# Where the Hell Is the Tea Party?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-hell-is-the-tea-party/671262>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 15, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-hell-is-the-tea-party/671262 "2013-10-15T00:02:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-hell-is-the-tea-party/671262/61 "2013-10-16T22:22:07Z")

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I treated myself to listen to Sean Halfwitty on the way home from work. Oh, the sweet agony! If only they had stood firm! If only Linus could find the most sincere pumpkin patch, he’d see the Great Pumpkin.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-hell-is-the-tea-party/671262/62 "2013-10-16T22:46:58Z")

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> [@Werekoala](#):
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> Fuck you too, buddy.

You’re not allowed to insult other posters in this forum. Don’t do it again.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-hell-is-the-tea-party/671262/63 "2013-10-16T23:09:55Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> See post #29.

I have always enjoyed Mencken and I find many of his rants to be both amusing (as this one was–mildly) and informative. However, the rant quoted’s amusement value was far overshadowed by its plain ignorance of the farming industry even when it was written and has no bearing on the American farm industry, today.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-hell-is-the-tea-party/671262/64 "2013-10-16T23:28:36Z")

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Never actually liked him much, his humor tends to be bitter and joyless, more akin to Bierce than Twain and not nearly as witty as either.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-hell-is-the-tea-party/671262/65 "2013-10-17T01:20:26Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Never actually liked him much, his humor tends to be bitter and joyless, more akin to Bierce than Twain and not nearly as witty as either.

Mencken was anti-Semitic, too. And [an after-the-fact Cornfed sympathizer, yet.](http://theamericanmercury.org/2010/04/the-calamity-of-appomattox/)

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> The chief evils in the Federal victory lay in the fact, from which we still suffer abominably, that it was a victory of what we now call Babbitts over what used to be called gentlemen.

Any argument assuming the superior value of a gentry class to a merchant class does not merit further consideration.

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