This guy is a tremendously funny writer, and nails the whole tea party hypocrisy right between the frickin’ eyes.
If you have two minutes, read Taibbi demolish the National Tea Party participants.
Bonus: Taibbi reads and moderates his own comments, and continues the beatdown well after the column ends.
April 19, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I have to make it public. It’s suppose to be secret, however most people in Austin, Tx knows about it. The police department has machine that can read your mind. A machine that can read someone’s mind will be used to violate EVERYONE’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!! It can also change the way you feel. Sexual impulses, anger, and paranoia are all feelings they can induce to you at their fingertips. This means it can cause a girl or boy to feel sexual, and get raped thinking they wanted to. Its like a drug. This is just one of the many crimes they commit with this machine RIGHT NOW!!!! They are using it right now to spy on their citizens RIGHT NOW!!! People will be spied on in there homes, without a warrant. (this means someone will be able to watch you during sex without your knowledge.) There are a lot of people all over the United States knowing about this machine. The police department is able to use it to spy on people in their own home. During interrogation they keep a person dazed, confused and not sound of mind to cohersed them into making certain statements. This is a violation of these people’s constitutional rights. Start thinking about how the government has given the police department a weapon to commit not only one of the biggest civil and constitutional rights violations of all time, but to commit war crimes such as rape, brainwashing, and toturing people without the victim’s knowledge. I know it is hard to believe, however if you happen to know someone in the police department who cares for you enough, just ask if they have a machine that can read and control people’s mind. After that, I would also like people to think about how we are able to get the government to stop letting the police department violate the people’s civil and constitutional rights, and committing war crimes against there own citizens. Major media companies have knowledge of this, but are not willing to broadcast it. People need to find out and talk about this issue.
April 19, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Really? That’s what you got from his rant of misrepresentation of comments he requests?
Because if that’s true your movement should have no trouble caving in on itself much sooner than expected.
I answered his questions and he didn’t engage one point. He talked around them blamed Bush—which has nothing to do with why people are protesting. He’s an ANGRY hack.
The fact that you and people who think like you do don’t see through it should worry the world.
—iChef Politikos
April 20, 2009 at 12:19 am
Chef:
Again, where exactly was your outrage when Bush spent like a drunken sailor? How many tea parties did you attend before a black democrat took office?
April 20, 2009 at 12:56 am
Gray / Saul,
Again, your argument that there weren’t “tea parties” to show outrage over spending before this year, so that means there shouldn’t be now, is absurd.
I believe the phrase being used over and over is, “the economic situation hasn’t been this dire since The Great Depression.” Well this spending is unprecedented even under GWB.
Plenty of people spoke out, and up, and were outraged—including me!
What does the color of the President have to do with any of this? It seems you are disclosing that you are the racist.
Your “Rules for Radicals” techniques of,“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,”
are showing and will not be effective…
April 20, 2009 at 8:04 am
As far as Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals”, I haven’t had the pleasure of reading it. Anything with the name “radical” in the title gets confiscated at the Mason/Dixon line.
I doubt you spoke up during 2008 (despite your claims) but if you did, it was a light murmur at best. This full throated WHARRGARBL of protest against a guy that’s been in office less than 100 days is disingenious.
As Taibbi suggests, if you raise the spending issue after acknowledging that the teabaggers are being partisan and petty, then there is a discussion to be had.
But if you come at the issue as if it has absolutely nothing to do with Obama’s ascension to office and that suddenly you just “had enough” makes it hard to even discuss these very real problems with you.
BTW – ignoring the issue of race when you’re protesting the first black president in our nations’ history during the first 100 days of his presidency is absurd. The dude’s black, and it pisses off the racist wing of the GOP.
Or, I’m a racist. Whatever works for you.
April 20, 2009 at 8:39 am
Based on your argument one could never disagree or protest with this President who happens to be black because you will always say it’s the issue—you are either a racist as you call me, or extremely small minded.
You completely ignore that this is a protest of past, present, and future reckless spending and taxing. You also refuse to believe anyone and then make that the basis of your argument.
Nothing is hard to discuss if you wanted to.
Not once at either site has anyone on your side of the argument talked about the unfair spending or taxing. This explains why you keep bringing up GWB, racism, etc—because you have nothing else to talk about.
You might not have personally read Rules for Radicals, but the intolerant wing of the Democratic party where you get your marching orders from certainly has.
Make it impossible to debate, label everyone in opposition a racist, blame all your problems on someone you blamed for everything in the world forever.
—Good luck with the strategy
April 20, 2009 at 9:48 am
I understand your argument that it’s about unfair spending and taxing.
Your correct in saying that I don’t believe it.
I am convinced that you are furiously clutching your pearls and retreating to your fainting couch in response to Obama’s election.
April 20, 2009 at 10:25 am
Gray,
If you understand why are you trying to block the message? Other than retaliation for what others (not me) might have done to your voice…
“I am convinced that you are furiously clutching your pearls and retreating to your fainting couch in response to Obama’s election.”
Sorry you’re wrong, you can read for yourself what I wrote that day…
Inauguration Day 2009 http://www.irasciblechef.com/inauguration-day-2009/
Did I want Obama to win—no, do I want higher taxes, bigger government, additional spending or a more socialistic society —N O, but that doesn’t make me a RACIST (as you called me, knowing nothing about me except for the labels you’ve dressed me with…) or ineligible to criticize, speak out, or protest. (didn’t Hillary say, that we are patriots for speaking out against any administration you don’t agree with? Doesn’t that apply to everyone?)
Read what I wrote. And I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you will take my words as truth.
—iChef Politikos
April 20, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I read the comment thread twice. Where were you called “racist”, chef?
Reading comprehension is your friend.
April 20, 2009 at 12:30 pm
>>”AccessNorthWhoregia Says:
>>April 20, 2009 at 12:17 pm
>>I read the comment thread twice. Where were >>you called “racist”, chef?
>>Reading comprehension is your friend.”
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How do you interpret the comments below? What would you say is the inference? Let me know if you would like to introduce you to reading comprehension sometime…
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>>”Gray Says:
>>April 20, 2009 at 12:19 am
>>Chef:
>>How many tea parties did you attend before >>a black democrat took office?”
or later with:
>>Gray Says:
>>April 20, 2009 at 8:04 am
>>”BTW – ignoring the issue of race when you’re protesting the first black president in our nations’ history during the first 100 days of his presidency is absurd. The dude’s black, and it pisses off the racist wing of the GOP.”
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I guess any protest of OUR President would mean that the people protesting are racists. Or did I miss something???
—iChef Politikos
April 20, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I made no claims as to what you dislike- black people, democrats, spaghetti dinner, whatever.
I do claim that what you say you dislike – increased spending- was perfectly okay under a 3.1 trillion budget but suddenly UNACCEPTABLE under a proposed 3.6 trillion budget that gives tax breaks to 95% of Americans.
Chef, I appreciate your comments, but I can’t go all day in circles with you. Thanks for reading.
April 20, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Gray,
That’s fine, but it’s your tail you’re chasing in circles.
Let me say it AGAIN spending huge amounts of money wasn’t okay when Bush was doing it either. It’s not okay to spend so much regardless of who’s doing it!
Oh, great statistic 95% of Americans getting $13 dollars a week tax break (including people who don’t even pay taxes) isn’t a tax break! Nice statistic though if you don’t mention the details…
You definitely infer racism (why mention the skin color of the President at all?) and now you’re backing away from it which is fine, but since you already let it out of the bag, a more mature response would be, I’m sorry I didn’t mean to imply that you were protesting because of the color of the President’s skin. But that would require ownership and accountability.
—iChef Politioks
Thanks for writing. I think if we could tone it down a bit we might actually be able to have a conversation. Based on Taibbi’s writings it is required to be over the top or people here say,
“This guy is a tremendously funny writer, and nails the whole tea party hypocrisy right between the frickin’ eyes.
If you have two minutes, read Taibbi demolish the National Tea Party participants.
Thems just not the facts…
April 20, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Geezus dude, I admire your tenacity even if I believe you’re off base on this stuff.
1) We were told by the GOP that Obama was gonna raise taxes. Instead, he has lowered them (except for smokers). So, the fact that it’s been lowered $13 a day is pretty damn significant. In a dual income household, that’s a used car payment.
2) You and your brethren organized ZERO protests under the previous administration. Now we have a black democrat in office, and you go apeshit. If you feel this is a charge of racism on my part, then go with it. I don’t give a damn, although I think it’s a weak argument.
3) Taibbi, nor I, attacked you personally. There is no mention of that rabble-rouser “Irascible Chef” in either of our posts.
4) Finally, while I try not to respond to endless meandering, if I do it will instead be in the manner of a new blog post on the subject. I try to update this blog several times a day, and if I’m gonna get in a pissing match with you, I may as well wring some new content out of it for the front page.
April 27, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I’m a “first-timer” here – having “link-trailed” from other sites. But I do think the questions are fair ones and more to your (& the link to the article provided) point – many protesters were motivated by less than genuis motives. But I will answer the three “Holy Grail” questions:
1. If you’re so horrified by debt and spending, where were your tea parties when George Bush was adding $4 trillion to the federal deficit?
Personally? I was giving phone & email hell to my fellow GOP Congressmen – chief of which was Saxby.
2. If you’re so outraged by the bailouts, where were your tea parties when the bailouts were first instituted by Henry Paulson and George Bush last fall?
AS a “true conservative”, not the common association as has been hi-jacked by men that are “neither” social progressives, nor fiscal conservatives- but Bob Dole obfuscators, I have been outraged many, many years; every since GHWBush, really. I hate what these posers have done to the name or title – “conservative”. In it’s original use, it was far more associated with restraint on legislation and more restraint on spending – no matter how seemingly worthy the “trojan horse of debt” feigned need.
3. If you’re so troubled by pork, where were your tea parties when the number and cost of congressional earmarks rose spectacularly in each year of Republican congressional rule between 1996 and the end of the Republican majority in 2006? I suppose I have adequately answered this already, but I will add that I have participated in many (8-10) tax day protest since 1980 – the first year I was “of major” and saw the chunk of my weekly earnings removed. As the years went by and the fedeeral government so flippantly tossed billions all over the world – I saw this not as “diplomacy” or “buying friends”, but theft; the worse kind – your money used to buy gifts for others in your presence – a most damnable habit.
Yes, as a “conservative” republican, I am very ashamed of what has become of the party. But to call an untruth on President Obama’s “tax cuts” – he is 100% in practice with the deceitful practice by Congress and Bush during those “6 years” you refere to. I hated it then – I hate it now. Running up debt and claiming tax breaks is the most vile of deceit. Such as one a spouse would do on spending while postponing the absolute revelation of bankruptcy by benefit of a credit card – or many, many credit cards. Bush got no pass on this from me; Neither shall Obama…deceivers both, insolvency certain.