The Illustrated Tea Party Dictionary

[cenacle]

http://gawker.com/5506871/the-illustrat ... dictionary

This is pretty funny stuff. Enjoy!  :twisted:

[AliceTepes]

I wouldn't mind tea bagging a few of those people

[dissident]

I am not on board with this at all.  Since when did you seekers become so....partisan?  Aren't we all Americans?  Most, and I am saying 99%, of the Tea Party participants are just John and Jane Doe from flyover country, and yet those of you who perceive yourself as fighting for social justice are stereotyping them as racist ignorant rednecks.  If you guys think this is so funny, and are really OK with this, then I am really sad for you.  

Do you really trust the government to do anything in your best interest, Obama or not?  Just you wait and see, this 'dream' will turn into a nightmare.

[laughingwillow]

LOL I'm all for a viable third party candidate, diss. These guys are radical republicans, for the most part, spouting false claims with no focus other than a hatred of Obama.  Where were these guys when BushCo was driving our economy into the ground? Oh, I forgot...  He's white......

What has the gubmit done for me? I like the roads and other infrastructure paid for by my tax dollars. I believe in paying our fair share of taxes.

The tea baggers are morons sponsored by faux news.

ps: YOu made a political statement just by posting your views in this thread. It just happens to be different from the OP.

lw

[dissident]

I forgot to add: Fuck Bush, and fuck Obama too.

[laughingwillow]

Well, diss.....

I'm guessing most tea baggers disagree with your stance on "fuck bush."

And I'm willing to venture that most tea baggers are happy to pay taxes for military expenditures, as well.

Imo, the tea baggers are a product of the right wing republican establishment in conjunction with faux news. I think they are a joke.

I'll take Obama over the head tea bagger any day. (Palin?)

lw

[JRL]

I'm with lw on this one. The baggers are almost funny(if they weren't so well armed). It's gonna get bloody just wait.

When we bitch about the regime it was treason, when they do it's patriotism. Tax "revolt" has ruined California, it is pretty much a failed nation now, thanks to Prop 13 back in the day that capped property tax.

And I know they cherry picked for the pictures, but the level of discourse is still way down the IQ scale. I know too many of these people personally, scares the fuck out me.

[dissident]

"the level of discourse is still way down the IQ scale."

Typical of the average American these days.  There is a reason that these folks are called 'The silent majority', and when they wake up, that is generally an indicator that things are going off track in a very bad way.  When you harass cattle, sometimes they stampede.

 I never thought I would see the day when most of the people that I know here (at SPF) are siding with the administration.  Some of you guys are spouting the Democrat party line word-for-word.  It is really creeping me out.

[Zaka]

"the level of discourse is still way down the IQ scale."

Typical of the average American these days.  There is a reason that these folks are called 'The silent majority', and when they wake up, that is generally an indicator that things are going off track in a very bad way.  When you harass cattle, sometimes they stampede.

 I never thought I would see the day when most of the people that I know here (at SPF) are siding with the administration.  Some of you guys are spouting the Democrat party line word-for-word.  It is really creeping me out.

Irie Dissident,
I'm with you.
Not sure if or when these guy's will take the blinkers off???
Respect
Z

[dissident]

"What has the gubmit done for me? I like the roads and other infrastructure paid for by my tax dollars. I believe in paying our fair share of taxes. "

I personally do not enjoy paying damn near half my income in aggregate taxes to: be led around by the nose by the Fed as they use highway funds as a tool to coerce the individual states in various ways.  I do not think it is appropriate for an ambulance service to charge 500$ for a simple ride to the hospital.  Do not get me started on the police and the money they make from asset forfeiture.  Yet you are just fine with paying your fair share?  C'mon LW, you are a real smart cookie, I bet you can come up with dozens more examples of ripoff bullshit perpetrated by 'the gubmit'  (what the fuck does 'gubmit' mean anyway?)
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"When we bitch about the regime it was treason, when they do it's patriotism. Tax "revolt" has ruined California, it is pretty much a failed nation now, thanks to Prop 13 back in the day that capped property tax. "

So, JRL, simply capping property taxes totally crippled California's economy?  Wow, what a fragile state that place must be.  It is almost Darwinian.  (Or maybe there is an 800lb gorilla that shall remain nameless...)

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"I'm with lw on this one. The baggers are almost funny(if they weren't so well armed). It's gonna get bloody just wait"

Yeah it sure is.  Revolution.  I hope you are not going to side with the government, as I will not be on their side, for damn sure.  If the situation was different, this administration would not help you, I fear.  Even this healthcare thing will turn sour, mark my words.

[JRL]

Diss, yes capping property taxes has really done a lot to wreck this once great state. Not just my opinion for sure .And now the infrastructure has so deteriorated that we will never catch up. It used to be almost free to go to state colleges here and the UC cost like a few hundred a year. Now it keeps getting raised every year, rivals private colleges.

The Jarvis Gann initiative was mostly about rich old people not wanting to educate a new generation. Or not wanting to pay even a small share. And it really did sow the seeds of the current crisis. This deal really hits home at my house, my wife has lost 3 days of work a month. a 17% pay cut, but she is expected to do even more work than she did before. So whose taxes are increased?
It doesn't seem fair for families like mine to take the brunt of this spiraling downturn. And to people that slag civil servants? Next time you need police, or fire help, retirement counseling(my wife works for CalPers, the state retirement system) help for mentally ill homeless people(Reagan was responsible for turning out thousands of mentally ill people on to the streets of California) call a tea bagger, because all the people who can help are furloughed and trying to figure out how not to lose their homes.

So what has happened in my hometown is that the state pay cuts make it impossibly for us to recover. Can't tell you how many students I have lost cause of the cuts here in this state capitol. Another thing is that the levees that keep this town from turning into post Katrina Nawlins are on the verge of failing. Sacramento is second on the national list of flood endangered cities.

[laughingwillow]

Interesting, JRL.

I also work for "da man," teaching english to immigrants. Many of my colleagues have lost their jobs. The rest of us just found out we will not be teaching this summer due to educational budget cuts. However, I just learned that I may be the only one who has managed to procure a funding source to teach this summer. (With no help from my boss.) I do my job well and the folks running the library see that on a daily basis. They don't want to lose me and I really appreciate their efforts and the fact that they have recognized the value of the service I'm providing and the manner its administered.

Anyway, the other teachers have classes of 12 hours each for five days. Due to library cuts where my class is held, we lost our Friday class when the library decided to close that day to alleviate the budget problem. However, I really need that extra 2-1/2 hours per week to get the job done properly, imo. The answer is that I now take no break during our classes. The students can get up if they need to, but the class as a whole, pushes on. It really wears me out to be "on" for 2-1/2 hours straight, but I see no alternative if I want to do justice to the material and meet the needs of the students. So who pays? I do. Why? Because I care and want to leave this place a little better than I found it.

lw

[dissident]

Off the subject here, but what really pisses me off is:

"we will not be teaching this summer due to educational budget cuts."

But I am sure that our elected officials will not have any of their salaries cut, and will not give up any of their perks and benefits.

[JRL]

Sad state of affairs if they lose a guy like you that actually cares about his job. TJ is like that too, but in 18 months she pulls the plug and will retire into being a full time artist.

I should mention that Jarvis Gann capped property taxes at an early 70s level, back when this state waas knee deep in a flow of money.

Summer time has come and gone my oh my.

From my friend the genius songwriter Dave Lippman

Mom and Dad bought and sold four family homes
Raised four boys and then one day
Daddy went back to school
To become a doctor
of philosophy
I think I might follow in my father's footsteps
Except I forgot to have those kids
and homes
and jobs
I had a job once, but I had to let them go
I had to downsize my expectations
What do you expect from a downhill nation?

Maybe I'm not supposed to notice, my job just took a plane
Maybe I'm not supposed to know this economy may not
be comin back this way again
But just like Pittsburgh lost its steel
And Detroit lost it to better wheels
I'm up here, workin on Hamburger Hill

      Don't you know I tried, don't you know they lied
      Don't you ever wonder why it sometimes seems
      All your childhood dreams
      Get ground up in the round up of the evening news

Here I am again, down at the welfare
Here I am again, searchin for relief
Here I am again, lookin for my health care
Is this a great country or where's the beef?
I would've bought American, if I could've bought at all
But as falls General Motors, so the country falls
And now I see it falls on you and me
Guess I'll go plant zucchini
That's the only green I'm gonna see
Well I don't know, but I've been told
The streets of the future are lined with information
Every time the program changes, the system crashes down on me
I'd like to reprogram that goddamn corporation
Cause I'm up here workin on Hamburger Hill

   Don't you know I tried...

Bottom's fallin out of the middle class
Unemployed wanta kick some ass
Whenever the economy fails
They build a dozen new jails
I'm in the jailhouse now
These days I guess you build your own cell
Then you throw away your own key
They say we gotta learn computers
I wonder will that help stop the looters
Who stole the American Dream

      Maybe I'm not supposed to notice...
      Don't you know I tried...

He wrote this in the early 90s, pretty prophetic don't you think?

[dissident]

Obama's health care victory:
'written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also hasn't read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.' (author unknown)

truer words I have not heard in a long while.