Crashing the Crashers: Tea Party Infiltrators Outmaneuvered in S.F.
His crashing attempt lasted about 30 seconds before the Tea Partiers were all over him. “Imposter” was a good way to identify him.
Soon he earned a dreaded pink Infiltrator sign.
Then two signs….
…And before long there was a Crasher Convergence when Anarcho-Girl and Mr. Upside-Down ended up near each other, resulting in a barrage of identifiers which no photographer could claim to miss.
Soon enough he and his entourage gave up even trying to pose as Tea Partiers, and one of his fellow crashers unveiled a rainbow-flagged Gavin Newsom campaign sign.
After a while, one of the event organizers got into an honest conversation with the guy, who conceded that he was “leaning toward socialism” politically (his words). When the real Tea Party guy asked what had motivated him to become a crasher, Mr. Upside-down said that media images of offensive signs — such as the Hitler-mustached Obama over there (pointing) — had incensed him so much that he thought he should confront the hatred. The Tea Partier then said – Are you kidding? Those people aren’t with us! That’s the Lyndon LaRouche group — they have nothing in common with the Tea Party. We tried to ban them, but we can’t prevent anyone who wants to from showing up at a public event.
Sure enough, nearby was a LaRouche table with their trademark Obama-Hitler posters. Needless to say, Mr. Upside-Down only sees the mainstream media, otherwise he would have known that the LaRouchites show up at left-wing rallies more often than at right-wing rallies. I’m pretty sure both sides just wish Lyndon’s acolytes would go away and never reappear. But the media (and various politicians) ensure that only the Tea Partiers get tarred with the LaRouchite brush.
Luckily, unlike at the left-wing rally I attended a couple weeks ago, this time around the event organizers made sure that everyone knew: THESE GUYS ARE INFILTRATORS.
(Photo courtesy of John at The City Square.)
Next up in our game of Crasher Whack-a-Mole were these two guys, whose pet political cause was ensuring that Obamacare paid for free marijuana for those with pot prescriptions in Medical Marijuana states. Before entering the rally, they paused to try to convert some cops to their side, to no avail.
One proudly showed off his sign. Once again, the crashers failed to understand the whole point of proper crashing, which is to assume the identity of the people you are opposing, in order to discredit them by association with your misbehavior. What you see here is not the way to go about it.
Once in the rally itself, for some reason they picked on the Ayn Rand Objectivists, and starting barking at them about marijuana. The Objectivists looked a little confused at the bizarre verbal assult.
The Crasher Defense Team had already become pros by this stage. In a flash, out came the pink “INFILTRATOR →” signs. Also, if you look closely, you can see my favorite anti-crasher sign: “We’re NOT With Stupid →″.
None of this dissuaded the determined potheads, who continued their strange marijuana/Ayn-Rand argument unabated.
But not every infiltrator got identified. Remember that guy I pointed out on the rally’s edge with an “End the Federal Reserve” sign? Turns out he was an “InfoWars” Alex Jones cultist, one of those fringe-y types who dabble in paleo-conservative conspiracy theories. I spotted a few other InfoWars members at the rally, most sporting anti-Federal Reserve signs. Perhaps at this particular rally they had toned down their sometimes kooky message so much that they weren’t worth “outing.” Or maybe no one noticed. Or cared.
And to be honest, sprinkled here and there throughout the rally were people who might have been infiltrators — or might not. This guy was a good example. Was he a bitter clinger? Or was he just making fun of bitter clingers? We may never know.
Later in the afternoon, the tables briefly turned when a pod of fellow black-clad anarchists showed up to support Miss Whargarblwhargarblgarbl. They surrounded one of the Crasher Identifiers, but everyone seemed to be smiling, so if it was an attempt to intimidate, it seems to have not been very successful.
However, there was someone at the rally who was not a crasher, and yet did have an offensive violence-tinged message. In other words — he was exactly the kind of person the media loves to focus on, a Tea Partier with a violent message.
The only problem is…
…he wasn’t a Tea Partier! He was, in fact, a sly anarchist standing impassively in the crowd without drawing any attention to himself. He was wearing an IWW shirt (IWW = the Wobblies, a far-left radical group with a long history). Only those (such as myself) familiar with anarchist iconography would have noticed the significance of the design on his shirt.
Here’s his IWW shirt close up. Notice the black cat in the center. It originally was the secret symbol used by revolutionary Wobblies to advocate sabotage in factories. Since no modern anarchist trustafarians work in factories any more, they’ve adopted the black cat sabotage symbol as a general call for sabotage against modern society.
So — after all is said and done, the only person with a violent message at the San Francisco Tea Party was…a left-wing anarchist.
Go figure.
More Tea Party Crashers Coverage:
NATIONWIDE ROUNDUPS
The title of Michelle Malkin’s post “The Crashers: They came, they saw, they failed” pretty much needs no further explanation; the epic fail of the guy in Columbus was particularly amusing.
Hot Air has a nice link-collection of various fizzled crashings all over the US.
Bob Owens has put together a brief photo-roundup of attempted crashers around the country, most of whom also failed to grasp the meaning of “infiltrate.”
NEW YORK
Urban Infidel documents the pwnage of a completely moronic New York would-be Tea Party crasher.
The Silent Majority No More blog also covered the NY rally, and about 2/3s of the way through the post captured a photo of a crasher with the most intentionally outrageous sign you’re likely to ever see: Jesus “teabagging” Sarah Palin, by dunking his testicles on her face. The drawing is crude, but you can see a high-resolution version of it here.
WASHINGTON, DC
El Marco unleashes an insanely photogenic photo essay of the Washington, DC Tea Party, including some very funny signs with pre-emptive sarcasm to completely disarm any potential crashers who may have considered showing up.
ST. LOUIS
The Sharp Elbows blog has chilling video of a crasher who tried dressing up as a white supremacist, fooling exactly nobody.
SACRAMENTO
Jammie Wearing Fool checks in with a video of a Sacramento crasher who went totally berserk and ran around the stage screaming “Gimme my freedom!” before mercifully getting arrested.
THOUSAND OAKS
Ringo’s Pictures documented the Tea Party in Thousand Oaks, California, and watched as the Tea Partiers managed to successfully convince a crashing LaRouchite to leave the rally — a rare sight indeed. Also on hand was a possible crasher who may or may not have brought a rifle, but he left abruptly after a brief appearance — increasing the likelihood that he was not an actual protester.
SAN FRANCISCO
The City Square blog has more coverage of the San Francisco Tea Party and its handful of crashers, including the two photos of “Infiltrator” signs re-posted above.
A couple more photos of the S.F. crashers can be found on IndyBay: cut and paste the URL http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/15/18644845.php into your browser to view them (IndyBay blocks all incoming links except from a small list of specially approved left-wing sites; needless to say, PJM doesn’t qualify).
So much for freedom of speech…
I must say, the lefties’ strategy hasn’t changed much since, oh, the last 65 years.
Remember WWII? When a lefty group of the Italian resistance planted a bomb in via Rasella (Rome), they arranged a meeting with a prominent member of another non-left-leaning resistance group in the very same place in an attempt to shift the blame.
You know the old adage, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”? Apparently, they had missed the memo.
I think these folks need the ,’ Alinsky for Idiots’ version!
Stalin called them “Useful Idiots” and that was the understatement of the 20th AND NOW the 21st centuries. With emphasis on the “idiot” part.
Not Stalin. Lenin.
Quite apropos, since Stalin funded the Kotch family which funded the teabaggers. Koch family was ostracized by capitalists so they went crying to comrade Stalin. After Stalin’s passing Fred Koch fell out of favor in a USSR free-market decision, so like a crybaby he went wingnut founding conservative causes that promoted billionaire-friendly policies. So in fact you are by extension a useful idiot of Comrade Stalin, bankrolled by the grace of the centrally-planned economy of the Soviet Union.
Zombie demonstrates illiteracy employing the oxymoron “leftist anarchist.” Or maybe he was enjoying the 420, quite popular here.
Two identical posts, under different identities, within minutes of each other?
How many fake identities do you use? Why?
Because you repubs try to block me, since you only respect the 1st amendment when you do it. Any other pointless obfuscation you care to share, Rob? Try something germane for once.
Quite apropos, since Stalin funded the Kotch family which funded the teabaggers. Koch family was ostracized by capitalists so they went crying to comrade Stalin. After Stalin’s passing Fred Koch fell out of favor in a USSR free-market decision, so like a crybaby he went wingnut founding conservative causes that promoted billionaire-friendly policies. So in fact you are by extension a useful idiot of Comrade Stalin, bankrolled by the grace of the centrally-planned economy of the Soviet Union.
Zombie demonstrates illiteracy employing the oxymoron “leftist anarchist.” Or maybe he was enjoying the 420, quite popular here.
I have a serious question: Do these so-called anarchists support the POR governmemt? The definition of an anarchist is “somebody who believes that governments should be abolished as unnecessary.” Thus, do the anarchists oppose or support the Tea Parties? Or, like every other word, has the left also changed the meaning of the word anarchist?
I have been wondering about this myself.
Are these “anarchists” so stupid that they don’t even understand the political philosophy that they supposedly stand for is very much at odds with the current economic policies of this administration??
I think that they just like the idea of calling themselves anarchists without really understanding or thinking about what they should or shouldn’t be standing for/against philisophically.
Most anarchists are communists that believe that the way to implement communism is to tear down the State and then rebuild society in the form of localized communes.
Bingo.
Your pictures show that the TP’s are nothing more than a carnival.
Looks like lot of students in Spring Break just having fun.
What’s next? A 4th of July TP with beer and hotdogs?
vivo- mi amigo,your side is and always has been totalitarian. When you grow up some day the light bulb might go on.
Your messiah was a guy who got his start in politics turning tricks for a slumlord. And that was for his first act. America has rejected him and we have rejected you. You had your chance and you failed.
Yes, Vivo, that’s one of many areas where conservatives differ from lefties. We are able to have fun, and enjoy it.
Your average lefty is a sour, dour, joyless worrywart convinced that if global warming doesn’t kill us, the “military-industrial complex” will.
Conservatives, on the other hand, take a true joy in life and in living, and are perfectly willing to have a good laugh while doing just about anything, even protesting Fedzilla’s (to borrow Ted Nugent’s term) ever-increasing intrusions into our lives.
If lefties would laugh more, they’d probably start turning into conservatives, and we’d all be better off.
Vivo – you are just confused because the Tea-Partiers bathe every day and pick up after themselves
Yes, it has a carnivalesque atmosphere about it, so did all those World Can’t Wait and International ANSWER protests over the past 10 years. The difference, is that the TP had a small town, “fair” like atmosphere, while the lefty “anti-war” protests were more akin to the garish big tents run by greasy, conniving carnies.
THAT is a GREAT idea!
I’ll be working on that for the next one here in Alaska!
Well done, as always, Zombie.
After seeing the IWW wannabee, to say nothing of Ms. Wharlgarblgarbl (etc.), I am now asking myself if I’ve been wrong about the “extreme” progressive lot all these years. Far from simply having a different worldview, they may actually be mentally unbalanced in the clinical sense of the word.
Especially Ms. Wharlgarblwhatever- “word salad” is a marker symptom of a serious schizophrenic disorder. (Abnormal Psych 101.) As for Mr. Redshirt, anyone who wants to mimic one of the earliest anarchist/terrorist groups in modern history definitely needs therapy. (Not to mention being kept away from sharp objects, matches, etc.)
cheers
eon
Well, all politics aside, let’s all admit: Wharrrgarbl lady is freakin’ hot, and she can’t hide it behind the black sweater and hood.
Who cares about politics when you got Wharrrgarbl lady? If she has some liberal aggression to take out somewhere, she can sure take it out on me!!
You’re not fooling anybody with these comments, Ms. Wharrrgabll. We know it’s you.
Lol–
No, such otherworldly beauty is way over my standards. Just a guy smitten. All politics aside.
Thanks for the compliment though.
This tactic was never fully developed here but do remember that almost every protest of all the economic summits have violent protestors hidden in the crowds. These people are not affiliated with the groups usually doing the protests but are REAL fringe elements more in line with the Anarchists. As Tea Party Protests get more popular I fully expect these very same groups to start thier dirty tricks.
The big difference is that when they blend into the crowds of the protests at these eonomic summits they are blending in with people who share thier political views but not thier methods and are somewhat sympathetic to them. They know they would recieve no such sympathy from Tea Party members. Once they adjust thier tactics to this reality I am sure we will see a more organized attempt to disrupt Tea Party Events.
Keep those cameras going, full time. Don’t turn them off, you will pick up bad guys who are not doing anything, yet. Keep a second camera in a pocket. Get a hidden camera to wear, and keep it recording.
Sooner or later, the leftoids are going to sucker some innocent into starting something, and we are going to get blamed for it. We are going to need as much proof as possible, camera shots from all angles, to debunk the yellow stream media’s propaganda when this happens.
Be forever vigilant. You’ve got it. Pres.Clinton started ramping up the misinformation this weekend at the Center for American Progress. Their prickly pinpoints are going to be everywhere since that seems to be their MO. The Sound of Silence by all kinds of individuals protesting together was very moving, especially when our Sound broke through and, now, won’t be ever stopped. Nor should it ever be.
Who infiltrates the infiltrators?
I enjoyed this very much, and in fact would encourage them to become better at their infiltration efforts. Why do I say this? In order to do it well, they will have to understand us well. This will require reaching across the aisle, so to speak. Some Tea Party members are reformed Democrats, but I am willing to guess that a smaller number of Democrats are reformed conservatives. I believe that we understand them better than they understand us.
We had some bloke walking around in Portland yelling “Death to Republicans” but that was as far as it went.
AID: Are you sure you heard him correctly? Wasn’t he just ranting against pub owners?
Oh look , there’s the leftist troll vivo parroting the leftist line of don’t pay attention to these crazy people and they will go away…
HaHaHa… keep thinking that… you bubble is about to be burst this November…
Leftist live in a perpetual state of the Pauline Kael syndrome:
“How can he have won? Nobody I know voted for him.”
Somebody should have corrected Pauline: “No Pauline, nobody you know ‘admitted’ to voting for him.”
Here in Brainerd, Minnesota, we showed the world exactly how terrifying the Tea Party movement is by having thirteen year old Matt recite highlights from the Declaration of Independence and ask the crowd to help him secure a future. He was splendid, reciting the passages from memory. As you can see in the comments below the article from the Brainerd Daily Dispatch, the Left had nothing but ad hominem nonsense to reply with. All the Lefties at our Tea Party, attended by well over 250 folks, stood mute and signless.
http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/041610/new_20100416012.shtml
What I find particularly lolworthy, is that the marijuana-legalization advocates decided to argue with of all people… the Objectivists…
Of course, to be fair. They were probably high…
=P
Still, Epic Phail!!
Mark I’m with you!
I haven’t laughed that hard in days. Why they engaged our dear libertarian friends can only mean one thing…
they were actually arguing about cultivation methodology, you know…hydroponic or not.
Except that the potheads appear to be growers/dealers who believe they should be paid by the government for keeping people high. I don’t think Objectivists would support that.
(And what kind of moron can’t profitably sell drugs?!)
#8 Bob
We can’t infiltrate the infiltrators, because the lefties ALREADY show, at their rallies, ALL the possible signs of bigotry: they called for the murder of the president (Bush), they support racist speech (against the whites), they are cristianophobes, they are sexist (against any eterosexual male or female), they support terrorism (domestic: the friends of Obama, and international, in their theories about 9/11).
But since such bigotry is highly praised by the bigoted media…we can do nothing to denounce it (on the media, that is, while we can of course talk rationally to all the Citizens who want to use their own brain).
The Teabaggers here missed the point, which was to show just how ridiculous the Teabaggers are. If Liberals really wanted to try to trick the media into thinking that they were Teabaggers, they would have carried signs full of misspelled words.
As for “whargarbl,” (sometimes spelled “wharrgarbl”), it’s a slang term that’s been around for a few years, used to describe pointless, incoherent, illogical ramblings, such as the “Socialism = Communism = Fascism” nonsense spouted by the Teabaggers.
ConservativeWanderer wrote, “…that’s one of many areas where conservatives differ from lefties. We are able to have fun, and enjoy it.
Your average lefty is a sour, dour, joyless worrywart convinced that if global warming doesn’t kill us, the “military-industrial complex” will.”
Judging from what I’ve seen of the various Teabagger “protests” over the past year, conservatives are the “sour, dour, joyless worrywarts,” mostly angry because we have a black President.
The rest of us get a big kick out of watching the Teabaggers make fools of themselves by carrying signs reading, “Descent The Highest Form of Patriotic,” and “No Pubic Option.” The whole Teabagger movement is hilarious, and we enjoy poking fun at it.
But, Granny, descent is the highest form of patriotism. When Dunham descends the throne he has had built for him, for the first time in his rather pathetic life he will have shown patriotism.
How do you know the signs WEREN’T spelled correctly? “Descent” (as into the abyss) certainly describes the federal government’s spending. “Pubic” certainly describes where Marxist health-care control either emanated or belongs.
And I, for one, am glad to see you’re enjoying the Tea Party “antics.” Mockery isn’t the healthiest form of amusement, but hey, any port in a storm.
Come November, though, we’ll see who’s still amused.
“Teabagger” is an offensive term, Granny. I guess that’s why you use it.
Got some proof for that?
And, let’s be pedantic about it… he’s half-black.
As for me, I’d be decrying Obama’s policies and tactics if he was as lily-white as John Kerry or John Edwards.
Don’t tell the rest of us that you aren’t aware of the racist leader of the Tea Party movement, Dale Robertson? The guy well-known for his “niggar” sign?
Look here, for starters: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=racist%20tea%20party%20signs&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Plenty of racism on display there.
And here’s the descent guy: http://www.superpoop.com/042009/remember-descent.jpg
This website does a great job of showcasing teabagger stupidity: http://moronswithsigns.blogspot.com/
Dale Robertson has no official connection to any recognized Tea Party movement. This was discussed and dismissed weeks ago. Keep up with the times.
She can’t.
She hasn’t received her new talking points yet.
By the way, Delta, if one person carrying one sign at one rally makes the entire Tea Party racist, what does it mean that your secular savior, Barack Hussein Obama, sat through 20-some years of sermons under Reverend Wright?
Gotta be careful painting with that broad brush, ya know… it tends to cover the painter as much as the “paintee.”
As for me, I’d be decrying Obama’s policies and tactics if he was as lily-white as John Kerry or John Edwards.
Let’s review.
Here we have outraged conservatives, none of whom were outraged enough to organise protests against PATRIOT, which is a constitutional slippery slope with the undergirding for a police state if ever there was one. Democrats observe that conservatives support it solely because the claimed targets are brown skinned middle eastern people worshipping a different deity. Conservatives deny it.
On the other hand, six months after the first black president is elected, one with ties to muslims, white folks hit the streets to protest claimed constitutional abuse because some working stiff might not have to spend the remainder of his life in debt because his kid got sick.
Hmmmm. That seems a might suspicious, say the democrats.
Tea party activists go into panty wetting mode. “The left is calling us racists merely because every indicator makes it seem that way! They’re liars who will use their MSM lackeys!”
Hilarity ensues.
Meanwhile conservatives far and wide can’t begin to fathom how it is that anyone could construe an undertone of racism: “they’re making it up!”
Ummmmm….. I’ll take “timing” for $1000, Alex.
“Here we have outraged conservatives, none of whom were outraged enough to organise protests against PATRIOT, which is a constitutional slippery slope with the undergirding for a police state if ever there was one.”
Funny how I didn’t see any of you making a peep when congress and Barack re-authorized it.
See, a lot of people on the right didn’t mind the Patriot Act, but a lot of people on the left sure seemed to–even some who voted to pass it.
And they were loud about how bad it was…..until Obama was the one putting it into place.
I’d expect you to die of shame with your hypocracy so abundantly clear, but you’re a leftist, you have no shame.
oh granny lou, you sad ill informed thing, take off your blinders. WE are not upset because we have a black president. we are upset because we have THIS black president. Oh, of course, OUR blacks are really toms or what Harry Belafonte respectfully called “house niggers”. I’d take Alan Keyes, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, even a moderate like Colin Powell, Sheila Honeycutt, or any of another half dozen superbly qualified blacks. The problem with soft intellectuals like you is that this is the best you can come up with. No, we hate him because he’s a bona fide redistributionist Marxist, just for starters. But we knew that. You don’t, because you won’t believe anyone but Jon Stewart or CHris Matthews.
Granny, if I really wanted to, I could dig through 8 years of leftist antiwar protests and show you so many retarded, mispelled, nonsensical and just plain insane signs held by your fellow travelers. Of course, it would be a waste of time, because you would just ignore it.
And how exactly is wealth redistribution NOT socialism? How is massive amounts of government regulation, the state hiring and firing CEO’s and setting salaries, how is that NOT economic fascism? That’s the third way right there. To be fair, America has been doing that since long before Obama was in office.
Pull your wrinkly head out of your wrinkly ass
I think it’s hilarious that you misspelled “misspelled.”
You wrote, “To be fair, America has been doing that since long before Obama was in office.”
Of course. So where were the Teabaggers and their phony moral outrage when Republicans did it??
If you people really oppose socialism, prove it. Fill out this form and send it to the government. http://stopmybenefits.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/form.jpg
As for the fool yammering about “teabagger” being an offensive term, remember, it was the ignorant conservatives who called themselves Teabaggers before they knew what it meant. Apparently, they’ve never seen any John Waters movies. I’ve seen pictures of conservatives with “Proud to be a Teabagger” buttons or wearing “Proud Teabagger” t-shirts. If some of you find it offensive, you shouldn’t have identified yourselves as Teabaggers in the first place.
Show your proof. Enough with the BS. If you have proof of people carrying signs that said those things then show it. If you don’t have proof, then give reference directions to where you saw those signs being displayed.You are a liar.
I’ll deal with this one, Granny. She’s too lazy or too dumb to use Google.
http://blog.reidreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/proud-teabagger.png
http://brendancalling.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/teabag13.jpg
http://moderateleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/teabag.jpg
http://picklepumpers.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tea-bagger-fun.jpg
Who’s lying now?
“Of course. So where were the Teabaggers and their phony moral outrage when Republicans did it??”
You are comparing two disparate events. The spending under this administration far more ambitiously wanton than under any previous. It is hardly surprising that more people are protesting a greater offense than a lesser one. Also, plenty of these people complained when Republicans wasted all that money. These current protests are a natural outgrowth of the Porkbusters movement from the Bush administration.
As for the claim that it was the protesters who called themselves “teabaggers” first, you are either ignorant or disingenuous. You cite pictures of people wearing things saying they are “proud to be a teabagger” as proof that they called themselves that first. Tell me, do you also think it was Republicans who called George Bush “Hitler” and compared him to a monkey first? Or did they ironically adopt the label to parody the slander with things like “Chimpy McHitlerBurton?” Did Republicans compare Karl Rove to Darth Vader first or did they gleefully adopt it to mock the other side and remove that bit of foolish power from them?
First, you can’t legally “opt out” of any of those – not medicare, social security, etc.; and you can’t refuse to pay a part of your taxes because you disagree with some things they’re funding because that’s illegal too. A protest, however, is a basic means for publicly declaring discontent and/or an encouragement for change. Perhaps you should look beyond your agenda and see there are many people unhappy with the direction of our country (the increasing debt, spending, and size of our federal gov’t in particular).
You sound nervous, Granny Lou…you know you’re up against a groundswell of American taxpayers and producers–the people who make the country work. We’re not college professor leftists who play in “ideas”; we’re not college students who depend upon the pin money Daddy deposits in our account every two weeks; we’re not anarchists who work at the expensive coffee shops during the day, whipping up six dollar lattes and filching them when the manager is gone (never realizing that there are no lattes in a commune: only bread and water and little of that).
No, no, no. We’re in the 53% who produces, and we don’t like what we see. In fact, we’re not going to put up with it anymore. Makes you nervous, doesn’t it? We’re the ones who were previously too busy to enter into politics. We’re the ones who trudge to work at seven AM and arrive home at six, hoping for a few hours with our kids before we hit the hay. We’re the ones who create jobs for the anarchists and pay for our kids to go to college, where liberal profs kick around their vacuous “ideas”.
Deep down, Granny Doo-Doo, you know we’re not racists. Deep down you know the vast majority of us are workaday Americans–and our work sustains this nation. And THAT is why you come here, spewing your nervous nonsense: you’re as afraid as you’ve ever been; you know your ideas are withered on the vine, they are a failure from start to finish, but gosh darn if you weren’t going to benefit from the gov’t programs that we all slave away for you to have.
Take a look around you, Granny. This is what it looks like when an entire pervasive ideology bends toward oblivion. Goodbye liberalism. Hello, renewed liberty.
Nice system you liberals have going for you. If a conservative says something and you can find anyone to say it’s offensive then it’s offensive, no ifs ands or buts. When a liberal says something if anyone can be found to say it’s not offensive then of course it’s not offensive, how could it be.
Self serving hypocrisy, I call it.
One of two futures is highly likely to emerge within the next 20 years.
Either you and your kind will succeed in turning the country into a totalitarian dictatorship, in which case you will be the first one to be miserable. Or, me and my kind will succeed in turning it into a much freer country than it is today, in which case you will be the first one to be miserable.
Either way, I will be happy that you are miserable, as you deserve.
How did any of these nitwits show “teabaggers” to be ridiculous? They probably did the exact opposite.
Senility is a sad thing.
“How did any of these nitwits show “teabaggers” to be ridiculous? They probably did the exact opposite.”
It’s not senility…it’s the Peter-Pan delusion of the leftist mind. “They’re racist! They’re homophobic! We made them look stupid!” The left honestly believe that if they simply repeat these things often enough and loudly enough, that they’ll somehow come true.
In their minds, wishing can actually alter reality. How else can you explain their support of socialism?
At this point, the term “racist” has been used so many times and in so many contexts that it has basically just become a term used for bullying and silencing. Our alarm with Barack Obama is ideological and always has been. He has nationalized car companies, banks, the health care industry and a large portion of the housing market. If we keep going this way, we will have nowhere to turn except to the all-powerful State for help, and they will be able to dictate all the terms of the help because they will be the only game in town. We will devolve into something like serfs, although I don’t think that the American people will stand for that. I believe that we will win over the Progressives after a difficult struggle. I have no idea why an all-powerful state appeals to some people. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is far better for power to be redistributed than wealth.
Bush gave us a large but still manageable debt. Obama has run up a debt so great that it will rob our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the opportunities we’ve all enjoyed. Thomas Jefferson said that each generation should pay its own debts as it goes, in order to not burden future generations with a debt they played no part in creating. How will be pay the debt except to become impoverished? Why doesn’t the debt alarm you?
Lil’ ol’ Granny-panties used the homosexual term ‘teabagger’ seven times in his/her/its rant. Methinks someone has titillating teabagger ‘issues’ that require ’tissues’ and a little self-reflection/discovery.
Gran-Gran, don’t throw too many stones from your guffaw-filled glass house:
Searchlight vs. L.A.: Rival Rallies Reveal Stark Right/Left Divide
Rembember Granny Dearest, when you have a log in your Leftist eye, you might just want to ease up the rhetoric when pointing out the sliver in someone else’s.
Regarding the ugly white guy with darkish skin in the white house? Total LayHOOzayHER.
Ignorant child, are you aware that the term isn’t just a homosexual practice? Of course not, you obviously spend most of your time watching Faux News and listening to Rush Windbag and believing whatever they tell you to believe (which reminds me, when is that porcine, Oxycontin-and-Viagra-overdosing hypocrite going to keep his promise and move to Costa Rica?).
Why are you obsessed with my panties, anyway? That’s indicative of something truly demented.
Again, you people initially asked to be called Teabaggers, and the rest of us happily complied. Now that you know what it really means, don’t whine about it. You’ve only yourselves to blame for your stupidity.
And remember: tea parties are for little girls with imaginary friends.
ignorant old bag, it was the folks in the earliest manifestations of the tea party who carried their tea in bags but did not refer to themselves as ‘baggers’. calling the partiers ‘teabaggers’ began with a smirk from anderson cooper. the term refers to the practice by ostensibly hetero frat guys who would have themselves photographed laying their scrotums on the foreheads of their drunken, sleeping comrades for the amusement of all concerned. it was only in response to the cooper quip that some chose to embrace the otherwise derogatory term to diffuse it of it’s power, much like blacks and the n-word or gays and the f-word have done.
your ignorance is hilarious, but not shocking coming, as it does, from someone who parrots olberman’s ‘faux’ labelling of the premier source of cable news.
Oh, insult me because you think I’m old. Apparently you get your kicks from attacking the elderly, as do some of the other Teabaggers here. I expect no less from you people, though. It wasn’t that long ago that a group of Teabaggers made fun of a man with Parkinson’s Disease.
Incidentally, I do know what the slang definition of the term is. You obviously didn’t read my earlier comment.
FYI, Polacko, it was conservatives, notably the insane Freepers, who were first caught on film using the term “tea bag” as a verb. This news article is dated 2/27/09:
http://washingtonindependent.com/31868/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party
Take a good look at the first picture.
Faux News “reporter” Griff Jenkins used the term on-air in early April, 2009. Rachel Maddow joked about it in a report dated April 9, 2009. Video proof:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2009/04/14/teabagging_guide
Anderson Cooper made his hysterically funny report about Teabaggers on April 14, 2009:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/anderson-cooper-its-hard_n_187318.html
Sorry, you can’t blame Cooper for the “Teabagger” tag.
Tell me, why are conservatives always trying to rewrite history? Why do they willfully ignore the truth? Why do they have a hard time facing reality?
YOUR ignorance is hilarious, especially your inability to use the contraction “it’s” correctly.
Thanks for proving once again that Teabaggers really are as stupid as REAL news organizations depict them.
Granny-grunt, I submit exhibit A (emphasis mine):
JOHN WATERS: “Teabagging” is by my definition the act of dragging your testicles across your partner’s forehead. In the UK it is dipping your testicles in your partner’s mouth. I didn’t invent the term or the act but DID introduce it to film in my movie “Pecker.” “Teabagging” was a popular dance step that male go-go boys did to their customers for tips at The Atlantis, a now defunct bar in Baltimore. Hope this helps. — John Waters
If you want to use the ‘term’ ad infinitum for cheap thrills that’s (again) more telling about YOU.
Granny-Panties or Depends? I don’t care as I’m sure their both full of B.S.
Granny is another one of those poor lib-educated souls who actually doesn’t know what a “teabagger” is apparently. I’m sure not gonna tell her.
These leftists are so outed they are tripping over themselves. If it wasn’t so richly deserved, I might feel sorry for them. They have completely used their best lines (which are always foul, filthy, vile and hateful) and it’s not working so well for them. (Granny, Anderson Cooper can tell you about teabagging. Now HE’S a teabagger.)
It seems that you’re the poorly-educated one, because if you actually read his/her comment, it referenced John Waters movies. “Teabagger” is from the movie Pecker.
Wonder why everyone else laughs at you? It’s the stupidity, stupid!
I’m pretty sure granny is a him, not a her.
not a “grand” either, but possably living in his granny’s, if not his mommy’s, basement.
“mostly angry because we have a black President”
That means you’ve been a white supremacist for years since you ignored Alan Keyes in 2k and ’04.
You were also racist and sexist in ’08 since you chose the “half-white” man (Obama) over the “full-black” woman (Cynthia McKinney).
Miss “Wharlgarblgarbl” may very well be displaying schizophrenic word salad symptoms, but it seems to me I have seen that phrase before in a comic by one of the cartoonists beloved by leftists; Mark Fiore or Ted Rall, using it to mock a “ranting tea partier”.
maybe nobody crashed because then you just use “crasher” as a way to say that tea partier isn’t with you.
doesn’t chashing benefit TP supporters more than the left?
based on lilyea logic if one TP is racist you all are. just look how he paints IVAW.
‘Masagynistic’? Well, if they can’t organize the letters of the alphabet, no wonder they couldn’t organize themselves last Thursday. Frankly, I’m surprised the little darlings found their way to our Tea Party in the first place.
BTW – whoever wrote this article on the ‘crashers’ (and did all of that awesome legwork and photography) has certainly done an outstanding service. Thank you so much for what you’ve done, Sir/Madam. And God bless!
The only reason we cant call them isolated idiots is the fact that they re not isolated.
And they re really not the most creative activists ive ever seen, but I guess thats the problem, if one of your core-believes is the establishment of a “ministry for the socially just distribution of witty protest-signs”.
Wharlgarblgarbl:
1. The caption of a popular “loldog” (dog version of lolcat) showing a dog attempting to drink from a lawn sprinkler. Word refers to the sound the dog presumably is making as it angrily (and pointlessly) attempts to subdue the water stream.
2. A one-word stand-in for any angry, incoherent, pointless reaction, comment, or attack. In online forums, the loldog referenced in (1) is often used to make the point that someone’s position is incoherent, illogical, and or pointless. Simply writing ‘WHARRGARBL’ is also sufficient to make the point, and is especially effective if the target of your insult is one of the few people unfamiliar with the loldog.
Note that incoherence or pointlessness is required for a proper WHARRGARBL reference. An angry, but otherwise logical, argument is not a WHARRGARBL. An argument that takes a reasonable (or at least arguable) position, but does so with an incoherent rant IS a valid WHARRGARBL.
Good coverage of the Crashers, Zombie! And I was rather impressed with the Infiltrator signs SF Tea Partiers came prepared with.
I attended a Tea Party in Santa Ana, CA, fully prepared to videocam any Crashers, but if ANY were there, they were too well disguised for me to detect!
the left protesters always seem to be young, or thugs…
Is there a “white panthers” group? or “mexican panthers” etc.. just wondering..preparing for the 2010 elections.
So Alex Jones is a ‘kook’, huh?
I suggest you have another listen to what he is saying. The Patriot Act defines ‘Terrorist’ as anyone who breaks any law, plus anyone the President deems a terrorist. It’s insanity, and it WILL be visited upon you and your family if people don’t recognize it for the imminent danger that it is.
As a “terrorist’, you can be secretly arrested and detained indefinitely without trial, subject to ‘Pain Compliance’ and ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ (that is, TORTURE), and even killed.
All dictatorships first introduce laws for alleged ‘enemies’, then turn those laws on their own people.
So go ahead, mock Alex Jones, Jason Bermas, Infowars.com, PrisonPlanet.tv and their point of view. Eat the cancer, drink the Fluoride Kool Aid (fluoride was first added to drinking water by the Nazis to dumb down concentration camp populations), let them inject diseased chicken fetuses and monkey kidneys into your children and call it a ‘vaccine’ (Squalene is banned from military vaccines after being shown to cause Gulf War Syndrome, yet is ok for YOU?!?), allow your Medical Industry to plug itself DIRECTLY into your tax base, until you don’t even know what your health budget is or how much of your taxes go to pay for it, enjoy the ‘Rumsfeld Disease’ your 10 year old has from drinking aspartame, let the judges in California take institutionalized bribes from counties to fix ALL cases their way, and lock people up without trial for over a year.
This is no petty partisan pedantry anymore – everyone needs to take an in depth look at what Architects For 9/11 Truth have to say, and consider the very real implications of THE TRUTH.
America is sliding at lightning speed into tyranny, and we are watching from here in Canada in sever trepidation, because the only thing holding us back from a Soviet-style Socialist NIGHTMARE, is the warmth still emanating from the US Constitution to the south of us.
The worst thing about all these welfare policies is that they are NONSENSE. Of course we’d all like to help everyone, but YOU CAN’T. It’s like asking a flock of sheep to give up their wool in return for the promise of a sweater at some later date. It’s inane – and you will all regret not taking a closer look at the truth of the state of the world today.
You don’t have to agree with anything anyone says for their perceptions and point of view to be valid – take another look at Alex Jones, and the dream for humanity that underlies the stance he has taken, and the tireless work he and his team do.
Adam, honey, I’ve lived in Austin, TX for many years, and I can tell you that Alex Jones is certifiably INSANE. Please, at least fine someone with an intact mind to follow, if you must follow someone. Better yet, stay out of cultist, conspiracy echo-chambers.
Typo: “find”
Actually, Alex Jones is a consummate ass. Google it.
He’s also a physical and moral coward.
As a leftist anarchist, good to see you outing the LaRouche and Alex Jones people. I would also like to point out that this was a humorous counterdemonstration and not any “hostile act of intimidation”. A lot of us leftist folks find it pretty funny to see you using protest politics…
Why do you find the use of “protest politics” amusing? Because you assumed there’s some sort of leftist monopoly?
Ask yourself why the Constitution includes the right to peaceably assemble. Then read up a bit on the American Revolution.
For cryin’ out loud, they were to assault conservative talk radio the same way. A battle of wits for which they come unarmed…
Sounds like these infiltrators really got you scared. You’re terrified of the impact they could have.
I see skeeziks has yet to get a life.
Absolutely spot on, skeeziks. We tp’ers are scared to death the idiot infiltrators will cause us to laugh so hard we’ll get muscle spasms in our sides and need to miss work a few days. That could upset the national balance of tax payments schedule and eventually cause our entire country to collapse. Sort of the butterfly effect in reverse. Fortunately, since the infiltrators are too intelligent to actually work for a living, their presence will help mitigate the effect.
Well done Zombie.
You could include this on a sociology/political science/anthropology paper someday with a score card because when cultural nuance gets this convoluted you need a program to keep track of the players.
Next time you want to crash a teaparty, get like 100 people and give every single one an “INFILTRATOR” sign to stand next to the real teapartiers. With more infiltrator signs as actual signs noone will ever understand again what was real and whats not. Sounds fucking funny.
These protests are already a joke; why not make them funnier? I heard that some U. of Michigan students dressed up like Mad Hatters and had a real tea party in the middle of the grumpy old people’s phony one.
You and skeeziks must be conjoined..one brain to share…on half of one half of a brain…
Nice report, Zombie – Thanks!
Hats off to the SF Tea Partiers – great job exposing the frauds!
Wow, those people should be proud of their pink infiltrator signs.
Very impressive stuff – that sure outmaneuvered those ‘infiltrators’, lololol.
Tea parties are stupid crap now.
Anarcho-girl is obviously one of those 4channer wannabe cunts who quotes memes in front of strangers and thinks it makes them funny and original. It’s annoying enough those sorts of people exist, but at a rally they’re just seeking more attention.
Its entirely possible (and quite likely actually). That those individuals with the “wharbgarblr” signs and the “what is this I don’t even” are from 4chan’s /b/ and are just there to incite others. Both “wharblgarblr” and “what is this I don’t even” are memes on 4chan. They really don’t seem to take a side on the whole issue and if they were to attempt to discredit the teapartiers by being imposters it would make more sense for them to racist and generally radical.
Its sad that otherwise intelligent people opposed to many of the unconstitutional activities our government does are so easily misled by people like Alex Jones.
The biggest teaparty infiltrators have been the people writing for Pajamas Media. I still remember the robust coverage of the hijacking to the Memphis Tea Party Conference by Republican Party insiders. Oh wait, that was Talking POints Memo that covered that—here there wasn’t a peep. You frauds would be in pretty deep trouble if your audience had half a brain to share.
Oh lordy.
Thanks for piping in there Delia as if to punctuate “if your audience had a half a brain to share”.
My “Oh Lordy” wasn’t in response to you, ya narcissistic dweeb.
Once again well done Zombie! It’s good to see you going out into the field still. Though I have to ask/wonder isn’t it so much more fun to be going to a Tea Party event to report than all the other protests you’ve been to over the years?
Exactly what I was thinking Gozer.
Well done Zombie!
After all these years of attending political protests, you must like doing Tea Parties much better than the former hostile ones, no? You’re not commie news network photojournalist if you say yes BTW.
Recall some nasty images that required eye bleach and a double scotch to remove, how you managed to capture these images with a still hand amazes me, I’d be busting a gut LMAO or turning away as my queasiness set in.
Then then there were old dames that did the ‘lets publicly display our old boobs for bombs protest’ or such what – guess they missed their day in the sun to shine…ug er, that’s double ug as their male counter parts showed up nude! Yuk. (Needed a drinking thread on that one.)
Never forget the “one world oder” sign either, that dazed out dude held it up so high and proud though, likely his biggest accomplishment of the year, just hilarious!
Onwards, ever onwards.
Dear American friends:
you are at the entrance of the new America, the Marxist-Socialist America, the same pernicious ideology that destroyed E. Europe and Russia, is heralded here – 70 years later, belatedly – as the greatest “Hope and Change” the Mankind longing for.
All over the world the Communist takeover followed by civil wars: in Russia, in China and elsewhere.
Only Americans voted for it freely and enthusiastically; – people were crying of joy at the sight of the Street Organizer and called him “The Messiah”.
Tea Party people, you are decent, classical, true Americans but you are no match for the Marxists who are second, third generation Bolsheviks from Poland, Russia and Hungary;- they are ruthless, having no qualms about grabbing power; – their forbears once did the same in Europe and it’s hereditary.
Tea Party people, you lost. History cannot be stopped, it must run its course until the final collapse when everything is destroyed. It happened to Germany, Russia and E. Europe and coming to America.
The good: once in the future when the new America will have risen reborn from the ashes of Marxism, all the Leftist kooks in Black Hood and sex perverts will be kicked out: talk to Putin about it.
“Tea Party people, you lost. History cannot be stopped, it must run its course until the final collapse when everything is destroyed. It happened to Germany, Russia and E. Europe and coming to America.”
Oh brother….
That’s exactly the European attitude of ‘quit now because we’ll never win’ that sunk you all before, and you think that THESE Americans don’t know that?
It took the blood of this continents men/woman to save Europe and their lousy defeatist (READ leftist) attitude and why you all don’t speak only German today. (Canadians and Americans BTW)
Don’t forget – this is the core belief (or attitudes) of Americans -from these men and woman – that are the Tea Partiers today.
This is too good NOT to respond to!
I had no idea that the Communists took over the U.S. prior to 1861. Thanks for making us Americans aware of our true history.
The only Americans I know of who call our President a Messiah are those who DIDN’T vote for him; they do so sarcastically, because they can’t accept his skin color. They also happen to be the same people who worship Ronald Reagan. That’s different, of course, because he was a white guy.
Please identify the power-grabbing Bolsheviks you claim are taking over our country. The President sure as heck isn’t one; you guys are always accusing him of being a Kenyan Muslim, remember?
The “new America” is already here, thank goodness. You can relax now that Republican sex perverts such as former Representatives Mark Foley, Robert Bauman, Dan Crane, Donald Lukens, Ed Schrock, and former Senators Larry Craig and Bob Packwood are no longer in office.
What heck are you going on about?
I’ve never mentioned ‘messiah’ nor ‘Kenya’ nor any of the other nonsense you’re raving on about.
I will assume you’re being purposely retarded and won’t waste my time responding to you further.
I wanna know what “masagynistic” means. Does that mean “dislikes things made with masa, such as tortillas and tamales”?
81 image slideshow and gallery, with audio, of the San Francisco Tea Party (including infiltrators) up on http://fund47.com.
Brilliant! Zombie should write a book. Clearly an expert on not only protest groups, but also the darker side of organized protest.
A couple of 4chan morons and some pot-zombies? That’s the best they could do in SAN FRAN-FUCKIN-CISCO? That’s pathetic.
wow…we no longer need to wonder why our country is in such a mess…the musyy young brains with no anchor to real life…no accountability except to their empty trouble making lives.
Humorous cartoon on the real similarities between the Civil Rights Movement and the Tea Party Movement at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/tea-party/
I laughed and laughed, so hard, I laughed.
Tea Party People Are The Best.
They wernt inflitrating yor tea partey they were moking you. You are to dum to see htat.
wharrgarbl wharrgarbl wharrgarbl
[the above was written so Tearrorists will be able to understand it].
Illiterate, much?
@myth buster
You will go to war?
Black Hood will shout: “You’re racist!” “You are KKK!”
Then you will apologize and go home in shame and the war is over.
Are you blind to reality? The Party turned into “Politically Correct” defensive gathering making utmost effort to not to be “offensive”…
The valiant Grand Party of the last year is PC now.
The Crashers won. You got tamed by Soros. Singlehandedly with “Mr.Dead Fish”.
@Idd
Can’t you comprehend that most Europeans are already beyond Marx while you just started to get acquainted with it? Over half of the States worship the Kenyan, so cool off my friend (as McCain likes to say).
Please don’t brag: Communism was defeated without American help. Hungarians 1956, Czech 1968, Poles, Russians with Boris (Yeltsin). You did nothing, you can only pontificate about freedom…ask the Cubans.
Brag?
I was merely pointing out some facts to you.
I sure can comprehend marxism/socialism since the Treadeaupian years here in Can.
So what the heck are you going on about? You know damn well if the Americans hadn’t gotten involved at the end of WWII Europe was lost to the nazis and collaborating fascists. But thanks to the fascist of the then Japanese ruling empire they screwed up big time.
As far as things in Europe after WWII well so what? So what’s your point about the other countries since other than to pull a strawman argument? That they finally stood up for themselves? Great then, it saved the Americans from having to do that as well…and as far as the Russians – uh duh, they failed on their own accord, or did you not realize that?
Mine is that Americans stood up for many and themselves in the past “for freedom and democracy” and they will again. The Tea Party represents these Americans – the ones that the leftist hate with a vengeance.
I know where and with whom I stand and it’s not a brag it’s my way of thinking.
If you can’t stand it – that’s your problem, so lighten up, that’s life’s, it’s short and no one gets our of it alive.
Cheers.
The medical marijuana guys taking on the Ayn Rand folks is the most bizarre thing I’ve seen from all the reporting on the tea parties.
If anything, Objectivists would say the government has no business telling anyone what they can (or cannot) ingest. Individual objectivists may reject drugs for themselves, but if they stayed true to the principles of objectivism, they would not tell another person they should not do so.
Very strange.
The poor black-clothed anarchist chick (who probably had the standard liberal anarchist-backpack with 911 Truther buttons all over it) was typical of a lot of the really crazed-angry Liberals you see today. Her signs made no sense and I bet that if you talked to her for twenty minutes, you’d come away really confused and wanting to take a good shower. And one does wonder – in THAT part of the world, that was ALL the Liberals could generate to stop the TEA Party movement?
As usual the “tolerant” left shows up on this site and shows how ignorant and “compassionate” they are. Yes, how dare someone disagree with you and protest. Funny, you were all for protests when you were the ones doing them.
You are going to be so upset in November and I will glady visit your bigoted sites to rub it in. America is rejecting you and your “message” because they see you for what you are.
They are too incoherent for me to figure out what they are intolerant or tolerant /of/.
Why would we expect “infiltrators” to be any more sophisticated than these examples ? The Left has been putting this same calibre of person up for political office for years now. Consider that Jerry Brown is the best they can do in California, a bastion of liberalism ?
Hey Now! I happen to think that “Whargarblwhargarblgarble!” is pretty funny. hehe.
Great job as always zombie.
47.European:”Can’t you comprehend that most Europeans are already beyond Marx while you just started to get acquainted with it?”
You should probably explain that to the people that rule over you.
” Communism was defeated without American help.”
Of course it was!what idiot would argue otherwise? all the time and effort that the USSR expended against it’s main adversary(that would be the US)had ABSOULUTLY no effect on it’s ability to perpetuate communism…..that whole “cold war” thing was just one big ruse.
To the rest of you squealing dullards:just wait until November..
Hey, is anyone aware of the fact that the tea party pictures in this article are from the 2009 Tea Party at the S.F. Civic Center? The 2010 Tea Party was in San Francisco’s Union Square. Let’s get the photos and time frame right, people. The detractors of the Tea Party movement love mistakes that can be used to demean the legitimacy of the people who care enough about this country to go to a Tea Party rally. Don’t give them cannon fodder by making mistakes.
To: 54. A. Descans
No, these photos are from April 15, 2010. I was also at the 2009 Tea Party in SF Civic Center, and filed a report on it here:
http://zombietime.com/sf_obama_protest_10-15-09/
As you can plainly see, it was a different event.
Also, you can confirm that my photos above are from the April 15, 2010 event by looking at other online photo essays about the same event, and many of the exact same scenes are depicted (see http://thecitysquare.blogspot.com/2010/04/tax-day-tea-party-breaks-out-in-san.html and http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/15/18644845.php and http://www.protestshooter.com/20100415TeaParty/ for proof).
Check your facts before spouting off.
I can say with 100% confidence these photos were from the 2010 SF Tea party. a) I was there and saw most of these people myself and b) I am in one of these photos. This was taken at Union Square. (I was not at the 2009 SF Tea Party.)
The REAL crowd was very friendly and upbeat and social. Yes, some say “carnival atmosphere” – is there anything wrong with that? Why do protests have to be “angry” to be considered to be serious?
The counter protesters were spitting totally hostile venomous words at us, trying to stir up a fight. We just chose to ignore them. (best course of action)
I voted for Obama, proudly. I consider myself a centrist, and have been dismayed by what has become of the Republican party over the last ten years. I appreciate the merits of both sides of the ideological spectrum, and certainly understand the notion of wanting to curb government spending.
What I wonder when I see these tea party people who supposedly feel the same way about government spending is this: Where were you for the last eight years of Bush??? I mean that seriously. If you cared about fiscal responsibility and accountability you would have been marching five years ago, but you weren’t. This isn’t really about fiscal responsibility, this is about turning the clock back to 1880. And as such, though conservative in many ways, I will continue to proudly support Obama and his centrism, and will quietly applaud the fact that his moderate approach, though not perfect, has staved off the worst potential effects brought on under the Bush era.
It’s nice to have moderation and sensibility back in government. Republicans brought this all on themselves, and I look forward to a time when the party can return to being represented by people like Christine Todd Whitman instead of Sarah Palin.
You really should step away from whatever it is that you are ingetsting/smoking!
Meg Whitman is no Republican, although she’s running as one.
As far as protesting GWB’s spending, I recall there were plenty of critics out there at the time, and if you still are enamored of BHO, then you really are deserving of sympathy, as clearly you cannot fully fathom what this fool is attempting to do to the USA. In parts of the EU, there are smatterings of more
conservative thinking happening, and there are few to none who are in rapt of the One; they know a dud when
one is on display. Please, for your own good and those around you, wake up!
sorry, dday, you can’t tell the difference between Christine Todd Whitman and Meg Whitman and you accuse me of being the one smoking something?
As far as I’m concerned you just demonstrated perfectly what is wrong with the Republican party today.
9/11
I totally agree, delia. 911 changed priorities and attitudes in America, and it probably didn’t feel right to most people to be protesting the government when the country is at war, both against Al Qaeda and in Iraq. But last I checked, we’re still there.
9/11 certainly didn’t stop the loony left and the ‘truthers’.
Unfortunately, this admin is weakening our country and putting blinders on against
Islamic Terrorism‘man-made disasters’. How our country could swing so far in the wrong direction regarding our security and the safety of our allies is worrisome to say the least. We can’t appease our enemies into playing ‘nice’.I hope and pray we aren’t dealt a far worse 9/11 in the near future.
@53 frank grimes
Sure we saw great many Americans fighting the Russian tanks and invading Red Army on the streets of Budapest in 1956. The Czech were helped by the Americans against the invading Warsaw pact armies in 1968. Ceasescu of Romania was executed by the US Military and L. Walesa of Poland was a US citizen in disguise. Also Boris Yeltsin served in the US Marines when he called up the tanks to crush the Commies.
We fought with arms the Communists and many of us died or were imprisoned but we did not VOTE for them with tears in eyes like you did at the Greek Columns…
There are more Communist – (Liberal, Democrats etc. are the Orwellian code names for Marxism-Leninism)- in the USA than in the whole world combined.
Soros is Persona non Grata in Europe but in the States HE is your Master and the true owner of the Messiah.
Can you refute the truth?
European:no need for the history lesson,champ…i am well aware.try availing yourself of some pertinent information on the subject, like the mitrokin files-for starters.the very thought that the soviet menace could have been stopped without US intervention is laughable to say the least.
No need to thank us..we didn’t do it out of the milk of human kindness,just get your facts straight.
as for soros and his meat puppet;it’s 14 months in and he is already circling the drain.i am truly glad now he was elected,without Obama we would have no chance of the conservative ascension we have today.he IS the vaccine against what Europe has become.
For the edification of Mr Upside Down, leaning toward socialism, … he should be aware that Lyndon LaRouche is a far left socialist, with weirdoid tendencies… and a racist.
Smearing patriotic Americans as “teabaggers” in SF, the epicenter of real teabagging?
The irony.
What next? Say Tea Partiers are all AIDS-vectors, or perverts?
So you prefer staying in the closet like Larry Craig and the catholic pedosexual priesthood?
By the looks of these pictures, somebody gave up some serious Xbox time just so they could be condescending Aholes in public.
“I drove hundreds of miles to be a total tool of the Democrats!”
Am I the only person who thinks the “This is a Sign” guy was making fun of the crashers?
Great to see this whole infiltrator identification. It not only shows how craven the left is, but it also shames the media by showing how hungry they are for useful misinformation.
I’d have to permit with you one this subject. Which is not something I usually do! I love reading a post that will make people think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
it is a pleasure for me visit your blog.
Just one thought. I am not a strict liberal or conservative; I have values on both sides of the aisle. But those pix with Whargarbl Lady and tea party folks with “INFILTRATOR” signs make the tea party folks look really stupid. Do they not realize that an “infiltrator” is someone trying to appear as one of them, acting in such a way as to make them all look bad (a point of your article)? Whargarbl Lady (*****sigh*****) obviously had absolutely no intention of being mistaken for a TEA Partier. She is obviously a counter-protestor, not an infiltrator.
I can’t belive how a lot of an asshole this person can be.