Friday, February 5, 2010

Teabagging: Day Two

Tancredo Last evening, Tom Tancredo got things going with his kickoff speech. He had some very interesting things to say, things like calling the tea party movement "the most important political movement in the United States since the Civil War." What does that even mean? Is he advocating secession? He called the "cult of multiculturalism" as big a threat as our fiscal problems. He called Sarah Palin a "really, really pretty Margaret Thatcher." He called for implementing a "literacy test" for voters, a tactic that was used in the segregationist South in order to keep blacks from voting, saying that President Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country." He went on to say this:

People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House—his name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Although cheers erupted at this, apparently, the room wasn't filled; I guess that's a good thing, since as few people as possible should hear such bigotry, misogyny, and narrow-minded idiocy as fell from his lips.

Here we've got an older, white, conservative male talking about how he hates multiculturalism. How he wants to go back to segregationist tactics designed to keep uneducated people (i.e., blacks) from voting. How people who couldn't spell or speak English are the ones who voted Obama into the White House.

Have you looked at any of the demographics, Uncle Tom? You are factually inaccurate. College graduates constituted a huge portion of Obama supporters. For anyone who supports Tancredo and others of his ilk, you might want to think long and hard about why you are doing so; unless you are also a white, conservative male, or a MILF, they are not your friend and they are not your advocate. Let’s go over that again. He wants to put segregationist tactics into place. Yes, teabaggers…this is what you are following. This is what you—YOU—are advocating if you are supporting them.

By the way, if we focused more on education, they way our President is trying to do, perhaps the illiteracy rates in our country would drop. There are plenty of people who can't read because they don't have access to safe schools and a good education. That doesn't mean that they can't listen to the news and learn about things that way. His condescending, patronizing tone is an affront to all of us—or it should be.

Teabaggers3 One of the speakers today was Judge Roy Moore. This was the guy who was removed from his position as the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court because he refused to remove the monument of the ten commandments he had erected at the state judicial building. Moore said the monument "reflects the sovereignty of God over the affairs of men" and "acknowledge[s] God’s overruling power over the affairs of men." He did not feel that this violated the separation of church and state, and when the deadline for removing the monument came and went, they yanked him from the Court.

So now in addition to needing to be a white, conservative male or a white, conservative MILF, you must also ignore the Constitution (despite your strident call to follow it in other matters) and acknowledge that God rules the affairs of men, although that Constitution for which you profess such undying love explicitly says that that is not the case.

We're not a theocracy, folks. You know that, right?

There were several breakout sessions today (believe me, if I were there, I think I would have been finding a way to break out), with topics that included:

  • "Why Christians must engage"
  • "How to do Voter Registration Drives and Where to Find Conservative Votes"
  • "Women in Politics" [They allow that? I thought we were supposed to keep our mouths shut and look pretty. Like a pretty version of Margaret Thatcher.]
  • "5 Easy Fixes to the High Cost of Mass Immigration" [Tancredo's solution is immediate deportation of all of them.]
  • "Defeating Liberalism via the Primary Process"
  • and oddly enough, "Emergency Preparedness" [What sort of emergency? Heart attack? Bioterrorist attack? Nuclear bomb? Black man in the White House?...D'OH!]

They'll wind up tonight's festivities with a "tea party discussion" and another movie: "Generation Zero: The Inconceivable Truth."

Did I mention that there was no booze at these events? Gahhhh! I was telling a friend today that I would have liked to have seen them have this convention in Las Vegas. Vegas corrupts everyone. I'm picturing these matronly Midwestern women shooting craps, jiggling those die like…um, never mind…yelling, "C'mon baby, Mama needs a seven!" and staid, repressed Texas milquetoasts stuffing dollar bills into the G-string of a past-her-prime downtown pole dancer.

That would have been fun. But we wouldn't want a hangover to lessen our enjoyment of the 9 am lecture, "Correlations between the current Administration and Marxist Dictators of Latin America." Subtle. After that, a panel discussion, "Where the Tea Party Movement Goes from Here."

I recommend Vegas. I think they all need to cut loose a little bit.

Teabaggers Vegas

10 comments:

  1. I think Tancredo's racist remarks really summed up what I've been saying all along: they don't think a Black man should be telling a white man what to do.

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  2. I'm pretty sure all Americans should be embarrassed to witness this attempt to revive the Jim Crow laws. It's pretty sickening to see the much fought for Civil Rights Act of 1964 --a piece of legislation for which many, much braver than these worthless twits, have suffered and died-- get pitched right out the window by these backward freakin' bigots.

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  3. Oh, and don't think for one second that the irony of Tancredo's bile to his fellow teabaggers concerning literacy is lost on me. Like I said, they get their spelling and grammar from LOLcats' pictures.

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  4. I believe the conservative's love of the Constitution is not a love for the document nor the principles it espouses, but instead a return to a time when minorities were either slaves or imprisoned on reservations, when women were seen and not heard, and no one but the white man had the right to vote. They have penis envy of the Pope, who has all the money & power, and rule as if phrases like 'all men created equal' and 'no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification' never existed. They instead would prefer to take democracy and toss it away, in favor of misguided interpretations of religious doctrine that is more self-serving than it is 'christian' or selfless.

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  5. it seems there is a large group of americans who think the constitution only matters when they want to try to apply the second amendment or put a jesus on the courthouse steps at christmas time.

    *shakes head*

    '. . . staid, repressed Texas milquetoasts stuffing dollar bills into the G-string of a past-her-prime downtown pole dancer.'

    love this because it's what's going on undercover of their hotel rooms right now.

    the cool thing about las vegas is that it is an entire city that encourages vice and sin. i think if a hell exists, it would be pretty much be like las vegas but with better drink specials.


    xxalainaxx

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  6. If hell has the Bellagio's buffet, I'll rape the Pope to get in.

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  7. If they held this in Vegas, there would be only crickets in the sessions.

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  8. These Teabaggers are so ill-informed that the whole thing seems like a masquerade, a fancy dress ball for the retarded, the last dance of gothic America.

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  9. The teabaggers are just living int he past. They are desperately afraid of giving anyone the same opportunities they they got just because of who they are. They are truly clueless to what the true American dream is, or what the constitution actually stands for. "Equality and justice for all WASPS, but no one else." "Freedom of my religion." "Free speech if you talk about what I believe.." It's crazy. We should start equating them with the "other" meaning of teabagging, in all we write. Or we should start writing posts about teabagging in the "other" sense. It would make google searches of teabaggers and teabagging yield some really wild results. :)

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  10. Beth, I've just heard from Desdemoana and she says no booze=no correspondent, so it is really good you are covering this, because she simply would not. Didn't think I would ever here Judge Roy Moore's name again, after his political death. Tea-baggers may have powers of resurrection, based on this info. "Emergency Preparedness" looks like something related to the second amendment, but I could be wrong. Maybe it has to do with the undead? Tremendous fun Beth!

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