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Mon Apr-12-10 02:38 PM
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Poll question: What is your gut feeling when you hear the words 'Tea Party?' |
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:41 PM
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1. Outraged that these nincompoops have despoiled my favorite beverage |
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With their inane, wingnut viewpoint.
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:52 PM
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27. and a band my daughter used to like back when, Tea Party. |
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they had some good shit working for them.
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:42 PM
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2. "Tea Party" used in 2010 |
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The words "Tea Party" as used in 2010 by the uber-right-wing NUTS, to me, is a pitiful ploy to try to make society equate these nuts with a group of gallant and valiant patriots immortalized in history.
While the Boston Tea Party is a well known event in American history, the "tea partiers" of today are fanatics and IMHO do not deserve to use those renowned words to describe their whacko movement.
Their message is nothing more than "hate".
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:42 PM
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3. I think delicate cups and shabby chic, actually. |
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:43 PM
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5. And watercress or cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off |
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Wed Apr-14-10 04:50 AM
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39. And perhaps some cake in a three-tiered dish. |
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:42 PM
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4. Disdain. Same old KKK-John Birch-Johnny Rebs as always. |
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Edited on Mon Apr-12-10 02:43 PM by TexasObserver
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:45 PM
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6. Don't really care very much - it gives them something to do,keeps them |
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from getting into worse trouble, and if nothing else, thay can later be ID'd from their photos with those incredibly stupid signs.
Harmless activity for RW pinheads - I don't care.
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:45 PM
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:47 PM
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11. Actually, me too. n/t |
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:47 PM
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There is NO TEA grown in Amurka.
Who ARE these traitors?
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:47 PM
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9. Pathetic fools being duped by the likes of Glenn BecKKK and the Koch brothers. |
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Even the ones among them that are correct in their estimation that something is seriously fucking wrong with this country (there definitely IS) are completely delusional about where to place the blame for that, because they are being deliberately misled by corporatist tools.
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:47 PM
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I am even related to some of them . They are low information people who think they know all of the answers .You can NOT reason with them.They KNOW that God is on their side.
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:48 PM
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:52 PM
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13. Something little children with a undeveloped mental capacity and a wild imagination do. |
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:55 PM
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14. What does Alice and the Mad Hatter have to do with politics? |
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Then I thought of Palin and McCain and all was clear.
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Mon Apr-12-10 02:59 PM
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15. The same 27 percenters who gave Chimpy a favorable approval rating |
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near the end of his 2 terms.
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:06 PM
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16. I'm afraid the words that come to my mind |
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are not very ladylike.
Fucktards. Shitheads. Moronic Shitheads. Mother-fuckers. Shitstains. Lying assholes. Racist assholes. Shit-for-brains. Then there are a couple of words that start with 'c' that probably can't be spelled out here. :evilgrin:
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:09 PM
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:15 PM
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18. There is no tea party. There are teabaggers carrying idiotic signs and |
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spouting uninformed vitriolic babble. It is an ugly collection of rabble, not a party, and nothing to do either with my favorite drink or my ancestors who dumped the stuff into Boston harbour.
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:15 PM
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19. Ann Coulter's balls in someone's mouth. nt |
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:17 PM
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I think the tea party is about Rage, plain and simple.
I think that there might just be a way for dems to tap into this rage and benefit from it.
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:27 PM
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21. Other: I hate raspberry jam. |
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And Teabaggers nauseate me.
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:30 PM
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22. Other - in my mind (not gut) I think "Jim Jones" |
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:31 PM
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23. Racist buffoons who like free bus trips & box lunches |
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:34 PM
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24. I chose "I knew these people ..." |
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I have relatives in Utah and Arizona who probably embrace these beliefs fervently. I heard it all my life from the church I was raised in, which is why I left it at age 15. That is when many of the relatives stopped speaking and most of us lost touch. My parents, thankfully lived in California and so we were exposed to a better world view through our day to day living, and I can't say it too often, a good public school system.
My relatives are poor, scared, easily led and always ready to embrace hate and violence as the only solution to their problems. They are not stupid but they choose to be ignorant and held in the thrall of their church which tells them that women and anyone who is different is inferior and to be mistrusted. They are also told to embrace right wing ideas and never to question those in authority unless they are not conservative. Then all stops are out. They have a lot of guns, and their big sport is hunting. They don't have much of a life and so they are casual about preserving and protecting life. Humans who are different are not regarded as much more than objects of suspicion.
This is hard to write because I still love them. They are my aunts and uncles and cousins and when I was a child they were kind to me. When I became an adult and a political person who questioned, demonstrated and spoke out they excused it at first. When I would go to visit the few who still spoke to the heretic who left the church, they would say, "Don't mind her. She's from California and it did something to her brain." Everyone would have a good laugh, but I was "kin" and they assured themselves that I would straighten out and come back to the church and the fold one day.
Hasn't happened yet, and never will. The world is too big and there is a much better life to be had out here. I don't do well trapped in a small box, which is where the tea baggers want us to be.
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:56 PM
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29. That was brave of you to write. |
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Thanks for that. I think a lot of us DUers have relatives like yours. I know I do. I was lucky my parents moved from the suburbs of New Jersey to a New England college town at the start of the social revolution of the 1960s. It probably sealed my fate as a lefty.
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:41 AM
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I'm glad your life as a lefty takes you here.;) I know that I have benefited by California and the atmosphere of increased tolerance that exists here in the big cities. We are not problem free, but most of the time people accept and respect differences and we all benefit.
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:45 PM
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25. Goobers on parade. n/t |
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:51 PM
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26. A small group of little girls with a tea set and playing house. . . |
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Mon Apr-12-10 03:54 PM
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28. I never like tea and is despise it more now ...but KKK comes to mind |
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every time I see the two words. NO ONE ABSOLUTELY NO ONE will ever convince me that they do not believe one and the same as the KKK>
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Mon Apr-12-10 04:02 PM
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They are a bunch of uninformed, close-minded people who are afraid of everything that is different or unknown to them.
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Mon Apr-12-10 04:05 PM
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31. That they are the canaries in the coal mine to the day Idiocracy is more than just a movie |
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Mon Apr-12-10 04:14 PM
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our educational system has done in educating the citizens of the United States. These are people who don't know History, nor English; the tea party leaders sure know psychology though. I think that unless rational people get out there and vote and get to work in their communities, we are in for a lot of sad times and troubles.
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Mon Apr-12-10 04:18 PM
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33. A mob of frightened ignorant people. |
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Mon Apr-12-10 05:35 PM
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34. THIS is my "gut" feeling... |
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Mon Apr-12-10 05:41 PM
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35. Other.... Stupid fucking disgruntled Republicans! |
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Who've destroyed their brand and are attempting a "right-flank" maneuver.
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Mon Apr-12-10 05:45 PM
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36. ignorant no-minds, the new Know-Nothing Party |
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so I guess my gut feeling is disgust mixed with incredulity that anybody could be so pathetically, incredibly stupid. I also feel total disgust at the amount of press they get--as though they were "somebody" or anybody at all besides a bunch of total morons. There is also some trepidation about the way publicity and propaganda can be used to turn an entire segment of the population stupid and reactionary.
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Wed Apr-14-10 06:07 AM
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41. I have these people in my family |
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Edited on Wed Apr-14-10 06:08 AM by SmileyRose
From what I see of the group as a whole they are primarily the elderly and lower to middle middle class whites who have been getting screwn on all sides for the better part of 30 years. They have worked their asses off and can't seem to get ahead. Retirement is here, or is looming in the next 10 years and they are scared shitless about ending up sick, worn out, and so poor they are at the mercy of the government and/or a hired low wage caretaker with brown skin and barely speaks English. They are tired. They are angry. They don't know who to blame. They don't know where to turn for relief.
The preachers in their Churches and the talking heads on their TV and radio tell them life would be a utopia if all Democrats, union employees and brown people would just die or move to Mexico or Canada. Some teabaggers believe that, some don't. Mainly they are just plain pissed at everyone.
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