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Even more amusing is the claim that since the people behaved lawfully and didn't riot or start shooting government officials they are "inauthentic".
reality-hammer.livejournal.com posting in politicartoonsEven more amusing is the claim that since the people behaved lawfully and didn't riot or start shooting government officials they are "inauthentic".
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Date: 2009-04-20 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-04-20 08:11 pm (UTC)This was just as stupid when the other guy posted it.
Date: 2009-04-20 05:07 pm (UTC)2 Show me proof anyone involved was put under surveilance for their participation.
Yeah, didn't think so. Borderline Godwin.
3 Any illegal domestic surveillance program would have been initiated under Bush's administration. Irony overload.
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Date: 2009-04-20 05:37 pm (UTC)Re: This was just as stupid when the other guy posted it.
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Date: 2009-04-20 06:36 pm (UTC)Re: This was just as stupid when the other guy posted it.
Date: 2009-04-20 07:53 pm (UTC)Re: This was just as stupid when the other guy posted it.
Date: 2009-04-20 07:54 pm (UTC)Re: This was just as stupid when the other guy posted it.
Date: 2009-04-20 07:59 pm (UTC)Ron Jeremy, eat your heart out!
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Date: 2009-04-20 07:59 pm (UTC)Lies? Ha! Sad little dupe.
Date: 2009-04-20 07:41 pm (UTC)The whole thing was corporate financed and organized by political operatives and PR experts.
- FOX. NEWS. CHANNEL. Massive promotion, sponsorship.
- Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity were the primary organizers.
This is a well put and well documented explanation that you will no doubt ignore, but which sums the situation up nicely:
http://savetherich.com/content/open-memo-media-what-astroturf-looks
Re: This was just as stupid when the other guy posted it.
Date: 2009-04-21 08:28 am (UTC)everyone knows about the astroturf thing.
except, I guess, the people who showed up at the "protests".
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Date: 2009-04-20 05:39 pm (UTC)Y'all really love to forget the past 8 years, eh?
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Date: 2009-04-20 05:39 pm (UTC)But only the modern right (which seems to have gone back to their 1990s unmarked black helicopters paranoia) think it's a sign of political repression. Nobody was stopping your fancy tea parties. They were just laughing.
Don't want the government to think you're an extremist? Don't act like one. (note: I'm not talking about conservatives who wanna teabag each other in front of the White House-- and neither was DHS-- but rather crazy people (http://reality-hammer.livejournal.com/917673.html?thread=7085481#t7085481) who think they need to stock up on arms and formed an armed resistance to Obama's private army and FEMA concentration camps)
PS- Mega kudos, however, to conservatives in general for deciding that they care about civil liberties again. I remembering during the Bush years that we were told 'if you don't have anything to hide, why are you worried?'. Your ACLU card is in the mail. Welcome aboard.
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Date: 2009-04-20 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 07:58 pm (UTC)you hammer reality with bullshitReality Hammer bullshits you, it will still be there."Fixed that for ya.
P.S. That icon of yours never fails to make me do a double-take. :)
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Date: 2009-04-20 08:09 pm (UTC)No wonder he's jonsing for a tea-bagging.
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Date: 2009-04-20 08:01 pm (UTC)Even at the height of protest against the war, the central message was to impeach, and to lock the criminals who led us down this path. These Tea Party crews are a bit wider in their collective focus (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html) and just a wee touch less civil...
The so called modern conservative movement is much less of a social movement and more kin to a social disease, to evaluate the measure of all of the 'good' they do to our culture & to our political discourse. Even when offered a chance to participate, Republicans chose to stall and to pander down to the only base they have left: those also left stewing in their own ignorance, fear & hatred. And should you think that 'political' cartoons of the sort you chose to share here are going to gain your 'movement' any positive traction among discerning voters, then you, sir, are more delusional than Mr. compassionate Conservative himself....
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Date: 2009-04-20 08:46 pm (UTC)The only part I may disagree with: ...then you, sir, are more delusional than Mr. compassionate Conservative himself....
But only because it would likely violate some law of physics.
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Date: 2009-04-20 09:02 pm (UTC)Re: To my knowing
Date: 2009-04-21 08:30 am (UTC)this. this so much. I've always felt that way about social neoconservative extremism.