The Tea Party Thread - Page 19

I knew I recognized the name, and when he referenced his book in the article I stopped reading. The man's been using a slightly condescending pseudo-scientific tone to say incredibly stupid and vaguely racist things for over a decade now. He all but dismisses the impact that socioeconomic status has on one's future potential and developing intellect, thus the poor who stay poor are inherently less intelligent, thus the ridiculously white male dominated upper tiers of industry and politics are just a consequence of their greater mental abilities. This is all taken as a given. Keeping this in mind, that he fellates a caricature of rural life is almost understandable.

It's incredible that he can see a problem that exists in that there really is a tremendous amount of intellectual inbreeding once you cross a certain financial threshold, but then he swings and misses hard enough to spin around ass backwards.

Never have I been more proud to be an elitist.

They can have their fucking left behind...I'll stick with Chabon, Pynchon, Eco, and McCarthy, thanks. And the occasional Patrick Rothfuss novel.

Just the fact that these drooling, mouth-breathing, illiterate, superstitious, hateful, bigoted, ignorant, lazy, with grease puring from their pores instead of sweat and three day old leftovers still left rotting in their pig like mouths, chose to pick up on fucking arugula as a symbol of an elite cut off from the real people, shows the true depths of their terminal stupidity. These stupid liberal elites from Rouseau and Paine onwards should have never spent all this effort trying to help them rise from the mud they lived in. They never deserved a better lot in life.

I’m not certain, as it may have been a dream, but I believe I recently lived through a period of time where criticizing a president during a time of war was considered treasonous, and where refrains of “America, if you don’t like it you can get the hell out,” were omnipresent. I could be wrong, though. I was hob-knobbing with my fellow blue-bloods at a university in the north east at the time.

Come on Stelios, they can't afford to go to those expensive elite grocery stores that stock arugula, like Kroger.

Unlike most people here, I HAVE read several Left Behind books (granted, it was about eight years ago), and they're really poorly written and ridiculously heavy-handed. If that's the sort of thing that makes one an average American, THEN I DO NOT WISH TO BE IN THAT CATEGORY.

The witch burners really are out and proud in America after the last 9 years aren't they. It's beyond scary, it's just very very sad.

Anyone who wants to know what's wrong with the Left Behind books needs to read this. The whole thing, if neccessary.

A bunch of Rand Paul supporters threw a woman down and stomped on her head.

Animals. These fucking people are animals.

TPM has the details.

Wait....."arugula" is rocket? Fucking Hell, that stuff is like 50p a bag over here and is in almost every cheap storebought sandwich. It's cheaper than lettuce, for Christ's sakes.

CNN has it up, too. "Shockingly" Fox News has no mention of it. Of course I'm sure in a few weeks they'll be saying it was all a set-up by MoveOn ("They" being Faux News).

Was she wearing a wig or something? Not that that absolves anyone of anything, but I can see people latching on to that as some bizarre reason for her deserving what she got.

Even if that was some kind of official security detail for Paul -- which it's clearly not -- that's way over the line. That wasn't done out of concern for Paul's safety, that was done out of pure malice.

Or MoveOn member attacks Real American's boot with face!

I'm thinking more along the lines of: "Brave American Patriots Protect Rand Paul from Evil Nazi Progressive."

Amazing how conservatives are defending this on other sites. But then I remembered it's probably because it reminds them of their favorite scene from "American History X".

EDIT: Forgot to add the complete movie title which at the very least should get me a foot to head nudging.

Or they'll point to the incident mentioned at the end of the piece and say, "See, both sides do it!" But tell me, which one could have been an accident and which one is nothing but deliberate?

And it still doesn't change the fact that they would be justifying mob violence.

And it still doesn't change the fact that no conservatives seem to give a shit. Remember, according to Conservative Rules, unless you're actively denouncing something, you approve of it (just ask any Muslim that hasn't spend the last nine years constantly denouncing 9/11). So where is the conservative denouncement?

You get the feeling these fuckers enjoy this kind of violence.

God, I hate the Left Behind books, and I've read six of them!

Also, Drew Carey replaced Bob Barker on the Price Is Right, and his run so far can charitably be described as controversial. I haven't watched Oprah, but that's because she's a very smart lady who is also a quack who pushes fringe science and pseudo-spirtual bullshit on her audience for every time she yanks Cormac McCarthy out of solitude for an interview or smacks down James Frey.

I grew up in a small town in the rust belt, but I DID go to an elite private high school. Since I started working full-time in 2005, I haven't made more than 20 thousand dollars a year, which I guess puts me below the poverty line. I've worked in rural America, in towns with one stoplight and in inner-city schools like in Akron, Ohio. I like country music and Budweiser to go with my penchant for the New Pornographers and Jameson's.

I also disagreed with the war on Iraq, am a miltant supporter of women's and gay rights, and describe myself as "liberal." And yeah, I watch Mad Men, live in a nice Jew York, my best friend's a lawyer, and I'm dating a law student.

But what sets me is that I'm not satisfied with my station in life. I want more, and I want a better life than the one I have right now. That's the reason why I'm going back to college to complete my degree after six years. I could work retail or outdoor education for the rest of my life -- but I don't want that for myself, and I'm going to work just as hard as someone on the factory floor to get it. I agree with Richard -- that's the American dream, and that makes me just as much an American as people who like Tim LaHaye.

In short: Go fuck yourself. Goddamn I'm mad now.

I'm almost too exhausted to be angry at this point, which I'm sure is part of The Plan.

This raises a good question: have we ruled out Cylon involvement with the Tea Party?

Well, Paul made a pretty adamant condemnation of what happened.

And by "stirring", I mean pretty fucking non-existent.

Maybe, considering what happened, he's afraid to put his foot down.

So twice then, in a 30 odd year career. That's not bad. Probably shouldn't hold it against her.

Any other basic, long-standing precepts you'd like to chuck while you're at it?

Because of course NO ONE will see the government as officially sanctioning whatever religion you decide to make a part of it, now will they?

Jack, I'm not sure how to interpret your posts, but Oprah has a long and storied history of promoting fringe science, quacks like Jenny McCarthy and her anti-vaccination crusade or Susanne Sommers and her anti-cancer treatment doggerrel, and snake oil salesman like Rhonda Byrne and her "Secret."

EDIT: Double post.

Ya know, maybe it's me, but with all the extra paid to the "Greatest Generation" and their efforts to save the the world from The Axis, how come where not hearing from them know that that brand of dark batshit is taking root here?

Are all of them holding Gadsden Flags at Tea Party rallies?

No. I'd say they're saying it, but we're not hearing them because the only "Angry Americans [tm]" the media is interested in interviewing is the kind that gets pre-approved by FreedomWorks.

Yeah. I was being pedantic with your wording. Seemed to me like you were saying that years of quackery was mitigated by two things.

I can't wait for the backlash once these "Tea Party" candidates get in power and become regular politicians. If you think the backlash against Obama by the left is bad, just sit back and grab some popcorn.....

I guess there's nothing in the constitution about freedom from being able to lift your head off the pavement. Therefore, to prosecute these Teabaggers would be unconstitutional. [/pretzel logic]

"They're just working within the constraints of the system. They can't change things overnight." You know, all the arguments that apply to Obama but don't get applied.

In exactly the same way that the same people criticising Obama now for his big government anti-constitutional anti-american administration were happily silent pigs in shit under Bush.

It's cute that some people still think you can expect any sort of sensible reaction to facts and reality from people like these, but at this point I think it;s time to realise that they don;t believe in a single thing outside of the 'team' they've decided they barrack for winning the congressional superbowl this year. Once they're in who cares what promises they do or don't live up to - we beat them durn liberals ra-ra.

Truly, the level of intellectual dishonesty on display from these people is fucking staggering.

Tim Profitt, Rand Paul Supporter, Admits To Confronting Woman At Debate

'Cause really, there's a perfectly okay way of putting your shoe in someone's face.

That video's totally fucked in the head. It looks like he wanted to curb her.

Over on PZ Meyers' Pharyngula blog, this particular comment about the video jumped out at me:

Blowing it out of proportion? I don't know, but it certainly seems less implausible as the weeks drag on.

The whole tea party movement has moved beyond pissing me off to creeping me the fuck out. Anyone else here read Richard K Morgan's "Thirteen" ("Black Man" outside of the US) and remember its depiction of the splintered US? This is NOT the sci-fi novel I want coming true, goddammit.

Got a couple of more links from that comment thread...holy shit:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/arti...he_Deserved_It

(This one's old, but I missed it the first time around) http://barefootandprogressive.blogsp...s-militia.html

Sometimes I wish the internet got sucked up into a bigger, blacker black hole then what it already has become.

Okay, those were scary. But this? This is fucking terrifying.

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So busy at work I've been barely paying attention to politics and I try to catch up and see the craziest candidates ever yapping away on the TV.

Worse of all, there's an incredible close race in Florida for governor where the GOP (pseudo-Tea Party sponsored?) candidate who could win has the balls to run after he was the CEO and founder of the company charged with the largest health care fraud fines in the history of the country.

WTF?!?!?!?

Financial Times
Tea Party survey shows fear of minorities

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/52560e54-d...44feabdc0.html

"Almost two-thirds – 64 per cent – of people who identify as members of the movement agreed “it is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others”, compared with 41 per cent of the general population."

Yeah, that's only seems fine when you're in the part of the population that has more of a chance in life than others. Douchebags.

Was that too harsh? I don't know.

So Mr. American History X wants the person he stepped on to apologize to him.

Yep, she went there with the intent of getting her head stepped on. Which I guess makes you an even bigger idiot for falling for her master plan.

"If you want a picture of the future, Winston..."

What a deplorable, ignorant shithead. I hope a piano lands on this guy.

Florida is already half-way down the tubes, and if Rick Scott and Marco Rubio are elected they're going help Florida beat California to Third World status. The only reason someone like a Rick Scott (who had to pay a BILLION DOLLAR FRAUD SETTLEMENT) or a Meg Whitman spend $100,000,000+ of their own cash for governor campaigns is because they fully expect to make that money back and then some while in office by draining the system for all it has left, and making every underhanded deal that's placed before them.

And that Tea Party organizer asking for an apology from the woman he curb-stomped is taking a page out of Ginni Thomas' playbook by asking for an apology from someone they irrationally view as sub-human, there fore they are in the wrong for challenging their white masters (oops, did I just make it race thing?). Minorities and women must be seen and not heard as far as those people go. And by "those" people I mean old white crackers.