Tea Party in Searchlight, NV, Sen. Reid's hometown - (Updated) pics

[Kadie]

Palin to be headline speaker at the rally...


People gather before a rally in the desert outside Searchlight, Nev. Saturday, March 27, 2010. Sarah Palin and thousands of conservative "tea party" activists plan to descend on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown in the Nevada desert Saturday to call for the ouster of Democrats who supported the health care overhaul.


SEARCHLIGHT, NV - MARCH 27: People gather for the Tea Party Express' 'Showdown in Searchlight,' rally March 27, 2010 in Searchlight, Nevada. The rally, held in the hometown of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), serves as the kickoff for a 42-city bus tour that ends in Washington D.C. on April 15, 2010.


Tea Party supporters Leni Wilhelmi (L) and her husband Dewey (R) from Elko, Nevada, relax in their camper as they wait for tomorrow's Tea Party rally at the rally site in Searchlight, Nevada on March 26, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally.


Mobile homes of Tea Party supporters are parked at the site of tomorrow's Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada on March 26, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally.


Tea Party supporter Bob Prescott shows his buttons and flags for sale at the site of tomorrow's Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada on March 26, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally.


Tea Party supporter Grace Fountain of Laughlin, Nevada, holds a sign as supporters gather for a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


Tea Party supporter Grace Fountain of Laughlin, Nevada, holds a sign as supporters gather for a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


SEARCHLIGHT, NV - MARCH 27: Ed Reott of Utah holds a sign as people gather for the Tea Party Express' 'Showdown in Searchlight,' rally March 27, 2010 in Searchlight, Nevada. The rally, held in the hometown of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), serves as the kickoff for a 42-city bus tour that ends in Washington D.C. on April 15, 2010.


Tea Party supporter Jody Black from Las Vegas arrives for a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


Tea Party supporter Jody Black from Las Vegas arrives for a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


SEARCHLIGHT, NV - MARCH 27: Tom Barnes of Nevada holds a sign as people gather for the Tea Party Express' 'Showdown in Searchlight,' rally March 27, 2010 in Searchlight, Nevada. The rally, held in the hometown of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), serves as the kickoff for a 42-city bus tour that ends in Washington D.C. on April 15, 2010.


SEARCHLIGHT, NV - MARCH 27: William Temple (L) of Georgia and Jim Linn of Louisiana arrive at the Tea Party Express' 'Showdown in Searchlight,' rally March 27, 2010 in Searchlight, Nevada. The rally, held in the hometown of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), serves as the kickoff for a 42-city bus tour that ends in Washington D.C. on April 15, 2010.


Tea Party supporters from Temecula, California, arrive in buses for a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


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Tea Party supporters await the start of a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


Tea Party supporters await the start of a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


Tea Party and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin supporters Linda Lester (L) and Deanna Lamoureux (R) arrive for a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally.

[left coaster]

1. It's like Burning Man for idiots. nt

[zonkers]

5. Burning man attendees get laid, though.

[stevedeshazer]

11. +1

That was my first thought.

[Joanne98]

13. LOL

[bemildred]

49. My first thought too. nt

[bluestateguy]

2. I wonder if Dennis Hof's Moonlight Bunny Ranch will have some extra customers this weekend

from all those family values conservatives.

[laughingliberal]

10. Actually, the Bunny Ranch is in Northern Nevada, about a 12 hours away by road

There are a couple of decent brothels about an hour out of Vegas which would be much closer.

[dana_b]

18. ugh - poor prostitutes!!

they can refuse service, can't they?

[zonkers]

3. True diversity. Whackos, nutjobs haters and racists,

[livetohike]

4. Pic #5 looks like Sarah Palin but bigger ears + glasses

probably related :-).

[mediaman007]

6. Looks like a gathering of midwest snowbirds on their way home for

the summer.

From the looks of it, there are some expensive motor homes on sight. I imagine there will be some insurance claims once they see the damage from the wind-blown sand.

[Cleita]

7. If you drive through Searchlight and blink, you miss it.

Someone should put a big banner across the intersection there that says, WELCOME ASSHOLES, BRING MONEY.

[SoCalNative]

8. Just as I suspected

nothing but right-wing trailer trash.

[hyphenate]

45. I'd make a correction to your thought

Add "white" to it. I don't see one non-white person there at all.

[Cetacea]

9. "Give them a light and they'll follow it anywhere"

Firesign Theatre

[OregonBlue]

12. Looks like most of them are on Medicare or Medicaid or both. They're OLD.

[Old and In the Way]

14. It's a conservative Woodstock!

Minus 495,000 people. Sorry, I just can't take these people seriously.

[momster]

36. Hoodstock?

Laughingstock?

[Lyric]

15. It must be nice to have so much money that you can waste good working hours

doing this dumbass shit.

[Catshrink]

19. Take another look: most of these people are on social security

they aren't spring chickens but rather sucking on the socialist teats of social security and medicare.

Perversely, I want to know where they're emptying all those potty-tanks on the RVs.

[Fleshdancer]

16. pet peeve #4,389: Flag clothes

I know a fashion rant is lost on these people, but seriously, flag clothes are tacky...and most likely constructed by poor Chinese children. Sad, ridiculous, and tacky. Also, wearing this crap is an odd choice when protesting the government but whatever.

[dana_b]

17. third from the bottom

is sickening. I mean, they're ALL sickening but that one took the cake for me.

[Doremus]

25. That bottom duo is the one that made me lose my lunch.

The woman on the right needs to throw them over her shoulder so she doesn't trip.

:puke:

[The Midway Rebel]

20. Campy

camp 2 (kāmp)
n.
An affectation or appreciation of manners and tastes commonly thought to be artificial, vulgar, or banal.

Banality, vulgarity, or artificiality when deliberately affected or when appreciated for its humor: "Camp is popularity plus vulgarity plus innocence" (Indra Jahalani).

adj. Having deliberately artificial, vulgar, banal, or affectedly humorous qualities or style: played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.
v. camped, camp·ing, camps

v. intr.
To act in a deliberately artificial, vulgar, or banal way.
v. tr.
To give a deliberately artificial, vulgar, or banal quality to: camped up their cowboy costumes with chaps, tin stars, and ten-gallon hats.

[lonestarnot]

21. Is this the treatment center for those without pshyciatric coverage?

And they dress up for it in flags and stuff. :D on edit, I don't think would have had in in me to take those pics. How did you work up the stamina? Do they have a new drink on the market? :toast:

[samplegirl]

22. Scary looking idiots

[SOS]

23. An observation

When United for Peace and Justice got half a million people to protest the Iraq invasion, there was no media coverage.
A search of the New York Times for the following day reveals a short article which focused on the traffic chaos.

On March 21, 2010, 250 brownshirts spit on black Representatives and hurled racist invective.
24/7 coverage.
On the same day, at the other end of the Mall, 20,000, mostly Latino protestors, rallied for immigration reform.
Obama addressed them on a Jumbotron TV.
Not one minute of coverage and no article in the Times.

The 24/7 coverage of these tea party idiots is corporate media propaganda.
When I see them on TV, even if it's on KO or RM, I change the channel.

[dana_b]

26. it's there way of telling us we

are inconsequential. 2002 and 2003 anti-war protests were huge and the numbers were way under reported. Now they don't even bother anymore. The immigration reform protests last week? Barely mentioned and forget about the anti-war protests or what people are doing in D.C. right this minute! We aren't "real" Americans. We're just anti-American, socialist jerks who hate the Constitution.

[jaysunb]

24. Is the media giving this wall to wall coverage ?

I'm sure that by Monday these 500 social security recipients will have morped into over 1 million everyday Americans that are angry about______ (fill in the blank)

This shit is going to backfire on the media and the Republicans..... :evilfrown:

[thelordofhell]

27. First it was "Over 10,000" , now it's "Thousands"

But all I see is "Hundreds" at best.

[Born_A_Truman]

28. One can only hope a good dust devil hits at the right time ...

:rofl:

[nc4bo]

29. Grossness X 1000!. Psst Teabagging ladies & gents, y'all ain't patriots! nt

[Giant Robot]

30. How odd....

They are all older white folks.

Would never have guessed that at a teabagger gathering.

[tex-wyo-dem]

52. no kidding...

And it's purely coincidental that these teabaggers happen to fall into the main demographic of Faux "news" viewers...60+ and white.

[Fumesucker]

31. Overheard at Peckerwoodstock..

Don't do the brown antacid..

[elias49]

32. This post should have a warning: "Graphics may be offensive" eom

[barbtries]

33. such a white crowd

not representative of the populace at all.
they make me sad the way they appear to thrive on all hate and negativity. the energy is so negative, so ugly.

[barbtries]

34. kadie

are these your pics? are you there? if so all i can say is you've a stronger stomach than i do, and stay safe.

[Kadie]

38. LOL. No way. I am not there.

I found these pics at daylife.com

:hi:

[madrchsod]

35. these old assholes have medicare and social security....

so those old sacks of shit should turn in their payments back to the government they hate.

[99 Percent Sure]

37. Some of these people look to be mentally challenged, but ALL of them

are selfish and mean-spirited.

Alas, these days, it is the way of the world.

They may be a 12-hour drive from Nevada's best little whorehouse, but I'll bet you 95% of them will overflow the nearest casinos. The 2 chicks with all the tea-loser buttons affixed to their clothing look like big time gamblers, and the Temecula folk probably stopped by for a change in casino scenery too.

Wicked and willful, the lot of them.

[brewens]

39. Can they build a concentration camp around them? Looks like

perfect spot.

[tinrobot]

40. What, they can't afford to rent a hall?

Reminds me more of a high school kegger than a political rally.

[lunatica]

51. The town of Searchlight has less than 800 inhabitants

I doubt there's a hall to rent. But they can probably go to the stores and coffee shop and play on the slot machines.

[lillypaddle]

41. Scary group

sheesh. :crazy:

[otohara]

42. Complete with RV's & Lawn Chairs -

looks like a tailgate party at NASCAR

[noel711]

43. What's pathetic is that they haven't a clue...

They latch onto symbols or 'buzzwords' ('Liberty' is a big on)
as catch-alls, but they have no idea the deeper meaning.

The STatue of Liberty? "Give me your tired and poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breath free.."
No to immigration.

And those guys who dress up in 18th century outfits,
but those were the clothing of the upper classes,
most of these folk at this site would be peasants
or indentured servants.


So sad, really... great photos tho.

[Strelnikov_]

44. Oh Baby Jaysus . . thats like 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 baggers

Woe is us . . woe is us . . .

[Initech]

46. Obama as the Joker? Really?

[arcadian]

47. I saw some schmuck wearing a "Don't Tread on Me" T-Shirt today.

[lottirj]

48. RE: Tea Party in Searchlight, NV, Sen. Reid's hometown - (Updated) pics

Now you get to see first hand the results that Reagan closing the mental hospitals has caused. Someone, hire one of those planes that do water dumps on forest fires to do a Thorazine dump on that crowd! They're the new "Wrinkle Generation."

[gulliver]

50. The carnival freaks union in Nevada should protest this.

Who will pay good money for a freak show if these people are just giving it away?

[ericinne]

53. Sad

Why does the first picture remind me of a bad punchline

SO A COUPLE HUNDRED SENIORS ON SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE JUMPED IN THEIR RV'S AND WENT INTO THE DESERT TO MEET SARAH PALIN AND PROTEST SOCIALISM.

Someone should run a counter "STRONG BREW TEA PARTY/GINSENG" "AMERICANS AGAINST ALL SOCIALISM" counter protest and demand social security and medicare also be repealed.

[SOS]

54. Everything about this gathering is in the 70's

The temperature, the ages and the IQs.

(An old George Carlin joke, modified)