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What is it you think I am making up?
Just about everything
What is it you think I am making up?
this is the proposed goals of one person.
Just about everything
this is the proposed goals of one person.
And where are the members of the Tea Party? These are just people carrying signs.
If you want information on the Tea Party you should go to their website.
Have you ever watched these people speak, or looked at the signs they're carrying?
They've taken stupidity to entirely new levels. Who want want to hire any one of them?
So what are the goals?
So what are the goals?
It's dishonest for you to whine about misspelt signs by OWS protestors, but insist that teabagger signs don't represent the teabaggers
Where did i mention misspelt signs?
Have you ever watched these people speak, or looked at the signs they're carrying?
They've taken stupidity to entirely new levels. Who want want to hire any one of them?
it hasn't played out yet. As of now it started with the "professional protester" crowd and is morphing into a larger crowd. It's true grassroots, like the Tea Party was before Koch and Army took over and the early tea party was just angry at bailouts. There wasn't a full list of demands. Now the tea party is just ultra conservative but it's hard to point out where this is going.So what are the goals?
I guess you forgot what you said. EIther that, or you think misspelt signs are a sign of intelligence :lamo
Umm, CNBC didn't report on it; they started it
On January 24, 2009, Trevor Leach, chairman of the Young Americans for Liberty in New York State organized a "Tea Party" to protest "obesity taxes" proposed by New York Governor David Paterson and call for fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. Several of the protesters wore Native American headdresses similar to the band of 18th century colonists who dumped tea in Boston Harbor to express outrage about British taxes.[37]
On February 19, 2009,[52] in a broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CNBC Business News editor Rick Santelli criticized the government plan to refinance mortgages, which had just been announced the day before. He said that those plans were "promoting bad behavior"[53] by "subsidizing losers' mortgages". He suggested holding a tea party for traders to gather and dump the derivatives in the Chicago River on July 1.[54][55][56] A number of the floor traders around him cheered on his proposal, to the amusement of the hosts in the studio. Santelli's "rant" became a viral video after being featured on the Drudge Report.[57]
No, "they" didn't.
Later there was one commentator from CNBC.
Unlike the rightwingers, the left doesnt require everyone to have the same thoughts
Proof that the teabaggers did not begin as a "grass roots" movement. It was instigated by a major media network, promoted by a major media network and funded by republican PACs
Proof that the teabaggers did not begin as a "grass roots" movement. It was instigated by a major media network, promoted by a major media network and funded by republican PACs
On January 24, 2009, Trevor Leach, chairman of the Young Americans for Liberty in New York State organized a "Tea Party" to protest "obesity taxes" proposed by New York Governor David Paterson and call for fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. Several of the protesters wore Native American headdresses similar to the band of 18th century colonists who dumped tea in Boston Harbor to express outrage about British taxes.[37]
This is one of the few Leftists at this gathering who can string a coherent sentence together, Of course he's full of the usual simpleminded cliches but at least he's a likable guy who appears articulate.
Again!
You can chose to read the evidence or ignore it. As a committed leftist, I assume you'll ignore it.
CNBC's Rick Santelli is widely credited with launching the grassroots movement. While standing on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009, he unleashed what can only be called a rant against the Obama Administration's proposal to help homeowners facing foreclosure refinance their mortgages.
"Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages?" he asked. "This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills?" He went on to suggest that he would organize a Chicago Tea Party in July, where capitalists would dump "some derivative securities into Lake Michigan." The video of his tirade became a YouTube hit, and thus the movement was born. Within weeks, Tea Party protests were sprouting up all over the country. The Tea Party name, a clear reference to the American colonists' dumping of tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes imposed by King George, stands as an acronym as well: Taxed Enough Already.
Santelli, however, can't claim credit as the sole mastermind of the movement. Prior to his appearance in Chicago, Keli Carender, a Seattle at-home mother also known as Liberty Belle, had been using her blog to get the word out about the populist "Porkulus Protest" she was organizing against President Barack Obama's proposed $750 billion stimulus package. About 100 people showed up for her event in mid-February. Similar events inspired by both Santelli and Carender, followed in quick succession in Denver; Mesa, Ariz.; Tampa, Fla.; and other cities. Tea Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities.
All you can do is make up dishonest claims. In the other thread, you called him "ridiculous" but you're backing away from that now because I pwned you.
I even proved that you agree with him to some degree
You should learn to use quotes properly.
Is it your contention that people cannot be articulate and ridiculous? Probably the best example of being both is BHO himself.
And where did you prove I agreed with him?
Ockam said:Yes I deny it. Just as I deny the left wing is mostly totalitarian, racist, communistic and utopian brain washing fanatics.
it hasn't played out yet. As of now it started with the "professional protester" crowd and is morphing into a larger crowd. It's true grassroots, like the Tea Party was before Koch and Army took over and the early tea party was just angry at bailouts. There wasn't a full list of demands. Now the tea party is just ultra conservative but it's hard to point out where this is going.
In fact Charlie Rangel tried to speak there and was yelled at by protesters that he's part of the problem.
The only thing that's come across is the income inequality in this country.
I ignore the dishonest fictions that you post. That wasn't a protest by the Tea Party. It was a protest by "Young Americans for Liberty". It says so right in your quote
On January 24, 2009, Trevor Leach, chairman of the Young Americans for Liberty in New York State organized a "Tea Party" to protest "obesity taxes" proposed by New York Governor David Paterson and call for fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. Several of the protesters wore Native American headdresses similar to the band of 18th century colonists who dumped tea in Boston Harbor to express outrage about British taxes.[SUP][37][/SUP]
Santelli, however, can't claim credit as the sole mastermind of the movement. Prior to his appearance in Chicago, Keli Carender, a Seattle at-home mother also known as Liberty Belle, had been using her blog to get the word out about the populist "Porkulus Protest" she was organizing against President Barack Obama's proposed $750 billion stimulus package. About 100 people showed up for her event in mid-February. Similar events inspired by both Santelli and Carender, followed in quick succession in Denver; Mesa, Ariz.; Tampa, Fla.; and other cities. Tea Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities.
Those protests on 2/27/09 where funded with PAC money
I have to ask......how is something that starts with professional protesters, grass roots?
This is one of the few Leftists at this gathering who can string a coherent sentence together, Of course he's full of the usual simpleminded cliches but at least he's a likable guy who appears articulate.