Alright you motherfuckers, you got what you wanted. I hope you choke on it.
So you don’t want to pay taxes, eh? Here’s a list of 102 things you can just fucking forget about right now, then. Every one of them is paid for with tax revenues, and I’ll guarantee that even the baggiest teabagger depends on or makes use of at least a few. Well fuck that noise. Voted for a Tea Party Congressman? Bow out of society and take your ugly and stupid friends with you.
For a short time the other day, the official homepage of the Maine Tea Party declared Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik their “Man Of The Year”.
Nice.
You have to see this video to believe it. It’s an actual Republican candidate for Congress in Delaware, the same state that recently chose über-wacko and Sara Palin-wannabe Christine O’Donnell to be their Republican candidate for Senate, telling a group of supporters that they should ask their liberal friends “why they are Nazis” because it was Adolf Hitler, not Thomas Jefferson, who coined the terms “separation of church and state”.
Can I just ask what the FUCK are people smoking in Delaware?
Required reading:
This Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin by Michael Joseph Gross hit the web yesterday. Let’s hope it does for her career what the VF profile of General Stanley McChrystal did for his.
Jane Mayer’s profile of the Kochs, David and Charles, in The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago also helps to put a little sunlight on the monsters behind the Tea Party. If nothing else, it shows that Rupert Murdoch isn’t the only evil supervillian trying to take over the world. Now we just need a real-life James Bond to take these motherfuckers out.
Matt Taibbi is up to his usual snuff with a Rolling Stone post about the recent primary elections and the influence the Tea Party did and did not have on the outcome, and the insidious race-baiting of Murdoch’s FOX News.
Christopher Hitchens proves that he isn’t dead yet by giving the ol’ one-two to the Beckapalooza of last weekend. As infuriating as he is, we are going to sorely miss Hitch when he is gone. (If you’ve got the time, I also recommend this long video featuring interviews with teabaggers at the Beckapalooza for an up-close-and-personal look at the terminally stupid)
The always-funny “stupid customer” website Not Always Right.com had a little precautionary tale about what happens when teabaggers show up to vote.
And here’s a little history lesson about the origins of the Tea Party and its ilk:
Congratulations to the Maine Republican Party on completing the transition from Reality to Nutjobistan this week as the Teabaggers took full control of their party convention and imposed their bizarre list of demands onto the party’s official platform for the 2010 elections.
Among their demands:
And the really scary thing: these people are probably going to win whatever they are running for in November. All that inbreeding and Allen’s Coffee Brandy have finally taken their toll.
Sarah Palin and the Teabaggers were in town yesterday. According to most of the local media, the total crowd was about 5000-6000 people, about only half of which were actual teabaggers and the rest of whom were counter-protesters. This local blogger who posts at True/Slant says that the whole event was pretty lackluster, which is pretty much corroborated by this live-blog of the event. As is usually the case with these rallies, the huffing and puffing of FOX News and other rightie media outlets came nowhere near the reality on the ground.
This just in from the Department of the Screamingly Obvious: The New York Times did a little demographic polling of teabaggers and found that most of them are wealthy, well-educated, middle-aged white Republican men. Whodathunkit?!?!? This group’s agenda boils down to two issues: they don’t like paying taxes and they don’t like that secret-Muslim nigger socialist in the White House. Did anyone think this would play big with anyone other than angry rich racist geezers? The only thing that strikes me at all is the part about them being well-educated — just look at the signs. I guess it does prove how crappy education is in this country that even the “well-educated” can’t spell, but it doesn’t make me have a lot of confidence in the overall brainpower of these people.
Problem is, as a whole, the general public isn’t any more clued-in than these idiots. To wit:
You might have encountered this infographic last week. It’s from a poll conducted by The Economist and YouGov.com. Among other things, they asked people what they thought the government should reduce spending on as a way to reduce the budget deficit, and the Number One Answer was “foreign aid”. But as the graph below shows you, foreign aid makes up a teeny-tiny part of government spending:
(the blue bar shows the percentage of people who said “reduce this”, the red bar shows the percentage that item accounts for in the federal budget. link to original post).
Nobody wants Medicare or Social Security or veteran’s benefits cut, not even the Teabaggers. That kind of “socialism” is just fine and dandy with the “Don’t Tread On Me” crowd. So why is ANYONE paying attention to the Teabaggers at this point? Oh, that’s right…it’s because this greedy, racist, right-wing white guy has devoted an entire news organization to making sure that’s all they talk about.
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