Astroturf Faux-revolutionaries! (PICS) 'IMPEACH MALL'! 'I HEART THE RICH!'

[tekisui]

I went idiot watching today. I saw the teabaggers in downtown Asheville. There was a crowd of 100-200 ignorant and misguided people. I saw signs praising the 2nd and 10th amendments, others wanting to repeal the 16th amendment and the Tax and Spend Clause from the Constitution. They yell 'Constitution', yet have no idea what it says, other than their pet amendments. A bunch of xenophobic morans who 'Hate Teh Taxes'! :rofl:

They chanted 'No more taxes!' and 'We, the People!', I left when they started signing patriotic songs with religious fervor. :puke:

I am sure faux news, hate radio and the multi-millionare backers were happy to have some ignorant sheep to exploit. Enjoy!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. What pisses me off ......

is that each of their votes counts the same as mine............

[Island Blue]

2. Is that third one a threat?

Kind of looks like it to me.

[tekisui]

5. The third one from the bottom is the one I'd worry about.

It wasn't there when you posted, I had mistakenly doubled one of them.

[Island Blue]

15. Call me stupid, but I'm not even sure what that means.

"It's a Cookbook" ???

Edited for word.

[tekisui]

16. 'It's a Cookbook'----

It's a reference to 'The Anarchist Cookbook'. A guide to making bombs, fighting guerrilla wars, etc.

[Island Blue]

17. Thanks for the explanation.

Fun-loving group of folk, aren't they?

[frylock]

23. i had assumed it was a reference to the twilight zone ep..

To Serve Man.

Marc Scott Zicree in The Twilight Zone Companion:

In the show...a staff of cryptographers led by Lloyd Bochner attempts to decipher the alien language as though it were some secret code, which is utterly ludicrous. Without some sort of interplanetary Rosetta stone, deciphering an unknown language would be impossible.

Zicree’s comments have been seconded by many others, including Damon Knight, though an explanation as to how the cryptographers managed to translate the Kanamit language may be found in an early draft of Serling’s teleplay, which included this scene:

(Close shot Chambers as seen over her shoulder. His eyes narrow.)

Chambers: What’s the matter, Pat? What's going on?
(Reverse angle looking toward her. Her lips tremble.)

Pat: I...I finally deciphered their language. All of it. I read their book.

(Close shot a suspended speaker overhead. A Kanamit's metallic voice rings out.)

Kanamit's voice: Please move ahead. You're holding up our departure. Kindly move ahead.

(Cut to: Two shot Chambers and Pat)

Chambers: Well?

Pat: Mr. Chambers...Mr. Chambers, the first page is just a collection of English words with their own translation. But the rest of the book...the rest of the book — It's a cookbook!

Pat's shocking revelation has been repeated several times in popular culture, including television shows, films, and online games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)

[tekisui]

24. I don't know.

If I had to guess by looking at him, I would guess the Anarchist Cookbook reference, maybe a play on that phrase. I could be totally wrong, I'm not familiar with the Twilight Zone reference.

[Occulus]

31. Interesting book. My small-town library used to have one of the originals.

The uncensored version.

I wonder if they still have that particular tome. My understanding at the time- many, many years ago- was that it contained incomplete/inaccurate information that made what they were teaching people to do very, very dangerous.

Black cover, white lettering. Oddly, I recall the book.... quite well. Not the specifics of the content- I was about twelve at the time- but what it looked like and in general what it was about. But then, I do like to learn new things :D

[gratuitous]

21. Twilight Zone episode reference?

"How to Serve Man," a book being carried by an alien race that visits Earth.

Yeah, it's obscure and it doesn't make any sense in context, but I just calls 'em like I sees 'em.

[Bucky]

29. I think he's comparing Obama to the joyously welcomed evil aliens

At least he's got a sense of humor about it.

Once we finish taking over, he's the one I want to eat.

[mrsadkins99]

3. that one sign about the 2nd amendment

that needs to be reported to the Secret Service.

[Jamastiene]

20. Agreed.

It is an implicit threat of violence.

Welcome to DU, btw. :hi:

[Bicoastal]

Not the Mall! At the mall havin' fun is what its all aboot!

Everybody come and play
Throw every last care away
Let's go to the mall...
Today!

[Blue_In_AK]

4. I went to ours, too,

but I couldn't bring myself to take any closeups of their stupid signs. Did you have any SOS "Save Our Sovereignty" signs? That's a big one here.

[tekisui]

10. Yeah, we had some of those.

When the fuck did state sovereignty become and issue again? I mean, I know Alaska has the AIP and all that, but NC?!?!

[virgogal]

6. And now you're going to exploit them?

[tekisui]

11. No, just make fun of them.

[AllieB]

18. Did you go to the State House today?

I thought I saw you there. ;-)

[virgogal]

32. Not me,my activist days are far behind me. :- (

[HughBeaumont]

7. Teh Stupid. It BoooooURNS.

You should have taken a photo of the face of #3 and turned it in to SS. I consider batshit nuts like that dangerous when you think about what's happened the past couple of weeks. People like that shouldn't make our safety or that of our leaders a mockery.

What these really are would be "I hate our Black President" rallies.

[tekisui]

13. That's exactly what they are.

[and-justice-for-all]

37. Yep, racist bigoted fucks to the last...nt

[liberalmuse]

8. These people have zero sense of humor.

Go to a liberal protest and you'll see all sorts of humorous signs and smiling people--even at the anti-prop hate protest we had here. Most of the signs pictured here from the teabaggers are downright creepy in their implications. Either that, or just plain nonsensical.

[SoCalDem]

9. White shorts guy's missing a "T" from his Tea party sign..

nd what's with the "askance" thing???

E for effort on the "transnationalism" thing Dude.. It's a BIG word..and you almost got it right :rofl:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

19. I'll add "Obama and His friend's". (n/t)

[sufrommich]

12. OK, I gotta say I want the "It's a cookbook" shirt. lol. nt

[dorkulon]

34. My thoughts exactly.

That one is actually pretty funny.

[Barack_America]

35. Me too!

But is it a t-shirt or a windbreaker?

:rofl:

[tridim]

14. Pro Life, Pro Liberty, Pro Happiness..

Unless you're gay, non-white or a Democrat.

[mediaman007]

25. Arrest her! This woman is desecrating our flag! Where's a flag amendment

when you need one?

[spanone]

22. so she's protesting for her boss....really strange...he's probably a democrat

[ima_sinnic]

26. all-inclusive "ism" bash: "communism fascism socialism marxism"

since they can't make up their minds which it is, or since it's any one of them, depending on which day it is, might as well throw them all out and hope that one sticks!

[tekisui]

28. I told that lady I wanted to take a picture of her sign,

she said, 'which one, I have several'.

I said, the one with all the isms. :rofl:

[Bucky]

27. It's a cook book!!

:rofl: I don't care if he's nutjob---that's a good one!

[That Is Quite Enough]

30. "trasnationalism"

I don't know what political philosophy trasnationalism is, but it sounds really badass.

I would point out how idiotic that protester is for thinking that transnationalism = a dictatorship, but I don't wanna rant to the choir.

[Lars39]

33. 2nd pic....is that person in the greenish thing wearing a Snuggie?

lol

[ima_sinnic]

39. looks more like an escapee from a mental ward--just a typical teabagger

[and-justice-for-all]

36. That's a HUGE crowd...

of senior citizens.

The dumbass with the "I love the rich..." poster is absolutely fucking ignorant. BUSH is the one who deregulated which allowed for companies to move overseas and the FTA did not help either, but she is too stupid to understand that.

[The Gunslinger]

38. I "heart" the rich...They employ me..............

Really...

Until they ship your job overseas and lay you off to save a dollar. She's proud to be a serf. The Right wing Revolution - bringing America forward to the 16th century.