There was a Tea Party anniversary "celebration" yesterday...

[Archae]

I had no idea of it, even Faux "news" (the 24/7 propaganda source that promoted the hell out of the Teabaggers,) didn't mention it.

The entire "Tea Party movement" was a fraud. A fake, pushed by Jesus freak religious bigots, racists, conspiracy theorists and opportunists pandering for votes and ratings.

Trying to Find the Tea Party at its 10th Anniversary Rally

Fewer than 200 Tea Party activists gathered on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building on Thursday for a rally declaring socialism their top enemy.

Yesterday’s event was meant to celebrate the Tea Party movement’s 10-year anniversary. In September 2009, tens of thousands of protesters marched under the Tea Party banner in Washington, reported Fox News at the time; the Tea Party’s “Taxpayer March on Washington” demonstration was the conclusion of a “34-city, 7,000-mile bus tour” that began in California. But the size of the crowd at yesterday’s rally in front of the U.S. Capitol Building was a tiny fraction of the turnout the movement mobilized a decade ago.

Born from a now-infamous rant in which CNBC Business News Network editor Rick Santelli criticized plans for the federal government to help refinance home mortgages in the wake of 2008’s financial crisis, the movement rallied a decade ago on libertarian-styled calls for less government intervention in the economy. The Tea Party opposed President Barack Obama and his administration’s agenda, particularly on the issues of healthcare and the government response to the economic crisis. The Tea Party movement also housed a plethora of racism in response to Obama’s presidency.

As The New York Times reported in depth, 2009 organizers wanted to reduce the national debt and deficit and limit the areas of the economy that the government was attempting to resuscitate. The Tea Party was a major force to be reckoned in politics, and helped elect dozens of politicians into Congress. But in the Trump era, the Tea Party has joined the rest of the GOP in a choir of pro-Trump sycophancy. The Trump-GOP tax bill dramatically increased the debt, but conservative activists largely supported it.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trying-to-find-the-tea-party-at-its-10th-anniversary-rally/

[RT Atlanta]

1. my only request in referring to those 'believers' is to...

not refer to them as the "Tea Party."

They all started with tea bagger and that's what they are in my opinion (along with folks that are easily duped).

[gratuitous]

2. Their turnout might be pathetic right now

But all it will take is another injection of accu-cash astroturf, and the machinery will roar back to life. Tea Bagger talking points have shifted to the (Oooh kids! Count Floyd says) sca-a-a-ary socialism. Mitch McConnell and John Thune invoked it yesterday to declare as dead the House bill to bring down prescription drug costs. Because negotiating with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices when those companies are enjoying record high profits and record low taxes is exactly what socialism is all about, people! It would be positively un-American for people to get, say, insulin at a lower cost, and hurt the bottom line for drug companies.