The few people who have actual arguments against Barack Obama’s policies (most of the ones who speak in complete sentences are actually arguing against him from the Left) are able to articulate their disagreements without resorting to threats of violence.
Facebook faux pas: California libertarian and Tea Party darling Jules Manson is caught calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama and his children.
On Sunday, many Facebook users were greeted by the shocking spectacle of a California libertarian and Ron Paul supporter by the name of Jules Manson advocating for the assassination of President Barack Obama. Manson, a failed politician, recently ran for and lost a seat on the City of Carson’s City Council last March.
Ooh, BIG politician! A failed City Council candidate! What’s lower than that?
Here’s what Manson said on Facebook [click to embiggen]:
You have to appreciate that Jules is too stupid to spell fuckin’ correctly, which puts him below most fifth graders.
Is this what the Tea Party really stands for? Is eliminating public officials what they mean by small government?
How many times have we heard from hardcore Tea Partiers that their cause “focuses on economic issues and doesn’t care about social issues?”
Of course, there’s an ample catalogue of evidence to refute that statement, but just in case we needed any more proof, look no further than the Tennessee Tea Party. They apparently missed the “social issues are verboten” memo when they released this tweet on Monday in reaction to news of Barney Frank’s impending retirement:
Some economic critique.
Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips issued a statement condemning the tweet, but according to Daily Kos, the Tennessee Tea Party is steadfastly standing behind its bigoted views.
When Barney Frank announced his retirement, many wingnuts sensed that their opportunities to point out that Barney Frank is a gay homosexual who likes men were about to fade away, so they decided to say it one last time.
The Tennessee Teabaggery Association [I'm sure they're called something close to that] is taking heat right now for one of those very comments:
The Tennessee Tea Party is trying to repair the fallout, following a derogatory post about Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank. Frank, who is openly gay, announced he will retire and not seek another term in congress.
The news of Franks retirement brought a derogatory tweet on the Tennessee Tea Party’s twitter feed. The remark was also posted on the party’s Facebook page as well. The tweet called Frank a pervert, and used a number of derogatory terms about Frank’s homosexuality.
Chris Sanders of the Tennessee Equality Project pointed out, in the nicest terms possible, that it’s pretty freaking sad that this Teabagger couldn’t think of anything to say about Frank’s policies, but simply figured it would suffice to call Barney a fag one last time. Here are Chris’s actual words:
“They chose to use terms that degrade the gay community. Can we keep the debate on policy, can we not get personal about people. Do you really have that much hate?,” said Sanders.
Seriously. Here’s what Tennessee’s High Priestess of Teabaggery, Tami Kilmarx, said about it:
“I am totally and completely responsible for anything produced by one of our staff or moderators. I am appalled by the language in the commentary. While privately and inwardly I may agree with the commentary, it is completely irresponsible for any one of us to write these kinds of commentaries. The individual who has written this commentary has been duly dealt with,” said Kilmarx in a Facebook post.
See?! She is simultaneously appalled by the bigotry, and also totally agrees with the bigotry! And here I’ve been saying for several years that what makes wingnuts so pathetic is their utter inability to hold two thoughts in their heads at once.
This is an anti-gay parallel, though, to the fact that many members of the Tennessee Association of Teabagging Practitioners and Chipmunk Taxidermists would never be unfriendly to the “lovely black family” who moved in next door and “keeps their yard so nice!,” but damn, you don’t want to hear what they say about black people around the dinner table.
Quelle surprise, wingnuts. When we call you dumb, it’s not because we have nothing else to say, but that we have no interest in speaking to particularly dumb brick walls:
Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don’t watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that “people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government” and “6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government” compared to those who watch no news.
Oh, my god. You would think Megyn Kelly would take at least a second out of her day to tell the idiots something, but no. She is “the smart one” around there, you know.
Now you know that when they use the term “low information voter,” they’re talking about wingnuts.
I have become a full-fledged Teabagger. Meet the exciting, new me.
P.S. Just kidding. But, this is what I would look like if I lost my mind and joined this insidious movement of fanatics that is bringing down our country.
UPDATE from Evan: Yep, Wayne and this is what I look like as a Teabagger. Me, last Halloween. Did I post this here last year? Can’t remember.
As I’ve said before, when the wingnuts start losing Fox, that really means they’ve lost the war. Porno Pete has a desperate missive on his little hate dungeon blog, begging Fox News to please make it clear that they hate and are as bizarrely fixated on gays as much as Pete is:
Dear Readers,
One of the reasons we are in such big trouble regarding the promotion of homosexuality in our culture is that “conservatives” have stopped acting conservatively on this particular (sin) issue.
When Pete uses the word “conservative,” he means “backwoods, uneducated and medievally bigoted for no other reason besides the fact that Mommy and Daddy taught me to be.”
A good example is frequent FOX News guest Margaret Hoover. She espouses legalized homosexual “marriage” as a Republican Party and “conservative” issue — despite the longstanding GOP platform planks against counterfeit “same-sex marriage” and other aspects of the larger homosexual agenda. Please read below as Hoover makes the same fraudulent connection between homosexuality and race that drives Blacks nuts when it’s trotted out by “gay’ activists and liberals…
Pete is so concerned about The Blacks that he capitalizes “blacks.” Of course, there are many The Blacks who aren’t driven “nuts” by that comparison. The late Coretta Scott King was a notable one. Civil Rights leaders like John Lewis, who actually know something about the Civil Rights Movement, are also worthy of mention. Julian Bond, the chair of the NAACP…
Et cetera, et cetera.
But please do remember, that Porno Pete is an expert on The Blacks, as he has a long history of co-opting them for bigoted purposes. They’re tight!
We Republicans have often found ourselves on the wrong side of civil rights struggles since the 1960s, but there was a reason that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s father is said to have supported Republicans.
Republicans were historically the party ever-expanding freedom to disenfranchised minorities, from newly liberated slaves to giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was a Republican. By supporting the [pro-homosexuality American Foundation for Equal Rights trial against California's Proposition 8 upholding traditional marriage as between a man and a woman] we have an opportunity to establish our historic credibility on civil rights issues once again. But we should support marriage equality because it is the right thing to do.
Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers. Does it sit well with you that because of their sexual orientation, a factor outside one’s control, that they should have less rights and protections in the eyes of the law?…
That’s why the Supreme Court, in 1967 Loving v. Virginia, legalized interracial marriage –six years after our current president was born to an interracial couple. At that time 73% of the population opposed “miscegenation.” How long would it have taken to change popular opinion, for the minority to democratically win their constitutional rights? As Martin Luther King, Jr. famously asserted, “Justice delayed is justice denied.”
Yay, Margaret Hoover.
Anywho, he’s really upset that that was on the Fox News website, and that his beloved wingnut network is slowly beginning to tell his kind to go to hell on these issues. It’s a slow process, but it is indeed happening, and the reason, which Pete et al. have never been able to understand or accept, is that News Corp never actually cared about them or respected their beliefs as people, but simply saw them as a ratings demographic — the bitter, cranky, whiny, low-information white set of voters — and has played that card for all it’s worth. But Fox News also recognizes that, though there is still some steam in that demographic, even they are slowly starting to abandon the bigotry of old when it comes to gays. Simply put, there’s a hell of a lot of Teabaggers who have gay relatives and neighbors and sons and daughters, and though the network can still play ooga booga with them on make-believe black crime waves and presidential birth certificates, peddling anti-gay bigotry just isn’t such a safe bet for them anymore.
They never respected you, Pete. They wanted your money. Deal wit’ it.
You might have heard about this moment from last night’s clown circle-jerk Republican debate, where, when a question was posed to Ron Paul about whether we should let a person who chooses not to have health insurance die, the audience of Teabaggers decided to answer for Paul by screaming things like “Yeah!” and “Let ‘em die!” They are, in short, monsters.
Gabe at Videogum points out that this is an echo of last week’s debate, where the audience got just a lil’ bit too excited about how many prisoners Rick Perry had killed as governor, even though one prisoner executed during that time was almost certainly innocent. Yeah! said the teabaggers, excited about killin’ people ‘n’ stuff. Yeah! said the teabaggers, about lettin’ people just cold die because they don’t have health insurance! Boooooooo, abortion, though!
Anyway. Of course, leave it to a comedy writer like Gabe [motto these days of comedy writers: Mostly Better Than Actual Journalists] to explain how ludicrous what Paul said, and what Teabaggers seem to think [I'm usin' the word "think" loosely, y'all], about the uninsured, really is:
This brings us back to Ron Paul’s argument that not buying health care is exactly the type of risk vs. reward scenario expressing PURE FREEDOM that his libertarianism supports. Neat! The problem with this, of course, is that it borrows the George W. Bush catch-phrase banner slogan down-with-Osama-Bin-Laden branded “FREEDOM” and uses it in the place of “ANARCHY.” I don’t mean that in a facetious or sensationalized way, I mean that libertarian philosophy quite literally represents an anarchistic distrust of the state and a desire to see it abolished. Freedom sounds nice when you think it just means that you can buy Kettle Chips in every imaginable flavor at your local bodega and stay up as late as you want. It’s not as nice when it means there’s no such thing as the fire department and if you want to have surgery you have to take competing bids from your local Organ Contractors. The reality is that we live in a world of rules that sometimes get confusing but that are, for the most part, the best attempt we’ve achieved so far at making this place as close to livable for everyone as we can. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t use some work, and I bet there are a lot of poor, disenfranchised people who might argue that it’s not so livable (although I don’t think those people are libertarians), it just means throwing the baby out with the bath water and then also throwing out the bath tub itself and hoping that it dies because the bath tub opted not to buy “Get Thrown Out Insurance” doesn’t seem like a useful step in the march towards progress.
But, OK. If that’s how Ron Paul feels, I can totally respect that. It’s a hard line to take, but I respect hard lines (that is what she said).
Indeed. Read the whole damn thing.
Why am I writing about this on Truth Wins Out? Oh, just because one of these goons [Rick Perry] is going to get the GOP nomination, and if liberals and gays don’t get out there and vote and stop complaining about how they haven’t been gifted with glitter ponies by the Obama administration, one of these goons [Rick Perry] could actually be elected, and that would open up a whole new can of hell for this country, including LGBT people.
The debt ceiling deal has left the Tea Party more disliked than ever, as a recent New York Times poll shows. In April, 2010, 21 percent of Americans approved of the Tea Party while 18 percent disapproved of it. Now, 20 percent approve while a stunning 40 percent disapprove of it. Ironically, the conservative movement is now more unpopular than two often-marginalized groups it sometimes rails against — Muslims and atheists — and is the least popular of the 23 groups the poll asked about.
But in data we have recently collected, the Tea Party ranks lower than any of the 23 other groups we asked about — lower than both Republicans and Democrats. It is even less popular than much maligned groups like “atheists” and “Muslims.” Interestingly, one group that approaches it in unpopularity is the Christian Right.
HAHAHAHA, YAY, so anyway.
Dear Christian Right: America hates you. Hates you, hates you, hates you. Does not consider you representative of “American values” or “traditional values” or anything else. Hates you. Doesn’t want to live next to you, because property values are already sucky as it is.
Gays raise property values in neighborhoods, but you don’t. Anyway.
What a funny story to start our Thursday! Say it again! Real, actual Americans like Muslims and Atheists more than Teabaggers or Linda Harvey or Maggie Gallagher or Peter LaBarbera or Matt Barber or any of their other ideological trans fat substitutes. Muslims and atheists! I love polls!
The pollsters have also taken time to find out what really drives Teabaggers:
They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today.
Just old bigot racists in Hoverounds, as we always suspected. Whatever.
There have been a few articles in the past day or so, dissecting the fact that the Teabagging movement, which seemed so upright and powerful in the last several years, is basically flaccid these days. Why? Well, you see, The Price Is Right is on…
*actual rate of herpes popularity not sampled, but just making a point.
So you all know about Rep. Allen West, right? He’s a Florida Teabagger Congressman, representing the district next to that of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. As he lives in her district, he’s actually one of her constituents. He made the news a few weeks back when he was simply outraged that Wasserman Schultz criticized his policy beliefs on the floor of Congress and fired off an angry e-mail that basically said, “Thou shalt not speak to me in that way, mere woman!” My favorite piece on that incident is from TBogg and was headlined “Allen West Don’t Take No Sassy Mouth.”
Kind of a pig, he is. He also doesn’t like the gays very much.
But, being as this is Santorum Metaphor Week, West decided to separate himself from the pack by explaining how much of a choice homosexuality is via, you guessed it, METAPHOR! Dear god:
“I like chocolate chip ice cream, and I will continue to like chocolate chip ice cream. So there’s no worry about me changing to vanilla. I like to, you know, ride my motorcycle. What do you want me to do? You want me to change my behavior and ride a scooter? I’m not into that. People can change their sexual behavior. And I’ve seen people do that. I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, so I’ve seen a very different perspective on human behaviors. So that’s where I’m coming from on that.”
Also, why is he talking about Atlanta? Is he taking inspiration somehow from Bishop Eddie Long? Because if that’s your token “ex-gay,” you need to keep digging.
Anyway. I really have nothing to say about this besides the fact that this man is obviously too stupid, misogynistic and homophobic to hold elected office in the United States.
We all know that the Teabagging movement, in general, is not all that bright. We also know that they’re less of a “movement” and more of a repurposed rebranding of the same old wingnut rage-gasm that has been the base of the modern Republican party for several decades now. Sometimes they say horribly offensive things, but more and more, I’m dumbstruck by how utterly disconnected from reality they are. Consider this quote from Tea Party Nation CEO Judson Phillips, one of the most racist ones they have:
I will tell you ladies and gentlemen, I detest and despise everything the left stands for. How anybody can endorse and embrace an ideology that has killed a billion people in the last century is beyond me.
Uh. Like I said: too stupid, can’t get mad.
What the hell are they even talking about?
Related: If you missed Bill Maher’s brilliant suggestion for a liberal counterweight to the Tea Party, please catch up by clicking this clicky.
The few people who have actual arguments against Barack Obama’s policies (most of the ones who speak in complete sentences are actually arguing against him from the Left) are able to articulate their disagreements without resorting to threats of violence.
