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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's just the Tea Party all over again
a small group of yahoos, organized by powerful interests and whose agenda is much different than what is being shown.
Will the Press fall for this "grass roots" bullshit again. Or present them with who they really are?
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It's just the Tea Party all over again (Original Post)
edhopper
Feb 2022
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This seems to be a lot more widespread, though. There are similar "convoys" in New Zealand
Scrivener7
Feb 2022
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Archae
(47,245 posts)1. The Teabaggers were propped up by Faux "news."
Mostly.
Their actual numbers were far fewer than these right-wing propaganda outlets claimed.
edhopper
(37,179 posts)2. Same with these truckers
Scrivener7
(58,895 posts)3. This seems to be a lot more widespread, though. There are similar "convoys" in New Zealand
and France that I have heard of. No doubt there will be more astro-turf nonsense.
BarbaRosa
(2,729 posts)4. That is why I've taken to call them 'Bodybaggers',
a natural extension of the Teabaggers.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)8. So apropos. I like it.
Tommy Carcetti
(44,449 posts)5. I haven't seen this much AstroTurf in Canada...
...since they opened the Skydome in 1989.

edhopper
(37,179 posts)6. LOL
gab13by13
(31,627 posts)7. There is a Sheldon Whitehouse video, speech before the Senate,
that is still on page 1 of the forum. Watch his video. The Federalist Society which is funded by dark money, a handful of oligarchs is behind right wing propaganda.
