Help me understand the tea party

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Oh it throws them for a loop. I mentioned in a teabagger thread once the very same thing. I also mentioned i used to be a marxist and that as such i knew for a fact that china was never communist. Only one bagger backed me up because for once there was one who did know the difference.

[Cain]

Most socialists I know either very grudgingly accept Obama, or want to see a primary run against him in 2012.

As for the Teabagger/Republican thing....you have to remember how abysmally low the Republican Party was in 2008.  It was a ruined label.  The party was mostly discredited.  Obama trounced McCain in the elections, and the Republicans were seen as the party of war and debt.  I said at the time I expected to see many of the more ambitious and extreme Republicans to flee to something like the Conservative Party (which is, incidentally, heavily Teabagger connected now) in an attempt to offset the damage done to their reputation by, well, themselves.

That Republican fortunes have since risen is in no small part due to the fact Obama sees the left of his own party as more threatening than the right of the Republicans.  Can you say "Weimar Republic"? 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Most socialists I know either very grudgingly accept Obama, or want to see a primary run against him in 2012.

As for the Teabagger/Republican thing....you have to remember how abysmally low the Republican Party was in 2008.  It was a ruined label.  The party was mostly discredited.  Obama trounced McCain in the elections, and the Republicans were seen as the party of war and debt.  I said at the time I expected to see many of the more ambitious and extreme Republicans to flee to something like the Conservative Party (which is, incidentally, heavily Teabagger connected now) in an attempt to offset the damage done to their reputation by, well, themselves.

That Republican fortunes have since risen is in no small part due to the fact Obama sees the left of his own party as more threatening than the right of the Republicans.  Can you say "Weimar Republic"?  

:Checks expiration date on Irish passport:

[Doktor Howl]

   

Oh the irony, it's biting.

Explain it to me then, for I am hipster-deficient.

You have a captive audience.

Explain what?  I did my best to answer his question as sincerely as possible.  You mentioned bigotry, which is ironic because there's quite a lot of that on display ITT, (granted, in a "humorous-through-ridicule" way) by any definition I've ever been familiar with.

The only other responses not showing obvious bias and disdain were Cain's.

Hey, let your opinions, biases, and intolerance about another group of people shine, I say.  It's honesty, at least.  But don't try and color it another shade of what it clearly is, and calling other bigots, bigots in order to help cover your own is pretty fucking recursive.

Wait.  Are you saying you need examples of tea party bigotry?  For real?  Because I'll be more than happy to post some.

And, yeah, I have an intolerance for bigotry.  That makes me a bigot ("other bigots")? 

You know, I was starting to wonder why I dislike DP so intensely, and then I find shit like this.

[hirley0]

Reply #123: Today at 11:57:57 AM '57 was the year 7 left for WESTPAC

WESTPAC is NAVY LINGO for west pacific | in this case Japan
taxie fairs were 10 yen ? the exchange rate was 360:1 H_o's were 20 as i recall

[Freeky]

   

Oh the irony, it's biting.

Explain it to me then, for I am hipster-deficient.

You have a captive audience.

Explain what?  I did my best to answer his question as sincerely as possible.  You mentioned bigotry, which is ironic because there's quite a lot of that on display ITT, (granted, in a "humorous-through-ridicule" way) by any definition I've ever been familiar with.

The only other responses not showing obvious bias and disdain were Cain's.

Hey, let your opinions, biases, and intolerance about another group of people shine, I say.  It's honesty, at least.  But don't try and color it another shade of what it clearly is, and calling other bigots, bigots in order to help cover your own is pretty fucking recursive.

Wait.  Are you saying you need examples of tea party bigotry?  For real?  Because I'll be more than happy to post some.

And, yeah, I have an intolerance for bigotry.  That makes me a bigot ("other bigots")? 

You know, I was starting to wonder why I dislike DP so intensely, and then I find shit like this.

I don't ever forget why.  It was right around the time he was talking shit about how poor people deserve whatever they get, and how he spurned me when I tried to help him.

[Freeky]

DiscoPickle is nothing more than a piece of shit, a delusional Libertard who takes his luck for granted to the point where it is offensive, and he makes me sick.

[Cain]

My posts ITT were great, though.

[Freeky]

My posts ITT were great, though.

Truth.