To All Teabaggers, You didn’t get mad when…
Now you're mad!
This is dedicated to all you self proclaimed conscientious patriots, We want to get this straight.
You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.
You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.
You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city drown.
You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when.. when… wait for it… when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all ok with you but helping other Americans… well fuck that. That about right? You know it is.
You people have all lost your fucking minds. You are selfish, greedy, obnoxious, narcissistic, and frankly… stupid. Your pathetic little misspelled protest signs are embarrassing. Maybe you ought to find the smart person in your midst and let them make up all the signs, cause man, you look like a bunch of idiots. Also you’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
I did get frustrated when we invaded Iraq cause we didn't have any Business there.
I would have been made if I had known 10 bill had gone missing, and I am now.
No I didn't get mad when I found out people were getting tortured. Why should I? Helps protect our troops and us.
I am VERY pissed we haven't caught Osama, or at least found out he is already dead.
Why would I be mad about New Orleans? It was a Natural disaster, crap happens. The nation was in shock.
Yeah I was mad when we hit a trill. I was mad when we hit 500 bill. But I'm more mad about 12 FCKING TRILLION!!!!
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And I was also very pissed about the Patriot Act. But there was already something like it in use. If you go on your phone and say a few key words:
(communisiam, attack, bomb, assasinate, president, kill, White house, and various other fun words)
You set off a machine somewhere >.>
I don't remember where exactly, my teacher 2 years ago told us about it. It apparently was left over from the Red Scare.
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I also get mad when people like you and your administration stoops to middle school level humor to talk about any opposition.
Grow up.
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Boy am I glad we live in a “civilized” country where we treat people with respect.
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Americans did protest almost every event you listed above; because anger and resentment builds over time (like when you dad beats you every night), eventually you get mad enough to take serious action. That's what you're seeing with the tea bagers
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I really liked you post! But everything starting with “fuck” totally knocks the wind out of it. Consider ending your post after the ellipsis “…”
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You are just plain wrong here, and you are playing the same BS divisive politics that you are accusing “teabaggers” of.
I am a liberty-oriented republican, and I was and am aboslutely opposed to Obama. I think government health care is a disastrous idea.
Yet, every single item on your list is distrubing for me as well. I got very mad when we found out about the downing street memo, about torture and rendition around the world, and when our government contributed to the problem of Hurricane Katrina.
Please don't box us in like this. It's OK for us to be angry about all the things you listed and still be opposed to government health care.
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Its sad isn't it.
A liberal is a person who gets mad when there tax money is spent on killing people.
A conservative is a person who get gets mad when their tax money is used to save people.
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As much as I agree with you, you didn't have to come down to the Teabaggers' and Birthers' levels with the F bombs. Our cause is right, we desperately need major healthcare reform, so don't act like them when you talk about it.
Let them destroy themselves with their lies about death panels. Let them foam at the mouth when we talk about spending a fraction of the money they're spending on an illegal war to help our own people. Let them try to use thuggery to accomplish what they couldn't do in the ballot box last year.
If we act like adults we will give Americans a clear choice and will insure the Republicans stay out of office for decades to come. Let them act like the nuts and the crazies. They are already doing a great job of positioning themselves as the fringe party.
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You are right, I didn't get mad when my nephew went overseas and got shot to preserve YOUR right to be a complete idiot who cannot carry on a conversation without cursing. I didn't get mad at the Patriot Act because even with all of its flaws it is designed to protect us. I tell you what makes me mad, is people who get upset over alot of us not wanting to give away what we have worked for to those who are unwilling to work… Notice I said UNWILLING, NOT UNABLE…. BIG DIFFERENCE.
As far as Katrina, where is the anger over the people who didn't leave when told the storm was coming. I wasn't aware that there were caves in New Orleans that the people live in and didn't hear the warnings!!! What about the LOCAL government doing their part and getting the people who were UNABLE to leave on their own got out safely? Again see the difference here between UNABLE and UNWILLING….
I have no problem helping someone who has tried all that they can to help themselves, I have a HUGE problem with the government taking MY MONEY to help those UNWILLING to help themselves…
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Fuck you. A large number of us “teabaggers” are just as pissed as you are about all of the stuff that you listed. We feel that the last president was just as detrimental as the current one, if not more so. We're pissed as hell about the Patriot Act, the War in Iraq and the money we've spent on it, the infringement of our privacy via wiretapping, the illegal torturing, the debt. etc.
And we're pissed that a dying Republican Party is trying to hang its hat on our reputation to save itself. Most of the original participants in tea parties going back quite a while were independents, libertarians, and those who had defected from the batshit insane Republican Party. With this one issue we happen to agree with the Republican Party, and I'm honestly glad for the support because perhaps we'll actually succeed in keeping the government from grabbing another inch of control it isn't supposed to have and doesn't deserve. But I wonder if it's worth it if everything else we stand for gets ignored and we're linked with the Republicans.
I stand for limited to no government control… in people's personal lives, in the affairs of other sovereign countries, and with the money I earn. We disagree on this issue, but clearly we agree on plenty of others. So do us a favor… argue with us based on the facts relevant to this issue rather than trying to pin a bunch of bullshit we don't even stand for on us. It's called a straw man. I don't need to defend all of the other positions because I don't stand for them.
But if you'd like to make a legitimate argument for socialized healthcare, perhaps we can have a civil discussion about it.
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Nope……I don't care if America tortures the people who have information of events that could save lives of innocent people. You also were calling people stupid……ok how about a person that blames his country for a NATURAL DISASTER. What the fuck…. does the gov. now control the weather? And the deficit?? Obama's first year's budget is more than every president's in history ALMOST COMBINED. You want to talk about this new Universal Healthcare?? First off I don't have health insurance. If it were to pass you can expect EVERYTHING that you buy to damn near triple in cost. It won't be seen on the price tag because that would be too obvious, but it will be made through an extreme increase in taxes. Because, nothing is free and that is how they are attempting to sell the idea. Not only that…….they will have control and say so on how much a doctor is ALLOWED to make, and on down the line of jobs in healthcare. Which in effect will cause the quality of care to plummit, because why would a person that went through 12 years or so of med. school do anything more than he has to if he isn't going to get paid for it. Also, how would you like it when your over the age of 60 (because you WILL get there) and the wonderful government won't treat you if you're diagnosed with cancer or deminsia? Even if you could have afforded your own health insurance.
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Hey John, from another John, natural disasters happen, but your gay Republican facists who believe so much in business being so superior to government hired businesses to take care of people, move them around, and find them housing after Katrina.
They botched it! They screwed it up! The place is still a mess!!! Why? Because the houses and neighborhoods that were destroyed belonged to the poor so businesses didn't give a godamn rats ass to help them.
And your economic BS about prices rising? Wait a minute, all you gay ass Republicans didn't whine or bitch when everyday prices throughout the Bush admin rose by about 60-70% yet you're somehow guessing the prices will rise under Obama? You're such a hypocrit its not even funny, how moronically stupid you people are!!
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JRY:
First of all, the “gay Republican facists (sic – I think you meant fascists)” had nothing to do with Katrina. As an American, I believe the government inept when it comes to dealing with things like Katrina: “Cash For Clunkers” is the most recent example of that. However, the examples of failures by the government is endless: social security, FNMA/FHLMC (more govt. than private), medicare, medicaid, etc.
However, after reading your post, I was disgusted with you. For you to use the terms “gay ass Republicans”, fascists, etc. doesn't invite conversation: it invites a reciprocal response. My first reaction was to call you names as well. However, what's the point? What do I accomplish by doing so? What do you accomplish by calling people the aforementioned names?
If you are mad at the system, become part of the solution. Right now, you appear to be part of the problem. Your post does not invite dialog, and it certainly doesn't suggest that you wish to engage in a “problem solving dialog”. It really just appears that you are angry, and want to vent. You obviously have passion, and you used energy to vent: what did you accomplish?
Come on, let's all do better. Let's be civil, and solve the problem. I have no faith that this government (or any ones prior to this one), based on too much history, will solve the problems we face as a country. Screw them: let's, as Americans, roll up our sleeves and get it done.
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Actually, I think a better analogy is:
A liberal is a person that doesn't pay taxes, but is upset when others don't want to spend their tax money on him.
A conservative is a person that thinks that if you work for a living, you should keep as much as possible to do what they want to do with it.
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I would like to add, my family was republican, I was too, until I realized Liberals wanted to help others, and I thought that was such a great idea, then I realized the philosophy behind liberalism and the fact that it doesn't work, and I also noticed that so many liberals were only such when it served their own cause, so I became a republican again, then I realized almost all politicians (I will leave this open for those VERY few in both parties) are liars, cheats, thieves, and not worthy of the jobs they hold, so I am now an American first, Libertarian/Independent.
I am looking for a party that stands for America, and what it stands for, I have the read the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers, and Common Sense (both versions) and this country has strayed from the great nation it was. Life, Liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness. NOWHERE does it say, if I am pursuing my happiness I am to stop, and make sure you are happy or worse, pay to make you happy, (unless that is what I want to do)
Tea Parties aren't about which party is right or wrong, it’s what about what is right for this country, we need to all step back, look at what is going on, stop the name calling, quit the bitching, and fix this. The problem IS the government, until we get them out, we can't fix this, NO country in the world has ever survived Gov Healthcare without taxing the hell out of everyone. I realize there are those of you that aren't paying taxes now, and think, what a great idea to get all this coverage for free, it won't be, it never is with the Government.
There is a great Article at The Atlantic online http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care/ it explains a lot of the failures of even our existing system, those that may occur from letting the government in, and possible fixes, read it with an open mind, there may be a way out, but not the way we are going..
And this is only a start, we need to get the government out of our lives PERIOD, when the government controls our lives, what is the difference between that and slavery? This country is founded on freedom, don't relinquish it so easy, once you lose it, you have to fight to get it back – remember that scene in Braveheart? “Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take… OUR FREEDOM!
Every time you give a live bit of control away, you give away your freedom, until all of a sudden its gone..
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I think that all political parties are corrupt. They have their own preservation as their only goal. It is time that we as a nation wake up to the fact that we'll never continue as a great nation as long as we continue to leave GOD out of our country. If we continue down this road we will follow the Romans and Greeks and all great civilizations to self destruction. We have history to guide us but we fail make correction, but make the same mistakes and follow the way of the DODO!!!!. It is time to wake up America and follow our fore fathers to continue to make America the greatest place to live.
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Hee hee hee…you taught me something I didn't know before. I didn't know they had mothers. Wondered why they dressed so funny!
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Posting in an epic troll thread.
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Epic.Win.
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This person is as CLUELESS as to WHO the tea party protesters are as the pathetic Republicrat opportunists trying to pander to them are.
This would be as asinine as pigeon holing all WTO/G20 protesters as violent Anarchists just because some Anarchists show up at those protests.
Personally, I was (and continue to be) as outraged by the huge expansion of near dictatorial power of Government and Corporations under the Bush Administration as I am by the continuation of it under the Obama Administration…. Read more
When so called 'progressives' (and so called 'conservatives') get hip tot he fact that the only 'two' sides in our Republic are Big Government/Corporations vs. We The Individual People then we may get somewhere.
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Nice language by the way. What respect can you really expect?
Well, by the way, No you didn't get it 'straight' and your way off base.
It is very naive to think a country so far away cannot impact us here in the US, but your not going to be convinced. Look what happened on 9/11 from so far away. But that was the Bush administration, right? You DID mind that tragic day didn't you WALLDUDE?
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You made 14 assumptions about millions of individuals that you know nothing about. Is this the progressive superiority in education, open mindedness, tolerance and all those other lies you like to yourself?
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I did get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
I did get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
I did get mad when I found out we were torturing people.
While much of the rest is annoying, it is par for the course regardless of which party is in power. I only tend to get mad when the government makes some fresh in roads on freedom. Then what happens is the other party gets elected and does little or nothing about what made me mad. Instead they choose to make some new inroad. <sigh> Such is life in America.
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Look, the truth of the matter is that the tea party movement started with honest well meaning Americans. It was hijacked by Faux News and other neocon interests. Nevertheless, many of the people there were progressive libertarians and other groups that are fed up with reckless government spending and killing in our name. It is time for us as a people to rise above the false left-right paradigm that many of us still seem to be stuck in. The fact that you are outraged is a start, but I assure you that your anger is misguided. We need to start seeing politicians as the crooks and cronies for special interests that they really are. It matters little what party they belong to when neither side ever serves the interests of the people. It is time for a new party in this country, one that can't be boxed in and rebranded as a fringe part of an already existing party. I am with you on almost all of your points but I am also with the tea partiers (not “baggers” which was simply another attempt by the mass media to make the events look “fringe”) on many of their points. If you want to keep being a sucker and getting sucked into the left-right paradigm then bay all means continue, ignorance can be bliss. “Change” hasn't happened at all, look no further than our failed empire building foreign policy and the fact that the dollar is on the verge of hyperinflation and collapse.
If you want real change like bringing our troops home, more transparency, and most importantly a politician that lives up to his promises (I invite you to check out his track record and consistency in voting against funding for the war) come join us, the revolution grows every day.
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oh so the fact that the deficit started in bush’s first year isnt a problem
the fact that every democrat pres in the last 30 years has run in the positive numbers
the fact that it was bush that destroyed our economy look at those numbers the bank crash was his and his alone
the fact that the housing crash was because of bush policys it didnt build itself then crash in 12 months
the fact that bush spent more on war in his 8 years than the usa has spent on war in its entire history
wake up if your movement is about helping people why do you want those same people who helped pollute your rivers and air turn your moutains into valleys and stole your tax money. back to where they were how will that help your children. all bush and his bushies did was increase your deficits every year he was in office. and just so you know his tax cuts for the rich cost us 3 times what the tax costs for the working class would. if you lose $1000 a year it hurts but if they lose 1million of their 1billion they would need a calculator just to realize it was gone! comeon bush helped outsorce your jobs and lower your tax credits and lied saying oh it helps buisness to give them a tax free life all while we pay the bill.
wake up and smell the dung cuse we got shat on and trust me thats not purfume we smell.
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oh and john by the way if you have insurance and get cancer you have a very good chance of being dropped by your insurance while medicare has to treat you get it right. do a google search on children dropped from insurance and you will see what the insurance companies think of you and your children.
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