Wow. That’s fucking frightening.
Fox “News” had a full-on Teabag/Country Ho-Down Jamboree last night. Why, it was the most fair and balanced reporting of a spontaneous, grassroots, come together I’ve seen since … shit, I gotta go with this year’s Republican National Convention.
Odd, really, when you think about it, because the Pubbies have such demonstrated gifts for the improvisational and the extemporaneous. “Making shit up”, in the crude vernacular of we, the unwashed…
To be frank, I’m really not interested as much in the budget projections. This year’s budget is reasonable. Those projections will be reasonable UNTIL we have our economy on a solid footing again. Then I’ll be annoyed if they don’t come down.
I’ll let you know if I see any.
Really? Because ChefGuy is in Alaska. Assuming he was looking at a local newscast, that person might believe that because THEIR GOVERNOR SPENT SIX WEEKS TELLING THEM THAT.
-Joe
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Once again-a classic example of “truthiness”. Thank you, Stephen Colbert. :rolleyes:
Uh…I don’t think we want to know THAT.
I regret to inform you that your sign proclaimed another clear message, no less conspicuous for being implied.
When did I say anything about Bush’s financial practices? I was talking about Clinton’s surplus.
Hint: if your economy is going down the toilet, further restricting the flow of money (for example, by cutting taxes on people who have the most to spend, who by and large won’t spend the extra money they get, or by decreasing spending, which screws over the companies that depend on your contracts, who will have to let people go) is a really bad idea.
Wow, mainstream Republicans are amazingly stupid.
In fact, they should adopt a new motto:
“Stupid and Proud!”
Aside: WTF is with the “Barry Soetoro” and “Barack Soetoro” and other Soetoro signs in some of the D.C. pics (can’t link but it was on CNN and MSNBC at the Lafayette Square rally). Yeah… Obama had a stepfather named Soetoro, to my knowledge he never adopted him, certainly he hasn’t gone by that name in decades if he ever did… Soetoro was no more a devout Muslim than Obama,Sr. was… Did “Barack Hussein Obama” signs get old? Or is Indonesian the new black?
One of my favorites was the guy in Lafayette Square on one news broadcast ranting about how “If Barry Soetoro wants to take our civil rights he’s gonna have to come through me!” I can think of nothing that demonstrates further just how free a country we live in when you can stand in front of the executive mansion daring the president to come through you.
While I have some objections to fascism (though you must admit that of all totalitarian regimes fascists were consistently the best dressed) I have to admit I’d love to have seen about 6 Secret Service men walk up to the guy. (No need to manhandle him, just walk in his general direction.) I’m guessing he’d have pissed himself twice before tossing down his sign and running down Pennsylvania Avenue screaming like Dale Gribble.
ETA: I used to live in Milledgeville, antebellum capitol of Georgia, where one of my favorite stories about “the glory days” was the state legislature and the governor convening in November 1864 and giving several fiery speeches denouncing the damned Yankees and pledging to “hold this city and this building with our dying breaths”. At the time it was believed that Sherman was moving east to take Augusta (a far more important city than Milledgeville even then) and was not going to come within 20 miles of the capitol.
Later the same day as the speeches and pledges Sherman’s advance troops were spotted a few miles north of town and moving south. Every last one of the legislators jumped on south bound trains and the only fighting they did during Sherman’s march towards them was for spots on the last train out of town. Sherman’s took the city without a fight and slept in the Governor’s Mansion the same night the last legislators hurried off like scalded monkeys.
The Tea Bag Brigade makes me think of a combination of those stalwart defenders of freedom and Dale Gribble.
Quick question. Do you know that you’re stupid? I mean, do you think that most people are no smarter than you? I’ve always wondered how persons like yourself see the world.
Do you ever get the impulse to educate yourself before you decide to hate something? It must be hard to stomp that feeling down every time.
I’ve engaged Crafter Man in discussion on more than one occasion on the SDMB, and I do not think he is stupid, although I disagree with him on innumerable issues.
I am a bit curious about what, precisely, he thought the point of his sign was…
Perhaps I’m taking it wrong. I’ll fully retract what I said if it turns out the sign was somehow awesome and insightful.
That’s easy. Excuse me while I chuck a couple of poker chips into this debate. I’m willing to match whoever said that and say, “I’m a Christian and deep in my heart I know for a fact that Obama is not an undercover terrorist.” I’ll even raise the stakes and say, “I believe that Obama’s actions during his first three months in office have been more in line with the teachings of Christ than either George Bush’s were.” See how easy that is?
As for Perot, what put me off him wasn’t his tax policies. It was hearing him say he thought shutting down entire city blocks and doing house–to-house searches was a good idea and listening to him deny saying something I’d heard him say less than an hour earlier during the same interview. I got the impression that Perot had even less respect for the constitution than our last president.
By the way, sleestak, I’m with you on the tax code.
“Well, I think so, Brain. But does that mean that Bernie Saunders sacrifices babies to Satan? * Naaaarf*!”
“Facts are Faggy 'n Stuff”
-Joe
Quick poll: What percentage of people at the rallies do you think really know what “fascism” is?
Also an adequate description. 