So will the tea party people restore copyright law to what is stated in the constitution and then stated by the founding fathers in the 1790? Surely they could do this, because they aren't affiliated with big business/media.

tuna fingers: Fark these idiots.
Most of these teabaggers also approved the pre-emptive strike on Iraq.
I don't know about you other TFers, but I was overwhelmed with "Glass. Parking. Lot." emails and their ilk. My conservative employer even seemed to encourage these.
That being said, my mother is both a "No blood for oil!" activist 8 years ago and a teabagger now. But I know she is in the minority.

D'oh. I forgot to mention that our floundering in Iraq has cost a whole lot of taxpayer dollars. A whole lot! That should go without saying, but since we're dealing with teabaggers, I should assume zero on the common sense scale.

So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?

Sweet Chin Music: If the True 'Baggers want to be taken seriously, why don't they tell the racist morons to kick rocks? Your "valid arguments" might mean something if we didn't have to wade through a wall of pure stupid.

If they kick all the racists out, they'll only have about five old people who are too anxious to get home and watch Matlock to have a rational discussion.

Sweet Chin Music: If the True 'Baggers want to be taken seriously, why don't they tell the racist morons to kick rocks? Your "valid arguments" might mean something if we didn't have to wade through a wall of pure stupid.

Tell you fellow libtards who pose as the racists you refer to.

When you can't argue with someone, misrepresent them!!

FTA:

What to make of all this? Of the yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags and tri-cornered hats? I could probably work up indignation at the co-opting of revolutionary icons. Our founding fathers were risking their lives, signing their names boldly across acts of treason, and these guys can't even put their names behind their vague complaints.

FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?

It is.
I encourage it even. You should try to ease back the racist signs and picking on the disabled though.
But, your ilk can't help itself.
"Organize" away!

stirfrybry: NutWrench: atheist1295: But but but...It's not about racism!

This. It's amazing how many racists and retards the teabaggers can have on their side while still denying that their platform is racist or retarded.

That pic looks like some liberal posing as a retarded racist meme.
Nobody with half a brain thinks that serious persons would make an effort to go to a rally to spout racial slurs.

The only explanation of such ridiculouisly over the top behavior is that it's someone trying to discredit the movement by pretending to be a "crazy" member.

It's really telling of your intellect that you fall for such obvious real-world trolling


The man is Dale Robertson, one of the self-proclaimed leaders of the Tea-Party movement and webmaster of teaparty.org.

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stirfrybry: PsyRat: I love the hate and misconstruing of the tea-party people. My mom is a successful mental-health professional, and takes personal time off to attend a handful of rallies because she's upset at the reckless spending of the government. People she meets there are doctors, businessmen, retirees, mothers, and other such people.

Neil Steinberg acts like an elitist, walking through the rally looking down on the protesters instead of acknowledging them. He repeats incorrect rumors, like claiming past rallies were "excessive". Really? Ask D.C. police, who love the tea-party rallies because they are pretty much peaceful and clean.

But it's much easier to straw-man the movement, hurl insults like "tea-baggers", and dismiss them as red-necks, rather than acknowledge that they're reasonable people with reasonable arguments.

THIS

And it seems to be the marching orders for libtards like the kind that fill this thread will repeats of the strawman memes in every possible form.

Durrr, every tea partier is fat white racist who works for Exxon and eats babies!!

Wow. Speaking of strawmen.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute: danknerd: I came here for the crazy teabagger pics

/left disappointed



Here you go

I'll see your crazy right-winger and raise you the Obama-fairy:


/hot like his steppin'

PsyRat: 12349876: PsyRat: My mom is a successful mental-health professional

I'm not sure equating you mom with Dr. Drew and Dr. Phil is the way to go.

Nice straw-man argument there. You would attack a woman who has helped parolees stay off drugs, has put families back together, and now serves as a private therapist to many people who truly need help from their dysfunction? Sure, as long as you get to dismiss her!

You fail at debate. Go back to school.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute: Really? Where was you mother when her hero Bush started two wars and cut taxes for the wealthy? And let bankers hand out money to anyone with a pulse? And let oil companies, insurance companies, and electric companies rape us?

Did she protest then?

There's why most of us don't get in line with the T-bags.
You weren't paying attention. The Rushbo bandwagon is what you're on.

Nice assumptions there. For the record, I got plenty of earfuls of complaints about Bush's expansive spending, especially the horribly bloated prescription drug bill. And the banking scandals have just as many links to Democrats as they do to Republicans, but nice try.

The Tea-party movement mobilized once before (although not in name), when Bill Cliton tried to push "Hillarycare" back in the 90s, and as a result, Democrats lost congress in a landslide. The Tea-party movement is out there now because of the health care bill. Had President Bush tried to pull something like that, you would've gotten the same reaction from most of these people.

But go ahead, find a handful of extremists, lump them in with the movement as a whole, then dismiss it. Again, straw-man arguments are popular on Fark, but they still FAIL.

Bush did try to pull something like hilarycare. You and your mom forgot Bush tried to hijack Social Security too. He wanted to hand it to the bankers .. "privatize".
There isn't a good politician.

FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?

If you aren't one of the cool kids, it seems so.

FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?

THIS!!

FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?

It is if you don't agree with their world view.

And it also seems that while falsely accusing people of racism, it is OK to be ageist.

atheist1295: The man is Dale Robertson, one of the self-proclaimed leaders of the Tea-Party movement and webmaster of teaparty.org.

Linky (new window) (pops)

Well, it was supposed to pop

generaltimmy: featherspy: Blue is one of my old HS teachers. I'm pink :\

"fear" of losing one's job (office/election) is different than fear of losing one's life. I can't be exact what your old teacher who you used to blow (he is blue..blew..blown) meant, but I can speculate. I am partially joking, but you get my point.

I don't really know what he means either. After about the 4th or 5th of his whargarbl updates of the day, my trolling usually gets more general since I don't read them.

Just one big white trash block party where they can get out and be ignorant with others of like "mind". Corporations love these people.

Have they considered bringing beer? I'm sure their events would be much bigger, happier, and media friendly, if they had free kegs of beer. Sure it may end up looking like a dave mathew's concert, but the Media wouldn't have to use footage from another event to inflate attendance numbers.

PsyRat: 12349876: PsyRat: My mom is a successful mental-health professional

I'm not sure equating you mom with Dr. Drew and Dr. Phil is the way to go.

Nice straw-man argument there. You would attack a woman who has helped parolees stay off drugs, has put families back together, and now serves as a private therapist to many people who truly need help from their dysfunction? Sure, as long as you get to dismiss her!

You fail at debate. Go back to school.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute: Really? Where was you mother when her hero Bush started two wars and cut taxes for the wealthy? And let bankers hand out money to anyone with a pulse? And let oil companies, insurance companies, and electric companies rape us?

Did she protest then?

There's why most of us don't get in line with the T-bags.
You weren't paying attention. The Rushbo bandwagon is what you're on.

Nice assumptions there. For the record, I got plenty of earfuls of complaints about Bush's expansive spending, especially the horribly bloated prescription drug bill. And the banking scandals have just as many links to Democrats as they do to Republicans, but nice try.

The Tea-party movement mobilized once before (although not in name), when Bill Cliton tried to push "Hillarycare" back in the 90s, and as a result, Democrats lost congress in a landslide. The Tea-party movement is out there now because of the health care bill. Had President Bush tried to pull something like that, you would've gotten the same reaction from most of these people.

But go ahead, find a handful of extremists, lump them in with the movement as a whole, then dismiss it. Again, straw-man arguments are popular on Fark, but they still FAIL.

Look, all we want to know is, is your mom hot? Like, crazy-hot? As in hot enough that we wouldn't care that she's a teabagger before we teabagger? Pix?

stirfrybry: That pic looks like some liberal posing as a retarded racist meme.
Nobody with half a brain thinks that serious persons would make an effort to go to a rally to spout racial slurs.

The only explanation of such ridiculouisly over the top behavior is that it's someone trying to discredit the movement by pretending to be a "crazy" member.

It's really telling of your intellect that you fall for such obvious real-world trolling

We keep hearing that. The man's name is Dale Robertson and he runs teaparty.org.

But he's probably still a liberal plant.

tuna fingers: That being said, my mother is both a "No blood for oil!" activist 8 years ago and a teabagger now. But I know she is in the minority.

At least that's a consistent position. It's awfully convenient that the Tea Party people were largely totally fine and good with government spending when "their guy" was the President. Government spending is only bad to them when their party isn't the one deciding on the spending. MAYBE 10 percent of the Tea Partiers have actually been consistent. If they voted for Bush, they really have no valid complaint. If spending was OK then, it's OK now two years later. Nothing magically changed in that time. Well, except we have a black Democrat as president now.

stirfrybry: Sweet Chin Music: If the True 'Baggers want to be taken seriously, why don't they tell the racist morons to kick rocks? Your "valid arguments" might mean something if we didn't have to wade through a wall of pure stupid.

Tell you fellow libtards who pose as the racists you refer to.

When you can't argue with someone, misrepresent them!!



I think you represent them well.

FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?



Don't forget: You're either WITH US or AGAINST US.

/don't question the WMD's....

FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

I guess the terrifying violent angry racist mob narrative just didn't work. Another strand of spaghetti on the wall. Will it stick? Lets watch.

stirfrybry: FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?

THIS!!

Please post pics of yourselves at these gatherings.
Go ahead.
Git!

House of Tards: stirfrybry: PsyRat: I love the hate and misconstruing of the tea-party people. My mom is a successful mental-health professional, and takes personal time off to attend a handful of rallies because she's upset at the reckless spending of the government. People she meets there are doctors, businessmen, retirees, mothers, and other such people.

Neil Steinberg acts like an elitist, walking through the rally looking down on the protesters instead of acknowledging them. He repeats incorrect rumors, like claiming past rallies were "excessive". Really? Ask D.C. police, who love the tea-party rallies because they are pretty much peaceful and clean.

But it's much easier to straw-man the movement, hurl insults like "tea-baggers", and dismiss them as red-necks, rather than acknowledge that they're reasonable people with reasonable arguments.

THIS

And it seems to be the marching orders for libtards like the kind that fill this thread will repeats of the strawman memes in every possible form.

Durrr, every tea partier is fat white racist who works for Exxon and eats babies!!

Wow. Speaking of strawmen.

That would be hyperbole. It's a strawman when it's not obviously a parody and the user is percieved to be serious, as are the liberals here who really believe all the white people at a tea party rally are racists.

I'm afraid you've failed

Oh_Enough_Already: That none of them uttered so much as a peep of complaint while Bush was growing government spending, increasing deficits and the ballooning the overall size of the federal government fundamentally undermines their contentions that this is what they're angry about rather than who it is (Obama) continuing Bush's policies.

Bull.

Conservatives Criticize Bush on Spending
Washington Post - Dec 6, 2003

Right raises thunder over Bush spending; Spending concerns
Chicago Tribune - Jul 21, 2003

Bush spending criticized House Republicans unhappy with deficit.
NY Times News Service- Jan 22, 2004

Bush's fiscal policies draw conservative fire
Houston Chronicle - Sep 14, 2003

GQueue: At least that's a consistent position. It's awfully convenient that the Tea Party people were largely totally fine and good with government spending when "their guy" was the President. Government spending is only bad to them when their party isn't the one deciding on the spending. MAYBE 10 percent of the Tea Partiers have actually been consistent. If they voted for Bush, they really have no valid complaint. If spending was OK then, it's OK now two years later. Nothing magically changed in that time. Well, except we have a black Democrat as president now.



This is my main problem with the teabaggers. If someone has a political position one way or the other, and they have some facts or reasoning to back it up, then it's valid. Hypocrisy isn't valid. It taints every point the hypocrite makes.

I think it is ignorant and racist to keep assuming all Tea Partiers are white.

FishingWithFredo: So dissescent isn't the highest form of patriotismc?

And community organizing is now bad?

Well, we're not criticizing those things, we're criticizing hypocrisy, racism and promulgating blatant falsehoods. But I'm sure you knew that.

/and you sound concerned

Alien Robot: Oh_Enough_Already: That none of them uttered so much as a peep of complaint while Bush was growing government spending, increasing deficits and the ballooning the overall size of the federal government fundamentally undermines their contentions that this is what they're angry about rather than who it is (Obama) continuing Bush's policies.

Bull.

Conservatives Criticize Bush on Spending
Washington Post - Dec 6, 2003

Right raises thunder over Bush spending; Spending concerns
Chicago Tribune - Jul 21, 2003

Bush spending criticized House Republicans unhappy with deficit.
NY Times News Service- Jan 22, 2004

Bush's fiscal policies draw conservative fire
Houston Chronicle - Sep 14, 2003

You FAIL.
Where were the "teabaggers" at these points in time. They weren't out protesting, asshat, I'll tell you that much.

Alien Robot: Oh_Enough_Already: That none of them uttered so much as a peep of complaint while Bush was growing government spending, increasing deficits and the ballooning the overall size of the federal government fundamentally undermines their contentions that this is what they're angry about rather than who it is (Obama) continuing Bush's policies.

Bull.

Conservatives Criticize Bush on Spending
Washington Post - Dec 6, 2003

Right raises thunder over Bush spending; Spending concerns
Chicago Tribune - Jul 21, 2003

Bush spending criticized House Republicans unhappy with deficit.
NY Times News Service- Jan 22, 2004

Bush's fiscal policies draw conservative fire
Houston Chronicle - Sep 14, 2003

Wow. Congressman criticizing the spending in the budget they themselves passed.

Main Entry: dis·in·gen·u·ous
Pronunciation: \ˌdis-in-ˈjen-yə-wəs, -yü-əs-\
Function: adjective
Date: 1655
: lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating

absolutely_fabulous: FishingWithFredo: So dissent isn't the highest form of patriotism?

And community organizing is now bad?

It is if you don't agree with their world view.

And it also seems that while falsely accusing people of racism, it is OK to be ageist.

"Falsely"















That is a lot of liberal plants.

GWSuperfan: This is a sign at one of the "official" tents at the Oceanside, CA Tea Party on April 15, 2010:

You know what would be entertaining? Go to one of these events and hand out copies of the flag code.

stirfrybry: That would be hyperbole. It's a strawman when it's not obviously a parody and the user is percieved to be serious, as are the liberals here who really believe all the white people at a tea party rally are racists.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute: /don't question the WMD's....

The Kurds did, and see where it got them?