“The Billionaires’ Tea Party” in its entirety
The Tea Party movement has taken American politics by storm. But is this truly a populist uprising or one of the greatest feats of propaganda ever seen? Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham sets out answer this question, finding that behind the movement’s rhetoric of ‘freedom’ versus ‘socialism’ lies a highly co-ordinated network of shadow groups, funded by the likes of billionaire ideologues Charles and David Koch. Are the Tea Party protestors really just pawns in a plan to replace government with a privatized America?
This is an astroturf class for Teabaggers. It’s about how to troll the internet (Amazon, Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster) to “control the online dialogue.”
A Class That Teaches Old Teabaggers How to Troll Amazon | Slog
the Tea Party brain trust has arrived in Madison, WI — shared by ourhivemind
Hey, guess who's mad at the GOP establishment--the Tea Party, LOL! "In their final days controlling the House, Democrats succeeded in passing legislation that Tea Party leaders opposed, including a bill to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center attacks, an arms-control treaty with Russia, a food safety bill and a repeal of the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military," to which one Tea Party leader said this: "The Republicans, frankly, have been a disaster."
The Tea Party are useful idiots for the GOP. The GOP has no interest in lowering the deficit, despite what they say, their actions now and for the entire history of their party shows otherwise.
This all goes back to the fact that the Tea Party didn’t exist in a substantial form until a Democrat entered the White House.
A Republican president with a Republican controlled congress before Obama ran up a $596 billion dollar deficit.
Where was the Tea Party then?
Indeed. Selective outrage.
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We are engaged in a social, political and cultural war. There’s a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody’s values will prevail. And the winner gets to teach our children what to believe.
Family Research Council president, Gary Bauer, quoted in The Tea Party and the Taliban
Today in Flickrs that would make great Tumblrs: Teabonics (h/t cmonstah)
Here’s a little something from the libertarian sociopath variety of teabagger.
