her “savior” offered.
Funny. I just turned 50 and I’m still fighting the ghosts of my youth.
“May the iniquities of the parents be visited upon the children unto the fifth generation.”
Funny thing about that book…
That is their idea of a perfect society. Run around in packs and destroy anything in their way.
And, sometimes there has been more than a kernel of truth in the persecution. The FBI completely missed the boat on the Davidian’s at Waco. Again, the issue is the dynamic. They wrote Koresh off as a wacko wanting sex with younger girls instead of understanding he really believed what he preached.
And, yes, it has also been fascinating to see how Fundamentalist Christian’s are construing themselves also as victims. Again, it is a very powerful psychological dynamic.
Sorry, didn’t mean to turn late night black and blue. And why are you wearing my first name?
I was cured of any leaning I had towards Christianity by being forced to go to the Southern Baptist Church and my Southern Baptist grandmother. The church wasn’t near as bad as the grandmother. I am rather hermit like myself. Sometimes I spit shine it and blame it on my artistic tendencies.
A- because it’s TERRIFIC and
B- Yer boa wasn’t available darlin’
Mailed my sister a good birthday card today. Two senior women (about my sister’s age) looking at restaurant menus.
First woman: “I’ll have a quickie.”
Second woman: “It’s pronounced, ‘quiche.’”
First woman: “In that case I’ll have a salad.”
Okay, maybe it’s actually kind of lame but Sis will like it.
Heading out, splendid evening to all.
No, I would disagree that was the tactic of Ghandi.
The politics of victimization requires blurring the lines between someone who is truly victimized, and the one in the victim-role. The one in the victim-role portrays oneself as innocent and helpless, over against a powerful and malevolent adversary. The lack of power justifies using any means available, and the innocence connotes that one is not only justified, but is called to use whatever means are available to rectify the wrong. I think this is very different.
also, “Land of the Lost” starring Glenn Beck. Teabaggers = schleestacks (sp?)
You fergot the *b’dum KSHHH* !
Nighty night RF
Sorry, better late…
I consider the Berserker series by Fred Saberhagen to be apt.
Ahh! Way better!
*steals linky gig from ratfood*
Classic projection, They are always judging others, even though Jaysus told em not to (they are going to Hell?)
Sorry, but I need to elaborate. In the politics of victimization, presenting distorted and erroneous information is justified by the end of righting the wrong. The use of violence is justified because the supposed oppressor has the power you don’t have; I don’t think any of this has to do with Ghandi.
The tea-baggers are being manipulated by the Republican wing of the capitalist class and progressives are being manipulated by the Democratic wing of the capitalist class.
Aww, phooey, gnite ratfood, sorry to c ya go, you are always good for some laughs
It was about as spontaneous as Hera springing forth from the forehead of Zeus. Some very professional rabblerousers wound these fools up pointed them and let them go.
OK, I give in. Since my lame attempts to inject levity reach EPIC FAIL, I shall opine in a serious manner.
Teabaggers are Old Testament Concern Trolls. That’s right, you heard me. Old Testament Concern Trolls.
What they love is the Old Law; Sacrifice, Sacrifice, Sacrifice. And Purity, also.
They have no love for, say, turning the other cheek, do unto others, etc.
Nope, they’re so conservative they are willing to sacrifice CHILDREN! Yours, specifically, to a God of War, and a RIGHTEOUS God of War at that.
The difference would be that Gandhi utilized civil disobedience rather than ‘any means available’… The basic powerful premise still holds true, just different tactics… I would also posit that the ‘victim’ in the cases you cite is not really a victim in real terms…! ;-)
not sure the progressives here are being manipulated, just sh*t on.
Are you blue aardvark at DKos?
I liked the pate joke, but Fox viewers might not know what that is (try caviar?)
good point.
Civil disobedience is rather different that suicide bombers. The goal may be the same, but the means are morally different. The point is, the politics of victimization allows for the latter as well as the former.
Funny they don’t use the New Testament, preferring the book of the Jews (the old one). I have to credit Lewis Black for pointing that out.
Me and my limousine and my latte REFUSE to pander to Fox viewers!
That’s right. Other people’s children. Not Sarah Palin’s or Dubya Bush’s grandchildren. Not the offspring of the Catholic Priests (well, maybe). Not the children of the Rick Warren or Osteen. Other peoples’ children. Sent to War to kill other poor peoples’ children for the profits of the MIC.
Thanks. Are you a newbie too?
I too would love to get into some mighty snark, but frankly, the teaparty movement is simply concentrated rage looking for an outlet and more than a bit scary. Check this out.
http://insideoutthebeltway.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-visit-to-capitol-teabaggers-and.html#more
Wasn’t it Voltaire who said, Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Oh my, never cater to the tea party or Faux news. Or if ya have to, serve contempt!
Yes, been reading along for some time.
No, Kelly, I am not. I am a psychologist who resides in Kansas and who spends most of his time providing psychological services in nursing homes. As I have stipulated previously, insofar as I am aware, I am the only psychologist in Kansas who has publicly supported abortion and homosexual rights. And I publicly supported George Tiller when I appeared before the joint committee of the state legislature. The aardvark came from many years ago when I looked at the psychologists listings in Atlanta, and there was AAA psychological services. I always liked the aardvark in Johnny Hart’s B.C. Ergo.
Exactly… It is a double-edged sword and is heavily reliant upon the mores of the participants…! ;-)
Voltaire (Arouet) was snarkiest wen he was most serious.
Compare and contrast OFA with Pangloss from Candide. Go ahead, and try not to have convulsive fits of laughter.
Me too, been lurking for a little better than a year. haven’t felt confident enough to comment until very recently and only at late night. The day shift is my next goal, which might be a few more years.
Fine. I have no reason to not believe your statement.
Why do you say “homosexual” instead of gay?
I despise the clinical and outdated term.
*heh* Wuss…! ;-)
darn, I thougt that was funny. guess that FAILed too
wuss? oh hell yea, thats me, milquetoast!
also, aloha CT, also
Hey, one step at a time. I spend most of my computer time at night. So, any more commenting by me will most likely be at night.
I use his prayer: “Please make my enemies ridiculous.” He usually grants it.
Because homosexual is the proper term, whether you like it or not. I am reminded of when lesbians mistook “homo” to mean “man” instead of “homo” to mean “same,” confusing the Greek with the Latin.
I have no objection to the use of gay or lesbian, though I just think that to some degree sidesteps the issue. But it also seems to me the use of the term “homosexual rights” is also a more efficient use of language as well as being more accurate.
Now, as you despise the “clinical and outdated” term, I suppose you would have us return to using the word “consumption” rather than tuberculosis.
Kelly, you have a chip on your shoulder that you really ought to get rid of.
You and I have far more in common in the way of beliefs than we are different, but you have an antagonistic side that seems to me tends to make enemies out of friends. We do not have to agree on everything, but, you know . . . .
Thanks for the pep talk.
My boa is available if you need a pick-me-up.
I am gravity challenged, but prefer the term fatass.
geez thanks, maybe its you shouldering the “chip”
Thats funny! I’m “vertically challenged” amongst other things.
Isn’t it interesting that you have a spare boa, and some doc is all “NO, HOMOSEXUAL IS THE PROPER TERM.”
People have empathy and regard for other people’s difficulties in life due to LABELING, or they don’t.
And people who call themselves Doctors, without such empathy, I find execrable.
like “pot- bellied” , yet prefer to be called a pot head
wtf, now I’m talking to myself again. awesome. Was hoping for some levity too, Kelly
Discard your idiot box!
Our tax dollars at work do the same thing
levity was more fun :-)
As Old Testament – those are not the points made in the Talmud interpretations of the Old Testament – and – in any case, indeed in my opinion not what the Tea baggers are all about
They fear change – any change – because no matter how screwed you have been you know there are those that can and will screw you more. Indeed there is a bit of truth in that outlook as can be seen in our changes to the tax system that constantly move taxes needed now down to the lower paid or onto future generations – always supported by our corporate owned legislators in the name of simpler, fairer, easier, even more progressive.
Conservative meaning against change has been stolen by the activist GOP and now means being against anything any liberal progressive is for – thus justifying the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich as a populist movement because it is against the wishes of the liberal progressive.
Until we take back the messaging, we will be not get progressive ideas passed because we fight not only the protectors of the rich and corporate GOP (and Dems) – we also fight the “populist” movement against “change where change is defined as any goal of the progressive – even if already in effect for many years” – the words are upside-down because we can’t get out of the weeds to correct their usuage. Bob Somerby http://www.dailyhowler.com/ – who I recommend reading – is all over Rachel because she reduces complicated ideas to “inaccurate in many ways” but easy to remember points. I think Rachel is right and Bob wrong as to the communication approach needed.