Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea party. Show all posts
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
True Colors: Tea Baggers Assault Move On Activist
How long until there are Tea Party arm bands worn by bands of wandering thugs?
Friday, October 8, 2010
Nazi Teabagger Alert
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Weekly Link Dump
Teabagger Politician accused of fucking little girl he met at church where he's an "elder."
David Vitter (R-LA) is avoiding debates with his opponent Charlie Melancon.
Who knew Afghanistan was an EXXXTREME version of ancient Greece?
Even Fox Noise's own Chris Wallace can see that Glenn Beck is full of shit.
The Waterworld of white self pity.
David Vitter (R-LA) is avoiding debates with his opponent Charlie Melancon.
Who knew Afghanistan was an EXXXTREME version of ancient Greece?
Even Fox Noise's own Chris Wallace can see that Glenn Beck is full of shit.
The Waterworld of white self pity.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Modus Operandi Podcast episode 29
Notes: At 1:48:12 This is one of the longest episodes to date as we were off for almost three weeks so there was a bit of catching up to do.
Here are some visual aids and comments that accompany this episode that aren't already posted on the blog in the recent past:
We totally fail to perform the Ogrefest theme song.
In relation to Target giving money to the MN pact that supports this extremist right wing tea party, it appears that Best Buy gave around $100,000 to the same group.
T-Shirt Coming Soon: Ogrefest - War Mongering Machine
Because I am running so late getting this podcast edited and uploaded I did not insert the "Dr. David Overbey Says Something Positive About Anything" theme music or introduction, but there are at least three places in the show that I could have used for the segment. My apologies for being a lame ass though the intro and theme music would have made this 1:48 episode even longer and screw you for being upset if you are. Which you aren't. Because you're awesome.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Bat Shit Crazy Report: Tea Party Attacks Bachmann
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Why the Tea Party May be Good for Dems
NEVADA - Yesterday Tea Party wingnut, militia supporter, and possible Scientologist Sharron Angle beat out her opponent, the less nutty (see her "barter for healthcare with chickens" remarks) Sue Lowden in the GOP Senate primary. Many people thought that the election this fall would be a very difficult one for Harry Reid but they also thought he would be running against the former GOP State chairperson Lowden rather than the flat out kooky Angle. The consensus is that Lowden was beaten by the level of ridicule she received for implying we should bring chickens to our doctor or offer to paint his house in exchange for health care, and Lowden was afraid to ridicule Angle's insanity because it's pretty much orthodox wingnuttiness.
For a certain group of Americans (let's call them Fox-ites) the Tea Party seems like a reasonable expression of anger against government that they're so angry at. They have convinced themselves they're angry about "big government" though they voted twice for the man that expanded government more than any in history. They've convinced themselves they're angry about "socialism" though not a single one of them could define it if their life depended on it. Basically they've convinced themselves that the Fox "News" shows they watch (and the right wing radio they listen to) are based in reality and report actual facts about the world around them. What most of these people don't realize (or ignore) is how far from rational most of the Tea Party candidates are, and they're going to get an upclose and personal look come fall. Now demonstration of the lunacy of some of these nutjobs will only reinforce the faithbased beliefs of the Beck-oids and Dittoheads, but enough people will be appalled at these lunatics that I feel what could have been an intense thrashing of Democrats this fall may well turn out to be less than two licks with an open hand.
Let's just look at this Angle woman as an example. Despite Lowden's idiotic remarks about health care and chickens, she's a seasoned politician who could appeal to the more moderate conservative voters in Nevada. Angle, on the other hand, supports the way out militia group called The Oath Keepers:
With very little digging, Dems should be able to paint most Teabaggers their own true colors as delusional, fascist, hate-filled bigots... if they have the balls to do so. Rand Paul, for instance has already managed to all but don his KKK robes without any prodding from the left, and Sarah Palin's endorsement appears to cause "independent" voters (whatever the hell that means) to run away in droves leaving incumbents like Barbara Boxer looking safer than expected. We'll see come November but the recent election results (like the strong Dem win of Murtha's old seat) give me hope.
For a certain group of Americans (let's call them Fox-ites) the Tea Party seems like a reasonable expression of anger against government that they're so angry at. They have convinced themselves they're angry about "big government" though they voted twice for the man that expanded government more than any in history. They've convinced themselves they're angry about "socialism" though not a single one of them could define it if their life depended on it. Basically they've convinced themselves that the Fox "News" shows they watch (and the right wing radio they listen to) are based in reality and report actual facts about the world around them. What most of these people don't realize (or ignore) is how far from rational most of the Tea Party candidates are, and they're going to get an upclose and personal look come fall. Now demonstration of the lunacy of some of these nutjobs will only reinforce the faithbased beliefs of the Beck-oids and Dittoheads, but enough people will be appalled at these lunatics that I feel what could have been an intense thrashing of Democrats this fall may well turn out to be less than two licks with an open hand.
Let's just look at this Angle woman as an example. Despite Lowden's idiotic remarks about health care and chickens, she's a seasoned politician who could appeal to the more moderate conservative voters in Nevada. Angle, on the other hand, supports the way out militia group called The Oath Keepers:
Often seen at gun shows and similar settings, the Oath Keepers were singled out by the Southern Poverty Law Center in its 2009 report on the return of the militia movement since President Obama was elected as "a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival."
According to the SPLC, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, a former staffer for Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) warns his followers against "a coming dictatorship" that will happen if "our brothers in arms go along and comply with unconstitutional, unlawful orders." An extensive report on the group by Mother Jones in March suggests supporters of the movement believe they're living through the first steps of the shift away from constitutional freedom. Members of the group -- many of them in the armed forces -- share the "belief that the government is already turning on its citizens, they are recruiting military buddies, stashing weapons, running drills, and outlining a plan of action [to stop it]," the magazine reported.
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The Reid camp is already signaling it plans to paint Angle as an extremist -- or even a paranoid -- by highlighting statements like her recent observation that Americans are "afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways."
Angle's endorsement of the Oath Keepers will only bolster that image. The group is preoccupied with nightmarish visions of U.S. citizens being marched into Nazi-style concentration camps. One part of the Oath Keepers' creed reads: "Such a vile order to forcibly intern Americans without charges or trial would be an act of war against the American people, and thus an act of treason, regardless of the pretext used. We will not commit treason, nor will we facilitate or support it.'NOT on Our Watch!'" TPM
With very little digging, Dems should be able to paint most Teabaggers their own true colors as delusional, fascist, hate-filled bigots... if they have the balls to do so. Rand Paul, for instance has already managed to all but don his KKK robes without any prodding from the left, and Sarah Palin's endorsement appears to cause "independent" voters (whatever the hell that means) to run away in droves leaving incumbents like Barbara Boxer looking safer than expected. We'll see come November but the recent election results (like the strong Dem win of Murtha's old seat) give me hope.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Glimmer of Hope? Tea Party Pressure Begins Melting GOP
So the teabaggers start having a real effect. Senator Bob Bennett (R-UT) is out of the race for the upcoming election. Bennett was eliminated from nomination in the second round of voting at the Utah Republican convention. If Bennett isn't conservative enough for these people (seriously, Bob Bennett, isn't conservative?) then they're liable to push their candidates so far out to the right that none of them can win. I bet they will win in a few places but mostly I think they're going to unseat electable Republicans with lunatics that will be beaten handily by their Democratic (or, I would prefer but know will never happen, independent left wing) opponents.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Tax Day Ogrefest
While my good life-long friend and MoPod colleague is frantically trying to finish his taxes on time--no doubt causing him to miss work and thus not make money on which he would have to pay even more taxes--billionaires right now are coasting through tax season because the American people are convinced that super wealthy people--the ones who benefit most from American society, shouldn't have to pay taxes.
I don't where to begin. Everything is so fucked up, I guess it doesn't matter. Like fishing during a willowfly hatch, I'll cast a line in any direction and catch something.
No matter what, any discussion of politics or government never has any substance or deals with policy. Discussions are always contextualized by meaningless abstractions: big or small government, left-wing, right-wing. Why are people angry about health care reform? It's big government! How does a person not getting medical attention make someone else's life better? What is accomplished by denying people access to health care? Americans' attitudes toward health care reform are selfish and puerile and quintessentially conservative: They do not want for others what they want for themselves.
In today's NY Times and the local C-J, the focus is on the mounting tea party movement and its congregation of angry people. Isn't that great? The dominant emotion is anger, and that is the force driving the country and undoubtedly the upcoming November elections. The anger dervies from the miserable, never-improving economy, which collapsed during the end of the eight-year sadist-fest of Bush-Christ and Cheney. The collapse happened because of mean-spirited economic policies that rig families to fail by deliberately making sure the wealth is always distributed upward. Don't like big government? What the fuck do you think war is? Who fights wars? Shoe companies? Banks? No, the government does--it's a branch of the government called the military. Bet you've heard of it. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are incredibly expensive, so if you don't mind paying for those wars, you have no grounds to bitch about anything "big" government might want to pay for, like someone getting a life-saving operation, or an education. The economic collapse of 2008 also was the consequence of over a quarter-century of economic policy of raising deficits, privatizing social services, skyrocketing prison populations and the war on drugs, a war in the middle east that's really been going on since 1991 on several fronts, and an obsession with destroying any kind of service that actually helps make people's lives better--which is not "big" government but merely decent, civilized human behavior.
Bank bailouts and stimulus spending that obviously aren't helping people who've been out of work for twenty months piss me off too. But if I'm going to get upset about something this important, I'm also going to invest the time and energy to make as accurate as possible a determination of why things have gone wrong. First of all, health care reform, which passed just weeks ago, has come AFTER all of these problems, so obviously it isn't the CAUSE, and it's TOO EARLY to declare more people having health care equals the end of the world. In fact, if times are tough economically, one would think affordable, if not free, health care would be a welcome relief from barely bearable financial duress.
It's pathetic beyond words for a mass of people in this country to be angry at the way things are going and yet still endorse and not protest the most expensive, wasteful, and costly things the government insists on perpetuating: THE WARS. If you're upset at what's going on, you can't ignore the "biggest" policy of your "big" government: keep fighting wars, spending tons of money, and killing those civilians (remember no civilians are being killed at this exact instant, so that means the wars are getting better). Most Americans are STILL convinced that progress is being made in Iraq and Afghanistan even though these wars have been going on for nearly twenty years and show no signs of reaching a successful conclusion. In fact, they've gone on so long, at this point I have no idea how they could be a success.
The tea party epitomizes the mindless anger of alienation that in the end promises to do nothing but perpetuate the very policies that have created the conditions that are making everyone angry. Vote in another squadron of Republicans in November and you'll get more of the same policies and objectives that have led to the current state of misery. Protest against everything but the wars and you'll get more war--which is what mindlessly angry people want. As long as people are getting killed, this apparently makes the Christian right feel better about themselves.
What's all this got to do with taxes? The fact that many honest, regular, hard-working Americans are frantically trying to get their taxes filed right now while rich people don't pay taxes at all is yet another consequence of policies that have been around since the late 70s. Most people are not, cannot be, and will not become rich. How miserable do people have to become when they don't want their brothers and sisters to have health care but will stand up in righteous indignation because rich people who live in another universe might have to pay more taxes? How can you be angry at Obama for high taxes when he recently lowered the tax rate for "most Americans?" Yet only 2% of tea baggers are aware of this basic fact. How's that for hard-working? But who cares--just get angry at everything and everyone but the rich and their government whores who will gladly ride your anger to Washington and proceed to shove the same miserable shit down your throats for the foreseeable future. Make sure that the conditions that make you angry never change, and take solice that someone else has it even worse than you do. Tax day may only come once a year--at least for those of us who pay taxes--but Ogrefest is a year-round event. And remember, if things get bad enough, you can always enlist and go to the oil fields and kill people, some of them civilians and journalists. What better way to show your anger than to kill people . . . and even get paid a little bit for doing it?
I don't where to begin. Everything is so fucked up, I guess it doesn't matter. Like fishing during a willowfly hatch, I'll cast a line in any direction and catch something.
No matter what, any discussion of politics or government never has any substance or deals with policy. Discussions are always contextualized by meaningless abstractions: big or small government, left-wing, right-wing. Why are people angry about health care reform? It's big government! How does a person not getting medical attention make someone else's life better? What is accomplished by denying people access to health care? Americans' attitudes toward health care reform are selfish and puerile and quintessentially conservative: They do not want for others what they want for themselves.
In today's NY Times and the local C-J, the focus is on the mounting tea party movement and its congregation of angry people. Isn't that great? The dominant emotion is anger, and that is the force driving the country and undoubtedly the upcoming November elections. The anger dervies from the miserable, never-improving economy, which collapsed during the end of the eight-year sadist-fest of Bush-Christ and Cheney. The collapse happened because of mean-spirited economic policies that rig families to fail by deliberately making sure the wealth is always distributed upward. Don't like big government? What the fuck do you think war is? Who fights wars? Shoe companies? Banks? No, the government does--it's a branch of the government called the military. Bet you've heard of it. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are incredibly expensive, so if you don't mind paying for those wars, you have no grounds to bitch about anything "big" government might want to pay for, like someone getting a life-saving operation, or an education. The economic collapse of 2008 also was the consequence of over a quarter-century of economic policy of raising deficits, privatizing social services, skyrocketing prison populations and the war on drugs, a war in the middle east that's really been going on since 1991 on several fronts, and an obsession with destroying any kind of service that actually helps make people's lives better--which is not "big" government but merely decent, civilized human behavior.
Bank bailouts and stimulus spending that obviously aren't helping people who've been out of work for twenty months piss me off too. But if I'm going to get upset about something this important, I'm also going to invest the time and energy to make as accurate as possible a determination of why things have gone wrong. First of all, health care reform, which passed just weeks ago, has come AFTER all of these problems, so obviously it isn't the CAUSE, and it's TOO EARLY to declare more people having health care equals the end of the world. In fact, if times are tough economically, one would think affordable, if not free, health care would be a welcome relief from barely bearable financial duress.
It's pathetic beyond words for a mass of people in this country to be angry at the way things are going and yet still endorse and not protest the most expensive, wasteful, and costly things the government insists on perpetuating: THE WARS. If you're upset at what's going on, you can't ignore the "biggest" policy of your "big" government: keep fighting wars, spending tons of money, and killing those civilians (remember no civilians are being killed at this exact instant, so that means the wars are getting better). Most Americans are STILL convinced that progress is being made in Iraq and Afghanistan even though these wars have been going on for nearly twenty years and show no signs of reaching a successful conclusion. In fact, they've gone on so long, at this point I have no idea how they could be a success.
The tea party epitomizes the mindless anger of alienation that in the end promises to do nothing but perpetuate the very policies that have created the conditions that are making everyone angry. Vote in another squadron of Republicans in November and you'll get more of the same policies and objectives that have led to the current state of misery. Protest against everything but the wars and you'll get more war--which is what mindlessly angry people want. As long as people are getting killed, this apparently makes the Christian right feel better about themselves.
What's all this got to do with taxes? The fact that many honest, regular, hard-working Americans are frantically trying to get their taxes filed right now while rich people don't pay taxes at all is yet another consequence of policies that have been around since the late 70s. Most people are not, cannot be, and will not become rich. How miserable do people have to become when they don't want their brothers and sisters to have health care but will stand up in righteous indignation because rich people who live in another universe might have to pay more taxes? How can you be angry at Obama for high taxes when he recently lowered the tax rate for "most Americans?" Yet only 2% of tea baggers are aware of this basic fact. How's that for hard-working? But who cares--just get angry at everything and everyone but the rich and their government whores who will gladly ride your anger to Washington and proceed to shove the same miserable shit down your throats for the foreseeable future. Make sure that the conditions that make you angry never change, and take solice that someone else has it even worse than you do. Tax day may only come once a year--at least for those of us who pay taxes--but Ogrefest is a year-round event. And remember, if things get bad enough, you can always enlist and go to the oil fields and kill people, some of them civilians and journalists. What better way to show your anger than to kill people . . . and even get paid a little bit for doing it?
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Ogre-oid: Crash The Tea Party a hoax?
So I thought this was a great idea but I noticed how many people on the left thought it was counterproductive. Then Greg Correll of slate.com did some investigative work.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Ogre-oid: Post Health Bill Threats from Palin, Teabaggers
I think this graph from Sarah Palin's PAC website says it all. She "targets" the "enemy" by placing "gun sites" over their homes. Yep.
Apparently the threats and actual actions are not only being aimed at opposition politicians but members of their families as well. Good call, right wingers. It's about time for the jack booted thugs.
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