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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:59 AM Original message |
"Tea Party activists have no idea what they're talking about. " |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
1. K&R. A "political movement predicated on literally nothing more than ignorance and rage" |
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Lifelong Protester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. My favorite line is this, as I believe it sums up most TBers to a "tea" |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 02:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. Sums up all conservatives, if you ask me |
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axollot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
46. It certainly explains the way they act - especially on msg boards LOL n/t |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 07:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
82. That's a Conservative in a nutshell |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
3. The ones I talked to don't know what Derivatives are and had NO idea how big the Wall Street crisis |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I've found the same thing ... they think (have been told) .... |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. That's precisely what they "think" and just everything about their political perspective boils down |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
63. "Someone is going to get Something that s/he doesn't deserve..." |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 03:41 AM Response to Reply #63 |
72. Bingo! The imagery is straight from Reagan's "welfare queen" nonsense |
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louis-t (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
45. Folks, it's up to us to educate these people. |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. K/R |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:14 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. But critical thinking |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
65. But critical thinking Actually requires a person to do research on a topic. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
7. They're worked up because their leaders convince them they ought to be. |
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cilla4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
8. The part that really fries ME |
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FredStembottom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Evil, greedy and Machiavellian. |
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cilla4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. hotDAMN you are so right on! |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
52. Sherlock Holmes arch nemesis |
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FredStembottom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:23 PM Response to Reply #52 |
66. He knew the value of stirring up large groups.... |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
53. I vote for evil, greedy, and Machiavellian. No contest. |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
9. Those entitlements they rail against are those deserved benefits! |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
10. Same crap, different century |
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joe black (514 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
43. I love Steph. |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 07:44 AM Response to Reply #10 |
80. they are the progeny of the know-nothings from the mid-19th century |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
12. kick and rec n/t |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. Scrambled brains because they listen to Faux Noise... |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
15. Those leading them around by the |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
16. They want what they have, just not for anyone else that does not agree with their idealogy. |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. The Bigger Problem Is The Non-Fox News Media That Never Challenges Them |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
18. How many people know what a Venn diagram is? |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
58. a diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
67. How many people know what a Venn diagram is? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 06:40 AM Response to Reply #18 |
76. Everyone who managed to get through High School while awake? |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
19. Interesting that 62% of Tea Party folk think Social Security, Medicare are worth cost to taxpayers |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. One the radio said "we're just like the real Boston tea partiers." |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. They were protesting special tax cuts that undercut their small teashop businesses. |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I don't think the modern tea baggers understand the irony of naming themselves after a movement |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 06:32 AM Response to Reply #23 |
75. I agree with you in some respects. |
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h9socialist (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
25. So what else is new? |
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political_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
26. It's like the blind leading the blind. |
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Liberal Gramma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:02 PM Response to Reply #26 |
62. Ding!Ding!Ding! We have a winner! |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
27. What they want is to cut all benefits for everyone but them |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
28. For a fringe movement, they get a ton of media coverage |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. That sounds like the basis of a good letter to the editor. |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Because they provide great fodder for the "circus" part of the "bread and circus" theater the media |
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eagertolearn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Nice to know you live in an area where only that many showed up. |
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Liberal Gramma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 10:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
64. Because the real owners of the country support their agenda |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
29. Key word is "misled"-they are TOOLS of the RW media and those who want |
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emmadoggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
32. Sort of like a modern "Know Nothing" party... nt |
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greiner3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
33. "this is a confused group of misled people." |
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SpartanDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
34. Just more proof that this "movenment" |
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eagertolearn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
36. My mom and her boyfriend are teabaggers and there is nothing |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:46 PM Response to Reply #36 |
47. Have you told her yet that Faux News is owned by a foreigner (a royalist from |
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Ebadlun (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:08 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. Oi, Murdoch is Australian! |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 01:58 AM Response to Reply #54 |
70. Ooopps! |
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eagertolearn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:52 AM Response to Reply #47 |
85. Who owns MSNBC and CNN? She astually watches CNN sometimes too |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:10 PM Response to Reply #36 |
55. How does she pay her living expenses? Just curious. Any govt "support"? |
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eagertolearn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:47 AM Response to Reply #55 |
84. Living off an inheritance left by her father which is dwindling fast. |
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mstinamotorcity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
37. The Tea Party |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
38. kick and rec. n/t |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
39. "I think I've changed my mind." |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:13 PM Response to Reply #39 |
56. Reminds me of one of the best bits from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" |
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The Green Manalishi (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
40. "Misled"? |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
41. They never should have come to the 'smart' coast where we could take a good look at them |
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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
42. A big k/r |
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DuaneBidoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
44. The one element I find truly puzzling is the "better educated" part. How could that be? |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:59 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. It has to do with political efficacy |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:14 PM Response to Reply #44 |
57. Guess they were using repuke standards of education. |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:36 PM Response to Reply #44 |
61. It means they presumably received a good education at some time in their past. It doesn't |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
48. One great line: |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 11:02 PM Response to Reply #48 |
68. lol |
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TxVietVet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
50. These clowns are ignorant. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
51. Nooooooooooooooo. Their NOT racists..... |
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mattomjoe (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
59. Ahhhhh... the stupid.... it hurts.... |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
60. She didn't sound foolish when put on the spot. She was capable of changing her mind. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:07 AM Response to Reply #60 |
83. I bet she's still a teabagger though |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
69. "I just want smaller government - and my fair share" |
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LaPera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
71. Is that why the idiot Bachmann was telling the uninformed ignorant tea baggers what high IQ's |
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oasis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 04:00 AM Response to Original message |
73. Tea baggers are getting far too much press and so is their god, Palin. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 05:37 AM Response to Original message |
74. the government does too much to address the problems of the African-American community |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 06:44 AM Response to Original message |
77. They loved the bush |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
78. Well... |
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mikekohr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
79. DePue/Bureau County Democratic Club's Numbers on the deficit, job creation, recessions, ect. |
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mikekohr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 05:57 PM Response to Reply #79 |
87. SORRY!!! Broken link. Here's the correct link: |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
81. The Baggers do seem to be a bit confused. That's the most |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
86. that's been my point from the FIRST day! |
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