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The Tea Party Defends Wall St. As US Day Of Rage Protests Corruption
The Tea Party Defends Wall St. As US Day Of Rage Protests Corruption was written by Sarah Jones for PoliticusUSA.
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52 Responses to The Tea Party Defends Wall St. As US Day Of Rage Protests Corruption
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Reynardine
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
These actually sound like the same people, syntax, phrasing, and all, that News Hounds extracts from the various Fox websites and blogs. Is it Rent-a- Mob? Is it true believer Brown Shits? Whatever it is, I bet it’s the same cadre, and they do little but this, sponsored by the Ghoulish Old Party.
AntieQ
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Isn’t the entire Tea Party a mob bought and paid for by the Koch brothers?
Reynardine
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Well, it’s probably the mercenary inciting the bigoted, who are leading the gullible.
Ray Engvaldsen
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
I,m not sure the original tea party was nearly as nuts until they started being turned into “zombies” by the trickle down dictators of corporatism. All the sensible ones have long since quietly slipped out the back door.. Sadly the racists and bigots have replaced them.. Do they remind anyone else of the slaves who fought for the south..?
Reynardine
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Well, that, and Phyllis Schlaffly, and Log Cabin Republicans, and certain young men of Jewish descent who become Neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.
extremehomer
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:26 am
reynardine
‘…young men of jewish descent who become neo-conservatives and holocaust deniers.’
of whom in fact are you speaking?
Reynardine
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I’ve known a few, some of whom can be cured of their delusions, and some of whom can’t, but their names aren’t for public consumption. To whom did you think I was referring?
Dennis
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
AntieQ: I believe that is spelled “KocK” party…
djsee4
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
As Bob Marley once said, “Stand up for your right.”
tifosa
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
This is the “applaud-wildly-at-the-death-penalty”/”let-him-die” crowd. Keep in mind: their votes count EQUALLY. (p.s. and they STILL won’t know the difference between your and you’re)
DaMountainMan
Sep. 20th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Yer sure about dat?
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
I have never heard the tea thugs say they supported Americans, just themselves, the GOP and The Banking industrys like they are told to do.
This proves the tea buggers are the poorest of all of us, too poor to have lost over half their pension funds like people who were being responsible for themselves did
Sarah Jones
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
So true, Shiva.
Ray Medeiros
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Tea party protests 3rd grade teachers, liberal remember and protest where the problem started.
buckeyewill
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
If you can read these post, thank a teacher.
mike
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
If the tea-partiers had been around in the 1760′s, they would have been defending King George and accusing the founding fathers of being communist malcontents.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Im going to tweet that
Rudy Gonzales
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Day of rage! Here’s my rage! Pass the budget! Pay the bills! Quit jacking with the economy! Let’s stop calling names! President Obama has a plan that will work, but this TEA party controlled GOP-er will jump and ask “How high” when commanded by the the TEA party elite! He’s been around too long and he’s a career politician! Rogue states rocking the boat. Rogues states rocking the boat from TEA party activist wanting to change our government more and faster now. Now, I ask you if you should allow Rick Perry to be anywhere near the Nuclear button, when he talks? Perry is in over his head. With no real experience and knowledge or schooling, he continues to flounder as gullible people say he’s the best qualified to be president. Perry graduated with a 2.22 GPA in Animal Science and was a cheer leader, while President Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, was president of the The Harvard Law Review, graduated with honors with specialization in international relations. Who do you think is best qualified for Foreign Policy! America has been at war too long and the people want us OUT! Bush started this war and another, driving the US further into debt and lost sight of what really hurts the snake that attacked us. This president has been effective as Commander-in-Chief, but has not been totally hindered by the 112th Congress. The president is a class man, effective leader authorizing the killing of Osama Bin Ladin, moving out Moammar Khaddafy, and Atiyah abd al-Rahman is dead! There are at least four or five more top leaders dead at the insistence of our president! President Obama has been cutting off the head of the snake! This Economy is not the president’s legacy, but the 112th Congress’ legacy! This TEA party is a confrontational, ostentatious or garish people, and should never be allowed to force their narrow-minded, religious-based views onto others. They have forced their way into local governments and state-level legislatures. Now they want to control the federal government and shut down our Social programs and force their secular ways over the general populations. Wake up America! Do not take this next election for granted. Make sure you can vote in the up-coming elections and be sure to vote in November 2012!
Fran Joy
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 10:37 pm
The Tea Party claims they want smaller government while they continue to take over operations of the government.
It’s such an extreme hypocrisy!
Sovereign Curtis
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
I missed the part where you shared your evidence that all these #USDOR detractors self-identify as Tea Party.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Perhaps you missed the part where you could go see the responses to #USDOR
Sovereign Curtis
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
“The Tea Party Defends Wall St. As US Day Of Rage Protests Corruption”
Thats the title to the article. You’d think the author would at least attempt to provide some evidence for this claim. The reader shouldn’t need to do ALL that is necessary to prove the author’s claim. Thats the job of the author, and the point of the article (or at least it would be if it wasn’t just a sensationalist title).
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:01 am
All the work? Perhaps the title and the article are aimed at people who use twitter. They would have instinctively known what to do.
Read the tweets and make your own mind up
mikejh
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Dude you are a total moron. Did you read the tweets? Who does that sound like to you? And can you not follow a damn hashtag? See where it says the names are left off to protect the ignorant? Do you think it would have been better if she embarrassed them by putting their names in here?
Guess what- I went to Twitter found the tweets and one of them is by “ColdHardPatriot”. Yeah, I’m still confused, how about you?
Please tell me you don’t drive.
Kate
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:48 am
“Do you think it would have been better if she embarrassed them by putting their names in here?”
>_>
<_:D
People need to learn that stupidity has consequences. If public humiliation is what it takes to get that lesson to sink in, so be it.
Kate
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:49 am
Wow, okay, so the double left arrow eyes apparently don’t work. Go figure.
Was supposed to be shifty eyes, grin, and a very smarmy and resounding YES. And then the rest of the post, so on and so forth. *facepalm*
Kate
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:47 am
So in other words…
“OMFG I swear it wasn’t us (this time)! You *splutter* you have no evidence!”
*cough* Tea Party troll *cough*
And God forbid you take ten seconds out of your life to further research the author’s piece if you’re really concerned about it. No, you’d rather bitch about it and make someone else do your dirty work.
Yeesh.
Sarah Jones
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:16 am
The fact that a person calling themselves “sovereign” something tells us that this is a far right sovereign member, militia constitution party tea party type. Or he thinks he’s king. Neither is healthy.
Sovereign Curtis
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:24 am
I’m not at all surprised that given my name, and criticism for this ‘article’ you assume I’m the opposition. And you know happens when you assume, right?
For the record, I do not stand in opposition to #USDOR.
I EMPHATICALLY oppose corporate personhood.
I almost as emphatically oppose sensationalist tripe designed to split individuals into two diametrically opposed groups. Do you REALLY think the Tea Party is so big thats its the other half of your FALSE dichotomy?
But whatever, continue to persist in your false “its us vs them” mentality. The echo chamber is a comfortable place for those who can’t stand to have their views questioned!
Sarah Jones
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Explain your name and how it doesn’t represent the sovereign movement and why your email uses the other word it does, both of which scream SOVEREIGN movement, which is a radical, considered dangerous far right movement. And you might want to tone down the insults and accusations if you’re trying to sound high and mighty condemning someone else for making assumptions about you. I have logic behind my conclusions. How about you?
Sovereign Curtis
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I began calling myself Sovereign Curtis four years ago when I still self-identified as a ‘minarchist/paleo-con/small ‘l’ libertarian’. I incorrectly believed that my ‘rights’ come from God, thus making me a King among Kings, blah blah blah, etc.
I no longer believe those things, but I keep the name because I DO strive to be sovereign. I dont think it has anything to do with God, or the Constitution or ‘rights’. Its got everything to do with abilities. Nothing more, nothing less. I do not wish to subjugate others, I simply wish not to be subjugated myself.
I am an Individualist/Market Anarchist. I practice Agorism, and support my Mutualist comrades. I adhere to the Non-Aggression Principle, oppose the initiation of force against others, and adhere to a voluntary lifestyle.
“I have logic behind my conclusions.”
What logic? You judged my book by its cover, plain and simple.
Btw, great job to everyone who assumed I self-identify with the Tea Party. I’m not one of you so you assume I MUST be one of them. All I was doing was pointing out that a claim had been made against a group, yet NO EVIDENCE to back up that claim had been presented…
Sarah Jones
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
You are addressing me, not Kate. And if you run around using a name that says “sovereign” in it while at the same time parroting ideas that represent the Tea Party and far right, and you admit to being a libertarian, and you have the word you do in your email, it is logical to assume exactly what I assumed, and you admitted it yourself. The Sovereign movement was in the news recently for shooting a police officer. They are listed in the DHS as a dangerous group. The cross over between SM and TP and militias and libertarians are well documented. You are trying to claim that you disagree with this article but aren’t a Tea Party person, but you were a libertarian sovereign movement person, which I identified from your name the exact same way I did the tweets in this article (and going to the profiles to read other tweets). Your argument is “if it walks like a duck talks like a duck you can’t call it a duck”. Fail.
You have proven nothing except that you have an agenda to distance the TP from these tweets; mission not accomplished.
I urge you to change your name if you don’t want to be associated with the Sovereign movement, but if you don’t, you can hardly blame people for thinking you are in the movement unless you’re just trying to set people up so you can claim bias. This pool is closed.
Reynardine
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Check it out, gato. The *citizens*, plural, are the *joint* sovereign. Each of us exercises approximately 1/310 millionth of the sovereignty, which we do through our elected representatives. When some person starts calling himself a “sovereign” he is damn well trying to steal sovereignty from the rest of us, which I estimate is not a safe endeavor.
Sovereign Curtis
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 9:27 am
Yes Sarah, I am responding to you. The only reply button I see in that comment thread is under Kate’s comment, so…
And here you continue to try to slander me based upon my name and email address. I am not violent. I am not associated with anyone who practices violence. I adhere to the NON-AGGRESSION PRINCIPLE. Have you even heard of that before?!?
“You have proven nothing except that you have an agenda to distance the TP from these tweets; mission not accomplished.”
I’m not trying to prove anything. I think its obvious to anyone who reads your ‘article’ that you didnt bother to provide any evidence to back up the claim in your title. Thats shotty journalism, on the level of FoxNews. Congratulations, you are what you hate.
Loren Mannon
Sep. 17th, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Maybe this is a little off topic, but we need to quit refering to them as ‘Conservative’. Right wing yes, conservative? No.
Reynardine
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
“Dissocialist”, which is: (a) a person trying to destroy anything he has been told is “socialist”, regardless of whether it benefits him or not; or (b) a psychopath (assuming these are different)
mikejh
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:22 am
These comment sections are being overtaken by angry teatards tonight. Their masters are all upset that the little people don’t want to be robbed anymore, so count on more of this crap.
Read the tweets to five of my friends over beers and we laughed our ass off. Made them guess the names. I win for guessing patriot. I guess the only people who don’t know just how stupid they sound is the baggers.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 12:25 am
If anything this proves they are not here for rights, taxes or smaller government. They are the hate wing of the GOP
patriot1
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 2:00 am
GET A JOB LIBS! Corperations feed you lazy bums!
Kate
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:58 am
I don’t have a job, the company shut down and put over 200 people out of work. But I manage to feed myself, thanks. Never been on welfare of assistance a day in my life. So nope, no corporations feeding me! It’s called “having a supportive family and show their support when times get tough”.
And while we’re on the topic of why I remain unemployed, I’m finishing up medical school to become a lab technician in a hospital…I have no time for a job, not with the course load I’m taking on. Pretty much guaranteed employment with my internship site after graduation, they’re already interested in my skills as a phlebotomist. In a few years, I’ll have saved up enough money to go back to school again to get a degree as an RN. And then I’m going to be tripping off to the malaria-infested jungles of South America with Doctors Without Borders or a similar humanitarian aid program.
What have you done with your life lately? Scratched your balls and slugged a can of PBR?
Yeah, when you’re working to potentially throw your life and health away in a Third World country so other people can have a decent future, then you can talk. Until then, shut your face.
I’ll get a job. But in return, I’d like you to get a life. And hey, at least I know I have a job waiting for me. You, on the other hand…it depends on whether Wal-Mart’s Get A Life At 50% Off sale has ended yet.
Class dismissed. Any questions?
Kate
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Wow, typo-riddled first paragraph. Sorry. I’ve been up since 6, and haven’t had any breakfast yet.
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Uh-Oh, mates, another one fell right out of the tree! Crawling around here like a little bagger, bottom feeding…
Everyone here has picked on “the lit’ull Patriot” and now all this little bagger has got left are those sad little slogans used from the first generation Moral Majority parents. Tsk, such a pity…
Why don’t YOU leave the country, Christian Reich patriot!? Hire the Mayflower and leave democracy for the “real Americans”. We’re really very tired of seeing the fried butter eaters on TV portrayed as “Americans”…you people are embarrassment.
Sid
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Dear Patriot1. I have a job. I watch the boss take home 6 figures and over half of the bonus pool, while the people who do most of the work have to take two jobs just to pay bills. If you are so big on finding jobs for people, why don’t you provide a list of corporations that are hiring right now? You are a hateful blowhard who doesn’t have a real job yourself, you take corporate welfare! Tell me I’m wrong? You can’t!
outraged
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:33 am
Slings and arrows against the reason.
I am but one member of a local tea party. I even know this is not the time to give the Socialist President a reason to invoke martial law. Biding our time and standing for the constitution. The next presidential election will mark the end. Vote Ron Paul
Find out what he stands for and don’t get caught up in the wave of peer pressure that elected the idiot we have pretending to be the Current president. This includes Perry, as he is not any part of a solution but just another wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 10:45 am
So basically all you are doing is running from the fact that you support Wall Street over the people being screwed by Wall Street, including yourself.
Socialist president? You just lost any credibility
Kate
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Socialism is alive and well here in America. Our fire departments, police departments, public emergency rescue services, and even public schools would be considered socialist.
“Socialism” is not a dirty word. It’s been saving your ass and the ass of every other tax-paying American for hundreds of years.
And if that’s what the President stands for, then by hell I’m glad he supports socialism!
I see no reason in your argument. You use typical fear-mongering techniques to convince us that the President is a boogeyman. And that’s about where I stopped reading.
SinghX
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Little word salad-ee don’t cha’think there, sparky? Naw, you couldn’t tell a cliche from the truth…it’s hard, I know, bless your little heart.
And who do you think you are pointing the finger and tellin’ “other” American citizens what do as in “don’t get caught up in a wave of peer pressure”? talking down on people as if they were teenagers about to smoke that wacky-tabackie…where’s all that freedom’lovin’ free speech that socialist invented? Go ahead refudiate my athor’ra’tay!
…then name-calling on THE PRESIDENT? That is one big “how dare you” since no one was allowed to call the appointee Bush anything…
Put your “quiver” away, pack your bags, call the Mayflower and sail off the edge of the earth with the rest of the birthers.
Anne
Sep. 18th, 2011 at 9:42 am
This is another pathetic spectacle of people carrying water for the very folks who would drown them without a second thought. The Tea Party is phony populist group founded by folks who have a vested interest in a divided populace that is economically subjugated. These idiots are stupid enough to think that they will not be negatively affected by what the Koch brothers and their ilk want for this country.
Paul Sutera
Sep. 19th, 2011 at 7:04 am
The focus on Wall St is great. But let’s also focus on companies like IBM that are behind the outsourcing of the entire I/T industry in this country to 3rd world countries. How does it work? IBM convinces large and mid-size companies to give up their local I/T people in favor outsourcing their I/T to IBM-provided I/T, often subcontracted. Americans are losing their jobs to China and India! Stop the corporate-bribery US government!
Middle Molly
Sep. 20th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Paul, I’m glad you mentioned this. There are so, so many issues involved in the decimation of the economy and the entire middle class that it is hard to figure out where to focus. The IT industry was a path to the middle class, to a comfortable life, for hundreds of thousands of young people starting in the 60′s. Many of those people, the ones who couldn’t afford to retire early, are among the long-term unemployed in their 50′s and 60′s. What would fix this? I have absolutely no idea.