A Tea Partier Just Called Me "Communist." Watch My SLAM DUNK Response

[FourScore]

Thu Apr 12, 2012 at 12:05 PM PDT
A Tea Partier Just Called Me "Communist." Watch My SLAM DUNK Response
by Conceptual Guerilla

So I'm working this morning, like I do everyday, trying to come up with ways to promote my film, when I get this email from a guy who used to call my radio show over in Jackonville.

His name is Rod, and here's what he sent.

Rep. Allen West states that 81 Democratic House members are communists.

A CPUSA official is outraged & I agree. Isn't every Democrat a communist?

I wasn't getting a whole lot done, so I figured "what the hell." I wrote him a response.

First of all, do I really want to empower him by getting all indignant and angry . . . validating how smart he thinks he is?

I'd much rather counter-attack, and put this joker on the defensive . . .

. . Like this.

That's right, Rod. Every Democrat is a communist . . . going all the way back to 1933 when FDR set up New Deal Communism. That would be the same New Deal communism you grew up under. The New Deal Communism that made us the richest, most powerful nation in history. The New Deal Communism that took us to the moon just 36 years after FDR was sworn in.

Let me show you the track record of those New Deal Communist Democrats.

Communist Truman left 2.5 percent unemployment to Eisenhower.

Republican Patriot Eisenhower left recession and 6.5 percent unemployment to Kennedy.

Communist Johnson left 3.5 percent unemployment to Nixon.

Republican Patriot Ford left recession and 7.5 unemployment to Jimmy Carter.

Communist Carter wasn't able to improve much on the recession he inherited . . .

. . . and neither were Republican Patriots Reagan and Bush, who left recession and 7.2 unemployment to Bill Clinton.

Communist Bill Clinton left 4.2 percent unemployment to Dubya . . .

Republican Patriot Dubya left recession and 7.6 percent unemployment to Communist Barack Obama.

No Republican Patriot ever left office with unemployment under 5 % . . . including Reagan. No New Deal Communist ever left office with higher unemployment than they inherited . . . including Jimmy Carter who left the same unemployment he inherited from Ford.

3 out of 4 New Deal Communists left office with unemployment well under five percent.

But wait . . . there's more...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/12/1082820/-A-Tea-Partier-Just-Called-Me-Communist-Watch-My-SLAM-DUNK-Response

[Journeyman]

1. Thanks. Great KOS post. Gonna share that with a lot of people. . .

[MrSlayer]

2. Great!

This is beautiful.

[ZombieHorde]

3. Republicans are terrible at government. nt

[KansDem]

19. That's because they don't want to govern...

As the late Molly Ivins said: "Republicans don't want to govern; they want to rule."

[BlueDemKev]

22. Republicas can't run the government....

....but they can sure run their mouths!

[Diclotican]

4. FourScore

FourScore

The worst is that most of them, the te-baggers would not know what a communist was, if it so was in front of them....

Diclotican

[WhoIsNumberNone]

8. Most teabaggers seem to think Hitler was a communist

I'm not sure if they're really that stupid, of if they just say it because they think it pisses liberals off...

[sarge43]

13. You could have stopped with "Most teabaggers seem to think."

They're sockpuppets.

[baldguy]

14. Right. "Teabaggers are told..." is correct

[WhoIsNumberNone]

26. OK, maybe "think" was too generous

maybe I should have said "believe" instead...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. The reason teabaggers are told that Hitler was a communist

is that the official name of the Nazi party was the National Socialists.

So they called themselves "Socialists," which meant that they were a left-wing party, not a right-wing party. At least according to AM radio logic.

By that line of reasoning, Cream of Wheat is a dairy product and cottage cheese should have wood splinters in it.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

27. Oh, I'm quite aware of where this belief comes from

You're right- some right wingers somewhere observed that the Nazis were National SOCIALISTS...

I guess my pint is that even after all this time I'm still amazed at the teabaggers' ability to completely dismiss facts that conflict with their world view.

[Jackpine Radical]

38. They get off on that "National SOCIALIST" business

and, as always, have zero comprehension of the topic they're ranting about.

You can always bring up inconvenient questions like, "So how come Hitler invaded the Soviet Union? Why was he allied with Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy instead of with Russia?"

[WhoIsNumberNone]

41. Well fascists are lefties too, don'tcha know?

And so were Ayatollah Khomeini and the 9/11 hijackers... Glenn Beck said so.

[PatrynXX]

44. If that were the case

he would have won. Cause Russia was Communist/Socialist and they woulda had a party. alas. Hitler was on the extreme right and Stalin was on the extreme left. so they fought it out. and if it takes a really laughable sex scene to sell that, so be it. (Enemy at the Gates)

[dballance]

5. Thanks for posting - especially all the stats

I'm going to have to keep a copy of this to make sure I have all those stats when I'm talking to my GOP friends.

[Speck Tater]

6. That is one hell of a powerful video at that link.

Everyone one of us should be out there doing the same thing every day until we wake up the sleeping masses of ditto heads.

[unapatriciated]

11. The vid was great

Will be sharing that on FB for my fundy relatives.

[vkkv]

7. Thanks a lot for the info

[SydBAThule]

9. Facts no longer matter to

'people' like Rod who are beyond hope, best to ignore em.

[Rectangle]

10. You might also want to note, that Carter left Saint Ronnie almost ZERO

national debt, (less than a Trilion).
Eight years later it was almost 4 Trillion!!

[Flatulo]

45. I think Carter was to last POTUS who had 100% integrity.

He was a good and decent man both in word and in deed. Unfortunately, high interest rates and the Iran hostage situation did him in.

He never, ever lied. Tragically, lying is a prerequisite for public office.

[CJCRANE]

12. GREAT video. You must watch it

and I don't say that often. It's the first time I've seen someone help tea partiers look at the real truth compared to their talking points.

[hobbit709]

15. I had some idiot call me that once.

i just looked at him and said "Some of my earliest memories are of the Soviet occupation troops on the streets of my home town, so you're lucky I don't just deck you"
He shut up.

[PA Democrat]

16. You should post the video in Video & Multimedia.

It's just too good to miss. I'd be happy to do it if you don't want to.

[Odin2005]

17. LMFAO!!!!

[Glaisne]

18. Great to see CG stuff

I think he is a great writer. I wish he would do more of it. He has some excellent articles and posts over on his web site. I think DU and Kos are perfect forums for him. Are you listening Joe? Get back to your insightful and hard hitting writing and analysis! Thanks FourScore for posting this.

[Luminous Animal]

23. He is a great writer. I've been a fan for years.

Link to his website...

http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/

[SemperEadem]

20. the accompanying movie is really amazing

they all took their talking points from their god-on-earth, limpfuck... and when they were beaten about the head with numbers, they all shriveled and shrank into puddles of blithering idiocy.

[snappyturtle]

21. Bookmarked! Thanks. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Republicans really are stoopid! Delusional and stubborn in both.

[Populist_Prole]

28. Excellent montage, but I winced the most at limbaugh's voice. The other thing that got me

...was how passionate those rubes were about a subject they were admittedly clueless on. A few of the others seen in the first few minutes came across as more articulate ( but only by comparison ) simply because they were sticking to talking points scripts.

I do have to say that what was really unnerving to me was how young so many of the dolts in that video were: I was kind of figuring that demographic were comprised mostly of people in their sunset years.

[Gregorian]

29. My prescription would be for him to have to watch the Manchurian Canditate over and over until

Until he actually understood it. Then, when terrified, he might convert to being a truth loving Democrat, if I may be so smug to say so.

[patrice]

30. That's what they call anyone who advocates for the rights of those who do the WORK without which

no other wealth would be possible. Gotta keep those workers down; they're such a threat BECAUSE they are so necessary, because the ones' above the workers DEPEND upon them entirely.

[gateley]

31. I'm stealing this! nt

[socialist_n_TN]

32. I was called a communist so much...........

That I checked it out and LIKED it. So I became one.

Not really. I've been a Marxist since I first read Trotsky. What's not to like. The only political philosophy that is unabashedly on the side of the working class. And working class is what I am.

[TBF]

33. IKR, they act like it's a bad thing.

Personally I don't see what is so bad about sharing.

[AnnieK401]

34. Why do we put people who hate Government (Republicans) in charge of our Government.

It makes no sense put people who want to do away with Government in charge of running our country.

[emanymton]

35. You Do Realize, Don't Ya, That You Are Not Making Any Friends By Citing Acturate Facts And Figures.

.

For the true "No Hopers" of the TeaBagging Republicant Party that it is not a lie, if you want to believe something.

Thank you for putting much of the straight answers to the blatant lies of Murdoch Media/Fox Networks!!

Rock on.

Ema Nymton
~ @ : o ?
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[Gman]

36. My simple answer is "You say that like its a bad thing. Why?"

They will generally cough and sputter and stammer and not really be able to explain why it's a bad thing.

[secondvariety]

37. Great video.

Why am I not surprised it was filmed in Florida?

[ProSense]

39. Kick for

Communists!

[fascisthunter]

40. Fucking Brainwashed Dweebs

these people disgust me... their ignorance is a sickness destroying this country from within. They are the reason we are sliding into fascism and they haven't a fucking clue what fascism means.

You all wanna know what motivates these people to buy this shit... well, I'll tell ya. They hate the caricature of what a liberal or democrat is, so they grasp ANYTHING that is its antithesis. They are nothing but cultural bigots, a cult who swarms to something that is against their weird illusion of us. And what's even worse... it's so a tiny elite can run everything, rendering our democracy moot. Stupid fools are giving our country to the 1% while fighting against the very people that would give the shirt off their backs for them. Fuckers!!!

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

42. If Conservatives hate government so much

Why do they want to be part of it? They should leave the governing to people who want to govern and see the good things that government can accomplish.

[boxman15]

43. Fantastic.

This really reminded me of how much I hate Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party he unleashed, though.