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What If The Tea Party

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…had been pooping on police cars, stealing soap from local businesses and flooding their bathrooms, shutting down the Air and Space Museum on a Saturday while attacking its guards, preventing anyone from moving in downtown New York for days? Especially if they were as white as these leftist clowns are? Can you imagine the hyperventilating by the media over the violence and racism? And hey guys, if you really want to show you’re opposed to Wall Street, why not go over to Lafayette Park and demonstrate against President Goldman Sachs?

59 thoughts on “What If The Tea Party”

  1. Oh, come on. They flooded a couple of bathrooms. They pooped on a police car or two. Who hasn’t done that? They shut down the Air and Space Museum….

    WHAT!!?!?!? They shut down the Air and Space Museum???!!???

    HANG them!!!!!!!!!

  2. If the Tea Party had done that, then they’d be Leftists. And the meme would thus obviously be “We’re taxed enough already, so stick it to the fatcats, duh.”

  4. These are Obamas people. He couldn’t get near any office if these idiots weren’t available to vote him in. Until we figure out how to deal with it, America has no future. You can not fight the tide unless you start with education… and we aren’t even in that fight outside of a few textbooks.

    America has no future if we don’t figure out how to fix this. Our next president, whoever, is not going to do a thing about it. The slide will continue.

    This is no joke. I’m leaving Phoenix (end of this month) for some small town where the insane can’t make a living. It’s coming to a city near you.

    Herman Cain talks about economic zones (inner cities.) This will just encourage these entitlement morons. Others are using traditional bad guys like China. Yeah, China will be a problem, but only because we lost what it means to be America. We could deal with a dozen Chinas if we restored our founding principles and started acting like Americans again.

    That the media can’t distinguish one crowd from another just compounds the problem.

    1. Ken,
      in here, about three years ago I said something along the lines of what you JUST said. Several people asked what was I reading / smoking to think we’d have protests or riots here. Two years I started busting my ass looking for a place, people here and my friends and family were still giving me the eye. 16 months ago I moved into said place and several people who helped me move were kidding me over me ‘reactionary’ stance.

      Since then I’m not looking so crazy because the real crazies are out in the streets.

      My place isn’t 100% ready. Mainly because I don’t believe in 100% safe. Unless I poured a moat and filled it with armed robots I’d feel there was more to do. And right now, sans a big lotto win, I can’t afford even a Roomba.

      But now, we are no longer 300 yds from the grocery store, in an apt complex full of 20 something (leftist indoctrinated) college students, who were already pissed off that I carried a gun and had the effrontery to question their Obama Love!

      I’m not worried about being in even my small ex-city, where food, water, power, SAFETY could become hard to come by. I can grow, catch, hunt all that. I’ve even got a small running creek on my little slice of ‘merica.

      Good luck finding your place.

      1. I expect the decline will continue for years, but it’s better to drill the well before ya need the water. It’s time for a change.

        We have not seen the worst. Der Schtumpy, I hate being right so often and so early. I will be long forgotten when it really hits the fan. Remember a profit is not respected at home.

        1. Nor is a Prophet.

          But spelling it ‘profit’ right now seems like a good way to put it too!

          And we have not seen even the tip of bad IMHO. It’s not close to bad yet. In our country it’s just barely noticeable. We’re planning, building, gathering almost daily right now. I’m getting ready to take on my state / county over recycling and using some of my grey water. I’m not expecting to win right now.

          But I’ll have planted the seed with them. That way if / when water gets short my plans will be there already. They just passed a law saying we could use cisterns for toilets and gardening 2 years ago.

          And that was during a severe drought.

    2. Ken,

      Elko, where Great Basin College is located, is about 200 miles from the nearest city, Salt Lake City. The students here mostly work full time in the ranch or mining industry. Its a nice peaceful place, although a little cold in winter. We already had our first snow. 🙂

      1. Nothing like nukes to thin out a neighborhood. Ok, so that should be the bottom side of the state around Las Vegas (they’d continue to play the bandits even if the fallout was a visible cloud.)

        I’ve probably driven through Elko years ago crossing the state. The guy that raised me died in Pahrump, but usually my visits there were from CA or AZ.

        I am pretty sure I’ve been to Elko at least once (foggy memory.)

        1. Ken,

          [[[Nothing like nukes to thin out a neighborhood. ]]]

          Actually its the other way around. The population was so small there wasn’t that many to relocate when they created the Nevada Test Site.

          [[[(they’d continue to play the bandits even if the fallout was a visible cloud.)]]]

          In fact Las Vegas actually turned the tests into a tourism draw, encouraging visitors to come and see the blasts.

          http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lasvegas/peopleevents/e_atomictourism.html

          [[[A Vegas Attraction
          Days after the first bomb was detonated on January 27, 1951, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce issued a stream of press releases excitedly describing the new testing grounds as one of the many attractions Las Vegas had to offer. As one official described, “The angle was to get people to think the explosions wouldn’t be anything more than a gag.”]]]

          and

          [[[Atomic Tourism
          The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce issued a calendar for tourists, listing the scheduled times of the bomb detonations and the best places to view them. The Sky Room at the Desert Inn, offering a panoramic view of the Nevada horizon, was a favorite watch spot of tourists, as was nearby Mount Charleston. Many tourists packed “atomic box lunches” and had picnics as close to ground zero as the government restrictions would allow. On the eve of detonations, many Las Vegas businesses held “Dawn Bomb Parties.” Beginning at midnight, guests would drink and sing until the flash of the bomb lit up the night sky.]]]

          Yes, a nuclear test must have been a real sight to see. I noticed that the GI generation isn’t as up tight about nukes like the Baby Boomers are. Maybe all the “duck and cover” drills installed an irrational fear of anything nuclear in the boomers. Or WWII changed the GI generation’s perspective on risks.

          Elko is about 350 miles to the north of the NTS, near the Idaho border on I-80. Unless you were going to Salt Lake City you would not have gone through it. The route to Pahrump from California, U.S. 95, would have gone through Reno, Tonopah and then Pahrump.

          Pahrump is actually in Great Basin College’s service area, which goes north-south from the Idaho to California border. GBC’s service center is the size of the state of Wisconsin, but has fewer folks living then call Green Bay home. We have a major center located in Pahrump and I make the 430 mile trip about twice a semester to visit with the business faculty and student there. Parts of the drive are through some of the least populated parts of the lower 48, some sections are 100 miles long on two lane roads with no gasoline, mobile phone coverage or car radio unless you have satellite radio. The only traffic you see are ranchers and an occasional Predator UAV on a training mission. The signs warn of low flying aircraft and they mean it as once I saw an F-16 in my rear view mirror just before it passed me. The bomb load under the wing was clearly visible. 🙂

          Like I said, its real wilderness and a good place to practice Mars homesteading 🙂

        2. Ken,

          I thought you wanted a place where the insane can’t make a living? Elko is where Matula works.

          I got some folks selling property in Independence, TX (how’s that for a name!). It’s 90 minutes to Houston or San Antonio/Austin, but in many ways, it’s not on the way to anywhere. The closest town of any repute is Brenham, where they make Blue Bell ice cream. Another nearby town is Chappel Hill, which has a good bank to store your money.

          2. Meh. If you want to talk about the great things Nevada has over Texas; you wouldn’t be talking about firearms. Try gambling and prostitution. There’s plenty of places in Texas to hunt, thus plenty of land to walk around with your firearm out in and your hands. But the chicken ranches are gone.

          3. [[[Try gambling and prostitution.]]]

            Yes, Nevada doesn’t believe in restricting the free choice of adults. I seem to recall you aren’t even allowed to buy beer on Sunday in Texas, although I do recall back in the 1980’s they did finally allow retailers to open on Sunday after most of the restrictions were ruled unconstitutional, although I seem to recall that car dealers must still be closed on at least one day each weekend.

            [[[There’s plenty of places in Texas to hunt, thus plenty of land to walk around with your firearm out in and your hands. ]]]

            Except that you have to buy a hunting lease from the rancher before you are allowed on that land. And having lived in Texas for a number of years I know hunting there is a bit different then the rest of the U.S., basically sitting in a “blind” in front of a deer feeder instead of stalking them through the field. its also legal to hunt from the comfort of your vehicle.

            I recall when I was looking at buying a ranch near San Antonio the owner showed me his “blind”, basically a “tree house” complete with bed, TV and Refrigerator. He proudly told me how he and his buddies killed one buck during half-time of a Cowboys game by simply shooting it out the blind’s window.

    1. Thugs don’t need much to destroy. Plus these idiots vote which is something to care about.

      Even if you can isolate and arm yourself they still affect you and other people you might care about.

      1. Just threatening to raise them in close proximity to your face could be intimidating.

        I say we take off and drop millions of gallons of soapy water on the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

  6. This reminds me of the episode of “The Young Ones” where Rick planned for the oppressed masses to rise up during the performance of a song entitled “Doctor Martin’s Boots”!

  9. We could save ourselves a lot of trouble in the future if we simply machine-gunned them all now. We didn’t do it when we had the chance with the ’60s generation and look how horribly that turned out.

    1. Sounding like crazy ken.

      I hope their protests get detailed coverage. The more people know, the less they will like the protesters.

      Not sure if our media is up to the task but the internet is a wonderful thing.

      1. Which crazy ken? We have two that post here Wodun. I advocate expulsion (and revoking citizenship.) Machine guns are for another purpose and we haven’t gotten to that point yet (and hope we never will. One civil war is enough.)

        The alternative is realizing we can try something we never have… liberty. We can consider America a test run we didn’t get quite right. I keep hearing people trying to export socialism into the solar system. I would like to see liberty exported before governments stifle freedom there as well.

        Do away with a constitution. Just enforce contract law and (absolute) property rights.

        2. Ken, its only a civil war if both sides are armed. Fortunately, those on the left aren’t very well armed, they leave that to their thugs in government.

          1. I think most are just dumb college kids. You can get them to do anything. As usual though, other elements are trying to take over (Thomas any thoughts when it’s not about the tea party?)

            Union thugs would definitely like to coopt this.

    2. BL,
      look closely. This IS that 60’s Generation, in charge or pushing from the rear, to about 90% of those old radicals. Some of us, myself included, got smart, read a lot, THOUGHT about what we read and made different choices.

  11. Let these “occupiers” show America how classy they are; it will only come back to bite them next November.

    I guess it’s fair to call them the Left’s equivalent to the Tea Party in one aspect: the Tea Party wants milquetoast, country-club Republicans to abandon corporate welfare and return to free-market policies. These occupiers are tired of Limousine Liberal corporate welfare, and want the Democrats to back up their rhetoric of class warfare and redistributing wealth with real action. The big difference is that most of these Tea Party demonstrations have done an excellent job of staying on-message, aware of what their media critics will try to smear them with. I can’t say the same thing about many of the Occupiers; it’s shameful the way the police have been held back before breaking up their obstructionism.

    1. It is rather amazing that when surrounded by a thousand or more people yelling in their faces and with the occasional punch thrown, that the cops are as professional as they are.

      I am not really pro-cop but they have been doing well in NY.

  12. I’ve been reading a huge thread at the Market Ticker. There are lots of photos and first-hand accounts from some people who have been there. Apparently it’s not all commies. Some libertarians are there too.

    Some commenters make the point that the media is distorting its coverage to highlight the crazies, much in the same way they painted the Tea Party as racist gun nuts. The commies are the ones who get on TV. One commenter who has extensive Tea Party experience believes that this is a golden opportunity to educate the protesters and build bridges based on what we have in common, instead of concentrating on differences. (For example, most people, regardless of their politics, are opposed to corruption in government.)

    There are many young people leaving college up to their eyeballs in student loan debt who have no hope of getting a decent job in the current economy. They’re scared, frustrated, and angry, and justifiably so. They need to be able to channel their anger in a constructive direction. Meanwhile, the commies are waiting for them with open arms.

    I have no doubt that many of the occupiers are leftists who just want more Free Stuff. I’m sure many of them voted for Obama. But the above thread gives me hope that there may be more to it than that.

    1. Some of that Free Stuff would include erasing student loan debt. Something O-company are already working on.

    2. Well, the original hippies were aware that the problem with unjust war was a direct result of too large a government. They even hated the Democrats more than Republicans back then for getting us into Vietnam. How we go about fixing that particular problem is where people’s opinions diverge. Tea Partiers want to return to a democratic republic as that which the founding fathers defined. But they want to tear it all down and start over with a new, more “fair” style of government along some type of direct democracy route.

    3. “Apparently it’s not all commies. Some libertarians are there too.”

      Libertarians taking part makes me lose respect for them.

      I disagree with Obama’s base of anarchists and socialists but what I dislike about the protests are not their politics as much as their protest tactics.

    4. Or when 41 percent of corporate earnings are going to the financial industry instead of tangible things such as food, goods, or providing medical care (source R. Susskind (2011) Confidence Men), maybe, just maybe, “Wall Street” is extracting large economic rents to the detriment of just about everybody else.

      I once as much as scolded a pair of our engineering students at our Inventors Contest when they expressed the view that finance was just fairy tale land, where the fairy skims money out of your pocket. I suggested to them that the Medici’s created the modern system of banking and finance, which provided the funding for everything we hold dear as engineers. So maybe all of these fancy derivatives and swaps and financial boojums are enabling of prosperity. On the other hand, they may all be a bunch of petty thieves and swindlers who got the politicians to guarantee them an income stream by jiggering the banking and financial regs, and even Mr. Obama (or especially Mr. Obama) is afraid to meddle because we are threatened with social ruin.

      Forget the low-life riff-raff. A well-off person who has seen their retirement nest egg go on a reducing diet this summer (the 3 legs of a comfortable retirement are personal savings, pensi^H^H^H^H^Hcaptive savings in your “retirement plan”, and Social Security, and you need all three if you don’t want to be a ward of the state receiving Medicaid in your final years in long-term care) should be out there taking a squat on a cop car.

      1. A well-off person who has seen their retirement nest egg go on a reducing diet this summer (the 3 legs of a comfortable retirement are personal savings, pensi^H^H^H^H^Hcaptive savings in your “retirement plan”, and Social Security, and you need all three if you don’t want to be a ward of the state receiving Medicaid in your final years in long-term care) should be out there taking a squat on a cop car.

        Well, young people like me are only going to “retire” on what we’ve saved: Pensions? Relics of a bygone era. Social Security? Not counting on that being around in 40 years. Still, I find my urge to take a shit on a police care to be almost negligible. Logic must be getting in the way: the po-po has nothing to do with my portfolio.

      2. “Or when 41 percent of corporate earnings are going to the financial industry instead of tangible things such as food, goods, or providing medical care”

        I am not aware of any business, corporate or otherwise that should be buying me or anyone else food, goods, or medical care.

    1. Remember how unthinkable it was for the republicans to consider? That’s why the press labeled it the nuclear option. Democrats do it… [crickets…]

      This is what happens when rules trump principles.

  14. And now Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream “Stands with the Wall Street Occupiers”. Hopefully they’re keeping the ice cream scoops well away from the guy pooping on cop cars. I knew they were an overtly liberal corporation and that never really stopped me from buying their ice cream before. This is the last straw. No loss really, their ice cream was expensive before but it has been getting even more so lately. And knowing that giving them my hard earned money only serves to encourage idiocy I’ll stick with Blue Bell from now on.

    1. That’s… …interesting. I thought I was pretty typical of Ben & Jerry’s target market, since I like the way they are a overtly liberal corporation, and I’ve been dismissing the protesters as a bunch of morons. The protesters’ lack of specific realizable demands bothers me even more than their economically unfeasible fantasies.

      Oh wait, I get it. Ben & Jerry’s wants me to feel bad about myself so I’ll turn to ice cream for solace. Good thing Jon Stewart’s show made fun of the protesters, or I’d get really fat.

    2. Hopefully they’re keeping the ice cream scoops well away from the guy pooping on cop cars.

      Then again…new FOTM!

    3. Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is owned by Unilever NV (NYSE: UN). They can’t stand with the Wall Street Occupiers. They’re Wall Street! Boycott Wall Street! Starve the Wall Street beast!

      If they want ice cream, they should go for Haagen-Dasz or Dreyer’s, both owned by Nestle (traded on the Swiss stock exchange).

      Just had a thought…if someone really did boycott Wall Street, wouldn’t they be boycotting every American private-sector union?

      1. No, a NYSE listing does not make you “Wall Street.” Unilever actually makes “stuff”, such as ice cream, dish detergent, and underarm spray.

        “Wall Street” is all of those banking and finance pirates. So Ben & Jerry still has “standing” to support the protests. For all I know, Unilever is being jerked around by those guys as much as you or I.

        1. But public companies get their investors from the finance pirates. There’s no difference between standing on principle to boycott the firms that get capital through Wall Street, and petitioning the NFL to keep Rush Limbaugh from investing in one of its teams.

    1. I take second place to no man when it comes to disliking cops, but I hate hippies. I detested hippies in the 1960s and ’70s and I detest them twice as much today. They represent all that has gone wrong with America since World War II.

  16. Josh,
    their support of the WSJerks, is yet another reason to NOT buy ice cream from Comrades Ben & Jerry.

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