Teabaggers are idiots: Imagine hitting the streets, PROTESTING to get what they want.

[graywarrior]

While we sit here banging on keys bitching.


Just sayin'.

[quinnox]

1. lol

Well its raining where I'm at so I have an excuse. Though I admit its a weak ass one.

[Writer]

2. No kidding. Why aren't we out there?

Is the internet our cathartic means of expression?

[Bluzmann57]

3. It's 12 degrees here

So it's way too cold to go outside for any length of time. So if the teabaggers want to stand outside and protest here, then they are indeed idiots.

[zbdent]

25. and just watch ... the teabirthers go out in this weather, and contract

pneumonia ... and, since they're mostly over 65 and on public Medicare, we'd end up having to pay their hospital bills ...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. You're right.

Teabagging supermen are our superiors.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. I'm not sure that the leaders who don't give a damn about us would change their minds

if we took to the streets.

They already know we don't like it.

They already have laws and weapons to stop a crowd.

What leverage is there in marching?

Particularly when a march of thousands will be reported to the world as 'several hundred' or even 'several dozen' by the time it hits the news.

[graywarrior]

7. We're too polite.

We don't make obnoxious fools of ourselves thus gaining the attention of the "liberal" media that plasters us all over the airwaves 24/7. We must become drooling Neanderthals to strike fear into anyone who gives a shit about re-election.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. The teabaggers ARE idiots.

The fact that sometimes they show up for a RW organized protest doesn't change that fact.

And I swear to god, if the Progressives keep talking about aligning themselves with Racist scum, the only thing accomplished will be the alienation of a good chunk of the most loyal Dems out there.

[rudy23]

8. It helps when Johnny Law only pulls the tazers and tear gas out against one side.

The Teabaggers practically had police escorts.

[rudy23]

9. But I agree with your premise. Just saying--I think that's a big part of it. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. from my reading of history, they look a lot like

the original members of the SA. Angry, disillusioned, ill-informed, a small minority, led by crazy people, and creating problems for other political leaders.
They were so stupid that even Hitler had enough of them, and had their loudest leaders killed off.

[sandnsea]

11. We need middle aged women

and suburban mothers to do sit-ins in Connecticut and Maine, very politely, no antics. That's the only time anybody pays attention to Democrats.

[pamela]

12. Mothers Against Dumb Democrats n/t

[chill_wind]

14. Heh

:thumbsup:

[sandnsea]

18. hehe, I like that n/t

[chill_wind]

13. Folks pushing for financial reform

& consumer protection...

Week of DEC 14th

Listed below is a growing list of places organizing events (check back daily as this list is growing over next few days!):

* Austin, Texas: Thursday, Dec 17, noon at 15th and Guadalupe in front of Wells Fargo. Contact Andy Wilson for more details: [phone]
* Boston, Massachusetts
* Chicago, Illinois: Thursday, Dec 17, 11 am at AmeriCash Loans Store, 28 E Madison St. Contact Jen Hall for more details: [phone]
* Cincinnati, Ohio: Wednesday, Dec 16.
* Columbus, Ohio
* Denver, Colorado: Thursday, Dec 17. Contact Carolyn Siegel for more details: [phone]
* Indianapolis, Indiana: Contact Ronetta Spalding for more details: [phone]
* Los Angeles, California
* New York, New York: Wednesday, Dec 16, noon at 200 West Street (between Vesey and Murray). Contact Ann Sullivan for more details: [phone]
* Orlando, Florida: Friday, Dec 18, 2:30 pm at Bank of America, 800 John Young Pkwy. Contact Stephanie Porta for more details: [phone]
* Pontiac, Michigan: Wednesday, Dec 16. Contact Todd Cook for more details: [phone]
* Portland, Oregon: Thursday, Dec 17.
* Providence, Rhode Island
* Richmond, Virginia: Thursday, Dec 17. Contact Jenny Lawson for more details: [phone].
* Ridgewood, New Jersey: Friday, Dec 18 at Bank of America, 25 N Maple Ave. Contact Rhoda Schermer for more details: [e-mail]
* San Francisco, California: Thursday, Dec 17, 2 pm at Wells Fargo, 1 Montgomery Street.
* San Jose, California
* Seattle, Washington: Contact Angela Omulepu for more details: [phone]
* Washington, DC: Monday, Dec 14, 11 am at 1500 Pennsylvania Ave NW in front of US Treasury. Please contact Rachel Anderson for more details: [phone]
* Wilmingon, Delaware: Friday, Dec 18, 6-9 pm at 408 East 8th St, Wilmington. Contact Darlene Battle for more details: [phone]

Coalition of about 200 national and state orgs at this link

http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/about/our-coalition/

http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2009/12/demand-wall-street-use-150-billion-bonuses-to-help-families-recover/



If we could harness something like that for banking reforms, why not HCR ....

[unblock]

15. imagine what WE could do if the media would call an 8-person protest "massive"

we HAVE marched, we HAVE protested, we HAVE put a million people in d.c.

and yet tea baggers get more attention.

seems like there's more to it than just protesting.

just sayin'.

[gratuitous]

20. Excellent point

When we hit the streets by the hundreds or thousands, we're just a focus group, a bunch of dirty fuckin' hippies stuck in the 60s. The only people shown are the kids with black bandanas over their faces or the street actors in the rainbow fright wigs. When the teabaggers turn out by the dozen (or A dozen), they get a respectful hearing and full coverage. If their message is unclear, the media will helpfully focus it all to a laser pinpoint for them.

But I'm sure it's only because we know how to work a keyboard.

[madinmaryland]

16. They wanted AMNETY and a PUBIC OPTION!! Good job, teabaggers!!

:rofl:

[xultar]

17. ...and requesting new forums which will really get shit changed.

[emulatorloo]

19. Teabaggers have Americans for Prosperity, Freedomworks to fund them

All we have is MoveOn, they can't even make a decent TV commercial

[fl_dem]

21. they are agressive bullies by nature

we are much too kind, and most of us have jobs, whereas from what I've witnessed the majority of the teabaggers are retired white guys and their brow beaten brainwashed wives...

[fl_dem]

22. they are agressive bullies by nature

we are much too kind, and most of us have jobs, whereas from what I've witnessed the majority of the teabaggers are retired white guys and their brow beaten brainwashed wives...just sayin

[walldude]

23. Yeah cause we never go out... Thing is when they go out

10,000 people show up and the media calls it a million. When we go out a million show up and the media calls it 10,000.


It's a rigged game. Which is why I don't waste my time "protesting" anymore. Spent 8 years screaming, protesting, writing, phoning, and it didn't do a damn thing Bush still managed to fuck us into the ground.

[Raine]

24. They were a smokescreen keeping people

diverted with those idiots while the insurance companies were busy telling the politicians what they wanted.

[graywarrior]

26. Exactly!