First Coast Tax Day Tea Party

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

If you think I'm making stuff up, feel free to post factual corrections.

Oh, and cute has nothing to do with anything. I've been seething about that for a few minutes now, and I deeply resent the implication that being reasonably attractive means I'm a lying dimwit. That is revoltingly sexist.

[JC]

Never mind the Whiskey Rebellion, what about the actual Boston Tea Party?

The teabaggers can't possibly be anything but uneducated boobs if they think they have anything in common with the original Boston Tea Party. As Bob Cesca points out in his WalletPop column today, they are grossly misinterpreting a significant event in American history.

The original Boston Tea Party was not about wanting to evade income taxes; our Founding Fathers were pissed off about a huge, unfair CORPORATE TAX CUT that threatened to put small, mom-and-pop companies out of business.

The only reason the colonists had a problem with paying taxes is because their interests were not represented in Parliament. Remember? No taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION? Yet the teabaggers, this warbling pack of hydrocephalic troglodytes, they HAVE representatives in the government, and just got the biggest middle-class tax cut in the history of the United States, so what the frickety-fracking hoo-hah are they actually angry about? You can't be that blind.

Some of them say they want more transparency and accountability in government. That's perfectly valid. But if you ask one of them what government department or function or specific expense they want more accountability about, who they should be directly accountable to, and what would you like to see done to solve any problems the oversight committee finds, they just start chanting "USA! USA! USA!" which makes me inclined to think they have no earthly idea what they're talking about. They're probably just repeating some crap some right-wing jerkface said on the teevee without knowing what it means.
A lot of that going around!

It is my personal opinion that every last thing teabaggers say is either racist or a smokescreen for racism. Come on, a commenter on the WalletPop article I linked above flatly stated that they think it's racist for white people to have to pay income taxes, because in their deluded little minds, all that hard-earned white money goes straight to non-white people. Because no colored people work or pay taxes, obviously.

Racist, deluded, misinformed, wilfully ignorant. And they can't spell for sour owl poop.

You are way off base. Being cute does not give you license to make stuff up. Being white does not disallow dissent.

No one said being white disallows dissent, enough with the straw man arguments already!

Also, for the purpose of this discussion it would be great if you would avoid being sexist.

[buckethead]

Racist, sexist, homophobe. That's how those who dissent against "progressive" nonsense are described. So be it.

[Jameson]

I find it funny that the Mainstream Media "reports" that the Tea Party is filled with racism and hate (despite no arrests or violence) yet blatantly ignores stories like this one in where a Republican woman and her Male Friend were jumped by a group of Leftist Protesters outside the SRLC in New Orleans on 4/9 leaving her with broken leg. Getting violent on Women is a terrible way to get your message across, Leftys.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/04/police-release-description-of-allee-bautsch-attacker-dirty-white-ponytail-auburn-hair-thin-beard/

http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story/

Hmm. According to one of the articles you linked, the chick who got her leg broken played down the political angle.

She also said, without going into specifics of what was said, that “it was all about money.”

In other words, they got mugged, and now the right is trying to blame it on left wing protesters, because it is absolutely impossible that anybody could get violently robbed in New Orleans without some communist socialist fascist anti-American terrorist Democrats being behind it. Crime in New Orleans? Harrumph. Perish the THOUGHT.

Please read the Gateway Pundit article again:

"Officers in the area heard the female screaming and responded to the scene and broadcasted a description of the suspects and requested Emergency Medical Paramedics. As the female was waiting for EMS , she used her purse as a pillow. When the victim was in the ambulance, she discovered her purse was missing."

Also read the 2:08PM update on the Hayride.

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

Racist, sexist, homophobe. That's how those who dissent against "progressive" nonsense are described. So be it.

heaven forbid that anyone actually be racist, sexist or homophobic, right?

I guess that would require some proof.  Like badly spelled signs carried around in public?

It's racist to point out that somebody's being racist, you know.

But PLEASE, somebody tell me, WHAT exactly is this "progressive nonsense" being dissented against? Paved roads? Meat inspectors? OSHA? What?

[Jameson]

If you think I'm making stuff up, feel free to post factual corrections.

Here's a quick, easy read on what the Tea Party wants:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/15/dennis.tea.party.goals/index.html

I'm not a Tea Partier nor am I a Republican/Right Winger. But wanting our elected officials to be more fiscally responsible instead of continuing to drive our country further and further into debt while at the same time continuing to raise taxes, well, it isn't such a bad idea.

[buckethead]

If you think I'm making stuff up, feel free to post factual corrections.

You imply that "teabaggers" seek to evade taxes. I doubt that is anywhere close to fact. (although certain members of the current administratyion have demonstrated a willingness to do exactly that)

The larger platform of the grass roots (astro turf) organization is exactly what they suggest. Stop confiscating an ever increasing portion of our money, only to squander it. Taxes as a portion of GDP still come from the public, even if you only tax corporations. Big brother keeps taking a bigger slice of the pie, while our national debt soars and deficits spin out of control.

I do not consider myself to be a member of that particular movement, but they are entitled to speak their minds without being slandered.

[Jameson]

JC, I'm glad you made it our of the Tea Party alive last night, Bro!

[buckethead]

Racist, sexist, homophobe. That's how those who dissent against "progressive" nonsense are described. So be it.

heaven forbid that anyone actually be racist, sexist or homophobic, right?

I guess that would require some proof.  Like badly spelled signs carried around in public?

It's racist to point out that somebody's being racist, you know.

But PLEASE, somebody tell me, WHAT exactly is this "progressive nonsense" being dissented against? Paved roads? Meat inspectors? OSHA? What?

It is not racist to point out racism. It is slander to call opposition to a certain policy racist where there is no evidence of such.

[buckethead]

Racist, sexist, homophobe. That's how those who dissent against "progressive" nonsense are described. So be it.

heaven forbid that anyone actually be racist, sexist or homophobic, right?

I guess that would require some proof.  Like badly spelled signs carried around in public?

It's racist to point out that somebody's being racist, you know.

But PLEASE, somebody tell me, WHAT exactly is this "progressive nonsense" being dissented against? Paved roads? Meat inspectors? OSHA? What?

"The Guaranteed Profits for Private Insurers Act of 2010 would be one example, though strictly speaking it was niether a socialist nor progressive piece of legislation. Cap and Trade is another corporate welfare act being touted by the representatives self described progressives voted into office.

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

If you think I'm making stuff up, feel free to post factual corrections.

Here's a quick, easy read on what the Tea Party wants:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/15/dennis.tea.party.goals/index.html

I'm not a Tea Partier nor am I a Republican/Right Winger. But wanting our elected officials to be more fiscally responsible instead of continuing to drive our country further and further into debt while at the same time continuing to raise taxes, well, it isn't such a bad idea.

I read the article, and they really ARE against meat inspectors! That was a good guess, but I was actually attempting to be absurd. They are also against clean air, education, and anything that benefits poor people.

[redglittercoffin]

If you think I'm making stuff up, feel free to post factual corrections.

Here's a quick, easy read on what the Tea Party wants:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/15/dennis.tea.party.goals/index.html

I'm not a Tea Partier nor am I a Republican/Right Winger. But wanting our elected officials to be more fiscally responsible instead of continuing to drive our country further and further into debt while at the same time continuing to raise taxes, well, it isn't such a bad idea.

I read the article, and they really ARE against meat inspectors! That was a good guess, but I was actually attempting to be absurd. They are also against clean air, education, and anything that benefits poor people.

Seriously?!?  That's what you came away with. 

You fail at critical thinking.

[JeffreyS]

Fiscal responsibility would mean military cuts, healthcare reform and mega corprate welfare reduction.  If you are in the tea party Obama is a President who acts like he cares about the biggest of our over spending problems.

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

If you think I'm making stuff up, feel free to post factual corrections.

Here's a quick, easy read on what the Tea Party wants:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/15/dennis.tea.party.goals/index.html

I'm not a Tea Partier nor am I a Republican/Right Winger. But wanting our elected officials to be more fiscally responsible instead of continuing to drive our country further and further into debt while at the same time continuing to raise taxes, well, it isn't such a bad idea.

I read the article, and they really ARE against meat inspectors! That was a good guess, but I was actually attempting to be absurd. They are also against clean air, education, and anything that benefits poor people.

Seriously?!?  That's what you came away with.  

You fail at critical thinking.

I'm not sure what you believe "critical thinking" means, but I most certainly am not failing at it. However, I have succeeded in oversimplifying the words of a jackass who wants to abolish the USDA, and did so in an irritating manner, which is exactly what I intended. (The USDA is the meat inspector department, by the way.)

[buckethead]

Racist, sexist, homophobe. That's how those who dissent against "progressive" nonsense are described. So be it.

heaven forbid that anyone actually be racist, sexist or homophobic, right?

I guess that would require some proof.  Like badly spelled signs carried around in public?

It's racist to point out that somebody's being racist, you know.

But PLEASE, somebody tell me, WHAT exactly is this "progressive nonsense" being dissented against? Paved roads? Meat inspectors? OSHA? What?

It is not racist to point out racism. It is slander to call opposition to a certain policy racist where there is no evidence of such.

And would the evidence be the presence of racist signs?


founder of the tea party

That guy is a registered Democrat plant.