Sometimes I wish I had more family and then I remember that I'm sitting here petting dogs in front of a fireplace while many other people are listening to their uncle who owes $87,000 on a truck that had a $70,000 sticker price explain how Elon Musk is going to fix the economy. ...
These corporate efforts to appease Trump and pander to his supporters are getting really brazen. ...
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I'm sorry but 262 words is not a manifesto. A manifesto should be so long and rambling that its sheer size deters people from reading it. It should look like you need a briefcase full of ragged, yellowed typing paper to lug it around in and wave at people. It should be usable as a melee weapon in an emergency. 262 words isn't even the abstract to a respectable manifesto. ...
John says:
Perhaps the saddest thing about this so-called "Tea Party movement" is that none of these rubes even remembers what the original Boston Tea Party was for. It was protesting the taxation-without-representation of the English colonies because the colonists had no say in the laws that were made regarding them from England and yet were taxed just like (and in many respects more than) everyone else. So they threw the tea in the harbor rather than be taxed for it.
This new movement is just a bunch of pretentious jagoffs that are angry that their taxes are going up some 3%. Many of them aren't even affected by it. And they're sure as hell not driving their SUVs and pickups into the water.
But then, modern Conservatism is mostly about puerile grandstanding rather than anything meaningful.
Nick says:
I've been waiting to see a form of protest lamer than "Million Strong" Facebook groups. Thanks, teabaggers!
comrade x says:
Having acquired the label " teabaggers", I doubt the tax protesters are going to get very far.
On a related funny paranoia note, a co- worker who has been brainwashed into a conserv-o-tron is going to one of these rallies and is hoping they have adequate security in case ACORN tries to " disrupt" the collective conservative circle jerk.
No kidding. He is really concerned about that.
A mind is a terrible thing to taste…
OliverWendelHolmslice says:
I'm wondering how the media will cover the dozen or so people that show up to these rallys come Wednesday. I'm betting that in an attempt to skew the playing field back towards the conservatives, they label them "massive polulist protests" and give them disproportionate coverage and endless editorials. Never mind the fact that there were worldwide protests of truly massive proportions against the war in Iraq that flew completely under the media radar.
Maybe the authorities will show up and write them all up for littering. An appropriate and humiliating end for such a half-assed protest movement.
At the very least, Wed night should be a great night to watch Rachel Maddow
j says:
Man, even Krugman put these people in their place! Ouch!