Is anyone else bemused and offended that "Anti-Government Teabaggers" suppport gov. over people?

[Liberal Veteran]

What the fuck is their major malfunction?

Just when I think my utter contempt for the Teabaggers can't get any greater, they pull this shit of siding with the government over the working teachers, firefighters, police, etc...

Is there some justification for their utter madness and hatred that I am not comprehending?

[WhiteTara]

1. the republicans, what did you expect from them? n/t

[annabanana]

2. Their major malfuntion is lack of critical thinking altogether.

coupled with no desire to actually think.

[northoftheborder]

3. Correct. Totally inconsistent and they don't care.

[XanaDUer]

4. They're the useful fools for their corporate masters

they'll take their marching orders from the like of the Kochs. What I want to know is - what are they getting out of doing so? They cannot all be rich business owners. Hell, most of 'em appear to be just this side of a heart attack.

[Raine]

17. What they're getting out of it ... I guess a free bus ride

and maybe a sack lunch and being useful idiots. :silly:

edit: typo

[stillwaiting]

19. Most of them want to pull others down to their level of misery.

Misery loves company and all.

Instead of fighting to provide a better structure for their own well-being and benefit they seem content to destroy others financial security.

Some simply don't want their taxes to fund others' livelihood. At all.

[AsahinaKimi]

5. Have you ever seen movement by a flock of birds???

The tea baggers are the birds, and their leader is FOX NEWS...

[undeterred]

6. I'm confused and offended that people who hate government

run for public office. But hey, thats just me.

[ElbertHubbard]

7. I knew that

The teabag movement was a shame from the word jump. What we are seeing in Wisconsin that's good old Grassroots.

[jpak]

8. but..but..but...teacher union thugs ain't peoples!!111

:sarcasm:

[YvonneCa]

9. The Tea Party folks regularly and repeatedly make the case...

...to support education. ;)

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Their very existence underscores the need for education in this country.

(I'm sure that's what you were saying)

[YvonneCa]

30. And you said it better than...

...I could. Thanks. :)

[EV_Ares]

11. No, have never & never will agree with them, find them disgusting and offensive but what

is the surprise of where they stand on this issue. Regardless of what anyone says, most are old white folk, not very well educated, graduated from the Limbaugh school of ignorance and bulliness, disciples of Breitbart the fake video guy, they are standing where one would figure they would.

[Rex]

12. Well it has never been about being sincere or honesty

These motherfuckers want to stomp liberals in the head. They have no actual moral compass and that is why you see the shift in their supposed 'values', these fucktwits don't have any!

Fuck Tea baggers every last one of them, they are the shit stains we made fun of during the Bush era. Now come to life in all their rampant ignorance and stupidity.

FUCK THEM!

[golddigger]

27. Don't hold back. +10000

:thumbsup:

[EV_Ares]

31. All good and accurate points.

[HereSince1628]

13. Thanks for the opportunity to write this for the 359th time...

The major malfunction of the t-party is JEALOUSY. It taints consideration of every policy they encounter. The intersection of GREED and JEALOUSY is called the Modern Republican Party.

I give for your perusal:

Don't tax me!

Take care of yourself, don't expect to feed at MY trough!

I've got my own gun for protection!

Stay out of MY country!

Stay away from MY job!

Don't negotiate a better deal using your union--because I'm too cheap to join a union and that sort of leverage is unfair to ME!

And by the way I work an 8 hour 5 day ever heard of that, you liberal union loafer?

[Cleita]

18. You also forgot that a lot of their biases

are based on racism. Their mantra is that those people who are inferior to them whether it's because race, ethnicity, gender or inheritance don't deserve what they deserve.

[HereSince1628]

21. Yes, because they are jealous they it emerges in all those

I could be getting a bit around the bend on this, but it really does seem to me that great green jealousy is their essential quality.

[Pirate Smile]

14. They are just Republicans. They support state or federal governments when Republicans are in charge

and are against it when Democrats are in charge.

The idea that they are anything else is idiotic.

They were able to play the press to extreme effect by acting like they were something other then just plain-old-nasty Republicans. They are generally well-off white people so the press covers them as "real America" while the press ignores anti-war or union or any other groups that they pigeon-hole as "liberals" or "Democrats".

It is why on Sirius/XM there is the RW radio channel called "Sirius Patriot" and the LW channel is called "Sirius Left". Which name sounds positive and which is neutral?

It is the same-old, same-old.

[Kingofalldems]

15. As someone here said, they are useful idiots.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

16. The irony would be lost on them!

:bounce:

[Raine]

20. I'm not offended, I'm befuddled

I would really like to hear them try and explain it to me. :yoiks: I bet if they tried to explain they would spin like tops. :crazy:

[Lifelong Protester]

22. Are they not against big government?

This Gov. Walker is proposing the biggest government takeover and power grab in the history of the state, and the anti-big government folks are ok with that? Jeez-o-pete

[malaise]

23. They are paid goons

available to do the bidding for Koch et al.

[Raine]

24. I bet the Koch brothers laugh their heads off at how

they use the fools just the way Raygun did. I remember the truth coming out about Raygun's derogatory terms for the working class he duped ... "Joe bag of donuts" "EC & BC" (ethnic collar & blue collar), they laughed themselves silly over those fools.

[Jack Rabbit]

25. No. I don't expect consistancy out of those morons.

After all, they're just a bunch of manipulated Koch-heads.

[pacalo]

26. They're anti-anything their propaganda masters tell them to be against.

Thinking for themselves is so haaaarrrd.

[Still Sensible]

28. Teabaggers aren't anti-government, they are

anti-democrat
anti-union
anti-tax
anti-women's rights
anti-gay or otherwise different from them people
anti-(what they consider)freeloaders
anti-government aid (unless it's theirs)
anti-anybody-that-is-not-white
anti-any-religion (or lack thereof) but theirs
and most of all
anti-Obama
but
anti-government... only when its not in republican hands

[ashling]

29. Don't take it personally

I used to be an administrator at a state psychiatric hospital. Some of the patients would do or say or do things at which I was bemused, saddened, shocked, or even disgusted, but I don't recall being offended. I cannot take offense at the actions of someone who not mentally competent.

[Liberal Veteran]

But wouldn't you feel a bit offended if they decided to put the patients in charge?

That's sorta what we are talking about here.

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[RegieRocker]

33. It makes my head spin!

[Populist_Prole]

34. As Matt Taibi so astutely stated in an article

( pardon my language ) "They're full of shit, all of them".

What I say is don't try to figure them out. Just block them, insult them, stymie them every chance you get. They're scum. That's the "G" rated version.

[Hydra]

35. Easy equation

Tea Party = Paid Republican Activists

"There are 2 types of Republicans- Billionaires and Suckers."

Makes sense now?

[Dokkie]

36. I will play the devil's advocate and help you understand

I am doing this because to beat the tea baggers at their game requires understanding their way of thinking.

Anti government teabaggers are more like small govt people. They are not opposed to govt in its totality but they see govt as an entity which steals from them (tax payers) to enrich their friends (unions). In this case, the tea baggers see the Unions as the pro big govt type who in their desire to maintain their collective bargaining tool would eventually force govt to grow bigger and Walker as the small govt guy fighting to reduce their taxes and the debt of the state by crushing the Union workers

So you can see how it is consistent for an anti govt tea bagger to support and over reaching govt if end means that the size of govt is reduced.