• AP via Fox News: Black conservative tea party backers take heat
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What I don't understand is why the hammer and sickle is on the poster. Is he a witch doctor or a communist?
Wait, so the Teabaggers dislike the Black Teabaggers solely because they're black? Wow... I thought we were all over this like, 40 years ago.
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;21241217]Wait, so the Teabaggers dislike the Black Teabaggers solely because they're black? Wow... I thought we were all over this like, 40 years ago.[/QUOTE] No, liberals dislike black teabaggers.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;21241233]No, liberals dislike black teabaggers.[/QUOTE] I think most liberals dislike teabaggers period. Hell, more than a couple conservatives hate them too, if my relatively conservative town can serve as an appropriate sample. I'm a moderate with no real party affiliation and I really don't like them. I don't even have a problem with the conservative viewpoint or Republicans. It's the way it's all being presented at the moment by these certain people that's getting under my skin. To be honest, I'm waiting for something big to happen in the Tea Party crowd that splits the Republican party in two. On one side you'd get the sane Republicans (who I guess are just doing everything they're told so that they don't get kicked out by the Tea Party cunts), and on the other side get all the nonsense-spouting assholes. The latter dies out, the former (over the course of a decade or two) regains its dignity, and all is well. Maybe it's just naïve, wishful thinking, so don't take me too seriously. :v:
[QUOTE=Bathacker;21242970]I think most liberals dislike teabaggers period. [/QUOTE] I know, he misunderstood the topic of the article and I corrected him.
[QUOTE=Sigma-Lambda;21217041] [img]http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Misc/obamacare1.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] Gotta applaud the guy on making such a excellent sign. Not a single misspelling in sight. [editline]10:09PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Bathacker;21242970] I think most liberals dislike teabaggers period. [/QUOTE] I think most people dislike teabaggers in general.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;21242997]I know, he misunderstood the topic of the article and I corrected him.[/QUOTE] Oh, I wasn't correcting you. I was just extrapolating on what you said.
[QUOTE=TH89;21240699]You're ridiculously deluded if you think someone would have made the same poster if it was John Edwards[/QUOTE] Why would someone make the same poster for John Edwards? [editline]03:31AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Lambeth;21243035]Gotta applaud the guy on making such a excellent sign. Not a single misspelling in sight. [editline]10:09PM[/editline] I think most people dislike teabaggers in general.[/QUOTE] Source? From What I've been hearing just the opposite is true. [b]Tea Party Going Mainstream? Polls Suggest Movement Gaining in Popularity[/b] [quote=Fox News]Tea Partiers have been dismissed as a fringe, but two new polls suggest the conservative movement might be going mainstream. A Rasmussen poll released Monday found more Americans identify with the Tea Party groups than with President Obama. According to the survey, 48 percent of voters said the average Tea Party activist is more aligned with their views on major issues than the president. Forty-four percent said Obama's views are closer to theirs. That came on top of a USA Today/Gallup poll that found more than a quarter of Americans affiliate themselves with the Tea Party movement. The poll of 1,033 adults, conducted March 26-28, found 28 percent of people call themselves Tea Party supporters, while 26 percent call themselves opponents. The survey also found that Tea Party supporters are not disproportionately dominated by any one demographic group. The characteristics of Tea Party supporters -- in age, education, income and race -- roughly follow the characteristics of the nation as a whole. The Gallup poll had a margin of error of 4 percentage points. The Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken April 2-3. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.[/quote] [url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/06/tea-party-going-mainstream-polls-suggest-movement-gaining-popularity/[/url] You may wan't this CNN link too. [url]http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/05/tea-party-favorable-rating-almost-as-high-as-dems-gop/?iref=allsearch[/url]
[QUOTE=Glaber;21244152]Why would someone make the same poster for John Edwards?[/QUOTE] He's saying that it's racist. If it weren't for the fact that Obama is black (I'm ignoring all the "he's mixed" shit here) that sign would have never been made. I'm sure the thinking, at the VERY least subconsciously, was along the lines of "Our president is black let's make him look like he's a chieftain of an African tribe because he's stupid and black and tribal people are stupid and black." Do you see how that works?
Actually, Yes. I do see how that works.
I saw a tea party rally a few weeks ago, I didn't see any swastikas or threats against congress or the president. I just saw people protesting, that's it. yeah I'm sure there's a few nutjobs in the crowd and the media tends to focus on them, but overall they were just regular people who disagreed with the policies that are being enacted. I hate it when people misjudge without looking at both sides. They keep one eye open and keep the other closed, both sides do it and it pisses me off to no end.
Title should be "all tea party backers take heat"
The tea party isn't worth supporting because the Republicans hijacked the party and now the tea party is allied with them. The Republicans DO NOT stand for small government which is what the tea party was originally based on, quite the opposite in fact...
[QUOTE=Glaber;21244152]Why would someone make the same poster for John Edwards? [editline]03:31AM[/editline] Source? From What I've been hearing just the opposite is true. [b]Tea Party Going Mainstream? Polls Suggest Movement Gaining in Popularity[/b] [url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/06/tea-party-going-mainstream-polls-suggest-movement-gaining-popularity/[/url] You may wan't this CNN link too. [url]http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/05/tea-party-favorable-rating-almost-as-high-as-dems-gop/?iref=allsearch[/url][/QUOTE] Most "polls" are bullshit, especially the ones from Fox News. Fox polls their viewers, and then report on the results. If they cite others' polls, they only cite the ones that agree with their message. Most news networks are guilty of this, but Fox seems to be the most pretentious about it. Polls can be a useful tool, but when you take 1,000 people's answers (from, presumably, the same area in this case) and apply them to the nation at large, you're completely unjustified in your judgment. [quote=CNN]A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows for the first time, the two major political parties are viewed unfavorably by most Americans. What's more - the Tea Party movement's favorable rating of 37 percent is nearly as high as the 41 percent for Democrats and 42 percent for Republicans.[/quote] That's 120 percent, meaning that they're counting people who support the Republican Party and the Tea Party twice. Like I said, it's sensationalist bullshit.
[QUOTE=CivilProtection;21246144]The tea party isn't worth supporting because the Republicans hijacked the party and now the tea party is allied with them. The Republicans DO NOT stand for small government which is what the tea party was originally based on, quite the opposite in fact...[/QUOTE] Exactly, the Republicans and Democrats are pretty much alike in terms of government control. They just differ on how it should be run. The tea party is basically a Libertarian movement that has been called a Republican movement (even though 40% of the TP members are Democrats). I disagree that they've been hijacked by the Republicans, it's the fact that both don't support the health care bill gives the TP and the Republicans something in common.
[QUOTE=Insulator;21253760]Exactly, the Republicans and Democrats are pretty much alike in terms of government control. They just differ on how it should be run. The tea party is basically a Libertarian movement that has been called a Republican movement (even though 40% of the TP members are Democrats). I disagree that they've been hijacked by the Republicans, it's the fact that both don't support the health care bill gives the TP and the Republicans something in common.[/QUOTE] Who are some libertarians who endorse the Tea Parties? Republicans seem to be the only ones I've seen.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;21228342]There's racist elements in every party.[/QUOTE] i said that in my previous post, jesus man read threads through
Oddly enough(for some people), the only racist person I know is a socialist. Just saying.
[QUOTE=Insulator;21253760]Exactly, the Republicans and Democrats are pretty much alike in terms of government control. They just differ on how it should be run. The tea party is basically a Libertarian movement that has been called a Republican movement (even though 40% of the TP members are Democrats). I disagree that they've been hijacked by the Republicans, it's the fact that both don't support the health care bill gives the TP and the Republicans something in common.[/QUOTE] *PFFFT* What graph or poll have you looked at?
[QUOTE=Insulator;21253760]Exactly, the Republicans and Democrats are pretty much alike in terms of government control. They just differ on how it should be run. The tea party is basically a Libertarian movement that has been called a Republican movement (even though 40% of the TP members are Democrats). I disagree that they've been hijacked by the Republicans, it's the fact that both don't support the health care bill gives the TP and the Republicans something in common.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't say libertarian. Since it's a conservative movement many of them may oppose gay marriage, legalization of marijuana, abortion, stuff like that, which are not libertarian qualities.
[QUOTE=waffles16;21270816]Oddly enough(for some people), the only racist person I know is a socialist. Just saying.[/QUOTE] He's not a socialist.
[QUOTE=Conscript;21273036]He's not a socialist.[/QUOTE] Seems like it to me. He supports government ownership of industry/property, redistribution of wealth etc. He said to me something a long the lines of "Just because I think *n word*s should have equal rights doesn't change the fact that I hate them." He's a confusing guy. He's also a dick. Again I pointed out that it's an oddity.
lol, your friend sounds like a really stupid social democrat. you have my sympathy
[QUOTE=Conscript;21274555]lol, your friend sounds like a really stupid social democrat. you have my sympathy[/QUOTE] He is stupid. Even coming from me, a huge capitalist, I wouldn't care if he was just a normal socialist like some of my other friends, I can respect that, but the fact that he's racist discredits his argument whenever he tries to bash me.
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